God's Punishment

Chapter 1487: Punishment from Heaven

"Mu Tianzun, why do you always have so many weird ideas?"

The girl couldn't help but say, "Your ideas are always absurd, but they are full of evil attraction. Even I can't help but be tempted sometimes. I think your ideas will definitely be good if they are implemented!"

Qin Mu's eyes lit up.

The little girl sniffed her nose and said, "But from my experience, your ideas are always extremely bad. The Great Emperor is also a half-enlightened person, but he listened to your bad ideas for only two or three times and his body was broken. And I listened to your ideas and lent you the Chaos Axe, so you cut down the World Tree but couldn't save it."

Qin Mu laughed loudly.

The girl Taiyi quietly waited for his embarrassing laughter to end before continuing, "How do you know that your idea this time is not a bad one? Even I dare not say whether I can save the World Tree. Even if I can save it, do you know the consequences?"

Qin Mu's face changed drastically, and he asked tentatively: "You mean that if this world tree enters my divine treasure, it will burst my divine treasure?"

"It won't burst your divine treasure. This tree is alive, and its roots are growing slowly. The tree won't grow for a while."

The girl easily dispelled his doubts and said, "I'm talking about something else. The water in my bucket is not ordinary water, but the dew on my Tao tree. The dew condenses at night and disappears during the day. Every leaf on my Tao tree represents my Taoism, and only one drop of dew can be condensed on each leaf every night. The total amount of dew is fixed, and only one bucket of water can be collected each time. This bucket of water is just enough to repair the cracked peak of the Great Black Mountain at night and prevent the strong from the previous universe from sneaking in."

Qin Mu understood what she meant and said, "That is to say, if you use the Dao Dew to revive the World Tree, a strong person from the previous universe will definitely sneak in?"

The girl Taiyi nodded and said, "That's right. If you have the ability to stop them, that would be easy. I can lend you a bucket of water and you can just go and kill the stowaways. But you don't have that ability."

Qin Mu was extremely ashamed.

The girl Taiyi glanced at him and said slowly: "I will show you a right way. You go to the World Tree and comprehend like Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua. When you have achieved something in the future, you can use your own Dao Rune to plant a Dao tree in your ancestral temple. With this Dao tree, when you cultivate to the point of enlightenment in the future, you will find the benefits are great, and all the hard work in the past will not be in vain! This kind of enlightenment is not like Taidi's full of water."

Qin Mu looked ashamed. He glanced around and saw that there was no one around. Then he leaned over and whispered in the little girl's ear: "I'll tell you a secret. Don't tell anyone else. To be honest..."

After much hesitation, he mustered up the courage to tell the girl Taiyi the secret that had been hidden in his heart for many years: "In fact, I am not as smart as Xu Shenghua and Lan Yutian, my comprehension is not as high as theirs, and my Tao heart may not be stronger than theirs."

The girl Taiyi rolled her eyes and looked at him with boredom, obviously she had known this for a long time.

Qin Mu hesitated and said, "If I were to gain enlightenment under the tree with them, I would definitely not be as successful as them, and they would know that my Tyrant Body is a fake and has a lot of water in it. If I were to take a different approach and refine the World Tree directly, they would still praise me and say that I am indeed a Tyrant Body. Therefore, even if I cannot refine the World Tree, I must plant one..."

"So, are you ready to face the prehistoric strongman who crawled here from the destroyed universe?" asked the girl Taiyi.

Qin Mu hesitated.

The girl Tai Yi sneered, "You are not their opponent yet. The lowest-level beings among them are no less capable than the Ten Heavenly Lords, and this is the result of the destruction catastrophe that weakened them. If they come to this universe and use their own avenues to imprint the void and reach the ultimate void of our universe, they can recover to their peak state. By then, let alone you, even if the Ten Heavenly Lords are tied together, they will not be the opponent of any of them!"

Qin Mu was dejected and turned to leave. At this moment, the voice of the girl Tai Yi came from behind, saying: "But there is a solution."

Qin Mu stopped, turned around, and a hopeful look appeared on his face.

The girl smiled easily, revealing the few teeth in her mouth. It was obvious that she was replacing her milk teeth. She said, "I am here to deal with this situation. If any prehistoric warriors come in, I will kill them one by one!"

Qin Mu's eyes were sharp.

"But why should I do this? This Dahei Mountain is your Dahei Mountain after all. I have already given you the position of landlord."

The girl Taiyi said calmly, "It's tiring enough for me to repair the Big Black Mountain every day, so it's not impossible for me to help, but repairing the mountain every day is really boring."

Qin Mu said quickly: "I will repair the mountain! You can let me repair it for as many days as you want!"

The girl Taiyi blinked her eyes cunningly: "I don't want you to mend it for too long, just half a year. During this half year, I will leave the Great Black Mountain to do something. You just need to climb to the top of the World Tree every night, and my Dao Tree will drip Dao Dew. You can take this Dao Dew and mend the cracked Black Mountain during the day. After half a year, I will rush back, and then you will be free."

Qin Mu was overjoyed and nodded repeatedly.

The girl Taiyi took out another iron bucket, which was full of dew.

Qin Mu looked at the little girl suspiciously, then looked down at the Dao Dew in the iron bucket, and asked tentatively: "Brother Dao, how come you have two iron buckets here, and they are all filled with Dao Dew? Didn't you say just now that your Dao Tree has a fixed number of leaves, and you can only receive one bucket of Dao Dew at a time?"

"You can only take one bucket."

The girl Taiyi answered his doubts straightforwardly, saying, "But before you returned to the ancestral temple, the activities in Dahei Mountain were not so intense, so there was a little left over from each repair. A little bit adds up to a lot, so there were a few more barrels. I am frugal by nature, so I kept some for emergencies."

Qin Mu's eyes twitched: "That is to say, Brother Dao doesn't have to deal with those prehistoric warriors that crawled out."

The girl Taiyi said straightforwardly: "Yes!"

Qin Mu groaned, took the bucket, bowed and said, "Thank you, Brother Dao."

The girl Taiyi's eyes curved into crescents and she smiled, "Are you not angry?"

"What are you angry about?"

Qin Mu smiled and said, "Brother Dao lent me a bucket of Dao Dew and prevented the prehistoric Daoist from crawling over and endangering the world. I am grateful to you, so how could I be angry? I was just tricked by you, and I think I am no match for you in wisdom, but I am still very happy in my heart."

The girl Taiyi praised: "Mu Tianzun, although you are not as smart as Xushenghua and Lan Yutian, nor as comprehension as them, your Taoism may not be as strong as theirs, and you are not as pretty as them...but you are a real person! Lan Yutian is a saint, Xushenghua is a god, and you are a real person."

Although Qin Mu didn't know which one of the saints, gods and real people she mentioned was more powerful, he thought she was praising him, so he humbly accepted the praise and left with the bucket.

He returned to the World Tree, put the other World Tree he had cut down into his own divine treasure, and still planted it in the ancestral temple.

Everyone under the tree was terrified, but they were relieved when they saw that he was not here to cut down trees.

Qin Mu calmed himself down and then expanded the Shenzang domain. He saw the broken tree standing in the Shenzang ancestral courtyard, its branches and leaves withered and without any vitality.

He carefully sprinkled water under the tree roots. In the Taishi Mine not far away, the Taishi Egg stood steadily on the altar of the mine. The big egg slowly turned half a circle, and Taishi's voice came: "This tree is dead, you can't save it... What is it? Let me have a taste!"

The big egg jumped down from the altar and came to the tree. Qin Mu was sprinkling water. The Taishi egg leaned over to the egg, as if it could see his movements. It asked curiously, "Without roots, it can't absorb nutrients. You can't save this tree. Why don't you let me taste the water in your bucket..."

Qin Mu sneered and said, "A tree without roots cannot absorb water, and you don't have a mouth, so you can't absorb water either."

The Taishi Egg smiled and said, "Although I don't have a mouth, I can absorb the power of the mineral veins."

"The same is true of this tree."

Qin Mu watered the tree seriously and said, "If it grows into a big tree, it may not be able to be saved, but this tree is still a sapling. If it gets nutrients, it may be able to grow roots."

The Tai Shi egg came to the edge of the bucket, and Qin Mu pushed the big egg aside. After a while, the Tai Shi egg came forward again and was pushed aside by Qin Mu again.

"If you don't want to give it, then don't give it!"

The Taishi Egg bounced away, and returned to its own mineral vein, firmly rooted on the altar: "This tree has no roots, and cannot absorb water. I control the power of the mineral vein, and the water you sprinkled must have been absorbed by me!"

Qin Mu turned a deaf ear to him. The Taishi Egg was controlling the Taishi Mine, trying its best to steal the Dao Dew that Qin Mu had sprinkled. At this moment, the big egg became agitated and jumped up from the altar with a whoosh. It jumped into the air and dared not fall. It shouted, "Something is stealing the power in my mine! Weird, weird!"

That vein of minerals was created by Qin Mu in imitation of the Tai Shi vein of his ancestral temple. The Tai Shi divine stone and Tai Shi raw stone that Qin Mu obtained were planted in the vein for the Tai Shi ancient god in the egg to absorb.

At this time, shadows were slowly wriggling under the vein, growing continuously, stealing the power of the vein. However, the Tai Shi Divine Stones in the vein were gradually losing their power, and the light was getting dimmer and dimmer.

Bang!

A piece of divine stone suddenly cracked and shattered onto the ground. The Taishi Egg screamed in fear and did not dare to fall down while floating in the air.

Snap, snap, snap!

Pieces of the Taishi divine stone lost all their energy one after another and kept breaking into pieces. Even the light of the Taishi original stone was becoming dimmer and dimmer.

The Taishi Egg wanted to cry but had no tears. It shouted, "Mu Tianzun, what kind of water is that? You have turned this tree into a monster. Stop it now!"

At the same time, the magic stones buried by Qin Mu in other mineral veins were also constantly breaking and shattering. Obviously, the energy of these mineral stones was also absorbed by the World Tree!

After being nourished by the Dao Dew, the World Tree grew roots, which should have been a good thing, but the fact that it took away the power from the four major mineral veins made Qin Mu hesitate.

The four major mineral veins were established after he comprehended the four innate great ways of Tai Chi, Tai Shi, Tai Su and Tai Chu. Because his comprehension was incomplete, he needed to borrow the power of the magic stone.

If the four major mineral veins were sucked dry by the World Tree, would it be a loss for him?

At this moment, he suddenly felt his own strength rapidly dissipating, and he couldn't help but jump with fear!

In addition to seizing the power of the four major mineral veins, this world tree actually began to absorb his power!

No matter what avenue it is, the World Tree will accept all comers, and will seize them all and accept them with a smile!

The Xuandu in his divine treasure kept shrinking, and Xuandu and all kinds of avenues of the stars in the sky began to surge into the World Tree. The starry sky of Xuandu quickly shrank, as if a whale swallowing a rainbow, and countless stars and galaxies surged into the tree!

Not only that, Yuandu, Youdu, and the Four Heavenly Poles are all shrinking and collapsing into the tree!

Even the heavens and all the worlds were swallowed up by the World Tree one after another!

Qin Mu used his own great way to refine the ancient gods of the heavens. Nearly two thousand ancient gods were actually being swallowed by the World Tree one by one at this moment, without even a chance to escape!

Qin Mu was shocked and quickly put away his divine realm. He took a step forward and ran towards Tai Yi, the girl who was still repairing Black Mountain.

Now, only Taiyi can save him. Taiyi only needs to swing the axe and chop down the world tree that is playing tricks on him, and he will not be swallowed by the world tree!

However, the moment he took a step forward, his body became thinner at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When Qin Mu took the second step, he was already skin and bones.

After taking the third step, it had lost all moisture, fell straight down from the air, and landed on the ground, motionless, like a mummy.

Hua Xuanxiu was the first to notice Qin Mu falling from the sky, and she screamed, "The old leader was punished by heaven for cutting down trees!"