Chapter 511: Heavenly Mandate Dao Infant Realm

The Captain was conflicted.

Xu Qing frowned.

They had tried when they retreated before; the area of the nine phoenix palaces within the flesh city wall was full of strange power. Approaching made them reappear, while moving away made them decay. The changes there were determined by the arrivals.

But if the distance was too close, unpredictable things would happen, causing people to fall into a distorted state, and time would pass without them knowing. "Little A-Qing, do you remember you said you felt it looked familiar? Was it very strong?"

The Captain suddenly spoke.

"Very strong." Xu Qing nodded.

"In that case, do you think it's possible that we have explored this place too many times in these three days?"

"And although I also felt it looked familiar, it was very slight. So is it possible that every exploration was you going in? So your familiarity is stronger than mine?" The Captain looked at Xu Qing. Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and spoke softly.

"If that's really the case, and just now we didn't receive the command sword message and didn't notice the passage of time, then according to the subsequent development, I would ask you, Senior Brother, to help me. I might use the protection of the severed hand, merge myself into it, and let you throw the severed hand in."

"In that case, it is highly probable that I can pass through the restrictions, and after I walk out from the severed hand within the flesh city wall, I can explore the phoenix palaces."

After Xu Qing finished speaking, he looked at the severed hand, wanting to find evidence on it, but the severed hand possessed the ability to recover. Looking at it now, it didn't seem to have changed much.

However, in the subtle details, one could still see some newly grown flesh marks. This discovery made the eyes of both of them sharpen.

The Captain's eyes revealed a dark light.

"So, you have indeed explored many times, but you clearly don't remember what you saw inside... Little Junior Brother, think carefully again and see if you can recall it."

Xu Qing pondered and recalled carefully, but there were no flaws in his memory. Everything connected seamlessly, and he couldn't find any loopholes.

Xu Qing frowned. This was indeed similar to the Ding Yisaner he had experienced initially, but there were also differences. Ding Yisaner had two layers of phenomena, one outer and one inner.

Due to the influence of the power of luck, that place was in a state of relative balance, which made what normal people saw the outer appearance. However, the inner truth existed at all times and was right in front of them, but most people couldn't see it. Yet its influence still existed, which was why the successive guards died of bad luck outside.

And once someone woke up due to various accidents and saw the truth beneath the outer appearance, their cognition would be changed when they left, and they would forget everything.

The Captain's eyes sharpened.

Xu Qing raised his right hand, and as Ding Yisaner vibrated, the stone lion and the head were both taken out. After they landed on the ground, the head learned to be smart this time and hurriedly put on a flattering expression, speaking loudly.

"Greetings to my respected, great, supreme Guardian Lord!"

The stone lion had no head and couldn't speak, but its tail wagged rapidly, prostrating on the ground. The Captain had seen the head, but hadn't seen the stone lion. Seeing it now, he showed interest and looked at it for a few times.

"Little Junior Brother, these are all your friends, right? I saw that head before and thought it was a bit interesting. And this lion, it looks quite good. I smell the scent of a cloud beast on it. Besides..." "These two friends of yours are very strange. Not only do they possess luck, but they have also been cursed. These two forces seem to have reached a balance."

"Being able to reach a balance with luck shows that this curse probably comes from a god... Little Junior Brother, have you heard the phrase 'acting as a tiger's accomplice'? That 'accomplice' means a ghost. Legend has it that people bitten to death by a tiger will turn into a special kind of ghost, circling around it. These two friends of yours are accomplices!"

The Captain smiled but didn't smile.

The stone lion trembled upon hearing this, and the head's eyes widened, looking at the Captain rapidly. In its heart, it was shocked and suspicious. This was the second time they had encountered someone who could spot the abnormality at a glance. The first was Xu Qing, and the second was the person in front of them.

"He calls Xu the Demon Lord 'Little Junior Brother'. They are from the same sect. Sure enough, those who are close to the Demon Lord are all monsters!" The head was terrified. It had been summoned by Xu Qing before and was crushed immediately. After recovering, it was instantly taken back.

At that time, its attention was all on that terrifying existence, so it hadn't looked at this second person carefully. At this moment, it couldn't help but activate its ability to take a careful look.

After this look, the head suddenly screamed, and its eyes burst instantly.

"Mouths, countless mouths, iron chains, iron chains from the Nine Nether... seals, endless seals, Heavens, what is this I am seeing? God remains, countless god remains!"

The head exploded with a bang. Xu Qing looked toward the Captain, and the Captain looked innocent.

The stone lion trembled even more violently.

After a long while, the head revived again, shivering and lowering its head rapidly, incomparably obedient, full of flattery, not daring to look, with extreme wailing echoing in its heart.

It remembered the third person it saw when it was summoned by Xu Qing before.

Although Xu Qing took him back quickly, it had trembled for a long time inside Ding Yisaner, because it felt that the third person was too terrifying, so terrifying that it didn't dare to activate its ability.

"These are three great terrors!"

Xu Qing was also curious. Even though he knew the Captain had many secrets, the head's reaction was too intense. However, he also knew that now was not the time to ask, so he looked coldly at the head and spoke indifferently.

"You two, go and get that small purple bottle for me. If you perform well, I will reduce your sentences at my discretion."

"Great Guardian Lord, actually, reducing the sentence or not is not important, as long as I can..." The head spoke hurriedly, but before it could finish.

The stone lion on the side had already raised its two front paws, stepped hard on the ground, and turned to rush...

Seeing this, the head became anxious, rolled over hurriedly, and even flew to land on the stone lion's neck, heading straight for the decaying place shrouded by the flesh city wall.

Watching Xu Qing observe closely, the Captain also narrowed his eyes.

"Can they do it?"

"They are both prisoners of Ding Yisaner. Having been immersed in Ding Yisaner for a long time, they should be able to."

Xu Qing explained the principle of Ding Yisaner, and the Captain's eyes revealed brilliance.

"There is such a magical place in the Prison Division!"

After saying this, the Captain saw Xu Qing's expression reveal a touch of gloom, knowing he was thinking of his life in the Prison Division, thinking of the Palace Master, thinking of the peace he once had. So he sighed in his heart, patted Xu Qing's shoulder, and then pointed to the distance.

"It really works!"

Xu Qing raised his head to look. At this moment, the stone lion, carrying the head, approached the flesh city

wall in a rapid run. With a leap, it jumped up. It seemed that because their existence was special, the restriction power here had no effect on them.

Xu Qing saw with his own eyes the stone lion leaping into the flesh city wall, circling inside continuously, as if searching. But even though the small purple bottle was not far from them, they just couldn't find it.

Xu Qing frowned.

But soon things improved. It seemed to be the head's idea. They separated, then crashed into each other hard. After each shattered and fell to the ground.

Soon, they revived again, running forward with high spirits for a distance, then crashed and died again. In this repetitive cycle, they actually gradually approached the small purple bottle.

"These two things are quite smart. They are using the moment of death and revival to utilize the fusion of luck and curse in their bodies to probe the surroundings."

The Captain laughed.

Xu Qing nodded.

Under their witness, the stone lion and the head died more than ten times, and they finally arrived at the small purple bottle. The head didn't hesitate at all, opened its mouth to bite the bottle, and returned rapidly with the stone lion.

And as they left, the half-statue existing in the decaying area became blurred, until it turned into fly ash and dissipated.

Then the surrounding flesh city walls rushed up and covered that place completely.

In this process, the stone lion and the head also ran back frantically, until they returned to Xu Qing's side. The head released the small purple bottle hanging in its mouth and was about to continue to flatter, but Xu Qing waved his right hand and had already taken them back.

The Captain squatted down and picked up the small purple bottle. The moment he touched it, his body trembled visibly. When Xu Qing focused his attention, the Captain recovered, his expression full of incredulity, and he gasped.

"This is... the Bottle of Time!"

After saying this, the Captain instinctively looked around rapidly, then grabbed Xu Qing and left rapidly.

Xu Qing's heart was full of questions, but seeing the Captain's solemnity, he held back and didn't speak. Until they had completely left this place and were in a relatively safe area, the two squatted in the severed hand. The Captain's breathing was heavy, and his eyes revealed a strong light.

"Senior Brother, what is the Bottle of Time?" Xu Qing asked.

The Captain shushed, checked the four directions again, confirmed it was safe, and then set up some seals to shroud this place. He was incomparably excited and spoke immediately.

"Little A-Qing, we made a huge profit this time!!"

"The Bottle of Time... I have seen descriptions in some ancient books. This was an object that only the Royal Family could use in the era of the Xuanyou Ancient Emperor. The quantity is extremely small. Any one that comes out will attract the focus of the Royal Family. Those who are not of the Royal Family who hide it will be exterminated, it is a great crime."

"But it is said that when the Xuanyou Ancient Emperor took the Royal Family and a portion of the human race away from this world, they took all the Bottles of Time. How can there still be one here!"

Seeing Xu Qing's confusion, the Captain spoke in a low voice. "The origin of the Bottle of Time is mysterious. Throughout the ages, not many people have known its true origin. However, the Ancient Emperors who unified the Wanggu world in successive generations would all collect them."

"Legend, and it is only a legend, says that the Bottle of Time contains the huge secret of the formation of the Wanggu world. Others say that it contains the method for the Ancient Emperor Sovereign to break through their own shackles."

"Others say that the Bottle of Time contains a supreme inheritance."

"There are all kinds of sayings, and the number of Bottles of Time is one per epoch, which will be born on its own."

"In short, it is mysterious and unpredictable, and is regarded as the exclusive property of the Royal Family."

"However, for countless years, it seems that no one has truly cracked the secret within. But this bottle can intercept time on its own, and at the same time, it has the effect of a container, keeping items from decaying."

"Little Junior Brother, I know why that area was mysterious before. It's because a period of time was intercepted by the Bottle of Time, continuously radiating outward, cycling repeatedly."

Xu Qing heard of this object for the first time and was also very surprised in his heart. Instinctively, he thought of the Wish Box and the Sound-Catching Bottle, so he asked about them.

"The Wish Box and the Sound-Catching Bottle? Actually, those two things were imitations made based on the Bottle of Time. One imitated its immortality effect, and one imitated the power to intercept time!"

After the Captain finished explaining, he shook the purple small bottle in his hand.

"There is still something inside. Listening to the sound, it is liquid!" The Captain's eyes became brighter. He smelled it and looked intoxicated.

"It's very fragrant. I don't know what it is, but it feels edible. Little Junior Brother, how about we eat it?"

The Captain looked at Xu Qing, licked his lips, and handed the bottle to Xu Qing. "You smell it."

Xu Qing took it and smelled it before his nose. A strange fragrance drilled into his nose, turning into energy flowing through his whole body. It didn't cause a reaction from the god's body, but the four life lamps in his sea of consciousness trembled violently, revealing endless desire, as if this object was extraordinary for the life lamps.

"And that twelfth Heavenly Palace that hasn't finished concretization is also shaking. Clearly, the substance inside the Bottle of Time is of great help to the concretization of the Heavenly Palace."

Xu Qing was moved.

But there was still some hesitation in his heart. After all, the liquid inside was unknown and had existed for too many years. However, regarding whether it could be eaten, Xu Qing ultimately chose to trust the Captain.

"Let's eat!" Xu Qing nodded heavily.

The Captain chuckled, took the bottle, shook it, and poured it into his mouth. Immediately, a drop of transparent but incomparably viscous liquid slid into his mouth along the bottle mouth.

There was another drop behind it. Before it fell, the Captain placed the small bottle in front of Xu Qing.

Xu Qing opened his mouth, and the next instant, the second drop of viscous liquid fell into his mouth.

The next instant, both closed their eyes and began to digest.

For Xu Qing, he only felt that in his body at this moment, it was as if it were about to explode. A heaven-shaking aura exploded from his mouth, surged into his body along his throat, then spread through his whole body, and gathered in his sea of consciousness.

The Heavenly Palace transformed by the four life lamps in his sea of consciousness trembled violently, just like the reaction when the Poison Prohibition Pill felt the divine essence before, emitting extreme desire. Clearly, they had been incomparably withered in these long years and found it extremely difficult to encounter such nourishment. After all, although they were in Xu Qing's body, blessing him, they were not formed by Xu Qing's bloodline.

At this moment, after each absorbed it, the life fire burning on them became brighter than ever before. The firelight was heaven-shaking, reflecting in all directions, and even the mist of the sea of consciousness became clear under this light.

And those four life lamps, in the surge of this firelight, also climbed a large section in aura. Vaguely, their forms changed, and it seemed that each had a small figure sitting cross-legged, forming in the lamp wick.

This scene caused a huge wave in Xu Qing's heart. He knew what that small figure was.

That was a Nascent Soul!

Although it was still virtual now and hadn't truly formed, looking at the speed of its transformation, it seemed it wasn't far off.

The fact was indeed so.

Following the continuous explosion of the ancient liquid power in the Bottle of Time, the life fire of Xu Qing's four life lamps became more intense, as if lamp oil had been dripped into them. The small figure in the lamp wick became clearer, exactly the same as Xu Qing's face.

More than ten breaths later, the Black Umbrella Life Lamp that followed Xu Qing the earliest suddenly erupted with light. After a powerful force surged within, the small figure inside turned directly from virtual to real. In the fire, it became incomparably clear, and its eyes opened abruptly, touching Xu Qing's spiritual sense across the life fire, as if looking at each other.

Xu Qing's mind shook, and his cultivation aura fluctuated, emitting a powerful force surpassing before.

At the same time, a canopy also materialized above Xu Qing's head.

Different from before, the canopy that appeared this time had a more obvious color and looked more real. Under its reflection, Xu Qing, sitting cross-legged, was truly like a young Ancient Emperor, full of majesty.

But all this hadn't ended. Soon, his Seven-Colored Wind-Singing Lamp, amidst the echoing of pleasant whistling sounds, had the small figure in its lamp wick open its eyes.

The second canopy appeared! Then, in the Nether Spirit Blood Wing Lamp, the Nascent Soul formed, and subsequently, in the Remnant Immortal Devouring God Lamp, the Nascent Soul formed again!

Xu Qing, sitting cross-legged under the four canopies, had colorful light flowing all over his body, with the black umbrella as the top, seven colors circling, blood wings in the back, and an aura of slaughter.

Combined with his handsome face, this scene, if placed in the outside world, would definitely make countless people's hearts shake, and even if they didn't know his identity, they would probably think he was a human imperial prince descending.

Four Nascent Souls appeared one after another, causing Xu Qing's cultivation to rise again and again. At this moment, the fluctuations were heaven-shaking, and terrifying power flowed in his body, erupting on his five Nascent Souls, including the Golden Crow Nascent Soul.

At the same time, a feeling that the Heavenly Tribulation was about to descend also emerged in Xu Qing's heart, but it was still a bit short. Only when this feeling became stronger could it be attracted.

And the power of the liquid in the Bottle of Time still had a trace remaining. Under Xu Qing's guidance, it headed straight for the long-awaited twelfth Heavenly Palace.

This Heavenly Palace had concretized more than half. Under its absorption, the concretization accelerated, soon reaching eighty percent, until ninety percent, and finally ninety-nine percent!

The twelfth Heavenly Palace shone with brilliant light, shaking continuously.

It only lacked a suppressing object to be completely complete! Xu Qing opened his eyes and saw the Captain looking at his canopy with some regret.

The Captain's aura had also clearly surged much more than before. Like Xu Qing, he emitted the fluctuations of a Nascent Soul, but it was hard to see how many Nascent Souls of power he had.

"Little A-Qing, the Nascent Soul born from the life lamps in your body is already close to the degree of attracting the power of the first tribulation!"

Noticing Xu Qing waking up, the Captain took a deep breath, his expression revealing some regret.

"Life lamps are supreme treasures, but it's a pity that we don't have the bloodline of the Ancient Emperor Sovereign and cannot give birth to life lamps ourselves. And external life lamps cannot be completely fused with our own bloodline, so we cannot do what those legendary Ancient Emperor Sovereign descendants do—turn the life lamps into a furnace in the Spirit Treasury realm, place them in the five secret treasuries, and continuously burn and refine everything into the foundation of our own secret treasuries."

"This is also why those great cultivators who have reached the Spirit Treasury realm are not very eager for life lamps. It's not that life lamps are not good, but that we cannot use them subsequently. Sigh."

Xu Qing was silent. Although he didn't know that life lamps could be turned into a furnace in the Spirit Treasury, he also sensed that with the improvement of cultivation, the blessing of the life lamps was about to reach its limit.

"Is there no way to make them completely fuse with our own bloodline?" Xu Qing asked.

"This is a method that everyone throughout the ages has wanted to find. Unfortunately, it cannot be done. Unless one's own cultivation reaches the realm of the Ancient Emperor Sovereign, one can reverse everything, let the bloodline form life lamps, and make the descendants' bloodlines also possess this blessing." The Captain shook his head.

Xu Qing nodded, not feeling too much regret. After all, in the Nascent Soul realm, life lamps could still bless him, and Xu Qing felt that life lamps should belong to the strongest state of manifestation in the Nascent Soul realm.

The Captain patted Xu Qing's shoulder.

"It's nothing. Let me think of a way. Maybe we can borrow power to do it. Let's not talk about this first. Master probably didn't expect us to have the fortune of this Bottle of Time, so he left in a hurry and didn't explain in detail. So, I will tell you about the Nascent Soul matter first."

"In the Nascent Soul realm, the names are different for each race. Some call it the Heavenly Mandate Realm, some call it the Dao Infant Realm, and some call it the Heavenly Mandate Nascent Soul Realm. Each name is actually decided and changed according to the previous unified Ancient Emperor."

"After the Xuanyou Ancient Emperor unified, he fixed a name, called the Heavenly Mandate Dao Infant. Actually, they all mean the same thing. The word 'Dao' was added initially to unify the cognition of all races."

"As for 'Heavenly Mandate', it is a type of Heavenly Tribulation."

Following the Captain's opening, Xu Qing combined his previous understanding of the Heavenly Mandate Dao Infant Realm, and gradually a comprehensive cognition emerged in his heart. In the human race's cognition, the Heavenly Mandate Dao Infant realm actually requires at least one Dao Infant to have experienced the baptism of the Heavenly Tribulation to be called a Heavenly Mandate Dao Infant.

It is considered truly stepping into this realm, and without experiencing the Heavenly Tribulation, no matter how many Dao Infants there are, theoretically, they are all fake infants.

In the era of the Xuanyou Ancient Emperor, it was like this, but with the disappearance of the human race's unification, the saying was also changed.

According to the cognition of different races, there were many understandings. Many races believed that even without experiencing the Heavenly Tribulation, as long as the Dao Infant appeared, it was the Nascent Soul realm.

As for this necessary pass of the Heavenly Tribulation, it was the shackle of the Nascent Soul realm itself. Every time a new infant appeared, accumulated the power to face the Heavenly Tribulation, and was baptized by the Heavenly Tribulation, it was breaking a shackle once.

The Wanggu world is too big, with many races and different physiques. Like the Near-Immortal race, whose cognition is completely different from other races, there are many, so it is difficult to have any unified cognition at this stage.

As for the method of promotion, it also has many branches according to different races, so there is strength and weakness.

But in the final analysis, it is generally divided into two categories. One is when the second Nascent Soul is born in the body, choosing to attract the Heavenly Tribulation for baptism, thereby promoting to Heavenly Mandate.

The second category, the cultivators who choose this are relatively few, which is to let all their Heavenly Palaces turn into Dao Infants, experience the Heavenly Tribulation together, and appear with heaven-turning and earth-shaking changes at once.

The latter is difficult, but once successful, the Heavenly Mandate power obtained is thicker, which is of great help to the subsequent Spirit Treasury.

And after stepping into the Heavenly Mandate Dao Infant realm, the method of promotion is also different from the Heavenly Palace Golden Core. It requires crossing the Heavenly Mandate Tribulation. All Nascent Souls have experienced it once, which is a big improvement.

There are five times in total. After experiencing them all, it is Great Perfection.

It contains danger, so it requires the Nascent Soul's own strength to improve and continuously grow to have the capital to cross the tribulation. Otherwise, once the tribulation crossing fails, the Nascent Soul will collapse irreversibly and disappear forever.

And the life lamp at this stage is indeed the most powerful manifestation, because even if the life lamp tribulation fails, it will not disappear, so it can be attempted many times after failure.

Xu Qing understood these. When he looked inside his twelfth Heavenly Palace, the Captain suddenly raised his hand and handed the Bottle of Time to Xu Qing.

"Put this object in your twelfth Heavenly Palace as a suppressing object!"

Xu Qing raised his head to look at the Captain.

"Although this thing is a treasure, I don't need it. My cultivation is to unseal."

The Captain chuckled and blinked at Xu Qing.

"Thank you, Senior Brother." Warmth rose in Xu Qing's heart. Over the years, he had long regarded the Captain and Seventh Master as his indispensable relatives.

Xu Qing's childhood experience made his personality cold, but deep in his heart, he always longed for relatives.

And here, with the Captain, the two had walked all the way, experienced so many things, and faced life and death many times. In Xu Qing's heart, he had long ago, unknowingly, filled him in the position of a brother.

At this moment, taking the Bottle of Time, Xu Qing didn't hesitate and put it into his twelfth Heavenly Palace.

The Heavenly Palace rumbled, completely complete, and unlike other Heavenly Palaces, this twelfth palace emitted bursts of time power. Vaguely, Xu Qing seemed to hear a familiar light sigh echoing from the years.

This sigh made him stunned.

That was... Purple Profound's voice.

Xu Qing was just about to probe carefully, but at that moment, a deafening roar came from the sky, and there were clicking sounds echoing. Cracks came from the distant horizon, spreading rapidly across the entire sky. The sky seemed to have turned into a spider web.

A piece of crimson intent erupted on this sky!

Xu Qing and the Captain's expressions changed simultaneously. ===== CHAPTER 512 =====

Xu Qing was just about to explore carefully, but at this moment, a deafening roar came from the sky, and there were even clicking sounds echoing. Cracks appeared from the distant horizon, rapidly spreading across the entire sky. The sky seemed to have turned into a spider web.

A crimson intent erupted on this firmament!

Xu Qing and the captain's expressions changed simultaneously.

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