Chapter 1398: Dao Realm, Twenty-Sixth Heaven
The murderous intent in Langxuan Divine Emperor's eyes gradually faded. The great divine ability of Primordial Beginning Dao that Qin Mu had comprehended was not his Divine Yuan Finger, which put him somewhat at ease.
If the Dao realm ultimate technique Qin Mu had realized truly was his Divine Yuan Finger, then he would have no choice but to act, to erase Qin Mu from existence!
The Divine Yuan Finger was his unparalleled ultimate technique. If an outsider learned it or comprehended it, then others might discover his weaknesses—something he could absolutely not tolerate.
He was not like Fire Heavenly Venerate, who could pass down his ultimate techniques, including his cultivation methods, to Hao Heavenly Venerate, entrusting his very life to Hao. He was nowhere near that generous!
As the might of One Qi Primordial Chaos Dao Roaming Together erupted, Langxuan Divine Emperor's eyelid suddenly twitched. The heart he had just set at ease immediately tightened again.
That was a divine ability manifested from Primordial Beginning Dao, perfectly combining divine consciousness with the Primordial One Qi. Wherever this strike passed, everything was vaporized, transformed into wisps of chaotic qi!
The form of Qin Mu's strike was a bow.
A bow forward.
Beneath his feet appeared the eight-tiered Jade Terrace. Qin Mu stood upon the terrace, bowed deeply, and everything ahead of him turned into chaotic qi, vanishing without a trace!
The power of this strike was even greater than his Divine Yuan Finger, containing an incredibly terrifying Dao might!
Of course, Langxuan Divine Emperor was judging the power and might of Qin Mu's strike from the foundation of his own cultivation and strength. If Qin Mu's cultivation were elevated to his level, the power of One Qi Primordial Chaos Dao Roaming Together would far surpass the Divine Yuan Finger.
For now, Qin Mu's cultivation was insufficient to unleash the full potential of One Qi Primordial Chaos Dao Roaming Together, but Langxuan could already see the potential of this technique!
This strike, One Qi Primordial Chaos Dao Roaming Together, stirred his murderous intent once more.
Yet he still suppressed that killing intent. Though One Qi Primordial Chaos Dao Roaming Together was powerful, surpassing his Divine Yuan Finger in Dao realm, Qin Mu's cultivation realm was still low. The Jasper Pool realm posed no threat to him.
The cost of killing Qin Mu was too great, something he could not bear.
In the sky, Qin Mu slowly descended, landing once again on the Jade Terrace.
Langxuan Divine Emperor looked over and saw the young man's fluttering robes slowly settling, returning to stillness.
Qin Mu stood there, eyes closed in concentration, motionless.
Langxuan Divine Emperor's heart tightened: "Is he still comprehending the Dao? His talent and insight are far too exceptional, aren't they?"
Fortunately, Qin Mu was not comprehending the Dao; no Dao resonance of entering the Dao emanated from him, allowing Langxuan Divine Emperor to breathe a sigh of relief. He thought to himself, "The Jasper Pool is mine. Both I and Mu Heavenly Venerate are only one step away from entering the Dao. If Mu Heavenly Venerate can enter the Dao on the Jasper Pool and comprehend a divine ability of Primordial Beginning Dao, then so can I!"
His heart grew fervent.
He already possessed the Divine Yuan Finger, which was itself an entering-the-Dao divine ability!
He himself carried the bloodline of both the Creator and Heavenly Emperor Primordial Beginning. As a half-god with the most top-tier bloodline, he was born with innate divine abilities.
By the time he reached adulthood, his mastery of divine consciousness and Primordial One Qi was already profound. Without needing to comprehend, he could unleash immensely powerful divine abilities.
This was the strength of an adult half-god—talent came with the bloodline, growing stronger with age.
He possessed both the Dao of divine consciousness and the Dao of Primordial One Qi. When the Seven Heavenly Venerates of Dragon Han established the Divine Treasury system, and Qin Mu and Hao Heavenly Venerate taught the method of becoming a god on behalf of Imperial Heavenly Venerate, Langxuan, as the progenitor of half-gods, also turned to cultivate the Divine Treasury and Heavenly Palace system, developing the power of the Dao of divine consciousness and Primordial One Qi.
In the past, he had innate divine abilities—he could use them but did not understand their principles.
But after cultivating the Divine Treasury and Heavenly Palace system, he began to create divine abilities on his own.
He wanted to merge divine consciousness and Primordial One Qi, but he had never been able to create such a divine ability. This situation was not broken until after the death of the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor, when Dao Ancestor was ordered to use macroscopic mathematics to analyze the Dao runes hidden within the Heavenly Emperor's physical body.
As he comprehended the Dao runes within the Heavenly Emperor's body, a sudden inspiration struck, and he involuntarily entered a state of Dao realization, creating the Divine Yuan Finger.
Once this finger was created, it became the most powerful divine ability among the Ten Heavenly Venerates!
At that time, Langxuan Divine Emperor had no idea that creating the Divine Yuan Finger meant he had entered the Dao realm. He did not delve deeper into this aspect.
All of the Ten Heavenly Venerates had entered the Dao at some point, and more than once, but the Dao realm was not yet developed as a cultivation system. In that era, they only regarded the Dao realm as a type of divine ability.
It was not until the emergence of the Kai Emperor, who pushed the Dao realm all the way to the Thirty-Fifth Heaven, that the Dao realm gradually became a cultivation system.
Yet even today, the Dao realm has not been accepted by the world; it still needs time to mature.
"The Dao has its highs and lows, and insights have their highs and lows. My Primordial Beginning Dao is certainly the most top-tier Dao in the world, far surpassing the Kai Emperor's Sword Dao! By comprehending the Primordial Beginning Dao realm, my cultivation and strength will surely increase greatly!"
Langxuan Divine Emperor's heart burned with passion. He ordered the overseers and mine slaves to repair the eight dragon veins. The overseers and mine slaves were full of resentment but dared not speak, so they obediently began repairing the eight mountain ranges, thinking to themselves, "Just now he had us dismantle them, and now he wants us to rebuild them. Has the Divine Emperor been possessed by Qin the Dismantler?"
Langxuan Divine Emperor, beaming with a spring breeze, walked toward the Jade Terrace. He wanted to retrace the steps of the Jade Terrace, comprehend its Dao mysteries, and enter the second heaven of the Primordial Beginning Dao realm!
But when he stepped onto the Jade Terrace, he still could not perceive anything.
Langxuan Divine Emperor grew anxious. He ascended the terrace level by level, but still could not grasp anything.
As he himself had said, the Dao has its highs and lows, and insights have their highs and lows. For example, Qin Mu's Sword Dao was only at the three heavens of Opening Calamity, Raising Calamity, and Responding to Calamity, yet with just his sword Dao, he could match Divine Blade Luo Wushuang's Blade Dao at the thirteenth heaven.
Langxuan Divine Emperor's Primordial Beginning Dao realm, first heaven, was already revered as the most powerful divine ability among the Ten Heavenly Venerates in terms of attack power. If he could continue to comprehend further, the power of the second heaven would surely be even greater!
But he had already lost the opportunity to reach the second heaven of the Primordial Beginning Dao realm!
The Jade Terrace was his chance to seize this opportunity, but he had been too domineering, suppressing the Dao of the Jade Terrace, and thus could not obtain this chance.
Langxuan Divine Emperor ascended to the eighth level of the Jade Terrace, his expression turning grim, his face dark.
Ahead of him, Qin Mu stood with his back to him, bathed in the chaotic primordial qi of the Jade Terrace, his aura hazy and indistinct.
Langxuan Divine Emperor suppressed his murderous intent and walked forward. He saw that Qin Mu's qi mechanism was steadily rising, his cultivation swelling and strengthening continuously.
He could not hide his jealousy, believing that Qin Mu had gained these benefits by entering the Dao on his Jasper Pool. He did not know that Qin Mu's cultivation was increasing not because of entering the Dao, but because he was reforging the Jasper Pool and Jade Terrace within his own Heavenly Palace.
Qin Mu's Overlord Body Three-Dan Art accommodated nineteen Heavenly Palaces. Simply reforging the Jasper Pool and Jade Terrace of one Heavenly Palace would bring a considerable increase in cultivation and magical power, let alone reforging the Jasper Pool and Jade Terrace of all nineteen Heavenly Palaces!
Now, Qin Mu's Jasper Pool and Jade Terrace matched the ancient Jasper Pool and Jade Terrace of the Ancestral Land, and he had even built eight dragon veins within the Jasper Pool!
The completion of the eight dragon veins brought an incomparably wonderful feeling!
When the eight dragon veins and Jasper Pool were built in his first Heavenly Palace, his Jasper Pool immediately filled with chaotic primordial qi, which slowly condensed into chaotic primordial liquid!
Of course, the formation and dripping of the chaotic primordial liquid were very slow, and it was not the true Ancestral Land liquid, but the improvement to his cultivation was obvious!
Moreover, he had nineteen Heavenly Palaces, plus a Jade Terrace and Jasper Sea in his Spirit Embryo Ancestral Land, equivalent to twenty Jade Terraces and Jasper Seas, making the enhancement to his cultivation even more incomparable.
The benefits of rebuilding the Jasper Pool and Jade Terrace did not stop there.
With so many Jasper Pools and Jade Terraces, it meant his qi recovery speed was astonishing, his combat endurance was longer, and the boost to his strength was also incredibly shocking!
Langxuan Divine Emperor only thought that Qin Mu had gained great benefits by entering the Dao on his Jasper Pool, but he did not realize that Qin Mu's ambition went far beyond that. Qin Mu intended to reshape the Jasper Pool realm, perfectly merging the two systems of the Dao realm and the Heavenly Palace Heavenly Court!
For Langxuan and the other Ten Heavenly Venerates, this was reform, but for the entire world, it was merely setting things right!
Suddenly, Qin Mu opened his eyes, revealing a smile as he looked at Langxuan Divine Emperor before him. He clasped his hands and said, "Thank you, Dao Brother, for protecting my path."
Langxuan Divine Emperor's eyelid twitched. He forced a smile and said, "If Mu Heavenly Venerate were to encounter any mishap while comprehending the Dao on my Jade Terrace, then my sin would be great indeed."
Qin Mu laughed heartily, then suddenly stopped smiling, his expression turning serious. "Just now, when I entered the Dao, the eight dragon veins of the Jasper Pool broke once. They will certainly break again in the future! That big thing underground will surely completely eradicate the Jasper Pool's dragon veins and remove this place! Divine Emperor, I will take two-tenths of the Jasper Pool's output, and I will help you find that big thing. How does this condition sit with you, Divine Emperor?"
Langxuan Divine Emperor flew into a rage, shouting, "You clearly said one-tenth of the chaotic primordial liquid earlier! Why has it become two-tenths now?"
As soon as he spoke, a violent tremor suddenly came from beneath the Jasper Pool. With a thunderous roar, Langxuan Divine Emperor quickly turned to look at the Jasper Pool. He saw that the eight jade mountain ranges had suddenly snapped!
Each mountain range was broken into three to five segments, as if some enormous demonic monster underground had raised its claws and torn the Jasper Pool's dragon veins apart in one swipe!
Langxuan Divine Emperor's eyelid twitched wildly. He activated his divine consciousness eyes, trying to find the source of the attack.
But even as he searched heaven and earth, he could not locate where the attack had come from.
"Times change."
Qin Mu said calmly, "If the Divine Emperor had agreed before I entered the Dao, I would have taken only one-tenth of the benefits. At that time, I had not yet entered the Dao and still had a request of the Divine Emperor, so I set a lower price. But now that I have entered the Dao, I no longer need to ask anything of the Divine Emperor, so my price is fair and just. If the Divine Emperor hesitates any longer, my price will increase."
He raised two fingers, and a third finger was about to rise.
Langxuan Divine Emperor's face shifted between dark and bright. Just as Qin Mu's third finger began to rise, the Divine Emperor quickly grabbed it, laughing, "Mu Heavenly Venerate, Mu Alliance Leader, two-tenths it is! Now can you tell me what that big thing underground is?"
Qin Mu laughed heartily, curling all his fingers back, and walked to the edge of the terrace. Smiling, he said, "That big thing underground wants to steal the Dao of the Jasper Pool and Jade Terrace, absorbing the power of the Jasper Pool to help it revive. Underground, there is a large coffin! Just now, when the coffin attacked the eight dragon veins, its lid opened, and I saw a terrifying scene emerging from the coffin, with extremely brilliant light!"
Langxuan Divine Emperor looked in that direction but could not see any coffin, feeling puzzled. "Where is that large coffin?"
Qin Mu extended a finger and pressed it against the Divine Emperor's brow, saying solemnly, "I will lend you a bit of my power, allowing you to see through my eyes!"
Langxuan Divine Emperor's eyes widened, and he immediately saw a shocking sight!