Chapter 1012: Blind Man's Eyes, Deaf Man's Hammer

Qin Mu let out a long breath, feeling completely at ease. Ever since returning from the Great Void, Yun Chuxiu had been clinging to him, leaving him no time at all to summon Yun Tianzun's soul. Moreover, summoning a soul in the Heavenly Court was extremely dangerous, as all Ten Heavenly Venerates were there, making it impossible to hide the act from them. Now that Yun Chuxiu had been sent away, Qin Mu could finally relax.

"Lord Dutian, let's depart," Qin Mu said, his voice filled with joy, as he returned to his carriage. The Celestial Dragon Carriage immediately set off, its nine celestial dragons galloping eastward along the Surging River.

Inside the carriage, God King Lang Wo asked, "Holy Infant, aren't you going to see Kai Huang?"

"No need to see him." Qin Mu opened his vertical eye between his brows, and Yun Tianzun's physical body appeared on the cloud blanket. God King Lang Wo unleashed her divine consciousness, enveloping the carriage to prevent outsiders from seeing what was inside. Qin Mu's divine consciousness and vital qi surged forth, forming numerous runes. He said, "He came out this time to see the results of the reforms in Eternal Peace, to see how they're progressing. There's no point in me seeing him; only by witnessing it himself can he dispel his delusions. Besides, Heavenly Venerate Xiao is probably monitoring this place with the Divine Weapon Imperial Heavenly Venerate, so it's better if I behave myself."

Shu Jun sneered, "Holy Infant, do you call this 'behaving yourself'?"

Above the Primordial Tree, the Divine Weapon Imperial Heavenly Venerate withdrew its gaze and slowly closed its eyes. Meanwhile, the clay figure in the Primordial Tree Heavenly Palace pondered for a moment, pacing back and forth and muttering to itself, "Heavenly Venerate Qin is stronger than he was back then, but still far from the Heavenly Court realm. His Kai Huang era cannot sustain the Heavenly Court realm. However, his sword techniques are truly terrifying. And then there's Heavenly Venerate Mu—he's a real troublemaker, stirring up trouble wherever he goes! But I also didn't expect the Earth Mother to still be able to cause trouble! Remarkable, truly remarkable. To get rid of the Earth Mother, we must first eliminate Heavenly Duke and Earth Count, and disable Heavenly Venerate Mu's resurrection spell..."

Inside the Celestial Dragon Carriage, Qin Mu immediately began casting spells, chanting incantations, and activating his divine arts to summon Yun Tianzun's soul. After a moment, he stopped, frowning slightly.

"Holy Infant, can you not sense Yun Tianzun's soul?" God King Lang Wo asked.

Qin Mu nodded, pondering, "Even if a soul shatters, I can still summon soul black sand. Even beings like Empress and Grand Empress, who feigned death without truly dying, as long as I get their physical bodies, I can trace their souls' whereabouts. My divine arts can search the heavens and earth; when activated, all heavens and myriad worlds, even the Heavenly Court, Xuan Du, Ghost Capital, and Heavenly Yin World, are subject to my divine summoning! Yet, I cannot sense Yun Tianzun's soul, as if Yun Tianzun's soul never existed..."

"This is the Grand Emperor's doing." God King Shu Jun mused, "The Grand Emperor possesses this ability, to make a soul completely vanish, never to be found again. Yun Tianzun died by the Grand Emperor's hand, didn't he?"

Qin Mu's expression was solemn as he nodded gently and asked, "Even if a soul shatters, it turns into black sand and is absorbed by the Heavenly Yin World. What ability does the Grand Emperor possess that can make Yun Tianzun's soul completely disappear?" He was quite perplexed. His Soul Guiding spell was a Ghost Capital technique, and after his improvements, it could be said that no matter where a soul hid, it couldn't escape his tracking. He had confidence in this spell.

"In this world, there are three individuals who possess the ability to make their souls undetectable by you." Shu Jun said in a deep voice, "The first is the Grand Emperor. The other two are among the ancient gods: Empress and Grand Empress. Empress and Grand Empress possess the Return to Nothingness, which crushes and destroys everything. Back then, they activated the Return to Nothingness, burying countless masters of my race. One of the other two God Kings of my race perished at the hands of those sisters. Forget souls, even divine consciousness is completely annihilated, ceasing to exist. The Grand Emperor cannot achieve this level. The Grand Emperor's ability lies in his incredibly powerful divine consciousness, which is called the Grand Heaven Supreme Divine Consciousness."

Qin Mu nodded. The Grand Emperor's Grand Heaven Supreme Divine Consciousness was incredibly subtle and profound. The Heavenly Court had been waiting for Yan Shaoqing, the Left Assistant Minister, to create a divine consciousness Emperor's Throne technique, but the Grand Emperor had already developed a divine consciousness technique for the Emperor's Throne realm long ago.

"Why is the Grand Heaven Supreme Divine Consciousness called 'Grand Heaven'?" Shu Jun explained, "Actually, his divine consciousness condensed as early as the Primordial Era, forming the Grand Heaven of Divine Consciousness. It's a void world entirely structured by supreme divine consciousness. Not to mention your spells, no spell in the world can be effective within the Grand Heaven of Divine Consciousness. The Great Dao rules there are entirely set by the Grand Emperor. I believe Yun Tianzun's soul was likely banished to the Grand Heaven of Divine Consciousness by the Grand Emperor."

God King Lang Wo, unfamiliar with this, asked, "Can God King Shu Jun elaborate on the Grand Heaven of Divine Consciousness?"

"I don't know much about the Grand Heaven of Divine Consciousness either," Shu Jun said. "Back when the Grand Emperor wasn't as strong, I contended with him for the title of strongest expert, and I once heard him mention it. When his Grand Heaven Supreme Divine Consciousness technique is cultivated to its peak, it begins to touch the ultimate void. His divine consciousness condenses in the ultimate void, constantly transforming and eternally indestructible. Perhaps, only by cultivating divine consciousness to his level can one find the Grand Heaven of Divine Consciousness in the ultimate void. However, even at my peak during my lifetime, I didn't cultivate to that step." He looked at God King Lang Wo and asked, "Your divine consciousness is stronger than mine was back then. Have you touched the ultimate void?"

God King Lang Wo shook her head. "My current divine consciousness strength can only reach the thirty-fifth void, one step away from the ultimate void."

Shu Jun showed a look of envy and sighed, "It's already much stronger than my peak."

God King Lang Wo said indifferently, "Naturally."

Shu Jun snorted, then sneered, "Don't get cocky! I'm starting over now. As long as I cultivate the Heavenly River Divine Treasure, I'll surpass your Divine Bridge Divine Treasure, and my future strength will be vastly superior to yours! A few days ago, I consulted Qi Jiuyi to learn how to open divine treasures; it's far more advanced than those country bumpkins from Carefree Village."

Qin Mu asked in surprise, "God King, you sought out Qi Jiuyi to learn how to open divine treasures? Why did you go so far out of your way?"

Shu Jun didn't understand his meaning and said, "You're always with Lang Wo and Grand Empress, with no time to teach me, so naturally, I could only seek guidance from Qi Jiuyi."

Qin Mu smiled. "While Qi Jiuyi was indeed an early pioneer in opening the Heavenly River Divine Treasure, he wasn't the earliest. Xu Shenghua and I were the first to open the Heavenly River Divine Treasure. However, the second person to open it wasn't Qi Jiuyi, but Dragon Qilin. He received my true teachings."

Shu Jun glanced at the Dragon Qilin, who was lying there dozing, and was utterly dumbfounded. The Dragon Qilin lazily lifted its head, gave him a disdainful look.

"Fatty Dragon has followed me the longest, and he's one of the few who understands Eternal Peace's reforms most deeply," Qin Mu laughed. "When I opened various divine treasures and traveled to various academies back then, he was always by my side. He understands martial arts, divine arts, sword techniques, and battle techniques very well. Why bother consulting Qi Jiuyi? Qi Jiuyi was in Eternal Peace back then, isolated in the Western Lands, and didn't know much."

Dragon Qilin yawned, stuck out his large tongue, and licked his lips, saying, "Qi Jiuyi is my third brother. I'm his big brother."

Shu Jun was even more dumbfounded.

In the Heavenly Court, a bright and youthful girl with two playful pigtails swaying behind her hurried towards the Spiritual Energy Transfer Bridge of the Zaofu Heavenly Palace. This was another Yun Chuxiu. "That brat actually let the Earth Mother capture me! My avatar won't survive; the Earth Mother will definitely mess it up! Back then, I offended the Earth Mother terribly. When she was stealing Heavenly Duke's essence, I told Heavenly Duke, making him beat her up..." She dashed towards the Spiritual Energy Transfer Bridge, her pigtails slapping against her backside, muttering, "But it won't be that easy for that brat to shake me off! He doesn't want me to go to the Primordial Realm, so I'll go to Eternal Peace Imperial City and wait for him! I just didn't know he had cultivated to the Exalted God realm. My last body suffered a loss; he grabbed me and I couldn't move. This time, I'll get a Celestial God body, and when I see that brat, I'll beat him up first to vent my anger!"

As she was about to enter the Spiritual Energy Transfer Bridge, she saw Lian Huahun also approaching. The two girls met, stopping and watching each other warily.

"Didn't Sister Chuxiu leave the Heavenly Court with Heavenly Venerate Mu and go to the Primordial Realm?" Lian Huahun's gaze held both disgust and curiosity. She asked, "Why are you still in the Heavenly Court?"

Yun Chuxiu raised her hands, moved her pigtails to her chest, and smiled. "I'm back again, is that a problem? Where is Sister Lian going?"

Lian Huahun stared at her and said softly, "Where are you going now?"

"You're not planning to be my sister anymore, but my mother?" Yun Chuxiu sneered, "You're trying to control too much. Can you even control me? You even controlled my brother-in-law into my bed!"

Lian Huahun chuckled softly. "You are my sister after all, how can I not care about you? Wherever you go, I will naturally go too."

Yun Chuxiu rolled her eyes and sweetly smiled, "Since you want to come, then come!" She walked into the Spiritual Energy Transfer Bridge. Lian Huahun smiled faintly and followed her in. A moment later, a white cat, leaping as if flying, also darted into the Zaofu Palace's Spiritual Energy Transfer Bridge.

The next moment, they appeared by the Spiritual Energy Transfer Bridge outside Eternal Peace Imperial City. Yun Chuxiu skipped and bounded towards the imperial city, exclaiming, "This Primordial Tree has grown even bigger!" Lian Huahun frowned, looking up at the small Primordial Tree rooted in Eternal Peace Imperial City, and scoffed, "Blasphemous."

Meanwhile, a middle-aged man arrived at the Tujiang Forge Factory outside Eternal Peace Imperial City. Nowadays, the Tujiang River was lined with countless forge factories of all sizes. Each factory was built on an enormous scale, standing along the river, resembling a divine city from a distance. Inside the factories, divine light shot into the sky. Enormous divine furnaces operated day and night, and complex mechanical giants, controlled by divine arts practitioners, were forging divine artifact components. Countless other divine arts practitioners worked tirelessly day and night, drawing and imprinting various runes to create divine weapons and sharp tools. Many multi-story ships also flew into the air, carrying the forged divine artifacts towards the Spiritual Energy Transfer Bridge, ready to be sent to the Heavenly Court.

The place was bustling with activity. Kai Huang Qin Ye passed by various forge factories, observing their layouts. He noticed that some factories also produced strange items like ice refrigerators and windmills, imprinting various divine arts into these tools to facilitate people's lives.

"Blind Man, isn't divine metal a single-crystal sequence at the microscopic level?" Kai Huang Qin Ye suddenly heard a loud voice. He saw an old man carrying a box talking to an old man leaning on a bamboo staff with black dragon bones wrapped around his waist. The old man with the box said, "Profane Gold is a multi-crystal sequence, while Divine Metal is a single-crystal sequence. If we adjust Profane Gold's multi-crystal sequence into a single-crystal one, can Profane Gold then turn into Divine Metal?"

"Theoretically, yes." The old man called Blind Man had incredibly bright eyes. He took out a piece of divine metal and a piece of profane gold, then sharply opened his eyes. Divine light burst forth, and he clearly saw the microscopic structures of both metals. He said, "How to change the microscopic crystal sequence—that's the big problem. Mute, your forging method makes it difficult to precisely target the smallest crystals in the microscopic structure."

The old man called Mute had a deafening voice. He sneered, "My newly developed Heavenly Origin Great Furnace Forging Method is specifically for microscopic forging, to imprint runes on the smallest crystals. The main issue is that my eyesight isn't as good as yours..."

Suddenly, the two old men noticed Kai Huang and simultaneously turned to look. The Mute old man grinned, "Abba, abba abba?"

The Blind Man, leaning on his staff, smiled and said, "Brother, Mute is asking where you're from?"

Kai Huang stepped forward and smiled. "Brothers, I've come from Carefree Village. Seeing your passionate discussion, I couldn't help but overhear a few sentences. You just mentioned that changing the microscopic crystal structure of Profane Gold could turn it into Divine Metal. Could you elaborate on that?"