Chapter 790: Primordial Magnetic Rampage
This voice came from underground, traveling through the earth, drifting and elusive, sneering coldly: "You felled my primordial tree, sword-cut my heart, seized my physical body to nurture a false spirit. A pity—once the primordial tree is felled, it becomes a rootless tree. Born from a rootless tree, you can never become the new Earth Mother. A fake is a fake, and can never become real!"
Upon hearing this, Qin Mu immediately slapped the Dragon Qilin's head and muttered in a low voice, "Fat Dragon, turn around and run—"
The Dragon Qilin reacted swiftly, turning on the spot and bolting. The Water Qilin, still kneeling on the ground and holding the rope, was dragged along, tumbling and rolling, yet still refusing to let go of the rope.
Imperial Heaven quickly said, "A-Shui, run with us."
The Water Qilin came to his senses, quickly released the rope, shook his body to reveal his true form, and followed the Dragon Qilin.
Feng Qiuyun hurriedly asked, "That voice underground is the Earth Mother—why are we running? Stop! I still need to deal with that little wretch Qi Xiayu!"
Just as she said this, the earth rumbled violently. The underground voice laughed, a laugh filled with bitterness and fury: "You have no idea why I am called the Earth Mother! The Earth Mother's power does not come from the tree trunk and canopy above the surface—it comes from the roots!"
The Dragon Qilin, in the midst of his frantic escape, suddenly saw the ground beneath him split open. Countless massive roots writhed and tunneled through the earth, like black-brown dragons.
The entire Jade Capital City suddenly collapsed, sinking into the ground. Many demigods, divine clans, and demon races who had been kneeling on the ground were caught off guard, falling into the great fissures. They were then captured by the writhing roots, devoured, and vanished into the depths.
The Dragon Qilin conjured fire clouds beneath his feet, carrying the group on his back as he desperately flew upward.
"Mortals only think the Primordial Tree is massive, but they don't know it's just a part of the surface. The truly massive thing is the roots—a hundred times larger than the Primordial Tree itself!"
The underground voice grew even more furious. Jade Capital City had been completely buried, and not only that—the entire Heavenly Palace was collapsing in the turmoil, sinking into the earth.
Then, from underground, fire and smoke erupted, shooting up to the clouds. Huge pillars of magma, thicker than mountains, spun wildly.
Feng Qiuyun stared blankly at the scene. Countless demigods, divine clans, and demon races flew among these massive fire pillars, weaving through them, using all their abilities to try to escape.
The Dragon Qilin and Water Qilin reached their top speed, but suddenly the primordial magnetic field went haywire. Their bodies became unbearably heavy, making flight impossible!
In the sky, whether gods, demons, or cultivators, regardless of race, everyone came crashing down with a crackling sound!
This falling was bizarre—not straight down to the ground, but toward areas of abnormal magnetic force. Some fell upward, some downward, and some horizontally.
Suddenly, a divine being fell past them, landing in midair. With a loud smack, that god slammed into a powerful magnetic force field. Blood exploded, bones and flesh separated, crushed into powder. The heavy parts sank below, the light parts floated above—a gruesome death!
That god had clearly fallen in midair, yet it was as if he had smashed into the hardest bronze wall!
All around them, countless gods, demons, and cultivators fell in all directions. None hit the ground; instead, they crashed into the five-element magnetic force fields, exploding around them like flowers made of blood, eerily beautiful.
Qin Mu said calmly, "Sister Qiuyun, now do you understand why we had to run?"
Feng Qiuyun was stunned. The voice underground belonged to the Earth Mother, who was left with only a remnant soul and a heart. Yet she controlled the most critical part of the Earth Mother's true body—the roots of the Primordial Tree.
These roots were embedded in the Primordial Realm, extending unimaginably far and deep, with a power beyond comprehension.
On the surface, beneath that Primordial Tree, the other Earth Mother, Yuanjun, possessed a physical body. She activated the Primordial Tree, which towered into the heavens, radiating brilliant light. Glowing mists swirled and danced, attacking the underground.
As the two Earth Mothers' divine powers erupted, the original Jade Capital City had long since vanished. In its place was a storm of geomagnetic force, a storm that twisted space itself!
Qin Mu had foreseen the danger early, so he was relatively safe. But even he couldn't withstand such abnormally strong magnetic forces. He decisively activated a teleportation technique, wrapping everyone and teleporting away.
The next moment, they appeared a thousand miles away.
Suddenly, the magnetic force beneath them erupted. Wild magnetic divine light crisscrossed in the air, like dazzling, radiant beams. Wherever the light passed, powerful gods, demons, and cultivators uncontrollably crashed into it, shattering into pieces!
From a distance, it looked as if these powerful beings were deliberately throwing themselves onto the magnetic light!
This was nothing short of a massacre!
Yet this was merely the aftermath of the battle between the Earth Mother Yuanjun on the surface and the Earth Mother Yuanjun underground, spilling over onto them.
These two Earth Mothers hadn't even targeted these gods and demons. Their power was too terrifying—each controlled the force of primordial magnetism. When they clashed, the magnetic field went berserk, and everyone else was caught in the crossfire.
Primordial magnetic divine power was the most fundamental force in the world, the most primal, and the most terrifying. As the embodiment of this force, the Earth Mother's strength could no longer be measured by realms like Soaring Heaven or Imperial Throne.
Ancient gods had no realm distinctions—only the strength of the Great Dao they controlled. They couldn't be measured by realms.
Qin Mu repeatedly activated teleportation techniques, fleeing outward. In just a few breaths, he had escaped ten thousand miles.
His cultivation had been greatly depleted, so he had to stop using teleportation and let the Dragon Qilin run at full speed.
The magnetic force here was still violent, but the threat to them had greatly diminished. The Dragon Qilin's cultivation and strength surpassed Qin Mu's, enough to handle the rampaging magnetism.
He looked back and saw that at the site of the two Earth Mothers' battle, the two terrifying figures were no longer visible. Only the flying divine light of the Primordial Tree and countless roots emerging from the ground could be seen.
Besides that, many powerful beings were flying among the roots and branches of the two ancient gods, trying to escape. Occasionally, someone was struck and exploded in midair, turning into expanding clouds of blood mist.
Those who managed to escape were all formidable experts.
Suddenly, Feng Qiuyun's eyes lit up. She saw a nine-headed phoenix cutting through thick branches and roots with its wings, plucking at strings of a zither, the sound slicing through magnetic divine light as it broke free from the battlefield.
"That wretch Qi Xiayu!"
Feng Qiuyun was furious. She leaped from the Dragon Qilin's head, transforming into a fire phoenix and flying off.
"Sister Qiuyun, no!"
Qin Mu shouted, "Come back and protect me! I'm about to break through to the Life and Death Realm!"
Feng Qiuyun was incredibly fast, disappearing in an instant. Two trails of colored light remained in the air—one left by Qi Xiayu's flight, the other by Feng Qiuyun's pursuit.
Both were outstanding experts of the Phoenix Clan. Feng Qiuyun's cultivation was at the peak of the Soaring Heaven Realm, while Qi Xiayu had long reached the Imperial Throne Realm. Knowing she might not be Qi Xiayu's match, Feng Qiuyun had taken the Primordial Sovereign Kunyuan Sword.
Qin Mu broke out in a cold sweat, muttering, "The Earth Mother told you to protect me..."
Waves of magnetic force rolled in, distorting the earth and space. Mountains rose and fell like waves, twisting and warping.
Qin Mu quickly activated his Overlord Body Three Dan Technique to protect himself. Many gods, demons, and demigods caught up, fleeing in all directions. Occasionally, someone was hit by stray magnetic divine light, instantly compressed into a meatball by the magnetic force, then exploded with a pop into blood mist.
Qin Mu faced backward, nervously watching the magnetic light behind him, directing the Dragon Qilin to dodge.
Just then, an incredibly terrifying fluctuation came from the center of the two Earth Mothers' battle. The ground shook like a cloth, mountains rising and falling.
At the center of the battle, the magnetic divine light expanded like a swelling sphere, spreading outward rapidly. Wherever it passed, mountain peaks were flattened against the sphere like three-dimensional images.
That terrifying magnetic light sphere expanded at a speed far surpassing the Dragon Qilin's flight!
Qin Mu's hair stood on end. "We can't dodge it... The dead Earth Mother plus the new Earth Mother born from her incomplete body—are they this powerful? Brother, lend me your power!"
He tore off the willow leaf, roared, and his body swelled. The power of the Netherworld surged in, accompanied by obscure Netherworld divine language echoing around him, eerie and unpredictable.
Not far away, Ancestral Dragon King and others were protecting a group of demigods who had also fled here. Seeing they couldn't escape either, he shouted, "Join forces to fight!"
Their auras collided with a boom. Each unleashed their divine abilities. Ancestral Dragon King transformed into an ancient dragon, his massive body coiling around his clan members. He spat out a dragon pearl, hurling it at the incoming magnetic light, shouting, "Everyone attack this one point! If we can blast a hole through this technique, we might survive! Otherwise, we'll all die without a burial place!"
The other experts followed suit, unleashing their great techniques, which followed the dragon pearl toward that point.
Qin Mu leaped up, standing before the Dragon Qilin and the others. His six arms flailed like countless limbs, finally converging into a single punch!
The magnetic light sphere, carrying the weight of countless mountains, met their techniques. The sphere seemed to pause for a brief instant, then engulfed them.
Qin Mu's ears were filled with the roar of mountains splitting and earth cracking. He was thrown backward by the immense force.
With his three heads and six arms, he quickly reached out, grabbing the Dragon Qilin with one hand, the Water Qilin with another, and using his remaining arms to seize Imperial Heaven and Gongsun Yan. He was sent flying by the residual waves of the two Earth Mothers' divine powers.
Finally, the shockwave subsided. The twisted mountains and land returned to calm. Qin Mu arched his body, having been pinned under a great mountain. He crawled out from beneath it.
Gongsun Yan, Imperial Heaven, and the others emerged shakily from under him. Qin Mu dismissed his three heads and six arms, shrank back to normal size, and looked around with lingering fear.
As far as the eye could see, mountains were toppled and scattered, like a forest after a violent storm.
As for Ancestral Dragon King and the others who had joined them in resisting the residual waves, they had been thrown who knows where. Those demigods were the ancestors of various demigod races, incredibly powerful—no weaker than Feng Qiuyun and her kind—so they probably weren't killed by the aftermath.
"Bad little brother, borrowing my power came at a great cost."
In the Qin Continent, Qin Fengqing's aura was weak and dispirited, somewhat angry. "I need to eat some ghosts and gods to recover my strength!"
Qin Mu had borrowed his power to clash with the residual waves of the two Earth Mothers' divine techniques, and those waves were so strong that even the little tyrant of the Netherworld couldn't handle it.
Qin Mu quickly stuck the willow leaf back on, checked himself and the others, and breathed a sigh of relief. "Just some superficial wounds—nothing serious."
Gongsun Yan quickly said, "Let's hurry back to find the Earth Mother! That fake Earth Mother is too strong. I'm worried about the real one."
Qin Mu shook his head. "We can't go back. The underground palace is probably buried deep in the Primordial Realm. Even if it wasn't destroyed, we can't find where it is. We can only wait for the Earth Mother to come find us. This isn't a safe place to stay. We need to leave quickly. Fat Dragon, can you still move?"
The Dragon Qilin perked up and was about to speak when he suddenly looked up at a mountain that was tilted and embedded in the earth. He said nothing.
Qin Mu followed his gaze and saw a girl sitting on the peak of that crooked mountain, hugging her knees, smiling as she looked at them. It was the other Earth Mother's disciple.
Her clothes were bright and clean, without a trace of dishevelment—unlike Qin Mu and his group, who were covered in dust. It was as if the residual magnetic divine waves had no effect on her at all.
Qin Mu smiled and said leisurely, "Senior Sister, we are both disciples of the Earth Mother, yet I still don't know your name."
The girl stood up, laughing. "Though we are both disciples of the Earth Mother, I have long heard of Sect Leader Qin. I came out of seclusion this time specifically to meet you and see what you're capable of."
Qin Mu laughed heartily, sweeping his right arm horizontally, fingers spread. The sword orb whistled up and landed in his hand, transforming into a flying sword. "Please, I also want to see the skills of the long-established Heavenly Alliance."
"The Heavenly Alliance?"
The girl chuckled. "Sect Leader Qin misunderstands. My name is Yan Qiling, and I am not from the Heavenly Alliance, that nest of traitors and rebels."