Chapter Ninety-Six: The Birth of the Primordial Core—The Demon-Slaying Diagram Reveals Its Power (Part Two)

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This chapter involves the emotional inner world of Mu Tou, so it was written more slowly. Please forgive me! Mu Tou bows and apologizes!

A reversal… definitely a reversal. Seeing the crisis unfolding and about to summon his brothers for help, Yaxin suddenly, for some unknown reason, kissed Mu Tou on the lips…

In that instant, Mu Tou’s mind went blank, only sensing the warmth and softness in his embrace, the delicate fragrance of a virgin’s essence assaulting his senses, intoxicating him completely. Moreover, Yaxin actively parted his teeth with her lilac tongue, and Mu Tou instinctively sucked in, only to find a strangely sweet liquid filling his abdomen.

Suddenly, Mu Tou felt as if he had swallowed the world’s strongest liquor. A surging heat rose from his dantian, spreading throughout his body. The true energy in his dantian boiled like hot water, and every pore on his skin seemed to radiate heat outward. At this moment, whether unwilling or unable to resist, Mu Tou felt his body frozen in place. He held Yaxin close, savoring the exquisite sensation, utterly forgetting the surrounding danger.

“Hey! Mu Tou, you called us here in such an emergency, don’t tell me you just wanted us to watch your exquisite tongue-kissing skills!”

The sudden remark startled everyone. As it turned out, when Yaxin kissed Mu Tou, he happened to issue the summoning command. As a result… Gu Feng, Zi Gui, Baldy, and Lu Daoxuan arrived in this world only to see Mu Tou locked in a kiss with a beauty. Zi Gui immediately started teasing.

Mu Tou blushed deeply, about to respond, but suddenly felt the warmth spreading through his body retracting inward. The true energy in his dantian spun rapidly, drawing the surrounding natural energy into its rotation, transforming into a powerful spiritual energy that penetrated his body. The liquefied true energy in his dantian grew thicker and stickier.

The fluctuation of the natural energy naturally drew everyone’s attention. The ancient mythical beast let out a fierce roar and charged at Mu Tou.

“Gravity Technique!” Baldy shouted. Instantly, the beast’s body staggered as if burdened with a weight of thousands of pounds.

“Shatter Space Seal!” Gu Feng immediately acted. At this time, he was the strongest among them, having already undergone spiritual refinement with divine power.

However, the centipede-like beast only howled once and quickly broke free from the gravity technique. Gu Feng’s spatial magic only inflicted minor injuries.

After this move, Gu Feng’s expression changed. “Be careful, this beast is very powerful!”

Zheng Yi Zhenren stood nearby and said, “Young friend, this beast is one of the nine sons of the legendary divine dragon, also known as the Water Avoider. It’s extremely formidable; be cautious!”

“Damn! Another dragon!” Zi Gui cursed. “Last time, dealing with a dragon nearly cost me my life. Now another one? Are you kidding me?”

“Dragon, Water Avoider… hahaha, it’s mine!” Baldy laughed loudly. “Another beast god transformation!” Then he shouted, “Tenfold Gravity Technique… Armored Form!”

Immediately, Baldy was covered in a layer of armor, ready to challenge the centipede beast alone.

“Mu Tou seems to be evolving… he needs some time!” Lu Daoxuan suddenly said. “Baldy alone isn’t a match for that beast. Zi Gui, summon the Mystic Moon Witch. She and Baldy together should be able to handle it!”

Since being convinced by Lu Daoxuan’s wisdom, everyone instinctively obeyed when he spoke. Zi Gui quickly took out the “Harem” and summoned the Mystic Moon Witch!

“Light of the six-pointed star and five rays, supreme punishment of heaven and earth, extreme magic, blood covenant, open the Mystic Moon barrier, veil the worldly light, One Finger Mystic Moon!” As the incantation echoed, a silver moon rose into the sky, bathing the surrounding space in its silvery light… The first thing the Mystic Moon Witch did upon appearing was to cast her newly reforged magical weapon, “One Finger Mystic Moon,” into the air. Under this weapon, her dark magic reigned supreme.

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“See that little beast with a lion-like face, a pair of horns on its head, and dragon scales on its body, legs, and tail? Kill it for me!” Zi Gui said arrogantly, as if the one before him wasn’t one of the five strongest in the magical dimensional plane, but merely his personal bodyguard.

However, somehow, Zi Gui had trained this once proud strongest warrior to respond coquettishly and begin chanting spells:

“Dark Arrow, seventy-seven combined into one!”

“Ninety-nine returns to one technique, Dark Dragon-Breaking Spear!”

With her incantation, her bone whip spun, shooting out beams of dark light, joining Baldy in battling the centipede beast.

Lu Daoxuan nodded. “You forged this bone whip for her using the bones of the Divine Dragon King, right? It’s more powerful than before!”

Zi Gui giggled, “Of course, she’s both my… (censored, you can guess) and high-level bodyguard, so naturally, I had to arm her to the teeth!”

“(Censored)… You really said that!” Everyone burst out laughing.

Seeing Baldy and the Mystic Moon Witch working together to handle the centipede beast, Mu Tou felt greatly relieved. Only then did he have time to sense the changes inside his body. He felt strands of natural spiritual energy, drawn by the rotating true energy, entering and condensing in his dantian. Moreover, he sensed that the sticky true energy was undergoing intense compression, while his limbs felt warm and comfortable.

“This is… forming a core!” Having studied the “Supreme Clarity Techniques,” Mu Tou was no longer a novice in cultivation and quickly understood his condition was what the cultivation world called “core formation.”

For cultivators, forming a core is a momentous event, marking the ability to fly with a sword and creating a vast gulf between ordinary disciples and oneself. Generally, cultivators retreat to blessed sects or secluded realms to avoid disturbance and ensure success.

However, Mu Tou was in a perilous situation, unaware of what Yaxin had given him to consume when core formation began unexpectedly. He was caught off guard. Looking at Yaxin, he saw her face even paler, her body leaning softly against a tree, as if life was slipping away from her.

Suddenly, a phrase Yaxin had said earlier flashed through his mind: “Perhaps, without this life energy spirit, they will naturally withdraw!”

“Life energy spirit… could it be!?” A possibility struck Mu Tou’s mind, and his face turned pale. “No… Yaxin, you wouldn’t…”

Yaxin only smiled at him, seemingly unable to speak.

Mu Tou suddenly felt overwhelming sorrow, and tears uncontrollably streamed down his face.

“No… Yaxin, you can’t be dying!”

In that moment, his thoughts flashed back to the past:

That day, atop Chaotian Peak, in a small grove, the veiled yet gentle and enchanting woman playing the zither…

That day, atop Chaotian Peak, a gentle voice said to him: “Senior Brother Mu, no one else is around here, may I be your listener?”

That day, atop Chaotian Peak, the two stood facing each other, and she said: “I am no match for you, Senior Brother Mu. I willingly concede and forfeit…”

That day…

Though their time together was brief, somehow this woman had deeply rooted herself in his heart. He once thought that with so many beauties, with his extraordinary strength, he could play through life and avoid the troubles of love, never to be hurt by heartache again…

Now, he finally realized how wrong he was—terribly wrong. He thought he could transcend worldly love, yet Yaxin had long since breached his defenses. He didn’t know when… perhaps on that very night, when she gently said: “Senior Brother Mu, may I be your listener?”

At this moment, he suddenly sensed a faint dark silver radiance within the liquefied golden true energy—a silver core the size of a bean had formed. As it rotated, it absorbed the true energy from his dantian like a long rainbow drawing in water, instantly swelling to thumb-size.

“Yaxin…” he lunged forward, holding her soft, collapsing form.

Suddenly, a thunderous black bolt of lightning struck straight down at Mu Tou. The Mist Tyrant Demon Lord, who had been battling Qing Feng midair, finally emerged from the black clouds, cloaked entirely in a black robe, with only a pair of green eyes gleaming vividly, piercing the soul.

Seeing his mount blocked by two mysterious figures and unwilling to linger, his strike aimed to force Mu Tou back and seize Yaxin.

“Dodge quickly!” Zheng Yi Zhenren shouted, “That’s the Heavenly Severance…”

Before he could finish, the black lightning was about to strike Mu Tou, who seemed unable to evade.

Suddenly, the Mist Tyrant Demon Lord faltered, sensing a strange murderous aura spreading from Mu Tou’s feet upward. To his shock, the “Heavenly Severance Demon Flow” missed its mark. Mu Tou, clutching Yaxin, appeared before Shui Wufeng. “Senior, please take care of her!”

Shui Wufeng took her in dazedly. She sensed overwhelming killing intent radiating from Mu Tou, far surpassing even Qing Feng and the Mist Tyrant Demon Lord…

“It’s all your fault… you forced Yaxin to this!” At this moment, Mu Tou’s eyes were blood-red, his gaze filled with killing intent. A small painting spread from his feet, enclosing him and the Mist Tyrant Demon Lord in its center. Though Mu Tou made no visible moves, four azure lights shot from the Mud Pellet Palace atop his head, first entering the painting, then instantly bursting out, circling around him endlessly.

“The Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation… the world’s strongest killing formation!” Qing Feng, unable to stop the Mist Tyrant Demon Lord, saw this and paled. “He… can actually activate the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation!?”

It turned out that after receiving the life energy spirit Yaxin had willingly bestowed, the immense immortal-root spiritual energy prompted him to instantly form a core—actually a silver core, quite different from the golden cores of traditional cultivators.

Once the silver core formed, Mu Tou immediately felt capable of deploying the Immortal-Slaying Formation—a killing array dating back to the primal age. Although Mu Tou’s strength was insufficient to summon the four Immortal-Slaying Swords to complement the formation, even the combination of the four azure flying swords and the formation alone caused the Mist Tyrant Demon Lord, already at the “Five Elements Unified, Yin-Yang Reborn” realm, to tremble with a sense of death looming.

“Unforgivable…” At this moment, Mu Tou’s face twisted horribly. His once gentle and serene expression became ferocious, and under the Immortal-Slaying Formation’s power, the four swords emitted a dazzling rainbow light…