out of time

Chapter 1003: Nervous, Regretful, and Tired
The voice was faint and yet carried an inexplicable chill, which spread through the ears and mind like a melting glacier.

It was as if a piece of ice appeared out of thin air in the soul.

The ice gave off waves of coolness, which spread from Xu Qing's soul and affected all his senses, making him seem to have lost all warmth at this moment.

Only the coldness penetrates everything.

Every word in it was like a curse, and along with the chill, it caused ripples in Xu Qing's sea of ​​consciousness. At this moment, all the spiritual energy in his body lost its vitality, like stagnant water.

With these layers of blessing, the coldness seems to last forever.

This feeling caused Xu Qing's consciousness to stagnate, but in the last moment before his consciousness became blank, Xu Qing used the last bit of his spiritual awareness to activate the Golden Crow in his body.

The next moment, the roar of the Golden Crow echoed in Xu Qing’s mind.

The voice seemed to be calling.

Summon the sun from Xu Qing's body.

Then, Xu Qing's body was like a realm, and the first sun in the realm rose into the sky, illuminating his soul!

The black flames erupted instantly, burning the entire area. Ten rays of Xuan Yang Immortal Light also rose up, emitting endless light and heat.

At this moment, the sun rises in the sea of ​​consciousness, shining brightly.

The moment the invisible ice touched, a soft laugh echoed in Xu Qing's ears.

"Little brother, you have to remember my reminder. Also, what you said is wrong. I am not a ghost. If he scolds me again, I will take him away."

The voice was mysterious and seemed to have deep meaning. After it was heard, whether it was the power of the sun in Xu Qing's body or the little girl changed her mind, the chill on Xu Qing's back quickly dissipated.

The laughter in my ears gradually faded away.

The next moment, the darkness in front of Xu Qing's eyes and the coldness in his heart were completely ignited by the flames.

The cold is burned away, and perception returns again.

The moment his vision returned, Xu Qing breathed rapidly and turned back suddenly.

Behind him, there was nothing.

Only Erniu was not far away, his body turned into an ice sculpture, motionless.

But there was heat emanating from Erniu's body, filled with the fragrance of tea, fighting against the cold, and then gradually melting.

This tea was given to me by Yu Liuchen before.

Realizing that his senior brother was temporarily fine, Xu Qing suppressed his inner fluctuations, controlled the wings to speed up, and finally bypassed the ruins after an incense stick of time.

Until he was far away, his face turned pale and he took a last look at the ruins in the distance that were submerged in darkness and looming in the distance.

He was even more wary of this open sea.

"What is that... a spirit?"

Xu Qing's heart was pounding. He had seen many gods, but the little girl gave him the feeling that she seemed to be related to gods, but she was not a god.

"There are still the last moments. My fairy light may have a certain effect, but it seems... it is also leaving on its own. Why is that?"

"As for it not being the ghost thing my companion mentioned..."

Xu Qing was silent. He glanced at the ice sculpture where the captain was. He raised his hand and waved it. The immortal light in his body spread out and fell on the ice sculpture.

The ice gradually melted, and after an incense stick of time, it finally melted completely. Erniu suddenly opened his eyes, and the first thing he did was to open his mouth and take a deep breath of the cold air from the melted ice.

After this breath, Erniu trembled all over, and his eyebrows and hair were covered with frost.

Ice is his usual method, and the danger this time seems unable to suppress Erniu's greed. Even though his body showed signs of freezing again, he still swallowed the cold air while shivering.

But the next moment, Erniu's face changed and he vomited again.

It actually spit out countless withered and rotten hair.

As soon as those hairs fell, they turned into cold air and dissipated in all directions.

After vomiting for a long time and finally spitting out all the hair, Erniu was still frightened and sat down trembling.

"I miscalculated. This is not cold air, but a mixture of death and corpse air. It stinks extremely bad. There is no benefit in eating it!"

"What the hell is that thing..."

Erniu covered his stomach and looked at the ruins behind him. Before he could finish his words, Xu Qing interrupted him.

"It told me to tell you that if you scold it again, it will take you away."

When Erniu heard this, he took a breath and shut up instantly.

He was suspicious in his heart. When he thought about the little girl turning her head to look here, he instinctively said in his heart, "What the hell is this..."

"Could it be that it came here because of what I said in my heart?"

"So stingy?"

Erniu hesitated.

At this moment, the one who was even more hesitant than Erniu was Yu Liuchen.

He hid in the void, staring at the ruins with a solemn expression.

What he saw was somewhat different from what Xu Qing and the captain had seen before.

Those ruins are not ruins at all.

It is countless hairs, wrapped together, forming a hair mass...

Rot, withering, and stench are spreading here.

As for the little girl, her figure was formed by a large amount of hair gathered together, exuding endless evil, and she was looking at Yu Liuchen.

"I don't know whether it's Xu Qing's peculiarity or the cow's peculiarity that attracted this creature..."

After hesitating, Yu Liuchen chose peace, so he separated a trace of his own divine power, turned it into a cup of tea, sent it out, and floated in front of the little girl.

"Tea, please."

The little girl grinned, and a lot of hair spread out from her body. After wrapping the teacup, it merged back into the ruins of the hair and disappeared.

And just like that, time passed again.

Although Erniu vomited a lot, he obviously still had a stomach upset. In the following half month, his whole body turned black and long rotten hair grew out of his body.

At the worst time, the whole person was surrounded by hair, and even without clothes, it felt like he was wearing fur.

And no matter how you scrape it, it won't come off.

But I have to say that Erniu's mentality is indeed extraordinary. Except for some distress in the beginning, he seemed to have gotten used to it in the following days, and even felt a little proud.

"Xiao Aqing, I feel that these hairs have excellent protection. After covering the whole body, it is like wearing a fur armor!"

“And it’s warm!”

"Not bad, not bad. When it grows longer, I will find a way to cut it off and send it to the Yi Clan to weave for me. Then I can sell it. Maybe I can get a high price!"

Erniu touched the hair on his body, his eyes shining.

"And I found that since I grew these hairs, we have been much safer on this journey. You see, up to now, we have not encountered any danger..."

"It's a pity that the pressure here is so severe that we can't stay in the air for too long. Otherwise, we could fly from the sky and go faster."

Xu Qing was too lazy to pay attention to Erniu's chatter and closed his eyes in meditation, while Erniu was about to continue Xuan Yao.

But at this moment, Xu Qing's eyes suddenly opened, and Erniu's voice also paused.

They all looked into the distance.

The sky and earth far away from Dayi were originally pitch black, but at this moment, there was a sun... rising from the sea.

The sun was huge and vast. The moment it appeared, the sky was bright and the sea water was rippling, reflecting the sun, making the light reflected from the sky and the sea shine in all directions.

This light is blood-red, like the setting sun.

Xu Qing was shocked, and Erniu's eyes widened, but they soon discovered that what was rising might not be the sun.

Because... in another direction, at this moment, there is a second sun rising above the sea.

It’s not over yet, a third round appears in the distance.

Then came the fourth round, the fifth round, the sixth round... the sky and the earth became brighter and brighter, and finally, within the time of an incense stick, more than thirty suns rose into the sky!
Each light has different strengths.

Moreover, the scattered light cannot reach too far and cannot cover the entire open sea, but can only illuminate certain areas.

As for the heat of volatilization, there is none at all.

What is even more bizarre is that these rising suns then rapidly set one after another, with no regular intersection with each other, sometimes rising into the sky and sometimes sinking into the sea.

As a result, the light in the open sea within its range flickered.

The foreign substance became more and more intense, and the breath of the gods became more and more sticky.

Until the next moment, as Xu Qing and Erniu were experiencing violent turmoil in their hearts, the one among the more than thirty suns that was closest to them suddenly had a crack in the center.

Then, the gap spread and opened and closed.

Like an eye!
To be precise, it was indeed an eye!
As if he had just woken up from a deep sleep, he was now staring at the big wing where Xu Qing and Erniu were.

The moment his gaze fell, the wings roared and began to disintegrate. The distortion emanating from this gaze also directly affected Xu Qing and Erniu.

Their bodies immediately began to change.

In horror, Erniu shuddered and his voice became sharper.

"Ah Qing, follow me and dance the sacrificial dance. This is the dream of an unknown god. This god is terrifying. Even the dream is half true!!"

As he spoke, Erniu immediately jumped up, with all his hair flying back and forth, and performed a sacrificial dance specially performed for the gods.

He was even muttering to himself, speaking words of sacrifice.

Xu Qing did not dare to delay and immediately stood up and danced with the captain.

Erniu, who was the Grand Sacrifice Dancer of the Moon Sacrifice Realm in his previous life, was obviously more adept at dreaming about gods. At this moment, while he was dancing, his sun-like eyes paused in mid-air, as if he had attracted the attention.

Time passed little by little, and three hours later, the huge eye slowly closed, and together with the other sun eyes, it sank into the sea and disappeared.

Without any hesitation, Xu Qing immediately controlled the tattered wings and flew away from the area quickly, returning to the darkness.

After a long time, when they noticed that there were no other abnormalities, Xu Qing and Erniu on the big wing breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. They looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

"Xiao Aqing, is that guy Yu Liuchen still here?"

"I feel it's too dangerous here. I guess Yu Liuchen should have caught some fish. How about we go back?"

Xu Qing pondered, looked around, and nodded.

"Let's go back. If Senior Yu Liuchen doesn't want to, he will show up and tell us..."

"That's right. If He doesn't show up, it means He has tacitly agreed for us to leave." Erniu agreed quickly. After the two looked at each other again, they changed the direction of the wings without hesitation and moved towards the inland sea.

At this moment, the Yu Liuchen they were thinking about was at the bottom of the sea...

On the bottom of the sea, the more than thirty suns that had sunk before now returned to their original appearance and were densely clustered together.

There were indeed more than thirty huge eyes, and there were some vague thin lines connecting them.

It looks like grapes.

Staring at Yu Liuchen.

Yu Liuchen was silent.

He had already begun cursing in his heart.

This was not the first time He had come to the outer sea; He had explored it many times before.

Although the outer sea is mysterious, and even he feels that many areas are dangerous, the outer sea is huge after all. Due to its vastness, unless he goes to the deep sea, he will rarely encounter beings that he needs to invite for tea.

But this time, things were different.

The little girl's case can be said to be a coincidence, but the one in front of him, he remembered that he usually lived in the deep sea, but now he appeared here.

You know, this place is still far away from the depths...

It belongs to the offshore area in the open sea.

"I brought them here to catch fish, but this... how can they just fish randomly!"

Yu Liuchen was helpless, he sighed in his heart, raised his hand, took out a cup of tea and handed it over.

"Tea, please."

Those grape-like eyes narrowed up, and branch-like tentacles spread out, wrapped around the teacup, and then slowly sank to the bottom of the sea and disappeared.

Yu Liuchen was tired.

Feeling Xu Qing and the other two leaving, he hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not stop them.

"Let's go near the sea. I hope that in the next period of time, we can be more peaceful and successfully fish out the returning true god. I can feel that he... is already moving."

"Besides, he is very weak..."

Anticipation rose in Yu Liuchen's heart.

However, there was a huge gap between his expectations and reality. It seemed that the god of the story, this theocracy, had been affected and distorted in the open sea.

The reason might be what Erniu said a few days later on the quiet open sea.

"Ah Qing, I recalled these days. The little girl's reaction was because I cursed her in my heart, and the sun's reaction seemed to be because I said we were safe..."

On the big wing, Erniu looked at Xu Qing with a serious expression.

“I feel something is wrong!”

"In this open sea, it seems that my words will form a strange power!"

"Could it be that the ancient legend is true?"

Hearing this, Xu Qing looked at Erniu and his expression became solemn, because along the way, he was actually thinking about a similar question, but what he was thinking about was not because of his senior brother, but his own identity as Jinwu.

He always felt that after stepping into the open sea, there was an ancient gaze, staring at him vaguely.

Hearing Erniu's words at this moment, Xu Qing asked.

"What legend?"

Erniu took a deep breath.

"Legend has it that there is a master in the outer sea. This master is extremely handsome, the best in the world, elegant, with countless concubines, and he himself is primitive, ancient, vast and sacred. But one day, he got tired of being invincible, so he left this sea."

"Before he left, he left a message: When I return, the gods will come to worship me."

Erniu coughed.

Xu Qing listened very carefully at first, but soon he realized something was wrong.

"Big Brother, where did this legend come from?"

"That's what I said."

Erniu chuckled and shook his hair.

"Just kidding, haha. I saw that everyone was too nervous these days. Don't worry, I calculated the way we came here. We have been through this sea before. It is safe..."

Before Erniu could finish his words, a sudden change occurred!

A loud roar suddenly came from the area where they were, which was extremely abrupt in the quiet outer sea.

There were huge waves on the sea.

Like a tsunami.

This is also a situation that has never happened before.

Xu Qing was shocked, Erniu's eyes widened and he took a breath.

Without any hesitation, the two of them immediately controlled the wings to briefly rise into the air to avoid the waves on the sea, but the next moment... the sea surface in this area actually rose into the air first!

If you look down from the sky, you can clearly see that the sea in this area is rising in a circle. It is huge in scope, and the big wing where Xu Qing and the others are is just a dot.

And the rising round sea, as it rose higher and became clearer, turned out to be a bowl!

This sea area is actually a sea in a bowl.

A multi-armed siren, the size of a state, partially emerged from the sea.

Soul-stirring and earth-shaking.

He is so big!
Each of his hands held some objects, and one of his hands was holding... the bowl where Xu Qing and Erniu were.

Moving forward at this moment.

Xu Qing and Erniu were so frightened that they dared not move at all.

And it was obvious that their existence was insignificant to the terrifying mermaid, like dust, so after several hours, the huge mermaid sank back into the sea and disappeared.

The bowl was also submerged.

On the big wing, Xu Qing and Erniu looked pale.

There was nothingness in the distance, and Yu Liuchen looked as pale as ever.

"There's something seriously wrong with these two of them, otherwise, such a small amount of bait wouldn't be able to attract such an ancient being!"

"I brought them here to fish, but not to catch fish like this!"

Yu Liuchen felt that if he continued to let these two fish roam free like this, they might attract even more terrifying existences. By that time, before his fish arrived, the bait and himself, the fisherman, would probably... die first.

Thinking of this, Yu Liuchen no longer hesitated, his body disappeared in an instant, and when he reappeared, he was on the big wing where Xu Qing and Erniu were.

After seeing Yu Liuchen, Xu Qing and Erniu were in a state of confusion. Feeling guilty, they immediately paid their respects.

"No need to pray, I'll take you away!"

"Ah? Didn't you tell us to go by ourselves?" Erniu spoke quickly.

"You guys keep going on your own. I'm afraid I'll run into something that can swallow me whole."

Yu Liuchen didn't want to waste time. While speaking, he raised his hand, rolled up Xu Qing and Erniu, and stepped into the sky.

"Senior, you are joking. With you here, how could I possibly encounter a being that could be swallowed in one gulp..."

As Erniu just said this, Xu Qing took a breath and his scalp felt numb. He thought of the terrible words of the senior brother before and was about to remind Yu Liuchen.

The next moment, Yu Liuchen suddenly looked up and his expression changed drastically.

Xu Qing and Erniu also noticed something unusual at this moment and looked up.

"Why did the sky turn red?"

Erniu muttered, his eyes wide open, completely panicked.

"My words are out in the open sea, can this really be possible?"

As for Xu Qing, besides being shocked, he also had other senses.

He felt that the vague gaze that had appeared since he stepped into the open sea seemed even clearer at this moment!
The next moment, the sky fell!

It seemed as if some earth-shattering existence had opened its mouth...

Or rather, this being had already opened its mouth wide and was ready to swallow.
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