Chapter 1063

A few days later.

"This Western Domain is indeed quite different from the Southern Domain."

In the sky, Xu Qing, who had been galloping all the way, had a thoughtful expression.

In these few days, while looking for a place to seclude himself and heal, he had encountered two other people who had integrated the Quasi-Immortal Token.

The first time was when the other party was more than nine million miles away and clearly had not noticed Xu Qing, so Xu Qing easily avoided them.

But the second time, almost at the same time Xu Qing detected the other party through his own Quasi-Immortal Capital Token, the other party actually sensed Xu Qing immediately.

To have such a token sensing range, they must be a powerhouse.

But when Xu Qing's vigilance rose in his heart, the other party chose to avoid him.

This was very different from the Southern Domain.

It seems... avoiding trouble, or rather, not creating trouble unless absolutely necessary, is the code of conduct for many people in the west.

This situation was encountered by Xu Qing once more in the following seven or eight days.

It was finally confirmed by him.

"This west... compared to the south, the intensity is much weaker, and unnecessary conflicts are mostly avoided."

"But that doesn't mean people here don't kill."

Xu Qing looked up and gazed into the distance.

In front of him, there was a ring-shaped barrier, and as the light flickered, it formed a formation to block outsiders from stepping in.

Inside the formation, several cultivators sat cross-legged.

And outside the formation, not only was Xu Qing standing there, but scattered around at some distance were dozens of other cultivators.

Some of them were like Xu Qing, passing by and being blocked, while others were originally within the formation's range and had been driven out.

"The Yunmen family and the Earth Spirit clan are about to start a war of extermination."

"These two great families are also considered strong clans in the vicinity; it is normal for such an extermination event to occur as they jointly occupy this Lingchen Mountain Range."

"However, these two families have other clan lands besides this one, so I imagine it will be difficult to truly exterminate each other in one go, given the battle lines and time."

Discussion echoed all around.

At this moment, Xu Qing had long since changed into a coarse linen robe, learned from the boatman to wear a bamboo hat on his head, and his appearance was also concealed.

Standing in mid-air, listening to the voices around him, Xu Qing's spiritual sense spread out, covering the front.

This place was originally the place he had chosen for seclusion based on the map.

Those continuous mountain ranges had rich spiritual energy, and in his judgment, they were very suitable for healing.

But now... the fluctuations of spell-casting were echoing violently.

There were quite a few combatants within that mountain range.

Through the words around him, Xu Qing understood that this was one family invading another.

Both sides were extremely intense.

There were powerhouses within, and Xu Qing could clearly feel the might of a Sovereign.

Even token holders were present on both sides.

But clearly, obtaining each other's tokens was not the main point; cannibalizing and devouring each other's families was the priority.

The process was cruel, the methods were ruthless, and it was clearly a fight to the death, with a need to cut out the roots.

After perceiving this, Xu Qing understood a little more about the west.

"Cultivators here rarely choose unnecessary battles; their personalities are mostly lazy, but at the same time, their sense of family is extremely strong, so battles mostly occur between families."

"This also matches the information recorded on the map; because the Dao Immortal Sect doesn't care, it doesn't strictly control the entire west and almost lets it be, so the cultivation families in the entire west are dense and grow wildly, with numbers far exceeding the other three domains."

Xu Qing pondered and slowly retreated.

Tens of millions of miles away, he finally found a desolate mud pool; after a brief thought, his body flickered and he escaped into the mud pool.

Deep in this mud pool, he set up a small cave dwelling, reinforced the surroundings, left behind restriction formations, and isolated his aura before sitting cross-legged to begin healing.

Perhaps because of the battle between the two great families nearby, many cultivators left after learning of this, and those who would have passed by on their original itinerary also replanned their routes.

So the next half month of Xu Qing's seclusion was quite peaceful.

Until this day, as the mud pool subsided, Xu Qing's figure walked out from within and stood in mid-air.

Standing there, his chest felt oppressed, and a feeling of coughing always surfaced.

So his brows were tightly furrowed.

Although the injury could not be seen on the surface, his aura was still relatively weaker compared to the past.

"Dao injury..."

Xu Qing muttered.

After cultivation reaches a certain level, not all injuries can be cured by elixirs.

The strikes of powerhouses often form Dao injuries.

Xu Qing had not encountered such injuries in Eastern Wanggu, but in this Fifth Star Ring, he felt the difficulty of recovering from a Dao injury.

"My previous judgment of one month was still too short."

"This kind of injury often takes several years to slowly heal; although I have the purple crystal, which can shorten this process, if there is rich spiritual energy, the recovery time can be shortened again."

Xu Qing's gaze was gloomy; he looked down at the mud pool beneath him, then looked up at the Lingchen Mountain Range, while flipping through the western map in his mind.

Although the spiritual energy here far exceeded that of Eastern Wanggu, it was still thinner than in the Southern Domain, unless it was some special place...

"However, as I am now, as long as I don't encounter a Sovereign, facing a God-Rending, killing them won't affect my injury recovery."

Combining the map, Xu Qing finally made a choice; a cold glint flashed in his eyes, his body took a step forward, and he disappeared in an instant.

Aurora flowed in the sky, and small whirlpools emerged one after another, becoming more and more numerous.

Time passed unconsciously for a year.

During this year, the war between the Yunmen family and the Earth Spirit clan, who were fighting for the Lingchen Mountain Range, continued.

In the large-scale battle at the beginning, the ancestor of the Yunmen family was severely injured, and the ancestor of the Earth Spirit clan also had injuries.

Therefore, afterward, the conflict between the two sides was mainly small-scale continuous killing.

And the Yunmen family, in this year of war, gradually lost territory; of the original thirty-seven peaks, only eleven remained at this moment under the continuous retreat.

Now, people were in a state of panic.

At this moment, on the ninth peak of the Yunmen family, outside the formation, three cultivators sat cross-legged.

These three were all at the cultivation level of the third or fourth stage of God-Rending; while meditating, they occasionally opened their eyes to look at the figure inside the formation, their expressions unconsciously revealing awe.

And not long after, one of them took out a sound-transmission jade slip, checked it, and immediately stood up, bowing respectfully to the figure inside the formation.

"Array Venerable, information has come from Lingchen City; although the items you described before are still not in this batch of supplies..."

"But there are clues; the caravan has gone to search, and it is expected that they will appear in the next batch of supplies."

This person was not only respectful in expression, but his words were also the same.

And following his gaze, one could see a person sitting cross-legged inside the formation on the ninth peak, reading an ancient book.

This person looked middle-aged, but his hair was gray and white, his complexion was pale, and his body was thin, giving people a sickly feeling, and occasionally, a coughing sound would come out.

Even so, the three God-Rending cultivators outside the formation did not dare to underestimate him in the slightest.

As guest elders of the Yunmen family with different surnames, the three of them had originally looked down on Yan Xuanzi, who had joined a year ago and had the same cultivation as them.

But they didn't expect that in the several battles with the Earth Spirit clan that occurred within this year, every strike of this person was like thunder, killing the enemy's God-Rending in one blow.

The methods were cruel, and every strike was aimed at the throat.

In one year, the number of God-Rending cultivators who died at his hands had reached twelve.

And among them, two had even reached the level of the sixth stage of God-Rending, but for this person, it was just a few more swings and a few more cuts.

As a result, in the decline of the Yunmen family, Yan Xuanzi's war merits were quite bright, so he was appointed as the array guardian of this ninth peak.

He was called Array Venerable.

"Understood."

Inside the formation, Xu Qing raised his head and spoke indifferently.

Then his gaze fell into the distance, and thoughts arose in his heart.

"The injury has recovered almost completely; I originally planned to leave in the near future..."

A year ago, after checking the map and finding that the most suitable place for healing nearby was the Lingchen Mountain Range he had chosen at the beginning, Xu Qing made a decision.

Because if he didn't choose this place and went to other suitable places, the time required would be very long.

So Xu Qing simply took advantage of the Yunmen family being at a disadvantage in the war and recruiting powerhouses from all sides, and joined them.

Although they, these guest elders with different surnames, could not be trusted and could not reach the core after joining, most were cannon fodder.

But for Xu Qing, he only needed to enter the Lingchen Mountain Range and use the rich spiritual energy here to shorten the healing time.

As for the subsequent strikes, on one hand, the other party was courting death, and on the other hand, it was because the spiritual energy inside the formation was richer; another reason was that he knew the rights of guest elders included using the family's caravan to purchase some special items.

And his own status determined the size of this authority.

That was why Xu Qing chose to kill a few more, but he also controlled it within the seventh stage of God-Rending.

If he killed someone of the seventh stage, it would be too conspicuous.

And what he wanted to find with the help of the Yunmen family was the object that looked like a lump of mud with spatial energy that the young man with a birthmark on his face, whom he had met in the Southern Domain, had taken out.

That day, the other party used this object to gelatinize the world and consume it.

It did not exist in the storage ring either.

"One month, it's still a bit long."

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes.

Over the past year, as a guest elder of the Yunmen family, although he was still not trusted too much and could not reach the core, with his cultivation and vision, he still saw the ending of the Yunmen family that was difficult to change.

"The Yunmen ancestor will most likely fall soon, expected in about half a month."

"The final battle of the Earth Spirit clan will definitely break out in half a month."

Xu Qing's gaze fell on the horizon; the entire Lingchen Mountain Range, even under the aurora, was still dark and heavy, gathering a large amount of death energy.

Various eerie things emerged from time to time within it.

This scene was difficult to perceive without the combat power of the Sovereign level.

And Xu Qing's time this year was not just for healing; he was also practicing his own methods.

Whether it was the five elements or time and space, his level of realization now far exceeded that of a year ago.

The bonus to combat power would be even more obvious.

Especially space and time, which were the focus of his exploration.

Vaguely, he also had ideas for the eighth pole.

After a while, determination appeared in Xu Qing's eyes.

"Forget it, that object containing spatial energy, if I spend more effort in other places, it is not impossible to find."

Thinking of this, Xu Qing closed his eyes.

"In three more days, my injury will be completely healed, and then I will leave!"