Chapter 1070 — A Sudden Upheaval

"A Creator indeed!

" Gripped in Luo Xiao's hand, the Sui Star Lord started in his heart. This Creator was very strong, far stronger than any Creator he had ever met before, and must be an outstanding genius among Creators.

Yet against Creators, the ancient gods each had their own means.

Creators cultivated no techniques of the Way and no divine arts; they cultivated only divine consciousness, tempered their flesh with that consciousness, and visualized outer things, having no prime spirit, which left a great weakness in soul and spirit. Creators were mighty, and likewise frail. What the Sui Star Lord commanded was the way of life and sacrifice.

In the instant Luo Xiao seized him, his palm began to swell, and in a short moment that palm grew four or five times larger, exceeding the limit his flesh could bear. His palm began to collapse, the weight of muscle crushing bone! Nor was that all.

His arm too began to swell like a torrent, spreading ceaselessly upward along his arm, making his flesh ever larger.

Luo Xiao's flesh in its complete form was already immensely towering, and the Sui Star Lord used the way of life to rouse its functions, making it grow without limit until it crushed itself. As early as the primeval Hongmeng age, this trick of the Sui Star Lord had never failed.

In the Bloodrust Campaign, countless Creators surged toward him, yet before they could reach his side they swelled one after another, until at last they crushed themselves to pieces and became pools of rotten flesh drifting in the starry void of the universe. Though untold hundreds of thousands of years had passed, the Bloodrust Campaign remained the grandest, most magnificent, and most staggering battle in all history.

In that battle, ancient gods from every quarter blazed with splendor, and from then on laid the pattern of ancient god rule. Even through the million years from Longhan to Jingping, the pattern of ancient god rule had never wholly perished. That was the effect brought by the Bloodrust Campaign. Luo Xiao also knew the ancient gods had ways to counter him, so in the instant he seized the Sui Star Lord he flung him backward.

The Sui Star Lord flew from his grasp and fell downward, while Luo Xiao's arm had already become white bone, the muscle upon it wholly rotted away, and the rot still creeping toward his shoulder. Luo Xiao acted without hesitation.

Raising his other arm, he visualized a divine blade, and with one falling stroke cut off his own arm to stop the spread of the rot.

The Sui Star Lord was hurled toward the Yuan Realm, then beat his wings without cease, trying to halt his form, when Luo Xiao's divine consciousness rushed upon him, visualizing meteors that struck his body one after another, beating him ever backward so that he could not check his fall at all.

Luo Xiao's body shrank rapidly as he strode after him, visualizing ever more meteors that bombarded the Sui Star Lord without pause.

Shocked and enraged, the Sui Star Lord suddenly took two divine pearls full on the back of his skull, for the Dragon Qilin had already come behind him. Battered into stupor, his three souls scattered, Yan'er flew to him, thrust out her sharp claws and tore him apart alive, and at the same moment Shen Mu's sword light arrived and with one stroke wiped out his heaven, earth, and god souls. Luo Xiao ceased his visualization and descended, tore his robe to bind his severed arm lest the wound bleed, and bowed to Shen Mu, saying, "Mu Tianzun, now that my identity is exposed, the ancient gods will surely come to kill me and seek out my people. My life will not last long.

Only I am ashamed to have entangled you, and I fear in this life I shall have no chance to repay you. Farewell!

" Shen Mu smiled and said, "Luo Xiao the Creator, you and I walk the same road. Why be in such haste to leave? Do you not wish to find your people's Ancestral Court?

Without my help, you could never find the Ancestral Court. " Luo Xiao's heart stirred, and he halted. Shen Mu invited him, saying, "At present, only I can help you.

Your enemies are all the ancient gods, and mine are scarcely fewer. Let us join like wolves in-- pah, pah, stand as one against a common foe, and perhaps we can aid each other.

" Luo Xiao stared blankly at him as Shen Mu came before the Heavenly Dragon carriage and lifted the beaded curtain. Luo Xiao hesitated a moment, gritted his teeth, and ducked into the carriage. The Dragon Qilin dispersed the Dragon Rearing Scripture and tethered the heavenly dragons, while Yan'er ran busily about, gathering up the corpses of the Five Luminaries, thinking to herself, "Enough to eat for a long, long time. . .

" Suddenly a violent tremor came from the sky. The Dragon Qilin and Yan'er looked up, only to see that the god stars of Taibai, Chenxing, Zhenxing and the rest, no longer summoned by the Five Luminaries Star Lords, were at once cut sheer in two by the Yuan Realm barrier and split in half! The Five Luminaries god clans dwelling upon those god stars fled in all directions, and many gods and demons were cut in two alive by the world barrier, while the five severed stars hung in the firmament.

The Dragon Qilin calculated their orbits and said to Yan'er, who was hauling "provisions" into the carriage, "Five thousand years from now, these five stars will fall one by one from the sky and smash upon the Yuan Realm.

Their orbits are most perilous. " Yan'er cared nothing for this. Turned into a plump little azure sparrow, she flew with effort to the Dragon Qilin's side and said, "By then we will long be gone.

Let us hurry and find my mother! " The Dragon Qilin hesitated a moment and said in a low voice, "We have stirred great trouble this time.

Killing the Five Luminaries Star Lords here, I fear we cannot hide it from the Heaven Duke, nor from Earth Mother, and perhaps even Tubo is watching this place. The Celestial Court and the other ancient gods will soon know of it.

I think we cannot go to the Celestial Court now. . .

" Yan'er froze, then turned to look at Shen Mu in the carriage. Shen Mu's voice came at just the right moment, "Yan'er, let us first seek the Ancestral Court.

We will have plenty of chances to see your mother. " Yan'er could only agree. The Dragon Qilin asked, "Cult Master, where is the Ancestral Court?

" "That depends on how high the Celestial Court stands. " Shen Mu said, "To know the true position of the Ancestral Court, one must know the height of the Longhan Celestial Court, taken together with Xuandu, Youdu, the Four Polar Heavens, the Yuan Realm, and Guixu.

The positions of Xuandu and the rest upon the star chart of the great universe I already know. The only thing I do not know is the original height of the Longhan Celestial Court. But since we have come here, measuring the true position of the Celestial Court is not hard. " He pushed open the carriage window and gazed up along the Heavenly River toward the Celestial Court, his eyes deep, saying, "The Celestial Court must already know of the death of the five ancient gods.

Most likely it will send the Ten Guards of the Celestial Court or many ancient gods to hunt and seize us.

Let us draw a little nearer, measure the height of the Celestial Court, and then leave. " The Dragon Qilin trembled with fear as he drove the Heavenly Dragon carriage toward the Celestial Court, thinking, "What if we cannot get away in time?

To slay ancient gods in this age must be an earth-shaking deed.

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