Outside of Time - Chapter 1355

Chapter 1332 Filial Piety Between Master and Disciple

Amidst the echoing opera singing, the third senior brother, his expression bewildered, murmured to himself.

“The Black Tower deceived me, making me believe that the call came from Ghost Emperor Mountain…”

“But little did I know, the true call came from here…”

“And this Primordial Nether Pillar, I’ve been here before, but back then, I didn’t have this kind of connection…”

The third senior brother’s voice faltered in the wind and snow. Xu Qing understood that the reason for all this was actually the power of the Black Tower God.

He wanted the third senior brother to merge with the Ghost Emperor.

Therefore, He not only deceived him but also transferred the call to Ghost Emperor Mountain.

Although he didn’t know why the Black Tower valued the Ghost Emperor…

and while the Ghost Emperor was strong, that was for low-level cultivators; for higher levels, the cultivation of the Spirit Condensation realm was insufficient.

“Perhaps there are some origins I don’t know about…”

Xu Qing pondered, while the third senior brother, seemingly lost in thought, slowly walked towards the Ghost Cave, muttering to himself.

Without pausing at the edge of the cave entrance…

he leaped inside.

Xu Qing followed behind, stepping inside.

Within the pitch-black ghost cave, the sounds of opera singing grew even clearer, and pieces of paper money drifted from its depths.

The strange energy here was also incredibly concentrated.

But the Third Senior Brother paid no heed to any of this, letting the strange energy assail him, letting the paper money dance around him, his figure moving deeper and faster.

Just like his heart at this moment.

Lifetimes of waiting seemed to have been for this very moment.

Lost memories, forgotten figures, in this instant, seemed to rewind from time, re-enact from reincarnation, taking shape in his mind.

His expression became somewhat excited, his body trembled slightly.

And watching all this, another figure from Xu Qing’s memory surfaced.

That person, too, had once, in the forbidden area on the edge of that scavenging camp in Nanhuang Continent, watched his lover approach amidst the singing, a similar expression, a similar excitement, a similar trembling on his face.

“Team Leader Lei…”

Xu Qing murmured in his heart, silently following behind his Third Senior Brother.

They dispelled the evil influences and increased his speed.

Finally, a red lamp gradually appeared in the pitch-black ghost cave, drawing ever closer… and a wooden hut came into view.

It was a dilapidated hut, seemingly decaying over countless years.

The hut was pentagonal in shape.

Each corner had a gray iron chain connecting it to the mud wall in the distance.

At the five corners where the chains connected, there were several horrifying corpses.

One was soaking wet, severely decomposed, draped in a tattered black robe, riddled with holes, as if it had endured countless ages. Another had

its hands on its stomach, which was gaping open, revealing an empty abdominal cavity devoid of internal organs.

The third, unlike the first two, had a red vine tightly wrapped around its neck.

The two ends of the vine were gripped by the corpse’s hands, pulling with all its might, strangling itself to death.

The fourth and fifth corpses were equally bizarre.

Where the former stood, stood a blank tombstone.

Beneath the tombstone lay the skeleton of an infant.

As for the fifth… it was a corpse burned in fire, its appearance… familiar to Xu Qing.

Not the one he had seen before, but the one who died here years ago… Tai Si Dao Zi.

“Gold is for carving, wood for hanging, water for drowning, fire for burning, earth for burial,”

Xu Qing murmured, then looked at the wooden house suspended in mid-air by five iron chains.

Inside the wooden house, a faint red light cast the figure of a woman onto the window paper.

Through the tattered window paper, one could see a woman dressed in a red opera robe, sitting by the window, currently scattering paper money with her fair, jade-like hand.

The scattered paper money, swirling in the cold aura, floated upwards.

But, in a certain instant, amidst the flying paper money, the outstretched hand suddenly paused.

The opera singing also stopped at that moment.

“You…have come…”

A soft voice, tinged with bitterness, echoed from within the wooden house.

The third senior brother trembled, gazing at the figure reflected in the window paper.

“I’m late…”

he murmured, trying to push open the wooden house, but the door remained firmly shut.

“Just sit outside and talk to me…that’s enough…”

Inside the house, the woman’s voice also trembled.

The third senior brother nodded, sitting outside the house, staring at the figure in the window paper. Memories surged through his mind, one after another, yet remained blurred.

Seven lifetimes of love, finally culminating in this life.

But he realized he only remembered the feeling, forgetting the person.

Xu Qing watched this scene, a sigh escaping his lips.

He didn’t know the story of the third senior brother and the woman from the ghost cave, but he knew why the woman in the wooden house hadn’t truly met the third senior brother.

Because, in the window paper, she remained beautiful.

But in the wooden house, she was a corpse.

This altar, this ritual, was never for five corpses…

it was for six!

She herself was the sixth corpse, a corpse consumed by love.

Therefore, they… needed some time alone.

Xu Qing shifted his gaze, looking down at the wooden house.

Others couldn’t see it, but in Xu Qing’s eyes, everything was crystal clear, including the trembling eye at the very bottom of the ghost cave, which dared not open even slightly.

Years ago, when that eye opened, it brought Xu Qing immense pressure, putting him in a life-or-death crisis. If not for the help of others, he would likely have already mutated and died.

But now, that eye was insignificant to Xu Qing.

“So, it comes from Huang Tian,”

Xu Qing murmured. He sensed the same bloodline fluctuations as the Golden Crow Prince in that eye.

He raised his hand and gently grasped.

The next instant, the trembling divine eye was instantly affected, shrinking continuously until it reached the size of a fist, flying out and landing in Xu Qing’s palm.

The golden eyes trembled even more violently.

Xu Qing ignored the divine eye in his hand, and after putting it away, the strange energy within the Ghost Cave, having lost its source, instantly diminished considerably.

Even the decaying wooden hut slowly began to show signs of life.

Gazing at the figure inside the hut, then at his third senior brother, Xu Qing slowly retreated ,

walking upwards .

Just as he was about to leave the Ghost Cave, Xu Qing paused, turning back to look at a rock wall within the cave.

There, a figure trembled, looking at him.

It was the centipede woman who had saved him years ago.

Xu Qing’s gaze softened, and with a wave of his right hand, a wisp of immortal energy emanated, merging into the centipede woman’s body, rebuilding her foundation.

The centipede woman’s body shuddered violently, and when she looked up again, Xu Qing was gone.

…

The wind and snow continued to dance.

Time, like falling snowflakes, fell one by one.

Xu Qing ended his suppression of the Ancient Continent and no longer easily appeared before others.

However, the rise of humanity was inevitable. Under the Empress’s leadership, all races submitted, even those powerful races possessing deities.

Most of their gods chose to go into hiding.

Only the Yan Yue Xuan Tian Clan, after the return of the Mud Fox’s fragmented spirit and its fusion with its original form, became revitalized, rising above the sun and moon, and forming an alliance with humanity

to assist in building a new era.

During this process, some attempted to resist. The entire Wang Gu was like a sieve, infiltrated by various forces after the arrival of the remnants of the gods.

Some of these infiltrators came from the Ninth Star Ring, others from even more distant star rings.

But with the Mud Fox’s intervention, everything was resolved smoothly. Even when encountering those connected to forces outside Wang Gu, Zhou Zhengli and others arrived.

Thus, everything proceeded flawlessly.

The unification of Wang Gu was now a reality.

While all these things were underway, Xu Qing didn’t spend much time with his old friends. Instead, to Er Niu’s anticipation, he and Er Niu arrived at the sealed

entrance to the Radiant Heaven beneath the human capital!

On the Ancient Land of Wanggu, Xu Qing had already traversed almost everything, directly or indirectly, except for the Devouring Heaven Domain, and was now largely unharmed.

However, the Radiant Heaven beneath the Ancient Land of Wanggu…

it was time to deal with it.

Furthermore, his senior brother’s true form was also in the Radiant Heaven.

“Let me tell you, little Qing, although you’re awesome, your senior brother here is also awesome in the Radiant Heaven!”

Er Niu said proudly at the sealed entrance.

But as soon as he finished speaking, someone raised a hand and smacked him hard on the head.

“You’re so awesome, if you’re so awesome, why don’t you come out yourself? What’s the point of sending out a clone!”

Seventh Master glared at Er Niu.

Seventh Master had also come to the Radiant Heaven this time.

He ignored Erniu’s grievances and turned to look at Xu Qing with a kind expression, his eyes filled with satisfaction as if Xu Qing were his only disciple in this life.

“My good disciple, I’m more familiar with Huangtian. It will be easier if I take you there.

Back then, those old guys couldn’t kill that Huangtian God Emperor, so they could only seal him…”

“It seems he’s not dead yet, and based on my later analysis, that God Emperor shouldn’t be at the God Lord level, but he’s very close.”

Xu Qing nodded and bowed respectfully.

“Thank you, Master.”

“It’s alright. Just like when I took you to the underground palace back then, this time, I’ll take you to Huangtian!”

Seventh Master waved his hand, his smile even more kind.

Erniu, who seemed to have been completely ignored, felt a pang of sadness and quickly spoke up.

“Master, you’re so biased! You took me and Xiao Aqing with you to the underground palace back then, how come you don’t mention me at all now!”

“And… I’m familiar with this Huangtian too, I’m more familiar with it than you are! Have you seen that God Emperor? Let me tell you, old man, I even went to see the place where the God Emperor was sealed, I was there…”

Erniu was dissatisfied and started shouting, but before he could finish, Seventh Master kicked him hard, sending him flying towards the entrance.

“You bastard, since you like calling me old man, don’t call me Master anymore. You’re familiar with this Huangtian? Then you go in and scout it out first!”

Erniu screamed as his body fell into the sealed entrance, while Seventh Master didn’t even look at him, smiling as he looked at Xu Qing and took Xu Qing’s hand.

“Good disciple, let’s go.”