Outside of Time - Chapter 1284

Chapter 1262 Bizarre Dao Artifact!

“A Divine Lord’s Artifact!”

The Jade-Faced True God’s mind resounded the moment he saw the blood-red scimitar between Xu Qing’s brows!

The pressure from the Divine Lord erupted in full force, and the suppressive intent caused even His divine breath to become chaotic.

A strong sense of life and death crisis enveloped His divine kingdom.

“He actually possesses a Divine Lord’s Dao artifact!!”

“Something is wrong. This kind of Dao artifact is definitely not something a Quasi-Immortal like him can wield… and even I, with my omniscience, could not have been completely unaware…”

“Someone has transformed information about this person into a secret that cannot be known to all!!”

The Jade-Faced True God’s heart was filled with enormous turmoil.

At this moment, the scarlet scimitar between Xu Qing’s brows had only emerged halfway. Even

just halfway, it twisted Xu Qing’s expression, his body was tearing apart, his soul was contorting, as if he was about to be corrupted and annihilated, body and soul.

The power of this Dao artifact was simply too great. Even he, if he did not possess the status of a True Monarch and the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring, would certainly not be able to activate it even slightly.

But Xu Qing’s eyes held an unwavering resolve.

Using his destiny as a guide, he continued to wield the Crescent Moon Blade!

In the next instant, the blade extended another inch from his brow. Instantly,

the surrounding crimson light expanded, causing countless combatants to recoil in horror. Even more strangely, a scraping sound echoed from the depths of the starry sky.

The sound was like the sharp scraping of a fingernail against a skull.

Upon hearing this sound, all the meteorites within his battlefield trembled simultaneously, as did countless corpses and stardust, their surfaces rapidly developing blood-red veins similar to the crescent blade.

Cultivators and gods alike, all who heard it within this area paled in shock.

As for the closest Jade-Faced True God, his pupils contracted, his horror reaching its peak, and his body rapidly retreated.

But in that instant of retreat, Xu Qing’s eyes bloodshot, and a low, inhuman roar escaped his lips.

“Crescent Moon, emerge!”

In the next instant, Xu Qing’s body trembled violently, his brow splitting open in a bloody mess, blood flowing freely, obscuring his face and staining his body.

At this cost, the crimson scimitar emerged an inch further from the split in his brow,

revealing most of its blade.

On that crimson blade, incredibly strangely, appeared numerous tiny black holes forming a fissure.

From within emanated a twisted, soul-stirring voice:

“Armor is the calamity of the gods; when the calamity ends, armor is reborn.”

This voice echoed, the void cracked open, and countless dense claw marks suddenly appeared in the starry sky.

Each crack oozed a rain of pus and blood.

It was a horrifying sight.

Combined with the voice, this scene shook the minds of all directions, distorting their vision, and had the greatest impact on the gods.

On the battlefield, if a divine altar accidentally touched one of these claw marks, its body would tremble, and it would suddenly let out a shrill laugh like an owl, frantically scratching its eye sockets with its ten fingers until it gouged out the pupils containing divine energy, then

quickly discarding them.

The discarded eyeballs had transformed into dancing, curved blade-like phantoms, seemingly possessing independent life, emitting laughter as they wandered in all directions.

As for the cultivators within this area, seemingly because the artifact was drawn by the fifth star ring’s fortune and refined by the Zhanlu Immortal Lord, they were largely unaffected.

Therefore, although their minds were shaken, they immediately seized the opportunity to attack.

As for the Jade-Faced True God, being too close, the impact was naturally immense.

At this moment, divine blood spurted out, and cracks instantly appeared in his golden armor, which finally shattered with a deafening boom, exploding outwards to block the attack.

While barely managing to neutralize the attack, he retreated even faster, simultaneously unleashing his divine power almost to its limit.

Countless golden threads sprouted around him, coiling in all directions and contracting into a cocoon to resist again.

But in the next instant, with a sweep of scarlet light, upon contact with this cocoon, dark red rust spots formed, staining the golden cocoon.

These rust spots were strange!

Upon closer inspection, one could see that their surface was densely covered with spiral patterns, like cursed fingerprints.

Within the emanating dark red glow, a totem composed of countless twisted faces was hidden, gnawing and devouring flesh and blood, seemingly about to break free of the golden cocoon.

This scene caused even the divine essence of the Jade-Faced God to tremble.

In this critical moment, He disregarded His mission and instinctively tried to teleport away from the battlefield.

However, the space within this battlefield was shattered, and time and spacetime were chaotic. His divine essence was unrelated to time and spacetime, and he could not teleport away even if he stepped into it at will.

Only by finding a spatial point could He attempt to teleport.

But how could He find it so easily in such a short time?

And just as He was fighting with all His might, retreating, and trying to find a spatial point with His divine sense… Xu Qing, his face covered in blood, his expression ferocious,

was absorbing everything with his left hand, gripping the goddess’s neck. He

raised his right hand…

and grabbed the curved blade that had emerged halfway from between his brows.

With a fierce tug!

A deafening roar echoed in his mind.

The curved blade was… completely pulled out!

It appeared completely in the starry sky!

In an instant, crimson light shone brightly across the starry sky.

The five-inch blade within the light, shaped like a crescent moon, pointed directly at the Jade-Faced True God.

With a swift movement, it broke free from Xu Qing’s grasp and hurtled towards the Jade-Faced True God.

From afar, the trail it left behind resembled a torn sheet of skin across the starry sky.

The blade flashed, instantly closing in, piercing the golden cocoon surrounding the Jade-Faced True God’s body.

The cocoon trembled, instantly collapsing into pieces, its rust, adorned with countless faces, rushing towards the Jade-Faced True God along with the curved blade.

The Jade-Faced True God’s mind reeled.

In this moment of crisis, he unleashed a secret technique, tearing open his own chest and shoving his still-beating heart into his mouth.

He swallowed it!

It was his divine kingdom, the source of his divinity.

Swallowing it now, he used the shattering of his divine kingdom to transform into divine power, and the devouring of his divine essence into the fire of his true name, to unleash the ultimate burst of his battle prowess.

It spread outwards violently ,

blocking the curved blade!

With a deafening roar, the curved blade paused.

The Jade-Faced True God, having lost his heart, took this opportunity to retreat. However, although he managed to stop it, all the blood vessels on the blade of the hovering scimitar suddenly burst at that moment.

What gushed out was not blood, but the compressed sound of cosmic annihilation.

Upon hearing this sound, the divine power the Jade-Faced True God had gained by devouring the divine kingdom began to collapse.

Then, all the mouths on the blade opened, sucking in fiercely.

Instantly, the Jade-Faced True God’s divine power, in his terrified expression, transformed into wisps and was drawn in.

It fell into the blade’s mouth and was completely devoured!

Then, the blade writhed strangely, and countless fleshy buds rose from its surface.

These buds looked extremely gruesome, and as they swayed, each tip opened a single, crimson eye, crescent-shaped, as if laughing!

All of this caused the Jade-Faced True God to lose his senses.

The next instant, the curved blade drew a perfect arc, heading straight for him.

From afar, it looked like a long, crimson river, surging upwards from the depths of hell!

It sliced across the Jade-Faced True God’s neck.

Divine blood gushed out!

The Jade-Faced True God shuddered, staggering backward as he sensed the severe wound on his neck and the loss of his life. Instinctively, he raised his hand to cover the wound.

But in that instant, he saw countless blue fingernails sprouting from between his fingers, and in a daze, these eerie nails spread throughout his

body, making him resemble a scaly demon.

Then… these nails all curled back, burrowing into his body and soul.

Intense, indescribable torment surged from every part of his body, sprouting and erupting from every region of his soul.

Uncontrollably, a agonizing scraping sound escaped his lips—

the sound of his life being shortened.

Divine blood flowed through every wound,

quickly drying up, and what continued to flow was no longer divine blood, but gleaming fingernails!

And at this moment, the curved blade piercing his neck finally revealed its full form behind him.

The vascular patterns within it had spread out from the blade, hovering around and forming a wheel of fate covering all directions.

Each wheel’s serrations sealed within a life devoured by this blade; at its deepest point, one could see blood-red inscriptions, seemingly carved with fingernails.

“When you gaze upon this blade, its reflection has already grown nine cycles of reincarnation that do not belong to you within your fingernails, making the one who returns no longer you.”

Signed, Zhanlu.

Gazing at these words, the Jade-Faced True God saw the curved blade reflected in his eyes, then his eyeballs seemed unable to bear the sudden burst, leaving only the crescent-shaped blood-red blade intact.

It merged into the waning moon, becoming part of the power of this Dao artifact!

His entire face was now collapsing, peeling away like a fingernail, revealing pale, bloodless flesh and bone.

The next instant, the wound on his neck tore open, and his head fell.

With lingering pain in his eyes… he

turned to ashes. Body

and soul annihilated.

In the distance, the curved blade transformed into blood-red moonlight, heading straight for Xu Qing, disappearing into his brow.

For a fleeting moment, silence fell, but quickly, the sounds of battle and roars replaced it all.

Xu Qing, meanwhile, coughed up a mouthful of blood.

His body was weak, and his mind was in turmoil.

This was the first time he had used a Dao artifact, and he strongly felt its strangeness!

He even had a strange feeling, as if his fingernails were itching, as if nails were growing inside.

This sensation sent chills down Xu Qing’s spine, and he swayed, rapidly moving away towards the location he had chosen earlier.

It was a spatial point.

Xu Qing possessed the Spacetime Law, and in this collapsing space and time, compared to the Jade-Faced True God, he was naturally more adept at finding spatial points.

This was also why he had chosen this place to attack the Jade-Faced True God.

He wanted to leave the battlefield and use the spatial point he had found to teleport.

As for the direction, although he couldn’t determine it, as long as he could escape the battlefield, it was the best choice for his current weakened state.

So Xu Qing didn’t hesitate and rushed forward.

Along the way, he didn’t stop absorbing the goddess’s essence, and the goddess, aside from trembling, was unusually quiet, not cursing as usual.

Xu Qing looked over.

The goddess immediately closed her eyes, her eyelashes trembling, actually not daring to meet Xu Qing’s gaze.

She was afraid.

Before, she wasn’t afraid of Xu Qing, only hated him.

That hatred was deep and extremely intense.

But after witnessing the scene just now, that strange Dao artifact filled her heart with intense terror.

That terrifying way of dying, and the inscription on the tombstone that meant she could never return, transformed her hatred for Xu Qing into fear.

After experiencing Ling Ke’s matter, she believed that the Fifth Star Ring had grasped the secret of return!

Xu Qing seemed to be deep in thought, withdrew his gaze, and strode to the hidden spatial point.

He had no time to pay attention to the goddess’s condition at the moment. After arriving at the spatial point, he didn’t hesitate to unleash his full power, surging into it.

At the same time, a golden light flashed in the distance, and a three-headed, six-armed true god actually broke away from his location and roared towards Xu Qing.

Clearly, they had calculated that Xu Qing’s curved blade would be unable to continue, and thus, taking advantage of Xu Qing’s current weakness, they intended to finish him off.

Xu Qing lowered his eyes slightly, unmoved, and fully unleashed his power, tearing apart this spatial point, shortening its existence to a mere instant.

Then… it exploded!

With a deafening roar, space collapsed, annihilating everything.

On the battlefield, there was no trace of Xu Qing!