Shennong Daojun.

Chapter 573 The Battle Between Qingyuzi and Zhao Xing's Divine Tree
Faced with Zhao Xing's questioning, Jin Wenliangzhu's voice seemed somewhat hollow and low, as if he were recalling something.

"Did I kill him...? Yes, I killed him."

Zhao Xing's thoughts were in turmoil.

I hunted geese all day long, but got pecked in the eye by the geese.

The most deaths among the egoist Sima Nong during his explorations of the wilderness occurred while he was recruiting troops.

So much so that people often say that dying under the control of the divine branches and trees is the fate of the egoist Sima Nong.

Unexpectedly, even the God King Yuheng could not escape such a fate.

Thinking back carefully, I realized that I had encountered something similar before. In the ancient tomb in Yueluo Cemetery, the Thousand Illusion Tree had tried to harm me. At that time, the Thousand Illusion Tree was at the Life and Death Dao Domain Realm, while I was only at the Origin Realm. I almost fell for their trick.

Zhao Xing had never heard of the Boundary God Tree, but he imagined that this divine tree, which grew beside the river of time, must be extraordinary.

This led to a struggle and battle between Yuheng and the other god-kings.

However, Zhao Xing's turbulent thoughts were quickly overwhelmed by his will to survive.

It is clear that this branch of the World God Tree is trying to take over my inner world; this process is similar to possession.

"No one will save me this time; I have to save myself," Zhao Xing thought quickly.

"The reason why the branch of the World God Tree has been talking so much nonsense to me is not because he has avenged his great enemy and has no one to tell, so he is saying this."

“As a god-king, Yuheng could not possibly have failed to discover its existence. It is highly likely that he discovered it and left behind a means to restrain it.”

So where exactly is it?

Although Zhao Xing no longer possessed the ancestral emperor's tablet, divine power, or the ability to move, he could still mobilize his magical power.

The true spirit cannot leave the Palace of Destiny, but it can cast spells.

He unleashed the Seven Luminaries Boundless Heaven technique, attempting to regain control of the boundary core and prevent the other party from entering his inner world. However, after a brief surge, the boundary core remained unshaken.

"It's useless." The youth's phantom reappeared on the golden divine tree. "Your talent is quite good, but you're just a demigod; you can't affect me at all."

"I won't kill you, I just want to control you and take me back to the Forest of the Universe."

Zhao Xing didn't believe a word he said.

To control oneself and become a slave is no different from killing oneself; losing free will means being nothing more than a walking corpse, no different from being dead.

"Which of the nine branches are you?"

“Zhouyuan”.

"Was it named by the God-King Yuheng?"

Zhou Yuan remained silent.

Zhao Xing pressed his advantage: "Your intelligence was only born after you came into the inner world. All your knowledge was learned from God King Yuheng. Did you regard him as your father god at some point?"

Zhou Yuan remained silent.

"Let me guess, you're actually lying, aren't you?"

"The so-called infiltration and concealment are actually fake. God King Yuheng knew from the beginning that this divine tree had developed spiritual consciousness, and even taught you many things... It's just that you betrayed him."

“Wrong! From the moment I was born, I began to absorb the nourishment of this world, and he always cleansed my body with his divine sense, so I naturally learned a lot of things,” Zhou Yuan retorted.

“His training of you has gone beyond the level of training soldiers; he even treats you like family…” Zhao Xing said to himself.

"So what if you guessed right? He was just using me as a tool, a place to house the soul of his Daoist partner."

"Then why didn't he mention it to Zhang Yue?" Zhao Xing sneered. "Since you know so much, you should know that the theory of the four realms of the universe is unbreakable. Yu Heng, the God-King, went to the Forest of the Universe and must know that life born in the Great World will disappear along with the Great Destruction. This is an unchangeable ending."

"If he intended to turn you into a straw doll for Zhang Yue to use, he should have informed Zhang Yue long ago, since Zhang Yue was still alive at that time!"

“He was seriously injured before, and his inner world had ruptured, but there was still hope for recovery. He just wanted to tell her after he succeeded.”

"Oh? If that's the case, then why did he tell you about Zhang Yue's existence?"

"The God King Tower was used to suppress me. Even on his deathbed, he wanted me to be a slave to his successor. You are completely wrong."

"So you can only leave if you come with me?"

Zhou Yuan suddenly stopped talking. His previously agitated emotions seemed to have calmed down, and his voice became much calmer: "You don't need to waste your time. It's useless."

"I can wield power comparable to that of a god-king; you cannot resist it."

"The vow of cause and effect has been fulfilled; you will leave."

Zhao Xing also fell silent. He had been observing the surrounding environment, hoping to glean some information from these exchanges.

I did learn some useful things, such as that the God King Tower was used to suppress the Abyss of Time.

But that's not enough.

Just then, Zhao Xing's gaze fell on his feet, where a golden hairpin lay.

As the youth transformed from Zhou Yuan entered the body of the divine tree, the golden hairpin was repelled and fell to the ground.

"Earth Circulation Technique, Teleportation!"

Zhao Xing mobilized his eighteenth tribulation true spirit to make the ground bulge and writhe, and then handed the golden hairpin to himself. He actually succeeded!

However, this also consumed almost all of his energy.

He controlled the golden hairpin and thrust it towards his own boundary core, which was then enveloped by a force.

"clang!"

With this stab, the golden hairpin turned to dust.

"Chi~"

A sneer came from the Abyss.

"You actually went and picked it up if I deliberately dropped it at your feet?"

"Looks like you're not that smart after all."

"It really works?" Zhao Xing asked, not annoyed.

"That's right, but I took it the moment you came in. Nothing can stop me now."

"You claim to have the power of a god-king, yet you cannot disable my power of timing, location, and magic. Isn't that laughable?" Zhao Xing retorted sarcastically.

"It's okay, you won't be laughing in a bit."

Zhao Xing then threw out the only thing he had on him—his pass token, his proof of entry.

The order did indeed prevent the sacred tree from entering, but it quickly melted away.

Zhao Xing's heart sank to the bottom.

Now they were truly helpless, with no one to turn to for help.

There's nothing that can save him.

"I wonder if the big shots can revive me," Zhao Xing sighed inwardly, having exhausted all other options.

However, at that moment, the ground beneath their feet suddenly began to shake.

Kakakka~
Zhao Xing felt that Zhou Yuan's main body had retreated a bit.

"Huh? What happened?"

Zhao Xing and Zhou Yuan both looked towards the outside of the God King Tower.

A faint voice entered my mind.

"Zhao Xing, I need to borrow your things to save my life..."

"The book is here!"

"Qingyuzi, how dare you!"

"General Guize, you bastard, you've been stabbing me every day! I've put up with you for too long, prepare to die!"

"King Jin, please kill them..."

"what--"

Then came a loud bang, followed by screams at first, but they quickly stopped.

"Green elm seed?" Hope ignited in Zhao Xing's eyes.

Being inside the inner world of the God King Yuheng, which is completely hidden, he could not possibly call for help from the Moon Goddess Palace Master and the Boundless True God. However, Qingyuzi, who was inside the inner world, could.

"Old Qing, save me!" Zhao Xing cried out in his heart, recalling the memory of Qing Yuzi passing on his lineage.

……

Outside the God King Tower, Qing Yuzi stood behind a proud divine figure, looking at the corpses and remains lying on the grassland before him, and let out a long breath, but the breath was purple.

His torso was naked, his head was covered with vines, his chest and back were covered with moss, and his feet had turned into wood.

"That dog grass is a pervert!" Qingyuzi recalled the past and became angrier the more she thought about it.

He ran to a corpse and began to frantically whip it; the corpse belonged to the God General Guize.

"I've seen plenty of weirdos who are obsessed with their own ego, but someone as weird as you is truly one of a kind in this world, damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

"Five hundred years, do you know how I survived those five hundred years?!"

Finally, Qingyuzi got tired and sat down on the ground, but then suddenly bounced up because there were still bamboo shoots growing on her bottom.

Jin Shenwang, unable to bear Qingyuzi's miserable state, pointed and caused the Starry Crown above his head to scatter its brilliance.

"Hiss hiss hiss~" Seeds and plants kept tearing through the skin of the green elm seed and being expelled.

"Whoosh~" The last fire burned to ashes.

Qingyuzi was able to quickly regain her human form, but her divine power was much weaker than before.

"Thank you, Divine King Jin!"

Qingyuzi bowed to the summoned god-king.

"Do you still have any requests to make of me?" King Jin asked.

No, King Jin should return to the alchemical text now.

Qingyuzi was about to say that it was over, but then she suddenly heard Zhao Xing's voice.

"Ok?"

After listening carefully for a while, Qing Yuzi's expression changed, and he quickly cupped his hands and said, "God King Jin, please enter this tower and help my friend escape!"

King Jin then looked up at the tall tower covered in vegetation and shook his head: "No, I promised King Zhangyue that I would not enter the King Tower."

This wasn't his first time here, so he naturally recognized it as the God King Tower of Yuheng.

"There's such a rule?" Qingyuzi exclaimed anxiously. "God King Jin, but this isn't the legacy of God King Yuheng at all. There's a divine tree here that's become a spirit and wants to harm people. This was an accident, so it can't be considered a broken rule, right?"

“A promise is a promise,” King Jin said firmly.

"Okay, then you can't go into the God King Tower. Just practice a couple of sets of punches outside, like you did before."

"The goal is to disturb the fundamental time source surrounding the God King Tower."

King Jin was clearly taken aback.

After thinking for a moment, he nodded and said, "Okay."

……

"Bang! Bang bang! Bang bang bang!"

The sounds Zhao Xing heard began to become rhythmic, as if an iron hammer was striking the void, loosening the surrounding oppression somewhat.

Above the sacred tree, Zhou Yuan's phantom appeared, looking somewhat annoyed at the Martial God King practicing his fist outside, and Qing Yuzi holding the Dan Shu.

"That bastard, he's been trapped in the Huasheng Marsh for so long and he's still not dead."

Zhao Xing was overjoyed; Lao Qing was truly a lucky star.

He actually escaped and even arrived at the Tower of the Gods.

However, he soon became less happy.

Because he discovered that the divine king's avatar summoned by Lao Qing and Dan Shu did not enter, but remained outside the divine king's tower.

"What's going on? Why aren't you coming in?" Zhao Xing asked, puzzled.

"You expect King Jin to come in?" Zhou Yuan sneered. "He was invited by Zhang Yue to come to Liukong Gorge three times to assist Zhang Yue in reversing time and space in an attempt to revive Yu Heng."

"Having wasted all their efforts, Zhang Yue knew that things were hopeless, so she demanded that those who helped her not reveal any information about this place, and even more so, not step into the Divine King Tower to interfere with the inheritance."

"Zhao Xing, you can't stop me."

……

As time passed, Qingyuzi, who was outside the palace, kept instructing Jin Shenwang to interfere, but Zhao Xing was still unable to escape.

Although the violent upheavals slowed down the entry of the divine tree into the inner world, this gradual encroachment was still ongoing.

Zhao Xing gradually lost the ability to sense the existence of the boundary core, and he could no longer sense the world inside his body.

It's as if it no longer belongs to me.

His thinking gradually became rigid, and no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't break free.

Eventually, he became increasingly disoriented, and the scene before him became fragmented.

He only gets a clear view after a while.

Each time they looked closely, they noticed that the sacred tree was getting shorter and shorter, clearly indicating that the invasion was nearing completion.

"Old Qing..." Zhao Xing, while still lucid, began to give his last instructions.

"Take my things and leave here."

“Tell Ji Si, the Boundless True God, the Moon Goddess Palace Master, and my family…”

"By the way, just in case, I cannot be resurrected, the Ten Directions Mountain Scripture..."

Outside the God King Tower, Qingyuzi frowned and hissed:

"Zhao Xing, stop saying discouraging things!"

"Strive to communicate with your inner world and fight it within it!"

"The relationship between the Primal Faction's agricultural division and the plant soldiers is simply a matter of whose will is stronger. As long as you can communicate with your inner world, it's not certain who will win or lose!"

"Don't give up, please don't give up! If I take a bunch of your treasures back, people will think I, Qingyuzi, killed someone to steal the scriptures... Don't tell me!"

Qingyuzi kept encouraging Zhao Xing.

"I can't take it anymore, I've lost control of my body... It's too strong, I can't hold on, I'm so sleepy..." Zhao Xing's voice was broken.

"Even if we can't hold on, we must!" Qing Yuzi's voice, like a thunderclap, resounded in Zhao Xing's mind:
"Do you know how I got trapped here before? In Huashengze!"

"Five hundred years! There are many tribes in that Huasheng Marsh, all of whom are primitive human races born from the inner world of God King Yuheng."

"Damn, you have no idea how perverted those gods are. I seriously suspect that these native humans inherited the dark side of God King Yuheng... They planted countless parasites in me, some even in my soul."

"I'm so sleepy..."

"Don't be sleepy, let me tell you something exciting!" Qing Yuzi shouted, "Do you know that for decades, my original form was even transformed into a woman by that Gui Ze God General, and even my soul's perception was distorted? That pervert actually wanted to cultivate with me..."

"..." Zhao Xing was actually not sleepy after Qing Yuzi said that.

He didn't know where the energy came from, but he just wanted to keep listening.

It would be nice to hear a tragic tale from Old Qing before I die. "And then? Were you subjected to dual cultivation?"

“Survive, and I’ll tell you what happens next.” Qingyuzi said, “Your inner world was created by the World-Splitting Divine Stone, and you also created the Six Qi Theory of Annihilation Stars. The potential within you is limitless, and you can definitely unlock it!”

"You really have a lot of confidence in me..."

Zhao Xing's voice became weak.

Qingyu called out a few times, but received no further response.

"Zhao Xing!"

Qingyuzi's eyes were slightly red. She knelt down on the ground and pounded her hands into the ground.

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault..."

Since the closed loop was completed, Qingyuzi also learned that everything Zhao Xing did was not necessary, but rather he came here to save her.

"With such a high starting point and the support of the Boundless True God, you could have had an even brighter future..."

Qingyuzi rarely blames herself. Years of experience have made her not only indifferent to everything and hard-hearted, but she also doesn't easily feel emotional, much less guilty, and doesn't let herself suffer internally.

But at this moment, he felt a deep sense of self-reproach and guilt. Looking back on his journey to godhood, Zhao Xing's contribution was indispensable.

Without Zhao Xing, his chances of becoming a god would be less than 30%, let alone the glorious rise he achieved later.

"Am I really a scourge?" Qingyuzi's resolve began to waver. He muttered to himself, "Even someone as blessed as Zhao Xing has been dragged down to his death by me..."

The karmic burden is too heavy to repay, and instead it leads to the death of Zhao Xing. This severely affects one's Dao heart, will, and mind. This is exactly what happened to Qingyuzi at this time.

"I am a scourge..." Qing Yuzi's destructive tendencies intensified, a storm began to rage in his mind, and the fire of the divine burned in an evil way. He began to think more and more crookedly.

"I want to act on behalf of Heaven, but wherever I go, there is only suffering and death. What exactly is the Way of Heaven? What is my Way of Heaven?"

Meanwhile, inside the God King Tower, Zhao Xing, who had lost his voice, did not fall into darkness.

He actually broke through the seal of the boundary core, and a wisp of his consciousness entered his inner world.

Seeing the familiar boundless continent and primeval ocean, as well as the binary star system, Zhao Xing was astonished.

"I didn't realize I had this potential?"

"So I really enjoy listening to gossip?"

Zhao Xing thought that it was Qingyuzi who had provoked him.

But he soon realized he was wrong.

On the boundless continent, a giant net sealed off the entire land, and the threads of that net were roots and stems.

They are like chains, enveloping and binding the boundless continent.

The primordial ocean was also constantly boiling, with Qi forming lines that shot upwards into the sky.

The boundary of the inner world was also covered with spiderweb-like purplish-black roots, intertwined with the blue-gray boundary, making it look extremely strange.

A section of divine tree stands above the boundless continent; that is the Abyss of Time—it has now fully entered the inner world.

But it failed to take root and land for a long time; every time it was about to fall, its roots would quickly retract.

The same is true of the primordial ocean and its boundaries.

It seems to be trapped in a time loop.

Seeing this, Zhao Xing immediately understood what was going on.

His thoughts quickly became clear and were constantly being strengthened.

Finally, he clearly sensed the life form that existed within the Yin-Yang Twin Star System.

That was the radiance emanating from his original species.

"The Ke Yang Divine Tree?!"

"So it was helping me all along!"

"I knew it wouldn't be because of Lao Qing's embarrassing incident..."

Zhao Xing stopped thinking about it and immediately sent his thoughts over there.

The Keyang Divine Tree was not much different from its original seed state. After hatching, it was still in the shape of a planet, except that two leaves were attached to the planet's surface.

However, its two leaves had already fully unfolded by this time.

One side radiated a fiery red light, while the other was a sky-blue color.

When Zhao Xing's consciousness reached out, he also sensed the two kinds of mental fluctuations transmitted from the divine tree.

The first type is: Master, this is highly nourishing.

The second one is: Master, it's too big, please help.

Zhao Xing's expression changed drastically.

The divine-level native species was originally a seed, which consumed world-splitting divine stones. Later, as it entered the seedling stage, its appetite grew larger and larger.

They consume divine-level origins such as Earth God Crystals and Time Particles.

Who would have thought that even the Abyss of the Universe could be eaten now?

Good, good, good, as expected of my little tree son.

"How can I help you?"

Soon, the Ke Yang Divine Tree transmitted its message: Concentrate.

Zhao Xing understood.

He concentrated all the power of his inner world and gave it to the tree son.

In the past, when Zhao Xing fed the tree son, only substances thrown into the Yin-Yang star system could be eaten.

It is forbidden to seize the spiritual energy and divine objects accumulated in other areas.

Zhao Xing invested the World Stone to expand his inner world, allowing it to evolve naturally. If he allowed the tree son to devour it, he would basically have no need to cultivate his Primordial Chaos Realm, and his inner world would also be upgraded and disappear, leaving only the original species.

Within the inner world, Zhao Xing is the ruler. The original species born within the inner world completely follow his will and are naturally well-behaved.

Now that his inner world is facing a crisis, Zhao Xing can't care about anything else. He directly lifted the restriction and concentrated all the power of his inner world on the god-level native species.

"Om~"

Two leaves shone brightly with green and red light, slowly but firmly sweeping across the entire world.

After Zhou Yuan entered Zhao Xing's inner world, he had already invaded six or seven tenths of it, and all matter and spiritual energy were under his control.

It's already quite remarkable for a demigod to have such a vast inner world. Originally, Zhou Yuan was worried that he wouldn't be able to enter it and wanted to expand it a bit.

But once inside, I found that I didn't need to do that at all.

There was one area that he attacked from the very beginning, but he was never able to explore it and didn't know what kind of mystical power it contained.

Zhou Yuan didn't take it to heart. The God King Yu Heng wasn't completely without precautions. He was far from being able to unleash his true power. Once he left Yu Heng's God King Tower and Yu Heng's inner world, he would be completely free.

"Om~"

Just then, Zhou Yuan discovered that a terrifying fluctuation suddenly erupted from the simplest star system.

Immediately afterwards, two beams of light, blue and red, illuminated the entire inner world.

"boom!"

The abyss of time, which was originally standing upright and about to plunge into the boundless continent, was suddenly overturned by a beam of blue light. A young man jumped out of the wood and looked at the mysterious star system with surprise and uncertainty.

"It is the Great Dao of Time!"

"Who is manipulating the Great Dao of Time to devour my very essence?"

Zhou Yuan was somewhat shocked.

"stretch!"

"stretch!"

"Snapped!"

The roots and green shoots that originated from his body quickly broke off.

This scene reminded him of the memories that came with his original body, the scene of being cut off from the World God Tree.

“Swoosh~”

The body of Zhouyuan emitted bursts of black light, which quickly intertwined to form a black hole, or rather, an eye.

He finally saw clearly what was in that area.

"A seedling? Able to manipulate the essence of time, could it be the Tree of Time?"

"But this power is far too strong. It's impossible that it's also a divine seed born in the Chaos Era."

"No, this is a primitive species, a primitive species born from Zhao Xing's inner world?"

Zhou Yuan was stunned. His knowledge was completely inherited from God King Yu Heng. He quickly recognized that the time-type divine tree, which looked like a boundary star and had only two leaves, was in its seedling stage and was a native species born in this inner world.

However, the power it unleashed was terrifyingly high. Although Zhou Yuan could not unleash 99% of its power, it was still comparable to the level of a human god-king.

In this fundamental confrontation, they were actually being devoured by the other side!

"Kakakaka~"

Time freezes, time reverses; in these two innate divine skills, the roots that originated from the Abyss of Time are swiftly severed and swallowed up.

It was as if an invisible maw, revealing a row of sharp teeth, was gnawing at him.

"Eat, eat, eat him up!!"

Zhao Xing was invigorated. The Zhouyuan within his own inner world was like a tree without roots, and would only grow weaker and weaker as it was gradually devoured.

Looking at his own divine tree, it had already grown a third leaf in a short time!

"It's incredibly nourishing!"

The tree's son sensed Zhao Xing's emotions and excitedly transmitted a thought to him.

Zhou Yuan tried to resist, but no matter what, the other side had the upper hand.

He planned to escape, but there was no way he could.

After forcing Zhao Xing to make a causal oath, he had no choice but to follow the successor of the God King Yuheng.

This is because it is the Great Dao Rules of the Inner World left behind by the God-King Yuheng.

There's no escaping it, and you can't win by fighting it.

What goes around comes around, and now it's Zhouyuan's turn to be in dire straits.

"Zhao Xing, let's talk..."

"Talk to you, you big dummy! Do you think I'm a three-year-old?" Zhao Xing cursed without hesitation. "You've got a path to heaven but you refuse to take it, you've barged into hell and now you're dead!"

"..."

Outside the Divine King Tower, Qingyuzi knelt on the ground, drenched in sweat, his six qi in severe disorder.

He had been parasitized for hundreds of years, suffering great torment and even having his foundation affected. Now that his inner demons were born, he could no longer control them.

If it weren't for Yu Heng's inner world, he would probably have immediately faced a divine tribulation.

"I can't die. I have to go back and report the situation. Zhao Xing might still be alive."

"You killed Zhao Xing. He was a sage of agriculture, a person who could prove the Dao to Heaven and Earth, and might even save the human race. What use is a scourge like you? You might as well be dead!"

Two conflicting thoughts clashed in Qingyuzi's mind, and flames began to burn on her body.

Everything around is unaffected by the flames, because it is the fire of the heart.

The six qi were out of control, which further fueled the fire in the heart.

Qingyuzi seemed to be undergoing a trial by a Dao-breaker, and that Dao-breaker was himself.

"I didn't know, I had no idea he would come! I was just carrying out my mission, I never thought of it!" Qing Yuzi grabbed her own neck with one hand, while using the other to stop herself.

"Who are you kidding? You know Zhao Xing is special. His luck level is as high as the thirty-first level, and he can write the Ten Directions Mountain Scripture. He's practically another Gu Luohe!"

"The Crimson Star Emperor was able to attain enlightenment because of the Ancient Luo River. You have been contacting Zhao Xing and strengthening your karmic connection with him... Isn't that what you're planning? To become another Crimson Star Emperor?"

"No, no, I, Qingyuzi, have never had any ulterior motives in making friends..." Qingyuzi's face was contorted with pain.

"Hahaha, you're even fooling yourself."

……

Qingyuzi felt a suffocating sensation, a suffocation that was both physical and mental. His vision turned completely red.

Even Zhao Xing's former appearance had turned blood red; his death was extremely gruesome, his body covered in moss and vines that slowly crawled towards him, their voices mournful:
"Old Qing, I died such a terrible death~~"

"Ah! Don't come any closer, don't come any closer..."

Qingyuzi shifted his position, bracing himself with his hands, and kept backing away, his eyes filled with fear.

Zhao Xing stopped and stood there speechless.

How did Qingyuzi turn out like this in such a short time?
"Old Qing, what are you muttering about? Why are you acting like you've seen a ghost when you see me?"

"Hiss, you haven't gone mad with your cultivation, have you?"

Having just fought a fierce battle and feeling utterly exhausted, Zhao Xing belatedly noticed Qing Yuzi's unusual behavior.

He walked quickly to Qingyuzi's side, a move that startled Qingyuzi even more.

"Damn it, what happened to you? Your heart fire burned through your Qi Sea, and even your divine runes were melted... What exactly did that divine general do to torture you?!" Zhao Xing used the underground palace technique to suck Qingyuzi to the ground.

But Lao Qing was like a pig during the Lunar New Year, impossible to restrain. He kept mumbling incoherently and trying to run away.

Fortunately, Zhao Xing and Bi Qi's medical skills were not for nothing. They made a quick decision and summoned the Heavenly Transformation Divine Needle.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa~"

All twelve Heavenly Transformation Needles pierced into Qingyuzi's body, suppressing his inner fire.

Qingyuzi finally calmed down.

The world before his eyes was no longer blood red, but clear again.

"Zhao Xing? It really is you. You're not dead?" Qing Yuzi sat up abruptly, breaking free from his restraints and grabbing Zhao Xing.

“It’s me,” Zhao Xing nodded. “If you don’t believe me, check the history books and see if I’m just a figment of imagination.”

"Or, ask me a few private questions."

"No, no need." Qingyuzi's inner demons came and went quickly. His condition was triggered by being tortured by the God of Guize in Huashengze and by believing that Zhao Xing was dead.

He was a man who had experienced great ups and downs, and was not easily swayed. Now that Zhao Xing was still alive, most of the root of the problem had been removed, and he immediately began to recover.

"You're not going to ask me? Then I'll have to ask you." Zhao Xing grinned slyly.

"What?" Qing Yuzi was taken aback, but he immediately realized what Zhao Xing was about to ask.

"That's fake. I just made it up to provoke you. How could General Guize have such an ability?"

"Really? It can't be..."

"Ask your grandpa, get lost!" Qingyuzi, enraged, kicked Zhao Xing away.

(End of this chapter)