697 Endless Void (1/2)
”Brother Qi, I told you I would spare your life so I really won't take your life.”
Both Qin Mu lowered their heads at the same time as he looked at Qi Jiuyi who was struggling to get up and fight again. He said firmly, ”The information that you leaked is beneficial to me, and it's worth your life.”
Qi Jiuyi still couldn't stand, so he struggled to sit up. He scorned himself as he gasped heavily for his breath. ”I originally planned to use that information to crush your Dao heart, never would I expect that information would save my life...”
He had a feeling that whatever he had done was merely a joke. He composed himself and continued, ”After this battle, I will return to the celestial heavens and cultivate diligently. I will seek guidance from beings on Emperor's Throne. Brother Qin, don't fall behind me.”
Qin Mu raised his head to look out into the distance and surveyed the surroundings with doubt. With a strange expression, he said, ”Brother Qi, you might not be able to leave Eternal Peace for a short time. Even I might be trapped here as well...”
Qi Jiuyi was slightly stunned. When the ground was burned through, and they fell to the depths, he had already noticed the strange sight in the underground space of the God Broken Mountain Range. He was just too caught up with fighting Qin Mu that he didn't have the time to examine his surroundings properly. He couldn't lose his focus.
Only when Qin Mu made clear that he would uphold his promise and not kill him, was he finally at ease to survey his surroundings.
Below the shrine was a sacrificial altar which should have been constructed by the devil race, and there were numerous sacrificial runes from the devil race that were intact. There was once a blood sacrifice there, and it was unknown who had broken the sacrifice. There were still bloodstains splattered all over the sacrificial altar.
They were on the surface of the knife, and the knife seemed to have no thickness at all. The blade of the knife was very long as the handle and tip of the knife couldn't be seen at all.
Furthermore, what was strange was that their primordial spirits, including the primordial spirit of the dragon qilin who had just arrived, had all entered the knife that seemed to have no thickness.
There seemed to be a vast space inside the knife as though there was another world!
Qi Jiuyi tried to pull his primordial spirit back, but he realized that there was a world between him and his primordial spirit. Even though he could sense his primordial spirit, he couldn't pull it back.
Cold sweat couldn't help breaking out on his forehead, and he croaked, ”Brother Qin, what is going on?”
Qin Mu didn't reply to him, and his expression became grimmer and grimmer.
He had long seen the strange sight where the knife was during the battle against High Heavens. The God Broken Mountain Range was razed to the ground, and the battle was extremely bitter. Village Chief had 'died' in battle, and among the five immortals of the demon race, Willow Immortal, White Immortal, and Yellow Immortal had died. Old Dao Master, Old Rulai, Daoist Ling Jing, Young Patriarch, Tuxing Feng, and Xuan Shengwu had also died in battle while the others received substantial injuries. Apothecary and the rest had also 'died' and it was Qin Mu who had seized their souls back to revive them.
In that battle, High Heavens was beaten until they could no longer fight Eternal Peace anymore.
At that time, Butcher and the rest discovered the knife that was under the God Broken Mountain Range, as well as that devil god stone statue that was under the knife. The stone statue that had tunneled out under the knife was a terrifying devil god that was the old ancestor of a devil world. When he had descended onto Eternal Peace, he was careless and tunneled out under the knife and landed in a precarious situation that concerned his life and death.
Eternal Peace Imperial Preceptor had used Earthquake Cauldron to crumble the world barrier between Eternal Peace and the other world, and that world was none other than the devil world where the devil ancestor resided. Numerous devil gods transformed into stone statues to enter the God Broken Mountain Range and they searched for the knife as they planned to rescue their old ancestor.
Finally, the blood sacrifice of the devil race in that world was intercepted by Qin Mu using mirror images. The revival of the devil god stone statue had failed, and so, all of them crawled back into the ground and vanished.
Qin Mu had once suspected that the world was Luofu Heaven, but after he saw Luofu Heaven, he realized his guess was wrong.
The world which the devil god stone statue came from was on a much higher class that Luofu Heaven, it should be a devil world that was under the celestial heavens. The power of Luofu Heaven was far inferior to that devil world.
As for the long knife, none of them could even move it back then. Furthermore, the long knife looked like a treasure left behind from Founding Emperor Era for blocking the darkness of the Great Ruins from invading Eternal Peace; thus, no one touched the knife.
Back then, the primordial spirits of Granny Si and the rest, as well as the primordial spirits of the gods of High Heavens, had fallen into the space inside the knife. Luckily for them, Fengdu had passed by the place at the right time, and so, the primordial spirits of Granny Si and the rest managed to fly out of the knife and returned to their corporeal body while being in a daze. Only then did they not lose their lives.
Qin Mu's primordial spirit looked out and saw his corporeal body. If he wanted to save his primordial spirit, he would probably have to wait for Fengdu to pass by again.
However, even though he had gone to Fengdu numerous times, he had only been to the first city of Fengdu. He hadn't been to the other cities of Fengdu, and King Yama didn't open those cities for touring either.
There were still many mysteries in Fengdu.
The crucial point was how they were going to leave the inside of the knife.
The world inside the knife was vast, and it was like two pieces of incomparably clear and bright mirror stretching across the void, trapping them in the center of the two bright mirrors that had no thickness. The end couldn't be seen.
Their corporeal bodies gazed at their primordial spirits from across the mirror. Even though it looked like the primordial spirits were stepping on the soles of the corporeal bodies, they could never return into their corporeal body.
”When will Fengdu move to this place? I've heard Sister Jing says, the previous time Youdu had invaded, King Yama led the gods of Fengdu to defend against Youdu, and that was why they had come to the God Broken Mountain Range. King Yama probably doesn't know I'm trapped here...”
Qin Mu frowned and his primordial spirit was trapped there. He couldn't use his Secrets of Three Primordial Spirit Assembly so he couldn't contact Si Yunxiang and Ling Yuxiu. If they didn't know about it, King Yama wouldn't be able to help.
”No one will know even if we die inside the space of the knife...”
He composed himself and took a step forward into the depths of the knife.
Qi Jiuyi recovered slightly, and his primordial spirit struggled to get up to follow Qin Mu. The dragon qilin also hurried to follow.
Qin Mu examined the mirror below his feet and the mirror above his head but couldn't see any signs that they were forged. He couldn't see what the knife was forged from and what method was used to forge it. With his standard as a great master in forging, he actually couldn't infer anything at all.
One had to know that Mute was the senior in the path of forging and Qin Mu learned under Mute. His skills in forging were number two in the world, and if even he couldn't see any traces from it, other people could forget about trying.
Qi Jiuyi stared with his eyes wide open and suddenly revealed his nine heads to look around. He turned to spew phoenix flames to burn both sides of the mirror and didn't even manage to make them red hot. There were no signs of the mirror melting!
”Is this place still the lower bound?”
Qi Jiuyi laughed from extreme anger. ”Is there such a powerful thing in the lower bound? Could the country... people of the lower bound have such powerful standard of forging?”
”Country bumpkins of the celestial heavens, no knowledge at all.” The dragon qilin rolled his eyes at him.
Qi Jiuyi was furious. As a child blessed by the heavens in the celestial heavens and the disciples of two Emperor's Throne, he was actually being held in contempt by that fellow.