Chapter 478: Not One Can Be Missing!

Thinking that it hadn't been free for long before encountering the warden... the head was incomparably grief-stricken and indignant.

If it were an ordinary warden, that would be fine; it could still bluff, since the other party didn't understand it. But facing Xu Qing, it didn't dare to bristle a single hair and could only flee with all its might.

It was truly because it had been killed by Xu Qing I don't know how many times, and it also knew how ruthless Xu Qing's methods were. Not to mention anything else, that divine power fluctuation on his body alone made it feel horrified, not to mention the shadow's devouring...

Especially since the other party woke up every day back then, and every time he woke up, he would step on it to death. After experiencing it too many times, it didn't get used to it, but instead developed a deep fear of Xu Qing.

At this moment, while trembling, its mind churned and it fled even faster, and the stone lion in front of it was the same.

Xu Qing walked out unhurriedly, looking coldly at the fleeing head and stone lion. Without the influence of Ding Yisaner, many memories about Ding Yisaner also surfaced in his mind during this period.

Especially... he thought about why he had to crush the bamboo slips every time.

Those bamboo slips he had retrieved from Ding Yisaner had long since become extraordinary; while they gathered the power of gods, they were also permeated with the forgotten fate of the past.

Mixed together, after stacking up time and time again, the essence of those bamboo slips had changed completely.

"It should be that every time I woke up, I thought of this point, wanting to use the power of Ding Yisaner to create a unique treasure."

As Xu Qing was lost in thought, the Underworld Blood Wings manifested behind him. With one flap, his speed exploded, and he crossed hundreds of feet directly, appearing beside the head.

His speed was too fast. The head only felt its eyes blur, and in the blink of an eye, it saw Xu Qing appear suddenly. It immediately screamed, and amidst the infinite explosion of fear, it saw Xu Qing's raised foot.

"Ah ah ah, not again!" The head wailed, instinctively closing its eyes. The next instant, with a bang.

Xu Qing's right foot landed, directly crushing the head. Subsequently, he looked expressionlessly at the stone lion in the distance and spoke calmly.

"Roll back here!"

The stone lion in the distance paused, trembling violently. It had the heart to continue fleeing, but it didn't dare. Remembering the experience of being burned to death countless times, it finally turned around obediently, wagging its tail like a puppy, and hopped back to Xu Qing, kneeling down with a thud.

Xu Qing swept a cold glance at this stone lion. Whether it was the memories that had already slowly surfaced or the pieced-together content carved on those broken bamboo slips, both made him understand that this stone lion was the Wind Beast of Ding Yisaner.

To be precise, the Wind Beast was a state under the suppression of luck, and its true appearance was this headless stone lion.

This was also why the head had struck a pose the first time it saw Xu Qing, asking Xu Qing to send it to the Wind Beast; it wanted to become the head of the stone lion.

At this moment, as thoughts rose in Xu Qing's heart, the flesh and meat of the head beneath his feet fused rapidly. Soon, the head recovered, and after appearing, it hurriedly spoke in a shrill voice.

"Warden, I..." Xu Qing raised his foot and landed it again.

With a bang, it shattered again.

The stone lion's body trembled, and its tail wagged even harder.

Soon, the head recovered again, wailing endlessly.

"It's over, it's over. Without the forgetting of Ding Yisaner, I..."

Bang, it shattered again.

Just like that, half an hour passed. After crushing it seventeen or eighteen times, Xu Qing left.

It was just that when he left here, this time he wasn't walking, but sitting on the headless stone lion. As for the head... it was tied to the stone lion's tail.

As the stone lion's four feet moved forward, the two hind legs kept kicking the head. The head was grief-stricken and indignant, but it didn't dare to get angry at Xu Qing, so it kept cursing the stone lion.

When the stone lion heard this, its tail shook, and its hind legs kicked even harder.

Xu Qing had originally intended to kill these prisoners of Ding Yisaner, but clearly, the prisoners of Ding Yisaner had been imprisoned with gods for a long time, and under the influence time and time again, they had already possessed some strange changes, or rather, a kind of special curse, the price of which was unknown.

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This curse made them revive quickly every time they died.

Xu Qing also remembered this point; back then in Ding Yisaner, it was just like this.

And since they couldn't be killed and couldn't be let go, Xu Qing simply brought them along.

It was just that the scene of this was very eerie.

The headless stone lion ran very fast, and the hind legs kicked very heavily. The head tied to the tail screamed and cursed, while Xu Qing sat expressionlessly on the stone lion's back, occasionally pointing out the direction, and the stone lion would fly away.

Just like that, when the sky was about to brighten, Zhaoxia Prefecture gradually entered Xu Qing's eyes.

"Zhaoxia Prefecture?" The bruised and swollen head spat out a stone it had bitten on the stone lion's leg, looked up at the direction of Zhaoxia Prefecture, blinked, and suddenly spoke.

"Boss, Boss, I report!"

"I report that old immortal of the Danqing Clan. He is in Zhaoxia Prefecture. Not only is he there, but that divine finger of our Ding Yisaner is also there!"

Xu Qing raised his eyebrows and turned to look at the head.

The head hurriedly showed a fawning expression, its tone carrying righteousness.

"These prisoners are too much, they have no sense of gratitude at all. The Prison Department treats us so well, with food and drink, and doesn't kill us, providing us with accommodation. Where can you find such a good place in this chaotic world? But they actually broke out of prison!"

"Boss, actually, I have been missing the life in the Prison Department very much while I was outside during this period. Every time I recall it, I feel emotional and miss it very much. So this upright head of mine makes me have to report!"

"Boss, actually, it was that old immortal of the Danqing Clan who led the prison break!"

Xu Qing, upon hearing this, was lost in thought, looking toward Zhaoxia Prefecture.

As the accompanying secretary of the Palace Master, he not only mastered the war reports and information of the entire Fenghai County during the previous period, but also knew the collapse of the Prison Department that day in great detail.

The collapse of the Prison Department was because the suppression power suddenly dissipated, and then the artifact spirit transformed by the divine clone of the Prison Department awakened its memories, erupting and attempting to piece itself together from its dismembered state.

Fortunately, the Palace Master was sitting in the Prison Department at that time. With his intervention and the assistance of the Sword Palace deacons and the Vice Palace Master, they finally used the power of the County Capital's taboo magic treasure to re-seal the brain and most of the body of the divine clone that hadn't completely revived.

However, during this process, because the death of the County Governor and the explosion of the Prison Department occurred at the same time, the entire County Capital was in chaos, so a large number of prisoners took the opportunity to escape, which also included a small part of the divine clone's body.

After the fact, it was counted that two fingers and one eye had disappeared. However, these body parts also paid a price when they escaped and were severely injured.

Previously, the Sword Holders' arrest operation had found one finger, and under the intervention of the two Vice Palace Masters, it was sealed and captured back.

As for the remaining one finger and one eye, there were no clues, and it was unknown where they were hiding. Actually, if the arrest time were longer, they could also be found, but the urgency of the war meant the Sword Holders didn't have this time.

Looking at it this way, if what the head said was true, then the finger of Ding Yisaner was hiding in Zhaoxia Prefecture.

As Xu Qing pondered in his heart, the head blinked rapidly, secretly happy. It felt that if Xu Qing went to find the old man Danqing, either Xu Qing would be killed and it would be free, or the old man would also be captured, so Ding Yisaner would be considered mostly reunited.

Otherwise, thinking that it had been captured while other prison mates of Ding Yisaner were free outside, it felt very unbalanced, pondering that not one of them could be missing.

Thinking of this, the head hurriedly continued to speak.

"Boss, after the Prison Department exploded that day, the old immortal of the Danqing Clan of Ding Yisaner fled with the divine finger..."

Xu Qing swept a cold glance at the head and spoke calmly. "I don't like listening to lies."

The head trembled and hurriedly changed its tone.

"It was the divine finger. It clearly had its own independent consciousness. At that time, it didn't respond to the summons of other divine bodies, but fled with the old man Danqing. The lion and I had to follow at that time."

"That... on the way, I heard the old immortal Danqing communicating with the finger. It seems the finger wanted the old man to paint a body for it."

"But it is a god, different from us, so the old man said this painting needed some special paint to be done. So they went to Zhaoxia Prefecture, wanting to find the legendary remains of the sun that fell there, using those remains as paint to paint."

The head didn't dare to hide anything this time. It knew deeply that facing this terrifying Xu Qing, it must avoid going too far, otherwise, if the other party felt it was lying, it would be the one suffering.

So at this moment, it didn't hide anything at all, telling everything it knew one by one.

Xu Qing's eyes revealed contemplation. He patted the neck of the stone lion he was sitting on. The stone lion hurriedly cast a spell, and wind rose in the surroundings, its speed increasing a lot, and it headed straight for Zhaoxia Prefecture.

As they approached, detailed information about Zhaoxia Prefecture also surfaced in his mind.

Zhaoxia Prefecture was different from other prefectures in Fenghai County.

There was no land here, only an incomparably large giant deep pit, occupying nearly ninety percent of the entire Zhaoxia Prefecture.

Such an astonishing deep pit was said to be the place where a sun fell and its remains crashed down countless years ago when the remnant face of the celestial god arrived.

Therefore, the entire Zhaoxia Prefecture looked like a bottomless abyss. This abyss was like a sea, pitch black, and one could only occasionally see some mountain peaks standing on the abyss sea.

Nearly eighty percent of these mountain peaks were submerged in the abyss sea, and the small part of the mountain tops exposed became the habitat for alien races and humans in Zhaoxia Prefecture as time passed.

The geology of the mountain peaks was special, pitch black and containing crystals, said to be formed by the high temperature released after the sun fell and burned the earth here.

It was precisely this unique landscape that made this prefecture produce a material called mica stone.

And among these many abyss sea mountain peaks, in the very center of Zhaoxia Prefecture, there existed a giant peak, called Zhaoxia Mountain, which was also the location of the Sword Court of Zhaoxia Prefecture.

Besides this, the solar wind in Zhaoxia Prefecture was more intense than in the surrounding boundary lands, and even existed all year round deep in this prefecture, never dissipating.

All of this made Zhaoxia Prefecture a prefecture that could not be teleported, and flight was affected even more. Therefore, targeting this point, a large-scale crossing boat specially for sailing the abyss sea had been developed over countless years to ferry cultivators of various races.

At the same time, because of the existence of this large-scale magic treasure, one port after another existed on the edge of Zhaoxia Prefecture.

At this moment, Xu Qing was walking toward a medium-sized port. His appearance had changed, and so had his aura. As for the stone lion and the head, they also changed their shapes obediently under his gaze.

And the appearance of the port in the distance was much the same as the buildings of the Seven Blood Eyes. After all, this abyss sea was, to some extent, no different from the sea, and they all looked the same color.

One could see straight long jetties extending from the port, deep into the pitch-black abyss sea, forming a wharf, but there were no boats docked around.

However, on the wharf, there were already quite a few cultivators waiting. Among these cultivators, there were very few humans, and the vast majority were alien races of various appearances.

The bustling sounds entered his ears as Xu Qing walked over. ===== CHAPTER 479 =====

The bustling, clamorous sounds reached his ears as Xu Qing walked over.