Chapter 584: The Doomsday of Wu Wang City
On Qin Mu's brow, the willow-leaf-shaped vertical eye slowly opened, and from the slit of the eye, a beam of light spread out like butterfly-wing patterns from the edges of the eyelids, dazzling and brilliant.
"So beautiful!"
Granny Si couldn't help but praise, but she quickly noticed that although these butterfly-wing patterns were gorgeous, they seemed to harbor something extremely terrifying.
Butcher, Blind, and the others crowded forward to examine it closely. As Qin Mu's technique was activated, the eye gradually opened wider, and the butterfly wings grew larger, making it seem as if Qin Mu's head had turned into a giant butterfly!
Of course, the butterfly was growing on his forehead.
Suddenly, Butcher and the others sensed a trace of terrifying palpitation, as if some dreadful demon was awakening in the abyss, slowly opening its blood-red eyes!
"What is that?"
Butcher, Blind, and Mute were the first to realize, involuntarily unleashing waves of terrifying divine might!
They sensed a threat and reacted instinctively, with varying speeds. Butcher was the fastest; with a crisp ringing of a blade, his divine knife flew up, spun around once in the air, and hovered there.
Mute was next; behind him, a pillar of fire shot up from his forging furnace, spinning wildly in the sky, turning the heavens scorching red.
Blind was slower; the Dragon Tuo Divine Spear clattered and vibrated, transforming into a black dragon coiled around him, ready to strike.
Then Granny Si involuntarily released her own aura; behind her, countless stars emerged, forming a Great Luo Heavenly Star Force Field to counter this terrifying palpitation!
Boom—
Lame took off running, and in the next moment, he was already a hundred miles away before realizing: "It seems to be coming from inside Mu'er, not some terrible monster…"
Zheng—
Ba Shan drew his blade, looking around in alarm, and shouted harshly, "Where is this demon coming from?"
He too was a Grandmaster, though his blade technique wasn't as refined as Butcher's, who had entered the Dao through the blade. Ba Shan had pioneered the fusion of combat and technique, making him highly sensitive to unknown dangers.
Deaf and Medicine Master were completely bewildered, especially Medicine Master, who had no idea what was happening.
Deaf's cultivation realm hadn't yet reached the Divine level; he was only at the mid-stage of the Divine Bridge and hadn't started repairing it yet. He was obsessed with the art of painting, ignoring worldly affairs, and his reactions were indeed somewhat sluggish.
Medicine Master had finally broken through the Life-Death Wall two years ago and was still at the Life-Death realm. He didn't place much importance on cultivation, so his progress was very slow. After Qin Mu passed down the Magpie Bridge Technique, the Mysterious Attraction Technique, and the Divine Crossing Technique, he began to focus on cultivation, but having too many women around him still slowed his advancement.
They were the slowest to react, but soon they too sensed something amiss. The sudden, terrifying palpitation felt like an incredibly dreadful demon slowly awakening, and the source of this terror was the third eye that Qin Mu was opening!
Everyone looked at Qin Mu's brow. The light from the eye grew more and more brilliant, and within that dazzling light, a faint black shadow could be seen approaching.
It was a very small shadow, like a tiny infant, but it walked on the light, stepping out from the depths of Qin Mu's third eye. As it walked, the infant grew continuously, becoming larger, until it was about to fill Qin Mu's third eye completely!
"Mu'er, stop activating the Overlord Body Three Dan Technique!"
Butcher, on high alert, shouted loudly, "There's a strange thing in your eye! Stop now!"
But it was too late; the black shadow had already filled Qin Mu's third eye and was about to emerge.
"I feel full of power…"
Qin Mu's voice came out like a sleep-talker's murmur: "The power to destroy everything!"
As he said this, everyone in the Village of Elderly Disabled felt a chill run down their spines. They heard two voices!
Two overlapping voices coming from Qin Mu's mouth.
Crack!
The sky shook violently. The light from the third eye twisted space, and the overflow of terrifying power caused instability in the space, with cracks appearing continuously amidst thunderous explosions!
The space in Grand Emperor Heaven had already been somewhat unstable due to the descent of the demon race, making it easy to tear, but that wasn't something ordinary cultivators could do; it required at least the combat power of a god or demon.
Now, the power emanating from Qin Mu's eye was causing the surrounding space to shatter continuously, with dense cracks spreading further!
Beneath the watchtower of Wu Wang City, several dozen cultivators from Grand Emperor Heaven saw the cracks spreading outward and quickly fled. Dragon Qilin, who had been diligently training, looked up and saw a crack heading straight for him, so he hastily jumped aside.
The spatial crack tore through the ground where he had been standing, creating a gully over ten miles long that kept deepening!
Dragon Qilin shuddered. Fox Ling'er leaped agilely, landing on his forehead, and shouted, "Fat Dragon, run! The young master is about to reveal his true form!"
Dragon Qilin immediately bolted. Behind him came a deafening roar. Fox Ling'er looked back and saw the Green Ox also fleeing in panic, and behind the Green Ox was the watchtower, a hundred feet tall and covering over ten acres.
That was the source of the roar.
The watchtower was twisted by the spatial cracks, disintegrating into countless pieces on the spot, each piece floating in different spatial fragments!
Then, rumbling sounds continued to erupt. These were the residual divine and demonic battle techniques from the ruins of Wu Wang City, triggered by the torn space, causing a chain reaction. One by one, the residual techniques exploded like fireworks in the shattered space, extraordinarily beautiful and indescribably lovely.
Fox Ling'er had no time to admire them. She looked at the butterfly-wing-shaped light, feeling a bit disappointed: "The young master isn't a fox spirit, but a butterfly spirit…"
Where Qin Mu stood, the ground was also collapsing and sinking. The land beneath Butcher, Blind, and the others kept sinking, revealing red-hot magma!
The ruins of Wu Wang City were falling into the earth, with massive rocks and broken walls plunging into the rolling magma, sending up bursts of flames.
Everyone struggled to stabilize themselves. Butcher, Mute, Blind, Granny Si, and Ba Shan tried their best to resist the tearing space, protecting Medicine Master and Deaf, while Lame darted through the shattered spaces, trying to get closer.
Everyone was horrified. Blind reached out and grabbed the Dragon Tuo Divine Spear, moving with the spear, unleashing countless spear shadows in an instant to block the dangerous forces in the surrounding space, shouting, "Butcher, help me get to him and seal the eye on his brow!"
Butcher grabbed his Heavenly Blade and rushed to his side, saying, "Granny, Mute, protect the others!"
The two joined forces, advancing step by step through the air toward Qin Mu, but the constantly splitting space widened the distance between them and Qin Mu, making it no easy task to reach him.
They pushed forward with all their might, breaking through the strange forces in the space. Suddenly, Butcher looked down and saw that the entire Wu Wang City had completely sunk into the magma, with a sea of fire below.
From that sea of fire, an extremely strange demonic energy surged out. This demonic energy was different from the demonic energy in the demon territory of Grand Emperor Heaven; the demonic energy there was just spiritual energy tainted with demonic nature, but the demonic energy flowing from the spatial cracks was more primitive, more ancient!
It was Netherworld demonic energy!
Clearly, the demon within Qin Mu had awakened, tearing the barrier between the mortal world and the Netherworld, connecting reality to the Netherworld!
They finally reached Qin Mu, only a few feet away, but those few feet seemed infinitely distant. They moved with difficulty; Butcher's blade and Blind's spear were fixed in the air by a powerful force, almost unable to move!
The pressure from all directions squeezed their bodies, making creaking sounds. Blind's body shrank even more, and Butcher also became much shorter.
Both were nearly squashed into balls. Butcher channeled all his strength to clear the way for Blind, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth. Blind tremblingly thrust the Dragon Tuo Divine Spear toward Qin Mu's third eye.
He was a master of formations and highly skilled in sealing techniques, but this spear could not reach Qin Mu's brow.
"Mu'er, wake up!"
Blind gritted his teeth, struggling to push the Dragon Tuo Divine Spear forward. The skin on his hands began to tear, and beads of blood rose from the torn, evaporating skin, flying backward.
"Butcher, I can't hold on…" Blind choked out a mouthful of blood, speaking with difficulty.
The dragon head of the Dragon Tuo Divine Spear also let out a mournful cry: "Master, I can't hold on either…"
The spear tip began to crumble and disintegrate, and Blind's hands trembled, the flesh starting to break apart.
Just then, Qin Mu raised his hand, grabbed the jade pendant on his chest, and tore it off.
"Don't throw it…" Blind struggled to exhale a breath of turbid air.
Qin Mu's face was expressionless. He opened his fingers, and the jade pendant in his hand fell, dropping toward the sea of magma below.
Everyone felt despair. Lame darted through the spaces at lightning speed, trying to catch the jade pendant, but it was too late.
At that moment, the magma surged, and two nine-curved horns rose from the magma, revealing a majestic god with a bull's head and tiger's eyes, formed from molten rock.
Lame quickly dodged, shrieking, "Tu Bo—"
"Tu Bo, you're ruining my plans again!" Qin Mu's voice came, filled with anger.
The molten Tu Bo grabbed the jade pendant and pointed it, pressing it against Qin Mu's brow, sealing the demon eye.
The jade pendant touched Qin Mu's third eye and suddenly vanished, entering the eye.
The terrifying disturbances around them abruptly ceased. The torn space returned to normal, and the molten Tu Bo's body collapsed, turning into rolling magma that flowed back into the sea of fire beneath the earth.
Qin Mu immediately fell from the air. Blind quickly threw the Dragon Tuo Divine Spear, which transformed into a black dragon skeleton, catching Qin Mu and soaring upward, landing outside the ruins of Wu Wang City.
Blind spat out a mouthful of blood and, together with Butcher, Granny Si, and the others, forced themselves to catch their breath and land outside the ruins.
Qin Mu was unconscious, his third eye closed. Lame rushed over, looking at the sleeping Qin Mu, and said with lingering fear, "Is that thing in his eye still there? How about we lift his eyelid and check…"
Everyone glared at him fiercely, and Lame quickly shut up.
Granny Si hesitated for a moment, then said, "Although the strange thing in his eye was sealed by Tu Bo, we should still confirm it…"
She tremblingly reached out to open the eyelid of Qin Mu's vertical eye, but suddenly the eye opened, staring at her hand.
Granny Si was startled. Qin Mu sat up with a jolt, looking puzzled, and asked, "Granny, why are you all gathered around me?"