Chapter 818

Between heaven and earth, ripples like waves spread out continuously, affecting all directions.

Xu Qing's entire body emitted countless gray mists.

This source power from the Shaman allowed him to withstand the pressure at such a distance and look back one last time.

After one glance, Xu Qing immediately withdrew his gaze and sped forward without looking back.

Looking from afar, one could see thick gray mist filling the area around Xu Qing, billowing and covering the sky and sun. Under its blessing, his speed became increasingly astonishing.

More than ten breaths later, when Xu Qing's figure disappeared at the edge of the sky, the mist here had actually decreased by a full thirty percent.

To be precise, it was not a decrease, but the thirty percent of mist at the core seemed to possess extra life, flowing toward the distance.

As Xu Qing continued his journey, this flow became increasingly rapid, as if the overall mist of the Jiuli Forbidden Zone had become two parts.

Forming a convective wind, it whistled through heaven and earth until, two hours later, at the edge of the Jiuli Forbidden Zone, the mist suddenly became violent, spreading outward in wisps, breaking through the boundaries of Jiuli and appearing in the outside world.

Very quickly, a huge mass of mist rushed out from within Jiuli.

This mass of mist was terrifying in scope, filled with a massive amount of gray mist; because the mist was too thick, it even formed a huge gray vortex.

If any cultivator were nearby and saw this, they would definitely be horrified, and a thunderous roar would surely be stirred in their hearts.

The momentum of this mist vortex was simply too heaven-shaking.

At the same time, this was the first time since the formation of the Jiuli Forbidden Zone that mist had appeared outside. Before this, the mist of Jiuli possessed boundaries and would not leak out at all.

Until today, it had changed.

And within this mist vortex, there existed a figure; it was none other than Xu Qing. He had successfully left the Jiuli Forbidden Zone!

Although those who enter this Jiuli Forbidden Zone would form a causal bond with the gray mist and be unable to leave, he followed his own thoughts and left together with the mist.

As for the upheaval at the core, he had no time to consider it now. The moment he appeared outside, Xu Qing's speed surged again, whistling forward.

He needed to find a place as soon as possible to recover from his injuries.

Furthermore, he could not yet store the gray mist around his body into his body, so he was extremely conspicuous.

If this continued, it would not be conducive to hiding.

And in his current state, if he encountered a great genius like Ji Dongzi, it would be very disadvantageous.

He needed time to completely retract the gray mist.

Thus, Xu Qing's body swayed, descending directly from the sky. The moment he landed, he raised his right foot and stomped fiercely; his figure instantly merged into the earth, and as he sank continuously, he also brought the gray mist outside his body into the ground.

Until he sank to a position of more than a thousand zhang, the gray mist merged, and looking from the outside, there were not many traces left. Only then did Xu Qing breathe half a sigh of relief in his heart.

But he knew that this place was still relatively unsafe because it was too close to Jiuli, so gritting his teeth and persisting, he continued to move forward underground until, a day later, he finally found a place suitable for hiding.

That was a mountain range within a rainforest.

This mountain range could better hide the gray mist, forming a natural barrier.

Thus, in the underground beneath this mountain range, Xu Qing dug out a cave and sat cross-legged.

"Continuing to look for a hiding place has no meaning; I am hiding from other cultivators participating in the Great Hunt, not the three gods."

"If the three gods want to find me, then within this Mountain-Sea Great Domain, whether I hide or not is the same."

Xu Qing knew this point very clearly. After weighing it in his heart at this moment, he closed his eyes, and the purple crystal within his body emitted purple light, enveloping his entire body and beginning to recover.

Time passed slowly. Three days later, Xu Qing, who was sitting cross-legged there, opened his eyes, a brilliant purple light shining in them. The wounds on his body had completely healed, but the injuries inside his body had only recovered a small portion.

This time, his injuries were too severe; even the purple crystal needed some time to allow him to recover as before.

However, in terms of combat power, Xu Qing now possessed it, so the next step was to store this gray mist into the purple crystal...

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes; he knew the gray mist did not follow him out, but followed the nine skulls of Jiuli.

Thus, after pondering for a moment, he closed his eyes and merged his mind into the purple crystal, attempting various methods to store the gray mist.

This was a process of exploring the Jiuli skulls, so it was not fast, but as Xu Qing researched these nine skulls within the purple crystal, the gray mist permeating the soil around him slowly gathered toward him, coming from all directions in wisps, drilling into his body, and surging along his flesh and blood into the purple crystal on his chest.

It was just that the process was still somewhat slow until two days later, as the light of the purple crystal shone violently, Xu Qing's eyes opened suddenly.

"Finally, I have merged my imprint into these nine skulls, barely becoming one with them, and they no longer repel me!" Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, raised his right hand, placed it on his chest, and spoke in a low voice.

"Shaman Source!"

As soon as his words were spoken, within the shining purple light around him, the nine skulls appeared abruptly; while each was ferocious, they also emitted a sense of being of the same origin as Xu Qing.

"Return!"

Xu Qing's seal-forming right hand pressed outward.

The gray mist wandering around him paused instantly, and in the next breath, it became violent, drilling crazily out of the soil from all directions and merging rapidly toward the nine skulls.

The mist became less and less.

The nine skulls actually grew gray flesh and blood. Until finally, when all the mist had merged into these nine skulls, their appearance also underwent huge changes, becoming... blood-flesh lanterns!

These nine lanterns were gray in color and appeared to be composed of flesh and blood, but in reality, their essence was still gray mist.

At this moment, they floated around Xu Qing, rotating slowly within the purple light.

Xu Qing gazed at them; he could clearly perceive the sense of same-origin between himself and these nine lanterns formed by the Jiuli skulls, but this connection was very faint and could be wiped away and stripped at any time.

In the final analysis, this was something he had sealed using the purple crystal, not a true fusion with his own body, and thus it did not completely belong to him.

It counted as half an external object, and at the same time, because of the appearance of the ninth skull, the memory fragments in his mind were completed. A relatively complete history of that era was reflected into Xu Qing's sea of consciousness.

It was not much different from his previous guesses and judgments; overall, this was a story of betrayal.

As for the subsequent history, it was not in the memory fragments of the skulls.

After all, the memory of this skull stopped at the moment of its death.

And why that Great Administrator did this, there was no answer in the memory fragments. Also, how the three Sun, Moon, and Star gods appeared and when they appeared, there was also no answer!

Xu Qing pondered; the subsequent history, looking from the existing clues, was actually not difficult to guess.

The three gods might have originally been in the same camp as the spider god, or they might have appeared later and plundered everything here.

Regardless of which it was, it was likely that one day, a vast divine mountain appeared above the Xuantian Great Shaman Clan.

This mountain descended, and the three gods walked out, high and mighty.

Also because of their arrival, the Xuantian Great Shaman Clan was renamed the Yanyue Xuantian Clan, and thus there was the subsequent history and the current glory.

Looking from this ending, Xu Qing could not tell for a moment whether this was good or bad for this clan.

To say it was bad, yet this clan not only continued but reached an astonishing height.

To say it was good, but the backstabbing hidden in history was ultimately a betrayal that made one sigh.

Especially in the current era, where Jiuli was uglified into the mount of that Great Administrator, and the fierce beasts transformed from the bloodline of the Great Shamans who gave everything for this clan back then met the same fate.

This kind of history fabricated by later generations made Xu Qing feel emotional.

"Only by living does one have the qualifications to write history."

"This is the beautification of his own affairs by that Great Administrator, and it is also what the gods are willing to see."

Xu Qing's mind recalled the three gods' final suppression of that spider shrine, and then thought of the captain's smile when he checked the Jiuli Forbidden Zone in the Holy City.

At that time, the captain took out a shrimp broken into two halves; Xu Qing understood that "shrimp" (xia) meant "blind" (xia), meaning fabrication.

Xu Qing shook his head.

When the Sun, Moon, and Star gods appeared in Yanyue and whether they had any connection to this conspiracy, this question had no meaning for Xu Qing.

"Now, for me, the biggest thing is how to transform the Jiuli sealed in the purple crystal into my combat power and improve my cultivation base."

"Let them truly merge with me!"

Xu Qing's expression was decisive; he already had the answer in his heart as to how to achieve this.

"I currently have three divine treasuries and one Emperor Sword secret treasury; I am still missing one to reach great perfection..."

"Originally, it could have been formed in the Red Mother form, but there were hidden dangers. Now, if I refine Jiuli into a secret treasury, everything will be solved. As the peak of the Shaman Dao, Jiuli can be valued so much by the spider god, which shows that its status is definitely not weak compared to the Red Mother, and it is highly likely to be superior. Using it as my fifth secret treasury is very suitable; this is a Shaman Treasury."

"After becoming my Shaman Treasury, it will naturally be completely one with me and will not be easily stripped away, and the mist of Jiuli will also become my means!"

A dark glint appeared in Xu Qing's eyes; he felt the Shaman Source gray mist extremely strongly and knew how overbearing its intent to repel gods and cultivation bases was.

Thinking of this, Xu Qing stood up, his expression solemn, and bowed toward Jiuli.

This bow was for the cause and effect, and out of respect for the glory!

Afterward, he sat down, closed his eyes, and began to refine!

At the same time, deep within the Jiuli Forbidden Zone, some distance away from him, the three gods' suppression of the shrine had also ended.

As the three gods' shrine dissipated, the silt on the ground returned to normal, and the mist around it flowed, covering all traces.

Beneath the silt, the seal of the spider god in the shrine became even thicker, and its final aura seemed to show signs of extinguishing.

And the mountain of ashes beneath it remained as usual, without any changes.

Only, deep within this mountain, where outsiders could not explore, a sigh echoed faintly.

That was a figure hidden within the mountain of ashes; this figure emitted a sense of vicissitudes and time, ancient to the extreme.

He was motionless, like a corpse.

But at this moment, he opened his eyes.

If any Yanyue Xuantian Clan cultivator were here and clearly saw this person's appearance, they would definitely be extremely shocked.

Because his appearance was exactly the same as that unified Great Administrator of the Yanyue Xuantian Clan who had fallen for endless years!