Chapter 351: The World-Shocking Sword (Second Update!)
The Village Chief blinked, testing the waters: "Could it be that he also has the surname Qin..."
Qingyou Shanren sneered, "Indeed, his surname is Qin. Is Qin Chongming also a Tyrant Body? Fellow Daoist, you leave me puzzled. My Little Jade Capital knows nothing of a Tyrant Body. How can you be so certain that such a thing exists in this world?"
The Village Chief's heart churned with emotion, but he did not explain. He shook his head and said, "I'm merely puzzled. How could a deity from Carefree Village come to Little Jade Capital?"
"This senior was originally one of the founders of Little Jade Capital."
Qingyou Shanren said, "I learned from Little Jade Capital's records that he made a pact with the Earth Judge. Later, he resolved to break this pact. There were things he had to do, so his primordial spirit was taken by the Earth Judge, leaving only his physical body behind. Before his death, he transformed his divine treasures into seven great halls. His intentions were profound—even in death, he left these seven halls to nurture future generations."
The Village Chief looked toward the Three Elements Hall, puzzled. "Seven halls? Could it be that besides the Three Elements Hall, Five Phases Hall, and Six Harmonies Hall, there are also the Seven Stars Hall, Heavenly Man Hall, Life and Death Hall, and Divine Bridge Hall? Why are the other halls not visible?"
"The seven divine treasures within the human body are all one entity, so the seven halls are naturally one as well. The other halls are all contained within this Three Elements Hall."
Qingyou Shanren said, "Earlier, you said that since I've already opened the Three Elements Hall and Five Phases Hall, why not push through and open the Six Harmonies Hall? The truth is, even Little Jade Capital lacks the ability to open the Six Harmonies Hall. This deity from Carefree Village holds many secrets. Whether the Six Harmonies Hall can be opened is not for me to decide. The Three Elements Elder and Five Phases Elder of Little Jade Capital can only open the Three Elements Hall and Five Phases Hall; the Six Harmonies Hall remains beyond their reach. Little Jade Capital lacks sufficient manpower. Adding the old Daoist master and the old Tathagata would be enough, but they have only just arrived at Little Jade Capital and need time to familiarize themselves with the Six Harmonies Hall."
Little Jade Capital had only a dozen or so old immortals. Opening the Six Harmonies Hall required six of the most top-tier experts. For the Seven Stars Hall, seven beings of their level were needed, and Little Jade Capital was even more short-handed.
"I said you were stingy, but not to the point of being so stingy with someone from Carefree Village. So that's how it is." The Village Chief chuckled.
Qingyou Shanren snorted coldly: "Everything about this deity has been refined to the divine level—divine eyes, divine hands, divine legs, a divine physical body. Not only that, but his primordial spirit has also reached an extremely pure state, and his dharma power is equally at the divine level. His wisdom is also at the divine level! Fellow Daoist, if the Human Sovereign chooses to break through via the Three Elements, I fear he will gain nothing at all!"
The Village Chief pondered for a moment, then said slowly, "His dharma power is also at the divine level? Then Mu'er has truly met his match."
Qingyou Shanren was puzzled.
The Village Chief said calmly, "The old relics of our Crippled Village each have their own strengths. Among the nine of us, some have reached the divine realm in certain aspects, but none of us have achieved the divine realm in dharma power. However, Mu'er's vitality is so immense that it has reached that level. Although his cultivation realm hasn't caught up, the sheer magnitude of his dharma power leaves others far behind. If there is anyone in this world who possesses dharma power like a god, it would not be the Yan Kingdom's National Teacher, but Mu'er!"
Qingyou Shanren also knew how formidable Qin Mu's cultivation was. He said, "You mentioned earlier that his swordsmanship still has many flaws. If he encounters someone with greater insight, he wouldn't even know how he died. I think he has already met such a person."
The Village Chief's heart trembled violently. "This deity is also a divine sword?"
Qingyou Shanren nodded, a faint, mocking smile on his face. "Fellow Daoist, can you now tell me about the Tyrant Body?"
The Village Chief smiled faintly and said leisurely, "The Tyrant Body is unique, surpassing the four great spiritual bodies. It is the rarest constitution in the world. Once a Tyrant Body appears in the world, there cannot be a second. However, false Tyrant Bodies may emerge, vying for the Tyrant Body's fortune..."
Inside the Three Elements Hall.
Qin Mu strode forward, heading straight for the young deity. His steps were heavy but swift, each footfall churning up the soil, causing the ground to ripple like waves.
The mud and gravel flew up into the air, instantly melting. Some turned into earthen swords, others into stone swords. Some stones contained metal, which was also smelted and refined, transforming into sharp flying swords!
Integrating artifact refinement into combat was Qin Mu's specialty. The Mute had never taught him this, but adapting and applying knowledge on the fly had always been Qin Mu's strength.
Since he couldn't use the spirit weapons he had brought here, he would forge them on the spot!
By the time the two were a hundred zhang apart, Qin Mu had already conjured over a hundred flying swords around him. At the same time, he unleashed his swordsmanship.
His first move was Sword Traversing Mountains and Rivers!
A surge of heroic spirit swelled in Qin Mu's chest. Can a god be slain? The answer: Yes!
His sword light blazed, and the hundred flying swords shot toward the young deity, glinting brightly. But a hundred swords were too few, so he released sword light from within his body to compensate for the lack of physical blades.
He charged forward rapidly, and Sword Traversing Mountains and Rivers spread out before him like an unfolding scroll of mountains and rivers. For this move, he drew upon all his insights—the Village Chief's teachings, the National Teacher's enlightenment, and Qin Hanzhen's guidance. He poured everything he had learned into this sword!
The power of the sword light surged explosively. This was his most powerful move. Even the second move of the Sword Diagram, One Sword Opens the Imperial Bloody Ocean, couldn't match it, because he had devoted all his efforts to perfecting Sword Traversing Mountains and Rivers, refining it more than any other technique.
Compared to the version the Village Chief had taught him, Qin Mu's rendition was nearly twice as powerful!
On the opposite side, the young deity's fingers and palms also erupted with sword light, countless beams flying toward him. Qin Mu was momentarily stunned, then immediately saw through the trick.
"Swordsmanship from Carefree Village! He's from Carefree Village!"
He had no time to dwell on it. The two swordsmanship styles finally clashed, and countless beams of sword light engulfed them both. The immense power hidden within the majestic mountains and rivers was fully unleashed, while the swordsmanship of Carefree Village also surged in power!
The Three Elements Elder stood atop the sun and moon and the high mountains, watching from above. He saw the mountains and rivers collapse in an instant, and suddenly, an infinite amount of energy erupted, expanding outward like two brilliant, snow-white spheres.
"Remarkable." Tianyuan Zhenren, standing within the great sun, marveled.
When the power of these two moves had fully expended, Qin Mu and the young deity were sent flying backward. They crashed heavily to the ground, tumbling uncontrollably like rag dolls rolling down a hillside, their limbs flailing helplessly.
Slap—
Qin Mu slammed into a cliff face, sword wounds bursting open all over his body, painting plum blossom-like stains of blood on the rock wall.
"My swordsmanship..."
Qin Mu coughed up blood as he slowly slid down the cliff, landing with a thud on the ground. The shock on his face was impossible to hide. "I lost..."
For the first time, he had unleashed his perfected swordsmanship, only to be thoroughly defeated. His technique had been broken by the opponent.
On the other side, the young deity crashed into a mountain peak with a loud bang, dislodging massive boulders that tumbled down the cliff. There were no sword wounds on his body, but the sheer force of Qin Mu's move had exceeded what he could withstand.
In terms of pure swordsmanship, he was indeed superior to Qin Mu. Although Qin Mu's Sword Traversing Mountains and Rivers controlled over a hundred flying swords and countless beams of sword light, not a single sword or beam had struck him.
However, the immense power of Qin Mu's move had severely injured him. When the sword's energy erupted, the terrifying force crushed down on him. Though it didn't hit him directly, it snapped several of his ribs.
Yet the young deity seemed completely oblivious to the pain. He shook his arms, freeing himself from the rubble, and slid forward dozens of zhang before landing steadily.
Under his armpits, the broken ribs had pierced through his skin, the bone fragments exposed. But he appeared utterly unfeeling, casually pulling out the broken bones and tossing them aside.
At the foot of the cliff, Qin Mu staggered to his feet, roaring as he activated the Creation Human King Technique to seal his wounds.
He chose not to use dragon saliva to heal himself. His wounds were filled with the opponent's sword intent, and without expelling that intent, even dragon saliva couldn't heal them.
Moreover, the opponent wasn't healing either. Since that was the case, he would fight fair and square!
"Tyrant Body, unparalleled in the world. If I cannot defeat you, it means I haven't worked hard enough!"
Qin Mu activated the Tyrant Body Three Dantian Technique, and his form suddenly underwent divine transformation, becoming a bull-headed, human-bodied figure standing on twin dragons, with a third bull's eye growing between his brows, rolling around.
Flames blazed around him, and he strode forward on the twin dragons, charging toward the young deity.
Using Sword Traversing Mountains and Rivers consumed a tremendous amount of energy. If he continued using such moves, he wouldn't last long, so he had to change tactics.
The young deity's body also transformed, taking on the form of the Tiger-Headed Venus Star Lord, also standing on twin dragons—but these were dragons formed from metallic qi, whereas Qin Mu's twin dragons were formed from fire qi.
The two raced forward on their twin dragons, then suddenly veered off at an angle, charging almost parallel toward a nearby mountain peak. The great dragons climbed the wall, their claws digging into the rock, running swiftly upward. On the dragons' backs, both had assumed their divine forms and unleashed their most powerful divine abilities, attacking each other!
The mountain was extremely tall, the very peak where Diyuan Zhenren stood.
Even though the mountain soared a thousand zhang into the sky, Qin Mu and the young deity were about to reach the summit. Their techniques shifted continuously, cycling through the five divine forms of the Five Luminaries Realm. Sometimes they took the form of the Bird-Headed Jupiter Star Lord, sometimes the Snake-Headed Saturn Star Lord, and then the Red-Haired, Snake-Bodied Mercury Star Lord, fighting fiercely.
Diyuan Zhenren raised his hands slightly, and the mountain began to grow, expanding and rising higher and higher.
Qin Mu and the young deity kept ascending, their battle sending rocks flying in all directions.
"His dharma power is no weaker than mine! He must be a Tyrant Body!"
Qin Mu was shocked to find himself unconsciously falling into a disadvantage. While fending off the opponent's attacks, he melted rocks to forge stone swords, iron swords, and bronze swords, trying to gain an advantage with superior weaponry.
But his divided attention allowed the opponent to suppress him. Although the young deity was below him, he forced Qin Mu to retreat upward. The flying swords Qin Mu forged were constantly knocked away, leaving them battered and scattered across the cliff face.
The two figures moved almost parallel to the ground, running upward without any sign of slowing down.
"This mountain can't rise any higher. If it does, it will collapse."
Diyuan Zhenren frowned. Just as he was about to leave the peak to give them room to fight, Qin Mu suddenly channeled all his dharma power and clashed head-on with the young deity.
"The Human Sovereign is still too young. Forging flying swords consumed a lot of his dharma power, and now he's trying to fight the deity head-on. I'm afraid he won't be able to hold out."
Just as Diyuan Zhenren finished speaking, both were sent flying off the cliff face. Qin Mu was launched high into the air, while the young deity was knocked downward.
Qin Mu forcibly halted his momentum, and all the sword wounds on his body split open, blood spurting out.
"The outcome is decided!"
He roared and charged downward. As he passed, the stone swords, iron swords, and bronze swords embedded in the cliff flew up, attacking the young deity!
The entire cliff face was covered with the various swords he had forged. Now, countless stone, iron, and bronze swords, under Qin Mu's control, rained down on the young deity in a frenzied assault!
The young deity had no time to dodge. His vitality exploded, and he unleashed his swordsmanship. The clashing of sword light was as dense as a rainstorm beating on pear blossoms. His swordsmanship was indeed profound, but having lost the advantage of high ground, the force pressing down from above made him unable to steady himself, and he plummeted toward the base of the mountain!
On the cliff, more stone, iron, and bronze swords flew out, converging into a torrent of blades. Qin Mu controlled them with his qi, each sword moving at a different speed and employing different techniques—sometimes slow, sometimes fast, sometimes advancing, sometimes retreating!
He was still using Sword Traversing Mountains and Rivers, still his most powerful move. The young deity's sword light occasionally broke through the rain of swords and struck him, leaving new wounds on his body.
Qin Mu seemed to feel no pain at all. His swordsmanship pressed the young deity, forcing him to crash into the ground at an even faster speed!
The ground grew closer and closer.
"You lose!"
A smile spread across Qin Mu's face as countless stone, iron, and bronze swords wrapped around the young deity and slammed him violently into the earth!
Boom!
The ground shook violently. A surge of turbulent air swept rocks in all directions, leaving a massive crater in the earth. Broken swords were scattered haphazardly around the pit.
Thud.
Qin Mu followed, crashing down and creating a slightly smaller crater.
From this smaller pit came his faint, barely audible voice: "You are... a false Tyrant Body... Heh, hehe..."
At that moment, movement stirred from within the larger crater, and a chill ran down Qin Mu's spine. "Still alive?"
—Second update. Third update at eight in the evening!