Chapter 1341: The Kind Master and the Filial Disciple

In the echo of the opera singing, the third senior brother's expression was dazed, and he murmured softly.

"The Black Pagoda deceived me, making me believe that the calling voice came from Ghost Emperor Mountain..."

"But I did not know that the true calling voice came from here..."

"And this Taichu Li You Pillar—I have been here before, but at that time, I did not have this kind of perception as I do now."

The third senior brother's voice drifted in the wind and snow, and Xu Qing understood that the reason for all of this was actually the power of the Black Pagoda God Sovereign.

It wishes for the third senior brother to merge with the Ghost Emperor.

Thus, it not only deceived him but also transferred that calling voice to Ghost Emperor Mountain.

Although I do not know why the Black Pagoda values the Ghost Emperor...

And although the Ghost Emperor is strong, that is only against low-level cultivators; for higher realms, the cultivation of the Hunshen is insufficient.

"Perhaps, there are some origins I am unaware of..."

Xu Qing pondered slightly, and at this moment, the third senior brother seemed to have lost his soul, murmuring as he slowly walked toward the Ghost Cave.

At the edge of the cave entrance, there was no pause...

He leapt forward.

Xu Qing followed behind, stepping in.

Inside the dark Ghost Cave, the opera singing became clearer, and moreover, sheets of spirit money drifted from the depths of the cave.

And the alien substance here is also extremely intense.

But the third senior brother paid no attention to these, allowing the alien substance to erode him, allowing the spirit money to dance around him, his figure moving deeper... faster and faster.

Just like his heart at this moment.

Waiting lifetime after lifetime, it seems, was all for this moment.

Lost memories, forgotten figures—in this instant, they seemed to be traced back from time, reborn from reincarnation, and in his mind, they took shape.

Thus, his expression became somewhat agitated, and his body trembled slightly.

And as he watched all this, Xu Qing's mind surfaced with another figure from memory.

That person had also once been at the edge of the scavenging camp on Nanhuangzhou, in the forbidden zone, and while listening to the song, watched his beloved approach, his face showing a similar expression, similar agitation, similar trembling.

"Lei Dui..."

Xu Qing murmured in his heart, silently following behind the third senior brother.

To dispel the alien substance for him, to bolster his speed for him.

Finally, inside the dark Ghost Cave, a red lantern gradually appeared, growing closer... and then a wooden house came into the third senior brother's view.

It was a wooden house permeated with decay, as if it had endured countless ages, now rotting.

The shape of the wooden house was a pentagon.

Each corner had a gray iron chain, connected to the distant mud wall.

And at the points where the iron chains connected to the five corners of the wooden house, there were several terrifying skeletons.

One skeleton was soaked from head to toe, severely rotted, wearing a tattered black robe, as if it had endured countless ages, riddled with holes.

Another had its hands placed on its abdomen, violently torn open, revealing an abdominal cavity lacking the five viscera and six bowels.

The third, unlike the first two, had a red vine coiled around its neck, tightly wound.

Both ends of the vine were gripped by the skeleton's hands, straining to pull, strangling itself to death.

The fourth and fifth skeletons were similarly strange.

At the location of the first, a wordless tombstone stood upright.

Beneath the tombstone lay the skeleton of an infant.

As for the fifth... it was a skeleton burned by fire, its appearance... Xu Qing found familiar.

Not the one he had once seen, but the one who died here in the past... the Taishi Daozi.

"Gold for digging, wood for hanging, water for drowning, fire for burning, earth for burial."

Xu Qing spoke softly, then looked toward the wooden house suspended in midair by the five iron chains.

Inside the wooden house, a faint red light cast the silhouette of a woman onto the window paper.

And through the torn parts of the window paper, one could see that she was a woman wearing a red opera robe, sitting by the window, now extending her jade-white hand outward, scattering spirit money.

Sheet after sheet of spirit money floated up, caught by the cold aura, drifting upward.

But at a certain moment, as the spirit money flew, the extended hand suddenly paused.

The opera singing also ceased at this instant.

"You... have come..."

A gentle voice, carrying some bitterness, echoed from within the wooden house.

The third senior brother's body trembled as he gazed at the silhouette reflected on the window paper.

"I have come late..."

In his murmuring, the third senior brother wanted to push open the wooden house door, but the door did not budge in the slightest.

"Just sit outside, keep me company with a few words... that would be enough..."

Inside the wooden house, the woman's voice also trembled.

The third senior brother nodded, sat outside the wooden house, gazed at the silhouette on the window paper, and the memories in his mind surged, layer upon layer, but remained forever blurred.

The affection of seven lifetimes has finally come to this life.

Yet he discovered that he only remembered the feeling, but forgot the person.

Xu Qing watched this scene, and a sigh also rose in his heart.

Xu Qing did not know the story between the third senior brother and the woman of the Ghost Cave, but he knew why the woman inside the wooden house did not truly meet the third senior brother.

Because, the her on the window paper, still retained her beauty and grace.

The her inside the wooden house was already a corpse.

This altar, this ritual, was never the Five Corpses...

It was the Six Corpses!

She herself was the sixth corpse, the Corpse of Drowning in Passion.

So they... needed some time alone.

Thus Xu Qing shifted his gaze, letting it fall upon the ground beneath the wooden house.

Others could not see it, but in Xu Qing's eyes, everything here was crystal clear, including the very bottom of the ghost cave, where that eye, trembling yet daring not to open even a slit, lay.

Back then, when that eye opened, it brought immense pressure upon Xu Qing, placing him in a life-or-death crisis; had it not been for assistance, he would likely have mutated and died.

But now, that eye, here with Xu Qing, was insignificant.

"So it comes from Huangtian."

Xu Qing spoke softly, feeling on that eye the same bloodline fluctuation as the Golden Crow Crown Prince.

Thus he raised his hand and gave a slight grasp.

In the next instant, the trembling divine spirit eye was instantly affected, continuously shrinking until it became the size of a fist, flying out and landing in Xu Qing's palm.

The golden eye trembled ever more intensely.

Xu Qing paid no heed to the divine eye in his hand; after storing it away, the alien quality within this ghost cave lost its source and instantly diminished greatly.

Even the rotting wooden house slowly began to show signs of life.

Gazing at the figure within the wooden house, then looking toward his third senior brother, Xu Qing's body slowly retreated.

He walked upward.

At the moment he was about to leave the ghost cave, Xu Qing's footsteps paused, and he turned his head to look at a section of the cave's rock wall.

There, a figure stood, trembling as it gazed upon him.

It was precisely the centipede woman who had once saved him.

Xu Qing's gaze softened; he raised his right hand and waved, and instantly a trace of immortal source scattered out, merging into the centipede woman's body, reforging her foundation.

The centipede woman's body shuddered violently; when she lifted her head again, Xu Qing's figure was already gone.

……

The wind and snow continued to dance.

Time, like falling snowflakes, drifted down piece by piece.

Xu Qing had concluded his suppression of the Eastern Wanggu Continent and no longer appeared before people lightly.

However, the rise of humanity was already inevitable; under the leadership of the Empress, all clans submitted, even those powerful clans possessing divine spirits.

Most of the divine spirits within chose concealment.

Only the Yanyue Xuantian tribe, upon the return of the Mud Fox's divine sense and after merging with its true form, became invigorated, leapt above the sun and moon, and allied with humanity.

Assisting humanity, they helped build a new era.

In this process, there still existed some who tried to resist; the entirety of Eastern Wanggu was actually like a sieve, and after the descent of the divine spirits'残面, it was infiltrated by all sides in various ways.

Some within came from the Ninth Star Ring, others from even more distant star rings.

But under the Mud Fox's intervention, everything was resolved smoothly; even if some were found to have ties with external forces of Eastern Wanggu, figures like Zhou Zhengli descended.

Thus the entire process proceeded without hindrance.

The unification of Eastern Wanggu was already a fact.

And while all these events were unfolding, Xu Qing did not reunite with old acquaintances for long; instead, in Chen Erniu's anticipation, he went with him... to arrive beneath the sealed...

Huangtian Entrance!

On the Eastern Wanggu land, Xu Qing now, aside from the Devouring Heavens Great Domain, had basically swept through everything directly or indirectly, leaving no major obstacles.

And beneath the Eastern Wanggu land, the existing Huangtian...

Had also reached the time when it needed to be resolved.

Moreover, the true body of the Eldest Senior Brother was also in Huangtian.

"I'm telling you, Xiao Aqing, although you're awesome, my Eldest Senior Brother I am also awesome in Huangtian!"

At the sealed entrance, Chen Erniu spoke arrogantly.

But as soon as his words finished, someone beside him raised a hand and slammed down hard on his head.

"You're awesome, you're awesome—why don't you just run out yourself? Popping out a clone—what kind of thing is that!"

Seventh Grandfather glared at Chen Erniu.

This time, going to Huangtian, Seventh Grandfather also came.

At this moment, he paid no heed to Chen Erniu's grievance, turned his head, and looked upon Xu Qing with a gaze full of kindness; the comfort in that gaze seemed as if this Xu Qing before him were his only disciple in this life.

"Good disciple, in Huangtian, I am more familiar; I will bring you, and it will go more smoothly.

Back then, those old fellows couldn't kill that Huangtian God Emperor, so they could only seal him...

I reckon he's still not dead, and according to my later analysis, that God Emperor should not be at the God Sovereign level, but is infinitely close to it.

Xu Qing nodded slightly and bowed respectfully.

"Thank you, Master."

"It's nothing, just as when I brought you to the Earth Palace before, this time I will also bring you to Huangtian!"

Seventh Grandfather waved his large hand, his smile growing even kinder.

Meanwhile, Chen Erniu, who seemed completely ignored beside them, felt a sour ache in his heart and hurriedly spoke up.

"Master, you're being too biased! Back then, for the Earth Palace, you brought me and Xiao Aqing together—why don't you mention me at all now!"

"Besides... this Huangtian, I'm also familiar with it—I know it better than you! Have you seen that God Emperor? Let me tell you, old man, the place where the God Emperor was sealed—I even went specially to take a look; back then I..."

Chen Erniu felt dissatisfied in his heart and started shouting, but before he could finish, Seventh Grandfather kicked him hard, sending him flying toward the entrance.

"You damned thing, since you like shouting 'old man,' from now on don't call me Master—this Imperial Heaven, you familiar with it? Then you go in first and scout the way!"

Chen Erniu screamed in agony, his body falling into the seal's entrance, while Seventh Uncle didn't even glance, smiling with narrowed eyes as he looked toward Xu Qing, grabbing Xu Qing's hand.

"Good disciple, let's go."