957 Please Die, Grand Emperor (2/2)
The Grand Emperor apparition gave a cold humph and plainly replied, ”You dare to say that given that you lost to me?”
”Pooh!”
Shu Jun coldly smiled. ”If no one gathered the tribesmen to visualize you then, could you have won against the three kings who claimed the emperor's throne? Don't run away now, I'll battle you for 300 rounds!”
The Grand Emperor apparition snickered. ”Your body is broken, and your consciousness hasn't recovered. It won't take 300 rounds to battle you.”
His body wobbled and split into two. One of the new apparitions faced off against Shu Jun while the other one continued towards Qin Mu.
Shu Jun was furious. ”Are you looking down on me? I'll show you my Three Enclosures Higher Knowledge!”
His consciousness burst forth as many star gods and devils of the Supreme Palace Enclosure, Purple Forbidden Enclosure, and Heavenly Market Enclosure appeared. Their starlight morphed into a void storm, and in it, countless imposing gods and devils rushed out. They were identical to the ancient gods in form as they waved their weapons around, rushing towards the Grand Emperor apparition.
”Your Three Enclosures Higher Knowledge is just that, can it beat my Great Overarching Supreme Consciousness?”
That Grand Emperor apparition laughed and visualized various divine beings that battled those of Shu Jun.
Shu Jun was furious, and his big head flew up and rushed towards the Grand Emperor apparition. That Grand Emperor didn't hesitate to meet him. Their collision caused Qin Mu's Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure to fall and crack!
The other Grand Emperor apparition came to a gentle stop in front of Qin Mu's spirit embryo and looked at him curiously.
Qin Mu also curiously sized up this legendary being. The grand in Grand Emperor meant ancient, beginning, and initial. The title of Grand Emperor was thus only gifted to the initial and most ancient Celestial Emperor.
Such a being naturally stoked his curiosity.
”Dragon Han Overlord Body, we finally meet.” The Grand Emperor apparition smiled.
Qin Mu's heart trembled as he asked, ”You know about me?”
”When you were conferred with the title of Celestial Venerable Mu at the Jade Pool Meeting during the first year of the Dragon Han Era, I was there too. It was just that I was at the Celestial Heavens Meeting under Celestial Emperor.”
The Grand Emperor apparition continued, ”When I heard of your name, you had already left the Dragon Han Celestial Heavens. I hate how I didn't meet you.”
Qin Mu smiled. ”When I transmigrated to the first year of the Dragon Han Era, I saw many beings whose names were household names, but I also didn't meet many beings. In that case, I suppose you want to take over my body?”
The Grand Emperor apparition shook his head. ”I'm not taking over your body, I'm merely borrowing it to live.”
Qin Mu was curious. ”What do you mean by borrowing it to live. What's the difference between that and taking over my body?”
”There's a big difference.”
The Grand Emperor apparition honestly said, ”Taking over your body requires devouring your soul and using my soul to occupy it. Borrowing your body to live doesn't touch on the soul and is of a higher level than the former. Souls are important to you all, but we don't rely on them to live. We rely on consciousness.”
He gently smiled. ”I'll use my powerful consciousness to wipe out yours, but your soul will remain. Thus, technically, the only thing that dies with me borrowing your body to live will be your consciousness. You and your soul won't die. That should be a small comfort for you.”
Qin Mu's gaze flashed as he smiled. ”Well said, well said. I'm grateful to be able to offer my corporeal body and sacrifice for you. How did you end up here, though?”
The Grand Emperor apparition's expression changed slightly as he shook his head and said, ”I'm fine with telling you, it's just that not telling you makes things easier.”
He walked forward and said, ”You should go to sleep now.”
His body suddenly morphed into rolling currents of consciousness that went for the heart of Qin Mu's brows like a column of green smoke. It was trying to drill into Qin Mu's spirit embryo!
Suddenly, the sky became unusually bright, with countless stars shining and forming a beam of light that fell from the heavens in front of Qin Mu. It was a Heaven Duke that looked like an old sage who blocked the flow of consciousness created by the Grand Emperor apparition.
Shua, Shua, Shua. Countless light beams fell from the sky. One star god after another stood up from the taiji diagram and trapped the flow of consciousness.
That flow of consciousness coalesced and became the Grand Emperor apparition again. He sternly looked around him.
At that moment, he saw Earth Count at the back of the taiji diagram beneath him.
All of these beings had Qin Mu's face on them, whether they were Earth Count, Heaven Duke, or the star gods!
The Grand Emperor's apparition's eye jumped, and he laughed. ”Celestial Venerable Mu, are you intending to recreate the scene in which the ancient gods surrounded and eliminated me, the primordial master of creation? Nice formation. Although, it seems to be lacking quite a few ancient gods.”
”Are you looking for Mother Earth, Heavenly Yin, and the four deities of the four directions of the ancient gods?”
Qin Mu smiled, and behind him, a Primordial Tree seed sprouted and grew into a large tree that reached the heavens. From it, a lady with Qin Mu's face walked out.
At that moment, in the shadow of the Heaven Duke with Qin Mu's face, a female god appeared. It was like the lady prior, who had a male face but a female body.
Following that, the four emperors—Vermillion Bird, Black Tortoise, Green Dragon, and White Tiger—appeared from the north, south, east, and west of the taiji diagram. They too bore Qin Mu's face.
The Grand Emperor apparition's expression changed slightly, but keeping his cool, he said, ”It seems that Shu Jun imparted his Three Enclosures Higher Knowledge to you, and you fused it with the Great Dao runes to achieve this. However, you haven't seen the battle of the Blood Rust Zone from back then. In your formation, two female gods from the Ruins of End are missing. You also lack Celestial Emperor. You cannot defeat me.”
Qin Mu smiled. ”In the Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure world that I opened, I am the celestial emperor.”
He shook his body, and it began to expand greatly. His soul and spirit embryo fused into one, and his primordial spirit was large and had a thunderous voice. ”If I was going to reuse their method, how could I not have thought about that?”
His primordial spirit morphed into the ancient Celestial Emperor, but it still had his face. He furiously shouted, ”Please die, Grand Emperor!”
All around the taiji diagram, Heaven Duke, Earth Count, Mother Earth, Heavenly Yin, the four deities of the four directions, and the star gods rushed to attack the Grand Emperor's apparition!