Chapter 1329: The Terror of the Night (First Update)
Qin Mu and the Pharmacist listened to the zither music, momentarily lost in it, but quickly snapped back to awareness.
Accompanied by the zither music, Qin Mu assisted the Pharmacist, tending the furnace fire and controlling the heat, while the Pharmacist cast the prepared spiritual herbs into the alchemy furnace.
In the great hall, the zither melody was moving, heavenly fire blazed fiercely, and the round, massive alchemy furnace spun atop the flames.
Beneath the flames, Qin Mu held the heavenly fire in his palm, driving the furnace and controlling the temperature.
As the second person in the world to have "cultivated" the Medical Dao Heavenly Palace, his attainments in the medical dao could be said to be second only to the Pharmacist's. Of course, his Medical Dao Heavenly Palace had been "planted" by the Pharmacist using spiritual pills, so his actual skill in the medical dao was far inferior to the Pharmacist's.
The Pharmacist strode forward, his wide sleeves fluttering, moving like a shooting star under the flickering light of the heavenly fire. The secret arts of alchemy transformed endlessly in his hands.
His primordial spirit materialized, seated above the furnace. The Medicine King Primordial Spirit stood high above, clad in dark green wide robes with long sleeves, standing atop the God-Slaying Platform. His towering figure was encircled by two streams of baleful aura coiling around him like dragons!
The Medicine King Primordial Spirit's ten fingers danced, primordial qi transforming into dao patterns that interwove and intersected. The marvel of his alchemy was breathtaking.
Soon, five types of spiritual pills were refined. The Pharmacist flicked his sleeve, and the furnace was put away.
Qin Mu clenched his five fingers heavily, and the heavenly fire vanished.
The Pharmacist raised his hand, and the screen blocking Nguyệt Thiên Tôn flew up, landing to the side, revealing Nguyệt Thiên Tôn who was playing the zither.
Qin Mu and the Pharmacist exchanged a glance, then moved to Nguyệt Thiên Tôn's sides, one left and one right. The Pharmacist produced the first spiritual pill, which flew up. A stream of primordial qi shot up from Qin Mu's head, and behind him materialized the Medical Dao Heavenly Palace.
His Medicine King Primordial Spirit appeared within the palace, also in wide robes and long sleeves, with the bearing of a dao immortal.
Both Medicine King Primordial Spirits acted simultaneously, activating the medicinal power of that pill. This time, the Pharmacist took the lead in dissolving the medicinal power, with Qin Mu assisting, mainly concerned that the Pharmacist's cultivation might not be sufficient, ready to take over at any moment.
Although the Pharmacist had firmly established himself at the God-Slaying Platform realm, in terms of the depth and richness of primordial qi cultivation, he was still far inferior to Qin Mu.
The dao patterns within the spiritual pill flew out like a grand epic poem, heading toward Nguyệt Thiên Tôn. The pill also emitted a wondrous dao sound that harmonized with the zither music.
The dao patterns of the pill reached Nguyệt Thiên Tôn's crown, touching the dao wound left by Ancestral God King. The might of the heavenly dao erupted instantly, its majesty vast and overwhelming. Yet in the next moment, the dao patterns of the pill filled into the heavenly dao patterns!
The heavenly dao patterns within the dao wound caused by Ancestral God King, upon touching the pill's dao patterns, reacted like blood meeting snake venom—rapidly coagulating, clumping, and rotting!
Qin Mu was horrified at the sight, his scalp tingling, even his bones trembling!
This spiritual pill was not a pill at all—it was a deadly poison, capable of dissolving the dao cultivation that others had painstakingly built. It was a poison of dao dissolution!
"Don't worry, this pill only targets the dao wound left by Ancestral God King." The Pharmacist's voice came at just the right moment, dispelling his fear.
Qin Mu steadied himself. At that moment, the Pharmacist produced two more spiritual pills. These flew up—one to Nguyệt Thiên Tôn's back, where the dao wound left by Hạo Thiên Tôn was located, and one to Nguyệt Thiên Tôn's face, where the dao wound left by Hỏa Thiên Tôn was.
Another two streams of primordial qi shot up from Qin Mu's head, transforming into two heavenly palaces—one was the Primordial Heaven Palace, and the other was the Creation Heavenly Palace.
He used the Creation Heavenly Palace to reshape Nguyệt Thiên Tôn's appearance, restoring her former visage, while the Primordial Heaven Palace was prepared because Hạo Thiên Tôn's Guixu Dao and Primordial One Qi were simply too powerful. If the Pharmacist's pills failed to achieve the desired effect, he would have his backup ready.
As the medicinal power of these two pills took effect, Qin Mu's body shook, and he manifested three heads and six arms, closely watching every change in the dao patterns.
At this time, the Pharmacist produced yet another pill to treat the dao wound caused by Tiêu Thiên Tôn!
Qin Mu frowned and said in a low voice, "Pharmacist Grandfather, Nguyệt Thiên Tôn isn't as thick-skinned and tough as I am. Do we really have to alarm all the Thiên Tôn at once?"
The Pharmacist activated the medicinal power of that pill and said solemnly, "If we've alarmed the other Thiên Tôn, then we certainly can't hide it from Tiêu Thiên Tôn. Rather than waiting for him to make the first move, we might as well alarm all of them."
Qin Mu's brow furrowed deeply. His body shook, and behind him, heavenly palaces materialized one after another, forming a heavenly court that radiated brilliant divine light.
His primordial spirit split into eighteen, standing within each heavenly palace, closely watching the changes in the dao patterns within Nguyệt Thiên Tôn's dao wounds.
That pill had already begun to erode Tiêu Thiên Tôn's dao patterns. The first dao pattern shattered.
Qin Mu's brow twitched. The moment that dao pattern broke, he sensed something awakening in the Primordial Realm!
It was like an incredibly terrifying monster opening its eyes in the darkness!
Tiêu Thiên Tôn had been alerted!
At this point, the Pharmacist produced the fifth spiritual pill. Qin Mu's forehead veins bulged wildly, but he held back, not disturbing him, letting him focus entirely on healing Nguyệt Thiên Tôn.
Nguyệt Thiên Tôn's zither music remained leisurely and slow—plucking idle strings, slowly placing pieces on the chessboard. As Qin Mu and the Pharmacist treated her wounds, the dao wounds on her body would counterattack, causing her even greater pain. Yet her fingers remained steady, each one striking the strings with force!
Meanwhile, the daoists living at the Dao Gate and the people in the cities at the foot of the mountain suddenly witnessed a strange spectacle.
They saw the entire peach forest blooming with light of various colors, the radiance seeming to float above the forest. Within the forest, hundreds of light strings vibrated with the zither music, and hundreds of light strings resonated with the melody, making the ten-thousand-li peach forest in the night look like leaping musical notes bathed in light!
Even more peculiar, with each leaping note, the peach forest seemed to jump from one space to another, and in the dark night sky, another world materialized, connected to the forest!
At this moment, the Primordial Realm was in darkness, but those strange worlds were not all in night. Some were at the moment of sunrise. People near the Dao Gate saw the ocean, with three seemingly smaller suns rising slowly from the sea's surface.
The light of dawn spilled from the night, sweeping across the sea, across the peach forest along the coast, and from the forest onto the Kunlun Ruins mountains of the Dao Gate, like a beautiful painting slowly unfurling!
But as the notes of the peach forest leaped, the scene changed again. They saw a dark world descend—pitch-black mountains like the fins on a monster's back, astonishing and terrifying.
The notes leaped again, and suddenly they were in daytime—clear skies, vast and deep blue. A colossal continent floated in the sky, and many divine beings with bird heads, human bodies, and wings flew through the heavens.
Then again, they arrived at a world at sunset—the setting sun blazing red, evening clouds stretching across the sky, breathtakingly beautiful.
The ten-thousand-li peach forest seemed to exist in a space of constant jumping, leaping continuously across the myriad worlds. The notes formed by light strings and melodies created hundreds of constantly shifting spatial layers, leaving those near the Dao Gate staring in awe.
Suddenly, an elder of the Dao Gate looked toward the distant darkness. In the far-off place, the World Tree stood like a monster in the darkness at the center of the Primordial Realm.
And there, two long, narrow eyelids were slowly opening!
Those two eyes were so enormous that even from this distance, they were clearly visible!
The Dao Gate elder's heart jolted. He hurriedly struck the bell, summoning the Dao Gate disciples, and said solemnly, "The Dao Master is not here. Each of you, go down the mountain quickly, to the nearby cities and towns, and restrain everyone. They must not leave their houses, must not leave the cities! Everyone must shut their doors and windows—under no circumstances go outside!"
The many Dao Gate disciples departed. The elder also went down the mountain to restrain the nearby common folk. He glanced again at the eyes gradually brightening in the darkness, and then noticed that the stars in the sky seemed to have grown larger without him realizing. His heart was heavy with worry: "The peach forest... I fear a great upheaval is coming!"