Chapter 738: Qin Mu and the Emperor of Opening Heavens Collide (Please Vote for Monthly Tickets!)
The Yao Pool Grand Assembly was originally bustling with people coming and going, crowded everywhere. When Qin Mu sent the Fire Heavenly Lord flying, an uproar immediately erupted. The crowd buzzed with discussion, and more and more people surged over.
Sending the Fire Heavenly Lord flying was something a demigod could accomplish, but something a divine ability practitioner absolutely could not.
The Fire Heavenly Lord was one of the pioneers of the Divine Treasury cultivation system; he had opened up the Heavenly Human Divine Treasury. Blessed by the ancient gods, his cultivation was formidable, and only the other six Heavenly Lords could match him.
Moreover, the Fire Heavenly Lord was by no means the weakest among the Seven Heavenly Lords.
The Fire Heavenly Lord had mastered the power of flame, and his attainments in fire-based divine abilities were unmatched. How could it not cause a stir that he was casually sent flying by Qin Mu?
"Equal to the gods?"
Qin Mu paid no heed to the surging crowd and tilted his head in thought. How had the definition of "god" come about?
If achieving immortality could be called being a god, then cultivating the art of creation could indeed be considered godhood.
The art of creation could make one's physical body immortal, keeping all bodily organs in a state of perpetual youth. In terms of lifespan, it could already stand alongside the ancient gods.
As for the method pioneered by the Imperial Heavenly Lord, it should be the later Heavenly Palace cultivation system, which also granted physical immortality.
The two methods had their differences. The Heavenly Palace cultivation system had clear realm divisions, climbing step by step from one realm to the next, all the way to the Imperial Throne.
The art of creation, on the other hand, lacked such clear divisions. It relied more on using divine abilities to alter the structure of the physical body, keeping oneself perpetually young.
However, the art of creation was far more difficult to cultivate and, being merely a divine ability, could not be widely promoted and accepted by the world like the Heavenly Palace cultivation system.
"The art of creation has too many limitations."
Having figured this out, Qin Mu said to the Ling Heavenly Lord, "Sister Ling, although the art of creation can be called godhood, it cannot compare to the method pioneered by the Imperial Heavenly Lord. It's not that it lacks power, but that it's too difficult to learn."
The Ling Heavenly Lord smiled and said, "Those are all mediocrities. We seek the Dao; why bother with mediocrities? Your art of creation can indeed help me perfect my divine abilities. We must study it thoroughly!"
She pulled Qin Mu by one hand and pushed through the crowd. Just then, with a thunderous boom, the Fire Heavenly Lord flew back, flames blazing all around him, causing the air to explode from the heat. He shouted, "I was careless and let you send me flying! Brat, let's go again!"
Qin Mu had one hand held by the Ling Heavenly Lord, while his other five hands moved swiftly, meeting the Fire Heavenly Lord's attack. With another thunderous boom, the Fire Heavenly Lord was sent flying once more.
The Emperor of Opening Heavens was furious and lowered his voice, shouting, "I told you not to make a move! How much more of a commotion do you want to cause?"
Qin Mu was also somewhat annoyed. "He attacked me. If I didn't defend myself, wouldn't I get hurt? If it were you, would you not resist and willingly take the beating?"
The Emperor of Opening Heavens frowned. The Fire Heavenly Lord charged again, his anger blazing, and shouted, "Everyone, scatter! There are too many people; I can't fully unleash my power!"
The crowd dispersed with a roar, leaving an open space.
The Emperor of Opening Heavens quickly said, "Fire Heavenly Lord, this is all a misunderstanding..."
The Fire Heavenly Lord's flames burned fiercely, his body growing larger and larger until he became a twelve-zhang giant, with fire dragons coiled around him, radiating immense power.
The Emperor of Opening Heavens frowned deeply. The Fire Heavenly Lord clearly had considerable skill in both fire-based and physical divine abilities, though in his eyes, it was still somewhat shallow.
Qin Mu pulled his hand free from the Ling Heavenly Lord and said calmly, "Sister, step back a few paces first. What do you expect me to do?"
His second sentence was directed at the Emperor of Opening Heavens.
The Emperor of Opening Heavens stood still, staring intently at him, and said flatly, "If you cause too big a commotion, who knows what changes will come in the future? Neither you nor I know."
"Hesitating and worrying—that's you."
Qin Mu also stood motionless, a faint, mocking smile on his face. "I'm not like you. I don't have as many burdens as you do. Whoever hits me, I'll hit back!"
The Fire Heavenly Lord charged in. Suddenly, a twelve-zhang primordial spirit appeared behind Qin Mu, standing tall with three heads and six arms, forcing the Fire Heavenly Lord back.
Behind the Emperor of Opening Heavens, a twelve-zhang primordial spirit also emerged, blocking the attack of Qin Mu's primordial spirit. Unable to suppress his anger, he laughed heartily and said, "I knew you had it in for me, always subtly provoking me. Since that's the case, let's fight!"
The anger Qin Mu had harbored toward the Emperor of Opening Heavens could no longer be contained. His aura exploded, and a tidal wave of blood energy surged into the sky, sweeping through the clouds and wind!
His twelve-zhang, three-headed, six-armed primordial spirit stood within the tidal wave of blood energy, and his three faces roared like thunder: "Fight if you want! You think I'm afraid of you? Come on—"
All around, countless ancient divine ability practitioners stood dumbfounded, staring blankly at the spectacle in the sky, unable to snap out of it.
Powerful. Too powerful.
In this era, no one had ever seen such a powerful divine ability practitioner!
The Fire Heavenly Lord charged again but suddenly saw Qin Mu's primordial spirit standing like a god or demon in the torrent of blood energy. His face turned pale. "Impossible... There can't be such a powerful divine ability practitioner..."
The Emperor of Opening Heavens was furious, and his aura also exploded violently. He roared, "You're giving up on yourself! I can't let you run wild!"
Boom—
His blood energy pierced the sky, and his primordial spirit leaped, stepping onto the blood energy. The domineering aura of a hero who had founded an era was on full display!
Their primordial spirits and blood energies stood in opposition, their momentum suppressing the Yao Pool Grand Assembly, shocking all the divine ability practitioners present. They could only stare blankly at the thrilling scene in midair!
The Imperial Heavenly Lord and several Heavenly Lords were discussing matters in the Yao Pool Golden Hall. They were also startled and came out of the hall, looking up, their eyes wide with astonishment.
Such powerful primordial spirits, such formidable blood energy, gave a sense of grandeur and tragedy!
The Ling Heavenly Lord also looked up, deeply shocked, and murmured, "So powerful... How did they cultivate..."
Behind her came the distressed voice of the old ox, who stomped his foot and said, "What to do, what to do! Both of them have tempers like oxen... No, like donkeys! Oxen have good tempers! If they fight, it'll be a disaster..."
The Ling Heavenly Lord asked in confusion, "Didn't you come together? Aren't you friends?"
Ox Three Heads sighed and shook his head. "They both want to be friends, but they're both too proud. Neither is willing to lower their head..."
In the sky, there was a thunderous rumble. The primordial spirits of Qin Mu and the Emperor of Opening Heavens suddenly erupted with divine abilities. The magnificent power of those abilities instantly stirred up a hurricane in the sky, blowing in all directions. The clouds in the sky were swept clean by the spatial fluctuations in an instant, vanishing without a trace!
For the first time, the sky became so azure.
The next moment, countless bolts of lightning crackled and struck down from midair, raining like a storm!
"Your divine abilities aren't bad."
Below, the Emperor of Opening Heavens suddenly exerted force and charged at Qin Mu, sneering, "But your understanding of divine abilities is still far off!"
His hands flipped, and his divine abilities condensed, hidden within a single palm. As his sleeves fluttered, countless tiny divine abilities spun around him.
He was the founder of an era. Although he was still in the youth of his life, his heroic ambition and strategy were on full display. The most magnificent and enchanting divine abilities of the Opening Heavens Era were created by him, supporting an entire era!
He was the originator of the most primitive version of the "Overlord Body Three Elixir Technique" that Qin Mu cultivated. The myriad divine abilities in the Great Nurturing Demon Sutra had countless sequences, all organized by the Woodcutter from the Emperor of Opening Heavens' divine abilities.
In the treasure ship corridor of his father Qin Han Zhen, Qin Mu had learned the method of highly condensing divine ability power, which also originated from the Emperor of Opening Heavens.
The power of a divine ability could unleash a magnificent force capable of destroying an area over ten li in radius, concentrated into a tiny space. The destructive power of such concentrated force against an enemy was immeasurable!
Qin Mu let out a long howl. While others had seven divine treasuries, he had fourteen, divided into two categories: god and demon. Except for the Life and Death and Divine Bridge divine treasuries, which were not yet opened, his other ten divine treasuries were all open.
And these ten divine treasuries had been fused into one.
His primordial energy flowed like a waterfall, surging through this magnificent divine treasury like thousands of pillars or torrents, roaring as they ran, crisscrossing between heaven and earth within the treasury.
Because his divine treasuries were integrated, his primordial energy moved faster than the Emperor of Opening Heavens', more violently, with stronger explosive power and greater might!
Although he was inferior to the Emperor of Opening Heavens in terms of divine ability skill, he was not afraid of a head-on collision!
The two collided with a boom. The power of their divine abilities erupted at the moment of impact. Beneath their feet, the white jade slabs instantly floated up, layer by layer, circling outward. The divine ability practitioners standing in the distance were also lifted by the slabs beneath their feet and involuntarily tumbled away!
Boom, boom, boom! Countless impacts sounded like a chain of thunderclaps. In the midst of the thunderous noise, two figures were sent flying, crashing into the walls of two great halls a hundred li apart with the speed of comets striking the earth!
In the sky, the two majestic primordial spirits moved at the speed of light and electricity, hurling all kinds of divine abilities at each other without restraint, leaving dazzling streaks of light and shadow across the sky.
In the sky, light and shadow intertwined, and various phenomena burst forth: galloping dragons, soaring phoenixes, thousands of flying swords, blades splitting the sky, mountain-like fist seals, vast rivers, spinning bells...
Accompanying these phenomena were all kinds of wondrous sounds—the Dao tones emitted when divine abilities erupted!
The roofs of the two great halls exploded with a crash. Qin Mu and the Emperor of Opening Heavens each shot into the air, landing on the halls with a swoosh, a hundred li apart, facing each other.
Their eyes met.
"Yaaaaah—"
Qin Mu let out a fierce roar, his aura surging to the heavens. Suddenly, he left the hall and strode through the air, covering a li with each step. Where his foot pressed on the air, a huge footprint appeared on the ground below!
He ran through the air like a fleeting shadow, throwing countless punches with each stride. In front of him, fist seals compressed the air into solid forms, massive fists hurtling toward the Emperor of Opening Heavens at astonishing speed. The fist seals multiplied, forming an increasingly thick wall!
Old Ox's heart pounded with fear, and he quickly shouted, "Qin Ye... Qin Kai, don't fight him head-on! His martial arts skills have reached the pinnacle!"
On the other side of the hall, the Emperor of Opening Heavens ignored Old Ox's words. He moved, charging straight at Qin Mu. His hands fluttered like dancing butterflies, and countless tiny divine abilities flew from his fingers, fingertips, palms, and sleeves. In front of him appeared pavilions, tripods, bells, pagodas, swords, spears, sabers, halberds, dragons, tigers, basilisks, vermilion birds—all kinds of divine objects, radiating terrifying power and flickering with uncertain light!
It was an incredibly terrifying fluctuation of power, concealing immense and dreadful might.
Old Ox's hair stood on end, and he shouted, "Mu Qing, don't fight him head-on! Qin Kai's divine ability skills have been refined to the pinnacle!"
In midair, an incredibly terrifying fluctuation came. Fists and divine abilities collided. In an instant, two young figures crashed together. A blinding white light burst from the center of their collision, like an extremely sharp blade, slicing straight across the center of the Yao Pool Treasure Island in both directions with a swoosh!
The earth trembled, mountains and halls shook. A chasm split the Yao Pool Treasure Island in two, the crack neat and orderly, growing larger, longer, and wider!
Whoosh—
A gale swept in all directions. The glazed tiles on countless halls were instantly lifted, exposing the beams. Countless green tiles formed a jadeite cloud, flying in all directions.
"Primordial spirit, enter the apertures!"
Two voices rang out simultaneously. The tidal wave of blood energy in the sky crashed down with a roar. The primordial spirits of Qin Mu and the Emperor of Opening Heavens returned to their bodies almost at the same time.
Their auras were fierce and unyielding. Qin Mu's physical body swelled section by section, growing taller and taller until it reached twelve zhang, standing like a god or demon.
His six arms exerted force, muscles bulging with crackling sounds. His three heads roared, and his six palms slammed onto the ground.
"Refine treasures into weapons!"
The earth shook. In the midst of the tremors, halls collapsed. Bronze pillars shot into the sky with a whoosh, melting in flames, transforming into flying spiritual weapons, flying swords darting through the air at high speed!
On the other side, the Emperor of Opening Heavens suddenly clasped his hands together in front of his chest, his aura exploding. Other halls crumbled and floated, disintegrating. Divine metals and materials transformed into various forms in flight—thousands of dragons, ten thousand phoenixes, all kinds of exotic treasures—hurtling forward.
These were the spiritual weapon forms his divine abilities had taken after being fixed.
The two had fought with real fire, and the means they used now had gone beyond the concept of sparring.
Old Ox's head ached. He shielded the Ling Heavenly Lord and shouted, "Qin Kai, don't fight him! He's an Overlord Body; you can't outmatch him!"
The Emperor of Opening Heavens ignored him. Old Ox shouted again, "Mu Qing, stop now! His divine abilities are boundless; one tiny flaw and he'll kill you! Don't forget, his strongest skill is swordsmanship—divine abilities are just a decoy!"
In the sky, their peerless divine abilities shocked everyone on the entire island, leaving countless ancient divine ability practitioners dumbfounded. And these two men's divine abilities were about to collide.
"Both of you!"
Ox Three Duo finally couldn't hold back. A world-shaking roar came from his mouth: "Haven't you two caused enough trouble? I'm getting angry!"
The Ling Heavenly Lord was watching excitedly when suddenly her expression froze. Beside her, this old man suddenly erupted with an earth-shattering aura. The space around him cracked and shattered with a crackling sound.
The Ling Heavenly Lord stared blankly at the old man, whose body grew taller and taller. His physical form, as powerful as an ancient god's, had already pierced the clouds. Old Ox was furious, and his voice resounded through the heavenly court, causing the waters of the Heavenly River to surge and churn violently!
In the sky, cracks in space appeared everywhere.
This Yao Pool Treasure Island could barely contain this old man's physical body!
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