Chapter 1104: The Source of Authority
Chapter 1104: The Source of Authority
Inside and outside the city, Xu Qing and the middle-aged cultivator looked at each other.
The raindrops floated in the air, emitting a sharp killing intent.
The two people in the rain formed a clear contrast.
One was incomparably handsome as he floated in the rain. His long hair danced in the wind, and his eyes shone with a strange light.
One of them had gray hair and a dignified face, but his expression was very ugly.
Between them was the city gate.
All of the raindrops were like sharp blades that Xu Qing pointed at the middle-aged cultivator in the city.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment. Only killing intent was rising from both of them.
Neither side chose to attack immediately.
Xu Qing was observing. This was the first time he was trying to control the dao marks of the other party's power. He needed more of the other party's actions to verify his thoughts.
The middle-aged cultivator was also observing.
Not only was he observing Xu Qing, but he was also observing the surrounding rain.
The heavenly rain power came from his dao marks. Before he became a Sovereign, he lived on the fifth star ring, so he was naturally a valiant and battle-savvy individual.
He had fought a lot with others and had relied on killing to get to where he was now.
It was just that he had barely made a breakthrough back then, but before he could do so, he had encountered a powerful foe.
In that battle, he had been seriously injured and was lucky enough to escape. However, the severity of his injuries had cut off his path forward.
After that, he was disheartened and settled down in this corner of the world.
This time, it took him a long time to make up his mind and give it a try.
But he didn't expect to encounter such a thing in his first battle.
However, even though he hadn't fought much after becoming a Sovereign, so he hadn't personally encountered a situation like this where the dao marks of the Heavenly Gods had gone out of control, he had heard of similar incidents.
Generally speaking, this kind of situation where one's Heavenly Dao Mark Authority went out of control was mostly caused by encountering an enemy of the same Heavenly Dao Mark Authority. Moreover, the enemy's understanding of the Heavenly Dao Mark Authority surpassed one's own.
"Authority comes from the Immortal Dao that accompanied the Immortal Embryo."
"The Immortal Dao is similar to the Heavenly Dao. However, it is not corporeal, but rather illusory. It is a way for cultivators to seize the power of the rings of stars that originally belonged to Gods."
"Every star ring has a special trace that belongs to the Gods. When the Gods sense these traces, they become the Divine Authority."
"Cultivators are unable to control it, but during the process of forming an Immortal embryo, they will naturally absorb it and turn it into their own Essence."
"Thus, there is a high probability that the same Authority will appear."
As the middle-aged cultivator pondered, his mind calmed down and a sharp glint appeared in his eyes.
"Although I haven't experienced it before, this kind of thing … is not unbreakable!
After all, this person was just a Soul Accumulation, not a Sovereign!
Even if you're a genius, there's still a limit! "
A moment later, as the two of them stared at each other, the middle-aged Cultivator moved.
He suddenly raised his right hand and slapped his chest.
A thunderous boom reverberated in the air. His entire body trembled, and blood instantly gushed out of his pores.
The moment the blood appeared, it immediately blended into the rain, turning the curtain of rain into a rain of blood.
At the same time, his will was infused with the blood mist and added to his dao marks. He used the blood mist as a medium to control the blood rain. He tried to disperse Xu Qing's control and regain his authority.
However, he was unable to succeed completely.
Xu Qing's water element seemed to be even more special. Even with the middle-aged cultivator's will, he only managed to regain half of his control.
In the next instant, the curtain of rain between Xu Qing and the middle-aged cultivator was split into two, with the city gate as the boundary.
Inside the city gate, the rain of blood filled the air, and the stench of blood filled the air.
Outside the city gate, the rain was crystal clear and incomparably pure.
In the blink of an eye, the two curtains of rain suddenly erupted. They each transformed into sharp swords, rain puppets, and water spells.
From afar, it looked like two armies were fighting. At this moment, thousands of soldiers and horses were charging at each other.
Thunderous booms shook the heavens and earth.
The sky changed colors and the earth rumbled. The hearts of countless cultivators in the city trembled. The city gate was the first to bear the brunt of the impact. It was directly shattered into pieces and turned into ashes.
As for Xu Qing and the middle-aged cultivator, both of them were also affected by the backlash of their respective eruptions.
They were both retreating.
However, their expressions were different.
The middle-aged cultivator's expression became even more unsightly.
On the other hand, Xu Qing's eyes were shining.
The reason why he hadn't immediately acted before was because he wanted to obtain more information to verify and make a judgment.
At this moment, he had more or less figured out some clues.
He could feel that his train of thought of his Seven Extreme Daos as Authorities was correct, at least for now.
In addition, from the previous rain charge, he could feel the instinctive desire of his Five Elements Water.
"I can devour this person's Authority of Rain to strengthen my Water Elements!"
Xu Qing's eyes flashed.
Apart from that, he also judged that this middle-aged cultivator was clearly weaker than the Sovereign he had encountered in the spirit mine.
Xu Qing judged that the Sovereign guarding the spirit mine should be infinitely close to the mid-stage Sovereign Realm. It could be said that he was at the peak of the early-stage Sovereign Realm.
However, this Sovereign seemed to have old injuries in his body. Moreover, the battle prowess he displayed was very weak.
"Either this person has just stepped into the Sovereign Realm, or it's caused by his old injuries.
"Then this person … I can kill him without Grandpa Jiu's sword qi!"
Thinking of this, the killing intent in Xu Qing's heart intensified. His body blurred as he charged toward the middle-aged cultivator.
The Five Elements Dao in his body instantly erupted.
In an instant, strange phenomena appeared all around him.
The earth churned as the power of earth surged violently. It was as if the earth had awakened at this moment. The earth quaked and the mountains swayed.
Plants swayed as if they had turned into demons and monsters. All the plants were stimulated and grew wildly, causing the power of wood to instantly soar into the sky.
The city rumbled as all the power of metal within it was affected. Regardless of whether it was Dharma treasures, Dharma treasures, or metal objects, all of them suddenly trembled. They were all controlled and rose into the sky from where they were.
Looking at this scene from afar, everyone was extremely shocked. They suddenly gathered.
The sky rippled as vast heavenly fire appeared out of thin air. It was crimson red and covered the aurora. It burned wildly like a flowing sea of fire and pressed down.
Its aura was magnificent.
At the same time, the surroundings also distorted. From the air, from the bodies of countless cultivators, and even from all things … everything related to water seeped out and enveloped everything. It was as if a sea swamp had appeared.
This was no longer like the battle between Xu Qing and Ling Feng where the Heavenly Dao had descended. Instead, it erupted under Xu Qing's will in the form of Heavenly Dao marks.
The moment it appeared, heaven and earth changed colors, and the wind and clouds surged.
In the eyes of the middle-aged cultivator, it turned into a roar in his heart. He was even more shocked and shocked than when his Heavenly Dao powers were controlled.
"Five Heavenly Dao powers!
"This is impossible!"
Monstrous waves were already surging in the middle-aged cultivator's mind. It was as if millions of lightning bolts had exploded at the same time.
In his knowledge, five Heavenly Dao powers were enough to be listed in the eight major planets.
Most importantly, he had never heard of anyone who had five Heavenly Dao powers at the Soul Accumulation level.
"Who the hell are you?!"
The middle-aged cultivator's heart was completely in turmoil. However, he obviously couldn't get an answer from his question. Xu Qing was already close.
In the next instant, a rumbling sound exploded out near the city gate.
The surroundings were in chaos, and outsiders couldn't see anything clearly.
If one's cultivation wasn't high enough, one's mind would collapse just by looking at it. Even if one's cultivation wasn't high enough, they wouldn't be able to see anything.
Drawing.
Because they didn't understand.
A lack of understanding would cause confusion in one's mind, making it difficult to form an effective picture.
Therefore, they couldn't see that in this blurry and distorted abstract picture, other than the five elements, there was also space changing and time freezing.
After a long while.
With a flash of sword light, the chaotic and distorted abstract painting returned to normal.
In the image, the middle-aged cultivator was standing on the spot with blood trickling down the corner of his mouth.
A sword pierced through his head and pierced through his body.
Blood flowed all over the floor.
Xu Qing hovered in midair, staring at the middle-aged cultivator.
With great difficulty, the middle-aged Cultivator lifted his head to look at Xu Qing.
He seemed to want to say something, but when he opened his mouth, blood blocked his words.
Xu Qing had no intention of listening to his words. He raised his hand and pulled out his Emperor Sword.
The middle-aged cultivator's body trembled. The light in his eyes dimmed, and his soul was destroyed.
At the same time, Xu Qing made a grabbing motion, and his heavenly rain power transformed into specks of translucent water that flew out of his body and fused into Xu Qing's five elements.
Water of the Five Elements suddenly surged.
Even Xu Qing's aura was slightly stronger than before the battle.
Apart from that, there was also the storage ring of the middle-aged cultivator.
Furthermore, Xu Qing clearly sensed that the range of his perception of the other tokens had increased by ten times.
At the same time, a new ranking appeared in Xu Qing's mind.
Ranked 1145th in the Southern Region!
Silence reigned in all directions.
Xu Qing glanced at the corpse standing there. With a wave of his hand, everything collapsed. Even the traces of the battle were erased by his Authority.
"If I had such a change in thought when I was fighting against the guardian of the spirit mine, perhaps I would not have wasted Grandpa Jiu's Sword Qi."
After thinking about it, Xu Qing still felt that even if he had understood it at that time, there was a high chance that he would still have to use the sword qi.
Without knowing the situation of the outside world, the best choice was to seize the opportunity to kill with a single strike.
Thinking of this, Xu Qing stopped thinking about the past and looked into the distance.
"We shouldn't stay here for long."
His body flickered as he shot off into the distance.
.......
In the sky, crimson auroras flowed.
The streak of light that Xu Qing had transformed into was speeding through the sky at an extremely fast speed.
While he was vigilant of his surroundings, he was also thinking about this battle.
At the end of the day, the crux of this battle was his ability to manifest the powers of the Five Elements and control his opponent's powers.
This matter was of great help to Xu Qing's understanding.
This allowed Xu Qing to verify his previous suspicions, and as a result, he began to have even more thoughts about the Sovereign Realm.
Before this, Xu Qing knew that in the cultivation system, the Void Returning Realm was the process of comprehending the rules and laws of heaven and earth.
The four small realms were all like this. Through a progressive method, Void Reversion cultivators would be able to grasp all the laws of their own great world from the Heavenly Dao of their world.
Xu Qing understood that being in control of this place did not mean becoming the source, but rather understanding it and having the right to use it.
In other words, he was comprehending the world he was in and creating his own great world.
All in all, it was a needle-like process.
Xu Qing's ability to go from Returning to Void to Soul Accumulation was also within this range.
On one hand, it was because he had accumulated enough energy back then. On the other hand, it was because Dark Flame's physical body had transformed into the original essence. It contained everything he had, and it was incomparably pure.
Therefore, with the help of the comprehension of the Ten Extreme Daos from the Deep Earth, Xu Qing broke through to the Soul Accumulation Realm with the help of these accumulations and the support of the original Origin.
They formed their own Seven Realms.
Spirit Accumulation was the name of the Wanggu Realm. In other places, this realm was also called Immortal Accumulation.
The names were different, but the meaning was the same.
This was because the spirit contained was not a god, but a Primordial Spirit.
As for the essence of the Soul Accumulation Realm, Xu Qing had also explored it before leaving the Wanggu Realm.
He understood that the foundation of this realm was to form one's own great world after comprehending enough laws.
In the end, there were nine great worlds.
These nine great worlds could be the same or different, and it was determined by the cultivator's own thoughts and experiences.
But no matter what kind of world it was, these were ultimately nutrients.
They were nutrients to push oneself to step into the Sovereign Realm.
However, the path to the Sovereign Realm had been broken in the Wanggu Continent. Unless one had a special bloodline that could reconnect themselves during the process of breaking through, it was difficult to step into it.
Part of the reason was that there was a problem with the Heavenly Dao created by the Summer Immortals in the Wanggu Continent.
But ultimately, the biggest reason was the influence of the Wanggu Continent's Desolate Face.
The aura of a god was too strong, so it was difficult for an immortal to come out.
This was because … the Sovereign Realm was very special.
It was the process of fusing nine great worlds and forming one's own Immortal Embryo.
It was also a watershed between cultivators and immortals.
Once the Immortal Embryo was formed, one would become a Quasi-Immortal, which was also a Great Emperor.
For example, although the Human Race Empress had inherited Xuan Zhan's bloodline and the luck of the Human Race with the help of Sword Protector and stepped into the Sovereign Realm, it was also the limit.
She could take a step forward, but she couldn't continue and couldn't become a Great Emperor in this life.
And after the arrival of the God's Desolate Face, no new Great Emperor appeared on the Wanggu Continent.
Therefore, she had to cultivate the Divine Dao and use the Immortal Embryo that she couldn't form as fuel to make the Divine Fire erupt and burn more and more until she finally stepped into the Divine Platform Stage.
From then on, she was separated from immortality.
This was what Xu Qing learned about the Sovereign and Quasi-Immortal Great Emperor paths in the Summer Immortal Palace before leaving the Wanggu Continent.
As for the Authority, in the records of the Summer Immortal Palace, this phenomenon had never appeared in the Deep Earth Realm.
It only appeared after coming to the Wanggu Continent.
At first, the Summer Immortal Palace thought it was the origin, but the origin was actually reflected in the Deep Earth Realm cultivators long ago.
And there was a difference between the two. The Authority Dao marks were obviously much stronger.
The way it appeared was through the Immortal Dao that accompanied the formation of the Immortal Embryo at the Sovereign Realm.
The so-called Immortal Dao was a nothingness above the Heavenly Dao. What it displayed was authority and dao marks.
Summer Immortal Palace didn't understand why it would appear either.
However, generally speaking, Authority dao marks would only appear in the Sovereign Realm.
Of course, there were exceptions. For example, some of the geniuses were usually at the Soul Accumulation level, and were able to appear in advance.
Moreover, the time of appearance had become the standard for measuring the prodigies before the Broken Face's arrival.
As for the Summer Immortal, he was just a Lower Immortal …
After the immortal embryo was formed and nurtured to the extreme, it finally broke through and transformed from an embryo into an immortal.
According to the records of the Summer Immortal Palace, Summer Immortal's state was the limit of the Deep Earth Star Ring.
It is also known as the Ninth Step in the Deep Earth.
However, Summer Immortal's battle prowess was vastly different in Deep Earth and Wanggu.
In the Deep Earth Ring, the Summer Immortal could cover the entire ring with a single thought. Except for the ring she was in, she could do almost anything.
However, it was impossible to do so in Wanggu.
This point was also explained in the analysis of the Summer Immortal Palace.
They knew that Wanggu was in the Ninth Star Ring. They also knew that there were a total of thirty-six celestial bodies like the Ninth Star Ring.
The Ninth Star Ring, also known as the Brilliant Heaven Star Ring, was only one of them.
These thirty-six star rings, in the knowledge of the Summer Immortal Palace, belonged to the Upper Realm.
To a certain extent, it could be regarded as the Upper Realm.
As for the Deep Earth, it was the Lower Star Ring or the Lower Realm.
The Summer Immortal Palace believed that such a Lower Realm couldn't only have the Deep Earth. There should be thirty-six Lower Realm Star Rings, or even more.
However, above the Deep Earth was the Brilliant Heaven.
This was only the judgment of the Summer Immortal Palace, and there was no conclusive proof.
However, based on this judgment, there was an answer to the change in Summer Immortal's battle prowess.
The suppression of the Upper Realm and the Lower Realm was different, so the battle prowess displayed was also different.
It was like the difference between the Great Realm and the Small Realm.
In the Small Realm, without suppression, one could naturally summon the wind and summon the rain.
However, in the Great Realm, one couldn't.
According to the research of the Summer Immortal Palace, they believed that the Upper Realm Star Rings were the land of Gods.
The source of the Divine Right, the traces in the dark, had a great suppression on the entire Upper Realm Star Rings.
Whether it was Gods or Cultivators.
Xu Qing didn't feel much about this because he had never been to the Deep Earth, so he didn't know how terrifying his current cultivation level would be in the Deep Earth.
For him, so far, he had been in the Upper Realm Star Rings.
"As for why my Authority of the Five Elements is so special …"
Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and instinctively touched his chest.
Over there, a purple crystal was shining.
"What on earth is it …"
"When I was comprehending the Ten Extreme Daos, I saw a complete crystal in the totem that shattered into ten pieces."
"And this one of mine isn't shattered. It's complete."
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