Chapter 1940 - 1526: Ancient Ten Great Fierce Beasts, Totems!

Right beneath their feet, a series of totems, came alive under the illumination of the Luminous Pearl...

Calling them totems, but actually, they were not!

However, in that image, the soaring dragons, the Beauty Snake with a human body and snake tail, and the Three-legged Bird with three feet and a human head, appeared so fierce...

Their spread wings seemed as if they could break through from the image in the next moment, and their fierce fangs carried an endless threat, ready to claim lives in the next instant...

"Ah!"

Behind Gu Changsheng, some faint-hearted ones, upon seeing the fierce beast images on the ground, had already stumbled and sat on the ground, retreating in bewilderment...

"What is this?" Gu Changsheng looked at the beast images continuously spreading across the ground within her vision, her Phoenix Eyes full of astonishment...

These beasts were not ones she had ever seen before!

Instead, they resembled images from a picture album she had seen in a previous life...

Strange looking birds and beasts, carrying the most primitive colors, were beyond Gu Changsheng’s imagination...

She had once seen these bizarre beasts in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas"...

Yet now, these beasts appeared right beneath her feet...

Gu Changsheng, heavily wounded, under Zhou Mu’s support, slowly crouched down and began depicting the strange snake carved on the ground beneath her feet...

Is this the Beauty Snake?

This kind, which would only exist in mythology, how could it appear beneath their feet?

"What is this? Why are they carved here?" Gu Changsheng raised her head to look at Shi Wujue.

Among them, it was Shi Wujue who knew the most about these peculiar and mysterious events, so asking him was always the right choice.

But this time, on Shi Wujue’s face, astonishingly peerless, his expression was filled with shock as he watched Gu Changsheng’s slender, pale fingers drawing on the ground, his pupils continuously contracting, with a touch of fear. Speaking in a deep voice, he said, "This is the Beauty Snake! She’s also known as the Ancient Wilderness Yamata no Orochi! She once appeared among the ten Ancient Barbarous Beasts in the Ancient Wilderness Times..."

After saying this, Shi Wujue’s voice paused momentarily, glanced at Zhou Mu, then his gaze turned back to Gu Changsheng, his expression enigmatic as he continued, "Ancient Barbarous Beasts, exceptionally fierce..."

He wasn’t sure whether the legends he knew should be told directly to Gu Changsheng...

However, looking at Zhou Mu’s expression, there was no indication of prohibition...

Some matters are a heavy burden for Gu Changsheng, yet some she must face...

Shi Wujue reflected for a while, then turned, holding a Luminous Pearl, taking slow steps, as he walked slowly in the seventh layer of the Star Innate Tower, pausing every few steps, each glance making his brows furrow more...

His speculation was correct!

On the ground of this seventh layer Star Innate Tower, ten images were carved!

Within these images, ten Ancient Barbarous Beasts were trapped!

Each exuding grand momentum, seemingly ready to leap out from the images in the next instant...

Zhou Mu protected Gu Changsheng, following behind Shi Wujue, slowly moving within the seventh layer of the Star Innate Tower...

Meanwhile, Gu Changsheng’s gaze, too, roamed with those fierce images, becoming somewhat distracted...

At that moment, Gu Changsheng was uncertain why she would appear here, in this place filled with fierce beast totems...

Weren’t they supposed to be undergoing Ta You’s test within the Star Innate Tower?

"Legend says the Ancient Ten Great Fierce Beasts were Ancestral God’s hand-reared creatures, used to guard the Ancestral God’s Tomb!" Shi Wujue looked at the last fierce beast totem underfoot, his expression contemplative...

Within the Ancestral God’s Tomb, legend has it that when the Ancestral God returned to Chaos, a tomb was left behind...

In Shi Wujue’s memory, before knowing the existence of the Daughter of the Ancestral God, also known as the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness, he had once seen records left by the Shi Family stating that the Moon Goddess Posuo emerged from the Ancestral God’s Tomb, as a True Goddess, precisely because the Moon Goddess Posuo was born from the Ancestral God’s Tomb, she then became the god responsible for the bright moon, representing the light and hope within the darkness of the Divine Residence...

During the conversation between Ta You and Manman Bug, Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue had already fainted, yet despite this, Shi Wujue could not help but associate these events...

He had long harbored a doubt in his mind...

Which is, what exactly is the relationship between the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness and the Moon Goddess Posuo...

Their journey north ultimately aimed to open the Divine Demise Land, and that Divine Demise Land belonged to the Moon Goddess Posuo!

Shi Wujue never understood why, before opening the Moon Goddess Posuo’s tomb, they encountered the memories of the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness on the northern path. What is the connection between the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness and the Moon Goddess Posuo?

Shi Wujue never considered that Moon Goddess Posuo was the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness, but he couldn’t believe it. If Moon Goddess Posuo was indeed the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness, then the legend of dying for love after his ancestors’ demise would be a lie, wouldn’t it?

What exactly happened back then?

Why, during the Ancient Wilderness Times, did two True Goddesses appear simultaneously? No, more accurately, why was the existence of the Divine Venerable Ancient Wilderness unknown?

With deep-seated doubts, Shi Wujue gazed at the fierce beast totem beneath his feet, turmoil brewing in his long, narrow eyes!

"Shi Wujue, did we misunderstand something? We’re currently in the seventh layer of the Star Innate Tower, yet Ta You assumes that a few fierce beast paintings will scare us off. Isn’t that overly simplistic?" Even though Gu Changsheng was shaken by the imposing presence of the beast images on the ground, she focused on the reality.

The reality was that they stood on these totems, and nothing had happened!

"These totems contain a trace of the Ancient Wilderness Times. If I’m not mistaken, originally, when we entered the seventh layer of the Star Innate Tower, these Ancient Great Fierce beasts would be activated, and the illusion would be reborn..." Shi Wujue pondered for a moment, his gaze resting on the spiral staircase leading to the eighth layer of the Star Innate Tower, "But for some reason, these totems were not activated, and nothing happened in the seventh layer of the Star Innate Tower..."

What happened that led Ta You to withdraw at the last moment, despite making full preparations?

Shi Wujue’s face, admired by all, flickered uncertainly, a foreboding growing stronger in his heart...

"Could it be that my words were prophetic, and that rascal Ta You really did have a change of heart and decided not to stop us?" Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng immediately widened her eyes.

Damn, if these Ancient Great Fierce beasts were activated, even in an illusion, they could easily kill the group!

Yet, paradoxically, they remained safe and sound, with the fierce beasts nothing more than unchanged totems on the ground!

This is just too strange!

Gu Changsheng looked around, unsure if her luck was truly that good...

Based on Ta You’s stance, it seemed he wanted to stop them at all costs and didn’t want to meet them or let them continue northward...

How could a sudden change of heart occur at the critical moment?

"If I’m not mistaken, Ta You intended to use the last three layers of the Star Innate Tower as his final obstacle, yet he didn’t activate the Star Innate Tower Formation Art on this layer..." Shi Wujue pondered again and exchanged a glance with Zhou Mu. A hint of surprise flashed in their eyes...

In the next instant, Zhou Mu swiftly swept Gu Changsheng into his embrace!

Holding Gu Changsheng, Zhou Mu and Shi Wujue almost instinctively rushed toward the spiral staircase!

Yuan Bao, shaken to the core by the ground’s Ancient Fierce Beast totems, turned to see his master sprinting away and instantly panicked, "Lord! Lord, what are you doing? Wait for Yuan Bao!"

"Wait here! Don’t go anywhere!"

Zhou Mu’s deep voice resonated, and his and Shi Wujue’s figures had already ascended the spiral staircase. The sound of the tower door opening and closing echoed as the three figures disappeared into the eighth layer of the Star Innate Tower!

"What the heck! Are you two insane? Are you risking your lives? This is the Star Innate Tower! Charging through recklessly like that—it’s far too rash!" Nestled in Zhou Mu’s arms, Gu Changsheng was already dumbfounded.

Godfather, what has possessed my evildoer? How did he suddenly lose his mind and start rushing upward without thinking?

The seventh layer of the Star Innate Tower didn’t present any danger, but that doesn’t mean the eighth and ninth layers won’t either!

What if by chance, Ta You merely took a nap and forgot to activate the Star Innate Tower’s mechanisms?

Aren’t they courting death by rushing in recklessly?

However, Gu Changsheng quickly realized she was overthinking it...

It seemed, indeed, that Ta You’s nap lasted a bit too long...

Because they were already standing unharmed on the spiral staircase of the eighth layer of the Star Innate Tower, safely rushing toward the ninth layer...

Gu Changsheng was completely at a loss!

What’s going on?

They barely managed to traverse the first six layers of the Star Innate Tower, so how did these last three layers become so smooth and easy?

"Evildoer? Shi Wujue? What’s going on? How are you so sure there’s no danger in the eighth and ninth layers?" Gu Changsheng asked, bewildered, looking at the two men beside her, her Phoenix Eyes full of doubt.

They were already in the ninth layer of the Star Innate Tower, surrounded by dim shadows, yet without encountering any danger!

This left Gu Changsheng very puzzled!

They hadn’t even had a chance to see what potential traps the last two layers held, yet they traversed them as if walking on flat ground, leaving Gu Changsheng feeling somewhat surreal!

"Something must have happened to Ta You; he has lost the ability to activate the last few layers of the Star Innate Tower!"