Chapter 1044

"This quasi-order, as far as I know, was exchanged by Sovereign Lingdu after selling several treasures with shocking power and using a great deal of personal favor from someone else."

"Its purpose should be as a gift to someone else... so he just put it away and didn't activate it."

"Otherwise, after his death, his ghost mark would have appeared on the quasi-order."

The youth spoke carefully, telling everything he knew, not daring to have the slightest concealment, and even completely suppressing the resentment and poison in his heart, not revealing half a bit.

He knew that for an existence like the one before him, the resentment and poison in his heart, even if only a tiny bit, could be detected, thereby bringing him a situation of no return.

So he was incomparably cautious.

As for Xu Qing, he stood in mid-air, listening to the youth's words, pondering in his mind, while his gaze fell on the token in front of him.

He indeed didn't see any ghost mark on it.

So Xu Qing looked at the youth expressionlessly and spoke calmly.

"Continue."

The youth's heart trembled. He couldn't tell from Xu Qing's expression whether the other party was satisfied with his answer. The sense of life and death was still intense, so he racked his brains, searched all his memories, and spoke again.

"Senior, this kind of Immortal Capital Quasi-Order is very rare relative to the number of cultivators in the entire Fifth Star Ring. However, some people think it is lucky to get one, while others think it is ominous after getting one."

"If one possesses the corresponding combat power, one can naturally soar into the sky with this, but if the combat power is insufficient, holding this quasi-order... is equivalent to stepping half a foot onto the road to death."

"Because holding the token not only means facing the greed of those without tokens but also facing the plunder of other token holders."

"After all, the threshold for the Immortal Capital's collection is only announced at the very end, so unless one can enter the top one hundred in the ranking... otherwise, no one will feel stable."

"In this way... slaughter and plunder are naturally intense, and the order of ranking is also arranged according to the number of tokens obtained."

"Killing the token holder allows one to obtain the other party's tokens and all the mark counts on them."

The youth paused here; basically, he had said everything he knew about the Immortal Capital Quasi-Order.

"Is this the only way to enter the Immortal Capital?"

Xu Qing suddenly spoke.

Hearing this, the youth hurriedly responded respectfully.

"There is one other method."

"That is to cultivate to at least the Great Emperor level. Outside the Immortal Capital, after cultivating to the Great Emperor level, one is not allowed to participate in the hunt. They will be granted a temporary quota. If they can break through to become a Lower Immortal within five hundred years, they can reside in the Immortal Capital forever."

Xu Qing's eyes narrowed.

"So, in all the regions outside the Immortal Capital of the Fifth Star Ring, the highest cultivation base is the Great Emperor?"

The youth shook his head.

"It is not so. My Fifth Star Ring has countless sects and numerous families, and there is no lack of Lower Immortal powerhouses within them, because not all Lower Immortals choose to reside in the Immortal Capital long-term after ascending."

"There are many people from the Immortal Capital who will be arranged by the Immortal Capital to patrol the heavens outside."

"These Lower Immortals, apart from some lone travelers, are mostly the ancestors of major sects and families."

Xu Qing was silent. In his heart, he had more cognition of the Fifth Star Ring.

Although he had long known about the formidable nature of the cultivators in the Fifth Star Ring, he was still rippled in his heart. After half a while, he analyzed the youth's words and suddenly spoke.

"In other words, the hunt and fight between these quasi-orders... are not allowed to be interfered with by Great Emperors and Lower Immortals?"

Hearing Xu Qing's words, the youth nodded repeatedly.

"The Immortal Capital has rules, so they cannot directly assist, but regarding indirect... I have heard that to a certain extent, it is tacitly approved. As for the specifics, the level is too high, and I don't know much."

The youth responded anxiously.

Xu Qing pondered for a while, his gaze falling on the youth.

The youth's body trembled, a sense of bad omen erupted in his heart, and he was just about to beg for mercy.

Xu Qing had already raised his hand and instantly took the youth in.

He pressed his palm on the top of the other party's head and began to search his soul to verify the truth of what he had said.

The youth was nervous to the extreme, his breathing incomparably rapid; he knew that his life and death were in this instant.

So, in order not to be soul-crushed during the soul search, he endured the fear, tried hard to give up all struggle, and let Xu Qing check his memories.

A moment later, Xu Qing was thoughtful.

Because the gap in cultivation between the two was not small, and the other party didn't have the slightest struggle, the soul search process was incomparably smooth, and the damage to the youth was also within the range the other party could bear.

So after ending the soul search, Xu Qing thought for a moment and didn't destroy this person, but sealed the youth's soul perception, isolated his five senses, and put him into the storage bag.

This person had some use for Xu Qing, and his answers throughout were quite honest; he was a smart person.

"When I leave the Fifth Star Ring, I will naturally give you freedom. As for this period... you can just be a guide."

Xu Qing transmitted his divine sense, ended the conversation, and his gaze fell on the token in front of him.

After pondering for a while, he didn't choose to activate the token immediately, but put it away, preparing to ponder whether to participate in this Immortal Capital fight after going out.

"Then, leave here first."

Xu Qing murmured in his heart, then his divine sense swept across, falling on the shattered bubble small worlds one by one in this spirit mine.

The bubble small worlds here had collapsed by about seventy percent, so the spiritual energy within them leaked out, permeating here, incomparably dense, looking like mist.

And it was being absorbed by the vortex existing on the barrier that sealed this place.

But one could imagine that since most of the small worlds had collapsed, this kind of absorption had become a one-time thing, unable to provide a continuous supply for a long time as it once did.

And every small world on the swamp, after the boundary sky collapsed, had its sentient beings no longer being drained of vitality, so to a certain extent, they could be considered to have gained freedom.

It's just that these sentient beings were mostly bewildered at the moment, still in confusion and adaptation, and hindered by their cultivation bases, they found it difficult to fly out under the pressure difference between inside and outside.

They didn't know about the outside world.

But this process, I think, won't last too long. After a period of time, there will always be prodigies in the small worlds who will try to rush out of the world they are in, come to the outside, and see the real sky.

Xu Qing didn't interfere in this matter.

"There is no cause and effect between us; that is their destiny."

At the same time, during the sweep of his divine sense, Xu Qing also confirmed his judgment that this was a Divine Prison, because every small bubble world had a god sealed and suppressed within it.

Some were already dead, some were on their last breath, and all had lost their divine intelligence.

However, it was clear that the quality of this Divine Prison, or this spirit mine, was not high-level.

Because the gods sealed and suppressed here were all at the Divine Fire Realm.

Xu Qing didn't sense the existence of a Divine Platform.

"However, before leaving, rather than letting the spiritual energy here be absorbed by that vortex, I might as well absorb some."

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, opened his mouth, and took a hard breath.

Immediately, the dense spiritual energy here churned suddenly, surging toward Xu Qing, being absorbed into his mouth, absorbed by his whole body, nourishing his physical body while also nourishing his Seven Extreme Dao.

It was just that the vortex existing on the barrier that sealed this place was also absorbing it now.

Xu Qing looked up, thought for a while, and didn't strike to destroy it.

After all, the fear contained in the middle-aged Sovereign's gaze toward this vortex before he died was something Xu Qing remembered deeply.

"He was worried that the collapse of the spirit mine would affect the vortex's absorption, so the source of this vortex..."

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes. After pondering, he sat cross-legged, his Five Elements operated, and time and space also erupted, forming a greater suction force.

Immediately, the spiritual energy here split into two; one part surged into the vortex, and the other part was drawn and affected, surging into Xu Qing.

Just like this, time passed.

As the spiritual energy in the spirit mine gradually became scarce, and his cultivation base climbed slowly, the spiritual power absorbed by the vortex on the barrier that sealed this place also became thinner and thinner.

Its influence also began to manifest in a certain heaven and earth in the Fifth Star Ring.

In that heaven and earth, the sky was filled with thunder, the earth was crimson and heaven-flooding, and two figures in mid-air were fighting fiercely.

These two figures were both youths, one with red hair, one with white hair. Both had killing intent in their eyes, and every strike they made contained Dao and authority, roaring heaven-shakingly.

Among them, the red-haired youth had dozens of vortex totems on his body, and each vortex totem was exuding dense spiritual power, providing him with a continuous addition to his cultivation base.

But at this moment, one of the vortex totems suddenly became dim, and the spiritual energy provided was nearly exhausted.

If it were any other time, he wouldn't care about the exhaustion of a family spirit mine vortex.

But now, in a life-and-death battle, the other party was a prodigy, and he had to do his best to deal with it. Once he slew him, the number of his token marks would surge.

So there was no room for error.

But an accident happened.

"Damn it, what happened to that spirit mine? At this critical moment..."

The red-haired youth's mind immediately turned grim.

But now in battle, he had no time to check, so he could only suppress this matter, unfold forbidden means regardless of the price, and fight with all his might.

At the same time, outside the spirit mine, in the dim heavens and earth, there was a black boat hanging a white flag, whistling and approaching.

The speed was shocking.

There were eight or nine figures on the boat, each looking relaxed, chatting and laughing with each other.

And the totem on the boat they were on was special; it was the shape of a circular ring, as if representing a certain meaning.

At this moment, as the flag fluttered, the sound of chatting and laughing also drifted in the wind.

"Ahead is the family spirit mine guarded by Senior Lingdu. Once we arrive there, we can have a good rest."

"This time, we went out to execute a family mission, and the harvest was not bad. We also probed important information, enough to report back to the family. Next, I want to go to the spirit mine's small world to have a good time. This process was hard and too tiring."

Speaking of going to the small world to have a good time, everyone on the boat laughed, and each expression revealed anticipation.

For these elites of the family, the spirit mine's small world was a place to relax, where they could play as they pleased.

At this moment, amidst the chatting and laughing, a giant sealing barrier appeared on the earth ahead of them; that was their destination.

"Arrived."

The boat paused in mid-air and rushed straight toward the spirit mine on the ground.