Chapter 1263: Erase His Name, Destroy His Form (First Update)
Heavenly Lord Hao touched these rays of light, as if struck by lightning. The primordial spirit within his Divine Awareness Grand Celestial trembled incessantly, drained of even more energy by the Seven-Soul Grass.
This Seven-Soul Grass was a sacred relic of the Creator, and now it was nearly full. Its entire body emitted a milky white glow, unable to absorb any more.
The Seven-Soul Grass flew out of the Divine Awareness Grand Celestial, drilling out from between Heavenly Lord Hao’s brows. With a *shua* sound, it plunged into the ground and vanished without a trace.
“Little Grass, you’re useless!”
Tu Bo, transformed from Qin Mu, strode forward, his body shrouded in vast demonic aura. With a flick of his hand, the Great Way of Netherworld turned into the Styx River, which then transformed into a long whip. With a *crack*, it struck Heavenly Lord Hao, spinning him like a top within the Netherworld Grand Formation, crashing him repeatedly against streaks of demonic light!
Within the Divine Awareness Grand Celestial, Heavenly Lord Hao’s soul emitted black smoke. This whip was a soul-striking, spirit-striking whip, and the demonic light was also a light that refined souls and spirits. Qin Mu was clearly using the terrain of the Netherworld to refine his spirit and soul!
Qin Mu swung the whip, striking down repeatedly. Heavenly Lord Hao had no way to dodge, and the injuries to his primordial spirit grew worse. His primordial spirit could still hold out within the Grand Celestial of the Imperial Emperor, but with Qin Mu’s targeted attacks on his spirit, he felt his primordial spirit weakening at an alarming rate!
Qin Mu’s goal was not to destroy his primordial spirit with his own strength—he couldn’t do that, not even with a dozen more Seven-Soul Grasses draining his energy.
Qin Mu’s aim was to weaken his primordial spirit so that the Imperial Emperor’s Divine Awareness Grand Celestial could finish him off!
Heavenly Lord Hao felt a deep sense of terror. Qin Mu’s wisdom was too terrifying, too profound—borrowing every possible force just to put him to death!
An even greater crisis was that his cultivation base was becoming impossible to suppress.
If this continued, the chaotic energy within his body would surely blast him to pieces, body and soul scattered!
*Whoosh—*
He dissolved one celestial palace, then another. In a short span, Heavenly Lord Hao directly dissolved ten celestial palaces, no longer clinging to that cultivation base.
After dissolving these palaces, the feeling of imminent explosion eased slightly.
His heart bled. Dissolving these palaces meant he didn’t know when he would be able to cultivate them back, but it also gave him a brief moment to catch his breath.
With a thunderous *boom*, he shattered a massive black pillar and forcibly broke free from the Netherworld Grand Formation.
Behind him, Qin Mu, in his Tu Bo form, raised a fist as large as a mountain and slammed it into his back, sending him crashing to the ground, tumbling and rolling far away.
*Crack—*
The Styx River whip lashed out. Heavenly Lord Hao, still mid-air, was struck, blood gushing from his seven orifices as he spun wildly, blood splattering around his body in circles.
As Qin Mu raised the whip for another strike, he thrust his massive head forward. The vertical eye on his brow, Tu Bo’s eye, opened wide, and countless dazzling butterfly-wing-like Dao patterns spilled out from the vertical eye.
*Hum—*
A beam of demonic light, thick as a pillar, shot straight out, piercing through Heavenly Lord Hao’s body, pinning him to the ground. It pressed him forward, sliding for hundreds of miles, smashing through mountain after mountain.
Those mountains, struck by the demonic light, were cleaved in half!
Suddenly, Heavenly Lord Hao’s figure vanished again, using the Primordial Unity Qi to escape from the Grand Void Netherworld to the Grand Void Realm.
“Flee? Can you escape my grasp?”
Qin Mu, still in Tu Bo form, strode forward in great bounds. In a few steps, he charged from the Grand Void Netherworld into the Grand Void Realm. His form shifted from Tu Bo to Heavenly Lord, and he raised both hands. In an instant, the stars in the sky appeared!
The stars grew larger and larger, seeming to draw closer to the Grand Void Realm. They became as big as buckets, arranging and combining in the sky into forms like dippers, umbrellas, seals, crystals, fans, ladles, covers, and drives—various forms of Heavenly Dao treasures—and bombarded Heavenly Lord Hao, who had yet to stop his momentum!
Forty-nine types of Heavenly Dao treasures struck down continuously. The earth trembled, and mushroom clouds rose one after another, each separated by hundreds of miles, a spectacular sight.
In the Heavenly Court camp, the divine beings of the Heavenly Eye Clan stared, their faces turning pale. They quickly reported to the city lords, shouting, “Disaster! Lord Mu is pursuing Heavenly Lord Hao! From the Netherworld to the Grand Void Realm, fighting for thousands of miles!”
The commanders of each divine city were top experts of the Heavenly Court, including Heavenly Masters, Heavenly Kings, and even the Four Emperors. They laughed and said, “Nonsense again! Lord Mu is but a child, relying on his status to swindle. How could he have the strength to kill Heavenly Lord Hao? One sneeze from Heavenly Lord Hao would kill him!”
“It’s true!”
The generals of the Heavenly Court camp climbed the city walls or floated high in the air to observe. From afar, they saw Qin Mu chasing Heavenly Lord Hao, and they exchanged glances, their faces ashen.
The scene was indeed Qin Mu hunting down Heavenly Lord Hao!
The gap in cultivation between Qin Mu and Heavenly Lord Hao was more than a thousand miles, yet now Heavenly Lord Hao was utterly powerless against Qin Mu’s pursuit, only able to flee for his life—and he couldn’t even escape!
The Heavenly Court generals were horrified, at a loss.
Seeing Heavenly Lord Hao beaten by Qin Mu meant death, because Heavenly Lord Hao had lost face before the Heavenly Court camp. That would be worse than killing him. It was easy to imagine what would happen to those who knew this secret!
“Seal the news!”
The same thought arose in the minds of the Heavenly Court generals. They had to seal the news and prevent it from spreading through the entire army. Heavenly Lord Hao was the face of the Heavenly Court. His defeat was a minor blow to his Dao heart, but a major blow to the army’s morale!
If the various armies developed a fear of Qin Mu, and Heavenly Lord Hao, to save face, decided to eliminate those armies, it would be a devastating blow to the Heavenly Court!
“This must be reported to Lord Fire and Lord Void!”
The second thought had barely formed in their minds when they immediately moved to report to Lord Fire and Lord Void. However, these two Heavenly Lords, severely wounded, were each in seclusion healing, refusing to come out.
The generals waited for a while but received no summons from Lord Fire or Lord Void. They paced back and forth like ants on a hot pan.
“We should rescue Heavenly Lord Hao first!”
Suddenly, White Emperor of the West blurted out, “If we let Lord Mu continue, Heavenly Lord Hao may not escape disaster!”
Azure Emperor of the East glanced at him and said, “Good idea! Fellow Daoist White Emperor, go quickly to rescue Heavenly Lord Hao. We’ll follow shortly!”
White Emperor hesitated, wavering. “This guy is from Lord Xiao’s lineage. Why is he so eager for me to save Heavenly Lord Hao? Ah, I see. If I go save Heavenly Lord Hao, knowing how badly he was beaten by Lord Mu, I’m as good as dead!”
He fell silent. The other Heavenly Kings and Heavenly Masters exchanged glances, each lost in thought.
After a moment, Second Heavenly Master Meng Yungui coughed and said, “Let’s each send a general to pursue Lord Mu. As for the rest, we know nothing.”
The others exchanged looks and nodded silently.
Just then, a Heavenly Eye divine general rushed in to report, “Disaster! Heavenly Lord Hao has been struck by Lord Mu and sent flying into the city!”
The Heavenly Masters, Heavenly Kings, Azure Emperor, and White Emperor gasped, their hearts turning cold. Heavenly Lord Hao’s reputation was surely completely ruined!
“What can we do…” Meng Yungui murmured, feeling a deep sense of helplessness.