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Chapter 946: Tension, Regret, and Mental Exhaustion

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This voice was faint and ethereal, yet carried an inexplicable chill that fell upon the heart and spirit, as if turning them into glaciers!

It was as if a block of ice had appeared out of thin air within the soul!

This ice radiated waves of coldness that spread from Xu Qing’s soul, affecting his entire perception and making his whole being feel as if it had lost all warmth in that moment!

Only coldness remained, penetrating everything!

Every word within it was like a curse, rippling through Xu Qing’s sea of consciousness along with the cold air; his entire divine source lost its vitality in that moment, becoming like stagnant water!

Under these layers of reinforcement, the chill seemed as if it would become eternal!

This sensation caused Xu Qing’s consciousness to stagnate, but in the instant before his consciousness turned blank, Xu Qing used his last shred of spiritual sense to stimulate the Jin Wu within his body!

The next instant, the screeching sound of the Jin Wu echoed in Xu Qing’s mind!

This sound was like a summons!

Summoning the sun from within Xu Qing’s body!

Thus, Xu Qing’s body became like a realm, and within the realm, the primordial sun rose into the sky, illuminating his soul.

Black flames erupted instantly, and after incinerating the entire area, ten rays of Profound Yang Immortal Light rose as well, blooming with endless light and heat!

At this moment, the sun rose in his sea of consciousness, radiating brilliant light!

The instant it touched the formless cold, a soft laugh echoed

beside Xu Qing’s ear!

"Little brother, you must remember my warning. Also, what your companion said is wrong; I am not some ghostly thing. If he scolds me again, I will take him away!"

This voice was inexplicable and seemed full of hidden meaning. After it faded, whether it was due to the solar power in Xu Qing’s body or the little girl changing her mind, the chill on Xu Qing’s back dissipated rapidly!

The laughter in his ear also drifted away!

Coldness was originally his usual method, but this time the danger seemed unable to suppress Chen Erniu’s greed; even though his body showed signs of freezing again, he shivered as he swallowed that mouthful of cold air whole!

But the next instant, Chen Erniu’s expression changed, and he vomited wildly with a wail!

He actually spat out countless withered and rotting hairs!

As soon as those hairs landed, they turned into cold air and dissipated in all directions!

Until, after vomiting for a long time and finally expelling all the hair, Chen Erniu sat down, trembling and still shaken!

"Miscalculated. That wasn't cold air; it was a mixture of death energy and corpse energy. It was foul-smelling and had no benefit at all."

"That thing, what kind of ghost is it—"

Chen Erniu clutched his stomach and looked toward the ruins behind them. Before he could finish his sentence, Xu Qing hurriedly interrupted him!

"It told me to tell you that if you scold her again, it will take you away!"

Hearing this, Chen Erniu gasped and instantly shut his mouth!

Deep down, he was suspicious; he remembered that when the little girl had turned her head to look here earlier, he had indeed instinctively thought to himself, "What kind of ghost is this?"

"Could it be that because of this thought in my heart, it came over?!"

"So petty?"

Chen Erniu hesitated!

And at this moment, the one even more hesitant than Chen Erniu was Yu Liuchen!

He was hidden in the void, gazing at those ruins with a grave expression!

What he saw was somewhat different from the scene Xu Qing and Chen Erniu had seen earlier!

Those ruins were not ruins at all!

They were countless hairs coiled together, forming a mass... rotting.

The next moment, the pitch-black darkness before Xu Qing's eyes and the cold in his mind were thoroughly ignited by flames!

The cold was burned away, and his perception returned!

The moment his vision recovered, Xu Qing breathed rapidly and turned his head abruptly!

Behind him, there was nothing!

Only Chen Erniu was not far away, his body turned into an ice sculpture, motionless!

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But there was heat radiating from Chen Erniu, wafting a tea fragrance that resisted the cold and gradually melted it; this tea was a gift from Yu Liuchen earlier!

Realizing that his senior brother was temporarily safe, Xu Qing suppressed the turbulence in his heart and steered the Great Wing to speed away!

Finally, after an incense stick's time, he bypassed this ruin area!

Not until they were far away did he, pale-faced, look back one last time at the ruins looming in the distance, half-hidden in the darkness!

His vigilance toward this outer sea grew even stronger.

"What kind of god was that?"

Xu Qing felt a palpitation; he had seen many gods, but the feeling that little girl gave him seemed related to gods, yet she was not a god!

"And at the final moment, my Immortal Light perhaps played a certain role, but it seemed she was also leaving of her own accord."

"Why is that?"

"As for her saying she isn't the 'ghostly thing' my companion mentioned..."

Xu Qing was silent. He glanced at the ice sculpture where Chen Erniu was, raised his hand, and released his Immortal Light, which landed on the ice sculpture!

Gradually, the ice melted. After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, it finally melted completely. Chen Erniu’s eyes snapped open, and the first thing he did was open his mouth and inhale sharply toward the cold air dissipating from the ice!

With this inhalation, Chen Erniu shivered all over; his eyebrows and hair frosted over and withered, and a foul stench spread there!

As for the little girl, she was a figure woven from a large gathering of hair, radiating endless evil, and she was looking at Yu Liuchen!

"I don't know if it's Xu Qing's uniqueness or that ox's peculiarity that attracted this thing..."

After hesitating, Yu Liuchen chose to be harmonious, so he separated

a wisp of his own divine source, transformed it into a cup of tea, and sent it floating before the little girl!

"Please, have some tea!"

The little girl grinned, and a large amount of hair radiated from her body, wrapping around

the teacup before she merged back into the hair-mass ruins and disappeared!

Just like that, time passed again!

Although Chen Erniu had vomited a lot, he clearly still had an upset stomach. For the next half month, his whole body was turning black, and rotting long hair grew from his body!

At its worst, his entire person was surrounded by hair; even after taking off his clothes, it gave one the feeling of wearing fur!

And no matter how he shaved, it wouldn't come off!

But it must be said that Chen Erniu’s mentality was indeed extraordinary. Apart from being a bit distressed at the beginning, he seemed to have gotten used to it in the following days, and was even a bit proud!

"Little Ah Qing, I feel that these hairs possess decent protection. Covering my whole body is like wearing a fur suit of armor."

"And it's very warm."

"Not bad, not bad. When they grow longer, I'll find a way to cut them off and send them to the Clothing Clan to weave for me. When the time comes, I might be able to sell them for a high price."

Chen Erniu touched the hair on his body, his eyes shining!

"And I've discovered that ever since these hairs grew on me, our journey has been much safer. You see, until now, we haven't encountered any more danger."

"It's a pity the pressure here is severe, so we can't sustain flight for too long. Otherwise, if we flew from the sky, we could travel much faster!"

Xu Qing couldn't be bothered to pay attention to Chen Erniu’s chatter and closed his eyes to meditate. Just as Chen Erniu was about to continue showing off, Xu Qing’s eyes snapped open, and Chen Erniu’s voice also paused!

They looked toward the distance in unison!

The sky and sea in the distance of the Great Wing were originally pitch black, but at this

moment, a sun actually rose from the sea!

That sun was huge and vast. The moment it appeared, the firmament brightened, and the seawater rippled, refracting the great sun, making the light reflecting between heaven and sea illuminate all directions!

This light was blood-colored, like a sunset!

Xu Qing’s heart was shaken, and Chen Erniu’s eyes widened, but they soon discovered that what had risen might not be the sun!

Because... in another direction, at this moment, there was a second

great sun rising from the sea!

It didn't end there; further away, a third one appeared!

Then the fourth, the fifth, the sixth... the world became brighter and brighter. Eventually, within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, more than thirty suns had all risen into the sky.

Each had light of varying intensity!

And the light they emitted could not cover too far; it could not cover the entire

outer sea, only illuminating parts of the area!

As for the heat they radiated, there was none at all!

Even more bizarre was that these rising suns would rapidly fall again, crossing each other without any rules, sometimes rising into the sky, sometimes sinking into the sea!

Thus, the light in the outer sea within their range also flickered between bright and dim!

The strange substances became increasingly dense, and the aura of the gods became more and more viscous!

Until the next instant, amidst the violent turbulence in Xu Qing and Chen Erniu’s hearts, a crack suddenly split open in the center of the sun closest to them among the thirty-plus suns!

Then, the crack spread and opened!

Like an eye.

To be precise, it was indeed an eye, as if it had opened from a deep slumber, currently gazing at the Great Wing where Xu Qing and Chen Erniu were!

The moment the gaze landed, the Great Wing roared and began to disintegrate; the distortion radiating from this gaze also directly affected Xu Qing and Chen Erniu!

Their bodies immediately began to undergo alienation!

In horror, Chen Erniu shivered, and his voice became

sharper!

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"Ah Qing, hurry and follow me in the sacrificial dance. This is the dream of some unknown god; this god is terrifying, and even the dream is half-real."

As he spoke, Chen Erniu immediately began to dance, his hair flying about as he performed the sacrificial dance specifically for gods!

He was even muttering incantations, speaking the words of sacrifice!

Xu Qing did not dare to be slow; he immediately stood up and performed the sacrificial dance alongside his Senior Brother.

Regarding the dreams of gods, Chen Erniu, who in his past life was a great dancer for the Moon Sacrifice Domain, was clearly more proficient. At this moment, as he danced, that sun-like eye paused in mid-air, as if its attention had been drawn!

Time passed bit by bit. Three hours later, that giant eye slowly closed and, along with the other sun-eyes, sank beneath the sea and vanished!

Xu Qing did not hesitate in the slightest; he immediately controlled the tattered Great Wing to fly rapidly away from this area, submerging back into the center of the darkness!

After a long while, sensing no other abnormalities, Xu Qing and Chen Erniu on the Great Wing breathed a sigh of relief simultaneously. The two looked at each other and both gave a bitter smile!

"Little Ah Qing, do you think that fellow Yu Liuchen is still there?"

"I feel it's too dangerous here. I suspect Yu Liuchen must have caught a fish too; why don't we head back?"

Xu Qing pondered for a moment, looked around, and nodded!

"We will head back. If Senior Yu Liuchen is unwilling, he will appear to inform us."

"That's right. If he doesn't appear, it means he tacitly allows us to leave!"

Chen Erniu quickly agreed. After the two looked at each other again, they changed the direction of the Great Wing without hesitation and moved toward the direction of the Inner Sea!

And at this moment, the Yu Liuchen they were thinking about was currently on the seabed.

On the seabed, those thirty-plus suns that had sunk earlier were, at this moment...

...restored to their original appearance, huddled together densely!

These were indeed thirty-plus giant eyes, and there were some blurry thin lines connecting them to each other!

They looked just like grapes!

They were staring right at Yu Liuchen!

Yu Liuchen was silent!

In his heart, he had already begun to curse!

This was not his first time coming to the Outer Sea; he had explored it many times before!

Although the Outer Sea is mysterious and many areas felt dangerous even to him, the Outer Sea is vast after all. Under its vastness, it...

...meant that as long as he didn't head into the depths, he rarely encountered existences that required him to offer tea!

But this time, things were different!

The little girl could be considered a coincidence, but this one before him—he remembered it usually inhabited the depths of the Outer Sea, yet now it had actually appeared here.

One must know, this place was still very far from the depths!!!

It belonged to the near-shore area of the Outer Sea!

"I brought them here, although it was to fish, but how can one fish so recklessly?"

Yu Liuchen felt helpless. He sighed in his heart, raised his hand, and took out a cup of tea to send over!

"Please, have some tea!"

Those grape-like eyes all squinted, releasing branch-like tentacles that coiled around the teacup, then slowly sank into the seabed and drifted away, disappearing!

Yu Liuchen felt mentally exhausted!

Sensing Xu Qing and the other leaving, he hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not stop them!

"Near-shore is near-shore. I hope the coming period can be more stable so I can successfully fish out that returning True God. I can feel that he is already moving!"

"And, he is very weak..."

Anticipation rose in Yu Liuchen's heart!

It was just that his anticipation differed greatly from reality. It seemed that this god, whose divine authority was based on stories, had also had his story influenced and distorted here in the Outer Sea!

The reason might be a single sentence from Chen Erniu on the silent Outer Sea a few days later!

"Ah Qing, I recalled something these past few days. The little girl incident was because I cursed in my heart, and the sun incident seems to be because I said we were very safe."

On the Great Wing, Chen Erniu looked at Xu Qing with a grave expression!

"In this Outer Sea, it seems my words can form strange..."

"...powers."

"Could the ancient legends be true?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Qing looked at Chen Erniu, his expression also becoming solemn, because throughout this journey, he had actually been pondering similar questions, though what he thought of was not his Senior Brother, but his own identity as a Jin Wu!

He always felt that after stepping into the Outer Sea, an ancient gaze was staring at him, appearing and disappearing!

Hearing Chen Erniu's words at this moment, Xu Qing asked!

"What legend?"

Chen Erniu took a deep breath!

"Legend has it that the Outer Sea has a master. This master is incomparably handsome, the best in heaven and earth, dashing and elegant, with countless concubines, and is himself primitive and ancient, vast and divine. But one day, he grew tired of being invincible, so he left this ocean!"

"Before leaving, he left behind one sentence: When I return, all gods must come to worship me!"

Chen Erniu coughed!

Xu Qing had been listening very seriously at first, but soon he sensed something was wrong!

"Senior Brother, where did this legend come from?"

"I made it up!"

Chen Erniu chuckled and shook the hair all over his body!

"Just a joke, haha. I saw everyone was too nervous these past few days. Rest easy, rest easy. I calculated the path we came by; we have traveled through this sea area before, it is safe."

Before Chen Erniu could finish his sentence, a sudden change occurred. A deafening roar erupted from the vast domain they were in, which was extremely abrupt in the silent Outer Sea!

And the sea surface surged with huge waves!

Like a tsunami!

This was also a situation that had never occurred before!

Xu Qing's heart shook, and Chen Erniu's eyes widened as he gasped!

The two did not hesitate at all and were about to control the Great Wing to ascend briefly to avoid the waves on the sea surface. But the next instant, looking down at the sea in this area, one could clearly see that the sea surface in this region was rising in a circular shape, covering a huge area. The Great Wing where Xu Qing and the other were was merely a dot!

And that rising circular sea, as it lifted and became clear, was actually a bowl!

This sea area was, shockingly, a sea in a bowl!

A multi-armed sea monster, its size comparable to a continent, revealed part of its figure from the sea!

Heart-stopping, shaking the heavens and earth!

It was too big.

Each of its hands held some items, and one of the hands was holding exactly... the bowl-sea where Xu Qing and Chen Erniu were!

It was currently moving forward!

Xu Qing and Chen Erniu felt their minds roaring and dared not move a single bit!

And clearly, their existence was insignificant to that terrifying sea monster, like dust. So, after several hours passed, that massive sea monster submerged back into the sea surface and vanished!

Submerging with it was that bowl!

On the Great Wing, Xu Qing and Chen Erniu were pale!

In the void in the distance, Yu Liuchen was also pale!

"Those two have big problems. Otherwise, such a small piece of bait could not possibly attract such an ancient existence."

"I brought them here to fish, but not to fish for such fish."

Yu Liuchen felt that if he kept letting them roam free like this, these two might attract even more terrifying existences. By then, before his own fish arrived, the bait and he himself, the fisherman, would likely perish first!

Thinking of this, Yu Liuchen no longer hesitated. His body vanished instantly, and when he appeared, he was on the Great Wing where Xu Qing and Chen Erniu were!

Seeing Yu Liuchen, Xu Qing and Chen Erniu felt a surge of emotion and, feeling guilty, immediately paid their respects!

"No need to bow, I am taking you away!"

"Ah?"

Weren't we supposed to leave on our own?

Chen Erniu spoke hurriedly!

"If you continue to travel on your own, I'm afraid you'll encounter an existence that could swallow me in one gulp!"

Yu Liuchen did not want to waste time. As he spoke, he raised his hand, swept up Xu Qing and Chen Erniu, and stepped into the firmament!

"Senior is joking. With Senior here, how could we encounter that kind of existence that swallows in one gulp?"

Just as Chen Erniu said this, Xu Qing took a breath, his scalp tingling. He thought of the terrifying nature of his Senior Brother's words and was just about to warn Yu Liuchen!

The next instant, Yu Liuchen suddenly looked up, his expression changing drastically!

Xu Qing and Chen Erniu also sensed the abnormality at this moment and looked up!

"Why has the sky turned red!"

Chen Erniu muttered, his eyes wide, completely panicked!

"Can my words really do this in the Outer Sea?"

As for Xu Qing, besides being horrified, he had other senses!

He felt that since he stepped into the Outer Sea, that gaze that appeared and disappeared was, at this moment, seemingly clearer.

The next instant, the sky fell.

It seemed some earth-shattering existence had opened its giant mouth...

Or rather, this existence's giant mouth had long been open, and it was swallowing now!

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