Chapter 1422: Butterfly Loves Flower, Flower Is Heartless (First Update)
The blood-red killing aura of the Execution Platform was refined and stored within the bodies of Qin Mu, the Butcher, and the other three. Their cultivation and strength grew ever stronger, and their comprehension of the Execution Platform realm deepened with each passing day.
Their attainments in the Dao of the Blade also rose along with the tide.
The Dao concealed within the Execution Platform was not the Dao of the Blade, but rather the Dao of Killing Intent within the great Dao of heaven and earth, while also containing a tempering of the Dao heart.
Refining the killing aura and forcibly seizing the power of the Blood Killing God Blades could only elevate their cultivation and grant them a deeper understanding of the Dao of Killing Intent—it could not improve their mastery of the Dao of the Blade.
The reason they had made such tremendous progress in the blade Dao was actually due to the elevation of their Dao hearts, as well as the process of comprehending their own blade techniques and blade Dao while resisting the killing god blades. That was where their true gains came from.
Of the five of them, aside from Qin Mu, each had shortcomings in the tempering of their Dao hearts. Under normal circumstances, they would never have been able to enter the Execution Platform—merely the trial of the Dao heart alone would have been more than they could bear against the Execution Platform's executions.
However, Qin Mu's Dao heart was sufficiently formidable. Through enlightenment at the Yong River, the essence, qi, and spirit of all five were fused into one, and with the blade Dao branded into twenty-five layers of void, it was also Qin Mu's Dao heart that led the way, forcibly elevating the Dao heart attainments of the Butcher, Zhe Huali, and the others.
The reason the Butcher and the others could stand on the Execution Platform was also thanks to the enlightenment at the Yong River, with the blade Dao branded into twenty-five layers of heaven.
If it were Qin Mu alone, he would not be able to stand firm on the Execution Platform either. The power of the two Blood Killing God Blades was simply too great. Though his Dao heart could withstand it, his physical body and primordial spirit could not be preserved, and his great Dao would also be severed.
Standing alone on the platform, he would only be executed again and again, unable to comprehend anything.
His Dao heart was strong, but his attainments in the blade Dao were still somewhat lacking. During the enlightenment at the Yong River, the reason he could brand the blade Dao into twenty-five layers of heaven was due to the combined efforts of the other four ancestors of the blade Dao—it was not the achievement of one person alone.
Only when all five joined forces could they reach such heights, and only then did they have the capital to contend against the Execution Platform.
And now, their blade Dao was branded into twenty-seven layers of void, also relying on the combined strength of the five, borrowing the might of the Execution Platform, gathering the wisdom of all five, and elevating the Dao of the Blade to the height of twenty-seven layers of heaven!
They needed to join forces, all five of them, to unleash the power of the blade Dao at twenty-seven layers of heaven.
Five mediocre cobblers still could not match one Emperor Khai Hoang.
Emperor Khai Hoang, with his own strength alone, had pushed the Dao of the Sword to thirty-five layers of heaven, branding it into thirty-five layers of void—far surpassing them.
However, their blade Dao was still progressing, about to break through to twenty-eight layers of heaven, branding the blade Dao into twenty-eight layers of void!
Yet the further they went, the more difficult it became. Elevating to twenty-eight layers of heaven was no easy feat.
The power of the two Blood Killing God Blades on the Execution Platform remained extremely fierce, posing a great threat to them. The Butcher and the others still had to exhaust every effort to resist the two god blades, but even so, they were constantly being wounded.
Fortunately, Qin Mu's Divine Treasury Domain contained the Unchanging Divine Ability, which could always restore them to their peak state before the Execution Platform could seize their life force and blood.
Meanwhile, in the distant Divine City, the Pharmacist was carefully tending to Phương Tử Nhan's health, expelling the killing aura from her body. He also brought Phương Tử Nhan to some treasured grounds in the Ancestral Court to gather medicinal herbs, preparing to refine elixirs to treat her eye affliction.
With this handsome Pharmacist by her side, Phương Tử Nhan felt the days flew by. By the time they returned with their gathered herbs, they saw that beside the Great Spirit Energy Transfer Bridge, rain masters, water gods, river gods, and dragon kings from all the various heavens had gathered—thousands of deities manipulating great floods to cool down the Great Spirit Energy Transfer Bridge.
During this period, the Heavenly Court Dao Sect had once again adjusted the positions of the great tower ships dragging the Heavenly Court, and the Heavenly Court had migrated once more, its speed greatly increased.
It seemed that before long, the Heavenly Court would completely migrate into the Ancestral Court. At that time, the Heavenly River would change course once again, recreating the grand spectacle of the Ancestral Court in the ancient era!
The Pharmacist refined the elixir, applied the medicine to Phương Tử Nhan, and said softly, "Madam only needs to rest for a day or two, and you will be fully recovered. I have been away from Yên Khang for some time now; I must return."
Phương Tử Nhan was reluctant to part, holding his hand and saying, "Although I have been titled Madam by the court, my late husband passed away long ago. If you do not mind..."
The Pharmacist calmly withdrew his hand and said, "Madam, I accumulated too many romantic debts in my early years. Now I only wish to travel and practice medicine, to make up for those debts of the past. Madam has affection, but I find it difficult to accept."
Phương Tử Nhan felt a sense of loss, watching him walk away into the distance.
Two more days passed. The Dao wounds in Phương Tử Nhan's eyes completely disappeared. She opened her eyes, listless and dispirited as she looked around, feeling that even the magnificent rivers and mountains of the Ancestral Court had lost their color.
Then, she suddenly noticed the Execution Platform, and her beautiful face changed color. She saw that the killing aura of the Execution Platform was far weaker than before—its scale had shrunk by nearly half!
"Damn it! I have the intention, but he is heartless. I was so busy enjoying romance with that Pharmacist that I forgot my true purpose!"
Cold sweat broke out on her forehead. From a distance, she saw the blade Dao above the Execution Platform like a heavenly dome, branded into thirty layers of void, layer upon layer pressing down. It had actually trapped the two Blood Killing God Blades within, attempting to capture and refine them!
And although the two god blades could still break through the thirty layers of the blade Dao, they no longer possessed the terrifying power they once had, and could no longer threaten the five people on the platform.
Thirty layers of heaven in the blade Dao—its power was absolutely extraordinary. The five stood on the platform, and whenever they combined their battle techniques in unison, their might was overwhelming, beating the two god blades until they could no longer run rampant.
"If I let them continue, they might devour and refine those two god blades, turning them into blade qi within their bodies!"
Phương Tử Nhan immediately flew up and rushed toward the Great Spirit Energy Transfer Bridge.
On the Execution Platform, Qin Mu had already thoroughly comprehended the great Dao concealed within it and was now reconstructing his own Execution Platform.
His number of heavenly palaces numbered as many as nineteen. Not only did he need to reshape the Execution Platforms of his nineteen heavenly palaces, he also needed to reconstruct an Execution Platform in the Ancestral Court of his Spiritual Embryo Divine Treasury.
Once these twenty Execution Platforms were erected, he felt his cultivation rise once more, and his Dao heart became even more perfect and round.
However, after the Execution Platform in his Ancestral Court was erected, the changes it brought exceeded his expectations. The moment this Execution Platform formed, it actually began to absorb his own killing aura!
The more slaughter one committed, the heavier the killing aura quấn quýt around oneself. For example, back in the day, Mother Earth Primordial Lord had gone on a killing spree in Huyền Đô, slaughtering a million gods and demons, causing killing aura to cling to her body and affect her Dao heart.
Mother Earth Primordial Lord's Dao and virtue were completely corrupted, and she ultimately died at Qin Mu's hands—it was precisely the killing aura at work.
Since Qin Mu left the Great Ruins and entered Yên Khang, he had not committed much slaughter, and his hands had not been stained with much blood.
It could be said that in these decades, he had not caused many killing calamities. Although his cultivation and strength were formidable, among beings of his level, his hands were the cleanest—without exception.
But the number of living beings who had died at the hands of his elder brother Tần Phong Khánh was incalculable. Even when Tần Phong Khánh was still an infant, he had already devoured countless dead souls—and at that time, Qin Mu's consciousness had not yet been born!
Back when the two were still one body, Qin Mu had been vướng víu with killing aura, and all those lives had to be counted against him.
Qin Mu was proficient in the Great Dao of U Đô, so the killing aura could not interfere with his divine intellect. But having so much killing aura quấn quanh him was still not a good thing.
Now, the moment the Execution Platform in his Divine Treasury's Ancestral Court formed, all the killing aura gathered upon it, transforming into two blood-red blade lights that entangled endlessly!
Not only that, the killing aura of Cường Thiên Phi's Ancestral Court Execution Platform was also devoured and refined by his Ancestral Court Execution Platform, strengthening itself!