Chapter 1267: Excited Er Niu

Chapter 1268: Original Mother Planet

Eerie green starlight flowed within a rift in space-time, transforming into a moon-glow that scattered over an endless black glacier.

It further permeated, causing the light to diffuse within the glacier, thus forming the sky for the world beneath the ice.

Beneath this celestial canopy, apart from a dilapidated temple of unknown age, emitting a faint, eerie glow, everywhere else was pitch black.

Nothing was visible in the darkness, yet chilling sounds occasionally echoed.

The sounds included chewing, bone-gnawing, and intermittent, scalp-prickling swallowing.

As for the eerie glow, it merely enveloped the temple itself, making it appear hazy.

From a distance, it resembled a candle flame in the dark night.

This was a temple sealed beneath the glacier.

For countless ages, it had remained undisturbed, eternally preserved.

In the deepest part of this temple, twelve incomplete divine statues were enshrined, encircling a red altar. On the altar itself...

A bronze door, bearing the marks of countless ages, stood there.

At this moment, this bronze door was silently opening.

A figure slowly emerged from within the pitch-black doorway.

A black robe, long purple hair, a slender physique, an almost demonic face, coupled with an alert expression and a terrifying aura emanating from their entire being.

It was none other than Xu Qing, who had departed using the teleportation array formed from star-ring grass fragments!

"Where is this...?"

The moment he appeared, Xu Qing immediately extended his divine sense, preparing for any danger as he surveyed his surroundings.

He didn't know where he had been teleported, but as his divine sense spread, what he first perceived was an ancient presence and a profound sense of suppression!

His cultivation, his divine sense, everything about him was severely suppressed here; he couldn't even fly.

This situation made Xu Qing frown deeply.

Fortunately, although his divine sense was suppressed, he could still perceive the twelve vast yet incomplete divine statues outside the altar.

The appearances of these statues were individually bizarre yet held an inexplicable sanctity, and their bodies were covered in deep blade marks, as if a terrifying entity had measured the rings of time with its sharp claws.

Compared to them and to the surroundings, Xu Qing, standing beneath the bronze door of the altar, felt as though he had entered a land of giants.

He appeared insignificant.

"Is this a temple?"

After a moment, Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, pondering inwardly. Perceiving no abnormalities around him, he stepped down from the altar. The moment his sole touched the blood-red floor tiles, dark red fluid seeped from the tiles beneath his feet.

It eerily floated upwards, as if the very blood of this place was awakening.

A cold glint flashed in Xu Qing's eyes, but he did not stop, continuing to walk forward.

He intended to leave the temple, to explore the outside world, and quickly ascertain his location.

Gradually, within the enormous temple, a dripping sound, like footsteps on water, began to echo.

It was ethereal and eerie.

After a long while, the footsteps suddenly halted in a distant corridor leading outside.

In the massive corridor, Xu Qing stood before a decaying wall and looked up.

His presence might have stirred a breeze, which blew across the wall, causing dust to scatter, as if peeling away the layers of time to reveal a blood-red, primal totem beneath.

This totem depicted a flayed deity lying across the horizon, its ribs transformed into mountain ranges, and bronze-colored stars swirling within its veins.

Surrounding it were pairs of greedy blue eyes.

After a moment, Xu Qing withdrew his gaze.

The doubt and sense of the unknown in his heart grew even stronger.

"Where exactly is this place?"

Xu Qing mused, then turned his head to look at the corridor's exit.

A moment later, the footsteps sounding like walking on water once again echoed within the silent temple, continuing for the time it takes an incense stick to burn...

Outside, in the pitch-black world, the temple, still enveloped in its sole eerie glow, had its massive doors slowly pushed open from within.

A series of rumbling sounds instantly echoed throughout this dark world.

In an instant, all chewing sounds vanished immediately.

Then... pairs of blue eyes suddenly appeared in the darkness surrounding the temple, all staring towards it.

At this moment, the eerie glow also dissipated from the temple, as if releasing its last remnants of light, illuminating all directions like a flash of lightning.

This allowed Xu Qing, who had pushed open the temple doors and emerged, to clearly see everything!

Corpses were scattered everywhere!

They were the corpses of countless deities!

From various divine races!

From different eras!

The vast majority of them had become mere skeletal remains, but some still contained flesh and blood.

They were piled layer upon layer, boundless, and it was impossible to tell how many layers there were.

The moment he saw this clearly, Xu Qing's eyes sharply constricted.

This was the most divine corpses he had ever seen; even on a battlefield, he had never witnessed so many!

What especially made his heart churn violently was that amidst these countless divine corpses, he saw living beings, far outnumbering the corpses!

Those living beings were all bizarre entities!

They possessed grey, bony bodies with twelve pairs of ribs that were not symmetrically distributed. A dark purple membrane adhered between the ribs on their left side, which would bulge with their breathing, revealing divine flesh and blood being digested.

Their right ribs, in contrast, were completely crystalized, with distorted divine faces protruding from their surface.

These faces formed a torrent, continuously flowing into a fleshy growth on their heads, taking prominence and replacing each other every few breaths.

Different faces would form, but the only constant was their blue eyes.

As for their limbs, they were all covered in tiny bone spurs, and their spines grew inverted.

Larger bone spurs, glowing with a blue light, could be seen piercing through the skin of their hind necks, protruding menacingly.

At the tip of each large bone spur, a shriveled finger was embedded.

As they stared at Xu Qing, those fingers writhed and swayed with the bone spurs.

Observing these beings, a sharp glint appeared in Xu Qing's eyes; as a strong sense of danger instantly surged through his mind, it was accompanied by a feeling of familiarity.

"These bizarre entities, I seem to have seen them somewhere before..."

Before Xu Qing could ponder further, waves of shrill cries suddenly erupted from the mouths of the countless bizarre entities outside the temple.

Forming sharp sound waves that shattered in all directions, an intense greed instantly surged.

The next instant, a wind rose in the area.

Countless bizarre entities moved from all directions, rapidly converging on Xu Qing.

The sense of crisis fully erupted.

Xu Qing did not hesitate in the slightest; as the immortal embryo behind him flared with light and abruptly materialized, it swept forward the moment the boundless bizarre entities charged.

Wherever it passed, the bizarre entities trembled one by one, their cries growing even shriller. Yet even if their bodies collapsed, they strangely reformed the next instant.

As if immortal and indestructible.

Especially some among them, though identical in appearance, had blue ice spots on their bodies and displayed significantly greater destructive power than the ordinary ones.

Seeing this, Xu Qing raised his hand, and the iron skewers whistled out, accompanying him on either side.

He charged forward.

At the same time, his parallel constitution instantly manifested, forming layers of overlapping space-time and materializing figures from different space-times.

Merging with his main body, each erupted with immortal might, transforming into streaks of meteors and surged towards different directions.

Subsequently, sounds of battle and rumbling abruptly erupted beneath this glacial sky.

Half an hour later, beneath the eerie green moon-glow outside, a part of the pitch-black glacier suddenly produced a violent cracking sound, and a visible rift tore open.

Xu Qing's figure surged out from within.

Blood trailed from the corner of his mouth, and he appeared somewhat disheveled. The moment he appeared, the various temporal shadows behind him dispersed one after another. At the same time, he noticed that flying was no longer restricted outside, so he shot straight into the sky and pressed his hand downwards.

Immediately, the ice layer below rumbled, collapsing downwards while simultaneously healing itself.

And through this rift, countless bizarre entities could be seen below. At their very front stood a tall figure, twenty percent of whose body had turned blue.

One of its arms was completely covered in blue ice spots, looking like a blue ice hand!

It gazed at Xu Qing with greed in its eyes, but stopped, not pursuing him out.

Xu Qing looked down from mid-air, similarly gazing at that entity with a grim expression.

The bizarre entities beneath the glacier had ordinary overall combat power, but their undying nature, endless numbers, and his inability to fly made them extremely difficult to deal with.

But if that were all, Xu Qing would not have been so disheveled.

What truly made him disheveled were the entities with blue ice marks on their bodies; the more ice marks, the stronger their destructive power, especially the one whose entire arm had transformed into a blue, bony ice hand...

This heightened Xu Qing's sense of danger!

So he ultimately relied on his temporal body, manifesting one after another like a relay race, blasting open the glacier to get himself out.

Seeing that the opponent was no longer pursuing him, Xu Qing breathed a sigh of relief, but the feeling of familiarity grew even stronger as he gazed at the entity beneath the rift.

"I've seen it... on Senior Brother!"

Xu Qing's eyes sharply narrowed as he found the source of the familiarity!

That blue bony ice hand was remarkably similar to the hand that emerged from Er Niu's chest whenever he erupted!

"Divine Abomination?"

As Xu Qing's mind churned, the rift in the glacier below completely healed, forming a concave surface that severed everything from the world below and cut off the gaze of the tall figure whose arm had turned into blue ice.

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, countless thoughts rising in his mind, while simultaneously spreading his divine sense to survey the surroundings.

This place was entirely composed of black glaciers and contained an incredibly dense alien substance.

However, within this alien substance, death permeated.

Before Xu Qing could investigate more clearly, an inexplicable feeling, turning into a palpitation, suddenly rose in his heart, causing him to abruptly look up towards the horizon.

He saw that in the sky, mist was churning at this moment, and a dark golden meteor was rapidly falling, its trajectory somewhat distant from his location.

"That is..."

Xu Qing's mind trembled as he stared intently at the meteor in the sky.

He quickly saw clearly!

That was no meteor at all; it was a vast divine corpse!

Though dead, the aura it emitted was clearly at the True God level.

"This..."

Xu Qing's eyes narrowed. At the same time, a voice filled with shock and disbelief entered his divine sense!

"Primal Mother Star!!"

The speaker was the Goddess!

At the same time, outside this glacial world, beyond the space-time rift, in the vast cosmic starry sky, a divine corpse was drifting.

Following some guidance, it rapidly approached the rift where the glacial world lay.

Inside the corpse, two figures sat cross-legged.