Tales of Herding Gods
Chapter 1511: A Lifetime Of Injuries

Qin Mu was also afraid of falling out with her. Both of them were on the small boat, which was too small. If Heavenly Lady Qiang decided to drag him into the water, he couldn't avoid falling into it.

At that time, no one would be able to save him!

"Your Majesty is right, I was reckless."

Qin Mu readily admitted his mistake and said sincerely, "When we are in danger, you and I will face a common enemy and fight against the nine great Celestial Venerables. As for what happens in the future, we'll talk about it in the future!"

He stabbed out with his sword and met the consciousnesses of the three Celestial Venerables. The sword light flashed and intercepted the consciousness attacks of Celestial Venerable Xiao, God Emperor Lang Xuan, and Celestial Venerable Gong!

His consciousness was hard to break, but his sword skill was extremely intricate. Wherever the sword light passed, chaos opened up, and layers of lotus-shaped void appeared, causing the consciousnesses of the three Celestial Venerables to break. They couldn't be connected to the consciousness that attacked Heavenly Lady Qiang's mind.

The sword flowers bloomed in the void like flower buds swirling out petals that overlapped each other, making the consciousnesses of the three Celestial Venerables dance around the petals. It was hard for them to break through his sword light in a short time.

Heavenly Lady Qiang took the chance to use her Great Overarching Consciousness Heaven to destroy and refine the consciousnesses of the three Celestial Venerables. At the same time, Qin Mu stopped and the small boat flew away.

When the three Celestial Venerables rushed out of the void formed by his sword light, the small boat was no longer there.

The three Celestial Venerables searched the surroundings with their consciousnesses and sensed the small boat on the river. They chased after it closely.

"Celestial Venerable Mu is such a bad egg. He's so quick to apologize and admit his mistakes. It's hard to hate him."

Heavenly Lady Qiang broke free from her predicament and sighed ruefully. 'This bad egg must have practiced many times. If one can enter the path by apologizing, he must be about to achieve the path!'

As the small boat flew, flames suddenly surged. Heavenly Lady Qiang's heart leaped, and she saw the flames distorting the chaos on the river into a huge oval-shaped wheel.

Celestial Venerable Huo's figure appeared on the right side of the small boat, and he stood on the Dao Tree in the ring of flames. When the three of them met, Celestial Venerable Huo and Heavenly Lady Qiang looked astonished.

Only Qin Mu's expression remained the same. He unsheathed his Calamity Sword and attacked Celestial Venerable Huo.

'That's right, Celestial Venerable Mu's eyes can definitely see through the chaos and see that Celestial Venerable Huo is here.'

Heavenly Lady Qiang immediately guessed that Qin Mu could see through the chaos, so she purposely let the small boat sail near Celestial Venerable Huo. Celestial Venerable Huo and Celestial Venerable Mu weren't on good terms, and they were like fire and water. As long as Celestial Venerable Huo had the chance, he would try to kill Qin Mu. Now, Qin Mu had the chance to retaliate.

'This fellow has a belly full of evil tricks and is evil to the core. He's planning to borrow my power to get rid of Celestial Venerable Huo in one go!'

However, to Heavenly Lady Qiang, this was a rare chance to severely injure Celestial Venerable Huo!

Opportunities were fleeting. Those who achieved great things had to seize every fleeting opportunity!

At the same time, her consciousness burst forth and rushed towards Celestial Venerable Huo!

Her consciousness arrived before Qin Mu's sword light could reach the heart of Celestial Venerable Huo's brows!

Celestial Venerable Huo's reaction speed was fast, and the flaming wheels around him immediately spun forward. The heavens in the flaming wheels bloomed, slightly blocking Heavenly Lady Qiang's consciousness and delaying it from attacking his brain.

His flaming wheels crumbled under the impact of Heavenly Lady Qiang's consciousness.

At the same time, Celestial Venerable Huo immediately retreated, and new wheels of fire swirled and expanded behind his head, surging forward from his body.

However, Qin Mu's sword light pierced through Heavenly Lady Qiang's consciousness, piercing through the flaming wheels!

Celestial Venerable Huo gave a cold humph. His Dao fire cultivation had already reached the twenty-four heavens of the Dao Realm, and there was nothing he couldn't melt or burn. Even without the Dao fire ancestral land, he was still the strongest practitioner of Dao fire!

Even if Qin Mu obtained the Dao weapon of the person who had achieved the Dao, he was still confident that he could melt this Dao weapon!

Qin Mu's Calamity Sword passed through the twenty heavens of the ring of flames in an instant. The divine sword was burned red by the Dao fire, and in the next instant, it passed through the Dao fire of the twenty-one, twenty-two, and twenty-three wheels.

Celestial Venerable Huo revealed a look of astonishment. When the tip of the divine sword was burned until it burst forth with incomparably bright light and passed through the twenty-fourth ring of flames to reach the heart of his brows, the astonishment on his face didn't vanish.

"Dao weapons can actually block my World Obliterating Sacred Flame?"

He raised his palm and pressed two fingers on the tip of the sword, trying to break it.

Yet when he tried to bend it, he realized that the hardness of the divine sword was beyond his imagination. Even after being burned to such a state, it didn't show any signs of softening!

Under the high temperature of the blazing fire, any divine weapon would melt even if it didn't melt. However, Qin Mu's sword showed no signs of melting.

What he didn't know was that this sword wasn't a Dao weapon for those who had achieved the Dao. Instead, it was a supreme treasure that Qin Mu had taken from a prehistoric Celestial Venerable existence and forged after melting it.

And the great furnace that forged this sword was the land of the Dao fire ancestor!

This sword was forged in the ninth heaven of Dao Fire Ancestral Land. Later on, even Dao Fire Ancestral Land couldn't melt it or soften it!

Qin Mu spun his sword, and the two fingers of Celestial Venerable Huo's right hand flew up, turning into fine powder under the sword light.

Celestial Venerable Huo felt pain, and the tip of his sword moved again. The yin and yang qi were like dragons, and the sword light fused with the yin and yang qi, forming a huge circle around him!

Celestial Venerable Huo's heart leaped, and he saw countless sword lights flowing out from the huge circle. They were clanging from the outer layer to the inner layer, and they soon covered more than half of the huge circle. They were still flowing towards him!

Not only that, a peculiar change happened to the taiji diagram that was forming. The sword light was actually split into two paths, Yin and Yang. A pure white sword light ball appeared in the black sword light, and a pure black sword light ball appeared in the pure white sword light.

The two sword balls seemed to have a marvelous attraction force in the taiji diagram. They guided each other and swirled around him!

When the two sword balls spun, the dragon marking lines of the taiji diagram appeared.

It was a supreme sword qi that combined the Dao of Yin and Yang to form the Dao of Taiji. It was indestructible and sliced the Dao Tree under his feet into two!

Celestial Venerable Huo's heart leaped, and he rose up step by step to the top of the Dao Tree to avoid that astonishing Taiji Sword Dao.

For a moment, he couldn't see through the depth of this move, so he could only avoid it. However, his fiery eyes were closely observing the marvel of this sword and searching for a way to break it.

Even though two of his fingers had been severed, even though the Dao Tree had been severed, he was still calm and composed. Even though Qin Mu's sword path was so strong, he didn't panic in the slightest.

On the small boat, Qin Mu's feet landed heavily, and the boat instantly sped up. With a roar, it rushed into the flaming wheels. Heavenly Lady Qiang screamed angrily, "Celestial Venerable Mu, are you crazy?"

Those flaming wheels were Celestial Venerable Huo's great divine art of the Dao Realm. Passing through here was the shortest path to reach Celestial Venerable Huo, but it was also the most dangerous path.

Celestial Venerable Huo wasn't only the strongest existence in the world of Dao fire, he was also one of the strongest existences with the strongest magic power.

He had almost absorbed and refined all of South Deity's cultivation and Great Dao. His magic power was incomparably overbearing, and as the Seven Celestial Venerables of Dragon Han, his foundation was also unfathomable.

Qin Mu had actually tried to pass through his twenty-four great divine arts, and he was simply risking his life!

This was perhaps the biggest difference between the Grand Emperor and Qin Mu.

In the primordial era, even though the Grand Emperor was invincible, he rarely risked his life.

This was because his position was too high and he had too few opponents, but it was also because of his nature.

After the end of the primordial era, the masters of creation declined. During the fierce battle between the ancient gods and the masters of creation in the Blood Rust Zone, the Grand Emperor didn't put his life on the line. When he saw that the situation wasn't good, he retreated, leaving the masters of creation to die.

Throughout the million years of the Dragon Han Era, he had rarely fought with his life on the line. Therefore, he would be killed by Celestial Venerables Yun, Yue, and Ling, trapping him in the supreme consciousness realm of the Great Void. Because of that, his primordial spirit would be sealed in the unchanging divine art by Celestial Venerable Ling.

He had never truly risked his life.

However, now that Heavenly Lady Qiang was on the same boat as Qin Mu, she had no choice but to risk her life.

Heavenly Lady Qiang executed her two baleful aura divine knives and slashed at the flaming wheels, splitting Celestial Venerable Huo's twenty-four heavens of the Dao Realm. The blazing flames burned the blood-red God Execution Mysterious Knife until it reeked.

Celestial Venerable Huo's magic power was too strong, making the power of the Dao fire terrifying.

By the time the twenty-fourth wheel was split open, Heavenly Lady Qiang's arms were numb from the impact. Her hands were charred black by the heat from the God Execution Mysterious Knife.

'This Celestial Venerable Mu likes to risk his life too much…'

Before Heavenly Lady Qiang could heave a sigh of relief, she heard the rumbling of the Dao. Celestial Venerable Huo stood on the top of the Dao Tree, and behind his head, celestial palaces appeared. In the celestial palaces, they shone brightly!

Heavenly Lady Qiang sighed, feeling jealous.

They had been in the Jade Capital City for more than two years, and the ten Celestial Venerables had comprehended the Hall of Treasures in the Jade Capital City, trying to find a more profound reason to stabilize their Celestial Heavens Realm.

However, Heavenly Lady Qiang didn't gain much. She had only comprehended 20 and a half halls in the past two years, but Celestial Venerable Huo had revealed 34!

He basically had a celestial palace corresponding to a treasured hall, which allowed his cultivation to increase by another astonishing amount!

Celestial Venerable Huo was very close to the supreme realm of the celestial heavens.

If he took another step forward, even the Grand Emperor at his peak would be inferior to him.

'Celestial Venerable Huo's aptitude is too high. No matter what, I have to severely injure him!'

When Heavenly Lady Qiang thought of this, Celestial Venerable Huo attacked and used his supreme magic power to stop the spinning taiji diagram, shattering it!

He didn't attack purely with brute force. Instead, he saw that Qin Mu's Great Ultimate Dao hadn't reached a perfect state. He attacked the strongest point and started to break the dragon marking line.

Just from this point alone, one could see the shrewdness in his eyes, and one couldn't help but admire him.

Taiji evolved and collapsed, and Calamity Sword whooshed out. In the next moment, it was held in Qin Mu's hand by the youth who had passed through the twenty-four Dao flames, and he stabbed out with his sword.

This sword met Celestial Venerable Huo's palm that had broken through the transformation of taiji. Celestial Venerable Huo used all of his skills in this palm strike, and the Dao of Fire surged and filled the air. Between his five fingers, the Dao fire was like a wheel, and with a whistle, the Great Dao flourished!

His fingerprints were like worlds, and his palm prints were like the earth and mountains.

This was his strongest attack. Even after breaking through the transformation of Taiji, its power was still overflowing.

However, when Qin Mu's sword stabbed into his palm, the sword skill became incomparably fine. The sword light in Celestial Venerable Huo's palm became incomparably fine. The Dao Severing Chain, the breaking of the Dao markings, the disintegration of the runes, and in an instant, Celestial Venerable Huo's palm became white bones!

Celestial Venerable Huo was shocked and hurriedly retracted his palm. He saw the sword light wrapping around his wrist.

Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi!

The sword light swirled around his arm and climbed up rapidly. When it reached his shoulder, there was no longer any flesh on his arm!

What was even more terrifying was that his Great Dao was directly severed, turning into pure energy that no longer existed!

The thirtieth heaven of the Dao Realm, breaking the calamity!

Celestial Venerable Huo saw the situation, and the flames in his eyes turned into two fire dragons that flew out from his eyes, crisscrossing and slashing!

Qin Mu returned his sword to slay the fire dragon, while Heavenly Lady Qiang's two God Execution Mysterious Knives struck Celestial Venerable Huo's other arm. His arm immediately dried up, and the qi and blood in his arm were quickly absorbed by the God Execution Mysterious Knife.

Celestial Venerable Huo didn't say a word. He raised his left arm, which was only left with white bones. Using his hand as a knife, he sliced his right arm off to prevent the God Execution Mysterious Knife from sucking all of his qi and blood dry.

Behind him, his primordial spirit leaped up from the celestial heavens and punched out. Even the primordial qi on the river was scorched red. It looked like it was about to assimilate into the path of fire!

Qin Mu kicked the boat and turned it around. Heavenly Lady Qiang immediately faced Celestial Venerable Huo's attack.

Heavenly Lady Qiang cursed under her breath, but she had no choice but to activate all her magic power. Her primordial spirit flew up, and the celestial palace transformed into the celestial heavens to face Celestial Venerable Huo's attack!

Boom—

Heavenly Lady Qiang flew off the small boat and flew backward. Her consciousness flew out from the heart of her brows and transformed into long ropes that coiled around Qin Mu's body.

Qin Mu held the sword hilt upside down and bowed. Celestial Venerable Huo's face exploded, and the flesh and blood on his face turned into primordial qi that flowed in all directions. He couldn't help but fly up from the Dao Tree.

Qin Mu was pulled by Heavenly Lady Qiang, who was flying backward. The small boat couldn't help but retreat. Qin Mu gritted his teeth and stood steadily on the small boat. He held the divine sword upside down and pushed it towards Celestial Venerable Huo again.

Celestial Venerable Huo's face exploded again. His scalp was still there, but there was no flesh on his face at all, revealing his ghastly white bones.

His body flew into the fog and was about to disappear.

Qin Mu paid his respects to the Primordial Chaos One Qi Dao, and the bones on Celestial Venerable Huo's face shattered. His body fell into the long river of chaos, and at that moment, a huge hand reached out from the fog and grabbed Celestial Venerable Huo's falling body.

Qin Mu's vertical eye stared at the owner of that huge hand. Celestial Venerable Hao stood on a Dao Tree and looked at him.

"Celestial Venerable Huo, the injuries I have left for you are injuries that will last your entire life. No one can treat them, not even Tai Su."

Qin Mu stabbed the Calamity Sword into the wooden sheath and relaxed his body. He was pulled back by Heavenly Lady Qiang, and under Celestial Venerable Hao's gaze, his face vanished into the fog.

Ancestral God King rushed over and swept the fog with his Heavenly Dao treasure. However, he couldn't find any trace of Qin Mu and was secretly alarmed.

"Ancestral God King, you are next." Qin Mu's voice came from somewhere.