Chapter 285: Qin Demolisher
The hall instantly became somewhat dim, but looking up, one could see the starlight becoming even more transparent and bright. Starlight and moonlight complemented each other. If this were the outside world, it would surely be a scene of a bright moon and sparse stars, but here, the moonlight and starlight adorned each other, making the starry sky within the hall even more enchanting.
Qin Mu did not return to the hall. After a while longer, suddenly another ox head emerged from behind the moon and plucked the moon down.
Both women were somewhat angered: "This mood-spoiling fellow has not a shred of romantic sensibility! If, in this hall, under the radiance of moonlight and starlight, you were to say some pleasing words, sweet talk and honeyed phrases, wouldn't that be a perfect moment of intimacy? Of course, you'd have to drive away that fox spirit beside you first!"
Then Ling Yuxiu and Si Yunxiang heard the sound of tiles and bricks overlapping from outside. They saw the sky above the hall gradually disappearing, and from time to time, an ox head would poke in from above, plucking down the stars from the sky.
The stars above the hall grew fewer and fewer. After more than half an hour, the sky was uncovered, and the sun, moon, and stars had all been plucked down by Qin Mu.
The two women came outside the hall and saw a pile of bright pearls, like a small mountain, on the ground. There were also two large eyes, with pupils, but they were closed.
These two eyes were about ten feet tall, much taller than them. Their texture seemed to be made of jade, not like real eyes; they should have been carved from fine jade.
Ling Yuxiu approached and saw extremely complex patterns within the eyes, which should be formation imprints.
Its pupils were already closed, compressing the formation within the pupil into a white line, making the pupil invisible. Beside it were radiating patterns, like the myriad golden rays emitted by the sun.
The two women touched them; they were cold to the touch, completely unlike the fiery, radiant appearance they had just shown.
"I thought they were the eyes of a Taotie, but it turns out they're made of jade." Si Yunxiang was somewhat disappointed.
Qin Mu was standing behind one of the eyes, fiddling with something. Suddenly, the pupil of that eye split into a line, like an upright almond.
The two women immediately saw that within the split pupil, an extremely complex formation was starting and operating, like a precise machine composed of countless gears. Then, terrifying flames surged from the pupil, growing more and more intense. When their gaze fell upon it, they felt as if their own eyes were being burned and split!
Si Yunxiang quickly pulled Ling Yuxiu, and the two women dodged. They heard a *whoosh* sound, and a beam of pure white light shot out from the pupil, igniting the air. As it shot across, the white marble slabs on the ground instantly turned into magma, and the magma itself was evaporating!
This beam of light shone on a few pieces of glazed tiles. Although those glazed tiles also had runic imprints, they instantly evaporated upon being struck by this beam!
Ling Yuxiu was startled: "If this light were to shine on a person, wouldn't they die instantly? It's a good thing Saintess Xiang pulled me away..."
Qin Mu was still fiddling behind the eye. The two women walked around and saw that behind the eye was a formation imprinted with runes. It wasn't very complex, but it was hard to tell exactly what kind of formation it was.
Qin Mu was using his own primordial energy to adjust the changes in the formation.
As he adjusted, the pupil of this jade eye gradually split open to both sides, and the firepower became more and more intense, pouring out like sunlight. Even standing behind the eye, they felt an unbearable wave of heat.
"Close your eyes."
Qin Mu's expression was serious, and he said in a deep voice: "I have fully activated the formation's power of this eye. Now I'm going to let the pupil close into a vertical line to see the power of this spirit weapon."
"Spirit weapon?"
The two women were slightly stunned. Qin Mu was already manipulating the formation, narrowing the pupil. The light suddenly became incredibly bright. Ling Yuxiu and Si Yunxiang quickly closed their eyes.
Even with their eyes closed, they could still see a terrifying beam of light cutting out, like a blade of light, extremely thin!
Qin Mu stopped the formation. A buzzing vibration sound came from within the jade eye, and then the light disappeared, and the surrounding firepower gradually dissipated.
The two women opened their eyes, but there was still a black streak in front of them. Extreme brightness turns to blackness because their pupils had been burned.
Although they hadn't looked directly at it, the light from within the jade eye had still injured their eyes through their eyelids. Fortunately, their primordial energy was abundant, and this minor damage could be self-repaired.
Qin Mu walked out from behind the eye and looked up. He was stunned. He saw that the great hall in front of them had been cleanly cut in half from the center by the blade of light shot from the jade eye!
Although the hall was still standing there, it was unknown when it would collapse!
And on the sky dome of this underwater world, there was also a knife mark cutting down from the sky. The barrier supporting the seabed had split open a large gap, letting water leak into this underwater world.
Qin Mu touched his chin. A few stubborn whiskers had sprouted, and he grabbed them and forcefully pulled them out.
The young man sucked in a breath of cold air from the pain. It wasn't physical pain, but heartache.
Just now, when he tested the power of this jade eye, he accidentally broke through the barrier of this strange underwater world. It would probably take only a few days for the seawater to fill this place.
Si Yunxiang watched the falling water from mid-air splash onto the great hall. That seemingly very stable hall immediately emitted creaking, groaning sounds of being overloaded, tilted to both sides, and with two loud rumbling crashes, the hall split in two and collapsed. Dust and smoke filled the air, revealing huge beast bones.
Those were the bones of a Taotie, the skull of a pure-blooded Taotie, also cut in half by Qin Mu's beam of light.
Now that the hall had collapsed, the Taotie skull was revealed, extremely large.
"Those Heavenly Kings weren't wrong. Chief Cultivator Qin really does demolish wherever he goes..." Si Yunxiang murmured.
Ling Yuxiu also felt it was a pity.
This was a divine hall, a magical underwater world. After Qin Mu tinkered with it for a bit, it was destroyed.
"Hey, Cowherd, you have a given name but no courtesy name. I'll give you one. Call you Demolisher, Qin Demolisher!" Ling Yuxiu suggested.
Qin Mu was still heartbroken. Hearing this, his face flushed red, and he defended himself: "I am not Qin Demolisher! I didn't demolish things recklessly! Don't talk nonsense, you're ruining my reputation!"
Si Yunxiang gritted her teeth and sneered: "You have a reputation? As soon as you arrived at Saintly Lin Mountain, you demolished the Three Kings Hall!"
Ling Yuxiu sneered: "The Imperial Academy's student residences have been demolished three or five times, right? The palaces around the Imperial Altar were also demolished by you and the Heavenly Demon Cult, right? Also, I heard Heavenly Wave City was demolished by you too! Look, we just got here, and you've already demolished this underwater world. This underwater world has probably stood here for tens of thousands of years, and it's gone the moment you arrived!"
Qin Mu slumped, muttering: "Don't talk nonsense, don't talk nonsense..."
The two women teased and bantered with Chief Cultivator Qin for a while, then went to search through the collapsed divine hall for useful items. After a while, Ling Yuxiu came back carrying two large pillars on her shoulder and placed them in front of Qin Mu. These two pillars must have weighed tens of thousands of jin, yet she had managed to carry them.
Si Yunxiang praised: "Truly, a fat person has strength. I am not as good as Princess Xiu. I am weak and delicate."
Ling Yuxiu was exasperated and wanted to pin this Heavenly Demon Cult Saintess to the ground and give her a good beating, but Qin Mu was nearby, so it wasn't convenient. She gritted her teeth and smiled: "Yes, indeed, Saintess Xiang is truly weak and delicate, too thin. There's not even two ounces of meat on your chest."
Si Yunxiang feigned anger, her gaze unfriendly: "I am still young, still growing. And what use is having big ones? When you get old, they'll sag anyway, won't they?"
The two women glared at each other, then averted their gazes.
"Chief Cultivator, can these two pillars be used to forge a spirit weapon?" Ling Yuxiu asked softly.
Qin Mu was inspecting the other jade eye, trying to understand the mystery of how the two jade eyes operated, and didn't know what they were arguing about.
"This kind of metal is quite rare. It seems to be mixed with other metals. Using a mixture of several metals, the texture and flexibility are much stronger than Cold Iron Gold Crystal!"
After Qin Mu inspected the two pillars, he was quite surprised. Practitioners of the Yan Kingdom, when forging spirit weapons, often sought purity. But these two pillars, on the contrary, did not seek purity. Mixing other metals into the bronze greatly enhanced both strength and flexibility!
"Can you forge the Nine Dragons Weapon I need?" Ling Yuxiu quickly asked.
"I can!"
Qin Mu was full of confidence and said: "My blacksmithing skills are very good, really!"
He activated the formation of the Sun Jade Eye, melted one of the bronze pillars, first forged a large hammer, then asked Ling Yuxiu to release the form of her spirit weapon and demonstrate all the transformations of the Nine Dragons Weapon.
He pondered for a long time, took out paper and pen to draw a blueprint, and then began forging.
Two days later, Qin Mu finally forged the Nine Dragons Weapon. It was nine dragons that could be locked together to form a large hammer, or separated with their tails connected to form a Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover.
He had forged the dragon bodies to be soft. During the forging, he had integrated the Art of Creation and Change, allowing for many transformations. For example, although the nine dragons were cast from metal, there were over nine hundred bones inside the dragon bodies, allowing them to swim in the air. Each dragon scale could also be detached from the dragon body as an independent unit, very sharp, and could also be retracted.
Besides the dragon scales, the dragon claws were like hooks, extremely sharp. The dragon teeth were like knives. The two dragon whiskers were golden chains linked section by section, very soft, and could be used to entangle others.
When the nine dragons were combined, they formed a Nine Dragons Golden Wall. The dragon scales combined to form a mirror surface, and behind the mirror were nine protruding dragon heads.
Even though Si Yunxiang and Ling Yuxiu didn't have much skill in forging, they could see that the Nine Dragons Weapon Qin Mu had forged was truly extraordinary, with very high forging techniques. This set of Nine Dragons Weapons should be very suitable for Ling Yuxiu.
Ling Yuxiu excitedly used her own primordial energy to form runes, imprinting them onto the Nine Dragons Weapon. She nourished it with her primordial energy and performed a brief ritual refinement. She immediately felt that controlling it was very smooth, and she could change it into whatever form she wanted at any time.
"Not bad, not bad!"
Ling Yuxiu praised endlessly, saying: "Cowherd, your craftsmanship isn't bad. It's only slightly inferior to the Vice Minister of Works."
Si Yunxiang was very envious. She manifested the form of her spirit weapon, a single thread that could change in a thousand ways, and said: "What does it mean to turn hard steel into something soft enough to wrap around a finger? Forging a spirit weapon to that level of softness is not simply a matter of blacksmithing. Chief Cultivator, my spirit weapon is called Thousand Silk. It is both a sword and a technique, imitating the scripture of my Heavenly Saint Cult's Great Nurturing Heavenly Demon Sutra. Chief Cultivator, can you forge metal as soft as a silk thread?"
Qin Mu examined the form of her spirit weapon, frowned, and said: "Forging such a fine sword, as thin as a silkworm thread, and also having to create spell imprints on it, is difficult. I have studied it, but I haven't forged one yet. Let me try!"
Si Yunxiang's Thousand Silk spirit weapon was much more troublesome than Ling Yuxiu's Nine Dragons Weapon, requiring more meticulous work. It required hammering the metal to an extremely soft state, then stretching it out to create a metal film much thinner than a silkworm thread. The thickness of a silkworm thread is one *si*, and behind *si* there are even smaller thicknesses like *hu*, *wei*, *xian*, *sha*, *chen*, *ai*, *miao*, *mo*, etc.
Qin Mu could only stretch the metal film to the thickness of *chen* (dust), and couldn't manage anything finer.
Once the thickness reached this point, more delicate imprints were needed. Qin Mu and Si Yunxiang both cultivated the Great Nurturing Heavenly Demon Sutra. The two of them worked together to imprint the runes, painstakingly managing to imprint the runic marks onto the metal film. During the process, the film broke a few times, so they had to reforge it.
After that, Qin Mu folded the metal film, hammered it a thousand times, stretched it out again, and re-imprinted the runic marks. This process was repeated several times, and finally, the Thousand Silk spirit weapon was forged.
Si Yunxiang's mind stirred slightly, and the Thousand Silk spirit weapon turned into a silk ribbon, tied around her waist.
The water in this underwater world was gradually getting deeper, so they couldn't stay long.
Qin Mu immediately used his own primordial energy to form energy threads, wrapping the two jade eyes and those jade stars in an energy net, and said: "Let's go up."
The three of them quickly headed towards the cauldron. Si Yunxiang arrived by the cauldron, her eyes flickering, trying to lift the cauldron and take it away. But unfortunately, this cauldron was unbelievably heavy. Even with her full effort, it didn't budge an inch.
"You have small breasts, no strength." Ling Yuxiu said with a giggle.
"You with the big breasts, you try!" Si Yunxiang said angrily.
Ling Yuxiu stepped forward, but unexpectedly, this cauldron was truly too heavy. She couldn't lift it either, and her face flushed slightly.
Qin Mu shook his head and said: "This cauldron spits out so much spiritual water. The spiritual water is lifted to a height of over sixteen hundred zhang. The weight of the water spouted from the cauldron is probably comparable to a mountain. Not to mention the weight of the cauldron itself! This thing is definitely a divine object. You two should forget about it."
The two women silently lamented the loss, then followed Qin Mu as he swam upwards.
After a long time, they finally surfaced. Ling Yuxiu laughed and said: "This time we got a few treasures. It wasn't a wasted trip..."
"Princess got a few treasures? What treasures are they?"
A voice came from the edge of the pool. The three of them quickly looked over and saw Dragon Jiaonan sitting on the head of a giant red serpent. The serpent's massive body coiled around the pool.
Dragon Jiaonan revealed a smile, his gaze sweeping across their faces, and he said to Qin Mu with a laugh: "Chief Cultivator, you have fine tastes. You've given your servant quite a chase."
"Kill!"
Ling Yuxiu and Si Yunxiang burst out of the water, charging into the air. Without a word, they activated the Nine Dragons Weapon and the Thousand Silk spirit weapon and attacked Dragon Jiaonan!