Chapter 1161 — The Ancestral Court Is Flung Open
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The Ancestral Court.
Vast and boundless, strewn with ancient divine mountains, treasures lying everywhere — any single one of them enough to make the outside world beat one another bloody over it — and yet this place was utterly desolate. Only enormous Void Beasts lurked in this ancient, primeval world, dwelling, breeding, slaughtering, devouring all they saw. Then one day, every Void Beast suddenly felt something stir in its heart. They raised their heads and looked to the sky, and there in the heavens a rift abruptly appeared.
At the same moment, the Void Mother Beast that dwelt in the Nineteenth Void opened her eyes and looked toward that rift in the sky. Beside her lay countless void beast eggs, dense beyond counting, millions upon millions of them, carpeting the Nineteenth Void of the Ancestral Court.
"Rustle, rustle, rustle—" The bone membrane of the Void Mother Beast quivered; innumerable Void Beasts surged into a frenzy, rising into the air one after another and rushing toward the rift in the sky. The rift grew larger and larger, until at a certain point it stopped widening.
From the Ancestral Court's side, one could see the brilliant starry sky and the gaudy world beyond. Dense swarms of colossal Void Beasts flew toward the rift like locusts, their throats giving voice to soul-shaking roars.
The first Void Beast to reach it plunged into the rift, trying to fly out of the Ancestral Court — but the instant it entered, its body burst apart, flesh and blood dissolving away.
More and more of the giant Void Beasts hurled themselves madly into the rift, each one bursting into a blossom of blood within that vast opening, a spectacle of extraordinary splendor. In but a brief moment, tens of thousands of Void Beasts had died in the rift, and their blood stained it a vivid crimson.
Seen from the outside, the Ancestral Court looked like a raw, bleeding wound upon the cosmos. Suddenly, from deep within the void, the Void Mother Beast let out a low, dreadful hiss.
The other giant Void Beasts stopped throwing themselves into the rift; instead they clung to its edges like bats, their sinewy bodies and sharp claws straining with all their strength, trying to tear the rift wider still. Yet this was a seal laid down in the most ancient age, when all the ancient gods gathered every power they possessed and forced it upon the reverse side of every world. It was not something these beasts could ever break! In the Heavenly Court, Celestial Master Xiao's face was as still as water.
The Heavenly Court was one of the seals most vital to binding the Ancestral Court. He alone could not mend it; and now that the ancient gods had suffered heavy losses, the Lord of Heaven and the Earth Earl would never be of one mind with him.
Once the seal on the Ancestral Court loosened, there was no longer any possibility of repairing it. All he could do now was keep the seal from widening further.
Yet with the seal on the Ancestral Court cracked open, the world would inevitably discover the Ancestral Court's whereabouts, and that buried history would gradually surface before the eyes of the world.
"Beyond that history, there are also monstrous horrors, world-destroying powers — I fear they too will leak out from the Ancestral Court. . . " he said silently.
At almost the same moment, the great army of gods and devils of the Heavenly Court in Taixu sensed that strange tremor as well. Marching on, preparing to attack the land of Taixu, the divine officers and soldiers all turned their heads to look toward the Heavenly Court.
In Taixu the Heavenly Court could not be seen, but they could sense it.
Celestial Master Hong's heart stirred slightly, and a faint smile appeared on his face. "Something has gone wrong in the Heavenly Court," he said in a low voice. "My friends, this must be that rebel Kaihuang raiding the Heavenly Court — we must guard against it!
I will go back and take a look!