Outside of Time - Chapter 1379

Chapter 1353 Sacrifice! (Fourth Update)

I am fighting!

My guards are also fighting!

But they are exhausted to the extreme and have no strength left.

Old Luo’s blade only struck a corner of the Sky-Splitting Emperor’s arm armor. The next second, a giant claw covered in dark armor and wrapped with the power of spatial tearing pierced his chest as if by teleportation, took out his heart, and swallowed it in one gulp.

Among the guards, a female cultivator holding a bow let out a mournful cry like a cuckoo crying blood. The arrow she shot pierced one of the lava giant’s lava eyes, but was instantly severed by the strange shadow blade of another powerful being from all races.

She staggered, spitting out blood, but suddenly looked up in my direction, her eyes filled with final determination.

Then she bit her tongue, spraying a stream of blood onto the only remaining broken bow. The broken bow hummed and turned into a burning blood arrow, shooting towards the other powerful being from all races who was besieging me at incredible speed, exploding in its back!

She herself was instantly engulfed by beams of light, turning to ashes…

Each fallen figure was like a red-hot branding iron, searing my soul.

I fought frantically!

With all my might!

I killed one powerful being after another from all races!

Purple flames crisscrossed, sword energy tore through the sky.

Corpses, on this Peerless Plain, multiplied with the deaths of all my personal guards.

But my wounds were also rapidly multiplying.

The scorching magma almost burned through my bones, the spatial tearing blades of the Rift Insectoids left deep, bone-revealing gashes on my back, and the eerie magic of all races, like maggots clinging to my bones, relentlessly eroded my life force.

Blood soaked through my tattered robes, blurring my vision. My cultivation

, like water without roots, rapidly dissipated.

Every breath I took was accompanied by the searing pain of shattered internal organs.

I killed many, but the enemies were even more numerous.

Boundless…

Gradually, my consciousness began to plunge into boundless darkness.

But just as the world turned completely black!

A vast, complex, and utterly sorrowful yet resolute force, like an invisible tidal wave, suddenly swept in from all directions, crashing into my consciousness!

This was not an attack, but a… resonance!

A final cry from countless dying souls throughout the entire Purple-Azure Kingdom!

My vision, at this moment, infinitely rose and extended!

It was as if my soul had broken free of its dying body, looking down upon this shattered land.

I saw that within the Purple-Azure Great Domain, the once glorious cities were now nothing but towering flames and billowing black smoke!

Countless tiny figures struggled and fell in the flames, their desperate cries seemingly ringing in my ears.

I saw in Fenghai County, the enormous totem of all races hovering above the city, radiating an aura of destruction.

The city walls had long since collapsed, the city a scene of utter devastation, and in the center of those ruins, I saw my disciple, Bai Xiaozhuo.

He was covered in blood, his left arm severed at the shoulder, his only remaining right hand raised high a broken seal of the county governor!

Around him were countless surviving civilians!

Men, women, and children, ragged and emaciated, their eyes devoid of tears, only a numb yet utterly pure resolve!

I saw the last few remaining soldiers in the western border town closing their eyes.

I saw the frozen scout squads dying on the northern ice plains.

These scenes became indescribable pain and sorrow, like a million steel needles piercing my soul in an instant!

More violent than any attack from the powerful races!

My country… my people!

Boundless grief, at this moment, formed a resolve that transcended life and death!

Like the hardest ice, freezing all pain, all despair!

I suddenly looked up!

My blood-stained gaze pierced through the狰狞 faces of the powerful races before me, through the desolate outline of the Peerless Plains, through the layered mountains of Southern Phoenix Continent, piercing straight towards the heavens above, at that indifferent, seemingly unchanging—massive, broken face!

He remained incomplete, cold, and lifeless.

Like a mask torn to shreds and pasted onto the boundless sky, indifferent and apathetic.

His very existence was the greatest mockery of all human joys and sorrows, life and death struggles.

Yet now, this eternal bystander, this indifferent embodiment of rules… perhaps the only force capable of shifting the deadlock before us!

The last citizens of the Purple-Azure Kingdom are dying.

And I, Purple-Azure, this exiled, incompetent so-called crown prince, what can I do now…

“I… Purple-Azure!”

My voice was hoarse and broken, yet it carried a power that shook heaven and earth, drowning out all the fighting and roaring in the Purple-Azure Kingdom.

“In the name of the Crown Prince of the Purple-Azure Kingdom!”

I spread my arms, my tattered robes fluttering in the gale, all the wounds on my body bursting open simultaneously, blood gushing out like a fountain, but strangely, it didn’t drip, but instead transformed into burning crimson flames, enveloping my body!

“Offer sacrifice to my broken body! Burn my soul! Ignite my foundation! I burn everything I possess! I burn my past and future… all cause and effect!”

Every word uttered was accompanied by the most thorough burning of my life essence!

Flesh and blood melted, bones groaned under the unbearable burden, and my soul seemed to be thrown into an eternal furnace. My newly recovered cultivation, along with all the foundations of my existence, transformed into the purest and most fervent essence at this moment!

“Use your power! Cleanse this filth! Burn this chaotic world! Protect my Purple-Azure Kingdom… the last embers will not be extinguished!”

“In the next life!”

“When I revive, I will sacrifice everything I have seen!”

Boom!!

An indescribable pillar of purple-gold light, purer, more condensed, and imbued with the dignity of a human emperor and boundless resentment, burst forth from that burning broken body!

It tore apart the bloody night that shrouded the Peerless Plain, and shattered the blockade laid down by the combined might of all races!

With a resolute will to perish in the face of death, like a reverse-flowing purple galaxy, it pierced through the endless void and crashed violently into the remnant face above the sky!

Meanwhile, within Fenghai County.

Bai Xiaozhuo seemed to sense something, gazing towards Nanhuang Continent, tears streaming down his face, then he laughed maniacally, weeping blood and mutilating himself until only half his face remained, matching the mutilated face.

Then he shouted,

“Born on this land! Die on this land! My soul will also guard this land! I will follow the Crown Prince, awakening a thousand years before him, to protect his path!”

“Sacrifice!”

As he offered his sacrifice, the people of Fenghai County, supporting one another, formed a massive human ring around their governor.

Old people, women, children… they looked up at the ancient, high-hanging, indifferently watching over the human tragedy—the mutilated face!

Then, their expressions turned frenzied, and they all cried out!

“Sacrifice!”

Countless voices converged into a torrent that tore through the heavens and earth!

Old people, women, children… all the surviving people of Fenghai County, regardless of age or strength, simultaneously performed the same action… self-mutilation, becoming the mutilated face!

There was no hesitation, no retreat, only a resolute determination to live against death, a determination that shook the universe!

In an instant, countless faint yet incredibly pure specks of life, like sparks flowing against the current, were peeled from each self-mutilated figure!

These specks gathered into a river, then surged into a sea!

A stream of life light, formed from the last will of countless remnants of the Purple-Azure Upper Kingdom’s souls, resolute and silent yet carrying a mournful cry of utter destruction, soared into the sky along with their crown prince!

Soaring straight to the heavens!

At the same time, in a border town on the western frontier of the Purple-Azure

Kingdom, the last few remaining soldiers lit their beacon fires. Amidst the towering flames, they wept blood and mutilated themselves towards the fading light in the sky, their figures twisting and turning into specks of light in the flames… On the frozen plains of the northern Purple-Azure Kingdom, a scout squad, frozen stiff, used their last strength to plunge their blood-stained battle flags deep into the frozen earth. Facing their homeland, towards the fading light in the sky, they collectively mutilated themselves, their crimson glow merging into the surging tide of souls that swept across the heavens and earth…

Throughout the Purple-Azure Kingdom, in countless places, in countless corners, in countless scattered, desperate, yet incredibly heroic battles of life and death, countless weak wills,

at this moment, all unanimously chose the same path!

Offering themselves as sacrifices! Using their remaining souls as guides! Offering the last vestiges of the Purple-Azure Kingdom to that fading light hanging high above the ages, coldly overlooking all living beings!

And soaring into the sky!

Like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, transcending endless spatial barriers, they instantly converged and entwined with the purple-gold pillar of light emanating from their crown prince!

They joined their crown prince in this sacrifice!

They only prayed… for a future of purple and blue, to return to the ancient past!

Time seemed to stand still at this moment.

The battle on the Peerless Plains froze.

The cruelty on the faces of the powerful beings of all races froze, replaced by astonishment and fear stemming from their very life force!

The entire world was left with only that upward-flowing purple-gold flame, the endless souls accompanying the sacrifice from all directions, and… above the sky, that ancient, indifferent, broken face.

Then…

that unchanging, cold broken face, in this instant, slowly opened its eyes.

Within them was a blood-red vortex burning with endless coldness and chaotic fire!

Like the sun of annihilation!

An indescribable pressure, surpassing the limits of comprehension, as if the laws of the entire star ring had condensed into a single gaze, suddenly descending!

This gaze, cold and indifferent, carried an absolute will that scrutinized eternity and pierced through all illusion.

Then, this gaze focused!

Gazing at… the source of the purple-gold pillar of light.

Gazing at… within the pillar of light, rapidly dissipating… me.

My body, the instant the crimson gaze descended, was like ice and snow thrown into the blazing sun, turning into scattered purple dust inch by inch, starting from my fingertips.

Flesh, bones, soul… everything that constituted the existence of “Purple-Azure” was completely decomposed and transformed into its origin under the gaze of that remnant face.

I felt no pain.

Only a cold sense of nothingness.

It was as if my consciousness was also dissipating.

In the final, complete dissipation, under the icy gaze of that crimson vortex, I heard a deep voice.

“Accurate.”

The moment this voice echoed, an indescribable, terrifying aura, like the beginning of the universe, erupted like an invisible tsunami of destruction towards the entire Peerless Plain!

Shattering everything!

Time seemed to be stretched into eternity.

My consciousness, in this final, all-encompassing chaotic storm, was like the last ember of a candle in the wind, completely… vanished.

Only the torrent that pierced through heaven and earth, ignited by the last will of countless remnant souls, continued to burn, surge, and annihilate within the blood-red vortex of the broken face…

like a silent, death-for-life… funeral dirge.

…

In the autumn of the 9315th year of the Purple-Azure Calendar, the Crown Prince perished in the Southern Continent.

Bai Xiaozhuo, the last prefect of Fenghai County and a disciple of the Crown Prince, laughed bitterly, weeping blood as he mutilated himself, leaving only half a face, identical to the broken face of a god. Before

his death, he said,

“I will follow the Crown Prince, awakening a thousand years before him, to protect his path.”

—As

I mentioned before, updates are unstable during the final stages…

(End of Chapter)