Chapter 1093: God-Refining Spirit Mine
The pupils of the nine enormous blood-colored eyeballs constricted. Inside the eyeballs were the nine corpses seated cross-legged, who were absorbing the spirit energy from the living beings below. All of them trembled.
Clearly, Xu Qing’s arrival was a complete shock. He had not been noticed before the moment he revealed himself. That was a very significant fact, and it was clearly shocking to the nine corpse-like cultivators.
“Excuse me,” Xu Qing said calmly. “I’d like to leave this place. Do you mind letting me through?”
Obviously, the ideal outcome would be to leave without having to make a scene.
Unfortunately, his words had a very different result than intended. The nine blood-red eyeballs emanated intense hostility. The nine cultivators within them didn’t know where this person came from or how he had entered this minor world controlled by their clan. But it didn’t matter. They simply couldn’t permit mishaps in this place. Killing intent surged within them, and they immediately sent messages to the outside.
Sadly for them... Xu Qing had prepared well before revealing himself, and it was a given he was ready in all respects. He knew that these nine eyeballs were strange, but getting past them wouldn’t be difficult. What was more, defeating the nine cultivators wouldn’t pose a challenge.
The main concern would be to make sure no one from the outside interfered when he was killing them. Xu Qing was confident that, given how this minor world was set up, there was likely some sort of guardian on the outside. If someone like that interfered when he was trying to leave, it could lead to a tricky situation. Therefore, the best option was to try to get out quickly and smoothly to ensure that the outside guardian didn’t notice what was happening.
As he strode up into the sky, he waved his right hand, causing a huge pair of shears to appear high in heaven above the nine eyeballs. The shears were so massive they filled the sky, and their arrival caused the aura of a Grand Emperor’s treasure to rage like a tempest. These were the shears that could sever all dao lineaments and karma.
They snapped shut.
They made no sound. And yet, all living beings, including the nine cultivators in the eyeballs, heard a cracking sound deep in their souls. At that moment, all information the cultivators were transmitting to the outside world was severed!
But things weren’t over yet. Next, the Grand Emperor’s needle glittered as it stitched the karma that had just been severed so that everything looked just as it had looked to Xu Qing nine days before.
Because of that... no information could leave this place. No fluctuations would emerge from it. In most respects, it was now completely invisible and independent. The Grand Emperor’s needle improved the concealment effect. Unless an outside force sent divine will into this world, then they would have no way of knowing that anything unusual was happening.
Xu Qing’s eyes glittered with cold light. “Since you refuse to talk, then I guess....”
He took a final step, which caused the dome of heaven to tremble. Lightning converged beneath his feet, becoming like countless red snakes that shot toward the nine eyeballs.
The eyeballs shivered and glowed with red light. Within them, the nine cultivators quickly lifted their hands, their expressions very serious. They could sense that they were dealing with two extraordinary Grand Emperor treasures, and they also knew they were now cut off from the outside. Starting to feel despondent, they performed incantation gestures.
The nine eyeballs glowed with even more intense red light, and they pulsed with an astonishing defensive spell formation power. At the same time, the bodies of the nine cultivators began to transform from their withered state. Using the life force power they had absorbed, they began to recover from their previous state. They knew that they had to fight in the face of this sudden threat, or else they would end up dead.
Xu Qing’s face was completely expressionless. He didn’t care what cultivation base these people had. As long as they weren’t Imperial Sovereigns, it didn’t matter if they woke up completely.
I suppose this is the perfect opportunity to test out this immortal body.
Xu Qing’s eyes narrowed. Lifting his right hand, he pointed at the first eyeball.
The power of metal built within his lungs. He inhaled, then exhaled sharply, causing his breath to fill the entire minor world. It affected all metal in the world, including all weapons. In the blink of an eye, the world started trembling.... An instant later, all five elements metals in the world were replaced!
Xu Qing’s extreme metal power became a dao of this world! He could sense that, with a mere thought, he could control every metallic thing in the world. His eyes glittered....
All of the five elements metals in the world erupted, gathering together in the sky in a flowing stream. It turned into a gigantic finger made of metal.
The finger hit the first eyeball. The moment it did, the spell formation went wild, sending out incredible power to defend the eyeball. But the formation ended up being completely useless. It shattered, and the awakening cultivator inside the eyeball... had no chance of escaping. Rumbling sounds echoed out as the eyeball collapsed and fell out of the sky. The cultivator within it screamed as the power of metal killed him in body and soul!
The cultivators in the other eight eyeballs were visibly astonished, but quickly went all out to try to get back to their peak level.
So, this is the power of an extreme immortal?
At the moment in which Xu Qing had taken over the dao of metal in this world, he felt like he had become the embodiment of a heavenly dao.
Next, he said one thing.
“Wood.”
The power of wood from his liver swept out and filled the world. All vegetation in the world shivered, as did all wood-type cultivators and anything else related to wood. The world lost one of its daos!
A majestic finger made from the power of the dao of extreme wood formed in the air. It pulsed with intense life force and a boundless terror as it shot toward the second eyeball. All living beings shook at the sight of it. Another of the nine eyeballs fell.
Wild colors flashed in heaven and earth. Winds screamed. And then Xu Qing’s voice spoke like the flowing of the tide.
“Water.”
Water from Xu Qing’s kidneys replaced all five elements water in the world. It rose up into the sky and became rain, rivers, and seas. The foundation of all living beings. The world really was too small, and so, after taking the role of heavenly dao, Xu Qing could control all living beings.
“Fire.”
The sound of a heartbeat became like heavenly thunder. Fire raged, flickering in the eyes of all living beings. And finally...
“Earth.”
The lands of the minor world trembled, seemingly possessed of a will of their own as they shot toward the eyeballs in heaven backed by countless years of pent-up rage.
Three fingers rose into the sky. Three eyeballs collapsed! Three cultivators perished!
All the five elements power was under Xu Qing’s control, allowing him to take over and become a heavenly dao.
Meanwhile, the cultivators in the surviving four eyeballs had recovered, and were rising to their feet one after another. Under their control, the eyeballs shrank down and entered their foreheads, bolstering them. Instantly, their auras surged.
These were seven-world Smoldering Gods! Grim looks appeared in their eyes, all while fear simmered in their hearts. One of them then stepped forward.
“Sire, it matters not where you come from. There is only one way to leave this place. And that is to wait for us to leave. Once outside, we can open the way for you to leave this world. If you don’t trust us, then we can just send a single person. Considering the level of our cultivation, what’s the need for all this fighting and killing? What do you think, sire?”
The other three cultivators didn’t react with surprise to his words. Though none of them knew what this person was doing here, they could all tell that he had an astonishing background. Otherwise... he would have died just trying to get into their clan’s secret location. What was more, they weren’t confident at all in being able to overcome him, and didn’t want to throw their lives away. That was why they needed to get out as quickly as possible and contact the elder who controlled the secret location.
If the elder stepped in, this interloper would be killed beyond the shadow of a doubt. Thus, the three other cultivators nodded.
“Everything from before was a misunderstanding.”
“We reacted impulsively.”
Maintaining vigilance, the three of them slowly backed up.
Xu Qing looked at them and shook his head. He lifted his right hand. Heaven and earth trembled. The world shook. The five phases formed five heavenly dao fingers up above. And then that hand shot toward the four cultivators.
As their faces fell, their cultivation bases raged as they prepared to fight back. Unfortunately, those five fingers were heavenly daos made from the five elements of this world. They contained the will of the world itself, and since Xu Qing was pulsing with a killing will, it meant this was killing intent from heaven itself.
The storm raged with heaven-rending, earth-crushing power. It didn’t matter how the four cultivators struggled or fought back. It didn’t do any good. An instant later... agonized shrieks rang out.
The four cultivators had been smashed into a bloody pulp that fell down to the ground like red flowers.
“I prefer to trust myself only,” Xu Qing said calmly. Then he looked up at the dome of heaven and clenched his right hand into a fist.
An astonishing sword energy emerged from him, which turned into The Emperor’s Sword. He grasped it, then adjusted the five elements power, sending the might of this world’s heavenly daos into the sword. He slashed it at heaven.
Sword energy raged into the sky. Sword light filled the void. Sword will demolished space. In the blink of an eye, a huge furrow opened up as the dome of heaven was slashed open, revealing the heaven beyond. The beings living on this minor world felt like their minds were being hit by a hundred thousand lightning bolts. All of them just stared up at the sky and the rift there.
Most of them were shaken to the core. There was a heaven beyond heaven.
“Then where are we...?”
As countless people stood there in a daze, Xu Qing headed toward the rift.
The world shook as he reached it. He looked down at the minor world, then stepped out through the rift. He was in a strange place.
A massive dome stretched overhead, almost like a lid. There wasn’t even a scrap of the mutagen of gods. There was only plentiful spirit energy. The sky outside of the minor world was red, and it flowed like a river.
The surrounding lands consisted of a huge swamp. It looked like it had once been a huge body of water that was now almost completely dried up. Bubbles would occasionally surface, and when Xu Qing looked at them, he realized to his astonishment... that they were all minor worlds. And each of those minor worlds contained a suppressed god. This place was some sort of prison for gods!
Xu Qing struggled to control his breathing as he looked around at the countless minor worlds bobbing up and down. And from many of them, something like smoke rose up toward the middle of the sky. There was a vortex there sucking all the smoke away.
This place is a prison for gods... That means that the real world must be outside of this place.
His eyes glittered as he finally came to an understanding of where he was. He looked off into the distance. The moment he did, the aura of an Imperial Sovereign flared off in the distance. He heard a deafening screaming sound. An Imperial Sovereign was on the way.
Then a cold and desolate voice echoed out. “How amusing. I’ve been guarding my clan’s spirit mine for a long time, and at long last there’s been a jailbreak.”