Chapter 27: My Dark Underworld Void

Xu Qing's gaze narrowed as he looked at the shadow on the ground. Under his gaze, the shadow trembled a few times, carefully conveying emotional fluctuations.

"Fire... Boom, boom, boom..."

Xu Qing was silent. He missed the Jin Gang Sect ancestor a little; the emotional fluctuations of the shadow here could sometimes be understood, but more often, it was difficult to know the meaning accurately.

And the two words "Divine Fire" were too sensitive. According to Xu Qing's understanding in the Festival Moon Domain, it was a necessary path to become a god; only by igniting the divine fire could one be considered a god.

Like the Red Mother, like the God Child, they all walked this path, but the former succeeded, while the latter's divine fire was not completely ignited in the end, and it burned itself.

So after hearing the words "Divine Fire" from the shadow, Xu Qing's heart fluctuated.

"Can you form divine fire?" Xu Qing asked.

The shadow first nodded and then shook its head, and finally it became anxious itself, "Boom, boom, boom..."

Xu Qing frowned and pondered. After that, he arranged the surroundings and took out a piece of the Red Mother's flesh and feather!

Looking at the feather, the shadow was excited and rolled on the ground, as if turning the floor tiles of the pavilion into a black mud pool.

After noticing the shadow's emotions, Xu Qing waved his hand and threw the feather out. Before it landed, the shadow couldn't wait to rise from the ground, opened its big mouth, and swallowed the feather in an instant.

Its body was a black hole that could swallow everything. In the blink of an eye, the feather disappeared without a trace, and the shadow also expanded outward continuously at this moment!

Xu Qing watched the entire process until, half an hour later, the shadow's fluctuations gradually decreased, finally stabilizing as it retracted from all directions back to beneath Xu Qing's feet.

Inside, it conveyed the shadow's incomparable desire!

"Delicious..."

"Want more..."

Xu Qing's eyes revealed contemplation. After checking the rest of the Red Mother's flesh, he took out a piece the size of a fist, enduring the heartache!

Such a large piece immediately made the shadow excited to the extreme. It formed shadow thorns from the ground, constantly rising and falling, and all the eyes in it revealed excitement, and there was a big mouth opened, emitting the sound of swallowing saliva.

In order to swallow this piece of meat, the shadow even formed a shadow tail and swayed on the ground, as if meeting a puppy!

I don't know if this was the effect of the knowledge seen in the consciousness of the person it once possessed, or if it had it itself.

Xu Qing glanced at the swaying shadow tail on the ground and threw the flesh in his hand to the shadow!

In an instant, all the shadow thorns rushed toward the flesh, shrouded it in an instant, and the sound of swallowing echoed.

The shadow's fluctuations were even more boiling than before, erupting, but clearly, such a large piece was somewhat unbearable for it, so its body became unstable.

Until with a bang, the shadow's body collapsed directly, like an inkstone falling to the ground, splitting into hundreds of pieces.

The Red Mother's flesh that was dropped also fell out of its body, but in the blink of an eye, the shadow that had shattered into hundreds of pieces gathered toward the flesh from all directions like hundreds of hungry wild dogs, shrouded it again, continued to swallow, and continued to collapse!

Just like that, repeating the cycle, the shadow's persistence was vividly displayed at this moment!

Until the sky was slightly bright in the distance, after experiencing a night, the shadow finally swallowed that piece of flesh bit by bit, and its body was barely maintained and no longer shattered!

And it was still not satisfied. At this moment, while maintaining its body, it tried hard to convey emotional fluctuations to Xu Qing.

"Master... good... want..."

"Swallowed a whole piece and there's no change. What's the use of you!" Xu Qing said coldly!

He felt that there was a certain possibility that the shadow could change but was deliberately suppressing it. This guess made Xu Qing unhappy in his heart!

So he was about to trigger the purple crystal to see if he could smash the things the shadow had swallowed out, while also intimidating it!

Noticing the purple light appearing on Xu Qing, the shadow trembled and quickly conveyed the emotion of begging for mercy!

"Don't... don't eat... forbidden zone... can!"

Xu Qing ignored it and suppressed it directly. In an instant, purple light scattered from Xu Qing's body and

Xu Qing raised his hand to grab it from the air. The shadow trembled, watching eagerly as Xu Qing took away its food. It was clearly anxious, circling Xu Qing at high speed to form a black vortex.

"Swallow... swallow..."

"Boom, boom, boom." "I... am powerful... and useful..."

The shadow hurriedly expressed its usefulness. Xu Qing looked on with cold eyes! He did not need extra flesh and blood.

"No... Chu District... can."

The shadow cautiously conveyed its emotions!

Xu Qing did not continue to speak. He recalled that the shadow's previous instances of climbing were all related to anomalous substances, and here, apart from the flesh and blood, there were quite a few in any forbidden zone!

Thus, out of the need for the shadow's promotion and his speculation about the two words "God Fire" it mentioned, Xu Qing's body vanished from the attic in an instant, appearing outside the capital city.

His figure did not pause in the slightest; after appearing, he took a step forward. The earth beneath his feet seemed to shrink, and every step he took covered a vast area.

Rules and laws can already be initially manifested in a Spirit Repository cultivator. Just like this, an hour later, Xu Qing left the capital district and appeared in a neighboring state.

This state was named Spirit Soil, the smallest state within Fenghai County, so named because of the many Spirit Soil forbidden zones within it.

This "spirit" did not mean spiritual energy, but rather the undead!

That Chu District was a paradise for the undead and ghosts. Ordinary people were fine at the edges, but if they entered the depths, it was a life-and-death situation. Only those who had reached the Nascent Soul realm, combined with a certain amount of luck, had a possibility of survival!

It was also the only path for the Ghost Workshop boats. When Xu Qing arrived here, he saw a ghost boat. Although it was still daytime, black clouds filled the forbidden zone in the distance, the sky gradually turned pitch black, and mist churned to shroud the firmament, causing the light to diminish and a cold, eerie feeling to spread in all directions!

A dilapidated, massive ghost boat was moving forward in the sky within that mist!

Gazing at this ghost boat, Xu Qing's expression remained as usual!

He was no longer the cultivator he was back then, nor did he have the same status. As the County Governor, he had the power of luck he could mobilize within this Fenghai County, and he did not have much curiosity to explore this ghost boat he had once sat on.

And that ghost boat also showed respect to Xu Qing. Upon detecting Xu Qing's figure, the mist of the ghost boat solidified. A large number of ghost shadows rose and floated outside the boat, bowing toward Xu Qing.

Xu Qing nodded, passed by it, and headed toward the Spirit Soil forbidden zone.

After his figure moved away, the mist in the sky churned again, and the ghost boat continued forward, soon disappearing, and the sky brightened once more.

An incense stick of time later, as Xu Qing moved forward, the Spirit Soil forbidden zone came into view. There were a total of thirteen Spirit Soil forbidden zones in the entire state!

Each one had a very ancient history.

According to records, they were formed in the era of the Eastern Wanggu Human Emperor.

Originally, it was a forbidden land of spirit soil, but in later generations, changes occurred. Overnight, the forbidden land collapsed and turned into one of the thirteen, becoming a forbidden zone. As for the reason, it was not recorded in any classic, but based on clues, some analyzed that a divine war might have occurred here, but the truth had already been buried in history.

At this moment, the forbidden zone appearing before Xu Qing was about the same size as the forbidden zone at the scavenger camp in Nanhuangzhou.

Looking from afar, this was a black forest. Most things inside were black, exuding a sense of decay, and there was even dense anomalous substance spreading within, forming a black mist that shrouded it. Above the forbidden zone, roars that could be perceived by the soul echoed in the depths of the forbidden zone at all times.

Even when close, one could see with the naked eye some skeleton figures wandering in the forest, and various ghosts also appeared within.

For example, as Xu Qing stood outside the forbidden zone, he clearly saw an old woman standing inside!

This old woman was wearing a burial shroud, her face pale, and she was smiling at Xu Qing. Her smile was wide, revealing black teeth, and a thick corpse stench spread from her body, permeating the surroundings!

Xu Qing's expression remained as usual. Regarding ghosts, he had seen too many on his journey to this day; there was nothing unusual about it.

These were just food for the shadow!

"I will only give you one chance. If you still cannot be promoted, then I won't need you anymore!"

Xu Qing spoke calmly. The shadow beneath his feet shivered, and after conveying a firm emotional fluctuation, it immediately spread toward the forbidden zone along Xu Qing's feet.

And the moment the shadow appeared, the old woman who had been staring at Xu Qing and smiling had her expression change drastically, as if she had seen a natural predator. She turned around rapidly, intending to flee.

But she was too slow. The shadow's spreading speed was faster. In the blink of an eye, it rushed into the forbidden zone and covered her figure. After that, the old woman instantly melted and disappeared into the shadow!

And the shadow did not pause. While emitting chewing sounds, it spread toward all directions with all its might. Xu Qing did not follow; he stood outside the forbidden zone, sensing the shadow's actions through the connection with it.

Gradually, his expression slowly turned into surprise, and finally, his mind was shaken!

"What is it doing?" In Xu Qing's perception, this time the shadow's spreading range completely exceeded the past and reached an unimaginable degree.

It actually spread across the entire forbidden zone, and the moment the forbidden zone was covered by it, this entire forbidden zone appeared before Xu Qing, gradually blurring, as if it were being swallowed.

Xu Qing soon confirmed that this forbidden zone was not "as if" being swallowed, but was truly being swallowed. It became increasingly faint and blurry, and the edges had completely disappeared.

Until a day later, Xu Qing looked at the front in shock; it had become empty!

The forest zone had disappeared. From then on, there were no longer thirteen forbidden zones in Spirit Soil State, but one was permanently gone; it had been swallowed by the shadow.

And on that vast earth, the soil was gray, without any signs of life or the aura of death. That grayness was like the background color of the world!

Above this background color was a mass of black shadow constantly wriggling, and bursts of murmurs like those of a god were emanating from within the black shadow, echoing between heaven and earth.

"Three origins nurture, nine Qi spread and transform, five dusts shape the organs, seven stars make the end. All living souls depart, three feet above the head, starlight shines brightly, I am the Dark Underworld Void!"