Chapter 641: The Might of the Divine Wheel
Qin Mu was able to execute the Heaven and Earth Seal Technique not because of his Overlord Body, but because of a single sentence from the First Ancestor: "You and I are both orphans of the Qin clan." This sentence resonated with him, allowing his state of mind to echo that of the First Ancestor.
He could feel the collapse of the Kaihuang Era, and as the only orphan of the Qin clan left in this world, the overwhelming sense of powerlessness in wanting to shoulder the heavens and earth alone. This feeling was the First Ancestor's feeling, and also his own.
Not only that, but what the First Ancestor wanted to shoulder was the Kaihuang Era, to prevent its destruction, while what Qin Mu wanted to shoulder was the present world, the Yinkang Era.
Yinkang now seemed very safe, the people living and working in peace. However, Qin Mu knew deeply that danger was approaching step by step, threats were quietly descending—the demons of the Supreme Heavenly Heaven, the stone statues within Yinkang's borders, the false sky, the distant Upper Firmament in the Western Lands...
Including the remnants of the Chiming Era, all were threats!
The Yinkang Era had only just begun to show its potential, and it could be reduced to ashes at any moment!
Yinkang, this newly born era, had not yet risen before it was already precarious, on the verge of collapse and destruction at any time.
It was precisely this state of mind that allowed him to unleash the power of the First Ancestor's Heaven and Earth Seal Technique.
Under the might of the Seal Technique, Qin Mu was not just like a stabilizing pillar in the sea, but more like a pillar supporting the stability of heaven and earth. What he wanted to do in his heart was to eliminate the calamities that might come in the future, to prevent the history of eras collapsing one after another from repeating itself!
Although he had a melancholy state of mind, he did not possess the decadence and dejection that the First Ancestor, the Human Sovereign, carried. With the same Heaven and Earth Seal, his Seal Technique contained a spirit of vigorous striving, a spirit of rising up and forging ahead even stronger when danger descended!
This was the difference between him and the First Ancestor, the Human Sovereign!
It was also the reason why the First Ancestor, the Human Sovereign, turned around and was stunned upon seeing this seal.
Qin Mu executed his Heaven and Earth Seal Technique move by move. The First Ancestor's Seal Technique was quite different from the Seal Techniques Qin Mu had seen before. His Seal Techniques all required both hands, one seal for Heaven, one seal for Earth.
The Heaven Seal: the lines in the palm were the clouds in the sky, the fingerprints were the sun, moon, or the five luminaries and stars.
The Earth Seal: the lines in the palm were rivers and mountains, the fingerprints were lakes and seas.
When the Heaven Seal vibrated, the clouds changed, the five luminaries, sun, and moon revolved, and the five fingers erupted with the power of the five luminaries, five elements, or the sun and moon.
When the Earth Seal vibrated, rivers surged, mountains rose and fell, and each finger seemed to contain an ocean, with boundless power.
And when Heaven collapsed and Earth split, the power became even more terrifying. Within the Earth Seal were hidden earth, water, wind, and fire, while the Heaven Seal caused the stars to shift and collide with the earth.
As for the Seal Technique transforming into the Annihilation Seal Technique, its power increased many times over, but that was already a divine ability from the Three Techniques of Heaven's Fall, not to be used lightly.
After a long time, Qin Mu withdrew his stance. The phenomena of heaven collapsing and earth splitting around him disappeared.
"You've learned it. You've used it very well."
The First Ancestor, the Human Sovereign, showed a gratified smile and said, "Apply what you've learned. I look forward to my Seal Technique flourishing in your hands."
Qin Mu still carried a temperament that was both melancholy and striving. He had been influenced by the Heaven and Earth Seal, and it would take some time for him to emerge from that state of mind and eliminate its effects.
"Eh, this Seal Technique is strange!"
Qin Mu looked around and saw that the Imperial Garden was still completely intact, not a single flower or tree missing. Yet when he had just executed the Heaven and Earth Seal Technique, its power was clearly earth-shattering, capable of shattering both the sky and the ground!
He had originally thought that Emperor Yanfeng's Imperial Garden would be completely demolished by his Heaven and Earth Seal, but it was unharmed. Could the terrifying power he had felt within the Heaven and Earth Seal have just been an illusion?
"The spirit of the Heaven and Earth Seal is to support and rectify heaven and earth, to be an unyielding pillar for the world, to establish a destiny for the people. How could it possibly destroy heaven and earth?"
The First Ancestor, the Human Sovereign, said, "All the power of this Seal Technique will only fall upon the enemy, not damage the surroundings."
Qin Mu felt a slight regret and said, "First Ancestor, your Seal Technique isn't fierce enough. When I practiced it, I felt a grand power, but it couldn't even break the emperor's vegetable garden."
The First Ancestor, the Human Sovereign, was choked with anger, pointing at him, unable to speak for a long time. Finally, he said angrily, "I fought my way up eight hundred levels of the Chiming Town Heavenly Tower in one go. Didn't you see the power of my Seal Technique?"
Qin Mu honestly shook his head and said guiltily, "I was only focused on studying the runes of the Creation Divine Wheel, so I didn't watch. Bangu Gongcuo was the one staring the whole time. Besides, defeating Chixi is nothing special. Your cultivation level is much higher than his; defeating him was only natural..."
The First Ancestor, the Human Sovereign, slumped his shoulders and said dejectedly, "I wasn't fighting him; I was fighting the Chiming Town Heavenly Tower. If I wanted to fight him, he would have died with my first move. So it seems my eight hundred levels were fought in vain..."
Qin Mu quickly said, "First Ancestor, don't be sad. Although your Seal Technique is not as good as my sword technique, it can still be very powerful after some modifications. I guarantee it can break the emperor's vegetable garden. I'll revise it later, and it will be majestic and domineering!"
The First Ancestor walked away weakly, waving his hand, "Do whatever you want with it. I... sigh."
He sighed, feeling a deep sense of powerlessness. After walking a long way, he still couldn't rest easy about Qin Mu messing with his Seal Technique. He secretly looked back, only to see Qin Mu still experimenting with the Creation runes. He breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a little lost.
"He didn't continue practicing my Seal Technique. Is my Seal Technique really that unsightly?"
A few days later, the imperial court and Chixi finalized the terms and signed an alliance. Several items on the list Qin Mu had drawn up were rejected by Chixi, but most were agreed to. However, Chixi demanded that Emperor Yanfeng establish academies and schools in the territory of the Chiming remnants to teach the Yinkang Dao techniques and divine abilities to the Chiming people.
Emperor Yanfeng agreed, designating a large area of land near the Great Ruins in the southern border for the Chiming remnants to inhabit and multiply.
The Creation Divine Wheel, which Qin Mu had insisted on obtaining, was also promised by Chixi.
Qin Mu was overjoyed and immediately went with Chixi to the Southern Sea to haul the Creation Divine Wheel back to the capital, afraid that Chixi might change his mind.
Bangu Gongcuo, seeing that Chixi had agreed to most of Qin Mu's conditions and handed over many treasures from the undersea divine city to the Yinkang Kingdom, felt a pang of pain and said, "Teacher, this is an alliance, not a surrender. Teacher has given too many benefits to Emperor Yanfeng! There are hundreds of thousands of divine weapons and artifacts! Especially the Creation Divine Wheel, which is a treasure among treasures. How can it be given to Yinkang?"
Chixi sneered and said, "This Lord Qin Mu is just a country bumpkin who hasn't seen the world. The emperor is also inexperienced. You are the same."
Bangu Gongcuo was puzzled and said, "Please enlighten me, Teacher."
"Divine weapons and artifacts were all forged during the Chiming Era. How wealthy was the Heavenly Court back then? A few hundred thousand divine weapons are nothing; they are just the inventory of one treasury in the Heavenly Palace."
Chixi said calmly, "As for the Creation Divine Wheel, it did indeed take a great deal of effort for my Chiming Divine Dynasty to forge. It would be impossible to forge another one, as the blueprints are lost, and there are no longer so many skilled craftsmen. However, this wheel was always just a key for unsealing! My people of the Chiming Divine Dynasty have all been unsealed. Keeping this wheel is useless. Instead, I have secured a large territory! Having a foothold in the ancestral land for the Chiming Divine Dynasty is the most important thing. We can gradually encroach and expand our territory! Once we learn the Dao techniques and divine abilities of Yinkang, can Yinkang still resist the gods and demons of my Chiming Divine Dynasty?"
Bangu Gongcuo's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands in admiration.
Chixi smiled and said, "The height of one's standing determines what one sees. Disciple, your previous standing was only as high as a chicken coop. You thought scratching for worms in the dirt was good, but for an eagle in the sky, scratching for worms in the dirt is just what chickens do."
Bangu Gongcuo prostrated himself and said sincerely, "Teacher's lesson is well taken. How ridiculous that Lord Qin Mu thinks he has gotten the better of me, smug and self-satisfied!"
Chixi laughed and said, "That's because his vision and knowledge are limited, so he cannot see the big picture. But Emperor Yanfeng is the emperor of the Yinkang Era. I didn't expect him to be so shortsighted as well. It's beneath my contempt. Such an emperor is not worthy of ruling this land. Come, let's go see Emperor Yanfeng. I have something to discuss with him."
The master and disciple went to the palace to request an audience. Yan Zhigui hurriedly welcomed them and said, "His Majesty is in the Imperial Garden, watching Lord Qin test a treasure. Please follow me."
Chixi followed him to the Imperial Garden. From a distance, he saw the massive Creation Divine Wheel standing on a rockery, surrounded by high walls to block outsiders.
When they entered, he saw three or five gods, who appeared to be civil officials, standing around the Creation Divine Wheel with Emperor Yanfeng and others. The First Ancestor, the Human Sovereign, was also among them.
Nearby, the Empress was there with Princess Ling Yuxiu and other princesses and the young prince, attended by a dozen palace maids.
Inside the Creation Divine Wheel, Qin Mu had taken out a large pile of computational spirit weapons, forming a giant computational tool, and was constantly calculating, tinkering with something unknown.
"Your Majesty."
Chixi stepped forward to pay his respects and said, "Since the alliance has been signed, I will leave Yinkang to see the Divine Son. This foreign minister signed the alliance with Your Majesty, but the Divine Son still needs to be informed. I request that Your Majesty send envoys to the Chiming Floating Realm to see the Divine Son."
"That is only proper."
Emperor Yanfeng laughed and said, "After Lord Qin has finished testing the Creation Divine Wheel, I will send a few envoys to accompany Daoist Chixi to the Floating Realm. Daoist Chixi, please wait a moment."
Chixi acknowledged and stood by with a smile, quietly watching Qin Mu calculate within the wheel.
Bangu Gongcuo smiled, feeling relaxed and at ease, thinking to himself, "I've heard that Emperor Yanfeng is a fatuous and tyrannical ruler who loves to order beheadings. When he finds out that the Creation Divine Wheel, obtained at great cost, is useless, he will surely cut off this fellow's head!"
Inside the Creation Divine Wheel, Qin Mu calculated for a long time before suddenly putting away the computational spirit weapons and laughing, "I'm absolutely certain now!"
Chixi laughed and said, "Young friend Qin, if you want to activate the divine wheel of my Chiming Era, you might as well ask me. I can teach you."
Qin Mu shook his head, trying to light up the activation runes on the wheel, and shook his head, "You don't understand. Asking you would be useless."
Chixi was not angry at all and laughed, "That's not the activation rune, Young friend Qin. You've miscalculated."
"No, I haven't."
Qin Mu floated within the wheel. One by one, the runes on the Creation Divine Wheel lit up, flowing and changing like water. Then, large wheels nested within small wheels, and layers of divine wheels began to spin continuously. Unlike when Chixi had activated it, these wheels were spinning in reverse!
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
The Creation Divine Wheel spun faster and faster, and beams of runic light shone in all directions, rapidly sweeping over everyone in the large courtyard!
Suddenly, a crackling sound was heard. Chixi quickly looked and saw that the bodies of Emperor Yanfeng and the others were changing rapidly. Emperor Yanfeng, usually majestic and extraordinary, had now grown a fish head!
As for the gods beside Emperor Yanfeng, some had heads that turned into tree canopies, some into jellyfish. Even the Empress had turned into a massive sea beast!
Chixi was stunned. He quickly looked at Bangu Gongcuo, who was already lying on the ground, having turned into a large sea snake, wriggling his body!
Chixi hurriedly touched his own head and let out a startled cry. His own head had also turned into three huge fish heads!
Not only that, but his primordial spirit had also changed accordingly. The power he had cultivated through hundreds of thousands of years of bitter practice was completely unusable!
Chixi panicked, watching helplessly as his legs turned into a fish tail. Among everyone present, except for Qin Mu in the center of the wheel, only the First Ancestor had not been assimilated by the Creation Divine Wheel, but even his body was changing with a thumping sound, sometimes growing fish scales, sometimes growing gills!
Clearly, even the First Ancestor, the Human Sovereign, could not completely block the power of this divine wheel!
This was not a divine ability that could cause great harm to others, but a strange creative force. The First Ancestor could resist it only because he had also studied the art of creation.
"Damn it!"
Chixi suddenly realized, "No wonder this bastard surnamed Qin insisted on having the Creation Divine Wheel! When this bastard set his sights on my Soul-Severing Mysterious Blade, I should have known that his eyes were as sharp as an old thief's!"
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