Chapter 924 — Chronicle of Void Creation
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 4
Qi Jiuyi's heart pounded as he watched, and his voice came out hoarse. "Divine abilities cannot be born that way! Divine abilities come from the ancient gods grasping the great Dao of heaven and earth—bringing forth the power of the great Dao, that is a divine ability! And the divine abilities of we who are born after—we gain them by observing the ancient gods, learning the great Dao of heaven and earth from them and drawing it out!"
Shen Mu shook his head and walked on.
This open-air hall was like a prehistoric epic, recording the deeds of ages past.
They saw how the prehistoric creators made monsters with ox heads and human bodies, made human-like beings, and other bizarre life—bird-headed with human bodies, beast-headed with human bodies, snake-headed with human bodies, human-headed with serpent bodies.
Qi Jiuyi's face grew ever paler. He also saw that these prehistoric creators had created the phoenix!
"Heh heh..." He laughed, but said nothing.
What the reliefs recorded was too terrifying. The species the prehistoric creators made grew ever stranger, and some of them actually bore a certain resemblance to the ancient gods!
"They are imitating the ancient gods!"
Qi Jiuyi laughed. "Life created in imitation of the ancient gods can never match them, never surpass them!"
Shen Mu said, "Did they imitate the ancient gods—or did they create them?"
Qi Jiuyi went blank. Then he roared in fury, "Blasphemy! Do you know what you are saying?"
Shen Mu too felt his own conjecture was absurd beyond reason; he let out a laugh, shook his head, and went on studying the stone carvings.
Qi Jiuyi was beside himself with rage. "Do you realize what you are saying? You are saying these savages created the Heavenly Emperor, created the Heavenly Lord, the Tubo, the Earth Mother—created the great Dao of heaven and earth! Do you know what you are talking about?"
Shen Mu paid him no heed and walked on. The reliefs grew ever more shocking.
These prehistoric creators had formed several great tribes; by gathering more people they gained greater sacrificial power.
They also staged grander and grander rites, with countless three-eyed people sacrificing day and night, preparing to create even mightier spirit bodies to destroy and conquer their enemies.
But one race chose instead to worship its leader, making him ever more powerful.
That leader's body grew incomparably vast, dwelling high beyond the heavens, with countless giants around him, the crystals in their brows blazing with light, countless beams shining upon him until he appeared utterly divine.
And this leader's brow also bore a crystal. Unlike the others, it was cinnabar red, glistening with a fascinating sheen, absorbing the crystal light of the other giants.
Shen Mu examined the leader's face closely, but it was veiled by the radiance streaming from the crystal and had not been carved.
Qi Jiuyi still followed at his side and said coldly, "They merely use divine consciousness to create things. They can never create a true god. The ancient gods cannot be created—they can only be born of the great Dao of heaven and earth!"
Shen Mu looked toward another relief, one whose content was rather interesting.
In the relief, nearly all the prehistoric creators of one great tribe were gathered together, focusing their divine consciousness, using their minds, intending to create a vast world in the void, far from this world of strife!
They wanted to create another world, to escape the conflicts of the real world and move there as an entire tribe.
"Creating a world from the void! Could these prehistoric creators succeed... wait. The Land of No Sorrow! Was Kaihuang's Land of No Sorrow also a world created from the void?"
The more Shen Mu thought, the more agitated he became. He walked on, and suddenly stopped short—the stone wall ahead bore no reliefs at all.
The reliefs ahead had all been destroyed by an immense force, leaving only shattered slabs of stone upon the ground.