Chapter 1062: The Initial God

The vast Divine River of blood surged.

The river was wide, and looking at it, it was boundless, as if connected to the horizon, the vast momentum making one feel awe.

It was hard to imagine how many gods had been slaughtered to gather such a degree of divine blood, making this Divine River of blood possess such a terrifying scale.

Especially under the reflection of the aurora in the sky, the blood-colored river water flashed with dim light, like countless blood pearls jumping on the water surface.

Wanting to compete with the aurora.

Forming a magnificent and wavy scroll.

This scroll was heavy, containing the accumulation of history, witnessing the changes of heaven and earth, carrying the stories of gods and immortals, and was also a witness to the change in the pattern of the Fifth Star Ring.

The significance was far-reaching.

At this moment, in this blood-colored scroll, that lonely boat rode the wind and waves, moving forward.

The voice from the boatman also echoed between these heavens and earth.

Every sentence, every word, was like thunder, roaring in Xu Qing's heart, like Dao sound.

"Unique Immortal Venerable."

"Fifth Human Ancestor."

These words gathered rapidly in Xu Qing's mind, until they transformed into the figure of an old man.

That old man was the one Xu Qing saw in that map in the Demon Feather Holy Land, sitting cross-legged in the Fifth Star Ring, and was also the one he saw in the outer sea of the Wanggu Continent.

"Senior, why... is the Immortal Venerable called the Fifth Human Ancestor?"

After a while, Xu Qing took a deep breath and asked in a low voice.

The boatman picked up the smoke pipe, took a puff, spat out smoke, and opened his mouth lightly.

"The Upper Row thirty-six Star Rings belong to the Upper Realm, and each has a different number of Lower Row Star Rings, which are the Lower Realms."

"Some Lower Row Star Rings possess names, and some do not."

Saying this, the boatman glanced at Xu Qing; this glance seemed to have deep meaning.

"And the Lower Row of the Fifth Star Ring is one that does not possess a name; there, very early on, when gods were rampant in the Upper Row Fifth Star Ring, its Lower Row Star Ring was called the Fifth Lower Realm."

"Within it, all clans existed, enslaved by gods, and each clan needed to worship gods to survive."

"And then war, resistance, suppression, rise, the world collapsed, and war with gods."

"Every time, it was failure; after failure, the Fifth Realm was wiped of everything, restarted, and continued to become food for gods."

As the boatman's voice fluctuated, the words seemed to become symbols of time, weaving into a long river of time, flowing into Xu Qing's cognition.

"Until the last time, led by the Emperor of the Fifth Realm humans at that time, it erupted with unprecedented brilliance, making this war between Immortal and God, Lower and Upper, manifest to the extreme."

"In the war, following the Emperor of the Fifth Realm stepping into the Immortal Venerable level, the original Divine Venerable of the Fifth Star Ring also encountered an accident, finally overturning the Fifth Star Ring and changing the pattern."

"It was also because of this that he was called the Fifth Human Ancestor."

After the boatman finished, he looked up at the sky, his expression containing a hint of emotion.

Xu Qing listened silently; history often has its similarities.

Like this Fifth Star Ring, it was actually somewhat similar to the Wanggu Continent.

It was just that clearly, the development here was smoother.

"Then other Upper Row Star Rings..." Xu Qing asked instinctively.

"Most failed; only one place could have succeeded, but because of some accidents, it also failed."

The boatman's voice carried some reminiscence and shook his head.

"Because, the Upper Row thirty-six Star Rings do not belong to cultivators, do not belong to Immortals; here... is the domain of gods."

"On these two paths of God and Immortal, Immortal... has a limit, falling one step behind God."

The boatman's tone was somewhat low.

"To be precise, Immortals, after reaching the Immortal Venerable level, have no path forward; for countless years, the Immortal Venerable of the Fifth Star Ring has always stopped there."

"And God... above Divine Venerable, there is God!"

"God is not a legend, but a real existence."

"Although throughout the ages, only one has appeared, this one is called the Initial God; it is said that it was exactly the appearance of Him that created the Upper and Lower Row realms."

"This theory of creation is hard to distinguish true from false; history is too ancient, and there is no conclusive proof."

These words of the boatman brought Xu Qing a shock even greater than the previous words.

"That Initial God..." Xu Qing's breathing was rapid, and before he could finish speaking, the boatman already knew what he wanted to ask.

"He went to an unknown place and never returned."

"And after countless epochs passed, no second God appeared in the Upper Row thirty-six Star Rings, until the Desolate in the Ninth Star Ring."

"He was the one with the most hope of becoming God after the Initial God; what is worth celebrating is that he ultimately failed."

"Otherwise..."

The boatman didn't say the consequences, but Xu Qing could already imagine them.

If the Upper Desolate succeeded, then the divine power of the entire Upper Row thirty-six Star Rings would surge countless times, and Immortals... would also have no possibility of survival from then on.

Xu Qing was silent, digesting the words from the Ferryman in front of him.

This day, the other party said a lot, from the core and division of the Sovereign realm, the ability of Quasi-Immortals, to the entire worldview, and it seemed there was nothing hidden, all informed.

This practice clearly exceeded the scope of the Ferryman's duties.

The other party had absolutely no need to inform him of these things.

Connecting to the very beginning, when he was being pursued, the other

It would be unrealistic if Xu Qing still had no guesses about all this; deep in his heart, he already had many thoughts.

He suspected that this ferryman before him... had a past with Eastern Wanggu.

As for whether he came from Eastern Wanggu, or was familiar with some cultivators from Eastern Wanggu, Xu Qing could not fathom, but he noticed that the other party had swept his gaze over his sword many times.

Thus, after pondering, Xu Qing suddenly spoke.

"Senior, do you know of Eastern Wanggu..."

The boatman narrowed his eyes and did not speak.

Xu Qing waited for a long while, sighing in his heart.

Although the other party did not respond, this very lack of response actually represented some answers.

"Senior, Eastern Wanggu has undergone drastic changes..."

The boatman still did not speak, smoking his pipe and exhaling smoke.

Xu Qing fell silent.

He chose not to press the question.

Just like that, time slipped by, and the sixth day... gradually arrived.

The cost of crossing the river is six days of the traveler's life, because the time to cross the river is a fixed six days.

At this moment, as the sixth day passed, this vast Blood River of the Gods appeared at its end in Xu Qing's eyes.

That was the western star domain of the Fifth Star Ring.

Approaching this place, the river water also became calm, the waves gradually diminished, and only the boat remained; after a few hours, as this sixth day was about to pass...

It finally arrived at the western shore.

The soil here was different from the southern swamp; no swamp could be seen here, and the earth was crimson, appearing to contain fire energy.

"Go down. If you have a second river crossing, the cost will no longer be six days of life, but sixty years."

The boatman spoke indifferently.

Xu Qing took a deep breath, stood up and bowed, then without further words, his body flickered as he stepped off the solitary boat, arriving at the shore in one step.

Stepping onto the western land, Xu Qing turned to look at the boat.

On the boat, the boatman wearing a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat was smoking his pipe, and the exhaled smoke made his figure even more hazy.

Recalling these six days, Xu Qing lowered his head and bowed again.

"Thank you, Senior."

Although the other party had not responded to his inquiries in these last few days and no longer spoke, the things he had told him earlier were of great significance.

It was equivalent to directly opening up Xu Qing's understanding of the world.

Therefore, according to Xu Qing's way of doing things, this was a great favor.

Thus, this bow of his was extremely sincere.

After the bow, Xu Qing turned and flew rapidly into the distance.

Until his figure disappeared from the shore, on the Blood River of the Gods, inside the solitary boat, the boatman slowly raised his head, looking in the direction Xu Qing had left.

"Zhi Jian, that stubborn fellow, has he fallen..."

He muttered, his tone carrying reminiscence.

After a while, he sighed softly.

"Eastern Wanggu... it has been a long time since I heard those two words, and as for my name, I am afraid the ten thousand clans of Eastern Wanggu have long forgotten it... erased from history."

While muttering, the boatman raised his right hand and looked down at his palm.

Inside his palm, there were now runes shining like human faces, emitting an eerie aura.

If Xu Qing were here, he would definitely be able to recognize at a glance...

Those runes shining like human faces were, shockingly... Immortal Arts!

At the same time, in the mid-air of the western part of the Fifth Star Ring, Xu Qing, who had already left the shore, heard the sigh of the Mud Fox in his ears during his rapid flight.

"That person from before... was a bit scary. I felt that the moment he saw you, he had the thought of wanting to grab me out and ravage me fiercely."

"Xu Qing, this place you came to is not fun at all!"

The Mud Fox was terrified, especially when recalling that Blood River of the Gods, its heart trembled.

"Forget it, forget it, I'd better continue to sleep..."

The Mud Fox muttered a sentence and rapidly retracted its aura again.

Seeing Goddess Xingyan like this, Xu Qing didn't know what to say; he had already warned the other party that the place he was going to might not welcome gods.

But clearly, Goddess Xingyan at that time did not believe it.

"Later, it might be even more dangerous..."

Xu Qing hesitated, but ultimately reminded it again.

Instantly, the Mud Fox's aura retracted to a greater degree.

Such a posture was rarely seen in Eastern Wanggu; one could imagine how great the deterrent effect of that ferryman was on Goddess Xingyan.

As Xu Qing pondered, the figure of the ferryman could not help but emerge in his heart.

"Who exactly is he..."

Xu Qing muttered.

There was no answer to this.

After a while, Xu Qing took a deep breath, buried this matter in his heart, and brought up the map and information of the western star domain in his mind.

The western star domain, compared to the other three domains, was generally weaker, especially the orthodox Dao Immortal Sect of the west, which was also somewhat down and out.

The fundamental reason was that the Xuntian of the west had an otherworldly mindset, not caring about the development of the sect, nor about the views of the outside world.

The cultivators of the entire sect were mostly indifferent.

But because of this, there were more family forces here than in the other three domains, competing with each other, cannibalizing each other, and developing and growing.

Looking at this information, Xu Qing thought of the Star of the west.

As the weakest of the eight great stars, this person was a disciple of the Xuntian of the Dao Immortal Sect.

"Li Mengtu..."

"The family has a characteristic: all direct descendants have the character 'Tu' (Earth) in their names."

"His cultivation base is in the early stage of Sovereign, he possesses four authorities, and his own combat power, combined with a set of eerie techniques inherited from his family and the cultivation from his master, has a record of killing a mid-stage Sovereign."

In his thoughts, Xu Qing gazed at the western world.

"This place is much more comfortable than the south, suitable for healing, but not suitable for challenges and self-tempering."

"However, for me now, finding a place first and striving for an early recovery of my injuries is the priority."

"As for the future path... I will act according to circumstances."

Determination appeared in Xu Qing's eyes; his body flickered, and he moved forward rapidly.