Chapter 1043

Fifth Star Ring, unknown region, within the land of the spirit mine.

In the sky, the barrier that existed here still shrouded all directions, isolating the inside from the outside, making all the fluctuations here difficult for the outside world to perceive.

In the earth's swamps, it was full of deep pits; those were the traces of the battle between Xu Qing and the middle-aged Sovereign.

Besides this, there were countless bubble small worlds that were shattering.

As for Xu Qing, he stood in mid-air, his face pale at this moment, his whole body bloody and blurry.

But he didn't pay attention to these; his gaze now was toward the place where the middle-aged Sovereign's body had been separated.

At the same time, he pinched a seal with one hand, his vigilance undiminished, ready for other situations to appear.

If there was the slightest abnormality, he would slash with his sword again.

Until he saw that the Sovereign's aura was completely gone, and under the destruction of the sword qi, the body dissipated rapidly.

Finally, after it was completely extinguished, Xu Qing's heart settled.

This battle was not easy.

Perhaps due to the differences in star rings and growth history, Xu Qing could feel that the Sovereign who had fought him earlier surpassed the Sovereigns he had seen in the Holy Land in terms of combat power and means.

"There are three possibilities. One, the one I encountered is an exception."

"Two, the environment of this Fifth Star Ring is more dangerous than I imagined, so none of the Sovereigns here are simple."

"Three, the Sovereigns of the Holy Land have been comfortable for too long, so their combat power is insufficient."

The unknown of the Fifth Star Ring made it difficult for Xu Qing to make a precise judgment at this moment, but his eyes remained calm, and the baleful aura on his body grew more intense following this battle.

At this moment in mid-air, his gaze swept across the surroundings, and with one step, he arrived at the place where the middle-aged Sovereign's body had dissipated.

There was a storage bag there.

Xu Qing grabbed it, then flickered again, appearing at the place of the shield and the Ghost Gate.

The Ghost Gate technique was a divine ability; following the Sovereign's death, the Ghost Gate had collapsed and disappeared.

Xu Qing looked, put away the shield, and arrived near the Life-Seeking burning incense in one step.

This incense stick had only burned a little bit before its cause and effect were severed by Xu Qing's Great Emperor scissors, causing it to extinguish.

"This item is not bad."

Xu Qing raised his hand and grabbed it. The incense stick flew over rapidly, and he held it in his hand, erasing all marks, leaving his own brand, then looked up toward Little Shadow.

Little Shadow's main body and the Glazed Treasure Tree were still battling.

Originally, Little Shadow was at a disadvantage and was in great difficulty; if it weren't for its own bizarreness and regeneration, I fear it would have perished long ago.

Until the middle-aged Sovereign died, the Glazed Treasure Tree trembled, as if it had lost its support, and was seized by Little Shadow for a counterattack.

At this moment, amidst the echoing roaring sound, Xu Qing looked at the Treasure Tree and the figure that had materialized from it, which was exactly the same as himself, and spoke indifferently.

"You should possess a certain degree of intelligence, so... either I destroy you, or you submit."

Xu Qing's voice transmitted into the battle, and Little Shadow was spirited, immediately dispersing emotional fluctuations to assist Xu Qing in threatening it.

The Glazed Treasure Tree trembled, and the materialized figure felt Xu Qing's terror, so after a brief silence, the figure bowed to Xu Qing and then dissipated.

And the Glazed Treasure Tree's main body also dimmed after flashing with brilliant light a few times, no longer striking.

Seeing this, Xu Qing raised his hand and took it across the air.

Immediately, the Treasure Tree rushed toward Xu Qing without any struggle, allowing Xu Qing to erase the marks on its body and strike a new brand.

Little Shadow also returned at this moment, exuding deep exhaustion.

"Well done."

Xu Qing praised it.

Little Shadow's spirit lifted; being praised by Xu Qing seemed to have immense significance for it, so its emotions immediately became joyful.

"Mas... I have... use..."

Xu Qing nodded, his gaze falling on the Glazed Treasure Tree.

This tree's power was not bad, especially the means of absorbing the enemy's aura and technique traces to materialize a figure, which was also not simple.

If used in coordination with the Life-Seeking burning incense, unless the other party possessed a similar method of checks and balances, it could also be considered a trump card.

"The harvest of this battle is not small. Besides these two treasures..."

Xu Qing looked at the Sovereign's storage bag he had harvested.

A sense of anticipation rose in his heart.

"However, before investigating this storage bag, there is still a small situation that needs to be resolved."

Xu Qing looked up, looked into the distance, and spoke indifferently.

"Within three breaths, if you still choose to remain hidden, then I will let you remain hidden eternally."

Xu Qing's voice echoed in the spirit mine. Two breaths later, on the swamp in the distance, the void distorted, and a figure emerged rapidly from a transparent state.

This was a youth with a pale face and deep terror in his eyes. The moment he appeared, he didn't hesitate in the slightest, and with a thud, he knelt directly toward Xu Qing.

Beads of sweat the size of beans flowed from his forehead, and sweat poured down his whole body like rain.

He was a servant of the Sovereign who had been slain by Xu Qing.

His cultivation base was only at Spirit Repository.

Originally, being able to become a Sovereign's servant, he was satisfied, and just now, seeing the Sovereign strike and Xu Qing in danger, he had cold snorts and contempt in his heart.

But things developed too fast. After seeing the Sovereign die with his own eyes, he went from shock to bewilderment, and then to horror; his heart had long since been roaring.

So he didn't dare to move, wanting to rely on the talisman given by the Sovereign to try to hide himself. Although he knew the possibility was not high, in the life-and-death crisis just now, he could only pray that he could muddle through.

At this moment, being called out by Xu Qing in a single sentence, the youth's body trembled uncontrollably, and he kept kowtowing there.

After sweeping his gaze over this person, Xu Qing did not slay him. In fact, when fighting the Sovereign earlier, he had already sensed the other party, and keeping him now had other uses.

So, withdrawing his gaze, Xu Qing dispersed his divine sense, merging it into the storage bag in his hand. Upon investigation, he raised his eyebrows.

The items within were extremely abundant.

Just the spirit stones alone gave Xu Qing no small surprise.

The quantity was so large that it piled up like a mountain.

Crystal light flashed, dazzling and eye-catching.

And soon Xu Qing discovered that these spirit stones were different from the spirit stones on the Wanggu Continent; each one actually contained some power of rules.

"Refined from gods? So they contain the rules of heaven and earth?"

Xu Qing took one out and held it in his hand to examine.

Besides this, there were items in the storage bag even more precious than spirit stones; those were Immortal Jades.

They gathered into a long river of immortal qi, flowing within the storage bag.

It caused Xu Qing's mind to shake.

After careful perception, he discovered that the rules contained within these Immortal Jades were thicker than those in the spirit stones, and even under Xu Qing's sensing, he discovered that the Immortal Jades here had a feeling close to the initial origin power he had absorbed when he made his wish back then.

It was just relatively thin.

But being able to achieve this point was also shocking.

"Such items show that this Fifth Star Ring is even less simple than I thought."

"This one is really rich."

Xu Qing murmured in his heart; even he, having experienced killing and treasure-snatching many times, was still shaken by this storage bag.

So the anticipation in his heart grew stronger, and his divine sense moved away from those spirit stones and Immortal Jades rapidly, sensing the other items in the storage bag.

Soon, he saw a large number of bottles and jars, all containing elixirs.

The grades varied.

And among them, many, based on Xu Qing's medicine Dao, could be preliminarily judged as elixirs with no small efficacy, and there were some that were outside his range of knowledge.

After a simple check, Xu Qing's heart was continuously rippled by the items in this storage bag. At this moment, his divine sense dispersed on a large scale, wanting to find jade slips, classics, and magic treasures.

But unfortunately, although there were magic treasures, their levels were much worse.

This could also be understood; after all, in the previous battle, the magic treasures that could be used had already been taken out by the Sovereign's stable personality.

For example, the burning incense and the Glazed Treasure Tree.

But there were still two items that caused Xu Qing's divine sense to fluctuate.

Soon, a scroll of animal skin flashing with black light, and a token, flew out from the storage bag and floated in front of Xu Qing.

The first thing he checked was the animal skin.

This animal skin was only the size of a palm. Within the black light, one could see dense marks, flashing and moving crisscross, like living things.

After a glance, Xu Qing thought for a moment, and his divine sense fell into the animal skin suddenly, sweeping over those marks, sensing carefully.

After a long while, Xu Qing was moved.

"Four-Nine Forbidden Array!"

The origin of this animal skin was unknown. What was recorded within was a divine ability and Dao technique named Four-Nine Forbidden Array.

This reminded Xu Qing of the middle-aged Sovereign's Three-Three Forbidden Array.

And this forbidden array had massive power, capable of gathering the power of the laws of heaven and earth, erupting with countless forbidden arrays; whether it was killing or sealing, it was extremely extraordinary.

But the disadvantage was that every time it was used, one had to accumulate forbidden arrays in advance.

As for the advantage... it was that unfolding this method, after speaking forty-nine characters, it could erupt invisibly, indefensible.

And this divine ability, following comprehension and cultivation, could shorten the number of words spoken.

The dead middle-aged Sovereign had clearly cultivated it to the Three-Three level.

And according to the description in the animal skin, if one could cultivate to the final stage, the eruption of the forbidden array could be shortened to any two characters, and it was not limited to oneself; even if the enemy spoke them, it could work.

The reason it was two characters was because the array is divided into yin and yang, and the forbidden is divided into life and death, and it cannot be unique.

At this moment, holding the animal skin, scenes of the middle-aged Sovereign unfolding the forbidden array earlier appeared in Xu Qing's mind, and a thought suddenly emerged in his heart.

"This divine ability is interesting; it can be integrated into words. Then, if the two characters this divine ability finally shortens to are my name?"

"As long as someone calls out my name, I can trigger the forbidden array with a thought. In this way... it would be even more invisible."

After pondering, Xu Qing felt that this matter was not impossible.

If it were really integrated into his name, then it would truly be indefensible.

For example, when an enemy curses him, as soon as the words are out, the forbidden array descends on its own.

Or when encountering someone who asks his name with malice, the moment he answers, the killing array falls directly.

"Used properly, it is also a trump card!"

Xu Qing's eyes revealed a strange glint. After thinking for a while, he put away the animal skin; he planned to put the cultivation of this divine ability into his daily practice next.

Then his gaze fell on the token.

This token was bizarre, and the baleful aura was extremely intense; even now, floating in mid-air, it caused the surrounding temperature to drop.

Its color was crimson, as if dyed by fresh blood.

The back was empty, while the front was a totem of an eye.

Xu Qing gazed at it. This token could be said to be the most special item he had found in the Sovereign's storage bag.

So he didn't touch it, but after investigating, he suddenly turned his head, looked at the youth kneeling not far away who didn't dare to leave, and spoke indifferently.

"Your life and death depend on your value."

"Tell me, what is this item."

Xu Qing's voice fell into the youth's ears. The youth endured the fear of life and death, looked up at the token, and responded with a trembling voice.

"Senior, this is... an Immortal Capital Quasi-Order."

Xu Qing's expression was as usual, but after hearing the two words "Immortal Capital," his mind tightened.

"Continue."

The youth took a deep breath. Facing the person who could slay his master, he didn't dare to have the slightest concealment, even though he knew the other party was probing for information about the star ring he was in, he couldn't care too much.

So he detailed it one by one, and even to explain the Immortal Capital Order, to make Xu Qing satisfied, he also told the history of the Fifth Star Ring.

As Xu Qing listened, his thoughts gradually became clear.

First, this was indeed the Fifth Star Ring, and there indeed existed a place called the Immortal Capital.

And the former Fifth Star Ring was filled with gods, until the rise of the Immortal Capital, which suppressed the gods and destroyed everything related to gods.

It was even more so under the strike of the Supreme Immortal Venerable within the Immortal Capital, who leveled the starry sky and stood the Immortal Capital right in the middle of the Fifth Star Ring.

From then on, it was incomparably sacred.

And around the Immortal Capital, all the leveled universes no longer had the concept of a starry sky, but became land, became the residence of cultivators.

As time passed, the number of cultivators here had reached a shocking degree, with countless sects and numerous families.

And almost all cultivators had a dream in their hearts.

That is, to be able to ascend to the Immortal Capital!

Once done, it is like a fish leaping over the dragon gate; from then on, their identity, status, and future will be completely different.

The people of the Immortal Capital are the true masters of this Fifth Star Ring.

It's just that the Immortal Capital is high and mighty, isolated from the outside world.

"Everyone wants to ascend to the Immortal Capital, and the method to ascend to the Immortal Capital is to fight for it!"

The youth spoke in a low voice. When speaking of the Immortal Capital, a longing light also instinctively flashed in his eyes.

"The reason it is a fight is because every once in a while, the Immortal Capital will open the Great Hunt for Ascension!"

"The Immortal Capital will disperse ten thousand quasi-tokens, letting the hundreds of millions of cultivators in the entire Fifth Star Ring fight for them."

"The process is incomparably cruel, and the slaughter is even more shocking."

"Because, for the holders of these ten thousand quasi-tokens, they only possess the qualification, and the number finally allowed to ascend into the Immortal Capital will be based on the ranking. When there are many, it is around one thousand, and when there are few, it only takes the top hundred!"

"Senior, the token in your hand is an Immortal Capital Quasi-Order!"