Chapter 1319: Wishes and Stories

In the starry sky, beyond the Wanggu Continent, within the Ninth Star Ring.

The Divine Lord, forcibly sent by the Mother River, felt a jolt in their mind as they traversed the void. They sensed disturbances behind them, accompanied by a terrifying aura surging towards them.

“A Divine Lord?” The Mother River deity sharply turned their head, gazing towards Wanggu. What they saw was an endless expanse of golden and silver light, like a sea, spreading in all directions against the dark backdrop of the starry sky. It resembled a strange, blossoming flower.

Upon seeing this, their expression instantly grew solemn. Upon their descent to the Wanggu Continent earlier, they had already perceived that the human who had severely wounded the Mother River's pawn not only possessed the aura of a Fifth Star Ring Xia Immortal, but their Fundamental Law had also reached the level of an Immortal Lord within the cultivator system! Such a level was truly rare.

Moreover, they had not arrived at full strength, and harbored intense apprehension towards the Remnant Face, coupled with the Mother River's mission. All these factors combined led them to decisively abandon further action and choose to depart. But now...

“This person is not only an Immortal, but also a deity!” “Especially this divine aura…” The Divine Lord from the Mother River felt an even greater turmoil in their mind.

“That is the Supreme Divinity formed by the Fourth Star Ring God Venerable, who stole the authority of the Primordial Wilderness, and then this Supreme Divinity was taken by the Fifth Star Ring!” “A Divinity that is a Half-step God, and bears infinite karma with the Primordial Wilderness…” “He actually dared to directly fuse with it!” “He and the Primordial Wilderness…”

The Divine Lord abruptly retreated, sprinting through the distant starry sky at a speed greater than before. They felt an instinctual threat to their life.

Now at full speed, their own Divinity emitted unique divine authority.

“I wish: I have returned to the Mother River!” The divine sound reverberated, and the Divine Lord's body blurred, as if about to vanish, but in the next instant, they reappeared. The wish failed.

“Within the Remnant Face's range, the suppression on my Divinity is too great…” “I wish: I can smoothly return to the Mother River on this journey!”

This time, as their divine sound spread, an unidentifiable power circulated through their body. In a blink of an eye, their speed was augmented, becoming even faster. Furthermore, a mysterious force arrived, acting as a blessing, stabilizing their mind in that moment. Even the starry sky beneath their feet seemed to be invisibly shortened. The distance to escape the Wanggu range and reach a point where the Mother River could pull them was rapidly decreasing.

However, just as that critical point was within their divine perception, about to be reached… Suddenly, a startling change occurred!

Behind them, the sea of golden and silver light that had erupted from the Wanggu Continent now swept across the starry sky with an indescribable vastness, roaring towards their position. It instantly covered an infinite expanse, crushing everything in its way with ceaseless roars. With earth-shattering power, it transcended time and space, crossing the universe, directly surpassing the Divine Lord, and whizzed past, enveloping them, as their mind reeled in shock!

Ultimately, in the starry sky just before the critical point they wished to reach, the golden and silver light sea surged into a massive wave, blocking everything and erecting a wall of light. It was as if a door had opened!

Amidst the dazzling light, a figure that suffocated all living beings stepped out, treading upon light. The moment they appeared, the entire vast universe seemed to freeze, and then the starry sky began to tremble violently. It was as if, in the next instant, it would completely collapse into dust before this utterly terrifying power, and vanish into infinite nothingness.

It was Xu Qing, after fusing with both Immortal and Divine powers!

The Divine Lord's eyes sharply narrowed, their body recoiled a few steps, and their divine soul surged with intense turmoil. They could sense that the human before them, their body had already become a part of the laws and rules of the Upper Star Rings, containing terrifying power.

Especially the divine authority patterns imprinted all over their body, which were formed by countless cosmic rivers intertwined and converged. Each pattern astonishingly contained a complete world, and within each world, billions of beings were born, then propagated, developed civilizations, and witnessed dynastic changes in a short period. Yet, at this moment, these patterns merely served as decorations on his body, densely covering his skin.

This was the manifestation of a Divine Lord's level! And most crucially, at the core of these divine patterns, was the… Divinity of Fate! It was radiating a brilliant light, like that of creation itself.

Wherever this light reached, the river of time instantly dried up, the invisible barriers of space were easily torn like fragile paper, as if even fate itself had to submissively yield to this light, allowing it to rewrite the destined trajectories of all things. As it fell upon the Divine Lord forcibly sent by the Mother River, their own Divinity actually trembled!

They retreated again.

“A wish?” Xu Qing raised his head, calmly looking at the Divine Lord before him. “Interesting.”

His voice contained both divine sound and the sound of the Great Dao, intertwined, radiating instability and destruction, forming a soul-sound of world annihilation. Like tangible waves, it pressed forward, wave after wave, towards the infinite distance. Wherever it passed, both tangible matter and intangible rules were crushed and reshaped. This caused the Mother River Divine Lord's body to recoil even further.

The tremor in their mind intensified after Xu Qing's words. The Xu Qing of this moment felt extremely dangerous to them!

Standing in the starry sky, besides the divine patterns on his body and the Immortal Law of his soul, his long hair, resembling a purple galactic river, was also remarkably striking.

That long hair had already transformed into a true cosmic sea, each strand a brilliant galaxy formed by countless stars. As his hair flowed, these intricate galaxies continuously collided, merged, and fissioned, each transformation triggering cataclysms and disasters in those microscopic worlds. And it was still spreading! Expanding in a near-frenzied state, as if to swallow all the starry sky, making everything a part of him, Xu Qing's nourishment.

“Primordial Wilderness…” For a moment, the Mother River Divine Lord, in their perception, seemed to sense the Primordial Wilderness within Xu Qing!

This perception was not wrong. It was the inevitable implication emanating from the fusion of the Divinity of Fate. This was also the temporary path Xu Qing had chosen for himself.

On his journey back, Xu Qing had already decided on this path, because he knew very well that his strongest power… was the Immortal Lord-level Law! However, this Law could not be fully displayed due to the limitations of his physical body. Therefore, he embarked on the fusion with divine power!

The divine body, originally shaped from the Remnant Face's flesh and blood, by fusing with a Divinity, became a true god of Primordial Wilderness flesh and blood. This was the strongest known physical body! The Immortal spirit body, being the source of the Xia Immortals, could transform into an Immortal soul, which was his current strongest Law power.

With the two fused, using the divine as the body and the immortal as the soul, he could both unleash divine might and fully erupt with the Fundamental Law power belonging to the Immortal Lord level. Thus, a thought for the divine made him a Divine Lord. A thought for the immortal made him an Immortal Lord. After fusion, he had reached the Lord level!

“It seems… the one who contacted me with a wish back then has some connection to you.” Xu Qing's golden and silver eyes swept over the Divine Lord before him. At the same time, his own purple long hair swayed violently, strands colliding within, galaxies roaring, and the surrounding golden and silver light sea, following Xu Qing's gaze, surged thunderously towards the Divine Lord.

A life-and-death crisis suddenly intensified. The Divine Lord's entire body glowed intensely golden, operating their full divine might. Their very body transformed, divine patterns permeating it, simultaneously revealing their own Divinity. Divine sounds emanated from their mouth, spreading in all directions.

“I wish: By any power other than a God Venerable's, I shall not be destroyed or harmed!” The moment their words were uttered, they became divine will, became rules, became inevitable. The golden and silver sea surged, but the instant it touched the Divine Lord, they remained completely unharmed, and the sea whizzed past them. However, their aura visibly weakened; it was the consumption of their Divinity!

“I wish: Those who oppose me shall suffer a backlash!” The Mother River Divine Lord, disregarding the consumption at this moment, formed their Divinity's power again. Thus, in the next instant, the golden and silver light sea reversed, actually backlashing towards Xu Qing.

“I wish: All barriers to my advance shall cease to exist! With one step, I shall cross this realm!” The Mother River Divine Lord's divine voice resounded through the starry sky, their right foot lifted, then stepped forward.

Xu Qing's expression was indifferent as he raised his right hand and gently pressed down. With this press, his Fundamental Law immediately surged, no longer merely swirling around him, but exploding with a roar, like a superstorm sweeping across the multiverse.

Time and space were arbitrarily kneaded and reshaped within this storm, parallel worlds were crushed like bubbles, and then reassembled into new, absurd, and terrifying forms. The power of unity forcefully merged all fragmented time-space and chaotic rules, transforming them into a chain of Law power that pierced through past, present, and future, crossing all dimensions, and shot directly towards the Divine Lord. Ignoring everything, the moment their foot landed, it directly locked their divinity!

The Divine Lord's mind reeled. Their perception clearly felt the indescribable terrifying power contained within this chain, especially how each slight tremor of the chain itself could trigger an an explosion of fate, thereby enhancing its Law power.

The ripples formed by it even coalesced into Xu Qing's voice. “Divinity, reshape!”

At the same time, in the outer sea of the Wanggu Continent.

A lone boat swayed on the dark sea surface. Inside the boat, Yu Liuchen sat, gazing up at the sky.

Their eyes held a trace of anticipation, and their heart surged with immense waves, their emotional fluctuations unprecedented. They murmured softly.

“I never expected the opportunity I’ve waited for until now to actually be with him!” “That idle chess piece from back then actually bloomed into such an incredible flower, and even attracted wishes…”

“In my story, the cultivator named Xu Qing returned successfully after leaving…” “In the story, upon his return, he will possess astonishing power!” “These stories have all come to pass, all successfully, and what comes next…”

“In the future story, he will… unify Wanggu!” As Yu Liuchen spoke, a hint of struggle appeared on their face, yet they felt their divine will elevate, sensed their realm leaping forward, and experienced the realm of true godhood, which they had finally touched after countless years of bitter waiting. Ultimately, they gritted their teeth, their eyes revealing the most intense madness of their life, and with an incredibly firm resolve, spoke as if making a grand gamble.

“In the story, he will unify the Ninth Star Ring!” “In the story, he will suppress the Ninth Star Ring God Venerable!” “In the story, he will become the supreme being of the Ninth Star Ring!”

“In the story, he will replace… the Primordial Wilderness!!”

Immediately after, they spat out a mouthful of golden blood, their entire being weakened, and they lay in the boat, gazing at the sky, murmuring softly.

“Kid, they all say deities have no emotions, but I do… You… you must live up to expectations. My entire future rests on you.”