Chapter 995 — Heroic Spirits of the Ancients (Second Update)

Another ancestral spirit's divine consciousness said, "Shen Ye led the masses of the Carefree Territory to occupy the space and soil of our Other Shore World and to slaughter our kin — a blood-deep enmity that cannot be shared beneath the same sky. " Shen Mu asked, "I have seen the history of the Creators.

In the age of high antiquity, the Creators were divided into different races and tribes who fought among themselves, and there was no lack of clans utterly exterminated.

Beside Kaihuang, how wicked were their deeds?

" The ancestral spirits fell silent.

One of them said, "They exceeded his, and did not fall short.

" Shen Mu said, "Those who are called Creators were originally ordinary people; only by obtaining the Primordial Divine Stone and gaining the power to create from the void did they, over long ages, come to identify with one another and so form the Creator race. Shen Ye of Kaihuang used a few tricks to win a place for his people to survive, but I doubt he ever took the initiative to attack the Creators of the Other Shore.

The enmity between the two sides arose because the Creators wanted to reclaim their territory, and so the wars never ended; the Carefree Territory's casualties were heavier than the Creator race's.

" Another spirit said, "They are the invaders, and we are the victims of aggression.

Driving them out and taking back our land is only right and proper.

Not long ago, moreover, a big-headed monster babe descended and killed many of our people.

Your explanation does not hold. Langwan, you had better create another Holy Infant!

" Wave after wave of dreadful thought was about to slay Shen Mu on the spot, when abruptly Shen Mu spoke: "And what if the Carefree Territory could restore life to the Land of the Great Void? " Those waves of thought subsided.

Shen Mu said, "The big-headed monster babe, Shen Fengqing, is my elder brother. He was born in the Nether Capital; he is the Nether Capital's Divine Child, a deity who commands death.

He can establish a Nether Capital over the Land of the Great Void and the Other Shore World, so that souls may enter it and pass on!

He can resurrect the souls of your ancestors who died fighting in the Land of the Great Void, sweep away every demon and monster there so that its order no longer collapses, and spare the Other Shore World the peril of becoming another Land of the Great Void. " He paused, then said, "The more Creators who die in the Other Shore World, the more their divine consciousness collapses, and the stronger its tendency to turn into another Land of the Great Void. That is why you ancestral spirits established the Ancestral Spirit Realm — is it not? " One after another, the ancestral spirits fell silent. "And yet the divine consciousness the Primordial Origin Stone can hold is finite. One day the scattered divine consciousness of the Other Shore World will exceed the limit the Ancestral Spirit Realm can contain; the Ancestral Spirit Realm will collapse, and the Other Shore World will become another Land of the Great Void.

" Shen Mu said, "The great blood-enemy of the Creators of the Other Shore, the big-headed monster babe Shen Fengqing, is precisely the one who can establish order for the Other Shore World, and the one who can make the Land of the Great Void safe and fit for habitation again. The Creators granted Kaihuang a sword's-breadth of land to found the Carefree Territory; Kaihuang's descendant repays the Creators with a world free of hidden worries and makes the Great Void livable besides. Why would you not welcome that?

" The twenty-seven ancestral spirits clashed their thoughts together, conferring among themselves. After a while, one spirit said, "The conflict between the Creator race and the Carefree Territory may be resolved.

But even if order is established in the Land of the Great Void, enemies will still go there, and our race will still have cause to fear annihilation.

" Shen Mu smiled. "May I ask you ancestral spirits: the Creators of today against the Creators of twenty thousand years ago — which are stronger, which weaker? " The ancestral spirits started. One said, "The Creators of today are stronger. " Shen Mu smiled.

"To cut yourselves off from the world is to cut yourselves off from survival. The Creator race fled into the void and built the Great Void, thinking themselves secure.

Yet the moment Emperor Tai came here, the Great Void crumbled and collapsed, leaving you helpless against a single blow.

Yun the Heaven Lord came, brought the knowledge of the outside world, and helped you root out Emperor Tai. But then the Creator race hid themselves away on the Other Shore, cutting themselves off from the world anew. Then Kaihuang came and founded the Carefree Territory, bringing the knowledge of the outside world.

It was only by coming into contact with the Carefree Territory that your arts and divine powers advanced by leaps and bounds, surpassing the past. " His voice rang out like a thunderclap: "I look upon your people — at most a million or so. Had Kaihuang never come, how many tens of thousands of years would the Creator race have endured before perishing? Settled here in seclusion, with no internal troubles and no external threats, you will only dwindle away by degrees, never multiply and flourish.

The Other Shore World is your dwelling place; the Great Void is the window through which you touch the outside world.

Only with that window will the Creator race gradually grow strong and prosper. " The thoughts of the many ancestral spirits wove and clashed together; plainly, their debate was fierce.

Shen Mu said no more.

After a long while, the wills of the ancestral spirits became one.

An aged voice came forth: "All this time we have not asked the Holy Infant's name.

How should we address you? " "Shen Mu of Jingping. " Shen Mu smiled. "You may not have heard the name, but you must certainly have heard my title from Yun the Heaven Lord. I am Mu the Heaven Lord of the Dragon Han Heavenly Court, one of the Five Founding Elders of the Celestial Alliance! " The ancestral spirits were silent.

After a moment, one said, "We never heard Yun the Heaven Lord speak of it. " Shen Mu's face darkened; he was mortified and felt he had lost all face. Langwan the God King had kept her countenance expressionless and her bearing unmoved the whole time, but now she could not help secretly laughing. Shen Mu's face went from black to red, and he stammered to her, "Mu the Heaven Lord's reputation is very great! In the Dragon Han age, I was the Dragon Han Overlord Body; in the High Sovereign age, the High Sovereign Overlord Body; and in the Jingping age, I am the Jingping Overlord Body as well.

I am quite something.

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" Langwan the God King could not hold back a smile and turned her head away.

"Holy Infant, are you ready to receive the wisdom our Creator race has amassed over a hundred million years?

" The countless divine consciousnesses of the Ancestral Spirit Realm trembled, converging into a single voice. Shen Mu's heart tightened; he steadied himself and said in a deep voice, "I am ready!

" The entire Ancestral Spirit Realm began to shake.

Torrents of light formed from countless divine consciousnesses surged over him and swallowed him up!