Chapter 965: A Fog Inside; A Hidden God of Thunder
The Crown Prince of Violet and Cyan represented the ultimate level of glory of all time in Revered Ancient. It was a spectacular and peerless identity. He was the most prominent human to rise up since the arrival of the broken face of the god! He was conceived at the behest of the destiny aura of humankind. When he was born, a howl of grief echoed out of all the forbidden grounds in Revered Ancient, and mutated blood flowed from within them. He was sent by this great world of Revered Ancient to save itself, a convergence of the power of the world.
He was sent down with the mission of uniting Revered Ancient. He basked in the convergence of all the glory in heaven and earth.
But ultimately, he and his kingdom perished. The day he died, the mountain ranges in Revered Ancient all howled in anguish. The rivers flowed backwards as they wept. The heavenly daos grieved. Just before he died, he breathed out his last bit of energy, which contained the destiny aura of Revered Ancient, along with all of his glory as well as the providence he had gathered up in his life.
As he exhaled that last bit of energy, the providence scattered into heaven and earth. In the end, the Crown Prince of Violet and Cyan was killed in body and soul.
When he reappeared, he was no longer the hope of Revered Ancient. Instead, he came back full of hatred and a desire for vengeance!
But on this day, a certain person used himself as a measuring stick on time itself. In the continent of South Phoenix, on the spot where Peerless City stood, which was where the Crown Prince of Violet and Cyan died in battle, by the command of the Summer, and guided by an Immortal, heaven and earth received commands. Revered Ancient received commands.
That last bit of Revered Ancient’s destiny aura that the Crown Prince of Violet and Cyan exhaled, which contained his glory and providence... was being extracted from heaven and earth, extracted from time, and extracted from all things!
At that moment, hundreds of thousands of Seven Blood Eyes cultivators in the continent of South Phoenix joined their voices.
“Commanded by the Summer; Immortal guides the energy to this spot; hasten as if by laws amended!”
High in the dome of heaven, Flame Phoenix soared, time in his eyes, his gaze penetrating Revered Ancient. His wings obscured the sky, creating a massive wind in all directions, shaking the mountains and sending waves across the Forbidden Sea. He was providing a blessing to this most astounding of spell formations! And in the end, everything converged in the hand of Master Seventh, who hovered above the silver person.
It turned into a dazzling mist. Within that mist was Revered Ancient and providence!
Master Seventh looked at the mist with his ancient eyes. Then he lifted his right hand and sent the life mist flowing down to the forehead of the silver person below.
There, it fused with Xu Qing’s blood. That, in turn, entered the silver person.
An instant later, rumbling sounds filled heaven and earth. Winds screamed, and the sky went dim. The blurry figures of numerous heavenly daos appeared. The mountains in Revered Ancient trembled. The rivers went wild, and in all locations, anguished howls rose up from forbidden regions and forbidden grounds. Mutated blood flowed from all of the forbidden grounds.
It was exactly the same supernatural phenomena that appeared when the Crown Prince of Violet and Cyan was born!!
At the same time, Master Seventh’s hair swayed behind him as his aura rose to astonishing levels. With his right hand, he touched the silver person’s forehead, and with his left hand in front of his chest, he performed an incantation gesture. His eyes then shone with the light of suns and moons, which illuminated heaven and earth.
“Dark sects of heaven and earth; myriad energies as the root; numerous cultivators bring infinite tribulations; demonstrate mine divine ability; inside and outside of the three worlds; only the dao is supreme.
“Command the free spirit; a body of golden light; reflect upon the body; accept a myriad variations; eradicate magics and eradicate the respected; five motions bring celebration; thousands of gods offer worship; make use of the thunder; ghosts and demons tremble in fear; the form of the pure fiend dies.”
His words were like the voice of heaven, with every statement like the flow of time.
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The moment those words echoed out in South Phoenix, the power of self-detonation erupted from Xu Qing in the very distant imperial capital.
Zi Qing wanted Xu Qing to accept the title of Crown Prince of Violet and Cyan because that would be like them together going forward.
But Xu Qing had ended up doing something he couldn’t perceive within time. He broke the deadlock.
Zi Qing shook his head. Given what was playing out, his only option was to take the chair with force, even though that meant there would be complications. He reached out with his right hand toward the spot where Xu Qing’s flesh and soul had detonated. And he shoved his hand into the black fog.
That hand, like time itself, could stretch very far. It went into the tunnel, past the doors with their intense banging, all the way to the very end. There, it opened to grab the chair.
But then....
An ethereal daoist chant echoed within the tunnel.
“Command the free spirit; a body of golden light; reflect upon the body; accept a myriad variations; eradicate magics and eradicate the respected; five motions bring celebration; thousands of gods offer worship; make use of the thunder; ghosts and demons tremble in fear; the form of the pure fiend dies.”
Along with the chant came an aura that locked onto Xu Qing’s soul and used it as a guide. After the self-detonation, that aura found a specific object, connected to it, and drew it out.
It was a beam of golden light! And it came out because of the daoist chant! The blinding golden light had been covered with countless dao inscriptions, which glittered brightly as they sealed this object away from any form of omniscience! And the golden light pulsed with a level of destruction that could suppress all other terrifying forces.
It was an iron skewer!
Guiding the skewer was a spirit. It was none other than Patriarch Golden Vajra Warrior.
His daoist name was Master Freespirit! The daoist chant had contained the following words: ‘command the free spirit.’
Before Xu Qing came to the imperial capital, Master Seventh took the iron skewer and refined it. After Xu Qing got it back, it had been significantly upgraded. But in the end, it was still weak.
As of this moment, the daoist chant had unlocked it, revealing its true might to the world. It was like a long, sharp thorn surrounded by thunder and lightning.
And it shot through the tunnel toward Zi Qing’s hand as it stretched toward the chair. It could pierce time, shatter mutagen, and shake godly authority. It moved with speed that could overlook natural and magical laws. Its might could strike fear into the hearts of countless so-called gods.
Cultivators couldn’t sense it, but gods would be startled by it!
In the blink of an eye, it reached Zi Qing’s hand. And then, without the slightest pause, it struck with mountain-toppling, sea-draining force, and mightiness that was designed to target gods.
It... pierced through Zi Qing’s hand.
The hand exploded. The palm ignited. The bones and flesh of the fingers shattered. God blood fell. Outside of the tunnel and outside of the fog, the Crown Prince of Violet and Cyan’s hand was shredded into ash, and large amounts of god blood sprayed everywhere. His expression was profoundly serious.
Turning his head, he looked... in the direction of the continent of South Phoenix.
“So, there’s still a God-Extinguishing Thorn left in the world!”