Chapter 1329: Terror Under the Night Sky (First Update)
Qin Mu and the Pharmacist listened to the zither music, momentarily entranced, but quickly snapped back to clarity.
Accompanied by the zither’s melody, Qin Mu assisted the Pharmacist, lighting the furnace and controlling the heat, while the Pharmacist cast the prepared spirit medicines into the alchemy furnace.
In the great hall, the zither’s rhythm was stirring, the heavenly fire blazed fiercely, and the round, massive alchemy furnace spun atop the flames.
Beneath the flames, Qin Mu held the heavenly fire in his palm, driving the furnace and regulating the temperature.
As the second person in the world to have “cultivated” the Medical Dao Heavenly Palace, his mastery of the medical arts could be said to be second only to the Pharmacist. Of course, his Medical Dao Heavenly Palace had been “planted” by the Pharmacist using spirit pills, so his actual skill in the medical arts was far inferior to the Pharmacist’s.
The Pharmacist strode forward, his wide sleeves billowing, moving like a shooting star under the flickering light of the heavenly fire. The secret techniques of alchemy transformed endlessly in his hands.
His primordial spirit emerged, seated above the furnace. The Medicine King Primordial Spirit stood tall and lofty, clad in dark blue wide robes with long sleeves, standing atop the Execution Platform. Its imposing figure was entwined by two strands of baleful qi like dragons!
The Medicine King Primordial Spirit’s ten fingers danced, its vital energy transforming into Dao patterns interwoven in intricate designs. The marvel of alchemy was breathtaking.
Soon, five types of spirit pills were refined. The Pharmacist flicked his sleeve, and the furnace was put away.
Qin Mu clenched his five fingers tightly, and the heavenly fire vanished.
The Pharmacist raised his hand, and the screen that blocked the Moon Venerable flew up, landing to one side, revealing the Moon Venerable, who was still playing the zither.
Qin Mu and the Pharmacist exchanged a glance, then moved to the Moon Venerable’s left and right. The Pharmacist produced the first spirit pill, which rose into the air. A stream of vital energy shot up from Qin Mu’s head, and the Medical Dao Heavenly Palace manifested behind him.
His Medicine King Primordial Spirit appeared within the palace, also in wide robes and long sleeves, with the bearing of a Daoist immortal.
Both of their Medicine King Primordial Spirits acted simultaneously, activating the medicinal power of the spirit pill. This time, the Pharmacist took the lead, dissolving the pill’s power, while Qin Mu supported him, mainly concerned that the Pharmacist’s cultivation might be insufficient, ready to take over at any moment.
Although the Pharmacist had firmly established himself at the Execution Platform realm, in terms of the depth of his vital energy cultivation, he was still far behind Qin Mu.
The Dao patterns within the spirit pill, like a grand epic poem, flew out and headed toward the Moon Venerable. The pill also emitted a wondrous Dao sound, harmonizing with the zither’s melody.
The Dao patterns of the pill reached the Moon Venerable’s crown, touching the Dao wound left by the Ancestral God King. The might of the Heavenly Dao erupted instantly, vast and majestic, but in the next moment, the Dao patterns of the pill filled in the Dao patterns of the Heavenly Dao!
The Heavenly Dao patterns within the Dao wound caused by the Ancestral God King, upon contact with the pill’s Dao patterns, rapidly coagulated, clumped, and rotted, like blood meeting snake venom!
Qin Mu was horrified, his scalp tingling, and even his bones trembled!
This spirit pill was not a medicine at all, but a lethal poison, capable of dissolving the Dao accumulated through arduous cultivation—a toxin of Dao dissolution!
“Relax, this pill is only aimed at the Dao wound left by the Ancestral God King.” The Pharmacist’s voice came at the right moment, dispelling his fear.
Qin Mu steadied himself. Just then, the Pharmacist took out two more spirit pills. One flew to the Moon Venerable’s back, where the Dao wound left by the Heavenly Venerable Hao was located, and the other flew to her face, where the Dao wound left by the Heavenly Venerable Fire was.
Two more streams of vital energy shot up from Qin Mu’s head, transforming into two heavenly palaces: one was the Innate Heavenly Palace, and the other was the Creation Heavenly Palace.
He used the Creation Heavenly Palace to reshape the Moon Venerable’s face, restoring her former appearance, while the Innate Heavenly Palace was a precaution, because the Guixu Dao of the Heavenly Venerable Hao and the Innate One Qi were too powerful. If the Pharmacist’s pills didn’t work as expected, he would have a backup plan.
As the medicinal power of these two pills took effect, Qin Mu’s body shook, and he manifested three heads and six arms, closely watching every change in the Dao patterns.
At this moment, the Pharmacist took out another spirit pill to treat the Dao wound caused by the Heavenly Venerable Xiao!
Qin Mu frowned, lowering his voice: “Grandpa Pharmacist, the Moon Venerable isn’t as tough-skinned as I am. Are we really going to alarm all the Heavenly Venerables at once?”
The Pharmacist activated the power of that pill, speaking solemnly: “If we alarm the other Heavenly Venerables, then we certainly can’t hide it from the Heavenly Venerable Xiao. Rather than waiting for him to make a move, it’s better to just alarm all of them.”
Qin Mu frowned deeply. His body shook, and behind him, one heavenly palace after another manifested, forming a celestial court, radiating divine light.
His primordial spirit split into eighteen, standing in each heavenly palace, closely monitoring the changes in the Dao patterns within the Moon Venerable’s wounds.
That pill had already begun to erode the Dao patterns of the Heavenly Venerable Xiao. The first Dao pattern shattered.
Qin Mu’s eyelid twitched. The moment the Dao pattern broke, he sensed something awakening in the Yuan Realm!
It was like an incredibly terrifying monster opening its eyes in the darkness!
The Heavenly Venerable Xiao had been stirred!
At this point, the Pharmacist took out the fifth spirit pill. Qin Mu’s forehead veins bulged, but he held back, not disturbing him, letting him focus entirely on healing the Moon Venerable.
The Moon Venerable’s zither music remained leisurely and slow, like idly plucking strings while slowly placing chess pieces. As Qin Mu and the Pharmacist treated her, the Dao wounds on her body would also counterattack, causing her even greater pain. Yet her fingers remained steady, each one plucking the strings with strength!
Meanwhile, the Daoist priests living in the Dao Sect and the people in the city at the foot of the mountain witnessed a strange sight.
They saw the entire peach forest glowing with multicolored light, the radiance floating above it. Within the forest, hundreds of light strings vibrated in harmony with the zither’s music, turning the ten-thousand-mile peach forest in the night into leaping notes bathed in light!
Even more peculiar, as each note jumped, the peach forest seemed to leap from one space to another, and the dark night sky revealed another world connected to the forest!
At this time, the Yuan Realm was in night, but those strange worlds were not all dark. Some were at the moment of sunrise. Near the Dao Sect, people saw the ocean, with three seemingly smaller suns rising slowly from the sea.
The light of the rising sun spilled from the night, across the sea, across the peach forest on the coast, and then from the forest onto the Kunlun Ruins mountains of the Dao Sect, like a beautiful scroll slowly unfurling!
But as the notes of the peach forest leaped, the scene changed again. They saw a dark world descend, its pitch-black mountains like fins on a monster’s back—stunning and terrifying.
The notes leaped again, and suddenly they were in daytime, under a clear, boundless sky, deep and azure. Huge continents floated in the sky, and many bird-headed, human-bodied, winged divine beings flew overhead.
Then came a world at sunset, the setting sun deep red, evening clouds stretching across the sky, incredibly beautiful.
The ten-thousand-mile peach forest seemed to exist in a space of constant jumping, leaping through myriad worlds. The notes formed by light strings and rhythms created hundreds of shifting spatial layers, leaving the people near the Dao Sect staring wide-eyed.
Suddenly, an elder from the Dao Sect looked into the distant darkness. There, the Yuan Wood stood like a monster at the center of the Yuan Realm.
And in that place, two long, narrow eyelids were slowly opening!
Those eyes were so enormous that even from this distance, they were clearly visible!
The Dao Sect elder was startled. He quickly rang the bell to summon the disciples, speaking solemnly: “The Dao Lord is not here. Each of you, hurry down the mountain to the nearby cities and towns. Restrain everyone—tell them not to leave their houses or the city! Everyone must close their doors and windows, and under no circumstances go out!”
The many Dao Sect disciples hurried off. The elder also descended the mountain to restrain the nearby commoners. He glanced again at the eyes gradually brightening in the darkness, then noticed that the stars in the sky had somehow grown much larger. His heart was filled with worry: “The peach forest… a great upheaval is imminent!”