Night without Borders

Chapter 507 Breaking Through the Land of Gods

Stars hung low, the moon set, and the Thunder River shimmered. The three-eyed old man, a dying deity resurrected from ashes, was completely subdued and collapsed into streams of light.

Meng Zhiyan was lost in thought, feeling that he lacked knowledge and wondered how there could be a master in his early twenties in this world.

Yu Gengsheng was amazed. As expected of the young man he valued, he had made brilliant strides and created miracles along the way.

Holding the Thunder Blade, Qin Ming said, "Is he really a grandmaster? I feel he lacks the necessary skill; he's still a bit short."

Upon hearing this comment, Meng Zhiyan's expression stiffened slightly. Did Xiao Qin look down on the three-eyed old man?

The battle was still raging, leaving him no time to pause. Meng Zhiyan launched a fierce attack on the pitch-black strange bird, which was a hazy incarnation of a dying deity.

Yu Gengsheng said, "His divine fire has been extinguished and is tainted with traces of ghostly and divine aura. He is most afraid of the mighty power of heaven. Moreover, the seal script in Xiao Qin's lightning is very advanced."

As he spoke, he grabbed his opponent—the golden-armored deity—with one hand. Magnetic light swirled around his large hand, slowly crushing the deity's avatar into pieces.

Old Yu truly lives up to his reputation as a figure nearing the Grandmaster level. His cultivation is profound, and over the past year, he has honed himself to perfection, making him ready to break through at any moment.

"Hmm, it wasn't destroyed?" Qin Ming sensed something and noticed something amiss. The broken streams of light were scattered and disappeared into the depths of the purple soil.

He ploughed the ground with his gleaming longsword, and instantly lightning flashed, thunder roared, sparks flew, and a huge commotion erupted. He shouted, "You still want to hide? Come out!"

A burst of light rushed out hastily, emitting thick blue smoke, as if it had been ignited, and in mid-air, the body of the three-eyed old man reappeared.

He was utterly disheveled and said, "Do you know the consequences of offending a god? Gods are hard to kill, immortals are hard to destroy, and those who kill gods rarely have a good end. Let's end it here today. We can swear an oath to each other and not interfere with each other, how about it?"

Qin Ming was truly skeptical and said, "From the moment you decided to parasitize Uncle Meng's body, things could never end well today."

In an instant, the purple golden core within his body, engraved with the patterns of heaven and earth, shone brightly. As he formed hand seals, nine "pages" appeared, filled with thunder seal script, arranged around him.

As it pointed forward, one after another of the Thunder Seal scripts appeared, seemingly bearing the might of heaven, dazzlingly bright, shattering the three-eyed old man. It was extremely yang, extremely strong, and incomparably domineering.

"Ah..." The three-eyed old man screamed in agony. After exploding into a rain of divine light, he had nowhere to hide and was locked onto by the nine chapters of thunder seals, exploding several times in succession.

This scene was far too brutal. After all, the three-eyed old man was a root of the gods, nurturing the power of new life, yet all his hopes were cut off.

Li Qingyun burst in, and upon seeing this scene, he froze on the spot.

He even began to doubt whether he was a match for Xiao Qin at this moment.
He gradually came to understand Meng Xinghai's state of mind. If things continued like this, Qin Ming would be caught up with their generation, which made the older generation a little uneasy.

Qin Ming felt that the three-eyed old man was not a true grandmaster, and seemed to be weaker than his two avatars.

Yu Gengsheng saw through the essence and said, "The black strange bird and the golden-armored god carry an endless aura of decay and will dissipate at any time. They can only be used for protection. The old tree root is his only remaining vitality and is a vigorous seed."

Li Qingyun was also a member of the esoteric sect and had a good understanding of the path to godhood. He said, "Little Qin, keep him. Perhaps we can use him to nourish the Star Sea."

The three-eyed old man once took root in Meng Xinghai's body, regarding the latter as nourishment; now, perhaps a secret method can be used to reverse this.

“That works!” Meng Zhiyan nodded.

Qin Ming was initially worried that Meng Xinghai would be severely injured, after all, being possessed by a resurrected deity was not a good thing.

If one performs rituals according to certain authentic scriptures of Esoteric Buddhism, one may be able to see a "new world".

“There’s another Grandmaster of the Three-Eyed Sect outside, as well as several divine wills. I’ll go out and take a look.” Yu Gengsheng went to provide support; he had already completely obliterated the golden-armored deity.

Seeing that the situation in the divine land was settled, Li Qingyun also withdrew.

Qin Ming attacked in quick succession, turning the three-eyed old man into a mass of primordial divine wisdom, and then pasted nine pages of "light paper" onto it. This was naturally not real paper, but a manifestation of thunderous patterns.

After killing the black monster bird, Meng Zhiyan also broke out of the divine land to deal with the group of people outside.

With that, everything was settled. It was no surprise that the four grandmasters had made their move, and all the Three-Eyed Cult experts outside were wiped out.

Meng Xinghai lay motionless in the purple divine soil, unawakened.

Earlier, the three-eyed old man had used a method on him, causing him to fall into a deep coma and become soil for nurturing the roots of the gods. If no one came to his rescue, he would eventually be completely drained.

Qin Ming connected the Dharma seals, and a shower of purple-gold light fell. This was thunder seal, but it was very gentle. He was performing a sacred purification on Meng Xinghai.

"Am I...dreaming?" Meng Xinghai awoke, feeling incredulous.

Earlier, he had a nightmare in which he was engulfed by endless ashes and possessed by an old ghost.

Qin Ming actually stormed into the divine land and rescued him.

"The enemy has been wiped out." Yu Gengsheng walked in.

Meng Zhiyan said, "We'll study how to seal off this sacred land to prevent it from attracting other evil gods."

Qin Ming helped Meng Xinghai up and said, "Although Uncle Meng suffered this calamity, he escaped unharmed and may even benefit from it."

Li Qingyun smiled to ease the atmosphere, saying, "This 'old tree root' has become ginseng, no, it can be considered a divine ginseng. I'll leave it for Xiao Meng to calm his nerves."

They purified the sacred land, helped Meng Xinghai seal off the area, and then returned to reality with the "old ginseng," appearing inside the city lord's mansion.

"Father!" The two children rushed to the sickbed and burst into tears of joy when they saw Meng Xinghai open his eyes.

Zhou Qingxuan, holding her two children, was extremely grateful to the four grandmasters and Qin Ming.

Li Qingyun said, "We're all family, don't stand on ceremony."

“We’re all family,” Meng Zhiyan said, his expression turning serious. This matter wasn’t over yet!

First, the deity of the Three-Eyed Cult has not completely perished; some of its power remains in its divine lair and has not yet "migrated" here.

Secondly, there are people stirring up trouble behind this, and a thorough investigation is needed.

Qin Ming was filled with murderous intent. If, as he suspected, someone was actually trying to harm him by using a mere rumor to pry open the deity of the Three-Eyed Sect, implicate Meng Xinghai, and lure him out, then that would be truly malicious.

Xie Zhaoming coughed, covering his mouth, and there was blood on his hands.

"Old Xie, are you injured?" Meng Zhiyan asked worriedly. Then he noticed that he and Li Qingyun also had bloodstains on the corners of their mouths.

He immediately realized that in this difficult world, even a grandmaster could barely survive, and would inevitably get injured if he made a move.

Yu Gengsheng was much better off, mainly because his cultivation was deep enough that he could use his "health cultivation technique" to kill his opponents during this hunt.

At this moment, the four grandmasters looked at Qin Ming with burning eyes, deeply feeling... how wonderful it is to be young. He was full of vitality and brutally killed the three-eyed old man without suffering any harm himself.

Qin Ming explained again: "I truly believe that he focuses on rebirth, severing the decaying yet powerful main root, and his so-called divine roots are slightly inferior to those of a grandmaster."

Meng Zhiyan smiled and patted his shoulder, then looked at the other three grandmasters and said, "I have some precious medicine here. You three brothers should take it quickly, and you will be fine."

Although he arrived in haste to save Meng Xinghai, he brought with him many incredibly valuable medicinal herbs from his family's treasury.

The Meng family is a top-tier aristocratic family, so their collection is naturally extraordinary.

"I feel very bad that my seniors have suffered so much." Meng Xinghai has recovered enough to get out of bed and walk around.

Li Qingyun said, "Xiao Meng, after tonight, if you patiently hone your skills, in a few years, you may become a Grandmaster!"

Zhou Qingxuan was surprised to hear this. The two children were born into the Meng family and naturally knew what a Grandmaster meant. They both widened their eyes, wondering if their father was about to "fly".

"Brother Qin Ming should be faster."

"There will soon be six grandmasters here."

The two children had tears still on their faces when they laughed.

The atmosphere in the city lord's mansion was no longer heavy, and laughter gradually filled the air.

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After a short rest, the group prepared to set off late at night to march on the sacred site of the Three-Eyed Cult.

Actually, the main problem was that the four grandmasters needed to rest, while Qin Ming was full of energy and vitality, and was not afraid of the current situation at all.

However, he fell asleep quickly, but soon realized something was wrong. He didn't need sleep at all. He had clearly been tricked.

"You have condemned me to eternal damnation, and the divine fire will be extinguished forever. I will fight you to the death, and even if I turn to ashes, I will drag you down with me!"

A thick fog rolled in, and a creature with three bleeding eyes howled, accompanied by a gale and swirling ashes, trying to chain Qin Ming with black iron chains, dragging him into the darkness and towards death.

Qin Ming, like the blazing sun, dispelled the darkness and illuminated the heavens and earth. He said, "A god whose divine kingdom collapsed many years ago and should have died long ago, with only a few remaining powers, like a ghost or spirit, dares to offend me?"

In his right hand, a seal materialized, which he pressed forward with a deafening roar, as if a god were casting a spell, thundering across the heavens, crushing the ghosts and spirits in the thick fog.

At the same time, Qin Ming woke up from his dream.

"Xiao Qin, you're talking in your sleep, and lightning is even shooting out of your body!" Li Qingyun was speechless. He had only been dozing off, yet he had made such a commotion.

Qin Ming said, "The god from the Three-Eyed Sect appeared to me in a dream, trying to take advantage of the situation to lock my soul, but I shattered it."

"Sure enough, a faint trace of power remains in his shattered divine kingdom. It seems he cannot leave that decaying land for long; it has become his burial ground. Let's set off."

Meng Xinghai insisted on going along.

This time, they did not bring any other experts with them; only the six of them set off, which on average was equivalent to six Grandmasters traveling together.

If it were a true divine kingdom, even patriarchs wouldn't easily venture deep into it. However, the deities of the Three-Eyed Cult have nominally disappeared for over a decade.

With all six grandmasters present, they could easily flatten that place.

The sacred site of the Three-Eyed Cult is very close to Crimson Cloud City, less than three hundred miles away. Now it is overgrown with weeds and its buildings are dilapidated, having declined for over a century. His followers, fearing being implicated, have all moved elsewhere.

His ability to mobilize a grandmaster and a group of experts upon his resurrection is quite remarkable.

Yu Gengsheng said, "This god was originally from my Yezhou. He believed in the Three-Eyed Cult, which spread from the depths of the Night Mist World, and eventually became a god."

Qin Ming asked, "So, he's not the true god worshipped by the Three-Eyed Cult at all?"

Meng Zhiyan nodded and said, "It is said that the most powerful deity of the Three-Eyed Cult can be called a main god, and belongs to the high-level of the 'God-like Society' deep in the Night Mist World."

Qin Ming said, "Tonight, through this three-eyed old man, I want to witness the various methods of the Three-Eyed Sect."

He had a premonition that if he ventured deeper into the Night Fog World, he would most likely encounter the gods and humans of the God-like Society. He had made contact with people from this organization last time in the remnants of Flying Immortal Mountain.

The pantheon is spread across various regions, and its structure is quite enormous.

Without extraordinary measures, it would be difficult to open a closed divine kingdom.

The six grandmasters brought over the "divine roots" and opened the divine kingdom without much difficulty.

Outside, ancient trees and wolf forests covered dilapidated buildings with weeds and thorns. In the dead of night, the occasional hooting of owls could be heard, which was quite eerie.

The divine realm was equally dark and gloomy, unlike the real world, and had a strong smell of decay. As the six people stepped down, the ashes reached above their feet.

Qin Ming spoke up: "Three-Eyed, didn't you want to take my life? I've come here of my own accord!"

In an instant, a cold wind howled, and ashes rose from the entire ruined divine kingdom, obscuring people's eyes. A hazy figure emitted a chilling voice, as if it came from the deepest hell.

"Those who kill gods will eventually be devoured. Even if I perish today, you will not have an easy time in the future." The three-eyed old man appeared, holding a divine contract in his hand, stained with his divine wisdom blood, and inscribed with many words. He stood before the shattered altar and began to pray.

In fact, his main altar had already been buried in the purple divine soil, and what remained now was merely the foundation.

The divine covenant burned, transforming into ripples that disappeared into the dark night sky of the divine kingdom.

"Crack!"

Qin Ming unleashed a thunderous strike, shattering the divine contract and reducing it to ashes.

The three-eyed old man said, "It's no use. I have already prayed nine times in a row. This is the tenth divine contract. If the main god is resurrected in the future and reigns over this place, the god-slayer will surely pay for his blood debt."

Qin Ming didn't care and said, "Let alone whether the Three-Eyed Cult's main god is still alive, even if he were to revive one day, are you sure he would appear here from the depths of the Night Mist World for you? You're overestimating yourself."

Meng Xinghai spoke up: "At the same time, you are underestimating the future Qin."

Xie Zhaoming said, "You're probably going to be disappointed. Right now, the Daoist energy is surging, and what follows will be a torrential downpour. Your divine contract will be destroyed on the way."

Meng Zhiyan coldly replied, "There is an even more bloody truth: your divine kingdom is corrupt, your altars are crumbling, and you still dare to pray and send messages in the dark? In your prime, you sent out hundreds or thousands of divine contracts, and you might not have succeeded even once, let alone now."

They paid no heed to the threat of a dying god; they had come today to slaughter a god.

The three-eyed old man said, "It is truly a case of a tiger fallen into the plains being bullied by dogs. When the divine fire is extinguished, I am actually humiliated by you all coming to my door. However, even if dust returns to dust, I will still take two or three of you with me."

Li Qingyun said, "How dare you talk such nonsense! You're just a ghost or a god, yet you dare to overturn the heavens? You've committed countless evils, and even on your deathbed, you still want to wreak havoc on the region. What do you have to be so proud of? Your intimidation and threats are worthless!"

Qin Ming spoke up: "Seniors, it is not appropriate for you to take action to avoid coughing up blood again. Let me do it."

He stared at the three-eyed old man in front of him; the man should be considered a true grandmaster.

This god is filled with the aura of decay, destined to be unable to be reborn, belonging to the discarded, rotten roots.

Yu Gengsheng nodded and said, "Yes, let's watch the battle first."

Then, he turned to Xie Zhaoming and said, "Xiao Xie, you stay outside the Divine Realm and keep watch to prevent any accidents from happening."

“Okay!” Xie Zhaoming nodded solemnly.

Ahead, ashes filled the sky, and before the shattered foundation of the altar, the three-eyed old man roared, shaking the entire divine kingdom, and the place was once again bathed in great light.

His silver hair was disheveled, his vertical eye was wide open in anger, and his withered body swelled up, as if he had regained his former vitality and was no longer lifeless.

A divine spear appeared in his right hand, gleaming and sharp, dripping blood. In a daze, he felt his glorious past return.

The three-eyed old man's divine light surged, and he pointed his spear at Qin Ming, filled with endless despair and humiliation.

"I was once a god, yet I have to fight with you lowly beings. How pathetic."

"You pathetic goddess!" Qin Ming couldn't stand him. In an instant, a pair of dazzling wings appeared on his back, illuminating the entire dark night sky.

He carried the Thunder Blade, flapped his lightning wings, and vanished from his spot. Accompanied by the sound of wind and thunder, and the dazzling light of the blade, he instantly teleported to the old man's side.

Amidst a deafening roar, Qin Ming's Thunder Blade severed the divine spear formed from divine wisdom, sending the old man staggering backward, his body emitting blue smoke.

The three-eyed old man did indeed possess ghostly attributes, fearing the extremely yang lightning. His body, as if made of paper, was partially burned.

He moved like a ghost, shifting his position repeatedly. Finally, he chanted incantations to bless himself, and remnants of divine fire ignited on his shattered altar and throughout the entire divine kingdom, rising from the ashes.

In an instant, he unleashed a secret technique to suppress the sect.

On its body, thousands of eyes opened, directly invading the opponent's sea of ​​consciousness. A thousand eyes stared, divine fire burned the sky, and thousands of beams of light flew out.

This killer move ignores spatial distance, not only injuring the physical body but also igniting the opponent's soul. It is a method of simultaneously opening thousands of divine eyes and burning the divine essence.

However, Qin Ming's body was glowing, covered with dense symbols, forming a layer of armor—a protective light woven from the Primordial Myriad Thunder Script.

Even the gaze of a thousand eyes from the gods was useless, unable to penetrate, and all gazes were shattered by the thunder.

Ultimately, the three-eyed old man is now extremely weak and is not a deity. Even if he is using his magic, he is only at the level of a grandmaster and has no divine power to unleash.

Qin Ming smiled calmly, his hair sparkling. He was bathed in lightning, clear and transcendent. Twin lightning flowers appeared in his hands, one black and one white, both interwoven with the patterns of the lightning domain.

He was like a celestial being holding a flower, or a peaceful and serene deity. Two flowers, one black and one white, bloomed brilliantly in his hands, their petals layered upon each other, each radiating pure white and jet-black lightning.

Qin Ming flicked his wrist, summoning the Twin Thunder Flower.

With a deafening roar, the entire divine kingdom trembled violently. The black and white flowers collided, engulfing the three-eyed old man and blasting him into dust.

Meng Zhiyan was dumbfounded. This time, would President Qin really say that this wasn't a true grandmaster?
Yu Gengsheng glanced at him and said, "Xiao Meng, you didn't see anything."

Meng Zhiyan was taken aback, then quickly nodded and said, "Uh, okay, I forget everything I see."

The spirit is indestructible. Even though the entire towering tree of the divine path has decayed to the point where only some roots remain, it still possesses extraordinary abilities, and the three-eyed old man has reappeared.

His eyes were like abysses, filled with disbelief. Were all the young people of later generations this fierce? They far surpassed his contemporaries, which seemed so unreal.

The three-eyed old man whispered, "Dust of God!"

A burst of light rose from the top of his head, the essence of his being, the sublimation of divine wisdom, rising upwards and transforming into a ring of divine light. Wherever it passed, the ground of the divine kingdom collapsed, and everything turned to dust.

He used all his strength to try to turn Qin Ming into dust.

Faced with such a trump card, Qin Ming remained calm and composed. He formed a hand seal, and the purple golden core within his body, engraved with the patterns of heaven and earth, shone with countless rays of light.

A strange sight appeared on its body: a thunder whale leaping out of the sea.

The whale's body was composed of purplish-black lightning, its dorsal fin was like a sharp lightning blade, and it spewed "lightning water" from its mouth, which was blazing heavenly lightning. In addition, behind the thunder whale, the blurry sea was full of electric light.

Li Qingyun and Meng Xinghai were terrified. Xiao Qin's move was ingenious and its destructive power was terrifying.

With a deafening roar, the Thunder Whale leaped out of the sea, blasting the dazzling ring of divine light and the three-eyed elder into a rain of light, and destroying the foundation of the altar.

The area was completely cleared out; not even a trace of the old man remained.

"Ah..." However, the three-eyed old man finally reappeared with difficulty, and he was indeed difficult to destroy in his divine kingdom.

He roared, "Kill!"

This time, he was actually summoning the phantom of the "Three-Eyed Ancestor." The blurry deity seemed to have ten thousand eyes open at once, directly evolving into the "Divine Eye Purgatory," intending to knock his young opponent into it, so that he would suffer the torment of burning for eternity and be completely ruined.

Qin Ming remained calm and said, "Very well, let's get a sneak peek at the various methods of your Three-Eyed Cult Master."

He formed the hand seals again, and this time the mysterious scene outside his body was even more unusual. It was "weaving the sky with thunder patterns", which crisscrossed and densely covered the void, and a large number of thunder seals appeared, covering the front.

The three-eyed old man and the phantom he summoned—the three-eyed progenitor—completely collapsed.

Qin Ming repeatedly used the wondrous techniques from the "Primordial Thunder Script" to repeatedly blast and kill his opponents.

The three-eyed old man was in despair. He was almost exhausted, and even in his own divine kingdom, he could not escape destruction.

Not long after, Qin Ming stopped using the Thunder Dao True Scripture and switched to other methods.

Yu Gengsheng said, "Xiao Meng, go out and take a look, help Xiao Xie guard the gate."

Meng Zhiyan was speechless, finally understanding why Xie Zhaoming had been guarding outside. At this moment, Lao Yu also didn't want him to see any more of Qin Ming's methods.

Subsequently, Qin Ming used the Nine-Colored Sword Demon and the Inner Realm Heaven-Opening Axe to test his skills, thoroughly enjoying himself and fully examining the results of his cultivation over the past year.

Yu Gengsheng, Li Qingyun, and Meng Xinghai, standing nearby, were all dumbfounded.

Finally, Qin Ming looked at the altar that had turned to ashes, the completely destroyed divine monument, and the various characters in the divine kingdom that were fading away. He sighed softly, "Alas, he's still dead. It's a pity that such a good sparring partner has been completely destroyed, body and soul."

(End of this chapter)