Tales of Herding Gods

Qin Mu bowed in gratitude.

He had come with anger, but it had already completely dissipated.

“Daoist brother great change, the strong practitioners of the previous universe year weren’t hard to deal with. Do you have to be so cautious?”

He voiced out the doubt in his heart and said, “From the abilities of that strong practitioner, even though it’s exquisite, it’s still slightly inferior to tenth heavenly venerate’s abilities.”

“That’s because he hasn’t recovered to his peak state. After he recovered to his peak state, his abilities aren’t inferior to tenth heavenly venerate.”

The youth said, “Furthermore, he wasn’t the strongest existence in the previous universe year. “In the previous universe year, there were existences that were stronger than him. These existences had branded their Dao in the ultimate void, and they were undying and indestructible. Only when the universe was destroyed could they be destroyed. “These existences are even stronger than the current ten heavenly venerates.”

Qin Mu shuddered.

“Do you know what’s under this tree root?”

Young Tai Yi smiled. “You only saw a mineral vein. There are a hundred thousand Black Mountains and sixteen rings. Only the outermost ring has a mineral vein. There are thousands of mineral veins.”

He stopped Qin Mu and stretched out a finger into the bucket. His fingertip held a drop of crystal clear water, “You have the strongest divine eye, but you are still unable to unleash the power of absolute beginning, Taiji, and earth count. This drop of water can let you see the situation underground,”he said

He put the drop of water into the vertical eye in the heart of Qin Mu’s brows. Qin Mu felt a burst of clarity in his eyes, and the great dao contained in the eggshell of absolute beginning and the primordial stone of Taiji instantly became incomparably clear and joyful!

Even on the land of Qin, Youdu Great Dao appeared, spreading out in all directions like the omentum of a pupil!

He looked underground and immediately saw the outermost part of the Hundred Thousand Black Mountains. There were incomparably thick mineral veins attached to the roots of the world tree. Some of them were not far from the surface, while others were buried deep underground!

Those mineral veins were like the roots of the world tree, extending in all directions. The deeper they went underground, the more ancient they became!

In the mineral veins, all kinds of multicolored lights flowed and surged. They were even somewhat dazzling!

Qin Mu’s voice was hoarse. “What’s in the mineral veins?”

“Haven’t you already seen them?”

The youth said unhurriedly, “The mineral veins on the periphery were strong practitioners from the previous universe year. They wanted to come here and infiltrate their weapons or Great Dao first. As time passed, they formed mineral veins underneath the great black wood. “What you guys met last night was just a small character. The truly big characters are still behind. “Look at the other growth rings of the world tree.”

Qin Mu looked at the second growth ring of the Hundred Thousand Black Mountain and saw that there were mineral veins that extended in all directions under the mountain. However, most of these mineral veins were already empty!

Those mineral veins turned into one mine after another. Even though the number of mines wasn’t as many as the ones on the periphery, there were still one to two thousand of them.

He then looked at the third growth ring. There were also mine caves left behind by the hollowing out of the mineral veins, so the number of mine caves there was much smaller.

The closer he got to the inner circle of the world tree, the fewer the number of mine caves there were. There was no mine cave in the center growth ring, and there was only one mine cave in the outer growth ring.

This meant that in the initial universe, there was a powerful warrior who came to the next universe through the world tree, setting off a wave of smuggling, causing the powerful warriors from universe years to follow suit.

In the end, when they reached this universe, they formed thousands of mineral veins and the spectacular sight of thousands of undying strong practitioners smuggling.

“They are vermin.”

The youth said, “However, some of them are abnormally terrifying. If I didn’t have no choice back then, I wouldn’t have cut off the world tree and burned it down. “But even so, I could only delay them temporarily and couldn’t stop them from descending.”

Qin Mu clenched his fists and suddenly loosened them. “It might not be a bad thing for them to come in. Everyone has the instinct to survive. After experiencing the destruction of the universe, these people might be easy to talk to and shouldn’t act Rashly.”

“You are wrong again.”

The youth said, “The reason why I said they were vermin is because of this. Look at the World Tree’s first growth ring. It had gone through 800 billion years. When they reached the outermost growth rings, there were only 600 million years left. Each layer of growth rings was smaller than the previous one. “IT'S precisely these damned undying existences that caused the new universe to be destroyed even faster.”

Qin Mu fell silent.

The youth Tai Yi continued, “I call a universe year an era. If all the undying old monsters were squeezed into one era, the new era would definitely not be able to withstand it. For example, in order to enter this place, they had used the world tree to steal the ancient behemoths and created the Void Beasts to throw in. “They used the Void Beasts to create death and steal the mass and energy of this universe to make it easier for them to enter this era.”

Qin Mu was astonished. “The Void Beasts were created by them? Wait a moment, the void beasts were created by them, so why would they fall into the control of Supreme Emperor? Could it be that supreme emperor...”

‘Supreme Emperor is an ambitious person. The existence of the previous era was only using his ambition to control the void beasts and create more deaths to make them descend earlier.’

“Supreme Emperor didn’t know about this,”young Tai Yi said. “He was conquered by his own desires and became afraid of his clansmen. He was worried that his clansmen would create a new supreme emperor and more supreme emperors. Thus, he controlled the Void Beasts to slaughter his clansmen. That massacre...”

He shook his head. “The ancestral court was almost destroyed because of this. The Undead Monsters of the previous era had obtained enough sacrifices. The Hundred Thousand Mountains of the Great Black Wood had become an incomparably terrifying land. They were all about to descend!”

Qin Mu deeply felt the fear that came from his soul.

Just a terrifying existence preparing to descend last night had nearly wiped out their entire army. If an even more powerful undying existence descended together..

He didn’t dare to imagine that scene.

“Later on, I saw the situation collapse and transformed into Dao, telling all the ancient gods that they had to destroy the creator. If they didn’t, the entire universe would be destroyed because of this.”

Young Tai Yi said indifferently, “Absolute beginning, Heavenly Duke, Earth count, Earth Mother, all the ancient gods heard my call. The war between the creator and the ancient gods broke out because of this.”

Qin Mu stared at him with wide eyes.

“The battlefield wasn’t in the ancestral court, but in the starry sky of the outside world. I was afraid that the dead would become nutrients for the great black wood. “The brutality of that battle was the first in history. In any battle after that, even the Battle of the merging of Dragon and Han, the Battle of the destruction of Chi Ming, and the Battle of the annihilation of high emperor were far inferior.”

Young Tai Yi said indifferently, “In the end, the creator was defeated and the remaining creators moved to great void. “I told absolute beginning and the rest that there was a great terror in the ancestral court and they couldn’t enter. I told them to seal the ancestral court. “They left the sacred land of the ancestral court and sealed the ancestral court, imprisoning the Void Beasts. “I was the only one left. “I used hundreds of thousands of years to seal those undying existences, preventing them from entering the ancestral court.”

Qin Mu was silent for a moment before saying, “Until founding emperor cleaved open the celestial heavens, causing a crack to appear on the seal.”

Young Tai Yi nodded. “Until the nine of you celestial venerables descended and Supreme Emperor once again controlled the Void Beasts to wash the hundred thousand Black Mountains in blood, the seal loosened once again. “You didn’t excavate the underground mineral veins and you didn’t take down the divine bow. However, you shouldered the responsibility and took the initiative to face the existences of the previous era. “So I thought...”

He paused. “As the Master of the Hundred Thousand Black Mountains, you can take on more.”