Chapter 790: Yuan Magnetic Rampage

The voice from underground, wandering erratically beneath the earth, sneered, "You felled my Primal Wood, severed my heart with a sword, and seized my physical body to nurture a false spirit. Alas, once felled, the Primal Wood becomes rootless. You were born from a rootless tree and can never become the new Earth Mother. Fake is fake; it can never become real!"

Upon hearing this, Qin Mu immediately slapped Long Qilin's head and whispered urgently, "Fatty Dragon, turn around and run!"

Long Qilin reacted swiftly. Hearing the command, he immediately turned and fled, dragging the kneeling Water Qilin, who was still holding the rope and was sent tumbling, but still refused to let go.

Emperor Tianzun quickly said, "A'Shui, run with us."

Water Qilin realized what was happening, promptly released the rope, shook his body, revealed his true form, and caught up with Long Qilin.

Feng Qiuyun hastily interjected, "That voice underground is the Earth Mother. Why are we running? Stop! I still need to deal with that little wretch, Qi Xiayu!"

No sooner had she spoken than the earth rumbled violently. The underground voice laughed, a sound filled with anguish and resentment. "You have no idea why I am called the Earth Mother! The Earth Mother's power does not come from the tree trunk or canopy above the surface, but from the roots!"

As Long Qilin galloped, he suddenly saw the ground beneath his feet crack open, revealing countless enormous roots writhing and weaving underground, like colossal dark brown dragons.

The entire city of Yu Jing suddenly collapsed, plummeting into the earth. Many demigods, gods, and devils who had been kneeling on the ground were caught off guard, falling into the vast fissures. They were immediately caught and devoured by the writhing roots, vanishing into the depths of the earth.

Fire clouds appeared beneath Long Qilin's hooves, carrying everyone on his back as he strained to fly upward.

"People only think the Primal Wood is immense, but they don't know it's only a part of the surface. The truly enormous part is the roots—the Primal Roots—which are a hundred times vaster than the wood itself!"

The underground voice grew increasingly furious. Yu Jing City was already completely buried, and not only that, but the entire Heavenly Palace was also collapsing amid the tremors, falling into the earth.

Suddenly, fire and smoke erupted from the ground, reaching the sky. Massive pillars of magma, thicker than mountains, spun wildly.

Feng Qiuyun watched the scene in a daze, seeing countless demigods, gods, and devils flying and weaving amidst the enormous pillars of fire, each displaying their divine abilities, attempting to escape the area.

Long Qilin and Water Qilin reached their maximum speed, but suddenly, the geomagnetism became chaotic. Their bodies instantly became incredibly heavy, making flight impossible!

In the sky, gods, devils, and qi practitioners of all races plummeted like raindrops.

This descent was extremely bizarre. They weren't falling directly to the ground, but rather toward areas of magnetic anomaly. Some fell upward, some downward, and others horizontally.

Suddenly, a god-devil fell past them, plummeting mid-air. With a sickening *splat*, the divine being crashed onto a powerful geomagnetic ability. Instantly, blood erupted, flesh separated from bone, and bones and muscles were pulverized. The heavier parts sank below, while the lighter parts floated above, a gruesome and horrifying death.

Although the divine being had fallen through the air, it was as if they had struck an impenetrable bronze wall.

All around them, countless gods, devils, and divine ability practitioners were falling haphazardly. None landed on the ground; instead, they crashed into the five-elemental geomagnetic abilities, exploding with *splat*s around them, transforming into gruesome yet strangely beautiful flowers of blood.

Qin Mu said gravely, "Sister Qiuyun, do you understand now why we had to run?"

Feng Qiuyun was stunned. The underground voice belonged to the Earth Mother, who now only possessed a remnant soul and her heart, yet controlled the Earth Mother's most crucial essence: the Primal Wood's roots.

These roots were anchored deep within the Primordial Realm, unimaginably vast and extending to unknown depths and distances, wielding an immeasurable amount of mana.

Meanwhile, on the surface, beneath the Primal Wood, another Earth Mother Yuanjun, who possessed a physical body, activated the Primal Wood. The towering Primal Wood, reaching beyond the heavens, blazed with light. Streams of radiant light swept through the air, swirling and dancing as they attacked underground.

When the two Earth Mothers unleashed their divine abilities, the original Yu Jing City had already vanished, leaving behind only a storm of geomagnetic primal energy, a storm that warped space itself!

Qin Mu had reacted early and was thus relatively safe, but he could not contend with such extraordinarily powerful geomagnetism. He decisively activated a teleportation ability, sweeping up everyone and transporting them away.

The next moment, they reappeared a thousand *li* away.

Suddenly, geomagnetic forces erupted beneath their feet. Violent geomagnetic divine light crisscrossed through the air like dazzling streaks of ethereal glow. Wherever the light passed, powerful gods, devils, and divine ability practitioners uncontrollably stumbled into the divine light, being instantly pulverized!

From a distance, it appeared as if these powerful beings were intentionally colliding with the geomagnetic divine light!

It was nothing short of a massacre!

However, this was merely a skirmish between the Earth Mother Yuanjun on the surface and the Earth Mother Yuanjun underground, and they were caught in the crossfire.

These two Earth Mother Yuanjuns had not specifically targeted these gods and devils. Their power was simply too terrifying; each controlled the force of geomagnetism, and when they clashed, the resulting geomagnetic frenzy affected everything nearby.

Geomagnetic divine power is the most fundamental, primal, and terrifying force in the world. As embodiments of this power, the Earth Mothers' strength could no longer be measured by conventional realms like Numinous Sky or Emperor's Throne.

Ancient Gods had no realm divisions; their strength was determined by the power of the Great Dao they commanded, making traditional realm measurements inapplicable to them.

Qin Mu repeatedly activated his teleportation ability, fleeing outwards. In a few blinks of an eye, he had escaped ten thousand *li* away.

Having expended much of his cultivation, he had to stop using the teleportation ability and let Long Qilin sprint outwards with all his might.

The geomagnetism here was still extremely violent, but the threat to them had greatly diminished. Long Qilin's cultivation and strength surpassed Qin Mu's, making him capable of handling the rampant geomagnetic forces.

He looked back, but could no longer see the figures of the two terrifying Earth Mothers at their clash site. All he could see were the swirling divine lights of the Primal Wood and countless roots emerging from the ground.

Besides that, numerous powerful individuals were flying frantically amidst the roots and branches of the two ancient gods, attempting to flee outwards. Occasionally, someone would be struck, exploding mid-air and transforming into expanding clouds of blood mist.

Only the truly powerful, whose strength was extraordinary, managed to escape that place.

Suddenly, Feng Qiuyun's eyes lit up. She saw a nine-headed phoenix flapping its wings, cutting through thick branches and roots. It plucked the strings of a *guqin*, and the music severed streaks of geomagnetic divine light, allowing it to break free from the battlefield.

"That wretch, Qi Xiayu!"

Enraged, Feng Qiuyun leaped from Long Qilin's head, transformed into a fiery phoenix, and flapped her wings away.

"Sister Qiuyun, don't!"

Qin Mu shouted loudly, "Come back quickly and protect me! I'm about to reach the Life and Death realm!"

Feng Qiuyun was incredibly fast, vanishing in the blink of an eye. Two streaks of colorful light remained in the air: one was the trail left by Qi Xiayu's flight, and the other by Feng Qiuyun's.

Both were rare powerhouses among the Phoenix Clan. Feng Qiuyun's cultivation had reached the peak of the Numinous Sky realm, while Qi Xiayu was already in the Emperor's Throne realm. Knowing she might not be Qi Xiayu's match, Feng Qiuyun took the Primordial Heaven-Earth Sword with her.

Cold sweat beaded on Qin Mu's forehead. He muttered, "The Earth Mother told you to protect me..."

Rolling geomagnetic waves surged towards them. This strange force warped the earth and twisted space, causing mountains to undulate like waves, rising and falling erratically.

Qin Mu quickly activated his Hegemon Body Three Elixir Technique to protect himself. Many gods, devils, and demigods caught up, fleeing in all directions. From time to time, someone would be struck by scattered geomagnetic divine light, instantly shrinking into a ball of flesh mid-air by the geomagnetic divine power, then exploding with a *pop* into blood mist.

Qin Mu faced backward, nervously watching the geomagnetic light behind them and instructing Long Qilin to evade.

Just then, an incredibly terrifying fluctuation suddenly emanated from the center of the two Earth Mother Yuanjuns' battle. The ground trembled like a piece of cloth, and the mountains rose and fell.

At the epicenter of the battle, the geomagnetic divine light spread outwards rapidly like an expanding sphere. Wherever it passed, mountain peaks seemed like three-dimensional images pasted onto the surface of the sphere.

That terrifying sphere of geomagnetic divine light expanded at an alarming rate, quickly approaching their position!

Its speed was immeasurably faster than Long Qilin's flight!

Qin Mu felt a chill run down his spine. "We can't escape... Is the power of the deceased Earth Mother, combined with the new Earth Mother born from her fragmented body, truly this terrifying? Brother, lend me your strength!"

He abruptly tore off the willow leaf, letting out a roar. His body swelled continuously as netherworld divine power surged, and obscure netherworld divine incantations echoed around him, strange and unfathomable.

Not far away, Ancestor Dragon King and others, protecting a group of demigods, had fled to this spot. Seeing no escape, he shouted, "Join forces and resist!"

The collective aura of the group clashed as they each unleashed their divine abilities. Ancestor Dragon King transformed into an ancient dragon, his immense body encircling his clansmen. He opened his mouth and spat out a dragon pearl, sending it hurtling towards the approaching geomagnetic divine light. He cried, "Everyone, focus your attacks on this one point! We might survive if we can blast a hole through this ability, otherwise, we'll all die without a burial!"

Other powerhouses quickly employed their own techniques, and streaks of powerful divine abilities followed the dragon pearl, striking the same spot.

Qin Mu leaped up, shielding Long Qilin and the others. His six arms flailed as if he possessed countless limbs, finally converging into a single powerful punch!

The sphere of geomagnetic divine light, carrying the immense weight of the mountains, collided with their divine abilities. The sphere seemed to pause for a brief instant before engulfing them.

A deafening roar, like mountains collapsing and the earth rending, filled Qin Mu's ears. He was thrown backward by an overwhelming force.

With his three heads and six arms, he immediately extended his hands, grabbing Long Qilin with one, lifting Water Qilin with another, and using his remaining arms to seize Emperor Tianzun and Gongsun Yan. They were all sent flying by the lingering shockwaves of the two Earth Mothers' divine abilities.

Finally, this wave of impact subsided. The twisted mountains and land returned to normal. Qin Mu arched his body, emerging from beneath a large mountain that had pinned him down.

Gongsun Yan, Emperor Tianzun, and the others cautiously emerged from beneath him. Qin Mu dispelled his three heads and six arms, shrinking back to his normal size, and looked around with lingering trepidation.

As far as his eyes could see, the mountains were toppled and scattered, resembling a forest ravaged by a storm.

As for Ancestor Dragon King and the others who had joined them in resisting the shockwaves during the chaos, it was unknown where they had been flung. Those demigods were patriarchs among their respective demigod races, possessing formidable strength no weaker than Feng Qiuyun's, so it was unlikely they had been annihilated by the aftershocks.

"Bad little brother, you incurred a huge loss by borrowing my power."

Within the Qin character continent, Qin Fengqing was dispirited, somewhat exasperated: "I'll need to consume some ghosts and gods to recover my energy!"

Qin Mu had borrowed his strength to clash with the lingering shockwaves of the two Earth Mothers' divine abilities, and these shockwaves were so immensely powerful that even the Little Tyrant of Youdu found them difficult to bear.

Qin Mu quickly re-affixed the willow leaf, checked himself and the others, then breathed a sigh of relief. "They're just superficial wounds; nothing serious."

Gongsun Yan hastily said, "Let's hurry back and find the Earth Mother! That false Earth Mother is too strong; we don't know if the Earth Mother is alright."

Qin Mu shook his head. "We can't go back. The underground palace is probably buried deep within the Primordial Realm. Even if it wasn't destroyed, we wouldn't be able to find it. Now, we can only wait for the Earth Mother to find us. This is no place to linger; we must leave as soon as possible. Fatty Dragon, can you still move?"

Long Qilin roused himself, about to speak, when he suddenly looked up at a mountain peak ahead, tilted and plunged into the earth, and remained silent.

Qin Mu followed his gaze and saw a girl sitting atop the tilted and scattered mountain peak, her hands clasped around her knees, smiling as she looked at them. She was precisely the disciple of the other Earth Mother Yuanjun.

Her clothes were spotless, showing no sign of distress, unlike Qin Mu and his companions who were covered in dust and grime. It was as if the lingering geomagnetic abilities had no effect on her at all.

Qin Mu smiled leisurely. "Sister, we are both disciples of the Earth Mother, yet I don't know your name."

The girl stood up and chuckled, "As fellow disciples of the Earth Mother, I've long heard of Cult Master Qin. My purpose in coming out this time was to meet you and see what you're capable of."

Qin Mu burst into laughter, then abruptly swept his right arm horizontally, fingers splayed. His sword pellet whistled into the air, landing in his hand and transforming into a flying sword. "Please, I'd also like to see the abilities of the long-standing Heaven Alliance."

"Heaven Alliance?"

The girl let out a soft laugh. "Cult Master Qin, you've misunderstood. My name is Yan Qiling, and I am certainly not from the Heaven Alliance, which is notorious for producing traitors and rebels."