921 Reform of the Celestial Heavens (1/2)
In front of the Slow Winding Pavilion, many of the young experts on the prestigious Splendid Youths List and the Divine Talents List found themselves with their eyes wide open. They stared at the scene in front of them dumbfoundedly, watching as Qin Mu pulled his sword from Yun Jianli's body with blood dripping out.
One move was all it took.
Qin Mu only used one move and defeated the seemingly invincible Yun Jianli!
Not only did he defeat him with one attack, he also broke his divine bridge, sending him to the Life and Death Realm from the Divine Bridge Realm!
However, this wasn't the most terrifying occurrence, for the most terrifying occurrence was how Yun Jianli's Divine Bridge Divine Treasure was obliterated.
In other words, Yun Jianli could never cultivate back to the Divine Bridge Realm in this lifetime. He was now stuck as a divine arts practitioner within the Life and Death Realm with no chance of becoming a god!
Though, this might not be so bad for Yun Jianli. After all, the male heirs of the Yun family were plagued with a disease that would kill them should they cultivate to the Divine Bridge Realm.
Now that Qin Mu had shattered his divine bridge, he might be able to live longer.
For other people, however, that fact was too terrifying.
The crowd shivered in fear. If they were to face Yun Jianli's move, their chance of victory would be slim. However, they all feared the possibility of failing to dodge Qin Mu's blade, which would leave them to suffer the same fate as Yun Jianli.
All of them unavoidably had the scene of Qin Mu's blade stabbing them imprinted into their memory. Regardless of how many times they tried to deduce it, they were still unable to dodge it.
Every time, they ended up being stabbed by his blade and having their divine treasures sliced apart. It wasn't only their Divine Bridge Divine Treasure, but their other divine treasures as well. The Spirit Embryo, Five Elements, Six Directions, Seven Stars, Celestial Being, and Life and Death Divine Treasures—all of them would be sliced apart!
That was Qin Mu's full-power strike!
Suddenly, the lady with the bird head chuckled and said, ”I suddenly remembered that I have things to attend to, and thus, I shall leave first. I will come and pay my respects to you, Celestial Venerable, another day! Goodbye.”
The wings behind her body spread open, while the others started walking away.
Qin Mu walked forward while holding Yun Jianli in his arm and said in a clear voice, ”Since everyone is already here, why not stay for a while first before leaving? People who don't understand the situation might think that I, Celestial Venerable Mu, don't understand how to properly treat guests, generating rumors.”
The lady with the bird head, who had intended to fly off, found her body frozen. She didn't dare to move.
The others weren't any better off, a delicate cold sweat appearing on their foreheads.
Qin Mu smiled gently with red lips and perfect white teeth as he reassured them, saying, ”Don't be nervous, everyone, those of us from the lower bound don't eat others.”
However, from the perspective of the masses, his smile was the pinnacle of terror and evil. Despite them being children favored by heaven on the Splendid Youths List and Divine Talents List, they felt that they were all too powerless to resist that strike of Qin Mu's.
That lady with the bird head muttered, ”Do people from the lower bound eat half-gods?”
Without answering, Qin Mu assisted Yun Jianli onto the island in front of the Slow Winding Pavilion and sighed helplessly. ”Brother Yun, I originally intended to kill a bunch of blind young experts from the celestial heavens to establish my authority. Now that you allowed me to strike with my full power, how do I kill them to show off my might now?”
The crowd felt a chill down their spines as they looked at him, absolutely engulfed in terror.
Qin Mu flashed a simple smile and observed his surroundings, apologizing, ”I wasn't talking about killing the bunch of you, so don't worry. What's the purpose of this challenge by you lot?”
He looked excitedly at the masses, which silenced them as they shook their heads.
Qin Mu remained very disappointed.
Yun Jianli's body grew increasingly weaker due to his injury, but even though Qin Mu's strike broke his divine bridge, his expression remained unchanged. It seemed like the one injured wasn't him, as he didn't appear to be disappointed by the decimation of his Divine Bridge Divine Treasure. He even laughed and said, ”Why strike out against the younger generations to show off your might?”
Qin Mu laughed in return. ”You're right, it's just that my realm isn't high enough. If it were a god that struck out, I wouldn't be able to defend myself.”
Yun Jianli continued to cough as he warned the masses, saying, ”Don't trust him. He just wants to establish his might by killing gods. If you lot call for your senior brothers, most of them will die at his hands.”
The masses stared at them, unable to utter a single word.
As Qin Mu assisted Yun Jianli to pass through them, Qi Jiuyi followed them hastily, also assisting Yun Jianli before quietly grumbling, ”Cult Master Qin, I think you struck him too harshly! Brother Yun's divine bridge has been sliced apart! It's likely that his family's grandmothers won't forgive you! Everyone in the celestial heavens knows that the widows of the Yun family are the worst people to provoke! Now that you've hurt their precious boy, even if you don't die, you'll likely be skinned alive!”
Yun Jianli bitterly joked, saying, ”My family's grandmothers are so difficult to deal with?”
Qi Jiuyi coldly carried on the joke and said, ”If you don't know, ask somebody else! Who in the celestial heavens doesn't know that your Yun family's grandmothers guard their younglings dearly? Cult Master Qin, what you have done is akin to attacking a large hornets' nest!”
Qin Mu replied, ”The slicing apart of Brother Yun's divine bridge was intentional, for it allows him to try the results of Eternal Peace's reform—the Celestial River Divine Treasure. You lot come over too.”
He signaled for them to come and continued, ”Previously, I opened the forum and lectured here to impart the technique to become a god. That was a million years ago. Today, I shall do it here again.”
The people on the Splendid Youths List and Divine Talents List looked at one another as they reluctantly followed him into the Slow Winding Pavilion.
Qin Mu finished dealing with Yun Jianli's injuries before explaining, ”The reason that Celestial Venerable Yun opened the Divine Bridge Divine Treasure then was due to how there was no other path ahead after Celestial Venerable You opened the Life and Death Divine Treasure. Celestial Venerable Yun wanted to pave a path by raising a bridge, so he opened the Divine Bridge Divine Treasure. This gave Celestial Venerable Yu inspiration to open the big realm of the celestial palace, which gave birth to the story of rising heavenwards to become a god. The Divine Bridge Divine Treasure is of critical importance, for without it, there is no realm for the back of the celestial palace. Celestial Venerable Yun accomplished a great deed.”
Yun Jianli remarked, ”The Celestial River Divine Treasure that Celestial Venerable talked about, what's up with that?”
Qin Mu explained, ”The Celestial River Divine Treasure is a result of Eternal Peace's reform. Although the Divine Bridge Divine Treasure is usually inherited, it's not always the case. The celestial river connects all of the worlds, it opens access to Life and Death and connects to the celestial palace. If the Divine Bridge Divine Treasure is destroyed to open the celestial river, it will connect the celestial palace with all of the seven divine treasures and combine them to form one divine treasure!”
Yun Jianli's eyes immediately lit up.
The masses within the Slow Winding Pavilion shuddered when thinking about the crux of what Qin Mu said.
When the seven divine treasures combined into one, there would be a sudden surge in vital qi. Anyone below or in the same realm would find the cultivation of their vital qi stronger than those who cultivated it normally!
Additionally, because of how the divine treasures became one, the circulation of the technique would be faster than the traditional seven divine treasures. This was because of how traditional techniques required vital qi to start from the Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure in accordance with the technique circulation's guiding paths before it could flow to the Five Elements Divine Treasure. Then, it would go through the Five Elements to the Six Directions before reaching the Seven Stars, Celestial Being, Life and Death, and Divine Bridge Divine Treasures.