Chapter 42: First Awakening of Divine Powers and Spells

No one knows how Qin Siwu managed to get through these past few days!

Now, upon hearing Song Shuitao say that his illness can still be saved, the agitated Qin Siwu kept asking repeatedly.

"Old Song!"

"It's already this time, so don't tease me any more!"

"Quickly tell me, how exactly should I treat this illness!"

Song Shuitao spread his hands wide and said bluntly, "How else could it be treated!"

"Give me a strong medicine!"

"Your illness is complicated when you say it's complicated, and simple when you say it's simple."

"The main cause lies in the damage to your five organs, six viscera, and the eight extraordinary vessels."

"I have here a third-grade Little Returning Pill, which is perfect for targeting your organ and vessel injuries."

As he spoke, Song Shuitao, like performing a magic trick, directly poured out of the Jade Bottle a pill wholly crimson in color.

The pill emitted a mellow, rich fragrance, and when brought close, one could smell a faint, lingering scent of blood, as if a beast organ had been used as a drug guide.

Not only that!

The pill's blood Qi bubbled, occasionally emitting a red mist outward.

"Lao Qin, don't be nervous either."

"This Little Returning Pill isn't expensive!"

"Given our years of friendship, I'll give you a friendly price!"

"Saying that..."

Saying.

Song Shuitao then slowly raised three fingers toward Qin Siwu.

"30,000 contribution points?"

"Lao Song, you truly are my great benefactor!"

"Rest assured, as long as I, Qin Siwu, settle my great revenge, I will definitely..."

"No, no, no..."

But before Qin Siwu could finish, Song Shuitao's head shook like a tambourine.

"It's not 30,000 sect contribution points!"

"It's 300,000 sect contribution points!"

"To your mother!"

"You're insane!"

Upon hearing Song Shuitao mention three hundred thousand contribution points, Qin Siwu almost didn't throw a punch.

At most, this Little Returning Pill is worth only a hundred thousand sect contribution points, which is already top-tier.

Yet Song Shuitao opened his mouth demanding three hundred thousand from me!

Damn it!

It's like I'm being slaughtered like a pig!

But there's no way…

Great-grandson Qin Zhixiang was publicly Slash‑beheaded by Li Mu!

This grudge!

Qin Siwu will definitely avenge it!

Even at any cost, he will spare no effort!

"..."

After swallowing the Little Returning Pill, as the medicine gradually dissolved inside his body.

Qin Siwu's pale, paper‑white old face finally showed a hint of blood color.

After a quarter of an hour.

Qin Siwu slowly opened his eyes, and a long‑missed smile finally appeared on his face.

"Indeed, the third-grade superior Little Returning Pill's effect exceeds my expectations."

"I can now feel my organs and vessels being constantly nourished and healed by a flame."

Delighted, Qin Siwu's face broke into a grim smile as he said coldly.

"Li Mu!"

"The day you emerged from the secret realm is the day of your imminent death!"

"I will use your severed head as an offering to honor my great‑grandson's departed soul!"

Just as Qin Siwu's mind was filled with how to kill Li Mu next,

Qin Siwu suddenly sensed something was off.

In fact, when he first swallowed the Little Returning Pill,

Qin Siwu felt a tingling numbness in his lower abdomen, as if a fire burned there, his whole body scorching intensely.

At first,

He didn't take it seriously, assuming it was the normal effect of the Little Returning Pill.

But after a while,

He felt an itch in his lower body that made him want to scratch.

Qin Siwu looked at Song Shuitao, his old face flushing, and said sheepishly, "Old Song, I need to relieve myself."

Song Shuitao didn't turn his head, merely pointed to a direction with his hand.

He then happily counted the three hundred thousand contribution points that had just been credited to his account.

However, Song Shutao, immersed in the joy of his harvest, didn't notice.

Qin Siwu, who had gone to relieve himself, somehow ended up standing behind him without him realizing.

His old face turned red as a freshly cooked crab, white steam pouring from his nostrils.

""Crack!""

Qin Siwu shook his arms, and his clothes exploded into rags under the surging true qi.

Then he strode toward the oblivious Song Shutao.

Hearing the footsteps behind him, Song Shutao turned around with a smile.

But he suddenly saw Qin Siwu standing behind him, looking at him with an evil, charming smile.

""I'll fuck your mother!""

Song Shutao, who was happily counting his contribution points, was genuinely startled when Qin Siwu stared at him so intently out of the blue.

""Qin Siwu!""

""What are you doing?""

Song Shutao jumped to his feet and shouted his question.

""What are you doing?""

""Hehehe...""

Upon hearing Song Shutao ask what he was doing, Qin Siwu's grin turned even more wicked as he reached out to grab him.

""Of course...""

""I got you!""

""...""

At the Pill Workshop of Xuan Yue Peak, a fierce one-on-one battle of true men was underway!

At that time.

In the Yunshan Secret Realm.

Time passed second by second, and Li Mu felt as if he were bathed in golden light, his whole body exuding solemnity and a sacred aura.

Suddenly, Li Mu's body shuddered!

A domineering, tyrannical force surged outward from him in all directions.

Instantly!

Sand and rocks flew, leaves rustled down.

Li Mu's eyes snapped open and he sprang to his feet.

""Hah!""

A low growl!

He threw a punch!

His fist was like a cannonball leaving the barrel, carrying immense force of ten thousand jun, slamming heavily into the hard granite before him.

""Boom!""

""Whoosh!""

A huge roar suddenly rang out, kicking up a cloud of dust!

The smoke and dust cleared.

All that could be seen was

The granite wall before Li Mu caved inward deeply.

From the point where Li Mu's fist struck, the dense, spiderweb-like cracks spread outward in all directions.

Li Mu laughed loudly to the sky.

""My physical strength is now at least two hundred thousand catties!""

""Just this alone, even a first-tier Concentration Realm cultivator wouldn't be enough to withstand me!""

Just as Li Mu had expected.

Li Mu, after tempering his body with snake blood and nourishing his organs with the snake's gallbladder,

Even without using any martial techniques, and without even drawing his blade.

Relying solely on his terrifying physical strength, he could blow apart a Ninth Grade Qi Refining Realm Peak cultivator like Zhao Jianfei with a single punch!

Even someone like Lin Zehong, who has just entered the Concentration Realm, if he dares to face me head-on, Li Mu guarantees he'll come in upright and leave sideways!

However brutal it gets, it will be that brutal!

But compared to Li Mu's gains this time, his leap in physical strength is merely the tip of the iceberg!

Li Mu slid his finger down and summoned the system interface!

On it, there was a new unread message!

""【Ding!】""

""【The system detected the host consuming the black-scaled demon python's gallbladder, triggering a tenfold Heavenly Dao Blessing!】""

""【Congratulations, host, you have gained a tenfold harvest!】""

""【Ding!】""

""【The system detected the host bathing in the black-scaled demon python's blood, triggering a tenfold Heavenly Dao Blessing!】""

""【Congratulations, host, you have gained a tenfold harvest!】""

""【Ding!】""

""【The system detected the host cultivating the Eight Nine Mysterious Skill, triggering a hundredfold Heavenly Dao Blessing!】""

Congratulations, Host, you have obtained Hundredfold Gain!

Ding!

Congratulations, Host, "Eight Nine Profound Art" has successfully risen to lv: 11.

Note: Every ten levels the "Eight Nine Profound Art" advances, the Host can awaken a Divine skill!

Li Mu's eyes flashed as he stared at the system's latest unread message.

Not easy!

It really is far from easy!

After continual upgrades, I finally raised the Eight Nine Profound Art to lv: 10!

Speaking of which…

This is still my first awakening of a Divine skill from the Eight Nine Profound Art!

What reward will it bring me?

"System!"

"I want to awaken a Divine skill!"

"Buzz!"

Li Mu's thought flickered, and a golden beam instantly burst from the light screen before him, dazzling and soaring straight into the heavens!

Immediately after.

A surge of immense energy rippled, centered on Li Mu's direction, instantly illuminating the dim sky of Yunshan Secret Realm!

The Outer Peak disciples scattered throughout Yunshan Secret Realm for the Four Peaks Grand Competition were all suddenly startled!

They all looked toward the same direction together!

In their sight, the golden beam resembled a radiant golden celestial stair linking Yunshan Secret Realm to the heavens.

It was so spectacular, stirring the heart and spirit!

"This…"

"What on earth is happening?"

"Woohoo!"

Immediately thereafter, under hundreds and thousands of bewildered gazes!

"Boom—boom—boom…"

The whole Yunshan Secret Realm was engulfed by this extreme might!

Under the impact of the vast golden beam, the ground quaked, startling countless demonic beasts in the jungle to scatter and flee in panic!

The unprecedented grand phenomenon shattered the clouds, bathing the boundless Yunshan Secret Realm in daylight!

High above, ten thousand meters above the Yunshan Secret Realm.

The Inner Peak Elders positioned at the east, south, west, north, and central five directions staggered, nearly falling from the sky.

"Elder Zhao!"

"What on earth is happening in the Yunshan Secret Realm?"

"To think such a celestial phenomenon could erupt!"

"Indeed!"

"Even us centuries‑old monsters have never heard of nor seen such a phenomenon!"

The Inner Peak Elders surrounding the great formation instinctively tried to use their divine perception to probe the source of the golden light!

"What's going on?"

"So blinding!"

When the divine perception of the four Inner Peak Elders first touched the golden light,

they felt their eyes as if seared by scorching fire.

Their eyes immediately reddened, tears poured like rain, and they could not look directly at the vast golden light!

Even Zhao Huaiyang, the Inner Peak Elder of Heaven Peak Ridge, the most cultivated among the five,

at this moment could not see through the golden cloud sea to discern what was happening in the Yunshan Secret Realm.

Although invisible, such a phenomenon that already altered the Heavenly Dao's rules, once it appears,

even a fool can realize that something extraordinary is certainly happening in the Yunshan Secret Realm right now.

Amidst fear, Zhao Huaiyang's heart raced uncontrollably, and his palms trembled slightly.

No wonder he was so flustered!

Before the Four Peaks Grand Competition, the five Inner Peak Elders had jointly surveyed the Yunshan Secret Realm, and found nothing unusual then!

Moreover, since its founding, the Yunshan Secret Realm has existed for over a thousand years!

Throughout these millennia,

even if the Yunshan Secret Realm truly harbored something remarkable, the Ziyang Sect ancestors would have discovered it long ago; it could not wait until now to be uncovered.

Therefore, there is only one possible cause!

The one who triggered this celestial phenomenon must be one of the Outer Peak disciples of the Ziyang Sect.

"Could it be an Imprint Spirit?"

"Within the Yunshan Secret Realm, a disciple is visualizing a divine spirit, awakening a Divine skill!"

"Could there be a disciple besides Yang Yuanwu, Lin Zehong, and Zhao Ruifeng who has broken through the Concentration Realm?"

"It's not necessary to break through the Concentration Realm to imprint a spirit!"

"Many gifted, destiny‑blessed individuals bearing great atmospheric luck can already communicate with their divine spirits and manifest their forms at the Ten Grade Lian Qi Realm!"

"The exact person, however, remains unclear."

"But to be able to trigger such a heavenly‑earthly phenomenon, that shows the awakened divine technique on the other side is far from ordinary; its starting point must already be an Earth‑stage divine technique!"

"Its future prospects are limitless!"

"Our Ziyang Sect has been dormant in the Qian Kun Realm for so long; finally we can produce a new demon hero to represent the Ziyang Sect and rise again in the Hundred Dynasties Great War, right?"

"Zhao Huaiyang's throat churned, his eyes brimmed with tears, and the excitement was old tears streaming wildly."

"Later."

"He took out the Communication Token and directly reported the matter to the Ziyang Sect sect master and the senior elders, letting them decide."

"......"

"Huh......"

"Beside the creek."

"Li Mu, who was immersed in his awakened divine technique, was completely unaware of the heavenly‑earthly phenomenon that had just occurred in the Yunshan Secret Realm."

"He let out a long sigh, and after a brief moment slowly opened his eyes."

"In those star‑black eyes seemed to burn a cluster of golden flame, and the whole person radiated a majestic, solemn aura from within, as if to cleanse all of the world with a sweeping momentum!"

"Following Li Mu's gaze forward, he saw the relevant information displayed on the system's semi‑transparent virtual screen before him."

"Ding!"

"Congratulations, host, you have successfully awakened the Eight‑Nine Profound Skill divine technique!"

"New divine technique added: Samadhi True Fire (upgradeable)."