Chapter 1336: Stealing the Fruit (First Update)
Moon Celestial approached to examine Qin Mu's injuries, only to see that his head had vanished, leaving only his neck. Moreover, the wound's cross-section bore the Dao patterns left by Dawn Celestial's strike, which continuously ravaged his bodily functions—the injury was extremely severe!
Even his primordial spirit had lost its head, just like him, with Dao wounds covering its neck as well!
Pharmacist was rapidly suppressing Qin Mu's Dao wounds. As he was now, Qin Mu was merely outwardly strong but inwardly weak. His spirit embryo divine treasury had exploded, and with Dawn Celestial's Dao wounds afflicting him, he couldn't even use the Unchanging Divine Ability.
His earlier intimidation that drove off Dawn Celestial had been nothing but a bluff.
Even if he could execute the Unchanging Divine Ability, the Dao wounds would persist and still blow his head apart.
He would need the Dao wounds to be erased before he could activate the Unchanging Divine Ability to restore his spirit embryo divine treasury, or use the Creation Divine Art to regrow his head.
"Medicine King God, is Mu Celestial's injury dangerous?" Moon Celestial asked quietly.
"He won't die."
Pharmacist carefully examined the bowl-sized wound cross-section on his neck, looking somewhat troubled. "It's just that I don't understand the Dao patterns left in this Dao wound by Dawn Celestial. I need guidance from a Celestial."
Dark Celestial stepped forward, shining his lantern on it. Seeing that Qin Mu's throat was still breathing, he relaxed and said, "He won't die. Moon Celestial, where did you banish Dawn Celestial to?"
Moon Celestial meticulously analyzed the Dao patterns in Qin Mu's wound, saying, "Back when my cultivation had some achievements, I wanted to experiment with spatial arts, so I ran around everywhere and liked using spatial divine abilities to test things. Once, I accidentally opened up a space and discovered a place like a maze. I was trapped there for over a hundred years before finally escaping by chance. I call it Chaotic Space. That's where I sent Dawn Celestial."
She looked a bit embarrassed, continuing, "Although I established my Dao through space, the strangeness of that place exceeded my expectations, and I couldn't escape easily. Dawn Celestial's current strength far surpasses mine from back then, and with Earth Mother's physical body, using her roots and branches to break through the maze should be much simpler for him. However, it will still take him ten to twenty years to get out of there."
"Such a place exists?" Qin Mu exclaimed in admiration.
Moon Celestial said, "The universe is magnificent, originally holding many unknown secrets. That place has many very strange ruins. When I arrived in that chaotic space back then, I was also quite puzzled."
She couldn't help but get angry. "Mu Celestial, you're already in this state, yet you still feel curiosity about such dangerous places! Don't you know what death is?"
Qin Mu raised his hand to touch his head, but Moon Celestial slapped his hand away, fuming. "Have you forgotten? You don't have a head right now!"
Qin Mu put his hands on his hips, and Moon Celestial, though still puffed up with anger, couldn't help but find it amusing and burst out laughing.
Dark Celestial glanced at her, coughed, and said, "Moon, we'd better quickly sort out the Dao patterns in his Dao wounds. The longer we delay, the more dangerous it becomes for him."
Moon Celestial quickly steadied her mind and said seriously, "This isn't my fault. Blame Mu Celestial—he always makes me laugh."
Dark Celestial put the ghost-face mask from the back of his head onto his face, rolled his eyes, then pushed the mask back behind his head.
The two Celestials, with their keen insight, quickly sorted out the Dao patterns left by Dawn Celestial's Dao wounds. However, they only had a partial understanding of the Dao runes contained within these patterns.
The two explained them in detail to Qin Mu, who analyzed the Dao patterns bit by bit. Suddenly, his voice carried a note of displeasure: "Dawn Celestial has also learned microscopic mathematics!"
Moon Celestial and Dark Celestial didn't understand the meaning of his words and paid it no mind.
Qin Mu fell silent. Dawn Celestial had learned microscopic mathematics and used it to reconstruct his Dao runes, which was why his cultivation was so powerful that he could single-handedly contend with Tu Bo and the two Celestials, Moon and Dark.
And all of this was the result of the Eternal Peace Reformation!
"Dawn Celestial was able to master microscopic mathematics in such a short time, which means he has been staying in Eternal Peace all along, diligently studying the fruits of the Eternal Peace Reformation. But he couldn't have stayed in Eternal Peace the entire time, because he also needed to remain in the Heavenly Court and even go to the Ancestral Court or the Great Void from time to time."
Qin Mu pondered for a moment and reached a conclusion: "When I summoned his soul, his soul wasn't taken into Dawn Celestial's body. Instead, his soul reincarnated, becoming another person who infiltrated Eternal Peace to secretly learn the reformation."
That Dawn Celestial went to study the Eternal Peace Reformation didn't surprise him. In fact, Qin Mu wished that all Ten Celestials would learn the fruits of the Eternal Peace Reformation.
As long as the Eternal Peace Reformation was useful, the Ten Celestials wouldn't bring down a calamity to destroy Eternal Peace—until Eternal Peace became a threat to them.
However, what made Qin Mu wary was that Dawn Celestial had always had an identity within Eternal Peace, and over these past ten-plus years, this identity had likely climbed to the middle or even upper echelons of Eternal Peace!
Given time, he would be like a parasite, controlling Eternal Peace's power, and might even usurp the nest!
"He wants to quietly steal the fruits of the Eternal Peace Reformation, just like the demigods of old who stole the authority of the ancient gods, just like the Ten Celestials who stole the authority of the Heavenly Emperor. No matter how the world changes, the power of these old rulers will never slip from their grasp!"
Qin Mu thought silently, "If Eternal Peace's power doesn't belong to the people of Eternal Peace but falls into the hands of parasites like Dawn Celestial, then the Eternal Peace Reformation has failed. In that case, Eternal Peace would just be another Long Han Revolution..."
Pharmacist coughed, reminding him, "Mu'er, continue analyzing the Dao patterns."
Qin Mu steadied himself and continued listening to Moon Celestial and Dark Celestial explain the form of each rune, while he deciphered the mysteries of these Dao runes.
After a long while, the three worked together to decipher the Dao wounds left by Dawn Celestial. This time, the Dao wounds Dawn Celestial left weren't too severe—he had hastily blown off Qin Mu's head without putting his full strength into it.
Pharmacist had already formed a plan and immediately prepared the medicine. After refining the elixir, he promptly treated Qin Mu's injuries, and the Dao wounds slowly began to disappear.
After another long while, Qin Mu felt an itch at the wound site. He immediately activated the Overlord Body Three Dan Art, and his neck began to grow. Soon, his head had regrown, and the vertical eye on his forehead reappeared. However, this time, the vertical eye no longer contained the Qin Continent, the Primal Chaos Eggshell, the Taiji Primal Stone, and other items.
Moon Celestial returned the treasures that had burst out of him. Everything was there, except for the Qin Continent, which had been shattered by Dawn Celestial, and Yuan Mu's corpse.
At the time, the situation was urgent. Moon Celestial had only thrown the treasures that burst out of Qin Mu into other spaces without sealing them. A corpse demon had been born from Yuan Mu's corpse, and seeing an opportunity, it tried to make off with Qin Mu's treasures but was scared off by the Primal Beginning Egg.
With the Qin Continent gone from his vertical eye, Qin Mu had no choice but to first place these treasures in his divine treasury, on the Ancestral Court within it.
The Primal Beginning Egg once again settled securely on the Primal Beginning Vein altar in his Ancestral Court.
Qin Mu stood up, pondered for a moment, and said in a deep voice, "Dark Celestial, can you find someone in Eternal Peace who was born nineteen years ago? Their name should contain the character 'Dawn.' By now, their cultivation realm should have reached the level of a Revered God or even higher!"
Dark Celestial's heart stirred. He took out the Book of Life and Death and said, "I can search for them."
Before long, Dark Celestial said, "I found two Eternal Peace gods. One is named Dawn Heavenly Mechanism, and the other is named Dawn First Awakening."
Qin Mu looked at the two Eternal Peace gods listed in the Book of Life and Death, sniffed their souls, then took out the divine bow from the prehistoric era powerhouse, pulled it open with force, and aimed the arrow to the east!
In the east, the sun was rising, and the sky was growing bright.