Chapter 586: Enemies

The Butcher, the Blind Man, the Mute, and others quickly surrounded him. Their eyes, shining brightly, were fixed intently on his, meticulously observing his third eye.

Suddenly, with a loud rumble, the Cripple, who had already fled hundreds of miles away, looked back. Seeing the Butcher and the others gathered around Qin Mu, his old face, despite its astonishing thickness, flushed with shame. He then ran back.

Everyone knew he was timid, but they didn't ridicule him. Instead, they meticulously examined Qin Mu's eyes.

Qin Mu's eyes darted around, and he stammered, "Granny, Grandpas, what are you looking at?"

Granny Si observed very carefully. She found nothing unusual in his third eye, only that its pupil resembled a butterfly's wing pattern. The patterns in his pupil were clearly different from those of normal human eyes, structured like a butterfly's wing, and these patterns were constantly shifting and changing.

"Mu'er, do you really not remember what just happened?" Granny Si asked.

Qin Mu pondered deeply, then his eyes suddenly lit up. "I remember!" he exclaimed.

Everyone tensed up. Qin Mu smiled and said, "When I activated the Overlord Body Three Elixir Technique, and channeled the perfected Divine Eye cultivation method from Blind Grandpa to my third eye, I felt an incredibly vast power surge within me. It was as if I was omnipotent, and then..."

He furrowed his brows, falling into deep thought again. The subsequent memory was blank; he seemed to have lost a segment of his memory.

This wasn't the first time this had happened. It occurred once in Fengdu when Yama sealed his jade pendant, and again later when Furi Luo also sealed it.

This time, it wasn't related to the jade pendant, yet he had unexpectedly lost a segment of memory.

"The jade pendant... where's my jade pendant?"

Qin Mu's scalp suddenly prickled. He quickly stood up, rummaging around frantically, his hands and feet cold. He stammered, "My ancestral jade pendant is gone... Bah, not ancestral, it's the jade pendant that Earth Sovereign refined for me to suppress demonic nature! It's gone! Granny, Blind Grandpa, have you seen my jade pendant...? Cripple Grandpa, you must have taken it, right? Stop playing around, a curse will erupt! Give it back to me quickly!"

The Cripple shook his head and said, "I didn't steal your jade pendant, but the curse has indeed occurred."

Qin Mu's body trembled violently. He stood there dumbfounded, looking towards the enormous sinkhole in front of him.

In front of him, the original Carefree City had vanished, replaced by a massive, incredibly vast abyss, filled with a churning sea of lava.

It was truly a sea of lava, frighteningly vast.

"The power of this curse is terrifyingly immense, a hundred times more dreadful than when I fell into Furi Luo's hands..." Qin Mu murmured.

"Mu'er, Earth Sovereign appeared just now, and placed your jade pendant into your third eye."

Granny Si walked over and instructed, "You should sober up first. A few of us are going over there to discuss something."

Qin Mu nodded blankly.

Granny Si glanced at the Blind Man. The Blind Man instantly became alert and was about to sneak away, when the Butcher and the Mute pinned him between them, one on his left, one on his right, grasping his left and right arms respectively.

"What are you doing?"

The Blind Man was lifted off his feet by them, his feet dangling in the air. He cried out, "We're all from the same village, what are you doing? At least save some face! Mu'er, Mu'er..."

The Butcher and the Mute, smiling broadly, led him away. Qin Mu turned back, about to ask, when Granny Si softly chuckled and said, "Mu'er, we're going to discuss something, you don't need to follow us. Just sober up properly. Cripple, Deaf, let's go. Bashan, you come along too."

The group departed.

"Don't go too far, don't resort to violence! We'll all see each other again. The Divine Eye cultivation method includes a share for you all; you were there when I taught it to Mu'er and approved it... Are you really hitting me...? Cripple, how dare you hit me? Bashan, I'm your martial uncle... Butcher, we're the closest... You're biased! The trouble was caused by Mu'er, why don't you hit him? Mu'er, Mu'er, save me!"

Qin Mu looked puzzled. He took out a mirror and examined the eye in his glabella. The eye in his glabella appeared completely normal; he couldn't discern anything unique about this vertical eye.

"What exactly is the purpose of this eye?" he wondered to himself.

A moment later, the group returned to the edge of the abyss, looking satisfied. The Blind Man was bruised and swollen, his clothes disheveled.

Qin Mu turned around, both surprised and delighted. "Granny, I just reactivated the Overlord Body Three Elixir Technique, and finally discovered the secret of this vertical eye!"

Granny Si and the others were horrified and were about to flee, but Qin Mu had already activated the Overlord Body Three Elixir Technique. The vertical eye in his glabella didn't show any terrifying anomalies. Only then did everyone sigh in relief, secretly feeling ashamed.

Qin Mu, full of enthusiasm, activated the Overlord Body Three Elixir Technique and said, "When I activate this vertical eye, I can see the boundless Youdu. I can also see the Youdu beneath everyone's life-death divine treasure. I feel like I could even use this eye to tear open the Youdu beneath a life-death divine treasure and directly take someone's life!"

The Butcher coughed and said, "Mu'er, staring someone to death with a single glance, isn't that a bit... uncivilized? It harms heavenly harmony and depletes your karmic virtue. It's better to just chop them to death with a single strike. If you can avoid using this vertical eye, don't use it."

Granny Si, the Blind Man, and others nodded repeatedly. The Cripple said, "You can stab him to death from behind; that's still better than staring him to death with your third eye."

Qin Mu was surprised, and tentatively asked, "Isn't it the same?"

Bashan said in a loud voice, "Of course not! If you use that eye, I'm afraid..."

The Butcher's blade was placed against his neck, his expression grim. Bashan Libationer quickly stopped talking.

Qin Mu was suspicious.

"Furi Luo, did you feel that?"

Lu Li sensed the terrifying energy and spatial distortion caused by the opening of Qin Mu's third eye. He whispered, "This is the great power of the Youdu God Child! I can help you, assist you in ruling the Grand Emperor Heaven. You must also help me obtain him! What power would I possess if I could obtain him?"

Furi Luo looked gravely in the direction of Innocent City. His expression was solemn. He had also sensed the astonishing tremor that erupted when Qin Mu lost control. "Huo Tuluo is dead, could it also be related to him? And Tianfeng Gou, you must not disappoint me..."

And ahead, countless Youdu demonic beasts, led by Youdu demon gods, were grandly marching towards Li City. When Qin Mu lost control, the bodies of these demonic ancestors instantly stiffened. They looked in horror towards the direction from which Qin Mu's aura emanated.

The Youdu demonic beast army also became restless and uneasy, utterly terrified. They stopped advancing, and instead turned en masse, surging backward like a tide, trampling over one another, simply daring not to proceed.

In an instant, countless Youdu demonic beasts were trampled to death. Some even found their companions too slow and shockingly attacked them ruthlessly. The demonic army was in utter chaos!

The demonic ancestors also turned and fled, scattering in all directions, wishing they could immediately return to Youdu and hide in its darkest depths.

They harbored a deep fear of the aura emanating from Qin Mu's loss of control. Even though they were dazed and lacked much intelligence, they could not forget the scene of that giant infant massacring and devouring them years ago!

Suddenly, Lu Li shrieked loudly, uttering strange and unpredictable Youdu language. These demonic ancestors gradually calmed down, stopped fleeing, restrained the Youdu demonic beasts, and began killing deserters.

Not long after, Earth Sovereign's lava clone appeared and sealed Qin Mu. The terrifying aura vanished. Only then did the Youdu demonic beasts stop scattering and fleeing, re-form into an army, and continue their eastward advance.

In the demonic world, the twenty-five gods and demons from the Great Ruins, including Sage Woodcutter, all looked up, gazing at the sky. Even in this Luofu Heaven of the demons, they could sense the disturbance coming from the Grand Emperor Heaven.

"The demonic nature sealed by that jade pendant has erupted."

Sage Woodcutter exhaled a long breath and whispered, "Fortunately, I didn't directly unseal the jade pendant then. When I heard he was born in Youdu, I knew something was strange..."

A deity asked, "Who is the Celestial Master referring to?"

Sage Woodcutter had a slight headache and said, "My junior disciple... let's not talk about him. Let's continue."

These twenty-five deities busied themselves again, constructing massive pyramid altars in the demons' Luofu Heaven.

In Li City, Mingyi City, and other places, the Imperial Preceptor of Eternal Peace and True God Pang Yu, along with other deities, were interrogating Tianfeng Gou. They also sensed the terrifying tremor, and flew into the sky, looking towards the direction from which the tremor came, their hearts filled with dread.

"It seems to be from the direction of Innocent City! It's near the watchtower!"

Venerable Deity Sang Ye cried out, "Oh no! Cult Master Qin and those strange Daoist friends are still there!"

At the same time, light flickered within the Spirit Energy Transfer Bridge. A young man and a three-legged, two-winged deity emerged from the bridge. They immediately sensed the rampant aura emanating from the out-of-control Qin Mu, and were greatly surprised.

"How could this Qin Mu lose control now? If he goes on a killing spree here, it wouldn't be good to bring him into Eternal Peace..."

Young Master Qi's eyes flickered. Just then, Qin Mu's rampant aura vanished. He also sighed in relief and smiled, "That's better."

Suddenly, Star Lord Yang exclaimed, "Young Master, I sensed my hand!"

He raised his right arm; it was shockingly missing its hand!

"The Celestial Blade who cut off my right hand is also in the Grand Emperor Heaven! He's actually not dead!"

Star Lord Yang's expression subtly changed. He sneered, "I cut him in half, and he actually survived!"

Beside the abyss in Innocent City, the Butcher's heart stirred. He squeezed the Taotie pouch at his waist. His Taotie pouch was smaller than Qin Mu's, not a premium item, but it could still hold many things.

Inside his Taotie pouch, a hand bone was restless, constantly leaping, as if wanting to fly out of the pouch and return to its owner.

Behind the Butcher, Celestial Blade vibrated, ringing on its own.

"I'm leaving."

The Butcher tightened his robes and said casually, "An old friend of mine has arrived. Today is the day I settle scores with him. Bashan, don't follow me. Stay here."

Bashan Libationer's tiger eyes lit up. He sneered, "Teacher, you want to ditch me again? It's that deity who cut you in half, isn't it? Back then, when he cut you in half, you felt ashamed and crawled away with half your body, crawling all the way to the Great Ruins, making me search for you for years and cry for you for so long! Now you want to meet him alone again. At least take me along so I can collect your corpse! Even if he cuts you in half again, I won't give up until I see you breathe your last."

The Butcher's hand trembled. He barely resisted the urge to cleave his disciple in half with a single strike.

Qin Mu quickly said, "Butcher Grandpa, your body is completely intact, while that old friend is missing a hand, right? So you haven't suffered any loss; he's the one at a disadvantage. Even if you don't seek him out, he will come looking for you. It would be better to conserve your strength and wait for him to come here!"