Chapter 1440: Receive My Bow

The Yama Emperor's face was frozen in disbelief; he had clearly not anticipated the terrifying power of these five individuals working together. Indeed, he hadn't.

Qin Mu had once boasted about beating the Yama Emperor to a pulp in front of the Celestial Heavens' Four Celestial Masters and Heavenly Kings. However, in reality, it was Qin Mu who had been nearly thrashed. Had he not compelled Bai Yuqiong to intervene, the Yama Emperor truly might have killed him.

But times had changed.

Qin Mu's power had undergone earth-shattering improvements since then. He had cultivated the Dao Realm to the 26th Heaven, and his cultivation had reached the Nine Prison Platform. In the battle within the Ancestral Court's Taiji Star Domain, he could firmly resist the Empress without defeat, and he even invaded the Ancestral Court's God-Slaying Platform and survived.

When he teamed up with the Butcher and the other four, they further elevated their Dao Realm to the 30th Heaven, imprinting their Great Dao across thirty layers of void!

Having cultivated to this extent, Qin Mu was brimming with confidence. He even believed that with the five of them united, they could withstand a couple of blows from a Celestial Venerable without being annihilated. This was why he had insisted on going to Xuandu!

The Yama Emperor himself only possessed four Celestial Palaces, relying on the power of the Mingdu Heavenly Gate to manifest eight. Facing such a formidable quintet, he naturally fell with a single strike.

However, the Yama Emperor's greatest strength was neither his magic power nor his realm, but rather his Dao of Reincarnation and his reincarnation divine art.

Although he was split in two by a single blade, and even the small Celestial Heavens formed by his eight Celestial Palaces was cleaved open, the Mingdu Heavenly Gate behind him began to emit strange powers, forcefully closing the fractured gateway.

As his body passed through the Mingdu Heavenly Gate, a strange scene unfolded: the Underworld Sea suddenly emerged beneath it. Vast, dark waves surged, composed entirely of black soul sand.

The Underworld Sea's powerful waves crashed against the Heavenly Gate. The instant the Yama Emperor's body passed through, his form vanished. From behind the gate, a demigod with Xuanwu bloodline, possessing a dragon head, a tortoise shell on its back, and a human body, emerged, standing on the sea surface.

Long ago, when Sage Woodcutter and others were rescuing Emperor Diyue, Emperor Diyue, Empress Tianyin, Tian Shu, King Yama, and a host of other masters besieged the Yama Emperor. They fought tirelessly through countless battles, yet they could never defeat him.

At that time, they had killed the Yama Emperor several times and destroyed his physical body multiple times. But the Yama Emperor could always restore himself completely by using the Mingdu Heavenly Gate. Each time he passed through the Mingdu Heavenly Gate, it was equivalent to a reincarnation; he could not only freely change gender but even change his species!

This was the effect of the Dao of Reincarnation.

The Yama Emperor was both shocked and enraged. He looked up, only to be met by another blade light descending from the sky!

That blade light cleaved open the Mingdu Heavenly Gate, which had just re-coalesced, then struck down from above his new body's head.

"Celestial Venerable Mu, you son of a..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he was cleaved in two by a single blade. He had just reincarnated with the help of the Mingdu Heavenly Gate, but before he could even stabilize himself, he was collectively slain by Qin Mu, the Butcher, and the other three!

The Mingdu Heavenly Gate rumbled and shook, sinking into the Underworld Sea along with the corpse of the Xuanwu-formed Yama Emperor.

The Underworld Sea suddenly vanished, then reappeared behind the Northern Heaven Mingdu army's formation. The Mingdu Heavenly Gate slowly rose again, and the Yama Emperor was reborn from behind the gate.

The small boat charged recklessly, crashing into the Northern Heaven Mingdu army's formation, piercing through numerous multi-decked warships and grand vessels, and heading directly for the Mingdu Heavenly Gate.

"Green History Illuminates Loyalty!"

On the boat, Qin Mu and the other five roared, together activating the Dao of Blade's 30th Heaven. When this blade strike was unleashed, it seemed not to be blade light, but countless magnificent writings. Each soul-stirring passage of text flowed like a dragon or snake from a brush. The Dao sound emanating from the Dao of Blade was not as sacred, solemn, or profoundly mysterious as that of the Innate Great Dao.

The Dao sound erupting from the Dao of Blade was like the unfolding of a scroll of human history; magnificent and imposing figures rose from the painting-like scroll of "Green History," powerful and agile.

They shone with boundless radiance. Some used their pens as blades, rebuking the injustice of the Heavenly Dao, holding incompetent monarchs accountable, and questioning the faults of the gods.

Others took practical action: if mountains blocked the path, they moved them; if floods came, they dug canals; if great rivers obstructed their way, they built bridges to cross them; and if gods brought calamities, they slew the gods!

Green History Illuminates Loyalty, bearing burdens, they strive onward through hardship.

No sooner had the Underworld Sea, the Mingdu Heavenly Gate, and the Yama Emperor appeared than a scroll like "Green History" unfolded. The blade light executed gods and shattered their wills, evaporating vast expanses of the Underworld Sea and utterly shattering the Mingdu Heavenly Gate.

The Yama Emperor let out a piercing scream and vanished without a trace along with the remnants of the Underworld Sea.

At this moment, the small boat sped rapidly, rushing through the Northern Heaven Mingdu formation and reappearing behind it. At the bow, the five men each gripped their saber handles and looked around, only to see the last wisp of the Underworld Sea disappear.

"Turn around, it's behind us!"

Qin Mu stomped his foot heavily, and the entire fast boat shifted sideways across the Heavenly River. They had indeed passed through the Northern Heaven Mingdu formation. At this point, the Mingdu gods and devils in the formation all turned around, as the Underworld Sea had already reappeared behind the Mingdu army's ranks.

That dilapidated Mingdu Heavenly Gate once again rose from the Underworld Sea. The Yama Emperor, in this reincarnation, transformed into a woman dressed in a large red robe, with her hair flowing over her shoulders. Her figure hovered in front of the Mingdu Heavenly Gate as she cried out sharply, "Qin Mu, Tian Shu, Zhe Huali, Luo Wushuang, Dao Liuzhao, receive a bow from me!"

The female Yama Emperor bowed deeply. As the Butcher and others were about to activate their Dao of Blade divine art again, Qin Mu's expression suddenly changed drastically. He unfurled his cloak, shielding the four others, and with clasped hands, pushed forward, also bowing deeply!

"Yin Chaojin, you too shall receive a bow from me!"

*Boom—*

Behind him, a Heaven and Earth Profound Gate appeared, connecting heaven and earth, reaching up to the Heavenly Dao's Xuandu and down to Youdu. It was precisely the second heaven of his Dao Entry divine art!

The moment Qin Mu bowed down, the 26th heaven of his Dao Entry divine art, along with the One Qi Primordial Dao's "Same Journey," also unleashed a simultaneous bow!

The two of them, separated by tens of thousands of Mingdu gods and devils from the Northern Heaven, bowed to each other.

With the Yama Emperor's bow, the multi-decked warships and grand vessels before her, and the magnificent yet treacherous grand formations, one god and devil after another suddenly had their primordial spirits shatter, their souls disintegrate, and transform into black soul sand.

Billows of black sand spewed from their eyes, ears, mouths, and noses. Some souls, located in their lower abdomens, burst out from their lower bodies after being shattered by the bow. Their nine orifices spewed smoke, a truly terrifying sight!

And with Qin Mu's pushed bow, the Mingdu gods and devils in front of him also could not withstand it; their primordial spirits disintegrated, and their souls exploded!

The Yama Emperor employed Youdu divine art, and Qin Mu's bow was also a Youdu divine art; their attainments were equally matched!

Not only that, Qin Mu's bow contained the One Qi Primordial Dao's "Same Journey." Where he bowed, space turned to dust, and the physical bodies of the gods and devils he bowed to death spontaneously exploded, transforming into wisps of primal chaos!

The two divine arts collided. The fast boat beneath Qin Mu could not withstand his pressure and exploded with a roar. Above his head, vital energy and blood surged, forming a sea of blood.

The sea of blood bubbled as if boiling, emitting steam with a gurgling sound. The steam carried billows of black smoke, which was Youdu demonic energy.

Across the formation, the Yama Emperor, looking on, trembled violently. Blood spurted from her eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, immediately transforming into wisps of primal chaos. The Mingdu Heavenly Gate behind her also creaked and groaned, covered in cracks, with wisps of primal chaos drifting out!

She cried out sharply, "Qin Mu, receive another bow from me!"

Qin Mu roared, "Yin Chaojin, you too shall receive another bow from me!"

The two roared like thunder and bowed again. With another deafening boom, the Yama Emperor's delicate body trembled violently, and she reeled backward repeatedly. She spewed blood from her mouth, her eyes bloodshot and seemingly on the verge of turning into primal chaos from the force of the bow. She shrieked, "Qin Mu, receive another bow from me!"