Chapter 1141

Xu Qing is not unfamiliar with the name Chen Batian.

After all, this person appeared on the trial star map at the moment of the one-month countdown to the Immortal Capital trial, was the focus of everyone's attention, and there were few cultivators in the entire Fifth Star Ring who did not know him.

Even the rumors and speculations about this person were increasing.

It's just that among those many rumors, no matter how bold the fantasy, none of the rumors matched the real facts.

It's truly... no one could have thought that the so-called number one in the Immortal Capital trial was actually a gift.

And it was a gift personally crafted, created from nothing.

And at this moment, the person who crafted this gift is bowing respectfully, smiling humbly.

This is the terrifying aspect of Zhou Zhengli.

Before, with the Star Ring Child suppressing, he was always careful, not revealing his edge, and Xu Qing even felt that perhaps he and Fu Xie You Lingzi did not have such a great contradiction or a situation of certain death.

Everything might just be because Zhou Zhengli and Fu Xie You Lingzi both understood that they needed to do this, needed to have contradictions, needed to have such a persona...

Only then would the big shots be happy.

Even if the big shots knew they were acting, the willingness to act, the willingness to become actors in the eyes of the big shots, this itself was a form of bowing one's head.

Xu Qing does not think he is a big shot, and even less does he think he is the second Star Ring Child.

Because he has no need to subjugate others.

Whether it is the Fifth Star Ring or the Immortal Capital he is about to go to, for him, it is just a stop in his life's journey.

At this stop, his own personality is cautious, and... everything follows his heart.

No matter what hidden purpose Zhou Zhengli has, Xu Qing does not care.

Because a poisonous snake, at the moment it doesn't reveal its fangs, actually looks quite good.

And if the fangs are revealed, as Xu Qing once said to Zhou Zhengli...

He likes to eat snakes, and the more poisonous the snake, the fresher the taste.

The past of his childhood, his experiences on the Eastern Wanggu Continent, the inheritance from his master, and what he saw and heard following Chen Erniu, all made Xu Qing... even more poisonous.

So his gaze just looked at Zhou Zhengli, then moved away, looking at Chen Batian on the side.

"This Chen Batian was carefully chosen by me; this person has no deep karma," Zhou Zhengli said softly.

"In addition, this person can be considered to have committed all kinds of evil, and his evil is primarily lust."

Zhou Zhengli knows very well that when doing things and giving gifts, one must make the recipient comfortable.

So the person he chose had to have no background karma, and at the same time, had to be someone who deserved to be killed.

Only then could the recipient receive it comfortably.

In addition, in order to make the recipient feel more at ease, after bowing, he stepped back a few steps, making the distance between himself and Chen Batian further than Xu Qing.

Because Chen Batian was already on his last breath, and the fire of life was currently extinguishing.

On the way he brought him, he had already used means on this Chen Batian, allowing him to die naturally, and the time... was almost up.

This way, it wouldn't cause misunderstandings.

It wouldn't make people think he had buried a needle in the gift.

The person was indirectly killed by him, and it had nothing to do with the recipient.

And such a dying cultivator, the moment he dies, the Quasi-Immortal Capital token will be released and absorbed by the closest person.

Therefore, he stepped back.

Xu Qing did not speak.

Just like that, after dozens of breaths, Chen Batian's last breath dissipated.

The moment he died, a Quasi-Immortal Capital token flew out from his body, shining with a brilliant light.

The moment it rose, it flew straight toward Xu Qing, and the moment it merged into his body, the entire firmament rumbled, and amidst the appearance of the star map, the ranking inside changed.

First place, changed to Xu Qing!

And Zhou Zhengli bowed to Xu Qing.

Then he slowly retreated, until he retreated out of Mount Tai'a, flew into the sky, and disappeared.

Xu Qing did not block him, his gaze lingered on the horizon, and after a long while, he withdrew it, his body blurred, and he walked into space-time.

Using the method of space-time, he left silently, without any traces of karma.

After a long while, the firmament rippled, and Zhou Zhengli, who had left, appeared again. He looked down at Mount Tai'a, lost in thought.

"He is indeed very different from the Star Ring Child."

"If it were the Star Ring Child, after mastering such an advantage and possessing such strength, his caution would definitely decrease a lot, and he would most likely choose to stay here and wait for the trial to end."

"And this Xu Qing... clearly possesses such an advantage, suppresses all stars, and Fu Xie You Lingzi and I have successively sent gifts to lower our posture, yet he is still so cautious."

"This doesn't look like it's done on purpose; it looks more like... his instinct!"

Zhou Zhengli sighed softly.

"Not easy to provoke."

Then his body swayed and disappeared again.

Time passed, and there were only seven days left in the countdown to the Immortal Capital trial.

During this period, with the change in the star map rankings and the ranking lists of various sects, the storm stirred up by the name Xu Qing in the Fifth Star Ring had become earth-shattering.

Chen Batian disappeared, and Xu Qing became number one!

Thus, the rumors about Xu Qing also increased during this period.

And after he became number one, the impact on those cultivators who had intersections with him was also not small.

In the Western Star Domain, Li Mengtu was still working hard.

Although he was now ranked fifth, entering the Immortal Capital was inevitable.

But sensing the ranking, after being silent, he still chose to continue collecting Quasi-Immortal Capital tokens.

"Although it's impossible to surpass, I can't be left too far behind."

In the Southern Star Domain, there were similar voices.

From the Yuanshan Clan.

From the Great Immortal Mountains.

Yuanshan Su was in seclusion; she had to break through her own cultivation base and step into the Quasi-Immortal realm before the end of the trial; this was her only way to enter the Immortal Capital now.

"I can definitely do it!"

As for Jiang Fan, the path he chose was the same as Yuanshan Su's, and he was also going all out.

And Qianjun and Pi Yi in the Northern Star Domain, because of their Master, were much more relaxed than Jiang Fan and Yuanshan Su.

They possessed new tokens and started over.

Relying on their cultivation and combat power, this process was not difficult, but it required battle after battle, and time was tight, so during this period, the two brothers could be said to be incomparably busy.

Every time their ranking improved, they would curse Xu Qing, using this to bolster their own motivation.

And the Eastern Star Domain was different from other places.

Fu Xie You Lingzi and Zhou Zhengli's rankings were stable, one second, one third.

And both had given up on ascending, just waiting for the Immortal Capital trial to end.

However, the direction they looked at most in their respective places... was the Star Ring Tower!

If there was still a final variable in this Immortal Capital trial, then in their view, it must be in the Star Ring Tower!

At this moment, in the Star Ring Tower, in the boundless high tower, located in the central area, in the highest one, endless starlight was being drawn in.

In this tower, starlight fell, merging into an incomparably complex array on the ground.

In the array, a young man sat cross-legged.

As the starlight fell, after the array's relay, it surged into the young man's body, causing meridians formed by starlight to appear all over his body.

And his body, in this process, seemed to have merged with this star tower.

There was even a rich Immortal aura rising on his body; looking closely, this aura came from... the Immortal Embryo on the young man's body!

That was the Immortal Embryo that had reached great success after experiencing phantom truth and immortality.

It was also the symbol of a Quasi-Immortal.

This was using starlight as meridians, the star tower as bones, and the Immortal Embryo as flesh and blood!

Reshaped...

Star Ring Child!

"If there is no reversal in the tribulation, how can the extreme turn of the universe appear!"

A hoarse voice echoed in this star tower.

"Disciple, you have responded to the tribulation and died in the tribulation; this is your fate."

"In this way, the body I reshaped for you will allow your universe to appear hereafter, and your Immortal path will be smooth!"

As the voice echoed, the Star Ring Child sitting cross-legged on the array suddenly opened his eyes, and endless starlight radiated from his eyes, making this star tower brilliant.

"He is outside, waiting for you." The hoarse voice came again.

The Star Ring Child was silent, and after a long while, he shook his head.

"Not going."

"Why not go?"

"I still can't beat him now, and having lost the name of Star, there is no need to force it; the battle between him and me... is in the Immortal Capital!"

"Good!"

Outside the Star Ring Tower, there was a mountain.

Named Nine Heavens.

On the peak of this Nine Heavens Mountain, Xu Qing sat cross-legged; in front of him were the endless Star Ring high towers.

Under the crimson aurora, the starlight drawn by these high towers was particularly obvious, and the points where those starlight gathered were where Xu Qing was looking.

He was waiting for the Star Ring Child.

The moment he arrived in the Eastern Star Domain, he had sensed the other party's aura in the void.

He already knew that the Star Ring Child... had returned.

So he came outside the Star Ring Tower, sat here, and waited for the other party to fight.

But unfortunately, until now, he didn't see the Star Ring Child come.

Xu Qing's expression was as usual.

Since he didn't come, he wouldn't force it.

So he closed his eyes.

Letting time pass day by day.

Until, the last day of the countdown to the Immortal Capital trial, the last hour, the last quarter of an hour...

Flowed past!

Thunder came from the sky of the Fifth Star Ring.

This thunder was not loud at first, but it soon spread throughout the East, throughout everything, throughout the entire Fifth Star Ring.

The thunder shocked the world, and billions of cultivators, no matter what they were doing at this moment, all put it down, instinctively quieted down, and looked up one after another.

A majestic voice echoed in the thunder.

"The Immortal Capital trial is over, take the top hundred, enter the Immortal Capital!"

As the voice came, amidst the excitement and anticipation of countless cultivators in the Fifth Star Ring, and amidst the envy of countless gazes, strips of colorful rainbows fell from the aurora in the firmament.

A total of ninety-nine strips, falling in different places, scattered across the four star domains, corresponding to those who obtained the qualifications for the Immortal Capital.

Landing in front of them!

This is the Reception Rainbow!

This is the path to the Immortal Capital that all cultivators in the Fifth Star Ring dream of in this life!

At this moment, in front of those rainbows, those cultivators who had experienced slaughter in the trial, experienced catastrophe, and successfully ascended amidst blood and killing, felt ripples in their hearts, and their breathing was rapid to varying degrees.

They did all this for this moment!

So they stepped onto the rainbows in front of them one after another.

And just as they were about to walk up, thunder erupted again in the firmament, and the entire Fifth Star Ring rumbled.

In the eyes of countless people, they saw a huge long rainbow that surpassed all rainbows, earth-shattering, like a long river.

Compared to it, other rainbows could only be considered trickling streams.

This long river, with a vast momentum and shocking might, shone with a dazzling light.

Falling from the sky.

Landing in the East, landing on Nine Heavens Mountain.

All living beings were shocked.

Xu Qing opened his eyes, looking at this brilliant path in front of him; he stood up and walked over in one step.

Stepping onto the long rainbow, he walked toward the firmament.

Together with other ascenders in different places, like flying immortals, they ascended into the sky together.

Walking together toward the... Supreme Immortal Capital behind the firmament.