Chapter 556: Initial Success of the Overlord Body
Qin Mu watched his departing back and suddenly said, "Zhe Huali, don't you want me to see your master's saber technique?"
Zhe Huali stopped in his tracks and turned his head, saying, "No, I want you to see my saber technique."
Qin Mu revealed a smile and said leisurely, "Earlier, you told me you wanted me to see Luo Wushuang's saber technique, and I knew then you wouldn't be my opponent, because the saber technique was Luo Wushuang's, not yours. No matter how perfectly you cultivate it, it will always be Luo Wushuang's. Now that you want me to see your saber technique, you finally have the qualifications to be my opponent. Good, I'll wait for you!"
Zhe Huali left, his voice drifting back: "Don't die. My master, Fu Riluo, has issued a bounty. Many demon god disciples are waiting for you on the road ahead."
"This guy is much more likable than his master, Luo Wushuang. His saber technique has indeed improved greatly, progressing at an astonishing speed."
Qin Mu watched him go, feeling immense pressure. His muscles vibrated, shattering the saber intent in Zhe Huali's gaze, even producing crisp clinking sounds, as if Zhe Huali's gaze had become tangible!
This rate of progress was terrifying!
Zhe Huali's progress in the way of the saber was enormous. This person possessed the physical body and primordial spirit of a young true god. If he were to also reach the ultimate realm of saber technique, then surpassing Qin Mu would be well within his reach.
And now, he had already stepped to the edge of the ultimate realm of saber technique. If he continued forward, he would create his own saber technique, just as Qin Mu had created the Calamity Sword and approached the Dao with his sword technique. He too would create his own saber technique, thus approaching the Dao with his saber technique!
The pressure Qin Mu had given Zhe Huali was what allowed him to progress so rapidly. Now, it was Qin Mu's turn to feel the pressure Zhe Huali brought him.
"The biggest weakness of my physical body is that each part trains independently—hands are hands, legs are legs, eyes are eyes, heart is heart—unable to unify the body's power. If I could unify the power of my physical body, then my body would definitely not be inferior to these so-called young true gods or young true demons. It might even be stronger!"
He walked forward, facing the sun, deep in thought. The reason Zhe Huali, Yu He, and others had such strong bodies was because the techniques they cultivated were taught by gods and demons. These techniques had been honed over countless years, allowing every aspect of the body to be trained to the extreme.
Young experts like Zhe Huali and Yu He didn't need to ponder why their techniques operated the way they did. They only needed to cultivate step by step to reach an extremely high level of physical cultivation.
Qin Mu was different. The Overlord Body Three Dan Technique he learned from the Village Chief originally only had the first level of the technique, and it had methods but no techniques, no divine abilities. Later, he pieced together a large collection of techniques, some good and some bad. His Overlord Body Three Dan Technique could be said to be a patchwork king, a beggar's patchwork robe, covered in patches that needed constant repair.
Later, when he learned the Great Cultivation Demon Scripture and understood the Great Unification Technique, and learned from Qin Hanzhen that the Great Cultivation Demon Scripture was the method of the Overlord Body Three Dan Technique, only then did his technique barely take shape.
When Qin Mu obtained the True Dragon Nest and fused the True Dragon Lord's technique with the Overlord Body Three Dan Technique, it added another large patch to his technique.
Too many patches—fist techniques were fist techniques, leg techniques were leg techniques, divine eyes were divine eyes. Ultimately, it was the problem with his technique that caused his physical body to be inferior to Yu He, Zhe Huali, and others, and even slightly inferior to Sang Hua.
His thinking was unconventional, thinking of what others wouldn't think of, daring to think of what others wouldn't dare to think, not bound by tradition. This was why he could create strange techniques and divine abilities like the Primordial Spirit Guidance, the Eighteen Sword Forms, the Three Primordial Spirit Convergence Technique, and could build the Spirit Energy Bridge, a massive metal artifact connecting two realms.
But precisely because his thinking was too unconventional, it led to deficiencies in his technique.
"I've already solved the problem of entering the Dao through sword technique. If I continue to comprehend the Calamity Sword, then the next problem to solve is entering the Dao through technique!"
Qin Mu kept walking, but his expression seemed somewhat dazed, lost in thought.
Suddenly, his primordial energy overflowed, rapidly sketching out his Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury before him, outlining the shape of the spirit embryo, constructing the sun and moon. Then, the primordial energy flowed, expanding outward, raising the five stars of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. The spirit platform expanded, taking the form of the earth, establishing the six directions. The five stars and the sun and moon stars revolved around each other, forming the seven stars.
Using this as a base point, Qin Mu's ten fingers danced, turning his primordial energy into threads, continuously constructing his primordial energy circulation paths around the spirit platform, the five luminaries, and the six directions.
After a while, he built an extremely complex network of primordial energy circulation. The primordial energy network was like blood vessels, constructing a human form around the three divine treasuries.
This was the primordial energy circulation path of his Overlord Body Three Dan Technique!
His technique was extremely complex, so the primordial energy network he built was also extremely complex.
Qin Mu measured it, corrected some errors, and then his primordial energy continuously flew out, shaping bones, heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, and then shaping flesh, sinews, and blood vessels within this complex human network.
He spread his five fingers, and the primordial energy expanded, causing the human form before him to grow to over three zhang tall, still perfectly clear.
As he walked, Qin Mu removed redundant and repetitive details, merged some primordial energy circulation paths, making his Overlord Body Three Dan Technique less complex. Then, with a sweep of his divine consciousness, he added areas that the primordial energy couldn't temper during circulation.
He modified more and more places, removed more and more places.
Qin Mu grew increasingly excited. His spirit embryo also rapidly traveled through his body, examining his physical structure, while he continuously modified and adjusted the primordial energy human form.
After a long time, the spirit embryo returned to the divine treasury and sat on the spirit platform. Qin Mu parted his hands, and the flesh and bones of the primordial energy human form all dispersed, leaving only the primordial energy circulation network and the structure of the three divine treasuries.
His demonic primordial energy flew out, constructing a demonic path Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury, corresponding to the Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury, mirroring each other, and he continued to modify.
When he thought it was perfect, Qin Mu immediately activated this new, drastically modified Overlord Body Three Dan Technique, carefully experiencing the deficiencies during the technique's operation, then modifying them on the primordial energy human form, constantly trying to make it more perfect.
His primordial energy circulation gradually became less complex but more efficient. After the improvement, a single cycle of primordial energy circulation could basically temper every corner of the body.
"My technique is still not perfect! There are still many places in the demonic primordial energy circulation that can be improved! And the primordial energy circulation in the divine eyes is also an extremely complex area."
After his own attempts, he discovered many more deficiencies and immediately devoted himself wholeheartedly to the repairs.
"Qin Mu!"
Suddenly, several demons appeared ahead and immediately spotted him. One of the demon cultivators was overjoyed and laughed loudly: "You can find a thing without looking for it, but you can't find it even if you try! Today is the day I, Tuo Shu, make my merit! Qin Mu, fight me!"
Qin Mu was deaf to it, continuing to improve the primordial energy human form network ahead with his dancing fingers as he walked forward.
Tuo Shu frowned, leaped into the air, and two huge black wings spread behind him, fluttering as he flew.
Qin Mu was completely unaware. Tuo Shu shrieked, killing intent surging as he closed in to several dozen zhang from Qin Mu. Suddenly, his body flipped, and countless feather swords flew from his wings, stabbing toward Qin Mu!
"Disciple of the demon god Xiu Qi, Tuo Shu of the Asura Tribe, I pay my respects!"
Tuo Shu announced his name, but saw that Qin Mu's steps still hadn't stopped, seemingly ignoring his feather swords. However, when his rain of swords reached Qin Mu, Qin Mu's steps suddenly moved strangely, dodging through the countless feather swords. His sword technique couldn't even touch a single hair on him.
Whoosh—
Qin Mu walked past him, his eyes still fixed on the primordial energy human form network ahead, bright and focused. His five fingers tapped lightly, and the primordial energy human form network dispersed, leaving only two divine eye array networks constructed from primordial energy.
At the center of those divine eye array networks was a star cluster composed of countless stars, with the sun at the center, and the outer layer of the star cluster was a system of heavenly array patterns.
This was the divine eye technique created by Blind Man, fusing his Nine Heavens Eye-Opening Method with the array of the first divine eye of the goddess Zi Qing.
Qin Mu was in a state of high excitement and intense concentration, constantly improving the primordial energy circulation trajectory, ignoring Tuo Shu who had brushed past him.
Tuo Shu's wings were like blades, slashing continuously, hundreds of strikes in the blink of an eye. His body flipped and rolled, sometimes leaping and slashing with his wings, sometimes spinning horizontally and chopping, sometimes sweeping like a top, his saber technique extremely exquisite.
The feather swords also whistled, buzzing around Qin Mu, their sword technique also extremely subtle.
The demon god Xiu Qi was originally known as the Dual Master of Sword and Saber. As his disciple, Tuo Shu also cultivated both sword and saber.
However, Qin Mu's body twisted, and his footwork became even more bizarre, walking out of his attack range. Tuo Shu couldn't land a single hit, and he stood there dumbfounded.
The other demons quickly arrived and all struck with killing intent. These demons were also experts, proud disciples carefully trained by various demon gods. One demon roared, transforming into a lava giant, his body ablaze with demonic fire, clusters of demonic fire swirling around his body. He punched, and the demonic fire suddenly exploded, its power shaking heaven and earth.
Another demon cultivator was entwined with a demon dragon, the dragon coming and going like the wind, covering dozens of zhang in a whoosh, spitting and swallowing, its attacks strange and unpredictable.
There was also an eight-armed woman who spat out a heavenly net and earthly snare, each spider silk sharp as a blade, setting up a grand formation.
After a while, the group stood dumbfounded. They hadn't even touched Qin Mu's body when they saw him stepping on the spider silk, staggering into the killing formation, dodging the spider woman's storm-like attacks, then walking out of the formation, leaving the bewildered spider woman behind. He then faced the lava giant, stepping on his fist, walking up his arm to his face, and then walking down his back.
And that demon expert who cultivated the demon dragon divine ability hadn't touched Qin Mu at all before seeing this excited-looking human youth brush past him.
Cold sweat dripped from everyone's foreheads. Tuo Shu chased after Qin Mu ahead and shouted, "Notify the other experts!"
The lava giant roared, punching the sky. A cluster of demonic fire exploded in midair, turning into a demon eye covering dozens of acres, burning fiercely.
In the distance, demon experts were alerted and came whooshing over.
Soon, about a hundred demon experts were chasing Qin Mu. A great river surged in midair—the water of the Yellow Spring, refined into a spirit weapon by a demon expert—rushing toward Qin Mu. But Qin Mu stepped on the head of the river and was carried far away.
"Earth-Shaking Heavenly Stars!"
A demon expert raised both arms high, and meteorites fell from the sky, carrying rolling smoke, crashing down with a rumble, shaking the earth. Qin Mu walked among the meteorites, completely unharmed.
"Yin Souls Claiming Life!"
An old woman shook a white bone banner. Countless yin souls flew out from the banner, weaving like a shuttle, engulfing Qin Mu. Then Qin Mu walked out.
"Blood Skulls!"
Another person opened a gourd, and countless blood skulls flew out, pouncing at Qin Mu, but still couldn't stop him.
"A bunch of idiots!"
Suddenly, a demon expert sneered, "Attacking him is useless. He's in a state of enlightenment now. That strange primordial energy eye in front of him is where his enlightenment lies. Smash that primordial energy eye!"
The group's spirits lifted. A series of divine abilities blasted out, and the primordial energy-structured eye in front of Qin Mu was shattered.
Everyone was overjoyed, but saw Qin Mu, who had been walking in a daze, stop and slowly raise his head.
"You all..."
There was still a trace of confusion in Qin Mu's pupils, but gradually the confusion turned into anger. He seemed to be smiling but not smiling, crying but not crying: "You dare to interrupt my comprehension of the technique..."
The demon expert who had pointed out to the others to interrupt Qin Mu's enlightenment immediately became excited and shouted loudly, "His enlightenment state is broken now. He's no longer in the Dao realm. His movement technique and divine abilities are much weaker. Kill him!"
The crowd surged forward.
The light of a sword flashed.
"You're asking for death!" From within the sword light came Qin Mu's furious voice.