Heaven Slaying Blade

Ancient God Family.

In the thatched hut symbolizing the most sacred place of the entire Ancient God Family, six elders sat cross-legged.

It is said that this hut was built in past years by the oldest founder of the entire Ancient God Family as a place for secluded cultivation. Later, after the progenitor of the Ancient God Family followed that ancestor of the Chu royal family, the thatched hut was abandoned.

When he returned again and founded the Ancient God Family here, many years had passed. Because of the arrays, the old hut still looked unchanged. Thus, it remained until today. It has become the exclusive venue for the most important council meetings of the entire Ancient God Family.

The so-called most important council refers to the discussions among these Supreme Ancestors. Even the head of the Ancient God Family does not qualify to enter this hut.

At this moment, these six elders were all sitting cross-legged there, motionless, like lifeless statues. But in actuality, they were engaged in rather fierce discussions, all through the most secret divine mind fluctuations to ensure that no one could know the content of their exchange.

"Young Master Mo is coming."

"I had stopped this in past years, but you refused."

"Saying such things now is meaningless."

"To go? Or to stay?"

"To go."

"The family will be ruined."

The faces of the six Supreme Ancestors showed no emotion at all, as a matter of fact, if someone pushed this door open, they would surely think that six statues were sitting inside. Because no trace of vitality was revealed from their bodies.

They were contemplating whether to stay at the Ancient God Family to await the arrival of Young Master Chu.

This seemed somewhat laughable. Six rulers of the Supreme stage feeling fear in front of a young man not yet at the Supreme stage.

This was very unnatural; in another situation, they themselves would not have believed it.

The decision to invite Star Dao Sovereign, Mystic Venerate Patriarch, and Ancient Patriarch Bailing with heavy rewards was also agreed upon by these six.

But now, based on their calculations, the life trajectories of those three Supreme Ancestors outside the thirteen ancient clans seemed to have undergone abnormalities. Even though they had not worked out anything more specific, for beings at their level, even subtle changes were enough to compute countless possibilities.

In their view, it was extremely possible that Star Dao Sovereign and those three had already encountered misfortunes. This result left them astonished.

But they absolutely did not believe this was something that Young Master Chu could manage alone.

"Supreme Wuji and Immeasurable Buddha must have intervened," one patriarch of the Ancient God Family said.

"Most likely," another patriarch affirmed.

"Why did they intervene after all?"

"The tunnel world might indeed be about to collapse," one patriarch boldly speculated.

"It's impossible! If the tunnel world were really about to collapse, we would surely sense it," one patriarch retorted.

"We are just within this arrangement; how could we sense it? In a chess game, which piece can dictate its destiny?"

"But we are not pieces; we are the players."

"Pieces never consider themselves pieces."

Silence fell again. These Supreme Ancestors understood the world and had their own views about everything. So, each was difficult to persuade by another.

But they did share a consensus, believing Supreme Wuji and Immeasurable Buddha had indeed intervened in this matter.

"Three leave, three stay." Eventually, the oldest patriarch spoke slowly, "We can't just sit here and wait to die. Those who leave, go to the Dongfang Clan and request an audience with Supreme Wuji. Ask him why?"

"I think it pointless, if he truly intends to intervene, actually, it can now already be proved, he intends to intervene. So, even if we go, we won't meet him at all."

"I heard there is a junior in the family who formed an organization called the Elite Alliance?"

"Why mention this organization?"

The patriarch who spoke earlier paused and said, "This organization contains many disciples from the thirteen ancient clans, meaning that as long as this organization exists, the thirteen ancient clans... will not truly perish."

"Aren't you too pessimistic? Do you really think there is a crisis of annihilation for the thirteen ancient clans?"

"I am not assuming; haven't you computed it yourselves? Don't you know clearly in your hearts?" After the Supreme Ancestor from the Ancient God Family finished speaking, everyone fell into prolonged silence once more.

Eventually, the oldest patriarch said, "Let's do this; allocate one-third of the family's current resources to that child managing the Elite Alliance. Because I heard that Young Master Chu years ago... should have been on the Investiture of the Gods list, only he severed his own divine personality in the ancient battlefield. I also know a few of Young Master Chu's friends back then were originally in the Elite Alliance, but now they have all left with Young Master Chu. So this matter contains some variables, most likely this variable lies in that child who manages the Elite Alliance. And we will wait here. I just want to see. To what extent can those two, Supreme Wuji, intervene in us. As if doing so doesn't cause any karma."

"Agree."

"Agree."

"Yes."

"Indeed."

"Good."

The remaining few Supreme Ancient Patriarchs eventually accepted this method. Then, their figures gradually disappeared within this thatched hut.

Inside this oldest thatched hut of the entire Ancient God Family, it once again became serene and cold, exuding a sense of ten thousand ages worth of vicissitudes.

Thus, the entire Ancient God Family became instantly bustling. From the head of the family to the Elder Group, none could comprehend the decision made by the six ancient ancestors.

This decision was too sudden; the existing resources of the entire Ancient God Family, let alone a third, even one three-millionth... is already an incredibly staggering number!

A third of the resources, to say it without exaggeration, could directly fill the storage space of a hundred and eighty small worlds.

The Elite Alliance now claims to be developing very well, but in fact, if all their current resources are combined, having one tenth of a small world would already be admirable!

The Ancient God Family is the richest among the thirteen ancient clans of the Tunnel world. One-third of its wealth is several times greater than the entire resources of the Ancient Dongfang Clan!

Thus, it's not difficult to understand why the entire Ancient God Family, from top to bottom, couldn't understand the intentions of the six elder ancestors.

But they did not dare to oppose it, nor dare to feign compliance. The six Supreme Ancient Patriarchs of the Ancient God Family had the absolute say. No defiance was tolerated.

So quickly, the whole Ancient God Family became lively.

A young man was alarmed. After coming out to learn the truth, he couldn't help but cause an uproar. This young man was the very Gu Dong who nearly got crippled years ago!

At this moment, he was full of indignation: "Why are so many top-level resources given to that bitch? It's unfair! That bitch must have some connection with Young Master Chu..."

The word was not yet spoken when an invisible Great Dao instantly enveloped Gu Dong.

Then, under the shocked gaze of many, Gu Dong's body... directly shattered! Turning into glimmers of light, he completely vanished into the void.

Everyone was utterly stunned, instantly falling into complete silence.

Gu Dong's mother, He Fangfang, directly rushed out, fully collapsed, she cried out: "Why? What did my son do to deserve such punishment?"

Another invisible force of the Great Dao enveloped He Fangfang.

Then, He Fangfang also died, directly disappearing into the void.

This time, at the core ancestral land of the entire Ancient God Family, everyone was completely terrified.

They were well aware of who made the move, which is why they felt fear.

Could it be that the six ancient ancestors had realized a crisis was imminent? Such an event had never happened in the past!

For the Supreme Ancient Patriarchs to personally execute a younger member of the family. This was unprecedented.

Shortly after, the head of the Ancient God Family arrived. He remained silent for a long time, eventually sighed, and left in desolation. He made no comment on this matter.

......

Chu Mo continued walking the expanse of the Tunnel world, myriad waters and mountains swept beneath his feet.

He was reading the jade slip Spiritual Master Lingtong entrusted to him through Chu Chu. It indeed contained numerous secrets about the path to transcendence. Moreover, nearly the entire ancient history of the Tunnel world was recorded in this jade slip, including the history before the rupture.

One could say the value of this jade slip was immeasurable.

But these were not what surprised Chu Mo the most. It's not surprising that Spiritual Master Lingtong, having lived through ten thousand ages and having laid plans for ten thousand ages, held in his hands all known ancient history of the Tunnel.

What truly shocked Chu Mo was the record of another matter.

This record mentioned the word "prehistorical" for the first time.

The so-called prehistorical refers to events that occurred before the entire ancient history of the Tunnel itself began.

"The Tunnel world, from ten thousand ages to present, during the calculable time, has passed a million epochs, almost over a hundred billion Tunnel years. Every roughly thousand epochs constitutes a small reincarnation. In every small reincarnation, the Supreme Ancient Patriarchs faced the difficulties of reincarnation. However, they would soon return in might. Therefore, the realm of the Supreme Ancient Patriarchs can almost be considered as some form of immortality. Nowadays, in the entire Tunnel, any arbitrarily chosen Supreme Ancient Patriarch should have a true life expectancy that already exceeds ten thousand epochs, which means a lifespan of a hundred billion Tunnel years."

Reading this passage, Chu Mo was already profoundly moved. A hundred billion years... what kind of concept is this? Moreover, these are Tunnel years!

This is already a genuine river of time, many of the stars have only appeared for a few billion years. Yet, the Tunnel world has existed for over a hundred billion years.

Because, it also has the prehistory.

"In prehistory, there once existed a Heavenly Array within the Tunnel. Through that array, one could completely leave this enormous world to enter a... more vast and magnificent place. It is said that only by leaving the Tunnel world can one enter the true eternal realm."