Chapter 1432: Great Pit Heavenly Sovereign

By the Execution Altar in the ancestral court, Qin Mu watched as the two Bloodfiend God-Slaying Blades sliced past above his head. The peach wood hairpin in his hand did not unleash the Ever-Changing Divine Ability.

Consort Tianfei Qiang appeared on the Execution Altar, her face ashen. Two streams of bloody fiendish energy coiled around her.

Consort Tianfei Qiang gently raised her slender hand, and the rough dragon scales of the two Bloodfiend God-Slaying Blades slowly glided across her palm.

Qin Mu looked at her with a smile and said, "Consort Tianfei..."

"Silence!"

Consort Tianfei Qiang snarled, "Say one more word, and I'll grind your bones to dust and send your primordial spirit into the ultimate void, trapping you forever in the Great Luo Heaven of Divine Consciousness!"

Qin Mu immediately fell silent.

Consort Tianfei Qiang was one of the few Celestial Venerables who could truly handle him. After all, she was the Grand Emperor, and her Great Luo Heaven of Divine Consciousness was unparalleled. Even Celestial Venerable Yun's primordial spirit had been thrown into the Great Luo Heaven of Divine Consciousness, let alone Qin Mu's.

Even if Qin Mu could use the Ever-Changing Divine Ability to create a mutually destructive outcome, he would only destroy Consort Tianfei Qiang, not harm the Grand Emperor's true essence.

Consort Tianfei Qiang's eyelids twitched as she stared at the two Bloodfiend God-Slaying Blades. Qin Mu's eyelids also twitched, and he muttered to himself.

After a moment, Consort Tianfei Qiang exhaled a turbulent breath and murmured, "How should I... how should I deal with you, Celestial Venerable Mu? I kindly lent you the Execution Altar, but you were insatiably greedy and almost destroyed my supreme treasures!"

Qin Mu quickly retorted, "Brother Dao, you also had malicious intentions. You planned to use this Execution Altar to get rid of me, but you were afraid of getting involved, which is why you never came over. If I had died here, you would have just claimed ignorance..."

Consort Tianfei Qiang glared fiercely, and Qin Mu shut up.

Consort Tianfei Qiang's chest heaved violently. After another moment, she uttered words that sent shivers down Qin Mu's spine: "You, along with four others, absorbed so much fiendish energy from the Execution Altar. How many more people must I kill, how many more wars must I incite, to nurture these two blades back to their peak state?"

Qin Mu shivered several times.

"From the Primordial Era until now, the Creators have engaged in countless wars, big and small. The Creator Extinction War, in particular, led to the annihilation of the Creators in the ancestral court. The fiendish energy generated by these battles was absorbed by the Execution Altar, which nurtured these two divine blades."

Consort Tianfei Qiang's gaze swept over him, chilling and indifferent. "Celestial Venerable Mu," she said faintly, "how many more wars do you think I need to instigate to refine them?"

Qin Mu's eyes flickered. "The campaign against Heaven Duke is imminent," he said. "If you wish to refine the God-Slaying Profound Blades, you shouldn't miss this opportunity."

Consort Tianfei Qiang snorted, released the two divine blades, and stood on the altar with her hands clasped behind her back. "The Battle of Xuandu is when Heaven Duke will fall. Heaven Duke is Ancestral God King's prey. Ancestral God King will eliminate Heaven Duke, absorb his power, and become the new Heaven Duke. If I go, won't I antagonize Ancestral God King?"

Qin Mu looked up at Consort Tianfei on the Execution Altar and tentatively said, "Ancestral God King alone won't be able to defeat Heaven Duke. Moreover, if Ancestral God King absorbs Heaven Duke's power, his cultivation and strength will likely increase by leaps and bounds, possibly even reaching the perfected Heavenly Court realm. At that point, will Ancestral God King still tolerate other Celestial Venerables? Where does fiendish energy come from? It comes from slaughter. The place with the densest fiendish energy in the world must be where a Celestial Palace falls! Even the Heavenly Dao will stir up fiendish energy for Heaven Duke."

Consort Tianfei Qiang raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "Go on."

Qin Mu's spirits lifted. He said gravely, "When the Heavenly Dao stirs up fiendish energy, it will undoubtedly be extremely violent. If you bring the Execution Altar and the two divine blades there, you can refine peerless supreme treasures, suppressing all others. Advance, and you can seize Heaven Duke's cultivation; retreat, and you can protect yourself. Why wouldn't you seize such an opportunity?"

Consort Tianfei Qiang pondered.

Qin Mu's words had indeed swayed her.

The battle where Heaven Duke falls would undoubtedly be filled with immense fiendish energy, no less potent than that generated by the bloody rust battle that annihilated the Creators back then.

To restore these two God-Slaying Blades to their peak state, or even to a tangible and perfect form, she would have to go to Xuandu!

Her ambition didn't stop there.

She even wanted to seize the opportunity of Heaven Duke's death to plunge the two divine blades into his body and strip him of all his essence and blood!

By then, the two divine blades would surely reach perfection, transforming into supreme treasures, far surpassing their previous states!

However...

"Celestial Venerable Mu, would you really offer me advice?"

Consort Tianfei Qiang said with a smile, "When others offer advice, they dig a pit. When you offer advice, you carve out an abyss! And not just one abyss, but a series of abysses! If I fall into your pit, I'll be stripped of several layers of skin, even if I don't die!"

She had ample experience with this.

After the Grand Emperor escaped, he sought out Qin Mu and fell into the abyss Qin Mu had dug. Qin Mu promised him Primordial Ore, asking him to intercept Celestial Venerable Hao, but in that battle, the Grand Emperor's physical body was almost completely destroyed!

Later, Qin Mu only gave him three-quarters of the Primordial Ore.

Even later, in the ancestral court, Qin Mu again offered advice to the Grand Emperor, suggesting he use the Void Mother Beast to lure Emperor Lang Xuan into an ambush.

As a result, Lang Xuan was indeed ambushed, but the Grand Emperor was beaten by the four Celestial Venerables until only his head remained.

When the Grand Emperor's head went to seek revenge on Qin Mu, Qin Mu refined it into a large seal using the Four Ore Great Seal. Even then, Qin Mu continued to offer advice to the Grand Emperor, looking genuinely helpful.

Consort Tianfei Qiang's teeth itched with irritation as she recalled these incidents. However, even she had to admit that Qin Mu's ideas always seemed good on the surface, but during execution, they invariably went awry, turning into disastrous schemes with one pitfall leading to another.

Qin Mu complained, "Your Highness, was there anything wrong with my suggestion just now? I was thinking entirely for your benefit, from your perspective, with absolutely no selfish motives!"

Though she hated to admit it, Consort Tianfei Qiang had to concede that while Qin Mu's ideas were always terrible, he genuinely seemed to consider things from her standpoint each time, with no apparent self-interest.

Precisely because of this, she had stumbled badly three times in a row, barely managing to crawl out of the pitfalls.

Qin Mu gazed at her eagerly, his eyes filled with anticipation. "Your Highness, just imagine: you refine these two supreme treasures, seize all of Heaven Duke's essence and blood. Which of the Ten Celestial Venerables would dare to challenge you then? Which of them would dare to cross you or arm-wrestle you? Celestial Venerable Xiao, Emperor Kai—they wouldn't even be fit to polish your shoes! Even Celestial Venerable Hao would only be your dog!"

"Alright, alright! You're getting more and more outrageous."

Consort Tianfei Qiang waved her hand. "Don't always look at me as if you're expecting me to fall for your trap. This pit of yours... I need to think carefully before deciding whether to jump into it..."

She paced back and forth, deep in indecision.

Qin Mu whispered, "Your Highness, opportunities like this are fleeting. Once lost, they don't return. There's only one Heaven Duke. If he dies, there won't be another chance..."

Consort Tianfei Qiang glanced at him, surprised. "You're still here? Go on, hurry up. I won't pursue the matter of you damaging my treasures, so stop disturbing my peace of mind."

Qin Mu bowed deeply to the ground, then turned and left.

Behind him, on the Execution Altar, Consort Tianfei Qiang stared at his retreating back. She quietly raised her hand, her palm containing the Great Luo Heaven of Divine Consciousness ability. However, after raising her hand and thinking for a moment, she lowered it again.

But before her hand fully descended, murderous intent flashed in her eyes, and she raised it once more.

Yet, her divine ability remained unreleased, her heart filled with indecision.

Suddenly, Qin Mu cried out, stumbled to the ground, and exploded with a pop, dissolving into a puff of black smoke.