Chapter 804

The sky, even redder!

Within the holy city, gazes and spiritual senses gathered on Xu Qing; within them, shock, awe, complexity, strangeness, and various colors emerged, finally turning into silence.

Xu Qing, with his strike, deterred all directions and proved his strength; he had taken the chief position in the first round without any argument, and for a time, no one continued to fly out of the holy city to challenge him.

It was truly because the actions Xu Qing displayed stirred up ripples of varying degrees in everyone's hearts.

If Xu Qing had acted with the methods of a cultivator, then it would have been fine, but he used the power of a god, which felt heart-shaking to people.

Although cultivators might be able to display divine arts after being in contact with gods for a long time, especially divine envoys, they could do so.

But being able to be like Xu Qing, pulling out a scene of a Void Returning fourth-stage future death and replacing reality, was still rare.

This was also the first time many cultivators had seen this in their lives, and the middle-aged Bai Ze Clan cultivator whose death scene had been replaced had an even more shocking tragedy.

At this moment, fresh blood was still uncontrollably overflowing from the corners of his mouth, his internal organs were tearing and rotting, and his divine soul was withered and dim, irreversible.

The shattering of the great world brought not only the plummeting of his cultivation base but also the withering of his life.

His body visibly aged, until he retreated a thousand feet away, and only after the emergency support of several Bai Ze Clan cultivators did he barely stabilize, but he had become an old man of the second stage of Void Returning.

His whole body was filled with dense death Qi, the sense of twilight was obvious, and there was also a lingering fear; his expression was very intense.

Ripples in his heart, after escaping death, recalling that battle, he was very clear that at that moment just now, he had already died once; if this were on the battlefield, without the protection of the holy city's rules, then he would still be facing death now.

This thought made the lingering fear on his expression spread, permeating his entire body, turning into trembling.

Facing the gaze Xu Qing now cast from outside the city, he instinctively avoided it, not daring to meet his eyes.

His heart had been deterred!

Seeing this, Xu Qing withdrew his gaze and stopped looking, though he had firmly remembered the other party's aura, preparing to find an opportunity to cut the weeds and dig up the roots later.

With this thought, Xu Qing looked at the Si'e Clan cultivator trapped by Ding Yisaner and lifted his feet, walking step by step.

Every step he took, ripples stirred in the void beneath his feet, as if walking on water, and within Ding Yisaner, misfortune was also descending; no matter how the Si'e Clan cultivator unfolded his curse techniques, it was of no avail.

All curse techniques dissipated in the misfortune; Ding Yisaner's "Divine Authority" was a type of supernatural power toward curse techniques, possessing extreme restraint.

The Si'e Clan cultivator trapped within could not escape and could only gradually wither and be forgotten under the superposition of this endless misfortune.

And Xu Qing walked over, accelerating this process.

At this moment, as his figure stepped, he was already above Ding Yisaner, and the purple moonlight of the fourth god-like state fell, shrouding Ding Yisaner, about to bless it.

But just at this moment, the falling moonlight suddenly changed direction, no longer falling, but suddenly converging in front of Xu Qing, forming a purple light screen.

The next instant, a finger stretched out from the void, was blocked, and landed on this light screen.

With a light touch, the purple light stirred ripples, actually visibly turning white, refracting a jade-like luster, and finally turning into jade.

Looking from afar, this jade luster spread rapidly; wherever it passed, the light shield formed by the purple moonlight changed accordingly.

The whole process was only a breath of time, and an arc-shaped jade shield appeared in mid-air.

Losing the power of the purple moon, it fell toward the earth; with a 'Bang', it smashed onto Ding Yisaner, and while falling apart, Ding Yisaner, which was in contact with it, actually began to jade-ify.

This scene was extremely abrupt and came with incomparable speed; Xu Qing did not have any hesitation, his gaze gathered in front, his body retreated suddenly, and his right hand raised a finger.

Immediately, Ding Yisaner, which was being jade-ified, became blurred and disappeared.

And Xu Qing, who had retreated to the distance, revealed a sharp light in his eyes, raised his head, and gazed at the area where the finger had stretched out from mid-air.

The void there also emitted a jade luster; in this light, a youth wearing a scholar's long robe, with a beautiful appearance somewhat similar to the human race, gradually revealed himself.

Finally, completely clear, he smiled at Xu Qing: "My little friends have taken a fancy to you and want you to become their kind."

This youth's voice was soft, without the slightest anger, as if stating a fact and an unchangeable future; his gaze was also gentle, and even contained some sense of closeness, as if looking at his own people.

Xu Qing remained unmoved, only a faint light flashed in his eyes; although this was the first time he had truly met this person, before this, in the First Imperial Prince's jade slip, Xu Qing had seen this person.

His mind also recalled the First Imperial Prince's introduction to this person: "Fan Shishuang, Void Returning third stage, sequence third, possesses Void Returning Great Perfection combat strength, and even has the experience of fighting to the death with an outsider great power who had just stepped into the Divine Concealing realm and successfully escaping without dying; this person is the number one heaven-chosen of the authority nation belonging to the Yueyan Upper God."

In addition to these introductions, when Xu Qing had previously checked the jade slip in detail, he also saw the recording of the other party's strike; everyone who came into contact with him would become jade.

And this Fan Shishuang also had a habit of liking to turn cultivators who were hostile to him into jade puppets, collecting them and keeping them by his side.

"Yanyue Xuantian clan, a great heaven-chosen surpassing Tuo Shishan," Xu Qing's heart rose with a sense of solemnity; the moment the other party struck just now, he felt a strong life-and-death crisis, especially that kind of jade change; he sensed the power of a god on it.

So his gaze swept across the four directions, and figures of jade puppets wearing different clothes appeared in all directions.

One by one, they were motionless, staring at Xu Qing.

"Why not satisfied? Speak up; is it default?" Fan Shishuang smiled and looked at Xu Qing, the more he looked, the more he liked it.

"Solidifying this form with jade and becoming a sculpture in my mansion is still very suitable!"

"I advise you not to struggle; if you accidentally destroy the form, that would be a pity."

"And you are not my opponent." Fan Shishuang chuckled, raised his right hand and flicked it slightly; a combat strength fluctuation of the Void Returning Great Perfection surged from his body; for a time, the sky roared and the earth trembled.

Furthermore, a storm surged on his body, connecting to the great wind raised by the earth and blowing in all directions, making the night sky twist, and vaguely one could see meteors streaking across.

The Dao marks were fine at first, but soon the number of Dao marks became more and more, finally becoming incomparably terrifying, almost connecting into one piece, turning into a meteor shower.

That unparalleled momentum, Xu Qing had not seen on any Void Returning cultivator, so he couldn't help but shrink his eyes.

Overlapping shadows appeared in the sky, permeating the firmament, like all the gods and demons of the heavens descending simultaneously.

Each one was actually lifelike, glaring at the earth and emitting terrifying pressure; this Void Returning second-stage performance was just forming the shadows of gods and demons, which Xu Qing had never heard of before.

And normally, the third stage of Void Returning would have illusory bubbles formed by divine sense, but here in Fan Shishuang, it was not so.

The bubbles were not formed by divine sense, but by those god and demon shadows; they contained the origin and death of life, and after appearing, each shattered and reformed, finally converging into a huge screen.

That was a super great world, covering the sky, affecting the void, exceeding the ordinary Void Returning realm by more than double.

Although it was also illusory, it possessed mountains and rivers within, possessed the sun and moon, existed with all living things, and possessed both rules and laws, like a real world that was continuously operating.

It seemed that it only needed this world to be a little more real to be Divine Concealing; and with the appearance of this scene, the aura emanating from Fan Shishuang made Xu Qing's heart even more solemn; this aura surpassed that middle-aged Bai Ze Clan member too much, like the bright moon and micro-stars, completely incomparable.

Although both were performances of the fourth stage of Void Returning, the gap in combat strength between them was huge.

"Ten breaths to end!" Fan Shishuang smiled slightly, a trace of evil intent appearing on his face, and he raised his right hand and pressed it lightly toward Xu Qing.

Under this press, the sky outside the city transmitted a heaven-shaking thunder; looking at it, the firmament actually emitted a jade luster, and even the earth was the same; with Xu Qing as the center, everything around and above him was flashing with jade light in this instant.

And this jade light, the moment it formed, rolled back violently, coming toward Xu Qing like a mountain toppling and a sea overturning.

A sense of crisis continued to erupt in Xu Qing's heart; the stinging pain that made his whole body and flesh tremble made Xu Qing have a feeling of facing a god.

At the critical moment, Xu Qing took a deep breath, fighting intent rising in his eyes; he also wanted to know where his limit was and how big the gap was between him and this third heaven-chosen of the Yanyue Xuantian sequence.

His right hand raised, a layer of ripples spread beneath his feet, as if becoming a water surface; it was precisely the starting move of 'Scooping the Moon from the Well'.

Within the Imperial Shengcheng, countless gazes and spiritual senses also gazed at this battle; the significance of this battle, with the appearance of Fan Shishuang, had already changed.

But just at the moment when Xu Qing and Fan Shishuang were about to touch, the Shenshan within the holy city unfolded slightly, collapsed into fragments, rolled back, and the earth cracked, turning into mud waves; Fan Shishuang's jade light instantly dimmed and was wiped away in an instant; his face was no longer as evil as before, but full of piety, kneeling down toward the Shenshan.

Not only him, but at this moment, within the holy city, all the cultivators almost all breathed rapidly, bowing their heads and kneeling toward the Shenshan.

As for Xu Qing, all his supernatural powers could not be unfolded, so he bowed toward the Shenshan.

The sound of 'Shao Shao' echoed in the firmament, permeating the earth, becoming a divine sound in the heart of every cultivator, turning into a law: "The first round has just ended; I originally wanted to give you some time to rest, but since you are all so energetic, then don't rest."

"The second round of the Great Hunt, the transmission of the Mountain and Sea Great Domain, begins immediately!" That was the voice of the Xingyan Upper God.