Chapter 1274: Ten Thousand Gods Collapse

Xu Qing had seen many gods, even several true gods. However, the oppressive aura emanating from the Young Lord of Aurora, standing on the primordial mother star at this moment, was unprecedented and earth-shattering.

His heterogeneous matter was extremely dense, containing terrifying vitality that twisted the void and influenced all things.

Furthermore, his divine will was like a sharp blade, causing stars to rumble and the universe to ripple.

The sacredness formed from the golden light radiating from him was equally profound.

Moreover, his form was rapidly changing!

Black crystalline plates grew from his chest, spreading like scales across his entire body. Within these plates, intricate patterns, imbued with an ancient aura, were subtly forming.

These patterns resembled star charts, each thread radiating an astonishing divine will.

Upon closer inspection, one could discern that the threads composing these patterns were, astonishingly, his true name!

Simultaneously, a dense network of blood vessels extended from his body, connecting with the entire primordial mother star. As the Young Lord of Aurora rose, it appeared as though he had become one with the star itself.

The surrounding land of flesh and blood surged, and above, the star-skin replaced the sky, shedding more blood rain. The entire world was suffused with crimson, becoming a canvas for his manifestation.

The wails emanating from the mother star also became part of the backdrop.

Moreover, every undulation of the earth was the Young Lord of Aurora's breath, and the pulsation of the planetary ley lines was also his doing.

Ultimately, all of this coalesced into his terrifying divine rank!

This divine rank was not merely his peak True God realm; it also encompassed the emergence of his true name, his connection to this primordial mother star, and, most profoundly, the allure of a divine calamity!

This elevated his divine rank to the threshold of the supreme!

Naturally, the influence such a divine rank exerted on the outside world was immense!

Xu Qing only briefly felt its impact, and the sensation he hadn't experienced in a long time—where his entire body's flesh and blood seemed to gain independent consciousness, threatening to tear away from him—resurfaced.

This sensation had not occurred since his cultivation reached a certain level.

Yet now, facing the Young Lord of Aurora, Xu Qing's breathing uncontrollably quickened, his body felt as if it were tearing apart, and even his eyeballs involuntarily quivered.

Although he forcibly suppressed it, the divine pollution, at this moment, transformed into inaudible whispers and erupted completely.

Those divine whispers, echoing from the unseen, settled into his mind, stirring up distortion and madness, as if to destroy all and sever life itself.

In this critical moment, Xu Qing's source essence fully diffused within his body, seeking to suppress all abnormalities.

But this abnormality was like a world-destroying storm; once unleashed, it could not be stopped. It instantly shattered all of Xu Qing's resistance, threatening to drown his consciousness.

But in the next instant, a voice suddenly emerged within Xu Qing's soul!

This voice was a divine sound, originating from himself, from the true name he had previously imprinted.

"Xu Qing."

As soon as this sound emerged, Xu Qing's body trembled, his eyes instantly cleared, and all abnormalities in his body subsided in that instant. At this moment, a subtle connection with the Fourth Star Ring appeared within his soul.

He then took a deep breath, glancing at Fairy Linghuang beside him.

A bubble had appeared around her body at some point, enveloping her and isolating her from all external influence. She herself was staring intently at the Young Lord of Aurora below.

As the Young Lord of Aurora's wife and the daughter of Nine Shores, it was natural for her to possess such protection, having arrived prepared.

However, that bubble... After sensing it, Xu Qing looked thoughtful.

"The aura of an Immortal Venerable..."

As Xu Qing was about to investigate further, Fairy Linghuang, from within the bubble, suddenly spoke.

"My husband's humanity is dissipating!"

Xu Qing's mind tensed at her words, and his gaze fixed on the Young Lord of Aurora below.

He saw that the Young Lord of Aurora, standing on the flesh-and-blood star palace, was now entirely covered in black crystalline plates. While his divine might was immense, a profound indifference was strikingly apparent in his eyes.

His humanity was rapidly fading, while divinity, with an overwhelming surge, was engulfing his entire mind.

It was on the verge of completely overwhelming him.

Just then, Fairy Linghuang raised her hand and produced an item.

It was a golden iron plate, imbued with the flow of ages and permeated with antiquity.

On it was a line of elegantly sweeping calligraphy.

"Two families united in marriage, one hall consecrated... This pact is hereby solemnly affirmed, and this serves as its proof."

Every word seemed to possess life.

It was both a constitution and a law.

From... Immortal Lord Aurora!

This item was precisely the marriage contract between Fairy Linghuang and the Young Lord of Aurora!

The moment it was produced, unseen karma created a pull, imbuing it with the significance of an anchor.

All the characters on it immediately shone, carrying the blessings left by Immortal Lord Aurora, floating in mid-air and soaring directly towards the Young Lord of Aurora.

In an instant, it approached and connected with him!

The Young Lord of Aurora's body trembled, and the tide of indifference in his eyes, which had been gradually engulfing his consciousness, momentarily halted.

Following this, two names flew out from within the marriage contract.

These were the true names of Fairy Linghuang and the Young Lord of Aurora. As they flew towards him, they merged into his body, and at that instant, the indifference in his eyes showed signs of melting.

Witnessing this, Xu Qing raised his hand. Behind him, his Immortal Embryo materialized, and the Aurora Immortal Palace surged within him. He transformed into karma, also imbuing the meaning of an anchor.

Connecting with the Young Lord of Aurora!

Gods are emotionless!

This, however, is not absolute. Generally, while congenital gods are mostly emotionless, there are exceptions. For instance, the Goddess Star-Eyes was once affected by special means.

Furthermore, for acquired gods, no matter how thorough their transformation, past emotions embedded in their memories will still cause ripples when they recall the past.

However, these ripples are usually minor.

Unless a god left an extremely deep obsession in their mind before conversion, which would intensify these ripples. It is at such times that the importance of anchors becomes evident.

Anchors are meant to facilitate the recovery of humanity, and even more so, to... firmly secure humanity!

They ensure that humanity, like a mountain peak or a reef, remains unyielding, no matter how the great waves of divinity churn around it.

Just like the Young Lord of Aurora now, under the pull of the marriage contract and the Aurora Immortal Palace, the indifference in his eyes finally began to melt.

Humanity no longer dissipated.

"So this is what it feels like to transform from an Immortal to a God."

The Young Lord of Aurora gazed around, murmuring inwardly.

The world presented a different sight in his eyes.

Withered, old, dirty, chaotic...

In his own thoughts, everything from the past suddenly seemed inconsequential. What he once cherished now felt like mere distractions, and both people and objects were nothing more than dust.

Only the ascension of life's very essence was the path life should pursue.

As for any obstacles on this path, they should simply be destroyed.

No matter who the obstacle was.

Except for... The Young Lord of Aurora's gaze fell upon Fairy Linghuang and Xu Qing.

These two individuals were like two threads, connected to him, stirring his thoughts and becoming the sole exceptions.

In his life, they were like two burning sources of fire, or guiding lights leading him home.

"It's fine, I'm okay."

Looking at Fairy Linghuang and Xu Qing, the Young Lord of Aurora displayed a deliberate smile, as if painstakingly trying to grasp his fading emotions.

"I still remember what I need to do next."

With that, he raised his right hand, covered in black crystalline plates, and lightly drew a line across the firmament.

Instantly, enormous cracks abruptly appeared in the void. In their depths, chaos not belonging to this dimension surged forth.

Xu Qing's pupils contracted violently; he saw that beyond those cracks, countless karmic chains were disintegrating and reconfiguring.

This was a disturbance at the level of rules and laws, as if an invisible hand were rewriting the underlying logic of this star ring.

Simultaneously, a calm yet thunderous sound emanated from the Young Lord of Aurora.

"Godhead, coalesce!"

The entire primordial mother star violently trembled!

Hundreds of millions of dazzling golden lights erupted from the depths of the planetary ley lines, piercing through the firmament like an inverted galaxy.

The void let out an overwhelmed shriek, and countless crimson lightning bolts erupted on the star-skin's surface, dyeing everything blood-red.

Furthermore, indescribable ripples spread from the mother star, sweeping across the external memory space in all directions. Wherever they passed, countless stars in reality were instantly affected, extinguishing like candlelight.

Simultaneously, the Fourth Star Ring's inherent gravitational field abruptly twisted, becoming chaotic.

Within various star regions, universes, and galaxies, numerous orbits simultaneously shifted. The entire structure of the star ring seemed forcibly bent by the Young Lord of Aurora's singular grasp.

The most profoundly affected, however, were the memories of the gods within the Fourth Star Ring!

The primordial mother star's location was intertwined between illusion and reality, existing within the collective memory of the Fourth Star Ring's gods.

Thus, the scene unfolding on the primordial mother star at this moment naturally had the most significant impact on those memories.

In an instant, countless gods, in their respective temples, all trembled.

The primal instinct to prostrate erupted within their divine souls.

Simultaneously, within a universe located in the boundless northern reaches of the Fourth Star Ring, the Star Spirit Divine Race, who were performing sacrifices in their parasitic divine kingdom to observe the Fourth Star Ring's Sea of Memories, suddenly went mad collectively and withered away.

Their divine kingdom also extinguished at that moment, turning into ruins.

In the ruins, the corpses of all members of that race had turned to ash, with only scattered eyeballs, glowing with faint golden light, left behind.

From those eyeballs, lingering images could be seen.

It was a divine silhouette enveloped in eternal aurora, holding a crown forged from a black singularity, slowly undergoing coronation!

Simultaneously, in the almost infinitely vast Western Grand Star Region of the Fourth Star Ring, amidst its myriad galaxies, a god sat cross-legged before a colossal bell woven from galaxies.

Compared to this bell, the god seemed insignificant, yet countless circulating star maps floated around him.

In the next instant, the god's body suddenly trembled, blood flowed from his seven orifices, and the floating star maps around him successively shattered.

He violently opened his eyes, his body rapidly withered, and his pupils contracted fiercely.

"The myriad gods collapse!! Is this a sign of a True God's birth? No, that's wrong!"

"This is... a terrifying existence is plundering supreme authority!"

The god trembled violently, and in the instant he finally withered and dissipated, he used his last ounce of strength to strike the colossal bell.

The bell tolled!

However, the impact had already swept across the Fourth Star Ring even before the bell tolled.

In the eastern part of the Fourth Star Ring, the Eternal Silence Temple, entrusted by the Supreme Divine Kingdom with weaving destiny, suddenly erupted with endless golden light at this moment.

Inside the temple, all divine statues simultaneously opened their eyes. After a moment of shock, they instantly shattered into dust, unable to utter a single sound.

The Web of Destiny, which they had been responsible for managing and weaving for millions of years, was now visibly disintegrating with their collapse.

And these were merely a glimpse; similar scenes were erupting across all regions of the Fourth Star Ring at this very moment!