Chapter 1271: Brother Takes You to Do Great Things

On the black glacier, Xu Qing sped through the air at full throttle. He was truly like a hungry wolf!

During this period, he hadn't found a way to leave this primordial mother star. The absorption of primal essence by the star, even though Xu Qing had sufficient reserves, still caused him considerable anxiety.

After all, besides his own needs, the Mud Fox also required it. As for the Goddess, Xu Qing had begun to consider abandoning her a few days prior.

Absorbing those remnants only provided a meager replenishment of primal essence.

However, as his time on the star lengthened, the rate of absorption from it gradually increased.

Thus, for the past month, while searching for an exit, he was also looking for complete divine remains!

Complete remains would necessarily belong to true gods, and their numbers couldn't be plentiful. Moreover, they would sink into the glacier just a few days after falling, making their discovery like searching for a needle in a haystack.

As for divine bodies falling from the sky... that required luck.

Over the past month, he had only witnessed it twice: once at the very beginning and once just now.

This was why Xu Qing was so excited at this moment.

“This time, my luck is excellent. The fallen corpse is very close to me. I arrived immediately, and before much of its primal essence could be absorbed by the star, I can refine it using the Mysterious Nether Divine Refining Art to alleviate my needs significantly.”

As these thoughts raced through Xu Qing's mind, he accelerated.

Half an hour later...

A colossal corpse, entirely green with black crystals growing in many places on its skin, came into Xu Qing's sight.

Despite being dead, lingering power still emanated from it.

Causing distortions in the surrounding space.

At the same time, through the glacier, he could see a large number of primal fiends gathering below, waiting... waiting for the corpse to sink.

Xu Qing paused in mid-air. After a quick scan confirmed its death, he no longer hesitated, instantly traversing the distorted void to appear atop the divine corpse.

He landed on the divine corpse's chest.

Based on his recent experience with remnants and previous divine corpse absorptions, Xu Qing knew that the chest area often retained the most primal essence.

The moment he landed, Xu Qing didn't hesitate. He activated the Mysterious Nether Divine Refining Art, raised his right hand, and pressed it firmly onto the divine corpse's skin.

Refining through direct touch was more efficient!

Then, his eyes gleaming, he began to refine intensely!

Immediately, wisps of primal essence rose from the divine corpse's chest and flowed into Xu Qing's body.

Xu Qing's eyes lit up.

“Indeed, I arrived quickly, and not too much has been absorbed by this star!”

Xu Qing was invigorated, refining at full speed. He also made sure to share some with the Mud Fox, who let out a delighted and satisfied purr.

Below the glacier, the primal fiends sensed this, growing agitated. Though their sounds couldn't escape, their primal instinct to compete for food drove them into a frenzy, causing them to repeatedly slam against the ice layer.

Xu Qing completely ignored them. At this moment, he was fully immersed in the refining process, drawing wisps of primal essence into his body.

As he refined, the divine corpse's skin beneath his palm gradually lost its green hue, turning pale and even concave.

Seeing this, Xu Qing was about to shift his position to continue refining.

But just then, something unexpected occurred!

A hand, appearing as if out of nowhere, suddenly reached out from beneath the divine corpse's now pale and concave skin, in a way Xu Qing couldn't evade or even anticipate.

It seized Xu Qing's hand, which he was about to lift!

Xu Qing's pupils contracted sharply. Before refining the corpse, he had thoroughly inspected it, confirming the deity's death and ensuring there were no dangers; only then did he begin the refining process.

Yet now, such a drastic change had occurred!

Immediately, the Immortal Embryo behind him roared into existence, and his full cultivation burst forth with immense power. Even the Mud Fox, startled, was ready to assist him at any cost.

But the next instant... gentle primal essence actually flowed from that hand into Xu Qing's body, and then it voluntarily released its grip.

Xu Qing was bewildered and uncertain, instinctively retreating.

Immediately after, a familiar voice echoed.

“How long have you been hungry?”

The voice startled Xu Qing. He looked and saw a large section of the deity's skin below had caved in, revealing two familiar figures within.

A man and a woman.

The female cultivator smiled. Her oval face had a pearl-like sheen, and her slightly upturned eyes, softened by prominent lower eyelids, held a gentle, warm, and friendly gaze.

Beside her, the male cultivator wore a dark robe with subtle silver patterns. His figure was tall and slender like a pine tree, and a faint smile played on his lips as he playfully looked at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing stared at them, stunned.

Such an expression rarely appeared on his face.

He truly hadn't expected to encounter these two people here, of all places, and while he was refining a corpse.

“You two...”

Seeing Xu Qing's expression, Immortal Phoenix gave Young Master Aurora a playful glare.

“Why did you suddenly grab Little Friend Xu's hand just now?!”

Young Master Aurora laughed heartily at her words.

“Perhaps I was just too happy to suddenly see an old acquaintance. Xu Qing, you weren't scared, were you?”

Xu Qing took a deep breath, and his eyes suddenly gleamed with intense realization. He understood that this must be the reason Immortal Venerable had arranged for him to come here!

He immediately clasped his fists.

“Greetings, seniors!”

“What? I gave you the Aurora Immortal Palace, and I gave you the Outer Heavens as well, and you still call me senior? Are we really that distant?” Young Master Aurora raised an eyebrow. Faintly, the mischievous aura he had when he appeared as a small figure in the Aurora Immortal Palace resurfaced.

Beside him, Immortal Phoenix smiled. Since entering the Fourth Star Ring, she had mostly seen her husband with a serious expression, rarely like this.

She understood in her heart that this was due to Xu Qing's appearance.

So, she spoke with a smile.

“You, you just want Little Brother Xu to call you big brother, don't you?”

Young Master Aurora gave a half-smile.

Xu Qing blinked, recalling scenes from the Aurora Immortal Palace, and readily complied.

“Brother.”

Young Master Aurora laughed heartily. Without asking why Xu Qing was there, he flicked his sleeve. Instantly, the divine corpse beneath him roared, visibly dissipating into crystallized primal essence that flew towards Xu Qing.

“Come on, big brother will take you to do something big.”

With that, Young Master Aurora swayed, and together with Immortal Phoenix, he led Xu Qing directly towards the sky, heading precisely for... the canyon.

Hearing these familiar words and looking at Young Master Aurora before him, Xu Qing felt a surge of emotions, along with a longing for another person who had often said the same words to him.

“I wonder how Senior Brother is doing now...”

Xu Qing took a deep breath, suppressed his yearning, and followed Young Master Aurora and his wife.

The three figures streaked through the long, eerie green sky, seeming to merge with the moonlight.

The eerie green moonlight soon dissolved into the black, cold wind that swept across the land.

This wind, carrying stained ice blossoms, swept across the sky, arriving above the massive canyon, where it paused, and the three figures appeared.

“This is it,” Young Master Aurora said, looking down intently.

This canyon, winding down from the extreme north, traversed the entire primordial mother star. While shocking to behold, it also resembled a deep, bone-revealing old scar.

Within the canyon, the countless bronze gates Xu Qing had seen earlier subtly trembled under Young Master Aurora's gaze. And the blue ice primal fiends in front of those gates had all looked up.

Staring fixedly at Young Master Aurora and his companions.

However, unlike when Xu Qing had been here earlier...

These primal fiends now showed a trace of terror in their eyes, along with intense apprehension. At the same time, they let out whimpering, threatening sounds like beasts under pressure.

Witnessing all this, Xu Qing couldn't help but feel a sense of security as he looked at Young Master Aurora ahead.

In mid-air, Young Master Aurora stood motionless, his dark robe unwavering in the cold wind.

After a long moment, his fingertips brushed the liquor flask hanging at his waist. He picked it up, took a sip, then flicked it forward.

The scattered liquor vividly reflected the afterimages of countless collapsing stars!

“Immortal Venerable said that the rift valley on this primordial mother star is a trace left by the birth of the first deity in the Fourth Star Ring, a result of established rules, and also a secret of divine origin.”

Young Master Aurora's voice was calm. As his words echoed, he raised his pale right hand and pressed it against the glacier on one side of the canyon from a distance.

That side of the glacier shuddered, as if grasped by an invisible hand, showing subtle signs of cracking.

“But in my view, if we consider this star to be the mother of that deity, then it means the deity, while still inside the mother's body, cut open its mother's belly and emerged, leaving this wound behind.”

The instant Young Master Aurora's voice faded, his left hand rose concurrently, pressing against the glacier on the other, seemingly endless, side of the canyon!

Then, he fiercely pried it open!

Immediately, the heavens and earth trembled, as if shaken.

A teeth-grinding crackling sound echoed from deep within the ice. The glaciers on both sides of the entire rift valley began to slowly writhe, as if this ancient scab was being torn open.

All the bronze gates within the glacier roared in unison at this moment.

Furthermore, ink-black mist vigorously surged from the cracks. As for the primal fiends in front of the gates, their roars grew intense. As if controlled by an instinct, they flew out, using the surging mist to directly rush out of the canyon!

Screeching, they lunged at Young Master Aurora.

“Mere vessels, and they dare to be noisy!”

A vertical blood-red pupil appeared on Young Master Aurora's forehead, and a colossal aura of power violently erupted.

With a roar, the mist surging from the canyon immediately vanished into thin air, and the primal fiends within wailed under this pressure, falling one after another.

Some were even shaken into dust.

This scene caused a ripple in Xu Qing's heart.

He knew Young Master Aurora must be incredibly powerful. After all, he was the Immortal Venerable's grandson and an Immortal Lord's son, born extraordinary with astonishing talent. Although he had been sealed in the Immortal Palace for a long time, even within that seal, he still influenced the affairs of the Immortal Palace.

The layered worlds he evolved were also opportunities for Xia Xian.

Not to mention, even though Immortal Lord Aurora had perished, he had done everything possible for his son.

Furthermore, after being unsealed, he came to this place, and considering the Immortal Venerable's unknown plan behind all this...

“Peak Xia Xian!”

Xu Qing's eyes gleamed with an unusual light.

“Before your brother came here, we were hidden at the edge of the Fourth Star Ring's battlefield for a period. Then, at an opportune moment, he struck and killed the commander of the Fourth Star Ring's right wing.”

Immortal Phoenix spoke softly.

These words, upon reaching Xu Qing's ears, were like a great wind, instantly dispersing much of the fog that had risen in his mind concerning the Fifth Star Ring's battlefield.

The Meat Grinder of the Fifth Star Ring's left wing, in Xu Qing's original analysis, was a beacon, meant to attract everyone's attention. At that time, he judged that something significant must be happening in an unknown location.

And indeed, the commander of the Fourth Star Ring's right wing was assassinated by a mysterious figure!

It was precisely because of this incident that the Goddess herself arrived, attempting to accelerate the deceased divine commander's revival using her bloodline talent.

And it was also because of this that the subsequent events unfolded: Ling Ke's return through a borrowed shell, and the Goddess being severely wounded...

Leading to her being hunted and subsequently captured by Xu Qing!

All these causes and effects were interlinked!

“And all of this was merely the first part of the Fifth Star Ring's plan!”

“Firstly, creating chaos in the left wing to form a flesh-and-blood beacon, attracting everyone and drawing in a large number of deities, thus providing Young Master Aurora with an opportunity for assassination!”

“Secondly, using the death of the divine commander to draw in Ling Ke, while simultaneously luring the Goddess!”

“Ostensibly, this entire scheme was orchestrated by Immortal Lord Zhan Lu to explore the secret of Divine Emperor Lizhu's godhead, which is why this series of plans was initiated, with the Goddess seemingly being the ultimate objective...”

“Concurrently, Divine Emperor Lizhu detected these intentions and decided to play along, allowing his Goddess to be captured. His aim was to use her bloodline to counter-investigate the Zhan Lu Constitution while Immortal Lord Zhan Lu explored the secret!”

“Thus, the subsequent transaction came about...”

“But considering the subsequent events, all of this... from beginning to end, was actually part of the 'Flesh-and-Blood Beacon' plan, designed to make the beacon shine even brighter!”

“If the initial left-wing beacon was to attract the divine right wing and then execute the assassination, then the grand battle that ensued upon the Goddess's arrival was intended to draw in the entire battlefield and ensnare Lizhu!”

“And the final transaction, forming a battlefield that became a beacon, even including my departure and my being hunted, were all part of this beacon, all designed to attract... the attention of all the deities in the Fourth Star Ring!”

“Progressing layer by layer, growing larger and larger!”

“And all of this... was truly meant to conceal... Young Master Aurora's presence here!”

Xu Qing's mind suddenly cleared. All the threads connected at that instant.

“Truly worthy of Immortal Venerable's grand strategy...”

Xu Qing took a deep breath, glanced at Young Master Aurora ahead, then turned to Immortal Phoenix and inquired.

“So, what is he going to do now?”

Upon hearing this, Immortal Phoenix's gaze settled on her husband. Watching him walk step by step towards the canyon, she quietly replied to Xu Qing.

“Your brother is going to peel the skin off this primordial mother star.”