Chapter 1063: Leaving the Present

29 Jun, 2024

Chapter 1063: Leaving the Present

On the barren star, Er Niu sighed regretfully.

He couldn't find Ah Qing on those maggots …

Thus, he turned his gaze to the corpses around him.

While he was searching for Dark Flame Emperor, a war was breaking out in another fragment of Dark Flame Emperor's memories.

It was the starry sky.

Dressed in black armor, Dark Flame Emperor, who looked like he had crawled out of death, led the army behind him and engaged in a brutal battle with the alien races in the starry sky.

The sound of spells and shrill cries echoed in this place.

Then, a person walked over from afar, exuding a divine mighty aura. He ignored both sides and swept through everything, heading straight for Dark Flame Emperor like a sharp blade.

When he got close, he pointed a finger at Dark Flame Emperor's forehead, shattering his body, the starry sky, and the world of memories.

As the countless fragments scattered, the person's figure became clearer.

It was the Empress.

Unlike Xu Qing and Er Niu, they appeared as Dark Flame Emperor in the world of memories, but the empress appeared as her true self.

"Did you really die? Did your memories scatter into a world, or are you using your memories as the first barrier? Dark Flame Emperor, are you dead or alive?"

The Empress said indifferently as she walked forward.

At the same time, the other forces that had entered the Dark Flame Emperor Emperor's seclusion were also in different worlds. Some were exploring, some were ignoring, and some were immersed.

Because of their different goals, they used different methods.

For example, on a pitch-black plain, the old man from the Western Dark Feather's group was walking forward.

The ground seemed to be shrinking under his feet. He didn't seem to be walking fast, but in reality, every step he took was shockingly large.

As he walked forward, clanking sounds echoed from his body. It was as if there were iron chains tied to his black robes.

After a long time, a fault appeared in front of him, revealing a huge gully.

Standing beside the gully, the old man looked down and laughed hoarsely.

"It's here indeed."

…

"The Dark Feather Emperor once said that if a world of memories appears, it means that the Dark Flame Emperor Emperor has died?"

Xu Qing sat at the head of the hall filled with countless women, his gaze sweeping across the crowd.

He didn't act rashly. Instead, he analyzed the current situation.

"But the words of Great Emperor Demon Feather cannot be trusted too much."

"But no matter what, this place is most likely the Realm of Memories of the Dark Flame Emperor. Then … what is the meaning of this Realm of Memories?

Inheritance?

Or is it that there are many similar realms, like a miasma, and we have to walk through them one by one? "

As Xu Qing was deep in thought, his gaze suddenly turned cold. He retracted his gaze and looked to his right.

At this moment, there was an extremely charming woman on his right. She wore a thin gauze dress that was almost half taken off, her cheeks were flushed red, and her beautiful eyes were charming like silk. She was like a pet that was crawling towards him.

Her crawling posture made her figure even more enchanting.

Xu Qing didn't speak, but his gaze became even colder.

His cold gaze caused the woman who was crawling over to tremble. Fear appeared on her face, and she didn't dare to move forward. Instead, she slowly retreated.

Seeing this, Xu Qing was just about to retract his gaze when he suddenly frowned.

A tearing sensation suddenly appeared in the world, in the temple, and in his body.

It was as if the world were rejecting him, and was accompanied by a sense of danger. It was as if his actions had attracted the attention of the world.

What caused Xu Qing's mind to constrict was the pressure that accompanied it. It was as if a mountain had suddenly appeared on top of him.

Thankfully, the tearing sensation was mild, and not serious. It was as if it were nothing more than a warning.

"Interesting …."

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, then slowly rose to his feet and walked toward the temple, toward the door.

Along the way, the women in the temple all sensed what Xu Qing was doing, and their faces filled with terror and confusion at what he was doing.

Xu Qing didn't pay them any mind. He was investigating the cause of the tearing sensation.

As he neared the door, the expressions of the women in the temple grew more and more intense. Their voices grew softer and softer. In the end, when Xu Qing was just one step away from walking out of the temple ….

The temple suddenly went silent.

The music faded away, and the sounds of debauchery ceased. Even the breathing stopped. Everyone turned to look at Xu Qing, their eyes filled with coldness and death.

In that instant, the tearing sensation intensified.

Xu Qing stopped in his tracks and turned to look at the women in the temple. He was finally able to confirm the cause of the tearing sensation.

"This world is formed from a fragment of the Dark Flame Emperor's memories, and represents his past.

Now that I look like him, my actions must conform to the Dark Flame Emperor's from back then.

"If I don't conform, I will be considered an intruder, and the tearing sensation will appear. I will be suppressed by the hostility of the entire world, and will become a great terror.

"Therefore, if I want things to go smoothly, I need to find out how the Dark Flame Emperor acted in the past."

After some thought, Xu Qing didn't force his way out. Instead, he returned.

Following his return, the music once again filled the temple. The women's expressions returned to normal, and as the debauchery resumed, many of them began to move closer to Xu Qing. They lowered their heads, coquettishly, and wriggled their bodies. Their faces were filled with longing.

However, Xu Qing continued to frown.

That was because he realized that the tearing sensation was still there. It hadn't lessened in the slightest because of his return.

"Leaving isn't right, staying isn't right either."

"Then what did Dark Flame do back then?"

Xu Qing's eyes flashed coldly, and he made a decision. As the women closed in on him, he clenched his right hand into a fist.

The power of music exploded out.

The feeling of being torn apart disappeared at this moment.

Xu Qing immediately understood that Dark Flame had chosen to act.

A moment later, the doors to the temple slowly opened, and Xu Qing walked out.

A wind blew by, carrying with it the fragrance of flowers. Xu Qing's hair fluttered about, and the doors opened even wider.

The temple behind Xu Qing could be seen …. There were no corpses, nor were there any living women. There were only withered flower stamens.

Furthermore, they were becoming illusory.

As soon as Xu Qing walked out of the temple, the entire Womanland began to change.

The ground quaked, the sky darkened, and the wind and clouds changed colors.

One building after another collapsed, and numerous thick branches shot out from within. As they swayed back and forth, it was possible to see that at the end of each branch, the ends of which split apart into countless branches, from which grew flowers and stamens.

Each stamen was a woman.

As the entire Womanland collapsed, thousands of such branches spread out in all directions. As for the stamens, they were dozens of times more numerous.

As soon as they appeared, they let out lustful cries and looked at Xu Qing from all directions.

As for the center of the Womanland, as the ground collapsed, an enormous flower, fully thirty thousand meters tall, rose up from within it.

This was the main flower, and as its petals unfurled, a single stamen could be seen, which transformed into a queen.

"Albizia julibrissin Flower!"

Xu Qing's eyes flickered with a mysterious light.

He recognized this flower. Back in the Dawn Prefecture, he had seen it before, and had even saved Ning Yan, who had been absorbed by it ….

Back then, the flower had been small, but now, the one in front of him was shockingly terrifying.

Almost in the same moment that Xu Qing looked over, the countless women in the stamens began to laugh. Then, their branches whizzed through the air and shot toward Xu Qing from all directions.

Xu Qing's face was expressionless. His body flickered, and he shot up into the air, avoiding the sweeping branches. At the same time, he raised his right hand and pushed down.

Instantly, the power of the Hexing Poison transformed into a thick black mist that spread out.

It went straight for those branches.

Wherever it passed, the woman's laughter became shrill. Her body began to rot, as if she couldn't bear it.

However, as for Xu Qing, the feeling of being torn apart appeared once again. This time, it was incomparably intense, causing his heart to pound with fear.

It was as if a great terror that he could not resist was descending along with his previous attack.

The more he attacked, the stronger this feeling became.

"Something's wrong!"

Xu Qing immediately put away the Poison Hexing spell and backed up, analyzing the situation inwardly. At the same time, the branches whistled through the air, and Flower Queen waved her finger.

Suddenly, countless flowers bloomed in the void around Xu Qing. All the petals exploded and shot out in all directions.

Even though Xu Qing retreated to avoid it, a petal still managed to land on his body, leaving behind a gash.

To be more precise, what was sliced open was the body of Dark Flame that he had transformed into in the memory world.

But in Xu Qing's mind, he also felt injured.

"This is a memory-level attack!"

After realizing this, Xu Qing could sense that the ripping sensation was actually lessening as he was injured. The great terror seemed to pause for a moment, and then began to fade away.

"All of this points to one path."

"That is, I can't resist this flower and will be killed!"

"Dark Flame was killed by this flower back then?"

Xu Qing didn't believe it.

But that ripping sensation made him understand that if he didn't act according to the instructions, something even more terrifying would happen.

"There's still one way to break this!"

Xu Qing's eyes flashed with a dark light. The carving knife formed by the Divine Authority of Fate rose up from his sea of consciousness. But at this moment, a series of cracking sounds suddenly came from his bag of holding.

Xu Qing retreated and focused. A strange look appeared on his face.

It was unknown whether or not the golden mouse egg in his bag of holding had sensed Xu Qing's carving knife, but at this moment, it had completely shattered.

A golden light flew out from the shattered eggshell and surrounded it. After wildly devouring it, it flew out of the bag of holding.

It landed on Xu Qing's hand and turned into a little golden mouse.

It struggled to open its eyes and squeaked a few times at Xu Qing. It even rubbed its head against Xu Qing's finger, emitting an affectionate fluctuation of emotions.

The moment it appeared, the world formed by the memories underwent a huge change.

The sound disappeared.

All the flower stamens became motionless.

Even the Flower Stamen Queen seemed to have frozen, maintaining the same expression as before.

It was as if everything had stopped.

Xu Qing's heart trembled. This was a change he hadn't expected.

Before this, he knew that the golden mouse was extraordinary. After all, the old man of the Fifth Star Ring had one, and that one was psychic and could cut through time to escape.

Therefore, he had high hopes for his golden mouse.

But no matter how much he looked forward to it, when he saw the mouse appear and everything become still, Xu Qing's heart trembled violently.

...

At the same time, in the deepest part of the memory world where the Dark Flame Emperor was cultivating in seclusion, there was a strange world there.

The sky was made of flesh and blood, and countless fine hairs grew on it.

On each strand of hair, there were several realms formed by memory fragments.

As for the ground, it was a completely transparent sea.

On the sea, there were piles of flesh and blood, forming a huge sarcoma.

A middle-aged cultivator sat cross-legged in the sarcoma.

His expression was dignified without being angry, and his body emitted an ancient aura accompanied by a terrifying aura.

He originally had his eyes closed.

But at this moment, his eyes suddenly opened. His gaze pierced through the void and looked at a memory fragment world in the distance.

"There's a Lijin beast!"