Chapter 319: Family Matters (2/2)
However, the divine arts of West Earth's True Heaven Palace were pretty unusual as their scale and activity were all very large in scope. If they were to make their moves here, it would be easy for them to anger the territorial strange beasts.
'If we take the same path as them, we might get implicated.'
Qin Mu wanted to find another path yet what could he do when this was the only safe path across this basin. If he was to take a detour, he would have to go through a huge pool.
He looked toward that huge pool, and the water in it suddenly churned. A huge crocodile man rose up and stood on the water's surface. With smoke spewing out from his nose, he sharpened his already razor-sharp claws.
This territorial strange beast wasn't good to provoke, so if Qin Mu took a detour through there, he would be seeking death.
On the other side were the ruins of a city. It had as many majestic shrines as there was hair on a cow, and numerous red-crowned and black-necked cranes were flying around it. They danced in the sky and looked very peaceful.
However, in the city, there were two huge, male and female, cranes practicing their sword moves. As their wings vibrated, countless sword lights filled the sky and lined up into a circle. From the movement speed of those sword lights, Qin Mu felt that these two crane leaders were even more dangerous than the crocodile leader.
'There's only this path!'
Qin Mu let out a shaky breath and muttered under his breath, ”We can not interfere with the family matters of West Earth's True Heaven Palace. I'm not someone who likes fighting and poking my nose into other people's business. We will just walk around them…”
The center of the basin was very bustling, with four rhinoceroses that had thick bone armor walking around. Their bodies were snow white, without a speck of impurity. Their little eyes glanced at Qin Mu and the dragon qilin behind him in alert as well as the white bats that were flying to and fro and hanging themselves on the trees continuously.
One of the female rhinoceroses spoke up in a human language. ”This huge dog is so fat that it had become a pig, yet it is actually still able to walk.”
The rhinoceroses in the lead had an ashen face and immediately rolled on the ground, transforming into a giant with the head of a rhinoceros and a human body. Underneath his bone armor was bulging muscles, and he put his front hooves forward while saying to Qin Mu, ”Dao friend, my old wife likes to spout nonsense, please don't take it to heart!”
Qin Mu smiled. ”No worries. Fatty Dragon is indeed a little fat.”
The rhinoceros leader let out a sigh of relief and brought the three female rhinoceros to leave immediately while grumbling, ”Can't you see it? These fellows are all ruthless characters, every one of them is fiendish, especially that human and the two white bats, having so many souls of the dead circling around them.”
Qin Mu was astonished, and the dragon qilin said, ”People say that white rhinoceroses are psychic, that they are able to see the netherworld as well as the souls of the dead. It's truly remarkable. However, they are still wrong in their judgment. I'm not a huge dog nor am I fat, I'm sturdy…”
The sound of divine arts and spirit weapons clashing against each other came from up ahead; it sounded very lively over there. Qin Mu called the two white bats over and carefully walked forward.
They didn't walk far before a battlefield opened up in front of their eyes. The strong practitioners of True Heaven Palace were surrounding the carriage, all of their bodies already covered in wounds.
When those divine arts practitioners of True Heaven Palace saw their arrival, they suddenly stopped attacking. Instead, they turned their heads to look at them without moving.
”Dao friend.” A youth came out from the crowd and greeted Qin Mu. ”Family matters.”
Qin Mu returned the greeting. ”I'm only just passing by.”
The youth revealed a smile and waved his hand. ”Open a path and let them pass.”
Qin Mu smiled and nodded to both sides to show his intention before bringing the dragon qilin and the two white bats over. In front of them, they saw that the carriage was already shattered in pieces, the wheels and roof destroyed. One of the plum blossom deers sat beside the broken carriage while the other was in its true form. This should be because it was too injured and could no longer keep up its human shape.
The mother and daughter that the two deers were protecting had come out from the carriage. The woman was covered in blood and gasping for breath as she protected the child behind her.
”Righteous person…”
The man that had transformed from the buck suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed the corner of Qin Mu's shirt. He raised his head with difficulty, hanging onto the last of his breath. ”Righteous person, could you please…”
Qin Mu pulled his shirt free and broke away from his grasp to continue walking forward.
He passed by the doe and was slightly stunned. He saw that she was already dead, without any more breath left.
Qin Mu pulled his gaze back and continued to walk forward. Suddenly, the woman who was referred to as 'Nai Kui' grabbed his hand and looked at him hopefully while pleading in a hoarse voice, ”Take my child, just let her live…”
Qin Mu paused, and the youth from True Heaven Palace behind him shouted, ”Dao friends, these are the family matters of our True Heaven Palace!”
Qin Mu broke free from the woman's grasp and continued to walk forward. He smiled at the divine arts practitioners of True Heaven Palace on both sides and led the dragon qilin and the two white bats out of the battlefield.
The dragon qilin caught up to Qin Mu in a few steps and turned his head to look at his face. He hesitated before saying, ”Cult Master…”
Qin Mu was expressionless as he said, ”It's other people's family matters, so we shouldn't interfere.”
”It's good not to interfere. Patriarch said that you liked to create trouble, but it looks like you have grown up.”
Qin Mu stared blankly ahead. ”Grown up? This is growing up?”
”You understand how to weigh the pros and cons, so you have naturally grown up. You have become rational,” the dragon qilin explained. ”You were very irrational in the past, fighting here and there, not fearing to offend anyone. During those few months, Patriarch had to clean up a lot of your messes.”
Qin Mu fell silent as shouts came behind him.
”So this is growing up… I don't want to grow up then…”
Qin Mu burst into laughter and continued walking forward. Small swords came flying out silently from his taotie sack and stabbed in his surroundings. More and more flying swords landed on the ground and laid a sword formation.
He continued walking forward, and the eight thousand swords continued to enter the ground in front of him. Sword Treading Mountains and Rivers—the swords actually formed the shape of mountains and rivers by stabbing themselves into the ground.
With a ding, the final sword landed.
Qin Mu stopped and pressed his hand down. The eight thousand swords went underground in unison, and he suddenly covered himself with his clothing, vanishing without a trace!
” I, your father, am not willing to become an adult like this!”