Cold sweat beaded on Qu Shixiong's forehead, his voice raspy as he spoke, "No wonder these treasures were never taken, Qing Shimei. They've become spirit-aware. Without their true masters, they will only bring harm!"
Qing Shijie, her hair standing on end in fright, nodded repeatedly.
Qin Mu said coolly, "These treasures have always been here, untouched, not even by the **異獸** (strange beasts). There's clearly danger. Yet you knowingly sent your **Shidi** (junior martial brother) to face it head-on. Your heart is truly vicious; you are the real demon!"
"The demon lord speaks of confusion again!" Qu Shixiong's face contorted with extreme grief. He shook his head and said, "How would you understand the feelings between us **Shixiongdi** (senior and junior martial brothers)? You are but a little demon cub, measuring my heart with your demonic one, naturally seeing only evil within. I will not argue with you now. Wait until dawn, and then I will send you on your way."
Qin Mu frowned. This Qu Shixiong was insidious, cruel, and ruthless. He would even sacrifice his own **Shidi**. He certainly wouldn't let Qin Mu leave alive. However, this man possessed formidable strength, and Qin Mu was no match for him. Moreover, Qing Shijie, standing beside him, was also incredibly powerful!
Just then, the ground suddenly trembled, causing the surrounding ruins to shake violently. A series of muffled roars echoed from the **異獸**. The **異獸** within the ruins shuddered, continuously retreating, their eyes fixed nervously on the portal of the ruins, their expressions filled with terror.
"What are these **異獸** so afraid of?" Qin Mu had just formulated the thought when an incredibly dense darkness, like a surging tide, poured forth from that towering portal!
Qin Mu's heart was greatly shocked. He saw that the portal seemed to possess an invisible barrier, holding back the darkness. The darkness, in turn, madly impacted this barrier, attempting to break its seal! The portal's barrier was distorted and deformed by the onslaught of darkness, yet it held firm. The darkness also distorted and deformed with the barrier, sometimes resembling sharp claws, sometimes like smoke pulled taut by the wind, and at other times like countless sharp thorns – a thousand changes, a myriad of forms.
Suddenly, the darkness ceased its impact, and the portal's invisible barrier quieted down. After a moment, the barrier slowly bulged outwards, continuously pressing and extending backward. The darkness pushed the portal's barrier into a face shape, a massive face whose forehead touched the canyon sky and whose chin rested on the ground.
All the **異獸** within the ruins prostrated themselves on the ground, not daring to move or even lift their heads to look at that face. That face possessed three pure black eyeballs. Upon seeing these three eyeballs, Qin Mu felt his entire body turn ice-cold, as if his soul was being sucked away by the darkness!
The face suddenly opened its mouth, uttering a low, humming sound, a language that no one could understand. "Qi Ke Duo, Sa Mo Ye, Ban Ruo Ban Ruo Sa Mo Ye, Qi Ke Duo Ban Ruo Sa Mo Ye..."
That humming voice seemed to be a mixture of countless voices, filled with a strange power that caused the ground within the ruins to shake continuously. The palaces were left with mottled walls, stone pillars collapsed, and cracks grew wider and wider. Even the portal itself was shaking, stone debris raining down, clearly unable to hold up for long.
Just at this moment, a bright light suddenly emanated from the square. The bright pearl in the hand of the skeleton leader shone intensely, growing brighter and brighter. Qin Mu quickly turned his head to look, only to see that pearl actually rising into the air, its brilliant light like rosy clouds, the colorful hues appearing somewhat sticky.
The sticky rosy clouds of light enveloped the more than two hundred dry bones in the square. One by one, those skeletons suddenly became lively within the light of the rosy clouds. Qin Mu was utterly stunned. He saw that the skeletons in the rosy clouds were no longer skeletons, but lively girls! Girls with powdered cheeks, red lips, and clothes brighter than fire!
Those girls sat in the square, led by a female figure who held up the slowly rising bright pearl in one hand. The girls' mouths moved, chanting in a strange language, also obscure and difficult to understand. "Yi Po Xiu Po Sa Nan Jun He Xi, Guan Ming Duan Jing Wu Si Jiang You..."
The voice from the darkness gradually grew louder and more majestic, shaking the canyon. Darkness invaded the ruins from all directions, while the voices of the girls also became clearer and louder. The bright pearl emitted waves of light outwards, shining upon the darkness and causing it to dissipate like smoke!
These two kinds of voices, like the voices of gods and demons, continuously clashed. Sometimes one suppressed the other, sometimes they advanced and retreated, each gaining and losing ground. But neither could completely overwhelm the other. The demonic voice from the darkness was powerful and terrifying, while the girls' voices were filled with divinity, clear and pleasant, incredibly tenacious and sacred, always able to suddenly rise and break the other's magic sound when the demonic voice gained the upper hand. And the demonic voice could always suddenly burst forth when its advantage dwindled into a trough, like a reversal of the star river, like a bursting flood, grand, majestic, and unrestrained.
Both of these voices possessed exquisite and extraordinary qualities.
Qin Mu listened in rapture, suddenly struck by a shiver, and involuntarily became excited: "Magic sound and divine sound are clashing! This divine sound is similar to the one that blocked me from breaking the wall. Can I then use the magic sound to break the divine sound that blocked me?"
He became more and more excited. This was absolutely a good method! As long as he learned this magic sound, he could chant it at the moment the divine sound rang out while breaking the wall, resisting the divine sound from beyond the nine heavens, allowing his **Yuan Qi** to break the **Ling Tai** (Spiritual Platform) wall! As long as he successfully broke the wall, relying on his "Ba Ti" (Overlord Body) and "Ba Ti San Dan Gong" (Overlord Body Three Elixir Skill), he would no longer need to fear this Qu Shixiong and Qing Shijie!
Thinking this, he suddenly froze, as if a basin of cold water had been poured through his heart. The voice from beyond the nine heavens was a divine voice. If he used a demonic voice to break a divine voice, didn't that mean he was a demon sealed by a god? Could it be that Qu Shixiong, Qing Shijie, and the others were not wrong, and he was a little demon cub?
"No, no!" Qin Mu shook his head. If he was a demon, didn't that mean the other "Ba Ti" were all demons as well? Then why call it "Ba Ti"? Wouldn't "Demon Body" be better?
"Never mind whether it's a demon body or a Ba Ti, breaking the wall comes first!" He thought and acted accordingly. First, he repeatedly memorized the intonation, turns, meaning, rhythm, and timbre of the magic sound from the darkness, imprinting all the rises and falls of the magic sound onto his heart.
Only after confirming that there were no errors did Qin Mu circulate his "Ba Ti San Dan Gong", mobilizing his **Yuan Qi**. While silently chanting the magic sound, he urged his **Yuan Qi** towards the **Ling Tai** wall in the center of his eyebrows!
