Chapter 1204: Uncle Is Going to Beat Up Your Father (Second Update)
“The greater trend?”
Qin Mu chuckled, shook his head, and continued walking forward. “Primordial, a million years ago you could have said that to Imperial Heavenly Lord, hundreds of thousands of years ago you could have said it to Cloud Heavenly Lord, and a dozen years ago you could have said it to me. But now, you can’t say it anymore.”
He looked ahead. The Yuan Realm’s mountains and rivers were magnificent.
Countless living beings swarmed, and the various heavens came and went with profit and gain.
“Right now, I am borrowing momentum to nurture a greater trend. You may seem to possess the greater trend now, but in the future, that’s hard to say.”
“Your momentum is great, but it can be weakened. My momentum is small, but it can grow!”
“This battle has only just begun!”
In the Western Lands, at the Celestial Sovereign Divine Sect.
Qin Mu arrived here and met Xu Shenhua again. When they met, Xu Shenhua was amusing a little girl of three or four years old. Qin Mu looked her over, his expression strange. “That cold fish Xu Shenhua actually had a child?”
That little girl was definitely Xu Shenhua and Jing Yan’s child. She had Xu Shenhua’s thin lips and straight nose, and Jing Yan’s eyes and delicate features.
Qin Mu walked over and said with a smile, “Brother Xu, you’re quite at ease, enjoying your wife and daughter here. Little one, what’s your name?”
Xu Shenhua picked up the little girl and set her on his shoulder. The girl said crisply, “My name is Xu Mengqing. Uncle, are you that big demon king called Qin Mu?”
Qin Mu was surprised and laughed. “Little girl, you’ve got quite the nerve, blurting out your old man’s true thoughts.”
Xu Shenhua laughed heartily.
Qin Mu warned, “Watch out, she might pee down your neck.”
Xu Shenhua set the little girl down. “Don’t call him the big demon king. Call him Mu Heavenly Lord. Your Uncle Qin is very powerful, no weaker than your father.”
Qin Mu said grumpily, “I just came back from beating Lin Xuan Dao Lord.”
Xu Shenhua straightened the little girl’s collar without looking up. “I’ve beaten him too, several times. I’ve also gone to fight your brother, the Demon Ape. He’s the Tathagata now, entering dreams every day to travel through the myriad heavens. His strength is also formidable.”
Qin Mu said, “He’s my brother, so it’s not easy for me to fight him.”
“I’ve also fought Immortal Wang.”
Xu Shenhua thought for a moment and said, “The Little Jade Capital’s foundation isn’t as deep as the Great Thunderclap Monastery or the Dao Sect, but in recent years, Immortal Wang has been very good at currying favor. He traveled all over Yan’kang to study, and he actually managed to comprehend a terrifying technique. Very powerful.”
Qin Mu sighed emotionally. “It’s rare for me to come back, but you’ve all grown old and become veterans.”
Xu Shenhua stood up and glanced at him. “Are you trying to say that since it’s been so long since you’ve beaten us, we’ve gotten cocky?”
Qin Mu nodded with a beaming smile, took out a flying knife he’d obtained from the Ancestral Court, and gave it to the little girl, Xu Mengqing. He said softly, “Uncle is going to beat up your father. Go play over there for a while and come back later.”
Xu Mengqing took the flying knife and ran off with a giggle, turning her head to say, “My dad will beat you to death!”
Xu Shenhua waved his hand and said, “Actually, I’m not invincible among my peers in the Yuan Realm. I’ve crossed hands with Star Madman. His progress is very fast; he’s almost caught up to me.”
Qin Mu smiled. “Star Madman has occupied a Divine Being Imperial Heavenly Lord, which contains ancient divine being great dao runes. His cultivation speed must be terrifying.”
Xu Shenhua stood with his feet neither together nor apart, and said calmly, “But he took the wrong path, so he still lost to me. I also met the real Imperial Heavenly Lord.”
Qin Mu raised an eyebrow, feeling a bit uneasy. “You defeated him?”
Xu Shenhua said, “He’s been hanging around with the younger generation, Jiang Yunjian, and is his master. But his realm is very strange, and Jiang Yunjian’s realm has also been taught to be very strange by him.”
He frowned deeply.
This was the first time Qin Mu had seen Xu Shenhua frown.
This guy was always expressionless, whether surprised or ecstatic, he wore the same face.
Even Qin Mu had only seen him smile two or three times, and as for frowning, that had never happened before.
But now, Imperial Heavenly Lord Lan Yutian had made him frown.
“I can’t understand his realm anymore.”
Xu Shenhua let out a turbid breath and said, “I sought him out. His realm starts with the Spirit Embryo Realm, followed by the Star River Realm.”
Qin Mu nodded. He knew when Imperial Heavenly Lord had opened the Spirit Embryo and Star River realms, but after that, the Yan’kang Calamity broke out, and Qin Mu sent him to the Netherworld, so he wasn’t as familiar with his later realms.
“The third is the Heavenly River Realm, the fourth is the Four Extremes Heavenly Realm.”
Xu Shenhua’s expression grew even stranger. “The fifth realm is the Primordial Capital Realm, the sixth is the Netherworld Realm, and the seventh is the Return to Void Realm. After these seven realms, there is no so-called Divine Being Realm, but he is far more powerful than any divine being.”
Qin Mu was stunned for a moment, then praised, “These seven realms have a similar subtlety to my own realms! But his path goes from the outside in, while mine goes from the inside out.”
Xu Shenhua glanced at him. “We’re familiar, no need to pat yourself on the back.”
Qin Mu’s body trembled slightly, and he released his Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury. Instantly, golden light blazed within the Celestial Sovereign Divine Sect, and a divine treasury covered thousands of miles. In the center was the Ancestral Court, with a divine tree, and beneath the tree was Qin Mu’s spirit embryo, a hundred zhang tall.
Above was the Heavenly Court, with the Mystic Capital above, and the Heavenly Yin, Netherworld, and Primordial Capital below. At the very bottom was the Return to Void, with the Heavenly River coiling around, connecting all realms.
Deities from all realms sat in their positions, and the sound of dao rumbled.
Xu Shenhua was astonished. He walked around inside the divine treasury, examining everything, and the surprise in his eyes grew deeper.
“The two of you have realms that are indeed reversed!”
Xu Shenhua’s expression remained unchanged, only his eyes showed great surprise. “Lan Yutian first established the Spirit Embryo, then the Star River and Mystic Capital, then the Heavenly River. Through the Heavenly River, he established the Four Extremes Heavens, and through the Four Extremes Heavens, he established the Primordial Capital, Netherworld, and Return to Void. When I met him not long ago, he was researching the eighth realm.”
Qin Mu’s eyes flickered. “His eighth realm is the Ancestral Court.”
Xu Shenhua said, “He said it’s a major realm. If this realm is opened, it will be far more powerful than the Heavenly Palace or Heavenly Court. He’s still deducing it and hasn’t confirmed it yet. But speaking of that, Sect Leader Qin, you first confirmed the Ancestral Court, then the other realms like the Mystic Capital, Netherworld, and Primordial Capital. It seems to follow the rules of heaven and earth, but cultivating it is incredibly difficult.”
Qin Mu thought about it and realized it was true. Lin Xuan had said the same thing.
“Lan Yutian first established the other realms, going from the outside in, which greatly reduces the difficulty.”
Xu Shenhua said, “If these two cultivation systems are to be passed down, your technique will definitely be the first to go extinct, while Lan Yutian’s legacy can be passed down for ten thousand generations!”
Qin Mu opened his mouth, but only one word came out: “Yes.”
Xu Shenhua stared at him intently and said unhurriedly, “Feeling very unhappy? Like your intelligence has been crushed, and you’ve been doing useless work? Do you feel like you’re the female and he’s the male?”
Qin Mu shook his head. “I’m different from you. You’re used to being beaten down by me. I’ve only been outdone by him once.”
“You’ll get used to it.”
Xu Shenhua said flatly, “You’ve been to the Ancestral Court and know the layout of the universe and the wilds, but Lan Yutian deduced it in reverse. He hasn’t been there. He deduced the existence of such a place based on his perception of the operation of the great dao of heaven and earth. The difficulty of opening his realms is far greater than yours.”
Qin Mu nodded.
“I’m using him to strike at your dao heart, so that I can have a better chance of winning.”
Xu Shenhua said slowly, “Your dao heart is firm, almost unbreakable. Especially after the Yan’kang Calamity, your dao heart has reached an unprecedented state. If the dao heart were a realm, then your realm would be so high that few in this world could match you. Unfortunately, it’s not.”
Qin Mu’s eyes were bright, and he smiled. “However, my dao heart is not so easily crushed. Lan Yutian’s talent may surpass mine, but if he walks the same path as me, my achievements will not be weaker than his—only stronger! What he knows, I know too. What I know, he may not necessarily understand.”
He clasped his hands behind his back and said leisurely, “Daoist Xu, in front of me, you have no chance of winning!”
Xu Shenhua suddenly looked up, and his great divine being technique domain burst forth!
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