Chapter 1296: Mine District Uprising (Fourth Update!)
The wondrous Dao resonance emanated from Qin Mu’s vertical eye, and the Dao patterns of Primordial Beginning overflowed from his eye, dazzling and exquisite. Wherever they passed, the mist gradually dissipated, and the surroundings became clear.
The Dao patterns of Primordial Beginning were profound and difficult to decipher, forming a system of their own. Even though Qin Mu had used the Unchanging Divine Ability to reverse-engineer them and had learned much from the Primordial Beginning within the egg, he still found these patterns emerging from his vertical eye obscure and hard to grasp.
As the mist completely cleared, he suddenly realized that he was standing at the center of a natural altar!
This altar was vast, spanning several hundred zhang in radius and rising about ten zhang higher than the surrounding area.
The altar seemed composed of flowing water, perfectly smooth. He felt as if he were standing on the water’s surface, while beneath it lay complex Primordial Beginning Dao patterns forming runic imprints.
Imprints of various sizes kept lighting up, flickering on and off.
As he was observing the altar, the Primordial Beginning Egg suddenly leaped out of his vertical eye. Qin Mu did not stop it.
The Primordial Beginning Egg, round and smooth, landed with a thud on the water’s surface. The round egg rolled left and right a couple of times, as if searching for a comfortable position.
Qin Mu coughed lightly and reminded it, “Dao brother, you can’t nest here. This place has already been occupied by Yan Tianfei. If you nest here, she will capture you. Our real task is to find the Primordial Beginning Rough Stone…”
“The Primordial Beginning Rough Stone is right here.”
The Primordial Beginning within the egg was quite comfortable, humming, “I know I can’t stay long. If I do, Yan Tianfei will definitely catch me—she’s not like you. She and Heavenly Emperor Tai Chu share the same temperament. Don’t worry, I’m just resting a little, reminiscing about my childhood…”
Qin Mu looked around but still couldn’t see where the Primordial Beginning Rough Stone was.
He circled the area but still couldn’t find it. He couldn’t help asking, “Dao brother, Yan Tianfei will be back soon. We need to leave quickly. Where exactly is the Primordial Beginning Rough Stone?”
As soon as he spoke, the water surface of the altar rippled, and a round water sphere slowly rose, floating between the Primordial Beginning Egg and him!
Qin Mu examined it closely, a look of surprise on his face. He reached out to touch the water sphere, but before his hand even got close, he saw his fingers beginning to dematerialize!
His hand was turning into pure energy!
Startled, he quickly withdrew his hand.
The Primordial Beginning Egg rolled out of its little hollow on the altar and said, “You can’t just reach out directly. You need to use the Primordial Beginning Dao I taught you. Try again.”
Qin Mu attempted to activate the Primordial Beginning runes he had condensed, circulating the Overlord Body Three Dan Art and covering his hand with the runes.
This time, he finally touched the water sphere.
Then, his expression turned strange.
His hand passed right through the water sphere without any resistance!
Qin Mu waved his hand again, but still couldn’t touch the sphere at all!
He tried to lift the sphere with his primal energy, but it was as if the sphere didn’t exist—his primal energy couldn’t budge it!
“The Rough Stone has no substance, only form. You can see it, but you can’t touch it.”
The Primordial Beginning Egg rolled to his feet and said, “To touch it, you need to change its form.”
Just as he said this, the form of the water sphere changed. Qin Mu touched the strange Rough Stone. When he made contact, it felt like he was holding a crystal ball, yet oddly, he sensed no temperature—it was as if he wasn’t touching anything at all.
“It doesn’t dislike you,” the Primordial Beginning Egg said.
Qin Mu saw his hand slowly dematerializing. Even the Primordial Beginning runes couldn’t fully protect his physical body. Where they didn’t cover, the Primordial Beginning Rough Stone’s influence transformed matter into pure energy.
“How am I supposed to take this Rough Stone away?” He was baffled, deeply troubled.
If he carried this strange Rough Stone, everything it passed through would cease to exist as matter, retaining only form without substance, turning into all sorts of bizarre energy bodies. Even people who got close would be dematerialized!
More critically, energy bodies were extremely unstable. If such energy bodies appeared everywhere, it would surely cause massive explosions!
The Primordial Beginning Egg laughed, “You don’t need to worry about that. I can take it away and absorb its power. Over time, the Rough Stone’s influence will gradually weaken.”
Qin Mu nodded. The Primordial Beginning Rough Stone was truly dangerous. Carrying it was like having a massive weapon of destruction. If he couldn’t control the Rough Stone, it would cause explosions wherever he went, and if he wasn’t careful, he himself would be assimilated and turned into an energy body that would explode!
He had already experienced this once on the ghost ship, when his Primordial Beginning Dao clashed with Ling Tianzun’s Unchanging Divine Ability.
“This Rough Stone might be the most dangerous of the five mineral veins!”
He was about to put away the Primordial Beginning Egg and the Primordial Beginning Rough Stone when suddenly the Primordial Beginning Egg hopped excitedly on the altar and said, “Mu Tianzun, take the altar too!”
Qin Mu hesitated for a moment, then tried to release his magical power to store the altar in his vertical eye. But as soon as his magical power surged, attempting to move the altar, the entire mine district suddenly erupted!
The mine district rumbled with a massive tremor. All the Primordial Beginning Divine Stones blazed with light, and a strange force surged toward the Primordial Beginning Altar!
Wherever the light passed, everything turned into nothingness. Even the ancient deities in the mine district instantly dematerialized, their physical bodies and primordial spirits completely vanishing!
Qin Mu’s hair stood on end. He quickly put the Primordial Beginning Egg in front of him, only to realize that the light was coming from all directions. Unless he could crawl into the egg, he couldn’t block it!
“Damn… Right, the Primordial Beginning Rough Stone!”
He immediately shrank his body and, with a whoosh, dove into the Primordial Beginning Rough Stone, becoming a tiny Qin Mu sitting inside the water-sphere-like stone.
Countless beams of light from the divine stones shone simultaneously onto the Primordial Beginning Rough Stone, trying to refine the troublemaker in the mine district.
“Primordial Beginning Dao brother!” Qin Mu shouted loudly.
The Primordial Beginning Egg quickly activated the Primordial Beginning Rough Stone. With a thunderous boom, the Rough Stone blazed with light, as if resisting the divine stones!
The collision of the two lights sent earth-shattering waves spreading in all directions. A pillar of light shot straight into the sky, dazzlingly bright in the Ancestral Court!
In the mine district, the miners who had escaped the divine stone light couldn’t get away in time before the second wave of light caught up. One by one, they dematerialized in the light, turning into formless, energetic void states!
Outside the mine district, the white cat Xiao Qi suddenly turned around and saw the light surging like a tide, spreading rapidly toward him. His fur stood on end, and he let out a sharp yowl before fleeing outward.
At the same time, Xiu Hongsu was also alarmed. She quickly activated the Heavenly Lord’s treasure suspended above the mine district.
The treasure’s power pressed down with a hum, but it was instantly assimilated by the light, releasing no power at all.
Seeing the situation was dire, Xiu Hongsu frantically fled outward, inwardly cursing: “Mu Tianzun went into the mine district, and this strange thing happens! Is he really the legendary Qin the Demolisher, who tears down everything wherever he goes?”
The light moved incredibly fast, flooding the mountains and fields. Other deities in the mine district were also fleeing in panic, but some were slower and were caught by the light, quickly turning into energy bodies!
Xiu Hongsu looked back, her eyes blazing with fury. In just a short moment, nearly half of the deities in the mine district had been lost!
“Why don’t you go demolish your big black tree, you black-hearted Heavenly Lord!” She abandoned all pretense and cursed loudly.
Finally, everyone escaped the mine district. The light only reached the edge and didn’t spread beyond.
Xiu Hongsu, her face dark, looked up and saw a pillar of light rising from the center of the mine district, persisting without fading, dematerializing even the sky!
Deep in the sky, the seals of the ancient gods also dematerialized, leaving a huge hole in the sky, connecting to the outside world!
“Axemen and swordsmen!”
Xiu Hongsu shouted sharply, “Set up an ambush! When that black-hearted Heavenly Lord comes out of the mine district, strike him with axes and swords together, and chop him into tiny pieces! If there’s even a scrap of flesh left, I’ll hold you all accountable!”
The white cat said, “Sister Xiu, do you think Mu Tianzun could still be alive after an eruption of this magnitude in the mine district?”
Xiu Hongsu sneered, “It’s best if he died in there!”
Finally, the light slowly faded.
Deep in the mine district, the Primordial Beginning Egg trembled and said, “Mu Tianzun, are you still alive?”
“I don’t know…”
Qin Mu sat in the center of the Primordial Beginning Rough Stone, a look of shock on his face. Strange patterns of Primordial Beginning Dao covered his body, imprints left by the light of countless Primordial Beginning Divine Stones in the mine district shining on him.
These Dao patterns were very bright, bearing not only the marks of the divine stones but also the light imprints of the Rough Stone.
Even more strangely, these imprints were slowly penetrating deep into his body. Qin Mu felt his own substance disappearing, turning into pure energy!
He didn’t even know if he was alive or dead now!
“Heh, this is like the situation when the ghost ship exploded, but worse…”
Just then, in his Embryo Divine Treasure, the embryo trembled. The Dao pattern imprints from the divine stones and the Rough Stone on his body seemed to receive a summons. They stopped eroding his physical body and surged toward the Embryo Divine Treasure.
Those dazzling Dao patterns arrived at the Ancestral Court within the Embryo Divine Treasure and swarmed toward the Primordial Beginning mineral vein there.
Qin Mu was stunned. He immediately felt himself transforming back from an energy body into a physical body!
But the most wondrous change was still happening in his Embryo Divine Treasure.
In the Ancestral Court of his divine treasure, those Dao patterns jostled and drilled into the Primordial Beginning mineral vein.
This Primordial Beginning mineral vein was formed by Qin Mu from his own understanding of Primordial Beginning Dao. It was only an empty shell, and the vein’s function was minimal.
However, as these Dao patterns poured into the Primordial Beginning mineral vein, Qin Mu discovered that this embryo vein of his was undergoing an incredibly wondrous transformation.
The vein was slowly becoming complete! Not only that, but within this vein of his, a water-like altar was gradually taking shape!
“This is incredible!”
Qin Mu immediately shared this discovery with the Primordial Beginning Egg, excitedly saying, “Dao brother, you don’t have to hatch in the mine district! Bring the Rough Stone into the mineral vein of my divine treasure and hatch there while absorbing the Rough Stone!”
The Primordial Beginning Egg was stunned, muttering, “Your vein is fake. It probably can’t hatch me…”
“Then let’s do it a few more times!”
Qin Mu stirred his primal energy, triggering another uprising of the divine stones and Rough Stone in the mine district, and laughed, “Imprint it a few more times, and the fake will become real!”
— A three-thousand-character chapter. Has the double monthly vote period passed? Black face~~