Chapter 880: The Strongest in History
The Empress’s detached palace stood here, unbroken for a million years, forged from divine metal—extremely extravagant. But no amount of extravagance could withstand the impact of a powerhouse like Yan’er.
The palace was in shambles, nearly half of it destroyed by the chubby bird Yan’er had transformed into. Especially when her Vermilion Bird primordial spirit unleashed the divine ability of the Vermilion Bird Carrying the Sky, the primordial spirit smashed down, and the Vermilion Sacred Flame melted the palace, turning it into flowing molten metal.
That sacred flame burned everything, igniting the parts of the palace that hadn’t been destroyed.
Yan’er stood up from the rubble, withdrew her primordial spirit, flapped her wings, and shook off the scattered stones. Not far away, a long pavilion, already teetering and set ablaze by the sacred flame, collapsed into the sea of fire when struck by the gale from her wings.
Long Qilin also got up, shaking the dust from his body.
Qin Mu stood up and busied himself again, as if nothing had happened.
Long Qilin watched as he took advantage of the Vermilion Sacred Flame melting the divine metal, refining it and inscribing teleportation runes. He was likely planning to build a large teleportation array to leave this place.
Qin Mu was busy bustling about, but Long Qilin could tell he was deeply troubled. As Long Qilin was also proficient in mathematics, he noticed Qin Mu made several errors when calculating spatial nodes.
This was something that never happened under normal circumstances.
As one of the most powerful mathematical masters in the world today, the probability of Qin Mu making a mistake in mathematical calculations was negligible. Making several consecutive errors was even more impossible.
His current string of mistakes suggested something was weighing on his mind, preventing him from concentrating.
“What did the Sect Leader see in the Great Abyss?” Long Qilin probed.
Qin Mu stopped building the teleportation array, staring blankly into space. After a moment, he said, “The person who killed Ling Tianzun was the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor. When he lunged at the broken section of the Heavenly River, I saw his face—exactly the same as the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor I saw in the Tianyin Realm.”
Long Qilin was puzzled. “The Ancient God Heavenly Emperor?”
“It should be the physical body of the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor. But who is piloting that body—that’s beyond my knowledge.”
As Qin Mu began to speak, his mind became more active. He continued, “The Ancient God Heavenly Emperor’s physical body isn’t in the Heavenly Court. That’s why the entity ruling the Heavenly Court is so desperate to create a perfect Yu Tianzun. Because the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor’s body is the most powerful physical form in history. No single Heavenly Sovereign can fully unleash all its power. They must join forces to bring out the full strength of the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor’s body!”
He paced back and forth, his thoughts accelerating. “This body is a tool of mutual restraint among them. No one can fully master the Heavenly Emperor’s body, which keeps them balanced and prevents them from turning on each other.”
“But without the Ancient God Heavenly Emperor’s body, who will control the Heavenly Court? Power will breed mutual suspicion, and without the Heavenly Emperor’s body, the Heavenly Duke and the Earth Lord pose a great threat to them. So they need to create a powerful weapon—one that can deal with the Heavenly Duke, the Earth Lord, and others.”
“That weapon is Yu Tianzun!”
Qin Mu stopped walking, pondered for a moment, and said, “That’s why they created Yu Tianzun and sent this body down to the mortal realm. They wanted to test if this weapon was effective, if it could match the Heavenly Emperor’s body.”
Long Qilin asked curiously, “Sect Leader, is the person trapped in the Heavenly Emperor’s body still in the Heavenly Court?”
Qin Mu shook his head. “Only his physical body is in the Heavenly Court, not his primordial spirit. He’s trapped by Ling Tianzun and can’t escape. Wanting to kill Ling Tianzun—how could there be no price to pay? The Ancient God Heavenly Emperor doesn’t need any weapon; his body itself is the most powerful weapon. But this person uses a spear as his weapon—he should be an elder of the Heavenly Alliance. The price he paid was enormous: trapped in the Heavenly River, forever unable to escape, and he no longer has a place in the Heavenly Court.”
He perked up and continued setting up the teleportation array, this time without any mistakes.
Yan’er fed Long Qilin a spirit pill and praised, “Fat Dragon, your art of raising humans is getting more impressive.”
Long Qilin ate the pill, smiling. “The Sect Leader is too smart; sometimes he gets stuck in a corner and can’t jump out. Actually, if he just says it out loud, he’ll break free on his own. But these smart people often don’t speak up voluntarily. I didn’t do anything—I just got the Sect Leader to talk.”
Yan’er smiled and continued feeding Long Qilin.
After Qin Mu finished building the teleportation array, he went to collect the divine metal. The Empress’s detached palace had been burned clean, and the metal had melted into molten liquid. Yan’er withdrew the sacred flame, and the metal solidified.
The divine metal used for the palace was a specialty of the Guixu—Abyss Iron spewed from the Great Abyss, found only in Guixu. Qin Mu had Yan’er melt the Abyss Iron again, forging it into square metal blocks and stacking them neatly.
“Young Master, we can’t take this stuff with us.”
Yan’er and Long Qilin looked up at the mountain of Abyss Iron, horrified. Yan’er shook her head. “The Abyss Iron is too heavy—even I can’t lift it.”
“No problem. I have a place to store it.”
Qin Mu opened the willow leaf on his forehead and began tossing the Guixu Abyss Iron, block by block, into the Qin Continent.
Inside the Qin Continent, the Abyss Iron fell like rain, piling up into a great mountain. The Heavenly Duke, Red Emperor, Old Buddha, and others stood with dark faces around the crystal coffin, letting the Abyss Iron land around them.
The Lava Earth Lord’s face wasn’t dark—it was already a mix of black and red.
“Nonsense! This is where we seal his brother—how can you just throw anything in here?” the Lava Earth Lord said.
Qin Mu finished handling the Guixu Abyss Iron, jumped up and down, felt no weight, and laughed. “From now on, I don’t even need a gluttony pouch!”
He took out the Carefree Sword and looked up at the sky. The broken stars above were very close to the Guixu.
The Heavenly Duke and the others also saw the shattered stars above the Guixu and exchanged bewildered glances.
“What is this kid planning to do now?” they wondered.
The big chubby baby sat in the Life-Devouring Cauldron, eating. Hearing this, he looked up and laughed. “Bad little brother plans to push a star down into the Guixu to lure out those two flowers.”
The Heavenly Duke quickly asked, “If you know your brother so well, what does your bad little brother want with those two Guixu flowers?”
“Cut them off with a sword and take them away,” Qin Fengqing said.
The Heavenly Duke’s face changed drastically. The Earth Lord’s expression remained the same, but his hands trembled.
The Great Brahma Heavenly King Buddha, Red Emperor, and others didn’t know the origin of those two flowers, so they didn’t think much of it. But the Heavenly Duke and the Earth Lord were scared half to death.
“Nonsense! Utter nonsense!”
The Heavenly Duke’s white beard trembled with anger. “Those two flowers are plugging the eye of the sea!”
The Lava Earth Lord clenched his fists and roared, “It’s precisely because those two flowers are blocking the Great Abyss that the Guixu hasn’t swallowed all the stars!”
“If you cut them off, even the East Sea of Yuandu will be drained dry!”
They looked at the sky, where Qin Mu was now standing on the head of a big fat bird, flying toward a star above the Great Abyss. He planned to use the bird’s primordial spirit to push that broken star into the Guixu Great Abyss.
The Heavenly Duke immediately made a decision and shouted, “Throw the brother out and suppress the little brother, so he doesn’t cause trouble!”
Qin Fengqing was still picking food in the Life-Devouring Cauldron when the Heavenly Duke, Earth Lord, Red Emperor, Great Brahma Heavenly King Buddha, and even the always timid Great Sun Star Lord rushed over. They lifted the cauldron, with him and it together, and threw it out of the heavens.
Qin Mu was in high spirits, directing Yan’er on how to change the star’s orbit to push the broken star into the Great Abyss. Suddenly, he felt dizzy and furious. “Heavenly Duke, you ambushed me! If you let my brother out, aren’t you afraid he’ll cause trouble?”
He flailed and fell from the sky. The next moment, he found himself on the ground, surrounded by the Heavenly Duke, Earth Lord, and others in the Qin Continent, their expressions unfriendly.
Meanwhile, Yan’er heard Qin Mu’s shout and thought, “The young master really does have some mental issues—he always thinks he has a brother.”
Just as she thought this, she suddenly felt Qin Mu become incredibly heavy. Startled, she realized that the Qin Mu standing on her head was rapidly expanding. In an instant, he transformed into a giant baby, even larger and chubbier than her true form, pressing her down so much she could barely fly!
Yan’er was terrified, but she saw the giant baby speak in a childish voice: “The Earth Lord often calls me evil. Now you know who the real bad guy is, right? Bad little brother is! Bad little brother causes trouble, and I have to clean up after him. But what can I do? I’m the big brother…”
Yan’er was filled with fear, but she saw the big chubby baby reach out his chubby hand, gently stroke the huge broken star, and then flick it with his finger, sending the planet flying.
“Don’t be afraid—I’m here to save you!”
The chubby baby leaped down, landing with a thunderous crash on the Great Abyss. He reached out and grabbed the fat bird’s neck as it fell, laughing. “Don’t worry, I don’t kill randomly anymore. I have rules now. Hmm, do you want to make a Little Earth Lord Pact?”
Yan’er quickly shook her head.
The chubby baby set her down, shrank his size, and laboriously climbed into the teleportation array Qin Mu had left. “I’ve gotten fat—Mother will be happy to see me… Come in, let’s return to Yankang. We can’t stay here, or bad little brother will escape and cause more trouble.”
Yan’er and Long Qilin stared blankly. Reminded by him, they hurriedly stepped into the teleportation array. Long Qilin’s voice trembled. “Are you the Sect Leader’s brother?”
The chubby baby nodded, fiddling with the teleportation array. “I don’t like coming out. It’s too noisy out here, too many rules. I prefer to go back. But when my little brother causes trouble, I have to come out… How does this thing work?”
Long Qilin quickly activated the teleportation array, and the runes lit up.
The chubby baby’s eyes sparkled. He reached out his chubby hand and patted Long Qilin’s little head, praising, “You know a lot. No wonder my little brother never eats you…”
Light flashed, and they vanished from the teleportation array.
The next moment, they appeared in the ruins of the Longbo Ancient Kingdom. The Yin Cha old man had already collected the souls of the Longbo people, leaving the place deathly silent.
The chubby baby grabbed Yan’er and Long Qilin, placing them on his shoulders. “You’re too slow—I’ll take you back. You need to keep an eye on bad little brother and not let him cause trouble. I don’t like coming out either…”
Long Qilin and Yan’er looked confused.
Then, the chubby baby suddenly took off with his short legs, running at full speed. With a thunderous crash, he smashed through the barrier of the Longbo Ancient Kingdom, charged into the sea, and ran across the ocean at a speed that left Yan’er dumbfounded.
The chubby baby ran with all his might, chasing the sun and moon, leaving a trail of towering waves behind him. At this speed, he could probably reach Yankang in just a few days!
“There really is a brother inside the Sect Leader’s body!” Long Qilin finally came to his senses and shouted.
Inside the Qin Continent.
Qin Mu sat obediently in the center of the group, head down, silent.
“So close! So close to causing a catastrophe of epic proportions!”
The Heavenly Duke, angry at his lack of progress, scolded, “Why are the Empress and her sister so highly regarded? Why did the Heavenly Emperor insist on marrying them as his empresses? It’s precisely because those two lotuses block the eye of the sea—they are the roots of heaven and earth! If you had cut them off and taken them away, Yuandu would have lost its vitality, and even my Xuandu’s star river would have been swallowed by the Guixu Great Abyss!”
Qin Mu hung his head. “I know I was wrong.”
The Heavenly Duke fumed, “Suppress Qin Fengqing? I think it’s you who needs to be suppressed! You’re too good at causing trouble! What’s with this corpse of the Empress’s sister?”
Qin Mu quickly said, “That’s not my fault—Ling Tianzun killed her.”
The Heavenly Duke was about to continue scolding when suddenly his face changed drastically. “Oh no! I’m going to die!”
The Lava Earth Lord’s expression also shifted. “Damn it! My end is near!”
Qin Mu was stunned and quickly stood up to ask.
The Heavenly Duke’s clone and the Earth Lord’s clone paced back and forth, anxious. The Great Brahma Heavenly King Buddha sighed. “Two fellow Daoists, I know what you’re talking about. That weapon has also arrived in my Buddha Realm.”
Qin Mu’s heart skipped a beat. “Weapon?”
The Heavenly Duke’s clone waved his hand in the air and sighed. “Look.”
He parted his hands, and above the Qin Continent, the scene of Xuandu appeared. Before the towering Heavenly Duke, a divine being of immense proportions crushed the world barrier of Xuandu and appeared within it.
It was a Yu Tianzun, with heavenly palaces floating behind him in clusters, forming a Heavenly Court. The Yu Tianzun looked like the master of the Heavenly Court.
“The strongest weapon ever created by the Heavenly Court has appeared in my Xuandu. Is it here to eliminate me?” the Heavenly Duke’s clone sighed.
The Lava Earth Lord said, “In the Youdu, such a weapon has also descended.”