1065 Never Before Seen Changes in the Future (1/2)
”In the five years since I left Eternal Peace for the celestial heavens, I haven't had any results of the reform.”
Qin Mu sighed and said, ”This trend becomes more obvious when we return to the past.”
Ever since he left the Primordial Realm for the celestial heavens, his pioneering of paths, skills, and divine arts had become less and less. Every time he returned to Eternal Peace, he would learn something new.
This was the effect of the soil.
Eternal Peace's reform was still ongoing, but he had left the soil of reform. Every time he returned was to obtain nutrients.
It was the way of the celestial heavens. If he stayed in the past era, which was obscure and unknown to him, and where paths, skills, and divine arts were still being developed, any divine art he brought there would be shocking to the people. What would Qin Mu rely on for growth then?
His goal was to be better than people of the past, not become one of them.
The celestial heavens got closer and closer again.
The 27 ancient gods took the God Execution Stage and God Execution Mysterious Knife to the heaven Ah Chou was at. Wood Wolf of Kui said, ”It's not good for us to reveal our identities this time. Bring this divine knife and execute him. We will hide and watch over you. If you do well, the crown prince will reward you greatly!”
In that heaven, Ah Chou had already reached a dead end. Many half-gods stood on a high cliff, carrying his kids and saying to Ah Chou below, ”Kneel down!”
Meanwhile, in the celestial heavens' imperial garden, Celestial Venerable Yun walked behind the ancient Celestial Emperor. His trip there was to complain about Celestial Venerable Hao officially. After the court session, Celestial Emperor got him to stay and walk with him through the imperial gardens so that they could talk intimately.
”Yun, you are in charge of the humans, and you should know that it isn't easy to be an emperor. I'm in charge of the entire universe and all the worlds.”
Celestial Emperor felt his head ache, so he rubbed his temple before sighing. ”Humans are but one of the countless races of the worlds, and you all have already caused turmoil. Just now, you quarreled so badly with Hao'er in court. I'm facing a dilemma. I have to care about the old brothers' will, the loyalty of the half-gods, and also the troubles of Postcelestial lifeforms like you. It isn't easy being the celestial emperor.”
Celestial Venerable Yun smiled. ”I know that it's hard on you, Emperor. Celestial Venerable Hao is after all…”
Celestial Emperor glanced at him. Celestial Venerable Yun understood it and shut up.
Suddenly, Great Sun Sovereign came quickly, bowed, and reported, ”Emperor, this is bad!”
Celestial Emperor frowned and lectured, ”What's bad? The heavens now are prosperous and peaceful. Everyone is living happily. How could there be bad things?”
Great Sun Sovereign frantically said, ”The 28 star ancient gods came and borrowed the God Execution Stage from the celestial heavens. They are likely going to cause big trouble! I was observing the heavens under your order, and today, I found the half-gods doing something strange. They seem to have a secret deal with the 28 gods. This… This…”
He clenched his teeth and said with guts, ”This probably involves the Crown Prince Qi too!”
Celestial Emperor's face sunk, and Great Sun Sovereign shivered and felt the murderous intent of Celestial Emperor.
”You entrusted me with such a great responsibility, so I had to say it, Emperor. Please forgive me!”
Great Sun Sovereign continued, ”Earth Count has reincarnated, and I suspect that Crown Prince Qi is in cahoots with the 28 gods and a bunch of other old half-gods to kill Earth Count and take over Youdu for himself! Crown Prince Qi is ruthless. If he succeeds, he won't be able to hold back his ambition, and one day, he might aspire for the throne and threaten you, Emperor!”
”How dare you!”
Celestial Emperor hollered, ”Great Sun Sovereign, isn't it too unrestrained of you to sow discord between my son and me!”
Great Sun Sovereign trembled and protested, ”I was merely thinking for your empire, Emperor! Earth Count contributed greatly to your empire, Emperor! Crown Prince Qi attempting to get rid of him is an attempt to cut off your wings, Emperor!”
”Scram!”
Celestial Emperor lifted his finger and coldly said, ”Scram! Yun, you will withdraw too!”
Celestial Venerable Yun bowed and withdrew with Great Sun Sovereign.
Great Sun Sovereign was angry, and he said, ”If he doesn't trust me, there will probably be trouble brewing in the chambers of concubines soon!”
Celestial Venerable Yun looked at him and said, ”How could the emperor not trust you? Star Sovereign, the emperor was angry at you because you knew too much.”
Great Sun Sovereign didn't understand him, so he humbly asked for an explanation, ”Could Celestial Venerable Yun please enlighten me?”
Celestial Venerable Yun said, ”You are in charge of monitoring and reporting big things in the heavens to Celestial Emperor. You are only supposed to report things without making your own theories. If you only observe and don't theorize, you can still live. If you conjecture, I'm afraid that you might die mysteriously.”
He walked towards him and said, ”In this celestial heavens, the more you know, the more danger you find yourself in. You are in the most dangerous position. Be careful.”
Great Sun Sovereign was stunned. He lifted his bird leg and caressed his chin. 'This Celestial Venerable Yun is a b*stard with illogical speech. I'm loyal to the emperor, who dares to scheme against me?'
The carriage finally reached the Southern Heavenly Gate. At that moment, a shocking wave came, and instantly, darkness shrouded the Primordial Realm's sky.
Qin Mu's heart pounded as he looked back quickly. A heaven had split open, and a giant with the head of a cow and the face of a tiger roared in anger.
On that day, Youdu's Great Dao invaded the Primordial Realm as chains, locking that giant in place, as well as the destroyed heaven.
At the same time, the great green bird flew towards Youdu with the palace.
The man strapped on the pole laughed. ”That's right. We'll go to Youdu and try to take Earth Count's corporeal body! Once we have him, we can have control over the lives of all Postcelestial lifeforms and half-gods!”
”Shut up! Speak again, and I'll rip you apart.”
The carriage rushed towards the Southern Heavenly Gate, and the army of the celestial heavens guarding it didn't bother to block them as even more gods and devils flooded the celestial heavens. There was panic and crying everywhere.
The army of the celestial heavens looked at the Primordial Realm, stunned.
Their gazes rose as they looked at Earth Count's body, which was stepping on a gargantuan heaven while rising and becoming bigger.
A giant cauldron rotated beneath him. It was a cauldron forged from the celestial heavens' God Execution Stage and countless lives.
It had a name, it was called Slaughter.
Countless half-gods scampered towards the celestial heavens while crying out loud.
The 27 ancient gods had to show up and receive Earth Count. They called out, saying, ”Earth Count, they are merely fooling around. Why be angry?”
Wood Wolf of Kui said to the scampering half-gods, ”Are you lot not coming to apologize?”