Chapter 1331: I Am Still the Big Winner (Two-in-One Chapter)
The Medicine Master's expression shifted slightly. Now he could see every wound on the Moon Venerable, whether in front, behind, or even on top of her head. Every Dao wound's Dao patterns were crystal clear!
Even the individual Great Dao runes that formed the Dao patterns within the wounds were clearly visible. At this moment, it was as if he had countless eyes, allowing him to see the front and back of every rune, and even the internal structure of the runes themselves, with perfect clarity!
Treating the Moon Venerable's injuries was so simple for him now.
"If I possessed this ability, I could poison anyone in the world to death!" the Medicine Master rejoiced wildly.
The Moon Venerable was also within Qin Mu's divine treasury domain. At this moment, she found her spatial Dao flowing with unexpected smoothness, and her divine abilities were being executed with astonishing speed!
It was as if she had suddenly entered a mysterious and profound realm, plucking the strings of her zither and pushing her spatial Dao to an unimaginable extreme!
"This marvelous application can bring my spatial Dao to its ultimate limit."
She plucked the strings, and within the ten-thousand-mile peach forest, countless light strings suddenly vibrated. In an instant, the light strings trembled countless times, forming countless floating spaces—thin, without any thickness, like strings of space.
These spatial strings each emitted different musical notes, making the entire peach forest seem to exist simultaneously across all heavens and myriad realms. The spatial strings sliced apart the strange wind, blocked the stars in the sky, and prevented the roots of the Primeval Wood from spreading throughout the forest. Countless roots were severed!
This was the effect of Qin Mu's divine treasury domain.
In the current era, not many had cultivated a domain. Some in the Heavenly Court had done so, as had a portion in Eternal Peace, along with those from Carefree Village and the Grand Emperor. That was all.
However, everyone who had cultivated a domain possessed extraordinary achievements.
For example, the Opening Emperor's Sword Domain was indestructible.
Or the Grand Emperor's Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain could freeze everything.
And then there were Luo Wushuang's and the Butcher's Knife Domains, as well as the Heavenly Blade Domain, all possessing immense power and might.
To cultivate a domain, one needed exceptional accomplishments in their respective Dao cultivation. The domain was an extension of the Dao realm system.
Qin Mu's path of cultivation differed from others. While others followed the established order of opening the Spirit Embryo, then the Five Luminaries and Seven Stars, he used his Spirit Embryo to evolve the universe and cosmos, splitting heaven and earth, evolving the Mystic Capital, Nether Capital, Prime Capital, Four Extremes Heavens, and even the Ancestral Court!
He had no other divine treasuries. Within his divine treasury domain, he was equivalent to the singularity of the universe's Big Bang.
A singularity has no time or space, and therefore no distinction between up, down, left, or right. Standing at the singularity, one could see everything in the universe, both front and back.
Thus, all time and space within his divine treasury domain were as clear to him as the lines on his palm. But when others looked at him, they could never see his back, only his front—even if they flew above his head or beneath his feet, they would only see his front.
Now, Qin Mu held the Moon Venerable and the Medicine Master in his palm, applying his divine treasury domain to their Dao practices, temporarily granting them this incredible ability.
In the sky, forty-nine great stars descended, dodging the dancing strings in the air. Suddenly, the stars trembled violently and transformed into forty-nine Heavenly Dao Divine Beings in the sky. Behind one divine being floated the Heavenly Compass, its Heavenly Dao like a net of stars. Behind another floated the Heavenly Well. One sat upon the Heavenly Mystery, which was like a chariot. There were also the Heavenly Cave, Heavenly Abyss, and various other Heavenly Dao Divine Beings, each with their Heavenly Dao manifesting behind them!
One by one, the divine beings descended from the sky, countering the zither's sound.
On the other side, the strange wind howled, sweeping up peach branches, leaves, and blossoms. These flowers, branches, and leaves formed a torrent, racing through the zither's sound. Suddenly, countless flowers, branches, and leaves surged toward the palace ruins, swirling together to form the figure of the Langxuan Divine Sovereign.
The zither's sound attacked from all directions, slicing the Langxuan Divine Sovereign apart. But the shattered Langxuan reformed as soon as it broke. Petals, branches, and leaves drifted from his body, scattering and then gathering again.
What had arrived was not his true body, but his divine consciousness.
His true body had been severely wounded by the Grand Emperor and had to return to the Heavenly Court for healing. The Grand Emperor had injured him so badly that he couldn't recover to his peak state in a short time.
He was most skilled at dealing with the Moon Venerable. Back then, he was the first to attack her, giving the other Heavenly Sovereigns the opportunity to severely wound her.
His divine consciousness could be said to be the bane of spatial Dao.
"Moon Venerable, you've been living in hiding for a long time now—over forty thousand years, right?"
The Langxuan Divine Sovereign strode forward, speaking loudly: "Back then, you should have died along with the Ling Heavenly Sovereign. The only reason you survived was because you were crippled and useless. Only in your crippled state could the Heavenly Sovereigns feel at ease. And now you want to recover? That's clearly seeking your own death."
No matter how he stepped forward, he couldn't get close to the palace ruins. He frowned slightly and looked up at the sky.
In the sky, the forty-nine Heavenly Dao Divine Beings each let out a fierce shout. The forty-nine Heavenly Daos stretched like rainbows, fixing the light strings in place. The power of the zither's sound was greatly diminished.
But even so, the Langxuan Divine Sovereign still couldn't get close.
The forty-nine Heavenly Dao Divine Beings suddenly transformed into rainbows, descending from the sky along the Heavenly Dao rainbows. Upon landing, they transformed back into individual Heavenly Dao Divine Beings, each with the exact same face—the face of Ancestral God King.
These divine beings were the Dao avatars of Ancestral God King.
He, too, had been severely wounded by the Grand Emperor and had to return to the Heavenly Court for healing, unable to dispatch his true body.
"Moon Venerable."
The Heavenly Compass Divine Being spoke, unhurriedly: "Stop your healing. Return to your crippled state, and you still have a path to survival. Otherwise, don't blame us fellow Daoists for being ruthless."
The Moon Venerable ignored him.
Suddenly, the Heavenly Dao Divine Beings sensed that the Heavenly Dao wounds within the Moon Venerable's body were healing at an alarming rate. They all opened their eyes at once, their gazes falling on the Medicine Master, who was flying around the Moon Venerable in Qin Mu's palm.
"Obstructing our Heavenly Dao, you are destined to meet with calamity!" the forty-nine Heavenly Dao Divine Beings said in unison.
The Medicine Master's heart tightened. He quickly touched the bronze mask on his face. It was still there, and he breathed a sigh of relief: "Luckily, I didn't take off my mask because I was afraid Mu'er would feel inferior. Otherwise, these fellows would have seen my true face..."
"Xiao Heavenly Sovereign, Ancestral God King."
The Langxuan Divine Sovereign suddenly spoke: "Although only the three of us are here today, you should still remember that scene from back then, shouldn't you?"
The forty-nine Heavenly Dao Divine Beings nodded. The Artifact Imperial Heavenly Sovereign said: "Back then, although the Fire Heavenly Sovereign struck first, the Moon Venerable dodged his attack. It was you who landed the first blow."
The Langxuan Divine Sovereign smiled slightly, then suddenly erupted, shouting: "Attack!"
Whoosh—
His body suddenly collapsed, and countless peach blossoms, leaves, and branches flew into the air. Then, the peach blossoms, branches, and leaves were shattered by the zither's sound. But the Langxuan Divine Sovereign's divine consciousness had already charged straight ahead, rushing into Qin Mu's divine treasury domain!
At the same time, the forty-nine Heavenly Dao Divine Beings attacked together, instantly forming the Mystic Capital World, enveloping Qin Mu's divine treasury domain within it!
The zither's sound roared. The ten-thousand-mile peach forest seemed to boil. Within the zither's sound, countless spatial cross-sections interwove and crisscrossed. The Moon Venerable played her zither, and various musical notes erupted simultaneously—the five tones and twelve pitches, the notes gong, shang, jue, zhi, yu, the bells huangzhong, dalü, taicu, jiazhong—all bursting forth at once!
The Mystic Capital World formed by the Heavenly Dao Divine Beings was instantly destroyed. One by one, the divine beings flew up, only to be shattered into pieces by the zither's sound!
Countless severed limbs and broken arms flew through the air. Ancestral God King's angry voice rang out: "Xiao Heavenly Sovereign, you bastard—"
His shattered Heavenly Dao, like a colorful stream of light, shot up into the sky, leaping between the stars in the sky, and quickly disappeared.
Meanwhile, the Langxuan Divine Sovereign's divine consciousness charged into the divine treasury domain, heading straight for the Moon Venerable's brow. But no matter how he rushed, he was always facing Qin Mu.
He got closer and closer to Qin Mu, but what met his divine consciousness was Qin Mu's palm.
Qin Mu spread his five fingers, and the Grand Emperor's divine ability appeared in his palm—the Great Luo Supreme Divine Consciousness.
The Langxuan Divine Sovereign's divine consciousness surged, breaking through one layer of the Great Luo Heaven, but behind it was a second layer of the Great Luo Heaven.
He continued charging forward, breaking through layer after layer of the Great Luo Heaven, shattering over a hundred layers in succession. Just as he was about to catch Qin Mu off guard, he saw Qin Mu holding a hairpin in his hand.
A peach wood hairpin.
It was an ordinary hairpin that the Moon Venerable, who loved peach blossoms, had made for the Ling Heavenly Sovereign.
"Langxuan, your divine consciousness can break the Moon Venerable's spatial Dao, but the Ling Heavenly Sovereign's Immutable divine ability can break your divine consciousness."
Qin Mu vibrated the peach wood hairpin, and the Langxuan Divine Sovereign's divine consciousness instantly collapsed, shattered into pieces!
Just as his divine consciousness disintegrated, he heard Ancestral God King's shout and felt a trace of confusion: "That Xiao Heavenly Sovereign fellow, why didn't he make a move?"
Qin Mu put away the hairpin. In the blink of an eye, Ancestral God King and the Langxuan Divine Sovereign had each suffered a great loss—one's forty-nine Heavenly Dao Divine Beings were slain, the other's divine consciousness was shaved away.
They wouldn't be coming back here anytime soon.
Now, only one person remained.
Qin Mu looked toward the peach forest. The Artifact Imperial Heavenly Sovereign stood firm and unmoving, leaning on the Primeval Wood.
The Moon Venerable's zither sound surged. Light strings transformed into spatial strings, leaping around him, but they were all blocked by the Primeval Wood.
The Artifact Imperial Heavenly Sovereign's eyes were deep and dark, with flames seeming to flicker within them as he stared at Qin Mu and the Moon Venerable.
It was as if he could see through Qin Mu's divine treasury domain and accurately pinpoint their weaknesses.
"The Hao Heavenly Sovereign's Dao wound has been healed!"
The Medicine Master's voice came, followed by: "The Fire Heavenly Sovereign's Dao wound has also been erased! In a moment, the Dao wounds left by the Xiao Heavenly Sovereign and the Langxuan Divine Sovereign will also be healed!"
Within Qin Mu's eighteen heavenly palaces, the Creation Divine King in the Creation Heavenly Palace immediately acted, reshaping the Moon Venerable's appearance.
The Moon Venerable's spirit soared. She could feel the Dao wounds that had been limiting her cultivation gradually losing their power, and her cultivation and strength were slowly returning to their peak!
At that moment, footsteps came from outside the peach forest, growing closer.
"The reason I haven't made a move all along is because I have already taken control of the situation. I hold the life and death of the three of you in my hands."
In the darkness, a figure passed through the chaotic, interwoven light strings, as if without substance. The spatial strings, which were indestructible, cut through him but didn't harm him in the slightest.
He was like a mass of primordial qi—qi without a physical body!
"It's not that I'm being arrogant. It's because the Primeval Wood is in my hands."
The figure walked closer and closer, and his voice became clearer: "The Earth Mother Primogenitor is an incompetent fool, but her physical body is the strongest treasure born from the heaven and earth of the Ancestral Court. She simply didn't know how to use it. This Primeval Wood's roots are anchored in the Prime Capital, its root tendrils spreading deep into the earth. Its branches and leaves hold up the heavens in the sky. So even if your ten-thousand-mile peach forest connects all the heavens, it's useless against me. I can break it easily."
As the word "break" left his mouth, the Artifact Imperial Heavenly Sovereign, holding the Primeval Wood, let out a fierce shout and activated the Primeval Wood's power!
The Moon Venerable's expression changed. She immediately felt the ten-thousand-mile peach forest, which connected all the heavens and myriad realms, collapsing and disintegrating. Large swaths of the peach forest turned to dust. The forest she had painstakingly built over forty thousand years was destroyed in an instant!
With the peach forest destroyed, the Primeval Wood's roots, like countless tentacles, snuffed out the lanterns one by one.
Back then, when the Hao Heavenly Sovereign invaded the Primordial Realm, the newly resurrected Earth Mother Primogenitor went to stop him. Because the Xiao Heavenly Sovereign was nearby, the Hao Heavenly Sovereign didn't want to get injured or reveal his true strength, so he severely wounded the Earth Mother Primogenitor and left.
But the Earth Mother Primogenitor was killed by the Xiao Heavenly Sovereign. Her roots, along with the Primeval Wood, fell into the Xiao Heavenly Sovereign's hands, and the Primordial Realm also came under his control.
The Xiao Heavenly Sovereign became the big winner. He planted the Primeval Wood, built the heavenly palace, and left behind the Artifact Imperial Heavenly Sovereign.
Even back then, Qin Mu had fallen into his scheme. He performed the soul-summoning ritual but couldn't stop the Eternal Peace Calamity from erupting. In the end, he had to abandon his identity as the Nether Capital Divine Son, gouge out his third eye, and become a soulless person.
The Xiao Heavenly Sovereign had been the big winner from start to finish—except for that one time when he transformed into the Dawn, and was assassinated by the Yun Heavenly Sovereign, Hao Heavenly Sovereign, Moon Venerable, and others during the wedding.
The Artifact Imperial Heavenly Sovereign finished all this and stood motionless again.
At this moment, the figure walked to the front of the Artifact Imperial Heavenly Sovereign. Compared to the Artifact Imperial Heavenly Sovereign, who was a giant, his body was not tall. He looked like an ordinary adult's height.
This figure was the Xiao Heavenly Sovereign.
He had delicate features, was clean and tidy, and had both hands intact. Clearly, he had indeed cultivated the Creation Mystic Art, which had been improved by Eternal Peace, allowing him to restore his physical body.
"The Xiao Heavenly Sovereign's sword wound has been removed!" the Medicine Master's voice came, filled with joy.
The Xiao Heavenly Sovereign's brow twitched slightly. He looked at the Medicine Master, who was wearing the bronze mask, and smiled: "So it's the Jade-Faced Lord Medicine King God of Eternal Peace. I once attended your lectures in Eternal Peace."
The Medicine Master's face changed drastically, and he groaned inwardly.
The Xiao Heavenly Sovereign's gaze then fell on the Moon Venerable. He smiled and said: "Moon Venerable, even if you recover, you won't be able to escape the heavens and myriad realms. The Earth Mother is incompetent, but I am not. You can use your spatial Dao to sever the Earth Mother's root tendrils and restrict her movements, but I don't care. The Primeval Wood is not my physical body. Because I have no attachments, I am invincible."
The Moon Venerable was silent. The zither's sound stopped.
The Xiao Heavenly Sovereign's gaze finally fell on Qin Mu. He said flatly: "Pastoral Heavenly Sovereign, during the Eternal Peace Calamity, I manipulated you once. You probably weren't convinced. Now I'm manipulating you again. Are you convinced?"
"Convinced? Convinced your grandmother."
Qin Mu spat out a glob of phlegm and laughed: "When has your father ever been convinced by you?"
— Two chapters updated together! Two-in-one, four thousand words!