đź“– Chapter 1265 - Stepping Inside
His clothes were the same, as was his figure. No matter what it was about his appearance, everything seemed exactly the same as before. The only difference was… his expression.
This figure had a wooden expression, and his eyes lacked spirit. It was as if he were nothing more than a corpse.
If an Almighty-level being were here and looked with their divine sense, they might be able to see that… Chen Qingzi’s body was entangled by a huge centipede. In fact, half of the centipede’s body was fused as one with Chen Qingzi.
When Wang Baole looked into the future with the Book of Heaven’s Mandate on Planet Heaven’s Mandate back then, he had scene a similar scene. However, the one who had been possessed… was no longer Wang Baole, but Chen Qingzi.
It was as if… Chen Qingzi had taken on the calamity in his place.
“Someone’s calling you, why don’t you respond?” The red-robed young man in front of Chen Qingzi smiled, eyes full of sinister wickedness. Although he was talking to Chen Qingzi, it was more like talking to himself.
“Ah, I forgot. You… are no longer you.” Looking closely, the young man’s sunny smile contained a hint of ominous meaning. After stepping through the stone gate, he glanced behind him.
His gaze seemed to penetrate the void beyond the gate, looking through the rift and at… the solitary figure sitting on the boat outside, who was also staring back at him.
The young man’s eyes narrowed, and he waved his hand. With a rumble, the stone gate swung shut, blocking the outside world. Turning his head, the young man looked at the void in front of him, where an enormous hand descended from nowhere.
"Stop!"
“All’s hand, you want to stop me?” The young man looked at the hand and chuckled. With a swing of his legs, he turned into a blood mist that directly engulfed the enormous hand.
A boom rang out. The hand remained unaffected, but the bloody mist suddenly rolled backward, returning in front of the stone gate and turning back into the red-robed young man.
Although he was still smiling, his smile was much colder than before, and his eyes were flickering with a red glow. Lowering his head, he looked at his chest, where there was… a massive gash. Although this gash was quickly healing, its impact on him was obviously not small.
“Chen Qingzi, ah, Chen Qingzi… the strike you landed at the cost of your own life is indeed quite troublesome… But if it’s only this, I won’t be stopped.” Red light erupting in his eyes, the young man exploded into blood mist again. This time, 30% of the blood mist drilled into Chen Qingzi’s eyes, while the other 70% took the form of a huge blood-colored centipede and wrapped around the enormous hand.
“All, you’ve died already. Do you think a mere hand can stop me?”
As the blood-colored centipede entangled the hand, the remaining blood mist fully entered Chen Qingzi’s eyes. His eyes suddenly flashed with red light, and without saying a word, he started walking forward. As he passed the Hand of All… it completely ignored him. Chen Qingzi passed by smoothly and continued walking out of the void.
As for the battle between the centipede and the hand, it didn’t stop. The hand’s mission wasn’t just to prevent those inside the stele world from leaving; it also stopped outsiders from entering.
The battle in the void raged on. Meanwhile, the possessed Chen Qingzi stepped out of the void and entered… the core of the stele world, the starry sky of the Never-Ending Dao Domain.
Almost as soon as he stepped inside, the bloody color of the starry sky fluctuated, turning into a huge vortex that covered the entire stele world. Terrifying rumbles sounded out, and at the center of the vortex was… the possessed Chen Qingzi, whose robe had turned red.
His originally wooden expression now had a hint of liveliness. However… this liveliness was filled with a sinister feeling, especially when added to his eyes, which were a deep blood red.
“Finally, I’m in.” The possessed Chen Qingzi smiled lightly. Raising his head, he looked into the distance, where he could feel four pairs of eyes converging on his body.
“Two in the late stage of the third step, and another interesting one. As for the last one…” Narrowing his eyes, the possessed Chen Qingzi looked in the direction of the solar system. At the other end of his gaze, heart filled with sorrow, was Wang Baole. At this moment, the two of them were staring at each other across the starry sky.
“It’s you.” The possessed Chen Qingzi smiled.
“Baole, your senior brother’s here. Why haven’t you come to see me?”
His voice echoed through the starry sky and landed in Wang Baole’s ears. But Wang Baole remained silent, merely closing his eyes to conceal his grief. After a while, he opened them again and looked at the earth seed in front of him, redoubling his efforts in refining it.
“That’s fine, little guy. I’ll just find you later then.” Grinning, the possessed Chen Qingzi retracted his gaze and looked down at his body in satisfaction. Then, he glanced at the vortex behind him, where his original body was fighting All’s hand. Obviously… the battle wouldn’t be ending anytime soon.
However, that didn’t matter. Although there were some problems with this body that hindered a full possession, he figured that being able to move it with his divine will like this was already enough for him to finish everything he needed to do in the stele world.
“In that case… next, I have to refine all living beings in this world, absorb their blood spirits, strengthen my divine will, and heal that wound…
“Aside from that, I have to go and kill that little guy. After all, he’s got the other half of the Immortal inheritance, and he’s also… the final fragment of the black wooden nail!” Chen Qingzi, or rather the red-robed young man, chuckled as he muttered to himself. He lifted his right hand, and the bloody color in the starry sky rapidly converged around him. In the end, it turned into a fist-sized sphere of blood in his right hand.
He took a few steps in the starry sky before casually tossing the bloody sphere at a galaxy in the distance.
The bloody sphere carved out a crimson arc as it flew over to the galaxy. A few breaths later, it fused into the galaxy, and with a rumble, the blood inside seeped out. Countless creatures were plunged into despair as the blood spread, and in just over ten breaths, an entire civilization was annihilated. Whether it was the living beings, the planets, or the stars, everything was destroyed.
If someone were to step into that galaxy, their face would certainly contort in shock. All its stars and planets had melted, and its living beings had all withered away. In the end, everything turned into countless threads of blood that flew out of the destroyed galaxy and returned to the red-robed young man. The blood threads fused back together into a sphere of blood, and thanks to having swallowed an entire civilization, the bloody color of the sphere had noticeably deepened.
"Not bad." The red-robed young man smiled and continued walking.
Just like that, ten days flew by.
Over these ten days, the red-robed young man slowly wandered the starry sky. Whenever he passed a civilization, no matter how big or small it was, he destroyed it completely, and all life within became food for his bloody sphere.
The place he first appeared was in the former Never-Ending Holy Region. Thus… he quickly sensed the remnants of the Never-Ending Clan.
Although he and the Never-Ending Clan were of the same origin, he didn’t spare them. On the contrary, he became even more excited. Compared to the other civilizations, he spent much more time and effort to refine the Never-Ending Clan very thoroughly.
By the time he left, the Never-Ending Clan no longer existed in the stele world, and news about him and his actions was spreading rapidly.
However… whether it was the Xie Family ancestor, Patriarch Seven Spirits, the ancestor of the Moon Star Sect, or even Wang Baole, all of them were silent.
But deep within their silence… they were preparing for the storm!