Chapter 665: High God Starfire

Chapter 665: High God Starfire

He had seen this door before, at the God Decapitation Altar, when the Captain converged hope power to open a path to a High God. It was the same door! Even the scratch marks on it were exactly the same.[1]

This was Xu Qing’s second time seeing it. The atmosphere and energy inside of this rift also seemed familiar to Xu Qing. It was very obvious... that this was the same place the Captain went to that day.

I can’t believe the clay fox wanted to come here!

Xu Qing very clearly remembered what the Heir Apparent had said that day. Behind this door was a High God of the Firemoon Darkheaven people.

The appellation ‘High God’ referred to paramount and terrifying entities.

Crimson Mother was a High God, as was Flawless Hell, Lord of the Nine Serenities.[2]

Of course, even High Gods could be weak or strong. Yet the weakest of High Gods still possessed astonishing levels of might that surpassed anything mortals could imagine. That was why Xu Qing was feeling very taken aback. He clearly remembered how the Captain had stood in front of that door and made an agreement with whatever was on the other side. She had even offered a gift in the form of a gray strand of hair. The gray wind in the desert had come about because of that hair.

Reading into the situation, it seems that the High God behind this door made a deal with Eldest Brother in a past life.... With hēr help, Eldest Brother was able to use his sacrificial dance techniques to hide the pieces of his body. And the Greenhair Badlands was part of that deal. It’s a trump card that Eldest Brother prepared years ago to target Crimson Mother!

As those thoughts entered his mind, he reeled as various puzzle pieces clicked together.

When I was in the clay fox’s shrine, I saw countless species bowing to a six-pointed star.... The Firemoon Darkheavens have three High Gods of the sun, moon, and star....

Xu Qing turned to look at the clay fox. He was now starting to come up with an idea of who this clay fox might be. The clay fox smiled sweetly at Xu Qing, hēr eyes flirtatious. Then shē swayed into the rift, walked through the void, and right up to the door.

“Big sister,” shē said, “I’ve finally found where you’re sealed.”

Hēr voice would enter the ears and stir the mind, becoming like a vortex that would suck in all thoughts and leave behind nothing but blankness.

The door didn’t react. It wasn’t like when the Captain came and all the banging started. However, the sinister atmosphere grew more intense. The mutagen also proliferated, making everything turn as blurry as if a fog had sprang up.

Those things would have posed a major obstacle to ordinary cultivators. But it didn’t do anything to the clay fox. Smiling, shē walked right up to the door.

“So, sister, it seems you were planning to come back sometime in the future, so you left behind this soul door. Interesting. I could tell something was off about you back in the day. You were very shifty, like you were planning to stuff yourself alone. Am I right? All these years I’ve been wondering what it was that my big sister wanted to eat.”

The clay fox licked her lips, and her eyes glowed with pink light as she stood in front of the door.

The moment she stopped moving, blood started oozing out of the cracks on the sides and bottom of the door.

A deadly sense of crisis arose within him. Every inch of his flesh screamed and trembled as a profound level of decay and rot spread through him.

Xu Qing ignored all of that and focused on keeping his soul independent. At long last, the god’s finger could no longer pretend to be asleep. Spitting out the most foul-mouthed curses, īt started restoring īts body.... Seeing that, Xu Qing felt a bit more calm. Looking at the door, he clasped hands and bowed.

“Well met, Senior!”

The eye of the god glittered brightly. “I remember you. You were here last time with that damned traitor. And now you’ve come again with the slutty fox.”

Before Xu Qing could respond, the clay fox stepped forward daintily to stand between Xu Qing and the door, blocking the eye’s line of sight. The pressure on Xu Qing faded.

The clay fox looked over hēr shoulder at him sympathetically. “Don’t fear, little boy. I’m here for you.” Shē turned back to look at the door, chuckling softly. “Big sister, you’re talking to your little sister’s husband! Don’t even think about coveting his primal yang. It’s mine.”

The god’s eye on the door focused on the clay fox for a long moment. Then another cold snort echoed out. No more words were spoken. Instead, the eye closed and transformed back into a host of scratch marks. Clearly, High God Moonfire had chosen to tacitly agree to the clay fox’s suggestion.

“Thank you, big sister,” the clay fox said, smiling dazzlingly. Truth be told, even if the clay fox didn’t try at all to be enticing, shē would still be incomparably alluring. Shē was certainly a rarity among beautiful women. As shē smiled, the clay fox waved hēr hand, causing the surrounding void to contract. Cracking sounds echoed out as a clay door rose up right next to the wooden door. “I’ll leave for now, big sister.”

The clay fox walked over to the door, then looked back at Xu Qing and blinked seductively a few times. “Want to come to my place for a visit, naughty boy?”

Maintaining a very sincere facial expression, Xu Qing politely refused.

Laughter rang out as the clay fox beckoned at him with hēr finger. “In that case, take care of your primal yang for me. I’ll say farewell for now. Remember to call for me when the food is ready to serve.”

She waved hēr hand in his direction, and a patch of mist carried a silver bone over to him. Before he could do anything, the mist spread out and covered him. Next, everything around him rippled, as though space and time were being manipulated. Everything blurred as he left the place of a god and shot back through the void.

A moment later, the mist disappeared, and Xu Qing found himself back in the valley. The sky was still red. A sinister wind still blew. Weeds choked the valley, stirring slightly. No one was around.

He was standing on the exact spot where he had stepped into the shrine. It was almost as if everything that he’d just experienced was a dream. It was hard not to feel dazed. After a moment passed, he opened his hand.

Resting on his palm was a silver bone. Back when he met the clay fox for the first time, she had shown that silver bone to him and mentioned that it was an Ancient Spirit bone pill that could be a huge help to the cultivation of any Ancient Spirit. Taking a deep breath, he turned to the depths of the valley, clasped hands, and bowed.

“Many thanks, Senior.”

1. The Captain opened the door in chapter 646. ☜

2. In this passage, the author only mentions “the Lord of Nine Serenities,” but does not use the name Flawless Hell. I was initially confused by this and thought it was a reference I had forgotten. Later on, other contextual evidence makes it obvious that it’s referring to the High God that Crimson Mother devoured in the Land of Cruelmurk. I’m editing this passage to reflect the name we already know for this entity. The fact that the author also calls him the Lord of the Nine Serenities just further emphasizes the connection to the underworld/hell. As I’m sure most of you know, the Nine Serenities is one of many poetic names referring to hell or the underworld. Flawless Hell was mentioned in chapters 524.2 and 525.1 ☜