Chapter 1172: Missed a Thousand Years

The former Aurora Heaven-Beyond-Heaven!

The current Blue Heaven!

Within it, countless vast universes, boundless starry skies, existed with countless stars.

They had all been shining, each emitting starlight.

But at this instant, countless stars in the entire Heaven-Beyond-Heaven dimmed simultaneously.

As if all the light had been sucked away.

At the very center of this Heaven-Beyond-Heaven, which was boundless even for mortals and low-level cultivators, there existed a giant black hole.

This black hole appeared silently!

And above the black hole was a spider web that was constantly expanding outward!

With white hair as spider silk and heads as nodes, as it continued to expand, the aura of the True God surged intensely within.

At the same time, with the eruption of divine aura, all the heads on this spider web opened their mouths, emitting whispers and calls.

"Bimosi!"

"Bimosi!"

"Bimosi!"

The sound was originally formless, but on this spider web, it was endowed with divine intent, turning into wisps of divine power, gathering at the center of the spider web.

Thus, there, a figure gradually revealed itself!

Half-human, half-spider!

All over its body, seventy percent of the area was golden!

With its appearance, the whispers became even more intense, the aura of return reached its peak, and the power belonging to the True God also filled the starry sky at this moment.

As for the spider web, in the starry sky, Xu Qing's Immortal Embryo could be seen standing there, the Immortal Embryo's face majestic, revealing a cold glint in its eyes.

Its right hand was raised, and above its head existed a giant Xiangong shining with brilliant immortal light.

And what he looked at was exactly that figure in the central area of the spider web!

The moment he looked over, Xu Qing's right hand fell suddenly.

The Xiangong roared.

Combined with the black hole under the spider web, they attacked from above and below, and even pulled the entire Heaven-Beyond-Heaven.

Wanting to suppress it!

And that half-human, half-spider figure also looked up suddenly at this moment, opening its golden eyes, gazing at Xu Qing, and their gazes touched invisibly.

This was a fusion of gazes, a gaze of souls, and a contact at the level of source essence.

The moment they connected... everything in front of Xu Qing seemed to flicker.

But the next instant, it recovered.

Everything in his eyes had no extra changes; the Xiangong was as usual, falling down with a roar, suppressing the spider web.

This half-human, half-spider figure struggled, but not having completely finished returning, facing the weight of this Heaven-Beyond-Heaven, it seemed powerless.

But it clearly wasn't reconciled, so divine power and divine might rose together.

Xu Qing trembled all over, blood spat out, both flesh and soul were tearing, but ultimately... what he was displaying now was using himself as a base point to pry the power of the entire Heaven-Beyond-Heaven.

So, after paying a huge price, he succeeded.

Pushing this spider web along with the half-human, half-spider figure on it into the giant black hole below amidst a deafening roar.

Ending this suppression.

And his exhaustion also emerged deeply at this moment, so Xu Qing naturally chose to sit cross-legged on the black hole that suppressed the True God, absorbing the endless source essence from within the black hole.

While recuperating, he also let his Immortal Embryo continue to grow.

He seemed to have forgotten time, and forgotten the mission of the procurement envoy, immersing himself in this cultivation.

And the gains were also huge.

His cultivation climbed continuously from the early stage of Quasi-Immortal, until time flickered...

Ten years passed.

When Xu Qing opened his eyes, his cultivation had reached the Great Perfection of Quasi-Immortal.

That feeling of being at the peak and the feeling of being omnipotent made Xu Qing lose his focus for a moment.

But soon, he recovered, and also remembered the scene from ten years ago, remembered the experience of being a procurement envoy. After all, for cultivators, especially cultivators like him, ten years of cultivation was just a short time.

"Time is enough. One more step, and I can return to Wanggu!"

Thinking of this, Xu Qing revealed anticipation in his eyes, stepped out of the Heaven-Beyond-Heaven he was in, and when he appeared, he was already in the No-Heaven Zone where the statue prison he had left was located.

The loss of the statue and the disappearance of the prison meant that the jailers, wardens, and other cultivators had already left.

But Xing Huanzi and others hadn't left and were still waiting here.

The moment they saw Xu Qing, their expressions all had waves.

Afterwards, they left together, returned to the Procurement Division, handed in the mission gains, and then, under a series of other missions, the fame of their squad gradually spread throughout the entire Jiuan Heaven-Beyond-Heaven.

Finally, they were arranged to go to the battlefield.

The battlefield was between the Fourth and Fifth Star Rings, and on the battlefield, their squad frequently made contributions, and even captured a goddess alive.

That was the offspring of a Divine Master!

With this contribution, Xu Qing's reputation also rose, and at the same time, the fact that the Aurora Heaven-Beyond-Heaven belonged to him had also spread.

For a time, Xu Qing's name resounded in the ears of all cultivators.

All of this, in Xu Qing's experience, clearly passed very slowly, but unknowingly, it had already passed, and it seemed to have passed very quickly.

Until, on the battlefield, in a mission, he encountered a Divine Master from the Fourth Star Ring!

In that battle, even he, who could fight with Lower Immortals, was ultimately no match.

All the cultivators in the squad died in battle.

He himself was seriously injured, escaped death, fled into time and space, was also pursued, and finally could only choose to enter the chaotic sea of time and space, hiding his tracks in that endless chaos.

It was just that although he escaped the death tribulation, in that chaotic sea of time and space, his injuries were too heavy, and he himself was lost, drifting with the turbulence until he fell into the depths of time and space.

Don't know how long it had been, he finally woke up.

Then, he struggled to return.

Relying on his own luck and understanding of time and space, after experiencing failure after failure, he sought a way to leave through great hardship.

Finally, one day, he found the node to return.

Walking out from there, he returned to the present world.

After returning, he saw that the war was still continuing, but... a terrifying truth also entered his perception after he returned to the cultivator camp.

This truth made him tremble, made him unable to believe it.

Because, the current time... a thousand years had passed since his disappearance!

This truth made Xu Qing tremble, made his anxiety rise strongly, made his panic rise. He chose to leave the battlefield for the first time, using the method he had come to the Fifth Star Ring, to return to the Wanggu Continent.

On the way back, he didn't dare to think about what Wanggu had become. A thousand years... he had missed a thousand years.

Until, he stood in the sky of Wanggu.

His eyes lost their luster.

Wanggu was very different from before he left.

Gods everywhere.

The human race was extinct.

Empress Lixia, whereabouts unknown.

He went to the old land of the human race, went to the entrance of Huangtian, and there... it had collapsed.

He went to the Nanhuang Prefecture, which had sunk into the endless sea.

Huang Yan had fallen.

Xu Qing silently perceived all this.

Until a sigh echoed in his ears.

That sigh was somewhat familiar.

Xu Qing turned around silently, looking at an old woman who appeared beside him.

The appearance of this old woman was vaguely familiar, with a withered butterfly circling beside her.

"Before the teacher withered away, she once said that you asked her about the method of leaving back then, and said you would return on time."

"And a thousand years have passed, you... have been late for too long..."

"Now even if you come back... what is the meaning?"

The old woman spoke hoarsely.

She was the disciple of that Palace Master in the Xia Xiangong back then, that... little butterfly.

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