Chapter 770: Corpse Fire Spreading Across the Plains

The great hall was silent.

No one spoke, only the lingering echo of the Fifth Imperial Prince's voice.

The Fifth Imperial Prince's behavior did not provoke resentment from others; after all, he had spoken directly, not with surface calmness and hidden conspiracies, but in an open and honorable way to issue the challenge.

Furthermore, his words were reasonable and well-founded, and he acknowledged the Seventh Imperial Prince's mistakes and death.

It was indeed as he said; he was, after all, the Seventh Imperial Prince's own brother. If he remained indifferent upon learning of his brother's death, there would definitely be a blockage in his heart.

Especially his statement that family affection formed clan affection, which made it hard for others to say much.

Thus, even the Human Emperor chose to remain silent, clearly leaving the choice to Xu Qing.

Xu Qing looked down at the Fifth Imperial Prince.

The Fifth Imperial Prince's eyes were bright. The moment they met Xu Qing's gaze, black flames rose within them, filled with ominous and deathly intent, as if about to erupt.

But it was clearly restrained by him as he stared at Xu Qing.

It was the true path of the Dry Flame Demon Art that Xu Qing had learned from the little butterfly!

The remaining bone chains rushed directly toward Xu Qing's true body sitting in the distance. Their speed was fast, arriving in an instant. They did not entangle, but circled rapidly around Xu Qing, forming a vortex.

Soon, the magma burst open, the flames dimmed, and the countless fragments of rock, amidst this constant crashing, pressed the Fifth Imperial Prince's body down.

This fire was golden!

But just as this illusory shadow approached, Xu Qing's God-Spirit state flickered and instantly surged. Threads of soul silk danced, forming both the first and second God-Spirit states, fusing them into one.

And the rapidly rising magma seemed to want to fill this space.

Wherever it passed, the uneven ground dissipated, eventually appearing as... a flat surface.

"Xu Qing, my brother was wrong and deserved to die."

A cold light flashed in the Fifth Imperial Prince's eyes. His body rushed out, his hands waving as his aura spread, stirring up a sea of magma fire to resist.

After speaking, his battle intent grew more obvious, waiting for Xu Qing's answer.

The sound of rumbling echoed, the flames went wild, and their form changed, unexpectedly turning into rolling magma in the blink of an eye, rising constantly.

And within this magma, a white altar was slowly rising.

Most of it was wrapped around this land, suppressing the soul silk within, preventing the spreading soul silk from leaving.

But Xu Qing's God-Spirit state arrived with a boom, landing directly on the filled-in rubble. He raised his right hand and pressed it hard against the ground. The God-Spirit state body expanded, turning into countless soul silk threads, covering the earth.

The two sides collided directly. After each blurred, Xu Qing's God-Spirit state recovered, while the illusory shadow dissipated.

The sea of fire gathered, rushing toward the oil lamp.

As it spun constantly, it unexpectedly formed a black oil lamp, with flames burning on it.

That was also the aura of a god, as if the corpse oil had been transformed into the thoughts of the deceased under the Fifth Imperial Prince's divine ability. After appearing, it rushed straight toward Xu Qing's God-Spirit state.

That was clearly lamp oil refined from a god's corpse!

Holding this lamp, the Fifth Imperial Prince took a deep breath and blew at the wick. In an instant, the lamp's fire surged, and the flames within spread rapidly outward, swaying constantly, triggering the entire sea of fire spreading in this space.

Soul silk threads spread over it, forming a large number of sealing runes that were shining.

Between heaven and earth, only Xu Qing sitting there and the Fifth Imperial Prince standing below remained.

Xu Qing's third God-Spirit state also possessed the same combat power. A simple contact between the two unexpectedly ended in a draw.

"The Suppressing Flame King's Dao?"

Thus, he closed his eyes and spoke calmly.

And the Fifth Imperial Prince's role was balance and control.

This lamp had a primitive design and carried a nether intent; it was clearly not for the living, but an object for offering to the dead. The lamp oil on it was very turbid and emitted an ancient aura, with an even stronger sense of divinity.

It was as if the place they were in had been opened up separately and could be infinitely large.

"Yanyue Sacrifice, Altar Ground Rises, Seal Divine Thoughts, Suppress Heavenly Heart!"

But... his expression was very calm. He opened his eyes and looked at the Fifth Imperial Prince.

And the entire Imperial Palace changed at this moment, as if the stars had shifted; the Imperial Palace... was gone.

Then, three more appeared.

On the altar, an object was being offered.

It turned into a large amount of rubble, like countless meteors, crashing toward the magma sea of fire.

That was a black ash urn!

It had a somewhat decayed seal on it. While the sense of eeriness was incredibly strong, a thick, ominous feeling also spread out.

The Fifth Imperial Prince, who looked like a giant of fire, suddenly retreated.

The Seventh Imperial Prince's cultivation was at the third stage of Void Returning!

While Xu Qing was lost in thought, a thought moved in his mind. His God-Spirit state formed outside flickered and rushed toward the firmament, gazing at the altar below, his right hand raised.

Eventually, the entire magma sea of fire, along with the altar inside, was nearly filled.

With his momentum surging, he raised his right hand and pointed at the incoming illusory shadow.

Until he retreated a hundred feet away, the Fifth Imperial Prince stopped, suddenly raised his head, and pinched a seal with both hands. Half of his long hair turned gray in an instant, the blackness on it falling off and forming a mist before him.

"Good."

The sound of rumbling shook the heavens and the earth.

The Fifth Imperial Prince's voice echoed calmly.

Even though the Fifth Imperial Prince attacked to kill, he still underestimated Xu Qing's God-Spirit state. While pinching a seal, his God-Spirit state unexpectedly caused three mountain peaks to appear in the firmament again.

Heterogenous matter spread, the surroundings blurred, and while the sense of divinity was obvious, this third God-Spirit state became a separate existence, detaching from Xu Qing. One step ahead of Xu Qing, it collided with the rushing Fifth Imperial Prince.

Xu Qing had never seen this kind of divine ability; it felt to him like both a spell and something formed by fusing a magic treasure.

The temperature rose suddenly, the flames surged constantly, and the Fifth Imperial Prince's figure grew tall in an instant, his entire aura erupting, his cultivation power displayed to the limit as he stepped toward Xu Qing.

A mysterious power suddenly radiated from these bone chains. It was unknown how it was done, but its intent was to borrow the power of Xu Qing's soul silk at one end, turning it into a pull to extract Xu Qing's true soul.

As the Fifth Imperial Prince's voice echoed, his figure unexpectedly appeared in mid-air—not one, but eight figures. After each appeared, they raised their hands to grab the middle section of the bone chains connecting Xu Qing to the soul silk on the ground.

"This battle has nothing to do with our status; I am just an older brother acting for his younger brother!"

Retreating rapidly at this moment, the Fifth Imperial Prince let out a low roar, and with both hands, he pressed the shattered oil lamp hard against the ground.

No matter how the Fifth Imperial Prince tried to block it, he ultimately could not extinguish it all.

The black armor on his body also began to burn at this moment, and the whole person became like a giant of fire, his momentum like a rainbow, capable of swallowing mountains and rivers.

"But... I will extract your soul, take one of your three souls and seven spirits, and place it in my Corpse God Oil Lamp to burn. Whenever you think you can defeat me, come and take it back!"

At the same time, he exerted force and pulled hard.

The moment they approached, threads of soul silk flew out from Xu Qing's body, weaving outside his body. In the blink of an eye, they formed the third God-Spirit state, with crystal as bone, soul silk as flesh, and a blood-colored cloak flying as a purple moon rose.

Almost the moment Xu Qing's words were spoken, the battle intent in the Fifth Imperial Prince's eyes could no longer be suppressed and erupted with a boom, the black sea of fire spreading rumblingly in all directions.

In an instant, overlapping shadows appeared on Xu Qing's body, his soul revealed, forming a trend of wanting to detach from his body.

The oil lamp in the Fifth Imperial Prince's hand emitted a shattering sound, with seven or eight cracks appearing, and fresh blood overflowed from his mouth, but the battle intent in his eyes grew even stronger.

The moment the sound was emitted, the sealed ground shook instantly, and over a hundred areas collapsed. Bone chains formed from ash broke through the soil from within.

One mountain of fire, one mountain of frost, one mountain of blood red.

This caused the Fifth Imperial Prince's black flames to spread extremely far in an instant, surrounding this place and forming an endless sea of black fire.

"When he was young, every time he was bullied by other Imperial Princes, it was I who solved it for him."

All crashed down, all collapsed on their own, turning into more fragments.

Just at this moment.

Following the echo of his words, and following the shattered oil lamp touching the ground, it collapsed on its own, falling apart. All the lamp oil within spread, and the sea of fire in the entire space was infinitely enhanced.

Once the three mountains appeared, the magma sea of fire below seemed to be swept by a gale, appearing with ripples.

Then, three more.

But before he could get close, Xu Qing's God-Spirit state pinched a seal and pointed, and the three mountain peaks appeared with spiderweb-like traces, unexpectedly collapsing on their own, falling apart.

Eventually, it unexpectedly formed a flaming figure.

It just looked uneven, with the Fifth Imperial Prince's low roar echoing within, and many places were also churning, as if they could burst out at any time.

"Xu Qing, you were negligent."

"And since you killed him, I want to fight you!"

Following the violent downward motion of his God-Spirit state's right hand, the three mountains descended instantly from the sky, carrying terrifying pressure and vast momentum, crashing toward the magma sea of fire.

But all of this, in Xu Qing's perception, was a bit too simple; the power of the ash urn didn't seem to have been revealed.

Time passed breath by breath, and Xu Qing felt some ripples in his heart. He thought of some scenes from his childhood; once upon a time, he also thought he had an older brother like this...

A tyrannical remnant thought spread from this ash urn, locking onto Xu Qing's God-Spirit state.

And Xu Qing's third God-Spirit state was also retreating at this moment.

Immediately, the firmament churned, the sky of this space blurred, and three hanging giant mountains were directly hallucinated.

Every step made this space rumble and tremble, eventually becoming faster and faster, turning into a flaming meteor, rushing toward Xu Qing.

This method was deployed by Xu Qing's God-Spirit state a full ten times!

Descending in an instant.

"Xu Qing, as a Domain Venerable, you are of no small significance to the Human Race, so I will not kill you."

This figure's form was ever-changing—sometimes human, sometimes beast, sometimes eerie, sometimes blurred. It had no specific form, only the aura radiating from within was shocking.

"Not a bad spell."

"Since you want to extract my soul, then I will try it too."

Xu Qing said, and within this vortex of bone chains, he slowly raised his right hand, pressed slightly toward this space, and spoke lightly.

"This world of heaven and earth can be seen as a well..." ===== CHAPTER 771 =====