Chapter 1218: Mother Star Chronicles

Inside the space-time crack, above the black glacier, after hearing the exclamation of the Goddess, Xu Qing's expression sank. He raised his right hand suddenly and grabbed through the air.

Immediately, the Goddess's figure manifested. She was taken out by Xu Qing, who was holding her by the neck, and placed in front of him. After slightly loosening his fingers so that the Goddess could speak normally, Xu Qing said calmly.

"Tell me truthfully what you know."

Facing Xu Qing's cold gaze, as well as the experience along the way since being captured, and the methods of the Mud Fox, the Goddess's inner defense line had long been destroyed completely.

She understood that if she hid anything, it would be of no benefit to her, so after a brief silence, she spoke in a low voice.

"Everything here matches a mysterious place in my knowledge... the Primitive Mother Star of the Fourth Star Ring."

"Continue."

Xu Qing's expression was indifferent.

The Goddess's voice echoed.

"The so-called Primitive Mother Star is rumored to be the birthplace of the first god in the entire Fourth Star Ring, in ancient times."

"Legend has it that before this primitive god, there were no gods in the Fourth Star Ring. Because of its formation, gods came into existence."

A ghostly glint flashed in Xu Qing's eyes.

The Goddess trembled under this gaze. After hesitating for a moment, she continued to speak.

"This statement is too far from the present. I also heard a little bit from my Father God, and the gods of the Fourth Star Ring do not fully recognize this."

"This concerns the origin of gods. It can only be said that the Primitive Mother Star is one of the theories about the origin of gods."

The Goddess explained hurriedly.

"Tell me something you can confirm!" Xu Qing's voice turned cold.

The Goddess nodded quickly.

"One point can be confirmed, and that is that gods in decline, before their divine bodies are about to wither, will perceive the call of the Mother Star, and then drift in the starry sky, following a specific trajectory, like falling leaves returning to their roots, arriving at the Mother Star."

"But this process of returning is unsearchable and unknowable, so for countless years, very few gods have known where the Mother Star is located."

"Only death leads here."

Xu Qing heard this and suddenly spoke.

"Divine decline?"

The Goddess hesitated, but still revealed the secrets belonging to gods.

"Below the True God level, gods do not possess the meaning of immortality. Only after becoming a True God and possessing a True Name can they be immortal."

"But this immortality only refers to the True Name and does not include the divine body. And the divine body of a god, whether a True God or not, will experience natural divine decline after a long period of time."

"Eventually withering..."

"And after they are guided back to the Mother Star and die here, gods without True Names turn into nutrients, while gods with True Names—for them, the Mother Star is like a womb, gestating a new divine body."

Thereby receiving the True Name, like reshaping, completing resurrection."

"This process is slow, and it is also one of the rules for the resurrection of True Gods."

Xu Qing frowned upon hearing this.

"This is inconsistent with the resurrection I understand!"

The Goddess explained hurriedly.

"That is because there are two other ways for gods to resurrect. One is returning within their own dead bodies, and the other is the summons of the God Lord. However, these two types can only resurrect gods who did not die of divine decline, such as those who died in battle..."

"And those in divine decline only have this one path of being guided to the Mother Star."

The Goddess said softly.

Xu Qing was lost in thought. This was the first time he had heard the Goddess's description, but recalling the True God resurrections he had witnessed, they were indeed all those who had died in battle.

However, Xu Qing remained skeptical about whether this was true, and he also asked the Mud Fox in his heart.

It was just that the Mud Fox, as an acquired god, did not have a cultivation base that reached the True God level, nor did it have the noble status of the Goddess, so it was also ignorant about such things.

It could not give a correct reply.

So after pondering, Xu Qing pointed his left hand at the black glacier below.

"What are those strange existences beneath the glacier?"

"They are Source Sins..." The Goddess spoke immediately.

"Source Sins are unique life forms on the Mother Star. They are born by devouring divine corpses and are part of the Mother Star. They are born here, die here, and eventually form new divine bodies."

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, pondering in his heart, and transmitted a low voice.

"Can Source Sins leave the Mother Star?"

The Goddess shook her head.

"In my knowledge of the Mother Star, I have never heard of any Source Sin leaving, nor have I seen any Source Sin in the outside world."

Xu Qing fell silent. After a long while, he suddenly spoke.

"Does only the Fourth Star Ring have a Primitive Mother Star, or do all thirty-six upper star rings have this?"

"All are like this." The Goddess said in a low voice.

She had nothing left she could not say. Although this information belonged to the secrets of gods and was rarely known below the True God level, only at the True God level could one perceive it vaguely from the bloodline.

And she, because her father was the God Emperor, knew it more comprehensively.

"Then how do I leave this place?" Xu Qing's cold glint narrowed, looking into the Goddess's eyes.

The Goddess trembled all over and shook her head rapidly.

"I do not know... I only know that this is not a place for the living to come..."

There was a sentence the Goddess did not say in her heart. She was infinitely confused as to how Xu Qing could come here.

Xu Qing's brows furrowed, and he was about to continue asking.

But at this moment, a scene that shook his mind appeared.

He saw that the Goddess in front of him, perhaps because she had been here for a slightly longer time, now had skin that was gradually showing signs of aging, a sense of decay, and was growing.

At the same time, the Mud Fox's exclamation also entered Xu Qing's heart at this moment.

"Young Master, I feel my body weakening, and the divine source in my body is disappearing!!"

And the Goddess also perceived the changes in herself, trembling with horror in her eyes.

"It is this Primitive Mother Star, absorbing and decomposing all life that comes here!"

Xu Qing immediately checked himself and found no abnormalities. So he looked at the Goddess, who was full of fear, and asked again.

"Are you sure there is no way to leave?"

The Goddess trembled even more, trying her best to recall what she knew, but in the end, there was no answer.

Seeing this, Xu Qing waved his hand, put the Goddess away, and gazed into the distance, monitoring his own divine source while analyzing the information he had obtained in his mind.

"Primitive Mother Star..."

"Suspected to be the birthplace of the first god of the Fourth Star Ring."

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"It is the place of return for all gods in divine decline..."

"The living cannot come... then what is the purpose of the Immortal Venerable pushing me to teleport here?"

"Also... those so-called Source Sins are extremely similar to the things in Eldest Brother's body. If what is in Eldest Brother's body is truly a Source Sin..."

Xu Qing fell silent. He had guessed about the secrets on Eldest Brother long ago, but until now, he still did not know much.

And now was not the time to ponder this, so Xu Qing raised his head and looked toward the firmament.

"Regardless of why the Immortal Venerable teleported me here, for me, finding a way to leave is the key!"

"And the bronze door of the temple, I tried it before, and I couldn't leave through it."

"Then, let's see if there is a way to leave above the firmament."

Thinking of this, Xu Qing's body swayed, and he rushed toward the sky.

His speed was astonishing. Whistling, he shuttled through the void, constantly approaching the high altitude.

Time passed.

It was just that the sky here seemed infinitely large. No matter how Xu Qing ascended, he was still in mid-air.

He could not reach the end.

As for the earth, even as Xu Qing ascended, what he saw was still the black glacier, as if truly boundless.

This scene caused Xu Qing's heart to sink.

"According to my speed, normally, I could have flown out of a universe by now."

"But here, I am actually still in mid-air!"

Xu Qing murmured in his heart, and at the same time noticed that the Mud Fox and the Goddess, the sense of weakness on them, became stronger.

For the Goddess, Xu Qing did not care, but for the Mud Fox, Xu Qing transported some of his own primordial matter to it to alleviate it.

Then he pondered.

"It has nothing to do with height; the longer one stays here, the stronger the weakening."

After Xu Qing made a judgment, he accelerated and sped away again.

But this time, not long after, Xu Qing's body paused suddenly, and his pupils contracted.

A feeling of hair-standing horror suddenly erupted in his heart like a mountain-toppling sea. At the same time, the bone-chilling coldness from his body also rose comprehensively at this moment.

As if every inch of flesh and blood, every wisp of divine sense, was emitting a sense of danger.

This feeling came from the infinite sky above that could not be seen to the end.

As if if he continued to ascend like this, he would encounter an unimaginable and terrifying event.

"Cannot continue!"

Thoughts in Xu Qing's mind turned rapidly. His body sank suddenly, and only after descending to a certain height did that terrifying feeling dissipate somewhat.

It was just that his mind could not relax in the slightest, because a new crisis appeared on him at this moment.

Following the Goddess and the Mud Fox, the primordial matter in Xu Qing's body also began to disappear!

After discovering this situation, Xu Qing's expression turned gloomy.

Although the speed of this disappearance was not fast, and the primordial matter in Xu Qing's body was quite sufficient after absorbing the black ball of flesh in the secret realm.

But this kind of loss, no matter how he sealed it, was difficult to stop in the slightest.

And the Mud Fox, noticing that Xu Qing had also fallen into the loss of primordial matter, was also anxious in its heart.

"Young Master, this loss is getting faster and faster. If this continues..."

"I know."

Xu Qing responded, his body swayed, and he whistled toward the glacier below, his speed reaching the extreme, setting off sonic booms and roaring in all directions.

The place he was heading to was precisely the place where the True God corpse he had seen falling from the sky had landed.

Not long after, on the ground, a huge divine corpse that was half-sunken came into Xu Qing's sight.

This corpse was precisely what Xu Qing had seen earlier. At this moment, half was beneath the glacier, half was above, and it was sinking slowly.

This sinking did not cause the glacier to shatter, as if it were merging, strangely permeating downward.

Even beneath the glacier, one could vaguely see a large number of Source Sins devouring it.

And the moment he approached, Xu Qing did not hesitate in the slightest. He raised his hand to press, and silver light shone in his eyes.

The next instant, weak primordial matter was actually extracted from this True God corpse, surging over, supplementing the loss of primordial matter for him and the Mud Fox.

This method of refining primordial matter was precisely the Profound Nether God-Refining Art!

"Sure enough..."

Xu Qing's eyes flashed with silver light, murmuring in a low voice.

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This is the update for the 4th. ===== CHAPTER 1221 =====