Chapter 911: Prince Ziqing

Prince Ziqing—this title, these four characters, represented an identity in the Eastern Wanggu era that was extremely brilliant and peerless under the heavens.

He was once hailed as the number one prodigy of the human race after the God's Remnant Face.

He was born bearing the Qi of Eastern Wanggu; the moment he was born, all the forbidden zones of the Eastern Wanggu Continent let out wails, and strange blood flowed, spreading beyond every forbidden zone!

He was a self-rescue attempt by the vast realm of the Eastern Wanggu Continent, gathering the power of the entire realm just to let him descend into the world!

He was endowed with the mission of unifying Eastern Wanggu and was also the final hope of the Eastern Wanggu Continent!

Such a figure gathered all the glory this world could bestow!

Yet in the end, he and his kingdom still fell!

On the day of his death, the mountains of Eastern Wanggu shook as if screaming, and the hundred rivers flowed backward as if mourning!

The Heavenly Dao wailed!

And in the last breath he exhaled before his death, it contained the destiny of Eastern Wanggu, it contained his glory...

And it also contained the life-pattern belonging to this lifetime of his!

This life-pattern, along with that final breath, dissipated between heaven and earth!

From then on, Prince Ziqing was destroyed in both form and spirit!

When he descended again, he was no longer the hope of Eastern Wanggu, but a returnee carrying endless hatred.

But today, someone used themselves as a ruler of time, in Nanhuangzhou, at the former site of Wushuang City, at the place where Prince Ziqing died in battle, using Summer as the command and Immortal as the guide, to command heaven and earth, to command Eastern Wanggu!

To extract that breath Prince Ziqing exhaled back then—the one containing the destiny of Eastern Wanggu and his glorious life-pattern—from between heaven and earth, from time, and from all things.

In an instant, within Nanhuangzhou, hundreds of thousands of Seven Blood Eyes cultivators had the Dao sound echoing in their mouths...

"Today the Summer command, with Immortal as the guide, summon this breath."

Above the firmament, the Flame Phoenix danced; its eyes severed time, its breath pierced through the ages!

Its wings covered the firmament, causing great winds to blow from all eight directions, shaking the mountains and whipping up great waves in the Forbidden Sea!

To bless this Peerless Ancient Dao Array.

In the end, everything, absolutely everything, gathered upon the silver figure, in the hands of Seventh Master who stood between heaven and earth!

It became a cluster of brilliant mist!

The mist churned, containing Eastern Wanggu, containing the life-pattern.

Gazing at this mist, Seventh Master's eyes were filled with the vicissitudes of life, his aura ancient; finally, he raised his right hand and pressed this cluster of brilliant life-mist directly into the center of the silver figure's brow below!

It fused with Xu Qing's blood!

And transformed within the silver figure's body!

The moment it fell, heaven and earth roared, winds rose and clouds surged, the firmament changed color, shadows of the Heavenly Dao appeared vaguely, the entire Eastern Wanggu mountain range roared, rivers churned, and even places of forbidden zones and forbidden lands let out inexplicable wails at this instant!

Strange blood flowed just the same, spreading beyond every forbidden zone!

This scene was exactly the same as the strange phenomenon when Prince Ziqing was born into this world back then.

At the same time, Seventh Master's long hair fluttered, suddenly scattering behind him, his entire aura shocking the heavens once more, his right hand touching the silver figure's brow, his left hand forming seals at his chest, his eyes revealing the light of the sun and moon, illuminating heaven and earth!

"Heaven and Earth Profound Sect, root of ten thousand Qi, widely cultivating for eons, proving my divine ability, within and without the three realms, only the Dao is supreme!"

"Today I command the wandering spirit, the body has golden light, covering and reflecting its form, received and held ten thousand times, destroying laws and destroying masters, five fortunes presiding, ten thousand gods bowing in worship,"

"Commanding the thunder, ghosts and demons lose their courage, spirits and monsters lose their form!"

Every word was like a heavenly sound, every sentence fell into time!

The moment it echoed through Nanhuangzhou, far beyond this place in the Human Imperial Capital, the aura of self-detonation from Xu Qing also surged to the heavens!

Thick black mist filled his entire body from within, shattering his cultivation, shattering his bones, shattering his physical body, shattering everything!

The next instant, his physical body was torn apart.

The power of the self-detonation formed, exploding outward with a rumble toward all eight directions; seen from afar, a black ring-shaped mist wave, carrying the power to destroy everything, swept across the eight directions!

If it were only this, it wouldn't count for much; before Prince Ziqing, the self-detonation of a Return to Ruins cultivator could be suppressed with a wave of his hand, and even someone as formidable as Xu Qing would make no great difference!

He could even manipulate time, reversing everything in the blink of an eye, but... Xu Qing's self-detonation was not just the physical body!

To be precise, the self-detonation of the physical body was merely the peripheral residual power; the true core of his self-detonation was... the soul.

His soul was ignited in an instant, as if a piece of paper were being violently torn, directly... shattered to pieces!

An aura that shook heaven and earth, causing the firmament to change color, was unstoppable and irreversible in this soul self-detonation

Surging to the heavens!

The rumbling sound replaced the heavenly thunder of Eastern Wanggu at this moment!

It exploded!

In an instant, the sky of the entire Human Imperial Capital turned into broad daylight!

This daylight was spreading at an incredible speed, until it covered the entire Human Domain, illuminating it until it was transparent!

As if it had deprived the concept of night, contrary to the Empress's divine power, making the world bright, with only the place where he himself was being extremely pitch-black!

That endless black mist seemed to contain the greatest abyss of Eastern Wanggu!

Bursts of terrifying roars actually spread to all eight directions from within the black mist formed by Xu Qing's soul self-detonation!

Even vaguely, one could see that in the violent churning of this mist, an ancient passage seemed to have appeared!

In this passage, countless stone doors could be seen; they were large and small, and their shapes were irregular, but every single one emitted an endless sense of antiquity, extremely vicissitudinous!

And the roaring sounds came precisely from these stone doors!

Moreover, as the sounds became increasingly shocking, these stone doors actually began to tremble violently one by one, the banging sounds shaking the past and present, as if knocking on the hearts of all living beings!

The existences inside the doors were frantically slamming against the stone doors!

Wanting to break through the doors and rush out from within.

In an instant, a terrifying aura rose, cutting off heaven and earth!

Even more astonishingly, in the deepest part of this passage filled with stone doors, vaguely... there seemed to be a chair.

This scene was exactly the image that Saint Yunzi's father, Chu Tianqun, had seen in Xu Qing's soul back then.

And it was precisely this image that made him extremely terrified!

He did not know what those stone doors were, but back then, he could feel the terror of the stone doors, and what horrified him even more was that he could not imagine how there could be a chair in this passage containing great terror!

Whose chair was this!

Who had the qualifications to sit on a chair in this passage filled with terrifying stone doors and suppress everything!

Chu Tianqun back then had no answer!

But today's Ziqing clearly knew something!

Thus, Prince Ziqing sighed!

"Although it is not mine, it was originally not yours either, little brother!"

Gazing at the black mist formed by Xu Qing's self-detonation, gazing at the stone doors in the mist, gazing at the chair at the end of the passage!

Ziqing spoke softly!

His target was precisely this chair.

Regarding this object, he had many guesses after discovering it back then, and he also understood that it had nothing to do with the Ziqing Upper Kingdom, but it concerned another goal of his!

To become a True God.

And even the possibility of touching a God Lord above a True God!

He wanted to fuse this mysterious seat with the destiny returned from the Ziqing Upper Kingdom, and then fuse it into the throne of the Ziqing Upper Emperor, thereby pushing himself to step into a higher divine realm!

To bless the entire Ziqing Upper Kingdom and reach the absolute peak!

This was his final goal in all the rituals of this Human Emperor becoming a god and the return of the Ziqing Upper Kingdom!

Only if all the previous goals were completed would this final goal have the foundation to be completed!

Therefore, he had stitched Xu Qing together back then, severed time, and corrected fate!

Because this object had already fused within Xu Qing's soul and existed as an unsolvable cause and effect; to take it by force would be difficult to perfect!

Thus, today happened...

He hoped Xu Qing would accept the title of Prince Ziqing and then truly fuse with him, sharing the future!

But Xu Qing's actions were something he had not seen in time!

With this, he broke the game!

Ziqing shook his head!

Since that was the case, he could only take it by force, even if doing so would leave significant flaws!

Thus he raised his right hand, amidst Xu Qing's physical self-detonation and soul self-detonation, toward the churning black mist cluster,

Reaching inside!

His hand, like time itself, was infinitely long!

In that passage, he swept past the stone doors slamming violently one by one, ignoring everything, reaching the end, and was just about to grab toward that chair!

But just at this moment.

An ethereal Dao sound suddenly echoed within this passage!

"Today I command the wandering spirit, the body has golden light, covering and reflecting its form, received and held ten thousand times, destroying laws and destroying masters, five fortunes presiding, ten thousand gods bowing in worship, commanding the thunder, ghosts and demons lose their courage, spirits and monsters lose their form."

The moment this sound was emitted, an aura, using Xu Qing's soul as a guide, connected to the void!

Locking onto a certain item that had fused into the void after Xu Qing's self-detonation, and in an instant, pulling it over.

It was a golden light.

Within this Dao sound, it appeared out of thin air.

The blinding golden light shrouded its body, the Dao seal that had been blessed ten thousand times shone upon it, unlocking the seal that isolated all-knowing.

A terrifying power of endless destruction, capable of suppressing everything, erupted from its body.

It was an iron slip; on the iron slip, there existed a spirit!

It was precisely the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor!

His original name was You Lingzi.

Hence the first four characters of the Dao sound were "Today I command You Ling"!

The Jin Gang Sect Ancestor and the iron slip he resided in had been taken away by Seventh Master before Xu Qing came to the Human Imperial Capital back then; after being refined by him and returned to Xu Qing's hands, although its power had been greatly improved!

But in the end, it was still a bit weak.

Until this moment, with the unsealing of the Dao sound, its true power was finally revealed to the world!

Like a thorn, surrounded by thunder!

In the passage, from the direction of the chair, it rushed suddenly toward the Ziqing hand that was reaching out!

Breaking through space-time along the way, shattering strange substances, shaking divine power!

Its speed ignored all rules and laws!

Its might terrified the crowd of so-called gods!

While cultivators had no feeling toward it, only gods were instantly alarmed.

In the blink of an eye, it landed on Prince Ziqing's large hand; the instant it touched, it did not pause in the slightest, with the momentum of destroying everything, with the power of overturning mountains and seas, with the might specifically targeting gods!

Directly... piercing through the Ziqing hand!

Amidst the roar, the Ziqing hand suddenly exploded, the palm turned to pulp, fingers and bones splattered!

Divine blood rained down!

Outside the passage, outside the mist, Prince Ziqing in mid-air had his right hand shattered, turning into fly ash, and along with the divine blood, dissipated between heaven and earth!

His expression gradually became serious!

He turned his head and gazed into the distance... in the direction of Nanhuangzhou!

"In this world, there is actually still a God-Slaying Thorn!"

—Continuing to write.