Chapter 1191: Peach Blossoms Blooming Everywhere (First Update)
The divine ability of that peach blossom was extremely exquisite. The petals cut through the air, growing larger and larger, gradually filling heaven and earth, leaving nothing else in everyone's sight.
The ghost ship's energy erupted completely, yet the violent and frenzied impact failed to break through the worlds formed by the peach blossoms.
However, those outside the peach blossom petals could feel the terrifyingly dreadful fluctuations, and their expressions changed drastically.
If that fluctuation were to reach their bodies, they feared their internal energy would collapse in time and space, completely detonating, ceasing to exist!
Finally, the fluctuation subsided.
"Moon Tôn..."
Qin Mu stared blankly at the spinning peach blossom petals, his mind surging with excitement, and he hurriedly struggled to steady his mind.
They could not afford any emotional fluctuation right now. After all, they had no physical bodies—they were merely energy forms. Emotional fluctuation was energy fluctuation.
Energy fluctuation meant unstable energy, which could explode at any moment!
There was no physical matter inside their bodies to bind the energy. If they exploded, they would be utterly annihilated, everything would vanish without a trace, and even the black sand of their souls would cease to exist!
"This might be another divine ability that completely destroys the soul..." Qin Mu thought to himself, finding it strange that he still had the leisure to ponder divine abilities in this state between life and death.
At that moment, the spinning peach blossom petals grew smaller and smaller, continuously contracting. A woman with long flowing hair flew through the air, resembling a goddess from the Moon Palace, untouched by the dust of the mortal world. She gently extended her hand, drawing the two severed sections of the Heavenly River.
She connected the Heavenly River together, then reached out with her thumb and middle finger, gently pinching the bare peach branch in her hand.
The spinning petals flew over one after another, landing on the branch, forming a peach blossom once more, its stamen gently swaying.
The woman lowered her head and sniffed the peach blossom, but the petals shattered piece by piece.
The peach blossom was merely an ordinary one. It was her divine ability that had blocked the ghost ship's energy explosion, but how could the blossom withstand such a terrifying impact? Thus, it was annihilated after all.
"What a pity..."
The woman showed a look of regret, her expression somewhat sorrowful, but then she became happy again, smiling: "Falling red is not a heartless thing; it turns into spring mud to protect the flowers. I will plant you, and next year you will become a peach tree. The peach tree will become a peach grove, perhaps spreading across all the heavens and myriad worlds."
She put away the peach branch, looked toward Qin Mu and the others, and showed a curious expression.
Qin Mu flew forward and bowed in greeting: "We meet again, Moon Tôn."
This woman was indeed Moon Tôn. She looked at him, the surprise on her face growing stronger and stronger.
"Mu Tôn?" She was both shocked and delighted, testing cautiously.
Qin Mu nodded helplessly and said, "It's me."
Moon Tôn hurriedly stepped forward to greet him. She was about to grab his hand, but grasped nothing. She froze for a moment, then tried again—still grasping nothing.
Qin Mu said helplessly, "Our situation is somewhat special now. It's a long story. Over there is my senior brother Wei Suifeng, along with a few friends..."
Wei Suifeng hurried over to pay his respects. Feng Qiuyun, seeing Moon Tôn from afar, did not dare approach. However, the Upper Emperor's corpse recognized Moon Tôn and became excited, letting out a roar, and then the imperial corpse grew brighter and brighter.
Everyone's expressions changed drastically.
Moon Tôn frowned, plucked a leaf from the peach branch, and flicked it out.
The leaf grew larger and larger, and with a whoosh, it arrived beside the Upper Emperor's corpse, wrapping him up tightly like a zongzi.
Boom—
Another earth-shattering explosion rang out. A terrifying pillar of light shot up from the zongzi, piercing the sky above and blasting a profoundly deep hole into the earth below.
"Another leaf lost..."
Moon Tôn sighed, frowning: "The one who just exploded seemed to be a false emperor from the Northern Upper Emperor's heavenly court. Wasn't he dead?"
She was utterly baffled.
Several Imperial Guards dragged over a coffin radiating light. Two women lay side by side inside the coffin, visible clearly without even opening the lid.
One of them was breathtakingly beautiful, mesmerizing to behold, but unfortunately she had already transformed into an energy form.
The other was Empress Dowager Nương Nương. She was an ancient god. Even though she was dead, she still maintained her physical body, not dissolved by the Way of Primordial Beginning.
Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief. Aside from everyone's lives on this ghost ship, the physical bodies of Empress Dowager Nương Nương and Jue Wuchen were the most important.
"Moon Tôn, our condition is very unstable. Could you find us a secluded place?"
Qin Mu said, "I need to calm my mind and think, to see if I can resolve the difficulties we are currently facing."
Moon Tôn smiled: "Follow me. I happen to have a place in the Primordial Realm where you can stay without worry of being disturbed. Speaking of which, Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign is afraid of me too. She would never dare to provoke trouble at my place."
Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief, feeling somewhat curious: "Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign? What era is it now?"
"Of course it's the Upper Sovereign Era."
Moon Tôn turned back and smiled: "It's been over nineteen thousand years since the Southern Upper Sovereign ascended the throne. In a few more years, it will be the Upper Sovereign's twenty-thousand-year grand celebration."
She was very happy, unable to contain her joy: "You've come at just the right time. Over these years, Sister Ling and I have managed the Primordial Realm, and it has developed very well."
Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself: "The Southern Upper Sovereign's three hundred thousand years—it's still only twenty thousand years into the Upper Sovereign Era. There's still a long way to go before that great upheaval..."
Moon Tôn continued: "This dynasty's Upper Sovereign is the fifteenth Upper Sovereign, having sat on the throne for nearly twenty thousand years. The previous Upper Sovereigns were often sages of the human race and other acquired races. How rapidly have the races of our Primordial Realm developed? Even the Xiaohan Heavenly Court of those days could not compare!"
At this point, she looked somewhat gloomy, probably thinking of Cloud Tôn who had died in battle.
"The fifteenth Upper Sovereign?"
Qin Mu's hair stood on end, and then he felt his internal energy becoming unstable, so he hurriedly controlled his emotions.
The fifteenth Upper Sovereign, on the throne for nearly twenty thousand years—didn't that mean the Upper Sovereign Calamity was already very close?
Ling Tôn and Moon Tôn were both harmed during this period. Ling Tôn fell into the eternal cycle of death and life, while Moon Tôn had her legs severed and became crippled!
Moon Tôn curiously examined him, secretly reaching out and poking his body.
Her hand passed through Qin Mu's body without touching anything, only encountering extremely terrifying energy.
"Moon sister, stop messing around." Qin Mu said helplessly.
Moon Tôn withdrew her hand, but after a moment, she couldn't resist poking him again. Qin Mu said helplessly, "Stop it, really. Although I don't feel pain, it still feels very strange."
Moon Tôn stopped her mischief and looked back, seeing Wei Suifeng leading tens of thousands of Imperial Guards carrying the Empress Dowager's coffin behind them. In the distance, Dragon Earl King, the seven Dragon Earls, and Feng Qiuyun were watching from afar.
"Aren't they coming along?" Moon Tôn asked curiously.
Qin Mu waved his hand and called out loudly: "Dragon Earl King, Sister Qiuyun, come over as well. This divine ability can only be undone by me. Without me, you could explode at any moment."
Dragon Earl King had no choice and said in a low voice, "Let's follow them!"
Feng Qiuyun hesitated for a moment, then looked at the sky of the Primordial Realm. In the north, a heavenly court forged from pure divine gold floated above the Primordial Tree. That was the Northern Upper Sovereign's Heavenly Court of Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign.
"I am in that heavenly court."
Feng Qiuyun followed the main group, a strange feeling rising in her heart—another version of herself also existed in this world: "But I can only betray Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign and follow Mu Tôn all the way into the darkness. What a desperate helplessness—"