Chapter 1639: Calamity Sword Breaks the Primordial
The Primordial’s physical form was exceedingly vast. As the most powerful ancient god, even surpassing Heaven Duke and Earth Count, his body dwarfed Qin Mu’s into insignificance.
Within the Primordial’s contracted pupils, Qin Mu’s tiny figure was reflected. Yet behind Qin Mu, the thirty-three heavenly palaces and seventy-two precious halls were immensely grand, even more spectacular than the Primordial’s own body. Qin Mu’s primordial spirit, standing before the Chaos Hall, brimmed with unimaginable divine power.
This power made him feel threatened!
Especially Qin Mu’s final words, which shook his resolve and gave rise to ominous associations!
The moment his Dao heart wavered, Qin Mu thrust his sword!
Earlier, both the Primordial and Qin Mu had spoken at length. Their exchange seemed like old friends reminiscing, but in truth, their words concealed hidden barbs.
The danger within this exchange was even more terrifying than a full-scale battle!
Both knew the other’s strength and lacked absolute certainty of victory. Thus, before the fight began, they sought to quell the other’s fighting spirit, weaken their Dao heart, and impose immense psychological pressure, thereby increasing their own chances of success.
The Primordial first seized on Qin Mu’s three great defeats, pointing out that Qin Mu had lost three times, making him realize his own foolishness and the Primordial’s invincibility.
If Qin Mu began to doubt himself, the Primordial would gain the upper hand!
Qin Mu’s counterattack, however, caught him off guard. Instead of many words, he used actions to attack the Primordial’s Dao heart!
By severing the spiritual energy bridge connecting the myriad realms to the Heavenly Court, he turned the Heavenly Court into an isolated island beyond the world. The Heavenly Court’s army would be unable to invade the Primordial Realm for ten to twenty years, temporarily neutralizing the threat of the Heavenly Court.
Then, the emergence of the Little Netherworld and Little Xuan Du in the Primordial Realm resolved the threats of Netherworld Venerable, Void Heavenly Venerable, Xuan Du, and Ancestral God King!
This series of dazzling moves finally wounded the Primordial’s Dao heart.
The Primordial used words to shake Qin Mu’s Dao heart, while Qin Mu used actions to shake his—far more impactful than verbal attacks.
Finally, Qin Mu revealed that he had become the Seventh Young Master in this very universe, displaying his Chaos Hall, which finally caused the Primordial’s Dao heart to waver!
If Qin Mu had indeed become the Seventh Young Master in this universe, then there would be no opponent left for him in this cosmos. Whether the Primordial or Heavenly Emperor Hao, both would face only one outcome: defeat!
He would fail; the Heavenly Court would fail. Once this seed was planted, it would take root and grow, spiraling out of control!
The light of the Calamity Sword arrived before the Primordial in an instant. The Primordial swung his sword to meet it while retreating. The sword in his hand was an imperial sword forged in imitation of his own companion treasure, and his sword techniques were those he had learned in the Yan Kang era.
The Yan Kang Reformation was renowned for its cultivation of acquired Dao.
In Yan Kang, both cultivators and gods took perfecting the acquired Dao as their mission. The Heavenly Court called it reformation, but for the people of Yan Kang, it was simply applying what they had learned to improve shortcomings.
They used their knowledge and insights in daily life—forging, medicine, painting, and art. Among these, the Dao of the Sword developed the fastest!
Whether Qin Mu, Kai Huang, National Master Jiang Baigui, or the Elder Human Emperor Su Muzhe, all were grandmasters of the sword Dao, spreading their teachings throughout Yan Kang. With sufficient talent and comprehension, anyone could cultivate and build upon their foundations to create new sword techniques and new sword Dao!
The Primordial had two avatars lurking in Yan Kang. He had learned the sword techniques of Qin Mu, Kai Huang, Jiang Baigui, and Su Muzhe, and by drawing parallels, he had developed his own insights.
His sword Dao was undeniably powerful. With his immense divine power, its might even rivaled that of Kai Huang in his prime!
The sword move he executed was also Kai Huang’s—a single thrust that manifested thirty-three heavens, breathtaking in its brilliance!
But his Dao heart had already crumbled, greatly diminishing the power of his sword Dao. Moreover, his sword techniques became sluggish in their transitions!
The moment their sword lights clashed, the Calamity Sword changed form, becoming “Breaking Calamity.” In an instant, the thirty-three heavens formed by the Primordial’s imperial sword were obliterated!
The body of the Primordial’s imperial sword suffered countless attacks, shattering inch by inch in his hand!
The Primordial flicked the sword hilt away with his finger, unleashing the Primordial Unity Qi. Ten thousand Dao merged into one, transforming into a divine finger that ignored all changes in Qin Mu’s Breaking Calamity Sword and struck directly!
Ding.
A crisp sound rang out as his fingertip met the tip of the Calamity Sword. Qin Mu’s sword light pierced into his finger, and the unparalleled sword intent traveled along his finger into his arm!
His other four fingers swept across the Calamity Sword’s tip one after another, each strike breaking the sword’s power!
At the same time, the Primordial’s other hand pressed down with a palm strike. Beneath his palm, between the lines of his palm print, ten thousand Dao surged like myriad realms, countless divinities beneath his hand!
This strike blazed with divine light, displaying the supreme majesty of the ancient god emperor in a single palm!
He was, after all, an emperor who had ruled an era and ended one as well. Countless ancient gods across the universe were under his command.
This strike was not just the Primordial Unity Qi but also the Primordial Dao—a divine ability born from his comprehension of the Primordial Dao!
Qin Mu drew his sword with his right hand, the tip trembling as it transformed into the Unity of Five Primes. Simultaneously, his left hand met the Primordial’s palm strike!
At the same time, his primordial spirit before the Chaos Hall in the Heavenly Court raised its left hand, mirroring his action.
This strike was also the Unity of Five Primes!
However, Qin Mu’s hand was too small to clearly show the changes in this divine ability, but his primordial spirit’s hand was countless times larger!
His primordial spirit’s five fingers resembled the Ancestral Court, while his own five fingers seemed like the five great mineral veins of the Ancestral Court: Chaos, Primordial, Primordial Beginning, Primordial Element, and Grand Ultimate, all merged into one!
Their palms collided silently, but between their hands, immeasurable light burst forth, forming a circular, razor-thin blade in the starry sky!
This blade had almost no thickness but expanded rapidly, cleaving billions of miles of starry space in two in an instant!
Qin Mu leaned back slightly. Behind him, the grand Heavenly Court’s thousands of palaces and halls shifted, constantly rearranging their celestial palace structures to completely dissipate the force of this strike.
The Primordial’s heart sank. He stepped back, entering the One Qi Grand Luo Heaven to evade Qin Mu’s Calamity Sword. The five great mineral veins formed by the sword light crashed into the Grand Luo Heaven, pressing it down slightly.
The sword light, transformed into five furious dragons, could not be worn away even by the ultimate void!
“His cultivation is no weaker than mine. Now, he can likely imprint his Dao onto the void with his own power and become a Dao Achiever! Is this brought by his seventy-two halls, or by his Chaos Hall?”
The Primordial’s gaze fell on the seventy-two precious halls.
No one had ever cultivated the seventy-two halls of the Jade Capital in the Ancestral Court. Qin Mu was likely the first in this era.
Heavenly Emperor Hao had only obtained the cultivation methods for fifty-eight halls; the rest were in the Primordial’s hands. Even after Hao ascended the throne with unmatched authority, the Primordial refused to teach him the remaining fourteen halls.
If Hao wanted them, he had to offer sufficient benefits in exchange!
That benefit was the more than twenty halls Hao possessed that the Primordial lacked.
Thus, to this day, neither Hao nor the Primordial had managed to cultivate the seventy-two halls.
Their mindset remained stuck in the past—the era of the Ten Heavenly Venerables, where they schemed against each other, haggled over benefits, sought to gain more from the other, aimed to perfect themselves first, set traps for each other, and could never trust one another.
Even now, they continued this old pattern, allowing Qin Mu to cultivate the seventy-two halls before them!
The seventy-two halls were the key to supporting the thirty-six heavenly palaces!
Although Qin Mu had not yet cultivated the thirty-six heavenly palaces, his thirty-three palaces were still formidable. However, the grand Heavenly Court formed by thirty-three palaces and seventy-two halls could not match a Dao Achiever.
Thus, the Primordial suspected that Qin Mu’s Chaos Hall granted him such astonishing divine power.
But he never considered that Qin Mu’s Chaos Hall was merely an empty shell—without substance, lacking a door, and impossible to enter.
Qin Mu was currently at the Chaos Realm, which could also be called the Chaos Stage. Yet his cultivation system was unique.
He had several more stages than the Primordial.
The Primordial’s original body still followed the traditional Divine Treasury and Heavenly Palace system, while Qin Mu’s stages included the Ancestral Court as an additional major realm.
Within the Ancestral Court, there were the Four Heavenly Gates, the Heavenly Sea, and the Nine Hell Platforms—stages absent from the traditional system.
Moreover, Qin Mu applied these new stages to his own heavenly palace system, with each palace containing several more minor stages than the traditional ones.
If classified by stage, Qin Mu’s Chaos Realm corresponded to the Dao Flower stage within the Dao Realm, equal to the Primordial.
Even more terrifying was that Qin Mu had not yet achieved Dao!
If he did, he would likely rival a Dao Achiever who had survived several great calamities!
Furthermore, Qin Mu did not intend to imprint his Dao onto the ultimate void, adding to its burden. His goal was to imprint his Dao onto his own Divine Treasury universe.
He planned to use the World Tree in his Divine Treasury universe as his Dao Tree, establishing his own Dao!
This was also why Qin Mu, upon ascending the Chaos Hall, was confident he could contend with Heavenly Emperor Hao!
The Primordial activated his Dao Tree. The branches of the Primordial Unity Qi Dao Tree danced, blocking the Unity of Five Primes sword light. He raised his hand, plucking a Dao Flower, and met Qin Mu, who had charged into the One Qi Grand Luo Heaven!
The Dao Flower spun, representing thirty layers of the Dao Realm. The Primordial had achieved Dao through sheer force, forcibly transforming his divine power into a Dao Flower—not one cultivated through the Dao Realm. Yet this strike was still extraordinary, representing his full effort!
The Calamity Sword pierced the flower’s stamen. Qin Mu’s strength waned. The Dao Flower spun, and the power of the Dao Realm erupted, threatening to engulf Qin Mu. Suddenly, Qin Mu roared, gathering thirty-two layers of the Dao Realm into one palm and slamming it heavily onto the sword hilt!
Chi—
A sword light pierced through the Dao Flower, striking the Primordial’s brow. Qin Mu’s primordial spirit roared, its hands forming an embrace like the Abyss of Return, creating the Ten Thousand Dao Heavenly Wheel!
Around Qin Mu’s primordial spirit, heavenly palaces revolved, forming an even grander Ten Thousand Dao Heavenly Wheel to empower his divine ability!
He had thoroughly comprehended Heavenly Emperor Hao’s techniques, and this strike bore Hao’s style and bearing!
Boom, boom, boom—
Layer after layer of the Ten Thousand Dao Heavenly Wheel hammered into the Primordial’s brow, driving the Calamity Sword deeper and deeper into his brain!
The Primordial staggered back, leaning against his Dao Tree. Qin Mu raised his hand and pointed, Hongmeng runes coalescing at his fingertip into a Hongmeng Finger!
This finger struck the sword hilt, around which the Ten Thousand Dao Heavenly Wheel spun!
Ding.
A soft sound rang out as the Calamity Sword pierced through the back of the Primordial’s skull, nailing him to his own Dao Tree!
“Truly formidable. If I hadn’t been to the Ancestral Court, I really wouldn’t be your match.”
The Primordial struggled briefly but couldn’t free himself from the Dao Tree. He laughed, “Mu Heavenly Venerable, you indeed have the capital to become the Seventh Young Master. No wonder the Third Young Master is so wary of you.”
Qin Mu’s pupils contracted. He activated the Calamity Sword, but at that moment, the sword was shaken free from the Primordial’s brow, shooting backward!
From the Primordial’s brow, Dao sounds rumbled and shook. A series of precious halls flew out, crashing down around Qin Mu!
The twenty-four halls of the Jade Capital in the Ancestral Court surrounded him!
From within the halls, immensely powerful phantoms emerged. The Primordial cut his wrist, and the blood of the Primordial ancient god splattered onto these phantoms!
Their flesh writhed, gradually forming physical bodies.
“Seventh Young Master.”
A woman slowly raised her head, her gaze falling on Qin Mu. “We meet again.”
Qin Mu raised his hand, catching the flying Calamity Sword. He gripped the sword hilt with both hands, resting it before him, and surveyed his surroundings with a smile. “You’ve come to obstruct my Dao attainment again? This time, you’ve improved a bit—using the Primordial’s blood to form physical bodies, making you slightly stronger than before.”
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