Chapter 707: Qin Mu Demonized
Xích Hoàng paced back and forth, calculating: "He cultivated my Bất Diệt Thần Thức, and with the help of our combined power, he was able to suppress his elder brother's claim to the U Đô Thần Tử identity and power. Now that too much power has been given to him, his elder brother has been directly sealed by Âm Thiên Tử's Minh Đô Ngọc Giám. The only thing we can do now is to block the seal and prevent him from continuing to steal his elder brother's power..."
Just as he finished speaking, Thiên Công had already blocked the seal, preventing the giant-headed infant's power from continuing to drain away.
"And then?" Thiên Công urged.
Xích Hoàng said: "Then we break the Minh Đô Ngọc Giám seal of Âm Thiên Tử, letting Tần Phượng Thanh compete with him for the U Đô ma tính, and reclaim the identity of U Đô Thần Tử."
Thiên Công stepped forward to examine the state of the giant-headed infant. He saw that the butterfly-wing-shaped lights in its three eyes were all suppressed by a strange force. Within the pupils seemed to be a peculiar vortex, continuously collapsing inward, sealing the giant infant's consciousness.
Thiên Công attempted to break it, but Âm Thiên Tử's path differed from his own. Some of the runes he could not understand, leaving only brute force to break the seal. However, he was merely a wisp of an avatar with limited power, and in that brief moment, he could not possibly grind away Âm Thiên Tử's seal.
"This path won't work. Is there another way?" Thiên Công had no choice but to give up and ask.
Xích Hoàng looked up at the sky and said: "Awaken Đại Phạm Thiên Vương Phật. Together we can break Âm Thiên Tử's seal, awaken Tần Phong Tần, and join forces to suppress Tần Mục!"
Thiên Công shook his head: "The old Buddha is asleep. How could he be awakened so easily? This idea won't work either."
Xích Hoàng sighed: "Then we can only leave it to fate. Let us hope Tần Mục still has his own consciousness and will not cause a great disaster."
"Let us hope so."
Outside, Tần Mục manifested his Tam Đầu Lục Tí — three heads and six arms. His six arms flew about wildly, and all three heads let out short, excited cries simultaneously as he struck viciously at Lâu Vân Khúc and Phó Nham Kỳ!
"Ya ya ya ya ya!"
Countless divine abilities flooded Phó Nham Kỳ and Lâu Vân Khúc in an instant. The two felt as if countless Tần Mụcs were attacking them madly in that single moment, and their scalps went numb.
Phó Nham Kỳ only managed to block two divine abilities before his own defensive techniques were shattered by Tần Mục.
"One finger splits the seven souls!" He roared, extending his right hand forward, the only remaining thumb on his right hand raised, pressing toward Tần Mục.
Behind him materialized a dark world — the phantom of Minh Đô. Seven divine demon phantoms of various forms stood behind him, each with their own dharma appearance.
Those were the seven deities symbolizing the soul: Thi Cẩu, Phục Thỉ, Tước Âm, Thôn Tặc, Phi Độc, Trừ Uế, and Xú Phế — the seven po souls.
With the blessing of the seven deities, his strike contained the power to tear apart the seven souls.
Tần Mục curled four fingers into a fist, thumb raised, meeting him with his own thumb. Phó Nham Kỳ heard the sound of the only finger on his right hand shattering — the bone of his remaining thumb snapped, then burst apart with a bang.
The force then traveled along his wrist bone to his arm bone. His elbow joint dislocated, and he heard the sound of his forearm bone piercing through his own skin.
His forearm bone shot out from the elbow, separating from his body.
Excruciating pain came, and although he did not care about his physical body, the pain of the flesh was nonetheless intense.
At that moment, Tần Mục's other five arms, five fists, five thumbs, pressed successively against his brow, heart chamber, dantian, tailbone, and qi sea.
Phó Nham Kỳ spat blood, feeling his primordial spirit go numb. He was actually sealed by Tần Mục using U Đô divine abilities, and a chill ran down his spine. Fear rose in his heart: "He didn't even borrow the power of the seven po deities, and his mastery over souls far surpasses mine!"
Tần Mục's six arms and three heads executed divine abilities with incredible speed — like a violent storm. Mixed among the techniques were countless punches and kicks. He was simultaneously unleashing spell techniques, sword techniques, and physical body techniques!
Tam Đầu Lục Tí, as the ultimate supreme art of the Xích Minh era, had previously possessed major flaws due to the rift between Xích Hoàng and Minh Hoàng. But Tần Mục cultivated both Xích Hoàng's and Minh Hoàng's supreme arts, mending the gaps.
With no flaws, the Tam Đầu Lục Tí was truly like three people — even stronger — leaving Phó Nham Kỳ unable to find any opening, and leaving Lâu Vân Khúc unable to find any opportunity to severely wound him!
Phó Nham Kỳ's cultivation was lower — he was still at the Dao Trì realm. Once his primordial spirit was sealed, he was immediately gravely wounded. In that instant, he was struck by countless divine abilities, fists, and kicks. A hundred or so sword lights and blade lights pierced through his physical body, leaving him a bloody mess.
Even so, he was extremely decisive. Suddenly his body retreated, vanishing from Diên Khang, disappearing into the darkness.
After all, he was a disciple of Minh Đô Hắc Đế. At this moment, he executed Minh Đô's signature art, his body fading into Minh Đô, impervious to all techniques.
But the next moment, Tần Mục actually charged into Minh Đô as well!
The two clashed in the darkness. By the time Lâu Vân Khúc rushed up to join the fight, Phó Nham Kỳ's primordial spirit had already been blasted out of his body.
Tần Mục reached out and grabbed it, seizing his primordial spirit by the neck, while his other five arms blocked Lâu Vân Khúc's assault.
Phó Nham Kỳ's physical body fell to the ground, still not dead. He was about to lunge forward when suddenly one of Tần Mục's heads shot divine light from its eyes, three beams of light pinning him in place.
Tần Mục twisted his neck, and another head shot divine light from its eyes, blasting Lâu Vân Khúc flying.
Lâu Vân Khúc was powerful after all, managing to withstand the attack. But Tần Mục twisted his neck again, and the third head turned around, firing three more beams of light, sending him flying once more.
Lâu Vân Khúc's heart was filled with urgency. If Tần Mục merely killed Phó Nham Kỳ and Khuy Khanh Bồi, that would be one thing — those two were disciples of Minh Đô Hắc Đế and would be pulled back by Minh Đô, their primordial spirits returning to Minh Đô.
Hắc Đế controlled Minh Đô and could quickly have them reincarnated. In the future, they would still be Hắc Đế's disciples.
Throughout history, they had already reincarnated many times, so they did not fear death and the end of their path. At worst, they would reincarnate and start over.
But this time was different.
Tần Mục was the U Đô Thần Tử. They had long heard of the U Đô Thần Tử's fearsome reputation — at birth, he was in U Đô, devouring countless vengeful spirits, swallowing countless titans, and even beating the Đế Tọa ghosts into a sorry state.
If Tần Mục ate them, then they would truly and completely die, with absolutely no possibility of reincarnation.
Tần Mục repelled Lâu Vân Khúc and immediately opened his mouth, sending Phó Nham Kỳ's primordial spirit toward it, an excited expression on his face.
Lâu Vân Khúc gritted his teeth, his figure flickering in and out of existence, shuttling between Minh Đô and reality, dodging the divine light from Tần Mục's eyes, attacking with all his might to prevent Tần Mục from swallowing Phó Nham Kỳ.
Suddenly, he fired two divine abilities that directly shattered the physical bodies of Phó Nham Kỳ and Khuy Khanh Bồi. The two corpses burst apart, and a blood sacrifice erupted, transforming into two streams of blood light.
Near Dũng Giang Học Cung, the stone statue immediately revived, flesh and blood rapidly growing.
Tần Mục blocked Lâu Vân Khúc's attack, fired several more beams of divine light from his eyes, blasting Lâu Vân Khúc out of Minh Đô. He grabbed Phó Nham Kỳ's primordial spirit and brought it to his mouth.
Just then, he suddenly felt a shadow overhead. He quickly dodged aside, and with a thunderous boom, the Quan Thiên Đài trembled violently. A towering divine demon crouched in the center of the platform.
This demon god was massive and imposing, slowly rising to his feet.
"Using the corpses of two junior brothers, we've finally revived the Disaster God!"
Lâu Vân Khúc was overjoyed. He was about to join forces with the Disaster God to surround Tần Mục when suddenly the Disaster God slammed a fist down. Caught off guard, Lâu Vân Khúc was smashed into the ground by the enormous fist!
The earth caved in, forming a massive crater.
The Disaster God raised his fist, blood plasma dripping from it.
Lâu Vân Khúc lay there in a spread-eagle position, bones broken and tendons snapped, filled with regret: "I forgot — these Disaster Gods recognize no one..."
He was deeply distressed. His physical body was nearly crippled by that single punch, so he had no choice but to abandon it, his primordial spirit leaving his body. He thought: "Disciples of Minh Đô don't need physical bodies. Our combat power won't drop much."
His primordial spirit left his body, and he immediately saw that the Disaster God had already flown into the air with Tần Mục, locked in fierce battle.
Tần Mục was nearly berserk at this point. All kinds of divine abilities came to him effortlessly — whether it was the Buddhist primordial spirit from Đế Thích Thiên Vương Phật's Thiên Vương Kinh, or Sơ Tổ Nhân Hoàng's Thiên Địa Ấn Pháp, or the Tổ Long Thái Huyền Công from the Chân Long Sào Huyệt, or the techniques of the elders of Tàn Lão Thôn, or the divine abilities of successive Nhân Hoàngs, or the techniques of Xích Hoàng and Minh Hoàng — whether he had been able to cultivate them before or master them, now he unleashed them all!
Although he hadn't fully obtained the power of the U Đô Thần Tử, he had still borrowed a small portion of it, his cultivation depth approaching that of Lâu Vân Khúc.
With such profound magical power, wielding these divine abilities was effortless. Even facing the Disaster God, he did not retreat, attacking more than defending.
Without any spiritual weapon or divine weapon in hand, he fought the Disaster God with bare fists. Whether in close combat or ranged attacks, he was wild and brutal, directly crushing with divine abilities.
Lâu Vân Khúc's cultivation was deeper than his, but far inferior in the variation of divine abilities. Moreover, most of Minh Đô's techniques targeted the soul. In terms of offensive methods, he was far inferior to Tần Mục.
"How many divine abilities and techniques does this guy actually master?"
Lâu Vân Khúc watched the battle in the sky from afar, his heart trembling: "Is this the full strength of the U Đô Thần Tử? Truly formidable! No wonder the master wants him at all costs!"
What he didn't know was that the power Tần Mục had borrowed hadn't even reached one percent of the U Đô Thần Tử's full power before Thiên Công and Xích Hoàng cut it off, lest things spiral out of control.
The Disaster God possessed boundless might. A single divine ability could force Tần Mục back and wound him. But Tần Mục had cultivated the Tạo Hóa Công of Xích Hoàng and Minh Hoàng, and both his physical body and primordial spirit had reached an appalling level of recovery. Any wound healed almost instantly — he simply couldn't be killed.
Tần Mục's divine abilities were short and explosive, detonating within an extremely short distance. The terrifying power was compressed into a tiny space and a tiny distance. He had no spiritual weapon, but his primordial qi transformed into countless minuscule flying swords that orbited around his body, darting back and forth, their threat even more astonishing!
This application technique was learned from his father, Tần Hán Trân. Tần Hán Trân's divine abilities could converge infinite power into a single ordinary sword strike, with the explosive destruction contained within inches and feet, yet the power was inconceivably great.
Tần Mục had trained with Tần Hán Trân for a period of time. Although he had learned some of his father's techniques, because Tần Hán Trân followed the path of the Khai Hoàng lineage, Tần Mục had never been able to grasp how to control the power of divine abilities within inches and feet.
But now, he was calmly mastering this combat technique!
"Beat you to death and eat you!"
Tần Mục leaped high, excited and frenzied, spinning madly around the Disaster God, unleashing a storm of countless divine abilities at him.
The Disaster God blocked at incredible speed but was still hit repeatedly. Suddenly a dull roar came from his throat, and the Ngũ Lôi Hồ that Tần Mục had placed in Dũng Giang Học Cung began to thunder, lightning crackling.
The Ngũ Lôi Hồ soared into the air, its lid opening. Five great cloud thunders erupted from the pot, mixed with countless fire-bell divine weapons — fist-sized fire bells that, when rolling, produced not ringing sounds but the thunderous tolling of great bells!
The Disaster God activated the Ngũ Lôi Hồ, and the cloud thunders within shot straight toward Tần Mục, thunder and lightning intertwined, their power terrifying beyond compare.
"Eat!"
Tần Mục opened his mouth wide, facing the cloud thunders. Like a whale swallowing a rainbow, he sucked those cloud thunders along with the fire-bell divine weapons into his belly.
"He even eats the Northern Emperor's techniques?" Lâu Vân Khúc was startled. He had been planning to ambush Tần Mục from Minh Đô, but witnessing this scene made his heart skip a beat.
The next moment, Tần Mục hugged the Ngũ Lôi Hồ, opened his mouth wide, and actually treated the pot like a wine jug, raising it to his lips and drinking deeply!
"This..."
Lâu Vân Khúc felt a surge of fear. Someone who could drink the five great cloud thunders and fire-bell divine weapons like fine wine — he absolutely could not afford to provoke such an existence.
"To hell with it!"
He suddenly shook his body, and a great gate materialized behind him. He shouted fiercely: "Minh Đô Thiên Môn! All the demon gods of Minh Đô, hear my command — come out and kill the enemy!"
Behind him, darkness surged. A passage to another space was opened, and a demon god riding a bone horse, its body burning with hellfire, walked out of the gate.
Then, a pitch-black mass of Minh Đô demon gods charged out, lunging at Tần Mục!
Tần Mục was in the middle of drinking deeply from the Ngũ Lôi Hồ and was instantly engulfed by those Minh Đô demon gods.
Within the Tần Tự Đại Lục, Thiên Công and Xích Hoàng watched the battle outside with tense attention. Seeing this, Thiên Công hesitated: "He borrowed less than one percent of the power, and it looks like he can't win. Should we give him a bit more?"
Xích Hoàng said coldly: "How much more? And if things go wrong, how do we clean it up?"
— A thirty-seven hundred character chapter, wishing lifestyle a happy birthday! I have no more saved drafts, truly none~