Chapter 1195: Utilizing Fate!

This old deity, already severely wounded, had barely survived a life-or-death ordeal in the hands of Immortal Lingke, and had escorted the goddess all the way, his cultivation barely maintaining the true god realm.

Like a dam desperately patched up!

Its inner substance, already riddled with countless holes.

And the previous multiple attacks had made Him even weaker, especially that killing move formed from Xu Qing and others, which turned into a nail.

This nail, directly driven into the place where Lingke Immortal Monarch had severely wounded Him, brought about fluctuations that seemed to shatter the dam, becoming the final force that collapsed the icy surface.

Thus the divine temple collapsed, this divine realm could no longer be sustained, the divine aura dimmed, and He fell from true god.

Infinitely close to the lamp running out of oil.

In the distant starry sky, cultivator auras rapidly approached, within them……there was the aura of a lower immortal!

All this made the situation, for His mission, extremely perilous at present.

He originally wished to retreat, flee with the goddess, and continue guarding!

And at this moment, the goddess's divine voice echoed back.

Let Him……go to death.

After a pause, He raised His head to gaze at the goddess, and for the first time, complexity appeared in His eyes.

Divine spirits, have no emotions.

He knew this, but in this instant, perhaps due to the fall of His realm, or perhaps due to the severity of His wounds, His divinity rippled.

Amid this ripple, He seemed to see the goddess from His childhood.

He watched her grow up, watched her step by step ascend to the peak, watched her be gazed upon by myriad eyes.

"This, is emotion, perhaps."

The old deity fell silent, then slowly turned His body, facing Xu Qing and his group, who were rapidly retreating.

With resolute heart, He took a step forward.

At that instant, the golden light in His eyes burst forth intensely, forming a golden sea of light, which suddenly burst outward toward this starry expanse.

Within this golden sea, terrifying divine might was surging.

Faintly visible, within the golden light, the old deity's shattered body was continuously swelling, growing ever larger, aura becoming ever more terrifying, rapidly reaching its peak.

Moreover, waves of soul-shattering whispers echoed, in this instant, deafening.

That is the voice commanding the golden sea, the might within dispersing.

That is the flashing of the starry sky, cosmic ripples!

That is His……self-detonation!

Though His cultivation had fallen, His divine aura dimmed, now merely a divine platform, but……He had once been a true god!

Thus, under a sound capable of shattering the universe, like countless suns in this instant, releasing a lifetime of light and heat, bursting forth with the power to destroy all, capable of annihilating everything!

Becoming a radiant light that illuminates the cosmos!

Spanning across the stars!

Shooting wildly toward the eight directions, enveloping all!

Wherever it passed, cloud masses instantly dissipated, directly destroyed, erasing all traces left by the departing goddess, completely.

So that others cannot, by these traces here, lock onto or search for even the slightest sign of the goddess.

And Xu Qing and the others ahead, even if retreating at maximum speed, still could not outpace the golden light formed from this old deity's self-detonation.

This light, suddenly engulfed all.

Wherever it passed, stars shattered, the starry sky collapsed, all existence seemed to become nothingness!

Even at this moment, among the rapidly approaching cultivators from afar, where a lower immortal aura erupted, stirring up thick immortal spiritual power, surging in here, sharing the burden of this old deity's self-detonation might.

But Xu Qing and the others were too close, inevitably……experiencing what seemed like a predestined life-and-death catastrophe, merely occurring earlier than fated!

Xu Qing's mind and spirit surged, everything before his eyes replaced by gold.

He fully unleashed his cultivation, desperately guarding, his immortal embryo enveloping all, not only himself but also the other ascenders nearby.

They all joined forces once more at this moment.

United in resistance!

But in that instant when the golden light swept across……

His immortal embryo trembled, twisted, dissolved, and finally collapsed, amid the ripples of his flesh, fragments of time-space transformed, within which one after another version of himself rapidly emerged.

Full resistance.

Xing Huanzi and others, likewise, each went mad, in this life-and-death crisis sparing no cost!

Until who knows how long passed, the light faded, the roar grew distant.

The golden light formed from the old deity's self-detonation, was finally endured by them.

The distant cultivator reinforcements all arrived……

At the approaching moment, these cultivators gazed upon Xu Qing and his group, each eyes showing respect, and were even more deeply shaken by the tragic spectacle before them.

And when the leading immortal gazed upon the dissipating cloud masses, then turned to Xu Qing, speaking in a low voice.

"Discovering the goddess's traces, and dying in the effort against a true god, this matter……this seat will report to the commander, you……have already achieved great merit!"

"Return……rest now."

This lower immortal was an old man, he gazed toward Xu Qing and those beside him, let out a soft sigh.

Then took out some medicinal pills and left them, after which his body shifted, he rushed straight toward the distance, again searching, attempting to find traces.

The cultivators under his command also successively took out medicinal pills, and then followed him away.

Soon, the surroundings fell silent.

Xu Qing stood in the starry sky, clothes torn, face pale, spitting out a large mouthful of blood.

His flesh and soul showed strong weakness and fatigue, and he turned his gaze toward those beside him……

On the brow of Xing Huanzi, a seal was fading—it was the life-preserving mark given by his master.

But now, as the seal faded, it shattered.

And on his body, countless wounds appeared, blood spreading uncontrollably, turning him into a blood-man.

Beside him, Zhou Zhengli stood, his body trembling, black blood flowing from his eyes, his eyes… becoming blood holes.

He had gone blind.

That was his constitution.

And Li Mengtu, having lost half his body, was already unconscious, his life or death uncertain.

Yuanshan Su was the same.

And Qianjun Piyi, his consciousness extremely weak, at the critical moment abandoned his flesh and transformed into an immortal sword, barely preserving his soul.

Xielingzi, one of his arms had turned to flying ash, the broken blade before him now filled with cracks, and he himself was severely wounded.

As for the other ascended ones, each was horribly mutilated, their bodies incomplete, each unconscious, and each had lost the strength to fight again.

And the number… had decreased by seven!

Those seven, in the previous golden light, had already been annihilated in both form and spirit…

This was their collective resistance, sharing the burden of harm, each also paying a heavy price.

From nineteen before, it had become twelve.

Gazing at them, Xu Qing silently withdrew his gaze and looked toward the distance.

A deep chill filled his heart as he sent a mental transmission to Xiao Ying, ordering it to search for traces of the goddess.

He, felt some unwillingness!

At the same time, Zhou Zhengli, who had lost his eyes, spoke hoarsely.

"I said before, this time… is extremely dangerous."

"After all, that is a true god."

"If not for the Young Master, I fear today, not only they would have perished!"

"But we cultivators are by nature contending with heaven, with people, with gods… so to fall is also called the fading of the Dao, and in the process of fighting for our lives, death is the norm!"

"And to be buried with a true god is also worthwhile!"

Zhou Zhengli smiled, though this smile, too, carried a trace of unwillingness.

Xielingzi also had red eyes, and upon hearing this, he slowly spoke.

No mistake, no error, no omission, no excess, no absence, no repetition, no flaw, no deviation, no lack, no surplus—look closely!

"It's a pity we didn't capture that goddess!"

His tone was filled with regret.

And upon hearing the two's words, Xing Huanzi there suddenly turned his gaze to Xu Qing.

"Xu Qing, if you could find that goddess once, then now, can you find her a second time?"

Xu Qing lifted his head and met Xing Huanzi's gaze.

Xing Huanzi's eyes burned with strong killing intent, his voice low and deep, as he continued to speak.

"Seven have died, most are crippled, so whether for them or for myself, I want to seize that goddess!"

"You should want to as well."

Xing Huanzi's eyes held deep meaning; he naturally noticed the goddess's strange behavior, as if the moment she saw Xu Qing, she locked her killing intent onto him.

Upon hearing this, Xu Qing swept his gaze over the crowd—only he and Xing Huanzi could still fight at this moment.

Thus he looked at Xing Huanzi and spoke slowly.

"The power of the true god's self-destruction erased all traces; the goddess's transmission has left no clue, and the distance from here… is likely extremely far, beyond the range of my spirit pet's perception."

Xing Huanzi fell silent.

Xu Qing turned his head, gazing at the distant starry sky, his eyes slowly narrowing.

"But I… have a method I can try."

As he spoke, Xu Qing raised his hand, took out a transmission jade slip, and adjusted it from ordered to disordered!

Ordered transmission allows sending to a designated place.

But disordered… is random, hard to predict its direction or where it will appear.

Leave it to fate to decide.

This is the method Xu Qing thought of.

He cannot find the goddess's trace, nor sense her, but since before, fate had brought her before him.

So now, if he no longer waits passively, but chooses to act proactively…

Xu Qing's eyes glowed with a dark light.

If everything is predestined, then this disordered transmission, Xu Qing believes, will give him the result he wants.

Thus, holding the transmission jade slip, he looked toward Xing Huanzi.

Xing Huanzi glanced at the transmission jade slip in Xu Qing's hand, thoughtful, but did not ask; instead, he took a step forward and stood beside Xu Qing, within the transmission range.

As for Zhou Zhengli and Xielingzi, they bowed to Xu Qing and the two.

The upcoming battle, they can no longer participate, and each must tend to their wounds, especially the unconscious ones, who need prompt and proper healing.

So they will return first to the garrison of the Nianlin Army.

"Young Master, Xing Huanzi, we wait at the garrison for your victorious return, capturing the goddess!"

Zhou Zhengli spoke hoarsely.

As his voice echoed, Xu Qing nodded, and in the next instant, crushed the jade slip.

The transmission light immediately spread from his hand, enveloping Xing Huanzi beside him, then, with the ultimate brilliance of this light, accompanied by a booming rumble.

The two figures vanished in an instant!

……

At this moment, in the starry sky near the left-wing front line, not far from the boundary of the divine side, the Starlight Goddess's form transformed into a black stream of light.

She was shuttling through the void in an extremely secretive manner, advancing while concealed.

Because this place is very close to the Fourth Star Ring, the starry sky is already filled with heterogeneous substances, which for Starlight makes her concealment even smoother.

And her luck, apparently, is quite good this time—she actually transmitted into this area.

"At most a few days, and I can return to the Fourth Star Ring!"

"But at Father God's place, for some unknown reason, there has been no response at all..."

Racing forward, Starlight pondered, then recalled her previous experiences, her eyes turning cold.

She does not care about the old god's self-destruction; in her understanding, his self-detonation at that moment was the best choice.

It could erase her transmission traces and also attempt to kill that human cultivator who made her feel inexplicably palpitated.

Thinking of that human cultivator, Starlight's killing intent rose again in her heart.

"Who is that person..."

Regardless of whether the other died in the old god's self-destruction, she has already decided that upon her return, the first thing she will do is report this matter to Father God.

She believes that with her Father God's power, he can certainly resolve her doubts.

Thinking this, Starlight was about to continue boosting her speed, but just then, a scene that made her whole body tremble, stirred her heart with a roar, and caused her pupils to contract, appeared!

In the void ahead of her, ripples suddenly surged.

Disorderly transmission aura scattered outward, and from within it, two figures emerged.

One of them was actually the very person she had been longing for...

"You..."

Starlight's face changed drastically.

This sudden appearance completely disrupted her mind, even causing her divinity to fluctuate.

Indeed, this scene made her heart palpitate intensely in an instant.

She is using disorderly transmission, and the true god's self-destruction erased traces, so theoretically, even if a powerful being could sense her, it would require searching—impossible to appear so precisely and so quickly.

Especially... the other party's transmission is clearly also disorderly!

It is a random descent!

And yet, randomly... it strangely appeared right before her!

This scene caused the Starlight Goddess to descend, her divinity surging violently.