Chapter 910: Beyond Time

In mid-air, the Prince Ziqing Crown Prince spoke in a gentle tone.

Dressed in a purple robe, his long purple hair fluttering, even the pupils of his eyes were of the same pale purple hue as he gazed at Xu Qing, who was caught by the hand of fate and bound before him.

His expression was soft, his eyes filled with warmth.

Just like that older brother in the Shi Wushuang City of years past, who was once perfect in Xu Qing's eyes.

"Is it possible that this is the truth?"

The Prince Ziqing Crown Prince spoke softly!

His voice merged into the wind and drifted into the passage of time, as if blowing toward the Shi Wushuang City buried within time itself!

"Little brother, I bear no ill will!"

"

"This hand of fate is a gift I bestow upon you; it is formed from the destiny of the Prince Ziqing Upper Kingdom after its return!"

As soon as the Prince Ziqing Crown Prince spoke, the massive hand that seemed to contain fate and was binding Xu Qing suddenly dissipated, transforming into a giant purple dragon that circled around Xu Qing amidst the churning aura of destiny!

"And I have come here today... to take you home!"

"

The Prince Ziqing Upper Kingdom has already been retrieved by me from the netherworld and has now descended upon the Heaven-Swallowing Domain; countless subjects,

and ministers have all returned!

"They are waiting for me, waiting for me to return, to sit upon the throne and ascend as the Prince Ziqing Upper Emperor!"

"And you, as my younger brother in this lifetime, share a deep karmic bond with me, so I wish to take you back so that the moment I become the Prince Ziqing Upper Emperor, you may inherit the title of Prince Ziqing Crown Prince, a name renowned throughout the Eastern Wanggu Continent!"

"This title, this name that was once brilliant and is now glorious again, I intend to gift to you!"

"Once you accept it, under the current destiny of the Prince Ziqing Upper Kingdom and with my empowerment, you can ignite the divine fire in one step, transcending your current cultivation base to become a god!"

"Little brother, are you willing to accept?"

The Prince Ziqing Crown Prince's voice descended upon the world... like peals of thunder piercing the firmament, and as it rumbled in all directions, a sense of fate also descended upon the world!

Witnessing the truth of his words, witnessing the firmness of his resolve!

Everything he said was true!

Heaven and earth could bear witness!

Furthermore, while speaking, the Prince Ziqing Crown Prince raised his right hand and pressed it against his own brow, as if extracting something, yet nothing appeared!

But at this instant, as that invisible object was extracted, it seemed as if the Prince Ziqing Crown Prince had lost something important!

That was his name!

The Prince Ziqing Crown Prince's name had been extracted by him and placed into his words, awaiting Xu Qing's choice.

And at this moment, the purple dragon of destiny circling Xu Qing also let out a heaven-shaking roar, as if it would merge into Xu Qing's body the moment he nodded, helping him ignite the divine fire and become a god!

This scene caused the hearts of all the cultivators watching to ripple with shock!

Chen Chen Erniu, inside the residence, was also stunned, then gritted his teeth and roared in a low voice!

"A-Qing, don't believe him, he's a liar!"

Xu Qing looked at the Prince Ziqing Crown Prince before him!

The Prince Ziqing Crown Prince also looked at Xu Qing with gentleness!

At this moment, in the sky above the imperial palace, only the two of them remained!

In all directions, everything was distorted!

As for the rumbling from the Gate of the Netherworld in the Human Domain, it was still echoing, and the reflection of those two lights caused a dense spread of foreign substances!

But the rumbling sound did not continue to expand, and was gradually diminishing!

Clearly, the Empress and the five corpse gods of the human race were successfully suppressing it!

The time of one incense stick was almost up!

Yet the Prince Ziqing Crown Prince, in both expression and tone, showed no sense of urgency, as if for him, Xu Qing's choice at this moment was the most important thing!

And in the flow of time, he had seen countless scenes, in which the majority of endings involved Xu Qing accepting his name and becoming the Prince Ziqing Crown Prince!

Although there were a few where he refused, in the end, through his different responses, he still accepted it!

The ending, in fact, had already been destined in time the moment he spoke of the gift!

Prince Ziqing's gaze was tender!

Xu Qing was silent; the other's words surprised him, and as his gaze met the Prince Ziqing Crown Prince's, ripples of childhood memories stirred in his heart!

After a long while, he did not state his choice, but instead spoke

in a low voice!

"I do not believe your explanation!"

"And I have a guess of my own; please verify it for me: during that cruel, fragmented time of mine, did something strange happen after I was shattered?"

Xu Qing looked calmly at Prince Ziqing, at this brother from his memories, and spoke slowly!

"If this guess is true, then what exactly happened after I was shattered that made you cut away that period of time, preventing it from being revealed to the world!"

"And you even had to replace that cut-away time with gentle memories!"

"So that I would not notice anything, and in the days that followed, I would mistake the gentleness in my memories for the truth!"

Xu Qing's voice echoed in the world of the two, drifting into the Prince Ziqing Crown Prince's ears!

This was another interpretation of the same event!

The gentleness on the Prince Ziqing Crown Prince's face slowly dissipated!

Looking at the brother before him, Xu Qing continued softly!

"I have also been thinking about your purpose in sending that stitched doll; until that guess emerged more and more in my heart, I thought of a possibility: the doll... is a key!"

Xu Qing rarely spoke so much to anyone, but today was different, and the person he faced was even more so!

"A key to open fate, just like how you previously plundered Shopkeeper Zhao's life-pattern!"

Xu Qing took a deep breath, staring at the Prince Ziqing Crown Prince, who had shed his gentleness and was now exuding an inexplicable aura!

"Back then, when I was shattered, did you see something, or was it your need, or perhaps your fear, that forced you to cut it away and use gentleness as a replacement, like a seal."

"And today, you believe the time is right, which is why you have appeared here!"

"As for having me inherit the name of Prince Ziqing Crown Prince, it makes me even more certain of my guess, because if I agree, then in the future, will the soul within this body be me, or"

"As for letting me inherit the name of Crown Prince Prince Ziqing, it only confirmed my suspicions further, because if I were to agree, then the soul within this body in the future—would it be me, or..."

"Although I am not sure of your true purpose, this method of weirdly possessing someone through a name leaves me with only one answer!"

"Within my soul, there exists something you want to obtain but cannot, so you have no choice but to do this!"

"Am I right, my brother!"

Xu Qing spoke calmly!

Prince Ziqing's eyes narrowed!

The next instant, the wind blew across the world, brushing between the two, lifting their hair, and as the sunlight fell,

it separated into a colorful, mottled cascade, and amidst the falling light, a terrifying and highly unstable fluctuation suddenly rose from Xu Qing's body.

This fluctuation contained destruction and affected fate, causing the heavens and earth to change color and the winds and clouds in all directions to churn!

That was the aura of self-detonation!

At this instant, Xu Qing did not hesitate to... do something that shocked and surprised everyone!

He chose to self-detonate, making himself shattered just as he had been back then!

This was his answer to the Prince Ziqing Crown Prince!

And he also wanted to know what exactly existed within his soul!

"Back then, Shengyunzi's father, Chu Tianqun, once used the divine art 'Blank Slate' on me, attempting to erase all karma from my soul, but in the end, he wailed in horror..."

"Back then, Sheng Qing Yunzi's father, Chu Tianqun, once cast the divine art 'Blank Slate' upon me, attempting to erase all karma within my spiritual soul, but in the end, he wailed in horror..."

The power of the self-detonation enveloped the world; amidst this storm of destruction, Xu Qing murmured in his heart!

Although he did not know the specifics of Prince Ziqing's goal, now, combining everything, he had guessed the karma!

But this did not affect his plan!

How could he have no preparations after seeing Prince Ziqing in the Imperial Capital? That was not his character!

In fact, ever since the first time he saw the Prince Ziqing Crown Prince in this Imperial Capital, he had secretly communicated with Seventh Master,

laying out a plan targeting Prince Ziqing!

The core of this plan was to exceed the scope of Prince Ziqing's control over time!

To do something that the other party had not seen in the flow of time!

Thus, self-detonation was the only act Xu Qing could think of that was beyond his scope!

Seventh Master also approved of this!

And the Prince Ziqing Crown Prince's expression changed drastically at this moment!

Since arriving here, he had always been gentle, but at this instant, for the first time, a violent change appeared on his face; his pupils contracted, and ripples appeared in his heart!

Xu Qing's choice exceeded his expectations!

This was not in the time he had seen.

At the same time, in the Nanhuang Continent, far from the Human Imperial Capital and across the Forbidden Sea, the Lord of Nanhuang, the Flame Phoenix, spread its wings that blotted out the sky, circling in the firmament of the Nanhuang Continent!

Wherever it passed, clouds and mist churned, and the heavens and earth rumbled!

Bursts of storms swept across the land!

Wherever it passed, clouds and mist churned, and heaven and earth roared!

Bursts of storms swept across the land!

Directly beneath where it circled was a desolate, ruined land!

This place was precisely where Crown Prince Prince Ziqing had died in battle, and also where the Shi Wushuang City of later generations was located!

At this moment, hundreds of thousands of cultivators were sitting cross-legged here, forming a vast and heaven-shaking array!

The scope of this array was immense; the cultivators within ranged from Foundation Establishment to Nascent Soul, and there were even some at the Spirit Repository and Return to Void realms!

If Chen Chen Erniu were here, he would surely recognize at a glance that the majority of these people were disciples of the Seven Blood Eyes, and there were even some from the Purple Warriors!

It could be said that this was a massive array formed by gathering various forces from within Nanhuangzhou!

The inner ring of the array was composed of flesh and blood that emitted a terrifying pressure; the appearance of this flesh and blood caused the heavens and earth to rumble continuously, and the surroundings distorted as if to be annihilated, showing the extraordinary nature of this flesh and blood.

As for the very center, it was a mercury giant, fully ten thousand zhang in size, molded from countless amounts of mercury!

This giant lay there, and its face was exactly the same as Xu Qing's!

At the position of the brow, there was also a drop of fresh blood from Xu Qing!

And above this majestic mercury giant, in mid-air, the Seventh Master sat cross-legged!

The wind blew, stirring his white hair; a sense of majesty was exceptionally evident on him, and his expression was also rarely serious to the extreme!

Almost at the instant Xu Qing self-detonated, the Seventh Master's eyes suddenly snapped open!

"Array rise, time move."

The hundreds of thousands of cultivators in all directions shouted in unison, the Flame Phoenix in the firmament spat out brilliant light toward the ground, and from the Seventh Master, an ancient aura emanated!

That aura was infinitely vicissitudinous, as if it had become the measuring stick of time!

"Supreme Star Platform, responding to changes without ceasing, driving the ancient and binding the present, protecting the spirit and guarding the soul! Wisdom bright and mind pure, calming the spirit and settling the heart! Three souls eternal, seven spirits without loss or collapse! My disciple be at peace, travel against the Yellow Springs!"

After speaking, the Seventh Master pressed his left hand suddenly toward the mercury figure below!

Then, he placed his right hand before his chest, formed a seal, and spoke again!

"Heaven!"

Heaven and earth are natural, filthy Qi disperses... within the cave is the mysterious void, bright and vast is the primordial origin! The mighty spirits of the eight directions make me natural!

The Spirit Treasure Talisman Decree proclaims to the Nine Provinces, ten thousand years ago, there was one named Prince Ziqing, who fell in this place, exhaling before death, the final breath, today Xia Jin, with the immortal as the guide, summons this breath to come, quickly as the law commands!

The Seventh Master's eyes widened in fury, his voice like thunder, every word booming!

He was actually attempting to extract, from between heaven and earth, from within time, and from all things, the final breath exhaled by Crown Prince Prince Ziqing when he died in this place.

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