Chapter 925 — The Creator's Enigma
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Though the nine deities were curious too, their young master had given an order, so they had no choice but to withdraw first.
Qi Jiuyi's gaze flickered. "Now will Sect Master Shen speak?"
Shen Mu said, "The reason my eldest senior brother left behind this creation divine stone was to tell me that he suspects the stone's master is still alive."
Qi Jiuyi felt a chill run down his spine. "You mean—?"
Shen Mu's expression turned grave. "The master of the creation divine stone is a prehistoric creator of vast powers. He is most likely connected to the extinction of the prehistoric creators. He may be a supremely powerful being from history—one who still exists in this world. In the past, he may have been among the mightiest of the ancient gods; now, he may be one of the heads of the Heavenly Court."
The feathers all over Qi Jiuyi's body stood on end, and his mind went blank.
Yan'er looked at him curiously and confirmed that he too was a bird.
Yan'er's concerns differed from Qi Jiuyi's. Once Shen Mu resolved her doubts, she was content to let the matter rest. Qi Jiuyi, however, thought far deeper—hence the chill that ran through him.
Just imagine—such a terrifying being hidden away in the age of the ancient gods, and now concealed within the present Heavenly Court. He could not help but think of the fall of the ancient gods' age and the turmoil of the Longhan, Chiming, Shanghuang, and Kaihuang eras.
If such a terrifying being lurked through every era, taking revenge on the ancient gods and wreaking havoc across the ages, how horrifying would that be?
Qi Jiuyi was utterly distraught, pacing back and forth, wishing he could instantly forget what he had just heard.
Suddenly he stopped, staring fixedly at Shen Mu. "Sect Master Shen, who do you suspect this person is?"
The figure of the Heavenly Emperor rose unbidden in Shen Mu's mind. After a moment, he shook his head.
The Heavenly Emperor's deeds did indeed fit certain of his suspicions. For one, the Heavenly Emperor's origins were exceedingly ancient—he had been born even before Tubo and the Heavenly Duke.
For another, the demise of the ancient gods' age was in fact connected to the Heavenly Emperor: he had founded the ancient gods' Heavenly Court, suppressed dissent, propped up the demigods and the later-born beings, and incited war between the demigods and the later-born.
But he had overplayed his hand. He was ambushed by Sovereign Hao, Sovereign Yun, and others, and his body was taken from him.
Even so, he had not died—he merely moved from light into shadow, and even became the head of the Heavenly Alliance, one of the overlords of the present Heavenly Court!
The passing of each era throughout history—the Chiming era, the Shanghuang era, the Kaihuang era—likely bore the Heavenly Emperor's shadow as well.
Yet if the Heavenly Emperor was that leader of the prehistoric creators, then the age of the prehistoric creators must have come before the ancient gods—and it would have been they who created the ancient gods of this world.
This Shen Mu could not affirm.
For the ancient gods were far too old. The Earth Mother Sovereign was, at the very least, hundreds of millions of years old.
And Qi Jiuyi was not wrong on one point: the prehistoric creators fashioned things with their divine consciousness, but it could not be affirmed that they could create souls.
The ancient gods, however, had souls.
This still needed to be investigated.
There was also this: the rumor Qi Jiuyi had heard was that the prehistoric creators had been wiped out by the ancient gods, and that the Heavenly Emperor had been the leader of the ancient gods. Even Tubo, the Heavenly Duke, and the Earth Mother held him in admiration—though they despised his character.
If the Heavenly Emperor was the leader of the prehistoric creators, why would he lead the ancient gods against his own kind?
But it was the Heavenly Emperor who had captured and suppressed Wei Suifeng.