Chapter 1068 — Stirring the Origin Ancestral Star
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That star was heavy with the breath of twilight, squeezing in from another world into the Yuan Realm, the part forced into the Yuan Realm growing ever larger.
It was the Zhen Star of the Five Luminaries! The Zhen Star bore rings of earth-yellow radiance, and about it revolved seventy or eighty lesser stars of every size.
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.