Chapter 356 Cocoon

Chapter 356 Cocoon

Chapter 356 Cocoon

At the edge of the altar, where the black bird totem was entwined, the eyes behind the bronze mask penetrated the curling sandalwood. Li Qing looked towards the center of the altar, where a white-haired old man was wearing a plain white linen robe. Although nine bronze chains pierced his scapula, his back was as straight as a pillar of heaven - it was Ji Chang, the ruler of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

This person is different from the King Wen of Zhou that his original self Xu Qing knew in his previous life. Through the memory of his current identity, Li Qing knows that both the King of Yin and the King of Zhou have ruled their respective countries for tens of thousands of years and their cultivation is unfathomable.

"King Zhou, you sneaked into Chaoge alone to steal the Gui Zang Yi, did you ever expect such an outcome?" Bigan, the state teacher of the Shang Dynasty, slowly stepped onto the altar holding a tortoise shell, and the jade beads on the nine-tassel crown collided with each other, making crisp sounds.

The twelve shamans behind him beat the Kuiniu drums, and every drumbeat attracted the shadow of a black bird to spread its wings and circle above the altar.

Ji Chang raised his head, his eyes flashing with the light and shadow of the stars being destroyed and reborn: "Master Bigan, this is the 129,599th time I have sat on this altar. Every time I reincarnate, I will bring the Lianshan Yi here, just to seek a glimmer of hope..."

Before he finished his words, a deafening roar suddenly came from the sky.

Li Qing looked up and saw a dazzling light bursting out from the direction of Ziweiyuan. A giant star wrapped in purple air broke away from the star track and fell towards the altar with the force of burning the sky and boiling the sea. Wherever the starlight passed, the clouds surged like raging waves. Seventy-two golden chains emerged from the void to try to stop it, but they broke into pieces the moment they touched the starlight.

"Purple Star Emperor!" Seeing this, Bigan's face turned pale in an instant, as bloodless as paper. The tortoise shell in his hand seemed unable to withstand the strong pressure, and dense cracks suddenly appeared on the surface, just like a broken spider web.

He shouted: "Quickly activate the Nine Cauldrons Formation!"

In an instant, the thirty-six priests sprang into action. Their faces were firm and their eyes were full of determination. They cut their wrists without hesitation. The bright red blood trickled down their arms and seeped into the ravines of the altar.

The blood seemed to have life, instantly activating the mountain and river formation engraved on the ground. Nine huge bronze tripods slowly rose from the ground. They were tall and majestic, like ancient giants, and the inscriptions on the tripods flashed red light, like burning flames.

These lights intertwined with each other and condensed into a huge black bird totem with its wings spread above the altar. The black bird totem was lifelike, with its wings spread out, as if it could fly high and break through the clouds at any time.

However, the momentum of the Purple Star's fall did not weaken in the slightest. Under the impact of the powerful starlight, the Taotie pattern on the tripod's ears gradually twisted and deformed, and the originally ferocious and terrifying appearance became blurred.

Finally, with a deafening bang, the huge bronze tripod exploded and turned into countless fragments that flew everywhere.

"Click——"

Following this crisp sound, the altar barrier shattered like broken glass. In an instant, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth surged like a flood that broke through a dam, creating chaos.

The bamboo slip in Ji Chang's arms seemed to sense the danger of its owner, and suddenly a bright green light appeared. Li Qing looked closely and saw three ancient seal characters on the bamboo slip glowing brightly, turning into three lifelike green dragons.

The three green dragons roared towards the sky, and their roars shook the heavens and the earth. Rich green spiritual energy was wrapped around their bodies, and they were extremely powerful. They suddenly wrapped around Ji Chang, trying to help him break free from the chains.

At this moment, a golden mace with a coiled dragon suddenly appeared from the void. On the mace, the shadow of Yinglong appeared and disappeared, with eyes like torches, flashing with fierce light, and a bloody mouth opened, as if to devour everything.

The Panlong Golden Mace, with its fierce momentum, pierced Ji Chang's left shoulder. Ji Chang groaned, and a trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

He endured the severe pain, quickly made hand gestures with his right hand, and tapped heavily on the bamboo slip. The bloodstained bamboo slip unfolded instantly, and the three blood-red characters "天行健" (Heaven Moves Vigorously) stood out. Each word contained a righteous spirit, as if the ancient great sage had come in person.

A faint sigh was heard from the distant clouds, and then a Taoist priest in a gray robe holding a Panlong mace slowly appeared.

His face was hidden in the shadows, and his expression could not be seen clearly, but from his voice, one could hear a hint of helplessness and emotion: "Why is King Wen so persistent? This Yinxu time and space is..."

However, before he could finish his words, a golden light came from the sky like lightning.

Li Qing had sharp eyes and recognized it at a glance. It was the golden rope of the Supreme Dao Sect mentioned by Changchun Zhenjun. The purple gold bell tied to the end of the rope shone brightly, and as it swayed gently, it spread out layers of Dao rhymes. These Dao rhymes seemed to be real, forming ripples in the void, and actually froze the time and space within a radius of 100 miles for a moment.

Taking advantage of this gap, the golden rope quickly wrapped around Ji Chang's waist like a nimble snake, and carried him like a stream of light, rushing towards Xiqi, and disappeared into the sky in the blink of an eye.

Then the Taoist in gray robe disappeared.

"Chase!" Seeing this, Bigan's eyes widened and he shouted angrily. He quickly took out the Seven-Star Sword from his waist, the sword flashed with cold light, exuding a fierce murderous aura.

However, just as everyone was about to ride the clouds to catch up, something strange happened.

The fragments of the Purple Star that fell into the ruins of the altar suddenly burst into dazzling light like a ignited gunpowder barrel. Among them, a fist-sized star core shone the most dazzlingly. It was like a meteor, dragging a long tail of light, and went straight into Li Qing's brow.

Li Qing felt as if a burning fire had been thrown into his sea of ​​consciousness. Instantly, a mysterious force erupted in his sea of ​​consciousness. Mysterious scriptures surged into his soul like a river flowing backwards from the sky.

These scriptures flashed with strange light, and each character contained endless mysteries, as if telling the origin and end of the universe. Li Qing only felt that his sea of ​​consciousness was constantly expanding and reshaping under the impact of this force.

The original body Xu Qing, who was far away in the Pure Yang Realm, suddenly opened his eyes at this moment. The projection of the Emperor Star in his Purple Mansion seemed to be pulled by an invisible force and began to spin wildly. The projection of the Emperor Star shone brightly, illuminating the entire Purple Mansion and illuminating the surrounding void.

Xu Qing looked at the shadow of Yinxu appearing in front of him, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and he chuckled: "So that's how it is." He slowly stood up, and the shadow of the five-headed Heavenly Demon Saint slowly appeared behind him.

Every step Xu Qing took seemed to drive the stars between heaven and earth to move. On the robe transformed from the map of mountains and rivers, the stars flickered and flickered, ancient and powerful.

When he took the seventh step, his figure had transformed into a ray of purple light, penetrating the barrier of time and space. …

On the Lutai, Emperor Xin's hand holding the pen was suspended in mid-air, stagnant. Cinnabar ink dripped slowly along the wolf hair brush, spreading on the memorial, like a pool of blood, shocking to the eye.

The Xuanniao jade disk on the desk suddenly made a sharp sound as if it was summoned by some mysterious power. On the disk, the originally still twenty-eight constellations began to spin rapidly, and the lights of those constellations intertwined, forming a mysterious and spectacular picture.

At the same time, five streams of purple air surged out from the cracks in the void. They were like five nimble dragons, winding and circling in the air, and then drilling straight into Emperor Xin's seven orifices.

"Uh--"

Emperor Xin groaned, and suddenly dug his five fingers deep into the bronze table. His knuckles turned blue and white due to excessive force, and the skin on his forehead cracked. Purple-gold light shone through the cracks, interweaving into a huge purple star map in the void above his head.

Xu Qing's consciousness was now flooding over Emperor Xin's body like a tide. Under the impact of this consciousness, every meridian of Emperor Xin was undergoing the reshaping of the stars. In his left eye, the star tracks of the Zhoutian gradually appeared. The dense star tracks were like a huge sky net, covering the entire universe; in his right eye, the evil spirit of the devil was surging. The strong evil spirit was like a black flame, burning fiercely, as if to devour everything.

"So that's how it is..." Xu Qing laughed softly, his voice echoing both his own and King Yin's. At this moment, he seemed to have a pair of eyes that could see through everything in the world, and he clearly saw the essence of Yinxu's time and space unfolding slowly before his eyes: countless hair-thin causal lines, intricately entangled together, forming a huge cocoon.

Each thread of silk is connected to 129,600 reincarnations. In this endless reincarnation, Ji Chang's white-haired figure is looming in the center of the silk cocoon. The bamboo slips tightly held in his hand are the key anchor point that maintains the entire space and time.

"Crack!"

The Xuanniao Jade Disk could no longer withstand this powerful force and completely shattered. The flying fragments flew rapidly in the air and finally condensed into a mysterious star map.

Xu Qing stretched out his hand and tapped lightly. Under his control, the trajectory of the stars suddenly twisted and reorganized, turning into four ancient magic words: "Hehua Zizai". These four ancient magic words exuded a strange and powerful aura, as if they came from the words of the ancient demon god.

Outside the palace, the panicked footsteps of the attendants could be heard. However, the moment they touched the threshold, they were blocked by an invisible barrier and could not move forward any further. At this time, the entire Lutai was completely enveloped by the Heavenly Demon Realm. In this realm, everything seemed to have fallen into an endless stagnation.

"Ziwei is my bones, and Tianmo is my veins..." Xu Qing closed his eyes and looked inward, concentrating on watching the two forces entangled with each other in his sea of ​​consciousness. The power of the Emperor Star was like the Milky Way hanging upside down, washing over his soul with its majestic momentum, trying to completely assimilate his consciousness; the origin of the Tianmo turned into a gluttonous mouth, viciously devouring the starlight of the Emperor Star, the two of them fought back and forth, neither giving in.

When the 180,000th star was swallowed up, a flash of inspiration suddenly came to Xu Qing's mind, and he suddenly realized: the Yinxu space-time is exactly the "Original Cocoon" manifested by the Taiyi Dao Seed. Only by controlling the two completely different forces of the Way of Heaven and the Way of Man at the same time can one break out of the cocoon and glimpse the true essence of it.

"Wen Zhong." Xu Qing spoke softly, his voice echoing in the silent palace.

The moment the domain was removed, Xu Qing slowly stroked the newly born purple jade on his waist. This jade pendant, refined from a star core, looked as gentle as water and emitted a soft glow, but it contained incredible power.

When the Grand Master Wen Zhong, who had three eyes and double pupils, stepped into the hall, Xu Qing deliberately made the purple-gold light of his third eye surge. In an instant, the third eye on Wen Zhong's forehead was strongly impacted, and golden blood oozed out immediately.

This was the instinctive rejection of the ancient Thunder God's bloodline towards the Heavenly Demon. Under this powerful repulsive force, Wen Zhong felt dizzy, his body shook slightly, and he almost lost his balance.

"Your Majesty...your eyes?" Wen Zhong asked, suppressing his discomfort, with a hint of doubt and worry in his voice.

"Master, what do you think of this galaxy?" Xu Qing answered irrelevantly, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing a mysterious smile. As he waved his sleeves, a bright starlight burst out like fireworks, and the sky was full of twinkling stars, like a dream.

After the stars fell to the ground, they instantly turned into magic patterns, etching a miniature map of Yinxu on the jade floor. On this map, a dazzling green light lit up in the direction of Xiqi City, echoing with the purple air in the direction of Chaoge, forming a perfect Tai Chi Pisces situation. The green light and purple air intertwined and blended with each other, like the two poles of yin and yang, containing endless mysteries and power.

Wen Zhong's third eye suddenly felt a sharp pain. In his unique "qi-viewing" vision, the king in front of him was no longer in human form: the left half of his body was the astrological image of an emperor sitting in the Purple Palace, emitting a majestic aura all over his body, as if he was in control of all order in the world; the right half of his body was a five-headed demon that swallowed the sun and the moon, with a surging demonic energy that seemed to subvert the entire universe.

At the junction of the two, there grew vine-like golden patterns, which flashed with mysterious light, and were the trajectory of the fusion of Lianshan and Guizang. This strange sight shocked Wen Zhong greatly, and his eyes were filled with awe and fear, as if he had seen the most incredible thing in the world.

"Send a message to the three armies." Xu Qing tapped the yin-yang fish eye of the Tai Chi diagram with his fingertips. His eyes were firm and his tone was unquestionable. "In three days, I will borrow the pure energy of Xiqi to refine the Taiyi Golden Pill."

When the last word fell, the thirty-six dragon-coiled pillars of the Lutai trembled violently at the same time. The eyes of the black bird relief on the pillar instantly turned red, like a burning flame, and the jade bead in its mouth burst into purple lightning.

The purple lightning shuttled through the air like a dragon, making crackling sounds. This was originally the Sky-peeking Formation set up by Bigan, but now it has been completely eroded by the demonic energy and has become Xu Qing's tentacle for sensing the way of heaven. Through this Sky-peeking Formation, Xu Qing seemed to have established some kind of mysterious connection with the avenue between heaven and earth, and was able to sense every change in the way of heaven and understand the laws of operation of all things in the world.

Outside the palace, a sudden strong wind blew up, the sound of the wind whistling like ghosts and wolves. Dark clouds rolled in, quickly covering the sky, and in the clouds, there was a strange phenomenon of the stars turning upside down.

Xu Qing looked up at the sky, knowing that this was the real Purple Star Emperor's response to him in the Taixu Universe. When the original body opened his eyes in the Pure Yang Realm, the star trajectories of the two time and space had already overlapped, and the mysterious world of Yinxu finally revealed to him the deepest secret - the Taiyi Dao Seed's Master Selection Trial.

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Outside the Yinxu space and time, in the Lingtai star sea, the barefoot Zhenwu showed a mysterious smile to the elders of the four major Taoist sects, the Pure Yang Taoist Sect and others.

Taoist Wuxiang even heard Zhenwu's whispers.

"You, are back as expected."

(End of this chapter)