Chapter 994

On the black lake, those Immortal Masters dressed in white robes, sitting cross-legged and comprehending, remained unmoved, turning a deaf ear to Xu Qing's arrival and words.

And that white Immortal Art Hall was silent inside, also without the slightest response.

Xu Qing, holding the Sovereign token, stood in mid-air; after waiting for thirty breaths, he spoke again with his expression as usual.

"Before the Sovereign was summoned by the Demon Feather Great Emperor, he exhorted three times, saying that to avoid hurting harmony, it was inconvenient for him to come personally, so he ordered me to come here to observe the immortal art; he will watch it in my memory later."

"If the Immortal Art Hall does not lend it, Xue Chenzi can only report the truth, and at that time, the Sovereign will come personally."

Xu Qing's voice was low; after finishing, he looked at the white Immortal Art Hall ahead.

He knew that this was not a place he could break into at will; if it was useless to bring up Lu Lingzi this time, then he could only think of other ways.

After all, this time, he was actually using a tiger's skin to act.

And clearly, Lu Lingzi's arrival in the Western Demon Feather this time, the posture displayed at the Seventh Sovereign Mountain, the details within, grasping the initiative, and finally being summoned by the Great Emperor.

The posture revealed by this series of events made the powerhouses of the Western Demon Feather have more understanding of this newly promoted Sovereign.

So... after a while, the gate of the Immortal Art Hall opened slowly, and a man and a woman, two cultivators dressed in white robes, walked out from within.

The woman was behind, beautiful in appearance; the man was in front, handsome in form.

The moment they appeared, all the Immortal Masters comprehending in the surroundings opened their eyes and lowered their heads slightly to show respect.

Xu Qing looked over as well.

In his gaze, the young man who walked out of the Immortal Art Hall looked up at Xu Qing and spoke faintly.

"Immortal arts cannot be comprehended unless one is an Immortal Master, but since you have the Sovereign's order, our Western Demon Feather Immortal Art Hall can also give you a qualification."

"However, those who seek immortal arts must pass through the Five Tribulations of Life and Death; during this period, life or death is not guaranteed."

"In this Abandoning Immortals Lake, you can find any place, sink down, and you will have the Five Tribulations descend upon you, which is equivalent to a look."

After speaking, the young man looked coldly at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, his gaze falling on the Abandoning Immortals Lake below, pondering in his heart.

"Why, are you afraid?"

Outside the Immortal Art Hall, the young man spoke faintly.

Xu Qing remained unmoved, continuing to observe, until a moment later, his body flickered and he headed straight below; after landing on the lake surface, he sank directly into it, disappearing from sight.

And following his disappearance, all the Immortal Masters comprehending on the lake surface had their gazes flicker, looking at the place where Xu Qing sank; some shook their heads, some sneered.

"This Xue Chenzi is truly seeking death."

"In the Abandoning Immortals Lake, I don't know how many who failed the Five Tribulations have been buried; even if he survives by luck, it is impossible for him to succeed."

After the crowd swept their gazes across, they retracted them one after another, no longer paying attention.

Even though Xue Chenzi had been famous for a while, to them, it was not as important as comprehending immortal arts themselves.

As for the young man standing outside the Immortal Art Hall, a sneer also appeared on the corner of his mouth; however, the woman behind him revealed a trace of concern in her expression at this moment.

"Senior Brother, Master is traveling and has not returned, and that newly promoted Sovereign of the Eastern Demon Feather is in the limelight, and this Xue Chenzi is also not ordinary; over the past half month, he has been famous."

"Such a person, with such a background, coming here to borrow immortal arts, you could have politely refused according to the rules; why lead him into a situation of nine deaths and one life?"

"The Abandoning Immortals Lake hides the Five Dogs Heavenly Realm; it is extremely difficult for intruders to survive, and even if they survive in the end, they will ultimately fail to comprehend it successfully; after all... wanting to comprehend Five Dogs Abandoning Immortals requires a special ritual."

The woman sighed lightly.

Hearing this, the young man's gaze remained icy.

"Before going, I already informed him of the danger; with so many people witnessing, it was he himself who wanted to go, not that I imposed any compulsion."

"He is seeking death himself; it has nothing to do with me."

After speaking, the young man flicked his sleeve and turned to walk into the Immortal Art Hall.

The woman looked at the lake surface and shook her head, knowing that saying more was meaningless, so she also stopped speaking and returned to the Immortal Art Hall.

And Xu Qing, at this moment, after entering the Abandoning Immortals Lake, felt no abnormality.

Although the lake water was pitch black, there was no foreign matter within; on the contrary, there was a sense of lightness, only it had an obstruction to divine sense, making it very difficult for one to know the entire lake bottom with one thought.

Xu Qing felt it for a while, scattered his divine sense, and searched the surroundings bit by bit.

After a stick of incense, Xu Qing's eyes narrowed.

His divine sense, while searching the lake bottom at this moment, saw skeletons...

Following the investigation, more and more skeletons appeared.

Finally, when Xu Qing had investigated the entire lake bottom, he saw a large number of skeletons, at least several thousand.

There were men and women, old and young.

All were wide-eyed, their skin pale, and even their eyes were the same, and even their hair was white.

On their faces, all had strange expressions of neither crying nor laughing.

Besides this, at the bottom of this lake, Xu Qing also saw a massive rune branded on the lake bottom.

This rune was white, its range occupying most of the lake bottom, emanating a sense of antiquity, and what made Xu Qing pay the most attention was that all the skeletons were... on this white rune.

Xu Qing gazed.

After a while, he approached cautiously.

At the moment of approaching, his divine sense had already investigated many times; after gaining nothing, Xu Qing pondered in his heart, and after more than ten breaths, decisiveness appeared in his eyes.

He took a step directly onto this massive rune.

The moment he landed, Xu Qing's heart shook; there was a feeling of his heart constantly sinking, and then his vision blurred; when everything became clear, what he saw in the surroundings was no longer the lake bottom.

But the sky!

Blue sky, white clouds filling the air, and beneath his feet, he could not see the earth, only a white line a hundred zhang thick, winding into the distance.

It looked like a white hair that had been magnified countless times.

Xu Qing did not act rashly; he scattered his divine sense to observe this thick white line beneath his feet as a whole.

And after viewing it from a broad perspective, Xu Qing immediately saw that this white line actually formed a rune.

This rune was exactly the same as the rune he saw at the lake bottom.

"It seems this place is the Five Tribulations mentioned by that young man; this person clearly has evil intentions, but... since I chose to come here, I will not shrink back because of evil intentions."

Xu Qing murmured in his heart, not moving forward immediately on this white line, but the authority belonging to the Six Thieves Delusion flashed in his eyes.

"Those who cannot exist long are because of the Six Thieves Delusion. Eyes delude vision, ears delude hearing, nose deludes scent, mouth deludes taste, body deludes action, mind deludes thought. Thus, one can never return to the root."

The Dao marks circulated, and the Six Thieves immortal art surged suddenly within Xu Qing's body.

Threads of seven emotions and six desires scattered invisibly directly around Xu Qing.

"Six Thieves and Five Dogs are originally one immortal art..."

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, walking forward on this white line, using his own Six Thieves authority to perceive everything.

At the same time, the information about Five Dogs Abandoning Immortals told by the Senior Brother back then also emerged in his mind.

"Five Dogs are Stinginess, Greed, Delusion, Evil, and Cliff."

"Inability to abandon worldly possessions and all existence is called Stinginess. Insatiable desire is called Greed. Delusional planning is called Delusion. Not knowing true nature and arguing to win is called Evil. Not attaining non-birth and delusionally resisting the three paths is called Cliff."

"As for the Seven Killings and Eight Evils, Miss Yuedong and her Junior Sister also did not understand."

"And this immortal art is simply expressed as... if the Stingy Dog enters the abode, one loses treasures; if the Greedy Dog enters the abode, one is bound; if the Delusional Dog enters the abode, one falls into life and death; if the Evil Dog enters the abode, one falls into hell; if the Cliff Dog enters the abode, one loses human form forever."

Thinking while perceiving, while moving forward.

But as he walked, Xu Qing suddenly stopped his footsteps; the seven emotions and six desires threads around him were fluctuating violently, seemingly blocking something, and even appearing concave.

But looking ahead, there was nothing.

Until the next instant, the seven emotions and six desires threads returned to normal.

Xu Qing was vigilant, observing carefully, but no matter what, there was no sense of abnormality.

After confirming there was no harm, he frowned and continued forward.

But only three steps later, Xu Qing's face sank.

"Not right."

"The seven emotions and six desires threads transformed by the Six Thieves Delusion cannot be abnormal for no reason, so where is the problem..."

Xu Qing frowned even tighter, but after pondering, he still gained nothing.

But the sense of unease kept rising.

So Xu Qing did not continue forward, but recalled all his previous actions in place.

Finally, he discovered that the abnormality of the seven emotions and six desires threads seemed to have appeared only after he recalled the information told by the Senior Brother in his mind.

So he immediately recalled those memories that had emerged before.

Subsequently, Xu Qing's eyes narrowed.

"There seems to be something wrong with that memory of mine before..."

He vaguely sensed that his memory just now seemed to have some abnormality, but he could not find the reason no matter what; so Xu Qing did not hesitate, and the Underworld Fei Eye within his body suddenly opened.

This eye can break through illusory obstacles!

The moment it opened and closed, Xu Qing instantly sensed the source.

In his memory, Miss Yuedong actually had an extra Junior Sister!

And Miss Yuedong had no Junior Sister.

Xiang Lanyao was even less of Miss Yuedong's Junior Sister.

But the figure of this Junior Sister bypassed Xu Qing's perception, as if merging, combining with his memory.

It even ran through all the scenes in his memory where Miss Yuedong existed.

Like in the scene where Feng Lin Tao, Xiang Lanyao, and Miss Yuedong first met Xu Qing, there was also Miss Yuedong's Junior Sister beside those three.

And later, when he and the Senior Brother captured Miss Yuedong, it was also capturing her Junior Sister together.

It was just that because of his soul-searching, Miss Yuedong's Junior Sister's soul was scattered.

This memory made Xu Qing's eyes contract.

In his feeling, this was indeed his memory, and it seemed the facts were just so, but under the Fei Eye, this memory was external!

"Then who is this Miss Yuedong's Junior Sister who appeared out of thin air in my memory?"

Xu Qing's face instantly turned gloomy, especially when he discovered that even though he saw this memory was wrong with his Fei Eye, he could not erase it; so a cold glint flashed in his eyes, and the Fate Divine Authority within his body erupted violently.

The carving knife it transformed into pierced through fate and slashed fiercely at Miss Yuedong's Junior Sister in that memory.

With a crack.

Miss Yuedong's Junior Sister's figure instantly collapsed, falling apart.

It was just that Xu Qing's heart still sank.

Because, the moment Miss Yuedong's Junior Sister's figure shattered, that memory scene became a withered white hair, running through half of his memory.

In those memory scenes that were run through, the white hair was merging, and the quantity was constantly increasing, constantly spreading.

This feeling was hard to describe, extremely strange.

It was just like a finished work of art suddenly having changes, filled with countless white hairs.

Vaguely, a sentence from Five Dogs Abandoning Immortals emerged in Xu Qing's mind.

"Inability to abandon worldly possessions and all existence is called Stinginess... if the Stingy Dog enters the abode, one loses treasures."

These appearing white hairs were like opening a door in a closed secret room.

This door was circular.

At this moment, it opened wide, emanating white light.

Just like a white eye.

Greedy Dog, enters the abode!