Chapter 1225: Jade Dance Consort (Third Update!)
Jade Dance Consort flicked her wrist and drew her long whip, which transformed into a white dragon, coiling through the air toward Qin Mu. At the same time, the women in her celestial palace behind her also activated their divine weapons. In an instant, snow filled the sky, and within the snowy expanse, countless divine weapons radiated vast power, striking from afar!
*Boom!*
Everything where Qin Mu stood exploded into fragments. Jade Dance Consort’s cultivation technique was peculiar. She didn’t bring these women along for appearances; rather, her technique allowed her to merge their magical power into her own, amplifying her strength!
She was already at the Lingxiao realm, and with the women’s cultivation reaching the Yujing and Lingxiao realms, her magical power rivaled that of a Dizuo-level powerhouse!
Earlier, she hadn’t activated her technique, underestimating Qin Mu due to his youth and low cultivation realm. She had planned to pierce him with a single finger and be done with it, but instead, Qin Mu’s vertical eye on his forehead had blown her finger apart, leaving only the bone.
Now, genuinely enraged, she unleashed her full power, giving Qin Mu no chance to exploit any openings.
Yet, as the terrifying tremor subsided, Jade Dance Consort scanned the area but found no trace of Qin Mu.
“Did he escape?”
Jade Dance Consort abruptly shook the white dragon, which coiled around her arm. She took a step forward to see where Qin Mu had fled, when suddenly a beam of light shone down from the sky.
Jade Dance Consort looked up sharply and saw the light in the air blazing like flames—it was the glow from Qin Mu’s vertical eye. As it illuminated her, even she felt her soul waver.
“The Book of Life and Death?”
Jade Dance Consort’s heart jolted. The Book of Life and Death was a treasure refined by the Nether Emperor for the Heavenly Court, used to control the life and death of all beings across the myriad realms. Anyone illuminated by the Book of Life and Death would have their name and image revealed. Erasing one’s death record granted immortality, while a single stroke of the vermilion brush could take a life!
However, the Book of Life and Death was extremely difficult to refine. The Nether Emperor had spent tens of thousands of years to produce only nine volumes. Yet Qin Mu wasn’t using the Book of Life and Death to shine on them—he was using his own eye.
“Is his eye the Book of Life and Death? Even the Nether Emperor hasn’t reached this level. What exactly is the eye on his forehead? Why is it so powerful?”
Jade Dance Consort quickly activated her technique to resist the Book of Life and Death, but she was a moment too late. Two women at the Yujing realm in her celestial palace were struck by the light, their life records erased, and they fell dead without a sound!
Jade Dance Consort soared into the air, and her white dragon whip lashed out. The whip expanded in midair, growing longer, thicker, and larger, its dragon roar rolling like thunder as it struck toward Qin Mu.
Qin Mu met this attack head-on, but Jade Dance Consort’s magical power was unexpectedly formidable. Moreover, the white dragon whip was no ordinary weapon—it was a white dragon at the Lingxiao realm refined into a weapon, long tempered by her and capable of changing at will. When the whip came down, Qin Mu’s palms were torn and bleeding from the dragon’s reverse scales.
This blow knocked Qin Mu from the air, spinning him like a top, and he struggled to stabilize himself.
*Whoosh!*
His feet touched the ground, and suddenly the earth within a hundred li twisted as if an invisible force was warping the land, rocks, and mountains into a spiral. The distorted ground rapidly rose, forming a sharp cone that pierced the sky.
Qin Mu used this bizarre method to neutralize the spiral force from Jade Dance Consort’s white dragon whip. He pressed his finger to his forehead, and a divine sword spun rapidly before his brow, its tip like a drill.
“Calamity-Breaking Sword!”
Qin Mu’s vertical eye opened wide, and the Calamity-Breaking Sword shot through the air toward Jade Dance Consort!
At the same time, a divine light from his vertical eye followed closely behind the sword!
Jade Dance Consort looked down from above. The white dragon whip, stretching hundreds of li, coiled around her, appearing and disappearing unpredictably. It suddenly formed one spiral after another, not actively engaging Qin Mu’s Calamity-Breaking Sword light but allowing it to pierce through the spirals.
As the Calamity-Breaking Sword entered the white dragon’s spirals, countless runes emerged on the dragon’s scales, reflecting off the rapidly passing sword light.
In the blink of an eye, the Calamity-Breaking Sword light passed through layer after layer of white dragon spirals, reaching the end where Jade Dance Consort’s brow awaited!
Jade Dance Consort raised her other hand, lightly pinching the sword between her index and middle fingers, sneering, “The unbreakable Calamity-Breaking Sword, yet I easily broke—”
Before she could finish, her beautiful face twisted in shock. The light following the Calamity-Breaking Sword instantly triggered the broken sword’s power, and the Calamity-Breaking Sword light surged again, piercing into her forehead!
Jade Dance Consort screamed and quickly turned her head. The sword light slashed from her brow to her right temple, nearly splitting her skull open.
Furious and alarmed, Jade Dance Consort sent the white dragon whip coiling toward Qin Mu. Through the dragon’s spirals, she could clearly see every move he made.
Just as the white dragon whip was about to wrap around Qin Mu, she saw him bow toward her.
A chill ran down Jade Dance Consort’s spine, and she knew something was wrong.
This was the Nether Emperor’s technique!
The Nether Emperor hid a knife behind a smile; when he bowed to someone, he often sought to kill their soul. If the opponent was careless, they would fall victim, their soul shattered into pieces, dying a violent death!
And Qin Mu clearly possessed this ability as well.
As Qin Mu bowed, Jade Dance Consort felt dazed, her primordial spirit thrumming, and an abnormally terrifying tearing force wrenched at her three souls and seven spirits, nearly ripping them apart!
Though she could withstand it, the female divine generals in her celestial palace might not. With Qin Mu’s bow, five women at the Yujing realm had their three souls split and seven spirits shattered.
The others at the Lingxiao realm managed to guard their primordial spirits, but they were still severely damaged.
Jade Dance Consort laughed in fury and bowed back through the dragon’s spirals. A loud boom echoed from within Qin Mu, and a column of green smoke shot straight up from his head.
Jade Dance Consort was startled. She had used the Nether Emperor’s technique but failed to kill Qin Mu; his incredibly strong primordial spirit had blocked the attack.
But in the next moment, the spirals of the white dragon whip had locked onto Qin Mu, binding him tightly so he couldn’t break free.
Jade Dance Consort sneered. While Qin Mu was trapped, she bowed to him over a dozen times in succession.
“I don’t believe you can block every single one!”
*Boom, boom, boom!*
Thirteen loud sounds rang out, and Qin Mu was bowed until green smoke shot from his head straight into the heavens beyond!
Even so, Jade Dance Consort couldn’t kill him.
Qin Mu broke free from the white dragon whip, and Jade Dance Consort flew in to attack. The white dragon whip lashed, struck, swung, and flicked, even opening its dragon mouth and tearing with its claws, forcing Qin Mu unable to take flight. He had to tread on the ground, retreating step by step, his sword light crisscrossing as he fought the whip with his blade.
The two fought—one in the air, one on the ground—the white dragon whip spanning a hundred li, moving like lightning, while Qin Mu’s sword light sliced through the void, leaving bright trails with a black line at their center.
That was the mark left by his sword cutting through space, moving too fast.
From Jade Dance Consort’s celestial palace, more attacks rained down. The divine weapons of the Nether Realm were peculiar—there were memorial arches, demon god statues, soul-hooking chains, mountains of blades, and seas of fire—all forcing Qin Mu to struggle to defend.
One woman’s divine weapon was a red conch, which flew up with a mournful hum, draining people’s souls and capturing their primordial spirits!
Qin Mu fought and retreated, his sword light flashing, always narrowly forcing the white dragon back. But he couldn’t fend off the other women’s divine weapons, and they tore his skin open.
In the Taixu region, atop the Heavenly Court’s divine city, many divine beings patrolled the city walls, on guard against sneak attacks.
A divine being from the Heavenly Eye Clan sat on the city tower, his eight arms spread wide, with a large eyeball growing in the palm of each hand, rolling around as he surveyed all directions.
Suddenly, the divine being’s expression shifted, and he rose abruptly: “Something’s happening!”
Before he finished speaking, the earth for a hundred li in front of the divine city began to spin and roar, wildly rising upward, and in an instant, a spiral mountain range grew from the ground!