Outside of Time

Chapter 1114 The First God

The vast river of blood of gods is surging.

The river is wide and boundless, as if connected to the sky. The vast momentum is awe-inspiring.

It is hard to imagine how many gods have been killed to gather such a large amount of blood of gods and make this river of blood of gods have such a terrifying scale.

Especially under the reflection of the aurora in the sky, the blood-colored river water flashes with a dim light, like countless blood beads jumping on the water surface.

It wants to compete with the aurora.

It constitutes a magnificent and turbulent picture.

This picture is heavy, containing the precipitation of history, witnessing the changes of heaven and earth, carrying the stories of gods and immortals, and witnessing the changes in the pattern of the fifth star ring.

The meaning is profound.

At this moment, in this blood-colored picture, the lone boat is sailing forward against the wind and waves.

The voice from the boatman also echoes between heaven and earth.

Every sentence, every word, was like thunder, roaring in Xu Qing's mind, like the sound of Tao.

"The only Immortal Venerable."

"The fifth ancestor of mankind."

All these words gathered rapidly in Xu Qing's mind until they turned into the figure of an old man.

That old man was the old man who sat cross-legged on the fifth star ring in the map of the Demon Feather Holy Land that Xu Qing saw. He was also the one he saw in the sea outside the Wanggu Continent.

"Senior, why is the Immortal Venerable... called the fifth ancestor of mankind?"

After a while, Xu Qing took a deep breath and asked in a low voice.

The boatman picked up the pipe, took a puff, exhaled the smoke, and spoke lightly.

"The thirty-six star rings on the upper line belong to the upper realm, and each of them has a different number of lower planetary rings, that is, the lower realm."

"Some lower planetary rings have names, and some do not."

At this point, the boatman glanced at Xu Qing, and this glance seemed to have a deep meaning.

"And the lower world of the fifth star ring is nameless. Long ago, when the gods of the upper fifth star ring were everywhere, the planetary ring below it was called the fifth lower world."

"Inside it, all races exist, enslaved by the gods, and each race needs to worship the gods to survive."

"Then there were wars, rebellions, suppression, rises, world collapses, and wars with gods."

"Every time, it was a failure. After the failure, the fifth world was wiped out, and it started again and continued to be the food of the gods."

As the boatman's voice rose and fell, his words seemed to become a symbol of time, interweaving a long river of time that flowed into Xu Qing's cognition.

"Until the last time, under the leadership of the emperor of the human race in the fifth world, an unprecedented brilliance burst out, making this war between immortals and gods, lower and upper, to the extreme."

"During the war, as the emperor of the fifth world stepped into the level of immortals, the original god of the fifth star ring had an accident, which eventually overturned the fifth star ring and changed the situation."

"That's why he is called the fifth ancestor of humans."

After the boatman finished speaking, he raised his head and looked at the sky with a touch of emotion.

Xu Qing listened silently. History has similarities in many cases.

For example, this fifth star ring is actually very similar to Wanggu Continent to some extent.

It's just that the development here is obviously smoother.

"Then the other upper star rings..." Xu Qing asked instinctively.

"Most of them failed. There was only one place that could have succeeded, but it failed due to some accidents."

The boatman shook his head with some reminiscence in his voice.

"Because the thirty-six star rings on the upward path do not belong to cultivators or immortals. This is... the realm of gods."

"On the two paths of gods and immortals, immortals... have their limits and are one step below gods."

The boatman's tone was a little low.

"To be precise, immortals have no way forward after reaching the level of immortal masters. For countless years, the immortal masters of the fifth star ring have always stopped."

"And gods... above the gods, there are gods!"

"Gods are not legends, but real existences."

"Although only one has appeared throughout the ages, this one is called the original god. It is said that it was his appearance that created the realm of the upward and downward paths."

"It is difficult to tell whether this theory of creation is true or false. The history is too old and there is no conclusive evidence."

The boatman's words shocked Xu Qing more than his previous words.

"That original god..." Xu Qing was breathing rapidly. Before he finished speaking, the boatman knew what he wanted to ask.

"He went to an unknown place and never returned."

"After countless epochs, no other god appeared in the Ascending Thirty-Six Star Rings until the Desolation in the Ninth Star Ring."

"He was the one who had the greatest hope of becoming a god after the first god. Fortunately, he failed in the end."

"Otherwise..."

The boatman did not say the consequences, but Xu Qing could already imagine them.

If Ascending Desolate succeeds, then the power of the gods in the entire Ascending Thirty-Six Star Rings will surge countless times, and immortals... will no longer have any possibility of survival.

Xu Qing was silent, digesting the words from the ferryman in front of him.

During this day, the other party said a lot, from the core and division of the Domination Realm, the ability of the quasi-immortal, and the entire worldview, and it seemed that there was nothing to hide, and he told everything.

This approach has obviously exceeded the scope of the ferryman's job.

There is no need for the other party to tell me these things.

Thinking back to the earliest time when he was being hunted, the other party's actions...

It would be unrealistic for Xu Qing to still have no guesses about all this. In his heart, he already had a lot of thoughts.

He suspected that the ferryman in front of him... had a history with Wanggu.

As for whether he was from Wanggu, or was familiar with some cultivators from Wanggu, Xu Qing could not figure it out, but he noticed that the other party had glanced at his sword many times.

So, after Xu Qing pondered, he suddenly spoke.

"Senior, do you know Wanggu..."

The boatman narrowed his eyes and did not speak.

Xu Qing waited for a long time and sighed in his heart.

Although the other party did not respond, this non-response itself actually represented some answers.

"Senior, Wanggu has undergone drastic changes..."

The boatman remained silent, smoking a pipe and exhaling smoke.

Xu Qing was silent.

He did not choose to ask further questions.

In this way, time passed, and the sixth day... gradually arrived.

The cost of crossing the river is six days of the ferryman's life, because the time of crossing the river is a fixed six days.

At this moment, with the passing of the sixth day, this vast river of divine blood appeared to the end in Xu Qing's eyes.

That is the western star field of the fifth star ring.

As we approached here, the river water became calmer, with fewer waves, only the boats remained. After several hours, when the sixth day was about to pass...

We finally reached the western shore.

The soil here is different from the swamps in the south. There is no swamp here. The earth is red, as if it contains fire energy.

"Go down. If you have a second crossing, the cost is no longer six days of life, but a sixty years."

The boatman said lightly.

Xu Qing took a deep breath, stood up and bowed, without saying much, he stepped out of the lonely boat and stepped to the shore.

Stepping on the land in the west, Xu Qing turned and looked at the boat.

On the boat, the boatman wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat was smoking a pipe, and the smoke he exhaled made his figure more hazy.

Recalling these six days, Xu Qing bowed his head and bowed again.

"Thank you, senior."

Although the other party did not respond to his inquiries and did not speak again in the last few days, the things he told him before were of great significance.

It was like opening Xu Qing's understanding of the world directly.

So according to Xu Qing's way of doing things, this was a great favor.

So he bowed with great sincerity.

After bowing, Xu Qing turned around and flew away quickly.

Until his figure disappeared on the shore, on the river of divine blood, in the lonely boat, the boatman slowly raised his head and looked in the direction where Xu Qing left.

"Zhijian, that stubborn guy, has fallen..."

He murmured, his tone full of reminiscence.

After a while, he sighed.

"Wanggu... I haven't heard these two words for a long time, and my name, I'm afraid the Wanggu clan has long forgotten... and has been erased in history."

While muttering, the boatman raised his right hand and looked down at his palm.

In his palm, there were runes like human faces shining at this moment, exuding a strange breath.

If Xu Qing was here, he would definitely recognize it at a glance...

Those runes that shine like human faces are... immortal arts!

At the same time, in the air in the west of the fifth star ring, Xu Qing, who had already left the shore, heard the sigh of relief from the mud fox while galloping.

"The man before... was a bit scary. I felt that the moment he saw you, he wanted to catch me and ravage me."

"Xu Qing, this place you came to is not fun at all!"

The mud fox was frightened, especially when he recalled the blood river of the gods, his heart was trembling.

"Forget it, I'd better go to sleep..."

The mud fox muttered and quickly restrained his breath again.

Seeing Xing Yan like this, Xu Qing didn't know what to say. He had already reminded the other party that the place he was going to might not welcome the gods.

But obviously, Xing Yan didn't believe it at the time.

"After that, it might be more dangerous..."

Xu Qing hesitated and reminded him again.

In an instant, the mud fox's breath became more restrained.

This kind of posture is rarely seen in Wanggu. You can imagine how much the ferryman intimidated Xing Yan.

As Xu Qing pondered, the image of the ferryman appeared in his mind.

"Who is he..."

Xu Qing muttered.

There is no answer to this.

After a while, Xu Qing took a deep breath, buried this matter in his heart, and then the map and information of the Western Star Region came to his mind.

Compared with the other three regions, the Western Star Region is weaker as a whole, especially the orthodox Taoist Immortal Sect in the west, which is also a bit down and out.

The fundamental reason is that the Western Xuntian has an extraordinary mentality and does not care about the development of the sect or the opinions of the outside world.

Most of the cultivators in the entire sect look indifferent.

But because of this, the family forces here are more than the other three regions, competing with each other, cannibalizing each other, and growing stronger.

Looking at this information, Xu Qing thought of the star in the west.

As the weakest of the eight stars, this person is a disciple of the Taoist Immortal Sect Xuntian.

"Li Mengtu..."

"The family has a characteristic, all the direct descendants have the word tu in their names."

"He has reached the early stage of master cultivation, and has four powers. His own combat power, combined with the strange magic inherited from his family and the cultivation from his master, has a record of killing a master in the middle stage."

Thinking, Xu Qing stared at the world in the west.

"This place is much more comfortable than the south. It is suitable for healing, but not for challenges and self-honing."

"But now, for me, the key is to find a place first and strive to recover from my injuries as soon as possible."

"As for the way out... we'll just have to play it by ear."

Xu Qing's eyes showed determination, his body swayed, and he moved forward quickly.