Chapter 537

The map jade slip given by the Captain clearly did not investigate this direction before, so the records were not very detailed, only pointing out the general idea.

But it also stated that this Two-Clan Alliance was not the Human Clan.

They were the Mirror Shadow Clan and the Heavenly Face Clan.

The one appearing before Xu Qing now to demand a road permit was the Mirror Shadow Clan.

This clan's body is a mirror, from the small mirror shards of the juvenile stage until they grow to be incredibly huge.

It belongs to one of the bizarre clans.

It is also a new clan that appeared after the arrival of the God's Remnant Face.

The members of this clan are hermaphroditic, their reproduction speed is extremely fast, and their talent is that they can reflect enemies into their own mirrors, thereby carrying out a certain degree of control.

There are even some who like to enslave other clans and parasitize themselves.

But to be able to do this requires stronger talent; only the nobles of this clan can do it.

And the Mirror Shadow Clan members blocking Xu Qing at this moment were just the border guards of this clan; their cultivation was mostly at the Foundation Establishment stage, similar to the cultivation of Xu Qing's current identity.

So they dared to show their malice without any concealment in front of Xu Qing, as if as long as Xu Qing could not state his identity, they would instantly rush out and behead him.

After all, the Human Clan, in their eyes, was just a lower-class clan.

Xu Qing was expressionless, looking coldly at these Mirror Shadow Clan members; he remembered the malicious looks of the other party.

After all, the Human Clan, in their eyes, was just a lower-class clan.

Xu Qing was expressionless, looking coldly at these Mirror Shadow Clan members; he remembered the malicious looks of the other party.

But now was not the time to make a move; after all, this place belonged to the other party, so after Xu Qing swept over them, he focused on looking at himself reflected on the mirror bodies.

Then he took out the Yin-Yang Huajian Sect jade slip given by the Captain and threw it over; he wanted to see how the other party would touch a physical object.

The next instant, a Mirror Shadow Clan member, the Xu Qing figure reflected in its mirror surface, actually stretched its hand out of the mirror surface.

This person's hand was the same as Xu Qing's in the mirror, but after stretching out, it turned into a piece of black gas, grabbed the jade slip, seemingly checking it.

Soon, they found the result, frowning one after another.

The malice and greed in their eyes did not dissipate much; they looked at Xu Qing repeatedly, clearly unwilling to let him leave just like that.

Xu Qing's gaze was cold, and the two sides confronted each other.

A moment later, those Mirror Shadow Clan members looked at each other and chose to restrain themselves.

Clearly, the role of the Yin-Yang Huajian Clan's tiger skin still existed, so in the end, these Mirror Shadow Clan border guards landed on the ground again, merged into the ground, and disappeared.

Xu Qing glanced at the place where they hid; the deep black soil there was as usual.

This scene made Xu Qing feel strange in his heart.

"Why do they have to merge into the ground?"

Xu Qing was puzzled; this point was not marked on the map jade slip.

So Xu Qing kept this matter in mind, took back the jade slip, and walked toward the distance, entering the land of the Two-Clan Alliance.

Although the ground here was also deep black, the dim yellow of the sky was different from the side of the Small Altar; I don't know if it was because of being close to the Heavenly Fire Sea, but the sky here was clearly much brighter.

And the earth finally had no skeleton pits.

Villages and towns appeared in his sight as Xu Qing moved forward.

Unlike the towns of the Human Clan.

The cities of the Mirror Shadow Clan were often made of fired mud, looking pitch black, like earthen forts.

Xu Qing walked all the way and saw many, all of which were like this.

Even larger cities were at most just earthen forts with more complex ranges and structures.

Looking at it as a whole, it was full of a sense of decay and roughness.

And within the Mirror Shadow Clan, everything was quiet; there was no laughter, no bustle, only mirrors walking around in the earthen forts, occasionally seen flying.

All the Mirror Shadow Clan members seemed not to like speaking too much;

they could often communicate and exchange with just one look.

Such a clan was destined to be xenophobic.

Xu Qing's appearance attracted their attention; malicious gazes kept sweeping over from all directions along the way, but Xu Qing had not yet encountered anyone taking the initiative to make a move.

And not everyone in the Mirror Shadow Clan cultivated; there were more mortals, but none of their bodies had complete mirror surfaces; all had cracks, some with seven or eight, others with countless.

The latter often had weakness and death aura permeating them.

In addition, their shapes were different; some were humanoid, some were beast-shaped, and they all looked dirty.

There were even some that were made of countless broken mirror pieces pieced together, which was very strange; at the same time, Xu Qing also discovered that there were Human Clan members within this Two-Clan Alliance.

It's just that the Human Clan here was clearly a disadvantaged group, and their numbers were not large, mostly living mixed in the cities of the Mirror Shadow Clan, with low status.

When they saw Xu Qing, their expressions were mostly numb.

Xu Qing looked at these, unable to change anything.

Although the distance from here to the Human Clan area was not very far, especially after the return of the Saint Lan Clan, it was only separated by a Si Yin Long River, but no one could resolve the curse of this domain.

In fact, the Human Clan was the same in other domains; because of the unification by the Ancient Emperor Emperor Xuanyou back then, too many domains on this Eastern Wanggu Continent were Human Clan territories, so the subsequent defeat of the Eastern Victory Human Emperor led to countless Human Clan members being cut off and unable to return.

And after generations, perhaps there were some who rose up, but more became lower-class clans.

Some of them still knew they were Human Clan, while others had slowly forgotten after tens of thousands of years, and their bloodlines were also incredibly mixed.

There were others who looked toward the direction of the Human Clan's Imperial Capital Great Domain, longing to return.

But the long distance and the intricate relationships between various domains meant that only the strong had the qualifications to return, while countless mortals did not have this ability.

They could only wait, waiting for the day when perhaps a new Human Clan Ancient Emperor would appear, unify Eastern Wanggu, and allow them to return.

Tens of thousands of years of waiting, until today, had become an increasingly faint extravagant hope for generation after generation of people.

All of this, Linger also sighed lightly.

Because the Ancient Xiang Linger Clan was also like this; they had waited for much, much longer, and still had no results.

Although the Ancient Xiang Linger Emperor seemed to still be there, the experience in the Xiang Linger Abyss made Linger doubt that Ancient Xiang Linger Emperor in her heart; she didn't know if the other party was still the Xiang Linger Emperor who once led the Ancient Xiang Linger Clan to unify Eastern Wanggu.

Xu Qing looked at these and could only leave silently, stepping from the range of the Mirror Shadow Clan into the Heavenly Face Clan.

The land where this clan was located had few plains, mainly mountain ranges.

They were also a bizarre clan, but their bodies possessed flesh and blood, only all the clan members wore a mask on their faces, or rather, the mask was their face.

As for their body shape, it was similar to the Human Clan, but taller.

The clan members were mostly over a zhang tall, and the masks on their faces were not conventional facial features, but had all kinds of patterns.

The evil on their bodies was stronger than that of the Mirror Shadow Clan; wherever Xu Qing passed, anyone who saw him was eager to make a move.

But the aura from Xu Qing made many Heavenly Face Clan members restrain their malice, although there were also those who were blind.

Xu Qing encountered several ambushes while moving along the mountain range.

The result was self-evident.

And the cities of this clan were equally tall, and there was a foul smell that made people uncomfortable.

But the members of this clan clearly inhaled the aura here all year round, so they couldn't smell it, having long since completely adapted to everything here.

Xu Qing did not see any Human Clan members here.

He just saw a restaurant in a Heavenly Face Clan city.

The shopkeepers were an old couple of the Heavenly Face Clan, the masks on their faces full of kindness, but among the bones hanging at the entrance with a lot of meat, there were human bones, as well as bones of their own clan.

Weakness

will be swallowed.

Any side is actually the same.

When in the Nanhuang Continent, the phenomenon of people eating people was not uncommon among the bottom layer.

"Chaos..."

Xu Qing sighed lightly, left here, and arrived at the destination of this trip at the border of the Heavenly Face Clan.

Heavenly Fire Sea.

What entered Xu Qing's sight was a boundless red magma, with flames rising above it, as if eternal and inextinguishable, covering his line of sight.

This area was too large; even if Xu Qing went up into the air to look, he still couldn't see the end.

The sky here was also brightly lit under the reflection of the sea of fire; as the flames soared into the sky, extreme high temperatures spread from the front.

There were also bursts of roaring echoing within the sea of fire, and from time to time, one could see bubbles bursting on the surface of the magma, splashing a large amount of earth fire, as if blooming a flower of world destruction.

After gazing for a moment, Xu Qing's body rushed out, whistling forward above the bursting of these flowers of world destruction.

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He did not intend to absorb the fire here immediately, but prepared to check the whole thing to find the most suitable place to cultivate.

After all, he didn't know if some strange phenomena would appear when he refined the Life Lamp, thereby causing unnecessary trouble and prying eyes.

And there were quite a few cultivators here.

After all, there were ways to get the fire here to the outer domains, and after a certain degree of preservation, its power was not bad; at the same time, it was also helpful for alchemy and artifact refining.

So it had the value of becoming a commodity.

There were even some cultivators who were already good at fire paths who would choose to cultivate here.

So whether they were outsiders or local cultivators, Xu Qing could see them from time to time during his flight.

Some were alone, some were in groups of three or five, and there were all kinds of clans.

And they were mostly vigilant toward each other; often when outsiders approached, they would immediately reveal their ferocity and quickly pull away the distance.

However, on the whole, Mirror Shadow Clan and Heavenly Face Clan cultivators were the majority.

And having dealt with this Heavenly Fire Sea all year round, they naturally had too many ways to avoid the heat here and improve their own resistance in this place.

At the same time, Xu Qing also discovered a special feature: there were some cultivators here holding things like compasses, and as they moved forward, they seemed to be looking for something.

Xu Qing pondered; his understanding of this Heavenly Fire Sea was not comprehensive, and this place was not suitable for asking questions, so he habitually observed.

Just like that, during this observation, Xu Qing sped through the sea of fire; although his speed was restrained, it was not slow, but even after three days, he still hadn't seen the end of the sea of fire.

"This range is too large; wanting to walk through it all would definitely take a long time..."

However, for those cultivators holding compasses, Xu Qing also saw the answer in these three days.

They were looking for a kind of white stone.

This kind of stone seemed to be something naturally formed by this sea of fire, similar to a spirit stone, but clearly of greater value, and the quantity was not very large, often hidden under the magma, requiring a compass to sense and then collect.

Xu Qing saw this from afar.

But the other party was incredibly vigilant and revealed hostility; Xu Qing knew the limits, so he didn't get close, and after clearing his doubts, he flew away quickly and flew for several more days, until he had completely penetrated into the sea of fire and could rarely see cultivators around, Xu Qing dismissed his original thoughts.

"It's fine to try here first!"

Xu Qing pondered, looked down at the sea surface, and then raised his hand to disperse the protection, landing on Linger.

Linger knew Xu Qing was going to cultivate, so he obediently didn't disturb him, just transmitted a sentence in a crisp voice.

"Brother Xu Qing, you must succeed; my talent can now also show some things, and I can help Brother Xu Qing feel whether there are bad people around!"

Xu Qing smiled; in this strange heaven and earth, everything he saw these days was dark, but with Linger's company, there was no sense of loneliness.

So after nodding, Xu Qing set everything up, his eyes revealing anticipation, and he headed straight for the sea surface below.

Falling instantly, flames rose around him, and the purple crystal within Xu Qing's body vibrated actively.

As Xu Qing opened his mouth to inhale, the surrounding flames rushed straight into his mouth; after Xu Qing swallowed them, he thought for a moment and raised his hand to touch the magma surface.

The temperature was very high.

But his hand was fine.

"My body should be able to withstand it." Thinking of this, Xu Qing sank directly into the magma.

After most of his body was submerged, Xu Qing took a breath; he felt the extreme high temperature wrapping around him, and that burning sensation formed a stinging pain.

"Can't go any deeper."

Xu Qing pondered, while being vigilant of the four directions, while opening his mouth to continue inhaling the surrounding flames.

Soon, the purple crystal within his body shone with six rays of light under this continuous absorption, completely illuminating Xu Qing's sea of consciousness.

Under this light, the Life Mist became less blurry, and the five Life Lamps within it became increasingly clear.

Xu Qing's heart was full of anticipation; although he couldn't control the direction of the light formed by the purple crystal, as long as it was reflected from the sea of consciousness into the Life Mist, the first one to be illuminated would inevitably be the Big Black Umbrella Life Lamp.

This Life Lamp, which he had obtained from the Mermaid Island temple back then, now showed signs of melting again under the entry of these six rays of light.

A tip formed by the umbrella bone was no longer sharp, gradually becoming round, slowly becoming irregular, until it finally turned into a drop of liquid and dripped down.

This drop of liquid hit the sea of consciousness like a thunderclap roaring in Xu Qing's heart.

As his body trembled, wisps of wonderful substances from the Life Lamp scattered in his sea of consciousness and merged into his bloodline.

Everything was exactly the same as what Xu Qing had verified before.

Xu Qing's eyes revealed sharp light, he took a deep breath, inhaled more flames, formed six purple lights again, and continued to refine.

An hour later, the second drop of liquid dripped from the Big Black Umbrella Life Lamp, and in this process, the Nascent Soul formed by the Life Lamp also

materialized, and as the Life Lamp melted, it began to blur.

Xu Qing immediately stopped and observed carefully.

Until he was sure that his Nascent Soul was not damaged, but had merged with the Life Lamp as it melted, Xu Qing breathed a sigh of relief and continued.

Just like that, three days passed.

Under the sufficient flames, as Xu Qing continuously melted the Life Lamp, his Big Black Umbrella was gradually melted by thirty percent.

At this moment, it no longer looked like a Life Lamp, but had become a broken umbrella.

And the concentration of the wonderful substances that made up the Life Lamp in his bloodline also increased accordingly.

Xu Qing had a strong feeling that when this concentration reached a certain level, he would likely be able to shape a Life Lamp that belonged entirely to himself.

Thinking of this, Xu Qing's breathing became slightly rapid, but he still restrained himself from continuing to absorb the flames, got up and flew away quickly to continue moving forward for a day, changed positions, sank into the magma again, and absorbed again.

Being in a strange environment, the vigilance and caution in Xu Qing's personality seemed to have returned to when he first entered the Seven Blood Eyes.

He knew he couldn't stay in one place for too long; otherwise, the degree of danger would also increase.

After changing positions this time, Xu Qing first checked the four directions to ensure there was no trouble here.

"It's a pity that this sea of fire is not suitable for setting up formations; otherwise, it would be much simpler."

Xu Qing muttered, and after thinking for a moment, his body slowly blurred, turning into the semi-transparent state of the Gui You Clan.

Using this method to hide himself, he then absorbed the surrounding flames.

The black umbrella Life Lamp, which was already out of shape, continued to melt under the continuous illumination of the light from the purple crystal, but the closer it got to the end, the slower the melting of the Life Lamp became.

Especially the position of the lamp base, which was even more so.

So three days later, when Xu Qing changed positions again, the melting of the Life Lamp had just reached fifty percent.

"It doesn't matter, there is enough time!"

Xu Qing was not in a hurry, continuing to maintain his own rhythm, not staying in any place for more than three days, changing positions time and time again,

absorbing time and time again.

Just like that, his Big Black Umbrella Life Lamp gradually went from fifty percent melted to sixty percent, seventy percent, eighty percent...

During this period, some red crystals also formed on his body; every time one formed, he immediately took it away.

Xu Qing was not sure what this object was, but exposing it to the outside was ultimately not good.

And this caution of his was not useless.

"Superior Heavenly Fire Crystal!!"

On the Heavenly Fire Sea, a small team composed of Mirror Shadow Clan cultivators was speeding forward in mid-air.

They were different from the clan members Xu Qing saw in the Mirror Shadow Clan; their bodies were not mirror bodies but possessed physical bodies, but their appearances were inconsistent, with physical bodies coming from various clans.

And on the center of each person's brow grew a diamond-shaped mirror shard, red in color, without any cracks, and without any dirt, looking incredibly transparent.

They were the descendants of the nobles within the Mirror Shadow Clan; their bloodlines far exceeded those of ordinary clan members, and they had all enslaved other clans to become their own puppet bodies.

The person leading them was a Mirror Shadow cultivator with three pairs of wings on his back; he was covered in pitch-black scales and held a compass in his right hand, on which a location was marked, shining with brilliant red light.

"Good luck today, actually detecting a Superior Heavenly Fire Crystal!"

"This kind of Superior Heavenly Fire Crystal is mostly hidden in the deep seabed; occasionally a few will surge out with the bursting of magma flowers, but the quantity is not large."

"Let's go quickly; if we go late and it's found by other parties, there will be another slaughter."

These Mirror Shadow Clan cultivators spoke in low voices, their expressions carrying excitement as they accelerated forward.

But the next instant, their expressions changed; the red dot on the compass in the leader's hand disappeared directly.

"Damn it, someone took it!"

"Let's continue over and see who snatched this crystal!"

Similar things did not only happen to them; at this moment, there were other cultivators on another sea surface, each having their own surveys, and some even noticed it was not just once.

"It appears once every two or three days, and every time it appears, it disappears instantly."

"How did that cultivator who obtained the Heavenly Fire Crystal manage to find and take it away so quickly?"

Further away, cultivators from the Heavenly Face Clan also used compasses to notice this scene; and although outsiders didn't know the significance of the Superior Heavenly Fire Crystal, those who had been here for many years knew its value too well.

"This kind of sacrificial object appearing one after another in a short period of time must have a reason!"

"Go and invite the National Teacher; his compass can locate more accurately and even penetrate the fire-insulation box to a certain degree!"

While the outside world was surging, Xu Qing was wholeheartedly melting the Life Lamp in his body, and at this moment, his black umbrella Life Lamp had already melted to ninety percent, only a little bit away from complete dissolution.

"One day at most!"

Xu Qing's eyes revealed strange light, and he looked around; although he didn't know about the waves in the outside world, the Canglong had sent warnings many times these days, which made Xu Qing's vigilance even deeper.

So he looked down at the magma that had submerged to his chest, gritted his teeth, sent Linger into his Canglong Heavenly Palace, and then his body sank fiercely into the magma.

In an instant, the magma covered him, and everything around was as usual.

Xu Qing's aura was also wiped away by the magma.

But he couldn't sink too deep, at most half a zhang deep; amidst the indescribable scorching heat that permeated his whole body, Xu Qing gritted his teeth and sped through the magma.

In this way, he completely dispersed his own aura and traces.

Until he was far away from his previous position, and after he reached his limit, he sat cross-legged again, absorbing with his whole body.

The next instant, infinite flames poured into Xu Qing's body, the purple crystal vibrated slightly, and emitted more rays of light.

Just like that, time passed slowly.

Ten hours flashed by, and the black umbrella Life Lamp emitted a sound of shattering; the last bit of residue finally turned into a drop of turbid liquid and dripped into Xu Qing's sea of consciousness.

With a thud, the water drop burst, and the lingering sound

was continuous.

The black umbrella Life Lamp, taking nearly a month, was completely dissolved.

The lingering sound echoed like wind blowing on the water surface, raising infinite ripples, and then blowing to the firmament, bringing rolling thunder, erupting with a rumble.

At this instant, Xu Qing's body trembled violently and uncontrollably; in the magma, his eyes opened fiercely, fearless of the heat, and a cloud of mist rapidly permeated his eyes, twisting and changing, making him immune to the magma's invasion.

And at this moment, within his bloodline, the concentration of the mysterious substances that made up the Life Lamp had reached the extreme.

As the thunder continued to roar and the magma around Xu Qing churned, a huge vortex, centered on Xu Qing, appeared on the fire sea.

The eight directions twisted; the rotation speed of this vortex was clearly extremely fast, but in the fire sea area a thousand zhang away, it seemed as if it hadn't been noticed, not being pulled in the slightest, and everything was as usual.

Only within a thousand zhang, time seemed to be different.

In the extreme rotation of the vortex, Xu Qing sat cross-legged inside, light flickering on his body, and an aura of life leaping forward was forming and erupting on his body.

And a bigger storm happened in Xu Qing's sea of consciousness, at the place where the big black umbrella Life Lamp had disappeared.

Strands of purple silk threads emerged from Xu Qing's body and gathered there.

Under this continuous integration, a new Life Lamp was forming.

This Life Lamp was entirely sourced from Xu Qing's bloodline and was unique in this world!

Any Ancient Emperor, any Overlord, their Life Lamp shapes were all like this.

And throughout the ages, after the arrival of the God's Remnant Face, those who could still achieve the Overlord status were few and far between, rare to see, looking across the entire Eastern Wanggu Continent.

Therefore, the appearance of a new Life Lamp was also like this.

But at this moment, such a Life Lamp that had never appeared in the world was being born!

First to appear was a purple circular jade plate, standing tilted, with twelve hour scales appearing around it, each scale having a large number of runes, making this purple jade plate look extremely complex and full of mystery.

And in the very center position, at this moment, under the gathering of Xu Qing's purple silk threads, a gnomon needle gradually formed, standing upright on it!!

There was even a ball of lamp fire, centered on the gnomon needle, floating up and circling around.

Looking closely at this lamp fire, one could see that the one sitting cross-legged inside was none other than Xu Qing's Nascent Soul!

The light he emitted fell on the gnomon needle, forming a shadow like a pointer with the circular plate, moving slowly!

This... is a sundial!

Xu Qing's Life Lamp!

Purple jade as the plate, green gold as the needle.

Lamp fire circles the sky, time becomes a shadow.

It is precisely the movement of the sundial pushing time, light and shadow are eternal, competing with heaven for time, with no day to replace!

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