Outside Of Time

Chapter 1730 Got You!

Chapter 1730  Got You! 

Star Ring, once the number one heaven's chosen among the ascenders, had rich combat experience. Since traveling with Xu Qing and the others, his pride had been tempered significantly.

He had learned to observe and to adopt the strengths of others, resulting in growth that was nothing short of astonishing compared to the rest.

Thus, in this moment of appearance—despite the sheer absurdity of finding himself face-to-face with the goddess—he showed no hesitation.

After all, it wasn't his first time witnessing the bizarre occurrences tied to Xu Qing. By now, he had grown accustomed to it.

The instant he laid eyes on the goddess, he charged forward without delay.

Seizing the moment while the goddess' divinity wavered and Her spirit was unsettled, Star Ring unleashed over a hundred chains of order.

The clinking sound of the chains reverberated across the starry expanse, piercing through the void yet simultaneously connecting to the goddess in some inexplicable, fateful manner.

In that fleeting moment of connection, intense killing intent surged in Star Ring's eyes. His hands formed a series of seals, and with a low roar, he activated his attack.

"Balance!"

Before the Quasi Immortal Realm, he had Order Ordinance. After the Quasi Immortal Realm, there was balance. It could forcefully balance the strength of both sides. If the other party was stronger, they would become weaker because of this.

It also allowed him to be enhanced in this balance.

Moreover, this time, he had already risked everything. He spared no expense and even took out the Heaven's Law, using its weight to tip the scales of his balance ability.

With this, he sought to weaken the goddess further.

The reason he didn't channel his balance to augment Xu Qing was simple: Star Ring understood that Xu Qing was already stronger than himself. If he were to balance Xu Qing and the goddess, the resulting weakening of the goddess would be limited.

Hence, he balanced himself with the goddess.

This way, his cultivation would rise while the goddess' cultivation would definitely be weakened.

If his Ordinance were to be considered a curse, then he was using himself as a carrier to curse the goddess!

This was indeed the case. The instant the balance was formed, a loud rumbling sound echoed in the starry sky. The goddess trembled and felt Her body being entangled by an invisible force.

Her aura was also decreasing sharply.

It was as though She was shackled.

The entire scene exuded an eerie yet captivating beauty.

This peculiar sensation forced Her to suppress all emotional turbulence within Her and focus entirely on the immediate threat. With a wave of Her slender hand, She prepared to unleash the full extent of Her divine might, aiming to shatter the imposed balance.

For Her, such a task would have been trivial at Her peak—breaking it would have required nothing more than a single word or gesture.

However, how could Xu Qing give Her this chance!

Almost at the instant Star Ring used his life to balance the strength, Xu Qing moved.

He stepped forward, and the starry void seemed to ripple with his presence. Golden radiance painted the cosmos, vast phantom trees manifested in all directions, and an endless sea of water spread into the void as if the stars themselves were his companions.

 Beneath his feet, black flames coiled and burned with apocalyptic heat, condensing into a black sun radiating destruction.

In the distance, yellow stars emerged one by one, forming a breathtaking and majestic celestial panorama.

It formed a majestic map of the starry sky.

It was imbued with the essence of Xu Qing's mastery over the elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. It also pulsed with the power of space itself, and as it rotated, it unleashed the forces of time.

All these elements coalesced into an unparalleled force of annihilation, descending upon the goddess with unstoppable momentum.

Sensing the imminent danger, a flash of cold light flickered in the goddess' bloodshot eyes. In that instant, She abandoned Her attempt to shatter Star Ring's balance. The oppressive aura emanating from Xu Qing's strike filled Her with an overwhelming sense of peril.

Her entire body shone with golden light as She pointed at Xu Qing.

Divine voice came out of her mouth!

"Netherworld Palm!"

Her divine authority was actually netherworld!

This was also the divine authority of Her father, the God Emperor Chiuz. However, it was clearly difficult for Her to display the divine authority fully due to Her realm. However, its mystical power was still astonishing.

As Her finger landed, the starry sky around Her seemed to have been skinned. All light and dust were lifted at this instant, causing extreme darkness to become the only thing in the starry sky.

In this darkness, the murmurs transformed into a funeral song that seemed to come from the netherworld. Wherever the living were, it became the song of reincarnation.

This tune swayed and materialized in the melody, turning into black paper money.

That was formed from Her divine authority… It could buy divine arts, spells, stars, everything, and even lives!

They drifted toward Xu Qing.

The instant they came into contact, Xu Qing's metal, wood, water, fire, and earth strangely dissipated, as though they had been bought.

Even space and time couldn't escape this astonishing power of divine authority. They also dissipated and were bought.

There were also a few paper money that headed straight for Xu Qing, and also a few that landed on the path of balance formed by Star Ring's Ordinance.

The moment they got close, Xu Qing's pupils contracted and a strange feeling about this divine authority rose in his mind. With a raise of his hand, a bell chime echoed.

If the enemy was a True God, this bell wouldn't be of much use. However, if it was a Divine Platform…

In that case, the sound of the bell would become the heavenly sound.

In an instant, all the fate-buying money that was about to land trembled. Xu Qing's iron stick also flashed out in an instant.

The goddess' expression darkened and She was about to counterattack.

However, at this moment, Star Ring let out a deep shout. The veins on his body bulged and blood flowed out of his seven orifices. He stared fixedly at the goddess and circulated his Ordinance of Balance to the extreme.

Immediately, an invisible force followed the Ordinance of Balance and was extracted from the goddess' body, surging into Star Ring.

This caused Star Ring's aura to increase greatly.

As for the goddess, Her face instantly turned a little paler. Her aura decreased sharply and Her already injured body actually showed signs of falling in cultivation realm.

Previously, She could only maintain the peak of the Divine Platform. Now, in this balance, because Star Ring was too weak, maintaining the peak of the Divine Platform was becoming quite strenuous.

"Damn it!"

The expression of Starry Eye Goddess changed and She was about to resume attacking. However, the sound of the bell echoed hurriedly and there was a sharp whistling sound.

That was Xu Qing's iron stick!

Accompanied by space-times, it instantly arrived before the goddess.

After Xu Qing took out the iron stick, he raised his right hand and took out a spear from thin air. It contained the spirit of the Golden Crow. At that moment, he held it in his hand and headed straight for the goddess.

All of this took a long time to describe but in reality, it happened in the blink of an eye. In an instant, the iron stick had already appeared before the goddess' forehead.

The goddess' expression was distorted. Her divine technique was blocked by the bell and She didn't have time to form it immediately. However, She was the daughter of the God Emperor after all and had a god's treasure on Her.

At that moment, the phoenix crown on Her head and the dim eyes on it shone one after another, both of them manifesting outside to block the iron stick.

A rumbling sound suddenly rang out.

The iron stick penetrated all the eyes like a hot knife through butter, causing all the eyeballs that barely existed on the phoenix crown to shatter and explode.

There was also the wail of the sealed seas echoing, stirring up a blue illusory sea to block the iron stick.

Ultimately, the iron stick was stopped!

However, Xu Qing, who was behind the iron stick, had already arrived before the goddess with the black spear.

At the next instant, the spear pierced through!

It landed on the goddess' chest.

Just as he was about to pierce through it… the goddess' face distorted and countless divine runes flowed through Her entire body like tadpoles before gushing into Her lips.

After that… an extremely sharp heart-rending divine voice that seemed to be able to destroy souls and collapse stars erupted from the goddess' mouth.

This sound possessed astonishing penetrative power.

Xu Qing's black spear collapsed. Even with the immortal embryo to block the impact, he coughed up blood and his body was sent flying.

His injuries had worsened.

As for Star Ring's iron chains, they also shattered inch by inch at this moment.

His Balance Ordinance instantly collapsed.

Blood gushed out as he suffered serious backlash.

However, the goddess was also in an extremely sorry state. The eruption of the divine voice was a manifestation of Her forcefully activating the might of a True God.

With Her current state, using this art caused heavy injuries to Herself while inflicting serious injuries to Her enemies.

At that moment, Her body staggered back. The phoenix crown on Her head turned into ashes and the blue dress on Her body also tore into pieces and dissipated.

Many parts of Her body were revealed.

Her cultivation level fell from the peak of the Divine Platform to the mid-stage of the Divine Platform.

This fall brought the goddess extreme insecurity and an incomparably intense life-and-death crisis.

She tried to call out to god father, but god father… still didn't respond at all.

A golden glint flashed in Her eyes. As She retreated weakly, She made a decision.

She raised Her right hand and pressed it fiercely against Her chest.

With this push, Her entire body trembled as She extracted Her divine source!

Her cultivation level fell again, reaching the early-stage of the Divine Platform.

Even so, with the help of this, the divine source She extracted was enough for Her to display a trump card!

"Descend, Netherworld!"

A heart-rending divine voice rang out.

In the next instant, a grand, illusory netherworld materialized behind the goddess. This netherworld was a sprawling palace of intricate carvings and sinister splendor, its soaring eaves and interlocking beams adorned with strange runes and grotesque, leering ghostly reliefs. However, it exuded no vitality—only an endless, bone-chilling coldness and a stifling aura of dread.

The anomalous substances in the surroundings were unprecedentedly intense.

From within the netherworld, eerie silhouettes began to emerge one by one.

These specters, their hollow eyes icy and lifeless, seemed to carry with them lingering resentments and grudges from their past lives.

They gazed out coldly at the world beyond, their expressions devoid of emotion yet brimming with an unrelenting malice. Though bound within the confines of the netherworld, their appearance alone transformed this starry sky into an extension of the netherworld!

This technique, 'Descend, Netherworld,' formed Nether Divine World!

It suppressed the immortal energy.

Only the anomalous substances were supreme.

Star Ring instantly became mortal and he lost all his cultivation. He was already heavily injured and directly fainted.

Xu Qing's expression changed. His immortal energy was also suppressed and isolated in his body.

He barely retreated with just his physical body while seemingly trying to recover.

The goddess was mentally and physically exhausted. However, compared to Xu Qing and Star Ring, She, who was still at the early-stage of the Divine Platform, was naturally at the peak of Her combat strength.

"Mere ants!"

A cold glint flashed in the goddess' eyes. She instantly walked out and headed straight for Xu Qing.

She wanted to personally kill Xu Qing and destroy the body and soul of this person who made Her heart palpitate and was incomparably hated by the divine fluctuations in front of him.

Yet, just as She reached Xu Qing, whose expression had seemingly shifted to one of alarm, Her raised hand poised to deliver a decisive strike, an unexpected turn of events unfolded!

In the blink of an eye, the look of shock on Xu Qing's face vanished, replaced by an eerie calmness.

Anomalous substances erupted from his body!

It was the anomalous substances borrowed from the clay fox, unleashed at this critical moment within the confines of the immortal energy isolation barrier. The explosive force of these anomalous substances surged into his right hand, infusing it with overwhelming potency as it shot upward in a decisive motion.

"You…" The goddess's expression changed drastically. The sudden eruption left Her stunned, Her mind reeling as Her divine senses trembled.

She instinctively tried to retreat, but Her proximity to Xu Qing, coupled with Her weakened state and the abruptness of the assault, made evasion impossible.

In the blink of an eye, Xu Qing's raised hand closed around the goddess' neck like an unyielding iron vice.

His five fingers tightened with unrelenting force, driving deep into Her flesh.

At the same time, the divine authority was sealed and Little Shadow restrained Her. The clay fox's soft laughter echoed as She enveloped the goddess with clay.

After doing this, Xu Qing calmly spoke.

"I've got you."

"Father…" Under these layers of seals, the goddess' face was pale but there were intense fluctuations in Her eyes as She stared fixedly at Xu Qing.

She spoke hoarsely.

However, before She could finish speaking…

"Noisy."

Xu Qing was expressionless as he ruthlessly clenched his hand.