856 The Mantis Stalks the Cicada, Unaware of the Oriole Behind (1/2)

'Celestial Venerable Yu' shook his head left and right, watching as something white in color flew out from between his brows.

He raised his hand to touch his forehead, and his hand was covered in white brain plasma and red bloodstains.

”The stab was truly so fast that I was caught off guard...”

He stuck out a finger to prod between his brows, his finger going through his head.

Touching the back of his head, it was the same situation.

Qin Mu descended to the ground, walking two steps forward. Behind him, the vast celestial river was gradually retreating as it swayed behind his back. Above the celestial river, the celestial palace could be seen faintly.

Within the celestial palace, god voices burst out, and it sounded as though there were countless gods and devils chanting inside. Following the wane of Qin Mu's aura, only then did the chanting sounds gradually lower in volume and slowly disappear.

Qin Mu's primordial spirit returned with his sword, standing outside the Southern Heavenly Gates of the celestial palace and above the celestial river, observing to see if 'Celestial Venerable Yu' was making any other movements.

'Celestial Venerable Yu' moved his head again and felt his head getting heavier and dizzier. He laughed. ”This body is really not perfect, there are still many places that need improving. The speed of advancement of the divine arts of the lower bound has surpassed my expectations.”

Qin Mu shook his head. ”You merely used the true body power of this corporeal body and didn't use your own power. Within this corporeal body hides the rules of the Great Dao of almost all the ancient gods, but it lacks anything belonging to you. Are you trying to hide your true identity, or is your power unable to break through the world barrier? Regardless, without something of your own, you are destined to die in my hands.”

What Qin Mu said was a basic principle.

In breaking through the world's barrier, the higher your cultivation, the greater the barrier. Thus, those who came down from the celestial heavens to the lower bound were usually divine arts practitioners, there were few devils and gods.

Only when one was so powerful that the world barrier collapsed could they pass through the two worlds. Such a situation tended to only occur during the time of big-scale battles between gods and devils.

For example, during the destruction of the Founding Emperor Era and the High Emperor Era, the world barrier didn't exist.

Beyond this, there were a few other situations that could break through the restrictions of the world barrier.

For example, the Spirit Energy Mutual Shift Bridge that Qin Mu designed and created with black tiger god, the phoenix ship of Red Deity Qi Xiayu, and Brahma Buddha's technique of entering dreams—these could all go around the world barrier.

Perhaps there existed other secret routes that Qin Mu simply didn't know about.

Following this principle, the powerful individuals who came down from the celestial heavens tended to be divine arts practitioners like Qi Jiuyi and Prince Qiu Ming. After coming down to Yuandu, they searched for the powerful individuals left there by the celestial heavens and made them their own followers.

There were also the emissaries from Clear Sky Heaven, Xiao Chunfeng, Yu Hongxiu, and the disciples of the gods. They were all divine arts practitioners who had received orders to come to the lower bounds to perfect the sky map.

Clear Sky Heaven was one of the subordinate heavens under the Dao Sect in the celestial heavens, so they had no need to seek the protection of gods and devils. Clear Sky Heaven could instead be the one providing them protection. However, they hadn't expected Qin Mu and Dao Master Lin Xuan to come to Clear Sky Heaven. The battle of Dao Sanctuary had almost wiped them out.

Back in the day, Lou Yunqu and the others had borrowed Red Deity Qi Xiayu's phoenix ship to come to the lower bound and thus avoided getting rejected by the world barrier. At the same time, due to Mingdu and Youdu sharing similar characteristics, they were able to make use of the Mingdu Heavenly Gate to travel back and forth to Mingdu.

'Celestial Venerable Yu' would have to obey this principle as well in order to come to the lower bound.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

'Celestial Venerable Yu's' realm had to be restricted to the level of that of a divine arts practitioner. At most, he could cultivate to the peak of the Divine Bridge Realm, as if he contained any more power, he wouldn't be able to penetrate the world barrier of Yuandu.

Another possibility was that one of the Celestial Venerables from the celestial heavens had forcefully broken open the world barrier. However, the unrest it would cause would be unimaginable.

Qin Mu was confident that he would be able to kill 'Celestial Venerable Yu' based on this logic.

He had incomparably strong confidence and faith that a being who could defeat the Overlord Body in the same realm didn't exist in this world, even if that being was the Celestial Venerable Yu that had been created by the celestial heavens to contain all the rules of the Great Dao of ancient gods!

'Celestial Venerable Yu's' brain plasma was still spilling out, his brain already shattered by Qin Mu's strike. The divine treasure system within his body had also been destroyed.

Qin Mu's primordial spirit controlled his sword, directing it to soar through the sky; it had already killed his corporeal body and shattered the primordial spirit within it.

”That's not a Divine Bridge behind you, why is your seventh divine treasure a celestial river?”

'Celestial Venerable Yu' was confused. The brain plasma in his head had almost all drained, yet he still sized Qin Mu up and looked towards the Celestial River Divine Treasure behind him.

'Celestial Venerable Yu' had many Great Dao within his body, but they were Precelestial Great Dao, the Great Dao of ancient gods—he didn't possess the Great Dao of Creation.

He was unable to make use of the Great Dao of Creation like Qin Mu did to repair the damage to his body, and thus he could only let his brain plasma run dry.

”You created a whole new divine treasure? With this divine treasure, you will be able to connect the celestial palace with the other divine treasures, forming a complete system?”

'Celestial Venerable Yu' moved his head again, his skull was empty now.

However, he was still able to speak and think. ”Celestial Venerable Mu is no doubt Celestial Venerable Mu. Being able to come to this step, you are truly worthy of standing shoulder to shoulder with the Seven Celestial Venerables. What a joke that the others in the celestial palace are still vying for fame and gain, vying for power, and ignoring the changes in the lower bound. Heh heh, it would be far more convenient if the Celestial Emperor wasn't a group of people.”

Qin Mu looked straight into his eyes and spoke solemnly, ”Upon seeing my seventh divine treasure, do you have any thoughts about it, Celestial Venerable Yun?”

'Celestial Venerable Yu' gave a slight smile and replied with a leisurely tone, ”So it seems you thought that I was him and thus didn't mind revealing your celestial river, hoping that you could use this seventh divine treasure to make Celestial Venerable Yun give himself away. After all, Celestial Venerable Yun was the one who opened up the Divine Bridge Divine Treasure, so if he saw your seventh divine treasure, he would likely lose his composure since the seventh divine treasure you opened up is even better and more ingenious than his Divine Bridge Divine Treasure. However, you guessed wrongly, I'm not him.”

Dao flames suddenly engulfed him, and 'Celestial Venerable Yu' smiled. ”Celestial Venerable Mu, you are still too naive, revealing your cards so early on. This corporeal body is merely one of my experiments, I simply wanted to test out Celestial Venerable Yu's fighting power. I have now realized that this body still has many imperfections. I know your cards now, yet you will never get this body nor know the secrets that lie within. The next time you see a 'Celestial Venerable Yu' will be the day you die...”

Suddenly, the Dao flames on his body extinguished.

'Celestial Venerable Yu' was shocked. He tried again to use the Dao flames to incinerate this corporeal body, yet the Dao flames were still not able to burn him.