Chapter 617: Leaving the Mountains on Behalf of the Heir

Time flew by, and half a month passed.

With the eruption of God-Child nests in various regions, the situation in the Moon-Festival Domain became increasingly dire.

The forces of the Fourth Palace Master suffered a crushing defeat, and this news spread rapidly; for a time, the morale of the other resistance armies formed by the Vice Palace Masters of the Moon-Reversal Palace plummeted.

Everything seemed devoid of hope, as if the burning of the sparks of resistance could only serve to release the final glow of their own lives.

Only the Great Desert became increasingly prominent in this situation, and because of the existence of the Heir, not only did the cultivators of the Kusheng Mountain Range believe the Earth City to be a holy land, but all the resistance forces in the outside world also regarded the Great Desert as a holy land.

Therefore, almost every day, people traveled from all eight directions toward the Great Desert, wanting to enter, to join, and to seek true resistance.

However, the blockade by the Red Moon Temple was also intensifying, but some accidents occurred during this period; mysterious powerhouses descended, causing the blockade to collapse.

At the same time, the ancestor Heigui was appointed by the Heir to lead a large number of Great Desert cultivators to the edge of the desert to receive the arrivals.

Although the winds of the Great Desert blocked outsiders from entering, these winds were, after all, traded for by the Captain, and with the Heir's cultivation base and status, he was qualified to be an ally with that High God Yue Yan.

Therefore, after he transmitted his divine sense into the wind, the wind here granted him authority, no longer blocking all who entered, but instead targeting only the cultivators of the Red Moon; thus, with the influx of resistance cultivators into the Moon-Festival Domain, the forces of the Great Desert expanded almost every day.

All the cultivators who joined the Great Desert forces felt excited upon their arrival, but they knew they were not qualified to pay respects to the Heir, so they did not go to the apothecary to disturb him, but instead bowed toward the direction of the Kusheng Mountain Range; inside the apothecary, there were actually not many changes, as Ning Yan, Wu Wu Jianwu, and the others remained as usual, as did Linger, Li Youfei, and You Jing.

Only Xu Qing spent more of his time within the small world fragment; for this past month, he had spent almost all his time in the small world fragment, for he knew very clearly that time was running out, and both the current situation in the outside world and the gradual approach of the Red Moon star were signaling one thing.

The Heavenly Tribulation was imminent, so Xu Qing had not wasted a single moment in the past half-month, immersing himself in the refining and hatching of the God-Children.

The oil the Captain needed was, in fact, the blood of these God-Children, which contained chaos and madness.

At this moment, in this small world, the glaciers had long since melted, the ground was a expanse of black soil, and countless broken eggshells and boundless God-Children could be seen.

But in the sky, a purple moon rose, emitting the power of the Red Moon's authority, shrouding this world while providing conditions for the God-Children to hatch and keeping them under control.

On the ground, all the God-Children lay prostrate, their bodies covered in numerous wounds, allowing their own blood to flow out and converge into the massive fingerprint that existed there.

Forming a lake of oil, this process went quite smoothly; although there were too many of them and occasionally a God-Child would lose control, each time it was immediately suppressed by Xu Qing, and as for the wounds on their bodies, they were all opened by the God-Children themselves under the influence of the authority.

The flowing of blood kept these God-Children in a state of continuous weakness until they eventually withered and died; whenever this happened, the corpses of the dead God-Children would be thrown by Xu Qing to the other God-Children to be devoured, thereby exchanging them for more blood.

During this period, Xu Qing also went to the Moon-Reversal Palace several times, infusing the blood of the God-Children into the gates of the highest palace; this blood was indeed useful, and as it was integrated, the totem of the Red Mother trembled significantly, and the fires of hope from the various temples of the Moon-Reversal Palace burned in an even more intense manner.

The absorption by the Red Mother totem gradually turned into fire-swallowing, and the totem itself also began to burn; under this burning, the totem showed signs of blurring, and the Captain's madness also became intense, biting away rapidly.

"Little Ah Qing, the oil is not enough, bring more, make this fire even bigger!"

"Hope is right before our eyes; as long as we burn away the Red Mother's seal, this gate can be pushed open, and when that time comes, we will be the masters of the Moon-Reversal Palace!"

The Captain was invigorated, transmitting his divine sense while biting; "According to the speed of the Red Moon star, the Red Mother will arrive in at most nine or ten months," Xu Qing said softly.

"That's why I'm in a hurry," the Captain bit down fiercely, "Little Ah Qing, all my preparations are almost complete, now there are only two steps left."

"The first step is this Moon-Reversal Palace; once we succeed, I can use the Moon-Reversal Palace to instantly sense all the flesh and blood of my past life that was torn apart—I can already sense a portion of it now—and at that time, combined with our previous layouts, we will have the power to destroy the Red Moon Temple; once the temple is destroyed, we can enter and take over the Repentance Plain, where the Sovereign's physical body lies; this body is the final step for us to deal with the Red Mother, and it is also a crucial step!"

Xu Qing nodded, "I will extract more oil out there; it might take some time, but it should be enough."

The Captain was invigorated upon hearing this: "Haha, I'm especially looking forward to it; Little Ah Qing, our trip to the Moon-Festival Domain this time has reached its end; I have planned this matter of devouring a god for so many years, and it's finally going to be done!"

"Think about it, that's the Red Mother! If we devour her, this matter will surely spread throughout the Fen County, spread throughout the Human Domain, and spread throughout the Eastern Wanggu Continent; at that time, all those Black Heaven tribes will be trash! The Human Emperor might even have to treat us with courtesy when he sees us, and the old man will probably have his jaw drop when he sees us two."

"This is the big event, the big event that will make us famous throughout Eastern Wanggu, and it is also an event that has never happened since the birth of the gods!"

"And after we finish this, the identity of the future Governor of Fen County won't be worthy of you anymore; we must have higher goals."

It had to be said that the Captain had some talent for inspiring people.

As Xu Qing listened to the Captain's words, scenes of Fenhai County flashed through his mind—the Seventh Master, Zi Sister Xuan, the Seven Blood Eyes, and everything in Fenhai County—giving him a sense of trance; it clearly hadn't been that long since he came to the Moon-Festival Domain, only a few years, yet it felt as if endless ages had passed.

Xu Qing understood that the reason for this feeling was because he had experienced too many things in this Moon-Festival Domain, and it was also formed by the leap in his cultivation base.

"Master, I miss my master," Xu Qing said softly.

"It won't be long!"

"We will be back very soon!" the Captain replied proudly with a click of his teeth.

Xu Qing nodded and left the Moon-Reversal Palace; in the past half-month, his other identity in the Moon-Reversal Palace had gained even higher fame with the outbreak of the war.

All of this was because of the Curse-Reducing Elixir; although he lacked the materials in reality to produce an elixir that could reduce curses by fifty percent, his clear train of thought and the Poison Prohibition Eye allowed him to reduce curses by thirty percent.

And the permanent reduction of curses by thirty percent caused a sensation within the Moon-Reversal Palace, even during the current wartime; such an elixir was, for too many cultivators, a life-saving object.

War inevitably led to casualties, and injuries would cause the curses within their bodies to erupt; engaging in battle with Red Moon cultivators would also cause the opponent to trigger their curses.

Furthermore, the approach of the Red Moon star made the curses even more active; at such a time, an elixir that reduced curses by thirty percent was a holy object, and for cultivators whose curses were erupting, it was almost like bringing them back from the dead!

Especially his followers, who were even more excited; plus, Xu Qing's elixirs no longer required the cultivators of the Moon-Reversal Palace to fulfill any conditions, basically being provided for free; thus, the name Dan Jiu reached the peak of prestige in the Moon-Reversal Palace.

It had long since spread outside the Moon-Reversal Palace, becoming famous among the resistance armies of the Moon-Festival Domain; even some cultivators who were not from the Moon-Reversal Palace were familiar with the name Master Dan Jiu, and correspondingly, there were more and more speculations about the identity of Master Dan Jiu, with some saying he came from the outer domains, others saying he was a hidden powerhouse, and still others saying he might be a senior from the same era as the Heir.

Various theories emerged one after another, and even several Vice Palace Masters of the Moon-Reversal Palace had left messages for Xu Qing in the Moon-Reversal Palace, all of them extremely polite, wanting him to join their side and offering all kinds of benefits.

They even promised that as long as Dan Jiu agreed, no matter where he was, as long as it wasn't the Red Moon Temple, a powerhouse would immediately go there to escort him.

Among them, the Fourth Palace Master, who had witnessed Xu Qing and Master Sheng Luo releasing the elixir, was the most persistent, leaving messages in Xu Qing's temple every few days with an incredibly sincere attitude.

But Xu Qing did not respond.

Until the name of the Kusheng Mountain Range as a holy land spread, there was one more speculation about Dan Jiu; some analyzed that he should be in the Kusheng Mountain Range, as only such a pure land without war could allow one to refine elixirs with peace of mind.

But speculation was, after all, just speculation, and no one knew the specifics; it was precisely because of this mystery that while the name Dan Jiu caused a sensation, his followers also spontaneously organized themselves, led by that neighborly big man; while they protected the Master's reputation, they were also collecting all information about the Master, wanting to find the place where the Master was, to unite around him, and to protect him.

On this day, Xu Qing had just walked out of the small world when he received a voice transmission from the Heir.

"Xu Qing, a Vice Palace Master of the Moon-Reversal Palace, along with the cultivators of his faction, is almost at the edge of the Great Desert, and Red Moon cultivators are in pursuit; take the jade slips containing one strike each from me and Third Sister to go and provide support, and by the way, take some of those little chicks in the backyard out for a walk; they eat every day and are all getting too fat."

As he spoke, three jade slips appeared out of thin air before Xu Qing, emitting fluctuations of the Divine-Transformation realm, along with an object to control those little chicks; Xu Qing nodded upon hearing this, put away the jade slips, and came to the apothecary's backyard, looking calmly at those little chicks.

There were many powerhouses among them, the weakest being at the Nascent Soul realm, and there were several at the Spirit Storage realm, and even four at the Returning Void realm; they were all from the Yin-Yang Flower Sect that had come here, and some were caught by Fifth Grandma from who knows where, and Xu Qing did not know their origins either.

"Which of you is willing to atone for your crimes with meritorious service?" Xu Qing said indifferently.