Chapter 1724: All Who Go to the Origin Realm Are Righteous Warriors
"Pastoral Heavenly Venerable, your injuries are quite severe."
Heavenly Emperor Hao held the Taiyi Divine Axe in his hand, staring at the wounds on Qin Mu's body. More than a year had passed since Qin Mu was injured, and his wounds were still bleeding.
The Dao wounds left by Third Young Master Lingxiao on him still remained. Although they had lessened somewhat, these Dao wounds connected to his Divine Treasures, and fifty holes had appeared within them as well.
When the Execution Dao Divine Nails were still in place, they could suppress these Dao wounds, but the nails would restrict his physical movements. To face Heavenly Emperor Hao in battle, Qin Mu had no choice but to pull out the Execution Dao Divine Nails, causing these Dao wounds to begin destroying his physical body once more.
As long as he used divine abilities and mobilized his magical power, the Dao wounds lurking in his Divine Treasures would worsen!
"You should have been recuperating from your injuries."
Heavenly Emperor Hao said with a faint smile: "Once you recover from your injuries, the situation will already be lost. Third Young Master has broken through the Red Rope Binding Knot, and I have also invited many Dao Achievers from Miluo Palace. Yankang has been trampled flat by me. By that time, you will be alone and isolated, and I will send you to the previous cosmic epoch. But you chose not to recuperate and instead took the initiative to attack, which will only make your injuries worse, with recovery nowhere in sight. When the future comes, you will lose even more miserably. I only need to hold this battle, and your destruction is not far off!"
Upon hearing this, Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on his face.
An army may have its commander taken, but a common man's will cannot be taken from him.
If even a common man is like this, how much more so the Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Court?
Heavenly Emperor Hao had already lost his ambition and aspiration, leaving only the thought of holding his ground—this was fatal for a Heavenly Emperor!
Without the ambition to advance, he would fall into a passive position of being beaten, and the initiative would fall into Yankang's hands. If the battle continued, the Heavenly Court's morale would sink lower and lower, while Yankang's morale would rise higher and higher!
In this battle, although the Heavenly Court still held an enormous advantage in military strength, the tide of victory had already begun to slowly reverse!
Heavenly Emperor Hao charged forward with his axe. The Dao of Taiji responded to every request, transforming into the Taiyi Divine Axe, capable of severing the World Tree. Qin Mu's World Tree had already been severed by him once before.
This time, he only needed to sever Qin Mu's World Tree again. Even if he couldn't kill Qin Mu, he could still cause his Divine Treasures to collapse once more!
Qin Mu's Divine Treasures were already riddled with damage. If the World Tree were felled, without its support, the cosmic starry sky and the Thirty-Three Heavens within his Divine Treasures would collapse again, annihilate, and turn into chaos!
By then, how much combat power would Qin Mu still have?
By then, Qin Mu would be completely unable to stop him from slaughtering Yankang's army!
The current Qin Mu was nothing more than an arrow at the end of its flight!
Even if he couldn't sever Qin Mu's World Tree, he could still wait until Qin Mu's injuries erupted. By then, the result would still be the same!
The Taiyi Divine Axe formed from the Dao of Taiji in Heavenly Emperor Hao's hands was truly stunning. As the second being to open up Divine Treasures in the early years of Longhan, ranked second among the Nine Heavenly Venerables of Longhan, his divine abilities were flawless!
Although Heavenly Emperor Hao no longer had his Dao Tree, his Dao Flower, or his Guixu Dao Body, he still possessed the capital to achieve the Dao through raw power, and he still possessed the perfect Great Heavenly Court—Thirty-Six Heavenly Palaces and Seventy-Two Precious Halls!
Third Young Master and Fourth Young Master still supported him, and the Palace Masters of Miluo Palace would still lend him their power!
The Taiyi Divine Axe spun into motion, its divine might unfathomable, bearing the momentum to cleave the world apart!
Qin Mu's eyes shone brightly. His three divine eyes saw through all the mysteries of Heavenly Emperor Hao's divine abilities. Just as Heavenly Emperor Hao's Taiyi Divine Axe came cleaving down, he suddenly pointed out with one finger!
The Hongmeng Finger!
As he used this technique, all fifty wounds on his body burst open simultaneously, blood gushing out!
The Dao wounds left by Third Young Master—he had studied them countless times through dreaming and entering the Dao, attempting to learn the various Miluo Palace divine abilities and Dao techniques contained within the wounds. However, he was still far from healing them.
He could only barely suppress the Dao wounds now, but the moment his magical power stirred, the wounds could no longer be suppressed!
The Dao wounds immediately began destroying his physical functions, destroying his Divine Treasures!
An excruciating pain shot through him, yet Qin Mu didn't make a sound. He still wore a smile on his face. When Void Heavenly Venerable had inserted the Execution Dao Divine Nails into his wounds, he had been in agony, but now, he didn't care at all!
He had to overwhelm the enemy with his momentum!
Boom!
The two divine abilities collided. At the moment of impact, Qin Mu shifted his steps and immediately changed his technique. This time, it was no longer the Hongmeng Finger, but the Five Tai Seal.
The Five Tai Great Dao was in his palm, connected to his five fingers. His five fingers landed successively on the Taiyi Divine Axe in Heavenly Emperor Hao's hand. The Taiyi Divine Axe, which had already been pierced through by the Hongmeng Finger, now bore the Five Tai Seal and exploded with a bang!
Blood dripped from Heavenly Emperor Hao's five fingers, and his tiger's mouth burst open.
However, at the same moment Qin Mu changed his technique, Heavenly Emperor Hao also changed his. His other hand transformed into the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel, pressing toward Qin Mu's chest. The power of the thirty layers of Dao Realm within the Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel erupted with full force!
He knew that Qin Mu's physical injuries were the most severe, so he attacked Qin Mu's physical body.
Just as his Myriad Dao Heavenly Wheel pressed against Qin Mu's chest, Qin Mu's Primordial Spirit rose up from behind him, seated within his own Heavenly Court, activating the Unchanging Divine Ability.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Thirty consecutive muffled sounds came from within Qin Mu's body. Qin Mu's wounds burst open, but at the same time, the power of the Unchanging Divine Ability erupted, causing his split wounds to immediately heal.
Behind Heavenly Emperor Hao, his Primordial Spirit flew out, swinging the Taiyi Divine Axe formed from the Dao of Taiji in a single stroke aimed at the World Tree behind Qin Mu.
Qin Mu revealed a smile. Before Heavenly Emperor Hao's Primordial Spirit could strike the World Tree, suddenly the Guixu Great Abyss appeared, and the lotus flower spun, drawing Heavenly Emperor Hao's Primordial Spirit into its petals.
The lotus sank, disappearing into the Guixu Great Abyss.
The Great Abyss rapidly closed. Suddenly, a flash of axe light split the abyss open before it could fully close. Heavenly Emperor Hao's Primordial Spirit fled out in a sorry state, its body wreathed in blazing heat-death flames that nearly refined it to death.
Just as he escaped from Guixu, Qin Mu's Primordial Spirit pointed out with one finger. Heavenly Emperor Hao's Primordial Spirit raised his axe to block, but the axe face was pierced through by the Hongmeng Finger again, leaving two finger holes.
The reason there were two finger holes was that the first had been left by Qin Mu's earlier Hongmeng Finger, leaving an indelible scar on the Dao of Taiji that Heavenly Emperor Hao cultivated!
This was Qin Mu's Hongmeng Finger—a finger that pierced through the Great Dao itself!
Heavenly Emperor Hao's expression darkened. The battle between their Primordial Spirits was extremely fierce, and the attacks on their physical bodies were even more dazzling to behold. Heavenly Emperor Hao could clearly see that Qin Mu's wounds were growing larger, and the destruction caused by the Dao wounds was becoming stronger. Yet Qin Mu never collapsed into annihilation of his Divine Treasures as he had predicted!
Qin Mu's World Tree forcibly propped up his thirty-three layers of Dao Realm. The Heavenly Court and the other myriad worlds remained swaying but did not turn to dust.
The World Tree was still the key to the battle between Heavenly Emperor Hao and Qin Mu. Without severing the World Tree, he couldn't make Qin Mu fall!
However, as Qin Mu's Dao wounds erupted, the World Tree needed to support the myriad worlds and the Thirty-Three Heavens, bearing more and more pressure, which gave Heavenly Emperor Hao hope!
If Qin Mu were at his peak, and Heavenly Emperor Hao were also at his peak, Qin Mu could defeat him in less than ten moves. But now Qin Mu had been severely wounded by Third Young Master, with only one or two tenths of his strength remaining. Heavenly Emperor Hao was also not at his peak. In the short term, the two couldn't determine a victor.
Just as Qin Mu withdrew his Divine Treasure Domain, the army of Wuyou Village fell into an encirclement. Without Qin Mu's Divine Treasure Domain and World Tree, the army of Wuyou Village was like a lone leaf adrift in a vast ocean, forced to huddle together to face enemies surging from all directions. Casualties were heavy in a short time.
As for Yankang's army—whether it was Village Chief, Butcher, Deaf Man, or First Ancestor and Granny Si—none had managed to reach the front of the Heavenly Court's camp. Wei Suifeng's Imperial Guard Army and Northern Emperor Xuanwu's forces were held back by the Heavenly River Navy. Western Emperor White Tiger and Dragon Qilin's forces had just arrived at the rear of the Heavenly Court's camp, only to face Divine Master, the head of the Three Masters of the Heavenly Court, plunging into a bitter struggle!
In Youdu, Nether Heavenly Venerable and Qin Fengqing were each performing their duties, slaughtering the Dragon and Martial Guards, and couldn't free up their hands either.
The soldiers around Woodcutter Wen Tian Pavilion grew fewer and fewer. Even Woodcutter the Sage had to personally take up his axe and enter the fray. In this battle, there were basically no soldiers left for him to command—most had already died in battle!
At this moment, even a sage had to fight personally, to kill enemies with his own hands!
Enemies surged around them like tidal waves, enough to drive one to despair. Yet Woodcutter and the others had bright eyes—what they saw was hope.
The longer they delayed, the greater the hope of victory in this battle!
Woodcutter looked around. Blood flowed endlessly from Di Yuèyue's severed arm. This generation's Founding Emperor had also reached the point of exhaustion. Yan Yunxi's hair ribbon had broken at some point, and her long black hair fell loose, revealing her daughterly countenance. Old Farmer Zhuo Cha leaned against her back, clearly having recognized the lover he had secretly pined for all these years.
Tian Shu's Imperial Palace Divine Saber was broken in half, and he was holding a worn-out wine jar, trying to pour out a single drop of wine—but the wine was long gone.
King Yan's Fengdu had also shattered. The last divine city had been breached, with countless ghosts and gods dead or wounded.
Old Man Qinghuang lay on the ground, alive or dead unknown. Emperor Shitian had a demonic divine weapon embedded in his chest and didn't dare pull it out.
Wuyou Village could no longer hold on.
Suddenly, the Right Divine Strategy Army surged forward. This army charged in and cut off the last hope of Wuyou Village.
The soldiers of Wuyou Village roused their spirits, gripping their divine weapons tightly. Someone among them began singing boldly and passionately.
"Behold my ambition to level the heavens! Climb my Heaven-Equalizing Hall! Raise my Clear-Bright Coffin! Ascend my Mystic Fetus Mountain!"
Yan Yunxi softly sang along: "Contemplate the birth of all things, peace and joy for all. Climb high to gaze at the far shore, creation extends the starry sky. Enter my Wuyou Village, escape the world without worries."
Martial Combat Heavenly Master Zhuo Cha's voice was passionate and resolute, ringing with power that pierced the heart: "One day the great dream awakens, returning to the road of home! Tread my perilous heavenly path! Battle my jackal-like foes! Bury my heroes' souls! Inter my righteous warriors' bones!"
The wounded and maimed soldiers of Wuyou Village laughed loudly along: "Wind and frost may age me, I fear not! Swords and blades may wound me, I tremble not! Let my body be shattered to pieces! Let my soul scatter to the winds!"
"All who go to the Origin Realm are righteous warriors! The true void is home everywhere!"
Woodcutter Wen Tian Pavilion laughed: "In this life, I have three disciples. My eldest disciple likes to wander everywhere, my second disciple became Pastoral Heavenly Venerable. Only my third disciple will inherit my legacy and become a true sage—the first sage in this world. My life is now complete, with no more regrets."
The people of the future might be very happy.
He thought to himself that the future might be the golden age of his ideals—an age filled with the principles he had upheld throughout his life. People would no longer kneel before deities; instead, deities would serve the people.
In people's hearts, there would be a belief that humanity could conquer heaven. They would put everyone's talents to good use, each person having their own strengths, developing their abilities in the fields they loved.
The Great Dao between heaven and earth would no longer be simply the innate Great Dao. People would use their intelligence and wisdom to develop many new Daos. They would become new deities, become guides, beacons, illuminating the dark road ahead.
Perhaps he would never see any of this.
Yet his heart was filled with contentment. He knew that someone would help him realize all of this.
The Right Divine Strategy Guard charged in. Suddenly, an illusion realm erupted. Lang Wan, leading the surviving Creator race members who had broken through the encirclement, finally arrived. With boundless divine consciousness, she forcibly pulled the Right Divine Strategy Guard into the thirty-fifth layer of void.
Lang Wan stood on the Void Bridge formed by her contemplation and called out loudly: "Wuyou Village, hold on! Reinforcements are coming soon!"
Yet countless enemies still surged around the soldiers of Wuyou Village—too many to kill. Their formation could no longer hold, and the last formation diagram had already shattered.
Just then, a battered Phoenix Ship flew in. Aboard the ship, the burning Nine-Headed Phoenix sprayed holy fire in all directions, igniting the gods and demons of the Heavenly Court.
Qi Xiayu descended, her body splitting into nine, joining the battle to protect the others.
Yankang's reinforcements had finally drawn near. From outside the Heavenly Court's camp came the battle cries of Yankang's soldiers, and in the distance, Yankang's tower ships could be seen tilting their cannons to fire.
Emperor Yanfeng had led his army close!
In a distant divine city, Blind Man stood behind Ling Yuxiu, working with Yankang's formation masters to deduce various formations. Ling Yuxiu used the Three Primordial Spirit Union Technique to send the various formations into the minds of Yankang's military commanders, changing the formation at any moment.
"Will we make it in time for Wuyou Village?" Ling Yuxiu forcibly suppressed the anxiety in her heart and continued laying out formations.
Finally, the first tower ship sailed into the Heavenly Court's camp, drawing the enemy's fire!
Then, under the bombardment of the Yuan Magnetic divine abilities from the ground forces led by Granny Si, sections of the city wall collapsed in succession. Butcher and the other Divine Saber Camp soldiers drove straight in, charging into the camp!
—Last night, the Qidian app had a problem. It was updated at 8:40 but wasn't released until 10:20. My apologies. I was contacting my editor all night and it took a long time to fix.