Chapter 952: The Sacred Land War Begins

Xu Qing and Erniu, at the very first moment, steered their magic boat and sped away into the distance.

The divine power bestowed by Yu Liuchen also provided a degree of protection, increasing the boat's speed, and they had now moved far away from that sea area.

Yet, the aftershocks and the sound of Yu Liuchen’s story still reached them, even from such a distance.

It transformed into a powerful life-and-death crisis!

Xu Qing’s mind was heavy; at this moment, he circulated his entire cultivation base, fully erupting his divine source to bolster the magic boat.

Erniu also knew that the further they were from the rear, the safer they would be, so he also assisted with all his might.

After all, that was a True God of the past, on the same level as Xia Xian!

Thus, through their combined efforts, even though the heaven and earth of the outer sea were viscous, the speed of the magic boat surpassed its limits, moving like a flash, further and further away.

Behind them, where Yu Liuchen stood, the heavy seawater below seemed insignificant at this moment, exploding with a roar amidst the violent waves.

A strange figure, as if demonic and illusory, surged out from beneath the sea, towering into the sky.

The moment it appeared, Xu Qing and Erniu in the distance both shook violently, each coughing up blood, and in their terror, they fled even faster.

At the same time, relying on their respective methods, they [shielded] the rear.

Looking from afar, one could see that the figure rising from the sea was unimaginably huge, appearing as tall as heaven and earth.

Its exterior resembled a half-rotted skeleton, emitting a thick aura of death, its entire body a shade of gray-white.

It did not possess a human form!

It was more like a hybrid of a lizard and a human.

The moment it appeared, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled.

As the winds and clouds shifted, the terrifying, annihilating fluctuations radiating from this strange figure caused the firmament to tremble and the ocean to sustain massive waves.

Even more bizarre was the figure’s head; it was not growing on its body, but was being carried in its right hand!

As for the other hand, it held high a massive black candle, which was burning with black flames.

Although its overall appearance was extremely strange, for some reason, it also gave one a sense of holiness.

Xu Qing and Erniu could no longer look; just a momentary gaze caused their eyes to burst open, and though both had powers of recovery, they were affected and slowed down at this moment.

Especially since, along with their eyes, they also lost their perception, as if their senses had been stripped away.

Thus, the two did not look back, fleeing frantically according to their instinctive judgment of direction.

Only Yu Liuchen stood on the firmament, his blood-colored robe spreading out, covering the ocean and sweeping across the sky, turning both heaven and sea entirely crimson.

A brilliant golden light shone in his eyes, fully displaying his divine might at this moment.

Surpassing the Flawless realm, he had reached... the Divine Platform!

The Divine Platform, holding the sole divine authority!

At this moment, under his gaze, within the shroud of his divine authority, and inside the causality of his story, the aura of the returned Huangtian True God was clearly weakened.

This weakness stemmed from the essence of the True God; on the journey back, he had experienced too many dangers, and though he had resolved them one by one, his source quality had ultimately dissipated.

By the time he returned, his divine might was at its weakest and his divine power at its lowest; he had intended to rest and recuperate, but was drawn here by some mysterious force.

And most importantly, his will had not fully awakened.

After all, he had once died!

Being targeted by Yu Liuchen during the process of his revival, all of this caused him to forget five or six tenths of his true name.

Thus, under Yu Liuchen’s full eruption and the brilliant golden light in his eyes, this returned god, just as described in the story, emitted earth-shattering roars from his entire body and began to collapse.

But the next instant, though the collapse continued, a sky-tearing roar erupted from his mouth, causing heaven and earth to change color as his decaying divine authority sought to shine forth.

Yet, he was still within the story!

Yu Liuchen, having prepared long ago, used the red that dyed the heaven and sea like a giant red mouth from all directions, instantly shrouding this returned god and beginning to devour him.

This devouring was destined to fail.

Because the description in the story

was also like this.

So, not long after, following the emission of a shrill sound, the red shattered, and the returned god tore through the red, speeding away toward the depths of the Forbidden Sea.

His consciousness still had not awakened, and his forgetting of his true name grew even deeper.

As for his flight at this moment, it was his instinct... and also the description of the story.

"Everything is in the story."

"You are the protagonist I chose after a long time of searching."

"The story about you will be the most beautiful story of my first half-life, with the present as the node."

On the firmament, Yu Liuchen licked his lips, gazing at the returned god, and with a stride, he suddenly moved forward!

This chase had to be controlled to exactly one hundred and thirty-seven days; one day more or one day less would not do.

He had to devour this returned god on the one hundred and thirty-seventh day, and obtain and absorb the true name the other had forgotten from the melting of his corpse.

To achieve... replacement!

Then, his story could end perfectly.

Because he told this story and completed it, he could instantly recover his peak cultivation base while also taking a step further, gaining the possibility of achieving the status of a True God.

"True God..."

The red form of Yu Liuchen swept across the heaven and sea, vanishing in an instant.

"Although I lost my senses, I have a premonition that Old Yu might become a True God; this old guy's divine authority is too strange."

On the ocean, flesh and blood were growing back in Erniu’s pitch-black eye sockets.

"But this Old Yu is too stingy; he used us as bait the whole way, and now that he’s caught the fish, he didn't give us anything as a souvenir."

Xu Qing did not speak; although his eyes were also blinded, his flesh recovered faster than Erniu’s, and he could now vaguely see his surroundings, his perception also recovering, so he bolstered the magic boat at full speed.

"Little Ah Qing, don't you think so?"

Erniu was clearly very dissatisfied in his heart and asked Xu Qing.

Hearing this, Xu Qing replied perfunctorily.

"Yes, too stingy."

Erniu habitually ignored the perfunctory tone of Xu Qing’s reply, pondered for a moment, and reached a decision.

"But come to think of it, this experience taught me the method of fishing; when there’s a chance in the future, we’ll find someone to use as bait and go fishing too!"

"Who are you planning to use as bait? And what fish are you going to catch?"

Xu Qing asked casually while steering the magic boat.

A look of triumph appeared on Erniu’s face.

"There are too many baits; how about Ning Yan? Jian Jian is also very suitable. As for what fish to catch... I need to think about that carefully. Little Ah Qing, do you have any suggestions?"

Xu Qing shook his head and was about to speak, but the next instant, his expression changed; he suddenly looked up at the firmament in the direction of the Inner Sea, his pupils contracting.

Erniu’s eyes had not yet recovered and he could not see this; finding that Xu Qing did not respond, he asked in surprise.

"What’s the situation? Are you bullying me because I can't see and have lost my senses?"

"Senior Brother, the sky of the Inner Sea is burning."

Xu Qing’s voice was low as he spoke slowly.

In his pupils, the distant firmament was reflected as a sea of fire.

Human Race, end of the first year of the Lixia Emperor.

Fire fell from the sky, spreading across the firmament in all directions of Wanggu.

This fire came from the starry sky, rolling stardust into a storm, forming a storm of fire, descending upon Wanggu along with sixteen vast and astonishing Profound-level Sacred Lands.

The Sacred Lands were built by the Ancient Emperor Xuanyou and all the emperors of the ten thousand races after they departed.

Each race had one Sacred Land.

Over tens of thousands of years, they had withered or been annexed, and their numbers had decreased significantly compared to the beginning.

And as the emperors who founded the Sacred Lands fell or disappeared due to various circumstances, the Sacred Lands were eventually divided into tiers.

Heaven, Earth, Profound, Yellow.

There was a world of difference between these four tiers of Sacred Lands; among them, the Yellow-level Sacred Lands had no Great Emperor-level cultivators.

But the Profound-level... represented the existence of a Great Emperor!

If it were an Earth-level, it meant there was more than one Great Emperor!

After all, although the Ancient Emperor Xuanyou had unified Wanggu in the past era, Wanggu was not just for the Human Race.

Ten thousand races stood tall.

Even if not all races had Great Emperors, those that could follow Xuanyou to the heavens to create Sacred Lands naturally had them.

Now, the sixteen Profound-level Sacred Lands from the various races that had departed in the past finally descended upon Wanggu after all the Yellow-level ones had arrived.

There were four in each of the east, west, south, and north of Wanggu!

Among them, in the east of Wanggu, above the Yanyue Profound Heaven, there were three.

As for the fourth Sacred Land, it... descended directly into the Human Race’s Imperial Domain, outside the Imperial Capital!

Unlike the Yellow-level Sacred Lands that had fallen before, the first thing these sixteen Profound-level Sacred Lands did upon arriving in Wanggu was war!

And all the Yellow-level ones no longer hid, erupting in coordination.

The war thus began at the end of the first year of the Lixia Emperor of the Human Race.

This matter did not exceed the expectations of the various races of Wanggu, and all races had made preparations, especially in the East, where they had previously used the search for Xu Qing as a cover to lay out all their plans.

Coupled with the fact that all the Yellow-level Sacred Lands in the East had been driven away, the Yanyue and Human Race in the East were not caught off guard by the sudden war; everything was orderly.

Furthermore, by gathering the strength of the Eastern Region, they separated the heavens and earth at the first opportunity, isolating the flames of war and preventing them from spreading on a large scale.

At the same time, on the Primordial Sea, the boat where Xu Qing and Chen Erniu were located was getting closer and closer to the Inner Sea.

At that same moment, outside the Human Race Imperial Capital Great Domain, within the borders of Liaoxuan Prefecture, a figure was sprinting desperately toward the Human Race territory.

This person was in a wretched state, their aura unstable, with numerous wounds both inside and outside their body, yet seven or eight severed heads were tied to their waist.

"Lanyao and Mingdong, those two bastards, are chasing me..."

"...relentlessly!"

This figure’s expression was filled with exhaustion and anxiety, yet within that anxiety, a venomous, viper-like malice still permeated their eyes.

"And the one that has descended upon the Human Race is actually the Demon Feather Sacred Land!"

"Within the Demon Feather Sacred Land, Lanyao’s family wields immense power, and her husband is even a disciple of the Great Emperor; the arrival of this Sacred Land will be a death sentence for me."

"In that case..."

"At this time, my value will actually be greater. After all, I know many secrets of the Demon Feather Sacred Land, and since you all want me dead so badly, I will head to the Human Race, sell out the Sacred Land, and trade for protection!"

Feng Lintao’s eyes revealed a cold, sinister glint as his speed increased.

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