934 Facing the Sea (2/2)
He smiled. ”I succeeded, and he failed.”
It was a simple sentence, yet it contained a hair-raising past.
Qin Mu smiled. ”Even if you succeeded, the Heaven Alliance still didn't fall into your control entirely. You experienced the second setback of your life because of me, again.”
The opposite Qin Mu didn't deny it. In fact, he nodded. ”I had never seen your true appearance. I built Celestial Venerable Yu to become the strongest weapon, aiming to get rid of Mother Earth in the lower bound. Yet, I never knew that the Great Wizard who resurrected her was you. You used her to strike at me with the move that incapacitated me for more than a hundred years. The shadow in my heart reemerged, and I was thus hurt by Mother Earth. This was taken advantage of by humans, and, as a result, I lost the Primordial Realm. However, that was a mere surprise attack.”
He seemed nonchalant about the past as he plainly said, ”Today, your worth is no longer as great in my eyes. My cultivation has grown greatly, and I have a greater understanding of Dao. When I think about the battle at the Jade Pool now, it's merely for a laugh, a laugh aimed at my youthful immaturity then.”
He gazed at the waves on the Jade Sea and leisurely said, ”I don't hate you now. The hatred I express now is a mere smokescreen. You no longer have a place in my Dao heart. You are a mere tool for me to exploit. Additionally…”
A trace of a smile glowed on his face, and it grew and grew. ”Additionally, you are dying today! I have staged a perfect death for you!”
”Do you see those palace maids at the Jade Pool? During the night of the Jade Pool incident, the god officers and the army of gods and devils that were sent to announce the imperial decree were sent by me, and the palace maids were changed with my consent. Everyone, from the divine turtles that bear the divine mountains in the Jade Sea to the flower spirits in the lotuses, are my subordinates.”
He turned around with a sweeter smile on his face. ”Your entourage was also drawn away by me. I placed people in the Yun residence, Red Deity residence, and South Deity residence. It was easy to draw them away. If I kill you here, nobody will know, not even Earth Count or Heaven Duke will know that the real Celestial Venerable Mu has died.”
Qin Mu sighed. ”Celestial Venerable Hao, I didn't know that your stratagem was so deep. It seems that I can hardly escape. It's just that, this Celestial Venerable Mu that you created, are you sure that it's my opponent?”
He smiled. ”You put in so much effort to create this Celestial Venerable Mu and ensure that it's exactly the same as me. In order to ensure that you don't raise the suspicions of the other Celestial Venerables and the ancient gods, you had to ensure that he was at the Divine Bridge Realm too. Such a body can't tolerate your primordial spirit, for it's too strong. You can only use a shred of consciousness to control this body. However, I have killed many Divine Bridge Realm practitioners and ruined two weapons that are akin to yours.”
The other Qin Mu's smile was as bright as the sun, which was chilling to see. In such a short time, he achieved such a great degree of similarity that one would have a hard time telling the difference.
”You underestimate my accomplishments during these million years. During this time, I analyzed and fought with you countless times in the depth of my consciousness. You and I have actually fought billions of times.”
He laughed without restraint. ”In the past, you won more than you lost, but as I grew, the chances of you winning declined. By the Founding Emperor Era, I had defeated you. After that, every time I fought you in my consciousness, I was merely experimenting with the simplest way to kill you. By the High Emperor Era, I only needed one move to kill you.”
Self-confidence brimmed out of him as he smiled and said, ”I arranged the move to kill you, and it's called the Hundred Move to Kill Mu. It contains a hundred divine arts, and by today, in my consciousness, you will have died before you strike!”
Qin Mu's pupils contracted.
His aura grew dramatically as his sword pellet flew out!
When he struck, he used the second move of Raising Calamity, Raising Calamity Sword!
At the Jade Pool Meeting then, he used this move to heavily injure Celestial Venerable Hao while he was under the projection of Mistress Yuanmu to the point where he couldn't take care of himself unless helped!
Now, this Raising Calamity move was even more powerful with even more changes to its moves. Raising Calamity was a sword path but also a basic sword skill known as the nineteenth sword form, which could be combined with any other sword skills. There were nearly infinite amounts of changes!
Unexpectedly, before the potential of Qin Mu's sword was unleashed, the attack of the other Qin Mu arrived. The sword stabbed out as the light broke the Raising Calamity Sword, which tapped on the heart of Qin Mu's eyebrows.
Nothing changed on Qin Mu's brows, yet the back of his brain exploded. An expression of disbelief appeared on his face as his body shook and fell to the ground. His two legs tangled together, and after some body spasms, he was no longer breathing.
The other Qin Mu slowly retracted his finger and said plainly, ”Killing you was that simple. It only took one finger. How lonely…”
He looked at the peaceful Jade Sea, and on it, Qin Mu walked towards him.
The other Qin Mu stood in the pavilion with his hands behind him as he awaited his arrival.
He watched Qin Mu approach him until he was beside him, looking out at the sea.
”Celestial Venerable Mu doesn't seem surprised at all.”
He glanced at Qin Mu and laughed. ”If I saw another one of myself…”
He frowned slightly, feeling that something was wrong.
In the real world, Qin Mu sat behind him and poured a cup of tea for himself. He raised the cup to his mouth and commented, ”It's not a bad move. I would hardly be able to defend against it unless I used my life to take yours. Celestial Venerable Hao has certainly grown.”