Chapter 1291: Wanting to Open the Door!

The divine body, during those years Xu Qing spent on Mount Zhaoxia, had already been quietly sent out of the Eastern Wanggu Continent through his own methods, and he had simultaneously used the Constitution of Immortal Lord Mi Ming to mirror it.

This matter naturally also had the assistance of Mi Ming, which was how a certain degree of concealment was achieved.

There were two purposes for doing this.

One was to prevent the divine body from being controlled by Prince Ziqing and becoming the other party's asset.

The other was Xu Qing's plan to use this as one of his trump cards, creating an opportunity for Immortal Lord Mi Ming to strike at a critical moment, making Prince Ziqing believe he had succeeded.

After all, with the Eastern Wanggu remnant face present, approaching Eastern Wanggu was an extremely dangerous thing. For the local experts of the Ninth Star Ring, God Venerables dared not approach, and God Lords were the limit.

As for experts from other star rings, wanting to come to Eastern Wanggu, the risks would be even greater due to the different aura of their respective star rings.

Therefore, the opportunity for Immortal Lord Mi Ming to strike was only once, and he could not afford to get entangled in the fight.

Thus, there was the series of events that happened before.

"What a pity..."

Xu Qing felt some regret in his heart, but he had also anticipated such a situation, so he quickly restrained his inner emotions. As a cold glint flashed in his eyes, his body took a step and appeared outside the hall.

Taking another step, he actually entered... this imperial palace hall.

He took a step toward Prince Ziqing, who was sitting on the dragon throne with golden blood still at the corner of his mouth.

His whole person, like a long spear wanting to pierce the heavens and earth, headed straight for... Prince Ziqing with the momentum of destroying the withered and decaying.

But the moment he approached, Prince Ziqing's eyes suddenly revealed a brilliant golden light. He changed from his sitting posture and stood up directly, his right hand raised, pressing toward the firmament.

His mouth emitted a divine sound!

"God!"

The moment this word was transmitted from Ziqing's mouth, the Eastern Wanggu Continent rumbled suddenly.

All living beings of the ten thousand clans felt their hearts palpitate instantly, instinctively raising their heads.

Because, above the firmament, that remnant face spanning half the sky trembled, actually beginning to turn, facing Swallowing Heaven.

One could see its drooping, withered hair, at this moment, following the trembling and turning of the face, dragging out trails of world-destroying trajectories in the void like decaying vines.

Especially its blue-gray eyelids, at this moment, were like ten-thousand-year-old permafrost, presenting a trend of cracking.

Subsequently, its eyelashes, like rusted iron railings, seemed about to be lifted!

The world shook.

The breathing of the entire world stagnated.

Within the Swallowing Heaven Domain, in the Upper Kingdom's hall, Prince Ziqing, who had stood up from the dragon throne, following the trembling of the Eastern Wanggu eye, had a world-shocking divine might erupt toward the outside world, using his body as a carrier!

Like a storm sweeping across, wherever it passed, the entire hall rumbled and shattered instantly, becoming flying ash scattered everywhere.

It contained an irresistible force!

Xu Qing, who was approaching, also paused mid-way, and was subsequently swept by this force, forced to retreat.

After barely stopping several hundred feet away and spitting out a mouthful of blood, he raised his head suddenly, looking toward the firmament.

The moment Xu Qing looked, at the highest point of the sky, the eye of Eastern Wanggu... opened and closed slightly!

The world rumbled.

The heavens and earth twisted.

Within those eyes, what surged was not an iris, but a shattered galaxy.

It was as if billions of stars were burning within his eyes, turning into golden light flowing along the slits of the eyelids; wherever it passed...

The clouds in the firmament boiled into sticky asphalt, and the mountains and hills on the earth cracked with spiderweb-like fissures.

Space-time was also twisting.

Under the residual light of this not-fully-opened eye, within the entire Swallowing Heaven Domain, all the cities were trembling, like pottery being kneaded by giant hands, presenting signs of dissipation.

Within them, one corpse after another was floating strangely, blue-black skin seeping with ghost-fire-like eerie light.

And at the original location of the hall, amidst the dissipation of the dust, Prince Ziqing stood there, his long hair fluttering, the golden light in his eyes dazzling.

Cultivation seemed to be no longer important to him.

He was like a container, carrying the intent of Eastern Wanggu.

This caused his gaze to no longer be as gentle as before, and his expression was the same, all turning cold and indifferent.

It was as if, at this moment, he was no longer the Ziqing Xu Qing was familiar with!

"Descend!"

The icy voice, containing not the slightest emotion, echoed through heaven and earth.

The moment it was transmitted, in the firmament, the eye of Eastern Wanggu opened wide!

What rolled within that pupil was a chaotic vortex, every contraction swallowing the light of heaven and earth.

When the vortex reached the critical point, a dark golden beam of light crashed down, shrouding the Swallowing Heaven Domain!

The plains it touched boiled instantly; soil, gravel, and corpses decomposed into the most primitive particles within the beam of light. Only some glittering fragments, due to some reason, were still persisting, but it seemed they could not persist for long.

As for the fierce beasts, and even the eerie ones, they were instantly shattered into powder, drifting away with the wind into stardust.

This was not simple destruction, but a kind of dimensional pollution.

Under the gaze of the remnant face, the boundary between reality and illusion was completely broken, and the boundary between the living and the dead became blurred.

Vaguely, strands of figures actually appeared in the gaze!

And the true gathering point of Eastern Wanggu's gaze... was the capital of the Ziqing Upper Kingdom, the palace hall, and... Prince Ziqing!

Standing in the gaze of Eastern Wanggu, he was... the God's Descent.

Subsequently, he raised his hand and pointed toward Xu Qing.

With this point, all directions twisted, and those figures appearing in the gaze instantly became clear.

Those... were actually projections of gods!

These gods mostly came from ancient times; they were all the gods swallowed by Eastern Wanggu!

Although they had fallen, they were left in the gaze of Eastern Wanggu, and at this moment, under Prince Ziqing's point, they manifested one after another.

Inside, there was even the God Venerable from the bronze coffin in the Fourth Star Ring that Xu Qing had once seen!

Although they no longer possessed the power they had in life, the instinct of gods made them still intense in terms of pollution.

At this moment, following their appearance, alien substances rose intensely at this instant, filling the sky.

And then these projections actually swept toward Xu Qing.

They wanted to render everything about Xu Qing.

This was not the first time Xu Qing had faced the eye of Eastern Wanggu, but it was the most intense time.

Before, Eastern Wanggu opened its eyes without will, only instinct.

But this time, it contained will, and it also contained countless projections!

Even though Xu Qing's Constitution had reached the level of an Immortal Lord and what he cultivated was immortality, under the gaze of Eastern Wanggu, it still presented a blue-black color.

His body was being defiled, and endless alien substances were drilling into his body.

His Constitution was being influenced, and the power of fate from Eastern Wanggu wanted to forcibly change it.

Almost instantly, Xu Qing felt an extreme life-and-death crisis; his eyes turned blood-red instantly, and every inch of his flesh and blood produced an independent consciousness, wanting to separate from him.

At the critical moment, Xu Qing's right hand raised suddenly, pressing toward the distance.

He whispered lowly.

"Mirror of Eastern Wanggu!"

The moment these four words were transmitted, within the Swallowing Heaven Domain, those glittering fragments struggling in the gaze of Eastern Wanggu all shook at once, and then all rose into the sky, whistling toward Xu Qing.

They appeared around Xu Qing!

These fragments were precisely the mirror shards after the Mirror of Eastern Wanggu collapsed!

At this moment, each shining, they radiated the national destiny of the Ziqing Upper Kingdom sealed within them!

Bestowing reinforcement upon Xu Qing with the national destiny of the Ziqing Upper Kingdom!

Merely this was clearly insufficient to resist the gaze of Eastern Wanggu, so Xu Qing did not hesitate to take out his strongest trump card!

That was a bronze lamp!

The God Venerable eye within the lamp opened suddenly at this moment!

The moment the God Venerable eye opened, golden light erupted from within like a torrent, and with the reinforcement of the Ziqing Upper Kingdom's national destiny radiated by the Mirror of Eastern Wanggu fragments, it confronted the Eastern Wanggu eye outside and the countless projections around it invisibly.

Amidst the rumbling, Xu Qing's body trembled, but the feeling of his flesh and blood wanting to separate, as well as the trend of his body being polluted by alien substances, were alleviated at this moment.

The light emitted by the God Venerable eye within the bronze lamp formed a defense around Xu Qing.

It neutralized the Eastern Wanggu eye and blocked the projections pouncing from all sides.

It was just that... the strength of Eastern Wanggu had already surpassed all God Venerables; even though this God Venerable eye had the reinforcement of Master Bai, the Mirror of Eastern Wanggu, and the Ziqing national destiny, it was ultimately unable to resist completely.

Now, within the divine eye, a large number of golden cracks were spreading rapidly.

"At most ten breaths, the bronze lamp will collapse!"

"But... the time should be enough!"

Xu Qing did not hesitate, letting go of the bronze lamp and letting it float, while he himself immediately sat cross-legged, his hands forming seals, and a sharp intent radiated from his body.

That was... sword intent!

This battle, before coming, Xu Qing had simulated countless times on Mount Zhaoxia!

He naturally knew that his battle with Ziqing would inevitably trigger Eastern Wanggu, and the possibility of Eastern Wanggu opening its eyes existed.

Therefore, he exhausted everything, specifically for this, and found a special method of confrontation.

"In Wushuang City and Taigu City, where Eastern Wanggu truly opened its eyes, I did not die, and the purple crystal was something I discovered afterward, so the reason I did not die had nothing to do with the purple crystal."

"The relevance has a certain reason with Prince Ziqing."

"But in my memory of Wushuang City, there exist two completely different scenes; in one scene, I indeed did not die, and in another scene, I died."

"This is very strange!"

"So... it is also possible that the reason I survived was due to other reasons!"

"And I have cultivated until now, transparent inside and out, with only two points uncertain; one is the purple crystal, which is an external object, so I can ignore it for now. Apart from that...

There is only one!

I once perceived twice, in the deepest part of my soul, the existence of a mysterious corridor, the existence of countless doors, and deeper inside, that seat which cannot be explored or actively manifested to this day!"

"This is perhaps my only method... to confront Eastern Wanggu!"

These thoughts flashed in Xu Qing's heart instantly, and then he was decisive in his eyes, his right hand raised, pulling fiercely at his crown...

Immediately, sword qi rushed out from his crown, turning into an Imperial Sword.

Held in Xu Qing's hand, one sword... slashed at his own brow!

Forming a huge wound that pierced through his own upper and lower skin layers!

This scene, even Prince Ziqing in the gaze of Eastern Wanggu, narrowed his eyes, and his cold expression revealed a strange glint at this moment.

"You want to... slice yourself open?"