Chapter 961: The Temptation of the Fish
Lian Huahun and Yun Chuxiu were filled with shock and uncertainty. Although they were separated from Qin Mu by a single cultivation realm, the gap was far too vast.
Their current bodies were still at the Divine Bridge realm, not yet having crossed the Southern Heavenly Gate, while Qin Mu was already a Revered Deity, a full realm above them.
In the past, they had killed countless opponents—not just Revered Deities one realm above them, but even True Gods two realms higher. For instance, to preserve the Eighteen Slaughtering Techniques, Lian Huahun had slaughtered all of Heavenly Lord Hao’s disciples sent to the Great Void, and those disciples were all at the True God realm.
They were Heavenly Lords. Lian Huahun and Yun Chuxiu were merely avatars they used to roam the mortal world. Even so, they were not comparable to ordinary Revered Deities or True Gods, given their insight and experience.
Yet before Qin Mu, being one realm above them felt like being separated by an entire heaven. Qin Mu stood beyond the heavens, while they stood on the ground. Even the Eighteen Slaughtering Techniques could not be executed, their power unable to manifest!
From the moment Lian Huahun attacked to the moment the sisters were captured, they had not landed a single blow on Qin Mu. He did not dodge, nor did he break their techniques or divine abilities. He simply released his primal energy, blocking all their attacks.
Qin Mu slammed the two women to the ground, then closed the eye on his forehead. His dream continued, with countless tiny Qin Mus still burrowing through Lady Yuanmu’s flesh, mapping her body and recording the Guixu runes.
Lian Huahun and Yun Chuxiu, their cultivation sealed, lay on the ground, unable to move.
Yun Chuxiu blinked and suddenly said, “Sword God Luo, what are you standing there for? Hurry and kill the traitor Qin Mu, then help me up!”
Luo Wushuang ignored her, though unease stirred in his heart.
These two were figures among the Ten Heavenly Lords. By directly defying their orders, he had firmly branded himself a rebel, a label he would never shake off.
“I wonder how Qin Mu will deal with the avatars of the Empress and Yuanmu?”
Luo Wushuang felt uneasy. “The Qin Overlord seems to have some ambiguous thoughts toward these two women. He’ll probably spare their lives for their beauty. Just now, his gaze at them was off! These two must die, or once they leave the Great Void, their true bodies will learn everything that happened here!”
The Great Void and the Heavenly Court were two separate worlds. What Lian Huahun and Yun Chuxiu experienced here would not be sensed by the Empress and Yuanmu’s true bodies. But once they were in the same world, those true bodies would gain their memories.
If that happened, the Empress and Yuanmu would never let Qin Mu or Luo Wushuang go. They would eliminate them by any means!
“If the Qin Overlord is too soft-hearted to kill two peerless beauties, then I’ll take the blade myself and cut off their heads!”
Luo Wushuang’s eyes flickered with sword light. Yun Chuxiu was an unmatched beauty, every smile and gesture utterly captivating, while Lian Huahun was also a rare sight. Ordinary people could hardly resist the temptation of these two women. It was understandable if Qin Mu was seduced by them.
But Luo Wushuang was different.
He was devoted to the blade. The sword was the most beautiful woman in his eyes. His swordsmanship had always been upright, strict, and disciplined. Only with such a firm Dao heart could he ignore the beauty of these two women and strike them down without mercy.
Qin Mu entered his dream, and the tiny Qin Mus in his dream chattered and exchanged findings, rapidly studying Lady Yuanmu’s body.
What he was doing differed from the Heavenly Court’s Dao Sect’s mapping.
The Heavenly Court’s Dao Sect mapped ancient gods by recording all their Dao runes and bodily structures, leaving no aspect of their Dao unrecorded, analyzing every secret.
Qin Mu, however, only needed to sort out the basic runes on Lady Yuanmu’s surface. He was interested in the Guixu Dao, but fully mapping it would take too long. Even with his dream state, it would require thousands of years alone.
His goal was merely to evolve the Guixu within his Spiritual Embryo Divine Treasury. Understanding the basic runes was enough.
Of course, obtaining detailed data on Yuanmu’s body and the Guixu Dao’s rune arrays would greatly benefit his work. So he planned to leave the detailed mapping to the skilled diviners and divine beings of Yan’kang.
After a long time, Qin Mu awoke from his dream, and the dream world shattered.
He stored Lady Yuanmu’s crystal coffin back into his third eye, then looked at Yun Chuxiu and Lian Huahun. The two girls lay on the ground, their figures graceful and irresistibly alluring.
Lian Huahun was cold and stiff, her body tense but her beauty striking.
Yun Chuxiu, however, was more relaxed. She even deliberately struck seductive poses, biting her lower lip and giggling. “Heavenly Lord, we sisters can’t move now. What do you plan to do with us?”
Qin Mu’s heart stirred, and he chuckled. “The Empress and Lady Yuanmu are so naughty. Naturally, I’ll put you over my knee and spank you soundly.”
Lian Huahun’s face paled, while Yun Chuxiu writhed on the ground, giggling. “Come on, then! Spank me!”
She wriggled like a fish washed ashore, making one want to pounce and catch her.
Though Qin Mu knew it was wrong, he couldn’t help wanting to grab her. He hesitated. “I can’t let the Empress and Yuanmu off…”
But he also hesitated to kill them.
Just then, a flash of sword light—Luo Wushuang’s blade cleaved Yun Chuxiu in two!
Qin Mu was startled.
Luo Wushuang struck again, killing Lian Huahun as well. He wiped the blood from his blade, his face dark. “Mu Heavenly Lord is not yet two years old. These two demons dared to seduce a Heavenly Lord—they deserve death.”
Qin Mu looked at the beautiful corpses on the ground, his eye twitching as he glanced at Luo Wushuang.
Luo Wushuang said expressionlessly, “The Heavenly Lord’s Dao heart is firm. You certainly wouldn’t be tempted by two demonesses. I acted rashly. But these two demonesses underestimated the Heavenly Lord, and I couldn’t help but draw my blade to uphold your honor. Please forgive me.”
Qin Mu stammered, “Brother Luo, there’s no need for that. Just call me Sect Leader Qin. You’re right—those two demonesses dared to tempt me… I’m skilled in the Art of Creation. If I reattached their bodies, they might still live…”
Luo Wushuang’s forehead bulged with veins. His remaining hand gripped his sword hilt, tendons standing out. He reminded him, “Sect Leader Qin, our goal here is not to revive these two demonesses, but to cross the Void Bridge. Please focus on visualizing the Ark of the Other Shore!”
Qin Mu looked at his hand on the sword and smiled. “Brother Luo, rest assured. I am not a foolish man swayed by beauty. My reason for wanting to revive them is only to learn their Great Heavenly Court techniques—nothing else! Since you doubt me, I’ll go visualize the Ark of the Other Shore. Let’s leave this place quickly!”
He glanced again at the two beauties’ corpses, sighing inwardly. “I could still revive them with the Art of Creation… But this stubborn Luo Wushuang is too fierce!”
Luo Wushuang noticed his gaze and immediately stepped forward, tossing the two corpses into the void.
Qin Mu walked away with a dark face, deeply indignant. “I’m not some lecherous ancient god like the Heavenly Emperor! Why does he have to guard against me like this? It’s just a natural love of beauty! Even if I revived them, I wouldn’t have any other ideas—at most, I’d joke around with them!”
Yun Chuxiu and Lian Huahun had already been torn apart by the destructive void outside the Void Bridge. With no other thoughts, he began using the Guixu runes to try to evolve the Guixu Abyss within his Spiritual Embryo Divine Treasury.
His cultivation system was unique. Others’ Divine Treasury and Heavenly Palace systems were layered, each higher than the last, but he had only one Divine Treasury and fourteen Heavenly Palaces. More crucially, his Heavenly Palaces were built within his Spiritual Embryo Divine Treasury, not high beyond the heavens like others’.
This made it easier for Qin Mu to modify his Spiritual Embryo Divine Treasury’s structure.
Soon, he shaped the Guixu Abyss into form. The abyss became the Taiji string of the Taiji diagram, with the Heavenly River flowing from the string into the Youdu below, becoming the Styx.
Though his Guixu Abyss was crude, it connected the Youdu, Xuandu, and Yuandu, giving Qin Mu a sense of endless, inexhaustible primal energy!
By shaping the Guixu and connecting the three realms, his cultivation didn’t increase much, but his ability to mobilize primal energy and divine consciousness was much faster. Visualizing the Ark of the Other Shore became far smoother.
Soon, he roughly visualized the Ark’s outline. But visualizing the Ark’s reincarnation required vast divine consciousness, and after outlining it, his reserves were depleted.
Qin Mu frowned. While recovering his divine consciousness, he entered his dream, splitting into countless tiny Qin Mus to deduce how to merge the Supreme Unrivaled Divine Consciousness with the Overlord Body Three Dan Technique.
The process of merging the Supreme Unrivaled Divine Consciousness was one of countless tiny dream Qin Mus dying in various ways—very arduous.
But the Mahavairocana Buddha’s Infinite Kalpa Sutra was precisely such a method, allowing countless trials to eventually find the perfect technique.
Once Qin Mu merged the Supreme Unrivaled Divine Consciousness, visualizing the Ark of the Other Shore with the Overlord Body Three Dan Technique became much easier.
The Ark’s details gradually took shape. After resting dozens of times, Qin Mu finally made the giant ship complete.
Days passed. Luo Wushuang’s injuries healed, and he went to see Qin Mu. He was stunned to find a ship dozens of miles long visualized by Qin Mu.
The Ark of the Other Shore was a masterpiece of the Kaihuang Era. Two such ships had been built. One carried Kaihuang and the thirty-three heavens’ elites to the Land of No Worries. The other, built by Emperor Shitian Li Youran and the Artificer Divine Clan, was meant to take the remnants to the Land of No Worries but was attacked and destroyed in the Great Ruins.
The Heavenly Court’s Heavenly Lords had tried to repair that ship, but its construction was too complex. Without blueprints, repair was impossible, so they gave up.
Now, Qin Mu, relying on his own power, had visualized an Ark of the Other Shore!
Though this ship was countless times smaller than the real one, visualizing a giant ship dozens of miles long with divine consciousness was still a marvel of creation.
Finally, Qin Mu visualized the Ark’s last component.
A rune on the Ark’s hull lit up, then billions of runes across the ship were illuminated one after another. The ship slowly rose, floating in the air like a small continent!
“Young friend Qin, you are now a Creator.”
In Qin Mu’s mind, Shujun’s voice came, filled with emotion. “In the ancient era, not many Creators could visualize such a complex divine artifact. Many Creators surpassed you in divine consciousness, but few could visualize something so grand and intricate. You have surpassed your teacher in the subtlety of divine consciousness application.”
“Thank you for your praise, Brother Shujun.”
Qin Mu boarded the giant ship he had visualized and went to the bridge.
Luo Wushuang followed him. Qin Mu took out the star compass Village Chief had given him, his expression complex. After a moment, he waved his hand, and various sword diagrams appeared on the compass, which he shattered with a crackling sound!
Village Chief’s seal was no more.
Qin Mu steadied himself and placed the star compass onto the Ark’s compass wheel.
The giant ship rumbled a few times, slowly adjusting its course, heading toward the Void Bridge’s altar.
“The Land of No Worries.”
Qin Mu looked at the Void Bridge, a smile on his face, but his gaze was deeply complex. “I’m coming.”
—My cold hasn’t gotten better. I’m groggy and dazed. Last night, I slept and woke, woke and slept, waking up five or six times. It’s really miserable~