112: Old Mo appears

The phantom image exuded an ancient aura.

Observing its appearance, it seemed to be a Middle-aged man (Fang Yan) with a pale, beardless face.

Lin Mu’s attack was easily parried by a casual wave from the phantom image.

Liu Yang Wuji, with a respectful expression, bowed to the phantom image and said,

“Greetings, Lord God Emperor.”

This phantom image was none other than the Northern God Emperor, as mentioned by Liu Yang Wuji.

However, this was merely a projection of the God Emperor.

The Northern God Emperor glanced indifferently at Liu Yang Wuji, speaking with displeasure.

“You can’t even deal with a mere criminal; must I personally intervene?”

Upon hearing this, Liu Yang Wuji’s knees weakened, and he knelt on the ground.

He pleaded, “Lord God Emperor, please forgive me; this person is truly too strange and sinister.”

The Northern God Emperor cast a dismissive glance at Lin Mu, saying nonchalantly,

“He’s just a newly advanced Heavenly Dao Body, his strength barely at the Celestial God Realm. Did you, a God King, cultivate for nothing?”

Liu Yang Wuji broke out in a cold sweat. If he couldn’t explain this clearly, he would never be able to return to the God Realm in this lifetime.

“Lord God Emperor, you may not know, but this person is not only a Heavenly Dao Body, he also possesses a mysterious divine power within him.”

“This kind of divine power is something my subordinate has never seen before. I suspect it is Primal God Power.”

In truth, Liu Yang Wuji hadn’t clearly seen what Lin Mu’s divine power actually was.

He said this merely to shirk his responsibility.

This Primal God Power was a taboo in the God Realm; anyone associated with it would be suppressed.

Indeed!

Upon hearing the words Primal God Power, the Northern God Emperor immediately erupted with a heaven-shaking aura.

He grabbed Liu Yang Wuji and demanded sharply, “You just said he has Primal God Power?”

Liu Yang Wuji said nervously, “It’s my subordinate’s guess; the divine power on him indeed resembles Primal God Power.”

The Northern God Emperor casually released Liu Yang Wuji, his eyes playfully turning towards Lin Mu.

He carefully scrutinized Lin Mu for a moment but found nothing particularly special.

So, he decided to test him. If it truly was Primal God Power, he absolutely had to bring this person under his control.

Thinking of this, he extended his palm and made a grabbing motion forward.

In an instant, a colossal pressure appeared above Lin Mu’s head.

Lin Mu looked up.

He saw an incredibly massive palm reaching out to grab him.

Lin Mu drew his primordial god sword, ready to strike.

Just then, a simple, unadorned sword qi suddenly, without warning, slashed towards the giant palm.

This sword qi appeared ordinary, yet it shattered the heaven-shaking giant palm to pieces with a single strike.

The Northern Great Emperor frowned upon seeing this. He felt a familiar aura from this sword qi.

This aura made him extremely uncomfortable.

His profound gaze shot out terrifying lightning bolts.

The lightning bolts streaked towards the direction from which the sword light had come.

After a thunderous roar, a sword light once again shattered the lightning.

This time, the Northern Great Emperor saw very clearly; he had definitely seen this sword light somewhere before.

He lowered his head, pondered for a moment, then suddenly looked up, saying with an incredulous expression,

“So it’s you? You’re actually still alive?”

As the Northern Great Emperor’s words fell, a hearty laugh rang out.

“Hahaha, I’m not dead. Are you very disappointed, my dear disciple?”

Upon hearing this, the Northern Great Emperor’s pupils contracted.

He looked menacingly towards the source of the voice.

He saw a Black-clothed Old Man, holding a long sword, stepping through the void from the ground, walking towards him one step at a time.

“Lao Mo?”

Lin Mu looked at the newcomer, calling out in confusion.

The Man in Black chuckled upon hearing this, saying, “Master, it’s me.”

At this moment, although Lao Mo was still dressed in black, all the wrinkles on his face had disappeared.

He looked vibrant and energetic, without a trace of old age.

From his temperament, he gave the impression of a Middle-aged man (Fang Yan) of about forty.

Lin Mu said with delighted surprise, “Where have you been all these past hundred years? If you hadn’t shown up, I would have planned to go to the God Realm to find you.”

Lin Mu, uncharacteristically, joked with Lao Mo.

When Lin Mu had just ascended to the Heavenly Dao, he had spread his divine sense to scan the entire world.

But he hadn’t detected any trace of Lao Mo’s aura.

That’s why Lin Mu said this.

Lao Mo replied, “Master, this is a long story; allow me to tell you later.”

“I need to catch up with my dear disciple first.”

Lin Mu looked at the Northern God Emperor, utterly bewildered.

“How could a dignified God Emperor become Lao Mo’s disciple?”

Although Lin Mu had many unanswered questions and doubts,

since Lao Mo had said so, he could only stand aside and observe.

Lao Mo’s figure stopped only when he reached the Northern God Emperor.

He looked at the Northern God Emperor with cold eyes, his tone icy as he spoke.

“Dear disciple, I didn’t expect you and I would meet here.”

The Northern God Emperor said, “I also didn’t expect that even with your Dao foundation destroyed and your divine soul annihilated, you would still not be dead.”

Lao Mo scoffed, “Who says it’s not? What I didn’t expect even more was that the disciple I painstakingly nurtured for hundreds of thousands of years would be such a beast in human skin.”

The Northern God Emperor’s expression turned cold as he indifferently scanned everyone present.

Back then, to break through to God Emperor, he took advantage of his master’s seclusion, colluded with outsiders, and sealed his master.

Afterward, he set up the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Reversal Creation Array, transferring all of his master’s cultivation to himself.

After the fact, to prevent the news from leaking, he even completely refined his master’s divine soul.

He had thought he had handled the matter flawlessly.

However, there are no airtight walls.

Somehow, this matter became known to Long Yuan.

In a fit of rage, Long Yuan came to confront him.

He casually found an excuse and brushed Long Yuan aside.

Long Yuan also had no concrete evidence and could only temporarily retreat.

Who knew that not long after, the entire Dragon Race was annihilated by him.

Long Yuan was also sealed by him in this Place of Exile.

If he hadn’t suspected that his master’s weapon was hidden by Long Yuan, Long Yuan would have already been a dead man.

However, for tens of thousands of years, he had not been able to obtain the whereabouts of the weapon from Long Yuan.

He could only reluctantly send people to continue monitoring Long Yuan here.

Unexpectedly, by a twist of fate, he met his master again.

If this matter were to spread, he would lose all face in the God Realm.

He would become the laughingstock of the entire God Realm.

He would absolutely not allow this to happen.

Therefore, everyone present today must die.

With a decision made in his heart, he no longer concealed anything.

He merely chuckled and said, “Master, survival of the fittest, this principle, you didn’t understand it, did you?”

“I don’t know how you managed to escape here alive, but today, I will thoroughly kill you.”

After the Northern Great Emperor finished speaking, without waiting for Lao Mo’s reaction,

he condensed a blue light sphere in front of his chest.

Then, with one hand, he tossed it upward.

The several-meter-wide blue light sphere instantly magnified tens of thousands of times.

The blue light sphere, obscuring the sky, smashed towards Lao Mo.

The terrifying high temperature carried by the blue light sphere caused even those far away to feel their bodies burning.

And at this moment, the onlookers, who had initially been shocked, had now turned to terror.

They all used spiritual power to condense a protective shield, resisting the terrifying temperature of the blue light sphere.