Chapter 1283: Ferocious Mine Opens, Divine Artifact Emerges

In the Celestial Heavens’ Harem, Consort Yan gently crushed a jade bottle. A single drop of Celestial Venerable Hao’s blood quietly floated before her.

Consort Yan slightly parted her lips and exhaled a fragrant breath. As she did, the drop of Celestial Venerable’s blood instantly transformed, and a phantom image of a celestial palace emerged from within it.

Consort Yan’s eyes gleamed as she stared at the phantom celestial palace. After a moment, she murmured softly, “It seems the rumors in the Void are true. Celestial Venerable Hao indeed suffered severe injuries; the Grand Emperor wounded him badly. Did Celestial Venerable Mu have someone send this drop of Celestial Venerable’s blood to inform me of Celestial Venerable Hao’s injuries? That doesn’t quite fit…”

The phantom celestial palace gradually faded.

Consort Yan’s eyes lit up. She whispered, “He wants to tell me that Celestial Venerable Hao’s blood contains his cultivation techniques and divine abilities. This drop is the essence of Celestial Venerable Hao’s blood, embodying the phantom image of one celestial palace. Could it be that he has acquired other essences of Celestial Venerable Hao’s blood, thereby mastering his other celestial palaces?”

She collected the drop of Celestial Venerable’s blood, picked up her white cat, and commanded, “Prepare the phoenix carriage. We are setting out for the Ancestral Court.”

Meanwhile, Qin Mu arrived at the Great Black Wood. Looking around, he saw that it had not revived; the colossal tree remained charred black, its layers of annual rings like charcoal. The uneven stump formed numerous great black mountains.

Shu Jun, Jiang Yunxian, and others had built many palaces here and erected a forging facility for crafting divine weapons.

Several ore veins had also been excavated. By the time Qin Mu arrived, the divine weapon mine shaft they had initially discovered had been fully excavated.

Qin Mu gazed into the distance at the center of the Great Black Wood, where Mute, Blind, and other divine artisans were in the Fourth Heaven of the Lapis Lazuli Azure Sky Pagoda, gathered around a powerful treasure, refining it anew.

Mute had built a manufacturing plant directly on the powerful treasure to re-forge it on site.

The treasures within the various Heavens of the Lapis Lazuli Azure Sky Pagoda were truly immense; only primordial gods with colossal physiques, such as the Northern Emperor Xuanwu, could refine them effortlessly.

For divine artisans from Eternal Peace like Mute, refining these treasures was much more strenuous and required significantly more manpower.

Qin Mu was about to go and meet them when suddenly, the gods who were mining surged out of the ore vein, shouting loudly, "We've dug up that treasure! It's unleashing its power; everyone be careful!"

Qin Mu’s heart stirred. Suddenly, light shimmered within the mine shaft, and terrifying power surged and poured out from its depths at an incredibly fast speed!

The gods who were running behind were about to be overtaken by the immense menacing power from the depths of the mine shaft. Qin Mu moved, and with a whoosh, he rushed into the shaft, unfolding his Divine Treasure Realm to directly confront the surging, immense menacing power!

*Boom!*

His Divine Treasure Realm instantly collapsed and disintegrated, and the vast menacing power rushed towards him, making his heart pound with dread!

“My Divine Treasure Realm can’t block it!” he thought. “My Divine Treasure Realm is shattered. Although I won’t die, those behind me might be annihilated, their physical bodies destroyed!”

Without hesitation, Qin Mu took out the Grand Beginning Egg and placed it before him!

Grand Beginning, still inside the egg, had not yet had time to react when the overwhelming menacing power struck the Grand Beginning Egg!

Incredibly terrifying tremors surged in all directions, shattering the ore vein. The many gods behind Qin Mu instantly felt an unparalleled force sweeping towards them and were immediately swept up by Qin Mu’s Divine Treasure Realm.

Qin Mu also couldn’t stand his ground; he was sent flying backward by an incredibly fierce force. In an instant, he flew a thousand miles away, crashing with a loud boom into the world barrier of the Twenty-Eighth Heaven of the Lapis Lazuli Azure Sky Pagoda, causing it to shake incessantly!

The Grand Beginning Egg flew over and landed beside Qin Mu, from within which Grand Beginning’s angry primordial speech could be heard.

In the distance, Founding Emperor, Mute, Blind, and others immediately noticed the anomaly and quickly flew over.

Qin Mu landed lightly, setting down the divine miners. He felt intense pain throughout his body and was deeply shocked.

What the Eternal Peace gods had dug up was clearly extraordinary; even with him and Grand Beginning working together, they were still sent flying!

“Could it be the divine bow that Grandpa Blind once saw buried deep beneath the ore vein?”

He couldn’t help but feel a mix of shock and uncertainty. If this divine bow was formed by the strange heavens and earth of the Ancestral Court, wouldn’t its power be far too immense?

However, if it had been forged by someone, that didn’t seem likely either.

Suddenly, the Twenty-Eight Heavens reversed. It must have been Dragon Qilin activating the Heavens of the Lapis Lazuli Azure Sky Pagoda to help Founding Emperor and the others quickly reach this place.

Everyone descended, and Qin Mu also flew to the ore vein. Forgetting to exchange pleasantries, he hurriedly looked at the ore vein, seeing that it had completely exploded open, transforming into a massive valley.

The valley was pitch black, with broken mountains and ruined cliffs standing everywhere. The various sentient mineral deposits excavated by the Eternal Peace gods were surprisingly embedded in these broken mountains and ruined cliffs, and traces of excavation were still visible.

“Mu’er, are you hurt?” Apothecary called out from afar, quickly rushing over on the Dragon Qilin.

“No!”

Qin Mu shook his head, staring intently into the depths of the valley. Divine light shimmered and fluctuated there, contained and suppressed, yet intermittent surges of terrifying menacing power could still be felt!

“Grandpa Mute,” Qin Mu asked, “can a treasure naturally born from heaven and earth possess such immense menacing power?”

Mute shook his head and gestured. Blind then said, “Speak in words.”

Mute replied, “Absolutely not such immense menacing power! The other treasures in this ore vein might have been naturally formed within the divine mine, but that divine bow inside could absolutely not have been naturally formed! It’s more likely that the menacing power of this divine bow gave birth to this divine mine, thereby cultivating the divine weapons within the ore vein!”

Founding Emperor said solemnly, “Mu’er, Yan’er, only the three of us here have the highest cultivation. Let’s go in and explore the power of that ominous weapon! Everyone else, remain here!”

Mute, carrying his box, gave him a sidelong glance. “What use is it for you to go?” he scoffed. “Without divine artisans, the three of you combined won’t be able to do anything to that ominous weapon. You’ll only get shot!”

Founding Emperor raised an eyebrow but said nothing.

Blind chuckled. “Without my divine eyes and formations,” he said, “you’ll be in trouble if you encounter danger.”

Founding Emperor suppressed his annoyance and said, “Follow behind us; don’t rush in headlong.”

“If you get injured, will you need someone to heal you?” Apothecary stepped closer, chuckling.

Founding Emperor sighed helplessly. “Mister Apothecary can come along then,” he said. “No more than that. If there are more, I’ll have difficulty protecting you all.”

Grand Beginning inside the egg chuckled. “Celestial Venerable Mu,” it said, “are the elders in your family all so incredibly curious? Don’t they know the dangers here?”

It used the primordial language of Grand Beginning, which no one else could understand apart from Qin Mu. They could only hear strange, peculiar sounds coming from the egg.

Mute, Blind, and Apothecary immediately gathered around, examining the talking egg.

“There are some patterns on it; perhaps we can copy them down to forge treasures. This eggshell is truly solid!” Mute exclaimed in surprise, tapping the egg.

“There’s a strange thing inside!” Blind exclaimed, staring intently at the Grand Beginning Egg, trying to discern its contents, but he couldn’t see clearly.

“Can it be used as medicine?” Apothecary mused, stroking his chin.

Qin Mu took out a lantern and handed it to Yan’er, then thrust the Grand Beginning Egg at Founding Emperor, saying, “Founding Emperor, take this for self-defense first. It’s sturdy.”

Founding Emperor maintained his composure and said, “I can protect myself.”

Qin Mu forcefully handed it to him. Founding Emperor had no choice but to lift the Grand Beginning Egg with his vital qi, from which garbled, incomprehensible sounds came again. It was probably the being inside the egg cursing Qin Mu.