Chapter 550

Three days later, following the end of the sacrificial day, the Red Moon Temple on the sky emitted a dazzling red light and whistled away toward the distance.

The dozens of large and small meteorites around the heart accompanied it, moving forward together.

The clans in the valley and on the ground that had not yet left, wearing the same masks, all prostrated on the ground, respectfully bowing them off.

And the departure of the Temple also made them each heave a sigh of relief in their hearts; having passed this sacrificial day, they at least would not need to consider the matter of offerings for five years.

But while sighing with relief, there was actually a heaviness in the heart of every clan.

Because according to the time calculation, the day of the Red Moon's arrival had already entered a countdown.

Generally speaking, the deadline for the Red Moon's return to this domain is not fixed, but there is one characteristic that allows people to judge, which is the frequency with which the Temple harvests offerings.

When the interval becomes once every three to five years, it means the Red Moon... will appear at any time.

Thus, as this life is about to end, all kinds of evil will grow rapidly, and in the end, it will be a complete collapse, and all clans will have wars.

Every time it is like this, without exception.

"The Jiyue Great Domain is about to show signs of purgatory." On the blood-colored heart, the woman in red stood outside the Temple, looking at the ground from afar, and spoke indifferently.

Xu Qing stood by her side, looked back at the distant valley, withdrew his gaze after a long time, and lowered his head to stare at the ground beneath his feet.

During these three days, he had investigated the heart where the Temple was located; this heart was very strange, it had vitality.

It was still beating, and that thumping sound even possessed the power to shock the mind.

"Everywhere outside the Red Moon Temple is some organ." Detecting Xu Qing's gaze, the woman in red transmitted a calm voice.

"Does the Senior know whose organ this is?" Xu Qing asked.

The woman in red shook her head.

"I have also investigated before; these are not my brothers and sisters, and at the same time, these organs have traces of being refined."

"I have been sealed for too long and do not have enough understanding of the outside world; I only learned some outside information by eating these people from the Temple."

"But unfortunately, their level is too low, and they do not know whose organ this is."

Xu Qing nodded. At this moment, he had already changed into a red robe.

This was the sacrificial robe of the Red Moon Temple; his identity, besides being a disciple of the Yin-Yang Flower-Between Sect, was also endowed with the qualification of a divine slave.

"Senior, I once saw the battle between your father and the Red Moon, and there are also many legends flowing out of the Repentance Plain!" Xu Qing thought for a moment and still asked this biggest doubt in his heart.

He wanted to know the true origin of the Red Mother.

The woman in red was silent, and after a long while, she spoke indifferently.

"The Red Mother once died once; it was my father who suppressed and killed her. The grievances and hatred during that time exist!"

"When she returned again that day, she had already become a god. At that time, I heard my father say one sentence: he returned from the Wanggu boundary."

When the woman in red said this sentence, the sky suddenly produced the sound of thunder, crossing the horizon, roaring in all directions.

A huge wave rose in Xu Qing's heart; this was his first time learning about the Red Mother, so he couldn't help but speak.

"Was the Red Mother not a god before? And what is the Wanggu boundary?"

The woman in red did not answer immediately but looked up at the sky, her eyes revealing a strange color, then looked at Xu Qing, and after thinking, transmitted her words.

"Gods, some are born as gods, some are cultivated later, some come from outside the sky, and some come from the depths of the earth."

After the words were finished, the thunder in the sky rose again, shocking all directions.

Xu Qing felt the abnormality in the sky, and all around at this moment, some mist actually appeared, followed by a sudden strong wind, then heavy rain descended, and it even started to snow further away.

These changes in the world appearing at the same time made Xu Qing think of the laws of the Heavenly Dao.

"Do you still dare to continue listening?" The woman in red looked at Xu Qing meaningfully.

Xu Qing looked at the sky, felt the Canglong in his body that was slowly recovering after being shattered, recalled scene after scene, and thus nodded.

"Since you still dare to listen, very well, I will see how much you can hear." The woman in red smiled and continued to speak.

"The history existing beneath the Wanggu earth has already been erased by the ancient emperors who unified Wanggu through the ages, so very few people know it, and that place... in the ancient years, was always called Huang."

"There is a rumor that actually, the earliest clans on the Wanggu continent all walked out from there."

"Until the Ancient Emperor Xuan You named it the boundary."

The sky emitted an even more violent sound, the void all around twisted instantly, and a terrifying coercion came from heaven and earth; whether it was the sky or the mountains and rivers, they rose up at this instant.

Under this huge will, Xu Qing's face turned pale, and his heart was turned upside down. This change in heaven and earth seemed to be telling Xu Qing that these words belonged to the Wanggu taboo, and all the Heavenly Daos of the Wanggu continent did not allow this matter to be spread.

"Interesting, after hearing these words, the Heavenly Dao actually hasn't descended the power of silence and forgetting. Little doll, the Heavenly Dao is very partial to you." The woman in red's eyes revealed a strange light, carefully examining Xu Qing.

Xu Qing tried hard to make himself look more composed, but the will coming from all around still made his heart jump with fear.

"Then I will tell you another secret. Actually, the ultimate goal of all gods..." The woman in red revealed interest and continued to speak, but her voice echoed, yet Xu Qing's pupils contracted because he could not hear it.

All the sounds around were as usual, only the words of the woman in red he could not hear at all.

The woman in red also noticed this scene and did not continue.

Until half an hour later, Xu Qing recovered, still feeling lingering fear.

Just like that, time passed day by day, and the Red Moon Temple headed north all the way, with astonishing speed.

During this period, Xu Qing also tried to inquire many times; as long as it reached the critical moment, he would not be able to hear it, but under this probing, he still knew a little bit of secrets.

Among them included the realm above Divine Containment.

"Divine Fire..." Xu Qing murmured in his heart; he only knew this title, as for the specifics, he could not hear it.

Until a month later, as they moved forward, the ground became white, the wind blowing became increasingly cold, and the northern unfrozen ice entered Xu Qing's eyes.

The entire northern ground was formed by ice hearts; this is...

There was no soil here, only a thick layer of ice, submerging everything in the depths.

The mountain peaks were also ice structures, which made this place full of a sense of withering, and vitality was rare.

"We have arrived, little doll, follow me."

In the mid-air of this northern glacier, the woman in red's eyes revealed reminiscence, her voice somewhat hoarse, and she walked forward.

Xu Qing followed behind.

As for the Red Moon Temple, it did not stop here; it changed direction and whistled away toward the distance.

Xu Qing looked back.

"Inside that is a gift I sent to an old friend of the Red Moon Temple; it will bring it over." The woman in red spoke indifferently, walking on the glacier, moving forward while sensing as if looking for something.

Xu Qing did not speak, following silently. The two of them walked in this cold wind for several days, and finally, Xu Qing saw a sect living on the glacier, not small in scale, with many disciples' figures coming in and out to be seen everywhere.

"That is the You Clan, attached to the Red Moon Temple. Their clan once made contributions to the Red Mother, so they were allowed to send their clansmen to the Temple as guards for generations."

The woman in red's expression revealed some mockery and she did not say more, taking Xu Qing straight toward this sect.

Their arrival was not noticed by this sect at all; their cognition was influenced, and in their eyes, Xu Qing and the woman in red did not exist.

Walking within this You Clan, Xu Qing also had doubts in his heart; he did not understand why this sect was called an ethnic group in the words of the woman in red.

And from what he saw, the disciples of this sect were from all clans, not looking like one ethnic group.

But the woman in red did not say more, so Xu Qing did not ask anymore. The two of them went all the way to the depths of this sect, where there was a huge crack on the ice.

The woman in red closed her eyes and felt it.

"It is here." Her expression was somewhat sad, and she stepped into the crack.

Xu Qing lowered his head to look, and after pondering, he also stepped in.

The cold wind blew from beneath the crack, freezing not only the body but also the soul, and the further down they went,

the stronger the cold air here became.

Until the two of them had descended I don't know how far, and Xu Qing's hair and eyebrows had become white, they reached the bottom.

This was a huge ice cave, like a small world, replaced by the world, and the ground was boundless.

From afar, Xu Qing saw an underground lake.

The water of this lake clearly possessed strangeness; it was not frozen here, and bursts of water mist were emitted from it. Looking from afar, it was very hazy.

In this blur, Xu Qing also saw many You Clan disciples; those disciples were coming down from above, carrying crystal coffins one by one, and placing them on the shore one by one...

Looking roughly, the number of coffins was hundreds, densely packed, surrounding the lake.

And after sending these coffins, those disciples left immediately. As for the coffins, Xu Qing swept his gaze from afar and vaguely saw figures lying inside; judging by their clothing, they were also disciples of this sect.

This scene made Xu Qing somewhat surprised. Just as he was about to observe carefully, the lake suddenly surged, and strips of illusory light bands emitting seven-colored light rose from within like tentacles, rolling toward the surrounding coffins.

Each seven-colored tentacle coiled around a coffin, pulling it down into the lake.

Not long after, all the coffins here sank into the lake water, slowly disappearing, and the lake water also gradually calmed down.

"The You Clan looks like a sect on the surface, with all clans inside, but in reality, only those who become clansmen of their clan can become Temple guards. Those who do not become clansmen are all food."

"And if one wants to become a clansman of their clan, one needs to undergo a trial. What you just saw is this ritual; those disciples will be sent to a special place, and if they walk out alive there, they are considered to have completed it."

"Because those who walk out are no longer them." The woman in red spoke calmly.

"Possession?" Xu Qing was thoughtful.

"The ancestor of the You Clan was once under my father the King. When the Red Mother descended, he chose to betray and was suppressed and killed by my father the Emperor. The Great World he nurtured collapsed and fell apart; most of it was shattered, and all life within perished, among which one piece fell here."

"The Red Mother, remembering his contributions, bestowed a blessing that the deceased clansmen within this world fragment could retain their remnant souls, and thus the You Clan appeared."

Xu Qing heard this and turned his head to look at the lake again. He knew very well that being able to be suppressed and killed by a Sovereign personally, and having a Great World collapse, meant that the ancestor of the You Clan at that time had a cultivation of a Plague God.

"Let's go, the place we are going to is not here yet." The woman in red looked at the lake, her eyes rippling with some waves, and she turned to walk toward the depths of the ice cave.

Xu Qing noticed the meaning contained in the other party's words and did not ask more, following after, walking further and further.

However, because the seven-colored tentacles under the lake pulled the coffins down too quickly, the coffins roared, and coupled with the isolation of vision and perception to a certain extent, Xu Qing did not notice that inside one of the coffins lay a figure he was familiar with.

At this moment, beneath the lake, the corpse lying inside one of the hundreds of coffins suddenly moved, its eyes opening slightly, sweeping around rapidly.

Noticing that outside was lake water, this person's expression revealed triumph, and he rapidly looked at the seven-colored tentacles pulling the coffins; the triumphant expression became even stronger.

"Little You Clan, wanting to get in is as easy as taking something from a bag, effortless."

"Next, entering the small world of this clan, I can unfold my plan."

"I wonder how little Ah Qing is doing now? I suppose he is not as lively and stimulated as I am; he should be waiting bitterly for me at Tianniu Mountain."

This corpse was exactly the Captain.

"Little Ah Qing, it's not that your Senior Brother is late, there's no way around it; for our big matter, you just have to wait for me a little longer, who told you not to follow me." The Captain was proud in his heart.

The coffin shook, and he hurriedly closed his eyes to continue pretending to sleep. At the same time, beneath the glacier far from the lake, the woman in red's speed became faster and faster; in the end, she simply waved her hand and rolled Xu Qing along.

Her speed was astonishing. Seven or eight hours later, she brought Xu Qing to the deepest part of this glacier.

The icy cold aura here had reached the extreme, and it even emitted bursts of Red Moon restriction power. Feeling the fluctuation of this restriction, Xu Qing narrowed his eyes; he knew the destination had been reached.

The fact was indeed so. Soon, the woman in red's body stopped on the ice layer, lowering her head to look down, her expression revealing sorrow.

This sorrow was very strong, influencing the surroundings, making it seem as if there were sounds of weeping echoing vaguely here.

Xu Qing's expression was solemn, remembering the purpose the other party mentioned in the east, so he followed the woman in red's gaze to look at the ice layer beneath his feet. At a glance, his heart tightened.

This place was dim, and it was even more so within the glacier, so Xu Qing's gaze looked into pitch blackness, but he vaguely felt that a behemoth seemed to exist beneath this.

"Do you want to see?" After a long while, the woman in red spoke.

She was clearly asking, but she did not let Xu Qing give an answer. At this moment, while speaking, she raised her right hand and waved it gently.

Instantly, within the surrounding glacier, countless firefly lights appeared.

A single fluorescent light was weak, but after the quantity increased, it illuminated this surrounding area brightly.

With the help of the light's diffusion, Xu Qing saw the scene beneath the glacier, and waves rose in his heart.

Beneath the glacier lay a corpse, this corpse was fully ten thousand zhang in size, frozen in the ice layer, wearing a brown outfit.

Even though it had been dead for a long time, the malevolent Qi on its body still made Xu Qing, the moment his gaze saw it, rush into his mind,

turning into an angry roar.

Xu Qing's body trembled and he took a few steps back, suppressing the fluctuations in his heart, and stared intently.

This corpse was a young man, his face resolute and very handsome, especially his eyebrows like swords, full of heroic spirit.

Only a huge black nail on the center of his brow pierced through his skull, blood solidified on his cheeks, making his expression look full of ferocity.

And his body was even more shocking, having already withered for the most part; one could see that many places that had not withered were emitting blood Qi.

This blood Qi, containing the meaning of death, spread beneath the glacier, gathering toward the distance, not knowing where it was going.

This scene made countless guesses rise in Xu Qing's heart, and he looked at the woman in red beside him with a sad expression.

"This is my third brother. When he was young, he especially liked to follow me. As the Crown Prince, I had to help my father handle government affairs, and wherever I went, he would follow behind. Sometimes when I was annoyed and left him aside, he would cry and shout 'Brother'..."

"His personality was somewhat impulsive, and he didn't get along with my ninth brother; the two of them often fought..."

"And every time, I would favor the ninth." The woman in red spoke softly.

Xu Qing was silent; he felt the sorrow all around become stronger.

"The nail on his brow is my father the King's weapon, held by my fourth brother and nailed into his brow. Do you know? My fourth brother originally wanted to attack me; it was my third brother who died in my stead." The woman in red said this, a smile appearing on her face, and her voice echoed.

"Little one, I haven't introduced you to the identity of my fourth brother yet. When the Red Mother arrived, he used this matter as a token of allegiance, and now he is the glorious God Child of the Jiyue Great Domain." Xu Qing's heart suddenly shook upon hearing this sentence; he knew that there were God Children in the Red Moon Temple of the Jiyue Great Domain, and he also guessed that the God Child must be extraordinary, but he never expected that the origin of this God Child was like this.

"The former fourth son of the Sovereign, now the Red Moon God Child, for these countless years, the one who has been feeding us is him." The woman in red laughed.

"He was afraid that his brothers and sisters would die quickly, worried about us, so he took the people for us to eat. In the past, he would occasionally intimately cut off our flesh and exchange it with each other to eat."

"Later, he rarely appeared in person."

"So you see, how good he is to us brothers and sisters." The woman in red gritted her teeth, her eyes revealing intense killing intent.

"Do you know where my third brother's blood Qi went? You will know soon!"

Xu Qing was silent; he didn't know what to say, only able to turn it into a sigh.

The things he had heard made his understanding of this Jiyue Great Domain suddenly clear.

But the more he understood, the more he felt the oppression existing for all sentient beings, high and low, within this Great Domain.

"Little doll, help me open a gap in the Red Moon restriction here." The woman in red looked at Xu Qing, her expression turning calm.

Xu Qing nodded, sat down cross-legged, and operated the Purple Moon Nascent Soul in his body. In an instant, the Red Moon fluctuations all around became intense, the restricted area erupted suddenly, revealing strands of red silk threads all around.

These silk threads spread into the depths, forming a huge net, covering everything. Soon, one of the many silk threads changed, revealing a purple intent.

Until the moment it completely turned purple, the Red Moon restriction here paused suddenly and slowly began to rotate.

Xu Qing's breathing was rapid; for him, simply borrowing the restriction here to make it used by himself was not difficult, but if he wanted to open a gap in it, the difficulty was not small.

So what he could do at this moment was to absorb the Red Moon power here, making this restriction appear weak, thereby borrowing his own Purple Moon authority to barely open a sliver of it.

This was his current limit. Time passed slowly, and soon three days passed.

In these three days, Xu Qing continuously absorbed and continuously fused, until at dusk on the third day, he reached his own limit of endurance, his eyes suddenly opened, and his right hand raised to press toward the ice layer below.

The surrounding Red Moon restriction rolled immediately, and a vortex appeared above him. Almost the moment the vortex appeared, the woman in red's body immediately blurred, and with a flicker, her body disappeared, turning into a mass of blue mist, vaguely visible that a wisp of remnant soul existed within the mist.

This soul looked like a young man, similar to the man beneath the glacier, but more majestic. At this moment, it flew out rapidly, heading straight for the vortex, and in the blink of an eye, merged into it, attempting to rush in.

The Red Moon restriction erupted strongly, forming a blockage. Xu Qing controlled it with all his might, but that feeling of a small horse pulling a big cart made his soul appear to tear, and the Purple Moon Nascent Soul also trembled, his expression painful.

This was just a remnant soul merging, from outside to inside; one could imagine if it were from inside to outside, then even if Xu Qing risked everything, he still wouldn't be able to make the other party successfully enter and exit.

Even the current Xu Qing could not do much.

But the existence within that coffin, being able to choose this place the first time after escaping, naturally had its own certainty.

At this moment, its soul shadow shone with blue light, choosing to burn, exchanging for extreme power, and borrowing the vortex formed by Xu Qing, it rushed in fiercely.

Amidst the roaring, Xu Qing spat out seven or eight mouthfuls of blood in succession, the Purple Moon Nascent Soul also withered, and that young man's remnant soul finally broke through the barrier, forming a sliver of a gap, and merged into it.

After entering the restriction, this remnant soul dissipated visibly to the naked eye, as if it could not persist for long. It did not have the slightest hesitation, heading straight for the nail on its third brother's brow.

Before it was about to dissipate completely, it merged into it and disappeared.

Xu Qing wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, retreated, and sat down cross-legged to adjust his breath. He had already done his best; whether the other party could truly complete it in the end was no longer something he could control.

And he also had no remaining strength to probe the other party. At the same time, beneath that lake far from this place, the hundreds of coffins, after being dragged for days by the seven-colored tentacles, finally reached the bottom.

There existed a vortex, from which fluctuations containing greed and longing emotions were emitted.

These coffins were pulled by it, heading straight for the vortex.

Entering into a strange world, the Captain lying inside one of the coffins opened his eyes again, revealing anticipation.

"Finally arrived, haha, little sparrows, Grandpa is here!"