Chapter 1161: One Flower One World

This mountain range was astonishingly long and incredibly steep. Immediately upon entering, Qin Mu sensed something strange. The mountain felt off; his vital qi became sluggish here, flowing as if mixed with sand.

Qin Mu immediately activated the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner. He saw the Twenty-Eight Heavens operating, but mobilizing them grew increasingly difficult and sluggish.

Furthermore, he felt his physical body and spirit stiffening. The divine blood within him showed a tendency to solidify.

Qin Mu looked up, only to see that the Twenty-Eight Heavens of the Azure Heaven Banner had become hazy and grey. He had no idea what caused this.

The Dragon Qilin looked back at its tail and cried out in alarm, "Cult Master, I'm stiffening up!"

"The power here is extremely strange," Qin Mu said. "You two should retreat for now; I'll scout ahead."

Qin Mu told Yan'er and the Dragon Qilin to fall back. He ascended alone, muttering, "Logically, the Grand Ultimate Ore Vein should consist of Yin and Yang energies, in a state of primal chaos, on the verge of separation. This place is quite peculiar."

Before long, leaning on the Lapis Lazuli Azure Heaven Banner, he reached a mountain path. This path was likely carved by the Creation Spirits who entered this area. Evidently, those Creation Spirits also intended to mine divine stones here, and they must have already located the ore vein.

"By simply following this mountain path, I should be able to find the Grand Ultimate Ore Vein," he thought.

Qin Mu continued his ascent, following the mountain path around several hills. Suddenly, he saw an incredibly tall stone statue standing on the road.

Qin Mu cautiously approached. The statue faced the direction of the mining area, posed as if about to step forward, and carried mining tools crafted from divine gold on its back.

He circled to the front of the statue and looked up. It appeared to be a sculpture of a Creation Spirit, though he didn't know why it was erected here.

"Ancient times had many strange traditions and customs," he mused. "This must be a custom of a Creation Spirit tribe that made a living from mining."

He continued onward. Suddenly, he spotted another equally tall stone statue beside the road, appearing to be an adult Creation Spirit.

Looking ahead, he saw that along this road, every short distance featured one or more statues of Creation Spirits.

Qin Mu's expression grew serious. One or two statues might be a Creation Spirit custom, but dozens of them couldn't possibly be!

He levitated, landing before one of the statues, and examined its glabella.

He saw a Primal Divine Stone embedded in the vertical eye on the statue's glabella.

"These statues are all Creation Spirits!"

Qin Mu looked around, thinking, "The Creation Spirit miners came here, but they encountered the strange power of the Grand Ultimate Ore Vein and were turned into stone! Is this the Path of Creation?"

He grew alarmed, taking a long breath. At this moment, his breath contained many impurities, and even his own vital qi became turbid!

Qin Mu was greatly shaken. He took out his broken sword and lightly cut his palm, and blood flowed out.

He was already at the True God realm; his blood had long transformed into divine blood, possessing incredible power.

If his blood were to fall to the ground, even a single drop would form a lake of blood. The power contained within it was so immense that it could cause plants to grow wildly, dead trees to revive, and transform a vast thousand-mile area into a dense forest!

Furthermore, his divine blood could even turn plants into spirits, transforming them into demons.

Though his title of Celestial Master had some caveats, his divine blood contained boundless and terrifying life force!

However, here, as his blood fell to the ground, it quickly coagulated, losing all vitality. The blood even became opaque, and gradually, sand and stone began to grow within the plasma.

Qin Mu extended a finger and lightly traced his glabella, opening his vertical eye. Countless runes within the Celestial Emperor's eggshell were activated, the Primordial Stone began to function, and the Netherworld Great Dao operated within the Qin-character continent. Immediately, he observed the entire process of his blood's transformation.

The material structure of his divine blood changed from liquid to stone. Soon, the blood that had fallen to the ground turned into a pile of sand and stone!

"The power here can alter the essence of matter," he realized.

Qin Mu blinked and looked around with his vertical eye. He saw that this mountain range was majestic and grand, with many ancient beasts dwelling within it, and the forests were quite dense.

It seemed as though this mysterious power only affected him, not the plants or giant beasts here.

Qin Mu stopped advancing and instead went to the side of the road to carefully examine a tender blade of grass.

In the vision of his vertical eye, the texture and veins of the tender grass gradually became clearer and thicker. Slowly, mountain ranges appeared before his eyes, and the water within the grass blades transformed into flowing rivers!

He could even hear the surging sound of waves in his ears!

Qin Mu's heart leaped in surprise. Suddenly, he saw the material structure of the grass slowly changing. He hastily retreated a few steps, only to watch as the tender grass quickly grew into a large tree, its branches hanging down as if it had been growing for hundreds or thousands of years.

Just as Qin Mu was about to examine the texture and structure of the large tree, it unexpectedly began to change again. Under his gaze, it transformed into an ancient beast, roared fiercely at him, and then pounced!

Qin Mu's divine consciousness erupted, using the technique of "Grand Heaven Gathering into a Circle." The ancient beast's body rapidly thinned, stretching infinitely, ascending higher and higher.

However, before Qin Mu's divine ability was fully unleashed, he saw the strange beast transform into a swirling mass of air that drifted downwards.

The mass of air landed and once again became a tender blade of grass in the mountains.

Qin Mu was stunned, frowning deeply.

"A flower, a blade of grass, a world," he murmured. "Yet, they are ever-changing, without fixed form, fixed position, or fixed state..."

Qin Mu looked at the surrounding mountains, water, and trees, a terrifying realization dawning upon him. He mumbled, "This place is far larger than what I see, immeasurably larger!"

He shivered and immediately turned to descend the mountain. The Dragon Qilin, seeing him return, was about to ask something when he saw Qin Mu pick up a grain of sand from the ground, place it in his palm, and blow on it.

Whoosh—

The grain of black sand flew forward, spinning and growing larger and larger. It quickly transformed into a piece of divine gold the size of a small mountain.

The Dragon Qilin and Yan'er were startled, staring blankly as the black gold mountain flew into the distance and fell into a sea of sand.

Strangely, as the black gold mountain crashed into the sand sea, it suddenly rolled and transformed into an ancient beast, which then dashed away.

Seeing this, the Void Beast became elated and immediately lunged in pursuit, intending to bite and devour the strange beast. However, just as its large mouth descended, the giant beast surprisingly turned into an insignificant grain of sand, falling into the sand sea, nowhere to be found.

The Dragon Qilin and Yan'er stared in astonishment.

"Just as I thought!"

Qin Mu ascended the mountain once more, vigorously activating his Hegemon Body Three Elixir Technique. His vital energy surged throughout his body, layers of iridescent light blossomed outwards, enveloping him in a myriad of radiant beams as he pressed onward up the mountain.

"This ore vein doesn't embody the Path of Creation; rather, it is the union of Yin and Yang, the generation of all things. This is the Path of Yin and Yang! However, this Path of Yin and Yang is profound and unfathomable."

"The entire sacred ground is formed from the transformation of Yin and Yang energies, and these energies here are constantly changing due to their convergence!"

"The Yin and Yang energies can transform into anything: mountains, stones, trees, giant beasts, or even entire worlds."

Passing by the statues of the Creation Spirits, Qin Mu whispered, "These Creation Spirits were unable to withstand the Path of Yin and Yang here, so their physical structures were altered, turning them into stone statues! This Grand Ultimate Ore Vein is conscious!"

"Similar to the Path of Yin and Yang is the Path of Creation!"

"In this world, regarding the Path of Creation, I am a Celestial Master!"