Chapter 551: Sovereign Divine Weapon Suppresses the Northern Plains

Beneath the glacier, after the Sovereign Crown Prince merged into the nail at his third brother's brow, no aura leaked out anymore.

The nail itself did not appear to undergo any strange changes; everything seemed as if nothing had happened.

Xu Qing sat cross-legged in the distance, gazing at the glacier beneath his feet, his eyes revealing deep thought. A moment later, he slowly stood up, carefully retreated, and attempted to leave.

Although he had not encountered any danger while following the other party along this path, this did not mean that what might happen afterward would be as normal as the journey.

Therefore, Xu Qing felt that now was the best time for him to leave.

As for subsequent matters, with his current cultivation base, it was better not to get involved.

But just as Xu Qing retreated less than ten steps, the nail on the giant's face beneath the glacier suddenly flashed, and a low voice resonated in Xu Qing's mind.

"Little doll, it is not yet time to go. Wait for me a while."

Xu Qing's footsteps paused, and as he weighed this in his heart, the low voice came again.

"If you wish to leave, I will not force you. In truth, I have no spare energy to keep you right now. But you once told me that the Crimson Mother is our common enemy. I am preparing to do something big, and the success rate will be higher. Even if you don't help me, I will still do it."

"The path is beneath your feet; judge for yourself." The voice no longer echoed.

Xu Qing was expressionless. After bowing his head and gazing for a long while at the giant within the ice, he cupped his fists in a salute, turned, and unfolded his full speed, whistling away until he was soon out of sight.

The place was silent. After a long while, a soft sigh echoed beneath the glacier.

Four hours later, in the pitch-black distance, Xu Qing's figure suddenly appeared. After verifying that the other party had indeed not stopped him from leaving,

he chose to return. The moment he arrived, he sat cross-legged and calmly opened his eyes.

"I will wait for you!"

"Thank you!" Beneath the glacier, the low voice echoed.

Xu Qing closed his eyes and waited silently.

At the same time, beneath the glacier some distance away, a major event was also unfolding.

Xu Qing had been brought here, and he had not been deceived.

The Ghost Clan residing on the Unmelting Glacier did indeed have an ancestor who was under the Sovereign. When the Crimson Mother arrived, they chose to betray the Sovereign and were suppressed, their body collapsing and their Great World shattering into pieces. Most turned to dust, save for one core fragment that fell here and was buried beneath the glacier. Within that core fragment were countless dead souls from that traitor's Great World; they were muddled, lacked intelligence, and mostly slept.

Because their actions back then were considered meritorious, the dead souls within this world fragment were permitted to seize bodies, and thus the Ghost Clan sect of later generations came to be.

But the barrier between yin and yang is not so easily crossed.

There were many restrictions within, so although many of the Ghost Clan had returned over countless years, most remained within the Sacrifice Moon Domain.

Some say this was formed by the Sovereign's resentment merging into the Heavenly Dao.

The place to which the whirlpool beneath the lake led was that Great World fragment, actually buried beneath the Unmelting Glacier. The area here was not much different from a small world.

Faint ghost fire soul light flickered on the glacier. The light source here seemed to be snowflakes falling from the sky, layering over the earth. Yin winds blew here in gusts, emitting whistles like ghosts crying and wolves howling.

If any mortal heard this, their soul would surely tremble.

In the dimness, one could vaguely see the black glacier earth and mountain ranges of this world. Wisps of dead souls floated and wandered without consciousness, drifting inside and outside the glacier.

To them, there was no concept of time. In this muddled state, only the instinct of hunger remained.

All living things were their targets for seizure.

At this moment, on the high sky at the edge of this Great World, a different light suddenly shone. This light was red at first, then blue, then yellow, and finally turned seven-colored, spreading toward the surroundings.

Under the shining of this seven-colored light, countless souls in this world instinctively locked onto this place. Even some sleeping souls buried deep under the ice showed signs of waking.

Subsequently, strips of light appeared from that seven-colored whirlpool, extending out like tentacles, coiling around crystal coffins and placing them one by one onto the black glacier.

After all hundreds of coffins were placed, these seven-colored light strips slowly retracted until they merged into the whirlpool and disappeared.

But the whirlpool remained, waiting there.

Before long, sharp whistles of yin wind erupted here. Those dead souls floating in mid-air rushed over at high speed like hungry wolves, as if the vitality emanating from within those coffins in their perception made them instinctively go mad.

Looking from afar, these dead souls came whistling over, reaching the vicinity in an instant and pouncing toward the coffins.

Their sheer numbers formed a black storm, stirring the surroundings. The material of the coffins was clearly specially made, capable of sealing the disciples within, but it would not prevent the entry of external souls. Thus, very quickly, at least ten thousand dead souls drilled into these coffins to rest.

The bodies sealed inside had all been processed; their souls had long since extinguished, leaving only shells.

This only made it more convenient for the dead souls to seize the bodies. Their muddled and disordered state meant they would not choose to seize bodies immediately; devouring was their first requirement. This was also one of the reasons why the Ghost Clan successfully walked out of this place.

So at this moment, in the blink of an eye, several bodies within the coffins visibly withered.

The devouring of the heart-souls within their bodies caused them to become true skeletons in a few breaths. Afterward, those souls rushed out to continue with other coffins.

At the same time, the fragrance emanating from these hundreds of coffins caused more sleeping souls beneath the glacier to wake. Very quickly, glacier souls, whose auras were far more massive than ordinary souls, drilled out from the black glacier, arriving rapidly with greed and madness.

They scrambled to drill into these coffins, devouring and tearing at each other to compete for them.

Compared to ordinary souls, these dead souls that woke from their slumber beneath the glacier were stronger and more easily able to obtain a body completely, and subsequently, proceed to seize it.

Thus, before long, the first successful body-seizer appeared here. With a roar echoing, one coffin directly collapsed and shattered into pieces.

The figure lying inside slowly sat up. It was a youth. His numb expression gradually changed at this moment, radiating fluctuations. His body rose with an evil aura, and finally, desire appeared in his eyes as he looked up at the seven-colored whirlpool.

Then, he slowly stood up and stepped forward. At first, he was like a puppet, pausing with every step.

As he became familiar with the body, this sense of clumsiness rapidly vanished.

Ten-odd breaths later,

he had fully adapted. The whole person leaped up, entered the whirlpool, and walked toward the human world.

Soon, another coffin cracked, and a figure emerged.

But one coffin was very strange. Other coffins had dead souls going in and out, but only this one had only entry, no exit.

From beginning to end, not a single soul that rushed in came out, as if a black hole existed within that coffin.

Now, as the shells of other coffins withered one after another, many dead souls, following their instinct for vitality, set their targets on this strange coffin.

In an instant, hundreds of dead souls rushed in, seeing the Captain lying inside this crystal coffin. Thus, one by one, they radiated greed, about to pounce.

But just as they approached, a large number of mouths suddenly appeared on the Captain's body, rapidly opening and sucking in an instant. Immediately, all those souls were swallowed by these mouths. After chewing rapidly, the mouths all disappeared, and everything was as normal.

From time to time, more souls rushed in...

Just like that, time passed. Most of the coffin shells here withered, and over a dozen successfully revived and left this place.

That seven-colored whirlpool also gradually dimmed, finally disappearing within this world.

At this moment, that strange coffin became the only place here possessing vitality, so all the dead souls in the surroundings went there in an instant.

From all directions, like countless hungry wolves, they drilled into the coffin, but the next instant, fluctuations erupted from within that coffin.

Those souls that had rushed inside acted as if they had seen a bully; at this moment, they scrambled to escape, and some even became distorted.

But the Captain lying in the coffin—this time, not only did mouths appear on his body, but countless arms grew out, rapidly grabbing toward the dead souls.

It was just that too many souls had entered the coffin before, and now, even more wanted to escape. Seeing that some were about to escape, the Captain rapidly raised his hand and placed a mask on his face. Immediately afterward, his roar echoed, spreading to all directions. The shadow of the Great Heavenly Dog manifested, rushing toward those struggling and fleeing souls.

In the blink of an eye, the souls within a hundred-zhang radius were directly swallowed into the Heavenly Dog's mouth. Chewing sounds echoed, causing the remaining souls a hundred zhang away to transform from hungry wolves into frightened rabbits, scattering in all directions.

Not bothering with them, after the Heavenly Dog's shadow dissipated, a burp echoed from within the coffin. The Captain sat up, stretched, his expression revealing comfort and smugness.

"Not bad. Still, using oneself as bait makes for the fullest meal." The Captain looked around with satisfaction, then waved his hand and spoke proudly.

"You two, come out. Is it so warm inside my body that you won't come out?"

"Hurry up, we have big things to do."

As the Captain's words echoed, two figures flew out from his body. At first,

they were very small, but in the blink of an eye, they became normal size. They were Xiang Ningyan and Wu Jianwu.

Clearly, during the time Xu Qing left, they had followed the Captain and experienced some inconceivable things, so Wu Jianwu was no longer the high-spirited person he once was, but was now incomparably vigilant.

As for Xiang Ningyan, he was numb, but it was very clear that both of their auras were far stronger than before, looking as if they had been beaten.

Seeing their expressions, the Captain sighed.

"Follow the aura. You two keep up. Walk quietly; don't disturb those old antiques. Although I have a way to suppress them, we must first reach our destination."

Xiang Ningyan and Wu Jianwu hurriedly followed behind, especially Wu Jianwu, who no longer recited poetry.

At this moment, he looked around nervously, as if any slight disturbance would make him jump instantly.

Xiang Ningyan looked sideways, feeling disdain in his heart. He patted his belly with a large hand, revealing a vine, which he held in his hand and shook for fun, looking indifferent.

As the three of them went further away, in the cold wind, the Captain's sigh of emotion blew over. "You guys, you really aren't as good as little A-Qing. Sigh, I really miss my little A-Qing right now. I don't know how he is doing today; he must be eating poorly and sleeping poorly." The Captain was very concerned.

Xu Qing was currently sitting cross-legged on the ice layer beneath the ground, some distance from the lake, looking at the water layer.

He had been waiting for a long time. Half of the one-day agreement had already passed, but the giant figure beneath the glacier showed no changes.

Xu Qing's expression was as usual.

He withdrew his gaze and continued to wait. He had said one day, and he would do his best to fulfill it.

Just like that, time passed bit by bit. Soon, the twelfth hour arrived. Xu Qing opened his eyes again, stood up, and spoke toward the ice. "Senior, the time has come."

"You retreat a thousand zhang away." Beneath the ice layer, the Sovereign Crown Prince's blurred and weak voice came.

Hearing this, Xu Qing rushed toward the distance, reaching over eight thousand zhang away. He wanted to continue, but suddenly, a roaring sound came from beneath the glacier behind him, like thunder, exploding all around with a rumbling sound.

The ice layer even had blue light suddenly shining beneath it, becoming brighter and brighter, finally becoming dazzling, as if a blue sun had formed beneath that glacier.

And the source of this blue light was exactly the nail at the giant figure's brow. At this moment, the nail was trembling violently, rising upward inch by inch, as if a force was merging into it, wanting to pull it out from the brow. Every time it rose an inch, the blue light would flash, and the earth would shake.

Likewise, a terrifying fluctuation also rose from beneath the glacier. The strength of the fluctuation was such that Xu Qing only felt it slightly, and his heart jumped. It gave him the feeling of surpassing the Forbidden Magic Treasure of Fenghai County; the difference between them was like fireflies and the sun, a chasm of difference.

Moreover, an ancient aura spread within. All of this forced Xu Qing to continue retreating until he was a hundred miles away, yet that feeling of palpitation still remained.

At the same time, because of the release of this fluctuation, the Red Moon Restriction manifested accordingly.

Looking from afar, the world in the distance shone with red light, suppressing the blue light. The contact between them caused the glacier to shake even more, and cracks appeared one after another, as if the sky were about to collapse and the earth to split.

Soon, a low roar echoed in Xu Qing's mind.

"Help me suppress it!"

Xu Qing gritted his teeth. Since he had chosen to stay, he naturally knew what the other party needed him to do. At this moment, he did not hesitate. He raised his right hand, and the Purple Moon Divine Authority within the glacier beneath his feet erupted. This was what he had to do: influence the Red Moon Restriction.

It was not to control the Red Moon Restriction and open a gap, but to interfere, causing its operation to develop flaws. As for whether the other party could truly succeed in the end, Xu Qing could no longer judge.

But for the Sovereign Crown Prince, Xu Qing's role was extremely critical. This trace of interference and influence was the difference between zero and one.

Before this, the possibility of his success was zero, but now it was different.

The next instant, an even more violent roaring sound erupted, shaking the sky. The shattering of the glacier spread over a large area, and the blue light reached its limit. That nail, in this continuous rising, finally, at this moment, was completely pulled out from the corpse's brow.

The moment it was pulled out, the entire Northern Ice Plain's earth instantly turned blue.

This scene caught the attention of all the clans and sects residing in the Northern Ice Plain. Their world suddenly turned blue, and their minds could not help but rise with suspicion.

They did not know what had happened, but a strong sense of palpitation and pressure radiated from this blue light, shrouding the entire ice plain area.

The sound of cracking, at this moment, surpassed the rumbling of heavenly thunder.

Deep within the glacier, that nail radiating endless blue light slowly turned its direction, the tip aiming at the Red Moon Restriction above. As the light within it shone to the limit, this blue nail rushed forward violently.

With an indomitable momentum, with a destructive and overbearing force, it headed straight for the Red Moon Restriction.

Touching in an instant, blue and red intertwined, and purple light flashed slightly. During this stalemate, a low roar echoed.

"Earth Realm Southern Refining, Profound Heaven and Ox, Divine Weapon, are you willing to be trapped? With my help, if you don't erupt now, when will you?" The blue nail trembled violently. Soon, a fluctuation of an artifact spirit with unwillingness rose from within, its aura swallowing mountains and rivers.

The heavens and earth changed color, the earth collapsed. The blue nail soared into the sky, standing above the firmament, reappearing in the world. Stirring in all directions, the sky at this moment was also illuminated by the blue light, no longer dim. Looking from afar, this Northern Ice Plain had become a blue world.

The shattering of the ground exploded as never before. Countless ice layers collapsed, countless glaciers shattered, and the entire north was sinking.

This was an unprecedented upheaval. Whether for the living beings of the north or for the Purple Moon Domain, such a situation was unprecedented.

And with such a big event, it was impossible for the Red Moon Divine Temple not to notice. One could imagine that next, there would surely be even greater fluctuations erupting. The living beings were terrified and speechless.

As calls for help continued to emerge, that blue nail stood in the firmament and did not leave. It slowly turned its head, aiming the tip at the ice layer again.

The light upon it became increasingly dazzling, flashing again and again, as if accumulating power. At the same time, Xu Qing's figure also appeared on the shattered glacier in the distance. He looked up and gazed at all this. Although he had some preparation in his eyes, he was still stirred by this earth-shaking scene, causing huge waves in his heart.

"The Sovereign Crown Prince once said he had a younger brother who died here, and also an older sister sealed here..."

"Then he is now..."

Xu Qing's pupils contracted. "Turn around and run. He knows this place; it will surely collapse."

But just as Xu Qing was speeding away, a vast divine sense echoed in his mind, like a great bell, like thunder.

"Little friend, if you leave now, you will lose out."

"Do you still remember the item I promised you?"

"I, as the Crown Prince, keep my word. What I promised you, I will definitely give you!"

Xu Qing's footsteps paused. He couldn't help but look up at the blue nail in the firmament in the distance, which was shining more and more as if it were about to finish accumulating power.

"What gift?" Xu Qing transmitted his divine sense.

"A Great World fragment containing the Divine, how about it?"

"There are three items suppressing my third sister; this is one of them." This voice echoed in Xu Qing's mind.

Xu Qing's eyes widened, huge waves stirred in his heart, and his breathing became a bit rapid. He had never expected that the mysterious item the other party mentioned before was actually a Great World fragment.

One must know that the sign of the Divine is the birth of a Great World, and this Great World itself possesses incomparably mysterious power. Even any shattered piece is an invaluable item. Therefore, although the Red Moon did not take it away, it utilized it, making it into a cage for sealing.

For a cultivator, its value was even more immense. Xu Qing's heart was moved.

At this moment, the thought echoed in his mind again.

"So, do you dare to come with me to take it?"

"Dare!" Xu Qing's eyes turned red.

This kind of harvest was enough to make the madness deep in his heart erupt. Just like when he went to obtain the first Life Lamp, obtain the Imperial-level cultivation technique, and obtain the Sea Corpse Clan statue, the madness in his heart was no less than the Captain's.

At this moment, a laughing voice came from within the nail.

"Come!"

A piece of blue light rose from all directions around Xu Qing, heading toward him rapidly. In an instant, after shrouding Xu Qing,

it carried his body straight toward the firmament, finally approaching the nail.

The blue light shone, merging with the nail. This protection of the same origin allowed Xu Qing to be exempted from the pressure of the treasure itself. Standing on top, the Sovereign Crown Prince's divine sense rose to the sky.

"Little friend, I will let you experience a portion of the power of this supreme treasure of my father back then!"

As soon as the words were spoken, the blue nail emitted a sound that shook the heavens and earth, rushing out violently, transforming into a blue light, heading straight for the ice layer.

Its speed was astonishing, its aura swallowing all directions, causing the sky to twist and appear torn. The earth roared, and wherever it passed, it was destructive, the ground sinking.

No obstacles could stop it in the slightest.

At this moment, within the Great World fragment, in the highest place among the endless black glaciers, the Captain, who knew nothing of the outside events, was standing there.

"Big Jianjian, Little Ningning, you two be good, okay? Move faster, unfold the treasure I gave you. We must imprint it in the fastest time. As soon as the imprinting is finished, we will leave immediately. If we are slow, then it's up to fate."

"Because wherever I have looted, it will become dust from then on." The Captain spoke proudly. Wu Jianwu nodded rapidly, full of trepidation.

Xiang Ningyan also felt some nervousness in his heart.

Noticing their expressions, the Captain shook his head in his heart.

"Still not as good as little A-Qing. Just this bit of courage. If little A-Qing were here, he would definitely watch me calmly." Sighing in his heart, he raised his right hand and waved, throwing a ball of light toward the firmament, then snapped his fingers. "Come, Little Roundy!"

At this moment, the ball of light suddenly shone, emitting a dazzling white light, and even more infinite hot power erupted from within.

At this moment, it kept rising into the sky until it became a sun in the firmament!

Infinite light and heat shone toward the earth, and the white ice surface began to release. ===== CHAPTER 552 =====

Endless light and heat shine toward the earth, and the white ice surface begins to release.