Chapter 89: Sword Sweeping the Demon Horde
Qin Mu's primal energy stirred slightly, and a strand of primal energy as thick as an arm silently drew the Shaobao Sword from its sheath. His gaze was fixed tightly on the dancing tentacles, deducing the location of their owner based on the muscle movement trajectories of the tentacles.
Suddenly, he thrust his left hand with two fingers extended. The Shaobao Sword let out a sword cry and shot like lightning into the gray mist. A scream came from within the mist. At the same time, the spiderweb vibrated, and a woman carrying eight claws on her back flew over, stepping on the web. The eight razor-sharp claws behind her stabbed down at Qin Mu!
Qin Mu spread the five fingers of his right hand and pulled hard. The entire spiderweb suddenly rose up, wrapping the eight-clawed woman in the center. Qin Mu activated his primal energy, and the Great Nurturing Heavenly Demon Sutra contracted, cutting the woman inside the web into pieces!
Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief. The fine threads formed by the Great Nurturing Heavenly Demon Sutra continuously retracted and wove back into a glove on his hand, without a trace of blood.
"What race are these Heavenly Demon followers? They look like humans but not humans, like beasts but not beasts, like demons but not demons, like insects but not insects. It's too strange."
He stepped on the spiderweb and walked forward, but made no sound at all. The Cripple's Heaven-Stealing Leg Technique was indeed extremely light.
The Shaobao Sword flew back and into the fish-dragon mouth behind him. Qin Mu used his primal energy to maintain the fish-dragon form of the scabbard, ready for battle at any time.
He carefully approached the corpse of the Heavenly Demon follower killed by the Shaobao Sword and looked at the body. The person had eight feet, all of which were long tentacles, a terrifying sight.
"With such heavy fog, it's not good for me, nor is it good for these Heavenly Demon followers. As long as they can't swarm me all at once, I can keep my life!"
Qin Mu stood in the gray mist, no longer moving, but listening to the strange sounds around him.
At that moment, the surroundings suddenly fell silent. No sound could be heard.
Qin Mu picked up a pebble, flicked it out with his finger, and it hit the ground. Aside from the crisp rolling sound of the pebble, there was still no movement.
He waited a while longer and flicked out another pebble. Still no movement. Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief. "The Heavenly Demon followers have been killed by me. It should be safe now..."
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew through the valley, and the pervasive gray mist dispersed on its own. Qin Mu looked around and his scalp went numb. Around him stood several hundred Heavenly Demon followers, an enormous number.
When he had stood there motionless just now, these several hundred Heavenly Demon followers had also stood motionless in the gray mist, waiting for him to reveal a flaw. Qin Mu had never imagined that so many people were standing right beside him!
He leaped up, stepping on the wind to break through the air. The moment he rose into the sky, the several hundred Heavenly Demon followers all moved at once, pouncing on the young man in the air!
These several hundred Heavenly Demon followers were all ability users. There were eight types of Heavenly Demon followers. The first type Qin Mu had seen were the strange people with fish scales and frog feet, the second were lava giants, the third were handsome youths, the fourth were ugly old women, the fifth were women who looked human but had scorpion tails, the sixth were women carrying eight claws on their backs, the seventh were strange people with eight tentacles, and the eighth were strange people whose arms were two giant snakes.
Now, these several hundred Heavenly Demon followers all pounced into the air at once. All kinds of strange abilities and bizarre limbs attacked Qin Mu in the air simultaneously, densely packed, impossible to defend against.
Every hair on Qin Mu's body stood on end. In this situation, he had no time to defend!
Just then, a Buddha light burst forth from between his eyebrows, and a giant Buddha leaped out from his brow.
"Om, Ma, Ni, Pad, Me, Hum!"
The giant Buddha pressed its palms together. Buddha light spread out in rings in all directions. Countless severed limbs flew in every direction. A hurricane-like impact swept the Heavenly Demon followers clean away.
The Buddha light gradually dimmed. The phantom of the giant Buddha in front of Qin Mu also grew fainter and fainter until it finally disappeared.
That was the phantom of the giant Buddha that Master Ma had left between his eyebrows. It would only burst forth when he faced certain death, but it could only be used once before dissipating.
Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief and was momentarily stunned. "Why did a gust of wind suddenly blow up and scatter the gray mist? If it weren't for this gust of wind, I wouldn't have been discovered by those Heavenly Demon followers."
At that moment, he noticed the source of the wind. It was the Moon Ship.
This colossal vessel was slowly standing up. Because the ship was so huge, even larger than Inlaid Dragon City, it stirred up a gale that dispersed some of the gray mist.
"The Sun Ship needs a Sun Keeper to control it in order to move. Does this Moon Ship also have a Moon Keeper? If there is still a Moon Keeper guarding this place, there might even be people of my clan on the ship..."
Qin Mu's spirit shook. Then he saw that from the temple of the city closest to the Moon Ship, black smoke rose like a pillar, clearly indicating that some terrifying existence had sensed the commotion here.
Without a second thought, Qin Mu immediately rushed out of the Fengdu gate. He exerted force with both legs and ran wildly, heading straight for the other side of the mountain. The Cripple's Heaven-Stealing Divine Leg Technique was brought to its fullest under his feet, like a fleeting shadow, extremely fast!
The Moon Ship was stirring, indicating that someone was controlling it. But the situation was extremely dangerous now, and he couldn't afford to go and investigate.
He ran over several mountain peaks. The sea of mist appeared ahead. Qin Mu was about to charge straight through when suddenly a suction force came from below, sucking away the wind beneath his feet. Qin Mu immediately fell from the air!
Boom.
Dust and smoke filled the air. Qin Mu smashed a large crater into the ground. The young man slowly stood up in the pit. He saw that the place where he had landed was exactly the village he had encountered when he first came ashore.
At this moment, the people in the village put down their work one by one and stood up, staring at him with strange eyes.
The one who had made the wind beneath his feet disappear was a man dressed as a blacksmith, holding a bellows. Human skin was stretched over a large clamp, forming an air bladder with a spring inside that could compress and then spring open to suck in air. The front was a human head used as a nozzle for blowing air.
The man dressed as a blacksmith grabbed the two handles of the bellows. It was he who had used the bellows to suck in the air, pulling the air from beneath Qin Mu's feet in the sky, causing him to fall involuntarily.
On the other side, in front of a thatched cottage, the fat woman who had been chopping dumpling filling stood up, holding two kitchen knives in her hands, blood still dripping from the blades.
Behind Qin Mu, a man who had been pounding rice stopped. He pulled out the pestle, which had a hammerhead the size of a jar at its end, dripping blood with a pat-pat sound. In the stone mortar was actually a human head.
A tailor behind the village was cutting fabric, which turned out to be sheets of human skin. The tailor stood up, holding scissors in one hand and a measuring tape in the other.
A dyer's apprentice was hanging up dyed cloth. Sheets of human skin were being fished out of a vat filled with blood plasma. Seeing Qin Mu fall, the dyer's apprentice put down the human skin in his hand and wiped his bloodstained hands on his chest.
A child squatting in front of a house eating spat out a finger bone that had been gnawed clean. A fat, white pig grunted as it walked by, a pale human arm dangling from its mouth. An old man at the village entrance was smoking a human bone pipe. The smoke rings he exhaled turned into skull shapes that let out mournful screams before dissipating.
More and more villagers appeared in front of and behind Qin Mu, blocking his path forward and his retreat.
Behind Qin Mu, the fish-dragon spat out the sword. His left hand held the knife in a reverse grip.
Suddenly, the primal energy inside him erupted violently, rushing into the painting that Deaf had drawn on him with dragon blood. An incredibly terrifying force surged into his limbs and bones. Qin Mu's body was filled with the power of the flood dragon. At the same time, Deaf's painting made him feel as if he were a divine being!
Although he was now in a skeletal form, it was only an illusion. His flesh, blood, and skin were still there, just unable to be seen or touched.
He had realized this when the Village Chief awakened him to reopen the Nine Heavens of the Divine Eye.
Now, with Deaf's painting activated, Qin Mu immediately felt his body filled with an incredibly terrifying force. His primal energy also soared wildly. An extremely vigorous primal energy overflowed, coiling around him like a giant python!
His aura exploded. Thick water vapor suddenly rose from beneath his feet, turning into waves one after another. Within the waves, a dark turtle was faintly visible.
He was now like a deity, filled with boundless power!
He felt as if he had become a god who controlled water, able to move mountains and rivers with a wave of his hand!
Fight out of this village!
Only this thought remained in Qin Mu's mind. At all costs, fight out of this village!
Chi, chi, chi. The sound of skin tearing came from all around him. The skin sacs on those villagers burst open one after another. Stout figures squeezed out from the skin sacs. The people in this village were not human at all, but Heavenly Demon followers!
Children, women, even that pig—all changed form, turning into ability users among the Heavenly Demon followers. There were even those who had opened the Seven Star Divine Treasury!
Only the old man smoking the human bone pipe remained sitting at the village entrance, unchanged.
"Kill!"
Qin Mu roared and charged toward the village entrance!
The moment he rushed out, Heavenly Demon followers behind him leaped up and attacked him!
Qin Mu crossed his hands. Boom! A monstrous wave surged out from between his hands. A vast, mighty river, like a giant python, swept up all the Heavenly Demon followers rushing in from all directions. The river python shook its head and lashed its tail. Under the impact of the massive flood, houses shattered into pieces!
Qin Mu thrust out his sword fingers. The Shaobao Sword shot into the river, striking like lightning at the Heavenly Demon followers swept into the current. The Stabbing Sword Style, the Lifting Sword Style, the Slashing Sword Style, the Cloud Sword Style, the Chopping Sword Style, the Hooking Sword Style, the Pointing Sword Style, the Wiping Sword Style—the most basic sword techniques the Village Chief had taught him were all unleashed, each strike executed to absolute perfection!
The river was instantly dyed red with blood, turning into a crimson torrent. Corpses floated up in the river—the Heavenly Demon followers he had slain.
Beneath Qin Mu's feet, water surged with a splash. A dark turtle emerged, carrying him as he rose and fell on the river, heading toward the village entrance. Behind him, the entire village was razed to the ground. After the great flood, the ground was littered with corpses!