Chapter 1724: All Righteous Martyrs Heading to the Primordial Realm
"Celestial Venerable Mu, your injuries are very severe."
Heavenly Emperor Hao held the Grand Beginning Divine Axe, staring at the wounds on Qin Mu's body. More than a year had passed since Qin Mu was injured, and yet the wounds on his body were still bleeding.
The wounds inflicted by Third Young Master Ling Xiao still bore Dao wounds. Although they had lessened somewhat, these Dao wounds were connected to his divine storehouse, and fifty holes had appeared within his divine storehouse as well.
When the Execution Divine Nails were still in place, they could suppress these Dao wounds. However, the Execution Divine Nails would restrict his physical movements. To face Heavenly Emperor Hao in battle, Qin Mu had no choice but to pull out the Execution Divine Nails, causing these Dao wounds to once again begin destroying his physical body. As long as he used divine abilities and mobilized his divine power, the Dao wounds lurking in his divine storehouse would worsen!
"You should have been recuperating."
Heavenly Emperor Hao smiled faintly. "After you recover from your injuries, the situation will be lost. Third Young Master will break the Red String Knot, and I have also invited many Dao Achievers from the Miluo Palace. Yan Kang will be trampled flat by me. By then, you will be alone and isolated, and I will send you to the previous cosmic epoch. But you chose not to recuperate and instead took the initiative to attack, which will only make your injuries worse, and your recovery will be far off. When the time comes, you will lose even more miserably. I only need to hold this battle, and your destruction is not far off!"
Upon hearing this, Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief, a smile spreading across his face.
An army can be deprived of its commander, but a common man cannot be deprived of his will.
If even a common man is like this, how much more so the Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Court?
Heavenly Emperor Hao had already lost his ambition and aspiration, left only with the thought of holding his ground. This was fatal for a Heavenly Emperor!
Without the ambition to advance, he would fall into a passive position of being beaten, and the initiative would fall into Yan Kang's hands. As the battle continued, the morale of the Heavenly Court would grow lower and lower, while Yan Kang's morale would rise higher and higher!
In this battle, although the Heavenly Court still held a great numerical advantage in troops, the outcome was gradually beginning to reverse!
Heavenly Emperor Hao charged forward with his axe. The Grand Simplicity Great Path responded to every request, transforming into the Grand Beginning Divine Axe, capable of cutting down the World Tree. Qin Mu's World Tree had been severed by him once before.
This time, he only needed to sever Qin Mu's World Tree again. Even if he couldn't kill Qin Mu, he could still cause his divine storehouse to collapse once more!
Qin Mu's divine storehouse was already riddled with holes. If the World Tree were felled, without the support of the World Tree, the cosmic starry sky and the Thirty-Three Heavens of his divine storehouse would collapse again, annihilating into chaos!
By then, how much combat power would Qin Mu have left?
By then, Qin Mu would be utterly unable to stop him from slaughtering Yan Kang's army!
The current Qin Mu was nothing more than a spent arrow!
Even if he couldn't sever Qin Mu's World Tree, he could still wait until Qin Mu's injuries erupted, and the result would be the same!
The Grand Beginning Divine Axe, transformed from the Grand Simplicity Great Path, was breathtaking in Heavenly Emperor Hao's hands. As the second person to open a divine storehouse in the early Dragon Han era, ranked second among the Nine Heavenly Venerables of Dragon Han, his divine abilities were flawless!
Although Heavenly Emperor Hao no longer had his Dao Tree, his Dao Flower, or his own Return to Ruins Dao Body, he still possessed the capital to achieve Dao through strength, and he still had the perfect Great Heavenly Court, with its Thirty-Six Heavenly Palaces and Seventy-Two Precious Halls!
Third Young Master and Fourth Young Master still supported him, and the hall masters of the Miluo Palace would still lend him their power!
The Grand Beginning Divine Axe operated with unfathomable divine might, possessing the momentum to cleave the world!
Qin Mu's eyes were bright, his three divine eyes seeing through all the mysteries of Heavenly Emperor Hao's divine abilities. Just as Heavenly Emperor Hao's Grand Beginning Divine Axe came slashing down, he suddenly pointed out a finger!
Primordial Chaos Finger!
As he used this technique, all fifty wounds on his body burst open, blood gushing out!
He had studied the Dao wounds left by Third Young Master countless times through Dream Dao, attempting to learn the various Miluo Palace divine abilities and Dao techniques contained within the Dao wounds, but he was still far from healing them.
He could only barely suppress the Dao wounds now, but the moment his divine power stirred, the wounds became impossible to suppress!
The Dao wounds immediately began to destroy his physical functions and his divine storehouse!
An excruciating pain shot through him, but Qin Mu didn't utter a sound, still wearing a smile. When Void Heavenly Venerable inserted the Execution Divine Nails into his wounds, he had been in agony, but now, he didn't care at all!
He had to overwhelm the enemy with his momentum!
Boom!
The two's divine abilities collided. At the moment of collision, Qin Mu shifted his steps and immediately changed his technique. This time, it was no longer the Primordial Chaos Finger but the Five Primordials Seal.
The Five Primordials Great Paths were in his palm, connected to his five fingers. His fingers landed one after another on the Grand Beginning Divine Axe in Heavenly Emperor Hao's hand. The Grand Beginning Divine Axe, which had already been pierced by the Primordial Chaos Finger, now bore the brunt of the Five Primordials Seal and exploded with a bang!
Heavenly Emperor Hao's five fingers were dripping with blood, and his tiger's mouth burst open.
However, at the same time Qin Mu changed his technique, Heavenly Emperor Hao also changed his technique. His other hand transformed into the Ten Thousand Dao Heavenly Wheel, stamping toward Qin Mu's chest. The power of the thirty Dao Realms within the Ten Thousand Dao Heavenly Wheel erupted fully!
He knew that Qin Mu's physical injuries were the most severe, so he attacked Qin Mu's physical body.
Just as his Ten Thousand Dao Heavenly Wheel stamped onto Qin Mu's chest, Qin Mu's primordial spirit rose from behind him, taking its seat in his own Heavenly Court, and activated the Unchanging Divine Ability.
Bang, bang, bang!
Thirty consecutive muffled sounds came from within Qin Mu's body. Qin Mu's wounds burst open, but at the same time, the power of the Unchanging Divine Ability erupted, instantly healing his split wounds.
Behind Heavenly Emperor Hao, his primordial spirit flew out, swinging the Grand Beginning Divine Axe, transformed from the Grand Simplicity Great Path, in a single axe strike aimed at the World Tree behind Qin Mu.
Qin Mu smiled. Just as Heavenly Emperor Hao's primordial spirit was about to strike the World Tree, the Return to Ruins Great Abyss suddenly appeared. A lotus flower spun, drawing Heavenly Emperor Hao's primordial spirit into the lotus.
The lotus sank, disappearing into the Return to Ruins Great Abyss.
The Great Abyss rapidly closed. Suddenly, an axe light split the Great Abyss open just before it fully closed. Heavenly Emperor Hao's primordial spirit scrambled out in a panic, its body ablaze with blazing Heat Death Fire, almost refining it to death.
The moment it escaped the Return to Ruins, Qin Mu's primordial spirit pointed a finger. Heavenly Emperor Hao's primordial spirit raised its axe to block, but the axe face was pierced through by the Primordial Chaos Finger again, leaving two finger holes.
The reason there were two finger holes was that the first one had been left by Qin Mu's earlier Primordial Chaos Finger, leaving an indelible scar on the Grand Simplicity Great Path that Heavenly Emperor Hao cultivated!
This was Qin Mu's Primordial Chaos Finger — a finger that could break the Great Path!
Heavenly Emperor Hao's expression darkened. The battle between their primordial spirits was extremely intense, and the physical combat was even more dazzling. Heavenly Emperor Hao clearly saw that Qin Mu's wounds were growing larger and larger, and the destruction caused by the Dao wounds was becoming stronger and stronger. Yet, Qin Mu never collapsed as he had predicted, with his divine storehouse annihilating!
Qin Mu's World Tree forcibly propped up his thirty Dao Realm Thirty-Three Heavens. His Heavenly Court and the other myriad heavens and realms remained swaying but did not turn to dust.
The World Tree was still the key to the battle between Heavenly Emperor Hao and Qin Mu. Without cutting it down, he couldn't make Qin Mu fall!
However, as Qin Mu's Dao wounds erupted, the World Tree had to support the myriad heavens and the Thirty-Three Heavens, bearing an increasingly heavy burden. This gave Heavenly Emperor Hao hope!
If Qin Mu were at his peak, and Heavenly Emperor Hao were also at his peak, Qin Mu could defeat Heavenly Emperor Hao in fewer than ten moves. But now, with Qin Mu severely wounded by Third Young Master and only one or two-tenths of his strength remaining, and Heavenly Emperor Hao not at his peak either, the two couldn't determine the victor in a short time.
Just as Qin Mu withdrew his divine storehouse domain, the army of the Carefree Realm fell into an encirclement. Without Qin Mu's divine storehouse domain and World Tree, the Carefree Realm's troops were like lone leaves adrift in a vast ocean, forced to huddle together to fend off enemies surging in from all directions. Their casualties were heavy.
Meanwhile, Yan Kang's army, whether it was Village Chief, Butcher, Deaf, or First Patriarch and Granny Si, had yet to reach the Heavenly Court's camp. Wei Suifeng's Imperial Guard and Northern Emperor Black Tortoise's army were bogged down by the Heavenly River Navy. Western Emperor White Tiger and Dragon Qilin's army had just arrived at the rear of the Heavenly Court's camp, only to face the Divine Master, the head of the Heavenly Court's Three Masters, plunging into a bitter battle!
In the Netherworld, Netherworld Heavenly Venerable and Qin Fengqing were each performing their duties, slaughtering the Dragon and Tiger Guards, and couldn't free up their hands.
The number of soldiers around Woodcutter Wen Tian'ge was dwindling. Even the Sage Woodcutter himself had to take up his axe and join the fray. In this battle, there were basically no soldiers left for him to command; most of them had already died in battle!
At this point, even a sage had to personally take the field and personally kill the enemy!
The enemies around them surged like a tide, bringing despair. Yet, Woodcutter and the others had bright eyes. What they saw was hope.
The longer they delayed, the greater the hope of victory in this battle!
Woodcutter looked around. Emperor Yi Yue's severed arm was still bleeding. This generation's Founding Emperor was also at the end of her rope. Yan Yunxi's hair band had come undone at some point, her hair flowing freely, revealing her daughterly face. Old Farmer Zhuo Cha leaned behind her, clearly recognizing the lover he had secretly admired for a long time.
Tian Shu's Imperial Gate Divine Blade was broken in half. He was holding a broken wine jar, trying to pour out a single drop of wine, but the wine was long gone.
Yama's Fengdu had also shattered. The last divine city had been breached, and countless ghost gods had been killed or wounded.
Qing Huang Old Man lay on the ground, his life unknown. Emperor Shakti had a demon god weapon stuck in his chest and dared not pull it out.
The Carefree Realm could no longer hold on.
Suddenly, the army of Right Divine Strategist surged in. This army charged in, cutting off the Carefree Realm's last hope.
The soldiers of the Carefree Realm rallied their spirits, gripping their divine weapons tightly. Someone began to sing a stirring song.
"Behold my sky-leveling ambition! Ascend my heaven-leveling hall! Lift my clear-bright coffin! Climb my Profound Fetal Mountain!"
Yan Yunxi joined in softly: "Contemplate the birth of all things, peace and joy for all, climb high to gaze at the other shore, create things to fill the starry sky. Enter my Carefree Realm, escape the world without worry."
Martial Combat Heavenly Master Zhuo Cha's voice was impassioned and powerful, piercing the heart: "Awaken from a great dream, return to the road of my homeland! Walk my heavenly peril! Battle my jackals and wolves! Bury my heroic souls! Inter my righteous bones!"
The wounded and disabled soldiers of the Carefree Realm joined in with laughter: "Wind and frost aging me, I fear not! Swords and blades wounding me, I am not alarmed! Let my body be shattered to pieces! Let my soul be scattered to the winds!"
"All righteous martyrs heading to the Primordial Realm! The true void is everywhere, our homeland!"
Woodcutter Wen Tian'ge laughed. "In this life, I have three disciples. The eldest likes to wander everywhere, the second became Celestial Venerable Mu, and only the third will inherit my mantle, becoming a true sage, the first sage in this world. In this life, I am complete, with no regrets left."
People in the future might be very happy.
He thought to himself. The future might be the prosperous age of his ideals, an age filled with the principles of his life. People would no longer kneel to gods; gods would serve the people.
In people's hearts, there would be a belief that man can conquer heaven. They would make the best use of their talents, each person having their own strengths, using their abilities in the fields they loved.
The Great Paths of heaven and earth would no longer be merely innate Great Paths. People would use their intelligence and wisdom to develop many new Great Paths. They would become new gods, become guides, beacons, illuminating the dark road ahead.
Perhaps he would never see any of this.
Yet his heart was full of satisfaction. He knew that someone would help him realize all of this.
The Right Divine Strategist Guard charged in. Suddenly, an illusion erupted. Lang Wo, leading the surviving Creator gods, finally broke through the encirclement and arrived, using boundless divine consciousness to forcibly pull the Right Divine Strategist Guard into the Thirty-Fifth Layer of Void.
Lang Wo stood on the Void Bridge she had visualized and shouted, "Carefree Realm, hold on! Reinforcements are coming soon!"
But all around the Carefree Realm soldiers, countless enemies still surged, impossible to kill them all. Their formation could no longer hold, and the last formation diagram had already shattered.
Just then, a broken Phoenix Ship flew in. On the Phoenix Ship, the blazing Nine-Headed Phoenix sprayed sacred fire everywhere, igniting the Heavenly Court's divine demons.
Qi Xiayu descended, her body splitting into nine, joining the battle to protect everyone.
Yan Kang's reinforcements were finally close. From outside the Heavenly Court's camp came the shouts of Yan Kang's soldiers. In the distance, Yan Kang's tower ships could be seen tilting their cannon fire.
Emperor Yan Feng was leading his army closer!
In a distant divine city, Blind stood behind Ling Yuxiu, working with Yan Kang's formation masters to deduce various formations. Ling Yuxiu used the Three Primordial Spirit Convergence Technique to send the various formations into the minds of Yan Kang's military commanders, allowing them to change their formation at any time.
"Carefree Realm, can we make it in time?" Ling Yuxiu forcibly suppressed her anxiety and continued to set up the formation.
Finally, the first tower ship sailed into the Heavenly Court's camp, drawing the enemy's fire!
Then, under the bombardment of the magnetic divine abilities of the ground forces led by Granny Si, the city walls collapsed in large sections. Butcher and the other Divine Blade Camp soldiers charged straight in, breaking into the camp!
— Last night, there was a problem with the Qidian app. It was updated at 8:40 PM but wasn't released until 10:20 PM. Sorry. I was contacting my editor all night, and it took a long time to fix.