Chapter 1089

The wind blew from the distance, causing the mist transformed by immortal energy to surge and spread within the Xiangong.

Finally, it landed on the Guest-Welcoming Terrace of the Xiangong.

Flowing beside the cultivators here.

That was a huge black stone platform, the ground covered in moss, emitting a sense of simplicity and the passage of time, as if standing here was walking into time.

As for the middle, a stone stele stood upright, with information about the three paths written on it, but it seemed that time was too long, so the handwriting was blurred.

And at this moment, there were dozens of figures on the Guest-Welcoming Terrace.

All cultivators who entered the Xiangong from the outside would appear here at the first moment.

Then they would choose their route here.

When Xu Qing, Li Mengtu, and Earth Spirit Ancestor also appeared, the cultivators here were turning into long rainbows, roaring toward the left direction.

After approaching, they seemed to lose the ability to soar, landing one after another, each alert to the other, keeping some distance, and walking forward.

The place they went to had mist that was not thick, but it seemed that space was different; compared to the Guest-Welcoming Terrace, it was much dimmer there.

At the same time, there was a drizzle, moistening things.

Especially the ground, which had become muddy.

But it was clear that many people had walked there, and one could see that a small path existed there.

Quiet, dark.

Only the drizzle kept falling, gradually swallowing all the cultivators who walked far from this direction.

Gazing at this path, Xu Qing did not move immediately, but withdrew his gaze to observe other directions.

First was the stone platform; Xu Qing checked it and found it was real.

The mist was the same, with a sense of moisture, falling on the body, which the skin could clearly perceive, and sticking to the robes, it could condense into tiny water droplets.

Immortal energy was also real.

Being in this place, Xu Qing could feel that his cultivation had clearly gained much more benefit than in the outside world.

Besides this, faintly, there was also the sound of music drifting over.

The direction was the place of Dao discussion in the depths of the Xiangong that he had seen from the outside earlier.

Xu Qing looked up.

Looking from the Guest-Welcoming Terrace where he was, because he was inside this huge Xiangong, it was difficult for his gaze to see the end, and he could only see... dense mist covering the nothingness ahead.

In a blur, it seemed that a bridge existed.

On the bridge, it seemed there was a person walking forward in the thick fog.

"That is Star Ring Child; the moment he appeared earlier, I saw that the place he went to was this bridge."

Li Mengtu spoke in a low voice.

At this moment, the Guest-Welcoming Terrace where they were, except for themselves, had no one else; other entrants had all chosen the path to enter the Xiangong.

"I don't know how Brother Xu will choose; if you choose the small path, we can go together."

After Li Mengtu finished speaking, Earth Spirit Ancestor looked over with anticipation.

Xu Qing was silent, looking at the figure walking further and further away on the bridge in the thick fog ahead, and after a long while, he spoke slowly.

"I want to walk this bridge."

Earth Spirit Ancestor was shocked in his heart.

Li Mengtu was not too surprised, just looked at Xu Qing deeply, bowed, and walked toward the small path on the left.

In his heart, he was also sighing lightly.

The sigh was not for Xu Qing, but for himself.

As a star, he naturally also wanted to go further, but he understood... that bridge, even if he had inherited a Law, he still had no certainty that he could come out alive.

"Throughout the ages, those who could walk that path are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns, and among them, those who lived... were all those who realized their own Law, rather than relying on the inheritance bestowed from above."

Li Mengtu walked further and further away.

Earth Spirit Ancestor wanted to say something but stopped, finally bowed, and chose to walk into the small path.

Soon, the two figures disappeared.

On the Guest-Welcoming Terrace, only Xu Qing was left.

But he did not walk toward the path ahead, but turned his head, a strange glint flashing in his eyes, looking toward... the right side!

On the right side, the mist was so dense it had reached the extreme, and his gaze could not penetrate it, unable to see anything inside.

Looking, there was only the surging mist.

And then... the sound of flowing water coming from the mist.

On the right path, there existed a black river, and ten out of ten who entered died.

The handwriting on the stele of the Guest-Welcoming Terrace, although blurred by the passage of time, the information recorded on it would not dissipate in time, and through word of mouth, it became an important clue to this Aurora Xiangong.

Earth Spirit Ancestor knew it this way.

"There, there is the traction of a Law..."

The moment he entered this Guest-Welcoming Terrace, Xu Qing had already felt his time-space Law form a resonance with the direction on the right.

As if calling.

This resonance, this traction, this call, gathered in Xu Qing's heart, giving him a sense in the dark.

There, there was a Dao of the same source as his own.

"This Immortal Fall Land, the first feeling it gave me, was that it was not within time and space."

"And after it opened, this feeling became even more intense."

"This place clearly... contains a time-space Law the same as mine!"

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes; this kind of thing, if it were in another place, would be an extremely dangerous situation, because between sources of the same kind... it is very difficult to coexist.

It often involves the swallowing of the strong and the weak.

But the Aurora Immortal Lord has already fallen, so that is another matter.

"But his Law is clearly Aurora; could it be that after the time-space Law goes deep, it becomes Aurora? Or is it that... this Aurora Immortal Lord changed his path?"

Xu Qing pondered, combined with his perception that the time-space Law had no source, this matter, in his view, was in all likelihood that the Aurora Immortal Lord had changed his path.

So after a brief pondering, a decisive look appeared in Xu Qing's eyes.

To let his own time-space Law go further, he needed to understand all the essence of this path, and going to realize it himself is a method, and going to see the traces left by others on this path is also a method.

Both are opportunities.

Thus, the next instant, Xu Qing's body swayed abruptly, and he stepped into the dense mist on the right.

In the blink of an eye, he disappeared inside.

Only the mist kept surging.

It became everything in front of Xu Qing's eyes.

Covering the senses of the flesh, including the perception of cultivation, and even as Xu Qing moved forward, even the sound of the river water disappeared.

Looking, it was pitch black.

He could not distinguish whether it was mist, and he could not feel whether he had already walked into the river water.

Everything, everything, was only pitch black.

And there was no danger coming.

It was just that this pitch black had no beginning and no end.

Time seemed to have no meaning here either; he did not know how long had passed, but Xu Qing, maintaining vigilance in this pitch black, finally reached the end.

The end was still pitch black.

The reason it was called the end was that in this darkness, there existed an invisible barrier.

It prevented him from moving forward.

Techniques could not penetrate it.

Divine abilities were also difficult to break it open.

The flesh was even more isolated.

At this end, in front of this invisible barrier, after Xu Qing tried, he was silent for a moment, and the next instant, his eyes closed, and the eighth pole within his body, the time-space state...

Opened abruptly.

His thinking ascended.

As if transcending from within this blackness, walking from inside the painting to outside the painting, using this thinking of the time-space Law to look at the place where he was again...

Here, it was originally just a black dot.

It was just that this dot was incomparably large.

And it was not just one.

These black dots existed in countless numbers...

They were arranged together, forming a line.

An invisible traction enveloped him, making Xu Qing realize that here, it seemed one could only move forward or backward, not left or right.

And in Xu Qing's thinking, he discovered that this line composed of countless black dots had no concept of height.

The black dots themselves were also like this.

And on both sides of this line, it seemed that the concept of nothingness did not exist either; it was as if the supreme rule here only allowed this line to exist.

So if one forced oneself to look at both sides, what one saw was distortion, and this distortion would affect oneself.

Even if Xu Qing possessed a time-space Law and could see some differences, for example... countless time-space fragments.

But looking at them for a long time would also cause his thinking to rise with increasingly intense discomfort.

Only by perceiving forward and backward was everything normal.

This was an incomparably strange and extremely simple world.

After a long while, Xu Qing's thinking returned, and he opened his eyes within the black dot where he was.

"The thinking of the time-space Law can leave this black dot, but my flesh cannot."

Xu Qing pondered.

The flesh could be said to be his greatest weakness in the state of possessing a Law.

Based on this direction, he had some plans.

For example, encountering short battles, he could force a shroud; although there was withering, as long as the battle ended quickly, the influence was acceptable.

But here, clearly, the exploration could not be completed in a short time.

So after thinking, Xu Qing chose to place his flesh in the Star Tower, and then send it to a safe time.

This method actually had drawbacks; on one hand, safety was only relative, not absolute.

On the other hand, time could not be too long either.

Otherwise, the withering would still occur.

A moment later, after finishing all this, Xu Qing's thinking of the time-space Law had no more constraints, and he swayed lightly toward the barrier at the end ahead.

Instantly shuttling through.

Reappearing in this strange world, here... following the traction of this world's power, he continued forward endlessly.

He wanted to see the end here.

And time, indeed, had no meaning here, or to be precise, time did not exist here.

Space also became the past.

Only continuous forward movement was the only Dao here.

Fortunately, there were others like Xu Qing here, not just him.

On the way, he saw a figure in a state similar to his own.

That was a medicine jar, growing limbs, with a white beard.

Its appearance was strange, as if it were a grotesque.

It stood on that line, occasionally flying some elixirs out of the medicine jar, landing on the black dots that made up the line, making their color even darker.

Sensing Xu Qing, this medicine jar smiled gently and spoke softly.

"Welcome to the fairy tale."

After speaking, it pointed to the distance and said no more.

Xu Qing gazed for a moment, continued forward, and then saw the second grotesque.

That was an octopus, with a face on each tentacle, each with a different expression, and it was cursing.

After sensing Xu Qing, all the faces revealed strange expressions, and gradually, they began to cry.

Xu Qing was silent, looking at the crying octopus; he did not understand and could only leave.

On the way, he also saw a finger growing a lion's head.

Calling out to himself.

"Run, run..."

There was also a frog that thought it was a fish, swimming around, but upon meeting him, it trembled and did not dare to move at all.

Along this journey, Xu Qing encountered eleven grotesques, and each one had a different reaction when meeting him.

Finally, he saw the eleventh one.

That was an old woman in black robes leaning on a cane, with a huge face and small body and limbs, a cruel expression, occasionally grabbing a black dot and throwing it into her mouth to swallow.

Seeing Xu Qing, it grinned.

"Dying well, dying well!"

Xu Qing was silent, and after a while, he left.

He did not know how long had passed, and he did not see any other grotesques again.

Until finally, he saw a mirror.

That was the end of this line.

Countless small black dots lined up and walked into the mirror.

Disappearing without a trace.

Gazing at the mirror, Xu Qing was lost in thought.

"A line composed of countless black dots turned into this first world that only has front and back. I think I seem to know the state of the Aurora Immortal Lord's time-space Law."

"As for those eleven grotesques..."

The number eleven, combined with the identity of the Aurora Immortal Lord, what Xu Qing could think of was the eleven Immortal Lords in this Fifth Star Ring today.

"This is in all likelihood the manifestation of the Aurora Immortal Lord's thoughts before his death!"

"The reason it is so strange..."

Xu Qing did not understand, but he thought of how this Aurora Immortal Lord was suppressed and killed by the Immortal Venerable.

"Is it possible that it is related to the Immortal Venerable's Law?"

"Then what is the Immortal Venerable's Law..."

Xu Qing suddenly remembered what the first grotesque he met, that medicine jar, had said.

"Fairy tale?"