Chapter 1151 - Chaos Mine (2/2)
he miners of the masters of creation were usually slaves that the big tribes acquired through their conquest of other tribes. They were specially used for mining.
However, even though they were slaves, their abilities were no small matter. Yet faced with the sudden change, these masters of creation couldn’t resist at all and died in the mine!
The mine became deeper, and the chaos qi was very heavy. When they all arrived at the most bottom layer of the mine, the chaos qi seemed to condense into a tangible state, forming a calm sea of chaos.
Even with the 28 heavens of the Glassy Sky Pagoda pushing away the surrounding chaos qi, Qin Mu still felt it was difficult to move.
The terrain gradually became flat, and huge pillars that were thick and thin supported this vast underground world.
This should be the centre of the mine.
Boundless chaos.
Qin Mu looked over and even opened the third eye in the heart of his brows. He couldn’t see far and his sight was hazy.
“Follow me, don’t get lost.”
He transmitted with his divine consciousness, “If you walk out of the range of the Glassy Sky Pagoda, you will definitely die!”
The dragon qilin’s leg had yet to recover, and he limped after him. Suddenly, the mine trembled again, and even Qin Mu couldn’t help feeling a chill down his spine. He hurriedly stopped.
The good thing was that the shaking didn’t last long, and only rocks fell. It was quite a hair-raising sight.
The Glassy Sky Pagoda forced back the surrounding chaos qi. They searched the underground world for a long time, but they didn’t find anything. Qin Mu was about to leave when he suddenly saw a huge chaos stone standing upright in the chaos qi.
That chaos stone should have been sculpted to form the shape of an altar. It was extremely tall.
Around the sacrificial altar, there were still some shattered corpses. The chaos qi was too heavy, crushing the masters of creation who had mined here.
They mined the chaos stones and collected the divine stones. After coming here, they encountered something they had never seen before.
They carefully excavated this thing, and in the end, they carved out an altar.
When they completely dug out this thing, a sudden change occurred. Chaos qi surged out, and all the masters of creation in the mine died. No one escaped!
Qin Mu composed himself and moved the Glassy Sky Pagoda that was becoming heavier. He carefully ascended the sacrificial altar.
The chaos qi was too heavy, and it was extremely strenuous to mobilise the Glassy Sky Pagoda. He had no choice but to execute Overlord Body Three Elixir Technique and the vertical eye in the heart of his brows. He had to unleash his full power to lift the Glassy Sky Pagoda.
After a long time, they finally ascended to the sacrificial altar.
Qin Mu let out a sigh of relief. What greeted his eyes was a flat altar platform. It was obvious that the masters of creation who mined this place were very meticulous.
With the object in the centre of the sacrificial altar as the origin, they tried their best to make the surroundings as flat as possible. They carefully opened up the chaos stones around this thing, afraid of hurting the thing inside.
Qin Mu looked towards the centre of the sacrificial altar. There was two halves of an egg shell there!
The ancient gods in the egg had already been born!
The sacrificial altar and a cracked ancient god egg. This place was very similar to the ancestral land of Celestial Emperor Grand Creation in Celestial Heavens!
The difference was that the sacrificial altar born by Celestial Emperor was moved into Celestial Heavens by Celestial Emperor, and the sacrificial altar here was still in the primordial mine.
Moreover, the surroundings of Celestial Emperor’s sacrificial altar were filled with the myriad coloured light of the Great Dao and Dao sound permeated the air.
However, what surrounded this altar was an incomparably suffocating Chaos qi: without Dao, without form and without qualities.[2]
[1] This is a better translation for the term 丈(zhang) which means 3.33m. 10 feet is roughly 3.04m which is a pretty decent approximation.
[2] It is quite difficult to translate this sentence. This might be minor spoilers so don’t read ahead if you don’t want to know. This is a reference to the five grand changes which is a form of the creation story in Chinese culture. Essentially, the myriad life forms has three characteristics: Dao, forms and qualities. There is also an order to which these are created. (ie: it hints that Grand Creation (who had Dao) is ordered after this ancient god (who is without Dao, without form and without qualities.))