Chapter 1257: What Is There to Talk About

Bai Yuqiong's Dao heart was indeed inferior to Qin Mu's; she had more inner demons.

As she watched the inner demon Heavenly Monarch Yin take form, a second inner demon also materialized: Heavenly Master Zixi.

Heavenly Master Zixi of the Kaihuang Celestial Court was the object of her affection, but their relationship was adversarial. Her love, unfulfilled and unable to lead to a lasting union, thus became an inner demon.

The inner demon Zixi was even more handsome and debonair than Yan Yunxi, who disguised herself as a man.

However, no sooner had the dashing inner demon Zixi appeared than her third inner demon was born.

Her third inner demon was, surprisingly, inner demon Qin Mu!

The inner demon Qin Mu had a ferocious, brutish face, barely resembling Qin Mu himself.

Her three major inner demons had finally revealed themselves!

"Heavenly Venerate Mu, are you a match for your inner demon?" Bai Yuqiong asked loudly, without looking at Qin Mu.

On the other side, Qin Mu chuckled, "It's just an inner demon, not the real Heavenly Venerate Yu. I must confront my own inner demon and defeat it to completely eradicate the evil in my heart."

"Heavenly Venerate Yu?" Bai Yuqiong exclaimed in shock upon hearing this. The plump boy she had picked up was Heavenly Venerate Yu?

In the instant she lost focus, inner demon Heavenly Monarch Yin, inner demon Zixi, and inner demon Qin Mu attacked almost simultaneously. Heavenly Monarch Yin's inner demon body shook, unleashing countless ancient divine insects that swarmed towards Bai Yuqiong, covering the sky.

In nearly two hundred of Bai Yuqiong's past lives, most had ended with her being drained of blood and life force by the mouthparts of these ancient divine insects.

The inner demon Zixi, however, was far more graceful. He suddenly split into two, then four, then eight. These eight Heavenly Masters Zixi each excelled in a different art: some in music, others in chess formations, calligraphy, or painting.

Others mastered swordsmanship, martial arts, blade arts, or numerology!

These eight Heavenly Masters Zixi used their respective skills to attack simultaneously. The moment they moved, three more Heavenly Masters Zixi appeared behind each of them, totaling thirty-two Heavenly Masters Zixi!

Yan Yunxi was an ambitious woman.

During the Kaihuang era, Yan Yunxi's talent was renowned across all heavens. She traversed the myriad worlds in the guise of a man, her ambition, like that of the other Heavenly Venerates, being to cultivate a complete Celestial Court.

However, she followed the path of the Post-celestial, not the Pre-celestial path of the Ten Heavenly Venerates.

Although she cultivated many arts, only eight Post-celestial paths reached mastery, preventing her from fully mastering all thirty-two Celestial Palaces.

More critically, upon reaching the Numinous Sky realm, she found further progress incredibly difficult. She could never take that next step, remaining trapped in the Numinous Sky realm without any advancement for twenty thousand years.

Even so, she was one of the most powerful beings of the Kaihuang era.

As the inner demon Zixi attacked Bai Yuqiong, inner demon Qin Mu also moved to strike her.

This inner demon Qin Mu was formed from the impression left on Bai Yuqiong when Qin Mu killed Concubine Yu Wu and Heavenly Venerate Yin Jiu. She already feared Qin Mu, worried he would awaken the Vermilion Bird divine soul within her.

The inner demon Qin Mu in Bai Yuqiong's mind even surpassed the real Qin Mu in terms of magical power!

She was caught in a siege!

"I am a Heavenly Master of the Emperor's Throne realm! All my abilities were honed through two hundred lifetimes of struggle, gained by fighting Heavenly Monarch Yin to the death, not relying on ancestral blessings or the Southern Emperor's divine soul!"

Bai Yuqiong's imperial might erupted. Her nearly two hundred reincarnations had seen countless trials, and her methods were not merely the path of space learned from Heavenly Venerate Yue.

In fact, she had studied under countless masters!

Whether Buddhist or Daoist sects, or under the tutelage of other Heavenly Venerates, Heavenly Masters, or Heavenly Kings, she had sought instruction from them all!

Behind Bai Yuqiong's head, celestial palaces emerged, instantly raising her aura to an extreme peak. This woman, unleashed, was awe-inspiring and invincible!

"Among the Four Heavenly Masters, I am not the strongest in strategy, but in combat power, the other three Heavenly Masters combined are no match for me!"

In an instant, she folded space, creating multiple spatial mirrors. Within these mirrors, individual Bai Yuqiongs, each with different celestial palaces, simultaneously attacked inner demon Heavenly Monarch Yin, inner demon Zixi, and inner demon Qin Mu!

Meanwhile, Qin Mu watched the approaching inner demon Lan Yutian.

Heavenly Venerate Yu was not his inner demon; rather, it was Lan Yutian, the plump Lan.

"There was originally no Hegemon Body in the world, but there was the strongest person."

Qin Mu relaxed, looking at his inner demon, and murmured, "The Village Chief used the Hegemon Body to encourage me, to give me confidence, to make me never give up, to make me believe I possessed the best spirit body. Heh, but all the legends and rumors about the Hegemon Body in this world actually originated from me. It was I who traveled back to ancient times, back to Dragon Han and High Emperor eras, leaving behind legends about the Hegemon Body—legends about myself."

On the other side, the inner demon Lan Yutian hummed as he unfolded his Divine Treasure Domain, identical to Qin Mu's but with a completely opposite cultivation method.

The inner demon Lan Yutian was like another Four-Faced God, with absolutely no blind spots. His power was almost identical to Qin Mu's!

"In truth, there is no Hegemon Body at all."

Qin Mu's Divine Treasure Domain unfolded, his eyes bright, radiating immense confidence: "If there is one, it can only be me! From Dragon Han until now, unique, there is no second!"

Boom—

The two Divine Treasure Domains collided, their clash like two universes smashing into and annihilating each other!

Qin Mu burst into laughter. Within his Divine Treasure Domain, the Grand Primordium, Grand Ultimate, Grand Elementum, and Grand Beginning Ancient Mines shone brightly. The Dao mist enveloped the four great ore veins, divine light steamed forth, and the power of these four Great Dao converged upon him!

"This Primordial Void Demonic Realm is merely an incomplete Dao of Divine Consciousness, capable of manifesting other people's inner demons!"

Qin Mu's muscles swelled as he forcibly crushed inner demon Lan Yutian's ancestral court, stating gravely, "But it cannot perfectly manifest my inner demon! Because my Great Dao has already surpassed the scope of the Dao of Divine Consciousness; it is far more advanced!"

The inner demon Lan Yutian mobilized all his power, the Great Dao roaring and vibrating as if ten thousand Daos resonated in unison. Yet, in the next moment, a sword light from Grand Primordium flew in, slicing him cleanly in two!

Qin Mu flicked his hand, the broken sword restored to its original state. He sheathed the sword, remarking with a sense of desolation, "What I've slain isn't inner demon Lan Yutian, but merely another me, not yet the complete me..."

The broken sword clicked as it entered the sheath, its reverberation lingering.

Inner demon Lan Yutian was, in fact, just another version of him.

No one could imitate him, not even the Primordial Void Demonic Realm.

Since Qin Mu's return to Dragon Han, to a million years ago, all legends of the Hegemon Body in history have been about him.

The Hegemon Body does not exist in this world; if it does, it can only be him.

His unique Hegemon Body was also an ordinary mortal body, a common human.

He had no soul, and even his physical body was borrowed from his elder brother, a mortal.

But he was utterly unique!

His expression was calm, a smile on his face. After inner demon Lan Yutian's demise, no other inner demon Lan Yutian was born in this peculiar place.

Qin Mu's Dao heart was lucid, and from within it, a melodious prelude to the Great Dao resonated.

He had no more inner demons.

The courses at Lu Xun Literature Academy have concluded, and Zhaizhu has graduated. Returning home tomorrow at noon!