957 Please Die, Grand Emperor (1/2)
If the third seal was broken, the Grand Emperor's consciousness would rush towards Qin Mu's Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure, crush his consciousness, and erase it, turning Qin Mu into another him!
The Three Types of Heavenly Aeons technique that Shu Jun imparted to him nearly disintegrated when facing the Grand Emperor's consciousness. His consciousness was stronger than everyone had expected.
Yue Tingge and Luo Wushuang were extremely nervous when they looked up and saw the Grand Emperor battle the Celestial Emperor seal. Ultimately, the Grand Emperor won and broke the last seal of the Three Types of Heavenly Aeons.
The Three Types of Heavenly Aeons that Shu Jun had imparted was different from the one that Qin Mu modified. After Qin Mu's modification, the last test for it was the ancient Celestial Emperor, which made his Three Types of Heavenly Aeons stronger than the traditional one. Yet it was still broken easily by the Grand Emperor's consciousness.
However, after the three seals, this apparition created by the Grand Emperor's consciousness also weakened greatly.
Yue Tingge looked up into the heavens and saw the apparition getting closer and closer, crushing the stars of Qin Mu's Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure to the point that it was continuously shaking.
Yue Tingge and Luo Wushuang's consciousness and vital qi kept surging in, allowing their bodies to grow in size.
Whoosh—
Their primordial spirits were faster, and they descended onto Qin Mu's divine treasure and onto the taiji diagram, accommodating themselves with its previous embodiment.
They were of the Emperor's Throne Grand Completion Realm and the Numinous Sky Realm, so the arrival of their primordial spirits naturally trumped that of Qin Mu.
Compared to them, Qin Mu's spirit embryo seemed extremely tiny and inconsequential.
From the heavens above, the Grand Emperor's apparition descended and invaded the Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure. His huge face looked down and was seemingly curious about Qin Mu's divine treasure.
”A mere dead man like you dares to stir up the waves and the wind?”
Yue Tingge hollered, and behind his primordial spirit, his vital qi morphed into a towering and vast celestial palace. His primordial spirit rose into the heavens to take on the Grand Emperor's apparition.
At that moment, Luo Wushuang clenched his knife and rose into the air to attack the Grand Emperor.
Although the two of them weren't masters of consciousness, their cultivation was enough to convince them that they could put up a fight despite their lacking consciousness.
At that moment, the Grand Emperor's consciousness rolled towards them, and both of their consciousnesses collapsed immediately!
With their consciousnesses collapsed, they lost control of their divine arts and vital qi. Their primordial spirits fell out of the sky and were stunned.
”Use primordial spirit close combat!” Yue Tingge hollered.
Luo Wushuang nodded. Since their divine arts couldn't defeat the Grand Emperor's apparition, their primordial spirits had to personally battle it in close range in order for them to have a chance of getting rid of it.
However, in battle, the primordial spirit was usually used for the long-range deployment of divine arts to kill the opponent. Using it for close combat was a taboo.
This was because the primordial spirit wasn't a corporeal body, but the energy from one's spirit embryo and soul. Thus, if it was killed, one's soul would disperse!
However, they didn't have a better idea then. Thus, they had to resort to it to have a chance of defeating the Grand Emperor apparition.
The Grand Emperor apparition was formed by consciousness and thus had no corporeal body either. His consciousness had no vital qi, his divine arts were weak, and he had no divine weapons. Thus, it was unlikely that he could cause major damage to one's primordial spirit.
The Grand Emperor's figure rushed down, and Yue Tingge and Luo Wushuang's primordial spirits rushed up to meet it. They were about to act when, suddenly, the sound of a roaring dragon and tiger appeared. Multiple ferocious-looking dragons burst forth from the Grand Emperor's body and rushed towards them!
”Is this the visualization divine art that Celestial Venerable Mu talked about, where one uses their consciousness to visualize things?”
Luo Wushuang and Yue Tingge's hearts shuddered. This way of forming a divine art was different from how they cultivated their divine arts. It was a different cultivation system!
Today's divine arts were built on the foundations of runes. Divine arts practitioners learned various runes and used their vital qi to shape the runes to allow them to construct various forms of their divine arts.
During the initial year of the Dragon Han Era, divine arts practitioners studied half-gods and ancient gods along with their runes to comprehend their meaning. They came up with rune systems as a result.
For example, the four spirit divine arts came out of the four precelestial ancient gods—Green Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise. Youdu divine arts came out of Earth Count, and Xuandu divine arts came out of Heaven Duke. There were also the divine arts systems of Mother Earth and the Star Gods.
This cultivation method had lasted for longer than a million years.
Those that weren't in the rune systems were the Postcelestial Great Daos, like the Great Daos of the sword, knife, painting, martial arts, and music. They were postcelestial constructs that had no runes.
However, the Grand Emperor's apparition displayed a divine art that was outside of this system, belonging to the consciousness visualization system. He visualized things like dragons, phoenixes, gods, devils, and other strong beings to help him fight!
Despite seeing Qin Mu visualize banquets, beauties, and even a divine dragon on the way here, they never saw him use it to battle.
Seeing this combat technique now shocked them.
The divine dragon that the Grand Emperor apparition visualized was many times stronger than Qin Mu's divine dragon. It had a corporeal body that was as strong as experts in the Jade Capital Realm, and it fought against them fearlessly.
The skies were filled with ear-shattering roars from the dragons!
Luo Wushuang and Yue Tingge were strong enough to kill the dragons. However, when their bodies fell out of the sky and onto the taiji diagram, their bodies would disappear and become consciousness torrents that rose into the skies, once more forming divine dragons.
The two of them couldn't kill enough of the dragons and got worried. The Grand Emperor's apparition's consciousness was too strong. If they continued, they would die of exhaustion and be unable to stop it!
A part of the Grand Emperor's apparition's consciousness was used to block them. The apparition shrank and continued towards Qin Mu. It was then that a sacrificial altar appeared in the air in front of him. On it, a giant head opened its eyes as its empty mouth opened and closed. It laughed and said, ”Long time no see, Grand Emperor!”
The Grand Emperor apparition, who was about to rush down, stopped as he gazed at that incomplete head. He asked curiously, ”Shu Jun? One of the three primordial kings? You're still alive?”
”That's right, I'm still alive!”
The consciousness from Shu Jun's big head rose and morphed into a giant master of creation. He clipped his head beneath his armpits and laughed. ”Hehe, you didn't think it was possible, did you? I was able to survive that battle! Grand Emperor, now that I'm here, scram!”