Chapter 1091: Celestial Master Bai Yuqiong (First Update!)
Gradually, a strange magical force radiated in all directions. His divine ability sensed all wandering souls and all soul black sand between heaven and earth, passing through countless heavens and countless worlds, reaching up to the Mystic Capital and down to the Nether Capital, extending broadly to cover the four poles of the universe.
His consciousness and divine awareness seemed to pierce through these worlds, sensing the traces left behind by the Southern Emperor Zhuque. Gradually, in the Southern Pole Heaven, he detected some scattered soul black sand—a fragment of the Southern Emperor's shattered soul.
He guided this soul black sand back to the Origin Realm. Just then, he sensed another part of the Southern Emperor's soul.
However, this soul was resisting his soul-summoning!
Qin Mu was puzzled. His consciousness followed this strange pull, passing through world after world, arriving at the Heavenly Court, and following the sensation to the Western Heavenly Gate of the Heavenly Court.
His consciousness entered a celestial palace along this sensation, passed through layers of halls, and arrived at a Lingxiao Hall. There, he saw a female emperor looking at "himself" with a face as cold as frost.
That female emperor let out a cold laugh, reached out her hand, and pressed it forward, severing Qin Mu's soul-summoning divine ability. She said angrily, "Yin Tianzi, are you trying to scheme against me again? Haven't you had enough of my iron fists?"
Qin Mu withdrew his divine awareness, reached out to grab the Zhuque feather, and gently shook it, gathering all the incoming soul black sand into the feather. Shocked, he said, "Yan'er, your mother's reincarnated body is in the Heavenly Court, serving as the Celestial Master of the Qionghua Palace at the Western Heavenly Gate!"
His face showed disbelief as he exclaimed, "The Celestial Master of the Qionghua Palace at the Western Heavenly Gate is one of the Four Great Celestial Masters of the Heavenly Court, named Bai Yuqiong! She ranks third among the four Celestial Masters! Your mother has reincarnated in this life as Bai Yuqiong, already at the Imperial Throne realm, and holds a high and powerful position in the Heavenly Court!"
Yan'er's eyes widened, and she stammered, "That Yuqiong Celestial Master in the Heavenly Court is my mother? The silly Que Feiyin from back then?"
Qin Mu nodded, pacing back and forth, muttering, "It seems I miscalculated. Yin Tianzi failed to kill her another ninety-nine times, so her Zhuque soul hasn't awakened yet. This is bad, really bad..."
Veins bulged on his forehead, throbbing incessantly. "The reincarnation of Zhuque has already cultivated to the Imperial Throne realm and managed to become the third Celestial Master of the Heavenly Court. She must be incredibly smart and formidable. Making her die once more will be extremely difficult! The key is, I don't know how many times she's died already—how far is she from ninety-nine times..."
He clenched his fist heavily and cursed, "Yin Tianzi, you useless fool! You can't even kill this woman! You're unworthy of the title 'Beauty Killer'!"
Long Qilin curled his lips, thinking to himself, "It's clearly the Sect Leader who messed things up, yet he blames it on Yin Tianzi. The Sect Leader only wanted to use Yin Tianzi's hand to make his mother-in-law's reincarnation smarter, so she could survive from the Longhan Era. He never expected that under Yin Tianzi's tempering, his mother-in-law would become so smart that she can't die anymore!"
He couldn't help but shake his head.
Qin Mu was somewhat flustered and frowned deeply.
A Celestial Master, especially one of the Heavenly Court's Celestial Masters—every single one was as cunning as a ghost!
To have reached the position of third Celestial Master, one could imagine how high Bai Yuqiong's intelligence was!
The Four Great Celestial Masters, though slightly lower in status than the Four Direction Emperors like Red Emperor and Black Emperor in the Heavenly Court, were essentially on equal footing.
More importantly, all Four Great Celestial Masters were at the Imperial Throne realm!
Que Feiyin had reincarnated into this life as Bai Yuqiong, clever and sharp, and she was likely someone skilled at leveraging power; otherwise, she couldn't have climbed into the ranks of the Heavenly Court's Four Great Celestial Masters.
Yan'er looked at him with hopeful eyes.
Qin Mu smiled and said, "Don't worry. Your mother's reincarnated body carries memories of her past life. She should recognize us. By now, she probably knows the reason she encountered us on the Heavenly River back then and understands our identities. She also knows that she was ambushed by Yin Tianzi but didn't lose her past-life memories because of the jade pendant I gave her. As long as we find this Celestial Master and tell her she's the reincarnation of the Southern Emperor, she should agree to die once more."
Yan'er felt joy in her heart.
Long Qilin blinked, thinking to himself, "The Sect Leader is tricking my wife again. The key is, his mother-in-law doesn't know she's just one soul of the Southern Emperor! She's already an existence at the Imperial Throne realm, with her own thoughts and consciousness—why would she willingly die again? Awakening the Zhuque soul will be difficult!"
Qin Mu understood this too, but he didn't tell Yan'er to avoid worrying her further.
Suddenly, the sky darkened. Qin Mu was startled and was about to have Yan'er take out the lantern when he realized he wasn't in ancient times but had returned to his own era. He laughed at himself, "I traveled back to ancient times, and my nerves have been on edge the whole time. Even after returning to the present, I still haven't snapped out of it."
He looked up, and the smile on his face gradually froze.
What was blocking the sky was a massive body—its head was disproportionate to its body, the head larger than the torso. The back of its head was covered with bone spurs like mountains of bones, densely packed. With a slight shake, the mountain ranges behind its head swayed.
It was a giant beast emerging from the void, with only one enormous eye on its face. Its pupil had multiple layers, rings of irises shrinking inward!
It had six legs, with thin membranes between them. After emerging from the void, it suddenly spread its membranous wings, flapped them, and flew across the sky, rapidly disappearing into the distance!
A Void Beast!
Qin Mu's eyes widened, and he stared dumbfounded as the Void Beast flew away.
A dominant ancient beast from the Ancestral Court, living in the primordial era, had actually appeared in the Origin Realm, in the skies above Yankang!
In his haste, he vaguely saw a woman standing on the back of that Void Beast, who looked like the Shennü of Langhuan!
Qin Mu quickly gave chase, but suddenly, one after another, Heavenly Court warships tore through the sky of the Origin Realm. Banners fluttered, and drumbeats thundered from above.
Giant gods beat large drums at the prows of the ships, and celestial soldiers and generals on board shouted in unison as they pursued the Void Beast.
"Shennü of Langhuan, she found the location of the Ancestral Court and summoned a Void Beast from there..."
Qin Mu gave a light shout, and Yan'er immediately transformed into a Vermilion Bird, soaring into the sky, carrying them in the direction the Void Beast had fled.
Yan'er had already digested a good portion of the ancient gods she had devoured, and her speed had increased significantly. She chased relentlessly, but saw warships in the sky trailing long plumes of smoke as they plummeted downward. The further they went, the more damaged ships they encountered. One large vessel after another shattered into pieces, and the limbs and broken arms of divine and demonic soldiers scattered everywhere.
Qin Mu looked into the distance and saw the Void Beast appearing and disappearing, shuttling between the void and reality. When the divine abilities and divine weapons of the Heavenly Court soldiers reached it, its body immediately became ethereal, and the abilities and weapons passed right through it without posing any threat.
This was a massacre!
The divine and demonic beings of the Heavenly Court had never encountered such a troublesome beast. Their divine abilities were completely useless against it!
By the time Yan'er flew up to them, the battle was already over.
The Void Beast devoured the last heavenly god, then stopped. Its eyelids drooped, covering its enormous mouth, and it stared at the approaching Vermilion Bird and the people on its back, including Qin Mu.
It suddenly let out a roar, and the bone mountains on its back clattered and shook, displaying a threatening posture.
Yan'er quickly halted. Qin Mu looked up and saw the Shennü of Langhuan standing atop a bone mountain on the Void Beast's back, gazing at him from afar.
"Holy Infant," she said softly.