Chapter 1184

Xu Qing and his group, holding the decree token, after handing over the source quality, moved away from that vast red star and gradually disappeared into the starry sky.

And following their departure, that huge red star was still spraying cloud Qi and radiating extreme light.

In the light, inside the red star, in the ancient black palace, there was a voice filled with emotion echoing.

"Never thought there would really be such pawns crossing the river, and they are ascenders. And looking at them again, I suddenly feel that them being able to walk to here was not too unexpected."

"It's just that I don't know if there will be cultivators among them who have hope of competing for the Dao Seed, or... they are actually all fake seeds."

"Just like us, aren't we the same? Besides the Commander, which one of us is not an ascender, which one of us is not on the road."

"The Immortal Venerable's decree from back then has passed for a long time, making immortals like us more numerous, but until now, there has been no Immortal Lord level."

Inside the palace, although there was no sound of sighing, every sentence had the meaning of sighing.

This meaning was long, making the immortals gradually silent.

Until half a day later, the Commander's hoarse voice echoed slowly.

"Starting a business is easy, guarding it is hard."

"Mortals are like this, the human world is like this, and for cultivators, the Fifth Star Ring is also like this."

The voice fell into the thoughts of the immortals, becoming ripples.

The immortals here naturally understood this principle, and even with their cognition, they saw more.

Knowing that the latter could not even be described as easy.

The former Fifth Star Ring, where gods held power and the Divine Venerable suppressed everything, was where the Immortal Venerable rose from the most difficult times, leading the people of all small worlds, opening the cultivator path, and walking the Immortal Spirit Dao.

Step by step, experiencing thousands of hardships, walking through countless catastrophes, killing out of the small world, and killing toward the gods.

Finally suppressing the Divine Venerable, imprisoning the Divine Lord, cutting off all sources of divine attributes, enslaving countless divine clans, and dividing the entire Fifth Star Ring into twelve heavens outside heaven.

And filling the center, establishing the order of the Immortal Capital.

Only then did it truly turn this Fifth Ring among the thirty-six upper rings into the source soil belonging to cultivators and the human race!

Such a foundation naturally could not be described as easy; it could be called extremely difficult!

So wanting to guard this foundation, wanting to inherit this foundation, was even more extremely difficult upon extremely difficult!

Especially... the Jiguang Immortal Lord, who should have become the second-generation Immortal Venerable, had already fallen.

This made the future of the Fifth Star Ring appear ethereal.

After all... outside the Fifth Star Ring, besides a few special star rings, everything else was the land of gods. In this way, the Fifth Star Ring, which seemed to be covered in flowers and brocade, was on the surface like cooking oil on fire, but in reality, it already had signs of declining after reaching its peak.

To resolve this, the Fifth Star Ring needs to produce a second Immortal Venerable!

And to produce an Immortal Venerable, one must first produce multiple Immortal Lords, hence... there has been the tempering of ascenders for many years!

Using harsh methods to cultivate cultivators who can ascend from the Immortal Capital, and then like raising insects, whether by fate or causality, in short, those who die young are fake seeds.

Those who survive and walk to the end are Dao Seeds!

As for the philosophy, those who can walk to the end must also be like-minded!

"I hope that day comes quickly, no matter which generation, as long as it is the human race, as long as it is a cultivator."

Time, following Xu Qing and the others staying on the left-wing front line, passed slowly.

In a flash, three months had passed.

In these three months, as the meat grinder that was supposed to shine and light up the red light of the battlefield, the central left-wing war zone, Xu Qing and the others had no way of knowing the specific battle situation.

However, from the changes and pressure in the left-wing front-line war zone where they were located during these three months, they could still see a thing or two from these minor details.

The central war zone should have reached the most critical moment.

Because here on the left-wing front line, the frequency of legion mobilization was becoming less and less.

"This represents that the layout is almost complete."

"At the same time, I also learned through inquiries that in the direction close to the Fourth Star Ring, that front line within the front line, small-scale battles with gods are also becoming more and more frequent."

"I think our mission is coming soon. This is the information I have explored during this period."

At this moment, inside Tiling Star, on a snow mountain filled with Immortal Spirit aura, Xu Qing and his group were sitting cross-legged around a fire pit.

Snowflakes were continuously drifting in the sky, falling slowly like Zhou Zhengli's voice.

At the same time, it also brought coldness to the earth.

Only around the fire pit, when the snowflakes fell, they dissipated, becoming rising mist, lingering in all directions.

And around them were endless snow mountains. Even if one looked at the entire Tiling Star, one could find that almost all of this star was made of snow mountains.

Numerous in quantity.

And on every snow mountain, there existed a fire pit burning with red flames.

Inside the fire pit, the flames swayed, radiating scorching heat, and also seemed to contain some kind of mystery.

This mystery could allow cultivators' injuries to recover.

And Xu Qing and the others had rested on this star for three months, and their cultivation bases and injuries had long since recovered under the healing of this mysterious fire pit.

So besides the first month when they did not leave the snow mountain where they were located, for the next two months, most of them dispersed and set a fixed time to return.

Today, it was the third time everyone returned.

And as Zhou Zhengli finished speaking, Li Mengtu also transmitted a voice.

"The direction I explored is different from Zhou Zhengli's. I focused on whether others had arrived in the central war zone. In these three months, not a single one."

Li Mengtu knew he was not good at inquiring, so he chose the simplest one in terms of direction.

After finishing speaking at this moment, he looked at the others beside him.

Every time they returned, they had to synthesize the information explored. This was the plan they set when they separated at this place at the very beginning.

And this method could allow them to understand the front line faster.

Thus, Yuan Shansu, Xie Lingzi, Qianjun Piyi, and other ascenders spoke one after another, stating the information obtained from the directions they explored.

The last to speak was Xing Huanzi.

He looked at Xu Qing.

"Last time we returned, you asked me to focus on those people. This time, I have more understanding."

Xu Qing heard this and looked at Xing Huanzi.

In these three months, he naturally went out several times, relying on his own way to understand the left-wing front line. And in this investigation, he accidentally saw a group of somewhat special military cultivators.

They were similar to the Planning Material Division in some aspects, and they were very secretive, had little contact with people, and were extremely exclusionary.

Looking at it one by one.

Hence Xu Qing did not have too much contact, but he had guesses in his heart, so he remembered it during the last message summary and told everyone, asking them to pay more attention if they encountered them.

"That group of people is an auxiliary legion, divided into fifty squads, active on the battlefield every time the front line engages with the gods."

"They are called... the Corpse-Touching Army!"

"Their task, simply put, is to clean up the battlefield, extract the remaining source quality from the remains of the dead gods on the battlefield, and pick up items that still have value."

"Thereby enabling our side's war to be self-sufficient to a certain extent."

"The more wars, the more active they are. Especially in the last month, as the frequency of small-scale engagements with the Fourth Star Ring ahead increased, their figures were almost all concentrated over there."

Xing Huanzi finished speaking, looked at Xu Qing, and spoke calmly.

"Then why did you ask us to pay attention to these people?"

Xu Qing thought for a moment, his gaze swept over the dozen or so people beside him. He was very familiar with every one of them after experiencing so many things.

Thus, after half a day, Xu Qing spoke softly.

"After we handed over the source quality, we were arranged to rest here, and it has been three months."

"During this period, that Commander did not give any arrangements..."

"So I am thinking, instead of waiting for the Commander's arrangements, why don't we find a suitable errand ourselves... and apply for it proactively?"

After finishing, Xu Qing looked at the people beside him.

"The source quality I need for cultivation is almost gone. You have also consumed almost everything, right?"

"If we don't replenish some, it will affect the speed of cultivation."

Once Xu Qing's words were spoken, Xing Huanzi's eyes revealed strange light, Zhou Zhengli smiled slightly, Xie Lingzi licked his lips, and the Qianjun Piyi brothers also had their sword bodies hum lightly.

Even Yuan Shansu, who was usually taciturn, had strange light in his eyes.

Other ascenders were even more so, with thick malevolent Qi on their bodies, rising, causing the snowflakes falling from the sky to tremble and slowly turn black.

Li Mengtu spoke directly.

"I have wanted to do a job for a long time!"

These straightforward words seemed to express everyone's inner thoughts, so the gazes of the pack of wolves fell on Xu Qing one after another.

Every one of them had fought their way out in the Immortal Capital and had experienced so much tempering; they were already people of blood and malevolence, and especially in their personalities, they did not lack arrogance.

So in these three months, they were also somewhat unable to hold back.

Hearing Xu Qing's words at this moment, they naturally became hot in their hearts.

Thus, after Xu Qing looked at them, he nodded slightly. Without wasting time, he stood up and took out the token given by the Commander with a solemn expression.

After holding it in his hand, his own Immortal Embryo shone, forming vast Immortal thoughts, merging into it.

Turning into Dao sound, vibrating the token.

"Planning Material and Transport squad Xu Qing, petitions the Commander!"

"Our squad has finished resting, injuries have recovered, and we are in good condition. Seeing our comrades on the front line slaying gods, we are inspired, and our blood is surging. We now wish to request an order..."

"We wish to go to the front-line engagement area, serve as a Corpse-Touching squad, and continue to collect source quality for our army!"

As Xu Qing's Immortal thoughts were transmitted, the others also stood up, waiting solemnly.

It was just that the token had no reaction, as if Xu Qing's Immortal thoughts had become a stone ox entering the sea. But everyone, including Xu Qing, was very patient and continued to wait.

Until a full hour passed...

The token in Xu Qing's hand suddenly vibrated, red light erupted from within, and while spreading to the surroundings, a vast Immortal thought radiated directly from within this token.

"Granted!"

Once this thought was spoken, Xu Qing immediately spoke loudly.

"Obey the Commander's decree!"

The people behind him also spoke at the same time, merging with Xu Qing's voice. In this wind and snow, in this red light, there was a vigorous momentum rising to the sky.

Like the morning sun!