Chapter 1302

Chen Erniu went mad.

Xu Qing's words were, to him, a temptation beyond all else, one could say only surpassed by his initial theft of the Upper Wasteland flesh and blood.

And the theft of the Upper Wasteland flesh and blood had been a matter of chance and coincidence, aided by the power of the Divine Realm's ascension, and what he stole was merely a bit of scrap flesh, but now it was half a Divine Lord's corpse!

Especially under the stimulation of Xu Qing's cultivation changing so drastically, this half Divine Lord corpse had become Chen Erniu's greatest desire now.

"The power contained in the Upper Wasteland flesh and blood, I can only slowly grind it down, licking and absorbing bit by bit, once I lick too much,

I will explode and perish on the spot."

"As for the Divine Lord, though I cannot digest it either, at least it is relatively easier to handle than the Upper Wasteland flesh."

"Plus, with the Divine Lord's corpse given to me by Little Aqing, I have now gathered a complete set of divine spirits!"

"Good days are coming!"

Chen Erniu's eyes were blood-red, constantly emitting light, his whole person like a mad dog, in the mist within the fissure, he charged toward the direction he sensed.

At this moment, he cared for nothing else.

"Heaven is big, earth is big, but nothing is as important as food."

"My treasure, I'm coming!!"

Almost at the instant Chen Erniu charged, the countless divine chains binding the bronze coffin within the fissure began to tremble.

With the trembling, waves of divine runes flashed on the iron chains, emanating an indescribable might.

But for some unknown reason, this might was entirely contained within the divine chains and did not spread outward, as if warning outsiders that as long as they did not touch the divine chains themselves, then—there would be no harm.

And as for Chen Erniu, whether in this life or his past lives, what he was best at was doing great deeds.

So although he was unfamiliar with the Fourth Star Ring, in his experience of doing great deeds, he was more than sufficient.

Because in his previous few lives, every failure had come at the cost of death.

Experience naturally accumulated in this way, becoming ever richer.

Based on these, at the moment of entering the fissure, Chen Erniu instinctively felt what places could be touched and what places touching would mean death.

Thus, in Xu Qing's eyes, at this moment Chen Erniu clearly could not see his surroundings in the mist, yet he possessed an astonishing instinct that allowed him to maintain his high speed while avoiding any contact with the divine chains.

Like a mouse darting through the gaps of those iron chains at high speed, he rushed straight toward the location of the Divine Lord's corpse!

Seeing this, Xu Qing worried for Chen Erniu's safety, lifted his foot, took a step forward, and in an instant stepped into the great fissure ahead, entering the world within the fissure.

At the moment of descent, the divine chains of this world flashed again, and Xu Qing also felt a strong sense of danger, emanating from those iron chains and rising from the bronze coffin they bound.

This caused Xu Qing's footsteps to pause.

At this moment, all the hairs on his body stood on end, and there was a strong sense of the alien, emanating from the coffin and the iron chains, the half-corpse of the Divine Lord being no different.

These alien qualities gathered together, permeating this fissure world, becoming a terrifying divine aura, causing Xu Qing's flesh and blood to show signs of mutation.

Moreover, there was a pressure, like mountains and seas overturning, rumbling loudly.

As if it wanted to crush all outsiders into powder!

Fortunately, at the critical moment, the Fifth Star Ring's fortune contained within Xu Qing's body supported him, counteracting this place's pressure and divine aura.

At the same time, in his soul, a true name flashed.

On that day on the Primordial Mother Star, the Aurora Young Master had brought Xu Qing to leave his name, and at this moment it was fully revealed.

In the flashing of that true name, the alien invasion had somewhat dissipated, which made Xu Qing breathe a sigh of relief while also making him more curious about his senior brother's origins.

Because under such pressure, Chen Erniu was still darting through the mist.

His entire body was also flashing with blue light, enabling him, who merely dominated cultivation, to actually counteract this place's alien quality.

"The origins of my senior brother contain too much mystery—could he truly be a source aberration?

"According to my experience, it seems only source aberrations can ignore the aura of divine spirits and alien qualities—because the birth of divine spirits,

is precisely intertwined with source aberrations in countless ways."

Xu Qing pondered, but according to his understanding of source aberrations, such a strange existence cannot leave its mother star.

"Could it be that Eastern Wanggu is the primordial mother star of the Ninth Star Ring?"

Xu Qing's mind trembled, this utterly absurd guess rose in his mind, but he quickly denied it.

"Or perhaps it's still not right, for if it truly were a source aberration and the Ninth Star Ring truly the primordial mother star, then why could my senior brother leave? As for my senior brother's origins, I still have doubts, and I also know this is not the time for deep thought, for in his deep gaze, Chen Erniu, in his madness, had already found the correct path through the gaps of the divine chains and approached the Divine Lord's corpse."

But the next instant, mutation erupted.

Almost at the moment Chen Erniu found the correct path and tried to approach, his body exploded with a boom, shattering into pieces, turning into countless blue worms.

Xu Qing's gaze hardened, he was about to move forward, but in the blink of an eye, those worms each bearing Chen Erniu's face, their eyes mad, lunged again toward the Divine Lord's corpse.

Wanting to continue approaching.

But the rumbling did not cease, those worms in this process kept collapsing, large patches disintegrating into dust.

And Chen Erniu's madness continued to erupt, as the blue light flashed, those dust particles actually transformed into even more and finer blue worms, still lunging forward.

Thus, again and again, in one collapse after another, one disintegration after another, the blue worms Chen Erniu turned into grew more and more, coming one after another.

In this way, he finally approached the corpse!

Then all the blue worms emitted sharp sounds.

"Little Aqing, help me!!"

As his voice rang out, Xu Qing's attack had already unfolded.

The power of the immortal embryo exploded, and the constitution of the universe superimposed and rose, moreover, the divine tool fingernails scattered astonishing power, which Xu Qing flung out.

Toward that corpse he struck.

Immediately after, the group of blue worms Chen Erniu had turned into lunged fiercely at the corpse from all eight directions.

At the moment they were about to land, on the corpse of the Divine Lord Exterminator, a faint golden light suddenly flashed.

As this light flickered, terrifying pressure erupted from within.

Although Xu Qing counteracted it, the immortal embryo scattered, the constitution trembled, and the might of the Divine Lord's残 corpse was still astonishing.

However, the power of the Dao artifact was ultimately effective, causing the golden light on the corpse to tremble.

Yet even so, with Erniu's cultivation, he could not withstand it.

In the blink of an eye, all the blue worms he had transformed into collapsed again within the golden light, and this time even the dust vanished, as if wiped away from existence.

But... Erniu did not truly disappear.

Under such extreme duress, and with his heart filled with endless greed for the divine master's flesh and blood, Erniu... somehow unleashed a special method, and his body underwent a new transformation!

Only to see blue threads of light flashing out from where the blue worms had shattered, swiftly gathering together, actually forming a blue ice hand.

This hand was entirely made of blue ice, covered in ice spikes, and upon its appearance, a primordial feeling spread endlessly.

Moreover, an ancient primordial aura spread along with it.

At the same time, a crack split open in the palm, like a mouth opening wide, reaching toward the corpse of the divine master Li Zhu, and grabbed!

It instantly made contact with the golden light outside the corpse.

In the next instant, the blue ice hand melted, turning back into countless blue threads, which, combined with Xu Qing's Dao artifact power, gave everything they had to drill into the golden light.

Even though ninety-nine percent of those that drilled in were destroyed in the process, still a few remained and successfully penetrated.

Carrying greed and madness, they rapidly spread toward the corpse.

They sought to envelop the corpse.

This scene seemed difficult, but for Erniu alone; in Xu Qing's mind, the judgment was different.

Xu Qing's eyes flashed, and a strange feeling arose in his heart and spirit.

"Although it is merely a corpse, after all, in life it was the divine master, and the divine nature of the divine master Li Zhu is special; according to reason, it should not be this smooth—even if the eldest senior brother is special."

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, suddenly lifted his head, and his gaze fell upon the void above the corpse.

Although there was nothing but void in the direction he looked, in Xu Qing's perception, aided by the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring, the direction he was looking likely held some clue.

Thus he immediately spoke.

"Senior Brother, hurry!"

Within the golden light, the blue threads rapidly covering the corpse transmitted a response from Yu Ming.

And Xu Qing's perception was correct.

At this moment, in the void he was gazing at, there existed a figure Xu Qing could not see!

The way this figure existed was extremely special, its form illusory.

Its appearance was actually that of the divine master Li Zhu!

In the process of returning!

After suffering severe injuries himself, he relied on the karmic connection with the existence inside the coffin, fled to this place, intending to use this place to conceal himself while also planning to heal his wounds here.

But his method of healing wounds was very special.

Using death as a guide, he initiated the method of return, so that his severe injuries, which required a long time to recover, would, in this process, directly return to peak condition.

This is his innate power, the might of his divine nature!

As for the corpse, it is the anchor point, and also the fused body prepared for his own return.

Once the corpse is taken away, the anchor point will deviate, which will affect his return.

Although he had originally planned very well, and the chosen location was also suitable, plans do not account for change; his omniscience does not include Xu Qing, who possesses the fate divine nature, nor does it include the strangely formed Erniu.

Thus, at this moment, seeing people about to take the corpse right before his eyes at this critical moment, the consciousness of the divine master Li Zhu fell upon the distant coffin.

"Please, Divine Venerable, lend aid."

The coffin remained motionless.

"Divine Venerable—"

"Silence!"

Inside the coffin, a sound of rank that Xu Qing and Erniu could not hear was transmitted, falling upon the consciousness of the returning divine master Li Zhu, forming a fierce storm.

"Such karmic entanglements, this Venerable does not wish to be stained by, and you also must not chatter on!"

"A mere half-body, discard it if you must!"

Li Zhu fell silent.

Meanwhile, the consciousness inside the coffin, at this moment, was also fluctuating, in a state of high alert.

"One karmic entanglement from the Upper Wasteland is already enough to be troublesome, and now there are actually two!"

"The Upper Wasteland, starving to this day, can now rely on these two to gaze upon this place at any time—"

"And there is also the Fifth Star Ring Immortal Venerable, who is also laying plans!"

"Therefore, the only option is to send out Li Zhu's body, so that these two may leave as soon as possible, which is the most stable choice!"

During the time when the consciousness of the Divine Venerable inside the coffin was active, the blue threads that Erniu had transformed into, under Xu Qing's reminder, accelerated to the limit, finally completely enveloping the half-body of the divine master Li Zhu.

Then it rolled up, forming a blue sea of light, which swept outward.

From within came Xu Qing's voice, filled with extraordinary excitement.

"Success, Little A-Qing, we're leaving!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Qing's body trembled, about to follow, but an inexplicable movement in his heart made his footsteps pause, and he turned his head, his gaze falling upon the bronze coffin bound by countless iron chains!

At the very moment he looked, the old Divine Venerable inside the coffin, who had just sighed in relief, suddenly had his heart and spirit twitch.

At the same time, within the Ninth Star Ring, above the Eastern Wanggu Continent, the enormous残面 that exists like a natural disaster for all beings,

at this moment, its closed eyes suddenly twitched.

As if it wanted to open!