Chapter 1296: Mine Uprising (Fourth Update!)
The wondrous dao resonance radiated from Qin Mu's vertical eye, the dao patterns of the Grand Beginning Path spilling forth from his vertical eye, resplendent and beautiful. Wherever they passed, the mist gradually dissipated, and the surroundings became clear.
The dao patterns of the Grand Beginning Path were profound and difficult to comprehend, forming their own system. Even though Qin Mu had used the Unchanging Divine Ability to reverse-engineer them, and had also learned much from the Grand Beginning within the egg, he still found these dao patterns spilling from his vertical eye obscure and hard to understand.
The mist completely dispersed, and he suddenly discovered that he was actually standing at the center of a natural altar!
This altar was very large, spanning several hundred zhang in circumference, rising about ten zhang higher than the surrounding area.
The altar seemed to be formed from flowing water, extremely smooth. He appeared to be standing on a water surface, while beneath the water lay complex Grand Beginning dao patterns, forming runic imprints.
Large and small imprints continuously lit up, flickering on and off.
As he was observing this altar, suddenly, the Grand Beginning Egg jumped out from his vertical eye. Qin Mu did not stop it.
The Grand Beginning Egg was round and plump, landing with a *dong* sound on the water's surface. This round egg rolled left and right twice, as if searching for a comfortable position.
Qin Mu coughed lightly, reminding it: "Dao brother, you cannot nest here. This place has already been occupied by Consort Yan Tian. If you nest here, you will be captured by Consort Yan Tian. Our real business is to find the Grand Beginning Primal Stone..."
"The Grand Beginning Primal Stone is right here."
The Grand Beginning within the egg was very comfortable, humming: "I know I cannot stay long. If I stay, Consort Yan Tian will definitely catch me—she is not like you. She and Heavenly Emperor Taichu share the same temperament. Don't worry, I am only resting for a moment, reminiscing about childhood..."
Qin Mu looked around, but still could not see where the Grand Beginning Primal Stone was.
He made a full circle around the area, still failing to find the Grand Beginning Primal Stone, and could not help but say: "Dao brother, Consort Yan Tian will be back soon. We must leave quickly. Where exactly is the Grand Beginning Primal Stone?"
The moment his words fell, suddenly the water surface of the altar rippled, and a round water orb slowly rose, floating between the Grand Beginning Egg and himself!
Qin Mu examined it closely, a look of surprise on his face. He reached out to touch this water orb, but before his palm even approached it, he saw his fingers beginning to dematerialize!
His palm was turning into pure energy!
Startled, he quickly withdrew his hand.
The Grand Beginning Egg rolled out from the hollow in the altar, saying: "You cannot reach out directly. You must use the Grand Beginning Path I taught you. Try again."
Qin Mu attempted to activate the Grand Beginning runes he had condensed, circulating the Overlord Three Elixirs Art, spreading the runes across his palm.
This time, he finally touched this water orb.
Then, his expression turned strange.
His palm passed straight through the center of this water orb without any obstruction!
Qin Mu waved his hand, still not touching the water orb in the slightest!
He used his primordial qi to try to lift the water orb, but the water orb seemed to not exist at all, completely unable to be lifted by his primordial qi!
"The primal stone has no matter, only form. You can see it, but you cannot touch it."
The Grand Beginning Egg rolled to his feet, saying: "To touch it, you must change its form."
Just as he finished speaking, the form of the water orb changed, and Qin Mu touched this strange primal stone. When he touched it, it felt like he was holding up a crystal ball, yet strangely, he could feel no temperature, as if he was not touching anything at all.
"It does not dislike you." The Grand Beginning Egg said.
Qin Mu saw his palm slowly dematerializing. Even the Grand Beginning runes could not completely protect his physical body. The areas not protected were being influenced by the Grand Beginning Primal Stone, transforming from matter into pure energy.
"How should this primal stone be taken away?" He could not help but feel a headache, deeply troubled.
If he carried this strange primal stone, everything it passed through would cease to exist as matter—empty form without substance, turning into all sorts of strange energy bodies. Even people who came near would be dematerialized!
More critically, energy bodies were extremely unstable. If such energy bodies were everywhere, it would certainly cause a massive explosion!
The Grand Beginning Egg laughed: "You need not worry about that. I can take it away, absorbing the power of the primal stone. In the future, the influence of the primal stone will gradually weaken."
Qin Mu nodded. The Grand Beginning Primal Stone was truly dangerous. Carrying this thing was like carrying a great killing weapon. If one could not control the primal stone, walking one path would cause explosions all along it, and if one was not careful, even oneself would be assimilated and turned into an energy body that would explode!
When he was on the ghost ship, he had used the Grand Beginning Path to collide with Ling Tianzun's Unchanging Divine Ability, and had already experienced this once.
"This primal stone might be the most dangerous of the five mineral veins!"
He was just about to put away the Grand Beginning Egg and the Grand Beginning Primal Stone when suddenly the Grand Beginning Egg hopped excitedly on the altar, saying: "Mu Tianzun, take the altar too!"
Qin Mu hesitated for a moment, then tried to release his dharma power to collect this altar into the vertical eye on his brow. Unexpectedly, the moment his dharma power surged out, attempting to move the altar, the entire mining district suddenly erupted!
The mining district shook violently, and all the Grand Beginning Divine Stones blazed with brilliant light in that instant. Waves of strange power surged toward the Grand Beginning Altar!
Wherever that light passed, everything turned to nothingness. Even the ancient deities in the mining district were instantly dematerialized, their physical bodies and primordial spirits completely vanishing!
Qin Mu's hair stood on end. He hastily placed the Grand Beginning Egg in front of him, then realized the light was coming from all directions. Unless he could burrow into the egg, there was no way to block it!
"Damn it... right, the Grand Beginning Primal Stone!"
He immediately shrank his body and, with a *shua* sound, vanished into the Grand Beginning Primal Stone, becoming a tiny Qin Mu sitting cross-legged within this water-orb-like primal stone.
Countless beams of light from the divine stones shone simultaneously upon the Grand Beginning Primal Stone, attempting to refine this troublemaker who had thrown the mining district into chaos.
"Grand Beginning Dao brother!" Qin Mu called out loudly.
The Grand Beginning Egg hurriedly activated the Grand Beginning Primal Stone. With a thunderous *honglong* roar, the primal stone blazed with light, seemingly contending against these divine stones!
The two kinds of light collided, sending earth-shaking shockwaves sweeping in all directions. A pillar of light shot straight into the sky, extremely dazzling within the Ancestral Court!
Meanwhile, in the mining district, those miners who had escaped the divine stone light had not yet managed to flee when they were caught by the second wave of light sweeping through. One by one, they were dematerialized in the light, becoming nothingness with form and energy!
The white cat Xiao Qi was outside the mining district at this moment. She suddenly turned her head and saw the light in the mining district surging like a tide, spreading rapidly toward her. Her fur stood on end, and with a shriek, she fled outward.
At the same time, Xiu Hongsu was also alarmed. She hurriedly activated the Heavenly Venerable Treasure hanging high above the mining district.
The might of the Heavenly Venerable Treasure pressed down, vibrating with a *weng* sound, but then its power was assimilated by the light, not a trace of its might being released.
Seeing the situation was dire, Xiu Hongsu frantically fled outward, silently lamenting: "Mu Tianzun entered the mining district, and this strange incident happened! Could he really be like the legends say—Qin the Demolisher, who tears down everything wherever he goes?"
The light moved extremely fast, flooding over the mountains and fields. The other deities in the mining district were also fleeing in panic, but some were slower and were caught by the light, quickly turning into energy bodies one after another!
Xiu Hongsu looked back, her eyes splitting with rage. In just a short moment, nearly half of the deities in the mining district had been lost!
"Why don't you go demolish your Great Blackwood instead, you black-hearted Heavenly Venerable!" She forgot all decorum and cursed loudly.
Finally, everyone escaped the mining district. The light only reached the edge of the mining district and did not spread outward.
Xiu Hongsu's face was dark as she looked up. She saw at the center of the mining district a pillar of light shooting into the sky, persisting without fading, illuminating even the sky itself into dematerialization!
Deep in the sky, the seals of the ancient gods were also dematerialized, leaving a great hole in the sky, connecting with the outside world!
"Blade and axe men!"
Xiu Hongsu shouted fiercely: "Set up an ambush! When that black-hearted Heavenly Venerable comes out of the mining district, attack together with blades and axes, and chop him into fine pieces! If there is even a single bit of flesh left, I will hold you all accountable!"
The white cat said: "Sister Xiu, do you think Mu Tianzun can survive an eruption of this magnitude in the mining district?"
Xiu Hongsu sneered: "It would be best if he died in there!"
Finally, this pillar of light slowly dissipated.
At the deepest part of the mining district, the Grand Beginning Egg said in a trembling voice: "Mu Tianzun, are you still alive?"
"I don't know..."
Qin Mu sat in the center of the Grand Beginning Primal Stone, a look of terror on his face. Strange dao patterns of the Grand Beginning Path covered his body—imprints left on him by the light of countless Grand Beginning Divine Stones in the mining district shining upon him.
These dao patterns were very bright. Besides the imprints of the divine stones, there were also imprints of the primal stone's light.
Even more strangely, these imprints were gradually penetrating, sinking deep into his flesh. Qin Mu felt the matter of his body disappearing, turning into pure energy!
He did not even know now whether he was alive or dead!
"Heh heh, this situation is like the time the ghost ship exploded, but worse..."
Just then, in his Spiritual Fetus Divine Treasury, the spiritual fetus trembled. The dao pattern imprints left on his body by the various divine stones and the primal stone seemed to receive a summons. They immediately stopped eroding his physical body and surged toward the Spiritual Fetus Divine Treasury.
Those resplendent dao patterns arrived at the Ancestral Court within his Spiritual Fetus Divine Treasury and swarmed toward the Grand Beginning mineral vein within the Ancestral Court.
Qin Mu was stunned. He immediately felt himself transforming back from an energy body into a physical body!
But the most wondrous change was still happening in his Spiritual Fetus Divine Treasury.
In the Ancestral Court of his divine treasury, those dao patterns swarmed into the Grand Beginning mineral vein.
This Grand Beginning mineral vein was formed from the Grand Beginning Path that Qin Mu had comprehended himself. It only had the appearance of a vein, and its actual function was not great.
But as these dao patterns surged into the Grand Beginning mineral vein, Qin Mu discovered that this spiritual fetus mineral vein of his was undergoing an incredibly wondrous transformation.
The mineral vein was slowly becoming complete. Not only that, but within this vein of his, a water-like altar was even slowly taking shape!
"This is too wondrous!"
Qin Mu immediately told this discovery to the Grand Beginning Egg, saying excitedly: "Dao brother, you don't have to hatch in the mining district! Bring the primal stone into the mineral vein in my divine treasury, and hatch there while absorbing the primal stone!"
The Grand Beginning Egg was stunned, murmuring: "Your mineral vein is fake. I doubt it can hatch me..."
"Then let's do it a few more times!"
Qin Mu surged his primordial qi, once again triggering an uprising of the divine stones and primal stone in the mining district, laughing: "Imprint it a few more times, and turn the fake into real!"
—Three-thousand-character chapter. Has the double monthly ticket period passed? Dark face~~