Chapter 1500: Only Entering the Vein Alone, Liang Ye Slays the Evil Spirits

As the group hurried towards the mineral veins on the outskirts of Black Mountain, they noticed the sky was already darkening.

The outskirts of Black Mountain contained thousands of mineral veins. Each vein signified a divine weapon belonging to a powerful being from a past universe, and simultaneously, indicated a powerful being from that past universe awaiting descent.

The vast Blackwood was permeated by thousands of interconnected mineral veins, completely encircling the periphery of these hundred thousand mountains. This sight was both incredibly magnificent and astonishing.

The divine bow Qin Mu had acquired came from one of these very mineral veins.

That particular vein not only contained the divine bow but also emanated the dao imprints of the bow, which had combined with the roots and stems of the Blackwood to form countless other wondrous treasures.

These exotic treasures were also incredibly powerful, possessing astonishing might from the moment they emerged, surpassing even ordinary divine weapons.

If properly refined, they could be forged into first-rate divine artifacts.

The people of Yankang, having migrated here, were engaged in mining these veins specifically to extract their treasures.

However, each mineral vein also contained a divine weapon belonging to a powerful being from a past universe. The power of these weapons was immense, even surpassing that of a Celestial Venerable's treasure.

What was more terrifying was that these divine weapons were often held in the hands of their original owners.

These powerful beings, attempting to cross over, had their bodies merged with the roots of the Blackwood, deeply buried underground, awaiting the opportune moment for their complete transit.

Although these powerful beings awaiting descent were not as formidable as the gaunt monstrous entity, they were no less powerful than the Ten Celestial Venerables, and potentially even stronger.

The gaunt monstrous entity was an Enlightened One, similar to Grand Emperor, while the powerful beings in the mineral veins likely lacked only the opportunity to achieve enlightenment.

Mining the Black Mountain veins was Qin Mu's idea. After unearthing the divine bow years ago, its owner was provoked to invade. It was only by pooling the collective strength of everyone on Black Mountain that the entity was sealed, transforming into a stone statue.

Subsequently, after consulting with Grand Emperor, Qin Mu decided to forge a divine weapon specifically to sever the hands of these trespassers and seize their treasures.

However, various events later consumed his time, preventing him from forging the weapon. Qin Mu then ordered the people of Yankang to continue mining the outer veins, but this time, to extract only the subsidiary treasures, leaving the divine weapons of the past-universe powerful beings untouched.

Over the years, Yankang's miners had excavated many veins, but upon reaching the core, they would cease work and move on to other veins.

The accumulation of divine weapons and artifacts from Black Mountain was also sent to Yankang, bolstering its strength.

Now, Qin Mu was heading to those mineral veins alone, which certainly implied a purpose far beyond mere mining.

As the sun set, anomalies reappeared outside the Ancestral Court, yet the group had not yet reached the outskirts of Black Mountain.

Suddenly, a violent surge of power erupted from one of the mineral veins, divine light soaring skyward. Within that light, a colossal divine demon faintly stood, poised amidst Celestial Palaces, before violently pressing down towards the mining area.

The ground trembled, followed by several intense tremors. The expressions of the group shifted slightly, and the two masters, Wei Suifeng and Prince Youming, immediately rushed towards the disturbance.

Both of them were beings of the Emperor's Throne realm. Upon arriving, they saw the entire mineral vein explode open, revealing an unfathomable abyss. Within it, surging divine light flowed, sealing off the bottom.

Wei Suifeng and Prince Youming's hearts skipped a beat. They immediately activated their Celestial Palaces and descended cautiously.

From the deepest part of the vein, a unique dao aura of a prehistoric powerful being emanated. This dao did not belong to the current universe; it was ancient and eerie. Clearly, a battle had taken place here.

They had to proceed with extreme caution, lest any prehistoric monsters escape and injure them.

They moved through dense ripples of divine power. The divine light darted around them, causing a faint stinging sensation on their skin and primordial spirits.

Evidently, the prehistoric entity trapped within the tree roots had seized the opportunity presented by Qin Mu's treasure retrieval, which had damaged the roots, to forcibly escape. It had then engaged in a fierce battle with Qin Mu, who was retrieving the treasure.

"Junior Martial Brother is becoming increasingly reckless!" Wei Suifeng frowned deeply.

Below, divine light surged upwards, obscuring their vision. However, as they delved deeper, they vaguely saw a towering divine demon with a hunched back and multiple heads and arms standing before massive, mountain-like roots in the deepest part of the mining area.

The divine demon exuded overwhelming divine might. This might and divine light formed strange streamers behind him, within which Wei Suifeng and Prince Youming indistinctly saw a floating divine city.

It was Jade Capital City!

Both were startled. They exchanged glances, and Wei Suifeng whispered, "It's the Ancestral Court's Jade Capital City! This powerful being from a past universe cultivates the Ancestral Court's Jade Capital City system, not our Celestial Palace cultivation system, but the Jade Capital cultivation system."

Prince Youming had recently heard Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun mention the Jade Capital Trap, and he felt only profound fear, marveling at the vast divine abilities and far-reaching plans of the Master of the Mi Luo Palace.

Yet now, they were perplexed to see that a powerful being from a past universe actually practiced the Jade Capital cultivation system.

"It seems this Ancestral Court Jade Capital City is not merely the Jade Capital Trap," Prince Youming mused. "Perhaps the Master of the Mi Luo Palace has a deeper intention."

"Otherwise," he continued, "beings from a past universe wouldn't be able to cultivate the Jade Capital system."

However, the true purpose of the Master of the Mi Luo Palace was beyond their comprehension.

The two cautiously descended into the valley of the mining area, each activating their divine abilities for protection. It was an underground space carved out by a surge of divine power, with even the roots of the Blackwood bearing wounds, indicating an incredibly intense battle.

To their surprise, the hunched divine demon stood motionless, frozen in a posture of attack.

It was then that they noticed a large hole rent open in the chest of the divine demon, who was as powerful as a Celestial Venerable. Behind him, on the thick tree roots, a massive hand-pressing imprint was visible.

The two approached the formidable divine demon. Prince Youming mimicked a cupped-hand gesture and pushed forward, pondering, "It's Celestial Venerable Mu's divine ability, seemingly called 'Primordial Chaos, One Qi, Dao of Shared Journey.' It's his 26th heaven of Dao entering divine abilities!"

Wei Suifeng, meanwhile, went behind the hunched divine demon and inspected the imprints left by the pushing hand on the tree roots. He saw wisps of chaotic qi drifting from the injured roots and remarked, "It's this divine ability. But its power is extremely ruthless, many times more potent than I imagined!"

Flying up, one in front and one behind, they examined the hunched divine demon's physical body. They observed that his primordial spirit had become ethereal, transforming into a tangible, substantive, yet bodiless state similar to Grand Primordium, trapped within his petrified physical body.

Even stranger, his vital qi had been transmuted into chaos.

The two exchanged glances. Prince Youming leaped into the tree root from which the hunched divine demon had emerged. The root had a large hole, perfectly sized to accommodate his body.

Though not hunched, he carried a profound tortoise shell on his back.

Wei Suifeng stepped forward, miming drawing a bow and 'shooting' several arrows at him. Prince Youming immediately jumped out of the tree root, about to speak, when Wei Suifeng drew a circle with both hands, forming a Taiji diagram, and pressed it onto his chest. This was followed by a strike, "Grand Primordium Suddenly Opening Chaos Bud," which impacted his primordial spirit, and then another, "Grand Beginning Manifesting Form Inquiring the Azure Nether," which transmuted his bloodline into chaos.

Wei Suifeng then cupped his hands and pushed forward again, causing Prince Youming's body to shake violently and freeze in place.

Of course, Wei Suifeng did not possess Qin Mu's divine abilities; he was merely mimicking their forms. Prince Youming cooperated, and the two practiced, deducing the steps Qin Mu had taken.

Both of them were infatuated with divine abilities, so upon seeing such battle traces, they naturally couldn't resist performing a deduction.

"This must be how he killed him."

Prince Youming regained his mobility and flew up, arriving behind the hunched divine demon. Standing before his Jade Capital City, he gazed at the city's interior, seeing countless palaces and grand halls, vast and endless, along with rivers of chaos, each winding in its own path. Such a divine ability system was truly breathtaking!

"It's a pity," Prince Youming lamented. "This being's cultivation system is extremely unique; he must have been a remarkable existence, yet he was inexplicably killed by Celestial Venerable Mu in just three moves."

Prince Youming shook his head. "He should have at least communicated with him, asked about his Jade Capital cultivation system, and then killed him."

Wei Suifeng replied, "Junior Martial Brother took advantage of the first move. This person's strength is definitely not inferior to the Ten Celestial Venerables, perhaps even stronger! Unfortunately, he was trapped in a past universe, needing to use the World Tree to escape his doom. However, the World Tree was cut down by Grand Emperor, leaving him stuck within the tree, unable to extricate himself or completely escape the great tribulation of his past universe's destruction. He was in a weakened state when he just arrived here, which is why Junior Martial Brother was able to deal with him in three moves."

Despite his explanation, he held immense admiration for Qin Mu.

Even if the Ten Celestial Venerables had been ambushed consecutively by Qin Mu with three moves, they would likely have suffered severe injuries.

Such was the power of divine abilities entering the Dao!

Especially with Qin Mu planting the World Tree within his divine treasures and unifying his cultivation techniques and divine abilities, his cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds. Facing Qin Mu now, even a Celestial Venerable would suffer a great loss with the slightest carelessness.

Just then, another violent tremor suddenly occurred. Startled, the two swiftly ascended and headed directly towards another mining area.

Granny Si, Lan Yutian, and the others had only just arrived at this location. Seeing what happened, they quickly followed.

When the group reached this particular mineral vein, they found the area in disarray, with terrifying residual divine power everywhere. Collaborating, they entered the depths of the mining area, where they found the corpse of another powerful being from a past universe.

This powerful being met an even more tragic end than the hunched divine demon they had just seen. He had been dismembered by a strange divine weapon, and simultaneously, his primordial spirit was transformed into a pure energy state.

This energy state was akin to the Grand Beginning, but extremely unstable. It seemed that when ambushed by Qin Mu, this being forcibly activated his magic power, causing his primordial spirit to explode, which accounted for the severe destruction in the area.

"Junior Martial Brother used the hunched divine demon's divine weapon to kill him, but the fatal blow was still 'Grand Beginning Manifesting Form Inquiring the Azure Nether'!"

Wei Suifeng was startled. The power of this strike by Qin Mu was significantly greater than the one used to kill the hunched divine demon earlier.

Suddenly, another violent tremor came from afar.

The group hastily ascended from the mining area and rushed towards the new disturbance. By the time they arrived, Qin Mu had already departed, leaving behind only a massive underground mining space and a headless corpse with severed arms.

The head of that past-universe entity had been turned into chaotic qi. A deep hand-push imprint was visible on the tree roots behind him, and a colossal Taiji symbol appeared beneath his feet.

"He's not far!"

The group heard another violent tremor and quickly rushed over again, but once more, they found nothing but the corpse of a prehistoric powerful being.

"At this rate, even an iron man would be exhausted into a puddle of mud! Moreover, people always make mistakes; if he were to make one, it would be an irreversible catastrophe!"

A vague unease settled over the group. They rushed from one mining area to another, but consistently arrived a step too late. Qin Mu had preceded them, clearing out each area, forcibly extracting the powerful beings from the past universe from the tree roots and slaying them on the spot.

The sky gradually lightened. They had been rushing all night, and finally, as the sun rose, they saw Qin Mu.

Qin Mu was sitting before a cliff face at the summit of a Black Mountain. Below the cliff, heavy treasures of various prehistoric entities were piled high, their brilliant radiance soaring skyward, vying with the morning sun.

Qin Mu sat there, appearing somewhat weary, but his expression was calm. There was no sign of the instability under great anger they had anticipated; on the contrary, he seemed extremely composed.

His gaze was profound, and his voice, though tired, was rich as he addressed the arriving group: "Thank you for your concern. I intended to gather some materials for forging divine weapons. Now, there should be enough to forge my divine sword."