Chapter 915: Blood-colored Floating Dark Demon Appears

After an unknown amount of time, Qin Mu slowly regained consciousness, feeling utterly exhausted and depleted of vital energy and blood. His vital energy and blood had still not recovered much.

Qin Mu shakily raised a hand and touched his glabella. The Stone of Creation and his jade pendant were both gone from his brow.

"What happened while I was unconscious?"

He struggled to sit up and looked at the mirror opposite him. In the mirror, he saw himself emaciated, his face pale and utterly devoid of color.

The wound on his glabella, like an eyelid, had already closed, leaving a faint red mark.

Qin Mu's mind was in disarray, and he found it difficult to summon his divine sense. His vital energy was depleted, his heart beat weakly, providing little blood to the rest of his body.

His limbs were cold. He laboriously rummaged through his Taotie Pouch for spirit herbs. It took him a long time to find all the necessary ingredients, and he could only barely manage to use his remaining vital energy to refine a spirit pill.

His control over vital energy was not what it used to be; when refining the pill, the furnace actually exploded, destroying the batch.

This had never happened since his medical skills had reached mastery!

He had studied medicine under the Apothecary, and only ever had a furnace explode when he was in Disabled Elderly Village. Now, with his profound cultivation, every pill refinement was successful; a furnace exploding was simply impossible for him.

His depletion was too severe; his control over his physical body, vital energy, divine sense, and blood was not as good as before, even worse than during his youth!

With his current medical and creation arts, one wasn't considered injured as long as they weren't dead. Yet now, he was so depleted that he couldn't even use his creation arts, and even refining pills for healing was extremely difficult.

"Senior Brother, this divine stone you left me has truly harmed me..."

Wei Suifeng had left the Stone of Creation for his benefit. However, Wei Suifeng's plan couldn't keep up with the unexpected developments, and he hadn't anticipated the complexity of Qin Mu's situation.

Qin Mu had gained an extra eye in his glabella. Qin Mu hadn't yet fully grasped the mysteries of this eye when the Stone of Creation tried to replace it, nearly killing him in the process.

Qin Mu composed himself and tried refining pills again, this time with more caution. He finally managed to refine a batch of spirit pills.

He grabbed the spirit pills and swallowed them in large gulps. He mobilized his remaining vital energy to stimulate the medicinal effects. After a moment, his bone marrow began producing blood, and the blood in his heart gradually increased.

Qin Mu's complexion recovered slightly, and his vital energy slowly began to return. He then refined several more batches of spirit pills, restoring his depleted blood to about forty or fifty percent of its former level. He then refined spirit pills to replenish his vital energy, allowing his vital energy to also recover somewhat.

He struggled to stand up. His body was still unsteady and very weak, but unlike before, there was some color on his face, though he remained gaunt.

"Where did that Stone of Creation and my jade pendant go? Could it be... that it squeezed out the eye in my glabella?"

His scalp tingled. A thought stirred within him, and he tried to open the third eye in his glabella.

There were no eyebrows on his glabella, only two thin eyelids. The eyelids slowly parted to the sides, revealing an eye.

Qin Mu carefully examined this eye in the mirror. He saw that the structure of this eye was different from his normal eyes. His third eye was still made of flesh and blood, but its pupil was not round; it was rhombus-shaped!

And its color was not black; it was a cinnabar-red, rhombus-shaped pupil!

"That Stone of Creation didn't manage to squeeze out my eyeball, but it fused with my third eye! Oh, and my jade pendant?"

Qin Mu continued to observe, even more closely. He noticed that the iris in the eyeball was round, but the texture within the iris resembled the contours of mountain ranges!

Qin Mu shook his head. Normal iris patterns should be fan-shaped, but his iris pattern formed the character "Qin"!

"My jade pendant has also fused with my third eye..."

He composed himself, activated the Overlord Body Three Elixirs Art, and began to sort out his chaotic divine sense. He planned to use his creation arts to boost his vital energy and blood once his cultivation recovered somewhat.

Unexpectedly, the moment he activated the Overlord Body Three Elixirs Art, he suddenly felt his divine sense surge tremendously as it flowed through his third eye, becoming greatly strengthened, reaching tens of times its former power!

*Buzz—*

A thick, circular halo appeared behind his head; it was a torrent of vital energy, swirling and roaring. The divine sense, strengthened by the third eye, immediately greatly increased the operating speed of his Overlord Body Three Elixirs Art, forming a phenomenon behind his head!

Qin Mu was stunned for a moment. He felt that as the Overlord Body Three Elixirs Art operated, the vital energy in his Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure was like a tide, ebbing and flowing, and his vital energy increased rapidly.

Not only that, stars in the sky of his Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure pulsed, the spirit embryo on the Taiji-shaped spirit platform breathed, and beneath his feet in Youdu, demonic energy surged, as if a colossal god was breathing.

The entire spirit embryo was like a massive chest, inhaling and exhaling.

His vital energy and divine sense rapidly recovered and improved with the operation of the Overlord Body Three Elixirs Art!

However, he could still feel this eye devouring his vital energy and blood, though not as fiercely as before.

"This is... the effect of the third eye!"

Qin Mu continued to activate the Overlord Body Three Elixirs Art. Slowly, a halo of vital energy also rose behind the spirit embryo in his divine treasure.

As his cultivation art operated, the Grand Primordium Liquid formed a mist, and its refining speed greatly increased, rapidly nourishing his physique and restoring his vital energy and blood. However, the newly generated vital energy and blood were immediately siphoned away by the third eye!

In the sky, stars were arrayed. Below his feet, Youdu became even deeper, and the Taiji diagram-shaped spirit platform also steadily grew.

After an unknown amount of time, his vital energy and divine sense recovered to their peak state and were still improving. However, his vital energy and blood were still depleted!

His Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure was still expanding. More and more stars appeared in the sky, and Youdu beneath his feet also expanded accordingly.

Originally, he thought his Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure had reached its limit. But now, with the expansion of his Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure, he realized he had yet to unleash its full potential.

The lake formed by the Grand Primordium Liquid was slowly diminishing. At this rate, the Grand Primordium Liquid, which was originally expected to take over a decade to fully refine, would likely be completely refined by him in just a few months!

"But my eye has already grown out, so why is this eye still devouring my vital energy and blood?"

Qin Mu activated his divine sense. His divine sense surged into his glabella, forming a tiny figure that flew within the third eye in his glabella.

The space inside this eye was astonishingly vast. It was a boundless "Qin" character continent, with mountains layered upon mountains and undulating peaks, forming a massive "Qin" character.

This was a fragment of the Earth Count's horn. From a distance, it looked like a circular continent, and it was precisely these mountain contours that formed the iris's pattern.

And the Stone of Creation was precisely embedded in the center of the Qin character continent.

This divine stone had become incredibly massive, displacing a large portion of the continent's center. The divine stone was embedded in an abyss, surrounded by divine sense connected to the land, like scorching chains, locking down the Stone of Creation.

The Earth Count's horn formed the iris of his third eye, while the Stone of Creation formed its pupil.

When his vital energy and divine sense ran through this place, they flowed like clouds across the Qin character continent, causing the sky to shift and change.

This change was something Qin Mu had not anticipated, and Wei Suifeng, who had left the Stone of Creation for him, would have foreseen it even less.

"Is this change good or bad?"

He felt a faint unease. His divine sense searched around, and he saw his vital energy and blood surging forth, only to be devoured by the Stone of Creation.

"Is this stone stealing my vital energy and blood?"

With a thought, Qin Mu's divine sense flew into the crystal.

Red light permeated the crystal, disorienting him completely. Qin Mu's divine sense flew through the red light for a long time, but still couldn't find an end.

He abruptly stopped, quietly sensing the flow of his vital energy and blood. Then he followed the flow. After an unknown amount of time, Qin Mu's divine sense came to a halt. Within the red light, there was a massive altar. On the altar, flesh and blood writhed, like a colossal monster.

"It's not the third eye or the Stone of Creation that's stealing my vital energy and blood, but something hidden within the divine stone, intending to be reborn by using my vital energy and blood!"

Qin Mu's heart leaped. He slowly moved closer, and saw that the mass of flesh on the altar seemed to sense his presence, and stopped writhing.

Qin Mu narrowed his eyes. Suddenly, the mass of flesh parted, revealing a crimson eye that scanned its surroundings.

Qin Mu immediately dispersed his divine sense, avoiding the monster's scan. The flesh closed back together, covering the crimson eye, and continued to devour his vital energy and blood.

In front of the mirror in the cabin, Qin Mu's expression was grim.

Some sort of demonic creature was hidden within the Stone of Creation that Wei Suifeng had left him. This demonic creature had used the Stone of Creation to lie in wait, stealing his vital energy and blood.

"There's also an altar inside. This kind of altar feels familiar; it's one of those prehistoric altars from the Blood Rust Zone. Its purpose is to steal my vital energy and blood while simultaneously using my divine sense to reconstruct its physical body! So, this thing hidden in the Stone of Creation must be a prehistoric Creator!"

Qin Mu made his vital energy and blood flow incredibly smoothly, to avoid alarming the entity inside the Stone of Creation. He thought to himself, "The Blood Rust Zone was the battlefield where the ancient gods purged the prehistoric Creators. This Creator was killed by an ancient god in the Blood Rust Zone, but it didn't completely die. It must have escaped with its last vestiges of power into a shattered fragment of the Stone of Creation."

He paced back and forth, pondering deeply: "Senior Brother obtained this crystal, but because he was too strong, it dared not act out, leading Senior Brother to believe this divine stone was harmless, and so he left it to me. My cultivation and power are weaker, so when I experimented with the Stone of Creation, it tried to seize my vital energy and blood to be reborn, but it was blocked by my third eye, preventing it from succeeding."

He gradually deduced the truth: "When I was using the jade pendant to separate the Stone of Creation and the third eye, the divine stone, taking me by surprise, suddenly broke free and struck the jade pendant, knocking me unconscious. At that moment, it must have been this prehistoric Creator making its move!"

"It could have originally occupied my third eye and completely plundered my vital energy and blood. However, it didn't anticipate that this jade pendant was a seal personally crafted by Earth Count, specifically designed to seal my brother Qin Fengqing, the Youdu God Child."

A sharp glint appeared in Qin Mu's eyes: "It crashed into Earth Count's seal and couldn't escape, so it simply settled there, secretly siphoning my vital energy and blood. And every time I activate the Overlord Body Three Elixirs Art, my divine sense flows through the third eye, passing through the Stone of Creation, where a portion of it is intercepted and left on the altar by it."

"It's accumulating power, waiting for resurrection! It must be a significant figure among the prehistoric Creators, not having completely died even after such a long time. If it steals enough of my vital energy and blood, combined with the miraculous effects of the Stone of Creation, it could indeed be reborn within my eye. So..."

Qin Mu's three eyes grew increasingly bright: "How can I utterly destroy it?"

He paused. Judging by how this prehistoric Creator had tried to seize his vital energy and blood, even without a physical body, it was not something he could contend with.

At that time, Qin Mu was completely unable to control his vital energy and blood. Had his third eye not awakened, Qin Mu would likely have died!

Now, with the Stone of Creation fused into Qin Mu's eye, and Earth Count's seal, it couldn't cause further chaos for the time being. It could only slowly steal Qin Mu's vital energy and blood.

This gave Qin Mu an opportunity to deal with it.

However, dealing with this prehistoric Creator hidden within the divine stone was truly tricky, because the divine stone had already fused with his eye. A slight mistake could destroy his own eye.

"I need to first control the flow of my vital energy and blood, and reduce the divine sense flowing into the third eye. This can prevent its power from recovering."

Qin Mu pondered carefully: "I also need to set up formations within the third eye. Grandfather Blind's Nine Heavens Eye-Opening Method is no longer enough to eradicate such a terrifying existence. I need to design a new formation... This prehistoric Creator died in the Blood Rust Zone, killed by ancient gods, so the ancient gods' Great Dao is the best way to deal with it. I'll start by laying down the Great Dao runes of the 360 Stellar True Gods!"

Doing this would not only allow him to deal with this prehistoric Creator, but also enhance the power of his third eye, transforming it into his third divine eye!

As long as the formation was activated in this third divine eye, it could transform into the Great Array of the 360 Stellar True Gods, making it effortless to slay powerful enemies!

Within his Spirit Embryo Divine Treasure, Qin Mu's vital energy surged like a mighty torrent. Under the control of the spirit embryo, it became like a long rainbow, directly entering the Qin character continent, and imprinting the Stellar True Gods in the sky.

As countless runes appeared in the sky, they gradually formed the first Stellar True God.

Just then, an ancient and obscure divine sense fluctuation appeared in his mind: "Wait."