Chapter 1316: The Five Ore Grand Seal (Fourth Update!)
At the end of the Dao realm, above the Grand Celestial Heaven, does one’s own great Dao bloom into a Dao Flower, and form a Dao Fruit on the World Tree?”
Qin Mu had no time to ponder further. The divine abilities in his hands shifted—the Dragon Han era’s conflict erupted, unleashing the desolation and brutality of that age. The Red Ming Divine Body allowed his physical body and primordial spirit to merge as one, flesh and spirit united, body and soul unified.
The Sovereign’s Human Dao manifested, opening the Imperial Heavenly Path. The Yan Kang era’s struggle began. The power of a single, ultimate divine ability erupted, making it seem as if he had traversed a million years of history from Dragon Han to the present in just a brief moment, experiencing the tragic, heroic, and stirring history of generations of predecessors and martyrs!
His essence, energy, and spirit reached an unprecedented peak at this moment!
Even so, any divine ability he touched upon the Imperial Emperor’s Divine Awareness Grand Celestial Heaven immediately crumbled, its power dissolving, its might nullified.
The Divine Awareness Grand Celestial Heaven was the most perfect divine ability Qin Mu had ever seen—even surpassing the Heavenly Venerate Hao’s Primordial Unity Qi and Abyss Great Dao in perfection, excellence, and sheer incredibility!
The power of the Dao Flower and Dao Fruit gave an irresistible feeling.
Only now did he understand why the Heavenly Venerate Hao’s primordial spirit had been trapped within the Divine Awareness Grand Celestial Heaven divine ability, unable to escape!
The Imperial Emperor’s understanding of the Divine Awareness Dao completely surpassed beings like Heavenly Venerate Hao. Since Hao’s Dao realm hadn’t reached the Imperial Emperor’s level, he couldn’t rely on his own Dao insights to break free and could only resort to brute force. And at that time, Hao simply didn’t possess such strength.
“If I were trapped inside, I’d probably fare even worse than Heavenly Venerate Hao. My physical body and primordial spirit would both be dissolved, transformed into the Imperial Emperor’s Divine Awareness Dao!”
Qin Mu let out a long cry. His form had already retreated into the Thirtieth Layer of Void.
In the Thirtieth Layer of Void, his physical body and primordial spirit were under immense suppression. It was an extremely perilous void, already pushing him to his limits.
His body began to collapse, to turn ethereal. His skin peeled away from his form.
At that moment, as he executed the Yan Kang Era’s Struggle technique, his essence, energy, and spirit reached an unprecedented peak, breaking through time and again, repeatedly surpassing his own limits!
The Grand Primordial Suddenly Opened the Chaotic Bud!
He suddenly became somewhat clumsy. His divine abilities grew awkward, trembling slightly as he unleashed the Twenty-Second Heaven divine ability.
The Grand Primordial Suddenly Opened the Chaotic Bud—as this technique was executed, the Grand Primordial Dao transformed into a round egg, falling into the Divine Awareness Grand Celestial Heaven.
The moment this divine ability entered the Grand Celestial Heaven, the round egg burst open. The Grand Primordial Dao surged forth, manifesting as a divine maiden. Her hands parted outward, and the entire Divine Awareness Grand Celestial Heaven became turbid and chaotic.
The Grand Primordial Dao had form and substance. The Grand Primordial Divine Maiden pointed one hand to the heavens and the other to the earth. Clear qi rose upward, while turbid qi sank downward.
The operation of the Divine Awareness Grand Celestial Heaven immediately became sluggish.
Qin Mu’s body continued to retreat, drifting toward the higher reaches of the Thirtieth Void. He now found it difficult to control his own body, as if the void was turning him ethereal, pulling him toward even higher voids.
His arms flew about, his primordial qi transforming into various Dao runes, but his movements grew even more clumsy.
His hand seal was finally completed. The vertical eye in his brow opened, and two beams of light—one black, one white—shot forth, unleashing the Twenty-Third Heaven divine ability of the Dao realm: The Grand Polarity Evolves, Yin and Yang Move!
Hum—
This gaze pierced into the Divine Awareness Grand Celestial Heaven. Yin and Yang qi swirled around the Grand Primordial Divine Maiden, destroying the Dao Flower, causing the Dao Fruit to fall, and shattering the Divine Awareness Grand Celestial Heaven into collapse.
A look of shock and disbelief appeared on the Imperial Emperor’s face. He gritted his teeth, closed in, and struck a palm toward Qin Mu.
Qin Mu’s body continued to rise upward, approaching the Thirty-First Layer of Void—a realm he absolutely could not reach. If he arrived there, his physical body and primordial spirit would inevitably be completely etherealized, ceasing to exist.
And now, in the midst of his all-out struggle against the Imperial Emperor, he was at a critical juncture and couldn’t control his own body at all.
A terrifying force in the void seemed to lift him, carrying him ever upward.
This was somewhat similar to his own divine ability, the Grand Celestial Heaven Gathers into a Sphere. That technique used the power of the void to simulate the Grand Celestial Heaven, turning gods and men ethereal, reducing them to a thin sheet without thickness, eventually becoming nothingness.
And in the Thirtieth Layer of Void, the power of the void had grown so strong that even he couldn’t resist it!
The Imperial Emperor’s palm force reached him. The Imperial Emperor wasn’t trying to kill him—he was trying to drive him into the Thirty-First Layer of Void, letting the void annihilate him!
Qin Mu had broken the Imperial Emperor’s Divine Awareness Grand Celestial Heaven, shocking him, but it also made the Imperial Emperor see a chance to kill him.
His body had already begun to flatten. His flesh was slowly losing its thickness, drifting uncontrollably toward higher ground.
Just then, Qin Mu, even more clumsily, activated a divine ability. This technique was crooked and twisted, utterly unlike the graceful divine abilities one would expect from a Heavenly Venerate who had established his Dao through divine abilities.
As a Heavenly Venerate who had founded his Dao on divine abilities, Qin Mu’s techniques were always a fusion of grandeur and the beauty of the Dao. But this technique had none of that Daoist beauty!
Yet at that moment, a resounding Dao tone rang out, as if billions of living beings and gods had appeared at once, calling out the same name in unison.
The Grand Beginning Dao.
Having form but no substance.
The Twenty-Fourth Heaven of Entering the Dao through Divine Abilities: The Grand Beginning’s Form and Substance Question the Azure Sky!
Qin Mu struck out with this palm, meeting the Imperial Emperor’s hand. Their palms collided, and the Imperial Emperor smiled.
Then, the smile on his face froze, turning into shock.
The shock on his face grew deeper and deeper. He saw the flesh on his own hand peeling backward, the matter composing his palm turning into countless particles, rapidly flying away from him.
The same thing happened to his arm. Those tiny particles were visible to the naked eye, like mist flying backward, quickly spreading to his shoulder, his chest, his other arm, and his feet!
He stood there, feeling that his body was still there, still intact—but without bones, without flesh!
The part of his body below his neck had become a transparent form with only shape and no substance!
His primordial qi, his Divine Awareness Grand Celestial Heaven Palace, his seven divine treasuries—all had transformed into a bizarre state of having form but no substance!
Only his head, being his true original body, had not been assimilated by Qin Mu’s palm strike.
After all, the Imperial Emperor’s physical body had been tempered through countless refinements and the worship of countless creators, forging it into the strongest form. Qin Mu’s ultimate divine ability, though exquisitely brilliant, couldn’t dissolve his head in an instant.
Even though it couldn’t dissolve his head, the primordial qi within his head was dissolved, his divine awareness became unstable, growing weaker and weaker!
Suddenly, Qin Mu’s palm clenched tightly into a fist. He punched straight into the broken hole in the Imperial Emperor’s brow. This punch was vast and mighty, martial Dao unstoppable, smashing his brain into a pulp and scattering his divine awareness!
The Imperial Emperor’s head fell from the Thirtieth Void. With a thunderous crash, it smashed through the Twenty-Ninth Void, then the Twenty-Eighth Void, layer after layer of void punched through with one hole after another.
The Imperial Emperor’s eyes grew dim, his vision blurry. He vaguely saw Qin Mu’s body turning ethereal, rising into the Thirty-First Layer of Void.
“Heavenly Venerate Mu is still dead. I survived after all…” he thought to himself.
At that moment, he saw Qin Mu, who had risen into the Thirty-First Layer of Void, take a round, massive egg from between his brows.
The Imperial Emperor’s expression turned bewildered.
Boom, boom, boom—
His head smashed through layer after layer of void, falling from the sky and crashing into the ground of the Ancestral Court. It rolled a few times before landing on a desolate plain, startling the ancient giant beasts around it into scattering in all directions.
His head had just stopped rolling when another thunderous roar came from the depths of the void. A streak of fire crashed down from the sky, slamming heavily beside him. Countless fragments of stone flew in all directions. Xirang soared into the air, expanding into floating landmasses, blown away by the fierce wind into the distance.
Amidst the spreading dust and smoke, the Imperial Emperor saw Qin Mu’s body, tattered and broken, kneeling on one knee, his hand pressed against the ground.
“The Five Ore Grand Seal!” Qin Mu suddenly raised his head, his three eyes blazing with light.