Chapter 1228: God's Umbilical Cord

This matter……is unprecedented in ancient and modern times!

Xu Qing gazed upon the aurora young master in the billowing firmament, whose entire body radiated the might of heaven and earth.

As his inner realization dawned, regarding the Immortal Venerable's layout, a sense of the unfathomable also rose in his heart.

"Actually, there is another who also once did something similar, but I did not witness it with my own eyes."

Xu Qing thought of Li Zihua!

That one also seemed to have walked a similar path, yet compared to the aurora young master before him, in influence he was obviously incomparable.

And there exist many unknown details.

Xu Qing murmured in his heart, and as the mist cleared and the realization became manifest, at this moment, with the arrival of the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring, it rippled with undulations.

The sky is turning silver!

This is the fortune of all things and beings of the Fifth Star Ring; it……has descended into the memory spacetime of this Fourth Star Ring, entering the rift, and permeating beyond the primordial mother star.

It rendered the void, making the void silver, and thus the sky of the primordial mother star……had its color completely changed.

Ultimately transforming into a river of fortune, pouring down from the horizon!

Come to seize the sun and moon, come to empower the aurora young master!

From afar, this silver river of fortune appears boundless and vast, shocking heaven and moving earth.

Within it can be seen the illusory forms of all things and beings of the Fifth Star Ring, can be seen countless phantoms of cultivators, can be seen the cosmos and starry sky, can be seen one celestial realm after another beyond the heavens.

They are calling out to the aurora!

This silent call transformed into luminous fish of light, swimming in the river, and wherever they passed, the traces left behind reflected the fragmented remnants of immortal seal script.

Falling toward the aurora young master.

With him as the center, a great silver vortex formed.

The vortex roared, spreading rapidly, and in an instant covered the entire primordial mother star, enveloping inside and out.

In this way, entering the memories of the gods of the Fourth Star Ring.

Immediately there came a shaking sensation, spreading throughout the Fourth Star Ring.

Thus in the next instant, the soul undulations of the gods of the Fourth Star Ring caused statues to tremble, and the endless starry sky everywhere revealed cracks.

Streams of crimson source, like divine blood, seeped out along the cracks, spreading across the star sea.

And the aurora young master who caused all this, at this moment on the primordial mother star, in the vortex formed by the fortune descending from the Fifth Star Ring, spoke softly.

"Divine source arises from heaven; the Dao of immortality is sought within oneself."

As his words echoed back, the countless immortal seals within the fortune vortex around him flared intensely, actively purifying the heterodoxy and divine source emanating from the aurora young master.

During the purification, a trembling sound like a broken guqin string was transmitted.

And these sounds were also made manifest, and after being stained with divine source, they self-wove into one burning lamp of divine fire after another.

This is the source belonging to the Aurora God Lord!

Its quantity is vast, dense and endless, boundless and limitless.

At the moment of formation, it began to shatter!

In the blink of an eye, millions of divine lamps shattered into dust.

This shattering was like a severing!

As if a blade had cut upon the unseen connection between the Fourth Star Ring and the aurora young master!

Causing the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring to pierce into the spine of the aurora young master!

This was his divine pulse, bestowed upon him by the Fourth Star Ring after he ascended to God Lord here!

Now, this divine pulse, under the power of the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring, was torn, severed, and its resonance with the divine path of the Fourth Star Ring was blocked.

The reaction appeared on the aurora young master: his divine patterns, appearing all over his body, were fading at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At the instant this scene unfolded, a mournful roar came from the depths of the Fourth Star Ring's starry sky.

This was the collective will of the divine spirits of this star ring, also called the Divine Path, transmitting its angry roar.

It does not allow this to happen!

Thus in this roar, it seemed as if countless divine sounds!

"Not allowed!"

"Not allowed!"

"Not allowed!"

These divine sounds descended, following the memories of the gods, surging into the primordial mother star, and roaring toward the fortune river coming from the Fifth Star Ring.

Instantly, the fortune river of the Fifth Star Ring, as if kneaded by an invisible giant hand, condensed into flowing amber of blood-colored radiance.

This change began in the void beyond the primordial mother star and rapidly spread to the sky.

Gazing outward, the sky had once been amber, and this spread also followed the fortune river, settling around the aurora young master.

It solidified the fortune vortex, and here it awakened the will from the mother star, causing the primordial mother star to roar.

Will, revived!

As the earth heaved and surged, the aurora young master's reversal was directly interrupted!

The aurora young master's expression instantly twisted, and one could clearly see that the divine patterns on his body, which had originally been fading, now reignited.

And within each pattern, indeed reflected were the divine thoughts rising and falling within the Divine Path of the Fourth Star Ring.

This divine thought was about to, in one breath, completely dispel the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring.

But could the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring retreat? In the next instant, the amber shattered, and the fortune returned!

And with the Divine Path of the Fourth Star Ring, an unprecedented collision began!

When neither yielded, the Divine Path spread, forming the laws of the Fourth Star Ring, which fell into each divine dynasty.

In the next instant, all the God Lords of the Fourth Star Ring emerged one after another from their respective divine dynasties.

The aurora ascended to godhood, and they could choose to observe.

But now, abandoning divinity for immortality has already affected the Dao of the Fourth Star Ring, so they must block it.

Yet just as these god-lords were about to step onto the primordial mother star… figures appeared before them, one after another, blocking their path!

Those figures… emanated an aura no less than that of the god-lords, an aura forged by immortal might.

They are the Immortal Lords of the Fifth Star Ring!

At the same time, outside the Supreme Divine Court of the Fourth Star Ring, the old man in straw sandals had also arrived, standing there gazing silently at the divine court.

And the divine court… was also silent.

……

On the primordial mother star.

The Aurora Young Master gazed at the heavens, his eyes intertwined with gold and silver.

"Not letting me go?"

He raised his right hand and pressed downward toward the primordial mother star below.

With this press, the primordial mother star rumbled, and heaven and earth underwent a great transformation.

A illusory long river became visible, appearing deep within the primordial mother star.

Within that long river flowed true names.

Among the countless true names, one name shone brighter than all others at this moment, strikingly prominent!

It was the true name left behind by the Aurora Young Master before.

!

Seeking Light!

Seek, yet unseen.

Light, sun and moon!

Back then, the Aurora Immortal Lord took the sun and moon of the Fifth Star Ring and placed them within his son's name, and his son… not long ago, placed the sun and moon of the Fifth Star Ring, in the form of a true name, into…

the Dao long river of the Fourth Star Ring!

Like driving in a nail!

And now, with his press, this nail… began to explode!

Sun and moon manifested!

This scene, as if opening the gate to the depths of the Fourth Star Ring's Dao for the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring!

Thus, amid the rumbling, the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring flowed directly through the sun-and-moon gate opened by this true name!

Transforming into endless immortal thunder, surging the true name long river!

And within each bolt of Lei Ting, the fortune is embodied, and even more, the heroic spirits of the Fifth Star Ring!

Xu Qing had once, at the Immortal Stele of Nine Shores Heaven Beyond Heaven, worshipped those fallen immortals, their traces imprinted in the fortune, now arriving with the thunder.

Slay toward the true name!

This, is the true return of sun and moon!

And the Dao of the Fourth Star Ring immediately twisted, stirring up a heaven-shaking change.

With this loss and that gain, the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring surged violently!

The condensed amber shattered instantly, and the fortune vortex around the Aurora Young Master spun once more!

From god to immortal, continue the process.

The divine lanterns in all directions instantly extinguished tens of thousands.

Causing strand after strand of divine source to rapidly separate from the Aurora Young Master's body, even the black crystal fragments covering his entire body became blurred.

The aura of the divine spirits is weakening, while the pressure of the Immortal Lord is erupting.

Moreover, in this process, as the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring continuously surges into his spine, great changes also occur within the Aurora Young Master's body.

His divine bones are breaking apart segment by segment.

Replaced by newly grown, crystal-clear, jade-like bones.

The surface of these new bones is covered with fine immortal patterns; upon close inspection, they are revealed to be a miniature star map of the Fifth Star Ring, radiating astonishing magnificence, boundless and grand.

This is the Star Ring Bone.

Only the exalted may possess it!

Only an Immortal Exalted or a Divine Exalted can, at the moment of advancement, imprint the star map of their star ring.

Yet at this moment, within the Aurora Young Master's body, it is forming!

But his method differs from that of the exalted: he uses the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring as fire, the Dao of the Fourth Star Ring as fuel, plus the supreme divine guide, combining the power of both star rings to forge!

Equivalent to drawing out the power of both star rings and gathering it into one body!

And the focus of extraction is the Fourth Star Ring!

Thus, the Dao of the Fourth Star Ring wailed, once again spreading across the starry void.

Truly, the Dao of the Fourth Star Ring now faces an unprecedented tribulation, as the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring invades it from within and without, corrupting all.

And where the Aurora Young Master stands, it is like a great rift, now separating and tearing apart its laws.

This makes its struggle unprecedented!

Thus, in the next instant, outside the primordial mother star, a colossal star gate, suffused with a profound sense of ages, suddenly burst open.

An unknown aura emanated from within.

This aura resembles that of divine spirits, yet is not identical.

It seems… even more ancient!

And beyond this star gate, ancient statues shrouded in gray mist and haze were revealed.

Their age is extremely ancient, as if… not of this era.

Or perhaps their lifespan is so vast that it may even surpass the first deity born on the primordial mother star!

At the same time, following the star gate inward to a farther distance, one sees only that behind those statues, within the mist, the faint outlines of extinct ancient star remnants can be discerned.

As for deeper within, nothing can be seen clearly!

Only symbols can be seen, spreading outward from within.

Those symbols flash with a gray light, radiating unparalleled mystery.

These are marks that neither deities nor cultivators have ever seen before!

Upon appearing now, they assemble into a broken iron chain, stretching toward the primordial mother star.

Wherever it passes, the starry sky seems unable to bear it, collapsing in turn.

Even the memory void where the primordial mother star resides cannot withstand it…

Likewise, it too shatters!

Even the Divine Lord and Immortal Lord locked in confrontation are all moved.

This is the fourth star ring's Divine Dao, choosing to erupt in self-rescue within this limit!

It has opened a certain door!

And at this moment, within the fourth star ring, from beginning to end, regarding the Aurora Immortal Lord's ascension to godhood and promotion, as well as transformation into an immortal, the Supreme Divine Court has never issued any decree, nor shown the slightest action.

In this instant, suddenly a roar echoes, flashing with endless divine light.

Within that divine light, the Divine Sovereign steps forth!

"The Divine Umbilical Cord, Boundless End… at last it is opened!"