Outside Of Time

Chapter 1740  The Bizarre Dao Artifact!

”A Lord God-level artifact!”

The moment the jade-faced True God saw the blood-colored crescent blade emerging from Xu Qingʼs forehead, Its mind was thrown into turmoil!

The Lord God-level pressure erupted in full force, creating a sense of suppression that even disrupted Its divine breath.

A strong sense of life-and-death crisis loomed over Its divine realm.

”He actually possesses a Lord God Dao Artifact!!”

”This is wrong. Such a Dao Artifact is not something a Quasi Immortal like him can wield… and my omniscience should have detected it…”

”Someone has concealed information about him, making it impossible for me to perceive!!”

The jade-faced True Godʼs heart was in turmoil.

At this moment, the blood-colored crescent blade in Xu Qingʼs forehead had only partially emerged.

Just this small portion caused Xu Qingʼs expression to twist, his flesh to tear, and his soul to distort, as if he were on the verge of being corrupted and annihilated.

The power of this Dao Artifact was simply too great. Even for Xu Qing, if he hadnʼt attained the status of a True Monarch and gained the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring, he would have been utterly incapable of wielding it.

But the determination in Xu Qingʼs eyes was unwavering.

Using his fortune as a guide, he continued to summon the Crescent Moon blade!

In the next moment, the blade emerged another inch from his forehead.

Instantly, the crimson light around him expanded, causing countless combatants on both sides to retreat in terror. Deep within the starry sky, a strange scraping sound could be heard.

It was as if some being was scratching its nails against a skull, creating a sharp, piercing noise.

As this sound echoed, all the meteor clusters in the battlefield area trembled, as did the countless corpses and stardust. Their surfaces quickly began to show blood-red patterns, identical to those on the crescent blade.

Whether they were cultivators or gods, anyone within this range who heard the sound was visibly shaken.

As for the jade-faced True God, who was closest, Its divine eyes contracted, and Its heart was filled with extreme terror. It began to retreat rapidly.

But just as It was retreating, Xu Qingʼs eyes filled with blood vessels, and he let out a low, inhuman roar.

”Crescent Moon, emerge!”

In the next moment, Xu Qingʼs body shook violently, and his forehead split open, blood pouring down his face and staining his body.

At this cost, the blood-colored blade emerged another inch from the crack in his forehead!

Most of the blade was now exposed.

The blade itself was incredibly bizarre, with several miniature black holes forming cracks on its surface.

From these cracks came a sound that twisted the soul.

”The nail is the calamity of the gods. When the calamity ends, the nail is reborn.”

As this voice echoed, the void split open, and countless claw marks suddenly appeared in the starry sky.

Each claw mark oozed a pus-like rain.

It was a horrifying sight.

Combined with the voice, this scene shook the minds of all who witnessed it, distorting their vision. The effect was strongest on the gods.

On the battlefield, a Divine Platform expert accidentally touched one of the claw marks. Its body trembled, and It suddenly let out a shrill, owl-like laugh, as if It had gone mad. Its fingers frantically clawed at Its eye sockets until It gouged out the pupils, which were wrapped in divine essence.

It quickly threw them away.

But the discarded eyeballs had transformed into flickering crescent blade shadows, as if they had gained a life of their own. They let out joyful laughter and began to roam in all directions.

As for the cultivators in this area, because the Dao Artifact was guided by the fortune of the Fifth Star Ring and had been refined by Immortal Lord Zhan Lu, they were largely unaffected.

Thus, although they were shaken, they quickly seized the opportunity to attack.

The jade-faced True God, however, was too close and suffered the greatest impact.

Divine blood sprayed from Its body, and Its golden armor instantly cracked before shattering with a loud explosion, forming a barrier in front of It.

Using this to barely mitigate the attack, It retreated even faster, while Its divine aspect was pushed to the limit.

Countless golden threads sprouted around It, forming a cocoon to block the attack.

But in the next moment, as the crimson light swept past, it collided with the cocoon, leaving behind dark red rust stains.

These rust stains were bizarre!

Upon closer inspection, one could see spiral patterns on their surfaces, like cursed fingerprints.

The dark red glow concealed a totem made up of billions of twisted faces, gnawing as if trying to break through the cocoon and devour the flesh.

This scene caused the jade-faced True Godʼs divine aspect to tremble.

In this critical moment, It no longer cared about Its mission. Instinctively, It wanted to teleport away from the battlefield.

But the battlefieldʼs space was shattered, and time was chaotic. Its divine aspect had no connection to space-time, so It couldnʼt teleport at will.

It could only attempt to teleport if It found a stable spatial point.

But how could It find one so quickly?

As It desperately tried to defend Itself and retreat, while searching for a spatial point with Its divine sense… Xu Qing, his face covered in blood and his expression ferocious, tightened his grip on the goddessʼs neck, absorbing Her essence with all his might.

With his right hand, he reached up… and grabbed the crescent blade that had mostly emerged from his forehead.

He pulled hard!

A deafening roar echoed in his mind.

The blade was now fully extracted!

It appeared in its complete form in the starry sky!

In an instant, the crimson light illuminated the heavens.

The five-inch blade, shaped like a crescent moon, now pointed directly at the jade-faced True God.

With a flick, it left Xu Qingʼs hand and shot toward the jade-faced True God.

From a distance, the path it traced looked as if the starry sky had been torn open like skin.

The bladeʼs light flashed, and in an instant, it struck the golden cocoon surrounding the jade-faced True God.

The cocoon trembled and instantly shattered into pieces. The rust stains, along with countless faces, surged toward the jade-faced True God alongside the blade.

The jade-faced True Godʼs mind was in chaos.

In this critical moment, It activated a secret technique, tearing open Its chest and pulling out Its still-beating heart. It shoved the heart into Its mouth and swallowed it!

This heart was its divine kingdom, the source of Its divine aspect.

By consuming it, It transformed the shattered divine kingdom into divine power and Its divine core into a flame of true name, allowing It to unleash Its full combat potential.

The divine power exploded outward, attempting to block the blade!

With a deafening roar, the blade paused.

Having lost Its heart, the jade-faced True God used this opportunity to retreat. Although It had barely managed to block the attack, the blade, now suspended in the air, suddenly erupted as all the blood vessels on its surface burst.

What sprayed out was not blood, but the compressed sound of a dying universe.

As this sound echoed, the divine power the jade-faced True God had gained by consuming Its divine kingdom began to collapse.

Then, all the cracks on the bladeʼs surface opened wide and sucked in.

In an instant, the jade-faced True Godʼs divine power, to its horror, was drawn out in strands and devoured by the blade!

The blade then began to writhe grotesquely, its surface bulging with countless fleshy buds.

These buds were extremely unsettling, and as they swayed, they opened to reveal crimson, crescent-shaped eyes, as if laughing!

All of this left the jade-faced True God in a daze.

In the next moment, the blade traced a perfect arc, shooting toward It.

From a distance, it looked like a crimson river surging up from the depths of the underworld!

It slashed across the jade-faced True Godʼs neck.

Divine blood sprayed!

The jade-faced True Godʼs body shuddered, and It staggered back. Feeling the grievous wound on Its neck and the life draining from it, It instinctively raised Its hand to cover the injury.

But as It raised Its hand, It noticed that Its fingers were now covered in dense, green nails. In a daze, these bizarre nails had spread across Its entire body.

It now looked like a monster covered in scales.

Then… these nails all curled inward, burrowing into Its body and soul.

An indescribable torment erupted from every part of Its body and soul, overwhelming It.

It couldnʼt help but let out a shrill, scraping scream.

It was the sound of life being cut short.

Divine blood flowed from all Its wounds, quickly draining away. What flowed out next was no longer blood, but sharp, gleaming nails!

At this moment, the blade that had pierced Its neck finally revealed its complete form behind It.

The blood vessel patterns within the blade had spread out, floating around it and forming a life wheel that covered the surroundings.

Each tooth of the wheel contained the lives the blade had devoured. Deep within, one could see a blood-colored inscription, as if carved with nails.

”When you gaze upon this blade, its reflection has already grown nine cycles that do not belong to you within your nails, ensuring that the one who returns is no longer you.”

The signature read: Zhan Lu.

As the jade-faced True God stared at these words, Its eyes reflected the blade. Then, unable to withstand the pressure, Its eyeballs burst, leaving only crescent-shaped blood blades behind.

These blood blades merged into the crescent moon, becoming part of the Dao Artifactʼs power!

The skin on Its face began to collapse, peeling away like a lifted fingernail, revealing pale flesh and bone devoid of blood.

In the next moment, the wound on Its neck tore open, and Its head fell.

With a final look of pain in Its eyes… It turned to ash.

Body and soul, utterly annihilated.

In the distance, the blade transformed into a crimson moonlight and shot back into Xu Qingʼs forehead, disappearing.

For a moment, the battlefield fell silent, but soon, the sounds of battle and thunderous clashes returned.

As for Xu Qing, he spat out a mouthful of blood.

His body was extremely weak, and his mind was in turmoil.

This was the first time he had used the Dao Artifact, and he was deeply struck by its bizarre nature!

He even felt as if his fingernails were itching, as if nails were growing inside them.

This sensation sent a chill down his spine, so he quickly moved, rushing toward the location he had chosen earlier.

It was a spatial point.

Xu Qing possessed the Space-Time Ordinance, and in this shattered space and chaotic time, he was naturally more adept at finding spatial points than the jade-faced True God.

This was why he had chosen to confront the jade-faced True God here.

He wanted to leave the battlefield by using the spatial point to teleport.

As for the direction, although he couldnʼt determine it, escaping the battlefield was the best option for him in his weakened state.

Without hesitation, Xu Qing charged forward.

Along the way, he continued to absorb the goddessʼ essence. Strangely, the goddess, aside from trembling, remained unusually quiet, not cursing as She usually did.

Xu Qing glanced at her.

The goddess immediately closed Her eyes, Her eyelashes trembling, not daring to meet Xu Qingʼs gaze.

She was afraid.

Before, She hadnʼt feared Xu Qing, only hated him.

That hatred was deep and intense.

But after witnessing what had just happened, the bizarre Dao Artifact had filled Her with terror.

The horrific manner of death and the inscription that spoke of an irreversible return had transformed Her hatred of Xu Qing into fear.

After the incident with Spirit Stone, She believed that the Fifth Star Ring had mastered the secrets of return!

Xu Qing pondered this, then looked away. In a few steps, he reached the hidden spatial point.

He had no time to dwell on the goddessʼ state. Upon reaching the spatial point, he unleashed his full power, pouring his laws into it.

At the same time, a golden light flashed in the distance. A three-headed, six-armed True God broke away from Its position and charged toward Xu Qing with a thunderous roar.

Clearly, It had calculated that Xu Qingʼs blade could no longer be used and was taking advantage of his weakened state to kill him.

Xu Qingʼs eyes narrowed slightly, but he remained calm. He focused all his energy on tearing open the spatial point, reducing its existence to a fleeting moment.

Then… he activated it!

With a deafening roar, space collapsed, extinguishing everything.

On the battlefield, Xu Qingʼs figure was gone!