Chapter 1284: Digging Prehistory

"Mu'er and this ancient god in the egg don't seem to have a harmonious relationship," everyone thought to themselves.

Qin Mu unfurled his divine treasure domain, allowing the Mute, the Blind, and the Apothecary to enter. He instructed them, "Stand within the primordial ore vein. There are two eggshells discarded by Tai Yi there, which will keep you safe."

Although displeased at being protected by him, the Blind and the others knew his divine powers were vast and far surpassed their own. So, they each found a hiding spot in the ancestral court within his divine treasure domain.

They descended the ore vein and reached the blasted-open valley.

The valley was very deep, resembling a basin, with shattered mountain ranges everywhere. As everyone looked around, Qin Mu suddenly felt a stirring within him. He flew to the top of a broken mountain and looked down.

He observed that the mountain peak was broken very cleanly, as if sliced off by a sharp weapon.

Qin Mu took out his broken sword, and with a slight thought, the sword grew, transforming into a long sword with a sword light extending for dozens of miles. He lightly sliced towards the broken mountain!

His divine sword immediately met enormous resistance. The sword light penetrated halfway into the broken mountain, then it could not proceed further, unable to slice through it!

"The person who left this mark is far more powerful than me, at least at the peak of the Firmament Realm! And judging by the mountain's cross-section, it shouldn't have been left by a Creator."

He retracted his divine sword and whispered, "The Creators of the Primordial Era had crude divine powers, not this refined. However, logically, the ancestral court was sealed by Heaven Emperor Tai Chu leading the ancient gods in the Primordial Era. It's impossible for anyone from after the Dragon Han era to have left these marks..."

First Ancestor Human Emperor approached a dilapidated cliff. The ragged cliff was transparent front and back, shaped like a palm print a hundred zhang tall, but strangely, this palm print had six fingers.

First Ancestor Human Emperor activated the Heaven and Earth Heart Sacred Art and struck the nearby cliff. With a thunderous boom, the cliff shook slightly, revealing a palm print, but he couldn't punch through it.

First Ancestor Human Emperor frowned.

Yan'er came to the foot of the cliff and scraped the cliff face. Many dark broken stones fell down, resembling charcoal or petrified ash.

"What happened here?" the Apothecary asked.

No one answered him.

Everyone continued forward, and soon they reached the bottom of the valley.

Here, there were even more broken cliffs and mountains, as if the area had endured an incredibly fierce battle. Many powerful beings had fought on this battlefield, shattering heaven and earth and creating this strange landscape.

What was strange, however, was that this battlefield was buried deep beneath the ancestral court.

Standing in the valley, they looked up and could only see a sky like a well, with walls a thousand ren high.

The valley wasn't dark; ahead, light emanated from a divine weapon. Everyone stepped forward, following the light, when suddenly divine lights moved, swiftly rushing towards them.

"Sword Heavenly Palace!"

Qin Mu cried out. The divine lights were like fish swimming swiftly through the air, moving with the speed of light and electricity.

As the divine lights encroached upon his divine treasure domain, sword light erupted from the Sword Heavenly Palace. A dense clanging sound, like pearls dropping onto a jade plate or a heavy rain striking pear blossoms, filled the air as the sword light collided with the streaming lights!

The sword light, like a swarm of bees or a surging torrent, violently clashed and collided with the divine lights around the divine treasure domain.

Behind First Ancestor Human Emperor, his Heavenly Palace emerged. Instantly, the world around him tilted, space spun, and streaks of divine light were annihilated amidst the crumbling heaven and earth.

Yan'er, however, carried a lantern. Before the streaming lights could even reach her, the lantern's glow sent them to who knows where.

She, ironically, was the most relaxed.

They ventured deeper and deeper, getting closer to the source of the divine light, and the attacks from the flowing divine lights in the air grew fiercer!

Qin Mu's Sword Heavenly Palace could no longer withstand the assault. He was forced to mobilize all eighteen of his Heavenly Palaces, even summoning the Grand Dao of Xuandu, Youdu, Yuandu, and the Four Extremes Heavens to resist the invading divine light.

Despite his efforts, many divine lights still breached his divine treasure domain, pressing their attack directly towards him!

He stood firm on the ancestral court, his vertical eye between his eyebrows wide open. Wherever his gaze fell, swiftly moving divine lights exploded with percussive sounds, dispersing into streams of Yin-Yang qi.

The Mute, the Blind, and the Apothecary watched with pounding hearts, deciding to stay hidden inside the Tai Yi eggshells and not show themselves again.

First Ancestor Human Emperor's Heaven and Earth Heart Sacred Art also struggled to keep up. He had no choice but to unleash divine powers to directly clash with the divine lights. When he could no longer resist, he raised the Tai Shi egg to block the divine lights, provoking angry curses from within the egg.

Yan'er, however, remained the most relaxed.

Moon Heavenly Venerable's lantern was truly extraordinary; with a single beam of light, all laws were inviolable, and the divine lights simply couldn't get close.

"No wonder Moon Heavenly Venerable is one of the few Heavenly Venerables who has survived from the Dragon Han era until now," Qin Mu marveled, casting an envious eye on Moon Heavenly Venerable's cultivation techniques and divine powers.

Finally, they passed through layers of divine light and arrived before the divine bow.

Everyone looked up, feeling dizzy and shaken.

They saw a long bow, a thousand zhang in length, shining brilliantly with golden light. Tens of thousands of golden rays overflowed from it, shooting out in all directions!

Beside the long bow was a mountain body resembling a black dragon. Qin Mu saw that this dragon-like mountain was likely the roots of the Great Blackwood, but it was so massive that its original root form was no longer discernible.

Yet, between the roots and the long bow, there was a withered skeletal arm!

The withered skeletal arm extended from the Great Blackwood's roots, clutching the bow's back tightly!

The withered skeletal arm actually appeared to be growing out of the Great Blackwood!

"Where did this arm come from?" everyone wondered, astonished.

Qin Mu stepped forward, intending to forcefully remove the divine bow. Suddenly, the bowstring vibrated with a "boing," and a streak of sword light shot directly towards Qin Mu's glabella!

A broken sword appeared in Qin Mu's hand. He swept it upwards, deflecting the arrow. The arrow light grazed his head and shot forth, piercing a large hole through the Lapis Lazuli Green Sky Banner. The brilliant arrow light, dragging a trail of fire, extended for ten thousand miles, drawing a dazzling straight line across the ancestral court's sky!

On the other side, First Ancestor Human Emperor stepped forward, activating the Heaven and Earth Heart Sacred Art and gently pressing it onto the bow.

The bowstring was about to vibrate again, but his palm pressed down on the bow body, preventing the string from fully drawing. It only let out a hum.

The space in front of First Ancestor Human Emperor, vibrated by the bowstring, instantly fractured into hundreds of vertical fragments that sliced towards him with such speed he couldn't react!

Yan'er, holding her lantern, smoothed out the fractured space with a single flash of light. A strand of hair dangling in front of First Ancestor's forehead instantly split into hundreds of fragments and drifted away.

A bead of sweat rolled down his forehead, sliding from the bridge of his nose to its tip.

He was only a hair's breadth away from being sliced into hundreds of pieces by the divine bow's power!

Qin Mu stepped forward and, together with First Ancestor, grasped the divine bow. As they both exerted force to lift it, their bodies were violently shaken the next moment!

A vast thought from within the divine bow impacted their minds: "Did you ask me before touching my treasure?"

As their thoughts clashed, both understood the message, and their hearts were filled with astonishment: "The owner of the divine bow... is still alive?"

Both were frozen in place by the immense thought emanating from the bow, their bodies stiff and unmoving, with only their eyeballs still able to roll.

Yan'er immediately reached for the divine bow, but was instantly frozen by the vast thought too!

Just then, the Blind stepped out from Qin Mu's divine treasure domain. He approached and carefully examined the withered skeletal hand gripping the bow, muttering to himself.

The Mute stepped forward, carefully examining the withered hand and nodding repeatedly as he listened to the Blind.

The Apothecary stepped forward, took out a spiritual pill, crushed it, and applied it to the withered bone. "It's done," he said.

The Mute opened his box, reached in, and countless silver pellets floated out, transforming into a large hammer.

The Mute swung the large hammer and brought it down. With a resounding clang, the withered skeletal hand shattered with a crash!

Qin Mu, Yan'er, and First Ancestor Human Emperor felt a wave of relief as the vast thought in their minds instantly dissipated!