Chapter 1191: Peach Blossoms Bloom Everywhere (First Update)
The divine art of that peach blossom was incredibly exquisite. The petals cut through the air, growing larger and larger, gradually filling heaven and earth, leaving nothing else in everyone's sight.
The ghost ship's energy erupted completely, yet its violent, frenzied impact failed to break through the worlds formed by the peach blossoms.
However, the people outside the peach blossom petals felt the terrifying fluctuations and couldn't help but change color drastically.
If those fluctuations reached their bodies, they feared the energy within them would lose control, explode completely, and cease to exist!
Finally, the fluctuations subsided.
"Moon Venerable..."
Qin Mu stared blankly at the spinning peach blossom petals, his mind surging with emotion. He quickly struggled to steady his mind.
They couldn't afford any emotional fluctuations now. After all, they had no physical bodies, only energy forms. Emotional fluctuations were energy fluctuations.
Energy fluctuations meant unstable energy, which could explode at any moment!
There was no physical matter inside them to bind the energy. If they exploded, they would be utterly annihilated—everything would be gone, even the black sand of their souls would cease to exist!
"This might be another divine art that completely destroys the soul..." Thinking this, Qin Mu found it strange that he still had the leisure to ponder divine arts in this state between life and death.
At that moment, the spinning peach blossom petals grew smaller and smaller, continuously contracting. A long-haired woman flew through the air, as graceful as a goddess from the Moon Palace, untouched by worldly dust. She gently reached out her hand to guide two sections of the Heavenly River.
She connected the two rivers, then lightly pinched with her thumb and middle finger, holding the bare peach branch in her hand.
The spinning petals flew over one by one, landing on the branch, forming a peach blossom again, its stamens gently swaying.
The woman lowered her head to smell the peach blossom, but the petals shattered one by one.
The peach blossom was just an ordinary flower; her divine art had blocked the ghost ship's energy explosion, but how could the blossom withstand such a terrifying impact? It was still annihilated.
"What a pity..."
The woman showed a look of regret, her expression somewhat sorrowful, but she quickly cheered up and smiled, "Fallen petals are not heartless things; they turn into spring mud to nurture flowers. I will plant you, and next year you will become a peach tree, and the peach tree will become a peach forest, perhaps spreading across all heavens and myriad worlds."
She put away the peach branch and looked toward Qin Mu and the others, curiosity in her eyes.
Qin Mu flew forward and bowed respectfully, "We meet again, Moon Venerable."
This woman was indeed Moon Venerable. She looked at him, the surprise on her face growing stronger.
"Mu Venerable?" She was both startled and delighted, testing the waters.
Qin Mu nodded helplessly, "It's me."
Moon Venerable hurriedly stepped forward, about to grab his hand, but grasped at nothing. She paused, tried again, and still caught nothing.
Qin Mu said helplessly, "Our situation is a bit special. It's a long story. Over there is my senior brother, Wei Suifeng, and a few friends..."
Wei Suifeng quickly came forward to pay his respects. Feng Qiuyun, seeing Moon Venerable from afar, dared not approach. However, the Upper Emperor Corpse recognized Moon Venerable and became excited, letting out a roar before the imperial corpse grew brighter and brighter.
Everyone's expression changed drastically.
Moon Venerable frowned, plucked a leaf from the peach branch, and flicked it away.
The leaf grew larger and larger, whooshing over to the Upper Emperor Corpse, wrapping him up tightly like a zongzi.
Boom—
Another earth-shattering sound rang out. A terrifying pillar of light shot up from the zongzi, piercing the sky and blasting a deep, massive hole into the ground.
"Another leaf lost..."
Moon Venerable sighed, frowning, "The one who just exploded seemed to be a false emperor from the Northern Upper Emperor Heavenly Court. Wasn't he dead?"
She was greatly puzzled.
Several Imperial Forest soldiers dragged over a glowing coffin. Inside the coffin lay two women side by side, clearly visible without opening the lid.
One of them was stunningly beautiful, captivating to behold, but unfortunately, she had already turned into an energy form.
The other was Empress Dowager, an ancient god. Even though she was dead, she still retained her physical body, not dissolved by the Primordial Beginning Dao.
Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief. Aside from everyone's lives on this ghost ship, Empress Dowager and Jue Wuchen's physical bodies were the most important.
"Moon Venerable, our condition is very unstable. Can we find a secluded place?"
Qin Mu said, "I need to calm down and think, to see if I can solve the problem we're facing."
Moon Venerable smiled, "Follow me. I happen to have a place in the Origin Realm where you can stay without worrying about being disturbed. Speaking of which, Earth Mother Primordial Lord is afraid of me too. She wouldn't dare provoke me there."
Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief, feeling curious, "Earth Mother Primordial Lord? What era is this now?"
"Of course, it's the Upper Emperor Era."
Moon Venerable turned back and smiled, "It's been over nineteen thousand years since the Southern Upper Emperor ascended the throne. In a few more years, it will be the Upper Emperor's twenty-thousand-year grand celebration."
She was very happy, beaming with joy, "You've come at just the right time. Over the years, Ling Jiejie and I have been managing the Origin Realm, and it's developed very well."
Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself, "The Southern Upper Emperor's thirty-thousand-year reign... It's still only twenty thousand years into the Upper Emperor Era. There's still a long way to go before that upheaval..."
Moon Venerable continued, "This current Upper Emperor is the fifteenth, and he's been on the throne for almost twenty thousand years. The previous Upper Emperors were often sages from the human race and other post-natal races. Our Origin Realm's various races have developed so rapidly—even the Xiao Han Heavenly Court of those days couldn't compare!"
At this point, she looked a little downcast, probably thinking of the fallen Cloud Venerable.
"The fifteenth Upper Emperor?"
Qin Mu's hair stood on end, and he immediately felt his energy destabilize, so he quickly controlled his emotions.
The fifteenth Upper Emperor, on the throne for nearly twenty thousand years—didn't that mean the Upper Emperor Calamity was very close?
Ling Venerable and Moon Venerable were both harmed during this period. Ling Venerable fell into an eternal cycle of death and life, while Moon Venerable had her legs broken, becoming crippled!
Moon Venerable curiously studied him, quietly reaching out a hand to poke his body.
Her hand passed through Qin Mu's body without touching anything, only encountering extremely terrifying energy.
"Moon Jiejie, don't mess around," Qin Mu said helplessly.
Moon Venerable withdrew her hand, but after a moment, she couldn't resist poking him again. Qin Mu said helplessly, "Don't mess around, really. Even though I don't feel pain, it's still strange."
Moon Venerable stopped being playful and looked back. She saw Wei Suifeng leading tens of thousands of Imperial Forest soldiers carrying Empress Dowager's coffin behind them. In the distance, Dragon Earl King, the seven Dragon Earls, and Feng Qiuyun were watching from afar.
"Aren't they coming along?" Moon Venerable asked curiously.
Qin Mu waved his hand and called out loudly, "Dragon Earl King, Sister Qiuyun, come along too. Only I can undo this divine art. Without me, you could explode at any moment."
Dragon Earl King sighed helplessly and said in a low voice, "Let's follow them!"
Feng Qiuyun hesitated for a moment, then looked up at the sky of the Origin Realm. In the north, a heavenly court made of pure divine metal floated above the Primordial Wood. That was Earth Mother Primordial Lord's Northern Upper Emperor Heavenly Court.
"I am in that heavenly court."
Feng Qiuyun followed the large group, a strange feeling rising in her heart. Another version of herself also existed in this world. "But I can only betray Earth Mother Primordial Lord and follow Mu Venerable all the way into darkness. What a desperate helplessness—"