840 Here Is Where We Part Forever (1/2)
The ground was rumbling like a pot of boiling soup and the massive creature underground just broke through the earth. His body was too huge and as a result, the mountains far away collapsed as though a hurricane had just swept through.
Qin Mu stood on the dragon qilin's head and the dragon qilin was currently sprinting in a hurry. His speed was extremely fast but he was still struck by the gale raised by the massive creature rushing out from underground. He nearly lost his footing.
This incomparably thick body was over a hundred yards away from them but looking from afar, it was as though he had brushed past them.
That was a body that was covered with wooden scales that looked like the roots of a tree. There were all kinds of natural rune markings covering the wooden scales and it even gave off a metallic luster.
This body was humongous and even though it had the qualities of wood, he was extremely nimble. When he broke through the ground, Qin Mu saw the lateral roots of this body stretching out like dragon claws that were sharp and strong.
However, there were too many dragon claws on the body. There were as many as several hundred claws!
Furthermore, there were also numerous fibrous roots on his body that looked like dragon beard and whiskers while the fibrous roots that grew on his back looked like the mane of a dragon. They were very long and drifted in the air!
Because his speed was too fast, thunder and lightning rolled in his surroundings. The lightning wasn't striking the ground and instead, it was striking out from that monster's body as the center, forming a thick layer of electrical discharge.
Lightning sparked in all directions. When the electric current coursed through Qin Mu and the dragon qilin's body, even then they executed Ancestral Dragon Supreme Mystery Technique to defend against the power of the lightning, their bodies were still filled with fine holes pierced by the bolts of lightning!
”Master, heal me!”
The dragon qilin cried out flusteredly, ”There are some places I can't lick!”
Qin Mu stabilized his body and his corporeal body quickly recovered. He took out over a dozen bottles of dragon saliva and smashed them, allowing the dragon saliva to flow into the dragon qilin's wounds.
He raised his head to look and he saw the head of the massive creature had already appeared in the cloud layer. The cloud in the surroundings had already been parted as that head was spewing out currents of air. Thick smog surged out and flames were inside the smog.
The air currents that he was spewing out were too fast and as a result, the air was ignited.
Yet the air that he was spewing out was utterly dirty and had the rotting smell of being buried underground, thus smog had spread out.
This was an earth dragon and his size was truly massive. The other divine dragons had scarce whiskers and since his whiskers were his fibrous roots, they grew out from the area of his mouth densely. Furthermore, they were very long and drifted around like curtains.
The moment this earth dragon had tunneled out, he opened his mouth to bite at Blind and Qu He who were fighting. With a bite, a portion of the sky vanished as a huge piece of sky map that covered Eternal Peace Empire got chewed off!
Blind and Qu He hurriedly evaded and they barely escaped from his mouth. They landed on the head of this earth dragon and both gods sprinted on his incomparably huge head. As they ran, they continued to attack each other.
Blind's Divine Spear Long Tuo transformed into a black dragon and it was extremely fast whenever Blind stabbed forward and pulled backward. Long Tuo moved nimbly and under Blind's control, it struck the energy points in Qu He's divine arts accurately, interrupting the opponent's battle arrays.
On the other hand, Qu He made use of another type of offensive method. Even though he was pressing hard on Blind, his attacks weren't close quarters and instead, it was his thousand arms that were moving up and down, shooting out beams continuously from the divine eyes in his palms. The beams would collide in midair and bounce off, forming nets.
That was why every time he attacked, it was a type of battle array and each battle array was different from the previous. Using formations as divine arts caused Blind's eyes to light up.
Formations had to be laid out in advance and there would rarely be people that would use formations as divine arts in battle. The only exception was to forge a set of spirit weapons or divine weapons for formation skills.
For example, West Earth Formation Master He Yiyi walked the path of formation skills and she used square stones as the foundation to construct formation skills, using algebra to construct her formation skills.
The square stones were her spirit weapons.
However, to let her treat formations as divine arts, that was beyond her capabilities.
Qu He had an unusual gift. He had a lot of arms and in the palm of every palm grew an eye. He trained his thousand eyes into god eyes and formations were hidden inside the eyes.
When the formations were activated, the light that shot out wasn't purely energy. They were weaved by countless formation markings and when different beams of light collided, all kinds of complicated formation markings would fuse and lay out battle arrays to form all kinds of formation skills.
Of course, the power from this kind of formation skills couldn't be compared to the killing formations constructed with spirit weapons and divine weapons. However, it could be constructed freely and had a myriad changes in an instant, giving others no time to break the formation.
Those who mainly cultivated formation skills would have a difficult time to progress in their cultivation their combat power would surpass people who cultivated other abilities. This was also the reason why Heavenly Teacher Zi Xi was able to win over Martial Arts Heavenly Teacher with her power.
Qu He was also such a person.
However, who he had met today was the famous divine eye and formation master of Eternal Peace Empire. Blind already had very high attainments in formation skills and in his early years, he had retreated into seclusion after getting his eyes dug out by Xing An and losing his willpower. He later walked out of Great Ruins because of Qin Mu and encountered Eternal Peace's reform.
He absorbed the fruits of Eternal Peace's reform and also learned the achievements of formation skills from Founding Emperor Era. In terms of attainments in formation skills, he was already at the top.
Even though Blind couldn't achieve using formations as divine arts like Qu He could, he could use his divine spear to break the formation and this countered Qu He's formation divine arts, causing him to be unable to release any power.
Breaking the strong with weaker power was originally the method every formation master was proud of. When these two formation master encountered each other, whoever cultivation was denser was no longer the crux of victory. The crux of victory laid in whose attainments were higher.
Both of them sprinted quickly on the earth dragon's back and all kinds of divine arts swept in all directions. In the next instant, both of them encountered a treacherous situation.
That earth dragon was startled by Qin Mu's heavenly fire divine art but that earth dragon didn't go and find Qin Mu. That was because Qin Mu was much weaker. The two gods fighting in the sky were then his targets and thus he laid his hands on both of them immediately.
The earth dragon missed his bite and now, both of them had fought their way to his head. The earth dragon shook his head and countless roots came tunneling out from the skin under the wooden scales. The roots then tried to coil around the both of them.
Those roots were like earth-yellow flood dragons and they were extremely durable. They could actually pass through their divine arts without any obstructions.
Blind was astonished and he raised his spear to stab at one of the roots. This spear could be said to be a marvelous strike that was wonderful in destroying overwhelming power yet when it stabbed on that root, there was only a thud.
Divine Spear Long Tuo had only stabbed five inches into the head of the dragon and he didn't manage to pierce this root.
”How durable! What is the reason?”
Blind hurriedly pulled back his spear and turned to leave. Trying to escape, he leaped and suddenly came crashing down as his legs were already bound by the roots which pulled him back.