Chapter 687: Heavenly Yin Lady

Witcher was terrified. He was enormous in front of Qin Mu, but seemed pitiably small before the chubby doll's face.

The chubby doll's hand reached out, grabbed him, and despite his immense power, he couldn't struggle. He was then brought to the doll's mouth.

"My brother and I share a name."

Before his death, he heard Qin Mu's voice: "Because we share a soul and a body."

The chubby doll swallowed him whole, chewed vigorously, then suddenly, excitedly lunged at Qin Mu: "Bad brother, die!"

At that moment, Qin Mu's physical body took out a willow leaf and gently placed it on his brow.

Before the chubby doll could reach Qin Mu, an invisible force suddenly coiled around it, lifted it up, and dragged it into an abyss.

"Bad brother—"

The chubby doll fell for a long time, then suddenly landed with a thud, sitting on the ground. Looking around, it saw that it had fallen back into the seal of the Qin-character continent. The white-bearded old man and the Red Emperor were hiding from it in the Qin-character mountain range.

"Bad brother, I'll eat you when I catch you!"

Furious, the chubby doll flew into a rage, scrambling on all fours towards the Qin-character mountains, intending to catch the Celestial Venerable's clone and the Red Emperor's mind to vent its anger. "First, I'll hit the old man, then the three-headed one!"

The two frantically dodged. The Celestial Venerable's clone said, "Don't be afraid of him. This is Earth Count's seal; it constantly changes, so he can't catch us!"

The Red Emperor replied, "You said that last time too, and then you got caught."

"Not this time!"

Qin Mu returned to his main body and sighed in relief. Ahead, Witcher's corpse sank, and the dark Underworld vanished.

Qin Mu looked up, smiling: "Goddess of the Yin, we finally meet. But you needn't be sad; my divine art might be able to gather your devoured souls..."

Just as he spoke, the Goddess of the Yin, who stood in the sea, lifted her foot and stepped towards them.

Qin Mu was horrified. Without time to use his divine art, he turned and sprinted along the bridge. He quickly reached the Founding Emperor's divine being and, without a word, pulled him along as he ran.

Behind them, a colossal crash echoed as a palace was trampled. The Goddess of the Yin missed her step, then turned and pursued them.

Her colossal body reached beyond the heavens. Each step she took covered thousands of miles. Although her foot lifted and landed slowly, her overall speed was unmatched by anyone else!

"Those ghastly spirits are controlling the goddess's body!"

Qin Mu quickly surmised why the Goddess of the Yin's physical form was attacking them. Without hesitation, he immediately took out the Book of Life and Death and shone it upon the majestic goddess, thinking: "The Goddess of the Yin has already been consumed by these ghastly spirits. This 'Goddess of the Yin' is actually a ghastly spirit occupying her body! In other words, the Goddess of the Yin is now a ghastly spirit."

The Book of Life and Death shone, but the goddess merely paused briefly, black smoke spewing from her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Immediately after, she lifted her foot again and continued pursuing Qin Mu and the Founding Emperor's divine being.

"Her body is too massive; the Book of Life and Death can barely illuminate her entire form!"

Qin Mu controlled the Book of Life and Death with his vital qi, making it float behind his head. He sprinted at full speed, pushing the Heaven-Stealing Divine Leg technique, taught to him by the cripple, to its limit, increasing his speed higher and higher!

"Senior, run!" Qin Mu pulled the Founding Emperor's divine being, feeling somewhat strained and unable to fully utilize his speed, so he urged him quickly.

The Founding Emperor's divine being suddenly took off, much faster than Qin Mu, leaving him far behind in a cloud of dust.

Qin Mu was stunned and angrily exclaimed, "How disloyal! I shed a few tears for you, after all! If you can run that fast, you should at least take me with you."

Suddenly, the Goddess of the Yin extended her palm, reaching for him. As her palm entered the Yin-Yin world's atmosphere from beyond the heavens, it rubbed violently against the air, instantly igniting raging flames around it, yet these could not scorch her in the slightest.

Her palm descended like a colossal landmass from the sky, reaching for Qin Mu.

Behind Qin Mu's head, the Book of Life and Death shone brightly. Before the Goddess of the Yin's palm even arrived, her fingers began to soften, one by one, as if deflating.

However, even so, if that palm descended, it would be enough to completely engulf Qin Mu!

Just as Qin Mu was about to be covered by the continent-sized palm, countless runes suddenly swirled around him. His teleportation divine art erupted in an instant, the runes spinning wildly around him like countless yellow paper talismans. As the runes turned to ash and vanished, Qin Mu also disappeared without a trace.

The next moment, Qin Mu appeared a thousand miles away. Immediately, countless runes reappeared around him, and his figure vanished again. When he reappeared, he had already fled another thousand miles.

His figure repeatedly flickered, determined to burst out of the Yin-Yin world before the Goddess of the Yin caught him, even if it meant exhausting his cultivation.

Behind him, the long, undulating bridge was continuously trampled and collapsed by the Goddess of the Yin. This bridge simply could not withstand the steps of this naturally divine being.

Now, Qin Mu was not far from the coast. At that moment, countless demonic creatures leaped like ghosts from the sea, swarming him just as he was about to teleport again. A myriad of fiends clung to Qin Mu.

"Get off me!"

Qin Mu activated the Book of Life and Death. With a buzzing sound, countless demonic creatures turned into empty husks and fell, and above his head, the Goddess of the Yin's palm slammed down!

Boom!

The Yin-Yin world's ocean trembled violently, and the land along the shore continuously shook. Startling cracks spread in all directions, and thunderous roars echoed from everywhere. Lava spewed from the fissures, but even the lava here was a murky gray.

The Goddess of the Yin lifted her hand. Beneath her palm, the long bridge was broken, the sea was emptied, revealing an incredibly dry seabed. The original seawater had been completely evaporated!

The moment she lifted her palm, countless runes fluttered beneath it. At the center of the runes was a massive sword pellet, like a metallic sphere. At this moment, the sword pellet had been dented by half!

Whoosh—

The runes burned away, the metallic sphere vanished, and the next moment, it appeared in the town by the sea.

The Goddess of the Yin was puzzled, unable to see the teleported Qin Mu. She searched around but still couldn't find him.

In the town, the Founding Emperor's divine being cautiously peeked out. He saw the sword pellet clanging and bouncing around the seaside town. Qin Mu, hidden inside the sword pellet, was rolling rapidly, the metallic sphere falling and springing up.

Inside the sword pellet, Qin Mu propped up the Carefree Sword, using it as an axis to support the pellet. Earlier, the Goddess of the Yin had nearly flattened him along with the sword pellet; it was by using the Carefree Sword to brace the pellet that he was not crushed to death by the Goddess of the Yin.

However, the sword pellet was also deformed.

When the sword pellet bounced up again, the metallic sphere split with a swoosh, dividing into eight thousand swords. Qin Mu leaped out, stretched his body, and with one hand raised, he watched as the eight thousand swords clashed with a clang, forming a tiny sword pellet that landed in his palm.

Suddenly, there was a snap in his palm. The tiny sword pellet exploded, turning into countless specks of dust that fell from the sky, rustling softly as they landed on the ground.

Qin Mu's face darkened as he looked at his palm. Besides the Carefree Sword, there was only a pile of metallic dust.

He had withstood the Goddess of the Yin's palm strike and was not crushed to death, but the sword pellet used to resist that palm had been shattered to smithereens by the Goddess of the Yin!

Previously, it had been supported by Qin Mu's vital qi, but after Qin Mu withdrew the sword pellet, his vital qi naturally relaxed, causing the sword pellet to no longer hold up and explode into powder.

"Out with the old, in with the new..."

Qin Mu still felt a pang of pain. This was the spiritual weapon he had forged as a divine art practitioner, the one most suited to him, and he had intended to use it for his entire life. Yet, it had been reduced to dust.

More importantly, the materials needed to forge these spiritual weapons were what he had acquired from Si Yunxiang by selling everything he owned.

To refine it to the point where it flowed like water, he had used the demonic flames of Li City along with his own Li Fire to temper it, thus completely refining the sword pellet. This time, besides the Carefree Sword, all his other flying swords were shattered. How could he not feel heartbroken?

"Fortunately, I embezzled a lot of Buddha-origin red chrome from Emperor Shakyamuni Buddha. This metal is a divine metal unique to the Buddhist world. I embezzled enough Buddha-origin red chrome to recreate another sword pellet!"

Qin Mu exhaled a turbid breath and looked at the Goddess of the Yin, who was still searching around the seashore. This immensely colossal goddess was still looking for him.

The Founding Emperor's divine being reappeared and approached Qin Mu.

Qin Mu, with a dark expression, was still somewhat indignant: "How disloyal!"

The Founding Emperor's divine being looked embarrassed. He reached out and pulled Qin Mu, making a running motion, but couldn't budge him no matter how hard he tried. Then he shrugged helplessly.

"I see."

Qin Mu suddenly understood: "You have no magic power, no physical body, and your primordial spirit is gone, that's why you couldn't take me with you. Alright, I'm not angry anymore. I need your help to find a high ground where the Book of Life and Death can illuminate the Goddess of the Yin's face."

The Founding Emperor's divine being immediately ran out of the town. Seeing that Qin Mu wasn't following, he quickly stopped and waved.

Qin Mu quickly followed. The two sped away, and before long, they arrived at a tall tower by the sea. Qin Mu looked up, startled; the tower was simply too tall. The Yin-Yin world was dim and unclear, making it hard to see far, but Qin Mu, using his Nine Heavens Eye-Opening Method, could see dozens of miles away. Yet, looking up, he couldn't see the tower's spire.

Misty gray fog swirled around the tower's mid-section, making its true height unknown.

The tower's body seemed to be made of some divine metal, glowing with a dull, dark metallic luster.

"What is this tower for? I'm afraid it's much taller than the Chixiao Suppressing Heaven Tower in the hands of the Chixi divine being."

As he thought this, he saw the Founding Emperor's divine being leaping like a bird, climbing up layer by layer on the tower's eaves. Qin Mu activated his Heaven-Stealing Divine Leg and sprinted up the tower. One leaped, the other ran, both rushing towards the tower's summit.

By the time Qin Mu reached the top of the tall tower, the Founding Emperor's divine being was already waiting there, clearly much faster than him.

Qin Mu secretly praised him, then took out the Book of Life and Death and placed it in the Founding Emperor's divine being's hand, saying, "I will stand on the tower's spire and perform my art. You stand here, and once I lure the Goddess of the Yin over, open the Book of Life and Death and shine it on her."

The Founding Emperor's divine being nodded repeatedly. Just as Qin Mu was about to jump from the tower top to the spire, a thud sounded behind him. He quickly turned to look, only to see the Founding Emperor's divine being open the Book of Life and Death, glance at the glittering book, and then deflate as if all his energy had drained.

Qin Mu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He picked up the Book of Life and Death, which was still shining on him.

Without the Book of Life and Death's illumination, black sand surged and burrowed into the Founding Emperor's divine being's human skin, and he quickly inflated again.

Qin Mu handed the Book of Life and Death back to him, saying, "This is the front! This is the back! Don't get them mixed up, or we'll both be dead!"

The Founding Emperor's divine being nodded repeatedly and patted his chest.

Qin Mu took a deep breath and shouted loudly, "Goddess of the Yin, I'm here—"

His voice echoed far away. Then he rubbed his hands together, transforming his vital qi into Vermilion Bird vital qi, and conjured a large fireball. Its light blazed like a scorching sun, illuminating the surroundings.

Silence enveloped the surroundings. The Founding Emperor's divine being nervously clutched the Book of Life and Death, not daring to be negligent in the slightest.

Just then, the ground suddenly vibrated violently, and the sound of incredibly heavy footsteps approached.