Chapter 957: The Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury Domain
Luo Wushuang was shocked in his heart. When Qin Mu's sword strike, sharp and unmatched, directly pierced through his first layer of heaven, he had not yet felt anything particularly formidable about it.
When he had entered the Dao through the blade at a relatively young age, his first move upon entering the Dao was called Azure Sea Clouds Part. When the blade technique unfolded, it was like an azure sea shrouded by clouds and mist. When the clouds parted, the blade technique transformed, and a vast oceanic momentum descended from the heavens.
But this move was his first upon entering the Dao. At that time, his accumulation was insufficient, and it was not particularly refined. Being broken was also quite normal.
However, in the next moment, Qin Mu's sword pierced through his second layer of the Blade Dao Heaven, Jade Pass Snow Urgent. When this move of the Dao-entering divine ability unfolded, the blade light transformed into a sky full of flying snow, jade locks frozen and cold, profound ice turning into a jade pass.
Once the gates of the Jade Pass opened, it was a fierce killing move. Wind and snow assaulted the face, the Jade Pass pressed close, crushing with the momentum of an icy city and jade pass.
Countless powerful experts had died under this move of his divine ability.
But this move was also broken by Qin Mu's single sword strike.
Qin Mu's sword pierced through his icy city and jade pass, a single sword stroke sweeping away the wind and snow, causing the Jade Pass to collapse and the icy city to disintegrate.
His third layer of the Blade Dao Heaven was called Iron Cavalry Charges Forth. When the blade technique unfolded, heavenly soldiers and generals seemed to descend from the heavens, iron horses and golden spears. However, this move was also useless. The sword light swept away all the heavenly soldiers and generals.
Luo Wushuang's fourth layer of the Blade Dao Heaven was called Light Moves the Multi-Storied Tower. A single blade slash sent blade light transforming into thirty-three multi-storied towers, with killing moves emerging from within the towers.
However, the multi-storied towers were pierced through by the sword light and disintegrated on the spot.
Then came the fifth layer of heaven, the sixth layer, the seventh layer…
His blade technique was called the Blade Dao Firmament. Currently, he had fourteen moves of Dao-entering blade divine abilities. These fourteen moves of blade divine abilities constructed fourteen layers of heaven. This time, he intended to resolve the battle with a single strike, so the fourteen layers of heaven overlapped, like fourteen celestial realms descending from the heavens.
Qin Mu's sword came in a single thrust, continuously piercing through layer after layer of celestial realms, causing his heart to tremble uncontrollably.
Fortunately, after Qin Mu's sword continuously pierced through his nine layers of the firmament, both its momentum and power experienced a significant decline, allowing him to feel slightly relieved.
If Qin Mu had managed to pierce through all fourteen layers of his firmament in one go, then there would be no need for him to continue fighting. He would simply discard his blade, kneel, and admit defeat.
Unexpectedly, after the momentum of Qin Mu's sword strike had waned, the sword technique suddenly transformed. It changed from the Calamity-Opening Sword into the Calamity-Lifting Sword. A single sword transformed into thousands upon thousands of leaping sword lights. Each sword light trembled lightly and transformed into a drifting, fluttering flower.
In an instant, ten thousand flowers drifted and fell. Flowers fell, flowers flew, flowers filled the sky, cramming his ninth layer of the Blade Dao Heaven full.
His ninth layer of the Blade Dao Heaven was called Changhe Nine Gates, Heavenly Gate Opens. It was a grand and majestic move. However, the sword light filled the Heavenly Gate, cramming the Changhe Nine Gates, sweeping away the nine gates and collapsing the Heavenly Gate.
Luo Wushuang had long heard of Qin Mu's Calamity-Lifting Sword. It was the sword technique that had made Qin Mu famous.
In the early years of the Dragon Han Era, Qin Mu, relying on this sword technique, severely wounded Heavenly Lord Hao under the suppression of Madame Yuanmu's projection, beating Heavenly Lord Hao so badly that he lay on his sickbed for thousands of years, unable to care for himself.
From that time on, this sword technique had become a legendary sword technique. In later generations, countless brilliant individuals tried to imitate it and recreate this sword technique, but none could ever execute it.
The Calamity-Lifting Sword, with Qin Mu's disappearance, became a lost ultimate art, a legendary invincible sword, until the arrival of the Yancheng Era, when Qin Mu himself created this sword technique.
The most powerful aspect of the Calamity-Lifting Sword was that it was a basic sword technique, also known as Sword Nineteen.
Without the previous eighteen basic sword techniques, one could not learn Sword Nineteen. And by learning this sword technique, one could directly enter the Dao through the sword!
This also meant that the Calamity-Lifting Sword could be combined with other sword techniques to form countless different sword techniques!
This was also the most powerful and peculiar aspect of the Calamity-Lifting Sword.
In the Primal Realm, Qin Mu had also relied on this technique to slay many powerful enemies, and it had never been broken. Even when Heavenly Lord Hao himself faced him in battle, he had only broken through the shortcomings in his techniques, never finding a flaw in this sword technique.
Just as this Calamity-Lifting Sword move was about to break through his thirteenth layer of the Blade Dao Heaven, the power within Qin Mu's divine ability finally exhausted. Luo Wushuang breathed a sigh of relief. The thirteenth and fourteenth layers of heaven descended upon Qin Mu's head, grand and majestic!
At that moment, he saw the black and white Taiji diagram beneath Qin Mu's feet expand, instantly sweeping across a hundred miles, turning the hundred-mile golden sand desert into black and white.
In the black and white desert, the sun sank, the bright moon rose, and the moonlight was clear and bright.
"Such profound cultivation!"
Luo Wushuang's heart tightened. Blade and sword clashed. Qin Mu stood firm beneath the Primal Wood, as if rooted in the desert, his body unmoving.
The force of Luo Wushuang's two layers of the Blade Dao Heaven crushed down, only causing the black and white Taiji diagram around him to shake and tremble incessantly, but it could not shake Qin Mu's body.
"Is this the effect of merging the physical body and primordial spirit, turning the divine treasury into a domain?"
He flipped over to Qin Mu's left side, and the blade light rose again. However, Qin Mu seemed not to have moved at all, yet he was still facing Qin Mu's front.
The two fought at a rapid pace. Luo Wushuang swung his blade, dashing swiftly, the blade light pouring down like a waterfall. But what surprised him was that no matter which direction he turned to, what he saw was always Qin Mu's front face.
What horrified him was that Qin Mu had never turned around from beginning to end!
An incredibly absurd feeling rose in Luo Wushuang's heart, as if Qin Mu had countless faces. No matter from which angle he attacked, he was always facing Qin Mu's front, with no flaw to be found, and he was met head-on with Qin Mu's strongest attack!
In a battle, a person's body movements, muscles, tendons, bones, and blood energy, their trajectories of movement, would all create fleeting flaws.
Even the flow of primordial energy on the surface of the skin would form flaws.
These flaws were not flaws in techniques, but flaws generated by the practitioner's own movement. Besides killing the enemy, moves and divine abilities also had the effect of compensating for these flaws.
However, facing Qin Mu in this state, Luo Wushuang could find no flaws in his body at all!
"This is a rogue divine ability!"
Luo Wushuang gritted his teeth. The cause of this situation was definitely Qin Mu's Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury. He still remembered that in the Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain, when the Imperial Emperor's divine consciousness invaded, Qin Mu had once said that within his Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury, he was the Heavenly Emperor, the sovereign.
Now, Luo Wushuang experienced the feeling the Imperial Emperor had at that time.
Qin Mu had turned the hundred-mile desert into his own Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury, forming a peculiar domain. Relying on his blade technique divine abilities, it was difficult for him to contend with Qin Mu.
What truly shocked him was that after entering the Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain, Qin Mu had learned and applied it flexibly, using it within his own divine treasury.
But others could not do as he did, turning their own divine treasury into a domain.
The most crucial reason was that Qin Mu had merged the seven divine treasuries into one divine treasury. In terms of divine treasury attainment, he was unparalleled in the world. Even the Heavenly Lords, purely in terms of divine treasury, could not surpass him in cultivation.
Moreover, he had created the world, turning his Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury into a small universe within his body. From this small universe, a soul was born. The soul combined with the spirit embryo to form a primordial spirit. This primordial spirit was naturally the sovereign of this small universe, forming its own unique domain. This was only logical.
"To break his rogue fighting style, I must destroy his Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury!"
Having thought this, Luo Wushuang's blade light erupted once more. Instead of striking at Qin Mu, he struck at the very heaven and earth. The blade light tore through the sky and slashed open the earth!
Qin Mu's domain immediately became unstable, its momentum declining. At that moment, heaven and earth suddenly flipped over. The hundred-mile black and white desert inverted. The rules of the Great Dao of heaven and earth changed abruptly.
Luo Wushuang watched in horror as the flesh and blood of his physical body rapidly shed away, leaving him standing there as a skeleton, unable to sense his own physical body!
This place was the Netherworld.
It was a Netherworld world formed by Qin Mu using his own power!
Without a physical body, Luo Wushuang's magical power sharply decreased. Qin Mu's sword light flew towards him. Luo Wushuang raised his blade to block, but without a physical body, both his magical power and strength had effectively dropped by an entire realm.
Chi—
The sword light pierced through his fourteen layers of the Blade Dao Heaven and arrived at his brow, suddenly stopping.
Luo Wushuang dispersed the blade in his hand. The leaping blade light in his eye sockets also gradually extinguished. His aura was dejected, and he said hoarsely, "Forty thousand years. I waited a full forty thousand years, always dreaming of fighting you. I never thought I would still be defeated…"
Qin Mu dispersed the sword light. The domain formed by the Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury vanished. The golden sand desert reappeared, still with the blazing sun rolling and heat waves assaulting the face.
"You weren't defeated by my sword technique, so there's no need to be so sad."
Qin Mu walked forward and said with a smile, "You were only defeated by my divine ability. In terms of sword technique, my sword technique may not necessarily surpass your blade technique. In blade technique, I also have many things to learn from you."
Luo Wushuang sighed, his demeanor bleak. "Back then, your sword technique defeated me. I used forty thousand years of bitter cultivation on blade techniques, hoping that one day your sword would fall to my blade. Now, although your sword technique has not surpassed my blade technique, your divine ability has defeated me. How many more years must I use in bitter cultivation and comprehension to defeat your divine ability?"
This defeat, though it left him disappointed, suddenly brought a feeling of relief, as if he had shed a heavy burden.
"One hundred and twenty thousand years."
Qin Mu walked forward and said, "You owe me three lives. Each life is forty thousand years. You have one hundred and twenty thousand years to comprehend, striving to defeat me fair and square after one hundred and twenty thousand years."
He turned back and smiled. "Luo Divine Blade, aren't you coming along?"
Luo Wushuang was stunned for a moment, then quickly caught up with him, saying, "Your Spirit Embryo Domain has a great flaw. As long as your Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury is broken, killing you is not difficult. You comprehended this usage from the Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain, but it is not perfect."
Qin Mu humbly sought advice. "Just now, when your blade technique split heaven and earth, I realized this point. So, Luo Divine Blade, how do you think I should modify and perfect it?"
Luo Wushuang hesitated for a moment, then said, "Qin Bati, you don't have to keep calling me Luo Divine Blade. I am forty thousand years older than you. If you don't mind, you can call me Brother Luo."
Qin Mu laughed. "I call Zhe Huali brother. How can I call you Brother Luo?"
Luo Wushuang said seriously, "Zhe Huali and I have severed ties. He is no longer my disciple. You are a Heavenly Lord. Calling me Brother Luo is still me taking advantage of you."
He paused, revealing a hint of a smile. "In the Heavenly Court, I am not very good at socializing and have few friends. The disciples under my tutelage are all children from families without power or influence. They suffer from being unable to step out of my shadow and often break one of their own arms. They are also poor people. Zhe Huali is the only child who has walked out of my shadow and my Blade Dao. I admire him very much."
Thinking of Zhe Huali, a warmth unconsciously arose in his heart.
Zhe Huali had only walked out of his shadow after coming into contact with Qin Mu. Therefore, his feelings towards Qin Mu were also very contradictory. This was one of the reasons why, after descending to the mortal world to Yancheng, he had never made a move against Qin Mu.
"As for domains, I don't understand them and cannot claim to guide you. However, I think the Supreme Divine Consciousness Domain is constructed with divine consciousness. The Creators and the Imperial Emperor did not use their divine treasuries or heavenly palaces."
Luo Wushuang pondered for a moment. "Using your Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury to form a domain is actively handing your weakness to the enemy. If you could directly form a domain without using the Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury, then there would be no weakness. However, in terms of subtlety of application, it might be inferior, lacking the unpredictable changes of the Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury Domain."
Qin Mu suddenly understood. "Brother Luo, what you say makes a lot of sense. However, I can only form a domain using the Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury. If I don't use it, my cultivation won't be sufficient, and I won't have so many variations."
Luo Wushuang thought for a moment. "Then, can you use your own magical power and Great Dao runes to constantly refine a domain in peacetime, and then release it during battle?"
Qin Mu's eyes lit up, and he praised, "That's a great idea! You can also imprint divine abilities into the domain, tempering it a thousand times, enough to make the domain stronger and stronger, no weaker than the Spirit Embryo Divine Treasury Domain! By the way, Brother Luo, you can also achieve the Blade Dao Firmament Domain!"
Luo Wushuang stopped in his tracks, his gaze dazed. After a moment, he suddenly showed ecstasy and couldn't help but burst into loud laughter, the sound rolling across the golden sand desert.
"Blade Dao Firmament Domain! Good, truly good!"
"Brother Luo, this is reform! You have already stepped into the ranks of reform!"
"This is reform?"
"This is reform! I also have an impertinent request. You can't stay in the Heavenly Court. I do have some assets in the mortal world. Have you heard of the Heavenly Saint Cult? I am not being modest; I am unworthily its Cult Leader. Now is a time of need, and I require talent like Brother Luo. To be honest, Yan Shaoqing, the number one divine consciousness of the Heavenly Court, has already joined the game. Plus the number one divine blade of the Heavenly Court…"
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They gradually walked further and further away. Not long after, at the place where Qin Mu and Luo Wushuang had fought, space split open, revealing an abyss. Lian Huahun walked out of the abyss, looked around, and then followed the footprints of Qin Mu and Luo Wushuang.
"Pastoral Heavenly Lord, you have disappeared for half a year. I thought you were already dead, but I didn't expect to sense your divine ability. Today, I will use Heavenly Lord Hao's Eighteen Methods to Slay Pastoral to send you on your way."
After she left, another Return to Ruins Great Abyss appeared. A flower bloomed in the great abyss. Yun Chuxiu lay lazily in the flower, then jumped out of it, hopping and skipping along the footprints of Lian Huahun. Her two braids shook and swayed behind her, her long hair reaching her waist.
"Pastoral Heavenly Lord disappeared for half a year. Where has he been all this time? He didn't even take me to play. Stingy! Since he has appeared, then big sister will definitely deal with him. After she kills him, my crystal coffin will drop, and many treasures will drop too!"
This young girl said excitedly, "Then I will kill big sister, and I can sit back and relax!"
—A four-thousand-word chapter. I let you down; I didn't get lost, because I took a direct ride from Xuzhou to the hotel in Suqian. Proud~