Chapter 1365: Ancestral Hall South Heaven Gate

Hearing this, the people on the altar released their divine senses. Their summoned divine abilities erupted with dazzling light that shot straight into the sky, then vanished from Ancestral Court. Connected to Qin Mu's divine sense, their collective consciousness followed the dazzling light to another world.

They had arrived at the backside of Ancestral Court.

In this world, everything was colossal, with beautiful mountains and pristine waters, teeming with far more life than the front of Ancestral Court. Just a few years prior, the front of Ancestral Court had been a desolate wasteland. It only began to sprout vegetation after the Ten Celestial Venerables established their territories and the void beasts were brought under Dragon Qilin's control. When Earth Mother Yuanjun arrived, her power accelerated the growth of plants, gradually adding a touch of green to the land. However, it paled significantly in comparison to the backside of Ancestral Court.

The front of Ancestral Court had been ravaged clean by the void beasts, which had driven many native rare herbs and precious trees to extinction. Only in perilous areas inaccessible to the void beasts, such as the five great ore veins and the Great Black Wood, did some incredibly precious spiritual medicines and forests still exist. But the backside of Ancestral Court had never suffered the void beasts' depredations!

As their collective divine sense followed Qin Mu through the magnificent landscapes of Ancestral Court's backside, they witnessed countless spiritual medicines radiating astonishing power. One large flower, taller than a person, had existed for an unknown number of years. Its deep calyx continuously gushed forth fountains of spiritual power, a sign that the plant had accumulated so much energy it had to release the excess. This spiritual medicine had to be terrifyingly ancient! Next, they saw a vast sea of spiritual medicines, tens of thousands of them simultaneously erupting spiritual power in a truly spectacular display!

The sight was so profound that it destabilized their divine senses, leaving them deeply shocked. Such a scene was unprecedented, not only across the myriad heavens and worlds but even within Ancestral Court itself. The sheer variety and abundance of spiritual medicines on Ancestral Court's backside were unparalleled.

"If Apothecary saw this, wouldn't he go mad?" Granny Si murmured.

At that moment, Qin Mu's divine sense swiftly carried theirs forward. He had taken out an item once worn by Shujun, using this personal belonging to locate Shujun's soul. This was another application of the Soul-Guiding Technique. His earlier statement that "the true marvel of divine abilities lies in the mind" was no boast; the various ingenious and astonishing ways he employed his powers were truly breathtaking.

Their collective divine sense whistled across the skies of Ancestral Court's backside like a powerful gale, following the trail of Shujun's soul. Their divine senses then witnessed an even more astounding sight: enormous luminous pearls, each approximately one hundred *li* in diameter, floated in the air like dazzling moons. Below these pearls lay a vast beach, where colossal sea clams lay with their shells agape. These were another type of primordial giant beast.

As Qin Mu and the others' divine senses swept past, the roused sea wind startled the clams. The luminous pearls floating in the air immediately dropped into their shells, which then snapped shut with a *thwack*, expelling jets of seawater as the clams burrowed deep into the sand. The pearls were clearly treasures within these giant beasts.

As their divine sense soared over the mountains and rivers of Ancestral Court's backside, they also witnessed colossal beasts engaged in earth-shattering combat. These were adult giants, likely having survived for countless millennia on Ancestral Court's backside, their bodies forged to incredible power, clashing with pure physical might like two Martial Emperors, tearing the land apart. And on Ancestral Court's backside, there was no shortage of beasts possessing such destructive power!

Suddenly, Qin Mu's divine sense halted, causing everyone else's to stop abruptly as well. Puzzled, they soon realized why Qin Mu had stopped. They had encountered a primordial deity, born on the backside of Ancestral Court! It was an Ancestral Court dragon vein, undergoing metamorphosis!

The mountain range resembled a crouching dragon, stretching for tens of thousands of *li*. Its immense age allowed spiritual energy to permeate its body, gradually nourishing it and unknowingly giving birth to a physical form of flesh and blood. Its slopes were also covered in various spiritual medicines, whose medicinal power constantly nourished it. Nurtured by the Great Dao of heaven and earth on Ancestral Court's backside, it had unknowingly developed sentience. Today was the day it would complete its metamorphosis into a primordial deity!

They watched as rock transformed into flesh, the deeply buried roots of the mountain became dragon claws that lifted, shaking the earth and mountains, and the dragon's body slowly rose. This ancient divine dragon was about to take its final form!

"The backside of Ancestral Court truly is a land of treasures everywhere!" The group was dazed and awestruck, filled with admiration. It was their first time witnessing the birth process of an ancient god born from heaven and earth—a truly eye-opening experience.

Just then, dozens of adult primordial beasts galloped towards the metamorphosing ancient divine dragon. In a mere instant, they shattered the divine dragon, which had formed from the Ancestral Court's dragon vein! These primordial beasts were clearly kings among their kind, immensely powerful; killing the ancient divine dragon was effortless for them.

The group stood stunned. Then, a powerful divine sense from one of the primordial beasts detected them. With a roar, Qin Mu instantly knew they were in danger and decisively activated his divine sense to flee far away. Behind them, dozens of beast kings roared in pursuit, but fortunately, Qin Mu's divine sense was also incredibly powerful, quickly leaving them far behind.

"This backside of Ancestral Court is peculiar. Why would these beasts kill the ancient god born here...?" Just as Qin Mu pondered this, he suddenly halted his divine sense. The others' divine senses swept forward and saw a majestic Heavenly Gate standing tall before them!

It was composed of two impossibly massive, crimson primordial mountains, permeated by flames that continuously shifted, automatically forming various mysterious patterns. The mountains were magnificent and grand, appearing before them like the two doorframes of a colossal gateway. Each mountain had one side that rose in an arch, becoming steeper and more perilous as it ascended, culminating in a solitary peak that pierced the clouds! The other side was incredibly steep, vertical to the ground, with no extraneous rock. They stood symmetrically, left and right, forming a slender central gateway, like a mere sliver of sky. Between the two mountains, a strange power condensed, permeating the gateway with blazing Dao flames. The deeper one looked, the more intense the Dao flames became! These Dao flames were extraordinary, the true flames of the Great Dao, formed by the two mountains themselves!

"The Southern Heavenly Gate!" Their divine senses fluctuated, unable to suppress their shock and excitement. This was truly the Southern Heavenly Gate of Ancestral Court! They had initially doubted Qin Mu when he spoke of the Ancestral Court's Four Heavenly Gates, but seeing the true Southern Heavenly Gate on the backside of Ancestral Court now confirmed his words.

"Strange!" Qin Mu's divine sense rippled with thought: "Why is the Southern Heavenly Gate on the backside of Ancestral Court? Does this mean the Four Heavenly Gates aren't necessarily all on the front?" He had originally assumed that the Four Heavenly Gates, the Primordial Jade Pool, and Ancestral Court's Jade Capital were all on the front of Ancestral Court. He believed Shujun would know their locations, which was why he had used his divine sense to find and summon Shujun back to the front. After all, the backside of Ancestral Court was the territory of terrifying beings like Long Xiao. A rash intrusion would inevitably lead to conflict with Long Xiao, who commanded all the primordial beasts of Ancestral Court's backside, making them a formidable power. He was merely trying to save someone; it wasn't worth offending such an entity.

However, it now appeared that if the Four Heavenly Gates and other significant locations were indeed on the backside of Ancestral Court, they would have to enter it in person.