Chapter 634: Qin Mu's Contempt

The Founding Human Emperor tumbled and rolled, crashing deep into the vast space and disappearing into the mist. A moment later, a glow appeared within the mist—the light from his eyes.

During their last battle, he had used his divine eyes to pin Qin Mu against the wall of the Human Emperor Hall, almost cutting him in half at the waist.

Qin Mu's third eye on his forehead remained tightly shut. Countless formation patterns rotated in his two eyes, from which two beams of light shot forth, piercing directly towards the Founding Human Emperor's gaze.

The Founding Human Emperor's two gazes shone forth. The two men's ocular divine abilities collided, unleashing an incredibly intense light that erupted like two small suns, illuminating dozens of miles around and scattering the mist.

The Founding Human Emperor's divine ability was still far more refined than Qin Mu's; his divine eye radiance immediately suppressed Qin Mu's Nine Heavens Divine Eye.

The Founding Human Emperor roared, his hair flying, as he slowly raised his hands. A chaotic star cloud appeared in the sky, and countless enormous meteorites were about to fall from the heavens!

Qin Mu's third eye on his forehead opened. He murmured, "This is the second time I've unleashed my full power."

Suddenly, his divine path and demonic path divine treasures activated simultaneously. Divine path vital qi and demonic path vital qi mingled, unifying under his third eye.

His cultivation nearly doubled. With a hum, his two gazes directly overwhelmed the Founding Human Emperor's ocular divine ability. Those two blazing lights pinned the Founding Human Emperor, forcefully pressing him to the ground.

The Founding Human Emperor's divine ability immediately collapsed and disintegrated. The chaotic star cloud in the sky vanished, and the descending meteorites also disappeared.

Qin Mu's gaze firmly pinned him to the ground, his bones crackling under the pressure.

Suddenly, the vital qi around the Founding Human Emperor transformed into countless entities, and runes shifted, forming a new formation.

"A teleportation ability?"

The divine light in Qin Mu's eyes contracted, and runes pulsed around his body as he rapidly calculated the Founding Human Emperor's teleportation coordinates.

The vital qi in his hand transformed into countless minuscule sword lights. These lights converged, forming a precious sword in his hand. Qin Mu brandished the sword like the wind, just in time to block the suddenly appearing Founding Human Emperor's palm technique.

The Founding Human Emperor's figure appeared. His palm technique made one palm the sky, another the earth, proclaiming himself supreme between heaven and earth. His mastery of palm techniques far surpassed even the Third Human Emperor's Yin-Yang Heaven Overturning Hand!

The Third Human Emperor's Yin-Yang Heaven Overturning Hand was actually suspected of drawing inspiration from the Founding Human Emperor. However, the Third Human Emperor's path focused on yin and yang vital qi, incorporating the Grand Nine Ascensions, nineteen horizontal and vertical steps, 361 footwork variations, and 361 palm techniques.

In the era of the Third Human Emperor, within nineteen horizontal and vertical steps, he was invincible under heaven.

The one who shattered the Third Human Emperor's undefeated myth was his disciple, the Fourth Human Emperor. The Fourth Human Emperor created his own Ten Crossings of Dharma Path and severely defeated his master.

The Founding Human Emperor, however, was a step above. With his Heaven Seal and Earth Seal, he claimed supremacy between heaven and earth. While the Third Human Emperor could only manage nineteen horizontal and vertical steps, the Founding Human Emperor's palm technique ranged across heaven and earth!

Yet, his palm technique that ranged across heaven and earth met Qin Mu's sword.

Qin Mu did not use his sword pellet. In this fight against the Founding Human Emperor, he used no spirit weapons, even discarding his Gluttonous Bag. He intended to rely on his true strength to crush this deserter from the Kaihuang era, defeat the one who destroyed the lifelong efforts of successive Human Emperors, trample underfoot this scoundrel who disdained the cultivation methods of successive Human Emperors, stripping him of all glory and trampling his dignity!

His sword light was incomparably sharp. With a flick of his wrist, he unleashed the Supreme Emperor's Tribulation. A boundless tribulation aura connected heaven and earth, splitting the sky and cleaving the earth!

This was the village chief's sword art. The village chief, the previous Human Emperor, had a mastery of sword arts that far exceeded many previous Human Emperors.

In Fengdu, the village chief was beaten, but no Human Emperor fought him one-on-one; instead, they all swarmed him. This was precisely because the village chief, in his old age, caught up with the era of reforms, and his sword art advanced further. One-on-one, no Human Emperor from any generation, save for the Founding Human Emperor, could match him.

In Qin Mu's hands, the Supreme Emperor's Tribulation move was integrated with the Eighteen Sword Forms—eighteen basic sword stances. Compared to the village chief's sword art, he could not yet achieve perfection, but the power of the sword art in his hands was even greater!

His magic power was incredibly profound. Let alone divine ability users of the same realm, even among grand masters of the Celestial-Human realm, few could surpass his cultivation!

Qin Mu's magic power erupted, his sword light directly cut through the power of the Heaven Seal and Earth Seal, shattering the Founding Human Emperor's myth of supremacy between heaven and earth, and forcing him to change his moves!

Qin Mu's sword art clearly had flaws, but the Founding Human Emperor simply could not break through. This was because Qin Mu's magic power was too profound, compensating for the flaws with his terrifying vital qi cultivation.

He held the sword in one hand, and with the sword in hand, he moved like a dragon. No matter how powerful the Founding Human Emperor's palm technique, he consistently countered it with the Supreme Emperor's Tribulation move!

He didn't even bother to change his moves!

"Pull me out, pull me out!"

In front of the Human Emperor Hall, Human Emperor Yishan struggled to get up from the ground, wanting to go behind the hall to see the battle. Behind him, Human Emperor Qikang quickly said, "I'm stuck, pinned by the Founding Human Emperor's palm technique!"

Human Emperor Lanpo and others struggled to their feet, gathering around Qikang. They all simultaneously cast a palm technique, imprinting it on the ground around Human Emperor Qikang. Finally, they collectively broke the Founding Human Emperor's palm technique and rescued him.

The Human Emperors supported each other, passing through the damaged Human Emperor Hall to the back.

The Human Emperors stood dumbfounded. Within the mist, they saw two figures moving as swiftly as lightning. The Founding Human Emperor's palm technique made one palm the sky, pressing down with the force of a collapsing heaven; another palm the earth, overturning the ground with quaking mountains. Yet, his figure seemed like a towering pillar, supporting heaven and earth to prevent their collapse.

Such a palm technique was a marvelous divine ability that could only be created by entering the Dao through palm techniques and achieving extremely high mastery!

The Founding Human Emperor's palm technique contained his state of mind. In the late Kaihuang era, heaven and earth collapsed, and the Kaihuang Heavenly Court was on the brink of ruin. He was a man who lived through that tragic era, wanting to save the collapsing empire by himself.

His Heaven-Earth palm technique embodied this incredibly intense emotion. No matter if heaven and earth overturned, no matter if the sky collapsed and the earth split, he always stood firm, like a towering pillar.

This was likely what he thought in his heart.

He had lived through that tragic era, and his palm technique bore the deep imprint of that time.

His palm technique could borrow the power of a collapsing heaven and also the power of a cleaving earth, possessing supreme might and infinite power.

This was precisely why successive Human Emperors could not compare to him.

Although successive Human Emperors all bore heavy responsibilities, none had experienced such sorrowful years as the Founding Human Emperor, witnessing heaven and earth overturn, witnessing the magnificent Heavenly Court collapse, witnessing countless kinsmen and warriors die tragically, and witnessing golden dust bury glorious years.

Only with such experience could one develop such a state of mind, and only with such a state of mind could one create such cultivation methods and divine abilities.

Since successive Human Emperors lacked such experience and state of mind, the cultivation methods and divine abilities they created were naturally inferior.

The Human Emperors exchanged glances, their hearts filled with shock. Even the Founding Human Emperor, when facing Qin Mu, was forced onto the defensive, genuinely at a disadvantage, truly being suppressed!

Although Qin Mu's sword art still bore traces of the village chief, Dao Sect's Dao Sword, and Imperial Advisor of Yankang's sword art, his sword art was already showing a tendency to transcend their influence.

His sword art differed in artistic conception from the Founding Human Emperor's palm technique.

His sword art lacked the village chief's melancholy longing for the ancients and ancient times; it lacked Dao Sword's calculated ingenuity; and it lacked the Imperial Advisor of Yankang's wisdom in strategizing for the world.

But his sword art was as unbridled as a raging wildfire, full of vitality and fighting spirit like a spring breeze sweeping across a desolate grassland. His sword art seemed intent on sweeping away evil auras and eradicating corruption, possessing a great spirit of innovation and immense perseverance to strive for improvement, like oil fueling a fierce fire.

There was another kind of astounding spirit in his sword art—a state of mind brought by a different era, completely unlike the time of collapsing heavens and heroic lament. It was an era of keen enterprise, high morale, reforms, and sweeping change across the world!

The Founding Human Emperor and Qin Mu, two people from different eras, wielded two different divine abilities—one a palm technique, the other a sword art—each bearing the imprint of their respective times.

Solely from their underlying intent, it was hard to distinguish which was superior. However, from the perspective of their states of mind, one was keen on progress with high morale, while the other lamented the past, immersed in past failures. From this standpoint, the outcome was already clear.

What was even more terrifying was that Qin Mu's vital qi was too profound, suppressing the Founding Human Emperor's palm technique and effortlessly breaking his "supremacy between heaven and earth" palm technique!

Qin Mu grew stronger with each attack, his long sword slashing as if to sever the Founding Human Emperor, who stood as a pillar supporting the old heaven and earth, forcing the Founding Human Emperor to continuously activate his teleportation ability.

"A true Hegemon Body..." Human Emperor Qikang murmured.

The Second Human Emperor said dejectedly, "There really is a Hegemon Body in this world... I originally thought Human Emperor Qin reached this point solely through his own effort. I never imagined he was truly the legendary Hegemon Body; his vital qi is simply monstrous..."

The other Human Emperors also nodded in agreement.

If not a Hegemon Body, this scene was hard to explain.

These Human Emperors had attacked the Founding Human Emperor together, only to suffer a crushing defeat. The Founding Human Emperor, at the same cultivation realm, had knocked them all down and overwhelmed them. Yet now, at the same realm, Qin Mu was actually overwhelming the Founding Human Emperor!

Only a Hegemon Body could achieve this, right?

"That brat Su Muzhe really needs a beating!" Human Emperor Qikang exclaimed.

The other Human Emperors all agreed.

"The Founding Human Emperor still has ultimate moves he hasn't used yet."

The Second Human Emperor suddenly said, "I once saw him use it; it was three extremely terrifying palm techniques."

The Fourth Human Emperor hastily asked, "How terrifying?"

"Heaven-Earth Collapse, the Three Forms of Skyfall."

The Second Human Emperor looked at the battle between Qin Mu and the Founding Human Emperor. He saw that the Founding Human Emperor already had multiple sword wounds on his body; for Qin Mu to injure him to this extent was already something to be proud of.

"The Three Forms of Skyfall are his Dao-entering divine abilities," the Second Human Emperor continued. "I once wanted to learn them, but these three palm techniques contain a powerful self-destructive intent, so I didn't master them. I feared that if I learned them, unleashing all three would lead to my own demise."

The Second Human Emperor exhaled a turbid breath and murmured, "I hope he doesn't use them..."

Just then, heaven and earth abruptly changed. The sky cracked, celestial stars fell like rain, and the sky burned crimson. The earth collapsed, volcanoes erupted everywhere, and earth, water, wind, and fire surged!

The Founding Human Emperor finally couldn't hold back and unleashed the first form of the Three Forms of Skyfall!

At the same time, Qin Mu pointed a finger at his forehead, and a sword light shot out from his third eye. The dazzling sword light, like a pillar ten miles long, flashed and disappeared instantly. Before the Founding Human Emperor's Three Forms of Skyfall could unleash their full power, it pierced him with a single sword, carrying his body ten miles away and pinning him with a clang onto a large mountain.

"Hah—"

Qin Mu roared in anger, his fists like the wind. He swung both fists, furiously blasting forward, unleashing countless punches in an instant!

The terrifying fist power accumulated, transforming into a world-shattering force that blasted towards the Founding Human Emperor pinned on the mountaintop!

"No!"

Human Emperor Qikang and the others leaped out, crying out in alarm, trying to catch up to Qin Mu's fist power, but it was already too late.

Boom.

The mountain collapsed under the terrifying force. However, all the fist winds only landed around the Founding Human Emperor, not striking him directly. The large mountain was pulverized into a stone pillar, with the Founding Human Emperor still suspended on it.

Qin Mu turned and walked out of the Human Emperor Hall, without looking at the Founding Human Emperor on the stone pillar. With a calm expression, he said, "You can insult successive Human Emperors, but I am not you; I will not insult you."

The Founding Human Emperor clutched the sword wound on his chest and suddenly called out loudly, "Don't leave yet! I'll pass on the Three Forms of Skyfall to you!"

Qin Mu walked to the front of the Human Emperor Hall, bent down to pick up his sword pellet and Gluttonous Bag. He turned sideways, chuckled, and waved his hand, saying, "No. I disdain to learn."

The Founding Human Emperor was stunned. He struggled free from the stone pillar.

Qin Mu strode out through the portal of the Human Emperor Hall. The portal closed, and his figure vanished.

—Crippled: A thief never leaves empty-handed. Yours.