Chapter 707: Time and Space Transaction

Beyond Time!

On the celestial curtain of the Moon Palace, at the moment the red, shattered deity fell, the abstract painting did not dissipate; it remained. And from this stillness, it suddenly began to spin. Although the Red Moon Star also trembled violently at the moment of the deity's demise, Xu Qing clearly felt its presence through his own Red Moon authority. The Crimson Mother, who possessed the same Red Moon authority as him, had not vanished.

This scene made Xu Qing's mind churn. The Captain, who had just barely reassembled his head at this moment, looked at it, couldn't help but gasp, and quickly said, "It wasn't that old hag the Crimson Mother who fell; it was the Supreme Deity of the Nine Netherworlds, who had been devoured and fused by her. At the last moment, that old hag gave up devouring the Nine Netherworlds, sending him out to endure the fatal calamity in her stead!"

Almost the instant the Captain's words spread, a low voice echoed within the abstract image on the celestial curtain. "Li Zihua, do you think I don't know the future you saw the moment you became a deity back then? I have always been in a divine position; what you saw was what I granted! I foresaw a calamity in this life, so to overcome this, I devoured other deities to strengthen myself."

As the voice spread, the entire Moon Palace realm instantly turned crimson. Endless red light emanated from within the painting, spreading throughout the world, and enveloped Xu Qing and the others. Their blood, at this moment, became uncontrollable. The four directions instantly twisted into a blurry, indistinct state, consuming everything.

Infinite anomalous matter erupted here with a roar. The grey within the painting rapidly dissipated, the pink was dimming, and Emperor Gu Ling's eyeball also occasionally transformed and collapsed. Even the Heavenly Dao summoned by Li Zihua began to recede. Had the shattered divine face not arrived earlier, with Li Zihua's abilities, the might of the Heavenly Dao would have been greater and could have manifested multiple times. But the current strike was the Heavenly Dao's utmost manifestation. Their mission was to protect Wanggu, especially while fighting the shattered divine face; they were all in a weakened state. At this time, their mission prevented them from continuing to gradually dissipate.

Although Xu Qing and the Captain's son roared, it was still very weak and had not yet grown up. At this moment, it also slowly closed its eyes and vanished from sight.

Immediately after, a large bloody tentacle emerged from within the abstract painting on the celestial curtain, streaking directly towards the ground and piercing into it with a roar. This tentacle was covered in feathers, and blood flowed from it. While horrifying to behold, it also radiated divine might. Then a second tentacle appeared, followed by a third and a fourth. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of tentacles pierced into the earth.

The blood-red hue of this world became incredibly intense at this moment. A power of revival erupted from within the painting at this instant, and simultaneously, it erupted within the Red Moon Star. Violent tremors shook the star's surface, cracking it into numerous fissures. As red light shone, bloody, feather-covered tentacles also stretched out from these cracks! As the fissures multiplied, the tentacles also increased in number.

Finally, from a distance, the entire Red Moon Star looked like a ball of fur. Those tentacles swayed ceaselessly like hairs, their bizarre appearance unnerving all who saw them. It seemed as if something even more terrifying was reviving within the Red Moon Star, its emanating aura spreading throughout the star and across the Sacrificial Moon Great Domain.

That was undeniably the Crimson Mother's aura. The one battling Li Zihua and the others was the Crimson Mother, and the entity within the Red Moon Star was also the Crimson Mother. At this moment, amidst the tremors and the proliferation of fissures on the Red Moon Star, the star underwent astonishing changes. Wherever its aura passed, the earth transformed into flesh and blood. Soon, the entire star completely transformed into a sphere of flesh and blood. A head grew upon it, with facial features taking the exact likeness of the Crimson Mother. But the eye sockets were empty, without eyeballs. And at the center of its brow was the Moon Palace.

Now, within the Moon Splendor Palace, the abstract painting on the celestial curtain extensively collapsed, and an identical head of flesh and blood sank from within the painting. Those around it recoiled. Supreme Deity Yue Yan and Supreme Deity Xing Yan both wore grave expressions. Among them, Supreme Deity Yue Yan instantly appeared before the Captain. Her immense body exuded terrifying pressure, and her divine sense echoed.

"Can the scene of you summoning the Father God earlier be replicated?"

As she spoke, her gaze fell upon Xu Qing. With a raised hand, in the blink of an eye, a piece of pink mud appeared before Supreme Deity Yue Yan, preventing her immediate action. The figure of Supreme Deity Xing Yan materialized before Xu Qing. A smile graced her beautiful face, but her eyes held a cold indifference as she looked at Yue Yan.

"Sister, he is mine."

Supreme Deity Yue Yan's eyes were equally cold as she met Xing Yan's gaze. "The Crimson Mother has now reached the critical point of Supreme Deity; her divine flame is robust, just half a step from raising her own divine platform. If there are no other means today, this battle is meaningless."

The Captain, whose head had just been reassembled, narrowed his eyes as he watched this scene. With a flicker of madness, he looked at Xu Qing. "Little Junior Brother, do you remember Fenghai County?"

Xu Qing looked up, gazing in the direction where the Heavenly Dao infant had vanished. He suddenly spoke, "Senior Brother, the Fenghai County you mentioned, is it the Fenghai County of the Purple-Azure Upper Kingdom?"

"That's right, the County Governor of Fenghai County in the Purple-Azure Upper Kingdom is named Bai Xiaozhuo." The Captain's eyes held an even deeper madness.

Xu Qing turned and met the Captain's gaze. "Bai Xiaozhuo, back then, used a sacrificial method to make the shattered divine face open its eyes."

The Captain smiled upon hearing this. He gazed at Xu Qing and spoke softly, "Little Junior Brother, do you blame Senior Brother for bringing you to the Sacrificial Moon Great Domain this time? After all, looking at it now, our chances of failure are high. Although I've prepared a lot, it still seems insufficient."

Xu Qing shook his head. "Senior Brother, out of all the big things you've taken me to do, which time was without incident? If there were no incidents, then you wouldn't be the Captain!" From the first time Xu Qing and the Captain undertook a major endeavor together, Xu Qing knew the Captain was mad. Every major undertaking was a gamble with their lives.

The Captain heard Xu Qing's words and let out a chuckle, but the madness in his eyes deepened. "There won't be any surprises this time! Little Junior Brother, didn't you ask me before if I was deliberately suppressing my cultivation and not breaking through, to enter the God Child's Nascent Soul period? That's right, my plan was to enter the time node of the God Child's Nascent Soul, to make a deal with Li Zihua, who was still a deity at that time! Afterward, before we set foot on the Red Moon, I arranged a crazy plan for the Four Hall Masters and the others!"

Meanwhile, a roar erupted once more in the sky. Emperor Gu Ling's figure retreated at this moment, a black hole appearing behind him, as if he intended to leave. Only Li Zihua did not retreat. He quietly gazed at the Crimson Mother's head before him. An aura of destruction rose from his body, and a burning flame erupted with a roar. He was burning everything, and stepped towards the Crimson Mother.

"Li Zihua, you chose the thick earth, abandoned the path of a deity, and became a cultivator. Therefore, you have weaknesses, you have flaws. You are old! In the past, you couldn't stop me. Today, how will you stop me?" The Crimson Mother's head of flesh and blood suddenly split open down the middle, emitting a buzzing sound like the voices of all living beings. Her body swayed, instantly overlapping with Li Zihua, and began to devour him.

Li Zihua's expression remained as usual, showing no change. His entire body was wreathed in flames, like a living corpse, allowing the Crimson Mother to devour him. Only in his eyes, at this instant, did a hint of tenderness appear.

"When I left Huangtian back then, the Ancestral God told me you were more suited than I to ignite the divine flame."

The Crimson Mother heard this and was about to speak. But at that moment, her divine sense suddenly stirred. For the first time, she looked towards the Sacrificial Moon Great Domain. To her, the Sacrificial Moon Great Domain was merely food, so she had never glanced at it throughout the battle. Now, she sensed something. The moment her divine sense swept across, her emotions clearly fluctuated.

At the same time, Emperor Gu Ling, who was about to escape, also paused abruptly. He suddenly looked towards the Sacrificial Moon Great Domain. Supreme Deity Yue Yan and Supreme Deity Xing Yan were equally moved. They all looked simultaneously. In this Sacrificial Moon Great Domain, which was not valued by deities, an astonishing upheaval was occurring.

The Four Hall Master and Two Hall Master of the Reverse Moon Palace, along with those who had not followed the Prince and others onto the Red Moon, had remained on the ground. The moment Xu Qing and the others landed on the Red Moon Star, the Four Hall Masters also had their own mission. They sealed the cultivation of all cultivators from the Red Moon Divine Temple and gathered them at seven locations. The largest number were at the Divine Temple's headquarters on Repentance Plain. The other six locations were scattered across the Sacrificial Moon Great Domain's Divine Temple branches.

As the Red Moon Divine Temple collapsed, the God Child died, and the Red Moon Divine Temple cultivators were suppressed, the number of Red Moon cultivators imprisoned at these seven locations was extremely high. Even more were those factions affiliated with the Red Moon Divine Temple. The strong cultivators among them also had their cultivations suppressed and were imprisoned at these seven locations. In terms of quantity, they might still be fewer than the number Bai Xiaozhuo sacrificed from a single county back then. Even considering their cultivation and the overall quality, there was still a gap compared to the myriad beings of Bai Xiaozhuo's county back then.

But it didn't matter. The Purple-Azure Prince once made a single sacrifice that caused the shattered divine face to open its eyes. So, while the quantity of sacrifices was important, the person presiding over the sacrifice was even more crucial.

At this moment, amidst the trembling hearts of all the Red Moon cultivators in the Sacrificial Moon Great Domain, the place where the Hall Master once stood on Repentance Plain was now empty. And in this emptiness, a white light instantly erupted. This light came from nothingness, from space-time, from the past. Its appearance, in an instant, materialized a vast figure.

The figure's appearance was precisely that of Li Zihua. However, unlike the Li Zihua being devoured by the Crimson Mother in the Moon Palace, the Li Zihua who appeared here had divine flames burning on his body. They came from the past, from the time node of the God Child's Nascent Soul. The Captain had drawn him here, but it seemed impossible to sustain. The moment he appeared, Li Zihua coldly raised his head. He glanced at the star within the Red Moon, then his gaze fell upon a higher place, looking at the shattered divine face.

"I, the Heir of Huangtian, descend from the immortal realm."