Chapter 1344: Only One Step Away

Looking at the light in his hand, Xu Qing recalled the scene from when he fought the divine master under the Mother River outside Eastern Wanggu.

At that time, he had borrowed the opponent's divine authority, combined it with his own constitution, and traced the origins of his divine abilities.

Among them, on the Mount Zhaoxia light, he gained perception.

He realized that the Mount Zhaoxia light was one ten-thousandth of a mysterious light worshipped by the Huangtian Divine Clan!

And this mysterious light traces back…

…to the first ray of light that appeared when Eastern Wanggu was formed.

"Now, looking at it, the Huangtian Divine Clan's worship of this Eastern Wanggu light also has its reasons, after all, their bodies have crystallized, especially the head containing light cones."

"It's just unknown whether they were originally like this, or whether they changed their form by worshipping that first ray of Eastern Wanggu light."

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, and with his right hand, he pinched.

Instantly, the light cones within his palm shattered one after another, turning into powder.

The light contained within also flowed along Xu Qing's palm into his body, merging with his Mount Zhaoxia light.

After doing this, Xu Qing raised his head, gazing into the Huangtian world, his eyes showing a strange color.

He now had even greater anticipation for this journey to Huangtian.

"The people of the Huangtian Divine Clan, when they fall, all scatter such light."

"These lights, we studied them back then and also thought them strange, but found that most do not last long; only occasionally some, which we tried to fuse with the sun rising from Eastern Wanggu, were able to be preserved."

Seventh Uncle collected the turmoil in his heart and looked at Xu Qing.

"The one you possess is just like this, preserved to this day."

"And in fact, the light left behind after the deaths of the Huangtian clansmen is only one hundred-millionth of its true source; the real source has always been worshipped by the Huangtian Divine Clan."

"At least, when we of the Thick Earth arrived, their performance was like this, and according to some investigations from back then, this clan seems……to have been born from that light."

"They call that light……the Source Light."

"Even until the final defeat of Huangtian Heaven, when it was sealed by the Thick Earth, that light was still preserved by them."

"And when we won, we too suffered greatly, so we did not wish to push the Huangtian Divine Clan to the extreme, and thus did not forcibly take it."

Seventh Uncle's voice, in this heavenly light, carried the mottled traces of history, drifting apart like dust.

Afterwards, he glanced again at the plain before him, as if severing the bonds in his heart, he lifted his foot and took a step away.

"This old man is missing his master; he has been waiting all this time, and though he finally waited until now, when he returned, he found that the one who came back was no longer that person."

Chen Erniu came to Xu Qing's side, watching Seventh Uncle's retreating back, his tone rare in carrying heaviness.

"Worldly affairs are mostly like this."

Chen Erniu sighed, not knowing what he had thought of, feeling somewhat disinterested.

Xu Qing did not speak; he thought of Chen Erniu weeping in the ruins amidst the spacetime turbulence back then.

"The master's past is no longer shrouded in mist, but the senior brother……"

Xu Qing looked at Chen Erniu, he did not go to ask what had happened to the senior brother in that spacetime turbulence.

Every person is an independent individual, and each also has their own secrets and bonds.

The master has them, Chen Erniu has them, and Xu Qing, recalling his life, also has them.

Thus, in silence, Xu Qing stepped forward, walked to Chen Erniu's side, and followed Seventh Uncle together with Chen Erniu, walking through the Huangtian realm.

As they walked, this scene seemed to return to the underground palace of that year.

Until time flowed, half an hour later, when Zhou Zhengli and the others had already, in all eight directions, pulled down temples and slain gods, causing the heterogeneities of the entire Huangtian realm to surge even more violently, Xu Qing and the two others had already arrived at their destination.

It was a boundless, endless sea!

Like a ferocious beast in rage, it was roaring.

The color of the seawater was pitch-black, emitting waves of bloody stench, as if even the passage of time and the power of the ages could not erode this place, making it difficult to dispel the sea's color and bloody odor.

Besides this, in this place, there was also a dense divine might and immortal intent, mutually repelling like water and fire, an invisible collision.

Causing ripples in heaven and earth, stirring up storms in the sea, ongoing year after year.

As for the location of Chen Erniu's true body, it was precisely on an island in this sea.

"This place is also where I previously swept with my divine sense, obscured by the brilliant light, the only place I could not see through."

Xu Qing's gaze fell upon the sea before him, lost in thought.

And Seventh Uncle's voice also echoed at this moment.

"Old Four, Old One, you two remember this place."

Seventh Uncle's expression was solemn.

"This sea is the place where my Thick Earth's first immortal fought the Huangtian Divine Emperor!"

"That battle lasted a long time, and in the end, the Divine Emperor was beheaded, his body shattered."

"The head was taken away by the Xia Xian Palace, while the body fell down and became the Black Sea."

"As for my Thick Earth's first immortal……he fell here, leaving only a remnant soul preserved, which later became the first Heavenly Dao of my Eastern Wanggu."

"It can be said, without him, there would be no later Eastern Wanggu."

Seventh Uncle said this, bowing his body toward this sea in worship.

Xu Qing and Chen Erniu likewise bowed.

With this bow by the three of them, the sea instantly roared, the waves grew greater, and the immortal intent within it, at this moment, surged violently, actually scattering rainbow light within the black sea, illuminating the heavens.

Until a long time later, the rainbow light faded.

And at the moment the rainbow light dispersed, faintly in the distance, an island emerged.

"Master, the true body of the senior brother is there."

Xu Qing's gaze fell upon that island.

Seventh Uncle, upon hearing this, glanced at it.

"You're quite good at finding places."

Chen Erniu also recovered from his previous heavy state at this moment, and upon hearing this, he was about to speak.

Seventh Master had already stepped forward.

Chen Erniu blinked, then turned his head to look at Xu Qing.

"Little Ah Qing, from now on, you will see your eldest senior brother me, no bragging!"

Xu Qing smiled, taking Chen Erniu, and stepped across the sea in one stride.

Upon appearing, he was already together with Seventh Master, appearing on that island, standing before a ruined temple.

That temple should have been immensely vast, but now it is only broken walls and ruins, the doors also shattered, so standing outside, one can see inside at a glance.

Inside the temple, beside the rubble of the collapsed deity statue, there is a large head, placed in the corner.

It is Chen Erniu's head!

Beside it is also a rat with almost no fur left, lying lazily, occasionally flicking its tail, sending some unknown dried meat from somewhere into Chen Erniu's head's mouth.

And the appearance of Xu Qing and the others actually drew the rat's attention; its eyes suddenly contracted, and in an instant it leapt up, skillfully hoisting the head in one motion, about to flee.

"Little Qing, don't run, it's me!"

Almost at the moment the rat wanted to flee, Chen Erniu outside the temple hurriedly shouted loudly.

Xu Qing raised his eyebrows.

As for the mangy rat, upon hearing this, it paused, suspiciously looking at Chen Erniu.

Chen Erniu quickly approached, his emotions excited as his body turned into a blue light, directly sinking into that head which had always kept its eyes closed.

The main body and the avatar merged.

In the next instant, the mind trembled, the closed eyes slowly opened.

Seeing this, the rat was instantly delighted.

"Where is all this meat of yours?"

Seventh Master also entered the temple at this moment, looking at the head on the ground, and sighed.

Chen Erniu coughed once, about to speak.

Suddenly, the sound of waves outside the island surged, accompanied by the heaven-splitting, earth-shaking roar, as if countless heavenly thunderbolts exploded directly.

The entire island trembled, the outside sea roared endlessly, the raised waves even more astonishing than before.

Afterwards... this boundless sea actually began to sink!

The seawater, at an astonishing speed, in this unprecedented turmoil, rapidly sank, as if being sucked away!

That is, in just a dozen breaths... the entire sea actually dried up completely!

Exposing the entire seabed, exposing the mountains.

The island where Xu Qing and the three of them were located turned out to be a mountain range, the peak of a giant mountain!

And beneath this mountain range, there actually existed a colossal, astonishing skeleton!

That skeleton had no skull, its body seemed to be pieced together.

The mountain range grew upon its body.

The seawater was also precisely sucked away by it.

Divine might surged heavenward upon its body.

It stirred endless heterogeneity, churning in the firmament.

But these are not yet the most astonishing...

The most astonishing is that on this skeleton, a layer of blue worms actually crawled all over!

These worms are densely packed, their number incalculable, and some have even burrowed into the skeleton's interior through wounds, all of them... frenziedly gnawing!

Seeing this, Seventh Master was also stunned.

Xu Qing also narrowed his eyes.

And on the ground, Chen Erniu's head leapt up at this moment, landing on Xu Qing's shoulder, laughing arrogantly.

"Old man, you weren't asking about my meat, were you? My meat is all in there."

"And Little Ah Qing, look, eldest senior brother me didn't brag, did I!"

"Give me enough time, and I will completely devour this preparing-to-resurrect Huangtian God Emperor, and then won't I just unify Huangtian!"

"This, is just missing this one step!"