Chapter 927 — Blood Light Surges, a Demon Is Born

The stone had grown immeasurably vast, crowding out a great portion of the continent's heart; it sat embedded in an abyss, and around it strands of divine consciousness joined it to the land like white-hot chains, binding the Creation Divine Stone fast. Tu Bo's horn had become the iris of his third eye, and the Creation Divine Stone its pupil.

When his primordial qi and divine consciousness reached this place, they moved like cloud across the Shen Continent, setting the winds and clouds of its sky churning.

Such a change Shen Mu had never anticipated, and Wei Suifeng, who had left him the Creation Divine Stone, could have anticipated it even less.

"Is this change for good or for ill?

" A hidden worry stirred in him.

His divine consciousness searched about, and he saw his blood and qi come flooding in, only to be swallowed by the Creation Divine Stone.

"Is it this stone that steals my blood and qi?

" With a thought Shen Mu sent his divine consciousness flying into the crystal.

Red light filled the crystal, and within it no direction could be told; his divine consciousness flew a long while through that red glow and still found no end to it.

He halted abruptly and quietly sensed the flow of his own blood and qi, then followed that current onward. After who knew how long, his divine consciousness stopped: in the red light stood a vast altar, and upon the altar flesh writhed, like some enormous monster. "It is not the third eye that steals my blood and qi, nor the Creation Divine Stone.

Something is hidden inside the stone, meaning to be reborn through my blood and qi! " Shen Mu's heart lurched.

He advanced slowly, and the mass of flesh on the altar seemed to sense him and stopped its writhing.

Shen Mu narrowed his eyes.

Suddenly the flesh parted, revealing a scarlet eye that swept its gaze all around. At once Shen Mu dispersed his divine consciousness, evading the monster's sweep; the flesh closed again, covering the scarlet eye, and went on devouring his blood and qi.

Before the mirror in the ship's cabin, Shen Mu's face was grave.

Some demon lurked within the Creation Divine Stone Wei Suifeng had left him; hidden inside the stone, it stole his blood and qi. "There is an altar in there too, and I know that kind of altar.

It is the sort of prehistoric altar found in the Blood Rust Zone. Its purpose is to steal my blood and qi while borrowing my divine consciousness to remake a body for itself! Then the thing hidden in the Creation Divine Stone must be a prehistoric Creator!

" Shen Mu made his blood and qi flow perfectly calm, lest he alarm the thing inside the stone, and thought: "The Blood Rust Zone is the battlefield where the ancient gods wiped out the prehistoric Creators. This Creator was slain there by the ancient gods, yet he did not wholly die; he must have hidden himself, with the last of his strength, in a shattered fragment of the Creation Divine Stone. " He paced back and forth, pondering deeply: "Eldest Senior Brother obtained this crystal, but Eldest Senior Brother was too strong; the thing dared not stir up trouble, and let him believe the stone held no danger, so that he left it to me. My cultivation is weaker, so when I tested the Creation Divine Stone, it tried to seize my blood and qi and be reborn, and my third eye blocked it, and it failed.

" Gradually he pieced together the truth: "When I used the jade pendant to separate the Creation Divine Stone from my third eye, the stone slipped from my grasp and struck the pendant, knocking me senseless. That must have been the moment this prehistoric Creator struck! He could have taken possession of my third eye and stripped me of my blood and qi entirely, but he never expected that the jade pendant was a seal refined by Tu Bo himself, made expressly to seal my elder brother Shen Fengqing, the divine son of the Netherworld. " Light flashed in Shen Mu's eyes: "He crashed into Tu Bo's seal and could not escape, so he simply settled in and secretly stole my blood and qi.

And every time I set the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art running, my divine consciousness flows through the third eye and passes through the Creation Divine Stone, where he intercepts a portion of it and keeps it upon the altar. He is brewing power, waiting to be resurrected!

He must be a great figure among the prehistoric Creators, one who has not wholly died even after so long. If he steals enough blood and qi, and with the wondrous power of the Creation Divine Stone besides, he truly might be reborn inside my eye.

In that case. . .

" Shen Mu's three eyes grew brighter and brighter: "How can I kill him for good? " He stopped walking. Judging by how this prehistoric Creator had seized his blood and qi, the being, even without a body, was more than his match.

At the time Shen Mu had been utterly unable to control his blood and qi or his primordial qi; had the third eye not awakened, he would surely have died on the spot!

But now the Creation Divine Stone had fused into Shen Mu's eye, and with Tu Bo's seal besides, the thing could not run wild for the moment; it could only steal Shen Mu's blood and qi little by little. And that gave Shen Mu his chance.

Yet dealing with this prehistoric Creator hidden in the divine stone was a thorny business indeed, for the stone had now fused with his eye, and one careless move might destroy the eye itself.

"I must first control the flow of my blood and qi and reduce the divine consciousness that flows into the third eye; that will keep him from recovering his strength. " Shen Mu pondered carefully: "I must also lay down formations within the third eye.

The Nine Heavens Eye-Gazing Art that Blind Grandpa taught me is no longer enough to erase a being so terrible; I need to devise new formations.

. .

This prehistoric Creator died in the Blood Rust Zone, slain by the ancient gods, so the great Dao of the ancient gods is the best weapon against him.

First, I will inscribe the Dao runes of the true gods of the celestial star hosts! " No sooner thought than done: he sealed off his blood and qi, mustered his primordial qi, and with that qi branded into the pupil of his third eye the Dao runes of the three hundred and sixty true gods of the celestial star hosts! This would not only serve against the prehistoric Creator but raise the might of the third eye, transforming it into his third sacred pupil! Once the formation was roused, this third sacred pupil could become the Grand Array of the Celestial Star Gods, and slaying a powerful foe would be a trifling matter!

Within the Primordial Fetus Divine Treasury, Shen Mu's primordial qi rolled in vast waves; driven by the spirit fetus, it swept like a long rainbow straight into the Shen Continent, branding the star gods into the sky. As countless runes appeared in the sky, they slowly took shape as the first of the star gods.

Just then, an ancient and obscure ripple of divine consciousness appeared in his mind: "Hold. "