Chapter 1246: Disaster Looms (Fourth Update)
The heavenly palaces behind the four of them exploded with crackling sounds, countless buildings within the celestial court's heavenly palaces collapsing and crumbling. Dazzling divine light enveloped an area of a hundred thousand miles, and even Qin Mu and Bai Yuqiong could only see flickering shadows within the radiance—figures darting like startled rabbits and swooping falcons, changing with lightning speed, yet unable to discern what was actually happening inside.
"Third Divine Eye!"
Qin Mu immediately opened the vertical eye on his brow, pouring all his power into this eye as he gazed toward the center of the divine light. He was trembling with excitement, his fists clenched tightly.
Bai Yuqiong couldn't see the details within the radiance, so she stopped watching the battle and carefully manipulated the lantern to control the light string. Seeing Qin Mu like this, she couldn't help but inwardly shake her head, thinking: "The dignified Mu Tianzun—why is he so curious? It's like a moth drawn to a flame... No, more like a silly roe deer in the snow, he'll end up killing himself with curiosity!"
She decided that once Qin Mu had satisfied his curiosity, she would tell him about this weakness of his.
Bai Yuqiong suddenly froze at this thought: "Mu Tianzun is clearly an enemy—why would I tell an enemy about his weakness? If he dies, wouldn't that be better for me?"
Her heart was in turmoil. This could only mean that her stance was slowly changing.
In the past, she considered herself a celestial master of the Heavenly Court, thinking only of the Heavenly Court's interests. Even though she and the Black Emperor Yintianzi were irreconcilable mortal enemies, she had never thought of betraying the Heavenly Court.
Since meeting Qin Mu, she had more than once harbored murderous intent toward him, but she had never acted on it.
However, ever since she learned of the conflict between Fire Tianzun and Qin Mu and went to the Southern Heaven, she had gradually come to understand Qin Mu.
Because she understood, she unknowingly found herself standing on Qin Mu's side.
Regarding Fire Tianzun's Southern Heaven and Qin Mu's Yankang, she had never made a judgment of right or wrong, better or worse—yet in her heart, she had already made that judgment long ago.
She didn't consider herself the reincarnated soul of the Southern Emperor, but she had always acknowledged that she was a human.
It was from the standpoint of humanity that she decided to stand on Qin Mu's side.
Having thought through all of this, she suddenly felt a sense of release deep within her heart and broke into a smile.
As a celestial master, she was a celestial master of humanity, not of the Heavenly Court.
Qin Mu activated the vertical eye on his brow and finally captured the changes at the center of the light. Combined with Moon Tianzun's zither strings, countless tiny Qin Mus in his dream began working diligently, intensifying their efforts to decipher the Dao sounds, perfect the Primordial Unity Qi, and crack the Tai Chu Great Dao runes.
If he could completely decipher the Tai Chu Great Dao runes on the eggshell, then he would effectively have obtained half of the Tai Chu Great Dao—perhaps even more than Emperor Tai Chu himself had obtained.
Not only that, his Innate Heavenly Palace was also growing rapidly, taking shape at incredible speed. Countless towers and pavilions rose from the ground, countless bricks, stones, and pillars flew about, and divine palaces and temples were automatically constructing themselves into form.
Moreover, his Divine Sense Heavenly Palace had become even more complete and magnificent because of the battle between Tai Emperor and Hao Tianzun!
No one else could claim to have gained more from this battle between Tai and Hao—but Qin Mu was certainly the one who benefited the most.
Just as he saw clearly the scene within the radiance, suddenly several more figures appeared within the light!
Qin Mu saw sword light that filled heaven and earth in an instant, saw boundless sacred flames that burned everything to ashes, saw the cold and emotionless Lang Wan shrouded in darkness and the magma flames of Void Tianzun!
The Kai Huang's sword struck Hao Tianzun, and the Thirty-Four Heavens Sword Domain erupted, its sword light piercing and fierce, nearly tearing Hao Tianzun apart!
Fire Tianzun ambushed the Kai Huang. His unprecedented flame domain was even more terrifying than the birthplace of the Southern Emperor, and even the Wuyou Sword was melted, dripping molten divine gold and iron.
Even the Kai Huang's physical body and primordial spirit, and even his Sword Heavenly Palace, were ignited by his unparalleled wrath.
Lang Wan Divine King ambushed Tai Emperor, while Void Tianzun rushed toward Qiang Tianfei. But they were too close to each other, and being enemies, they attacked each other almost simultaneously.
Both women were struck almost at the same moment, and while being hit, each also landed her own blow on Qiang Tianfei and Tai Emperor respectively.
Hao Tianzun was severely wounded, struggling to escape from beneath the Kai Huang's sword. He flew and hid within the Divine Artifact Yu Tianzun, but the one-armed Tai Emperor charged over while enduring various attacks, and with his remaining arm, a single punch shattered the Divine Artifact Yu Tianzun into pieces.
Within the light string, Qin Mu watched with his jaw dropped, clapping his hands in admiration repeatedly.
The sheer number of upheavals in such a short time was dizzying, and the transformations of various divine abilities were breathtaking.
"It's just that the zither music is gradually falling into chaos."
Qin Mu sighed, feeling rather regretful.
With various Tianzun-level beings fighting in chaos, the shockwaves of their divine abilities were disrupting Moon Tianzun's zither strings, causing the music to become disordered.
Earlier, when Tai Emperor and Hao Tianzun fought, they used divine sense abilities and Primordial Unity Qi, both derived from the Tai Chu Great Dao. Although the Guixu Great Dao caused some interference, it was relatively minor. But now, there was far too much interference.
With the music now in chaos, it was already very difficult to distinguish which melody was Primordial Unity Qi, which was sword Dao, and which was the path of divine sense.
Still, Qin Mu was already extremely fortunate at this point.
"Eight Tianzun-level beings fighting—we have to leave!" Bai Yuqiong's furious voice came through.
Qin Mu quickly said: "Let me watch a little more..."
"Watch your big head!"
Bai Yuqiong was livid, scolding: "Go home and watch your brother Qin Fengqing! With eight Tianzun-level beings, even Master Moon's zither strings can't hold up. If we don't leave now, we'll all die here!"
Qin Mu hastily dispersed his dream-state Dao entry and looked around. He could see that the fluctuations of the light string were becoming increasingly urgent, and the amplitude of its vibrations was growing larger and larger. Indeed, as Bai Yuqiong had said, this string could no longer hold.
Bai Yuqiong gathered up the light string, the shortened string vibrating continuously as it dodged wave after wave of terrifying residual shockwaves, speeding toward the Tai Xu Land.
Qin Mu glanced at Lan Yutian and saw that the little fatty was still in a state of Dao entry, contemplating who knows what.
He looked downward and saw that the collapsing void had already annihilated more than half of itself. Countless divine beings and soldiers of the Heavenly Court were frantically fleeing toward the Tai Xu Land.
Warships flew at breakneck speed, war chariots charged forward madly, running over and killing who knows how many of their own people along the way.
In addition, divine and demonic generals were riding the Northern Emperor's divine artifact and the Western Emperor's divine artifact, charging forward along the void passage. Soldiers who couldn't dodge in time were directly trampled to death or crushed by the two great divine artifacts.
"When disaster looms, the high and mighty gods and demons aren't really that different from ordinary people."
Qin Mu couldn't help but feel a sense of irony: "How laughable that you still think yourselves above all, arrogant and invincible."
Suddenly, the light string retracted sharply, landing in Bai Yuqiong's hand and transforming into a lantern. She held it up, its light illuminating the three of them as they sped along, drawing closer and closer to the Tai Xu Land.
By the time the fluctuations reached here, they were no longer too strong, but what was truly terrifying was the collapsing and annihilating void.
When the void annihilated, the energy it released was extremely terrifying. Without the lantern, even Bai Yuqiong wouldn't be able to hold out for long.
Finally, Bai Yuqiong brought them charging into the Tai Xu Land, flying downward from the high altitude.
"The Tai Xu Land might also collapse. Let's head to the Void Bridge!" Qin Mu said in a deep voice.
At that moment, they saw corpse walkers leaping stiffly down from beyond the heavens, transforming into streaks of blazing fire in midair as they plunged into the Tai Xu Land.
"These corpse walkers contain a great deal of divine sense from the collapsing void within their bodies." Qin Mu was momentarily stunned.
Boom—
The sky shook violently, and something the size of a planet fell from the sky above the Tai Xu Land, hurtling downward with a roar.
Qin Mu's eyes were sharp, and he couldn't help but be startled: "It's the head of the Divine Artifact Yu Tianzun! Wait, that person is Hao Tianzun!"
He saw that on the nose tip of the Divine Artifact Yu Tianzun's head, Hao Tianzun was lying sprawled out on his back.
Boom boom boom—
Another series of thunderous sounds came. Fire Tianzun and the Kai Huang were both bleeding from their wounds, each retreating separately. Void Tianzun and Lang Wan Divine King had also mutually wounded each other and each fled in different directions—but Tai Emperor and Qiang Tianfei were nowhere to be seen.
Qin Mu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly became excited: "Celestial Master Bai, I have a bold idea!"
"Don't even think about it!" Bai Yuqiong flatly rejected.
Qin Mu acted as if he hadn't heard at all, continuing excitedly: "Let's hunt down Hao Tianzun! Strike while the iron is hot—take advantage of his weakness to kill him!"