Chapter 1213

The golden light in the black lotus dwarf's eyes became intense in an instant.

He was not born a god; although his clan had a True God, the clan itself was not a god clan in the true sense, but one that had leaped forward to arrive here.

This was determined by the divine system of the Fourth Star Ring.

The source material for a god's growth, although it could be absorbed from the star ring, had better methods compared to this.

That was to draw it from faith.

Therefore, for a god to grow strong, He needed believers to offer sacrifices, and the clan to provide sustenance and offerings.

This was also the essence of gods invading the myriad worlds.

They needed to enslave more, and needed all living things to be devout!

Just like the butterfly Xu Qing had possessed earlier, as the Eternal Calamity Underworld Butterfly, It could not possibly have any bloodline connection with the Scale Ox Clan, but the offerings of the Scale Ox Clan were the foundation of Its cultivation.

Even those who offered to It were not just the Scale Ox Clan on the star Xu Qing had visited; on other stars, in many small worlds, there were similar clans offering to It.

If It had not fallen, and had the opportunity to step into the True God realm one day in the future, then all the clans offering to It would naturally be able to obtain huge benefits.

Including the Scale Ox Clan, all the clans could leap forward to become this type of god clan, with the character "True" added to their clan name.

When that time came, the territories of these clans would also expand in their respective locations, becoming overlords of a region.

But in essence, the living beings within these clans were still ordinary existences, not gods.

It was just that they offered to a True God, and their clan name had "True," so it was easier to condense divine power to become divine existences, and obtain the True God's bestowed spirit, thereby igniting the divine fire and ascending to become a god.

When that time came, the newly born god was both a subordinate god of the god being offered to, and also possessed the qualification to go out on its own to find new clans to offer to it and absorb faith.

Eventually, like tree roots, there were more and more, with the veins spreading in all directions.

The Zhenyi Clan was just like this.

They were not the only faith clan of their clan's True God, but even so, after obtaining the "True" character, their sphere of influence broke through the nebula they were in, and at their peak, they had spread across multiple universes.

But such a god clan, while seemingly glorious, was in reality only the lowest level of god clan in the Fourth Star Ring system.

To go a step further... the entire clan needed to change its bloodline over the passage of time and the precipitation of ages, with all becoming gods; only then could they be considered a god clan.

In the entire Fourth Star Domain, the vast majority of god clans were of these two types.

And if the latter could continue to develop, making the number of True Gods more and more numerous until a God Lord level appeared, integrating all the offering clans into one clan!

Then... the status of this clan would leap forward once again.

Becoming a Royal Clan!

This process was extremely difficult; for countless years, there had not been many.

Therefore, at this moment, in this world, as an acquired god, that dwarf, upon guessing that Xu Qing was the one wanted by the Lizhu God Emperor, had golden light shining violently in his eyes, his mind experiencing intense waves, his spirit being stirred.

He clearly knew that this was likely the greatest fortune and divine fate of his life!

After all, the Lizhu God Emperor's bounty was too astonishing.

Discovering traces would be rewarded with a hundred units of source material.

If he could capture him alive... he would be bestowed with a God Lord's artifact!

So the next instant, the dwarf suddenly raised his hand, slashing toward the firmament, while his divine voice roared thunderously.

"All subordinate gods, this mission has changed; strike immediately to suppress this cultivator for me!"

Once the words were out, the heavens and earth changed color.

On the ground, all the gods participating in hacking trees and splitting mountains raised their heads in unison, rushing out and heading straight for Xu Qing.

In the firmament, around the giant meatball, the many Divine Platforms sitting cross-legged there each had their divine bodies shake, looking toward Xu Qing, but their bodies were unable to move.

The True God did not permit it!

But at this moment, that dwarf could not care about these things; although assisting the clan's True God was still an extremely important matter, compared to this... if he could complete the Lizhu God Emperor's bounty and obtain the God Lord's artifact, then using this merit to achieve True God status himself was not impossible!

Moreover, the clan's True God already occupied the advantage and had many Divine Platforms sharing the burden, so the situation was still favorable; thus, it would not be too late to assist after he completed the capture.

Thinking of this, the dwarf's body flickered, stepping off the black lotus, leading the three hundred and sixty ancient corpses, erupting with his peak Divine Platform realm, and rushing toward Xu Qing.

Wherever he passed, his surroundings naturally contained decay, twisting everything, and the corpses behind him all opened their mouths, roaring out eerie sounds and stirring up corpse winds that permeated all directions.

This was precisely the power of his divine authority.

The power of decay, the wind of death, and... the words of soul-reaping.

Gathered together, they formed a terrifying funeral song, swirling in the heavens and earth.

The melody was like a tangible force, heading straight for Xu Qing!

Xu Qing's eyes flashed with cold light; he knew that in the Fourth Star Ring, wanting to avoid exposure meant relying on luck, so deep in his heart, he had long since prepared for exposure.

"Exposing myself here is better than being detected in the outside world, but the focus of this battle is to leave."

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, his body flickering, blurring in an instant.

A sense of time disorder suddenly appeared around him, as if time were flowing, and he was separated from this world, forming a distortion similar to the one around the dwarf, causing the incoming funeral song to have its melody thrown into chaos.

While breaking the divine art, within the distorted time, an iron skewer broke through the void, shining with immortal spirit energy in the heavens and earth, accompanied by bursts of crisp bell sounds.

Once that sound emerged, the heavens and earth fell silent, and all arts came to a halt.

The dwarf, who was rushing toward Xu Qing with killing intent, was even more shocked; he clearly perceived that the divine breath within his body had actually lost connection with himself.

And that iron skewer was heading toward him at an astonishing speed.

An intense life-and-death crisis erupted in his heart.

At the critical moment of crisis, the dwarf bit off his tongue and spat it out.

That piece of tongue, floating with golden divine blood, appeared and grew in an extremely eerie way, instantly transforming into a giant meatball.

It seemed to form a mysterious echo with the meatball formed by the True God of his clan in the firmament.

The next instant, the two were invisibly connected.

A force of the True God was borrowed and erupted within.

Causing the meatball transformed from the tongue to suddenly open, just like an eye.

With its gaze, it shrouded the whistling, approaching iron skewer, wrapping it within and forming a force of isolation.

At the same time, it also landed on the place where Xu Qing's time was distorted, causing the distortion there to return to normal, and Xu Qing's figure was forced to appear.

At the same time, the divine breath within the dwarf's body recovered, killing intent in his eyes intense, and his trump card erupted instantly; the three hundred and sixty withered corpses behind him burned in unison and dissipated.

And the void beneath Xu Qing's feet suddenly cracked with dozens of golden marks!

Thirty-six three-eyed statues composed of withered flesh and blood stepped out from the cracks in golden light; they were precisely what the dwarf's three hundred and sixty withered corpses had transformed into.

Appearing at this moment, the instant their toes touched the void, crisp sounds like shattered glaze erupted in all directions.

Subsequently, the vertical pupils between their brows opened, and dark golden divine light poured down like a waterfall, heading straight to shroud Xu Qing.

Everything it passed over condensed into amber.

!

Xu Qing's black robe billowed; before this divine light could reach his body, he raised his right hand and pressed it forward.

Immediately, spatial laws gathered, merging with the time remaining in the surroundings to form space-time laws, stirring up a chaotic space-time storm.

This storm was earth-shattering in an instant, sweeping toward the dwarf above and the divine light below simultaneously.

In the storm, countless immortal spirit seals could be seen swirling.

Erupting in an instant!

The earth-shattering sound caused the world to roar at this moment.

The divine light collapsed, and the thirty-six statues exploded in unison, viscous black mist churning in all directions; as for the dwarf above, his expression changed, and he was retreating rapidly.

But in the blink of an eye, Xu Qing's true body had appeared silently behind him, raising his hand to press on the dwarf god's skull.

At the same time, the iron skewer that had been fixed by the meatball's gaze not far away also had its light shine at this moment, the bell sound ringing out loudly, actually breaking free and transforming into a long mark, breaking through the void to arrive.

Instantly piercing into the dwarf's heart, passing through, and appearing beside Xu Qing.

But Xu Qing's brows furrowed slightly.

The dwarf god before him, trembling at this moment, actually transformed into a black lotus.

The black lotus shattered, seemingly able to substitute for death.

In the distance, the dwarf god's figure gathered from the void, his eyes revealing a sense of lingering fear, but there was not much surprise.

He knew clearly that being able to be wanted by the Lizhu God Emperor and being able to evade the divine sense detection of outside True Gods meant he could not possibly be weak.

"But this place is the Divine Kingdom of the True God of my clan!"

As the dwarf spoke, nine burning meatballs appeared above Xu Qing's head, forming a cage and suppressing him.

At the same time, the gods below also arrived, each unfolding their divine arts to kill Xu Qing.

But just at the moment when the gods struck and the nine meatballs burned and fell to form a cage.

Xu Qing's body suddenly dissipated, actually transforming into ten thousand blood-colored butterflies, flying in all directions.

These eerie red butterfly wings were covered in pupil-shaped patterns; every time they flapped, a divine art was sucked into the depths of the pupils.

Even more eerie was that the moment Xu Qing transformed into ten thousand butterflies, among the gods killing from below, dense blood butterfly larvae actually surged out from the eye sockets of a small half of the gods.

In the time of three heartbeats, these gods turned into squirming insect nests amidst miserable wailing, flying out even more blood butterflies!

This was precisely the divine art Xu Qing had simulated from the butterfly god, belonging to the Eternal Calamity Underworld Butterfly!

It was just that when performed in Xu Qing's hands, its range and terror far exceeded that of the butterfly god.

At this moment, red butterflies danced all over the sky, half rushing toward the nine burning meatballs, and half scattering beside the gods below.

Those gods, who were merely at the Divine Fire realm, were now scattering in fear, trying to avoid them, but Xu Qing's figure had appeared eerily, hanging upside down behind a goddess.

His right hand's five fingers were already deeply embedded in this god's spine, his left hand pinching the memory light cluster pulled from Her divine source.

Crushing it with one squeeze.

At the same time, he sucked violently.

Under the blue skin of this god, spiderweb-like black marks emerged, and the meager source material within her body was instantly sucked dry.

After surging into Xu Qing's body, her body trembled and turned into a dried corpse.

"The source material is too impure, and the quantity is very small."

After tasting the source material of the Star-Eyed Goddess, other source materials... Xu Qing was already somewhat unimpressed.

His appetite had become picky...

Thus he waved his hand, tossing aside the dried corpse in his hand; at the same time, in mid-air, the number of dried corpses falling was as many as several dozen.

Those were Xu Qings who had emerged from the red butterflies!

They appeared in mid-air one after another, and after each absorbed source material, they gathered together, transforming into Xu Qing's true body standing in the void.

Looking around, Xu Qing was expressionless, raising his hand to grab at the void to the side, pulling out a god who had been hiding there, whose entire body was of a crystal structure.

Before this god could say anything, Xu Qing crushed him, transforming him into scattered crystal fragments.

And every fragment, at this moment, reflected the terrified faces of the other gods.

These faces also included the dwarf in mid-air, whose expression was extremely ugly.

"Open the teleportation now and let me leave; there is still time."

Xu Qing spoke slowly.

(End of chapter)