Chapter 543: Bronze Coffin Beneath the Sea of Heavenly Fire!

"It won't take long for the other four to stop one after another."

Because the life lamps were spaced seven hours apart, the order in which they stopped was different.

Xu Qing felt expectant. While waiting for the passage of time for the life lamps, he ascended within the magma, reaching a depth of about one zhang. Xu Qing's eyes revealed a sharp glint.

The benefits of this magma, aside from allowing the purple crystal to emit light that could melt life lamps, included another... that was allowing the Jin Wu Refining Ten Thousand Spirits to advance.

This was Xu Qing's judgment, yet to be verified.

But he felt that since his Jin Wu Refining Ten Thousand Spirits could fuse with the remains of the sun, the sea of fire here should naturally be of help to it as well.

"The Jin Wu Refining Ten Thousand Spirits has already reached the third stage after transforming into a Nascent Soul." Xu Qing pondered, then light shone from between his brows, and the Jin Wu Nascent Soul flew out in an instant.

At first, it was in the form of a Nascent Soul, but the next moment it began to change. After becoming the Jin Wu, it circled Xu Qing, emitting shrill cries that echoed within his soul.

Then, the Jin Wu opened its mouth and took a fierce gulp toward the surrounding magma.

Instantly, a wave of intense heat surged into the Jin Wu's mouth. As it flowed in, the Jin Wu's body shuddered, its eyes narrowed, and flames surged across its entire body.

After digesting it for a moment, the Jin Wu shook its entire body, let out an even more intense cry, and kept flying around Xu Qing before diving headfirst into the magma.

Xu Qing's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately focused his attention. A moment later, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The Jin Wu had its own spirit, and its spirituality grew even denser after transforming into a Nascent Soul. Especially since it was fused with Xu Qing's heart and mind, Xu Qing could clearly feel everything the Jin Wu experienced.

At this moment, the Jin Wu was devouring continuously within the magma at a depth of about one zhang. Its aura grew increasingly fierce, and its tail feathers grew one after another. An hour later, when Xu Qing's second sundial stopped at noon, its tail feathers had grown from one hundred to one hundred and thirty.

Xu Qing felt invigorated and controlled the Jin Wu to continue devouring.

Time passed slowly.

Soon, a third life lamp stopped at high noon. Several hours later, the other two stopped one after another. After all the life lamps had stopped, Xu Qing, who was deep within the magma, felt his body shudder.

For a fleeting moment, a sense of trance appeared in his eyes.

In an instant, this trance vanished. Xu Qing's eyes revealed a strange look. He could feel that the five sundials contained a certain ability, and he only needed to move his mind to unleash it.

He wasn't very clear on what this ability was, but based on the vague intuition in his heart, he knew this would be a massive eruption of the sundial's power.

"Let's try it!" Xu Qing narrowed his eyes. His body remained still, sitting cross-legged in the magma. As his mind stirred, the five sundials in his sea of consciousness hummed instantly and manifested around him.

Looking out, the five sundials surrounded Xu Qing, clustering around him like purple petals.

While shining with brilliant light, five lamp-fire suns floated above Xu Qing's head, arranged in a pentagonal shape.

With the sundials as support and the red suns as stars, Xu Qing at this moment was incomparably dazzling, his momentum surging like a rainbow.

Furthermore, time power radiated from the five sundials, surging into Xu Qing's body, causing a mysterious aura to overflow from him. He became blurred, as if descending from within time itself.

This process lasted only for an instant before it suddenly vanished. The sundials dimmed, as if they had released everything and were struggling to sustain it, returning to Xu Qing's body along with the red suns.

The first sundial began to rotate again, continuing to keep time, while the other four remained motionless.

Xu Qing was stunned for a moment. He looked around and felt his own body, but he didn't notice any difference.

"What's going on?"

Xu Qing frowned. He recalled for a long time but still couldn't pinpoint the specific ability of the sundial's erupted power.

This left Xu Qing very puzzled, so he simply continued to wait.

Just like that, seven hours later, the second life lamp began to keep time. The subsequent life lamps also opened at seven-hour intervals, until the fifth life lamp also began to rotate, and his first life lamp stopped at noon.

"This process takes thirty-five hours, about three days." Xu Qing calculated silently.

Another twelve hours passed. As the other life lamps stopped one after another, all the life lamps returned to noon and stood completely still. That aura of impending eruption surfaced once again.

"Four days is a cycle."

"It wasn't obvious when I unleashed it before. Could it be because I was inside the magma?"

Xu Qing pondered. After glancing at the Jin Wu in the distance, whose tail feathers had reached over two hundred, he withdrew his gaze and his body flickered, flying directly out of the magma.

Standing in mid-air above the magma, Xu Qing did not hesitate. He activated the five sundials within his body simultaneously, the five lamp-fire suns circled above, and the power of the sundials erupted instantly.

In an instant, Xu Qing felt heat.

The magma surrounded him, and his body... had actually returned to inside the magma!

This scene caused Xu Qing's heart to surge with waves. He looked around in disbelief, and after careful thought, he realized a possibility.

"Could it be... time reversal?"

This guess caused Xu Qing's heart to surge endlessly. He measured the height he had been at, mimicked his previous movements, and flew out at the same speed. After reaching mid-air, seven breaths of time had passed.

"Reversed by seven breaths?"

"As for the first time, it was because I was sitting cross-legged and didn't move, so it wasn't obvious!"

Xu Qing's eyes shone with brilliance, but he still wasn't entirely certain and needed to try again.

Thus, eight days passed while he was beneath the magma, devouring with the Jin Wu.

During these eight days, he unleashed the sundial power twice, using different methods to verify it.

The first time, he unleashed it while moving at high speed, and found that his body had returned to its position from seven breaths ago.

The second time, he took out some external magic treasures and inflicted wounds upon himself. After unleashing it again, he discovered that the sundial power only affected himself.

External objects remained as they were, in their original positions, while his body was altered; the wounds vanished, and his entire state reverted to what it was seven breaths ago.

All of this gave Xu Qing a profound realization of the sundial's ability.

"It allows me to return to my state and position from seven breaths ago!"

"If used at the right moment, this ability is equivalent to a second life, and also a lethal weapon!"

Xu Qing sat for a long while, suppressing the shock in his heart, and looked inward at the purple crystal. He understood that all of this originated from this object.

"What exactly is the purple crystal..."

"It can seal shadows, seal gods, bring me astonishing recovery, and possesses the law of time..."

Xu Qing fell silent. For a long time, he buried all his questions in his heart and looked at his Jin Wu.

The Jin Wu's tail feathers had already reached over two hundred and eighty, which was the limit. Unless it could absorb fire from deeper within the magma, but that was a paradox, because the current Jin Wu could not withstand the heat at a depth of more than one zhang.

But over the past half-month, being able to grow from one hundred tail feathers to over two hundred was a tremendous nourishment for the Jin Wu. It even faintly showed signs of wanting to attract a second life tribulation.

At this point, Xu Qing's cultivation in the Sea of Heavenly Fire could be considered to have come to an end, and there was no need for him to stay here any longer.

"I'll go return the eyeball, then I must leave the eastern region and go to the Weiyang Tianniu Mountain to reunite with Senior Brother."

He had stayed in the eastern region for nearly half a year. He didn't know how Senior Brother was doing now, and he felt a sense of longing in his heart. However, before leaving, Xu Qing glanced at the depths of the Sea of Heavenly Fire's magma.

"I'll go explore the restriction that Senior Senior Duanmu mentioned..."

Xu Qing prepared to explore why the Red Moon Divine Temple had set up a restriction here. With the sundial power, Xu Qing felt that as long as he was careful, there wouldn't be any major issues.

Thinking of this, Xu Qing squeezed the eyeball.

The eyeball immediately trembled, emitting even more insulation power.

Xu Qing was satisfied. He put away the Jin Wu, took the eyeball, and headed straight for the bottom of the magma, quickly reaching a hundred zhang, then continuing to descend to two hundred zhang, three hundred zhang...

The deeper he went, the more intense the heat became. Fortunately, the eyeball was strange, and with its insulation, the heat outside could not invade.

Just like that, Xu Qing descended to a depth of over nine hundred zhang.

At this depth, besides the high temperature, there was also pressure, and the brown blood streaks on the eyeball became even denser.

Furthermore, Xu Qing also felt a familiar aura coming from further below.

It was the divine power of the Red Mother.

This discovery made Xu Qing even more cautious. As he approached carefully, a sense of crisis also spread in his heart. He did not hesitate at all, and his Purple Moon Nascent Soul erupted instantly, causing the Purple Moon power to spread throughout his body.

The next instant, the crisis from below slowly dissipated.

In the dark, through the Purple Moon power, he sensed the source of the Red Moon power below.

Xu Qing waited for a moment, then continued to approach.

Meanwhile, on the Sea of Heavenly Fire, in the sky not far from here, the Red Moon Divine Temple's giant heart was floating.

Dozens of meteorites were scattered around it, with figures sitting motionless on each one. Only within the divine temple did a figure in a red robe walk out.

This was a human woman.

Her expression was cold, her eyes filled with impatience. She walked out of the divine temple and reached the edge of the heart before looking down at the sea of fire below.

Her brows were tightly furrowed.

She was reluctant to do what was coming next, not because of cruelty, but because this kind of task would leave a mark, which would have a certain impact on her future.

However, as a divine servant, she had no right to refuse.

"I can only use the dispersion method later to eliminate the mark."

The woman sighed inwardly, took a step, and stepped directly into the magma below. After waving her hand, a red bead appeared, and after holding it in her mouth, she entered the magma.

That bead was clearly a treasure of the Red Moon Divine Temple. After swallowing it, her body was actually able to avoid the heat in this magma.

In this way, the woman's speed was extremely fast, and as she descended, her cultivation also spread out. The aura of a Spirit Repository permeated the air, but there were no heavenly laws surrounding it.

She was not a cultivator who had completely completed a secret repository, but was in the stage of nourishing the path and enlightening.

But her status as a divine servant, combined with the corresponding Red Mother's blessing, meant that within the Jiyue Great Domain, apart from the interior of the divine temple, basically no one dared to provoke her.

The price of killing a divine servant was something no ethnic group in the Jiyue Great Domain could afford.

She was able to do this because she had grown up in the divine temple since she was a child, and her family had produced people who served as divine envoys, which allowed her descendants to enjoy this blessing that was incomparably precious in the Jiyue Great Domain.

At this moment, she was speeding toward a depth of a thousand zhang in the magma, her goal clear.

And Xu Qing, also at a depth of a thousand zhang, was not far from here, approaching according to the intuition in the dark.

The two were one after another, approaching each other.

It was just that compared to Xu Qing, the woman's speed was faster, so she arrived at the designated area first.

And the isolation of divine sense beneath the magma meant that neither of them noticed the other's existence at this moment. In addition, compared to Xu Qing, their different upbringing environments determined that this divine servant's vigilance was not as good as Xu Qing's.

Therefore, as Xu Qing approached cautiously, the moment he saw the place sensed by the Purple Moon power, he also saw the red-clothed woman heading straight for it.

Xu Qing's body came to a sudden halt. He crouched down, trying to make his figure as small as possible, his eyes revealing a cold glint as he observed silently.

In the distance, beneath a depth of a thousand zhang in the magma, there was a strange, massive flat-topped mountain.

To be precise, this might not be a mountain, but more like a giant coffin standing vertically there.

The part revealed to Xu Qing's eyes was the size of a city, which showed the grandeur of this giant coffin.

It was made of bronze, covered in rust, a mixture of black, green, and blue, intertwined, making the coffin full of vicissitudes.

It was as if it had been placed here for endless years.

As for the height, Xu Qing's gaze swept over it, unable to see the end, only seeing four thick chains at the four corners of the coffin, connecting to the depths of the magma.

Besides that, the lid of the coffin was not perfectly sealed, but had a gap.

It was just that because the coffin was too massive, this gap looked like an abyss.

At this moment, the red-clothed figure descended outside the crack, floating at a height of a hundred zhang, her hands forming seals. Waves of fluctuations containing the Red Moon divine power spread in all directions as her seals formed.

They merged into the formless restriction that already existed here, causing red light to shine and a giant net to gradually manifest.

This net was exactly what the restriction here had transformed into.

Looking closely, one could see that this floating giant net was filled with runes, emitting divine might.

Xu Qing hid his tracks and observed carefully, seeing that the other party seemed to be reinforcing the restriction, although this bit of divine power was a drop in the bucket.

But soon, Xu Qing's eyes narrowed. He saw the red-clothed woman take out a red crystal the size of a human head from her body after forming the seals.

As soon as this crystal appeared, the magma all around churned, and a terrifying aura radiated from within it. Xu Qing's heart also shook.

Outsiders might not recognize it, but through his own Purple Moon induction, he immediately identified that this crystal was formed from a drop of blood that had been diluted countless times.

"Red Mother's blood?"

Xu Qing's heart raced. Although this was a drop of diluted blood, the Red Moon aura contained within it was still incomparably dense, which was a huge nourishment for Xu Qing.

As Xu Qing watched, the red-clothed woman looked at the crystal with longing in her eyes, but she forcibly restrained herself. She knew this was not something she could enjoy.

"After the Upper God arrives and harvests this domain, my family will also be able to obtain a drop of such divine blood. At that time, I might have a chance to absorb a little."

The woman muttered inwardly, then raised her hand and threw the crystal down.

The crystal did not fall into the crack, but floated outside the abyss, shattering on its own, releasing terrifying fluctuations, and merging into the surrounding restriction, making the red net that had manifested even more brilliant.

This was the true reinforcement.

And as the blood-colored net shone brilliantly and the divine might increased, the giant coffin was stimulated by this aura and trembled violently. A roar filled with pain echoed from within the coffin.

"Red Mother!!"

As this voice came out, the coffin shook even more violently. Xu Qing's heart also surged with waves. As he became even more cautious, the red-clothed woman looked down at the abyss and transmitted a divine sense.

"Shut up!"

The sound of rapid breathing echoed from within the coffin. It was clear that being humiliated by such a low-level cultivator was a great insult to the existence within the coffin.

But it was powerless to do anything.

The red-clothed woman's eyes revealed mockery. To her, humiliating such an ancient and terrifying existence brought her a strange stimulation, so she waved her hand and took out clusters of flesh and blood from her storage bag.

There were over a hundred in total, each ten zhang in size. After they spread out, the woman pointed, and a meat cluster fell into the abyss.

"Eat, this is food given to you by the Upper God. They are all citizens of the Jiyue Great Domain. Your brothers and sisters are all the same as you, and they all love to eat them."

"And to let you digest them better, we thoughtfully removed the bones."

"Enjoy."

As the flesh and blood fell into the abyss, a roar full of pain echoed from within. It seemed that the existence within the coffin was extremely repulsed, but due to some unknown reasons, it had to swallow it.

Thus, the whimpering that contained pain and near-crying, intertwined with the chewing sound, formed a miserable scene that moved anyone who heard it.

An extreme resentment radiated from within the coffin, as if it had turned into a mark, branded onto the red-clothed woman, determined to remember her firmly.

And the woman who was feeding it clearly enjoyed it. She listened to this sound, and her mood seemed to brighten. She didn't care about the mark on her body at all, and waved her hand as meat clusters fell one after another.

Xu Qing fell silent. He saw the woman's perversion and heard the extreme pain in the coffin's roar. He had some guesses about her identity.

After a long while, Xu Qing retreated silently, preparing to leave this place.

He didn't want to have friction with the Red Moon Divine Temple right now.

But just as Xu Qing was retreating, the woman who was feeding suddenly laughed.

"Watched for so long, just leaving like this?"

Xu Qing's eyes narrowed, and his body accelerated his retreat. At the same time, the red-clothed woman raised her right hand and pointed in Xu Qing's direction, manipulating the restriction power here with her divine servant authority, and said indifferently.

"Come!"

As soon as she spoke, the Red Moon restriction floating all around immediately twisted, turning into a giant red hand, and grabbed fiercely toward Xu Qing.

Xu Qing fell silent. With his own strength, he could not resist this giant hand formed by the Red Moon restriction unless he used his own authority, but if he did that, everything would be exposed.

In an instant, Xu Qing had already made a decision in his heart. A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and he said indifferently.

"Presumptuous."

As he spoke, the approaching blood-colored hand suddenly shuddered and turned around, heading straight for the red-clothed woman.

This scene clearly stunned the red-clothed woman. She formed seals rapidly, but she couldn't avoid it. With a loud boom, her body was sent tumbling backward, and she spat out blood until she took out a blood-colored token to barely resolve it.

Her expression changed rapidly, and she exclaimed in shock.

"Divine Envoy?"

After saying this, she immediately formed strange seals with both hands, bowed, and looked at Xu Qing with incomparable respect.

Xu Qing frowned. He naturally saw that this was an internal etiquette for a subordinate to see a superior, but he didn't know how to respond, so he pretended to be calm and nodded.

But the next moment, the woman's pupils shrank. She made other hand gestures again, stared at Xu Qing, and then her expression changed.

"You are not a Divine Envoy!"

"Who are you? How can you possess the power of the Upper God!"

The woman was suspicious and uncertain, and a monstrous storm surged in her heart.

This was the first time she had encountered such a thing in her life, and let alone her, even the Red Moon Divine Temple had never experienced anything similar.

This left her in disbelief.

Xu Qing's expression remained unchanged, but he was thinking in his heart. He felt that his lack of understanding of etiquette and gestures shouldn't be the reason why the other party noticed his abnormality; there must be other places where he had revealed flaws.

After all, with cultivation reaching such a level, they were naturally not fools, and it was normal to see clues.

And although he had originally intended to leave, since he had chosen to strike, even though he was wary of the other party's cultivation, he could only think of a way to kill her now.

Xu Qing's heart was filled with killing intent, and he said indifferently.

"You have overstepped."

As he spoke, he raised his right hand and pointed. Instantly, the Red Moon restriction all around roared as never before. Fluctuations came from all eight directions, and Xu Qing took over the authority instantly, forming a suppressing force that headed straight for the red-clothed woman.

The woman's face changed completely. The shock in her heart could not be controlled and appeared on her face, making her expression twist.

"He is not from the Divine Temple, I am very sure of that, but he possesses divine power!"

"The authority he masters is even more formidable!"

"What is going on!!"

The woman's body shuddered, and she attacked with all her might. A secret repository manifested behind her. Although it hadn't formed a heavenly law, its combat power was still incomparably astonishing. Combined with the blood-colored token, she barely managed to hold on.

"Such manipulation and coordination with the restriction... his authority level is higher than all the Divine Envoys!"

The woman was shocked to the extreme. In her early years, she had followed her family's ancestor and seen Divine Envoys trigger restrictions. Comparing the two now, the difference was clear.

"Impossible!"

The woman's heart was shaken, and in an instant, another thought rose in her mind.

"This matter is too big. If I report it to the Divine Temple, it will definitely be a great merit!"

Thinking of this, the woman spared no cost, even burning her secret repository. The blood-colored token in front of her also emitted extreme authority power, and she rushed out, not to hunt Xu Qing, but to leave this place.

A thousand zhang above the magma was the heart palace of the Divine Temple. As long as she flew out of the magma, she could instantly notify the Divine Temple headquarters of the information here.

But Xu Qing would not let her have her way. At this moment, he waved his hand, and the blood-colored restriction in all eight directions fluctuated again, forming seven or eight blood-colored hands in one breath, striking fiercely toward the woman.

Xu Qing knew very well that once he left this Red Moon restriction area, he would be no match for this Spirit Repository cultivator in the nourishing path stage. At the same time, if she successfully escaped, endless crises would await him.

"Must kill her!"

But how could Xu Qing let her get her wish? At this moment, with a wave of his hand, the blood-colored restrictions in the eight directions fluctuated again, forming seven or eight blood-colored hands in one breath, slapping fiercely towards the woman.

Xu Qing knew very well that once he left this place of Red Moon restrictions, he was definitely not the opponent of this Spirit Repository expert who was nourishing the path and enlightening, and at the same time, if she successfully escaped, what awaited him would be endless crisis.

"Must kill her!"