600: An Withered Old Soldier

An Withered Old Soldier

Granny Si wanted to hand over Great Educational Heavenly Devil Scriptures—which was still a ball of thread—to Qin Mu, but he shook his head. "Granny, keep the scriptures first. There are still a lot of dangers here in Luofu Heaven. It's useless if it's with me."1

Granny Si then took out a small bamboo basket. It was a small flower basket that had a circular top and a squarish bottom. There were also some cloth strips, and things like scissors and silver needles—these were her spirit weapons.

The two of them looked at the swirling blood river in the sky, which had trapped the battle-ax-wielding god in the center. It seemed that the goal of this sacrifice wasn't merely summoning a god.

The blood river didn't transform into the blood light which summons the gods. Instead, lumps of blood had broken off and transformed into different kinds of marvelous markings. Those runes were very profound—they should be the sacrificial method of the devil race.

Sacrificial rites were originally from the devil race. Qin Mu had learned some methods before. Ghost Transferring God Dispatching Runes Command was a kind of sacrificial method that was from Dutian Devil King. Dutian Devil King had spread this sacrificial method to Eternal Peace with the aim of summoning himself over to invade Eternal Peace. After meeting Qin Mu, he dropped that thought.

The devil race also had numerous heavens. Dutian and Luofu Heaven were one part of the devil race's heavens, and these two worlds had sunk into destruction. They were both searching for ways to extend the lives and numbers of their people.

As a matter of fact, most of the sacrificial methods were from the devil race. The devil race had created numerous sacrificial methods and built their own unique civilization, which was very different from Eternal Peace and Supreme Emperor Heaven.

The human race had also learned some sacrificial methods from the devil race. For instance, numerous sacrificial methods in Great Educational Heavenly Devil Scriptures were also cultivation techniques of the devil path.

Aside from the sacrificial methods, the human race had also learned a lot of other devil techniques. An example of this was Rolan's Golden Palace's shaman spells from Shaman God Kui. Shaman God Kui was a devil god that was dispatched from the celestial heavens to Youdu.

"Something's not right!"

Granny Si examined the blood river around the sacrificial altar and she saw that more of those blood-colored runes had appeared. Meanwhile, within the coil of the blood river, the god that came from Great Ruins seemed to be trapped. He tried to get out of the sacrificial rites repeatedly, but he could never break out of it.

He even tried to rush out of the sacrificial altar, but his efforts were in vain.

The abilities of that devil god, who was hosting the sacrificial rites, weren't strong. If he was indeed strong, he wouldn't have died under Granny Si's surprise attack. His abilities should be far inferior to the battle-ax god, but his sacrificial method was profound.

Even when he had died in Granny Si's hands, the blood sacrifice had still trapped the battle-ax god in the center and made him unable to escape!"

"He is planning to sacrifice this battle-ax god together!"

Granny Si shuddered and she muttered, "He has treated the battle-ax god as a sacrificial offering as well. He's offering him to some ancient being, along with the blood river, summoning that being to descend..."

Qin Mu didn't research much about sacrifice and his attainments were actually inferior to Granny Si. Even so, he could see that the battle-ax god was in a bad position.

This battle-ax god was wearing armor and there were already droplets of blood slowly leaking out from him. They floated into the air and fused with the blood river!

Not only that, the battle ax in his hands and the armor in his body were all starting to lose the essence!

That devil god's sacrificial method was simply too powerful!

The god that wielded the battle ax was already much weaker than before. He had already become frail. The more qi and blood he lost, the harder it would be for him to defend against this sacrificial rite.

"The devil god that Granny had killed just now was probably one of the top-notch sacrificial rite experts! You killed an extremely important devil god!" Qin Mu looked at the battle-ax god as he cried out.

Granny Si said sorrowfully, "But I can't save that god on the altar. We will only send ourselves to death if we rush into the sacrificial altar. We can't stop this sacrifice nor can we stop the descent of this ancient existence..."

On the sacrificial altar, the battle-ax god charged left and right, yet he was only exhausting himself even more. Finally, he gave up on fighting back and stood at the peak of the sacrificial altar, raising his head up to the sky to look at something.

This was the end of a god's road. He was about to be broken down as a sacrificial offering, becoming the fertilizer for another ancient being.

"I should have died long ago..."

The voice of that battle-ax god traveled over. His voice sounded slightly bleak. He stood on the sacrificial altar and spoke loudly, his voice traveling far and wide. He said to himself, "I should have died long ago. I should have died in the disaster twenty thousand years ago. I should have died with my comrades on the battlefield. I shouldn't have been dormant. I shouldn't have turned into a stone statue in Great Ruins. I shouldn't have struggled whilst at death's door until now, to protect some bullshit hope, some bullshit future..."

Qin Mu and Granny Si were stunned. They looked at the god on the sacrificial altar and even though they wanted to save him, they were helpless.

The god knelt down with one knee and sat down. He wielded his battle ax to defend against this blood sacrifice. His voice became solemn. "Hope, future, Carefree Village... We have been silent for too long, Founding Emperor! We have been so silent that we have lost our fighting spirit. So silent that the stone statues became frozen. So silent that the people we had to protect back then had already died… I couldn't see any familiar face now. So silent that these mountains had also changed! What about you..."

His voice suddenly became loud as he reprimanded the sky with a deafening voice. "Founding Emperor, what about you? Where are you?"

"The ideal world in your heart is that Carefree Village you are hiding in?"

"Could you bear to see your subordinates, the old soldiers that followed you, wither and die one by one?"

"Can you bear to see the mountains and rivers shift? To see the people that you protect die from old age?"

"Why didn't you appear?"

"Twenty thousand years, have you still not walked out from defeat? Have you not picked up your confidence? Do you still not bear to walk out of Carefree Village? We are waiting, waiting for your summon, to fight celestial heavens once again! Where are you?"

...

Qin Mu and Granny Si heard his voice reverberating among heaven and earth. There was no one in Luofu Heaven who could reply to his reproach.

"My goose wing, dispel with me!"

On top of the sacrificial altar, in the intense blood-colored light, the god tried his best to execute his spirit weapon. At that moment, an incomparable intense light burst forth from the peak of the sacrificial altar. The light was so dazzling that it made it difficult for one to open their eyes.

"Without Founding Emperor, protection still exists!"

"I, former subordinate of Founding Emperor, Heavenly Emperor Star, Alkaid Division Soldier Luo Yu, shall use this broken body to protect our people, to prevent you from descending!"

"Weapon dispel—"

"Spirit dispel—"

Rays burst out and a world-shaking rumble traveled out. Terrifying pulses instantly poured out in all directions of the sacrificial altar. Granny Si immediately opened up Great Overarching Heavenly Stars Forcefield to protect herself and Qin Mu. The boundless waves drowned them out!

Intense rings of light swept across Great Overarching Heavenly Stars Forcefield as the ground churned like charred biscuits. As the rings of light shattered, a broken planet in the sky shifted over and raised huge overflowing waves. However, the huge waves that stood between heaven and earth were also stopped by this explosion. Afterward, the waves moved back and the water spread out!

The explosion was extremely short. Not long after, the surroundings of the sacrificial altar regained peace. The blood river that shrouded the top of the sacrificial altar had disappeared. On the sacrificial altar, the god and his battle ax were no longer there. The broken sacrificial altar emanated a bloody color.

That god had already dispelled his weapon and his primordial spirit, using the power of his sacrifice to stop the sacrificial rite. The ancient being that the devil god wanted to summon could no longer descend.

Qin Mu looked at the sacrificial altar that was dyed blood red. He didn't move even after a while and Granny Si couldn't resist saying, "Mu'er, let's go. He chose to free himself and this is a good thing for him. After all, he fulfilled his promise and completed his duty. Let's go to the next sacrificial altar. Hopefully, we can meet Saint Woodcutter..."

Qin Mu followed her, still staying silent. Granny Si was slightly unused to him being like this, so she turned around and asked him, "Mu'er, what are you thinking? This isn't like you."

"I'm thinking that maybe my ancestor—that Founding Emperor—might not be the great hero I'm imagining him to be."

Qin Mu was in a daze as he said, "After knowing that I'm from Carefree Village… After knowing that I'm the descendant of Founding Emperor, I always have a thought, and that was to become an indomitable hero like him. A great hero. He had supreme ideals and there were countless heroic figures following after him. He was definitely amiable and venerable. Yet..."

He shook his head and remained silent for a moment. "Maybe he's not that kind of person. Maybe he's just an old man that's afraid of death. He doesn't have that kind of courage, that kind of breadth of mind. He only hides in Carefree Village to live his own drunken dream. Maybe he had let down countless heroes that had followed him..."

Granny Si blinked her eyes and burst into laughter. "Mu'er, you're still a child. Why are you thinking so much? When I was your age... Enm Li Tianxing had already taken a liking to me and I was thinking about how to get rid of him... When Village Chief was your age, he was still playing in mud!"

Qin Mu said with a smile, "Village Chief had most likely paid respects to a master and was being groomed as the next human emperor. How could he still be playing in mud? Granny, you're joking again."

Granny Si saw him smiling and she smiled as well. "You are the child I've raised. Even though I didn't treat you well when you peed your bed and didn't want to raise you, I'm always worried that you will leave me after you grow up. I keep thinking if you are well or not, always worrying that you will suffer. Maybe this is the mindset of a parent. I don't want you to grow up so fast and to have so many troubles. You should be carefree... It's all that old fart Village Chief's fault. Making you a human emperor for what? As soon as we're back, I'm going to pour black dog's blood all over his stone statue!"

When they arrived at the surroundings of the second altar, looking from afar, there was a devil god attacking the altar and trying to take over control.

The two gods fought fiercely and the sight was astonishing.

"Is Fu Riluo not afraid that Saint Woodcutter will become ruthless and just sacrifice Luofu Heaven?" Qin Mu shook his head.

Granny Si put down her small flower basket and took out a pair of scissors from it. She then took out a few cloth strips. Her fingers moved up and down as she threaded the line to weave a tattered shirt. She said with a smile, "Fu Riluo is preparing some tokens for negotiation! The more sacrificial altars he takes down, the more advantage he will have in negotiation! Up—"

The tattered shirt she just weaved floated up and flew into the battlefield. That shirt pounced and automatically wore itself on the devil god's body.

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