Chapter 867: Seeing Mountains Not as Mountains, Wandering Among the Peaks

“Black Heaven, you’ve been thoroughly defeated, losing your edge. Hiding in the lower realm for so long, you have no idea how terrifying the Heavenly Court is now.”

Heavenly Venerate Yu smiled faintly and walked out of the palace. “This body of mine is the crystallization of the Heavenly Court’s wisdom over the past million years—its most powerful weapon! In the future, the Heavenly Court will rely on such weapons to sweep across the cosmos, cleanse the universe, pacify demonic forces, and conquer the unknown realms you’ve pursued your entire life but could never reach.”

Black Heaven’s expression darkened. He snorted coldly, stood up, and followed him out.

“In the future, ten divine beings will rule the cosmos and all worlds, whether it be Youdu, Xuandu, Yuandu, or Guixu. Nowhere will there be any rebellious forces or any possibility of rebelling against the Heavenly Court or resisting it!”

Heavenly Venerate Yu’s voice carried an exhilarating, deeply unsettling power. “At that time, there will be no more ‘reforms’ or ‘innovations,’ because all merits, all techniques, all divine abilities, and all Great Dao principles will be encompassed within this body. No matter how much intelligence countless future gods and humans display, they will never be able to transcend the knowledge contained within this form. They will tragically discover that all their efforts, all their attempts at change, are entirely under this body’s control! The future…”

He smiled. “For the ambitious, it will be a future of profound pessimism and despair. But for us, those in power, it will be a future of absolute peace of mind.”

Black Heaven’s heart pounded. He murmured, “A stagnant future…”

He was even somewhat afraid of the future he had just envisioned.

Imagine: in the near future, ten towering, supremely powerful Heavenly Venerates Yu will control the greatest power from antiquity to the present, hovering above all realms of the universe, suppressing everything!

Their faces will seem like the very embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, their eyes like the sun and moon. Their bodies will be harder than any weapon in existence, and their magic power will be more vast and profound than the Nether Sea.

They will float above the sun, moon, stars, and even galaxies, with heaven and earth revolving around them.

In this world, ancient gods will have fallen, and common people will be treated as mere straw dogs. Whether divine, demonic, or human, all will be as ants, everything under the surveillance of these ten colossal divine beings.

What a terrifying future that would be!

“I pray this day never comes!” Black Heaven composed himself and caught up with Heavenly Venerate Yu.

Heavenly Venerate Yu walked out of the Great Black Palace. Qin Mu was standing in front of it, stretching his body and performing poses that would seem impossible for ordinary people.

Heavenly Venerate Yu smiled, watching him limber up.

After a moment, Qin Mu turned to Black Heaven, a smile on his face. “Black Heaven, is this the powerful expert you invited? If I defeat him, will our wager become effective?”

Black Heaven nodded and said solemnly, “Indeed. If you defeat him, the lords of the three hundred and sixteen heavens will be at your disposal. I’ll let you take those three hundred and sixteen fools; I won’t interfere further. However, I will not simply hand over the Northern Heavens.”

Qin Mu burst out laughing. “I wanted to make a Pact of Earth Count with you, but you also originate from Youdu, and the Pact of Earth Count has too many loopholes; Earth Count is too honest and inflexible. If I were to make a Pact of Little Earth Count, Little Earth Count might not be able to defeat you. So, I can only rely on you to keep your promise.”

Heavenly Venerate Yu smiled faintly. “Young man, you don’t need to consider these things, because you simply cannot win. You are the legendary uniquely Overlord Body, but this body of mine is the king among Overlord Bodies, appearing only once every million years.”

Qin Mu chuckled softly, took a step back, and his body melted into the darkness outside the palace. Only two rows of gleaming teeth could be seen floating in the air.

The white teeth floating in the air opened and closed as Qin Mu’s voice, laughing, came through: “Please, friend!”

“Friend? You call me friend?”

Heavenly Venerate Yu couldn’t help but chuckle. He stepped forward into the darkness, smiling. “You don’t know your place.”

In the darkness, light suddenly erupted. Qin Mu and Heavenly Venerate Yu had already clashed, their divine abilities instantly sweeping away the darkness around the Great Black Palace, revealing the colossal planet behind it.

The planet’s surface was colorful and incredibly rough.

Around the Great Black Palace, towering divine beings stood like solid rock in the darkness, resembling a series of bizarre, sturdy mountains, unmoving, letting the impact of the two’s divine abilities wash over their skin.

The fierce winds stirred up by the aftershocks of Qin Mu and Heavenly Venerate Yu’s divine abilities were incredibly violent. Wherever they swept, the air crackled, and lightning flashed with thunder.

As the gale swept past the bodies of these divine beings, it astonishingly ignited raging fires, burning on their skin, creating the sensation of a vast plain ablaze.

There were three hundred and sixteen of these divine beings in total, the rulers of the three hundred and sixteen northern heavens.

Their power far surpassed that of other divine beings; they were immensely strong, mostly at the Jade Capital realm. Even at the epicenter of Qin Mu and Heavenly Venerate Yu’s divine ability clash, they remained unharmed.

This battle concerned their destiny and future, and they wished to witness its outcome personally.

Inside the Great Black Palace, Black Heaven’s disciples, including Mo Santong and Xue Taidou, quickly rushed out and looked into the darkness, their expressions changing drastically.

In the darkness, Heavenly Venerate Yu displayed various Great Dao divine abilities with effortless mastery. Every ability he casually unleashed seemed like a Grand Divine Ability that had achieved ‘Entering the Dao’!

It was as if he was proficient in all divine arts and methods in the world, having comprehended every system of divine arts to the level of ‘Entering the Dao’!

‘Entering the Dao’ also had different levels, which cultivators and divine beings categorized using “heavens.”

Comprehending one ‘Entering the Dao’ divine ability constituted the First Heaven; comprehending a second ‘Entering the Dao’ Grand Divine Ability constituted the Second Heaven.

Different Great Dao principles had different levels of “heavens.”

For instance, in the Dao of the Sword, the strongest record was established by Kaihuang, whose Sword Dao was rumored to reach the Thirty-Third Heaven, unparalleled throughout history—a record no one has broken to this day.

Thus, Kaihuang’s Heavenly Court had Thirty-Three Heavens, with the Heavenly Court itself built upon the Thirty-Third Heaven.

Another example is the Dao of Buddhism, where the strongest record belongs to the Great Brahma Heavenly King Buddha, whose Buddhist Realm encompasses twenty heavens, rumored to be entirely formed by his Great Dao.

And then there’s the Dao of the Devil. Black Heaven’s Devil Dao also reached an unfathomable level, though Black Heaven never disclosed exactly how many heavens his ‘Entering the Dao’ encompassed.

However, when the Martial Dao Emperor Zhuo Cha, one of Kaihuang’s Four Heavenly Masters, visited previously, Black Heaven unleashed seventeen ‘Entering the Dao’ Grand Divine Abilities, resulting in a mutual injury with the Martial Dao Emperor.

Mo Santong, Xue Taidou, and others, as Black Heaven’s disciples, were fortunate enough to witness that battle. At the time, some of their junior brothers had not yet ‘Entered the Dao,’ but by observing the fight, they instantly achieved it, reaching extraordinary accomplishments.

Such an opportunity, witnessing two Imperial Throne experts contend, was rare and invaluable.

However, what truly astonished them was that the young man invited by Black Heaven could unleash any Great Dao divine ability, no matter how many “heavens” it encompassed, with effortless grace and profound mastery!

This was something that should have been utterly impossible, yet it was unfolding right before their eyes.

For the same Great Dao, like the Heavenly Dao, he could even perform forty-nine different ‘Entering the Dao’ divine abilities, with no repetition!

For Earth Mother’s Primordial Magnetic Great Dao, he could unleash fifty-eight different ‘Entering the Dao’ divine abilities!

For the three hundred and sixty heavenly circulations, the variety of ‘Entering the Dao’ divine abilities was simply dazzling!

To Mo Santong and the others, the ‘Entering the Dao’ realm was divided into different “heavens.” But for the ancient beings in the Heavenly Court, these “heavens” of ‘Entering the Dao’ were merely numerical designations like Dao One, Dao Two, Dao Three, and so on.

Countless cultivators and divine beings in the lower realms painstakingly cultivated, meditated, and searched to ‘Enter the Dao.’

Yet, these exceptionally intelligent individuals would never have imagined that the Dao Ancestor of the Dao Sect had restructured the Great Dao principles of almost all ancient gods throughout the world using arithmetic, turning them into quantifiable knowledge, making ‘Entering the Dao’ unexpectedly simple.

What astonished Mo Santong and the others even more was that Qin Mu actually blocked it.

No matter how many “heavens” Heavenly Venerate Yu’s ‘Entering the Dao’ divine abilities encompassed, Qin Mu parried every one, even launching counterattacks.

In the darkness, light continuously erupted, and their figures flickered in and out of sight. One moment they clashed, the next they might appear a hundred miles away!

One moment they were in close combat, risking their lives in physical struggle, the next they might be a hundred miles apart, unleashing grand divine abilities from afar, their powers colliding and exploding gloriously in the center.

Suddenly, their figures appeared on the head of a four-headed demon god standing in the darkness.

That demon god had four heads, covered in thick, tree-like black hair. Each of them stood on a single strand of hair, slightly bending the demon god’s hair.

Qin Mu formed sword-fingers with both hands, and his sword pellet suddenly exploded, transforming into countless flying swords that darted and weaved through the demon god’s hair forest, attacking Heavenly Venerate Yu from below.

Heavenly Venerate Yu erupted with primordial magnetic divine light all around him. A river of stars, constellations, and celestial bodies appeared above his head, connected by primordial magnetic light. With a whoosh, all the flying swords were sucked up and, with clanging sounds, impaled onto the stars.

Heavenly Venerate Yu rubbed his palms together, and the river of stars rose vertically, spun, and roared towards Qin Mu, instantly transforming into a grand stellar array that engulfed him.

The thick strands of hair on the four-headed demon god’s head were forcibly pulled out by the array. Each hair root, carrying demonic blood, flew into the air.

Suddenly, a demonic sun rose within the grand stellar array, instantly polluting all the stars, causing the sun and moon to lose their light.

Qin Mu unveiled the willow leaf from his brow. A black sun appeared behind his head, shattering the grand stellar array. With a shake of his head, two more heads sprouted, making three heads with nine eyes. He stood on the sole remaining strand of the four-headed demon god’s hair, his body spinning like a top.

*Swish—*

The nine-eyed divine light sliced in all directions, cutting through the stars floating in mid-air along with the demon god’s thick hair!

Heavenly Venerate Yu leapt up, dodging the attack, his feet moving swiftly. He landed on the eyelashes of the left eyelid of one of the demon god’s heads.

The next moment, Qin Mu appeared on the eyelashes of the demon god’s right eye.

The four-headed demon god’s eyes widened, his gaze fixed downwards on them. A huge bead of sweat, the size of a small hilltop, formed on his forehead, slid down his nose bridge, and then hung at the tip of his nose.

The instant Qin Mu and Heavenly Venerate Yu’s divine abilities erupted, the demon god finally couldn’t help but close his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, Qin Mu and Heavenly Venerate Yu had already left his eyes and were now on the shoulder of another colossal demon god, battling their way down to its enormous earlobe.

The demon god’s earlobe was very long. The two stood on it, their bodies parallel to the ground, engaging in close-quarters physical combat. Qin Mu unleashed grand martial arts divine abilities, while Heavenly Venerate Yu had a true dragon coil around his body, thoroughly unleashing the Great Dao of the Eastern Emperor Green Dragon.

A loud bang resonated. The long-eared demon god couldn’t help but tilt his head and pat his ear. By then, Qin Mu and Heavenly Venerate Yu had already left his earlobe, moving on to battle on the flowing sash of iridescent light wrapped around another goddess demon.

The two raced across the flowing sash, covering distances of over ten miles, their divine abilities constantly transforming, wildly attacking each other.

The goddess demon’s eyes darted around, trying to see the battle on the sash behind her head, but she couldn’t. Suddenly, she saw the two figures transform and descend from her sash, passing directly in front of her chest, like skimming over two steamed bun-shaped mountains.

Qin Mu momentarily distracted himself to look, only to be sent flying by Heavenly Venerate Yu, bones broken and tendons torn.

The goddess demon couldn’t help but let out a giggle, her chest jiggling.

Heavenly Venerate Yu couldn’t help but glance, and was suddenly struck by a knife to the forehead, embedding itself deep.

Their figures vanished again, reappearing moments later between two demon gods, both spitting blood and glaring intently at each other.

“The power of this physical body alone isn’t enough to defeat you.”

Heavenly Venerate Yu showed a look of appreciation and smiled. “It seems I’ll have to use my own divine arts and methods to take you down. Black Heaven, this opponent of yours is truly extraordinary. Your exchange of the Dark Devil Sutra for my intervention was not a loss at all.”

In the distance, Black Heaven snorted.

Qin Mu held his breath and focused. The demonic path divine treasury within him roared open, the divine path divine treasury and demonic path divine treasury merging into one!