Chapter 700: When the Scarred Face Looks at the Divine Realm, What Happens?

The eye of the incomplete face did not fully open; it merely revealed a narrow slit. The instant this slit appeared, an indescribable, thundering pain, like a raging tide, engulfed Xu Qing’s body.

Chunks of flesh rapidly burst from his body. His meridians and bones collapsed, and he could no longer stand, falling to the ground.

His soul and cultivation likewise began to dissipate at that moment. It was as if he had become a candle, burning completely to power the opening of the incomplete divine eye.

However, his cultivation was ultimately insufficient; the mere slit opening of the incomplete eye had nearly drained him dry. Yet, even with this, even with just a slit, the world within the Moon Palace instantly shrieked from its dead silence, its body melting and dissipating, continuously fading back into red mist as if being erased.

The nearby door trembled violently, decaying and emitting black fumes, from within which an utterly terrified voice cried out, "Father God!" As for the Crown Prince and others, their hearts were also in turmoil, their faces pale. Their bodies were severely assaulted. Xu Qing's technique affected everyone indiscriminately, as long as they were within this world.

The Captain was likewise affected. Earlier, he had merged with his past life's body, transforming into numerous blue worms. Although most had disintegrated during the confrontation with the Scarlet Mother and the swallowing of the Great Scripture through the gate, a few remaining worms, hidden on the ground and previously merging to reform his body, were now forced to shriek.

Fear also appeared in his eyes, but this fear seemed to stem not from the incomplete divine face in the sky, but from the Red Moon Star itself.

Amidst his wails, the Captain's gaze was fixed on the Red Moon’s land. He seemed to want to say something, but all words were eerily unable to escape him.

At this moment, if one could stand at a supreme vantage point and observe the Red Moon, they would see that the entire world was equally affected.

The ruined cities on the ground were indistinct, their contours hazy like a ghost realm, dimmed by the blood rain. Lightning bolts continuously tore through the sky, making the entire world flash.

But no thunder was heard; only rain silently poured onto the incomplete divine face suspended high in the sky. It showed no joy or sorrow; indifference seemed its sole expression. It was as if, to a god, cultivators, mortals, and even high gods made little significant difference.

The anomalous substance emanating from the incomplete face ascended at this moment, like the source of all things, invading everything. Its dominance and terror far surpassed that of other deities; indeed, even other gods would be invaded by it.

After all, on the continent of Wanggu, the gaze of a high god was a forbidden zone. If it looked at a forbidden area, that area would become a forbidden land. If it looked at a forbidden land, that land would become a divine domain!

The Moon Palace itself was a type of divine domain. No one knew what would happen if an incomplete divine face looked at a divine domain.

Such an event had never occurred on the entire Wanggu Continent since the appearance of the incomplete divine face. The incomplete divine face's maximum range of sight currently extended to three eyes.

Her gaze had formed divine domains before, but after their formation, the god never looked at them again. Although the incomplete face appearing now was merely a scene from Xu Qing's memory,

the incomplete divine face possessed an extremely high status. Even if this painted eye was far inferior to the actual entity, it still carried a degree of divine might.

Thus, a scene unprecedented in the countless years of the Wanggu Continent unfolded at this moment. The eye of the incomplete divine face beheld the divine domain—the entire Moon Palace and the Red Moon Star—which instantly solidified and began to develop in an unknown direction. This development was profoundly mysterious and exceedingly recondite.

First, both the Moon Palace and the Red Moon Star seemed to be isolated from the time of the Wanggu Continent. The entire Red Moon Star, along with the Moon Palace, instantly decayed and then instantly reformed.

Everything on the mountains, stones, palaces, and the star itself was changing. This change was related to time. The flow of time on some of the Red Moon Stars was becoming extremely violent!

The entire star sometimes displayed ancient geomorphology, sometimes split apart and was destroyed, constantly changing, as if rapidly leaping through different temporal nodes.

While the Red Moon Star underwent this, everything beyond it remained normal. This transformation brought shock and terror to everyone, escalating their dread to an extreme.

Furthermore, the trembling voice of the High God Moonflame echoed from within the wooden door.

"Stop!"

"Father God looking at a divine domain will create immense terror!"

"Stop!" Finally, the High God Moonflame within the wooden door emitted an extremely sharp cry. This sound could pierce metal and shatter stone, capable of collapsing all consciousness.

But at this moment, with the Red Moon Star violently leaping through its countless temporal points, the sound could not travel far. It could only ultimately reach Er Niu.

The next instant, Er Niu’s forming body trembled, and his uncontrolled screams paused. The supreme terror in his eyes intensified as he looked sharply at Xu Qing and spoke rapidly.

"Xiao A'Qing, stop quickly!"

"If the incomplete divine face looks at a divine domain... a God Realm will appear!"

"The God Realm is incomprehensible; it belongs to immense terror!" The Captain was anxious and crawled towards Xu Qing. However, at this moment, Xu Qing's consciousness had fallen into a void; he was detached, with only instinct driving his eyes as he lay there watching the changes of the Red Moon Star.

In his perception, time seemed to become a straight line with a beginning and an end. The Red Moon Star was on this line, but it was not fixed; instead, it continuously leaped, appearing at any point on the line.

Each flash was a different temporal node, occurring faster and faster, eventually blurring into an indistinct haze. Within this haze, the external world underwent the next level of change: outside the Red Moon Star, a second Red Moon Star appeared!

Then came the third, the fourth, and subsequently countless Red Moon Stars, filling all of the void.

"Space-time... out of control..." the Captain's voice trembled even more.

"Initially, with the moonlight from the incomplete face, the Red Moon Star acquired the concept of time, so it became violent and pulsed. Then it was imbued with space, leading to the appearance of countless spaces, countless Red Moons."

"It has become space-time, both one and countless," the Captain wailed, exerting all his might to continue crawling.

Each of these Red Moon Stars originally pulsed in its own space-time, shimmering in its own time. But now, with the appearance of countless Red Moons, they were no longer confined to their individual space-times but instead performed space-time leaps, their space-times intermingling in disarray. They continuously overlapped and then dispersed, sometimes hundreds overlapping, sometimes hundreds or thousands merging, circling each other, scattering, and then intersecting.

There was no order, no rules! The sense of oppression this brought to Xu Qing and the others had reached its peak. At this moment, gods and cultivators alike were rendered equal!

For they could not face it, could not resist; each collapsed, blood flowing, each filled with terror. Until these countless Red Moon Stars merged into a blur, causing all space-times to become indistinct, and beyond that haze, something else seemed to exist.

Xu Qing gazed blankly, and just as he was about to see clearly, the world of the Red Moon Star where his body lay instantly solidified, once again unmoving.

Not only did this place stop, but all other Red Moon Stars also ceased movement. Then, as if lacking the power to continue ascending, they shattered individually. One by one, all the Red Moon Stars broke apart and dissipated, as if erased, as if they had never existed. Until only the one where Xu Qing was remained, and then the concept of time also vanished.

Everything that had appeared before now flowed backward. The next instant, the Red Moon Star recovered, the Moon Palace recovered, and everything returned to normal. The ruins on the Moon Palace's ground vanished, and the incomplete divine face in the sky dispersed.

From beginning to end, her eye had only opened a tiny slit. Xu Qing's power was ultimately insufficient to enable the god to fully open her eye. The image of the incomplete divine face opening its eye was no longer present in his purple crystal.

As everything returned to normal, the temporal segment in mid-air, which contained the Scarlet Mother from Zhang Siyun's past memories, shattered and turned to dust, taking her with it.

As the temporal segment dispersed, Zhang Siyun's figure was revealed, standing there, trembling. The calm and composed expression on his face was gone, replaced by extreme terror. His body was also rapidly aging and gradually dissipating.

As for the wooden door of the High God Moonflame, it rapidly vanished amidst its trembling. The Crown Prince and others had already fainted.

The Captain, meanwhile, was crawling beside Xu Qing, his mouth wide open, seemingly trying to bite him to urge him to stop.

At this moment, as everything reversed, he stood with his mouth agape, his eyes briefly stunned, then whispered,

"Little Junior Brother, promise me, don't use this move in a divine realm." Xu Qing, his face full of exhaustion, struggled to sit up, gasping for breath, while a sense of dread also spread within him. In that instant, he didn't know why it happened, but he had felt immense terror.

Struggling to lift his head, Xu Qing glanced at the Captain, then looked towards Zhang Siyun in the distance. Zhang Siyun's body was dissipating; his legs had already vanished, his arms and most of his torso turning to dust, finally disappearing bit by bit from Xu Qing's sight as if erased.

The crown of thorns on his head also made cracking sounds, continuously breaking apart, but in the end... a small section remained.

This small section glowed with purple light, which Xu Qing felt bore a peculiar resemblance to the radiance of his own purple crystal. As this light burst forth, Zhang Siyun's indistinct figure gradually formed within it, and a hoarse voice resonated.

"Xu Qing, you almost erased my main body, but since my main body remains, I am fine." This scene made Xu Qing's eyes narrow, but his expression didn't change much. His nature meant he never relied on just one method for anything he did.

So he spoke softly.

"Your Majesty." In an instant, the figure of the Ancient Spirit Emperor appeared directly before Zhang Siyun, who was in the process of reforming his body. He did not attack him, but instead held an object and pressed it against Zhang Siyun's face.

Afterward, he instantly vanished. As he disappeared, he instinctively glanced at Xu Qing, his eyes clearly showing strong apprehension.

Zhang Siyun's expression changed at this moment, and something appeared on his face. It was a mask—more accurately, the skin of an old man with a sorrowful expression and a face full of wrinkles. Its name was Mercy.