In the distance, the two Martial Gods, Heavenly Sword and Earthly Sword, had originally stopped paying attention to Ming Qi, but suddenly, seeing so many aliens surrounding him, they flew over. Seeing them all standing respectfully behind Ming Qi, they were immediately surprised.
"What's going on?"
The Heavenly Sword Martial God asked.
"My captives."
Since Ming Qi had agreed to their surrender, he naturally assumed responsibility.
"Captives?"
The Heavenly Sword Martial God frowned and suddenly said, "These people must be killed. You must know that those who are not of our race must have different hearts!"
Ming Qi was immediately displeased when he heard this: "I'm not a Celestial Clan member either. Should I be killed immediately too?"
"You!"
The Heavenly Sword Martial God's face was irritated, but he didn't know what to say. Ming Qi's identity and role were self-evident, but he couldn't understand or accept the fact that he accepted the surrender of the aliens.
After a long pause, the Heavenly Sword Martial God could not think of any rebuttal to Ming Qi's words, so he coldly said, "Well, if that's the case, be prepared to bear the consequences."
Ming Qi said nothing, watching the Heavenly Sword Martial God depart.
Xiongfeng City was vast, and the coalition forces had quickly settled in. Xiongfeng City, once populous, was now deserted, with less than 10% of the remaining population essentially enslaved by the Heavenly Sin army. The entire city was in an unprecedented state of desolation and desolation.
Ming Qi temporarily settled in a mansion near the City Lord's Mansion.
Soon, Liuli sent a message that the army would rest in Xiongfeng City for three days before advancing towards the Divine Realm.
Since the Tianzui camp's troops were mostly concentrated around the Divine Realm, the Divine Realm was the only remaining area of the rich Central Land unoccupied by the Heavenly Sin army. The final battle would inevitably take place there.
After Ming Qi had packed up his quarters, he summoned the Purple Star Jade Master.
"Where is your commander?"
Ming Qi went straight to the point and asked Tianyi, the commander of the Tianzui camp. He had been told that Tianyi was in Xiongfeng City, overseeing the overall situation. However, it now appeared not only that Tianyi was absent, but also that the city's defenses were severely weakened. This was quite unexpected.
"I haven't seen him in a long time."
The Purple Star Jade Lord knew Ming Qi was in a state of restless anxiety and naturally didn't dare to take any extraordinary actions. He simply answered the question honestly.
"A long time? How long is a long time?"
Ming Qi frowned. Tianyi's unexplained disappearance seemed to hold a mystery.
"About a month, since shortly after we captured this place, he's been missing. He only left two commanders to oversee the battle, and no one knows where the remaining eight commanders have gone."
Ming Qi knew a few of Tianzui's ten commanders, but the unexplained disappearance of Tianyi and eight of them must be something serious.
What had they done? Naturally, there was no clear outcome at the moment, so Ming Qi didn't dwell on it. After calming down, he focused solely on cultivation and accumulation.
As Ming Qi's strength grew, the space within the Northern God Stele had expanded to a considerable size. Now, everyone could cultivate steadily without interfering with each other. The tenfold increase in the speed of time allowed everyone to achieve remarkable accomplishments in a short period of time.
However, given their strength, they would still be too weak to participate in the divine war, so Ming Qi didn't plan to allow them to participate in the battle for the time being.
Three days within the Northern God Stele was more than a month, a rare period of leisure time.
Ming Qi's current strength was approaching the mid-stage Martial Emperor stage. Barring any unexpected events, he would be able to reach the mid-stage Martial Emperor stage after the next battle. The Eight Trigrams Seal Technique gave him the capital to profit greatly from war. With the Eight Trigrams Seal Technique, his strength would rapidly increase as long as there was war.
After refining all the energy he'd accumulated over the past few days, Ming Qi naturally turned his thoughts to the realm of Dao. His first thought was Hu Mu Divine Lord's Path of God-Slaying.
As a divinely-born being, Hu Mu Divine Lord possessed an instinctive aversion and hatred towards the gods of heaven and earth, so the Path of God-Slaying was a natural progression for him. However, Ming Qi, lacking a divinely-born body, could follow Hu Mu Divine Lord's path, but it wouldn't be as easy. However, he had the prerequisite: a drop of Hu Mu Divine Lord's divine blood already resided within him, a rare opportunity.
As his thoughts drifted, a question suddenly surfaced in Ming Qi's mind: could one simultaneously possess two distinct Daos?
If these two great Daos could truly be pursued side by side, Ming Qi was certain that, upon achieving something, he would even surpass Hu Mu Divine Lord, who had slain countless gods!
The seeds of Humu Divine Lord's Dao had already been planted in his mind. If he so desired, it wouldn't take long for him to comprehend the mysteries of the Dao of God-Slaying, thereby greatly increasing his combat power.
If he truly desired to realize the bold vision of pursuing both Daos simultaneously, then what he needed to do now was to attain enlightenment within his own Dao. Once both seeds took root and sprouted, the vision of the two Daos running parallel to each other would become possible.
This was a bold vision, one that even Ming Qi himself didn't know why he had such an idea, but once it had occurred, he couldn't let it go.
The Dao represents a cultivator's new starting point and the essence of all previous cultivation. Upon reaching the Martial God Realm, all martial souls will completely merge into one. The profound implications of this are self-evident, and this merged martial soul is the embodiment of the Dao.
Thus, realizing the coexistence of the two Daos would be equivalent to splitting a single martial soul into two, a task of considerable difficulty.
However, Ming Qi was no longer the naive young cultivator he had once been. His combat experience and cultivation pedigree rivaled those of the world's greatest warriors. Perhaps it wouldn't be long before his bold vision came to fruition.
Calming his mind, Ming Qi first examined the drop of divine blood dormant within his body. Without any active input, the blood remained dormant, and the true meaning of the Dao within it remained unreleased.
He then carefully infused his spiritual consciousness into it. For now, he didn't intend to unleash the power of this drop of divine blood, but rather to understand the principles of the Dao, thereby providing a foundation for his own creation of a new Dao.
After a moment, Ming Qi withdrew his spiritual consciousness, his face filled with surprise.
The true meaning of Humu Divine Lord's Dao was not the violent and murderous aura he had imagined. On the contrary, Humu Divine Lord's Dao was peaceful and tranquil, like a fairyland!
The Tao is boundless and invisible, and its specific form is simply impossible to grasp. Ming Qi felt at least one kind of intention, but it was this intention that made him feel that the Tao was not actually a direct manifestation of his own cultivation thinking or other things related to himself, but was closer to the cycle of heaven and earth, and the endless natural rules of life!