Chapter 1068 — Stirring the Origin Ancestral Star

Those stars too were immense, yet beside the Zhen Star they seemed small indeed. Upon them spread the radiance of evening, and there stood palaces beyond number; countless demigods with human heads and serpent bodies, hair loose over their shoulders, beat great drums and shouted without cease.

The drumbeats came down from the high heavens, and though the distance was still great, the sound was already deafening, so that the waters of the Heavenly River clattered and roared! The Zhen Star is among the most ancient of stars, a god-star, the birthplace of Star Lord Zhenxing.

The bewitching radiance shed by the Great Dao of Death filled it, and at Star Lord Zhenxing's summons, more and more of the Zhen Star forced its way into the Yuan Realm. Foreboding rose in Shen Mu's heart. With the Zhen Star's appearance, the aura Star Lord Zhenxing gave off was rising in a straight line!

Plainly, for these ancient gods the ancestral lands could raise their attainments in the Dao! He looked up, and dimly made out at the center of the Zhen Star an altar of inconceivable size, where the radiance of the Great Dao of Death lay thickest of all. It was this gigantic altar, resonating with Star Lord Zhenxing, that let him drag the Zhen Star into the great world of the Yuan Realm without any need of blood sacrifice!

"This altar, it is somewhat like the altars of the Creators! " Shen Mu's mind was shaken. In the carriage behind him, the Creator Luo Xiao, pale of face, let his voice steal faintly into Shen Mu's ear: "The Creators of the Zhen Clan made a dreadful life, and in the end it destroyed the Zhen Clan.

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" Before Shen Mu could think further, the sky split open again, and the sapphire-blue Chen Star burst through the Yuan Realm's barrier, forcing its way into the sky of the Yuan Realm! A dreadful aura of slaughter at once filled the heavens.

That star was covered in prisons, thronged with gods and demons of human head, serpent body, and crimson hair, who gripped every kind of instrument of torture to make the flesh creep, and shrieked in excitement. On this star too Shen Mu saw a vast altar.

At the same moment, the Yinghuo Star descended upon the Yuan Realm like flame.

It was not fire that covered the planet, but the miasma of pestilence, drowning the star utterly. Within the miasma the enormous bodies of countless gods and demons loomed and vanished, ox horns on their heads, great hammers in their hands, beating their own chests with the hammerheads, the drumbeat thudding and booming!

Another great crash rang out, and the green-greasy Sui Star surfaced, likewise ringed with radiance, and in that radiance already countless demigods with bird heads and human bodies came flying on beating wings, blotting out sky and sun, uttering shrill, piercing cries!

Then of a sudden the sky turned dazzling white: the Taibai Star came bursting into the Yuan Realm, and upon it countless gods and demons with tiger heads and human bodies strode as if flying, rushing through the air toward the Heavenly River, brandishing bronze axes, their roars like thunder! The ancestral lands of the Five Luminaries Star Lords had all been summoned!

Stranger still, at the center of each of these five most ancient stars stood an altar of a scale almost beyond belief!

Shen Mu's heart sank.

The auras of the Five Luminaries Star Lords were all swelling madly, rising madly; the descent of the ancestral lands of these five stars was making their strength soar.

If all five god-stars forced their way fully into the Yuan Realm, to what height would their strength rise? The Creator Luo Xiao walked out of the carriage and came to stand behind Shen Mu.

Gazing up at the five ancient god-stars, he chuckled: "The sins our forebears wrought for their own desires were paid for long ago, and today the retribution falls on my head. Heavenly Venerable Mu, this is the sin of my clan's forebears, and nothing to do with you. Let me bear the calamity.

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" He had not finished speaking when Shen Mu's figure surged up, the sword-light in his hand bursting out of a sudden, more terrible than the sword that had just annihilated tens of thousands of gods and demons; a single sword flew forth, and a boundless ocean of blood surged up to the heavens!

"Then before the Five Luminaries' stars fully descend, we destroy them!

Yan'er! " Shen Mu roared, the sword-light in his hand flying straight at Star Lord Zhenxing, and said sternly: "I give you leave to eat as you please! Dragon Fatty, loose the Heavenly Dragons, use the Dragon-Rearing Scripture!

" Yan'er gave a cheer, and the azure sparrow darted on beating wings at Star Lord Chenxing of the crimson hair and serpent body. The azure sparrow beat her wings, and the next moment became a dragon sparrow ten thousand li long, the Dragon Sparrow primordial spirit flying out from the crown of her head! Before Luo Xiao, the Dragon Qilin undid the traces, and the six Heavenly Dragons were at once unwilling. Even that muddle-headed one who had been bawling that they could thrash the Five Luminaries Star Lords had no stomach for the fight now, crying: "They are ancient gods, we cannot beat them, we had better run!

" The Dragon Qilin shook itself once and became a monstrous thing with a qilin's head, a man's body, and a dragon's tail. Rousing the Dragon-Rearing Scripture, it suddenly cracked the whip, crying: "Your cultivation is higher than mine, and you are such cowards!

Get on me!

" The Heavenly Dragons rose at once: one coiled about his left arm, one about his right, two wrapped about his legs, and two more great dragons coiled about his body, their heads hanging over the Dragon Qilin's shoulders. The Dragon-Rearing Scripture was roused, and the full mana of all six Heavenly Dragons was borrowed in an instant; the Dragon Qilin's primordial spirit cultivation soared.

In one flight it crossed the Southern Heavenly Gate and the Jade Pool, leapt over the God-Slaying Platform, descended upon the Jade Capital City, came before Lingxiao Hall, strode into the hall, and praised: "Lord Dragon-Rearing was truly remarkable, a formidable figure indeed! " And at this moment Yan'er met Star Lord Chenxing.

Star Lord Chenxing presided over slaughter and punishment; now that his cultivation had surged, he reached out to seize the dragon sparrow's claws, meaning to wrench her apart, when the Dragon Sparrow primordial spirit flew to him, the dragon sparrow that swallows the heavens, and trapped him within. Star Lord Chenxing was at once bound tight and could not move. Yan'er's two talons closed, her beak pecked at his skull, and Star Lord Chenxing's crown was pierced through; his soul fell into darkness, his heaven soul, earth soul, and spirit soul shattered to pieces.

Yan'er gave a cheer, took Star Lord Chenxing in her beak and shook him hard twice, straightening his body, lifted her head to align her throat, and swallowed him into her belly. Star Lord Chenxing's frame was enormous and very long; his body slid to the corner of her beak, and Yan'er hooked at him with her talons and straightened him again, and it took her no small effort before she had swallowed him down to the serpent's tail.

But Star Lord Chenxing's body was too long, and a length of serpent tail still stuck out. Yan'er lifted a talon and poked it hard into her mouth, and at last swallowed it whole.

She gave a belch, and the serpent's tail popped out again. "I can only eat one. .

. " Yan'er was quite regretful, and looked at the other Star Lords: "Let us dig a hole and bury them. Then we can eat them for a long, long time.

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