Chapter 962: How Much Do You Think I Look Like My Former Self

Since the descent of the Profound-level holy lands.

Across the three realms of the North, South, and West of Wanggu, the war has intensified, with both sides suffering losses and victories, the situation of the battle being tragic!

It can be said that almost every moment, lives are lost, and battles are breaking out!

Wanggu is in turmoil!

As for the Eastern Realm, led by the Flame Moon Profound Heaven and the human race, they have gathered various races and factions to form a peerless array, dividing the heavens and the earth!

Outside the array is the firmament, and the four Profound-level holy lands!

Inside the array are the living beings of the Wanggu Eastern Realm!

Although the Great Emperors within these four holy lands have not appeared again since their battle with the Human Emperor and the three Flame Moon gods, the same is true for the three Flame Moon gods!

Outsiders do not know who won or lost that peak battle between the two sides!

They only know that the Human Emperor is as usual, still presiding over this war!

The war in the Eastern Realm continues!

During this period, large-scale engagements have not occurred; both the Eastern Realm and the holy land side are attempting to control the tempo, but small-scale skirmishes occur almost every day!

Whether it is the Flame Moon Profound Heaven race or the human race, they erupt constantly!

At this moment, such a small-scale battle is taking place on the peerless array, with a large number of participants from both sides, dense and numerous, forming countless black dots, slaughtering each other outside the array!

It was at this point in time that Xu Qing and Erniu, having teleported several times from Fenghai County, arrived at the human Imperial Capital, Taiyu!

The journey was quite smooth!

No time was wasted, except that outside that activated ancient array, Erniu plucked a few more teleportation feathers...

And right now, the moment the two of them appeared within the array, roaring sounds and shrill cries came from the sky, immediately falling into their ears!

As these countless sounds echoed in all directions like muffled thunder, the multicolored light of techniques also formed a brilliant radiance, rendering the night sky mottled, flickering on and off!

Looking up, one could see that beneath the array, teams of cultivators composed of various races from the Wanggu Eastern Realm were orderly exiting the array to fight and orderly returning to recuperate!

Only, looking at the state of those returning, it was clear the battle damage was heavy!

But the holy land side was the same; corpses fell and were shattered by the array!

"War..."

Xu Qing's expression was solemn. While focusing on the war outside the sky-curtain array, the teleportation array he was in, being located in a heavily guarded military camp, was quickly covered by divine senses from all directions!

Even more, auras of slaughter locked onto them in an instant!

Upon realizing Xu Qing's identity, these divine senses and auras dissipated!

Then, figures flew in from all directions, bowing to Xu Qing!

Leading them was an old man!

Xu Qing had met this person before; the other party was a human Heavenly Marquis, surnamed Chen!

"Greetings, Grand Tutor."

"The several Heavenly Kings are currently on the battlefield outside the array and cannot return; this subordinate is ordered to preside here!"

"Additionally, His Majesty has instructed that upon your return, Grand Tutor, you are to proceed to the main hall immediately!"

This Heavenly Marquis Chen, after approaching, immediately bowed, and spoke

solemnly!

Xu Qing nodded, looking at the battle in the firmament, then spread his spiritual sense, covering the military camp here, and saw countless soldiers of various races healing!

His heart felt heavy!

Compared to the tragedy here, the other parts of the Wanggu Eastern Realm he had seen along the way were actually fine!

Because this place bore almost everything!

This place is both the core of the Wanggu Eastern Realm and the front line!

"How is the situation?"

Xu Qing asked slowly!

"Still controllable!"

Heavenly Marquis Chen grinned, but the aura emanating from his body was clearly somewhat unstable; he was obviously injured, and just as he was about to continue speaking, the next moment, a roar echoed outside the sky-curtain array!

Within the countless dense black dots formed by the warring sides, a dazzling light erupted!

It was a middle-aged man from the holy land side, with huge wings growing on his back, his whole body exuding a bloody aura, and his cultivation base had reached the level of the fifth realm of Spirit Embodiment!

Such a cultivation base surpassed the vast majority of human Heavenly Kings!

Especially in this small-scale battle, although the Spirit Embodiment experts of various races had taken action, they were all being held back, so the sudden arrival of this one immediately unleashed a slaughter, as if he wanted to tear a path through the battlefield!

Behind him followed over a thousand Demon Feather cultivators, like his guards, charging with him!

The target was the peerless array!

Seeing this, Heavenly Marquis Chen's pupils shrank, but he did not panic; for sudden situations, there were naturally ways to handle them!

Soon, the light of the peerless array flowed, about to intercept!

But the next moment, Xu Qing's figure disappeared from where he stood!

When he appeared, he was shockingly outside this peerless array!

Sounds even more intense than before clearly came from all directions in an instant. Amidst the deafening, countless noises, Xu Qing looked at the Demon Feather man whistling toward him!

This man also noticed Xu Qing, snorted coldly, did not slow down in the slightest, and took a step forward!

All this took a long time to say, but in reality, it happened in a flash!

Inside the array, Heavenly Marquis Chen was startled. He knew Xu Qing's status was extremely high, but his combat power seemed to only barely meet the initial standard of a Heavenly King. Now, facing such a powerhouse at the fifth realm of Spirit Embodiment...

He immediately became nervous!

Erniu coughed from the side!

"What are you nervous about? No need to worry!"

Although he said this, how could Heavenly Marquis Chen listen!

It was not just him who was nervous; on the battlefield, those Heavenly Kings of various races who were entangled also immediately noticed this scene, recognized Xu Qing, and were all shocked in their hearts, some even cursing!

Clearly, in their judgment, they did not believe Xu Qing could contend with that Demon Feather Spirit Embodiment cultivator!

They wanted to help, but could not pull away immediately!

They could only watch helplessly as the Demon Feather man charged toward Xu Qing!

"Nonsense, why did this Xu Qing appear so recklessly."

"Activate the array, extend it to cover Xu Qing."

"Quick."

The array roared, light shone, radiating like a solar flare, about to protect Xu Qing within!

But the Demon Feather man, at this moment, also indirectly saw through the array that Xu Qing's identity was unusual, and after staring carefully, his eyes lit up, recognizing Xu Qing's identity!

The Demon Feather holy land naturally had to keep track of important figures among the humans, especially Xu Qing, who had triggered such a huge event before!

Because of him, a holy land fell!

Because of him, the Eastern Yellow-level holy land was driven away!

It was just that what they knew was only that Xu Qing had been captured alive by Fuxie and later rescued!

They did not know the details, nor did they know that Fuxie ultimately died at Xu Qing's hands, and they did not know Xu Qing's true combat power!

Thus, the man's eyes lit up, he gave a ferocious grin, accelerated, and headed straight for Xu Qing!

But... the moment his figure approached, Xu Qing lifted his hand expressionlessly!

He pinched the air toward the arriving Demon Feather man!

With this pinch, within this vast battlefield, in an area of ten thousand miles centered on Xu Qing, all sound instantly vanished.

It was robbed of sound.

And the silence lasted only for a breath!

The next breath, these sounds were manipulated, gathered around the Demon Feather man, and with unprecedented vastness, formed a huge sphere!

It enveloped the Demon Feather man and the thousand guards behind him!

Ripples appeared within, revealing terrifying lethality, trembling crazily!

Shrill sounds immediately came from the mouths of the Demon Feather man and his guards inside the sphere!

They turned into even more sound-authority lethality!

Boom!

Immediately, thirty percent of the guards had their bodies collapse and shatter; as for the Demon Feather man, his expression had completely changed, and he heard vague whispers!

These whispers grew stronger and stronger. In the constant repetition, an ancient power came with the whispers, spreading crazily and greedily throughout his body, infiltrating his mind, and replacing his cognition!

It even took away the concept of his voice!

His body, his soul, even his self were stripped away!

Until... along with all the guards, he exploded into a mist of blood.

Subsequently, the sphere disintegrated, turning back into countless sounds, centered on Xu Qing, and rumbled outward in all directions!

Wherever it passed, any sound on the battlefield became a lethal weapon in that instant!

This scene, although it happened in a corner of the battlefield, affected the entire battlefield in the blink of an eye, and even caused those Heavenly Kings of various races and the Spirit Embodiment experts of the holy lands to change their expressions.

It was truly because... Xu Qing's strike was too fast, and it now affected the whole situation!

The cultivators of the Eastern Realm were shocked!

The cultivators of the holy lands were terrified!

"Divine authority."

"This human is not right."

On the side of the Sacred Lands, waves rose in everyone's hearts, but... a war is difficult to change because of one person, unless that person possesses the peak power to suppress everything!

Therefore, in the next instant, a terrifying divine sense was released directly from the distant suspended Sacred Land; a sovereign intended to descend.

And within the Human Domain, a divine aura similarly erupted, confronting it from afar.

That was the Profound War Corpse God.

Under the restraint of these two forces, Xu Qing's figure vanished, returning into the formation, and during his return, he detonated all the sound-authority power scattered across the battlefield, even adding a curse of misfortune!

A roaring sound rose to the heavens outside the formation, forming a storm of sound!

The participating cultivators of the various races in the Eastern Realm also had their emotions stirred, and under the decisive orders of those few Heavenly Kings, they seized this opportunity and immediately lunged to kill!

The situation of this small-scale battle suddenly began to tilt!

Facing such a situation, the Sacred Land side also emitted a low, deep bell toll, beginning to withdraw their troops...

Until an hour later, this battle came to an end, and the first thing the various races did upon returning was to discuss the appearance of Xu Qing!

And Xu Qing had already left together with Chen Erniu!

They walked into the Human Imperial Capital and arrived before the Imperial Palace hall!

Standing there, Xu Qing had changed into his Grand Tutor official robes, and Chen Erniu had also put on the imitation Profound Heaven Armor forged for him by the humans!

This battle armor, named Great Heavenly Dipper, was something Chen Erniu had personally supervised the manufacturing process for according to his own requirements; he rarely wore it on ordinary days and seemed to be very fond of it!

Now, before this hall, he stood proudly, wearing the Great Heavenly Dipper armor on his body, his entire person shining in the sunlight, making him look like a man of light!

Looking from afar, he truly did have a bit of a mighty bearing!

The two stood solemnly outside the hall for a short while before a low voice drifted out from within the Imperial Palace hall!

"Summon the Grand Tutor and the Great Heavenly Dipper for an audience."

Xu Qing and Chen Erniu raised their heads and stepped toward the hall simultaneously; after a few steps, they entered the hall, seeing the gathered officials, the Empress sitting at the very top, and Ning Yan, who looked excited, beside her!

"Greetings, Your Majesty."

Xu Qing bowed.

Chen Erniu did the same, speaking in a loud voice!

The Empress nodded slightly and responded indifferently!

"It is good that you have returned. Take your seats!"

Xu Qing stood up, took a step, and arrived below the Empress, before the second of the thirty-three Heavenly King chairs!

He sat down upon it and looked down at the officials!

This position was second only to the Human Emperor and the Suppressing Flame King, who had not appeared here.

As for the officials, under Xu Qing's gaze, they all lowered their heads respectfully!

Even Ning Yan bowed toward Xu Qing!

Whether out of his past reliance on Xu Qing or Xu Qing's current status as Grand Tutor, Ning Yan was sincerely convinced and his heart was stirred!

In his heart, he even felt Xu Qing was more approachable than the Empress!

Seeing this, Chen Erniu felt a bit envious, but soon his attention was drawn to an old acquaintance standing in the distance; he was first surprised, then amused, and even took out the Sacred Heaven Divine Vine to fiddle with in his hands.

Until Xu Qing's gaze, after sweeping across the officials below, also landed on this cultivator...

This Demon Feather cultivator, who was being stared at by both Chen Erniu and Xu Qing, felt a complex mix of emotions, took a deep breath, and bowed slightly!

"Feng Litao greets the Grand Tutor!"