Chapter 1118: Sword Like a Rainbow, Qi Like a Dragon (Fourth Update)
The White Earth Ancient God had sensed something the moment the Glazed Azure Canopy descended. He immediately opened his eyes, and the four-armed white ape’s sinewy body suddenly crackled and popped. His muscles bulged high, his physique now several times larger than before, and he was still expanding wildly!
But as Qin Mu bowed deeply, the Glazed Azure Canopy surged in growth. The twenty-eight layers of canopies expanded outward as layers of heavens, splitting apart the entire ancestral land of White Earth! Gods and demons surrounding the White Earth Ancient God were involuntarily lifted high, landing in the various layers of heavens. Even the altar beneath the White Earth Ancient God was swept up by the first layer of heavens and sent flying far, far away from him!
The moment Qin Mu straightened from his bow, his figure had already shot forward. The twenty-eight heavens of the Glazed Azure Canopy shifted out of alignment, and in the next instant, they delivered him right before the White Earth Ancient God.
The Glazed Azure Canopy moved entirely at his will. This treasure was hailed as the number one supreme treasure under heaven. In Qin Mu’s view, the Northern Emperor Xuanwu’s artifact-forging methods were far from refined—in fact, they could be called crude.
They had simply piled treasures together, forcibly assembling this artifact. It was rough and unsightly, hard to look at.
Yet this treasure truly deserved the title of the number one heavy treasure under heaven, because the Northern Emperor Xuanwu had stacked so many treasures into it, combined with the wish-fulfilling Ancient God egg. No divine weapon in the world could match it.
The White Earth Ancient God’s body was still expanding, but he was now separated from his ancestral land by twenty-seven layers of heavenly worlds, each one immensely distant!
He immediately felt a hollowness in his power, and a fear he had never known surged into his heart: “It’s the Northern Emperor Xuanwu’s supreme treasure, the Glazed Azure Canopy!”
His mind raced in panic. The Glazed Azure Canopy had even been called the number one supreme treasure under heaven by the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor, possessing unpredictable might. He knew of this treasure well.
“Hasn’t this treasure been lost for six hundred thousand years? Why is it appearing now?”
Though his mind was in turmoil, the White Earth Ancient God made a decisive choice. He stopped his body’s expansion and began to contract it instead.
Continuing to let his body grow without the support of his ancestral land would only make it large but weak—outwardly strong but inwardly hollow.
If he shrank his body, his power would condense. With the million years he had spent painstakingly studying his own great dao, he believed he feared no one!
But in the next moment, Qin Mu appeared before him, still charging straight at him.
Qin Mu drew his sword. The sword came out, and sword radiance filled the sky!
This was the moment when the White Earth Ancient God’s body had stopped expanding but had not yet begun to shrink—the point when his power was at its emptiest.
Even so, he remained calm in the face of danger. Ancient Gods were born into the dao, naturally mastering it, giving them an advantage that no later-born beings or even demigods could match.
Though Ancient Gods could not tread into other domains, as long as they delved into their own dao, he believed he could rely on his innate advantage and his own insights into the dao to surpass any later-born being or demigod!
On his own dao, he was an undefeated king!
But then he saw Qin Mu’s sword light. Qin Mu’s sword was aimed precisely at the weakness of his great dao.
No great dao could be called perfect, especially not the dao of Ancient Gods. All Ancient Gods had been summoned by the Heavenly Emperor, and the Dao Ancestor of the Dao Sect had mapped out their dao runes.
Even the Heavenly Lord and Earth Mother had their dao runes mapped. The White Earth Ancient God was no exception. When he saw Qin Mu’s sword light, he knew that Qin Mu’s sword techniques and divine abilities were targeting his weaknesses.
Without time to think, he raised a hand to meet it. Dao light burst from his palm, and his great dao roared. He was confident that in terms of raw power, he could crush his opponent and shatter Qin Mu’s sword techniques.
His other three arms rose, each hand forming a different hand seal. One seal aimed to destroy the physical body, one to suppress the primordial spirit, and one to annihilate everything Qin Mu had!
These three seals were his supreme achievement—the ultimate techniques he had comprehended from his own great dao over a million years of bitter study.
His first hand had already met Qin Mu’s sword light. As long as it blocked the sword and shattered Qin Mu’s divine blade, his second, third, and fourth strikes could land on Qin Mu in a single burst, pulverizing him!
Then he saw Qin Mu’s sword glide through the fingers of his palm as if meeting no resistance. Yet he saw his own thumb fly off, and half his palm, along with the other four fingers, detach from his hand.
Accompanying the dazzling sword light was Qin Mu’s figure. He saw Qin Mu’s face—a face that filled him with terror.
“Mu Tianzun…”
The muscles on the White Earth Ancient God’s face began to twitch violently. That terrifying existence who had slaughtered the Five Radiance Ancient Gods in the ancient era had returned!
The White Earth Ancient God had known little of Mu Tianzun, but after Qin Mu killed the Five Radiance Ancient Gods, that name had entered his ears and been branded deep into his mind, like a nightmare that surfaced from time to time to haunt him.
He had long heard of Mu Tianzun’s reputation, but the name had vanished for six hundred thousand years. Only ten years ago did it reappear.
That was when he learned that Mu Tianzun was merely a youth who had luckily traveled back to the Longhan Era, using the guise of Mu Qing, and his strength was not particularly impressive.
More crucially, Mu Tianzun no longer had his former fearsome reputation. Instead, the title of the Great Master of Ten Thousand Calamities and Immortality had spread among the Ancient Gods.
Rumor had it that as long as one protected Mu Tianzun, an Ancient God could survive all calamities and remain undying.
The so-called Great Master of Ten Thousand Calamities and Immortality referred to a master of techniques who could make Ancient Gods immortal through ten thousand calamities, not that Qin Mu himself was immortal.
The Ancient Gods rejoiced, believing they could return to the Longhan Era, or even to the primordial age when Ancient Gods ruled the world.
The White Earth Ancient God had also heard this rumor and was delighted for a long time. Though he was attached to the Heavenly Court and the Western Heavenly White Emperor, maintaining the old customs of blood sacrifices, he was still not free and could not act as wantonly as before.
If this Mu Tianzun, once so vicious in slaughtering Ancient Gods, could truly become a great benefactor who made Ancient Gods immortal through ten thousand calamities, that would be a good thing.
Moreover, Mu Tianzun was so weak—easy to control.
But now, Mu Tianzun had come to kill him!
The White Earth Ancient God’s second great hand seal missed, and the third also struck empty air. The fourth came at Qin Mu from behind, its momentum immense!
At the same time, the dao light from the horn on his forehead burst forth, shining toward Qin Mu!
Ding.
The dao light struck the sword light, scattering it and revealing the essence of the broken sword.
His fourth strike reached Qin Mu’s back. If Qin Mu did not dodge, he would surely be killed!
The twitching skin on his face broke into a smile, and his voice rumbled like thunder: “Mu Tianzun, stop! We are natural allies…”
Before the word “allies” left his mouth, the broken sword in Qin Mu’s hand surged, transforming into a divine blade that slashed down at his divine horn!
This strike was unstoppable, cleaving through the hardest horn, splitting it in two. The two halves flew from the top of his head.
The White Earth Ancient God’s fourth strike followed closely, reaching Qin Mu’s back. At that moment, the divine blade in Qin Mu’s hand turned into a long sword and swept across his forehead.
Boom—
The White Earth Ancient God’s fourth strike slammed heavily into Qin Mu’s back. Flesh and blood flew everywhere. Along with the blood and flesh, the White Earth Ancient God’s skull flew out.
His skull flew backward, and Qin Mu, his back nearly blown apart—his back muscles completely shredded—was sent tumbling backward along with the massive skull, behind the White Earth Ancient God.
Looking down, Qin Mu could clearly see the structure of the White Earth Ancient God’s brain.
The White Earth Ancient God had only half a brain left.
In the moment Qin Mu lowered his head, his third eye on his forehead opened, and a beam of light blasted into the remaining half of the White Earth Ancient God’s brain.
The White Earth Ancient God’s heavenly soul disintegrated. His earthly soul and spirit soul tried to escape but had no time, shattering into rolling black sand of souls that scattered in all directions!
The Glazed Azure Canopy rustled as it retracted. The twenty-eight layers of heavens folded back into twenty-eight canopies, gathering along the pillar.
The gods and demons, still not yet recovered, returned to their places around the altar, their eyes full of confusion.
The White Earth Ancient God still sat on the altar of his ancestral land, three of his hands forming hand seals, their power not yet fully dissipated. One hand was only half left.
A smile still lingered on his face.
“Ancestor God, what happened?” The surrounding gods and demons looked around, asking.
Then they noticed that the White Earth Ancient God was dead!
Qin Mu activated the Tyrant Body Three Dan Technique, and the injuries on his back healed rapidly. He pulled up the Glazed Azure Canopy and turned to leave, saying in a deep voice: “To the northern Xuan Province, to meet the Earth Ancient God!”
Behind him, cries and wails rang out.