Chapter 557: Scatter Some Wildness, Add Some Poison

A brilliant sword light burst forth, like a tiny sun rapidly expanding. The light of the exploding sun was the sword light!

That ball of light expanded to over ten zhang in diameter, then suddenly rapidly shrank. When it reached its smallest size, it transformed into a sword pellet in front of Qin Mu's forehead, emitting an incredibly intense light, then burst forth again!

Whoosh—

The sword light that erupted in this instant surpassed a hundred zhang. Over a hundred devil experts roared in anger, each employing their own methods to desperately resist the terrifying sword light. The clanging sounds of furious impacts continuously resounded.

"Don't be afraid of him!" The devil expert who interrupted Qin Mu's enlightenment shouted loudly, "I've experienced enlightenment before. When one's body merges with the Dao, every action conforms to its wonders, making him difficult to hit. Now that he has withdrawn from the Dao realm, he is still just a mortal. We can easily kill him!"

The flying swords fully erupted. Each person was surrounded by seventy to eighty flying swords, displaying various basic sword forms like stab, pick, cleave, and hack. Although the techniques were simple, the attacks were incredibly diverse and unpredictable. Different flying swords combined with different sword forms, making the attacks each person faced unique.

At this moment, Qin Mu's figure moved like a phantom among the eight thousand flying swords. Time seemed to flow slowly. In his eyes, the flying swords resembled slowly drifting flower petals. The postures of each devil expert, their attacks, and their divine arts all became exceptionally slow.

Indeed, as the expert who interrupted Qin Mu's enlightenment had said, after withdrawing from the enlightenment state, it should be impossible to maintain the body-Dao merger state of the Dao realm. However, what that expert didn't realize was that Qin Mu had not been comprehending divine arts of the Dao.

He was comprehending his own cultivation method. He had entered the Dao through his cultivation method.

The Overlord Body Three Elixir Technique was originally exceptionally subtle and profound. It had brought Qin Mu incredibly profound and powerful magic power cultivation, and also made his primordial spirit far surpass his peers. Otherwise, Qin Mu would not have been able to continuously slay four young true-devil-like powerhouses, despite his physical body being inferior to the devil experts.

And now, by comprehending his cultivation method and entering the Dao through it, he had compensated for his previous weakness.

His physical body reached a perfect state. His limbs and bones were individual entities yet unified within his body, allowing him to unify the energy and strength of his entire body.

His speed reached its extreme, far surpassing before. In the eyes of the devil powerhouses who were resisting the flying swords, they could only see a series of Qin Mu's figures in motion, as if dozens of Qin Mu's were moving forward simultaneously, overlapping.

Whoosh—

Qin Mu grasped a flying sword and thrust it out. The throat of the devil expert who was resisting the flying swords' encirclement suddenly burst with blood.

The next moment, Qin Mu had already released that flying sword. He appeared behind the second person, grasped a second sword, and the flying sword passed through that person's back and emerged from their chest.

Boom!

He clashed head-on with a powerhouse who had burst out of the flying sword encirclement. Their fists collided with a deafening crash. The power of the divine art, Nine Dragons Riding Wind and Thunder, had already erupted an instant before their fists met. But after their fists met, when all the bones in the devil powerhouse's entire arm were shattered and shot out through the skin behind his shoulder, the divine art, Nine Dragons Riding Wind and Thunder, was still expanding outwards.

By the time Qin Mu left, having thrust a sword through another person's glabella, the divine art finally struck that person's body. The devil powerhouse's chest shattered, his clothes on his back burst open, and forty-five divine dragons flew out from his back, carrying away all his vital energy and blood!

Qin Mu seemed to have entered a world where time flowed slowly. His improvement was almost all-encompassing.

Streaks of tragic yet beautiful blood light burst from the enemies' vital points before their divine arts erupted, transforming into slowly blooming blood flowers in the air. After the divine arts erupted, Qin Mu was no longer there.

The enemies' divine arts also became exceptionally slow in his eyes. When each divine art erupted, the devil race's vital energy transformed from gas into runes, then from runes into Dao techniques. The power of the Dao techniques erupted, appearing exceptionally beautiful.

These devil divine arts practitioners were not weak. They were all disciples trained by devil gods, truly the elites of the devil race. While their divine arts retained immense power, they were also extremely refined. Every moment of their divine art's transformation was dazzling and beautiful.

Qin Mu greatly appreciated this beauty. Under the gaze of his Nine Heavens Divine Eye, the process of the divine arts slowly unfolding was truly a feast for the eyes.

Especially as blood flowed out and splattered in the air, forming blood flowers, adorning the divine arts of over a hundred devil powerhouses, it appeared even more vibrant and brilliant.

This time, he forged a new path. He constructed his cultivation method's operational path in a unique way and re-deconstructed his own cultivation method. The improvements brought by perfecting the Overlord Body Three Elixir Technique were not just to his physical body; they also included an increase in the speed of vital energy circulation and an enhancement in the power of his divine arts!

He moved among the hundred-plus devil powerhouses. The sword art he performed consisted of simple, basic sword forms, without excessive flair. However, with the drastic increase in his attack speed and strength, these simple moves became exceptionally effective.

In his divine eyes, everyone moved slower. Whether it was their divine arts, their techniques, the spirit weapons they activated, or their movement techniques, all became slow. This allowed him to clearly pinpoint anyone's weaknesses.

Qin Mu stopped his movements. Flying swords whistled towards him, successively colliding with the Worry-Free Sword in his hand and disappearing. Soon, the eight thousand swords became one.

Behind him, countless divine arts erupted and spirit weapons flew, destroying large swathes of forest. The deafening explosions were incessant.

A moment later, silence returned.

Then, thudding sounds came as one after another, devil experts fell to the ground, their bodies lying scattered.

Qin Mu gently rubbed the Worry-Free Sword in his hand. The Worry-Free Sword transformed into a sword pellet. He turned around and looked at the only devil expert still standing in the field.

This devil expert was precisely the one who had urged everyone to interrupt his enlightenment.

This person's legs were trembling. Large beads of sweat continuously streamed down his forehead, and his face was filled with terror.

Qin Mu put away the sword pellet. Vital energy strands overflowed as he reconstructed the vital energy circulation pathways of his divine eye, but he was still unable to re-enter that state of enlightenment.

That devil expert stared blankly, daring not move.

The more Qin Mu tried to enter enlightenment, the more he failed. He couldn't help but become agitated, and with a single punch, he shattered the divine eye formed by vital energy.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!

He went wild, furiously punching forward. In an instant, a series of incredibly dense thunderous roars erupted, striking the air in front of him into a visible wall that grew thicker and was pushed forward by his fist force. Trees fell and stones shattered along the way, sand and rocks flew, as the force blasted over ten li away, plowing a deep gully!

After Qin Mu vented his anger, he suddenly turned his head, his peripheral vision falling upon that devil expert. "Was it you who just said to let them interrupt my enlightenment? You're very clever!"

That devil expert stared blankly at him. Suddenly, the will to live overcame his fear. He let out a scream, leaped up, soaring into the sky, and transformed into a streak of demonic energy, streaking away.

Qin Mu looked up. Layers of formation patterns furiously rotated in his eyes, and the stellar river within his pupils also spun wildly.

Buzz—

Two beams of light shone from his eyes into the sky, intercepting that streak of demonic energy. A head, two legs, and half a torso fell from mid-air.

"That's for your loose tongue!" Qin Mu huffily departed. On the way, he also kicked apart a large rock taller than a person.

A moment later, figures descended from the sky, landing around the battlefield. Leading them was a devil god, and demonic might permeated the air.

"Master, Exalted Devil Xijue's disciple is dead!"

"Venerable King Yan's disciple has also been killed!"

"And King Youmo's disciple!"

"Over here, there's also Xiu Qi's disciple!"

"King Liu Ye's disciple!"

"Revered Master, our sixth junior brother has also been killed!"

That devil god roared furiously. Fierce winds howled through the mountains and forests, and the clouds in the sky were shattered and dissipated into thin air.

"You've killed so many elites of my devil race, causing an almost complete generational gap in my devil race's Seven Stars and Six Harmonies realm. Qin, how dare you run wild in my devil race's territory? Don't even think about leaving! Issue orders: release the Netherworld Divine Hounds to track him down. At all costs, capture this fiend for me!"

A devil expert of the Celestial Human realm hesitated, then said, "Revered Master, Venerable King Burirou's intention is, if he can be captured alive, it's best to capture him alive. If not, it's best to leave his corpse intact. Venerable King said that this person carries a great secret..."

That devil god's cold gaze swept over. The devil expert immediately fell silent, daring not to speak further, and hastily relayed the order.

Qin Mu heard the roar from afar and was startled, couldn't help but mutter to himself. The devil race is valiant and skilled in battle, all are battle maniacs, especially fond of showing off their might. The best way to show off might is to kill powerful individuals. Therefore, those Seven Stars realm experts were the most excited about encircling and intercepting Qin Mu this time.

And after this battle, almost all of the devil gods' Seven Stars realm disciples had died by his hand.

So after this battle, what level of powerhouses would come to hunt him down?

This place was no longer too far from the front lines. The devil race's fortified military towns were gradually increasing, and Qin Mu soon witnessed the powerful methods of the devil race.

Giant black dogs leaped like flying in the mountains and rivers behind him, carrying five or six devil powerhouses, sniffing around everywhere, searching for his tracks. Qin Mu looked from afar; these devil hounds resembled small hilltops, and they had two heads, eyes like large red lanterns, and bodies covered in knotted muscles.

Each of their heads had not just two eyes, but three. The third eye on their forehead occasionally shot out beams of red light, scanning the surroundings.

Qin Mu's expression was grim. Many devil hounds had already found his scent and tracks, gathering and rushing towards him.

"I must use poison. Only by poisoning these devil hounds can I escape!"

He rummaged through his Gluttonous Bag, finding some medicinal ingredients. This time, instead of directly refining pills by transforming vital energy into a pill furnace, he took out a sealed furnace to refine poison.

Qin Mu held his breath and sealed all his pores. After some thought, he took off his shoes. He opened the sealed furnace and carefully took out some liquid medicine, sprinkling it on his two shoes. He thought to himself, "Although there's no time to refine a powerful poison that can kill a devil god, poisoning these devil hounds should be no problem."

He discarded his two shoes and left barefoot.

A moment later, sudden roars of a tiger came. Qin Mu hastily turned his head to look. He saw divine might permeating the air as a Black Tiger God was slaughtering, pulverizing those two-headed devil hounds along with the devil powerhouses on their backs.

"Brother Tiger! I've sniffed out the Cult Master's scent!" Long Qilin's voice came from afar, filled with joy, calling out, "Quick, follow me... Here are the Cult Master's shoes, really smelly shoes... Oh no, I'm poisoned..."