Chapter 1023: I Wish

This bone tripod was exactly what was transformed from Chen Erniu's third-life bones, refined by the Immortal Art Great Emperor of that year, with terrifying power, refining the sky with greed.

At this moment, held high by the sky-holding hand composed of countless blue worms, it broke out of the sea, and amidst the surging waves, it arrived directly above the meat tumor where Ming Yan was.

And Ming Yan sat cross-legged in the meat tumor, seemingly calm, but in reality, only he himself understood the vastness of this body and the difficulty of wanting to control it completely.

This difficulty came on one hand from the causality of the physical body, and on the other hand... from the restriction left by Seventh Uncle!

Although this restriction was suppressed by him, in reality, it was just barely reaching balance.

At this moment, he couldn't completely control this body!

So the moment cold light flashed in his eyes, the rapidly arriving giant bone tripod had its lid opened directly, shrouding the meat tumor inside, and suppressing it fiercely.

"Refine!!"

Countless low roars transmitted from the mouths of the countless blue worms at the same time.

The sound was heaven-shaking, and the hand transformed by the blue worms also decomposed at this moment, becoming a worm sea, circling around the bone tripod, rotating rapidly.

The momentum was like a rainbow, heaven-shaking, forming a blue vortex in the sky.

And amidst the crazy rotation, these worms each spat out extreme cold air.

The cold air surged toward the bone tripod, not freezing, but turning into ice flames, merging into the tripod, and began to refine the meat tumor.

Roaring sounds were suddenly heaven-shaking.

Chen Erniu didn't dare to be careless, all his energy was immersed in the control and blessing of the bone tripod, refining regardless of everything, but he also knew that the possibility of final success was not high.

After all, that was Great Emperor Ming Yan.

However, at this critical moment, winning time was the best choice.

He wanted to give the Empress there, and Xu Qing there, enough time to obtain the explosion of remaining backhands.

So, he fought.

Amidst the constant roaring, the blue worm-transformed vortex sea accelerated its rotation, making the refining continue intensely.

And in the distance, the Empress also saw these scenes, her expression gloomy, golden light shining in her body, twisting all directions, blurring nothingness, seemingly wanting to break open all forcibly.

Moyu Great Emperor, who was fighting with her, changed his expression, seeing the divine might of the Empress at this moment, a trace of retreat couldn't help but rise in his heart, but the Ming Yan clone beside him had decisiveness in his eyes, his body flickered, directly turning into a black lotus.

Rising black fire, while shrouding everything, also completely sealed the fragment space where they were.

For a time, the place where they were was completely blurry, not clear, only roaring sounds, resonating with the sound of the furnace tripod.

Xu Qing here also took advantage of this opportunity to fully complete the final possession of this Great Emperor physical body.

Outside, the situation was intense, and inside the bone tripod being refined, flames were also burning fiercely.

The meat tumor was burning, and the essence from the Sovereigns of all parties within it also began to boil.

Ming Yan, sitting cross-legged inside, opened his eyes, revealing a gloomy glint.

Chen Erniu there was the first miscalculation he had made this time.

A small cultivator whom he hadn't valued much at first actually gave him such a blow at this critical moment.

"What makes me somewhat surprised is that my deduction didn't perceive clues on this person before, didn't see the foundation of this person, and didn't perceive the existence of the bone tripod..."

"Either someone interfered with me, or... there is a big problem with this person."

"Interesting, this pair of Senior and Junior Brothers, each is so extraordinary."

"Then their master..."

Ming Yan Great Emperor narrowed his eyes and snorted coldly.

Even if some accidents appeared, he still had the confidence to suppress everything.

"In order to complete this rebirth, I have prepared for a long time, especially this cave of the place of seclusion, which does not come from Wanggu."

"With this cave here, it can make the outside world unable to disturb me in the slightest."

"And although I changed my plan temporarily because I saw this physical body, but... everything is still under my control."

Ming Yan was calm in his heart, and at this moment, facing the refining power, he took a deep breath, and the liquid outside his body instantly decreased by 30%, then he exhaled gently.

Immediately, above his head, a second black lotus appeared, emitting terrifying black flames, and even more iron chains spread out, intertwining with the one under his body.

Rotating with each other, causing the iron chains to pierce through the meat tumor and bombard the bone tripod from the inside.

Accompanied by endless black fire, suppressing the ice flames.

And the appearance of the two black lotuses also caused Ming Yan's aura to soar again, and while suppressing the ice flame refining, he extinguished the candle behind him within his body.

Making the balance that had been broken return again.

"This tripod also has benefits; it can help me shield the outside world to a greater extent, giving me more time to master this physical body as quickly as possible."

"At most half an hour, I should be able to master most of the physical body's abilities, and when that time comes..."

Ming Yan opened and closed his eyes, and deep in his eyes, a purple glint flickered.

The next instant, his pupils contracted suddenly.

"There is purple light in my eyes?"

"There is purple light in my eyes?"

Ming Yan's heart sank. For a mighty figure like him, the unknown represented accidents and variables, and the purple light in his eyes was the second unexpected event for him this time.

And just as Ming Yan's heart was shaken, more purple light erupted from his body uncontrollably. The moment it permeated his entire body, the source was also revealed.

The source was within the flesh and blood of his chest.

There, there was an object that Emperor Ming Yan had been unable to detect before.

It was a purple crystal!

The moment he detected this crystal through the source, Emperor Ming Yan's expression changed more drastically than ever before.

What made his emotions fluctuate was that this object was actually beyond his cognition!

In his previous deductions, he had not sensed the existence of this object. Even after the possession, although this purple crystal was clearly inside his body, he had not perceived it in the slightest before it emitted purple light.

It was as if the status of this object exceeded his imagination.

If it did not want you to perceive it, you would never be able to perceive it.

And such an accident made his heart tremble even more than the appearance of Chen Erniu earlier.

Especially inside that purple crystal, there seemed to be a black shadow without facial features sitting cross-legged, as if it were just a shadow.

Almost the moment he looked over, the shadow also suddenly opened its eyes.

The next instant, the purple crystal seemed to be triggered, and its light erupted into the sky, forming a sea of light that suddenly covered every area of his physical body and also covered Ming Yan's soul.

In the thousand years since Ming Yan went into seclusion, this was the first time he felt a loss of control and felt a strong life-and-death crisis.

His breathing immediately became rapid.

"This object is not within my scope!"

"What is it!!"

A sense of unease erupted in Ming Yan's heart. At this critical moment, he did not hesitate at all and immediately wanted to seal the purple crystal with all his might.

But the spread of this purple light brought not only the purple light itself, but also... Seventh Master's restriction.

Ming Yan's suppression of the restriction immediately collapsed.

The candle behind him also began to burn again.

Even Chen Erniu's bone cauldron erupted even more intensely under this purple light.

Ming Yan was horrified. He suddenly opened his mouth and inhaled with all his might, sucking in the remaining seventy percent of the essence within the tumor he was in at once, and with the help of this majestic power, he resisted with all his might.

At the same time, he gritted his teeth fiercely, and his own soul within his body surged, directly taking out an object he had hidden within his soul that was as important to him as his life.

This object was where his greatest secret lay.

As his soul shone, a golden light appeared.

It was a drop of water.

A drop of golden water.

To be precise, this was a drop of golden river water.

The moment this drop of water appeared, a vast golden river manifested within Ming Yan's soul.

"Mother River..."

Ming Yan called out.

As his voice echoed, outside this Moyu Holy Land, outside this Eastern Wanggu Continent, in the endless starry sky, in the north of this Ninth Star Ring...

There was a boundless golden long river flowing.

Within this river, countless stars could be seen, all living things could be seen, and lotus flowers could also be seen.

Among those lotus flowers, countless figures sat cross-legged, including alien races, humans, cultivators, and gods...

At this moment, one of the cultivators who looked like a human suddenly opened his eyes, revealing a sharp light, and looked into the starry sky.

Then he stood up and bowed to the long river.

"Mother River, one of the chess pieces sent to the Upper Desolate Land is sending out a distress signal."

The river water rippled, and after a long while, a vast will, terrifying to the point of being indescribable, revived a trace within the river water.

Although it was only a trace, it affected the billions of stars in the river, making all the living beings here feel palpitations and tremble.

"The time has not yet come..."

The cultivator lowered his head upon hearing this, sat back down, and muttered to himself.

"Then, let him rely on a drop of Mother River water to fend for himself."

In the place where Ming Yan was in seclusion, what happened inside the furnace could not be perceived by other parties.

Only Xu Qing, at the moment the purple crystal erupted, had some perception based on the connection with the crystal.

And this was Xu Qing's arrangement!

Before leaving the body, he triggered Seventh Master's first layer of restriction and unlocked the seal on the candle, allowing the restriction to erupt and the candle to be lit.

This was to cause an impact on Ming Yan.

At the same time, he did not take away the purple crystal!

Instead, he left it in the physical body and also left Little Shadow inside, letting it erupt the power of the purple crystal at the critical moment.

He could not judge what the result would be.

But along the way, Xu Qing had already discovered a clue.

That was... it seemed that apart from him, no one he met had ever perceived his purple crystal in the slightest.

Seventh Master did not, the Empress did not, and the old man from the Fifth Star Ring he met in the Outer Sea, they all seemed to have never noticed it.

Therefore, in this desperate situation, Xu Qing chose a more desperate path.

He no longer cared about what the result would be.

Because according to his plan, the moment the purple crystal erupted was the time for him to unfold the final part of this plan.

Once this part of the plan was unfolded, if Ming Yan noticed, he would definitely come to stop it; the other party would not allow him to do so.

And he could not be disturbed.

That was why the eruption of the purple crystal had its significance.

To hold Ming Yan back!

Thinking of this, Xu Qing perceived his current physical body.

The feeling this physical body gave him contained an incomparably rich and terrifying origin, but on him, it was like a mortal child wearing thousand-pound armor.

He could not control it.

And this body also had huge problems; it seemed to have been forcibly balanced and supported before, and now the balance was broken...

The support was gone.

It began to collapse and wither.

"But it is enough..."

Xu Qing muttered in his heart, his eyes revealing determination, and he transmitted a divine thought hoarsely in his heart.

"I wish..."

The next instant, a strange mask, silently and soundlessly, traversed all barriers, traversed the void, broke through time and space, and appeared in front of Xu Qing.

It was as if it had been waiting all along.

Staring at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing looked back at it.

"I wish to use this physical body as nourishment to reshape my own self!"