Chapter 1353: My Surname is Xu! My Surname is Wang!
Chapter 1353: My Surname is Xu! My Surname is Wang!
The void was boundless, and it was as silent as a tomb.
This was still the ninth star ring.
However, there were no other Venerable Gods in the ninth star ring except for the Eminent Desolation.
Where the Black Pagoda, the Giant Beast, the Paper Dolls, and the Mother River used to be was now a void.
Sensing this, Xu Qing walked in the starry sky, walked into time, and walked into the broken dimensional gap.
Following the guidance of the shredded paper in his palm, he moved forward step by step.
With every step he took, countless worlds lit up.
There were also bursts of murderous intent that turned into endless coldness. As he moved forward, the coldness froze even the tiniest space ripples where he stepped.
His calm gaze contained black and white that could refine billions of stars. As he moved forward, he penetrated the layers of space-time turbulence ā¦
In the end, he was nailed to an extremely obscure coordinate that was almost assimilated with the void.
"Found it."
Xu Qing's gaze paused, and he spoke faintly.
That place was a mortal world.
In the world, in a school in a town, there were many scrolls piled up.
Xu Qing's gaze was looking at the scroll at the bottom across time and space!
This scroll was simple and unadorned, and its material was ordinary. It was ordinary without any sense of extraordinariness. It was as if it was really just an ordinary object that perfectly blended into the background world.
If Xu Qing didn't have the fragment in his palm and his own extraordinary constitution, he wouldn't have been able to detect its existence.
"You've hidden it well, De Luozi."
Xu Qing's voice was low and emotionless. He took a step forward, and his figure broke through thousands of worlds and directly descended into that world.
He appeared in the school and stood in front of the scroll.
The moment he appeared, he didn't hesitate at all. He opened his right hand and grabbed at the scroll!
This grab wasn't an ordinary touch, but a direct action on the concept of "realm" carried by the scroll!
The moment it landed, a terrifying sound as if the membrane of the world was forcibly torn apart roared and reverberated in this world.
It shook the heavens and earth, causing all living beings in this world to be in a trance at this moment.
The scroll floated up and suddenly opened.
A painting appeared!
In the painting, there was a continuous rise and fall of the immortal palace with richly ornamented beams and painted rafters!
Bejeweled jade palaces floated above the sea of clouds, emitting boundless multicolored light, thousands of auspicious vapors, red-crowned cranes flying in the air, and goddesses dancing gracefully.
It was a scene of bliss.
However, this magnificent scene seemed to be covered in dust, and it was enveloped by a layer of grey that couldn't be removed.
Under the influence of this color, all the colors were strangely dim, as if they had been washed away by time. The red-crowned cranes' eyes were empty, and the goddesses' dance movements were stiff like marionettes. There was a suffocating falsehood and deathly stillness.
The entire world in the painting seemed to be filled with a kind of meticulously whitewashed, rotten aura that went deep into the bones.
At the center of the world in the painting, above the solidified sea of clouds, there was a huge figure sitting upright!
It was a Paper Man!
It was De Luozi!
He was no longer a thin piece of paper. Instead, he was wearing a gorgeous but equally lifeless emperor's robe and a crown of pearls on his head, like an inflated, funny, and terrifying emperor.
Countless translucent threads of fate that were as thin as gossamer extended from every living creature, every piece of debris, and every wisp of clouds in the painting. They were densely connected to him, as if they were providing him with nutrients.
Almost at the moment when Xu Qing's gaze fell, the huge Paper Man suddenly opened his eyes.
His eyes shone with a scarlet light, and he looked at Xu Qing through the painting!
"Xu Qing!"
De Luozi's expression sank, and his mind was even more shaken.
He knew the karma between him and Xu Qing, but according to his omniscience, he didn't think that Xu Qing could find him.
Unless the Eminent Desolation really woke up, he was confident that no one would be able to detect his concealment!
Even if he had a piece of paper outside, it would be meaningless. All of his clones had long been cut off from his main body at the level of karma.
"This is not right!"
De Luozi's mind was churning, and what made him feel uneasy was his current state.
This was the most unfavorable moment!
And as long as he was given enough time, he was confident that he could restore Venerable Gods cultivation. After obtaining the memories of the god's umbilical cord, he had a lot more confidence in walking down the god's umbilical cord in the future.
Butā¦ everything had gone wrong the moment Xu Qing found him!
"As expected, your status has fallen, and you are no longer a Venerable God."
While De Luozi's expression changed, Xu Qing slowly spoke and stepped into the painting.
The moment he entered, this fake glorious world was like a mirror of stagnant water that had a huge rock thrown into it, shaking with a loud bang!
The layer of dead gray light film fluctuated violently, trying to expel Xu Qing. Countless stiff goddesses, cranes, and spirit beasts were like activated puppets. With stiff and strange smiles, they rushed toward Xu Qing from all directions!
They were not physical entities, but curses and resentment formed by the rules of the painting. Touching them would erode one's soul and pollute one's origin.
Xu Qing was expressionless. His own dimension of constitution turned into black and white silk threads that surrounded his body in an instant and spread out in all directions.
Like a tide that could destroy the world, it swept in all directions. Wherever it passed, the puppets in the painting that rushed over were torn apart like pieces of paper by the wind. They didn't even have time to scream before they were torn apart!
The layer of dead gray light film let out a soul-piercing wail under the storm of black and white. It distorted violently and was forcefully rendered, causing the colors of the entire world in the painting to rapidly fade!
Xu Qing ignored all obstacles. With a single step, he crossed the solidified sea of clouds. When he appeared, he was in front of the inflated paper figurine emperor, De Luozi.
He raised his right hand and punched out!
The storm of black and white circled over with an unstoppable force. It rushed toward De Luozi's inflated and distorted chest that was draped in imperial robes!
Wherever the storm passed, space was no longer shattered, but was annihilated conceptually!
Time, color, form, rulesā¦ All the elements that formed this fake world in the painting collapsed under this storm and returned to nothingness!
Then, it smashed into De Luozi's paper-mĆ¢chĆ© imperial robes!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a kind of annihilation where all things returned to silence!
With Xu Qing's fist as the center, De Luozi's inflated imperial body was like a sandcastle that had been thrown into a black hole, collapsing from the inside out!
The gorgeous imperial robes turned into ashes inch by inch, and the pearl crown shattered into nothingness. The divine power that filled it instantly dissipated.
Countless cracks appeared on its body, turning it into countless paper money that scattered in the air.
However, its counterattack also appeared.
The countless paper money that its body had turned into suddenly gathered as it scattered in all directions, turning into a huge paper figurine head. It opened its mouth and swallowed Xu Qing.
Countless threads of fate spread out from the paper figurine head, forming a long river of fate that wrapped around Xu Qing.
The power of a peak God Lord erupted at this moment.
However, Xu Qing was expressionless. He did not put down his raised fist. The void behind him rippled, and a second him walked out from the void.
After devouring the Primordial Mother Planet, Xu Qing's cultivation had reached the peak of the Immortal Lord Realm, andā¦ he had two original bodies!
Just like the Twin Planets!
The second original body came from Black Star. At this moment, it suddenly appeared and also threw out a punch!
It suddenly collided with the paper figurine head that was approaching.
A wave that was enough to destroy everything erupted at this moment!
The rumbling sound, with the power of annihilation, swept in all directions.
The entire world in the painting suddenly collapsed.
The celestial palace turned into grayish-white powder that drifted away. The solidified sea of clouds evaporated, and the stiff goddesses and red-crowned cranes peeled off like faded murals.
The dead glory completely turned into a rapidly spreading void of nothingness.
De Luozi's body trembled and collapsed again, turning into paper money that rolled backward.
As for the billions of threads of fate that wrapped around Xu Qing's body, under this punch, they broke and dissipated like a destroyed spider web.
Then, White Star Xu Qing took over from Black Star and took another step forward. Without hesitation, his right fist suddenly fell again!
However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred!
The moment the world in the painting completely collapsed, it formed a drop of pitch-black ink that was so thick that it could not be dissolved, filled with extreme decay and resentment!
This ink did not attack Xu Qing. Instead, as if it had a life of its own, it instantly wrapped around a piece of De Luozi's scattered paper!
Taking advantage of the last chaotic gap caused by the complete annihilation of the world in the painting and the collapse of the rules, it used a strange escape method that burned its origin and ignored the price to suddenly penetrate the void and escape into the sky!
Its speed was so fast that it surpassed one's perception!
Xu Qing's punch missed.
He narrowed his eyes and stood on the remains of the painting that had completely turned into nothingness. His eyes were cold as he looked in the direction that the drop of ink had disappeared.
There, only an extremely weak trail that was mixed with the stench of rotten paper and the venomous ink was left behind.
Then, he slowly withdrew his fist.
However, the killing intent in his eyes was even more condensed and deep at this moment.
"How far can you escape?"
Xu Qing spoke calmly, his voice echoing in the void, chilling to the bone.
After that, he took a step forward and directly stepped out of the ruins of the obliterated World Painting, and his figure once again fused into the boundless space. He followed along the strand of decaying resentment that had almost dissipated yet was firmly locked onto by him, and he silently pursued it.
This pursuit was like a maggot in one's bones, and it would not stop until one was dead.
......
Time, in this hunt and pursuit between Xu Qing and De Luozi, had become meaningless.
Whether it was Xu Qing or De Luozi, they could travel through time and enter different planes of different times, and not just go upā¦
It was the same for going down.
Even in the end, when Xu Qing caught up and attacked again and again, De Luozi chose to split up in this extreme danger!
He split into millions or even more doppelgangers and entered different time and space.
This was his life-saving method!
Each of his countless doppelgangers could become his original body. As long as one of them could survive, he would not die.
And as long as he was given enough time, any doppelganger could recover to the level of a Venerable God.
And once he recovered, the other doppelgangers would turn into flying ashes, making him the only one.
However, this method also had a drawback, and that was that his doppelgangers could obtain an advantage in number and range, but their realm was not as good as his original body.
With his current realm, when he used this method, his doppelgangers would no longer be at the level of a God Lord, but at the level of a True God.
Although this was the case, for De Luozi, this was the only way to delay!
In the face of this divine technique, Xu Qing's response was to split up!
His Dimension constitution came from returning to one. Now, all he needed to do was to split up again.
However, the flaw was the same as De Luozi's technique. The split up doppelgangers could not possess the realm of his original body. They were allā¦ Summer Immortal!
Therefore, this pursuit was no longer a one-on-one in different time and space, butā¦ infinity against infinity!
.......
Rumbling Kingdom.
The air was filled with the mixed smell of rust, coal ash, and low-quality oil.
In the distance, massive steam pipes were like coiled steel pythons, hissing and spewing out scalding white steam from the gaps between towering buildings that reached into the clouds.
The sound of grinding gears was deafening, converging into a never-ending roaring dirge.
This was a small world, devoid of cultivators.
But at this moment, a figure was standing in the shadow of a suspended iron bridge in the steel city of this world.
Long black hair, long purple hair, and the surrounding greasy filth, it was very unharmonious.
It was Xu Qing.
His gaze pierced through the pervading steam and the massive rotating flywheel, falling into the depths of an incomparably massive difference engine.
There, trillions of tiny copper gears were madly grinding and rotating, calculating every breath of this steel city.
On the edge of one of the gears, there was an extremely fine layer of white marks that were as thin as dust.
It operated exceptionally smoothly, with a strange agility that surpassed that of a machine.
Staring at the layer of white marks, a cold glint flashed in Xu Qing's eyes. Like a weightless ghost, he silently walked down the iron bridge in a way that the patrolling guards of this world couldn't see.
He landed on the massive outer shell of the precision difference engine. His finger lightly brushed against the ice-cold and glossy metal surface, corroding a hole barely big enough for a finger to pass through.
Soon after, he took out a drop of black oil formed by constitution and dripped it down the hole with incredible precision.
Hiss!
An extremely fine, yet sharp, strange sound that could pierce through steel rang out.
The gear covered in white marks suddenly froze!
The layer of 'dust' covering it violently trembled, attempting to escape.
But the black oil was like a maggot, instantly wrapping around it and seeping in.
The white marks struggled and twisted in the thick darkness, like a flying insect trapped in resin, endlessly spreading and seeping in. The gear's rotation also became difficult and sluggish, emitting painful gurgling sounds.
In the end, the ripples of struggle completely calmed down, and the gear also stopped rotating. Not a single trace of white could be seen on its surface.
There was only an extremely weak whine of divinity, completely annihilated by the roar of the engine oil and steam.
In the outside world, Xu Qing withdrew his finger, and the metal at the edge of the hole automatically closed up.
He turned around and entered the pervading steam, leaving behind only the rumbling of the difference engine's rotation.
......
At the bottom of the abyss, in the Silent Cemetery.
Absolute darkness and endless seawater enveloped everything.
This was an abandoned abyss between the Upper and Lower Worlds.
Xu Qing floated in the bone-chilling sea water. Beneath his feet was the decaying remains of an enormous ancient ship.
It was like the skeleton of a Giant Beast, sleeping at the bottom of the sea.
Time seemed to be frozen in this place. Only the cold blue light emitted by the deep-sea creatures occasionally flashed past, illuminating the twisted carved wooden ornaments and scattered utensils in the cabin.
Xu Qing swept his gaze over and entered the wreckage.
His target was in the captain's cabin.
It was a half-rolled parchment chart that had been forgotten in the corner of the oak table.
It was yellowish in color and had broken edges. It looked as old and dead as the sunken ship.
However, in this dark and gloomy cabin, the ink marks on the parchment that represented submerged reefs and sea routes squirmed in an extremely strange manner, as if they were the blood vessels of living creatures.
When Xu Qing walked over, the parchment suddenly stopped moving.
Then, it suddenly melted, as if it wanted to escape!
But it was too late. Xu Qing suddenly raised his right hand and flung it fiercely!
An iron skewer flew out in an instant, like a blunt weapon piercing rotten wood. With a force of a thousand catties, it ruthlessly pierced through the half rolled up sheepskin nautical chart, nailing it firmly to the thick oak board of the cabin wall!
The distorted human face formed by the ink marks instantly appeared on the paper. Its mouth silently opened to the limit. The lines that formed the face twisted and trembled crazily, showing extreme pain and fear.
And the seawater, with Xu Qing's unique constitution, seeped into the interior of the parchment through the puncture and the corroded crevices of the skewer tip.
The face formed by the ink marks violently twitched. The ink dots that formed the island blurred and the lines that represented the sea route twisted and broke like earthworms that were soaked in water.
In the end, only a chaotic and dirty ink stain was left. It slowly spread in the cold seawater and merged with the eternal darkness.
Xu Qing's face was expressionless. He turned and walked out of the silent coffin. Behind him was only the eternal silence of the deep sea.
.......
In the sea of clouds and immortal mountains, the spiritual energy was ethereal.
A lone peak that floated above the sea of clouds was shrouded in dense spiritual energy like gauze and fog all year round.
Cranes cried, strange flowers bloomed, and jade buildings were faintly discernible in the clouds.
This was the Tranquil Taoist Temple, located in the Lower Star Ring. It was a paradise that countless cultivators dreamed of.
At this moment, under the clear sky, in the heavenly wind, Xu Qing stood on the peak of the lone peak.
His black robe flapped in the wind. His long purple hair danced, as if to shroud this clear sky. It was incompatible with the surrounding spiritual energy.
He was like a demon.
And his gaze coldly pierced through the ethereal clouds below and landed on a Taoist temple located in the paradise.
In the depths of the Taoist temple, in a secret cultivation room full of restrictions, three Xuantian Protector True Talismans were enshrined.
The talisman paper was neither gold nor jade. It faintly emitted spiritual light.
In the corner of one of the talismans, there was an extremely small rune. The edges of the strokes carried a trace of indistinct gray.
Xu Qing was looking at this talisman.
"It's getting better at hiding. It's hidden in the rules. It can't be destroyed without the rules of this world."
The moment he locked on, Xu Qing stepped out of the lone peak. The sea of clouds under his feet automatically rolled and condensed, supporting him as if he was walking on flat ground. He instantly crossed the space and landed outside the closed jade door of the secret room of the Taoist temple.
Ignoring the complicated restrictions on the door, he went straight through the door as if passing through a layer of water curtain.
The sandalwood fragrance in the secret room spiraled in spirals. The spiritual energy was so dense that it was almost liquid.
And Xu Qing did not hesitate at all. He raised his right index finger. A dim light jumped on his fingertip. It was as small as a needle tip, but it contained a destructive aura that caused the spiritual energy in the secret room to be chaotic and avoid.
With a flash, it did not attack the talisman itself. Instead, it instantly disturbed the invisible spiritual energy field above the secret room. It was like a stone thrown into a calm lake, stirring up the law of thunder.
"Boom!"
Without any warning!
A blazing white lightning as thick as a pillar of heaven tore through the dome of the Taoist temple. It ignored all the defensive restrictions and with the brilliant heavenly might of the wrath of the heavens, it accurately struck the Protector True Talisman enshrined at the highest place!
To be precise, it struck the talisman with a strange white color.
Time seemed to freeze for a moment.
In the next moment, the talisman that was shining with precious light suddenly burst out with a dazzling white light!
In an instant, it was charred, carbonized, and disintegrated!
Countless small burning pieces of paper, like flaming moths that had been scared away, crazily flew out from the center of the explosion!
In the narrow space of the secret room, they flew and crashed in desperation, trying to escape from the destructive thunder and fire.
In the rising smoke, De Luozi's face was faintly discernible. In pain and ferocity, he roared at Xu Qing.
"Xu Qing, I curse you!"
Xu Qing coldly stared, watching the face dissipate. In the end, all the talisman fragments turned into black ash with sparks and scattered on the cold ground.
The rich sandalwood fragrance in the secret room was completely replaced by a strong burnt smell at this moment. There was only the dead silence and a mess after the thunder and fire.
Xu Qing withdrew his finger. The dim light on his fingertip extinguished.
He did not even look at the layer of black ash on the ground. He turned and disappeared in the twisted air of the secret room.
At this moment, the alarmed tactical array of the Daoist temple was in a panic, tearing the tranquility of the Immortal Mountain.
......
Annihilation after annihilation, annihilation after annihilation.
Some worlds were turbulent, and some worlds were peaceful.
But death was the only thing they had in common.
Not only did De Luozi's division not buy him time, but it also became the end of his fate.
This had a lot to do with him being in the most disadvantageous state, and it was also closely related to Xu Qing's constitution.
To a certain extent, Xu Qing's constitution was actuallyā¦ the most effective against De Luozi's Godly Authority!
Therefore, when three months passed in the Modern Realm, in this endless starry sky, the last piece of paper hidden in the cold shadow of a weathered rock in a desolate small world was ignited by the black and white fire that Xu Qing flicked out with his finger.
As the paper burned, it silently curled, charred, and finally turned into an insignificant wisp of green smoke and completely dissipatedā¦
In all the worlds in the universe, in all the dimensions that had been tainted by the paper scraps and white marks, there seemed to be an ultimate scream that overlapped a million times and originated from the same soul core!
This scream contained the excruciating pain of the rumbling kingdom being shattered, the sticky despair of the abyss being penetrated, and the fear of the blessed land being annihilated by lightning.
And all the different kinds of pain and horror that were endured when being obliterated in other worlds!
It turned into a death by dismemberment that was so vast that it was unimaginable!
At this moment, Xu Qing was standing in the void where De Luozi's last incarnation was annihilated. Under his feet was the inconspicuous desolate rock, and beside him were nine burning purple lanterns.
This was not formed by his earliest Eye of God, but the Fire of Pursuit that was formed from De Luozi's incarnation during the process of chasing after him.
In the light of the fire, Xu Qing's expression did not change at all. It was as if his attack just now was just brushing away a speck of dust on the corner of his clothes.
He only raised his eyes slightly, but in those bottomless purple pupils, the cold killing intent did not dissipate. Instead, it became more condensed.
He clearly "saw" the source of the million overlapped screams, in the depths of the endless dimensional turbulence ā¦
A hidden passage that could no longer be perfectly hidden due to the destruction of all the incarnations and the destruction of the core consciousness was revealed!
"Interestingā¦"
Xu Qing murmured. As he raised his hand, the bronze lantern appeared in front of him, and he took a step forward.
.......
It was a hidden passage.
De Luozi, who was extremely weak and had reached the end of his life, turned into a huge face and was running wildly in this passage.
He was afraid.
As his realm fell, the waves brought about by life and death also made him feel the approach of death.
"There's still hope!"
"I left this passage behind when I was plotting against the Wanggu. It leads to the future of the Deep Earth Ring. If I leave from there, I still have hope of gaining enough time!"
De Luozi was even faster. With his current True God realm, he reached the end of the tunnel in an instant.
There was a mirror-like seal there.
Through the seal, he could see the outside world. There was a Fatty with a face full of horror.
De Luozi didn't care about that. Golden light flashed in his eyes, and the huge face charged toward the mirror seal.
As he neared, the mirror seemed to be unable to withstand the pressure. Light flickered, and numerous cracks appeared on its surface.
Looking from the other side, one could clearly see a huge face protruding from the bottom of the mirror seal at this moment!
The surface of the mirror was like a membrane, and the protruding face seemed to represent endless evil that wanted to rush out of the seal.
"Hope is right in front of me!"
In the passage, De Luozi growled and approached with all his might.
To him, this seal was like paper paste, and it was easy to break through. Therefore, what he needed to prepare was to condense his own strength and escape with all his might the moment he rushed out.
But just as he was about to touch the sealā¦ outside the seal, in front of the fatty with a face full of horror, a starlight vortex suddenly appeared.
And in the vortex, a finger formed by starlight suddenly stretched out!
It fell directly on the seal!
As it fell, an aura that belonged to Summer Immortal seemed to replace the will of heaven in that world and descended with a loud bang.
It pressed between the eyebrows of the face!
De Luozi's body trembled, and his roar turned into a scream. His aura collapsed at this moment.
"Summer Immortal!
How could Summer Immortal happen to be there!
And this person is not an ordinary immortalā¦
De Luozi spat out divine blood, and his face instantly withered. He wanted to struggle, but with his current realm, everything was in vain under that finger!
After only holding on for three breaths, he was knocked back and blocked in front of the seal.
He was about to go again in one go, but in the next momentā¦ a chill that made his entire body freeze and even his soul tremble silently approached from behind him.
It turned into a hand, andā¦ it grabbed his head!
"Found you."
De Luozi's soul rumbled, and he was directly attacked by the Dimension constitution, enveloping and sealing him.
And Xu Qing's figure appeared in the passage.
He held De Luozi in one hand, and nine purple lanterns floated around him. He looked at the mirror seal that De Luozi was about to rush to.
At this moment, the cracks on the mirror of the seal were healing under the power of the starlight from the outside world.
Looking at the mirror seal, Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and walked over.
As he approached, the mirror seal trembled violently, setting off strong fluctuations. It was as if Xu Qing had only walked over slowly, and the seal had already endured to the extreme.
Outside the seal, the finger that stretched out from the vortex was originally slowly dissipating, as if everything was about to come to an end.
But in the next moment, the starlight in the vortex suddenly paused, and an unprecedented solemness gathered inside, turning into a pair of icy cold eyes.
"Stop!"
A faint voice spread out from the vortex and entered the seal.
Xu Qing heard this and stopped at the edge of the seal. He raised his head and looked outside through the seal.
His gaze first swept over the fat man, and then he looked at the starlight in the vortex in front of him.
With this glance, he saw a white-haired cultivator. His body exuded a monstrous killing intent, and his cultivation had reached the Summer Immortal realm!
"Interesting. I chased De Luozi for three months, slaughtering millions of his clones, but I never thought that at some point, that his true self would have set up a passage here that leads to the outside world!"
"And even more interestingā¦ In this foreign domain, there is actually a Fellow Daoist of the same kind as me!"
Xu Qing calmly said. Then, he turned around and walked away with De Luozi in his hand. He didn't force his way in, because that wasn't his world.
But after several steps, his voice rang out.
"My surname is Xu."
"My surname is Wang."
A voice from the outside world came from the mirror seal.
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