Chapter 1059: Shedding Skin

The border between the southern and western parts of the Fifth Star Ring.

Beneath the crimson aurora in the sky, sticky rain fell, enveloping all directions.

There was also a great wind whistling, blowing wildly, making the sticky rain here dry rapidly, becoming glue-like, and the sealing power rose greatly.

Even at the edges, it had completely gelled.

Even the void could not escape, as if this space was about to become one under this glue power.

The power was astonishing, the lethality strange and terrifying.

Xu Qing was within this range.

His whole body was permeated by sticky rain, forming sticky threads that solidified rapidly with the earth, with the void, and with all directions.

Sticking firmly to the skin on his body.

And the gelling all around was still intensifying rapidly, becoming more and more, denser and denser.

And once he couldn't break free in a short time, the moment this place dried completely, he would become something like amber.

Never to break free again.

But Xu Qing's expression showed no anxiety.

He already had a method to break this glue technique.

So the focus of his judgment at this moment was not the battle itself, but the factors outside this fight and the inner heart of the youth before him.

This seemed unrelated to the battle, but in reality, this was the core of this fight.

Because normally, the opponent shouldn't be so headstrong in the early stage of the second phase of the Immortal Capital hunting trial.

After all, doing so would be more loss than gain.

Once one gets injured, it would be very dangerous in the second phase of the Immortal Capital hunting trial.

The situations to face afterward would be more.

Especially since Xu Qing's token was only double-layered, not enough to make people care so much.

According to the opponent's combat power, there should be many tokens that were easier to get.

It was not worth fighting so desperately.

This was not what a smart person would do.

"As such, it is very wrong."

These thoughts flashed through Xu Qing's mind instantly, and then he glanced at the distant horizon.

The suspicion in his heart was further confirmed.

Decisiveness also rose accordingly.

As for his surroundings, the sticky rain that was drying rapidly in the whistling wind had become glue, forming a sealing effect, sealing all directions.

"Cannot care about too much; even if I pay the price of some injuries, I must end this battle quickly."

A flash of netherworld appeared in Xu Qing's eyes, and as his mind moved, all the blood in his body accelerated its flow at this instant.

Then his whole body shook, and under his control, his own blood erupted through every pore of his skin.

More and more, forming blood mist, erupting in all directions!

Blood mist spread, moistening the heavens and earth.

This method was learned by Xu Qing from that middle-aged city lord, using his own blood as a guide, containing his will, spreading in all directions, and merging into the sticky rain that was drying rapidly.

Making the moisture lost by the sticky rain being dried replenished instantly.

Thus, the rain glue was hard to solidify, and the sticky rain turned crimson.

The process of drying also could not be achieved in one move, becoming slow.

This sticky rain gelling method was indeed strange, and its power was astonishing, but it had a fatal flaw.

That was, its stickiness had to wait until after drying to truly erupt, to truly become glue power.

This flaw was clearly known to the youth himself, so he rarely displayed this technique directly in front of opponents.

It was often used as a hidden means and an unexpected lethality.

Using it now was also because he didn't want to fight Xu Qing head-on, planning to stall.

Seeing Xu Qing find this flaw and have a method to break it at this moment, the youth with the birthmark on the right side of his face had an unsightly expression, but he didn't have too much surprise.

In his cognition, this enemy before him, whether in intelligence or reaction, could be called terrifying, a formidable enemy.

He also didn't intend to truly be able to seal the opponent easily with the gelling technique.

So although there was still some regret, he retreated violently without hesitation, while forming seals with both hands, the heavens and earth changed color, and the wind and clouds surged.

He actually didn't hesitate to consume his own cultivation, bolstering his great wind authority, wanting to use this kind of strengthened blowing technique to reach a balance with Xu Qing's breaking.

One wanted to dry, one wanted to moisten.

As long as the point was grasped, and balance was achieved...

Then even if a seal was not formed, this stalemate itself had achieved the effect of sealing and stalling.

Especially the sticky glue covering the opponent's body, although it had moisture under the nourishment of the blood mist and did not solidify completely, the stickiness still existed.

The restriction also continued.

Such a method showed that the youth's own natural talent and means were both excellent, and according to conventional standards, his plan could succeed.

Even to prepare for this plan, although he had prepared methods against Xu Qing's Scooping the Moon from the Well, he still displayed the five-colored painting the moment he arrived to consume Xu Qing's spatial technique.

In his understanding, that level of spatial technique was likely very difficult to display many times.

And regardless of whether it could or not, consumption was never wrong.

And his own gelling of the heavens and earth, the sticking also included space, which itself had a certain blocking effect on spatial techniques.

"If it is still broken by him, then at worst, this battle won't continue; anyway, I informed that person of the location of this place; he came too late, and I have no way."

Thinking of this, the youth, while bolstering the great wind, also scattered fire authority, retreated himself, and made all preparations.

It was just... a scene that made him unexpected and his heart shake violently appeared at this instant.

Only to see Xu Qing, who was bound and stuck by countless sticky threads from all directions, had his body emit earth-shattering sword qi at this instant.

This sword qi... came from the Emperor Sword.

It was not to slash the sticky threads all around, because under the opponent's continuous attack, the Emperor Sword was also very difficult to cut them all instantly, and would also fall into a stalemate.

Therefore, this sword power erupted within Xu Qing's body.

It slashed... Xu Qing's skin!

In the blink of an eye, the sharpness of this Emperor Sword, under Xu Qing's ruthlessness, circled instantly between his own skin and flesh.

Separating the skin and flesh within the body completely!

At the same time, the sword light converged in front of his body and erupted outward.

Suddenly, Xu Qing's body seemed to split into two.

A long mark, starting from his crown, crossing his forehead, crossing his face, chest, and even his whole body...

The skin, like clothing, split open directly.

A bloody figure without skin rushed out from within at this moment!

The speed was fast, and the moment it appeared, before the sticky threads all around could entwine, relying on this short-lived freedom, the spatial technique erupted suddenly.

The next instant, Xu Qing shifted out directly.

Seeing the rush of this bloody figure, the youth with the birthmark on the right side of his face contracted his pupils fiercely; his heart roared, and a strong sense of horror rose.

He had seen ruthless people, but this was the first time he had seen someone so ruthless.

Actually shedding skin to escape!

In the shock, the youth retreated crazily, and a strong life-and-death crisis erupted in his heart like never before, making his breathing rapid, because he understood that such a desperate behavior meant the opponent's goal was absolutely not just to break free.

It was just that although he realized the danger and retreated rapidly, it was too late!

Almost the moment Xu Qing rushed out, the spatial Dao erupted with a boom.

Forming grids, layering them, turning into sealing power, all suppressing the youth.

There was even an ancient sundial manifesting behind Xu Qing, and as the pointer on it turned, the time Dao fell completely.

Displaying the power of freezing!

Using space to suppress the retreat path.

Using time to freeze the light and shadow.

Finally causing the youth's body to pause in mid-air!

Body paused, soul paused, his space was locked, his time was frozen.

Then... the sword qi came out.

The second of the three sword qi from Ninth Grandfather erupted in Xu Qing's place with a boom.

The heavens and earth changed color, the wind and clouds surged.

Sword qi rushed out, slashing toward the youth.

This youth was extraordinary; at the critical moment, even though his time was frozen and his space was locked, at this key moment, the aura of self-destruct erupted from his body.

Relying on the power of self-destruct, he wanted to shake the space, shake the time, and break free from this stillness.

Suddenly, Xu Qing's spatial grids roared, appearing with cracks, and the sundial behind him shook, with cracks appearing one after another.

It seemed about to collapse.

After all... his opponent was a Sovereign infinitely close to the mid-stage, and even more so a genius who had developed his own authority to the extreme.

At the critical moment, a cold glint flashed in Xu Qing's eyes; even if the space was churning, even if there were more cracks in the life sundial, he still did not put it away, but continued to catalyze the sword qi.

The next instant, the sword qi swept across.

The heavens and earth brightened, as if heavenly thunder had crossed.

With a boom... the sword qi landed directly on the youth's glabella, rushing into his body, destroying everything.

Form and soul perished!

All of this sounded long, but it actually happened in the blink of an eye.

In an instant, Xu Qing's Quasi-Immortal Capital Token range surged, actually reaching a range of ten million li.

And he didn't have time to check these, spitting out a large mouthful of blood at this moment.

His whole body was bloody and mangled, and his injuries were not light.

This battle was not difficult in terms of fighting techniques, but in the instant kill to end the battle quickly.

Even if space and time were used, they were almost broken free by the opponent; one could imagine that if they hadn't been restricted by space and time, even if Xu Qing had used the sword qi abruptly when attacking, it would likely have been impossible to succeed.

And once it failed, after the opponent had a near-death experience, wanting to end the battle quickly again would be almost impossible.

Xu Qing took a deep breath; he didn't have time to recover his injuries now, and after organizing the battlefield rapidly, he endured the intense pain of having no skin and the backlash from the damage to time and space.

His body flickered, heading straight for the distance.

"This battle shouldn't have been so tragic."

While speeding, Xu Qing secretly felt it was a pity; if not for the opponent's strange performance, he wouldn't have needed to pay such a price, and he wouldn't have needed to use the second of the three sword qi to end the battle quickly.

Now, there was only one sword qi left.

"And Ninth Grandfather's sword qi also has a limit; it can kill an early-stage Sovereign, but looking at the power of these two times, I fear it cannot do it for the mid-stage..."

Xu Qing pondered in his heart, then catalyzed the purple crystal and swallowed a large amount of elixir to accelerate the recovery of his injuries.

At this moment, while healing and speeding, and sensing the surroundings, he was also pondering the scenes since coming to this Fifth Star Ring.

The Fifth Star Ring was a unified Star Ring!

This point was completely different from the Ninth Star Ring where the Wanggu Continent was located.

In the Ninth Star Ring, Xu Qing had seen from that map of the Demon Feather Holy Land back then, there were many forces, all circling around the Wanggu remnant face.

And the Fifth Star Ring was already unified.

Within it, gods were detained, and from then on, they were forbidden.

All clans, without exception, cultivated.

And they upheld the principle of cultivators being supreme.

Hence, there were many experts.

Now Xu Qing was just in a remote corner at the border of the south and west of the Fifth Star Ring, and he had already encountered several Sovereigns; from this, one could see the vast scroll of this Fifth Star Ring.

For Xu Qing, this was a challenge and also an opportunity, a danger and also a creation.

After coming to this Fifth Star Ring, he had already experienced several battles with experts.

Every time, Xu Qing had new insights; while understanding the Sovereign level better, he also understood more and more about his own Dao.

The battle with Ling Feng, the spirit mine guardian, made him understand that what limited the strength of one's own Dao, besides the large-scale restriction of cultivation, was more about one's own imagination.

The Five Elements were vast, with infinite changes.

The battle with that city lord afterward verified this point, letting him realize that his own Dao could be transformed into authority.

Today, the battle with that youth made Xu Qing see what kind of power it would be after developing authority to a certain degree.

Wind, in the opponent's hands, this single authority could actually shake the Five Elements.

And it could also combine with external objects to achieve an effect similar to a third authority.

All of this made Xu Qing's heart touched.

He originally wanted to continue this battle, because in his judgment, although the battle with that person was fierce, it was also a form of tempering for himself.

It was just... all the opponent's reactions explained that a danger was approaching at this moment.

And half an hour later, Xu Qing's judgment was also confirmed.

Through the sensing of the Quasi-Immortal Capital Token, he saw a shining star appear ten million li away!

This star was brilliant, exceeding everything Xu Qing had ever seen.

The moment he sensed it, a strong life-and-death crisis rose in Xu Qing's heart.

And the opponent seemed to have locked onto this place long ago, with magnificent momentum, coming rapidly. ===== CHAPTER 1062 =====