Chapter 1250: What Is There to Fear? (Fourth Update!)
Bai Yuqiong's Dao heart was indeed inferior to Qin Mu's; her inner demons were far more numerous.
When she saw the inner demon of the Dark Heavenly King take shape, a second inner demon also began to form—that of Celestial Master Zixi.
Celestial Master Zixi of the Founding Emperor Heaven was someone she loved and admired, but they were on opposing sides. Loving someone she could not have, unable to be with them forever, this became an inner demon.
The inner demon Zixi was even more handsome and elegant than the cross-dressing Yan Yunxi.
However, after the dashing inner demon Zixi appeared, her third inner demon was also born.
Her third inner demon was actually the inner demon of Qin Mu!
The inner demon Qin Mu had a ferocious face, covered in rough flesh, barely recognizable as Qin Mu.
Her three great inner demons had finally manifested!
"Celestial Venerable Mu, can you handle your own inner demon?" Bai Yuqiong had no time to look at Qin Mu and called out loudly.
On the other side, Qin Mu laughed. "They're just inner demons, not the real Imperial Celestial. I must face my own inner demon, overcome it, and completely eradicate the demons in my heart."
"Imperial Celestial?" Bai Yuqiong was shocked upon hearing this. That chubby boy she had picked up was the Imperial Celestial?
In that moment of distraction, the inner demon Dark Heavenly King, inner demon Zixi, and inner demon Qin Mu attacked almost simultaneously. The inner demon Dark Heavenly King shook his body, and countless ancient divine insects flew out, surging like a tidal wave toward Bai Yuqiong.
In nearly two hundred of her lifetimes, most had ended with her dying under the mouthparts of these ancient divine insects, her blood and energy drained dry, her life snuffed out!
The inner demon Zixi, on the other hand, appeared much more elegant. Suddenly, he split into two, then four, then eight. These eight Celestial Master Zixis each specialized in different arts—one in the zither, one in chess formations, one in calligraphy, one in painting.
Others were masters of the sword, martial arts, the blade, and numerology!
These eight Celestial Master Zixis each employed their own techniques, attacking simultaneously. As they moved, three more Zixis appeared behind each of them, totaling thirty-two Celestial Master Zixis!
Yan Yunxi was an ambitious woman.
During the Founding Emperor era, Yan Yunxi's brilliance surpassed all the heavens. She traveled through the myriad realms in the guise of a man, and her goal, like the other Celestial Venerables, was to cultivate a complete heavenly court.
However, she followed the path of acquired Dao, not the innate Dao of the Ten Celestial Venerables.
Moreover, although she cultivated many paths, only eight of her acquired Daos had reached perfection. She could not achieve the full mastery of the thirty-two heavenly palaces.
More critically, when she reached the Lingxiao realm, she found it incredibly difficult to advance further. She was never able to take that step, trapped in the Lingxiao realm for twenty thousand years without any improvement.
Even so, she was still one of the most powerful beings of the Founding Emperor era.
As the inner demon Zixi attacked Bai Yuqiong, the inner demon Qin Mu also struck at her.
This inner demon Qin Mu was the impression Qin Mu had left on Bai Yuqiong when he killed Yu Wufei and Yin Jiuzun. She had always feared him, afraid he would awaken the Vermilion Bird divine soul within her.
The inner demon Qin Mu in Bai Yuqiong's heart even surpassed the real Qin Mu in terms of magical power!
She was caught in a siege!
"I am a Celestial Master of the Imperial Throne realm! All my skills were earned through two hundred lifetimes of battle, traded with my life against the Dark Heavenly King! They were not gained through ancestral blessings or the Southern Emperor's divine soul!"
Bai Yuqiong's imperial might erupted. Through nearly two hundred reincarnations, she had endured countless hardships. Her methods were not merely the spatial Dao she had learned from Lunar Celestial Venerable.
In fact, she had studied under countless masters!
Whether it was the Buddhist sect, the Daoist sect, or under other Celestial Venerables, Celestial Masters, or Heavenly Kings, she had sought them out as teachers!
Behind Bai Yuqiong, one heavenly palace after another emerged, pushing her aura to its absolute peak. This woman, enraged, was majestic and unrivaled!
"Among the Four Great Celestial Masters, I am not the strongest in strategy, but in combat power, even if the other three Celestial Masters attacked together, they would not be my match!"
In an instant, she folded space, creating spatial mirrors. In each mirror, a different Bai Yuqiong, each with distinct heavenly palaces, simultaneously charged at the inner demon Dark Heavenly King, inner demon Zixi, and inner demon Qin Mu!
On the other side, Qin Mu watched the approaching inner demon Lan Yutian.
The Imperial Celestial was not his inner demon; Lan Yutian, the chubby one, was.
"There was never any such thing as a Dominator Body in this world, but there is a strongest person."
Qin Mu relaxed, looking at his inner demon, and murmured, "The village chief used the Dominator Body to encourage me, to give me confidence, to make me never give up, to make me believe I had the best spiritual body. Heh, but all the legends and rumors about the Dominator Body actually came from me. I traveled back to ancient times, to the Longhan era, the Supreme Emperor era, and left behind the tales of the Dominator Body, the tales about me."
On the other side, the inner demon Lan Yutian buzzed as he unfolded his divine storage domain, identical to Qin Mu's, but his cultivation method was completely opposite.
The inner demon Lan Yutian was like another Four-Faced God, with absolutely no blind spots. His power was almost identical to Qin Mu's!
"In truth, there is no Dominator Body."
Qin Mu's divine storage domain bloomed, his eyes bright, radiating strong confidence. "If there is, it can only be me! From the Longhan era to the present, I am unique; there is no second!"
Boom—
The two divine storage domains collided, the clash of domains like two universes smashing into each other, annihilating one another!
Qin Mu laughed heartily. Within his divine storage domain, the Prime Beginning Ancient Mine, the Grand Ultimate Ancient Mine, the Grand Element Ancient Mine, and the Grand Beginning Ancient Mine blazed with light. From the four mines, Dao energy swirled, divine light steamed, and the power of the four Daos converged toward him!
"This Void Demon Realm is merely an incomplete Divine Awareness Dao, capable of manifesting others' inner demons!"
Qin Mu's muscles bulged as he forcibly crushed the inner demon Lan Yutian's ancestral court, his voice deep. "But it cannot perfectly recreate my inner demon! Because my Dao has surpassed the scope of the Divine Awareness Dao; it is of a higher order!"
The inner demon Lan Yutian mobilized all his power, his Dao roaring and trembling like ten thousand Daos sounding in unison. But the next moment, a beam of Prime Beginning Sword Light flew over, cleaving him in two!
Qin Mu flicked his wrist, and the broken sword returned to its original form. He sheathed it with a clang, saying desolately, "What I killed was not the inner demon Lan Yutian, but merely another version of myself, and not even a complete one..."
The broken sword slid into its sheath with a sharp ring, the sound lingering.
The inner demon Lan Yutian was just another version of him.
No one could imitate him, not even the Void Demon Realm.
Ever since Qin Mu had traveled back to the Longhan era, a million years ago, all the legends of the Dominator Body in history had been about him.
This world had no Dominator Body. If there was one, it could only be him.
He was the one and only Dominator Body, yet also a mortal body, an ordinary commoner.
Without a soul, even his physical body was borrowed from his brother, an ordinary man.
But he was unique!
His expression was calm, a smile on his face. After the inner demon Lan Yutian died, no other inner demon Lan Yutian was born in this strange place.
Qin Mu's Dao heart was exquisite, and from it came a melodious prelude of the Dao.
He no longer had any inner demons.
—The course at Lu Xun Literary Academy has ended. Zhai Zhu has graduated and will return home at noon tomorrow!