Chapter 1154: One Flower, One World (Fourth Update!)
This mountain range was astonishingly long, with steep and rugged terrain. As soon as he entered, Qin Mu sensed something strange. The mountain gave off an unsettling feeling; his primal energy became sluggish here, flowing as if mixed with sand.
Qin Mu immediately activated the Glazed Azure Sky Canopy. He saw the twenty-eight heavens revolving, but mobilizing them grew increasingly difficult.
Not only that, he also felt his physical body and primordial spirit stiffening. The divine blood within him showed signs of transitioning into a solid state.
Qin Mu looked up and saw that the twenty-eight heavens of the Azure Sky Canopy had turned a hazy gray. He didn't know what caused this.
Dragon Qilin turned to look at his own tail and cried out in alarm, "Chief, I'm stiffening up!"
"The power here is extremely strange. You two withdraw first; I'll scout ahead."
Qin Mu told Yan'er and Dragon Qilin to retreat while he climbed alone, muttering under his breath, "According to reason, a Taiji vein should have yin and yang qi, with the two polarities in a state of chaos, neither fully separated nor united. This place is rather odd."
Before long, leaning on the Glazed Azure Sky Canopy, he arrived at a mountain path. This should have been a trail carved out by the creators who had come here. Clearly, those creators had also intended to enter this place to mine divine stones, and they must have already located the vein.
"If I just follow this mountain path, I should be able to find where the Taiji vein is."
Qin Mu continued climbing, following the path around several hills. Suddenly, a towering stone statue stood in the road.
Qin Mu cautiously approached. The statue faced the direction of the mining area, one foot raised as if about to step forward, carrying mining tools forged from divine metal on its back.
He circled around to the front of the statue and looked up. The statue should have been carved in the likeness of a creator. He just didn't know why it had been erected here.
"The ancient era had many strange traditions and customs. This is probably the folk custom of some creator race that lived by mining."
He moved on. Suddenly, he saw another stone statue by the roadside, equally tall, presumably an adult creator.
He looked ahead and saw that along this path, at intervals, there were one or two stone statues of creators.
Qin Mu's expression grew grave. One or two statues might still be a creator custom, but dozens of them—that couldn't possibly be a custom!
He leaped into the air and landed in front of one statue, examining its forehead.
In the vertical eye on the statue's forehead was embedded a piece of Taichu Divine Stone.
"These statues are all creators!"
Qin Mu looked around, thinking to himself, "Creator miners came here, but they encountered the uncanny power within the Taiji vein and were turned to stone! Is this the Dao of Creation?"
He became alert and took a deep breath. As he breathed in, he noticed many impurities, and even his own primal energy became turbid!
Qin Mu's heart shook violently. He took out his broken sword and made a light cut on his palm. Blood flowed from his hand.
He was already at the True God realm; all the blood in his body had transformed into divine blood, possessing incredible power.
If his blood fell to the ground, even a single drop would turn into a blood lake. The power contained within it was so strong that it could make plants grow wildly, bring dead trees back to life, and turn a thousand miles of land into a dense forest!
His divine blood could even allow plants to gain essence and become spirits.
Although he was a somewhat watered-down Celestial Venerable, his divine blood still contained vast, terrifying vitality!
But here, when his blood hit the ground, it quickly solidified, losing all its vitality. The blood wasn't even translucent anymore; instead, sand and gravel gradually grew within the plasma.
Qin Mu lightly traced his finger across his forehead, opening his vertical eye. Countless runes within the Celestial Emperor's eggshell were activated, the Taichu primal stone started up, and the Netherworld Great Dao within the Qin Continent operated. He immediately took in the entire process of the blood's transformation.
The material structure of his divine blood was changing, from blood to stone. Soon, the blood that had fallen on the ground turned into a pile of sand and gravel!
"The power here can change the very essence of matter."
Qin Mu blinked and looked around with his vertical eye. He saw that this mountain range was majestic and spectacular, with many ancient giant beasts inhabiting the mountains. The forests were also quite dense.
It seemed this mysterious power only affected him, not the plants or giant beasts here.
Qin Mu didn't go further. Instead, he went to the side of the path and carefully examined a tender blade of grass.
In the sight of his vertical eye, the texture and veins of that tender grass gradually became clear, growing larger and larger. Gradually, mountain ranges appeared before his eyes, and the water within the grass blades turned into rivers!
He could even hear the crashing of waves in his ears!
Qin Mu was startled. Suddenly, he saw the material structure of the grass slowly changing. He quickly stepped back a few paces, and saw that the tender grass soon grew into a large tree, its branches drooping down, as if it had been growing for a thousand years.
Just as Qin Mu was about to examine the texture of this large tree, it began to change again. Under his gaze, it transformed into an ancient giant beast that roared at him before pouncing!
Qin Mu's divine consciousness exploded. He used the technique "Gathering Perfection in the Great Luo Heaven," and the ancient giant beast's body rapidly thinned, stretching infinitely, rising higher and higher.
But before Qin Mu's technique was even complete, the strange beast turned into a stream of air and fell to the ground.
That stream of air landed among the mountains and turned back into a tender blade of grass.
Qin Mu was stunned for a moment, then frowned deeply.
"One flower, one blade of grass, one world... yet ever-changing, without fixed form, without fixed momentum, without fixed state..."
Qin Mu looked at the surrounding mountains, waters, and trees, and a terrifying feeling rose in his heart. He murmured, "This place is far larger than I can see, larger by countless times!"
He shuddered and immediately turned around to descend the mountain. Dragon Qilin saw him returning and was about to ask a question, but Qin Mu picked up a grain of sand from the ground, placed it in his palm, and blew on it.
Whoosh—
That black grain of sand flew forward, spinning and growing larger, quickly turning into a piece of divine metal the size of a small hill.
Dragon Qilin and Yan'er were startled, staring dumbfounded as that mountain of black metal flew into the distance and crashed into the sea of sand.
Strangely enough, that black metal mountain rolled as it fell into the sand sea, transforming into an ancient giant beast that sprinted away madly.
The Void Beast saw this, became excited, and immediately chased after it, intending to bite the beast to death and eat it. But just as its massive jaws came down, the giant beast turned into a negligible grain of sand, falling into the sand sea where it was nowhere to be found.
Dragon Qilin and Yan'er were stunned.
"Just as I thought!"
Qin Mu climbed the mountain again. He suddenly activated the Overlord Body Three Dan Techniques, causing his blood and qi to boil. Layers of radiant light burst forth from within his body, enveloping him in ten thousand rays of light as he charged up the mountain.
"This vein doesn't contain the Dao of Creation. Instead, it's the convergence of yin and yang, giving birth to all things. This is the Dao of Yin and Yang! But this Dao of Yin and Yang is profound and unfathomable."
"The entire sacred land is formed from the transformation of yin and yang qi. And here, because the yin and yang qi are in union, they are in a constant state of flux!"
"Yin and yang qi can transform into anything—mountains, trees, giant beasts, even entire worlds."
Qin Mu passed by the stone statues of the creators and said softly, "These creators couldn't withstand the Dao of Yin and Yang here. Their physical structure was altered, and they turned into stone statues! This Taiji vein has a consciousness!"
"What resembles the Dao of Yin and Yang is the Dao of Creation!"
"In the current world, when it comes to the Dao of Creation, I am the Celestial Venerable!"
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