Chapter 1025: That Person, Who Is He?

The sighs of the Xia Xian Palace echoed in the lonely time.

Within this ancient temple, only that little butterfly could hear it.

But at this moment, she did not understand the meaning contained in this sigh.

She still clung to her master, wondering why he always said her mind was dull, why he helped that person she disliked.

And she did not notice that her master's eyes held a flash of resolute color, fleeting in an instant.

Xu Qing had not heard this sigh either.

At this moment, in the place of his secluded cultivation in the Mingyan, within his mind and spirit, he gazed upon the dandelion fluff drifting in his sea of consciousness, silent for a few breaths, then his heart became decisive.

"Eight Extremes..."

Xu Qing murmured, his divine sense suddenly spreading, merging into those dandelion fluff.

In an instant, Xu Qing's mind and spirit roared, as if the sound of heaven and earth's initial opening exploded within his soul.

This sound shattered time, forming a guide, leading Xu Qing's soul into the place of the Thick Earth Immortal Source he had once visited.

It was an endless void filled with flesh-and-blood mud.

Upon the flesh mud, still grew that great dandelion.

Countless marks were branded upon its branches and trunk, each emitting terrifying, awe-inspiring power, gathered together, making this pearl dandelion miraculous beyond compare, unique and unparalleled.

And beneath it, the flesh mud providing its nourishment was formed from the corpses of countless divine spirits.

To provide eternal power for the dandelion.

At the same time, the souls of these divine spirits were also confined here, forced to kneel, emitting mournful and terrifying wails from their mouths; their divine sounds could better promote the dandelion's operation.

This is the Immortal Source Land.

Created jointly by the Nine Great Xia Xian of old, burying a divine realm, thus forming this Immortal Source!

Even though he had come here once before, this second time entering here, Xu Qing's heart still surged, his gaze falling upon the dandelion.

It was in bloom, scattering countless fluffy seeds, continuously drifting, ever farther.

At the same time, it was also returning, merging into the dandelion, being absorbed, transformed, and then scattered again.

Forming a cycle.

Gazing at these, Xu Qing's divine sense instantly merged into it.

There, his myriad divine senses suddenly scattered, becoming hundreds of thousands, even millions of strands, following all the seeds, covering the void, covering the starry sky, covering all inheritances.

Countless Dao arts appeared before his eyes, countless blurred figures walked out in his perception.

They were practicing, cultivating.

Time here seemed to have lost its function, space here also lost its markers.

The only thing existing was that boundless inheritance record.

It was like a vast library.

Gazing at these, perceiving all, Xu Qing silently recited the two words "Eight Extremes" in his soul.

Almost at the moment this divine sense was sent out, within the Immortal Source Land, this boundless inheritance suddenly blurred, only three clusters of seeds, deep within, slowly emerged.

"This is the inheritance image of the Three Paths Eight Extremes."

"Your time is only enough to comprehend two clusters."

"How to choose, I cannot help you."

At the moment Xu Qing looked at these three clusters of seeds, the vicissitudinous voice of the Xia Xian Palace Master echoed within this Immortal Source Land.

Xu Qing fell silent, his gaze dropping.

The first cluster vaguely showed only one figure, seemingly sitting in meditation and comprehension.

The second cluster then showed two figures, gazing at each other, though their appearances were blurred.

As for the third cluster, it showed three figures, seemingly in transmission.

Opportunity, only two times.

Choosing...

After Xu Qing scanned them all, his gaze first locked onto the second cluster, his expression decisive.

The reason he chose the second cluster was because he faintly sensed that within this second cluster, the two figures, though blurred, seemed to share some common origin.

"Avatar and true self?"

Xu Qing pondered, took a step, and poured his divine sense into the second cluster of dandelion seeds.

In the next instant, heaven and earth roared.

A scene recorded in the Thick Earth History was projected into Xu Qing's eyes.

In the scene, there was a foreign continent; in Xu Qing's view, this continent could not be compared to Eastern Wanggu, but it also had some characteristics.

Beneath it, numerous ferocious beasts were sealed.

It seemed to utilize these ferocious beasts to become the driving force for the continent's operation.

And the focus of Xu Qing's attention was a traveling palace on this continent.

Its heavenly canopy seemed severed from the eight directions, standing independently.

Night and day were alternating with each other!

When Xu Qing looked down, a soft hum came from within that traveling palace.

This sound was not vulgar; it shattered heaven and earth, causing flickering runes to be born.

Xu Qing's eyes narrowed, seeing that those runes all contained primordial power.

"It is a restriction."

Xu Qing murmured, became interested, wanted to go see the cultivators inside that traveling palace, but was blocked.

The blocker was not the other party, but the power of the dandelion.

Xu Qing was thoughtful, realizing he was merely an observer, able only to see the images before him, unable to penetrate them.

Thus, time flowed slowly, and the sealing runes appearing on the heavenly canopy of the Xinggong grew increasingly numerous, yet showed signs of instability, beginning to dissipate.

At that moment, a heaven-shaking long cry echoed from the Xinggong, followed immediately by five long rainbows that rose together with the cry from within the Xinggong.

Although what Xu Qing saw remained blurry, the instant these five figures appeared, he immediately sensed… the Five Elements power contained within them.

"These are metal, wood, water, fire, earth."

Xu Qing stared unblinkingly, continuing to watch.

He saw the five rainbows on the heavenly canopy, each emitting the utmost intent of the Five Elements, and then… the five rainbows merged into one, condensing into a true form of the Five Elements.

This true form stood between heaven and earth, inhaled once, and its body suddenly expanded, transforming into a thousand-zhang giant!

Standing between heaven and earth, it began to stabilize the unstable sealing origin runes around it.

Seeing these countless runes, under its action, slowly subside the signs of collapse, yet at this moment, a cry laden with savagery echoed from deep within the earth.

A ferocious soul form materialized with the howl.

It was a spherical mass of flesh, bearing only a single enormous eye, revealing ferocity and madness.

Upon seeing this beast, Xu Qing's eyes flashed.

This beast resembled the Mingfei he had seen before in appearance.

And most similar of all was that earth-shaking ferocious intent.

Upon its appearance, this ferocious soul fixed its gaze upon the Five Elements True Form above the Xinggong, and within its enormous single eye, a flicker of greed passed.

Then it charged forward.

As it approached, the howl grew sharper and sharper.

But at the instant it neared, a calm voice echoed through heaven and earth.

"Still."

One word spoken, all things stilled, not a single movement.

The ferocious soul rushing forward, its illusory body, became as if motionless, frozen between heaven and earth, its single eye still holding ferocity, yet that ferocity too was frozen.

Xu Qing witnessed this, his eyes flashing with strange light, and continued to watch.

Seeing that after the ferocious soul was frozen, all the surrounding sealing origin runes, as if starved for countless years and finally seeing food, went mad and rushed toward it.

One by one, they drilled into the soul's form.

The ferocious soul trembled, its body emitting a dark light, and in the process of being devoured, it began to dissipate.

The ferocity in its eyes also vanished, replaced by an illusory human shadow born within its eye.

One step emerged from within the single eye, standing between heaven and earth, its entire body filled with immense sealing origin power.

This scene caused Xu Qing's heart and spirit to surge.

"Is this the forging of a sealing origin true form? Using the Five Elements True Form to lure the ferocious soul, borrowing its body as special nourishment, thus completing the forging!"

As Xu Qing pondered, the forging was not yet complete.

Only seen, within the black-and-white alternating heavenly canopy, daytime transformed into a initial sun, becoming flowing light, instantly merging into the ferocious soul's body, which was frozen there.

In the ferocious soul's trembling, its body shrank again, and from within its single eye, a second figure emerged.

This figure radiated bright light from its entire body, like the sun, and after stepping out from within the single eye, it stood beside the sealing origin true form.

Then, the remaining darkness rolled the blackness between heaven and earth, likewise merging into the ferocious soul's body.

The ferocious soul trembled, its single eye collapsed, and from within emerged a third origin true form!

The instant this form appeared, extreme killing intent erupted from within.

Shocking all.

Xu Qing stared fixedly at this third origin form, his heart surging violently.

And in the next instant, the Five Elements True Form also one by one absorbed the ferocious soul's power.

Xu Qing immediately perceived the clue.

"After the soul is torn apart, there exists between them an instinct to seek rewholeness, this instinct becomes a pulling force, the fiercer the soul, the stronger this instinct, using this instinct as a medium, enabling all true forms to fuse via this bridge!"

While Xu Qing perceived all this, from within the Xinggong, a sheet of black lightning rose up, suddenly erupting.

Along with it appeared a cold voice.

"Unify!"

Almost at the moment the words were spoken, a vast divine thought burst forth, enveloping heaven and earth.

All forms, unify!

Became a black-haired killing form!

An extreme aura emanated from its body, representing the desire to annihilate all life, destroy heaven and earth, the origin power of slaughter!

"From now on, you shall punish all enemies, transmit the thought of destruction, exterminate unfavorable souls!

Bestowed the name Lu Mo, Dao name Xingfa!"

A vast voice echoed from within the earthly Xinggong.

At the same time, the scene ended here.

The world, before Xu Qing's eyes, directly collapsed, and his divine thought returned to the Immortal Source Land at the moment the world shattered.

Before him, the second cluster of dandelion seeds dispersed.

"This is the precious record of the Eight Extremes Dao, merging and unifying."

"Whether you can master it, depends on your fortune."

The voice of the Xia Xian Palace Master echoed within the Immortal Source Land.

Xu Qing remained silent, scenes from before surfaced in his mind, after a long while, he suddenly spoke.

"Senior, that person… who is he?"

The master of Xia Xian Palace did not answer Xu Qing's question, but fell silent for a moment, then spoke in a low voice.

"Perhaps, within the flow of time, you will meet him."

"You are of the same kind."

Xu Qing's gaze fell upon the place where the second cluster of dandelions had dissipated; after a long while, he looked toward the first cluster, and his divine sense surged inward.

In the next instant, an even more ancient scene appeared before Xu Qing's eyes.

In the scene, a middle-aged cultivator of solemn countenance wore imperial robes, like the ancestor of a clan, worshipped by countless clansmen, who called him the Immortal Ancestor.

Yet at this moment, he bowed before a fragment of stone, upon which a blurred totem was carved.

The totem depicted a crystal shattered into ten fragments; five of them respectively contained metal, wood, water, fire, and earth; one contained space; one contained time; the remaining three were unknowable.

Around the crystal were infants and stars, seemingly representing creation.

As the Immortal Ancestor was worshipped, he seemed to comprehend some cultivation method from those shattered crystal fragments.

Then the totem completely blurred and ceased to exist.

Seeing this, Xu Qing's heart and mind were stirred with greater waves; he did not know whether the Immortal Ancestor had perceived the clue, but in that instant of his gaze, he seemed to witness the birth of a stellar ring.

And the power contained within those ten fragments of the shattered crystal was clearly……the Dao of the Eight Extremes.

"The source……"

Xu Qing murmured.

Return to the Immortal Source.

He remained silent for a long time, closed his eyes, extended his divine sense, and began to analyze and comprehend all that he had witnessed on this journey.

Time passed.

It was unknown how many years had elapsed within the dandelion.

It felt as if he had traversed thousands of years, yet in reality, only thirty breaths had passed.

"The time has come."

The voice of the master of Xia Xian Palace arrived.

Xu Qing opened and closed his eyes.

His eyes possessed the Five Phases.

He rose and bowed once.