Chapter 595

Clear Sand Desert.

The wind, like sharp blades hidden in the nothingness, shattered grains of sand, emitting sharp, piercing cries as it tore through the space between Xu Qing and the Captain.

Having lost consciousness and left with only madness, Xu Qing roared over from afar. His speed was so fast that he arrived ten feet away from the Captain in an instant.

Following the echo of "Junior Brother," Xu Qing's footsteps paused abruptly ten feet away.

His eyes were crimson and filled with chaos. He stared fixedly at the figure in front of him, and the entry of this figure caused a struggle to appear in his eyes, giving him a moment of clarity.

The confrontation between humanity and divinity was incomparably intense at this moment. Xu Qing's body trembled; he recognized his Senior Brother, but he could not control the hunger within his body.

"Senior Brother..." Xu Qing's voice was hoarse, and the moment the words were spoken, the abyss formed by the confrontation between humanity and divinity submerged him again. Xu Qing emitted a painful wail and turned to head straight for the distance!

He actually still restrained himself from approaching his Senior Brother!

This scene moved even Chen Erniu.

He understood Xu Qing and understood even more the pain Xu Qing was enduring at this very moment, so he knew very well that being able to choose restraint in this state...

This not only showed Xu Qing's extraordinary nature but also showed that he himself was incomparably important in the other party's heart.

Warmth rose in Chen Erniu's heart.

"Silly kid."

He smiled and shook his head, then took a deep breath. The next instant, his eyes revealed faces, and the eyes of the faces opened, their pupils still being faces.

One inside another, endlessly, a blue light rose on the Captain's body. His body flickered and disappeared in an instant.

When he appeared, he was right in front of Xu Qing.

Xu Qing's expression was twisted, and Chen Erniu spoke softly.

"Junior Brother, if you're hungry, eat." As he spoke, he raised his hand and placed it in front of Xu Qing.

Xu Qing's body trembled. He looked up and stared at his Senior Brother before him. The longing from his life's instinct and the vortex of the confrontation between humanity and divinity erupted completely at this moment.

He opened his mouth abruptly and bit directly onto the Captain's arm.

Fresh blood dripped, and flesh was swallowed.

While eating, Xu Qing's body felt comfortable, but his heart was in pain. He wanted to restrain himself; he didn't want to be like this.

But the shroud of the abyss made it impossible for him to do so, so his expression was ferocious, becoming increasingly mad, and he whimpered in his mouth.

That was the resistance of humanity!

The Captain smiled and spoke softly.

"Little Ah Qing, don't be afraid."

As he spoke, the Captain let Xu Qing swallow his left hand while his right hand raised, stroked Xu Qing's hair, and pulled his body into his embrace.

"Eat, eat more. This matter should have been done by the old man, but since I'm your Senior Brother, I can do it too."

"Eat, eat until you're full; we still have big things to do."

Xu Qing's body shuddered, and the struggle in his eyes became even more intense. An incomparably terrifying thought arose in his heart.

He wanted... to swallow this Senior Brother before him completely, leaving nothing behind, wanting to eat him clean.

More importantly, in these days, since the fusion of humanity and divinity until now, for the first time, besides hunger, he felt another kind of longing.

That was a longing for fresh blood!

He wanted to drain the Captain's blood!

The rise of this thought caused incomparable, sharp pain in Xu Qing's heart.

He didn't want to!

The swallowing action paused abruptly at this moment. Xu Qing emitted whimpering sounds from his mouth. A few breaths later, purple light erupted from his entire body, forming an overwhelming force that pushed the Captain's body away by dozens of feet.

Looking at the Captain's left arm, which had been half-swallowed by him, Xu Qing struggled even more in his eyes. He raised his right hand abruptly and reached directly into his own mouth, digging out the flesh and blood he had swallowed, piece by piece.

As for those that had reached his stomach, Xu Qing did not hesitate to rip open his own stomach, reached in with his left hand, and took them out piece by piece.

Fresh blood sprayed and flowed all over the ground.

And what was eerie was that the fresh blood... actually rolled on the ground like beads, and on every single bead, Xu Qing's ferocious face was clearly revealed.

While Xu Qing dug out the flesh he had swallowed, he struggled intensely in his eyes. The collision between humanity and divinity was unprecedentedly fierce at this moment.

The Captain stood in the distance, looking at Xu Qing, his expression revealing a touch of heartache, but he did not move.

He knew... only by awakening Xu Qing's humanity could he truly pass through this feeling of touching godhood.

"I back then..." The Captain's deep memories, which had been sealed, appeared, and a touch of pain surfaced in his eyes.

A moment later, following Xu Qing's actions, there was more and more fresh blood. Eventually, these fresh bloods spontaneously formed a totem outside his body.

Looking from the sky, one could see that this totem was clearly a face.

That face covered its eyes, its expression painful, its whole body blood-colored, as if it were constantly shedding fresh blood.

The style was like the Red Mother.

And the appearance was Xu Qing!

But in the center of this totem, where Xu Qing was constantly digging out flesh and blood, the struggle in his heart remained intense because he discovered that his thought of wanting to swallow his Senior Brother had not disappeared.

And the Captain's incomplete left arm made his pain erupt continuously.

Chi.

Eventually, Xu Qing emitted a roar that didn't sound human and turned to gallop away at full speed toward the distance. He wanted to take advantage of the rise of humanity at this moment to leave this place. He was about to be unable to suppress the swallowing; the feeling of hunger made him go crazy. He wanted to stay away from here and go to other places to swallow everything.

His vision was blurred, his world was twisted, and divinity was telling him indifferently that everything beneficial to evolution must be done.

And beastliness was a weapon, released under the drive of divinity.

But humanity was reminding him time and time again of the dignity and bottom line of being a human.

Some things cannot be done.

Some people cannot be abandoned.

Some wills must be insisted upon, even in death!

Xu Qing sped away.

Following his departure, the face pattern composed of drops of fresh blood on the ground rose and roared behind him, emitting divine might.

The Captain watched Xu Qing's back silently and stepped forward to follow.

Time passed. Xu Qing's running did not stop. The Captain's appearance detonated the struggle in his heart. In this fusion of humanity and divinity, his madness far exceeded what it had been in the past.

"Who am I... this is not important."

"No, this is very important. I am Xu Qing!"

"My past, this is also not important anymore."

"It is very important!"

"Those people I met in my life are just food."

"No!!"

In Xu Qing's heart, two different consciousnesses gradually appeared amidst the struggle and roars. One consciousness was indifferent, and one was painful.

The indifferent consciousness was divinity, and the carrier was the blood-colored face behind Xu Qing.

The painful consciousness was humanity, and the carrier was Xu Qing's refusal to give up in his heart.

And in this process, his other Nascent Souls did not change, but the Purple Moon power on his body erupted continuously.

Unknowingly, the Purple Moon Nascent Soul had already reached the Great Perfection of the Third Tribulation, and the Life Tribulation did not descend, letting his Purple Moon Nascent Soul continue to soar until it reached the Fourth Tribulation, and reached the Great Perfection of the Fourth Tribulation.

It was still continuing, reaching the Fifth Tribulation!

It erupted again, reaching the Great Perfection of the Fifth Tribulation! It still did not pause, breaking through amidst the booms.

His Purple Moon Nascent Soul stepped directly into the level of Cultivating the Dao!

Outside Xu Qing's body, amidst the interlacing purple light, an illusory purple secret treasure descended, appearing and disappearing.

Or rather, this was not a secret treasure; this was formed by divine power... a Divine Treasury!

At this moment, the sky lost its color, and the desert churned.

And with the expansion of the Purple Moon power, Xu Qing's struggle began to weaken. His humanity was dimming rapidly, the feeling of hunger was about to replace everything, and the longing for fresh blood was about to defeat everything.

The face formed by fresh blood behind him seemed to be laughing—an indifferent laugh.

It was about to win.

But just at this moment, a sudden change occurred!

Xu Qing's footsteps paused abruptly. He stood there, looking ten feet ahead. His entire body seemed to have countless goosebumps rising, spreading continuously, turning into trembling.

His mind churned, and the waves were unprecedented.

It was as if the object he saw ten feet away attracted all his thoughts and all his cognition.

That was an iron box.

Inside the iron box was some blood-colored soil, and in the soil... a flower was blooming!

This was a flower that didn't look extraordinary, except that the serrations on the edges of the leaves were somewhat obvious. There were seventeen leaves in total, and in the middle of each leaf was a strange symbol formed by a silk thread.

The appearance of this symbol was like a face; some were crying, and some were laughing.

It was just such a plant. After Xu Qing saw it, his mind seemed to have millions and millions of thunderbolts collapsing simultaneously, surging into his whole body, and his soul seemed to be tearing apart.

Countless images and countless memories rose rapidly from the places in his heart that were no longer important, occupying everything.

"Heavenly Fate Flower, also known as Life-Continuing Flame, Divine Grass. It is a variant of the divine-natured plant replica. According to records, there are seventy-three types of this mutation, but only the first type can be used as medicine. It can grow in any area within the forbidden zone, without rules, and its quantity is rare."

"Its function is to regenerate severed limbs, reignite hanging lives, and heal all injuries except those to the divine soul. The entire family can be treated."

Xu Qing walked over trembling, knelt before the plant, and raised his hand to stroke it gently.

"Heavenly Fate Flower..." He had searched for many years and had never found it... the Heavenly Fate Flower that could continue the life of Lei Dui back then.

"Lei Dui..."

Tears flowed from Xu Qing's eyes, crossing his cheeks and falling drop by drop into the sand on the ground, becoming ink.

These were the tears of humanity.

The blood-colored face behind him collapsed abruptly at this moment, turning into countless fresh blood, surging into Xu Qing's body through his wounds.

In the distance, the Captain stood there, watching all this silently. His tightly held heart finally relaxed, and a smile appeared on his face.

Beside him, silently and soundlessly, a person appeared. It was the Crown Prince.

"I believe it now. Your master is definitely not an ordinary person." The Crown Prince looked at Xu Qing in the distance and spoke softly.

"Either he is the reincarnation of a powerhouse from my era, or he is one of the most stunning and brilliant people in this later age after the Ancient Emperor left."

"The old man is just so-so and still cannot be compared to the senior. If you, senior, are taking disciples, I'll be the first to sign up." The Captain changed back to a fawning and ingratiating tone.

The Crown Prince glanced at the Captain's expression. He did not believe a single word this person said.

"I'm just curious about one thing: did you and Xu Qing take the initiative to find your master, or did your master take the initiative to find you?"