Chapter 1346: Eminent Desolation’s Right Eye!

Xu Qing really was slicing himself open!

It originally wasn’t possible for Xu Qing to voluntarily reveal the tunnel that existed in his soul. But in his years spent on Mount Daybreak, he had used special means to plan a way to do so! And that was... using the Primordial Gruish Sacrificial Altar to turn himself inside out!

The tunnel was inside his soul, so if he turned himself inside out and carried out a sacrifice, then according to his calculations, he could use the deadly crisis... to succeed at revealing the tunnel. It was a rather brutal method, though, something that most people couldn’t go through with. But it was Xu Qing’s only option.

Thus, The Emperor’s Sword’s swept down, slicing him from the forehead down through the rest of his body, opening a huge wound and causing his cultivation base to tremble. An instant later, red moon authority provided an external force, causing Xu Qing to become a blood mist that converged into the shape of a blood-red sacrificial altar! The Ghost Emperor mountain became the framework for the altar, lifting it high into the air! Golden Crow became swaying chains that connected to the mountain and the altar. Taboo poison power ascended, turning into a roiling black mist that bolstered Xu Qing.

Finally, D-132 was called to join. The painter frantically emerged. The millstone shattered daybreak light, and color was added to the altar. Cackling from the south corner of the altar, the painter stabbed his paintbrush into his own forehead. The stone lion shivered and let loose a mournful howl. Within the poison mist, the scarecrow hobbled forth, cackling, to the east corner of the altar, then prostrated with the timescape bottle in hand. On the west corner of the altar, the god’s finger appeared, offering the head of D-132.

The head howled, “You’re dead! You’re dead! You’re dead!”

All of this... was the Primordial Gruish Sacrificial Altar! There were already sacrificial items in the east, west, and south corners. But Xu Qing was alone in the north corner.

The moment the altar took form, Xu Qing suddenly shivered. Instantly, immortal power from within him took the invisible form of the sharp blade, and began to slice down through him, starting from the already open wound in his forehead. Intense pain ripped through him.

Xu Qing was directly... being skinned alive! His flesh and blood remained inside, while his skin... became like a set of clothing!

As the immortal power rippled, the skin fell down away from him on either side, ultimately separating from him completely and falling down in front of him on the north corner of the altar. Astonishingly, Xu Qing was using his own skin as the sacrificial object.

At the moment, he lacked even a bit of skin. He was pure, blood-soaked muscle, crisscrossed with veins, a shocking and ghastly sight. And yet, his sacrifice still wasn’t complete!

The Emperor’s Sword flew up to his forehead again. Sword light glimmered as... the sword slashed through his flesh! The sword energy was bolstered by the immortal power within him, making it incredibly sharp, so that it also sliced the flesh right off the bone.

All of his flesh was cleaved from his bones! The flesh flew off and landed atop the skin on the north corner of the altar!

And things still weren’t over yet! Having lost his skin and flesh, Xu Qing sat on the altar as The Emperor’s Sword flashed again. Sword energy thrummed as his bones and organs were all separated!

All of them fell onto the north corner of the altar. The bones fell onto the flesh, and the organs fell onto the bones! In the middle of the altar was all that was left of Xu Qing... his soul!

As his soul floated there, it trembled.

“Sacrifice!”

And thus, the Primordial Gruish Sacrificial Altar was activated. The altar vibrated. The air rippled formlessly, as if an invisible force was ripping apart the boundaries between illusion and reality. Numerous black shadows appeared, which became gruish outlines in many forms. At the same time, a gruish aura was born within the sinister wind.

A sound of crying and wailing rose up, drifting out without end. Then, like a bloodthirsty and vicious beast.... it pounced on Xu Qing’s soul. In all dimensions, in all thoughts, in all stories, whether they were in the void, in space-time, or in other parallels... they locked on to him.

As a result, Xu Qing’s soul was instantly surrounded. They began to ravenously rip him to shreds.

The dead painter’s gruish laughter rang out as his dead hand frantically painted.

The stone lion roared, “What are grues, born before the gods; in the higher star rings, the gruish world precedes the godly!”

The head danced and sang a dirge in a high-pitched voice.

Outside, the projected gods within Eminent Desolation’s gaze were prompted by Zi Qing’s own hard look to converge on the area. Nothing seemed capable of standing up to that force.

At that critical moment, when Xu Qing’s soul seemed like it couldn’t sustain the ripping force any longer, The Emperor’s Sword glittered, and sword energy slashed onto his soul! Finally, the sword energy sliced his soul open! The power of the altar now had somewhere to go, and it poured into his soul! His soul was completely opened up!

As that happened... an infinite black mist poured out from inside his soul. Within that black mist was a host of doors! They were not of uniform shape. Some were big, some were small, and as they swirled out, they created a long tunnel! And in the depths of that long tunnel... was a massive chair!

As the primordial grues and the god projections neared the black mist... the doors in the tunnel all started shaking. And then... all of them began trembling violently! Heaven-shaking, earth-shattering thumping sounds rang out. It was the sound... of doors being knocked upon!

The doors were all shaking, as if some unknown entities behind them had sensed what was happening on the outside, and were going mad trying to break open the doors.

They... wanted to get out! The noise grew louder, filled with terrifying pressure. Mixed in with the sound was howling that could shake the mind and heart. The grues and gods pouring inside all shivered, and then began to back up in terror as if to flee. It was too late....

The doors were incredibly solid, as if the screaming from inside couldn’t do anything to open them. But... that wasn’t the case with all of them. As the grues and gods tried to flee, the intense attack caused one of the doors at the very end of the corridor, a wooden one right next to the chair, to resound with a banging noise louder than anything from before.

𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

BAAAMMMMM!!

The howling from all the other doors ceased. And then... the wooden door in the depths of the tunnel creaked as... it opened by a crack!

When the crack appeared, a stream of rotting black hair flew out from inside, filled with brutal greed as it spread in all directions. It was as if something that had been hungry for countless years was now out in the open. Immediately, the black hair shot toward the grues and gods.

No amount of struggle did anything. The long, black hair quickly wrapped around the grues and gods, and then pulled forcefully.... All were pulled back with the hair! It happened incredibly quickly. Within a moment, all the grues and gods were dragged through the crack and into the door!

The wooden door shut. The black mist swept back into the tunnel and covered everything. What was more, the Primordial Gruish Sacrificial Altar began to spin! The altar was returning a favor to Xu Qing.

An instant later... Xu Qing’s soul closed up, and his organs, bones, flesh, and skin all returned to their spot. The altar began to disappear. Meanwhile, Xu Qing looked up, his face ashen, in the direction of Zi Qing standing in the middle of Eminent Desolation’s gaze.

He said nothing. Zi Qing likewise said nothing. The only thing other than the silence were brutal chewing sounds that drifted about.

Finally, Zi Qing’s eyes glittered. “You really took a step forward. I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time, lil’ bro. Now that you’ve reached this level of ability... you must already realize that the Living God Eminent Desolation has paramount control of fate.

“You must also know that the Living God Eminent Desolation can see the future with hīs left eye and the past with hīs right. But as of this moment, the Eminent Desolation up above only has a left eye. That’s because hīs right eye... is right here.”

Zi Qing pointed down. The ground below quaked and began to split open. Instantly, all of the Heaveneater Region trembled. It wasn’t just in that spot. Many nearby regions trembled. In the Heaveneater Region and all those other regions, mountains collapsed, as if a huge subterranean dragon were ripping open the lands.

A crevice opened, so terrifyingly large it spanned many regions! It turned into a terrifying valley.

It looked like a wound on the surface of Revered Ancient! In the middle of it all was the imperial palace of the Sovereign Kingdom of Violet and Cyan! Then the lands on either side of the palace shook violently! Golden light shone up from inside, rising high into the sky!

If one could look down on the Heaveneater Region from a very high vantage point, the scene would be clear to see.... The valley spanning many regions was actually a massive eye opening up! Astonishingly, that eye looked exactly like that which belonged to the broken face in the dome of heaven!

This was... Eminent Desolation’s right eye! Hē had buried it deep below, and now it was opening!

Zi Qing was located exactly at the pupil. Zi Qing now stood in a gaze that came from Eminent Desolation’s left eye above and the right eye below. Both eyes were open, with hīm in the middle!

As the gazes converged, Zi Qing lifted his right hand! Within that hand was an object. It was a very ancient skull. It was... hīs skull from years ago! Hē had taken it back on the day Empress Summer Departure reached godly ascension. Right now, hē lifted the skull overhead. [1]

As Eminent Desolation’s gazes intersected, the skull abounded with a sensation of ancient time, affecting all heaven and earth. With Zi Qing in the middle, the time in the surroundings seemed to change, and countless figures stepped from death into life. The power of the skull created a void, melted time, and dissolved anything and everything.

That included Zi Qing. Laughter rang out.

“Space-Time Reversal; Return to Antiquity. I’ll be waiting in the ancient past for our final battle, lil’ bro!”

1. Skull references:

chapters 530.2

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536.2

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751

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955

. Unless I’m missing something, I don’t think it specifically mentioned him taking it back, although I feel like I remember that happening. If it did happen, it was mentioned in passing and I couldn’t find the reference. ☜