Chapter 1296: Incident in the Starry Sky (First Update!)

The fourth star ring, the war continues.

At this moment, within a great cosmos of the fourth star ring, a relatively small-scale battle is erupting.

On the cultivator side, it is the Heavenly Spirit Legion of the Right Wing of the Fifth Star Ring, responsible for the final cleanup of these thousands of cosmos.

And opposing them is a divine race that originally occupied these thousands of cosmos.

This race once had an extremely vast sphere of influence, possessing over a dozen true gods, making them extremely formidable, but during the previous Fifth Star Ring central army's overwhelming advance, their true gods were nearly wiped out, and the race fragmented.

Only some surviving remnants hid away, becoming escaped fugitives.

Now, these escaped fugitives have gathered together, discovered by the Heavenly Spirit Legion, thus triggering this cleanup battle.

However……although the overall situation favors the Fifth Star Ring, not every battle can be won.

There will always be some unexpected occurrences.

These unexpected events usually happen in relatively small-scale battles, so their impact on the overall situation is minor.

Such as now, this cleanup battle has encountered an unexpected event.

This divine race actually concealed two true gods!

Their appearance has caused the Heavenly Spirit Legion, whose commander is Xia Xian, to show signs of defeat.

Thus, the slaughter between both sides has intensified further.

In the starry sky of this cosmos, it is extremely tragic.

Looking around, this legion of a hundred thousand cultivators has suffered considerable casualties.

And although its Xia Xian commander exerted all efforts to block the two true gods, he himself is already exhausted.

Most importantly, the surroundings have been sealed by divine spirits with forbidden arts, making fluctuations here unable to transmit outward, and divine sense as well, cutting off the cultivators' pleas for help.

Even on the overall battlefield, if the divine spirits win here, they still cannot influence the greater situation, and afterward, other cultivator legions will surely come to track down and exterminate them.

But for the Heavenly Spirit Legion, this battle……is a matter of life and death calamity.

"Cannot escape……"

In the starry sky, this legion's commander wears Dao armor, handsome in appearance yet not lacking in slaughter, the whole person appearing heroic and vigorous.

She is not of the old generation of Xia Xian, but one who recently ascended a hundred years ago.

However, at this moment her Dao armor is damaged, her complexion pale, her injuries severe, as she is besieged by two true gods.

Those two true gods have extremely strange appearances.

One has a body tens of thousands of zhang in length, not humanoid, like a giant python, and its body is composed of countless divine spirit skulls, overall appearing to represent death.

Wherever it passes, it stirs up waves of thick alien essence, and the death divinity within its divine breath is erupting.

The other is a ball of flowing, viscous flesh that constantly writhes.

The viscous fluid exuded from its body contains deadly poison, forming a rain in the starry sky, creating a massive vortex that envelops the surroundings.

Within that vortex, black plum blossoms with human faces bloom, forming a sea of flowers, shocking to behold.

Under the siege of these two true gods, this woman finds it increasingly difficult; at this moment, blood seeps out as her constitution erupts, she barely resists before retreating backward.

Gazing at the tragic scene below her forces, at the frenzy of the divine spirit army, sensing the severed seal of this cosmos, determination appears in her eyes.

Her right hand rises, her cultivation suddenly ignites, forming the might to slay gods, which then explodes outward in all directions.

The power of Xia Xian surges intensely.

Causing cosmic ripples, the starry sky roars.

Seeing this, the two true gods repeatedly retreat to avoid it.

They are also not at their peak; previously, during the cultivator army's overwhelming advance, though they fortunately survived, they also suffered severe injuries.

And now, after being forced back, that woman hesitates not, her entire body flashing with silver light, her raised right hand detaching on its own, flesh and blood instantly burning, condensing onto her arm bone.

Using her arm bone to bear her Xia Xian power, gathering all her constitution, she forms a silver crescent moon, which suddenly imprints itself toward the distant void.

She is giving her all, using her bone and constitution, attempting to open a gap to send out her divine sense for help.

Thus……she might gain a chance of survival in this calamity.

But just as her bone-formed silver crescent moon was about to imprint upon the void, the true god whose body consists of countless skulls flickered and directly appeared at the location of the silver crescent moon.

With eyes showing cold indifference and cruelty, it opened its huge mouth and actually swallowed that silver crescent moon whole.

Even as its body instantly roared and countless skulls shattered, it still did not loosen its grip, relying on its own erosion to dissolve the constitution within the crescent moon, causing this self-rescue to fail.

Seeing this, the woman sighed in her heart, then determination appeared in her eyes, as she was about to spare no cost.

But just at this moment!

A scent of grass and trees suddenly appeared within this cosmos, spreading in all directions.

It drew the attention of all cultivators, caused all divine spirits to palpitate, and even those two true gods, at this moment, had their hearts and spirits shaken, turning together with the Xia Xian commander to look toward the void.

Only to see the void ripple at this moment, all its obstructions and seals becoming extremely fragile in an instant, shattering apart in the blink of an eye.

A bridge woven from starlight and spiritual plants appeared there, descending toward this cosmos.

This scene caused a commotion that made all beings on the battlefield tremble in heart and spirit.

Especially accompanied by the bridge's appearance was a dense immortal spirit aura, which made all cultivators here invigorated.

As for the divine spirits, they were all startled.

And even more eye-catching was that on the bridge……a figure appeared.

That figure walked step by step upon the bridge; upon descending to this place, their entire body emitted terrifying pressure, accompanied by an astonishing aura that shook heaven and earth, their appearance also becoming clear, reflected in the eyes of all cultivators.

Just one glance, and they were recognized!

"True Lord Xu Qing!!"

That Xia Xian woman also had her eyes narrow; she not only recognized Xu Qing, but also felt the power of an Immortal Lord on that bridge, while simultaneously sensing the dense fortune accompanying Xu Qing.

Those two true gods beside her, at this moment, also without hesitation, immediately retreated, choosing to flee!

They do not know Xu Qing, possibly feeling the terror of this bridge and the dense divine slaughter emanating from the person's body.

This is the killing aura condensed from having slaughtered too many divine spirits!

Even the realm of the one who arrived, they could sense it was not Xia Xian, possibly gathering this killing aura, and possessing this bridge, they must not be ordinary.

More importantly, the seal was broken, and the concealment of this place has been exposed.

But at the moment they retreated, Xu Qing's eyes flashed with cold light, and he stepped forward.

The bridge beneath his feet also spread outward at this moment.

The starry sky shattered, and the void surged.

Terrifying power arose, shocking the world, descending before the true god whose body was composed of divine spirit skulls.

The bridge beneath its feet also arrived instantly, charging toward the true god.

The true god's mind and spirit instantly shattered, facing an unprecedented life-and-death crisis, letting out a roar from its mouth, rapidly retreating to avoid it.

At the same time, its divine authority erupted, even unwilling to let its body wither, gathering all its divinity forth.

But no matter how it dodged, it was of no avail.

This was not Xu Qing's power; this was Xu Qing borrowing the bridge about to dissipate to form a killing strike.

As if borrowing the might of the immortal lord!

Wherever it passed, it destroyed everything with ease, striking that true god's body.

With a rumble, this true god trembled all over, its body instantly collapsing, its divine soul dissolving in an instant.

Directly……body and spirit destroyed!

Thus, that bridge also completed its delivery task, turning into specks of silver light and dissipating.

At the same time, Xu Qing's cultivation also erupted at this moment, the power of the peak of quasi-immortal rising like a flood, stirring up countless spacetime overlaps, forming innumerable parallel universe iterations.

As if myriad immortals appeared, with one step, myriad immortals moved in unison.

Charging toward another true god, he suddenly walked forward!

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There will be more later.