Chapter 1200

Six days passed in a flash.

As the day mentioned by the President of the Crimson Star drew near, Xu Qing and his companions, each in their own fire tower, were cultivating.

It must be said that the source matter contained within this crimson star, though far less pure than that of the goddess, was much gentler and greatly aided their healing.

Over these six days, everyone's injuries, which had been gradually improving, were basically completely healed.

Xu Qing felt this more deeply; he discovered that the source matter of this crimson star was also very effective in shaping the immortal embryo, its gentle nature neutralizing his previous collection from the goddess, making absorption easier.

Moreover, his immortal embryo had also touched the threshold of mid-stage True Immortal.

"Indeed, cultivation progresses faster on the battlefield."

Inside the fire tower, Xu Qing opened his eyes from cross-legged sitting, and a deep light burst forth in his gaze, as if countless stars flowed within his pupils, forming an extraordinary aura.

Combined with his already peerless appearance, the immortal spirit aura on him became especially evident.

"But unfortunately... the source matter here is too gentle. Unless I still have source matter as pure and special as the goddess's to balance it with, otherwise, this place is more suitable for healing."

Thinking of the goddess, Xu Qing still felt considerable regret in his heart.

He had absorbed the source matter of a true god before; even now, within his heavens beyond heavens, one is suppressed, constantly providing source matter.

But even that true god is still far less pure than the goddess.

"The daughter of the God Emperor, the bloodline of the God Sovereign... indeed extraordinary."

Xu Qing's mind surfaced with his collection of the goddess along the way, and he couldn't help but lick his lips.

The goddess's source matter is the most perfect source matter he has ever tasted!

Truly unparalleled.

But the goddess has already been handed over, so Xu Qing could only suppress this regret again, about to close his eyes and continue cultivating, when at this moment...

On this crimson star, solar flares erupted again!

The booming, earth-shaking sound echoed as an endless sea of light instantly swept across the entire star, enveloping everything in endless light, as if the world were submerged.

At the same time, the fire tower where Xu Qing was located, within this sea of light, disappeared after being engulfed, wiped away by the light sea.

It seemed a mighty force was swept in by the light sea, replacing the fire tower and transforming into a huge silver eye.

Before Xu Qing, it opened!

Xu Qing's mind and spirit trembled; he immediately rose, his expression solemn, and bowed deeply toward the silver giant eye ahead.

"Greetings, Commander!"

The silver giant eye gazed at Xu Qing for a long while, then, as if containing the ancient sound of ages, echoed within this light sea.

"The reward for this great merit has arrived."

As the voice rose and fell, ten rectangular pieces of gold jade flashed with brilliant light, appearing out of thin air, beside which was also a military merit token.

Those ten pieces of gold jade emitted rich source matter, with mysterious light flowing within, becoming treasures.

And though the military merit token appeared ordinary, its contained significance was obviously immense.

"These are ten-direction source matter, and the token bearing a hundred thousand military merits, the reward for obtaining the goddess's whereabouts!"

The ancient voice paused.

Then followed a hundred identical pieces of gold jade and ten military merit tokens, appearing one after another, floating together with the previous rewards, gathering into a dazzling, multicolored radiance.

If placed in the outside world, these would be enough to make countless cultivators envious and frenzied.

"This is the reward for live capture!"

Xu Qing gazed at these before him, his eyes flashing with strange light, but he did not speak, instead suppressing the waves in his heart and continuing to wait.

"As for the title of True Lord..."

Within the silver giant eye, the voice became somewhat more solemn.

"Some things you should know: disciples of the Immortal Sovereign are all True Lords."

"And my Fifth Star Ring, back when the Immortal Sovereign opened the Immortal Path, refined myriad gods, condensed spirit traces, substituted for rules, and finally became fate!"

"This fate: the Immortal Sovereign enjoys fifty percent, the eleven Immortal Lords enjoy forty percent, and all True Lords enjoy ten percent!"

"Those who possess it receive the aid of fate and the unseen protection of the Star Ring."

Xu Qing focused his mind; knowing naturally that disciples of the Immortal Sovereign are True Lords, but having little understanding of fate, upon hearing this, he fell into thoughtful silence.

The ancient voice turned into a low shout.

"Xu Qing!"

"This crystal is what the Immortal Lord Zhan Lu requested for you, formed from the fate of the Fifth Star Ring; you shall imprint your divine sense upon it, and the Star Ring will bestow a name!"

The voice sounded like thunder, booming in all directions.

Subsequently, strands of golden thread appeared out of thin air, rapidly weaving together before Xu Qing, forming a gold crystal the size of a fingernail!

Its appearance resembled the divine form of the true god Xu Qing had seen, yet obviously not a single entity.

Xu Qing instinctively looked; at the moment his gaze focused, his mind boomed, as if he saw the Fifth Star Ring rotating within, that endless universe, vast starry sky, one heaven beyond heaven after another, causing his mind and spirit to surge, about to imprint his divine sense.

But just then... suddenly, within the crystal, beside the eleven heavens beyond heavens in the Fifth Star Ring, the former Aurora Heaven Beyond Heaven suddenly flashed.

A blue character gathered and emerged within that heaven beyond heaven.

Then, blue light burst forth from within, sweeping across the universe.

A soft exclamation also came from within the silver giant eye at this moment.

"The Extreme Heaven title is sealed, and already determined?"

Xu Qing's eyes were somewhat dazed; it took a while before he recovered, then looked again at the crystal before him, and saw that a character had already appeared on it.

Blue!

At the instant he saw this character... it was as if the sound of myriad races worshipping suddenly exploded in Xu Qing's ears, gathering into a title.

Extreme Azure True Lord!

Fused with Xu Qing's destiny!

A connection, seemingly of the same origin as the Fifth Star Ring, also arose in Xu Qing's heart at this moment.

This feeling tightly bound his connection to the Fifth Star Ring together.

Even he felt that, no matter where he was, as long as he sensed something in his heart, he could feel the call of the Fifth Star Ring.

"This is fate..."

Xu Qing murmured in his heart.

And his cultivation, at this very instant, with the aid of the Fifth Star Ring's fate, suddenly broke through!

His body continuously rumbled, like a war drum shaking the heavens, and behind him, a colossal immortal embryo phantom materialized, standing upon this scarlet star, stirring up vortices, stirring up storms, the immortal spirit flashing across the starry sky.

Subsequently, his cultivation surged like a raging storm, suddenly climbing.

Directly breaking through the limit of early-stage quasi-immortal, he leapt to... mid-stage quasi-immortal!

Upon entering mid-stage quasi-immortal, Xu Qing clearly felt a sea-like immortal spirit aura within his body, surging up like an overturning ocean.

His long hair even danced upward, and the pressure emanating from his entire body far surpassed before by too much.

In a vague way, he actually had immortal essence!

This immortal essence, seeming to be the foundation controlling one's own destiny, caused Xu Qing's eyes at this moment to flash with light, appearing as silver light!

This is one of the marks of an immortal!

!

At the same time, within the colossal silver giant eye standing before Xu Qing, who was aided by fate and had his cultivation breakthrough, a figure in Daoist robes appeared at this moment.

This was a middle-aged cultivator whose aura was imposing without anger, wearing a blue Daoist robe, his entire body exuding rich immortal aura, his eyes containing the operation of the cosmos and star domains.

He was exactly the Left Wing Frontline Commander.

He took a step forward, standing before Xu Qing, his gaze sharp, locking eyes with him.

Xu Qing took a deep breath, suppressed the turmoil in his heart, and was about to bow.

The Commander shook his head, a gentle force spreading out, preventing Xu Qing's bow from continuing.

"Having a true lord's Daoist title, if your cultivation is that of a lower immortal, I, the old man, would bow to you; even though your current cultivation is not yet that of a lower immortal, you are equal in status to me, so there is no need to bow to me."

"And after leaving the battlefield in the future, you are qualified to freely choose an immortal lord as your master!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Qing understood that everything in the Fifth Star Ring had rules, so he no longer went to bow, but still sincerely conveyed his thanks.

"Thank you, Commander, for your guidance and support; Xu Qing will keep this in mind!"

The Commander slightly nodded, his eyes showing appreciation.

"This is what you earned through your own efforts, and you deserve it."

"As for the final reward for capturing the goddess alive, it is an immortal lord's Dao artifact!"

Xu Qing's eyes gleamed; he had been waiting for... this final reward!

The previous source essence and military merits, although useful to him, could not be irreplaceable, and even a true lord's title was merely an advancement in status.

What he truly cared about was his own combat power!

And the immortal lord's Dao artifact would be his great killer to enhance his combat power!

Seeing Xu Qing's obsession with Dao artifacts, the Commander smiled slightly, raised his hand, and instantly countless silver lights flew out from his sleeves, forming threads that shot straight into the void above.

Xu Qing looked up; in the next instant, his pupils constricted.

Only to see that above, in the void filled with a sea of light, as those silver threads merged in, it instantly rumbled, with blood-colored light appearing at multiple points.

They expanded one by one, like flowers blooming.

Forming one red flower after another.

Finally, they connected with each other, as if polluting the sea of light, forming a blood-colored firmament!

In the firmament, it seemed there was internal pressure expanding, causing one spatial rift after another to be torn open; these rifts extended and intertwined with each other, actually converging into an irregular huge gap!

Winding across the heavenly canopy, it was a full million zhang in length!

The bloody mist poured down like a waterfall along these gaps, like turbid waves.

And within this surging turbid wave, a section of forest-white bone knife was swallowing and exhaling murderous aura, slowly descending.

Its shape was like an inverted crescent moon, flashing with blood light!

Moreover, there were countless patterns on it, both seemingly innate and seemingly acquired later, or perhaps both, inseparable from each other.

As it descended, the light seas in all directions actually contracted into vortices.

And even more strangely, those torn spatial rifts, under the staining of the scarlet blade light, turned into myriad twisting threads of causality.

They intertwined into various laws of mutual restraint, under the governance of the blade light, seeming to become a deadly arc light to sever reincarnation.

"This blade is the treasure forged after the Immortal Lord Zhanlu attained the Dao, when he joined with several other Immortal Lords to slay the last god lord of the Fifth Star Ring, refined from his fingernail!"

"That god lord had the divine nature of slaughter, so this blade... is astonishing in slaughter!"

The Commander slowly spoke.

As his voice echoed, the curved blade descending from the firmament before Xu Qing seemed to sense something; only to see the blade body tremble once, emitting a sound.

As this sound arose, starlight inverted.

Countless remnant souls slain by this blade were summoned by the blade's cry, manifesting in the void, becoming demons and monsters.

But they dared not utter even a whimper, merely turning into mottled blood mist entwining the blade body.

And where the blade tip lightly brushed, space was not cut open, but rather, like being gnawed by a ferocious beast, permanently missing.

Exactly, an immortal lord's Dao artifact!

This scene caused Xu Qing's heart to tremble.

He instinctively raised his hand and grabbed the curved blade before him!

At the moment of grasping it, he dazedly seemed to hear a soul-stirring divine low roar that shook the starry sky; that sound penetrated all universes, dyeing the world before Xu Qing's eyes into the color of iron rust.

Emitting a terrifying aura that made Xu Qing's scalp tingle.

At the same time, the voice of the Lord of the Hosts continued to drift and sway.

"All rewards have already been given to you."

"And next, in half a month, a great event will occur!"

"The agreement has been reached between the Lord of Severance of the Fourth Star Ring and our side's Immortal Lord Zhanlu: they will exchange hostages!"

"As for the one tasked with escorting the Divine Maiden to the transaction, the Immortal Lord has decreed…… that you, Xu Qing, shall continue to serve in this role!"

"The location is the front line of the left-wing war zone, where our entire army is gathered, to protect this transaction with the formation!"