Chapter 15: Walking On Water (2/2)

Unsatisfied with how Qin Mu needed to use over five thousand strikes to beat that Senior Brother Qu, Butcher had decided to put him through merciless training.

Apothecary watched Qin Mu’s vigorous knife training as he walked over to Village Chief’s stretcher.

”Did you discover anything?” he asked.

”The speed at which his vital qi cultivation is advancing… is extraordinarily fast!” Village Chief exclaimed, hiding nothing. ”The difference between yesterday and today shows that his progress is beyond my imagination. His cries from earlier could have only been made by having his throat resonate with vital qi. They even possessed god and devil characteristics. Ignoring the fact that he has yet to break his Spirit Embryo Wall, even a Spirit Embryo Realm practitioner wouldn’t be able to achieve god or devil resonance! If we were ordinary humans like him, it would take us twenty years to cultivate our vital qi to that point.”

The cries that Qin Mu had subconsciously released as he ran across the river were the result of his throat resonating with vital qi. At the same time, however, he had inadvertently infused his cry with aspects of the devil voice he had heard in the ruins.

The strange thing was, he had also memorized the collective voice of the maidens while analyzing the devil’s voice. Therefore, he had committed every single part of their god voice to memory.

As a result, his had also infused aspects of the god voice into his cries without realizing it.

When the others heard Qin Mu’s cries, they considered them normal because they couldn’t detect the profoundness behind them. However, since Village Chief could hear it clearly, it definitely wasn’t a small matter.

”God and devil resonance!?” Apothecary jumped in shock. ”How did he achieve such a thing? It's simply too terrifying to achieve twenty years worth of cultivation overnight… could the blood of the four spirits have caused this?”

Village chief shook his head. ”Even though the blood of the four spirits can improve his constitution and vital qi, enhancing them to such a level is impossible.”

Apothecary thought deeply to himself, then replied, ”Could it be that Mu’er is actually a natural genius? Could he have been the perfect seedling for cultivation since he was born?”

”Why would a natural genius have the constitution of an ordinary human?” Village Chief frowned. ”A natural genius would’ve been born with a Spirit Body. Furthermore, to actually achieve god and devil resonance… which genius could do such a thing?”

”Is the god and devil resonance in his cries good or bad?” Apothecary asked.

”I have no idea,” Village Chief replied. ”I heard both god and devil resonance in his cries. The god voice and the devil voice within them were fighting against each other. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad.”

Apothecary gaze faltered and he asked, ”If that’s the case, where did the god voice and the devil voice come from?”

”I don’t know!”

The heads of both men began to ache. It had been a long time since they had a headache because they couldn’t understand a situation. The number of things they couldn’t understand had only continued to increase ever since they adopted Qin Mu who had floated down the river as a baby.

Night soon fell, and Disabled Elderly Village was once again shrouded in darkness. At a certain wooden house, Granny Si slept in her room and Qin Mu slept on his own.

Halfway through the night, a somber voice resounded within the mind of the unconscious Qin Mu. A melodious voice echoed in response. These were the god and devil voices from before. They started to fight each other, their voices growing noisier and louder.

The resonance of the god and devil voices slowly intensified into a clash between darkness and light. Within his mind, Qin Mu suddenly turned into a formless soul floating in the sky above that clash, blankly staring below him.

The location of this fight between darkness and light looked exactly like the ruins where he first witnessed such a spectacle. However, this place was much more vast and majestic. The darkness resembled tentacles constantly piercing through the light, while the light would suddenly strike in short bursts, wiping out the darkness.

Moments later, Qin Mu was finally able to clearly see what made up the darkness and the light.. The darkness was actually endless waves of devils swarming toward the light like gushing tides.

The devilish voice wasn’t the voice of a single entity, but the war cries of billions of devils!

This was the same for the light. It was actually a sea of gods wearing golden armor crying out, swarming to fight the devils!

Qin Mu currently 'stood' high above this struggle, making all of the gods and devils seem like tiny dots. He had thought it was the clash between light and darkness because he was too far from the conflict to get a clear look.

Now that he could see what was actually happening, shock and horror overwhelmed him!

Qin Mu suddenly opened his eyes, his body drenched with sweat. He realized that the vociferous voices of gods and devils were filling his mind, threatening to split his head in two.

However, right at that moment, the jade pendant he wore at his chest slowly rose into the air, floating up to the center of his brow and gently coming to rest there. A soft, soothing feeling flowed into Qin Mu’s head, and the voices vanished.

Qin Mu sat up abruptly, breathing deeply as confusion filled his heart. He had no idea what had just happened.

Moments later, he left the house and walked through the village, comparing his jade pendant and the ghostly glow of the village’s stone statues.

Darkness enshrouded everything outside the village, so the jade pendant gave off a similarly ethereal glow. Qin Mu stared at the pendant in a daze, his eyes shining with its glow. He seemed to be unable to take them off of it.

Unknown to him, Granny Si approached from behind and happened to see this haunting scene.

”Even though we of Disabled Elderly Village raised him, he doesn’t belong with us,” she thought to herself, heart aching terribly. ”He’ll have to leave someday…”

Then, all of a sudden, determination appeared in her eyes as she resolved herself.

”The outside world is much more dangerous than the Great Ruins! He isn’t strong enough! Not yet!”