Chapter 913: Blood Tide Rises, Dark Demon Born
After an unknown span of time, Qin Mu slowly regained consciousness, feeling utterly exhausted, his blood and qi both severely depleted. His primal vitality and blood energy had still not recovered much.
Qin Mu trembled as he raised his hand, touching his brow. The Creation Divine Stone was no longer there, nor was the jade pendant.
“What happened while I was unconscious?”
He sat up with difficulty and looked toward the mirror opposite him. In the reflection, he saw himself gaunt and thin, his face pale, devoid of any color.
The wound on his brow resembled an eyelid, now closed, leaving a trail of blood.
Qin Mu’s mind was a chaotic mess; even his divine consciousness was difficult to mobilize. His primal vitality within his body was empty, his heart beating weakly, supplying little blood to the rest of his body.
His limbs were ice-cold. He struggled to search his gluttonous pouch for medicinal herbs, and after a long while, he finally gathered the necessary ingredients. With great effort, he mustered the last remnants of his primal vitality to refine an elixir.
His control over his primal vitality was not what it once was. During the refining process, the furnace actually exploded, ruining a batch of elixir.
This was something that had never happened since he had mastered the art of medicine!
He had studied medicine under the Physician, and had only ever exploded a furnace back in the Village of the Crippled. But now, with his cultivation so profound, every refining session succeeded. An explosion like this was simply impossible for him.
His depletion was too severe. His control over his physical body, primal vitality, divine consciousness, and blood energy was inferior to before—even worse than during his youth!
With his current level of medical skill and the Art of Creation, as long as he wasn’t dead, he wouldn’t consider himself injured. Yet now, he was so depleted that even the Art of Creation was unusable, and even refining elixirs to heal himself was an arduous task.
“Senior Brother, this divine stone you left me has really done me in…”
Wei Suifeng had left him the Creation Divine Stone for his own good, but Wei Suifeng’s plans couldn’t keep up with the changes. He hadn’t anticipated the complexity of Qin Mu’s situation.
An extra eye had grown on Qin Mu’s brow, and before Qin Mu could fully understand its mysteries, the Creation Divine Stone had tried to replace it, nearly killing him in the process.
Qin Mu steadied himself and began refining elixir again, this time with greater care, finally producing a batch of spiritual pills.
He grabbed the pills, swallowed them in large mouthfuls, and mobilized the last of his primal vitality to catalyze the medicinal power. After a moment, his bone marrow began to produce blood, and the blood in his heart gradually increased.
Qin Mu’s complexion improved slightly, and his primal vitality slowly began to recover. He then refined several more batches of elixir, restoring his depleted blood to about forty or fifty percent of its former level. After that, he refined pills to replenish his primal vitality, allowing it to recover somewhat as well.
He stood up with difficulty, his body still swaying and weak, but unlike before, there was now some color in his face, though he remained thin.
“Where did that Creation Divine Stone and my jade pendant go? Could they have… squeezed out the eye on my brow?”
His scalp tingled. His heart stirred, and he tried to open the third eye on his brow.
His brow had no eyebrows, only two thin eyelids. The eyelids slowly parted to both sides, revealing an eye.
Qin Mu observed this eye carefully in the mirror. Its structure was different from his normal eyes. His third eye was still made of flesh and blood, but its pupil was not round—it was diamond-shaped!
Moreover, its color was not black; it was a cinnabar-red diamond-shaped pupil!
“The Creation Divine Stone didn’t manage to squeeze out my eyeball, but it fused with my third eye! By the way, where is my jade pendant?”
Qin Mu continued to observe, looking even more closely. He noticed that the iris of the eye was round, but the texture pattern inside the iris resembled the layout of some mountain ranges!
Qin Mu shook his head. Normal iris textures should be fan-shaped, but his iris texture formed the character “Qin”!
“My jade pendant has also fused with my third eye…”
He steadied himself and activated the Overlord Body Three Dan Art to organize his chaotic divine consciousness, planning to use the Art of Creation to restore his blood energy once his cultivation recovered somewhat.
But as soon as he activated the Overlord Body Three Dan Art, he suddenly felt his divine consciousness surge as it flowed through his third eye, becoming heavily amplified, reaching dozens of times its former strength!
Buzz—
A heavy circular halo appeared behind his head. It was a torrent formed by his primal vitality, roaring as it circulated. The divine consciousness amplified by his third eye greatly accelerated the operation of his Overlord Body Three Dan Art, creating this phenomenon behind his head!
Qin Mu was stunned. As the Overlord Body Three Dan Art ran, the primal vitality in his Embryonic Divine Treasury surged like tides, rising and falling, rapidly increasing.
Not only that, but the stars in the sky of his Embryonic Divine Treasury pulsed, and on the Taiji-shaped platform, the embryonic spirit breathed. Beneath his feet, the Netherworld churned with demonic energy, as if a giant god was inhaling and exhaling.
The entire embryonic spirit was like a massive chest, breathing in and out.
His primal vitality and divine consciousness were recovering and improving rapidly with the operation of the Overlord Body Three Dan Art!
Yet he could still feel this eye devouring his blood energy and primal vitality, though not as fiercely as before.
“This is… the function of the third eye!”
Qin Mu continued to activate the Overlord Body Three Dan Art. Slowly, a halo of primal vitality light also rose behind the head of the embryonic spirit in his divine treasury.
As his technique ran, the Primordial Chaos Liquid formed a mist, its refinement speed greatly increased, rapidly nourishing his physique and restoring his blood energy. But the newly generated blood energy was immediately drained away by the third eye!
In the sky, stars arrayed themselves; beneath his feet, the Netherworld grew deeper, and the Taiji-shaped platform steadily expanded.
After an unknown time, his primal vitality and divine consciousness had returned to their peak state and were still improving, but his blood energy remained depleted!
His Embryonic Divine Treasury continued to expand. More and more stars appeared in the sky, and the Netherworld beneath his feet grew wider.
He had originally thought his Embryonic Divine Treasury had reached its limit, but now, with its expansion, he realized he had far from tapped all its potential.
The lake formed by the Primordial Chaos Liquid was slowly diminishing. At this rate, the Primordial Chaos Liquid, which he had estimated would take about ten years to fully refine, would likely be completely refined in just a few months!
“But since my eye has already grown, why does it still need to devour my blood energy?”
Qin Mu mobilized his divine consciousness, sending it into his brow, where it transformed into a tiny figure flying within the third eye.
The space inside this eye was terrifyingly vast. It was a vast continent shaped like the character “Qin,” with overlapping mountain ranges and undulating peaks, forming a massive “Qin” character.
This was a fragment of the Earth Lord’s horn. From a distance, it appeared as a circular continent, and it was the layout of these mountains that created the texture of the iris.
And the Creation Divine Stone was precisely embedded at the center of the Qin continent.
This divine stone had become enormous, gouging out a large chunk of the continent’s center. The stone was set in an abyss, surrounded by divine consciousness connecting it to the land, like blazing chains locking the Creation Divine Stone in place.
The Earth Lord’s horn formed the iris of his third eye, while the Creation Divine Stone formed the pupil.
When his primal vitality and divine consciousness flowed here, they moved like clouds through the Qin continent, causing the sky’s weather to shift.
This change was something Qin Mu had never anticipated, and Wei Suifeng, who had left him the Creation Divine Stone, would never have foreseen it either.
“Is this change good or bad?”
He felt a hint of unease. His divine consciousness searched around and saw his blood energy surging in, being devoured by the Creation Divine Stone.
“Is it this stone that’s stealing my blood energy?”
Qin Mu’s divine consciousness moved, flying into the crystal.
Inside the crystal, red light filled the space, making it impossible to distinguish directions. Qin Mu’s divine consciousness flew through the red light for a long time without finding an end.
He suddenly stopped, quietly sensing the flow of his blood energy, then followed its direction. After an unknown time, Qin Mu’s divine consciousness halted. In the red light was a massive altar, on which flesh writhed, like a giant monster.
“It’s not the third eye or the Creation Divine Stone that’s stealing my blood energy, but something hidden inside the stone, planning to use my blood energy to be reborn!”
Qin Mu’s heart skipped a beat. He slowly approached. The lump of flesh on the altar seemed to sense him and stopped writhing.
Qin Mu narrowed his eyes. Suddenly, the flesh split open, revealing a blood-red eye that scanned the surroundings.
Qin Mu immediately dispersed his divine consciousness, avoiding the monster’s gaze. The flesh closed back up, covering the blood-red eye, and continued devouring his blood energy.
In front of the cabin mirror, Qin Mu’s expression was grave.
Inside the Creation Divine Stone that Wei Suifeng had left him, some kind of demonic monster was hiding. It had used the Creation Divine Stone to lie dormant, stealing his blood energy.
“There’s also an altar inside. This kind of altar looks familiar—it’s the same type of prehistoric altar from the Blood Rust Zone. Its goal is to steal my blood energy while using my divine consciousness to reshape its physical body! So, the thing hidden in the Creation Divine Stone should be a prehistoric creator god!”
Qin Mu made his blood energy flow as steadily as possible to avoid alarming the thing inside the Creation Divine Stone. He thought to himself, “The Blood Rust Zone was the battlefield where the ancient gods eradicated the prehistoric creator gods. This creator god was killed there by the ancient gods, but it didn’t completely die. It must have fled into a fragment of the shattered Creation Divine Stone with its last strength.”
He paced back and forth, deep in thought. “Senior Brother obtained this crystal. Because Senior Brother was too strong, it didn’t dare to cause trouble, making him think the divine stone was harmless, so he left it to me. But since my cultivation and strength are weaker, when I experimented with the Creation Divine Stone, it tried to seize my blood energy to be reborn. It was blocked by my third eye, so it failed.”
He gradually pieced together the truth. “When I used the jade pendant to separate the Creation Divine Stone from my third eye, the stone suddenly slipped out of my control and collided with the pendant, knocking me unconscious. That must have been when this prehistoric creator god made its move!”
“It could have taken over my third eye and completely drained my blood energy, but it didn’t expect this jade pendant to be a seal personally forged by the Earth Lord, specifically used to seal my brother Qin Fengqing, the Netherworld Prince.”
Qin Mu’s eyes gleamed with sharp light. “When it collided with the Earth Lord’s seal, it couldn’t escape, so it simply settled in, secretly stealing my blood energy. Every time I activate the Overlord Body Three Dan Art, my divine consciousness flows through the third eye and passes through the Creation Divine Stone, where it intercepts some of my divine consciousness and stores it on the altar.”
“It’s building up power, waiting to be reborn! It must be a major figure among the prehistoric creator gods, not completely dead even after all this time. If it steals enough blood energy, combined with the miraculous effects of the Creation Divine Stone, it might indeed be reborn inside my eye. So then…”
Qin Mu’s three eyes grew brighter and brighter. “How can I completely kill it?”
He stopped walking. Judging from how this prehistoric creator god had seized his blood energy, even without a physical body, it was no match for him.
Back then, Qin Mu had been completely unable to control his own blood energy and primal vitality. If his third eye hadn’t awakened, he would have died!
Now, the Creation Divine Stone had fused into his eye, and with the Earth Lord’s seal, it couldn’t cause further chaos for the time being, only slowly stealing his blood energy.
This gave Qin Mu an opportunity to deal with it.
But dealing with this prehistoric creator god hidden in the divine stone was extremely tricky, because the stone had fused with his eye. Any mistake could destroy his eye.
“I need to first control my blood energy flow and reduce the divine consciousness entering my third eye. That will stop its power from recovering.”
Qin Mu thought carefully. “I also need to set up formations inside my third eye. The Nine Heavens Eye-Opening Technique that Blind Grandpa taught me is no longer enough to kill such a terrifying existence. I need to design new formations… This prehistoric creator god died in the Blood Rust Zone, killed by the ancient gods. So the ancient gods’ great dao is the best way to deal with it. I’ll start by inscribing the great dao runes of the Three Hundred and Sixty Star Lords!”
He acted on his idea immediately. He sealed his blood energy, mobilized his primal vitality, and began to inscribe the great dao runes of the Three Hundred and Sixty Star Lords into the pupil of his third eye!
This would not only deal with the prehistoric creator god but also enhance the power of his third eye, turning it into his third divine eye!
Once the formations in this third divine eye were activated, it could form the Grand Array of the Star Lords, capable of slaying powerful enemies!
In his Embryonic Divine Treasury, Qin Mu’s primal vitality surged like a rainbow, driven by his embryonic spirit, charging straight into the Qin continent and imprinting the Star Lords in the sky.
As countless runes appeared in the sky, they gradually formed the first Star Lord.
At that moment, an ancient and obscure wave of divine consciousness appeared in his mind: “Hold on.”