Chapter 866: Undying Body
"Imperial Heavenly Lord" did not use his full strength, and neither did he.
His goal was to force "Imperial Heavenly Lord" to use his full strength, to see if the person behind this "Imperial Heavenly Lord" was one of the Nine Heavenly Lords of yesteryear.
Even if this person was not one of the Nine Heavenly Lords, he could still discern his achievements from his divine abilities.
Qin Mu had defeated a previous "Imperial Heavenly Lord," who had died without revealing his true skills, unwilling to expose his identity. But this Imperial Heavenly Lord intended to use his ultimate techniques, which made him extremely expectant.
In the Heavenly Court, there were few qualified to obtain Imperial Heavenly Lord's physical body and control it to descend to the mortal realm—only the leaders and chiefs of the Heavenly Alliance had this privilege.
He wanted to see just how powerful the being controlling the Heavenly Court truly was!
Within his body, the Overlord Body Three Elixir Art was already operating at full capacity, connecting all fourteen of his divine repositories together!
The Heavenly River surged mightily, piercing through Life and Death, Heaven and Man, Seven Stars, Six Harmonies, Five Luminaries, and the Spirit Embryo, then flowing through Xuan Capital and entering the Demon Path Divine Repository, uniting all fourteen repositories into one!
His primordial spirit unified the divine and demonic, the Overlord Body Three Elixir Art merging all power into one. The primordial spirit stood atop the Heavenly River, ready at any moment to unleash all his strength and all his potential!
This would be the most powerful strike of his life!
The darkness around the Great Black Palace surged again, engulfing him and "Imperial Heavenly Lord."
Suddenly, a tremendous roar came from behind the Great Black Palace. The massive star abruptly split open with a long canyon, spanning the planet from east to west.
The canyon parted to both sides, mountains receded, the sea retreated, and the canyon grew larger and wider, revealing an unimaginably huge eyeball.
This enormous demonic eye gazed into the darkness, waiting for the movements of "Imperial Heavenly Lord" and Qin Mu within, filled with great anticipation for this battle.
This eye belonged to Great Black Heaven's true body.
The Great Black Heaven that appeared before everyone was not his real body. After all, he was the first demon god, and his true body was too massive. Showing his true form would make it difficult even for gods and demons to see his entirety.
Thus, he used a false body to appear, while his real body remained hidden in the darkness.
When Qin Mu arrived at the Great Black Palace and settled in, he had once walked into the darkness, groping around, touching a terrifyingly colossal entity in the dark, then returned to the palace with a smile.
At that time, he had sensed that the real Great Black Heaven was hidden in the darkness. Knowing he couldn't leave, he simply turned back cheerfully.
Suddenly, violent tremors came from within the darkness, as if space itself was vibrating countless times in succession, causing even the people before the Great Black Palace to lose their footing!
This was not a collision of divine abilities between Qin Mu and "Imperial Heavenly Lord," but the energy unleashed by the activation of "Imperial Heavenly Lord's" divine ability.
It was hard to imagine that a body at the Divine Bridge realm could contain such vast and majestic power!
In the darkness, Qin Mu stood at the center of the upheaval. "Imperial Heavenly Lord's" divine ability was like a great tribulation of heaven and earth erupting, carrying boundless wrath to punish all the rebellious and unfilial in this world!
Qin Mu also erupted completely, with no other thoughts or ideas left in his mind.
His blood and qi surged like a raging tide, as if the spirit of an entire era was burning within his blood and qi, blazing like fire, like oil poured on flames!
He charged forward, a fleeting shadow. His speed was so great that the ocean-like sea of blood and qi could barely keep up with his figure.
The sea of blood and qi was dragged along by him, standing upright like a blood-stained banner. This upright sea of blood and qi roared with endless waves, thundering loudly!
The sword pellet in his hand transformed into an unparalleled sword intent, stabbing toward the wrathful god in the darkness!
Before the Great Black Palace, Mo Santong, Xue Taidou, and others tried to look at Qin Mu and "Imperial Heavenly Lord" in the darkness, but they saw nothing.
The darkness blocked their vision.
Meanwhile, the gazes of the majestic gods and demons in the darkness swept around, trying to see this battle clearly. Their eyes were like torches, cutting through the darkness like beams of light, but they could only catch fragmented images, capturing fleeting figures and constantly erupting visions of divine abilities.
Qin Mu and "Imperial Heavenly Lord" were too fast, and surrounded by darkness, the places their gazes could penetrate were limited.
Suddenly, everything calmed down.
"Is it over?" murmured a Lord of the Heavens.
Then, the fluctuations of another divine ability erupted hundreds of miles away. The crowd quickly looked over, but just as their gazes landed there, Qin Mu and "Imperial Heavenly Lord" had already vanished, leaving only a broken mountain peak falling, crashing into a valley with a dull thud.
Then, another thunderous sound of divine abilities erupted a hundred miles away. The three hundred-plus Lords of the Heavens quickly looked there, and beams of light illuminated the spot.
They saw Qin Mu's body hanging on a cliff, his three heads and six arms battered and broken. "Imperial Heavenly Lord" bowed to him, and the cliff exploded. Qin Mu was blasted to the other side of the cliff, flying off to who knows where, while "Imperial Heavenly Lord's" figure also disappeared.
Finally, they sensed another wave of divine ability fluctuations.
When the gazes of the three hundred-plus Lords of the Heavens shone there, the sword light in Qin Mu's hand stretched for dozens of miles. It didn't look like a sword but rather a pillar about ten feet thick, grinding "Imperial Heavenly Lord" as it swept across the midsection of a mountain peak.
That mountain peak was snapped in two, but the top didn't fall because Qin Mu's sword was too fast. Although the peak was cut short, it settled flatly on the mountain body.
The Lords of the Heavens, being the top-tier existences among gods and demons, saw clearly with their gazes shining there. It wasn't a sword pillar but countless leaping flying swords, each executing different sword techniques, writhing strangely within the pillar.
From a distance, it looked like Qin Mu was grabbing a pillar dozens of miles long.
"Imperial Heavenly Lord" seemed to be crushed by the sword pillar, but in reality, he was fending off the constantly surging sword light within it, struck by dozens of swords. His eyes showed shock, and he seemed to be speaking, but the distance was too great to hear what he was saying.
"What is he saying?"
The Lords of the Heavens were puzzled. Darkness surged again, and Qin Mu and "Imperial Heavenly Lord" disappeared.
When the divine ability fluctuations appeared again, "Imperial Heavenly Lord's" hand, missing three fingers, pressed against Qin Mu's face, slamming him hard onto a great lake in the darkness. The lake exploded, and almost all the water was flung into the air, like a meteor striking the lake's surface.
Hundreds of gazes fixed there. At the bottom of the lake, "Imperial Heavenly Lord" rained down punches like a storm, pressing Qin Mu down and hammering him furiously. The ground around the lake cracked continuously, with terrifying fissures dozens of feet deep, still deepening.
Suddenly, "Imperial Heavenly Lord" leaped into the air like a startled swan, narrowly avoiding a pitch-black gate.
As he dodged this Gate of Bearing Heaven, a sword light stabbed out from within the gate. A figure stood inside the gate, battered beyond recognition—it was Qin Mu—and thrust a sword into his brow.
"Imperial Heavenly Lord" swung his hand to cut the sword, actually severing the divine sword with his palm.
The two disappeared again.
When they reappeared, Qin Mu was fleeing, a look of terror on his face as he dodged the terrifying power behind him.
But suddenly, countless stars appeared ahead, woven into chains of light. Caught off guard, Qin Mu ran through the net of star chains and shattered into hundreds of pieces, his head falling off as well.
"The Overlord Body lost!"
The three hundred-plus Lords of the Heavens all breathed a sigh of relief, smiling. "The agreement with Little Earth Lord can also be dissolved."
Just then, they saw the hundreds of pieces of Qin Mu each sprouting arms and legs, running around wildly. As they ran, they managed to gather together again, forming a complete Qin Mu.
The gods and demons of the Northern Heavens stared dumbfounded at this scene, somewhat confused.
"Undying body?"
The giant demonic eye behind the Great Black Palace blinked. "Didn't it become lost with the disappearance of Red Emperor? How could anyone still cultivate to Red Emperor's level?"
Behind Qin Mu, countless flying swords burst from the ground, like a mountain or forest of swords, breaking through the pursuing divine abilities.
Qin Mu turned around, raising his six arms high. The mountain of swords and forest of swords rose with a roar, descending as his six arms chopped down!
Imperial Heavenly Lord's arm was severed, and he retreated, the two disappearing into the darkness again.
This time, they vanished for a long time, with no sound or divine ability fluctuations.
The Lords of the Heavens around the Great Black Palace focused their vision, beams of light cutting through the darkness, searching everywhere. But the darkness of the Great Black Palace covered ten thousand miles, and even with their powerful eyesight, they couldn't find the two in an instant.
"Where have they fought to?"
Just then, thunder suddenly exploded among the gods, illuminating everything brightly. Qin Mu, with an arm stuck in his chest, fell from the air. Before he hit the ground, a Gate of Bearing Heaven appeared and swallowed him.
The Gate of Bearing Heaven vanished, leaving the ground empty.
In the distance, a flash of sword light appeared, and the Gate of Bearing Heaven emerged. Inside the gate, two skeletons were fighting fiercely, the sky and earth turning dark.
One skeleton had an arm stuck in its chest, while the other was missing an arm.
That majestic Gate of Bearing Heaven drifted erratically in the air, drawing everyone's attention. Within the gate, the two skeletons continued their life-or-death struggle.
"Are these two trying to destroy each other?"
Suddenly, the Gate of Bearing Heaven crashed down, standing upright before the Great Black Palace. The gate slammed shut, and from within came a clattering sound, likely the two skeletons still beating each other.
Silence fell all around. No one dared to breathe, waiting quietly.
After a long time, the sounds suddenly ceased.
Everyone continued waiting. After a moment, the gate creaked open slowly. Suddenly, blood gushed out like a flood from within the gate, carrying broken bone fragments.
The crowd was startled and waited a bit longer.
Then, a white-boned skeleton emerged from the gate, leaning on it, and fell with a thud into the pool of blood. Flesh and blood slowly began to grow on its body.
"The Yan Kang Overlord Body truly lives up to its reputation. Even the most powerful giant of the Heavenly Court cannot overcome you at the same cultivation level."
Great Black Heaven suddenly burst into loud laughter, clapping his hands. "You win. I lose. The three hundred and sixteen Lords of the Heavens are yours to deal with, but don't think you can touch my Northern Heavens! Lords of the Heavens, take your master and leave my territory!"
The three hundred-plus Lords of the Heavens did not move. Their gazes fell on Qin Mu, lying in the pool of blood, his flesh and blood regenerating.
"If we kill him, why worry about the agreement with Little Earth Lord?" murmured a demon god.
Suddenly, all the gods and demons moved at once, charging to kill Qin Mu in the pool of blood!
Great Black Heaven closed his eyes, muttering to himself, "Why are all my subordinates such fools?"
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