Chapter 1452: The Strongest Primordial Spirit
The Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace showed no signs of injury, her aura showed no signs of decline, there were no wounds on her body, and her primordial spirit was completely intact.
The Kai Emperor had gone to kill the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace at Qin Mu's behest.
If the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace had been severely wounded by the Kai Emperor, without the medical expertise of someone like the Medicine Master, she could never have recovered so quickly.
Qin Mu opened his vertical eye on his forehead and examined the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace, immediately seeing the hidden secrets.
The Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace's body concealed various hidden dangers, like sword wounds, which should have been scars left by the Kai Emperor's Sword Dao. However, someone had used a strange power to erase these Dao wounds, restoring her body to its original state.
But the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace had, after all, undergone a million years of diligent cultivation. Her physical body was incredibly powerful. Although that person had repaired her body and erased the Kai Emperor's Sword Dao scars, they could not restore her body to its most powerful state.
Not only that, but her thirty-five heavenly palaces were also full of traces of repair. These repaired areas were not as strong as the rest.
The same was true for the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace's primordial spirit!
The Kai Emperor had struck ruthlessly, nearly burying the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace with his Sword Dao!
Qin Mu's vertical eye was the most powerful divine eye in the current world. It used the Earth Lord's horn as its iris, filled the anterior chamber of the divine eye with the Heavenly Lord's Heavenly Dao crystal, used the Taiji Primordial Stone as its pupil, and used the Taiyi Chaos Eggshell as its retina.
The Heavenly Lord and Earth Lord had personally infused it with the Heavenly Dao and Netherworld Dao, refining and empowering his divine eye. Furthermore, dew from the Taiyi Dao Tree had been dropped into the eye. Not only could he see through the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace, but even if the Heavenly Lord or Earth Lord stood before him, Qin Mu could easily see the operational structure of the Heavenly Dao and Netherworld Dao.
Seeing through the secrets of the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace's primordial spirit, physical body, and heavenly palaces was merely a trivial task for him.
"In the entire world, besides Grandpa Medicine Master and myself, the only one capable of this is Taisu."
Qin Mu understood in his heart: "The Medicine Master relies on the Medical Dao. My Medical Dao is inferior; I can only rely on the Medical Dao, the Creation Dao, and the Unchanging Divine Ability, supplemented by the Taisu and Taishi Daos, to heal the sword wounds left by the Kai Emperor. If Grandpa Medicine Master and I joined forces to treat her, we wouldn't leave any hidden dangers. But the Taisu Goddess requires the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace to have a request, to kneel to her, and this carries great hidden dangers."
He saw it clearly. The Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace appeared to have been restored to a perfect, original state, but for every gain, there is a loss. Taisu could return those sword wounds to her at any time!
The life and death of the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace were completely in Taisu's hands!
"The Heavenly Lord Hao must be the same, right? His injuries back then were even more severe than the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace's!"
What worried him even more was that the mineral vein controlled by the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace was precisely the Taisu mineral vein!
By gaining the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace, Taisu effectively gained the Taisu mineral vein, and by gaining the Taisu mineral vein, she gained the Taisu Divine Stone and the Taisu Primordial Stone!
"Taisu's original strength wasn't strong, but now she can probably advance by leaps and bounds!"
The moment he was distracted, the three women—the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace, the Netherworld Queen, and the Moon Sovereign—had already exchanged hundreds of blows. The Netherworld Sovereign stepped forward and said in a deep voice, "Moon, Netherworld Queen, fall back. I will hold her off. You go and support the Heavenly Lord! The Heavenly Lord is about to collapse!"
The Moon Sovereign and the Netherworld Queen immediately withdrew and flew towards the Heavenly Lord.
The Netherworld Sovereign blocked the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace's path and said, "Mu Sovereign, you go too."
Qin Mu hesitated for a moment. It was naturally good for the Netherworld Sovereign to personally block the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace, preventing her from contacting the Netherworld Queen. However, without the Netherworld Queen's visualization of the Netherworld, the Netherworld Sovereign, exposed in the Heavenly Capital, would have his strength and divine abilities greatly diminished!
"Netherworld, survive!"
Qin Mu gritted his teeth and rushed towards the Heavenly Lord's direction.
The Netherworld Sovereign's face was expressionless, his wrinkles like the bark of an old tree. He said indifferently, "Among the Sovereigns, you are the weakest. You should be more careful of yourself."
The Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace let out a long sigh. Without the Moon Sovereign and the Netherworld Queen, she felt no pressure. She looked at the Netherworld Sovereign and showed a rare smile. "Netherworld, you were a figure who opened up an era. Along with the other Dragon Han Sovereigns, you created the Divine Treasury system. Your contribution was the most crucial—opening the Life and Death Divine Treasury."
She rarely appreciated others, but at this moment, she was full of admiration for the Netherworld Sovereign. "The world doesn't know how important the Life and Death Divine Treasury is, often neglecting your achievements. Once the Life and Death Divine Treasury is opened, one understands life and death. Hence, there is the leap from the Divine Bridge Divine Treasury into the Heavenly Palace, granting a lifespan as long as the heavens. Without the Life and Death Divine Treasury, even if others could cultivate to the realm of deities, they could not possess endless longevity."
Suddenly, she launched an attack. Her thirty-five heavenly palaces were arranged in a staggered formation, forming a Heavenly Court different from the real Dragon Han Heavenly Court. The thirty-five heavenly palaces actually formed the shape of a horn!
Her Heavenly Court was wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, progressing layer by layer. At the top of the horn was her main heavenly palace, the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, where her primordial spirit sat in command!
It was a horn composed of countless buildings, magnificent and unbelievable!
"However, the world will never be grateful for what you did. The Earth Lord also constrained you for a million years because you opened the Life and Death Divine Treasury, giving people a chance to escape life and death! Netherworld, the world only hates and fears you because you are a grim reaper!"
The Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace no longer hid her cultivation or her strength.
Her weapon was the whip!
In the ancient era, the Creator race of Nüxin was a tribe of women renowned for their combat. This Creator race tamed giant beasts, standing on their backs to conquer the world. The women's combat power was extremely strong, possessing a fanatical battle lust!
The ancient god they worshipped was the Western Emperor White Tiger!
The Western Emperor White Tiger was revered as the God of Battle, created by their visualization and worship!
The Western Emperor White Tiger's appearance was very similar to that of the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace, who was once the Netherworld King Gongjun. The Western Emperor's weapons were also the whip and the horn.
Because the Nüxin tribe tamed ancient giant beasts, the whip and horn could control them. Therefore, the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace also used these two weapons as her Sovereign treasures.
The Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace's battle intent was overwhelming. She activated her techniques, and the sound of horns came from her thirty-five heavenly palaces, boiling her blood and qi, directly increasing her combat power!
The divine whip in her hand changed in a thousand ways, sometimes long, sometimes short, sometimes thick, sometimes thin, sometimes soft, sometimes hard, sometimes straight, sometimes curved. This divine whip was refined from a dragon vein in the Ancestral Court, a huge sacred mountain range refined into a whip before it could transform into a divine dragon!
If Qin Mu were here, he would definitely recognize that this whip was once in the hands of the Grand Emperor and was extremely powerful. It had once contended with the Emperor's sword, the Dawn's Imperial Sword!
This divine whip was refined by the Grand Emperor and given as a betrothal gift to the Nüxin tribe. Later, the Grand Emperor destroyed the Nüxin tribe and took back the whip.
After Gongjun captured the Grand Emperor, who was parasitic on Dahong, this whip fell into Gongjun's hands. She tied Dahong to a pillar in front of her palace and used this whip to whip him day and night to vent her anger.
"You have been trapped by the Earth Lord all these years, turned into a grim reaper, and have been living in seclusion. You have long fallen behind!"
The Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace's long whip changed, and at the same time, her divine consciousness exploded, creating layers of illusions. Her words attacked the mind, and her divine consciousness illusions were even more terrifying. As long as the Netherworld Sovereign's Dao heart had the slightest flaw, falling into her illusions would leave him at her mercy!
The Netherworld Sovereign's figure was ethereal, retreating repeatedly, not engaging her head-on.
He had to avoid the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace's illusions.
However, the Heavenly Capital greatly restricted his power. The Heavenly Dao suppressed his cultivation, suppressing his magical power. His original cultivation was inferior to the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace, and now it was even worse!
Whoosh—
He couldn't dodge in time and was locked by the long whip. The dragon vein whip's head turned into a dragon's head, fiercely biting his body, swinging him back and forth!
At the same time, the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace's divine consciousness turned into layers of illusions, casting him into them.
In the illusion, the Netherworld Sovereign saw his mother again. She was washing clothes, turning her head to show him a loving smile. The early spring sunlight sprinkled down, peaceful and beautiful.
Although he was locked by the dragon vein whip, with the dragon head biting his body, he felt no pain in the illusion.
His heart was filled with peace, and he even felt a bit of happiness.
Although he had found his mother's soul in the Netherworld and had lived with her for a million years, he could not feel her touch.
His mother couldn't touch his face, couldn't touch his body, and couldn't see the sunlight.
Everything his mother ate was tasteless. In her soul state, his mother had no feelings. She often cooked and prepared meals for him, but what she cooked and prepared were spirit money and candles. That was what she ate too.
His mother had died long ago, without any warmth.
He dreamed of resurrecting his mother but could never achieve it.
But in the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace's illusion, he felt that his mother had come back to life, returning to the sweet and warm days of the past.
He could feel the warmth of his mother's hand.
At this moment, he was incredibly happy.
Boom—
The dragon vein divine whip bit his body, swung him up fiercely, and smashed him down, crashing through one star after another in the Heavenly Capital!
The Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace flew over, the horn sounded long, her primordial spirit stood at the top of the horn-shaped Heavenly Court, using her divine abilities. One great divine ability after another struck the Netherworld Sovereign's body in quick succession.
Under her attack, the Netherworld Sovereign's flesh flew, his body dilapidated, yet a smile appeared on his face.
Historically, everyone who died at the hands of the Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace died with a smile on their face!
The Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace let out a long howl, smashing his physical body until it was almost destroyed. The Netherworld Sovereign's flesh exploded, revealing his bones, revealing his heart!
And in the illusion, the Netherworld Sovereign seemed to have returned to his youth, a ten-year-old boy, nestled in his mother's arms, enjoying a moment of peace.
The Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace shook the divine whip, flinging him away, and then the dragon head of the long whip bit down with a crack on his exposed heart!
In the illusion, the Netherworld Sovereign looked up at his mother's indelible face, weak but serene. Two streams of tears slid down his cheeks.
"Mother, I remember this scene, this morning."
Of course, the Netherworld Sovereign remembered that day. On that morning, his mother, as usual, washed his worn-out clothes, then sat under the sun in front of the thatched cottage, mending them. The pot held the cooked rice.
She was always like this. And on that day, after doing these things as usual, she collapsed.
In her dying moments, she touched the boy's face and said to him, "I'm leaving. What will you do..."
But she still let go and left.
The Netherworld Sovereign could never forget the sunlight of that morning, nor the words his mother said to him before she left.
He became the Netherworld Sovereign, bridging the gap between mortals and the Netherworld, all to see his mother again.
In his mother's arms, the Netherworld Sovereign, who had returned to his youth, quietly looked at his mother's face, raised his hand, and slowly put the ghost face mask on the back of his head onto his face.
He put it on slowly. The moment he put on this mask, his dilapidated, aged physical body actually burst forth with astonishing divine light, repairing his body!
The Palace Lord of the Heavenly Palace was startled and quickly intensified her attack. However, boundless divine power erupted from this body that had transformed from an old man into a youth!
She saw an incredibly majestic primordial spirit, the strongest primordial spirit she had ever seen!
In the illusion, the Netherworld Sovereign in his youth, wearing the ghost face mask his mother had bought for him, held his mother's body.
"Mother, I have to go do my own thing."
He let go of his mother's body, looked up, and the illusion began to shatter.
"Mother, you don't have to worry about me anymore. I have my own friends now."
He said to the fading mother: "I have to go fulfill a friend's entrustment!"