Chapter 1243

A ripple that made the Fourth Star Ring, and even the entire Upper Thirty-Six Star Rings, tremble, spread slightly at this very instant.

Within the rift, the scarlet light that had instantly surged in the eyes of the Li Zhu skeleton flickered, as if it were a candle flame blown by the wind.

And then... it actually retreated rapidly, regardless of everything, pulling back violently.

But it was already too late.

The Upper Rings, in this instant, suddenly fell into absolute silence!

Whether gods, cultivators, all living beings, or countless stars—everything, absolutely everything—felt their minds go blank at this moment.

It was as if a pair of eyes spanning dimensions had changed their position from where they were originally looking, and were now looking... at the starry sky!

That was a gaze that transcended time and space.

That was the giant remnant face in the sky above the Wanggu Continent within the Ninth Star Ring, which, at this moment... raised its head.

It opened its eyes completely!

And so, within this Fourth Star Ring, outside this rift, in the gaps of the folds of time and space, a gilded pupil appeared silently.

Within it, the entire view of the rift was reflected.

The moment it looked over.

The Li Zhu skeleton inside the rift paused, trembling as never before. Stared at directly by this gaze, its body emitted a piercing shriek, and the divine rings remaining on it shattered one after another.

And the Old God Venerable's power to conceal its consciousness also shattered at this moment, causing the Li Zhu God Lord's consciousness to recover.

Yet, the instant it recovered, its mind was shrouded by death.

Along with its body, it dissipated rapidly, as if being wiped away, as if being swallowed by nothingness.

At the same time, everything within this rift was undergoing a drastic change!

A roar like friction rose sharply; spiderweb-like cracks appeared in the rift, spreading rapidly, and every crack emitted a trembling sound similar to shattering glass.

The entire space, like an eggshell being gnawed by a giant beast, peeled away layer by layer in this instant.

It collapsed with a boom.

The divine chains within it also trembled at this moment; the divine runes appearing on the surface of the chains burst one after another, disintegrating completely.

And time and space were also rippling, twisted by an invisible force.

Black holes that were collapsing one by one became vortices, appearing one after another within this distortion.

They tore frantically at all the fragments of time and space in this place, forcibly merging them together without any logic.

Forming phantom images of worlds that did not exist.

This scene caused Xu Qing, who had not yet fully left the rift exit, to have his mind stirred by earth-shattering waves.

He was shocked to see his own figure within one of the world phantoms.

There, he was drinking heartily with Chen Erniu, while his expression... was full of terror.

Before Xu Qing could see more clearly, the time and space within this rift, like crumpled rice paper, began to intersect and overlap across different timelines.

Chen Erniu, inside Xu Qing's hair, felt his mind churning; he seemed to see his childhood from this lifetime appear in the void, but in another fragment, his adult self was simultaneously experiencing the excruciating pain of a shattering soul.

And all kinds of sensations gathered and erupted toward him.

The resulting chaos overturned everything.

Xu Qing, too, felt his heart shake violently; his Constitution had points of convergence with the current time-space disorder, and within this chaotic vortex of time, he saw his past, present, and future.

Countless clones were making different choices, but every choice triggered subtle changes in the universe.

These scenes caused his Constitution to fluctuate rapidly.

And an even more bizarre scene appeared at this moment.

He saw that in a certain fragment, crystal-textured branches grew out of the divine bones that formed the altar here, rapidly turning into fruit trees.

Only, the fruit they bore were miniature versions of Xu Qing and Chen Erniu.

A miniature Chen Erniu on a certain branch suddenly turned its head and revealed a sinister smile at its original self.

The moment he saw this smile, Xu Qing's left ear was scratched, and as blood permeated the air and mixed with the time-space dust nearby, it froze directly into frost; from the sound of that freezing ice, he faintly heard the scream of his self three breaths later.

This was the reverberation of a sound from the future.

Time and space were in chaos.

As for the bronze coffin in the distance, it also trembled violently amidst this series of drastic changes.

It seemed to want to resist.

One could see the patterns on the outer layer of the coffin collapsing, revealing the liquid divine source flowing in the middle layer.

And that divine source was also dissipating; countless pale, withered hands containing an ancient intent stretched out from within, struggling outward.

But under the gaze from outside the rift, they withered one after another and turned into fly ash.

Until the next breath, the trembling coffin suddenly emitted a scorching white light, followed by a loud boom.

The bronze coffin collapsed and exploded!

The fragments turned into a million bronze falcons, shooting out in all directions.

A decaying figure rushed out from within!

One could not see its specific appearance, only feel its decay while seeing ribbons of light like golden rivers flowing around this figure; every strand of light in the ribbons shone with a supreme godhead.

And the moment it appeared, it did not pause in the slightest, nor was there any divine sound; instead, it fled toward the distance, shattering the void with its own ultimate speed!

In this instant, all the supreme beings of the entire Thirty-Six Star Rings felt their minds ripple and were all gazing at this place; within this rift, time and space were chaotic, and the void continued to collapse.

Everything, absolutely everything, was dissipating.

Even though Xu Qing had karma with the Upper Desolation and had not died multiple times under its gaze, the chaos of this time and space was also endlessly dangerous for him.

He simply could not escape.

At the same time, the vortex black holes that appeared here were all sources of time-space turbulence.

Xu Qing knew that if he were sucked in, it would be difficult to leave, and he would be trapped within.

Fortunately, his Constitution possessed the concept of time and space, and even more, the power to overlap universes, which allowed him to struggle and move through this disorder and distortion.

Only, his body and soul were in a state of loss of control, being pulled in this twisted time and space, and the screams of Chen Erniu in his ears also became ethereal and illusory.

Even parts of Xu Qing's body had turned into light particles, as if they were about to merge with the chaos here.

As for Chen Erniu, he was also in crisis, his body dissipating, with only his teeth biting Xu Qing's hair tightly, though this did not hinder his screaming.

And countless fragments ejected from the collapse of the coffin earlier were now also moved by the turbulence, crashing into Xu Qing, tearing his flesh, embedding themselves in his body, and scattering blood everywhere.

Xu Qing could not care about these things; he understood that this place was completely disordered, and with the continuous collapse, it was about to turn into nothingness, which was equally dangerous.

At this critical moment of crisis, Xu Qing's mind suddenly rippled.

"This scene, it seems familiar!"

Xu Qing's mind shook; he suddenly remembered that when he was in the illusion of the God of Pain, he had encountered the pursuit of a God Lord and was forced to enter the time-space turbulence, where he found the Xia Xian opportunity.

And now, this scene, although different, was similar.

"The illusion contains the truth... could it be..."

Thinking of this, Xu Qing was silent for a breath, then his eyes became decisive; he controlled his Constitution, turning it into fine threads that shrouded himself, weaving into a cocoon.

Then, he rushed toward a vortex black hole.

Entering the time-space turbulence!