Chapter 845: The Gate Keeper (1/2)

Chapter 845: The Gate Keeper

Translator: LawEditor: Hitesh

”One, two, three, four, five…”

Kua E and his brothers were thrown onto the square outside the Divine Sleeping Palace, lying in a straight line. Xiang Liu was looking at them with a malicious grin on his face.

Transparent, colorful crystal coffins flew out from the Divine Sleeping Palace one after another. Every coffin had a black divine talisman stick on it, releasing black and cold streams of power which were coiling around the coffin like fierce serpents. Twisted spell symbols formed from dark crystals covered those coffins, sealing every coffin.

The faces of Kua E and his brothers had turned deathly pale. In a daze, they looked at those divine Gods inside those coffins. Every coffin flew that out of the palace had a family member of each of these captured divine Gods sleeping in it. Those were their parents!

Xiang Liu was still unhurriedly counting those coffins. Gong Gong family warriors pushed out more coffins while laughing. At last, in front of Kua E and each of those captured divine gods, a coffin floated, containing the mother or father of the captured divine God before it.

If those divine Gods sleeping in these coffins had already died, Kua E and his brothers wouldn’t have such a strong reactions. To gods, they were given birth by nature, and they should naturally go back to nature after dying.

However, divine Gods sleeping in those coffins were still alive, and those were their parents. Through the thick layer of divine crystal and those complicated spell symbols created by Gong Gong himself, Kua E and his brothers saw their parents breathing slowly and slightly, saw their chests rising and falling, and even heard their hearts beating.

The first generation of Gods were creatures of nature. They didn’t have fleshy bodies, but they did have immortal lives. They were the most original and most powerful generation of Gods, and were the ancestors of all gods in the world.

As time went by, Gods gradually attained fleshy bodies and fertility, just like human beings. Descendants of Gods were naturally Gods too, and the descendants of Gods also had great powers and long lifespans.

Normally, even descendants of Gods didn’t need to worry about their lifespans, unless they wanted to die. At least, before the ancient heaven fell, not a single God died because he or she had reached the limitation of their lifespan. However, the non-humankind intruded Pan Gu world, and the heaven started a series of great wars against the non-humankind. Countless ancient divine Gods fell, and then the heaven fell. Afterward, the lifespans of divine Gods were shortened quickly and largely, and every new generation of Gods had shorter lifespans than the last generation.

The Divine Sleeping Palace was the last hope. Only with this hope, new generations of divine Gods could hang on in the heaven. They sealed themselves in the Divine Sleeping Palace when they were going to reach the end of their lifespan. In the Sleeping Palace, their bodies were nourished by the natural powers, and they hoped that one day, the heaven could rise again, back to the peak, and they could regain the glory of their ancestors and attain immortal lives.

Kua E, Qiang Liang and the other young divine Gods all believed that one day, the heaven would rise again. Then, their parents and grandparents, who were sleeping in these coffins, would regain their life-force, and they could live together again, happily ever after.

If they didn’t have this last hope, how could these powerful young divine Gods, who loved grilled meat and wine, obediently follow the rules of their ancestors and willingly stay in the cold and empty heaven, without taking a single step out if they didn’t have to?

But now, their parents were right in front them.

Gong Gong slowly walked out of the palace, looking at these coffins as he said blandly, ”What a bunch of old things who are unwilling to give up. My father, my grandfather, my great-grandfather, every generation of Gong Gong…Hehe, some of them had gone missing, but some of them died, as they had reached the ends of their lives.