out of time

Chapter 967 Beyond Time
In mid-air, Prince Ziqing spoke in a gentle tone.

He was dressed in a purple robe, with fluttering purple hair. Even the pupils of his eyes were lavender as he stared at Xu Qing, who was caught by the hand of fate and bound in front of him.

His expression was gentle and his eyes were warm and graceful.

Just like the perfect brother in Xu Qing’s mind back then in Wushuang City.

"Is it possible that this is the truth?"

Prince Ziqing spoke softly.

The sound merged into the wind and drifted away in the years, as if blowing towards the Wushuang City buried in time.

"Brother, I mean no harm."

"This hand of fate is a gift from me to you. It is the fortune of the Purple and Blue Kingdom after its return."

As soon as Prince Ziqing finished speaking, the huge hand that seemed to contain fate and bound Xu Qing suddenly broke apart and turned into a giant purple dragon, which circled around Xu Qing in the midst of thick luck.

"And I am here today to take you home."

"I have taken the Purple and Blue Kingdom out from the netherworld and it has now landed in the Heaven-Devouring Realm. Countless people and ministers have returned."

"They are waiting for me, waiting for me to return, sit on the throne, and ascend the throne as the Purple and Blue Emperor."

"And you, as my younger brother in this life, have a deep karmic connection with me, so I want to take you back. When I become the Purple and Blue Emperor, you will inherit the ancient title of the Purple and Blue Crown Prince."

"This title, this name that was once brilliant and is still glorious today, I am going to give it to you."

"Once you accept it, with the current fortune of the Purple and Green Kingdom and my blessing, you can ignite the divine fire in one step, surpass your current cultivation level, and become a god."

"Brother, are you willing to accept it?"

The voice of Prince Ziqing fell across heaven and earth, like thunder that split the sky, roaring in all directions, and at the same time, there was also a sense of destiny falling on the world.

Witness the truth of his words and the firmness of his resolve.

Everything he said was true.

Heaven and earth can prove it.

As he was speaking, Prince Ziqing raised his right hand and pressed it between his eyebrows, as if he had taken out something, but there was nothing.

But at this moment, as the invisible object was taken out, Prince Ziqing seemed to have lost something important.

That's the name.

The name of Prince Ziqing was taken out by him and fell into his words.

Waiting for Xu Qing's decision.

At this moment, the purple dragon of destiny surrounding Xu Qing also let out earth-shaking roars, as if as long as Xu Qing nodded, it would merge into Xu Qing's body, helping him ignite the divine fire and become a god.

This scene caused waves of emotion among the cultivators who were watching here.

Erniu was also stunned in the house, then he gritted his teeth and growled.

"Ah Qing, don't believe it, he's a liar!"

Xu Qing looked at Prince Ziqing in front of him.

Prince Ziqing also looked at Xu Qing gently.

At this moment, there were only the two of them in the sky above the palace.

Everything in all directions was distorted.

As for the roar from the Gate of the Netherworld in the human domain, it was still echoing. The radiance of the two lights caused a strong and strange aura that spread across heaven and earth.

But the roar did not continue to expand after all, and was gradually decreasing.

It is obvious that the suppression of the Empress and the five corpse gods of the human race is taking effect.

The time of one stick of incense is about to come.

But there was no sense of urgency in Prince Ziqing's expression or tone. It seemed that for him, Xu Qing's decision at this moment was the most important thing.

And he saw countless scenes in time, and most of the endings were that Xu Qing accepted his name and became Prince Ziqing.

Although some of them rejected it, they eventually accepted it after seeing his different responses.

The ending, in fact, was already determined in time after he uttered the words of gift.

Ziqing's eyes were gentle.

Xu Qing was silent. The other party's words surprised him. At this moment, his eyes met with Prince Ziqing, and his heart was filled with childhood memories.

After a while, he did not tell us his choice, but spoke in a low voice.

"I don't believe what you said."

"And I also have a guess of my own. Please verify it. During that cruel time when I was cut, did something strange happen after I was shattered into pieces?"

Xu Qing looked at Ziqing calmly, looking at the brother in his memory, and spoke slowly.

"If this speculation is true, then what happened after I was torn apart that made you want to cut off that period of time and not let it be revealed to the world?"

"We must also replace the time that was cut off with gentle memories."

"I didn't notice anything, and in the days that followed, I took the gentleness in my memory as the truth."

Xu Qing's voice echoed in the world of the two and lingered in the ears of Prince Ziqing.

This is another explanation of the same thing.

The gentleness on Prince Ziqing's face slowly faded away.

Looking at the brother in front of him, Xu Qing continued softly.

"I was also wondering about the purpose of you sending the stitched doll. As the guess became more and more clear in my mind, I thought of a possibility. The doll is a key."

Xu Qing rarely talks so much to others, but today is different, and the person he is facing is even more different.

"A key to unlock destiny, just like you robbed Shopkeeper Zhao of his fate before."

Xu Qing took a deep breath and stared at Prince Ziqing, whose gentleness had faded away and an inexplicable aura emanated from his whole body.

"Back then, when I was in pieces, did you see something? Maybe it was your needs or your fears that forced you to cut it off and replace it with tenderness, like a seal!"

“And today, you thought the time was right, so you showed up here.”

"As for letting me inherit the name of Prince Ziqing, it makes me more certain of my guess, because if I agree, then in the future, who will be the soul in my body, me or you?"

"Although I'm not sure of your true purpose, this strange way of using a name to possess someone else's body leaves me with only one answer."

"In my soul, there is something you want but cannot get, so you can only do this."

"Am I right, my brother?"

Xu Qing spoke calmly.

Ziqing's eyes narrowed.

The next moment, the wind blew from the sky and the earth, gently caressing the two of them, lifting their hair and separating the scattered sunlight into colorful, mottled pieces. At the same time, an extremely unstable and terrifying wave suddenly rose above Xu Qing's body.

This wave contained destruction, affected fate, caused the sky and earth to change color, and caused winds and clouds to roll in all directions.

That was the breath of self-destruction.

At this moment, Xu Qing did something without hesitation that shocked and surprised everyone.

He chose to self-destruct, leaving himself in pieces like he was back then.

This was his answer to Prince Ziqing.

And he also wanted to know what existed in his soul.

"Back then, Sheng Yunzi's father, Chu Tianqun, used a magic spell to leave a blank in my soul, trying to erase all causes and effects, but in the end he wailed in horror..."

"What did he see..."

The power of self-destruction enveloped the heaven and earth. Xu Qing murmured in his heart in this storm of destruction.

Although he didn't know the specifics of Ziqing's purpose, now that he had put everything together, he had guessed the cause and effect.

But this did not affect his plan.

How could he not have any follow-up preparations after seeing Ziqing in the Imperial Capital? This was not his character.

In fact, ever since the first time he saw Prince Ziqing in the imperial capital, he had been secretly communicating with the Seventh Master and had arranged a plan against Ziqing.

The core of this plan is to exceed Ziqing's control over time.

Do something that the other person has not seen in time.

Therefore, self-destruction was the only behavior Xu Qing could think of that was beyond his scope.

Qi Ye also agreed with this.

As for Prince Ziqing, his expression changed drastically at this moment.

Since coming here, his usually gentle face showed a drastic change for the first time. His pupils contracted and his heart was in turmoil.

Xu Qing's choice was beyond his expectations.

This was not in the time he was looking at!

At the same time, in Nanhuangzhou, which is extremely far away from the human imperial capital and across the forbidden sea, the Lord of Nanhuang, Yanhuang, spread his wings that covered the sky and the sun, and circled in the sky of Nanhuangzhou.

Wherever it passed, clouds and mist rolled and the heaven and earth roared.

Gusts of wind swept across the earth.

And right below where it was hovering was a desolate ruin.

This is the place where Prince Ziqing died in battle, and it is also the location of Wushuang City in later generations.

At this moment, there were hundreds of thousands of monks sitting cross-legged here, forming a vast and astonishing formation.

The scope of this formation is extremely large, and there are cultivators from the Foundation Establishment stage to the Nascent Soul stage inside, as well as some from the Lingzang stage to the Guixu stage.

If Erniu were here, he would be able to recognize at a glance that most of these people were disciples of the Seven Blood Pupils, and some even came from Zitu.

It can be said that this is a huge formation formed by the gathering of various forces within Nanhuang Continent.

The inner circle of the formation was composed of flesh and blood that emitted terrifying pressure. The appearance of these flesh and blood caused the heaven and earth to roar continuously, and the eight directions were distorted as if they were about to be annihilated, which showed the extraordinaryness of these flesh and blood.

As for the center, there is a mercury giant that is ten thousand feet tall, sculpted from countless mercury.

The giant was lying there, and his face was exactly the same as Xu Qing's.

There was a drop of blood from Xu Qing at the center of his eyebrows.

And above the majestic mercury giant, in mid-air, the Seventh Master was sitting cross-legged.

The wind blew his white hair, and his majesty was particularly obvious on him. His expression was also rare and serious to the extreme.

Almost at the moment when Xu Qing self-exploded, Qi Ye's eyes suddenly opened.

"The formation rises, time moves!"

Hundreds of thousands of cultivators from all directions shouted in unison, and the Flame Phoenix in the Sky spit out brilliant light downwards, while the Seventh Master exuded an ancient aura.

The atmosphere was full of vicissitudes and seemed to have become a ruler of time.

"The Supreme Star Tower is constantly responding. It drives away the past and binds the present, protecting the gods and spirits. It is wise and pure, and the mind is at peace. The three souls are eternal, and the spirit is not lost. My disciples are at peace, and the underworld is going backwards, hurry up as the law commands!"

After saying this, Master Qi suddenly pressed down on the silver man below with his left hand.

Then he placed his right hand in front of his chest, made a gesture and spoke again.

"The heaven and earth are natural, and the foul qi is dispersed. The mysterious void in the cave is shining and bright. The mighty gods of the eight directions make me natural. The spiritual treasure talisman is announced to the nine heavens."

"Ten thousand years ago, there was a man named Zi Qing who died here. He took a last breath before he died. Today is the summer. The immortal is here to summon this breath. Hurry up and command me."

The Seventh Master's eyes widened angrily, his voice was like thunder, and every word he spoke was booming.

He actually wanted to absorb the last breath of Prince Ziqing when he died here from the heaven and earth, from time, and from all things!

(End of this chapter)