Chapter 1712: The Divine Ability of the Dao Defiler
The Heavenly Court's main camp.
Third Young Master and Fourth Young Master—one controlling the physical body of Heavenly Emperor Hao, the other controlling the body of Tai Chu—stood outside and inside Qin Mu's domain respectively. Third Young Master stood outside Qin Mu's domain, while Fourth Young Master stood within it.
Third Young Master slowly paced, observing the mysteries of this domain, searching for flaws in Qin Mu's defense.
In the past universe, although he had crossed paths with Seventh Young Master Qin Mu on multiple occasions, his understanding of Qin Mu's divine abilities and dao techniques was not deep. The Seventh Young Master of Miluo Palace was either out scheming people or on his way to scheme people, spending very little time in Miluo Palace.
Now, however, was an excellent opportunity to observe Qin Mu's dao techniques.
In terms of cultivation base, Qin Mu was not the one with the highest primordial qi cultivation in the seventeenth epoch universe.
Tai Chu and Heavenly Emperor Hao both had deeper primordial qi reserves than Qin Mu.
Where Qin Mu's strength lay was in the fact that he had already surpassed this era by too much. His vision, experience, knowledge, and foundation all far exceeded those of Tai Chu and Heavenly Emperor Hao.
He was not far from the Young Masters now, and even Third Young Master dared not take him lightly.
Also trapped within Qin Mu's domain were countless main forces of the Heavenly Court, all imprisoned within the domain, unable to escape.
Qin Mu's domain was too bizarre. No matter which direction they charged, they would only end up getting closer and closer to Qin Mu, so they dared not move at all.
Especially the powerful experts at the Imperial Throne realm of the Heavenly Court—they dared not take even half a step!
The way Qin Mu killed the avatar of the Hall Master of the Spirit Official Hall was utterly brutal and terrifying. If they moved, no matter where they went, they would end up walking right in front of Qin Mu—practically delivering themselves to him for slaughter!
Besides them, there were also the Taiji Ancient God and Empress Dowager. The Taiji Ancient God also recognized the danger and dared not make any move.
Empress Dowager discovered that when she turned her head, no matter how large the angle of rotation, Qin Mu was always facing her directly. She clicked her tongue in wonder, then spun around a couple more times, letting out a giggle.
—The thinking of the Guixu Goddess often differed from ordinary people.
Qin Mu, alone, with his own strength, held back the countless divine demon armies of the Heavenly Court, making everyone dare not cross the line even half a step!
If not for Third Young Master and Fourth Young Master using their own aura to break his domain, even the divine demon armies of Void Heavenly Venerable, Ancestral God King, and those from Xuan Du and You Du would have been trapped here, unable to escape!
Only Third Young Master could stand within Qin Mu's domain yet transcend beyond it. This single fact alone showed how profound his foundation was.
Qin Mu's thirty-three layered heavenly palace divine treasury domain was incomprehensible to others, yet he understood it and could even transcend it!
This was the first time Qin Mu had encountered such a terrifying existence. Since his cultivation method had reached completion, his divine treasury domain had never been broken by anyone—this was the first time!
Third Young Master didn't even seem to be breaking it; it was more like he saw through all the mysteries of the domain at a single glance!
Fourth Young Master didn't pace around like Third Young Master. He simply stood within Qin Mu's domain, gazing at Qin Mu's Chaos Hall.
Qin Mu's domain comprised thirty-three heavens. To outsiders, there appeared to be thirty-three Qin Mus. But strangely enough, Fourth Young Master stood there as if he had pierced through the thirty-three layered heaven domain—there was a Fourth Young Master in every single domain!
He used another method to demonstrate that he had already seen through the thirty-three layered heaven domain.
The two Young Masters used different methods, but both had unfathomably deep foundations!
Qin Mu immediately felt the pressure.
He wanted to block the Heavenly Court's great army here, buying time for Yan Kang. Now it seemed this task was extremely arduous!
Third Young Master and Fourth Young Master had not directly attacked. Although they had seen through Qin Mu's domain, in the past, Qin Mu was not known for his divine treasury domain.
The Seventh Young Master of Miluo Palace had attained the dao through chaos, cultivating the Chaos Hall!
Even their teacher, the Master of Miluo Palace, had nothing but praise for Qin Mu!
They were merely borrowing the physical bodies of Heavenly Emperor Hao and Tai Chu to allow themselves to cross blows with Qin Mu. Controlling someone else's body was not as convenient as descending personally, and they also had to deal with the Seventh Young Master of the past universe. Therefore, this was a rare opportunity to glimpse what mysteries and divine abilities the Seventh Young Master's Chaos Hall contained.
If they could discern his dao techniques and divine abilities from the current Qin Mu, then they could deal with the future Seventh Young Master!
The Chaos Hall floated within Qin Mu's Great Heavenly Court, containing boundless energy. However, this energy was tightly compressed within the hall, unable to leak out.
Qin Mu's Great Heavenly Court also followed the path of achieving the dao through force, like Tai Chu and Heavenly Emperor Hao, cultivating heavenly palaces and precious halls. However, Qin Mu had not fallen into the Jade Capital trap.
When he fought against the phantom of the Seventy-Two Hall Masters, he had already broken the trap and seized control of the power of the Seventy-Two Halls.
And by cultivating the Chaos Hall, he had leaped beyond the Ling Xiao trap.
Not only that, Third Young Master and Fourth Young Master could also see other methods of achieving the dao from Qin Mu, such as Second Young Master's Guixu method of achieving the dao, as well as the dao realm method!
In addition, his World Tree caused them some confusion. This method of achieving the dao should be a unique system of the seventeenth epoch, not yet fully developed.
If one added chaos achieving the dao, then one could see five paths to achieving the dao from Qin Mu!
This was also the reason Qin Mu was so powerful!
Suddenly, Third Young Master Ling Xiao stopped in his tracks!
At the same moment, Fourth Young Master Zi Xiao, who had been standing there observing, moved his feet and directly crossed through layers of space to stand before Qin Mu!
Qin Mu also made his move at that very instant. He did not use other dao realm divine abilities—the moment he struck, he directly used the thirty-third heaven dao realm divine ability, Po Jie (Breaking Calamity)!
His divine ability established the dao. The Po Jie Sword was the most powerful divine ability he had created, capable of breaking through all dao techniques and divine abilities!
This sword strike contained his profound foundation, and the thirty-third heaven dao realm manifested by Po Jie had also trapped most of the Heavenly Court's divine demons, even making Empress Dowager and the Taiji Ancient God dare not make any move!
He had cultivated Hongmeng primordial qi, using Hongmeng runes to re-evolve this divine ability. Its power was absolutely far greater than before!
Fourth Young Master Zi Xiao walked toward the Po Jie Sword, raising his hand and pointing a finger at the incoming sword light. His finger and the sword collided in mid-air, crackling and sizzling.
Qin Mu held no sword in his hand—he had transformed Hongmeng primordial qi into a purple sword. Fourth Young Master Zi Xiao, on the other hand, used his own finger to evolve his divine ability. The moment his fingertip moved, purple qi filled the air—also Hongmeng primordial qi!
The moment their divine abilities collided, the thirty-three layered heaven domain violently trembled. Layer upon layer of dao realm domains were thrown into chaos and disorder, time and space reversed, the thirty-three heavens tilted, and everyone within the thirty-three layered heaven domain involuntarily slid forward, as if all of them were falling toward the same singular point!
They hurriedly stabilized themselves, only to discover that they had been moved into different domains by the clash of the two Young Masters.
Even more terrifying was the fact that their distance from Qin Mu had grown even closer!
Everyone broke out in cold sweat, their nostrils flaring, pupils constricting, throats going dry.
Empress Dowager let out a giggle, then suddenly activated her Guixu divine ability. The Guixu Abyss appeared, and her figure plunged into it. She laughed, "I'm not playing with you all anymore! Farewell—"
The Guixu Abyss swallowed her, then the abyss closed up and vanished without a trace.
At the same time, the two Taiji Ancient Gods suddenly merged together, transforming into a giant with a serpent's head and a human body. They activated the Taiji Sand Table, which spun and carried them away with a whoosh!
They had chosen their timing with extreme precision—it was the instant Qin Mu and Fourth Young Master Zi Xiao clashed, when the thirty-three layered heaven domain was trembling, at the moment before it stabilized!
This was the best opportunity to escape Qin Mu's domain.
Shua!
A patch of black light rippled, the abyss split open, and Empress Dowager stepped out of it, laughing, "Now we can charge into Yan Kang..."
Her smile suddenly froze. Ahead of her, the World Tree stood lush and verdant, shading the heavens. She was still within the thirty-three layered heaven domain, even closer to Qin Mu than before!
She had activated her Guixu divine ability, yet she still hadn't managed to escape Qin Mu's domain!
At the same time, the Taiji Sand Table spun with a howl and suddenly halted. The two Taiji Ancient Gods separated, sweat pouring down their faces and bodies as they stared fixedly at Qin Mu beneath the tree ahead.
Their distance from Qin Mu was even closer than Empress Dowager's!
The three of them froze in place, not daring to make another move.
Fourth Young Master Zi Xiao stepped forward. Qin Mu's Po Jie Sword had not broken through his finger divine ability. His finger strike was a divine ability of Miluo Palace, its foundational runes being Hongmeng runes—already the most fundamental dao runes, with nothing to break!
And in terms of the raw power of the two divine abilities, he still surpassed Qin Mu's Po Jie Sword by a margin!
The moment his Po Jie Sword was broken, Qin Mu immediately changed tactics, using the Hongmeng Finger to meet his finger strike. The two divine abilities were almost identical, but the variations contained within were completely different.
Although the Hongmeng Finger was derived from Hongmeng runes, each person's comprehension was different, so the variations differed. The Hongmeng runes could evolve countless great daos within that single finger—from the Five Primordials of Antiquity to all innate great daos, everything could be evolved.
At this point, the contest was one of foundation. Whoever had the deeper foundation would have more variations!
Chi!
Qin Mu's chest burst open, his body flying backward, pinned to the World Tree by Fourth Young Master Zi Xiao's finger!
As he slammed into the World Tree, the thirty-three layered heaven domain trembled once more, the ordering of each layer shifting again. The formations of the Heavenly Court's countless armies spun wildly once more.
This time, they found their distance from Qin Mu had increased significantly. They were no longer falling toward him, and they each breathed a sigh of relief.
Qin Mu slid down from the World Tree. Suddenly, chaos qi surged from the Chaos Hall, billowing forth in all directions, shrouding the World Tree!
At this moment, the World Tree seemed to be within the Guixu, with hot death winds swirling throughout the surrounding chaos qi—like a world-destroying cataclysm of annihilation, where all great daos ceased to exist!
"Minor arts." Fourth Young Master Zi Xiao stepped into this cataclysm of destruction, speaking calmly.
Beneath the tree, Qin Mu reached out his hand in a sword-drawing gesture, staring fixedly at Fourth Young Master as he approached through the chaos qi.
Fourth Young Master's figure grew from hazy to clear, his body growing larger and larger. He walked through the cataclysm of destruction that Qin Mu had evolved, as if immune to all laws, eternally indestructible. Even the hot death winds could not harm him in the slightest.
At that moment, from the distant Lan Feng Valley, Moon Heavenly Venerable's finger moved, and the sound of a zither rang out. Threads of zither music, under her control, invaded Qin Mu's domain and reached Fourth Young Master's ears!
Fourth Young Master lifted his foot, and upon hearing the zither music, his heart suddenly trembled, his dao heart thrown into disarray.
Sword light blazed.
Qin Mu drew his sword—but what he drew was his own right hand!
The Tian Du Heaven-Opening Chapter!
"Dao Defiler!"
Fourth Young Master retreated, but the sword light had already cut through layers of chaos, splitting heaven and earth with a single stroke, slicing into his brow. Fourth Young Master's mind was thrown into chaos, his consciousness in that instant as if heaven and earth were being split open!
With this single sword strike, Qin Mu directly slew his consciousness, grinding away his power!
Plop.
Behind Fourth Young Master, the Zi Xiao Hall collapsed with a thunderous crash, revealing a scene of primordial chaos—the opening of heaven and earth, the birth of the universe!
Tai Chu immediately seized control of the body, transforming into a stream of Tai Chu qi and fleeing into the distance. Yet to his horror, he saw himself getting closer and closer to Qin Mu!
Shua.
A figure appeared before him, reached out and grabbed the back of his neck, then tossed him out of Qin Mu's domain.
Third Young Master Zi Xiao's face darkened as he stared at Qin Mu's hand, his voice cold and sinister: "Old Seventh, you learned the divine abilities of the Dao Defiler and used them against Miluo Palace. Your intentions are treacherous!"