Chapter 633: Qin Mu's Disdain
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign tumbled and rolled, crashing deep into this vast, boundless space, disappearing into the mist. Following that, light flickered within the fog—the gleam of eyes.
During their last battle, he had used his divine eyes to pin Qin Mu to the wall of the Human Sovereign Hall, nearly cutting him in half!
Qin Mu's third eye on his brow remained tightly shut, unopened. Countless array patterns swirled within his pupils as two beams of light shot forth, meeting his gaze head-on!
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign's two beams of light shone over, and their ocular techniques clashed. An intensely brilliant light erupted, like two small suns illuminating the surrounding dozens of miles, dispelling the mist!
The First Ancestor's techniques were still far more exquisite than Qin Mu's. His divine eye light immediately suppressed Qin Mu's Nine Heavens Divine Eye.
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign roared, his hair flying wildly as he slowly raised both hands. Chaotic star clouds appeared in the sky, and countless enormous meteors were about to descend from the heavens!
Qin Mu's third eye on his brow opened, and he said in a low voice, "This is the second time I'm unleashing my full power."
Suddenly, his Divine Dao Divine Treasury and Demonic Dao Divine Treasury operated simultaneously. Divine Dao primordial energy and Demonic Dao primordial energy merged, unified under his third eye!
His cultivation base nearly doubled. With a hum, his two beams of light directly crushed the First Ancestor Human Sovereign's ocular technique. Those two blazing rays pinned the First Ancestor Human Sovereign to the ground, pressing him down hard.
The First Ancestor's technique immediately collapsed and disintegrated. The chaotic star clouds in the sky vanished, and the falling meteors disappeared as well.
Qin Mu's gaze pinned him firmly to the ground, pressing down until his bones crackled and popped.
Suddenly, the primordial energy around the First Ancestor Human Sovereign transformed into countless runes, shifting to form a formation.
"Teleportation technique?"
Qin Mu's divine light contracted in his eyes. Runes leaped around him as he rapidly calculated the First Ancestor Human Sovereign's teleportation coordinates.
His primordial energy coalesced into countless tiny sword lights. The myriad sword lights gathered in his hand, forming a precious sword. Qin Mu wielded the sword like the wind, precisely blocking the suddenly appearing First Ancestor Human Sovereign's seal technique!
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign's figure materialized. His seal technique—one seal for heaven, one seal for earth—proclaimed that between heaven and earth, he was supreme. In the way of seal techniques, his mastery far surpassed the Third Ancestor Human Sovereign's Yin Yang Heaven-Overturning Hand!
The Third Ancestor Human Sovereign's Yin Yang Heaven-Overturning Hand had actually borrowed from the First Ancestor. However, the Third Ancestor focused on Yin and Yang energies, the Great Nine Multiplications, nineteen steps across, three hundred and sixty-one footwork patterns, and three hundred and sixty-one seal techniques.
In the era of the Third Ancestor Human Sovereign, within nineteen steps across, he was invincible under heaven.
The one who shattered the Third Ancestor Human Sovereign's undefeated myth was his disciple, the Fourth Ancestor Human Sovereign. The Fourth Ancestor created the Dharma Path Ten Crossings Technique, beating the old man badly.
But the First Ancestor Human Sovereign was a cut above. With his Heaven Seal and Earth Seal, between heaven and earth, he was supreme. The Third Ancestor Human Sovereign could only achieve dominance within nineteen steps, while his seal technique dominated the space between heaven and earth!
However, his seal technique that dominated heaven and earth met Qin Mu's sword.
Qin Mu didn't use his sword pellet. In this battle with the First Ancestor Human Sovereign, he used no spiritual weapons at all, even throwing his Taotie pouch to the ground. He wanted to rely on his true strength to defeat this deserter from the Kaihuang Era, to crush this man who had destroyed the lifelong efforts of all previous Human Sovereigns, to beat this bastard who looked down on the techniques of past Human Sovereigns, to shatter all his glory and trample his dignity!
His sword light was incomparably sharp. With a flick of his wrist, he unleashed the Upper Sovereign Calamity, a vast calamitous aura connecting heaven and earth, splitting the sky and cleaving the earth!
This was Village Chief's swordsmanship. Village Chief was the previous generation's Human Sovereign, and his mastery of the sword far surpassed that of many past Human Sovereigns.
In Fengdu, Village Chief had been beaten, but not because any single Human Sovereign could defeat him one-on-one. They had swarmed him. This was because Village Chief had caught up with the era of reform in his old age, advancing his swordsmanship further. One-on-one, aside from the First Ancestor, no Human Sovereign could match him.
In Qin Mu's hands, the Upper Sovereign Calamity move was fused with the Eighteen Sword Styles—eighteen basic sword techniques. Compared to Village Chief's swordsmanship, he couldn't achieve perfection, but the power of the sword in his hands was even greater!
His dharma power was incredibly profound. Not only among cultivators of the same realm, but even among experts at the Heavenly Being realm, few could surpass him in cultivation base!
Qin Mu's dharma power erupted. His sword light directly cut through the power of the Heaven Seal and Earth Seal, shattering the First Ancestor Human Sovereign's myth of supremacy between heaven and earth, forcing him to change his moves!
Though there were clear flaws in Qin Mu's swordsmanship, the First Ancestor Human Sovereign simply couldn't break through. This was because Qin Mu's dharma power was too vast, using his terrifying primordial energy cultivation to compensate for the flaws.
With the sword in hand, Qin Mu moved like a swimming dragon. No matter how powerful the First Ancestor Human Sovereign's seal techniques were, he always countered with the Upper Sovereign Calamity move!
He didn't even bother to change his moves!
"Pull me out! Pull me out!"
In front of the Human Sovereign Hall, Yishan Human Sovereign struggled to get up from the ground, wanting to go behind the hall to see the battle. Qikang Human Sovereign quickly said, "I'm stuck by the First Ancestor's seal technique!"
Lanpo Human Sovereign and the others struggled to their feet, gathered around Qikang, and struck down with a unified seal technique, imprinting it on the ground around Qikang Human Sovereign. They finally broke the First Ancestor Human Sovereign's seal and rescued him.
The various Human Sovereigns supported each other, passing through the shattered Human Sovereign Hall to the back.
The Human Sovereigns stood stunned. In the mist, two figures moved like lightning. The First Ancestor Human Sovereign's seal technique—one seal for heaven, pressing down with the force of a collapsing sky; one seal for earth, shaking the land with upheaval—while his figure stood like a pillar propping up heaven and earth, unshakable.
Such a seal technique was a marvelous divine ability created only by entering the Dao through seals, achieving the highest accomplishments!
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign's seal technique contained his state of mind. In the final years of the Kaihuang Era, the sky had shattered, the earth had split, and the Kaihuang Heavenly Court was in imminent danger. He was someone who had experienced that tragic era, wanting to single-handedly prop up the collapsing edifice.
His Heaven-Earth Seal technique embodied this intensely powerful emotion. No matter how the heavens collapsed or the earth cracked, he remained steady, a pillar supporting heaven and earth.
This was likely how he felt in his heart.
He was someone who had lived through that sorrowful age, and his seal technique bore the deep imprint of that era.
His seal technique could borrow the power of the collapsing sky and the splitting earth, with supreme might and infinite power.
This was precisely why all previous Human Sovereigns couldn't match him.
Although every Human Sovereign bore heavy responsibilities, none had experienced the tragic years like the First Ancestor Human Sovereign—witnessing the collapse of heaven and earth, the fall of the glorious and magnificent heavenly court, the brutal deaths of countless clansmen and warriors, and the yellow dust burying the glorious years.
Only with such experience could one have such a state of mind, and only with such a state of mind could one create such techniques and divine abilities.
Since the other Human Sovereigns lacked this experience and state of mind, the techniques and divine abilities they created naturally fell short.
The Human Sovereigns exchanged glances, their hearts filled with shock. Even the First Ancestor Human Sovereign, when facing Qin Mu, was forced onto the defensive, at a disadvantage—truly suppressed!
Although Qin Mu's swordsmanship still bore traces of Village Chief, the Dao Sect's Dao Sword, and the Yánkāng National Teacher's sword techniques, it was already showing signs of breaking free from their influence.
His swordsmanship had a different artistic conception from the First Ancestor Human Sovereign's seal techniques.
There was no nostalgia for the ancients or melancholy for the past in his sword, no meticulous calculation of the Dao Sword, and no wisdom of the National Teacher who embraced the world and strategized.
But his sword was as unrestrained as a prairie fire, as full of vitality and fighting spirit as a spring breeze sweeping over a desolate grassland. His sword seemed to sweep away evil influences and eradicate decay, possessing a great boldness to reform and innovate, a great perseverance to strive and forge ahead.
His sword contained another kind of awe-inspiring boldness—a state of mind from a different era. Completely different from the era of collapsing heavens and tragic songs, this was an era of forging ahead, high morale, reform and change, sweeping the world!
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign and Qin Mu—two people from different eras, two different techniques—one seal, one sword—each bore the marks of their respective times.
In terms of conception alone, it was hard to say which was superior. But in terms of state of mind—one forging ahead with high morale, the other nostalgic and mired in past failures—the outcome was already decided from this point.
And even more terrifying was that Qin Mu's primordial energy was too vast, suppressing the First Ancestor Human Sovereign's seal techniques, smashing his "supreme between heaven and earth" seal like withered grass!
Qin Mu grew braver as he fought. His long sword slashed, as if to sever the First Ancestor Human Sovereign—this pillar supporting the old world—forcing him to constantly activate his teleportation technique.
"Truly an Overlord Body..." Qikang Human Sovereign murmured.
The Second Ancestor said dejectedly, "Such a thing as an Overlord Body really exists in this world... I originally thought that Human Sovereign Qin had only reached this point through his own efforts. I never imagined he truly is the legendary Overlord Body. This primordial energy is just too monstrous..."
The other Human Sovereigns nodded in agreement.
Only an Overlord Body could explain the scene before them.
They, all the Human Sovereigns together, had attacked the First Ancestor and suffered a crushing defeat. The First Ancestor Human Sovereign, at the same cultivation level, had knocked them all down and defeated them. Now, at the same level, Qin Mu was suppressing the First Ancestor!
Only an Overlord Body could achieve this, right?
"That kid Su Muzhe really deserves a beating!" Qikang Human Sovereign sighed.
The other Human Sovereigns expressed their agreement.
"The First Ancestor still has a trump card he hasn't used."
The Second Ancestor suddenly spoke. "I once saw him use it—three extremely terrifying seal techniques."
The Fourth Ancestor hurriedly asked, "How terrifying?"
"Heaven collapsing, earth splitting—the Three Styles of Heaven's Fall."
The Second Ancestor Human Sovereign looked at the battle between Qin Mu and the First Ancestor. The First Ancestor Human Sovereign already had multiple sword wounds on his body. For Qin Mu to injure him to this extent was already something to be proud of.
"The Three Styles of Heaven's Fall are his Dao-entry techniques. I once wanted to learn them, but these three seal techniques contain a strong sense of self-destruction. I couldn't master them. I was afraid that if I learned them, after using the three techniques, I would die by my own hand."
The Second Ancestor Human Sovereign exhaled a breath of turbid air and said in a low voice, "I hope he doesn't use them..."
At that moment, heaven and earth suddenly changed. The sky cracked, stars fell like rain, the sky burned red, the earth collapsed, volcanoes erupted everywhere, and the elements of earth, water, wind, and fire surged!
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign could no longer hold back and activated the first style of the Three Styles of Heaven's Fall!
At the same time, Qin Mu pointed at his brow. From his third eye, a beam of sword light shot out—ten miles of brilliant sword light like a pillar, flashing once. Before the First Ancestor Human Sovereign's Three Styles of Heaven's Fall could unleash their power, the sword pinned him, carrying his figure ten miles away, and with a clang, nailed him to a great mountain.
"Ha—"
Qin Mu roared in fury. His fists flew like the wind as he swung wildly, unleashing countless punches in an instant!
The terrifying cumulative force of his fists combined into a power that could destroy heaven and earth, hurtling toward the First Ancestor Human Sovereign pinned to the mountain peak!
"No!"
Qikang Human Sovereign and the others leaped out, crying out in shock, trying to catch up to Qin Mu's fist force, but it was too late.
Boom.
The mountain collapsed under the terrifying force, but all the fist wind only landed around the First Ancestor Human Sovereign, not striking his body. The great mountain was pounded into a stone pillar, with the First Ancestor still hanging on it.
Qin Mu turned and walked toward the exit of the Human Sovereign Hall, not looking back at the First Ancestor on the stone pillar. His face was calm as he said, "You can insult the past Human Sovereigns, but I am not you. I will not insult you."
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign clutched the sword wound on his chest and suddenly called out, "Don't leave yet! I'll teach you the Three Styles of Heaven's Fall!"
Qin Mu walked to the front of the Human Sovereign Hall, bent down to pick up his sword pellet and Taotie pouch, turned sideways, laughed once, and waved his hand. "No need to learn. Not worth learning."
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign was stunned, then broke free from the stone pillar.
Qin Mu strode out through the gate of the Human Sovereign Hall. The gate closed, and his figure disappeared.
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