Outside of Time - Chapter 1283

Chapter 1261 The “Crescent Moon” Dao Artifact

“Your name is Xu Qing, isn’t it?”

Above the chaotic battlefield, a distorted and undulating abstract scroll, its form almost indistinguishable, stretched out.

Unfurled, the scroll revealed a swirling black and white within, radiating supreme power. A detached force spread across the battlefield below, leaving death in its wake.

Within the battlefield, the armies of cultivators and gods roared like countless rivers of dust.

Blood stained the air, corpses scattered everywhere.

A horrifying sight!

The tearing of the starry sky and the collapse of spacetime added even more danger to this already chaotic battlefield.

This universe seemed on the verge of collapse!

Amidst this chaos, a jade-faced true god, clad in golden armor, with purple hair and an almost demonicly handsome appearance, spoke as he moved forward.

Its divine sound echoed, clearly reaching Xu Qing, who was speeding away in the distance. In an instant, it transformed into a straight and astonishing slicing line, cutting through the starry sky in front of Xu Qing.

Xu Qing’s eyes narrowed, revealing a sharp light. With a hand seal, his immortal embryo rose up, and the powers of metal, wood, water, earth, time, and space, like shooting stars, circled around it.

Overlapping shadows appeared around him, the laws of time and space, exploding.

After converging, his body surged forward.

The roar instantly became deafening.

With this surge, he crashed directly into the slicing line blocking his way, and then, the law flashed, the line dimmed!

His figure suddenly burst forth.

At the early stage of Quasi-Immortal, he could fight against the peak of the Divine Platform. Now, at the mid-stage of Quasi-Immortal, although his combat power still couldn’t cross the gap between the Divine Platform and True God, he was qualified to resist.

Now, after bursting forth, his face was slightly pale, but his speed was even greater.

“The battlefield is chaotic. Even if I return to the cultivator army, I’ll still be caught in the fighting. So… I need to leave the battlefield and get out of this area.”

Xu Qing made up his mind, but… after rushing out of that long scar, no matter how fast he was, the jade-faced True God behind him, as if ingrained in his very bones, twisted and approached from the void.

He rapidly closed the distance, raising his hand, and a second long cutting scar appeared, tearing through the void and blocking Xu Qing’s path.

Then a third, a fourth, a fifth…

a total of ninety-nine cutting scars appeared simultaneously, surrounding Xu Qing in all directions, leaving the area around him riddled with holes, seemingly isolated.

The power of a True God was thus evident.

Immediately afterward, the jade-faced True God clenched his right hand.

Instantly, the ninety-nine tearing scars that had blocked and isolated Xu Qing seemed to come alive, detaching from the background of the starry sky and becoming lines.

They converged fiercely towards Xu Qing!

Wherever it passed, the sealing power, the cutting might, and the divine pressure it contained erupted in full force.

It headed straight for Xu Qing!

In this critical moment, Xu Qing’s pupils contracted. If he weren’t here, he could fight without hesitation if he encountered the opponent.

But the battlefield was too unpredictable; being delayed was the worst thing he could do.

As for his trump card, although he possessed a Celestial Lord’s artifact, its power was too great. With his current strength, even using it once with the help of luck would weaken him.

Therefore, in this chaotic battlefield, he didn’t want to use it unless absolutely necessary.

In this perilous instant, Xu Qing’s eyes flashed, and his right hand grabbed at the air, directly seizing the unconscious Star-Eyed Goddess he had taken.

He used the goddess to block the surging cutting marks ahead.

This scene immediately made the Jade-Faced True God’s eyes narrow.

His raised right hand paused involuntarily.

The cutting marks that were fiercely heading towards Xu Qing also paused.

Taking advantage of this fleeting moment, Xu Qing’s speed exploded once more, his overlapping nature becoming exceptionally pronounced, with different dimensions forming around him.

At the cost of shattering, he instantly burst out of the area

, traversing the battlefield at lightning speed.

Behind him, the Jade-Faced True God’s face shone with golden light, having already made his decision.

Even in death, the goddess could be resurrected, so if he continued to hesitate, the other side would seize this opportunity, leaving him utterly passive.

“Very well!”

the Jade-Faced True God said calmly, taking a step forward and crossing the battlefield. His voice echoed around Xu Qing once more.

“Do you know why I am the one who came in this exchange?”

“Because the more chaotic the battlefield, the richer my divine essence becomes,”

the Jade-Faced True God said calmly.

These words reached Xu Qing’s ears as he sped along. His expression darkened. The other side had no need to speak, yet words had been heard both before and now.

These words seemed deliberate.

“Related to his divine authority?”

Thinking this, Xu Qing suddenly felt a surge of crisis.

He noticed that although the Jade-Faced True God was still far away, golden threads had appeared out of thin air around him after the other’s words.

Similar to the previous cutting marks, but seemingly different.

What made Xu Qing’s pupils shrink was that these golden threads, after appearing, suddenly dispersed, their target not him, but… the floating corpses of gods and cultivators around them.

Instantly, almost every golden thread connected to a broken corpse, densely packed, thousands of threads and thousands of corpses.

Then… each corpse connected to a Golden Immortal shuddered, simultaneously opening its eyes, revealing golden light.

Their state was exactly the same as the five human cultivators who had been absorbed by the Jade-Faced True God.

Xu Qing’s expression darkened; he immediately realized they were divine puppets!

“This is His divine authority!”

“He transforms thoughts into threads, these threads connect into puppets, and wherever He leads, gods and cultivators alike become His puppets.”

Xu Qing frowned. This kind of divine power could clearly exert even greater might on this battlefield.

At this moment, the corpses, upon reviving, all flew up, rushing towards Xu Qing from all directions.

As for their cultivation, although not at their peak, they had retained some of it, and combined with their sheer numbers, the resulting destructive power was extremely astonishing.

Xu Qing retreated rapidly, striking amidst the chaos, stirring up a spatial storm to block the corpses while stepping onto a head-shaped meteorite.

But just as he landed, the meteorite beneath his feet suddenly glowed with golden patterns, then rapidly wriggled, revealing facial features, as if it had come to life.

The meteorite, too, had become a puppet!

It opened its massive maw, spewing out a cloud of cursed mist.

But the instant it touched Xu Qing, Xu Qing, using the power of the mud fox, released his own divine curse, which instantly clashed with the curse.

Silently, the entire surface of the meteorite collapsed, instantly turning into dust and scattering in all directions.

But this delay allowed the surrounding corpses to approach, and the Jade-Faced True God in the distance became clearly visible.

Xu Qing’s expression was grim. He sensed the terrifying power of the other’s curse, and at the same time, he gained a deeper understanding of the strangeness of this divine authority.

“Can all things become puppets?”

Xu Qing raised his hand, and iron spikes flew out, sweeping across with fierce force, accompanied by the instantaneous sound of bells, causing the corpses to pause, and many were pierced by the iron spikes.

As for himself, without any pause, he unleashed a secret technique, increasing his speed even further.

From afar, his robes fluttered in the turbulent currents, and wherever he passed, fragments of star debris and corpses suddenly lit up with golden light, then revived.

One after another, they charged forward relentlessly.

“Mud Fox!”

Seeing this, Xu Qing roared inwardly. Instantly, the Mud Fox opened its mind once more, becoming Xu Qing’s divine conduit. Then, Xu Qing let out a low shout.

His voice became divine sound.

It was the divine technique, Sound Stealing!

The battlefield was suitable for the Jade-Faced True God, but it was equally suitable for Xu Qing’s Sound Stealing divine technique.

So, in an instant, Xu Qing’s sonic power erupted, divine sound transforming into ancient runes, sprouting from every place around him where sound emanated.

The roar of the battlefield became his sound, the sounds of slaughter became his sound, the shrill cries of death became his sound.

These divine sounds soared to the heavens, forming a profound array of proverbs, entangling all the corpses, including the Jade-Faced True God who was chasing from behind.

This scene took the Jade-Faced True God by surprise, causing his eyes to flash with a strange light.

“He actually knows divine magic?”

He murmured, raising his hand and pressing down. Instantly, more golden threads appeared from the void, piercing through the mantra formed by Xu Qing’s voice power, turning them… into puppets as well!

Then, they sped after Xu Qing!

However, this pursuit was fraught with unpredictability.

Whether it was the dense clash of armies or the turbulent currents swept by the God Lords and Immortal Lords, both sides’ speed was affected, and life and death could be at stake.

For example, at this moment, there was a turbulent current from the God Lords. Even though Xu Qing was some distance away, he still spat out blood, his mind trembling.

Even the Jade-Faced God had to dodge.

Thus, Xu Qing and the Jade-Faced True God fought and flew across the battlefield, one after the other, traversing the battlefield.

Countless star debris floating on the battlefield, as well as the corpses of gods and cultivators, were partially destroyed silently by Xu Qing’s deliberate gesture, shattering into fine cosmic dust.

As for those that could not be destroyed, they instantly became puppets of the Jade-Faced True God, attacking Xu Qing.

As this continued, the distance between them gradually decreased.

At the same time, a scene that made Xu Qing’s heart sink appeared.

In the distance, another True God was striding towards him.

Fortunately, a Lower Immortal from the cultivator side intercepted him instantly.

However, Xu Qing’s sense of crisis grew stronger. He quickly scanned his surroundings, and in the next instant, he locked onto a location. His mind stirred, and then he turned his head, his eyes flashing with a cold light; he had made his decision.

His body suddenly stopped, no longer fleeing, but standing there, calming his mind and focusing his spirit, his right hand pressed against his brow.

His soul surged, emanating a Daoist thought.

“Crescent Moon!”

A moon shadow appeared on Xu Qing’s brow.

He was calling upon… the Immortal Lord’s Dao Artifact guided by the True Monarch’s fortune!

At the very moment of the call, numerous parallel universes appeared around him, and each version of himself within them raised a finger and pressed it against his brow, uttering

the same words!

“Crescent Moon!!”

As the echoes from different times and spaces reverberated, within the current battlefield, a blood-red curved blade, seemingly piercing the starry sky, emerged from the crescent moon shadow between Xu Qing’s brows!

Shaped like a fragment of armor peeled from the finger bone of some vast being, its surface was covered with countless fine, hair-like vein patterns.

Each pattern seemed to flow with starlight from different eras.

Some were pale purple star marrow that had dissipated long ago, some were eerie green cinnabar that seemed to have been immersed in a primordial sea, and the main vein at the very center surged with a solidified, gelatinous background image of the fifth star ring! It was

a horrifying sight!

The moment it appeared, an eerie scarlet light, representing death and bloodshed, instantly enveloped all directions.

Star fragments, meteorites, and corpses within its range were all rendered and melted by this light…

as if shedding tears of blood.

Not far away, the Jade-Faced True God, who had already caught up, witnessed this scene, and for the first time… his mind trembled violently.