Chapter 1686: Divine Food

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In the vast expanse of the starry sky, Xu Qing streaked forward like a shooting star.

Wherever he passed, he would stir ripples in the surrounding space, distorting the starlight.

This was not only a natural reaction brought about by the cultivation base but also the power contained in the immortal embryo.

To a certain extent, it was already similar to gods.

This was inevitable after cultivating to a certain extent.

Weakness could take countless forms, but the ultimate expression of power was always singular—an absolute unity.

At this moment, with his direction firmly set, Xu Qing refrained from unleashing his speed to its full extent.

While he sensed his immortal embryo, he also sensed this universe and this Heaven’s Beyond.

“Although everything that happened in the Immortal’s Fall Land is a mirror image of history, but…”

“The master recognition by Qianjun and Piyi continued into the main world. Li Mengtu’s Poison Ordinance also has a portion of the source… Also, the clay fox materialized the Hundred Flowers Palace outside the Ink Land.”

“All of this indicates that the experiences within the mirrored history are not without consequence. They subtly leave traces in the present, though faint and not deeply entrenched.”

“However, in the mirrored history, I have already obtained the authority of the Aurora Immortal Palace!”

“In the Heaven’s Beyond, the Immortal Palace is the center and a supreme existence. What appeared in the Land of Immortal’s Fall was merely its projection amidst the ebb and flow of spiritual tides. As for the true location of the Immortal Palace, it is highly likely still within this Heaven’s Beyond.”

“Then, with the authority of my immortal palace, in Heaven’s Beyond…”

A strange glint appeared in Xu Qing’s eyes. This was what he was most curious about now.

Hence, on the way, he also tried to spread out his divine sense and perception.

However, it was a pity. Perhaps it was because too much time had passed, or perhaps the immortal palace was silent.

Hence, Xu Qing didn’t gain anything.

After a long time, he sighed inwardly and temporarily gave up, speeding up.

His target was Prison A29.

That was the largest god prison in the entire Chaotic Sky Universe. At the same time, it was also the mine with the most origin essence on the surface.

As the captain of the team, he could naturally take the most delicious slice of cake first.

As for his so-called subordinates,x Xu Qing didn’t care about their lives.

Xu Qing also didn’t care about how they obtained origin essence in the Chaotic Sky Universe, whether they collected it from other prisons or from the nonhuman races.

Even if those people encountered obstacles during the harvesting process or had conflicts with the nonhuman races here, there would naturally be others who would deal with them in order to obtain more origin essence.

Unless they encountered an extreme situation, Xu Qing didn’t plan to interfere.

His goal was incomparably clear.

“Absorb the origin essence and advance the immortal embryo!”

Xu Qing’s eyes gleamed. His thoughts were firm and his speed was even faster. During this time, he also borrowed the help of the teleportation array here many times. Ten days later, he crossed half of the Chaotic Sky Universe and appeared at his destination!

This was a red starry sky!

The redness did not originate from starlight but rather emanated from an enormous, awe-inspiring red seaweed. It spanned an expanse so vast that it could only be described as boundless.

It had nineteen leaves!

Each leaf was long enough to encircle an entire star.

At the junction of these nineteen leaves, where the seaweed’s roots converged, a dense network of fine tendrils extended.

These tendrils coiled around an exceptionally massive sun, penetrating its blazing surface and delving deep within. They continuously siphoned energy and nutrients, sustaining the seaweed’s existence.

Looking at the seaweed in front of him, Xu Qing’s eyes gleamed.

“Such a cosmic plant… I wonder if my heavenly vine will be able to grow to this extent in the future.”

Xu Qing sensed his pagoda. The divine vine that had fused with this pagoda was still sleeping. However, according to its aura, it wasn’t far from awakening.

Xu Qing retracted his perception and looked at the seaweed in front of him.

He clearly saw that on each of the nineteen enormous leaves of the seaweed, there were numerous spots of varying sizes.

“Every speck is a minor world and also a prison!”

“And the largest prison is in that sun.”

Almost at the same time that Xu Qing was observing, the red light of this seaweed flickered. After that, a terrifying divine sense spread out from the seaweed.

It locked onto Xu Qing.

That terrifying sensation made Xu Qing feel as though he was facing an immortal.

Xu Qing’s eyes narrowed. He knew that other than being a prison, this seaweed also shouldered the mission of suppression.

He took out his Material Procurer token and the mission jade slip and spoke in a low voice.

“I’m here on the orders of the Nine Shores Heaven to collect origin essence!”

The seaweed’s divine sense instantly enveloped Xu Qing and swept across his identity token and mission jade slip.

After a moment, as if having confirmed something, the seaweed’s divine sense lazily withdrew, lifting one of the leaves and slowly bringing it to rest in front of Xu Qing.

Glancing at the leaf, then at the sun enveloped by the seaweed’s roots, Xu Qing pondered for a moment before stepping forward, heading straight for the leaf.

Locking onto a particular spot on the leaf, he rapidly approached it.

In Xu Qing’s eyes, the spot grew larger and larger, eventually transforming into an entire world. He traversed through the void and pierced through barriers, descending amidst a cacophony of roaring sounds.

He landed on a black land.

This place was filled with decay and death, and it seemed to be endless.

There was no wind in the surroundings, no spiritual energy, and no anomalous substances. It was desolate and dead silent.

Xu Qing looked at his surroundings and then at the ground. He lifted his foot and stomped down fiercely while saying lightly.

“Wake up!”

As Xu Qing’s foot touched the ground, a rumble spread across the earth. Winds stirred, spiritual energy surged, and traces of anomalous substances arose, unleashing a storm.

The tempest erupted from the ground, sweeping in all directions. Black soil was lifted and scattered across the skies, instantly engulfing Xu Qing’s figure.

Had someone been observing from above, from a vantage point high in the sky, they would have seen it clearly— a deep scar appeared on the earth below. Starting from this mark, the soil surged like ocean waves, rolling outward in a single direction.

And then, an enormous, bloodshot eye emerged from the earth.

It opened!

Buried beneath the black soil was a sleeping eye, and Xu Qing’s arrival had forced It to awaken.

Hence, a storm rose and Xu Qing remained motionless in the storm. The place he was standing at was above the pupil of the colossal eye!

It stared at Xu Qing, revealing coldness, devoid of joy or sorrow.

“Lower race, slave.”

Xu Qing’s expression remained calm.

This was an eye of a flawlessness god.

“The so-called flawlessness is only relative.”

Xu Qing looked at the god’s eye under his feet and calmly spoke.

Not long ago, Xu Qing had encountered similar god eyes in Wanggu.

Each time he laid eyes on Them, his entire body would tremble, his mind would roar, and a dense aura of anomalous substances would surge within him. Under Their gaze, it felt as though every part of his flesh and blood sought to separate, as if striving to exist independently from his body.

That was caused by the difference in life level.

But now, he calmly stared at It and was unaffected.

The god’s eye gradually distorted and blurred. More and more blood vessels appeared across It.

Not to mention that the current It was no longer the same as before, even if It had returned to Its peak now, It could not do anything to the current Xu Qing.

Xu Qing raised his right hand and the token that represented his status as a Material Procurer flew out.

This token was both an identity qualification and a special item to collect origin essence.

Xu Qing held this token and pressed it in the air.

The distortion of the god’s eye became even more intense. One could faintly hear a low roar that towered into the sky.

Waves of golden origin essence were emitted from the eye.

Every bit of retraction caused the god’s eye to feel incomparable pain.

After a long time, when 49 fine threads were extracted, the god’s eye had already turned gray. It seemed to have reached Its limit and was slowly about to close and fall into a deep sleep.

However, Xu Qing frowned.

“There are too few.”

The origin essence in front of him was only the size of a baby’s fist.

Moreover, in terms of purity, it was far inferior to what was produced in Ink Land. Hence, he would naturally need more of it.

A cold glint flashed in Xu Qing’s eyes. He didn’t put away the identity token. Instead, he ruthlessly pressed down from the suspended state earlier and directly pressed the token on the divine eye that was about to close.

It touched the eye!

At the next instant, the god’s eye widened. For the first time, Its expression revealed a different fluctuation.

That was the fear that all intelligent lifeforms had of death!

However, this fear didn’t exist for long. As Xu Qing spared no expense to extract the origin essence, more golden threads instantly erupted from the eye.

This was no longer extracting origin essence. This was extracting Its life!

Hence, the roar turned into a wail. Not long later, the wail also stopped abruptly. The god’s eye turned into ashes, Its body and soul destroyed.

And Its death also contributed more origin essence.

Looking at the origin essence in front of him, Xu Qing could feel the clay fox mark on his arm trembling.

Hence, Xu Qing scattered some of the origin essence he extracted and sent it to the mark.

“Do you want it?”

The clay fox’s trembling stopped. At the next instant, the mark emitted a suction force and the origin essence instantly fused into it. After that, a soft voice rang out in Xu Qing’s mind.

“Thank you, Young Master. You’re the best.”

Xu Qing remained calm as he also began to absorb the origin essence.

As the origin essence fused into his body, his immortal embryo instantly shone and his aura continued to rise. A while later, a sharp glint flashed in Xu Qing’s eyes as he licked his lips.

“Too little, I need more…”

As he spoke, his body swayed and he sped toward the next minor world where the gods were imprisoned!

Just like that, time flowed by.

Xu Qing’s figure appeared in the minor worlds on this leaf. The gods were sacrificed for Their origin essence.

This caused Xu Qing’s immortal embryo to shine even more brightly.

For Xu Qing, keeping these gods for the future wasn’t the best choice.

There was no rule in the mission jade slip that said the gods had to be kept alive.

Hence, his harvesting became increasingly thorough.

At the same time, the other ascenders also used their own methods to do their best to collect origin essence in different places.

Part of it was for missions, but most of it… was for their own cultivation!

From a different perspective, one might indeed see them as nothing more than jackals.

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