Outside of Time - Chapter 1381
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Chapter 1355 Shanghuang Complete! (Long Chapter)
The morning glow descended from the sky, sprinkling across the ruins of Wushuang City and enveloping this mortal realm.
Within this light, the young Xu Qing remained motionless, as if time itself had frozen.
Before him, the adult Xu Qing from the future gradually emerged from the brilliant morning glow.
A long black robe danced in the wind, rustling softly.
Long purple hair billowed, each strand seemingly imbued with the primal power of the star ring.
With his arrival, ripples stirred across the Wanggu Continent.
The earth trembled, the sky churned, and the entire Wanggu seemed to awaken in that instant, radiating a welcoming aura.
Not only Wanggu, but also the Huangtian beneath it… was the same!
It was as if… the figure emerging from the light was already the source of Wanggu, the beginning of Huangtian!
Thus, auspicious omens appeared in all directions, and auspicious colors formed in the morning glow.
All were welcoming him!
The moment the figure within the light was fully revealed, the heavens and earth roared!
A tremendous power erupted from him, resonating with the ancient and the radiant heavens, accompanied by an aura surpassing even Xia Xian…
It was… an Immortal Lord!
And not just any Immortal Lord, but the pinnacle of that level!
Even more astonishing was that behind Xu Qing, one could vaguely see another version of himself, now an adult.
Just like the primordial twin star system!
He stood there, glancing back at his frozen childhood, then at Zi Qing gazing at him from afar.
After a long while, he stepped towards Zi Qing.
Step by step, he traversed the frozen time, walked through the viscous blood, and amidst the blood rain within the light, arrived before Zi Qing.
Looking at Zi Qing, Xu Qing calmly spoke.
“Why didn’t Shang Huang stop my advancement?”
Zi Qing smiled.
At this moment, he had just been resurrected, so he possessed neither the cultivation of his previous life nor the divine realm he had reached in the Devouring Heaven Domain.
At this moment, his body contained only a dense divine essence.
Before Xu Qing, he was vulnerable.
But he didn’t care.
He smiled at Xu Qing, his eyes revealing admiration and satisfaction, and even a strong sense of anticipation.
“Before telling you the answer, little brother, I want to ask you, do you… know who you are?”
Xu Qing remained silent, coldly staring at Zi Qing without speaking.
Zi Qing’s smile widened.
“You don’t know…”
“And you couldn’t possibly know!”
Zi Qing’s eyes shone brightly as he looked at Xu Qing.
“Brother, I’ve searched for you for many years… and I never believed it was you…”
“Until I stepped into the destiny of this life many times, experiencing various outcomes, including the day Wushuang City was sacrificed… In some destinies, I ignored you; in others, I took you away; and
in still others, I destroyed you.”
“That’s why your memories of Wushuang City are confused!”
“And after doing so, I finally discovered a clue…”
“But I was still unsure, so I let you live and die as you pleased, let you grow up as you went… I saw your first half of life clearly in destiny.
Including your killings, your apprenticeship, all your different choices, different actions, and the different destinies that resulted from them, I saw them all clearly. I
examined them carefully frame by frame.
And I originally planned to bring you back after returning from Ziqing Shangguo to sacrifice you.”
“Until I reached the capital of the human race, I finally saw the throne deep within your soul…
Brother, do you know, that day, that moment, I saw your true destiny, and it also resolved the doubts that had troubled me for so long. At the same time, it showed me the true opportunity within the destiny I had been plotting…”
Zi Qing smiled as she spoke, revealing everything!
“Therefore, of course, I did everything in my power to influence the desolate surface, to prevent it from interfering with your devouring of the primordial mother planet.”
“I hope you succeed even more than you do.”
Zi Qing laughed loudly, her eyes filled with even greater anticipation.
Xu Qing listened to these words, remaining silent for a long time. Then, gazing at the anticipation in Zi Qing’s eyes, he slowly spoke.
“Who exactly are you?”
Zi Qing’s laughter grew louder upon hearing this.
“Who am I…”
As he laughed, a deep complexity surfaced in his expression.
“I have many identities. The Purple-Green Prince in history is me, the self-salvation of humanity’s destiny is me, the hope of the ancient times is me, and the reincarnation of a wisp of Huangtian’s will is also me!”
“But I have another identity, which I only learned after sacrificing myself…”
“The remnant face of Shanghuang is also me!”
Purple-Green’s voice echoed,
shaking heaven and earth.
Although this answer was within Xu Qing’s guess, Xu Qing’s gaze still deepened upon hearing this.
And Purple-Green’s voice continued.
“Or to be more precise, brother, I am a possibility that Shanghuang released at the moment he entered the umbilical cord of divinity and advanced to a half-step god!
He sent this possibility out of the umbilical cord of divinity and into the star ring where he was born, located in Huangtian’s original mother star.
This is the hope he left for himself!
If he dies during the process of advancing to godhood, then this possibility that he released will replace him and become the new Him!”
“But the unexpected happened because of this…”
Purple-Green raised his hand and pointed to the sky.
“After His failure, He didn’t truly die, but came here to search!”
“And I, in turn, was born from the combined destiny of the primordial mother planet in order to save itself!”
“Therefore, He can be me, and I can be Him!”
Xu Qing suddenly spoke upon hearing this.
“He came here not to find you!”
Zi Qing looked at Xu Qing, her eyes shining even brighter.
“Of course He wasn’t looking for me. He, like me, was… looking for you, little brother!”
“However, our purposes are different, and His consciousness has diminished, leaving only instinct, so He can only remain in a deep slumber. Therefore, I found you before Him, and under my influence, I made Him consistently ignore you.”
“In this way, you can remain unnoticed in His sight multiple times.”
“Now, I’ve answered your questions, little brother… it’s your turn!”
“With the power of the primordial twin mother stars you devoured, in the long corridor deep within your soul, on the third door closest to the right of the seat, carve my name!”
“As payment… after I succeed, I will guide the remnant away, restoring you to a clean and peaceful ancient world, free from any alien entities!”
“At the same time, I will sweep away the entire Ninth Star Ring for you, ensuring that no god-kings remain there, posing no threat to you!”
“Making the Ninth Star Ring a realm of cultivators, your star ring!”
“Furthermore, after I succeed, I will tell you who you truly are!! This is an absolute secret known only to me!” “
And after I succeed, I will return the Peerless City, which was sacrificed in destiny, including your parents, resurrecting them and reuniting you!”
“What do you think of this deal, little brother!”
Zi Qing’s anticipation reached its peak after these words.
He had seen the outcome in all his destinies; he knew Xu Qing… would definitely agree!
His voice had become a divine covenant, a part of the rules of the Ninth Star Ring. Xu Qing could clearly perceive this, understanding that the other party was not lying about this.
He truly intended to do it.
Xu Qing looked at Zi Qing, then looked up at the remnant face in the sky.
After a long while, he spoke softly.
“I refuse!”
The instant these three words were uttered, his right hand rose and fell directly.
In Zi Qing’s stunned state, terrifying power erupted from Xu Qing’s palm, forming a destructive force that swept across everything, surging into Zi Qing’s body with overwhelming force.
It shattered divinity and severed cause and effect.
Zi Qing’s flesh and blood scattered.
And Xu Qing’s voice murmured and echoed.
“Everything you said, I choose to do myself.”
“As for your attempt to seize Shang Huang’s body… whether you succeed depends on your fate.” After
Xu Qing finished speaking, he raised his hand and waved, sending Zi Qing’s flesh and blood towards the sky, towards the remnant face, uttering a deafening cry.
“Sacrifice!”
At this moment, heaven and earth roared!
Zi Qing’s flesh and blood were rising into the sky.
Xu Qing raised his head, his gaze piercing through the rising flesh and blood to the remaining face.
Zi Qing’s goal was to replace the other!
Xu Qing was fully aware of this.
And the other’s request was for him to carve his name on the third door…
clearly, this was the path that best suited the other’s purpose.
It would make possession easier and less risky.
Therefore, Xu Qing chose to refuse.
Although he knew that, according to Zi Qing’s scheme, his refusal might also be within its scope, at least… this was the path he, Xu Qing, had chosen for the other.
And indeed, that was the case.
The instant Zi Qing’s flesh and blood ascended into the sky, a sudden change occurred!
Within this space-time, a pillar of black mist, spanning a million miles, rose into the sky!
Straight to the heavens!
This mist was extremely black, and the moment it appeared, a dense, eerie aura erupted within it, accompanied by mournful cries of ghosts and wolves.
Echoing through the mortal realm.
And it wasn’t just this one… At this moment, the entire Wanggu region within this space-time was rumbling.
One after another, identical giant pillars of black mist appeared in various places, all rising into the sky!
Their sheer number filled the entire Wanggu region.
A total of 99,999 pillars!
Their appearance shook the heavens, awe-inspiring all.
As the black mist converged, the entire sky of Wanggu… was instantly colored!
The black mist obscured everything, submerged everything, turning the sky of Wanggu… into a sky of black mist!
Watching all this, Xu Qing’s eyes gleamed with a dark light, recognizing this as the power of the Ghost Realm!
Before his battle with Zi Qing, Yu Liuchen had warned him that he had sensed the aura of the Ghost Realm in countless stories of Zi Qing.
Clearly, the Ghost Realm was Zi Qing’s doing!
And at this moment, Zi Qing’s voice echoed throughout the world!
“If I succeed, the world will once again have the Ghost Realm!”
This voice, strange and eerie, resonated in all directions. The sky of black mist roared, violently churning, and then… the black mist exploded, as if the Ghost Realm had opened!
In this turmoil and eruption, countless black shadows suddenly burst forth from the black mist,
converging abruptly towards Wushuang City!
They gathered violently towards the rising purple and blue flesh and blood!
In an instant, they enveloped the flesh and blood, which then decayed and rapidly dissolved, finally disappearing completely. The countless black shadows… had completely permeated the area where the purple and blue flesh and blood had been.
Furthermore, beneath this permeation, they wriggled and formed a…
fragmented face!!
This fragmented face was enormous, and its outline was remarkably similar to the fragmented face of Shanghuang.
To be precise, it was the missing half of the fragmented face of Shanghuang!
However, it wasn’t formed from flesh and blood, but rather from the fusion of black shadows.
It formed a fragmented face of shadow!
Utterly black, neither existing nor nonexistent!
And as Xu Qing gazed upon it, the eyes of this fragmented face of shadow suddenly opened, revealing a crimson light.
It was Zi Qing!
Opening its crimson eyes, it gazed at Xu Qing on the earth, a complex expression in its eyes.
Xu Qing’s choice surprised it, forcing it to implement its second pre-planned strategy:
to open the Realm of Demons and borrow its power!
However, this was a choice it would have avoided if any other option had existed.
Yet, it had come to this.
It could only use the Realm of Demons to create cause and effect, forming this shadow.
“Very well, I plotted against you first… now, our cause and effect are settled.”
After gazing at Xu Qing, the complex expression in the purple-green shadow transformed into resolve, and in a flash… it shot straight towards the heavens!
Straight towards the Upper Desolate Face.
It would piece together a complete face with the Upper Desolate Face.
To possess it! This
was in accordance with the Realm of Demons’ words…
“Like a shadow, inseparable from the god.”
As He ascended, the black mist of the Ghost Realm released more shadows, continuously converging on the remnant face formed by Zi Qing, making the shadowy remnant face grow larger and larger, more and more
vast .
Until, under Xu Qing’s gaze, the shadowy face finally reached the end of the sky, next to the remnant face of Shang Huang, and then… it directly pieced together with the remnant face of Shang Huang!
A complete face appeared on the sky!
Only half shadowy face, half flesh and blood.
Zi Qing was the reincarnation of the remnant face, but it was almost impossible for Him to be in control of His own will, so He wanted to have His name engraved on Xu Qing’s door. Now, after the failure of the first plan, He could only rely on the Ghost Realm, choosing to replace the remnant face as a ghost.
To become… a ghostly being like a god, a ghostly being!
But… the risk of this was extremely high. The moment this face of Shang Huang was pieced together, the remaining will of Shang Huang suddenly awakened, and it violently repelled the Ghost Realm power that Zi Qing had merged with!
Thus, Shang Huang’s face on the sky separated and then rejoined in an instant,
falling into chaos and collapse!
It was at the most critical moment!
It affected the world, Wanggu, the Ninth Star Ring, and even destiny itself!
At the same time… it presented the outside world with an unprecedented opportunity!
“You will definitely come!”
Xu Qing, on the ground, watched all this, his eyes narrowing.
Almost the instant his words echoed in his heart…
outside Wanggu, the starry sky roared!
A black tower, symbolizing endless imprisonment and the annihilation of souls, suddenly traversed the starry sky, opening a path, breaking through space-time, and entering Wanggu!
It appeared… in the sky! It
suddenly descended towards Shanghuang, which was at a critical moment!
Not only the black tower, but at the same time, a colossal beast, radiating an incomparably terrifying aura, writhing like a mountain, exuding primal hunger, and an enormous paper figure seemingly cut from Yellow Springs paper money, rapidly arrived from space-time.
The former, with indifference, suddenly headed towards Shanghuang.
The latter, licking its lips, its body suddenly disintegrated, transforming into countless paper figures, all rushing forward!
Of the four divine beings of the Ninth Star Ring, three had actually arrived!
Their previous elaborate schemes were all for the purpose of plundering the Remnant Face. They
had been waiting cautiously for a long time.
Now that this opportunity had presented itself, how could they let it slip by?
Naturally, they seized this chance to plunder!
However, it was clear that not all four divine beings of the Ninth Star Ring were like this…
Mother River hadn’t come!
She seemed to be observing.
Then, in the next instant, the Black Tower, the colossal beast, and the army of strangely shaped paper figures fluttering in the sky tore through the void, rushing straight towards Shanghuang!
Taking advantage of the fatal gap where Shanghuang and the Purple-Azure Ghost Realm were locked in a fierce struggle, the three landed precisely around the Remnant Face.
The Black Tower, like an inverted tombstone, crashed down on Shanghuang’s forehead!
The tower’s body shimmered with eerie light, emitting a chilling groan that froze the soul, and an invisible, insatiably greedy suction force suddenly erupted!
What it coveted was Shanghuang’s vast and ancient divine soul!
The colossal beast lurked in the shadows, its maw wide open, seemingly capable of swallowing the universe. Thick, foul-smelling saliva dripped like a waterfall, each swallow accompanied by the crunching sound of space being chewed up.
It was frantically devouring the life-giving essence of Shanghuang!
Meanwhile, the dense, silent army of paper figures, like a swarm of white maggots, instantly enveloped the entire surface of Shanghuang.
Their slender paper arms waved, countless almost invisible paper threads, exuding an aura of mold and decay, extending precisely to parasitize the key points of Shanghuang’s destiny!
Greedily drawing in and sucking away the mysterious and unpredictable divine power of fate!
These three divine beings, holding nothing back, unleashed their full power!
The cold, deathly silence of the Black Tower, the savage thirst of the colossal beast, and the eerie theft of the paper figures—three completely different yet equally terrifying supreme divine powers—spread like a plague, beginning their own greedy and brutal plunder!
Their arrival and attack were ruthless and cunning to the extreme, precisely at the moment when Shanghuang was beset by internal and external troubles and its power was being severely depleted by its own internal struggles!
This made their plundering incredibly fruitful!
However… Shanghuang’s own terrifying pressure as a half-step god, and the eerie power from the Ghost Realm that could erode everything, meant that this plundering was not without cost.
While these three divine beings were plundering, they themselves were also suffering terrible erosion, their figures continuously becoming blurred!
The enormous outline of the behemoth was visibly twisting and fading, as if being wiped away by an invisible hand.
The indestructible body of the Black Tower also became indistinct, like a reflection in water, and could completely dissipate at any moment.
A considerable portion of the seemingly most vulnerable paper doll army had their edges ignited with eerie, pale flames, instantly turning into wisps of embers and ashes, silently drifting away into the deathly silence of the starry sky.
Witnessing this scene, the divine senses of the three deities fluctuated violently. Through this brief period of plunder and observation, they had preliminarily determined that Shanghuang seemed to be truly… at its last gasp.
This was not a carefully laid trap!
Then, in the next instant…
Boom!!
The starry sky trembled violently, the spacetime barrier shattered inch by inch like fragile glass, and the void was brutally torn apart by three forces far more vast and terrifying than before!
Three supreme figures, embodying their own will and radiating destructive pressure, descended with a thunderous roar! Their
forms remained that of giant beasts, black towers, and paper figures.
But at this moment, their light was far more dazzling than before, and their divine might was so intense that the ancient continent trembled and groaned, and the vast starry sky boiled under this pressure!
This time, it seemed that it was their true selves that descended!
Ignoring all obstacles, they came from the depths of the void, instantly piercing through all dimensions, and precisely entering into the projections of their previously descended avatars.
Instant fusion!
This caused the already terrifying aura to surge like a volcanic eruption, intensifying the plundering of the dying Shanghuang!
With a deafening roar, Shanghuang’s enormous face trembled violently.
Deep, bone-revealing black cracks spread wildly across its surface, like shattered porcelain!
Its divine soul essence was being torn apart and devoured by the black tower to an even greater extent; its
flesh and blood essence were being chewed and swallowed even more violently by the giant beast…
The entire face was withering, shriveling, and losing its luster at a visible speed, emanating a dense aura of death and decay!
Behind them, the colossal beast’s crimson eyes gleamed with even greater greed, as if it had discovered an unparalleled delicacy.
The plundering by the countless paper figures intensified, the invisible threads of fate binding them tighter and tighter. The plundered divine power of fate merged into the paper figures, causing the pale paper figures to writhe eerily, their surfaces revealing blurred features and skin textures.
Even more faintly, one could see wisps of ominous, twisted, serpentine threads of fate forming and extending within them!
They were transforming from “paper” into “living beings”!
Seemingly sensing the immense risk that this would bring, the cracks between the inner shadow plane and flesh of the mutually repelling Upper Wasteland rapidly widened.
They chose to temporarily separate.
But at that moment, from the depths of the void, a deep, bone-chilling hum resounded!
A river flowing with a viscous, filthy, dark golden liquid, descended without warning, traversing the starry sky and landing on the battlefield!
It was the Mother River!
Having endured this long, and finally confirming that all was well, He revealed Himself without hesitation!
The filthy river water, like countless greedy tentacles, with its viscous quality capable of corroding divinity, instantly entangled Shanghuang
, who was about to separate! The separation abruptly halted!
Immediately afterward, the turbid, viscous surface of the Mother River churned violently, and a gigantic, grotesque face, composed of countless twisted and tormented features, suddenly appeared! This face opened its gaping maw, seemingly connecting to an endless abyss, and swallowed
Shanghuang, who was tightly bound by it… viciously! A large amount of divine blood, shimmering with eerie divine light and exuding a strong, stench, was forcibly extracted from Shanghuang’s withered face and poured into the filthy waters of the Mother River like a waterfall. After absorbing the divine blood, the waves of the Mother River instantly became even more turbulent. And Shanghuang, already withered, weakened like a candle in the wind under this fatal blow, the ashen aura of death so thick it was impossible to dissipate! Seeing the Mother River’s intervention succeed, the weakness of Shanghuang was no longer concealed. Inside the Black Tower, a cold, ancient, and emotionless divine will suddenly surged! Behind it, spacetime was once again forcibly cleaved open by an even more terrifying force! A bronze ancient tower covered in verdigris, its body adorned with countless tiny, twisted shrines that seemed to be silently wailing, slowly descended from the depths of that shattered spacetime! This was the true form of the Black Tower! Its previous descents were merely tests! At this moment, the instant its true form descended, the suction force targeting the divine soul suddenly intensified a hundredfold, a thousandfold! It seemed to be draining the divine soul from the entire starry sky! The behemoth, witnessing this scene, had its eyes blazing with ferocity, and after waiting a moment… it suddenly raised its ferocious head, letting out a terrifying roar capable of shattering stars! Roar! The void behind it completely collapsed, and a colossal beast head, formed from countless writhing stars, shattered planes, and indescribable dark matter, appeared out of thin air! The beast’s head was so large it seemed capable of swallowing a galaxy whole! It carried an aura of annihilation, its gigantic maw splitting open, viciously biting down at Shanghuang! The last paper figure was clearly the most cunning and cautious; even after the true forms of the other three divine beings had appeared, it remained unmoved. Until… the plundering of the three divine beings reached its frenzied peak, and the desolation of Shanghuang clearly showed signs of its impending doom… only then did two eerie, deathly pale lights suddenly ignite deep within the countless empty eye sockets of the paper figures! One of the seemingly ordinary paper figures suddenly had its chest torn open without warning, and a miniature paper figure, its entire body radiating a dizzying seven-colored evil light, exquisitely crafted yet exuding an extremely ominous aura, burst forth from it! The moment this seven-colored paper figure appeared, the surrounding space silently decayed and collapsed. Without hesitation, He transformed into a distorted, seven-colored, malevolent beam of light, ignoring all obstacles, carrying a strange power that stole destiny and altered the final outcome… silently and deadly charging towards the crumbling Shanghuang! But just as the malevolent beam of light, formed from the seven-colored paper figure, was about to touch the ruins of Shanghuang, and the Black Tower’s soul-absorbing power, the behemoth’s devouring power, and the Mother River’s binding power reached their most frenzied peak! The previously withered and crumbling Shanghuang’s face, its tightly closed, seemingly eternally slumbering giant eyes, suddenly opened! One pupil was a scorching crimson, burning with endless karmic fire, as hot as a molten abyss! The other pupil, however, was an absolute void that devoured all light, capable of annihilating even nothingness itself! At the same time, a voice, overlapping countless echoes, so cold it froze the will of time and space, like the final lament of billions of dying stars, suddenly exploded in the perception of all the gods! ”You… have finally come.” The instant this voice rang out, a sudden change occurred! It wasn’t a counterattack from the remnant of Shanghuang, but from Ziqing, who had always been fighting against Shanghuang and eroding its flesh! It seemed he had been waiting for this very moment! When the true wills of the four divine lords fully manifested, greedily plundering the essence of Shanghuang and deeply linking themselves with this battlefield and with the remnants of Shanghuang… Ziqing completely released the Ghost Realm! The ominous mist permeating the Ghost Realm suddenly expanded billions of times! No longer ethereal, it instantly became as viscous as billions of years of rotten blood, engulfing the heavens at a speed beyond comprehension! It began to devour! The giant beast’s head was the first to be affected, instantly enveloped by the foul mist. Its flesh, composed of stars and planes, emitted a piercing sizzling sound. It began to dissolve and collapse! The stars that formed its shape dimmed and exploded, spewing out foul-smelling liquid, which was greedily absorbed by the mist! At the Black Tower, the same was true. The shrines of wailing that adorned its body froze the moment the mist touched them, their distorted faces instantly solidifying. Then, along with the bronze tower itself, they were covered in moldy, filthy spots. The tower’s soul-devouring wails transformed into intermittent, terrified screams! At its base, the seemingly indestructible bronze began to melt! As for the Mother River, it was no exception! The grotesque face composed of countless tormented features within the river emitted a silent, mournful howl. The river boiled violently, forcibly swallowed by the mist and absorbed into itself! Most bizarrely, the paper figure collapsed at this moment, all its avatars scattering across the earth. Its seven-colored body flickered violently in the filthy mist, its colors rapidly diminishing! The intense crisis forced it to retreat sharply, attempting to twist fate and escape, but the invisible threads connecting it to the nodes of destiny in the Upper Wasteland had become deadly shackles! The mist flowed upstream along the threads, frantically polluting its very essence.
His body convulsed and writhed wildly in mid-air, its colors fading until it resembled waste paper soaked in dirty water!
“Nourishment… an even greater… nourishment!”
A deep voice, carrying the greedy intent of millions of insects simultaneously rubbing their carapaces, echoed in the minds of these four deities, their spirits reeling!
The predator, instantly became prey!
Escape!
The behemoth roared with boundless terror, twisting frantically in an attempt to break free from its dissolving fate, shattered stars falling from its body! The
black tower hummed deafeningly, its body erupting with an unprecedented deathly light, attempting to shake off the moldy filth clinging to it! The
Mother River churned, its enormous, tormented face contorted and deformed, the dark gold waters surging backward as if alive, trying to sever its connection with the mist!
The seven-colored paper figure went even further, instantly severing all the threads connecting it to the nodes of its desolate destiny, transforming into a dim, broken gray shadow, desperately fleeing into the starry sky!
However, it was too late!
The desolate face, which had been passively enduring the turmoil, now had its withered, mountain-like, winding black hair suddenly begin to dance wildly amidst the churning mist!
It grew and extended wildly, ignoring spatial distance, and suddenly rushed towards the four divine beings!
Instantly, it entangled them!
The colossal beast’s massive body was tightly bound and constricted, the tips of the hair piercing its flesh, emitting a chilling sucking sound as it writhed!
The Black Tower was also enveloped in a dense web of hair, wrapped around its shrine, the wailing faces pierced directly by the hair, its soul-absorbing power being frantically extracted!
The Mother River, its filthy waters now permeated, the painful faces within the river entangled by the hair, their pure divinity being sucked away!
As for the frantically fleeing paper figure, it was also instantly entangled by the hair and violently pulled!
Instantly, all four divine beings were dragged into the mist!
The figures were obscured, only indescribably mournful roars rose and fell in the churning, foul mist, only to be quickly drowned out by an even more chilling sound!
Crack… crunch… gurgle…
those were the crisp sounds of divine bones being crushed!
Those were the muffled sounds of divine bodies being torn apart!
Those were the sounds of divine power being frantically devoured and chewed!
This sound lingered in the mist for a moment.
Then, it gradually weakened, until finally… it vanished into deathly silence.
Only the mist itself continued to churn silently and contentedly in the shattered sky, as if it possessed a life of its own.
Xu Qing gazed at all this, his eyes deep and unfathomable.
He didn’t believe those divine beings had truly perished.
A divine being was, after all, a divine being; even if their true form had arrived, Xu Qing was certain they each had their own backup plans!
“However, even as a backup plan, they paid an unprecedented price this time. Whether they can maintain their divine status… is still uncertain.”
Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, shifting his gaze from the murky mist in the sky to his palm.
There, he saw a piece of paper!
It was one of the many paper figures that had collapsed earlier.
At the same time, within the seventh star ring, in the vast sea of stars, a seemingly inconspicuous yellowish-brown star suddenly trembled.
The star’s surface shattered instantly, collapsing with a roar, revealing an egg at its core!
This egg, too, was shattering.
Finally, a small beast crawled out.
The moment it appeared, an aura of a peak divine lord surged within it, and then it abruptly turned its head, gazing towards the direction of the ninth star ring.
“There was indeed a trap, but… what I truly want is not your flesh and blood, but the memory of you walking the divine umbilical cord!”
“So… the divine umbilical cord is like this…”
At the same time, in the eleventh star ring, a god was ascending into the sky.
As a divine being, He had reached the pinnacle within His respective divine star, all thanks to a supreme treasure He had acquired in His early years:
a bronze black tower!
This treasure had allowed Him to grow rapidly and become invincible.
Now, having reached His peak, He was about to leave His divine star and journey to a higher divine realm.
He was confident that, relying on that mysterious black tower, He could reach the level of a true god.
But… just as His figure was about to leave His divine star, the black tower within His body suddenly trembled, then violently sucked outwards.
Before the divine being could react, His body trembled and was instantly sucked clean, leaving not a trace.
This process was so fast, it was only a split second.
He didn’t even realize it…
only the black tower remained, floating in mid-air, before suddenly plummeting and crashing onto the ground of this divine star.
The next instant, the star roared, and all the gods and all life on it withered and turned to ashes in an instant.
Everything surged into the black tower.
Finally, the tower emitted a deep divine sound.
“The umbilical cord of the gods…”
The same scene unfolded in two other mysterious places.
One was where the paper figure hid, in a special space-time, within a scroll, resting and recuperating, hoping to recover its strength as quickly as possible.
The other was even more mysterious, the Mother River’s trump card, which manifested as words, hidden within its world.
It was the word “water.”
In terms of concealment, the Mother River’s trump card was actually the most unique.
But unfortunately… on the Ancient Continent, there was a being that did not want the Mother River to remain hidden.
Thus, amidst the churning mist above Wushuang City, in this undisturbed space-time, the wishing mask brought by Xu Qing suddenly appeared!
Its sole purpose was to harm the Mother River!
Seeing the Mother River escape, the mask’s expression twisted, revealing a madness.
The moment it appeared, it released its aura without reservation, beginning to burn!
Utilizing the mysterious connection between itself and the Mother River, it guided Shanghuang!
Therefore, in the next instant, as it burned, the void where it stood opened up amidst a roar, revealing a scene.
The scene revealed the hidden location of the Mother River!
In the next instant, a strand of hair suddenly descended from the misty sky, heading straight for the scene and instantly disappearing into it!
Accompanied by an echoing, mournful sound, the hair returned.
And in that world, the word “water” was erased.
In the instant the seal was erased, in the world hidden by the Mother River, the sky rippled, and a golden mask, sealed in the silt of the Mother River, seemed to break free from its ancient seal, finally gaining freedom.
“Mother River, back then you used the promise of a wish to seal me, plunder my divine power, and steal my divine status… Today… the cause and effect are settled. This is the price of the wish.”
…
On the Ancient Continent, in the spacetime of Wushuang City.
In the sky, the mist still churned, obscuring the face of the Upper Wilderness within.
But spacetime… had begun to dissipate.
Xu Qing knew that the cause and effect between him and Zi Qing had, in fact, ended at this moment.
As for whether Zi Qing would succeed, everything was unknown.
Xu Qing no longer cared.
He lowered his head, watching this spacetime gradually recover its flow as it dissipated…
Blood rain began to fall.
The spacetime of that time, in this shattering, seemed to accelerate the story’s progression.
Xu Qing saw his younger self awaken in the blood rain.
He saw himself struggle to his feet, leaving in a daze.
He saw himself, seven years old, in the wilderness, being bullied and robbed.
He saw that helpless childhood.
Finally, he saw his younger self, pulling an iron skewer from the ruins.
With his frail body, he held the sharp end of the skewer to his own neck.
His eyes were numb, filled with the sorrow of parting, as he closed them.
He also saw his childhood self, about to choose to leave…
A ragged little girl came over and offered him a candied hawthorn.
The little girl’s eyes shone brightly in this filthy world.
And the candied hawthorn stirred up deep memories in his younger self.
Xu Qing felt a bitter pang in his heart.
He would never forget these scenes.
He saw his younger self, gazing at the candied hawthorn, slowly loosening his grip on the iron skewer, finally collapsing to the ground, and finally… weeping.
This was childhood.
Xu Qing sighed softly. As time and space dissipated, as this moment was about to shatter, he looked at everything in the scene…
He saw himself become strong.
He also witnessed a scene that still touches his heart to this day.
In the scene, the little girl who had given him the candied hawthorn lay in a pool of blood.
And he, a young boy, was plunging an iron skewer into the throat of a villain.
He slowly pulled it out, letting the blood splatter on his body.
After a long while, the young Xu Qing slowly walked to the little girl’s corpse and remained silent there for a long time.
Slowly, he bent down and gently covered the little girl’s open eyes.
“I’ve avenged you.”
With these words, time and space shattered.
The time in which Wushuang City existed was fragmented, like a shattered mirror, turning into countless fragments, severing time and space, and bringing reality back!
Thus, the mists of history were lifted from the heavens.
The sky returned to the present world.
The earth presented the vast, heaven-devouring domain.
And Xu Qing still stood before the palace of the Ziqing Kingdom.
But Ziqing within the palace was no longer there.
Xu Qing silently raised his head.
Looking at the sky.
There… there was no longer any mist.
The Shanghuang still hung high.
But it was no longer the Remnant Face.
Instead, it was the complete face of the desolate wilderness.
Half black shadow, half flesh and blood.
Upon closer inspection, it seemed to be… a purplish-blue face.
“There’s one more thing I need to accomplish…”
Xu Qing withdrew his gaze, speaking softly as
he looked into his palm. That torn piece of paper had been brought back to the mortal world.
Looking at the torn paper in his palm, a murderous intent rose in Xu Qing’s eyes. He clenched his fist tightly, and instantly his laws surged…
locking onto a certain point in the starry sky.
“Dero, the vengeance for the Sword-wielding Emperor, I’ve come for you!”
“No matter how many clones you have, no matter how many times and planes you hide in, you… cannot escape!”
Xu Qing took a step and walked towards the starry sky!
(End of Chapter)
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