Chapter 438: Karma Entangled
Qin Mu cultivated the teleportation divine ability of the Heavenly Demon Sect, which was vastly different from the blood sacrifice teleportation used by those foreign gods. The blood sacrifice teleportation used by the foreign gods was more primitive and ancient, while the Heavenly Demon Sect's teleportation divine ability was built upon spatial mathematics, requiring a very high level of mathematical skill to accomplish.
The greatest difference between the two abilities was that the Heavenly Demon Sect's teleportation divine ability understood both the "how" and the "why," seeking solutions to reach a conclusion, whereas blood sacrifice teleportation only knew the "how" without knowing the "why," seeking only usefulness without understanding the principles.
This gave Qin Mu the possibility to interfere with their teleportation formation.
"Gray Immortal, take me and Deaf Grandpa into the underground. I need to see the rune arrangements on their altar, then I will perform the teleportation divine ability. Deaf Grandpa, you will draw the teleportation divine ability runes that I perform. Flood Dragon King God, you come along too; I will need your divine power."
Qin Mu spoke rapidly. "Medicine Master Grandpa, you all stay here and guard Granny Si and the National Teacher's physical bodies."
Once his plan was set, Gray Immortal immediately led them flying down from the Sun Ship, saying, "Don't move; I'll take you through the underground." With that, he shook his form, transforming into a large rat, and a gust of demon wind swept up Qin Mu, Deaf Grandpa, and Flood Dragon King God, burrowing into the earth.
Qin Mu felt himself speeding through the ground. After a while, they suddenly stopped, and the space before him became vast and open. Looking around, he indeed saw the magnificent scene Gray Immortal had described.
A colossal divine statue rose from the earth, but it was bound by countless chains. At the intersections of these massive chains, palaces stood as suppressors, and beneath those palaces, several more chains extended, locking down a long blade oriented north-south.
The blade was incredibly bright, chained as if to prevent it from flying away. This blade was so long that Qin Mu couldn't imagine who could wield such a massive weapon.
That unfortunate divine statue, as it rose, happened to collide with the blade's edge, and its incredibly sturdy head was cut down to the brow.
On the statue's raised hand, over a dozen tall stone statues were busily constructing a huge altar. These stone statues and the altar were enormous, but compared to the divine statue, they appeared extremely tiny.
Of course, Qin Mu, Deaf Grandpa, and the others were even more insignificant.
Qin Mu activated his Nine Heavens Eye-Opening Technique, carefully examining the rune marks on the altar, memorizing them. Gray Immortal led him around the area, and after a long time, he had finally seen all the rune marks around the altar.
"Gray Immortal, stop."
Qin Mu pondered and said, "Let's go to that palace. I'll settle there and do some calculations."
Gray Immortal took them to one of the palaces. This palace had a long floating bridge connecting to the underground cliff, as if someone had been here before, living and guarding the underground space.
Qin Mu stepped onto solid ground and looked around. The vermilion palace's doors were tightly locked. Using his divine eyes, he saw extremely complex sealing restrictions on the doors, making it difficult to enter.
"Let's do it here."
Qin Mu took out a Taotie pouch, rummaged through it, and produced various calculation tools, such as the Wuji Plate, Taiji Plate, Five Elements Beads, Bagua Plate, and so on. There were hundreds of them, dazzling in variety. Even the same type of Bagua Plate had different structures, and the lines and trigrams could be moved. Different structures required different calculation tools, so there were many.
He used his primordial energy to lift these calculation tools into the air. Instantly, countless tools in the air began to split, combine, and rearrange themselves. The complexity of the calculations left Gray Immortal and Deaf Grandpa wide-eyed and dizzy.
After a moment, an incredibly complex calculation tool covering an area of over ten zhang appeared in the air. Binary, quaternary, senary, octal, nonary, decimal, hexadecimal, sexagesimal—countless strange parts moved automatically in the air as Qin Mu's primordial energy operated, producing a continuous clicking sound.
Various abacus beads also appeared in the air, jumping up and down continuously.
There were also blocks and cubic pillars of varying lengths, constantly evolving.
"Can you understand this?" Gray Immortal quietly asked Deaf Grandpa.
Deaf Grandpa waved his hand and said, "I can't hear."
Gray Immortal was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
Suddenly, Qin Mu shook the Taotie pouch, and the calculation tools in the air flew back into it with a whoosh, disappearing.
"Calculations done! Deaf Grandpa, it's your turn!"
Qin Mu's spirits lifted, and he activated his primordial energy. Instantly, a set of teleportation divine ability formations appeared in the air, with various runes lighting up.
Deaf Grandpa looked up, picked up his brush, and began painting in the air. His brush moved like a dragon and snake, rapidly drawing a formation diagram. The various rune marks were identical to Qin Mu's teleportation divine ability.
The painting technique he used was exactly the "world within a painting" technique Qin Mu had once mentioned to him. Previously, his painting technique was from the inside out—painting wind would produce wind, painting thunder would produce thunder. Now, it was from the outside in, with a world hidden within the painting.
Qin Mu dispersed the teleportation divine ability and activated his primordial energy again, causing another teleportation formation to appear in the air.
Deaf Grandpa painted the second teleportation formation. Gray Immortal leaned in to look at the painting and was stunned. The painting Deaf Grandpa made in the air was clearly flat, but when he looked into it, he could see that there was space within the flat surface, no different from the teleportation divine ability Qin Mu had performed!
Due to Qin Mu's cultivation limitations, the scope of his divine ability was not large, and its power was not strong. However, the painting Deaf Grandpa made didn't look big either, but when Gray Immortal leaned in to look, he was startled. The space within the painting was extremely vast, probably covering an area of several li!
Qin Mu performed the teleportation divine ability again, having Deaf Grandpa paint a third diagram. After Deaf Grandpa finished the third one, Qin Mu asked him to lay it down at his feet.
Deaf Grandpa was momentarily confused, not understanding the intention, but he still complied.
A beam of light shot from Qin Mu's eyes toward the area above the long blade. He said, "Deaf Grandpa, place the first diagram here."
Deaf Grandpa lifted his brush and flicked it, sending the first diagram flying to where Qin Mu's gaze had landed. The diagram gradually faded and disappeared.
Qin Mu calculated silently for a moment, then another beam of light shot from his eyes, landing at the abdomen of the divine statue. He said, "Place the second diagram here."
Deaf Grandpa made a sweeping stroke with his brush, and the second diagram flew out, landing precisely. It too faded and disappeared.
Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "This way, the foreign demons won't be able to teleport here through the blood sacrifice altar."
Gray Immortal frowned slightly and asked, "Is that enough?"
Qin Mu nodded.
Gray Immortal was still a bit uneasy and said, "Are you sure? If those demon armies are teleported here and perform self-blood sacrifice to revive this divine statue, it will cause a catastrophic disaster! Are you certain that these two teleportation divine abilities of yours can disrupt their blood sacrifice altar?"
Deaf Grandpa was also a bit worried and asked nervously, "Mu'er, where will these three diagrams of yours teleport those demon armies to?"
Qin Mu hesitated for a moment and said, "I can't change their teleportation; I can only interfere..."
Gray Immortal sighed. "Only interfere? That means those demon armies will still be teleported here?"
Qin Mu nodded and explained, "Teleportation involves spatial displacement. Spatial displacement requires very precise mathematical calculations. I use two teleportation formations to interfere with the mirroring between their two altars. Although the degree of interference is small, for such delicate mathematical calculations, a slight error leads to a vast difference, and a vague error leads to an even greater one. There is no room for any mistake. Once they activate both altars, they will..."
"Qin Human Sovereign, this won't do!"
Gray Immortal cut him off decisively. "This is a matter of survival or destruction. It cannot rely on slight or vague errors! No, I'll go find the Poison King and have him poison all the demons that are teleported here! Come with me!"
He swept the three of them up in a gust of demon wind and was about to leave the underground space when suddenly a majestic force crashed through the distant time and space from another world!
The space around them instantly twisted. Above their heads, the vast stone ceiling warped and spun, forming a massive vortex. Everything within the vortex was distorted, gradually becoming nothingness.
Hum—
A colossal teleportation beam shone from that vortex, piercing through and illuminating the grand altar on the divine statue's palm!
That was light reflected from the deep void of another world, passing through Deaf Grandpa's first diagram and shining onto the altar!
On that palm, the stone statues stood solemnly, half-kneeling and half-kowtowing around the altar, their mouths emitting deep and resonant demonic chants, as if reciting some incantation.
At that moment, the second teleportation formation diagram painted by Deaf Grandpa lit up, and the massive teleportation beam underwent a subtle change, barely noticeable.
Suddenly, countless demon army figures appeared within the teleportation beam. Tens of thousands of demon soldiers were arriving from another world!
"It's too late..." Gray Immortal's heart turned cold.
Just as he thought this, a sudden change occurred. The countless demon army figures within the teleportation beam twisted violently, shattering into countless corpses within the stream of light!
The entire massive teleportation pillar turned blood-red. Countless beings screamed and wailed within the light pillar, but it was all in vain!
Gray Immortal was shocked, and Qin Mu's voice came through: "Flood Dragon King God, possess me!"
Gray Immortal quickly looked at Qin Mu and saw him standing in the center of the third diagram. Flood Dragon King God attached himself to Qin Mu's back, forming a dragon-shaped pattern.
Qin Mu's aura surged, but his expression was somewhat somber. "Gate of Undertaking."
A majestic gate appeared behind him. The teleportation light pillar twisted and surged toward him, and the countless demon armies hummed as they passed through this gate one after another.
Suddenly, a corpse was thrown out of the gate, landing with a thud at his feet. It was the body of a demon who had been teleported to this world. Its limbs were twisted, and its head was growing out of its chest. It must have been a spatial teleportation error that caused its physical body and primordial spirit to be rearranged chaotically!
This demon's physical body had died a violent death, while its primordial spirit was left behind in the Netherworld!
Thud, thud, thud—
Suddenly, countless corpses gushed out from the Gate of Undertaking. In an instant, a mountain of corpses formed around Qin Mu!
The mountain of corpses grew higher and higher, filling the area around the palace.
"Everyone, don't blame me..."
Suddenly, he activated the third diagram. The massive teleportation formation erupted, its light dazzling, sending everything around the palace away.
Gray Immortal and Deaf Grandpa were also teleported out, appearing in midair. Before they could land, they saw the sky filled with severed limbs and broken arms. A rain of corpses fell over the Great Ruins during the night, with more bodies still descending from the sky.
They looked up. On the other side of the teleportation beam, the Gate of Undertaking stood towering and majestic. Before the gate, the young man's eyes were glistening with tears. He had buried tens of thousands of demon soldiers.