Chapter 663: The Secrets of Thick Earth and Huangtian

Li Zihua's voice carried a sense of weight. Although it was spoken softly, it made the Moon Palace tremble, and the sound wave it stirred up made the sea of blood around the Red Mother go still.

Xu Qing and the others also felt relieved in their hearts, each retreating rapidly.

They knew very clearly that the battle to follow was not something they could participate in; even a Core Formation... did not have this qualification.

And on the sea of blood at this moment, the Red Mother was expressionless. Two blood-colored fires rose within her hollow eyes, looking at Li Zihua, seemingly not surprised by his awakening and arrival.

"Xuanyou has left, time has changed. Li Zihua, your awakening has no meaning." The Red Mother spoke calmly, her voice not containing the slightest emotional fluctuation, without joy or sorrow.

This scene, in the eyes of different people, was different.

The image in everyone's eyes was the limit that cognition instinctively changed and conjured to be able to withstand.

For example, in the eyes of the Mingnan Shizi and the others, the Red Mother they saw was a fusion of human form and feathers, more ferocious, more evil, and more terrifying.

And the fire in her eyes was not fire; those were two squirming stars.

This was a god. Because their life level was too high, in the eyes of all living beings, gods had countless appearances.

So once a god wanted to destroy the world, it was incomparably simple; she only needed to reflect her true appearance into the eyes of all living beings, and then death would descend.

From this point, one could also see the terror of the God's Remnant Face, because no matter what cultivation base the ten thousand races had, the appearance of it in their eyes was the same.

And at this moment, the Red Mother's voice fell into the ears of Xu Qing and the others, turning into booming thunder, rolling in their hearts and minds, causing everyone to lose all power to resist in an instant.

The Mingnan Shizi and the others each unfolded methods to make themselves barely withstand it.

Xu Qing did not hesitate at all, taking out a lump of mud for the first time and holding it in his hand.

This was what the Mud Fox had left for him.

The Captain's side also took out a strand of hair rapidly. This was the token of the Moon Flame Upper God, although the other party had come and gone.

But the Captain had always kept this hair.

Only Li Zihua did not need any resistance, standing silently in the Moon Palace, looking at the Red Mother before him. After a long while, his voice came out gently.

"The mission remains!"

These four words, for the Red Mother, seemed to be able to form a certain stimulation.

Thus, the next instant, more blood flowed from the Red Mother's body, the thorn winding around her tightened, and within the countless flowers of the other shore blooming on the sea of blood behind her, countless versions of her had their expressions turn into resentment, emitting a low roar.

"Mission? Is it the mission of Huangtian, or the mission of Thick Earth?"

"Li Zihua, have you forgotten what happened in Huangtian back then?"

"We were born as gods. Who was it that sealed our ancestors and caused later generations of descendants to lose their divine positions?"

Li Zihua closed his eyes for a long time, and he shook his head.

"I have not forgotten."

The Red Mother shone with blood-red light. As the red light rose to the sky, her body took a step toward Li Zihua.

"Who was it that raised the so-called Heavenly Dao on our divine soil to suppress us? And who was it that imprisoned us beneath the Wanggu Continent, building a world of cultivators on our divine soil?"

Following the echoing voice, the Red Mother's appearance in Xu Qing's eyes changed.

Her original beautiful woman appearance was currently shattering, and blood-colored feathers were gradually replacing flesh and blood.

And her words were still continuing.

"Li Zihua, I chose to become a god, and I was not wrong. You were the same as me when you left back then, but why did you later extinguish your divine fire and betray our bloodline!"

"You came from Huangtian, yet you became Thick Earth!"

"I came from Huangtian, and I still represent Huangtian!"

After the Red Mother finished these last words, she had already appeared before Li Zihua. In Xu Qing's eyes, her body changed boomed, the woman's appearance disappeared completely, and she returned to the terrifying flesh and blood from the very beginning.

And at this moment, all the feathers spread rapidly outward, revealing the interior of the thing composed of flesh and blood feathers. There... was a massive eye hole, without an eyeball, only infinite blood water currently flowing out from there.

Facing the Red Mother's words and the approach of her figure, Li Zihua was silent. In the end, he emitted a sigh, his right hand lifting and pressing toward the sky.

Under this press, the sky shattered, turning into countless fragments and falling.

And every fragment, in the process of falling, was changing, further forming heaven-shaking and earth-shattering auras. Afterward... they also conjured countless illusory shadows.

Within them were sun, moon, and stars, dragon and phoenix beasts, and even more various ancient spirits. Even within them, Xu Qing even saw a Jin Wu.

Following their appearance and the eruption of their auras, a fluctuation unique to Imperial-level cultivation techniques rose from the bodies of these fragments formed by illusory shadows.

They were all Imperial-level cultivation techniques, containing ten thousand races, and the number was no less than ten thousand.

At this moment, with a wave of Li Zihua's hand, they were summoned.

The moment they appeared, following the eruption of their auras, the origin of these ten thousand Imperial-level cultivation techniques was displayed. In the blink of an eye... within each Imperial-level cultivation technique phantom, as if a seal had been undone, taboos appeared.

Pieces of weapons, items, and even the destructive spear Xu Qing had felt within the Jin Wu were all revealed in the sky now.

These were Taboo Weapons!

Their appearance erupted with terrifying fluctuations, and afterward, they charged and killed toward the Red Mother!

Back then, from within the Jin Wu's body, Xu Qing had already felt the secrets of Imperial-level cultivation techniques. He knew that every Imperial-level cultivation technique was actually a seal, sealing things that the Heavenly Dao did not allow to appear.

Now, seeing it with his own eyes, his heart and mind were filled with turbulent waves. Such a divine ability was unimaginable; even Core Formation could not master it.

This was the heaven-shaking power that only a Sovereign could erupt with.

And whether it was the Red Mother's move or Sovereign Li Zihua's counterattack, both far exceeded the scope of everyone's cognition.

Thus, the next instant, Xu Qing and the others each spat out blood and retreated one after another, their expressions all horrified.

The images before their eyes also appeared with changes in different degrees of endurance.

The world reflected in Xu Qing's eyes no longer had Li Zihua, nor did it have the Red Mother.

That shattered sky was now replaced by a massive painting. This painting was composed of two colors, red and white.

These two colors intersected and were clearly distinct, rotating in the sky to form a massive vortex.

In the center of this vortex was an opened white eye. It had no pupil and was replaced by a blood-colored heart.

At this moment, the heart was beating, emitting a sound like heaven's thunder.

And around the eye grew countless eyelashes. These eyelashes were like tentacles, constantly spreading and swaying. Sometimes, when they touched each other, they would form blurry shadows composed of a third color.

That was black, like a shadow. Their shapes were irregular, and often the moment they appeared, they would devour each other.

This was the divine battle in Xu Qing's eyes.

Because this battle exceeded his status, in his eyes, the battle between Sovereign Li Zihua and the Red Mother was like an incomparably abstract painting.

The red in the painting represented the Red Mother, the white represented Li Zihua, and the third color, which Xu Qing did not understand, seemed to be the shadows of Li Zihua and the Red Mother.

This made Xu Qing think of his own shadow.

"Little A-Qing, remember the image you see. This is the collision of the peak of the two life levels of cultivators and gods."

The Captain, beside Xu Qing, while holding the Moon Flame hair tightly, looked at the sky with obsession and muttered.

"One side is the manifestation of the cultivation path cultivated to the extreme. The other side is the source of the great catastrophe of the Wanggu Continent that chose to become a god."

"The former's cultivation is a path toward the peak level of life. After reaching the extreme, cultivators are crowned with multiple titles; some universes call them Venerables, and some call them Immortals."

On the Wanggu Continent, this type of peak cultivator is called a Sovereign.

"This is the yearning of a cultivator's life, and also the longing they dream of."

The Captain's voice fell into Xu Qing's ears, carrying some sense of time and containing some sense of vicissitudes.

"Little Junior Brother, do you know? Actually, on the Wanggu Continent, there is an even more ancient legend..."

"A legend?" Xu Qing's heart and mind moved.

"In the legend, a long, long time ago, the Wanggu Continent was not like it is now. There were no cultivators, no rules and laws, and naturally no Heavenly Dao. And cultivators came from the lower realm."

"The peak cultivators of the lower realm, after reaching the realm of Immortal, roamed through countless universes and worlds, and no existence could pose a threat to an Immortal. They controlled all rules, understood all origins, traveled through any space-time, changed all things, and could also create all living beings."

Xu Qing's heart and mind shook upon hearing this.

The Captain looked at the sky, still muttering.

"Whether it is an Immortal or a Sovereign, to a certain extent, they belong to the immortal and indestructible, living as long as heaven, and their thoughts and desires have also changed. What they pursue is the Dao, the pioneering after the end of this cultivation path."

"And according to different experiences, different cognitions, and different ideals, their pioneering is different. Some have already walked very, very far, while others are still marking time in place."

"So, in the past era, the only thing that could threaten an Immortal was themselves."

"Until, following their progress... they broke the boundary wall and came from the lower realm to the upper realm. Thus, gods, an existence of another extreme of life level, appeared in the cognition of Immortals."

"At that moment, everything changed!"

"They were told that these countless universes and countless worlds actually never belonged to cultivators."

"Whether it is the past, present, or future, everything, all definitions, ultimately come from gods."

"It was the gods who divided the world into upper and lower."

"Lower realm Thick Earth, upper realm Huangtian."

"A frog in a well, at this time, became the most suitable metaphor for a cultivator."

"Thus, war... followed."

"That was the battle between Immortals and gods, the battle between the lower realm and the upper realm, and even more so... the battle between Thick Earth and Huangtian."

When the Captain spoke softly to this point, he paused.

Xu Qing instinctively transmitted his divine sense.

"The ending?"

"That battle... the Immortals won, but they also lost." The Captain muttered.

"Huangtian sank, became a taboo and was sealed, the Heavenly Dao was raised, and the rules were redefined. This was the manifestation of the Immortals' victory, but it was also at that time that the Immortals from the lower realm learned a desperate truth."

"The infinitely large Huangtian was just a Great Divine Realm of a god. And in this vast upper realm, such Great Divine Realms... were many, many. Huangtian was just the tip of the iceberg, and far from the strongest."

"Here, it is indeed, belonging to gods."

Speaking to this point, the Captain turned his head, looking into Xu Qing's eyes.

"And Li Zihua and the Red Mother, they... both came from Huangtian." ===== CHAPTER 664 =====