Chapter 1657: Refining on the Flagpole
Woof woof!
Huang barked twice full of disdain at the distant Dongfang Hengtai, then joyfully followed behind Chu Mo, traversing tens of millions of miles in one step, heading directly towards the ruins of the Chu royal clan.
Dongfang Hengtai was mad with hatred, looking at the headless corpse floating in the void, he howled up to the sky.
It wasn't that he didn't want to come over, he simply couldn't!
It wasn't because of Chu Mo's strike, but just now, that invocation resounded once again in his sea of consciousness, almost shaking him to death!
"Damn it... damn it! Supreme Wuji, you are unjust!"
Dongfang Hengtai let out a howl of extreme anguish and anger.
The entire Dongfang family was shrouded in an atmosphere of extreme panic and grief.
Except for Dongfang Sheng alone, even those elder cultivators from the Elder Group were all filled with confusion and fear. They didn't even know what exactly had happened.
They only knew someone was fighting, and then... it seemed their Supreme Patriarch suffered a calamity.
How... how is this possible?
Who did it?
Could it be those people from the ruins of the Chu royal clan? Aren't they just a group of ancestral realm cultivators? How could they have such power?
Everyone rushed towards the direction where the family head Dongfang Sheng was located. They were eager to know what exactly happened to the family.
But Dongfang Sheng, however, had pains he couldn't express. This matter is still sealed, still the biggest secret in every ancient clan along the entire Tunnel!
Because once it's spoken out, it will inevitably spread, and once it spreads, then the entire Tunnel with thirteen of the largest ancient clans will inevitably become the target of all. The positive image they've cultivated over endless years will be destroyed in an instant!
This isn't even the most severe, as no one in the entire Tunnel is their match anyway. The real serious issue comes from within these ancient clans!
The younger generation within these ancient clans would never accept that their family would be a clan that thrives on such treachery. Nor would they accept that the Supreme Patriarchs they worshipped daily turned out to be a bunch of shameless scoundrels!
For these immeasurable epochs, while they fabricated an nonexistent great ancestor, they also shaped the Chu royal clan into a family that was destroyed for trying to develop ways to break the Investiture of the Gods.
At first, they thought saying this would unite all the younger generations within the ancient clans against a common enemy. After all, breaking the Investiture of the Gods would harm the interests of these ancient clans. But in reality... it didn't!
Even those many within the ancient clans who held the Investiture of the Gods didn't care at all about this matter!
Instead, they thought that unmatched Young Master Chu was a true genius, a hero!
No one knows how such a twisted notion that even the Supreme Patriarchs among the thirteen ancient clans couldn't understand, came to be. Perhaps, it was just that the family was too large... so large that most of the descendants within the family no longer felt a strong sense of identity with their family.
This is indeed the case!
If a family consists of only dozens of people, then it would generally be very united. Even if there are occasionally some minor conflicts, they would still fall under internal issues; if there are hundreds of people, there will be factions, but on major issues, they would still stand united to safeguard the family's common interests.
But what if a family has over a trillion people?
So many people occupying boundless territory!
Ninety-nine percent of them have never even heard of another person's existence in their entire lives!
Can you expect all the descendants of such a family to have an absolute sense of identity with it?
Absolutely impossible!
Therefore, some things cannot be spoken, even though Dongfang Sheng deeply wishes he could reveal this truth, he simply can't! He dares not speak! He has no way to speak!
If he does, this family... will essentially collapse.
Facing a large group of Elder Group members arriving from the distant sky. Dongfang Sheng directly turned away and ordered, "See no one!"
From far up in the nine heavens, Dongfang Hengtai's cry of extreme anguish still occasionally echoed.
And at this moment, Chu Mo had already returned to the ruins of the Chu royal clan.
In his hand, he was holding the head of Dongfang Yunluo.
An existence of the Supreme realm, an ancient ancestor of a family, a ruler in the Tunnel... had fallen into such a tragic state. No one would believe it even if it was spoken.
The massive hole in Chu Mo's chest had already been restored by circulating his mysterious skill, but the Dao injury was not so easily healed, so Chu Mo acted nonchalantly to avoid worrying them.
He understood in his heart, to be able to easily twist off Dongfang Yunluo's head was all thanks to the help of that mighty being who stands east. As to why that being and the Buddha would help him, Chu Mo wasn't particularly clear. Even with the memories of his past life awakened, he wasn't particularly clear.
Nor did he want to ponder too much. With those two seniors' help, why fear being an enemy to the world? He didn't care at all!
Qi Xiaoyu, Shui Yiyi, and a large group of others had long been waiting for Chu Mo at the outskirts of the ruins. When they saw him return with a head in hand, all of their eyes revealed an expression of disbelief.
Though the head was sealed by the Celestial Mirror, the robust Great Dao fluctuations and the extremely powerful primordial spirit vitality clearly reminded everyone that it was... a Supreme head!
Is this real? Is this really a Supreme head?
Everyone was stunned, even the monkey, with its fiery eyes, glimmered with disbelief.
They almost rushed out just now!
But unexpectedly, the battle ended so quickly.
The Sky Patriarch and others didn't know Chu Mo had the Supreme Wuji's help, so their shock was far greater than anyone else's.
They had indeed witnessed Chu Mo's terrifying combat power at the Shalan Bandits' lair earlier.
But even then, Chu Mo wasn't this terrifying!
Though he forcibly destroyed the flesh of one of the Shalan Bandit leaders, their primordial spirit escaped with ease.
How long has it been?
How can he achieve this now?
Is he still human?
He's truly a monster!
Chu Mo carried the head of Dongfang Yunluo into the ruins of the Chu Clan royal family and said calmly: "Do you see this? This is what you did back then, and what I'm doing now is returning what you did to your families. You are the first! Rest assured, many more will accompany you!"
"You little beast... If you have the skill, kill me, don't humiliate me!" Dongfang Yunluo, though his head was sealed, maintained a tough demeanor. He gritted his teeth in extreme hatred.
Being watched by so many people, he felt an urge to commit suicide.
"Kill you? Don't worry, I will eventually." Chu Mo said.
Dongfang Yunluo's heart sank, he didn't doubt Chu Mo's words at all. This Young Master Chu was a tough character even a million years ago, although he was relatively naive back then.
Born into the Chu Clan royal family, he hadn't experienced much of the vicissitudes of the world and still had a strong sense of justice deep down.
This sense of justice was always something Dongfang Yunluo despised. But now, he really, really hoped that this white-haired Young Master Chu before him could regain that sense of justice from back then.
Isn't this revenge?
Just kill me, it's enough! You hold my head up to humiliate me, don't you find it against the morality in your heart?
Dongfang Yunluo screamed in his heart, but Chu Mo completely ignored him.
Entering the ruins, he glanced at everyone, nodded lightly, and then casually pointed, conjuring a huge iron pillar out of thin air, towering tens of thousands of feet high, directly appearing at the edge of the ruins.
This iron pillar wasn't particularly thick, but standing there like a flagpole, it was reinforced by the Great Dao, appearing incredibly stable.
Chu Mo slowly flew high into the sky, then hung Dongfang Yunluo's head directly on this flagpole.
"You little beast, you go too far!" Dongfang Yunluo cursed.
Chu Mo didn't respond, he began to sit cross-legged in front of Dongfang Yunluo's head, and started refining it.
Chu Mo first summoned the Chaos Furnace, placed it directly below Dongfang Yunluo's head, and the fully matured Samadhi Real Fire burned fiercely below the Chaos Furnace.
From within the Chaos Furnace, a mysterious and magical power spread, entwining Dongfang Yunluo's head, pulling strands of his primordial spirit power from it.
Dongfang Yunluo let out a shrill scream, which startled everyone on the ruins. They watched with pale faces.
"This is truly going against heaven... actually refining the head of a Supreme cultivator." The Sky Patriarch mumbled in horror.
Supreme, this realm, is almost every advanced cultivator's common aspiration. It symbolizes the pinnacle of the Tunnel world's Dao. Any cultivator who reached the ancestral realm desires to step into this field. Yet over countless ages, while the river of time buried countless talents, there weren't many more Supremes.
They master the past, present, and future, their life expectancy spans ten thousand ages, they can survive countless reincarnations without dying. They are always the most top-tier beings in this world.
They are the true giants.
Yet now, a being of such a realm was beheaded, hung on a flagpole tens of thousands of feet high, and then relentlessly refined with true fire to extract his primordial spirit power!
This scene is truly terrifying.
Even his own people would have a chill down their spines.
However, they quickly discovered that the ground beneath them seemed to slowly begin changing!
The ruins of the Chu Clan royal family, once a wasteland, now started to show signs of life!
Everyone looked at the head on the flagpole, and they immediately understood. Chu Mo was actually using the method of extracting Dongfang Yunluo's primordial spirit power to revive this land once destroyed!
This method... this ability... now that's truly against heaven!
The old yellow dog had crystalline flickers in its eyes, then it looked up and let out a bark.
Woof!
Its hairless body began to grow a layer of soft fur!
Every hair was so bright.
A loyal dog guards the home, only when there's a home will it be there!
When the home has vitality, it too will gain life!
This vitality is more effective than any medicine in the world!