Chapter 686: Heavenly Yin Empress
Wu Qu was terrified. He was enormous in front of Qin Mu, but before this chubby baby face, he appeared pitifully small.
The chubby baby’s hand reached out and grabbed him. No matter how vast his divine abilities, he couldn’t struggle free, and the chubby baby brought him toward its mouth.
“My brother and I share the same name.”
Before dying, he heard Qin Mu’s voice: “Because we share one soul and one body.”
The chubby baby swallowed him in one gulp, chewing vigorously, then suddenly excitedly reached for Qin Mu: “Bad little brother, die!”
At that moment, Qin Mu’s physical body took out a willow leaf and gently pressed it against his brow.
Before the chubby baby could grab Qin Mu, an invisible force suddenly swept in, rolling it up and pulling it into the abyss.
“Bad little brother—”
The chubby baby fell for a long time before suddenly landing with a heavy thud, sitting on the ground. It looked around and found itself back in the seal of the Qin Continent. The white-bearded old man and the Red Emperor were hiding from it among the Qin mountain range.
“Bad little brother! If I catch you, I’ll eat you!”
The chubby baby flew into a rage, crawling on all fours into the Qin mountains, intending to first vent its anger on the Heavenly Duke’s incarnation and the Red Emperor’s consciousness: “First beat the old man, then beat the three-headed one!”
The two hurriedly dodged. The Heavenly Duke’s incarnation said, “No need to fear him. This is the Tu Bo seal; it constantly shifts. He can’t catch us!”
The Red Emperor said, “You said the same thing last time, and then you got caught.”
“This time will definitely be different!”
Qin Mu returned to his main body and let out a sigh of relief. Ahead, Wu Qu’s corpse sank, and the dark Nether Realm vanished.
Qin Mu looked up and smiled: “Heavenly Yin Empress, we finally meet. But don’t be sad; my divine abilities might be able to gather the souls that were devoured…”
Just as he said this, the Heavenly Yin Empress, standing in the sea, lifted her foot and stepped toward him.
Qin Mu’s hair stood on end. Without even time to use his abilities, he turned and sprinted across the bridge. He quickly reached the Kai Huang divine being, grabbed him without explanation, and ran.
Behind them came the thunderous crash of a palace collapsing. The Heavenly Yin Empress had missed her step and turned to chase them.
Her body towered beyond the heavens. With each step, she covered hundreds of miles. Though her footfalls weren’t fast, her movement speed was unmatched by anyone else!
“It’s those starving ghosts controlling this lady’s body!”
Qin Mu quickly deduced why the Heavenly Yin Empress’s shell was attacking them. Without hesitation, he took out the Book of Life and Death and shone it toward the majestic goddess. He thought to himself, “The Heavenly Yin Empress has already been eaten by these starving ghosts. This Heavenly Yin Empress is actually a starving ghost occupying her body! In other words, the Heavenly Yin Empress is now a starving ghost.”
The Book of Life and Death shone, but the goddess only paused briefly. Black smoke spewed from her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, then she lifted her foot again and chased after Qin Mu and the Kai Huang divine being.
“She’s too big! The Book of Life and Death can’t illuminate her entire body!”
Qin Mu controlled the Book of Life and Death with his primal energy, letting it float behind his head as he sprinted wildly, pushing the Thief God’s Leg Technique taught to him by the Cripple to its limits. His speed increased again and again!
“Senior, run!” Qin Mu dragged the Kai Huang divine being, finding it somewhat difficult to fully unleash his speed, and quickly urged.
Suddenly, the Kai Huang divine being broke into a sprint, moving much faster than Qin Mu, kicking up dust and leaving him far behind.
Qin Mu was stunned, then angrily shouted, “No loyalty! I at least shed a few tears for you! Since you can run so fast, you should take me with you!”
Suddenly, the Heavenly Yin Empress reached out her hand to grab him. As her hand descended from beyond the heavens into the atmosphere of the Heavenly Yin Realm, it rubbed violently against the air, igniting blazing flames around her palm, yet it didn’t burn her at all.
Her hand was like a massive continent falling from the sky, reaching for Qin Mu.
Behind Qin Mu, the Book of Life and Death blazed with light. Before the Heavenly Yin Empress’s hand even arrived, her fingers began to soften one by one, as if deflating.
But even so, when the palm fell, it would still be enough to trap Qin Mu beneath it!
Just as Qin Mu was about to be covered by this continent-sized hand, countless runes swirled around him. In an instant, his teleportation ability erupted. The runes spun madly around him like countless yellow paper talismans. When they turned to ash and vanished, Qin Mu disappeared with them.
The next moment, Qin Mu appeared a thousand miles away. Then, countless runes swirled around him again, and he vanished once more, reappearing another thousand miles away.
His form flickered repeatedly, burning through his cultivation to escape the Heavenly Yin Realm before she could catch him.
Behind him, the Crouching Wave Bridge kept collapsing under the Heavenly Yin Empress’s steps. This long bridge simply couldn’t withstand the stomps of this innate divine being.
Now, Qin Mu was not far from the shore. Just then, countless sea monsters and ghosts leaped like phantoms, swarming onto Qin Mu just as he was about to teleport again.
“Get off me!”
Qin Mu activated the Book of Life and Death. With a hum, countless monsters fell as empty skins. But above his head, the Heavenly Yin Empress’s hand slammed down hard!
Boom!
The sea in the Heavenly Yin Realm trembled violently, and the land on the shore shook continuously. Horrifying cracks spread in all directions. Thunderous roars came from everywhere, and magma erupted from the fissures, though even the magma here was a dull gray.
The Heavenly Yin Empress raised her hand. Beneath her palm, the bridge was broken, the sea was pushed aside, revealing a completely dry seabed. The original seawater had been evaporated entirely!
Just as her palm lifted, countless runes swirled beneath it. At the center of the runes was a massive sword pellet, like a metal ball. Now, the sword pellet had been crushed flat by half!
Whoosh—
The runes burned, and the metal ball vanished. The next moment, it appeared in the seaside town.
The Heavenly Yin Empress was puzzled. She didn’t see Qin Mu teleport away. She searched around but still couldn’t find him.
In the town, the Kai Huang divine being cautiously poked his head out. He saw the sword pellet bouncing and clanging around the seaside town, with Qin Mu hiding inside it, rolling rapidly. The metal ball bounced up and down.
Inside the sword pellet, Qin Mu had erected the Carefree Sword, using it as an axis to prop up the sword pellet. The Heavenly Yin Empress had nearly flattened him along with the sword pellet, but he had used the Carefree Sword to support it, saving himself from being crushed to death.
Still, the sword pellet had been deformed.
When the sword pellet bounced again, the metal ball split apart with a whoosh, dividing into eight thousand swords. Qin Mu leaped out, stretching his body. He raised one hand, and the eight thousand swords clanged together, forming a small sword pellet that landed in his palm.
Suddenly, a crack sounded from his palm. The small sword pellet exploded, turning into countless particles of dust that fell to the ground, rustling as they landed.
Qin Mu’s face darkened as he looked at his palm. Besides the Carefree Sword, all that remained was a pile of metal dust.
He had withstood the Heavenly Yin Empress’s palm strike and hadn’t been crushed to death, but the sword pellet he used to block that strike had been shattered into pieces!
Earlier, his primal energy had supported it, but when he retracted the sword pellet, his primal energy naturally relaxed, and the sword pellet could no longer hold together, exploding into powder.
“Out with the old, in with the new…”
Qin Mu still felt a pang of pain. This was the spiritual weapon he had forged as a cultivator, the one most compatible with him, the one he planned to use for a lifetime. And now, it had been smashed to dust.
What made it worse was that the materials needed to forge these spiritual weapons had been bought from Si Yunxiang by selling everything he had, even his own possessions.
To achieve the level of swords flowing like water, he had used the demonic fire of Li City and Li Fire to temper them together, finally completing the sword pellet. This time, aside from the Carefree Sword, all the other flying swords were destroyed. How could he not feel the loss?
“Fortunately, I embezzled a lot of Buddha Essence Red Chrome from the Emperor Shakra Buddha. This metal is a unique divine metal from the Buddha Realm. I took enough to forge another sword pellet!”
Qin Mu exhaled a turbid breath and looked at the Heavenly Yin Empress, who was still searching the seaside. This empress was towering and still looking for him.
The Kai Huang divine being ran out again and approached Qin Mu.
Qin Mu’s face darkened, still somewhat indignant: “No loyalty!”
The Kai Huang divine being looked embarrassed. He reached out to pull Qin Mu, making running motions, but couldn’t budge him. He shrugged helplessly.
“I see.”
Qin Mu suddenly understood: “You have no divine power, no physical body, and no primordial spirit. That’s why you couldn’t carry me. Alright, I’m not angry anymore. I need your help to find a high place where the Book of Life and Death can shine on the Heavenly Yin Empress’s face.”
The Kai Huang divine being immediately ran out of the town. Seeing that Qin Mu wasn’t following, he stopped and waved.
Qin Mu quickly caught up, and the two sped away. Before long, they arrived at a tall tower by the sea. Qin Mu looked up and was horrified. This tower was far too tall. The dimness of the Heavenly Yin Realm made it hard to see far, but even with his Nine Heavens Eye-Opening Technique, he could only see a few dozen miles. Yet when he looked up, he couldn’t see the top.
Gray mist swirled around the tower’s waist. He had no idea how tall this tower was.
The tower seemed to be made of some divine metal, giving off a dark metallic luster.
“What is this tower used for? It must be much taller than the Red Bright Town Heaven Tower in the hands of the Red Stream divine being.”
As he thought this, the Kai Huang divine being leaped nimbly, climbing up the tower’s eaves layer by layer. Qin Mu activated the Thief God’s Leg Technique and sprinted up the tower. One leaped, the other ran, both heading for the top.
By the time Qin Mu reached the top of the tower, the Kai Huang divine being was already waiting there, clearly much faster.
Qin Mu silently praised him. He took out the Book of Life and Death and placed it in the Kai Huang divine being’s hands, saying, “I’ll stand on the spire and perform the ritual. You stay here. When I lure the Heavenly Yin Empress over, open the Book of Life and Death and shine it on her.”
The Kai Huang divine being nodded repeatedly. Just as Qin Mu was about to jump from the top to the spire, he heard a slap behind him. He quickly turned around and saw the Kai Huang divine being opening the Book of Life and Death, glancing at the golden book, and then deflating like a punctured balloon.
Qin Mu was both amused and exasperated. He picked up the Book of Life and Death, which was still shining on him.
Without the Book of Life and Death’s light, black sand surged and drilled into the Kai Huang divine being’s human skin, quickly inflating him again.
Qin Mu handed the Book of Life and Death back to him, saying, “This is the front! This is the back! Don’t get it reversed, or we’re both dead!”
The Kai Huang divine being nodded repeatedly and patted his chest.
Qin Mu took a deep breath and shouted loudly, “Heavenly Yin Empress, I’m here!”
His voice echoed far and wide. Then, he rubbed his hands together, transforming his primal energy into Vermilion Bird primal energy, and conjured a massive fireball. It blazed like the sun, illuminating the surroundings.
All was silent. The Kai Huang divine being gripped the Book of Life and Death nervously, not daring to be careless.
Just then, the earth shook violently, and the heavy sound of footsteps came.