1062 Heres Your Hairpin (2/2)
Qin Mu was shocked. If Celestial Venerable Yun ascended to the throne in the year that the Heaven Han Celestial Heavens was built, then he would be late by 100,000 years!
”You seem to be from a faraway place, right? Judging by your travel-worn appearance, you should have been traveling for quite some time.”
That god said, ”When the celebration was held, Celestial Emperor Yun announced something big, but unfortunately, you missed it.”
Qin Mu asked curiously, ”What was it?”
”The first Emperor's Throne Realm in the world!”
That god excitedly said, ”Celestial Emperor Yun became the first being to cultivate to the Emperor's Throne Realm! Even the ancient Celestial Emperor ordered people to send gifts! On that day, the Heaven Han Celestial Heavens was bustling with activity. Earth Count, Heaven Duke, Mother Earth, and even Celestial Empress sent gifts to congratulate our emperor on becoming an Emperor's Throne being and opening the first Emperor's Throne technique in the world!”
Qin Mu got excited as well and praised, ”Good, that's good! He was able to comprehend the Emperor's Throne Realm before the gods in a mere 101,000 years. He's truly an unrivaled genius!”
Yan'er was perplexed. Taking 101,000 years to cultivate to the Emperor's Throne? Unrivaled genius?
'Master seems to not know that people of the Founding Emperor Era took less than a thousand years to reach the Emperor's Throne Realm. How can Celestial Venerable Yun be called a genius for taking more than 100,000 years to do the same?' She was confused.
She didn't know that the later generations had experience from countless people before them, so their cultivation was successful. In Celestial Venerable Yun's era, although the realm existed, no one had reached it before.
Not only that, but there were no other techniques in this era for one to be inspired by.
Everyone, even the leaders of the half-gods, had to start from nothing and cultivate with trial and error. It was as if one was figuring out paths in the dark by touching.
What was even more horrifying was making mistakes.
If one made a mistake in one's technique, sometimes, they had to restart the whole process.
If one cultivated to the Jade Capital Realm and was in the midst of entering the Numinous Sky Realm when they found that they had made a mistake when entering the true god realm, they would have to rework and modify all of their techniques from the true god realm to the Jade Capital Realm.
However, what if one found a mistake when opening divine treasures?
One had to completely overturn their previous techniques!
Thus, it was hard to improve on techniques in the Dragon Han Era. Everyone was searching in the dark. It was trial and error.
Hence, the corpses of people that died could probably fill an entire heaven!
It was such trial and error of the previous generations that allowed people of the later generations to not make mistakes in their cultivation and be more straightforward with it.
Being the first to open an Emperor's Throne technique and cultivate to the Emperor's Throne Realm was a monumental achievement by Celestial Venerable Yun that demonstrated his superiority!
”Guest, we still have trading to do and can't stay for long.”
The god guarding the merchant ship commented, ”It will probably take me a dozen years to return. By then, I will also be a guest that's travel-worn.”
Qin Mu laughed and waved goodbye to him.
The carriage drove to the front of the Heaven Han Celestial Heavens, and the dragon qilin stopped it in front of the Southern Heavenly Gate. Yan'er took down the lantern and followed Qin Mu and the others into the Heaven Han Celestial Heavens.
It was very conspicuous of them to carry a lantern around during the day.
Qin Mu looked around. The people of this era already had a lot of attainments in the arts. The buildings were beautiful enough to enthrall people with their ancient beauty.
Qin Mu had done some research into this, so he slowed down to look around happily.
”Yun, why have you returned so soon?”
A familiar voice appeared, and Qin Mu looked towards it. He saw Celestial Venerable Yue, who had several gods walking with her. She grumbled, ”Didn't you say that you were heading to the Dragon Han Celestial Heavens to file a complaint to the ancient Celestial Emperor? Celestial Venerable Hao has been invading our land, and his half-gods ate many of our gods too. We have fought countless times on the frontlines. With this complaint, we must… Why did you morph into Celestial Venerable Mu again?”
She suddenly noticed Yan'er, the dragon qilin, and the weird people that the six heavenly dragons had morphed into around Qin Mu. She became stunned and looked at Qin Mu.
Qin Mu gently said with a smile, ”It has been a long time, Yue. Our last separation feels like it was yesterday. Are you well?”
Celestial Venerable Yue had a hard time believing him while looking at him. Her footsteps became light as she walked towards him. She examined him again and again. He looked slightly haggard, but otherwise, he looked the same. It was as if the last time they had met was yesterday.
Yet, his gaze became more sunken, as if he had experienced many things. His aura also changed to become more reserved.
”It has been a hundred thousand years.”
She muttered gently, ”It wasn't yesterday. It has been a hundred thousand years since you left, Celestial Venerable Mu…”
”I know.”
Qin Mu smiled. ”What was a hundred thousand years to you was a mere day for me.”
Celestial Venerable Yue forced herself to not stop as she pulled him towards the celestial heavens. She smiled and said, ”After you left, someone discovered your secret! You know who it was? It was Sister Ling!”
She was very happy, and her voice became gentle and light. ”Sister Ling said that someone brought her future hairpin to the era, so her hairpin disappeared. I couldn't help telling her that it wasn't Celestial Venerable Yun pretending to be you. She was excited and searched for you for a long time, but she couldn't find you, which caused her to be disappointed for quite a while…”
Qin Mu's heart was all fuzzy when she held his hand to find Celestial Venerable Ling.
Soon, Celestial Venerable Yue reached Celestial Venerable Ling's residence. It was a mess, with papers containing all sorts of runes and words scattered all around.
Outside of those things, there were many ponies in the garden too. They rode bamboo rods without their feet touching the ground. They bounced around while checking the manuscripts on the ground.
”Be careful, don't anger these little things. Sister Ling carelessly put them together while testing creation divine arts. These ponies grew on the bamboo rods, and Sister Ling has them check for errors in manuscripts. They don't take their jobs seriously, so they just randomly take some and claim that there are errors. Sister Ling calls them rod spirits, and they are ferocious. Don't bother using logic with them, as they just beat people up.”
Celestial Venerable Yue cheerfully said, ”Sister Ling, quickly come out! See who's here!”
Celestial Venerable Ling wasn't in the garden. There were only ponies jumping around while riding the bamboo rods.
A heavenly dragon curiously asked, ”Doesn't it hurt for them to jump around like that?”
Another heavenly dragon asked, ”Hurt? Where?”
Qin Mu took out Celestial Venerable Ling's peachwood hairpin, and he heard Celestial Venerable Ling's voice coming from a side room. She was furious. ”Which d*mned being did this? Who stole my hairpin… Oh my god!”
The room suddenly flew open. Celestial Venerable Ling stood in it with her gaze firmly on Qin Mu.
”Ling, I have returned.”
Qin Mu calmly said, ”Here's your hairpin.”