Chapter 1035

On the inner sea, in an area not far from the boundary.

In the sky, the tower shining with starlight suddenly pauses.

The sea surface roars, huge waves sweep across, and as if a tsunami has formed, expanding thunderously in all directions, a huge sculpture that seems to be as tall as the sky rises from the seabed.

The statue shines with divine light, and gold becomes everything.

That is a god.

It stands on the sea, existing between heaven and earth; compared to it, the starlight tower where Xu Qing is located is like a small toy.

As for the shape of the sculpture, it is surprisingly a fox.

But it is no longer mud, but has become a solid stone material, fiery red all over, making this fox lifelike.

What radiates from its body is no longer the flawless divine fire from before, but... a divine altar!!

Or to be precise, more than half of its body has already stepped into the divine altar, and now it can barely be considered divine altar combat power.

And as the divine altar emerges, heaven and earth change color.

The terrifying divine might causes both the sea and the firmament to form vast vortexes.

The firmament vortex rotates clockwise, the sea vortex rotates counter-clockwise, and this makes the space between these two vortexes distorted.

The laughter also conveys from the fox sculpture at this moment.

Inside the paused starlight tower, Xu Qing opens his eyes.

A sigh in his heart.

Regarding this Xingyan Upper God, he has a sense of avoidance every time.

He didn't expect that before leaving, he would still see the other party.

At this moment, there is no other way; Xu Qing takes a deep breath, stands up, walks out of the starlight tower, stands in mid-air, looks at this vast sculpture, and bows.

"Greetings, Upper God."

As for the other party's cultivation that has infinitely stepped into the divine altar, Xu Qing is not surprised; back then, the three gods' ceremony made becoming a divine altar inevitable, and later the Holy Land arrived, experiencing several great battles.

Finally, although the Holy Land's living beings were absorbed by the Sword-Wielding Emperor, the stimulation of his sword Qi and the star-sky power of the collapsed Holy Land could all accelerate the growth of the three gods.

"Why, you little guy with a conscience, looking at your expression, it seems you aren't very welcoming of sister coming."

"Sister has been missing you day and night during this time, thinking of you constantly."

Xingyan's voice carries a sense of seduction, conveying into Xu Qing's ears as if transformed into hair, hooking the ear bones, brushing across the cheeks, and stroking the heart.

And during the speech, its sculpture also visibly shrinks, soon transforming into a normal person, the texture also rapidly changing into flesh and blood, finally becoming a charming beauty, looking at Xu Qing with a smile that is not a smile across the bubble of the starlight tower.

Xu Qing doesn't know how to answer the other party's question, so he chooses the silence he is accustomed to.

Seeing Xu Qing like this, Xingyan Upper God licks her lips, her gaze that seems to be able to penetrate clothes measuring Xu Qing, her eyes gradually appearing with charming silk.

Deeply inhaling.

Radiant.

Her voice is also more tender.

"Forget it, forget it, little guy without a conscience; who let your primordial yang be so fragrant and sweet; sister even if she has anger, looking at you... this anger naturally dissipates."

"Then you, are you going to the outer sea now?"

Xingyan laughs lightly.

Regarding Xingyan's gaze, Xu Qing is already accustomed to it; hearing this, he nods.

"What a coincidence."

Xingyan blinks.

"Sister also happens to be going to the outer sea; let's go together, but why are you looking so defensive, not even opening the bubble in front of you, and not coming out."

"Could it be, you are afraid that sister will eat you, even though sister helped you so much over the years, you are so distant to me."

Xingyan's expression reveals a touch of resentment.

Xu Qing is helpless, and there is no way to refuse, and the other party did indeed help him many times over these years, especially the alliance between her and the human race now.

Thus Xu Qing sighs in his heart again, raises his hand to disperse the bubble, and walks to Xingyan's side.

"That's more like it."

Xingyan raises her hand, pinching Xu Qing's face with a speed Xu Qing cannot resist, then laughs happily, divine wind rising, taking Xu Qing straight to the boundary between the inner sea and the outer sea.

It is not far from here.

So in just the blink of an eye, they arrive at the intersection of the inner and outer seas.

The color of the sea is distinct here.

On one side, it is purple.

On the other side, it is black.

And between this purple and black, there is a lonely boat lying in the middle.

On the lonely boat, a handsome and scholarly middle-aged man is sitting cross-legged, fishing.

It is exactly Yu Liuchen.

Facing the arrival of Xu Qing and Xingyan, he does not look up, but Xingyan clearly has a somewhat heavy expression regarding Yu Liuchen's appearance.

They are all gods, but the gap between them is like heaven and earth.

The current Yu Liuchen is walking toward a True God.

Xingyan notices this point immediately, her heart fluctuating, and her body takes a step, standing in front of Xu Qing, bowing to Yu Liuchen.

Yu Liuchen's expression is calm, speaking calmly.

"You are blocking my view."

Xingyan is silent, moving aside.

Only then does Yu Liuchen look up slowly, his gaze falling on Xu Qing.

Xu Qing steps forward, bowing respectfully.

"Greetings, Senior."

Yu Liuchen does not speak immediately, but looks at Xu Qing; after a long while, he moves his gaze away from Xu Qing, looking at the firmament.

Speaking calmly.

"When he left, did he smile."

Xu Qing naturally understands that this "he" refers to the Sword-Wielding Emperor.

Regarding the past between the Sword-Wielding Emperor and Yu Liuchen, Xu Qing doesn't know much, but in that battle in the human Imperial Capital back then, the scene of Yu Liuchen cooperating with the Emperor, and the final purpose being to send the last sword deposited with him.

All this already explains that the Sword-Wielding Emperor and Yu Liuchen had a friendship.

The friendship between an immortal and a god, in Xu Qing's former cognition, is an incredible thing.

However, seeing the Empress's actions after becoming a god, seeing Xingyan Upper God's behavior of blocking in front of him just now, Xu Qing... has his own understanding of gods.

Thus he speaks softly.

"He smiled, smiled very happily, very satisfied."

Yu Liuchen is silent upon hearing this.

After a long while, his gaze looking at the firmament falls on Xu Qing again, snorting.

"In consideration of that guy who likes to show off..."

As he speaks, Yu Liuchen raises his hand, the fishing rod in his hand lifting, the fishing line hooking a three-headed, nine-colored fish, which goes bang in mid-air.

That three-headed nine-colored strange fish explodes directly, its flesh and blood gathering together, becoming a meatball.

"There is a little show-off named Xu Qing, who went out to gain experience; a few years later, this little show-off returned safely."

This is Yu Liuchen's story.

It is also his blessing.

After speaking, his story merges into the meatball; the nine colors within the meatball shine, then disappear one by one, finally becoming a mass of rotten meat.

And the rotten meat decomposes, turning into flying ash, dissipating between heaven and earth.

Xu Qing clearly feels a warm current on his body; a look of gratitude appears in his eyes, and he bows.

Yu Liuchen withdraws his gaze and continues fishing.

A moment later, under Xingyan Upper God's signal, Xu Qing flies past Yu Liuchen's side, stepping into the outer sea.

As if walking into an isolated world, the familiar chaos and violence rush toward him along with the sea breeze.

The outer sea has arrived.

"He actually gave you a blessing, little guy; this blessing is profound; you must know that with his current state, stepping into a True God is just around the corner."

"And this blessing, accompanying you, means that when he steps into a True God, you will be equivalent to having the protection of a True God."

Xingyan frowns, feeling somewhat unhappy in her heart, but still informs Xu Qing of the preciousness of this blessing.

And the reason she is unhappy is that after adding this blessing, she cannot see through Xu Qing's flesh and blood as she once did...

"Alright, where is your destination; although I don't know, I know it's definitely not stopping at the outer sea."

Xingyan looks at Xu Qing.

"And on your body, there is the aura of a passage token."

"Things in the outer sea, for the vast majority of people, are unknown, but for gods, how could they not know."

"However, using the outer sea to go to other star rings has no small difficulty."

"Although you have a passage token, you can be exempted from cultivation restrictions, but..."

"Having a passage token doesn't mean you can truly pass through smoothly."

Xingyan looks at Xu Qing meaningfully.

Xu Qing ponders, wanting to speak.

But Xingyan laughs, licking her lips, not giving Xu Qing a chance to speak.

"However, sister is here, so it's different."

"If you want to use the outer sea to go to other star rings, you need to first reveal the passage."

"And there are two ways to reveal it; the first is to rely on a ritual, which requires at least three divine altars to act together, and also requires a large amount of divine creatures as nourishment to achieve."

"I can help you; after all, my true body has now entered the divine altar for the most part, and the two sisters are even more so. If I help you, I can barely open a passage for you."

"However, this consumes a lot of me, so you know how to repay me, right."

Xingyan's eyes become more charming.

Xu Qing's expression is as usual, asking a question.

"Isn't there a second method?"

Xingyan raises her eyebrows.

"The second method? You need star ring grass, light it, and the passage will open on its own, because star ring grass is born to open passages!"

"This grass looks ordinary on the outside, like straw, but it contains faint starlight. However, this grass is almost extinct; Wanggu doesn't have it; legend says it only occasionally has a small seedling at the intersection of each star ring's outer sea."

"So, you'd better choose the first method."

Xu Qing silently takes out a straw from his storage bag.

Xingyan's eyes widen, looking at this grass.

This straw is exactly what fell from the mouth of the golden mouse caught by the old man he met in the outer sea back then.

At the Xia Xian Palace, when he exchanged for the passage token, he also asked about the method of passage, which was the same as what Xingyan said, so at that time he took it out and confirmed that the straw was indeed star ring grass.

Just now, he wanted to inform her, but his words were interrupted by Xingyan.

Watching Xingyan staring at the straw in a daze, Xu Qing lights it silently, and the next instant... smoke rises into the sky.

Only a little was burned, but the smoke was incomparably dense; after covering the firmament, it sank abruptly, landing on the outer sea surface.

The next instant, the sea surface roars.

As the seawater churns, as far as the eye can see, thirty-five huge vortexes emerge on this sea, constantly rotating, radiating ancient auras.

This aura is heaven-shocking and earth-shattering.