Chapter 1248: The Great Void Demon Realm (Second Update)
Bai Yuqiong stared at the onrushing heart demons, and even she felt a chill of alarm. She quickly said, "There are too many chaotic divine senses in the Great Void, causing these corpse walkers to mutate! The corpse walkers' bodies are filled with chaotic divine senses and demonic nature, making them the masters of these heart demons!"
The number of heart demons was immense, and among them were enormous corpse walkers, thundering toward them.
When Bai Yuqiong had led the army into the Great Void, she had dealt with heart demons from the Collapsed Void and knew well how bizarre and troublesome they were.
Heart demons varied in strength, mainly depending on whose heart demon they were.
The heart demons of divine ability cultivators were manageable, as their insight was limited, so their heart demons wouldn't be too powerful.
Many terrifying creatures that seemed unimaginable to divine ability cultivators were nothing special in the eyes of deities.
What was truly fearsome were the heart demons of deities.
The higher a deity's cultivation realm, the stronger their heart demon. In the Collapsed Void, they had even encountered a Heart Demon Celestial Emperor—no one knew which terrifying existence's heart demon it was—that attacked the void passage. Fortunately, Fire Celestial Venerable and Void Celestial Venerable were present at the time, and later other Celestial Venerables arrived, finally slaying the Heart Demon Celestial Emperor.
Looking at these heart demons, they were likely remnants from the Collapsed Void, but more of them were heart demons from the Heavenly Court soldiers and the prodigal sons of Carefree Village. Each heart demon was extremely powerful!
But the most formidable of all was probably that corpse walker!
These corpse walkers were no longer simple corpse walkers. They were no longer controlled by the unyielding obsessions of the Creators, but by the demonic nature of the Collapsed Void.
This demonic nature had entered the corpse walkers' bodies, controlling their flesh, and combined with the prehistoric Creators' incredibly tough bodies—visualized to be as strong as divine metal—they were definitely her formidable foes!
"Pastoral Celestial Venerable, you hold off these heart demons and help me get close to the corpse walker. I will subdue it!"
Bai Yuqiong charged forward swiftly. Although these heart demons were strong, she believed that with Qin Mu's divine abilities, he could handle them.
She knew Qin Mu's strength. Before the Heavenly Court camp, Qin Mu had defeated Yu Wufei and slain Yin Jiuzun, displaying power no weaker than the Lingxiao realm.
Unexpectedly, just as she said this, Qin Mu had already dashed ahead, shouting, "Heavenly Master Bai, subduing demonic nature is my specialty! You help me get close to the corpse walker!"
"Chaotic divine senses and demonic nature? That should be easy to deal with..."
Qin Mu's eyes lit up as he charged toward the heart demons. "Heavenly Master Bai, you handle these heart demons. I'm best at dealing with the demonic nature of the corpse walker!"
Bai Yuqiong had no choice but to follow behind him. The two rushed forward, one after the other.
Those heart demons were extremely powerful, endlessly regenerating and fearless of death. However, Bai Yuqiong used her space techniques, and before the heart demons could get close, she teleported them away with spatial divine abilities, flinging them hundreds of miles off!
Qin Mu barreled straight through the heart demon horde, and Bai Yuqiong continuously used spatial techniques to clear a path for him. She saw that among the heart demons, the massive corpse walker moved on all fours like flying, trampling and crushing countless heart demons as it charged straight at Qin Mu!
Bai Yuqiong's heart pounded. Among these heart demons were some extremely powerful ones, yet they were crushed and ground to pieces by the giant corpse walker. The demonic nature inside this corpse walker must be terrifyingly strong!
Suddenly, the corpse walker pushed off with all four limbs, leaped high into the air, and opened its gaping maw as it plummeted from above!
Bai Yuqiong instinctively prepared to use a spatial technique but forcibly held back, suppressing her divine ability to see how Qin Mu would handle it.
"Where my body stands, that is the Netherworld!"
Qin Mu roared, and from his body, endless Netherworld demonic qi surged forth. Flames blazed atop his head, and the Netherworld demonic fire twisted into long horns with nine turns and eighteen bends!
His body swelled, growing taller and larger, bulging section by section. In the blink of an eye, he transformed into a towering Tu Bo, ten thousand zhang tall, with a bull's head, a tiger's face, and a human body, his sinewy form fierce and terrifying.
The corpse walker in the sky pressed down, and Qin Mu activated his Netherworld divine ability. Demonic qi spread for thousands of miles, turning the area into the Netherworld. Black qi surged from the corpse walker's eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, rolling like thick smoke, and was devoured by the Netherworld!
The black smoke was dense and intense. The demonic nature accumulated in the Great Void over a million years was immense, and now it had fled from the Collapsed Void, stored within the bodies of the corpse walkers.
The number of corpse walkers wasn't too large, so each one held a massive amount of demonic nature.
Qin Mu, transformed into Tu Bo, furiously refined the demonic nature, sneering, "Before I became Pastoral Celestial Venerable, I had a nickname: the Netherworld Divine Son. How dare you act arrogantly before me..."
"Watch out!" Bai Yuqiong's startled cry came from behind.
Qin Mu quickly looked up and saw a giant foot already above his head.
Boom—
The corpse walker's massive body crashed down, shattering the earth and void with cracking sounds. Mud, rocks, and debris surged like waves, spreading in all directions.
Bai Yuqiong quickly condensed space into a sword and slashed down, splitting the waves in two. Even the wind was cut in half by her sword!
"The sword technique Zixi taught me is truly marvelous... Ah, Pastoral Celestial Venerable!"
Bai Yuqiong snapped back to reality and hurried forward. She saw the corpse walker's body piled up like a dozen mountains pressing into the ground, lifeless, its demonic qi and nature presumably all dissolved.
But the Tu Bo that Qin Mu had transformed into was nowhere to be seen.
"Pastoral Celestial Venerable..."
Bai Yuqiong's heart sank, but then she felt a hint of satisfaction deep within, as if she secretly wished Qin Mu had been killed.
Just then, Qin Mu's weak voice came from beneath the corpse walker: "Heavenly Master Bai, give me a hand..."
Bai Yuqiong quickly moved the corpse walker's body aside. She saw that the ground was a thousand zhang deep, and Qin Mu, in his Tu Bo form, lay sprawled in a huge human-shaped imprint, his face covered in blood, unable to move.
The pair of bull horns on his head were broken into seven or eight pieces.
Bai Yuqiong hastily pried him out. Qin Mu activated the Overlord Body Three Dan Art, and his body quickly recovered. He said, "I told you, dealing with demonic nature is my specialty. See? Taking down that corpse walker was easy for me, right?"
Bai Yuqiong nodded and said, "There's a footprint on your face..."
Qin Mu wiped it off and said, "But if we encounter something like this again, I think we'd better dodge first. It's not that I'm afraid of it, but demonic nature is useless against me. It's my brother's food. If I steal his food, he'll definitely be unhappy."
Bai Yuqiong nodded and said, "I understand. Pastoral Celestial Venerable, there's also a footprint on your clothes."
Qin Mu visualized clear water to wash off the footprints and bloodstains, then used his primordial qi to dry his clothes. He said, "I love my brother very much. I've always let him have his way since we were young."
Bai Yuqiong understood and said, "Celestial Venerable, there's no need to explain further. I understand in my heart. We need to hurry. I just saw several groups of people flying across the sky, probably also searching for Hao Celestial Venerable."
Qin Mu stopped trying to explain. The two avoided corpse walkers along the way. Qin Mu originally planned to fly into the sky to find Hao Celestial Venerable's whereabouts, but the sky was filled with flying demonic monsters. The heart demons gathered like dark clouds, moving extremely fast, gathering and dispersing in an instant, swift as lightning.
Not only that, but the huge corpse walkers also lay atop the heart demons, carried by countless heart demons as they flew back and forth.
This place was like a demon realm, with demons dancing wildly.
Walking on the ground, they saw three or four groups of divine beings searching for Hao Celestial Venerable being besieged by corpse walkers leading heart demon hordes, with people dying constantly.
Qin Mu's expression grew grave. He even saw several Lingxiao realm existences being torn to shreds, then snatched and devoured by the heart demons until nothing was left!
"The place where Hao Celestial Venerable fell shouldn't be far now!"