Outside Of Time

Chapter 1704 Xu Qing Is Furious!

The wind of the Wanggu Continent carried a familiar humidity, evoking memories of the past.

That was from the vast Endless Sea and also the anomalous substances in this world.

It was completely different from the Fifth Star Ring.

After sensing all of this. Xu Qing opened his mouth but he was unable to say anything.

The surrounding world was a little blurry in his eyes. Perhaps the anomalous substances had distorted the space, or perhaps the gods of Wanggu had influenced everything.

Only... the old woman before him, clad in a black robe and weathered by time, stood out vividly in Xu Qingʼs eyes.

Each wrinkle on her face was like a canyon carved by the years, etched with storms and perhaps intertwined with the threads of fate.

Xu Qing naturally still remembered the little butterfly back then.

In his memories, she was once a young girl, someone with whom heʼd had conflicts. Later... it was also she who had brought him to the Summer Immortal Palace for the first time, where he had laid eyes on that aged Palace Master of the human race.

Yet, these fragmented memories, intertwined with the reality of what he now saw and felt, gave Xu Qing a persistent sense of unreality. ”Before my teacher passed, she once said that those who havenʼt endured extreme pain can never truly comprehend it. Itʼs a kind of... feeling where you donʼt want to believe, where instinct drives you to deceive yourself, pretending as if nothing ever happened.” ”Because, after extreme pain, there is only void.”

The old woman let out a bitter laugh. ”And after I witnessed the catastrophe with my own eyes, after I saw loss withi my own eyes... only then did I understand my teacherʼs words. I truly felt it all. And for the thousand years since, Iʼve never been able to move on!” ”Today, seeing you... I hope that one day, you can move past it!

Her voice carried a deep sorrow as she spoke, her tone laden with weariness. Slowly, she turned and began to walk away into the distance. Her figure was desolate, shrouded in a boundless loneliness that seemed impossible to dispel. Xu Qing slowly raised his head, his gaze fixed on the old womanʼs retreating figure. Suddenly, he spoke. ”What about my master... my senior brother... Zixuan and Linger? And... my friends, my fellow disciples, and... everyone else? What happened to them?”

The voice that came from his mouth was so rough and hoarse that anyone familiar with him might not have recognized it. It was as if it had been scraped out by countless grains of sand grinding against each other.

Xu Qing didnʼt dare to ask this question but he still asked. His voice was hoarse and trembling.

The old womanʼs steps halted, her back still turned to Xu Qing. She remained silent for a long moment before her voice, heavy with the weight of time, emerged, carrying the echoes of history like a mournful tune from an ancient flute. ”A thousand years ago, the Ancient Immortal descended into this world, searching for something” ”He first went to the human race, visiting the statue of the Sword Holding Great Emperor, Then, with a mere gesture, the entire human race was annihilated,ʼ ”Even someone as powerful as the Empress, in the presence of the Ancient Immortal, was ultimately nothing more than a junior. She was stripped of her mind and turned into a divine slave by his side. ”Your master did not intervene at first. To him, the fate of humanity was unimportant. He only cared about what was within his reach. ”The Ancient Immortal never stepped foot in Nanhuang Continent. Perhaps some karmic tie between him and your master kept it safe for a time!” ”But in the end, your master still emerged from seclusion to confront the Ancient Immortal. He stood before him to prevent his search because... the thing the Ancient. Immortal sought was your eldest senior brother: ”Your master fought for him. Your senior brother returned from Brilliant Heaven to stand by his side, showing the pinnacle of Quasi Immortal strength. But the outcome... remained unchanged.” ”In that battle, your master died. Your senior brother, driven to madness, became a sacrificial offering for the Ancient Immortalʼs Dao! ”Afterward, your sect was utterly destroyed. None of your other senior brothers or sisters survived. Nanhuang Continent sank into the Endless Sea, and Flame Phoenix Itself became a corpse ”Following this, the Ancient Immortal departed. Brilliant Heaven was thrown into chaos and later revived anew, while the Ancient Spirit Emperor seized the moment to rise to power, plunging all of Wanggu into turmoil.ʼ ”As for Zixuan... I recall her vaguely. She perished during her struggles to survive, becoming food for a newly risen god.” ”And Linger... I remember her as well. She was devoured by the Ancient Spirit Emperor, her fate and fortune returned to him.” ”As for everyone else you knew... most of them have also fallen over the past millennium, each meeting their end in their own way!

Xu Qing lowered his head.

The old woman didnʼt speak anymore.

This was everyoneʼs ending.

The wind blew over from afar with a whistling sound.

It stirred up dust and Xu Qingʼs long hair but it couldnʼt take away the silence in his heart.

This was everyoneʼs ending.

The old womanʼs sigh blended into the wind as she spoke softly, ”If it wasnʼt for the thing you left behind in Wanggu, I would have thought that you had died in another realm.”

With that, she silently shook her head and walked into the distance with loneliness and bleakness.

It was as though although her teacher had left, she still had to shoulder the mission of the Summer Immortal Palace. Even though... she didnʼt know if there was any meaning to this mission.

However, this was her teacherʼs last wish.

She slowly left until she disappeared into the distortions of the world.

Time passed.

Xu Qing stood there. He didnʼt know what state he was in now. He only knew that at that moment, his thoughts seemed to have frozen and everything about him seemed to have been suspended.

Including his soul.

Only the sound of the wind continued.

However, as he listened, the whistling sound seemed to have become a whimper.

After that, endless pain suddenly drowned him like a tide.

Everything in front of him turned blood-colored.

Blood dyed his eyes red.

He opened his mouth and wanted to mutter, but blood couldnʼt stop flowing out of his mouth.

All he could do was stagger back. ”So when pain reaches an extreme, it becomes void...”

He couldnʼt shed any tears, as though he had lost them all.

The emptiness in his heart was like a black hole that drowned everything.

There was no beginning or end to this black hole.

Xu Qing felt that he should be familiar with this feeling. It was similar to when he was in the chaotic time sea. However, he couldnʼt recall his state back then.

In his heart, only the old womanʼs voice before she left echoed again and again.

Gradually, some of the words in these voices became sparks that slowly gathered in his eyes. ”Your senior brother, driven to madness, became a sacrificial offering for the

Ancient Immortalʼs Dao.” ”Lingʼer was devoured by the Ancient Spirit Emperor, her fate and fortune returned to him.” ”Parting Summer was stripped of her mind and turned into a divine slave.” ”If it wasnʼt for the thing you left behind in Wanggu...”

Sparks of fire lingered.

Xu Qingʼs head moved slightly. ”Eldest Senior Brother might not be dead.” ”Lingʼer... perhaps her essence can still be separated from the Ancient Spirit Emperorʼ ”There might still be hope for the Empress Parting Summer!” ”There might be an afterlife for Zixuan...” ”I still have a long path to walk... Also, all of this is just what someone else said. It might not be the full truth!” Xu Qingʼs eyes burned with flames at this instant. ”And I still have something left behind.”

Xu Qing abruptly raised his head. His gaze seemed to pierce through everything as his divine sense perception spread in all directions.

Looking at the ruins, the familiar yet unfamiliar world, the gods everywhere.... His heart was calling out and his soul was in turmoil.

After a long time, a weak and almost extinguished response came from the direction of the Endless Sea.

At the next instant, Xu Qingʼs body suddenly disappeared.

Under the Endless Sea, in a deep silt, many ferocious sea snakes were squirming in the silt.

Dense divinity fluctuated on their bodies. Upon closer inspection, one could see that each of these sea snakes had a sinister and strange ghost face.

In the depths of the silt, there was a skeleton buried there.

This skeleton only had half of its body left. Everything below its waist was gone.

The remaining upper body was also riddled with holes and there wasnʼt much flesh and blood. No matter how one looked at it, it was no different from a corpse.

It seemed to be sealed here. Even though It was just a fragment, one could sense the divine technique fluctuations in Its body. Under the effect of the divine technique. Its body also continued to degenerate from its god state. Now, It didnʼt seem far from becoming an ordinary body.

The snakes in the surroundings would occasionally come here and devour the remaining flesh.

Originally, if nothing unexpected happened, everything here would continue for a long time until the skeleton completely dissipated.

However, at this moment, waves suddenly appeared at the calm and pitch- black bottom of the sea.

It was as though space had shattered!

Whether it was the anomalous substances or the pressure here, they all seemed to have been directly erased at this instant.

What appeared next was a figure walking over out of thin air!

It was Xu Qing

He walked over step by step. Wherever he passed, everything at the sea would tremble. Even if there were gods. They would choose silence.

This lasted until he reached the sea snake sludge.

The instant he looked over, all the sea snakes trembled one after another. The silt also churned on its own, revealing the buried bones in the depths.

The moment he looked at this skeleton, Xu Qingʼs heart stirred.

This skeleton was his divine avatar.

However, the soul that was left in this body was already a candle in the wind and would be extinguished at any moment.

However, through the injuries on this skeleton, Xu Qing could tell that his god body had suffered a huge injury back then. This also meant that... his god body had experienced the calamity back then. ”By fusing this divine body into my body and using the same origin method, I can sense everything that happened to this clone and verify everything!”

An intense impulse rose in Xu Qingʼs heart. With a sway of his body, he approached the broken body and raised his right hand, wanting to fuse it into his body.

However, the instant his hand was about to land, Xu Qingʼs body suddenly paused. Looking at the remnant god body in front of him, his expression suddenly became strange. ”My divine body came from the fragmented-face... Even though my soul can be destroyed, how can my body be shattered to this extent? How can I be easily sealed by divine techniques!”

Xu Qingʼs pupils contracted as he abruptly raised his head and looked up. His gaze penetrated the Endless Sea and looked at the sky.

There... was no fragmented-face there!

He actually didnʼt have any doubts about this before.

At the same time, he recalled all his previous experiences, be it on the battlefield or when he encountered the Lord God. He only recalled the process but didnʼt have any details. Even Wanggu was a blur.

All these thoughts were like mirrors. Just as Xu Qingʼs thoughts were flashing. he suddenly spoke. ”Aurora Immortal Palace, Heavenʼs Beyond!” ”Suppress!”

As soon as his voice rang out, the color of the world changed and the Endless

Sea rumbled. Wanggu trembled.

Cracking sounds rose into the sky!

It was as though a Heavenly Palace was coming from another realm!

At the next instant, everything in front of Xu Qing was like a bubble that had been squeezed. With a boom, everything shattered!

Everything was replaced by the starry sky and illuminated by starlight. At this moment, the might of the immortal palace erupted.

It erased the illusion and revealed the truth!

The world changed drastically!

Xu Qing saw everything clearly.

How was this Wanggu? This was clearly within Heavenʼs Beyond!

As for the skeleton in front of him, it wasnʼt his divine body either. It was clearly... that half-human half-spider True God!

This True God wanted Xu Qing to take the initiative to fuse with It!

From there, it could transfer the carrier and borrow the shell to return!

However, Xu Qing had woken up!

His awakening caused an intense hacklash to the True God, especially with the suppression of the immortal palace and the enhancement of Heavenʼs Beyond. This caused the expression of this True God to twist and a large amount of golden blood flowed out of his body. There were also cries of pain that spread in all directions. ”How did you wake up?!”

However, Xu Qing, who was facing It. had extreme anger burning in his eyes.

His anger had rarely reached this peak!