Chapter 108: Ambushing the Grand Emperor
Qin Mu nodded, a faint smile playing on his lips.
Five years ago, Xing Han had used the token of Celestial Venerable Qin to scheme against him, luring him to the Fallen God Valley. The Fallen God Valley was merely a passage to the Imperial Heavenly Court, where Yi Shisheng, a disciple of Ling Celestial Venerable, was constantly collecting her corpse.
Back when Qin Mu first arrived at the Fallen God Valley, disciples of the Heavenly Emperor like Yan Qiling and Mu Qiubai had also come, along with the Heavenly Dragon King under Earth Mother’s command, and the Divine Artifact Imperial Celestial Venerable who had secretly infiltrated.
The hanging coffins in the Fallen God Valley bore the inscription “Opens When Qin Mu Arrives,” which actually meant “Opens When Celestial Venerable Qin and Mu Celestial Venerable Arrive.”
Qin Mu had been puzzled at the time. He hadn’t gone to the Fallen God Valley, so no one had explored it. But the moment he went, a crowd followed—it was too much of a coincidence.
Now, he understood. It was merely the schemes of the Primordial Heavenly Emperor and the Grand Emperor against him, and of course, Earth Mother Yuan Jun as well.
Five years ago, Qin Mu couldn’t see through their plots. Only now did he grasp the events of the Fallen God Valley from five years prior.
The Heavenly Emperor, the Grand Emperor, and Earth Mother Yuan Jun knew that only by gathering the tokens of Celestial Venerable Qin and Mu Celestial Venerable could they open the passage to the Fallen God Valley. So they had waited for Qin Mu to come and clear the way for them.
But these cunning old foxes hadn’t anticipated that the Grand Emperor’s Divine Artifact Imperial Celestial Venerable would be killed by Qin Mu, and that Xing Han would seal and suppress the Celestial Venerable’s consciousness within the artifact, taking it and fleeing.
All of Earth Mother’s subordinates, including the Heavenly Dragon King, had died. Only Yan Qiling remained among the Primordial Heavenly Emperor’s disciples.
Earth Mother Yuan Jun had suffered heavy losses. The Heavenly Emperor had failed to find his own physical body. The Grand Emperor couldn’t confirm whether Ling Celestial Venerable was truly dead, nor could he reclaim the divine consciousness controlling the Heavenly Emperor’s body.
Qin Mu had gained nothing. Only Xing Han had obtained the Divine Artifact Imperial Celestial Venerable and suppressed the Grand Emperor’s consciousness within it.
The big winner of that battle had seemed to be Xing Han.
But fate played tricks. Xing Han had taken the Divine Artifact Imperial Celestial Venerable, occupied the nest, and claimed the body for himself. Yet he had wasted five years on the runes of Primordial Divine Dao, all his hard work in vain. And the most crucial piece—the Grand Emperor’s consciousness—he could never refine. In the end, it fell into Qin Mu’s hands.
Qin Mu looked at the jade bottle, a smile spreading across his face. The smile grew wider, and finally, he burst into laughter, his laughter growing more and more joyful!
“Five years ago, who could have imagined that I would be the ultimate winner?”
He laughed heartily, his primordial energy and divine consciousness swirling around him, transforming into various runes. Qin Mu adjusted the runes, took out various computational spirit weapons, and continuously calculated and modified them.
Lang Wan Divine King watched him scribbling and erasing, her expression shifting slightly. “Holy Infant, do you need my help to refine the Grand Emperor’s consciousness? The consciousness in the jade bottle is very weak; refining it won’t be difficult.”
“Not now.”
Qin Mu focused on his calculations without looking up. “Let me perfect this divine technique first, then I’ll trouble Sister Divine King.”
Lang Wan Divine King examined the runes formed by his divine consciousness and primordial energy. They were exquisitely intricate and complex, but she couldn’t understand them.
Shu Jun couldn’t understand either. He asked Dragon Qilin, who glanced over and said, “The Sect Leader is modifying the Soul-Pulling Incantation. The Soul-Pulling Incantation is used to pull souls. Judging by the runes he’s modifying, he’s probably planning to change it from pulling souls to pulling divine consciousness.”
“Pulling divine consciousness?”
Lang Wan Divine King and Shu Jun Divine King were greatly puzzled. Was there such a technique as pulling divine consciousness?
Dragon Qilin thought carefully and said, “The Soul-Pulling Incantation should actually be called the Soul-Snatching Incantation. It can pull souls from the Netherworld, summoning the souls of the dead back to the mortal world. Later, after the Sect Leader improved it, even shattered souls could be summoned. He’s probably trying to modify this technique to summon the Grand Emperor’s divine consciousness scattered across the Primordial Realm.”
After a long while, Qin Mu finally finished his calculations. Everyone looked at the myriad of magnificent runes floating in the air inside the carriage, all wearing blank expressions.
Qin Mu carefully checked them, corrected a few calculation errors, and then felt satisfied.
He took the jade bottle, stepped out of the carriage, and placed it on the ground of the Fallen God Valley, which had been leveled to the ground.
Suddenly, his divine power erupted with near-violent intensity, activating the modified Soul-Pulling Incantation. Countless runes swirled around the jade bottle!
His primordial spirit emerged, a majestic figure standing in the main heavenly palace atop the Taiji Diagram, beneath the Southern Heavenly Gate. Profound Dao language came from his mouth as he chanted mysterious Netherworld incantations. Countless Heavenly Nether Realm runes lit up around him, flickering between light and shadow!
“This time I descended to the lower realm, the Grand Emperor wanted to kill me and deployed the eleventh Celestial Venerable’s physical body. But he encountered the Kai Emperor on the way, who killed it with a single sword strike.”
Qin Mu’s primordial spirit was activating the modified Soul-Pulling Incantation, while his true body laughed. “The Grand Emperor’s consciousness was piloting the Celestial Venerable’s corpse. The Kai Emperor didn’t know how to gather the Grand Emperor’s divine consciousness, so he just killed it directly, scattering the Grand Emperor’s consciousness. Earlier, I didn’t have any of the Grand Emperor’s belongings, so I couldn’t summon his soul. Now, with this consciousness in the jade bottle, I can try to summon the Grand Emperor’s consciousness!”
Lang Wan Divine King followed him onto the flat ground. She saw that the ground around Qin Mu was also covered with countless runes, which were continuously lighting up and spreading in all directions, covering an increasingly wide area.
Soon, the runes covered a radius of a hundred miles, forming a massive formation diagram!
Lang Wan Divine King mused, “The Grand Emperor’s divine consciousness in the Celestial Venerable’s corpse, even if scattered by the Kai Emperor, will eventually recondense. He has probably already retrieved his consciousness.”
“Rest assured, Sister Divine King. The Kai Emperor used Sword Twenty and then the Thirty-Fourth Heaven Sword Dao to kill him. His consciousness won’t be able to recondense in such a short time. Moreover…”
Qin Mu’s primordial spirit fully activated the Soul-Pulling Incantation. Countless magnificent runes revolved around the jade bottle, imprinting themselves on it one by one.
Waves of obscure fluctuations were transmitted into the jade bottle and then radiated outward, spreading in a peculiar rhythm.
This rhythm was imperceptible to ordinary people. Even Lang Wan Divine King and Shu Jun Divine King could barely detect it.
“Moreover, he came this time to kill me. Would he easily retrieve his own consciousness?”
Qin Mu’s expression tensed as he said in a deep voice, “His consciousness must not have left the Primordial Realm. Instead, it has likely possessed gods and demons in the Primordial Realm, continuing to search for my trail. Two Divine Kings, I am about to establish a connection with the Grand Emperor. Are you ready?”
Lang Wan Divine King quickly activated her divine consciousness. Her consciousness was incredibly powerful, instantly spreading across the thirty-fifth layer of void, forming various divine consciousness refining techniques!
Shu Jun hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and said, “Holy Infant, the Grand Emperor’s divine consciousness is extremely powerful. Ambushing him will completely offend him. Moreover, his divine consciousness’s Great Luo Heaven is hidden in the ultimate void. If you summon his consciousness, he can lock onto our position and attack from the ultimate void…”
“Shu Jun Divine King, I’ve already completely offended the Grand Emperor. Offending him once more is just adding icing on the cake.”
Qin Mu’s Soul-Pulling Incantation established a connection with the consciousness in the jade bottle, immediately tracing back to its source and sensing waves of terrifying divine consciousness fluctuations. He laughed heartily, “The Grand Emperor’s divine consciousness is about to be summoned by me! We’ll ambush him with careful planning and then flee. He won’t be able to do anything to us!”
Shu Jun Divine King’s scalp tingled. He immediately sensed the terrifying fluctuations in the void and decisively unleashed all his divine consciousness to help Lang Wan Divine King set up the void refining formation.
Although he hadn’t recovered to his peak state, his insight and experience were still there, allowing him to help Lang Wan Divine King compensate for some deficiencies in the refining techniques.
“Lang Wan Divine King, we must seal the thirty-fifth void and prevent the Grand Emperor from descending from the ultimate void!”
Shu Jun Divine King guided Lang Wan Divine King. The two Divine Kings worked together to seal the thirty-fifth void around them.
Lang Wan Divine King praised him inwardly. Although Shu Jun was a Primordial Era creator Divine King whose knowledge had fallen behind the times, his insight and experience were extremely high and had their unique merits.
Just as they finished setting up the refining formation in the thirty-fifth void, an incredibly terrifying fluctuation responded to Qin Mu’s Soul-Pulling Incantation and was summoned!
At the source of the Yong River in the Primordial Realm, the Grand Emperor’s Celestial Venerable corpse’s flesh chunks had fallen into deep mountains and great marshes. The Grand Emperor’s bronze coffin had also fallen into a mountain stream. The coffin lid was open, emitting billowing corpse qi.
At this moment, many oddly dressed divine beings arrived. These divine beings were covered in white robes, their heads and faces also hidden within the robes. They had come from the Heavenly Court, and each white-robed divine being carried a cinnabar-red gourd on their back.
Every time a white-robed divine being reached a flesh chunk, the gourd would emit billowing rosy light, extracting the divine consciousness from the flesh.
Those flesh chunks still contained the Kai Emperor’s Sword Dao, which suppressed the Grand Emperor’s divine consciousness, constantly grinding it away. Over time, the Grand Emperor’s divine consciousness would be completely erased by the Kai Emperor’s Sword Dao.
However, these white-robed divine beings’ cinnabar-red gourds had an incredible effect. They could extract the Grand Emperor’s divine consciousness without triggering the residual power of the Kai Emperor’s Sword Dao.
Even so, they had to be extremely careful, not daring to touch these flesh chunks, lest they provoke the Kai Emperor’s divine techniques.
They had already collected most of it when, suddenly, an inexplicable force surged, pulling all the Grand Emperor’s divine consciousness and sending it whistling away!
Even the divine consciousness that had already been collected into the gourds was pulled. The mouths of the gourds emitted streaks of rosy light, spraying out and turning into thousands of brilliant beams in midair, rushing away!
“Damn it!”
The Grand Emperor’s divine consciousness trembled, like thousands of thunderclaps sounding simultaneously, blasting the white-robed divine beings into a daze: “Quickly seal the Heavenly Consciousness Divine Gourds!”
Those white-robed divine beings immediately covered the gourds, but the strange summoning was too strong. It even pulled these Heavenly Consciousness Divine Gourds into the air, flying eastward!
And from the Celestial Venerable’s flesh chunks, the Grand Emperor’s divine consciousness uncontrollably flew out, snatched away by Qin Mu’s modified Soul-Pulling Incantation!
Many white-robed divine beings each hugged a large gourd, activating their divine power to stand firm, but many Heavenly Consciousness Divine Gourds still flew away.
“Useless trash!”
Suddenly, the divine consciousness from one Heavenly Consciousness Divine Gourd flew out, drilling into a white-robed divine being’s body. After the Grand Emperor borrowed life through that divine being, he was immediately pulled into the air by Qin Mu’s Soul-Pulling Incantation, flying eastward.
At the same time, other gourds exploded. The Grand Emperor’s divine consciousness inside them flew out, all rushing into the body of the possessed white-robed divine being.
That white-robed divine being was a True God, unable to resist Qin Mu’s summoning. He was pulled and flew madly toward the Fallen God Valley.
The Fallen God Valley was extremely far from here, but at this summoning speed, it wouldn’t be long before he was dragged into the Fallen God Valley and refined by Qin Mu!
“You little brat, do you think you can seize my divine consciousness? You underestimate me too much!”
The white-robed divine being was furious. He tried his best to activate the divine power of this body, suppressing it, but he was still pulled eastward.
A divine city appeared ahead. It was the garrison of the Heavenly Court’s divine demon army stationed in the Primordial Realm. The white-robed divine being’s eyes lit up. Suddenly, he opened his mouth, and rosy light sprayed out like a waterfall, rushing toward that divine city!
The rosy light whistled over, brilliant and dazzling, sweeping through the entire city.
More than a hundred thousand divine demons in the city had no time to react before they were engulfed by the rosy light. The light was like thousands of tentacles, drilling into the eyes, ears, mouths, and noses of these divine demons. Instantly, all the divine demons were pulled by the Soul-Pulling Incantation, flying up and heading toward the Fallen God Valley!
The commander of the divine city was a master at the Lingxiao realm. He immediately activated his divine techniques, but the next moment, he too was possessed by the Grand Emperor’s divine consciousness.
The Grand Emperor controlled more than a hundred thousand divine demons, all flying into the air. In midair, the divine demons arranged themselves in a staggered formation, forming a massive killing array. The killing array flew through the air—a grand and awe-inspiring sight!
“Mu Celestial Venerable, you have provoked me time and again. Today, I will show you the majesty of the ancient ruler!”