Chapter 1075 — First Step into the Ancestral Land

Shen Mu stepped onto the larger altar and swept his gaze over everyone's faces. "Gentlemen, so long as you come onto the altar and I activate the formation, we can attempt to enter the Ancestral Court. On the other altar I have laid another kind of rune. The Ancestral Court is already sealed, and with my power alone I cannot break the seal, so I have left the second altar so that, within the Ancestral Court, we can use the reverse summoning method to call ourselves back out. This second set of runes requires me to activate it. Are the three of you all clear?"

Da Hong laughed. "Brother Mu has thought of everything with thorough care. I am clear."

Gu Xiao also nodded. "I am clear as well."

Shen Mu breathed a sigh of relief. With those words from these two, his own life could be considered as good as saved.

At the very least, before leaving the Ancestral Court, these two would never do away with him.

The Heavenly Dragon treasure chariot also drove onto the altar; the six heavenly dragons, the Dragon Qilin, and Yan'er were there too, with Yan'er guarding the lantern that Wei Suifeng had entrusted to them.

Shen Mu gave a soft shout and activated the method for summoning Void Beasts. Innumerable runes upon the altar burst out at once, transforming into countless points of light. The points of light rose slowly and converged at the center of his brow. In a flash, a beam of light shot out from between Shen Mu's brows and pierced into the void!

The void trembled faintly, and then Shen Mu sensed within the nothingness one colossal lifeform after another, utterly savage, brimming with bloodlust!

He chose a powerful lifeform and hurled his divine consciousness against it.

Hum.

He felt a faint vibration coming to him, and in a haze it seemed that he had established a connection with that powerful lifeform.

Upon the altar, Shen Mu's eyes were hollow and vacant, yet his hands danced. The divine-weapon components affixed around the altar suddenly blazed with incomparable brilliance, and the various rune marks Shen Mu had branded upon them seemed to come alive — like serpents, like pythons — writhing over the components!

Beams of light soared into the sky, forming above their heads a phantom altar composed of runes; then the phantom altar crashed into the void!

Boom!

A violent rumble sounded in the ears of everyone upon the altar, and abruptly the entire altar seemed pulled by an immense force, flying into the void.

Just at this moment, Shen Mu saw, within the murky void, an enormous eye suddenly split open, revealing a bizarre eyeball that rolled once with a gurgle.

"That kind of eye — I seem to have seen it somewhere... It is the Other Shore world!"

His heart gave a start. Back in the Other Shore world, when the Creators had summoned the Primal Spirit Realm, he had seen a similar eye. That had been an anomalous vision that appeared when the Primal Spirit Realm manifested.

What Shen Mu did not know, however, was that in the supreme divine-consciousness domain of the Great Void, similar eyes had appeared in the earth, the mountains and rivers, and the sky!

It was only that he had not noticed them then; only the divine dragon he had visualized had seen that eye!

"Could it be the eye of a Void Beast? Then was the Primal Spirit Realm built from a Void Beast?"

He had just thought of this when the altar was already charging into that enormous eye.

The sky suddenly blazed bright. The enormous eye seemed to have taken fright and hastily shrank back, and the altar raced after the eye at full speed.

The next moment, a violent jolt came; the altar came to an abrupt halt, and dazzling light flooded the eyes of all upon the altar.

The eyeball of a primordial colossus appeared beside the altar, its pupil contracting as it fixed its gaze upon this suddenly appearing altar — and even its pupil alone was vastly more towering than the altar!

Those upon the altar wished to see the full form of the owner of this eye, but the colossus's eyeball blocked half the sky, and its true body could not be seen.

"It is a Void Beast!"

Cold sweat broke out on Luo Xiao's forehead. Hastily he opened the vertical eye at the center of his brow, and his divine consciousness surged out, flooding toward this eye, as he shouted, "Void Beasts devour everything — beware, everyone! Let me try to subdue it first!"

His divine consciousness charged into the eyeball, and from within that enormous eyeball there unexpectedly came a shrill, piercing shriek, so harsh that the six heavenly dragons, the Dragon Qilin, and Yan'er rolled about on the ground in agony.

Shen Mu and the others had extremely high cultivation of divine consciousness, so the shriek from the eyeball did not harm them; but the divine consciousness of the Dragon Qilin and Yan'er was not so formidable.

The enormous eyeball retreated. Its eyelid rolled upward, seemingly about to cover the eyeball, yet what was terrible was that beneath the eyelid there yawned an abyssal maw, with no lips at all!

This was like an enormous eyeball: when the eyelid rolled up, the eyeball turned into a mouth!

This was the first time Shen Mu had seen such a bizarre creature.

That gaping mouth was like a black hole with no bottom in sight. A dreadful gravitational pull came; a long tongue coiled around the altar, and the pull seized everyone upon it, dragging them toward the abyssal maw!

"Do not panic!"

Luo Xiao said in a loud voice, "Trust me! My divine consciousness will surely subdue this Void Beast!"

He surged with divine consciousness, desperately trying to control the Void Beast. Shen Mu hurriedly turned to look and saw that the abyssal maw was closing!

Shen Mu drove the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art, marshaled the supreme Great Luo divine consciousness, and launched it into the Void Beast's body as well.

His divine consciousness had just set out when, abruptly, the Void Beast stopped devouring them; the abyssal maw also ceased closing, and the enormous tongue sent the altar out of the abyssal maw.

Everyone upon the altar was taken aback. Shen Mu withdrew his divine consciousness, also breathing a sigh of relief.

Luo Xiao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said with boundless joy, "I had thought my cultivation was insufficient and that I could not subdue the Void Beast; fortunately I erupted with all my strength in the final moment and finally brought this Void Beast down."

The tongue, untold miles in length, stretched out and set the altar down.

Shen Mu turned to look, and saw that the Void Beast was bizarre in form: rows of mountain-like bone spikes grew atop its head, so enormous that they looked like rows of bone-mountains.

This Void Beast had evidently been through countless battles; many of the bone-mountains on its body had broken off, exposing sharp splinters of bone.

He soared into the air, putting a greater distance between himself and the Void Beast, and only then could he make out the colossus's full form.

This Void Beast crouched with its two hind legs amid the towering mountains, its four forelegs braced against the ground — six legs in all — and its bulk rose far above the lofty peaks of the Ancestral Court.

Its head was very round, and in the center of its head was a single enormous eye, just one, occupying its entire face.

Beneath the eye lay a cleft like an arcing canyon, along with much rough, creased skin.

The cleft must have been its mouth, and the creased skin its eyelid.

When the eyelid lifted upward, the mouth would grow larger and larger, until at last nothing remained on the round, bulbous head but an abyssal maw lined with sharp, sawlike teeth, a long tongue in its mouth!