Chapter 1331: Initial Sacrifice of the Strange Object's Source!

In the sea of gold and silver light, amidst the rolling waves, the time-light bottle from Xu Qing's moments was condensed.

The seemingly ordinary small bottle now emitted waves of ancient desolation.

That ancientness, too distant, contained a strong sense of decay, and even under the tracing of wish-power, its source seemed difficult to fully reveal.

Even with Xu Qing's constitutional law sustaining it, causing time and space to flow upon the time-light bottle, it was merely… at last… on the surface of that ordinary small bottle, a blurred relief emerged.

The carved lines seemed to come alive, intertwining and twisting, ultimately faintly forming a sphere.

It rotated, exhaling a breath of life.

"That is… a star?"

Xu Qing's eyes narrowed.

And as the star rotated, thread after thread of dawn-like light burst forth, spreading across the entire small bottle.

Xu Qing's pupils contracted, about to gaze closely.

But the mournful cry from the Mother River God Spirit interrupted everything.

Its divinity erupted at any cost, and under the endless diffusion of divine light, it finally exhausted the chain of law upon itself at this moment, causing the pull to cease.

Thus the image vanished, and the time-light bottle returned to ordinariness.

Meanwhile, the Mother River God Sovereign retreated in haste, its face pallid, body weak, eyes filled with killing intent, and the turmoil in its heart surged violently.

This time, its injuries were severe; even though only thirty percent of its form had arrived, the cracks in its divinity were enough to affect its true body.

"On this person, not only are there layouts by multiple deities, but also other inexplicable things!"

"Those inexplicable things are mostly related to the Eastern Wanggu Continent itself..."

"This person… eighty or ninety percent likely is the final force condensed by Eastern Wanggu under the devouring of the Upper Wasteland, forming the ultimate struggle!"

"Therefore, Eastern Wanggu's fortune is in him, the Heavenly Dao is in him, the light of formation is in him, and that strange bottle is also related to him!"

"Such a person… no wonder the deities' layouts all converge upon him!"

"However, you have bound your constitutional chains to me, though it restricts me, I likewise through this connection have seen your flaws!"

The Mother River God Sovereign's eyes flashed with golden light, and golden flames ignited from within its divine eyes, spreading outward, flowing across its entire body in an instant.

Blazing fiercely.

Within the golden flames, its appearance became divine, though the resolute expression within was especially evident.

"Your flaws, indeed as I foresaw, the fusion of immortal and divine—how could it be so easy!"

"You are forcing yourself!"

"Your current state is merely temporary; the fusion of immortal and divine for you cannot endure!"

The Mother River God Sovereign's divine voice echoed through the starry sky, filled with madness, as its right hand rose, and under the frenzied leaping of flames in its eyes, its divinity… began to self-ignite!

In the next instant, even denser flames erupted explosively upon it, making it in the starry sky like an unextinguished divine fire.

Burning nearby, turning all into nothingness, becoming nourishment for its own combustion, making the flames burn even brighter.

Emitting light and heat, transforming into divine might, as if seeking to burn the entire universe.

For a moment, its divine intent spread throughout the starry sky.

Thereafter, in this state of burning desperation, the Mother River God Spirit raised its hand and pointed at Xu Qing.

The sound from its mouth, at this moment, truly became the Star Ring Rules!

"I wish, your immortal-divine instability, three breaths of division!"

"I wish, your immortal soul independence, leading to self-collapse!"

"I wish, your divine body devouring souls, all shall become illusion!"

These words of wish became the Ninth Star Ring Rules, echoing throughout all universes within the Ninth Star Ring, stirring all beings to tremble, while also transforming into three closed Rule Eyes.

On the brow of the Mother River God Spirit, the first eye opened.

The moment it gazed upon Xu Qing, the gold and silver sea around him actually emitted a tearing sound; the gold and silver within, previously blended, began to separate.

Left side silver, right side gold, with Xu Qing between the two seas, his body at this moment likewise showed signs of separation.

The original instability was infinitely magnified!

Gazing upon this, the Mother River God Spirit's expression turned ferocious, and the second eye on its brow instantly opened.

Rules erupted, the Star Ring roared, and Xu Qing's soul, at that instant, underwent violent undulations.

But Xu Qing paid no heed to these; whether the separation of the gold and silver light sea or the undulation of his immortal soul, none affected his will in the slightest.

At this moment, allowing the Mother River God Spirit to open its eyes, his mind instead manifested a divine ability formed from his own techniques.

This was the divine ability inherited from Li Zihua, named the Beheading God Platform!

"Ultimately it belongs to another, but I can take it as a mirror to form… a divine ability of my own."

Xu Qing raised his hand, following his thoughts, and summoned toward the void.

Drawing the Vermilion Moon Authority, it transformed beneath him into endless blood mist, rolling and condensing into a blood-colored altar!

That was the Vermilion Moon Altar!

Next came the Ghost Emperor Mountain, sourced from the bronze-black tower, which did not stand upright but transformed into a tower shape, inverted to become the altar's support!

Raising the altar high!

Moreover, there were the iron chains transformed from the Golden Crow, locking the tower's base and connecting to the altar, swaying on their own.

This scene formed a strange picture, appearing before Xu Qing, while Xu Qing closed his eyes.

Thereafter, under Xu Qing's intent, the Poison-Forbidden Power descended from the void, turning into rolling black mist, within which a vast and blurred beast shadow stood in the western corner of the altar.

Ding Yisaner was likewise summoned by Xu Qing.

Within it, the old painter stepped out, with a mad expression, grinding the dawn light with a millstone to color the altar.

Subsequently, mixed with the blood of fortune from a young boy, it was smeared onto the stone lion's eyes, causing the stone lion to tremble, and from its mouth came a mournful, piercing roar.

And the old painter, laughing maniacally, thrust the brush in his hand into his own brow; before death, he crawled toward the northern corner of the altar and died there.

Afterwards, in the poisonous mist of the altar, a grinning scarecrow with a twisted smile staggered out and walked to the southern corner of the altar, where it knelt toward the center, holding something aloft with both hands.

It was the Time Vial.

And at the final eastern corner of the altar, the hand of the divine spirit appeared there, placing Ding Yisaner's head before it.

The head's voice wailed mournfully.

"You are dead, you are dead, you are dead!"

Seeing this, the Mother River Divine Spirit trembled in its heart, feeling a powerful life-and-death crisis, so intense it surpassed before, giving it a premonition of impending doom it could not avert.

"What is this!"

As the sound echoed, Xu Qing, sitting cross-legged in the void above the altar, snapped his eyes open.

He gazed toward the Mother River Divine Spirit.

A cold voice issued from his mouth.

"In this life, I have merged with all anomalous things, gathered here, borrowing your wish to trace back to the origin, I perform this rite!"

"Thus I call it, the Anomalous Origin... Rite!"

As the final word left Xu Qing's mouth, the starry sky shuddered and the altar rumbled.

In an instant, all space around Xu Qing began to twist and deform, as if an invisible mighty force were tearing at the boundary between reality and illusion.

Moreover, black shadows surpassing the poison禁 surged forth in gusts of yin wind from all directions, swiftly gathering around the altar.

Within that darkness, the outlines of many strangely shaped anomalous things faintly appeared, emitting a hair-raising aura, and moreover exuding antiquity!

It seemed, older than the divine spirits!

The manifestation of this aura even caused the divine spirits to shudder.

Furthermore, a sound like weeping and howling echoed through this starry sky, as if from an evil existence awakened since the world's beginning.

Seeking people to devour!

They struggled and twisted incessantly in the darkness, then, in Xu Qing's gaze, suddenly roared toward where the Mother River Divine Spirit was.

Boundless and countless, dense enough to make anyone who sees them tremble in mind and spirit.

Wherever they passed, the starry sky rotted, like decaying skin.

The Mother River Divine Spirit's expression changed drastically, the life-and-death crisis intensely strong, it immediately retreated, deploying divine techniques to resist, brilliant divine radiance bursting from its body, various divine powers from wishes intertwining externally to block.

At the same time, it transformed into nothingness and departed via divine technique!

However, the anomalous things formed by the Anomalous Origin Rite were like beasts that had smelled blood, attacking with greater speed and sharper, more mournful cries, pouncing upward.

Whether void, whether spacetime, whether any parallel, they pursued the Mother River Divine Spirit's trace, without beginning or end!

In every dimension, in every concept, in every story, they caught up to the Mother River Divine Spirit, dragging it back from all regions, forming at the altar's center.

Causing the Mother River Divine Spirit's figure to appear within the altar.

Subsequently, in its mournful state... the rite began!

The altar exploded, locking the body!

The black tower rumbled, sealing the soul!

The poison禁 permeated, sealing the divine!

The entire altar, suddenly, began the sacrifice!

Countless anomalous things surged forward, madly gnawing and tearing.

And after the painter's death, his anomalous laughter, corpse hand raised, he painted frenziedly.

The stone lion roared!

"What are anomalous things, preceding the gods, ascending the star ring, the anomalous realm before the gods!"

The head bounced and sang loudly!

"At the third watch of midnight, blood from broken finger, seven orifices as offerings to the anomalous lord."

"Left eye given to the spell-beast bird, right eye offered to the Time Vial."

"Both ears hung on the black crow, tongue inserted into the bronze goblet."

"Moreover, divine marrow and divine status, spirit body and divine soul forgotten in the River of Forgetfulness!"

"The rest buried upon the Mountain of Sin, the divine kingdom's collapse illuminates the blazing!"

"Finally, the millstone turns three circles, the anomalous sacrifice reveals the true face!"

This voice, sharp as a funeral dirge!

No matter how the Mother River Divine Spirit struggled and roared, it could not break free from this terrifying shroud.

The anomalous power from this ninth star ring, in this instant, used this place as an outlet, surging forth, endless eruption!

In but a moment, the Mother River Divine Spirit, under the might of the Anomalous Origin Rite, had its body dissipate, its light extinguished!

Together with the altar, it ultimately completely dissolved into nothingness!

Only leaving in this starry sky the yet-undispersed anomalous aura, and a soft sigh from the same deceased ancient immortal.

The starry sky fell silent.

And Xu Qing, standing in the starry sky, sensing the peace around him, finally raised his head, gazing into the distant universe.

After a while, he raised his hand, took out the Immortal Venerable's Treasure, and lightly waved it beneath his feet in the starry sky.

A line, starting from beneath his feet, became a circle and went forth, enclosing Eastern Wanggu within.

Standing at the boundary, Xu Qing's voice transmitted throughout the ninth star ring.

"From now on, outsiders, crossing this line, bear the consequences themselves!"