Chapter 960: A Gentleman of Integrity
Qin Mu turned his head and saw Lian Huahun walking over. This woman must have followed the trail left by him and Luo Wushuang to find this place.
However, the weather in the Golden Sand Desert was unpredictable and fraught with many strange occurrences. She must have encountered quite a few bizarre incidents in the desert, which delayed her by a few days before she finally found the last gathering place of the Creators.
“Indeed.”
Qin Mu was not modest at all. He shifted his gaze away from Lian Huahun and looked toward the Void Bridge, his expression calm. “There is no one left in the Great Void who can threaten me anymore, not even the Empress Dowager or Lady Yuanmu.”
The reason he stopped looking at Lian Huahun was that her appearance somewhat resembled the Empress Dowager and Lady Yuanmu—a slender waist, a proud chest, and a gait as light as a leopard, giving her waist and glutes a sense of power that was quite appealing to him.
“Could it be that the Empress Dowager knows my preferences?”
Qin Mu’s heart tightened. “She has studied me deeply, targeting my weaknesses. But I know very little about her.”
What he didn’t realize was that the Empress Dowager had transformed into Lian Huahun not to deal with him, but to stir up Hao Tianzun’s Oedipus complex. It was merely a coincidence that she happened to match Qin Mu’s aesthetic tastes.
Qin Mu suppressed his restless thoughts and continued to gaze at the Void Bridge.
There, Void Heavenly Venerable was indeed trapped. As powerful as this woman was, she was in grave danger at the end of the Void Bridge.
The Void Bridge was fragmented, and the gaps grew longer toward the end. If it were merely the collapse of the void, it wouldn’t be enough to trap Void Heavenly Venerable. But the void there also collapsed inward, and when it reached its extreme point, there would be a terrifying explosion!
This collapse and expansion was like the void breathing. Yet, with each breath, small universes outside the Void Bridge were born and destroyed, life and death fleeting like sparks, yet their power was immense.
Even someone as nearly invincible as Void Heavenly Venerable now found it difficult to advance or retreat, trapped in a perilous situation.
Her celestial palaces swayed, riddled with holes from the apocalyptic scenes on the Void Bridge, causing her cultivation to decline significantly.
“Her celestial palaces were created, not visualized. If they were visualized, they could be repaired as soon as they were damaged, and she might have a chance to reach the other shore of the Great Void.”
Qin Mu withdrew his gaze and thought to himself, “If Void Heavenly Venerable doesn’t know visualization, then she probably isn’t the Creator hiding in the Heavenly Court.”
The existence of a Creator hiding in the Heavenly Court was one of Qin Mu’s conjectures.
There were many suspicious points surrounding Cloud Heavenly Venerable’s death. He was killed by a Creator, who also placed a bloodline curse on him. When Qin Mu broke the curse for Yun Jianli, he encountered the divine consciousness of that Creator.
He had once speculated that this Creator was the Grand Emperor, who had died in the Land of the Great Void. But for Creators, the death of the physical body and soul wasn’t true death—only the death of divine consciousness was.
Whether the Grand Emperor had changed his appearance and was living in the Heavenly Court was unknown.
However, judging by Void Heavenly Venerable’s performance on the Void Bridge, she probably wasn’t the Grand Emperor.
If she were the Grand Emperor, with her powerful divine consciousness, she should have been able to cross the Void Bridge.
Of course, it was also possible that Void Heavenly Venerable didn’t want to reveal her identity and hadn’t used her true power.
Lian Huahun walked over, glanced at Luo Wushuang, then shifted her gaze to Void Heavenly Venerable trapped on the Void Bridge, sneering, “Hypocrite.”
Qin Mu was startled and said to the woman, “Good sister, why do you call Void Heavenly Venerable a hypocrite?”
“Good sister?”
Lian Huahun snorted coldly and said calmly, “How dare you call me sister? I’ll cut off your head, and no one can save you.”
She paused and continued, “Void Heavenly Venerable’s strength is far greater than this, but she has never used her full power, afraid of revealing her true abilities. She’d rather put herself in danger than show her hand—isn’t that hypocrisy?”
Qin Mu laughed heartily. “Isn’t Your Majesty the same? If Your Majesty truly wanted to deal with me, you would only need to use your real abilities, and I would surely be captured and executed. Yet Your Majesty still chose to study under Hao Tianzun to learn the methods of slaying Qin Mu. That shows Your Majesty is also a hypocrite. All of you so-called Ten Heavenly Venerables are hypocrites, not a single gentleman of integrity among you.”
“In the Heavenly Court, gentlemen of integrity died long ago.”
Lian Huahun rarely smiled and said with interest, “Then is Mu Heavenly Venerable a gentleman of integrity?”
Qin Mu moved his gaze away from her chest and said seriously, “I am one of the few gentlemen of integrity in the Heavenly Court.” After saying this, he couldn’t help but glance again.
Lian Huahun adjusted her collar to prevent him from seeing her cleavage and said, “There are many flaws in Mu Heavenly Venerable’s techniques and divine abilities. I learned the Eighteen Methods of Slaying Qin Mu from Hao Tianzun, each targeting the weaknesses in your techniques and divine abilities. It will be hard for you to avoid death. If you hand over my sister’s corpse, I can spare your life.”
She said softly, “You being alive is very useful to me. But I will gouge out your eyes—they’re too shifty.”
Qin Mu’s mind stirred, and Yuanmu Lady’s crystal coffin flew out from between his brows, landing with a thud. He said, “It’s not something precious. Your Majesty can take it. As for my eyes, Your Majesty can gouge them out as well. My Creation Divine Art can even rebuild my physical body.”
Lian Huahun was stunned.
Along the way, she had imagined countless possibilities, including various ways to kill Qin Mu, as well as his incredulous expression and last words at the moment of death. But she never expected Qin Mu to so readily produce Yuanmu Lady’s crystal coffin.
She walked forward, reaching out her hand toward the crystal coffin, but she was on high alert, ready to defend against Qin Mu’s sneak attack.
Qin Mu, however, was relaxed and took a few steps back.
Lian Huahun’s hand slowly approached the crystal coffin, her gaze fixed on him.
Qin Mu smiled slightly. “Your Majesty, be careful.”
As soon as he spoke, a rift opened in the void behind Lian Huahun, revealing an abyss. From the abyss, a fair arm extended, its five fingers long and slender like white jade scallions, forming a peculiar hand seal that silently aimed at the back of Lian Huahun’s head.
But Lian Huahun seemed completely unaware. Just as the delicate hand reached the back of her head, her figure suddenly vanished.
The fair hand struck empty air and immediately retracted, but it was too late. Lian Huahun had already appeared beside the abyss, swinging her hand to deliver a seal into its depths. “Little wretch, you ambushed me once. Did you think you could do it again?”
A dull sound came from the abyss, and Yun Chuxiu stumbled out, laughing. “Sister learns from her mistakes. I’ve trained you well to be so clever!”
Though she smiled like a flower, her attacks were vicious. Behind her floated various celestial palaces, a magnificent sight, and she unleashed all her magical power as soon as she struck!
Lian Huahun also used all her power. The two young women appeared and disappeared around the altar, colliding and clashing with terrifying force.
Boom—
A Creator temple was directly vaporized by their divine abilities, but the next moment, the temple reappeared.
Although Lian Huahun and Yun Chuxiu’s divine abilities were powerful enough to destroy everything here, everything here was visualized by divine consciousness. Even if they destroyed it, it would be restored.
Qin Mu watched the battle between the two women and shook his head after a while.
Though Lian Huahun and Yun Chuxiu fought fiercely, the power they used was only at the level of Imperial Heavenly Venerable’s weapons. They never used their true techniques or even activated their real cultivation methods, clearly afraid of exposing their true skills.
“It seems the Empress Dowager and her sister won’t fight to the death. Pretending to cooperate with them is useless.”
With this thought, Qin Mu waved his hand, and the crystal coffin stood upright with a bang. The coffin opened, revealing Yuanmu Lady’s corpse.
He closed his eyes and entered a dream. Instantly, the dream world enveloped the crystal coffin. Countless tiny Qin Mu ran out from his mind, jumping onto Yuanmu Lady’s flesh, covering every inch. Some even crawled into her sleeves, moving around to study the patterns on her body.
Yun Chuxiu’s heart skipped a beat, and her moves faltered. Lian Huahun seized the opportunity, striking her until she spat blood, tumbling and crashing through several Creator temples.
Lian Huahun was about to pursue when Yun Chuxiu quickly said, “Our bodies contain the secrets of the Guixu Great Path. If he studies them, we will have no secrets left! I can’t deal with him. Only you, sister, can kill him and take back my body.”
Lian Huahun sneered. “If I kill him, won’t you take the chance to kill me and reclaim your body?”
“Sister, we are of the same root. If the Great Path of my body is leaked, you won’t escape either!”
Yun Chuxiu’s tears fell, and she looked pitiful. “We will both die without a burial place! If we faced each other head-on, how could I, the younger sister, be your match? I only succeeded in killing you because I ambushed you. Now that you’re on guard, how could I succeed again?”
She couldn’t help but weep. “You have my body and hold my fatal weakness. Naturally, I will be your beast of burden, your slave and servant, and dare not have any second thoughts!”
Lian Huahun glanced at her, then immediately flew toward Qin Mu, attacking with one of the Eighteen Methods of Slaying Qin Mu!
Qin Mu, with his eyes closed in a dream, stood up. His three eyes remained shut, and he raised his hand to thrust a sword.
Lian Huahun immediately seized a flaw in his swordsmanship and charged straight for his vital point.
But just as her lethal strike reached Qin Mu, it encountered an invisible barrier, preventing the power of that technique from reaching his body.
Lian Huahun’s heart trembled. She changed her move, using another method of slaying Qin Mu.
The result was the same—it couldn’t get close to him.
Lian Huahun switched moves several times but couldn’t get near him. Panicked, she quickly said, “Little wretch, I’ve pinned him down. Why aren’t you helping?”
Yun Chuxiu hurried forward, and the two sisters joined forces, fluttering like butterflies around Qin Mu, unleashing various divine abilities with immense power. Yet they still couldn’t reach him.
In the distance, Luo Wushuang watched this scene, horrified. “Qin Mu, the Overlord Body, has become a venerable god, and he’s this powerful? Even the Empress Dowager and her sister can’t break through his defenses!”
Now that Qin Mu was at the venerable god level, he was a full realm above the Empress Dowager and her sister, but the gap seemed like a whole heaven!
“This man can’t be fought head-on. Let’s go!”
Yun Chuxiu and Lian Huahun turned to retreat, each tearing open an abyss behind them to escape.
At that moment, Qin Mu’s third eye opened, shooting out two beams of light. Yun Chuxiu and Lian Huahun each dove into their abysses. Just as the abysses closed, the two beams of light pierced into them.
The sky suddenly bled, and the two women vanished.
Qin Mu’s third eye flashed. Suddenly, he reached out with both hands toward the bloodstains in the sky, grabbing Lian Huahun and Yun Chuxiu by the necks, pulling them out of the void, and slamming them hard to the ground!
—Heavy cold, update late, sorry~
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