You, a druid, go to practice Taoism?.

Chapter 420 Dominating the Foundation of Time
The figure composed of black lines was originally confident that it could block the white divine punishment that terrified countless cultivators, even though it was one of the most terrifying divine punishments recorded in the world.

Faced with such terrifying divine punishment, the black-clad figure showed no sign of panic.

But the moment the mottled bronze flying knife cleaved through the void, the black figure immediately panicked, and even the black threads seemed to tremble wildly out of control.

Without hesitation, the black figure instantly disintegrated, transforming into countless black lines that burrowed into the void and merged into the Great Dao, almost instantly erasing all traces.

Faced with such bizarre methods, Qi Ping's heart trembled violently.

This life-saving method is ridiculously powerful. It directly transforms into billions of beings and merges into the void. Qi Ping has seen many techniques and spells such as essence blood differentiation, consciousness separation, and life-saving clones, but they all seem weak in the face of this life-saving method.

And this tactic was indeed effective.

Faced with such methods, even the terrifying white divine lightning could only track and annihilate a portion of it, and probably couldn't even severely injure the opponent.

However, just when Qi Ping thought the black figure could escape, the bronze flying knife was struck!
The moment the bronze flying knife slashed into the void, the entire world suddenly froze in time and space!
Then an even more shocking scene unfolded: countless black lines were actually pulled out of the void by the bronze flying knife!
Then the black line that was pulled out began to break apart inch by inch until it collapsed and disappeared!

However, to Qi Ping's regret, the bronze throwing knife was not able to eliminate all the black lines. After eliminating most of them, the power fluctuations on the bronze throwing knife disappeared, as if it had exhausted all its power. Some of the black lines took the opportunity to escape.

After the black line left, a black box appeared in the void, and then a Mahayana stage human cultivator with almost dried-up blood and energy appeared in the box.

With his hands, trembling from exhaustion, he painstakingly placed the bronze throwing knife into the black box.

Then he tore off the only clean piece of cloth from his body and wrote words in blood on it.

Qi Ping clearly saw that those blood-written words were the same ones he had been looking at.

"A black square box, a bronze throwing knife, and a strip of cloth covered in blood-red writing."

At this moment, part of the mystery surrounding the black box and the bronze throwing knife was finally solved.

The exhausted Mahayana cultivator carefully and solemnly placed the bronze throwing knife and the strip of cloth covered in blood-written words into the black box before reverently and devoutly throwing the black box back into the Star Sea Continent.
After completing all of this, the figure seemed to have finished all its tasks. As the will that sustained it disappeared, the figure began to gradually dissipate. The eyes of its withered and terrifying face revealed a final trace of reluctance.

Immediately afterwards, the extremely withered Mahayana cultivator vanished into the void with his last lingering attachment, and everything about his existence was swiftly erased.
At this point, the scene before Qi Ping's eyes disappeared.

However, at the last moment, a special incantation appeared in Qi Ping's mind.

Although it was just a magic technique, the laws and principles it contained were incredibly powerful. It took Qi Ping almost a month to barely finish accepting the technique, and it would take him a long time to comprehend and use it.

"Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife, Immortal-Slaying Technique!"

After digesting the incantation, Qi Ping finally understood the whole story.

According to the information contained in that incantation, Qi Ping knew that he had just received a weapon control technique called the Immortal Slaying Technique, and the weapon he controlled was that bronze flying knife!

That is, the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife mentioned in the description!

According to the description in the manual, the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife is a weapon with immense karma, created specifically for slaying immortals; this is its greatest and only function.

The strange thing is that each time the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife is used, it needs to devour the essence, spirit, blood, and flesh of a cultivator, and only extremely rare special cultivators can meet the requirements of the bronze flying knife.

Once the bronze flying knife has absorbed enough flesh, blood, essence, and spirit, it can unleash incredible power, even capable of slaying immortals!

According to the information provided in the manual, the figure composed of black immortals was an immortal, a Mahayana cultivator who had crossed the threshold of becoming an immortal!
"Is this a deity?"

Qi Ping found this somewhat unacceptable.

In his expectations, cultivators who had passed through the gates of immortality should be extraordinary beings who lived forever and were untouched by the passage of time. How could they have become so terrifying and bizarre?
Its entire body turned into those terrifying black lines. What else could it be but a monster?
"However, from one perspective, that kind of power and survival ability makes calling someone an immortal not an exaggeration, it's just a bit strange."

Rather than being a deity, it would be more accurate to describe them as demons or monsters.

If this is considered a celestial being, then the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife is specifically designed to slay such beings.

Killing something doesn't seem particularly difficult to understand, but the way Qi Ping controls the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife makes his scalp tingle.

What's the difference between draining a person's flesh, blood, and spirit and sacrificing them?
Or rather, why does this Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife need to devour a unique being that is extremely rare in the world before it can unleash its power?
What is the relationship between the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife, also known as the Bronze Flying Knife, and that immortal?
There are too many suspicious points involved.

It was so big that it made Qi Ping's scalp tingle!

So he immediately put the bronze throwing knife back into the box, then sealed it away. He found a place and used the strongest formation and restrictions to completely seal it, leaving a wisp of consciousness to keep an eye on it.

Although the bronze throwing knife looked very powerful, Qi Ping had no intention of keeping it by his side. Who knew if this guy would devour him too, since this creature was treating him like a meal.

Therefore, Qi Ping would never use such a thing unless absolutely necessary.

Only after completely sealing the bronze throwing knife and the black box did Qi Ping finally breathe a sigh of relief.

It's more comfortable when there's nothing beyond your control around you.

"This can be considered a pretty good result!"

"Most importantly, I finally learned some secrets."

Thinking about the information he had just learned, Qi Ping's expression became somewhat serious.

One mystery has finally been solved: the Star Sea Continent has no history of Mahayana-related events.

That mysterious figure composed of countless black lines, the immortal described in the Immortal Slaying Technique, used a single, bizarre move of countless black lines to completely erase the existence of any Mahayana cultivators on the Star Sea Continent. Cultivators, techniques, magic weapons—nothing escaped its grasp.

Except for the Mahayana cultivator who was hidden in the black box and escaped the calamity.

But it was merely a narrow escape!

Even after the Mahayana cultivator emerged from the black box, his figure was still being swept away and erased by a powerful force. Even after the bronze flying knife annihilated the immortal composed of black lines, that force and its laws seemed to still exist.

Otherwise, even a Mahayana cultivator, even if they were completely exhausted, could not possibly dissipate so completely.

"So, the key question now is whether the power of the rules that erased Mahayana cultivators still exists?" At that moment, Qi Ping was suddenly startled!
"Where is the piece of cloth covered in blood-written words?"

He seemed to have only stored away the seal on the bronze throwing knife, and for a moment he seemed to have forgotten about the tattered cloth covered in blood-written words.

Now that tattered cloth seems to have disappeared!
Therefore, Qi Ping immediately used the power of the Earth Immortal Druid to begin searching for the existence of that tattered cloth. Such an item could not possibly escape his search.

But as time passed, Qi Ping's expression gradually turned grim.

Because he couldn't find any trace of the bloodstained cloth!

"Really disappeared!"

Qi Ping's face suddenly turned extremely ugly.

"That rule that obliterates everything concerning Mahayana cultivators must still exist!"

Otherwise, that bloodstained cloth would never have disappeared for no reason.

Even Qi Ping's memories seem to deliberately ignore and forget the existence of the Blood Cloth.

"No, I must record the existence of the Blood Cloth."

Therefore, Qi Ping began to use the power of the laws to inscribe the events of today on a hard black gold stone.
But as Qi Ping began to carve, his expression grew increasingly grim, for just as he was halfway through, all traces vanished instantly, leaving only a pitted and uneven piece of black gold stone.
What am I imprinting?

Qi Ping suddenly realized that he seemed to have forgotten something, and also forgot what he had recorded.

All he knows now is that he was recording something very important, but he has forgotten it!
"Things related to the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife and the Immortal-Slaying Technique, as well as immortals, and the rules left behind by that immortal that erase the existence of any Mahayana stage cultivators."

"There seems to be a gap in my memory, something that seems to be related to the origin of the Immortal Slaying Technique."

"What on earth is this thing that can erase my memories?"

With a grim expression, Qi Ping immediately began to mobilize his own power.

"All living beings in heaven and earth, all living beings remember Jia, protect my true spirit!"

"May the Earth Immortal Druid be blessed by the Earth Immortal!"

"Five-colored divine light, divine armor protecting the spirit!"

Qi Ping unhesitatingly channeled all the power he could muster into his true consciousness, firmly guarding it at its core.

Only at this moment did Qi Ping feel that his consciousness had completely returned to clarity, and the force that had been affecting his memory slowly weakened and disappeared.

"Damn it!"

"Even after that immortal covered in black lines erased the Mahayana stage beings, that power still remained!"

"But how many years have passed? Is this the power of immortals?"

"And there's the part of my memory I've forgotten. The gap in my memory is the source of the 'Immortal Slaying Technique,' and it was also the vessel that provided the memory of that battle. Now it's gone, along with the meaning behind its existence. And that black box is the vessel that can isolate this strange power of law."

Qi Ping was very serious. He hadn't expected that a small black box would lead to so many things.

"It seems that the protective layers within my consciousness and true spirit must not be dispelled in the future, otherwise the remaining memories will also be erased one by one."

Fortunately, within his own Earth Immortal Realm, Qi Ping's recovery ability is at its maximum, enough to easily replenish the energy consumed by this protective force. The only troublesome thing is that he has to divert a portion of his consciousness to continuously manipulate these forces.

"Forget it, let's just treat it as strength manipulation training!"

"It's good to know this information; at least we won't be wiped out by this force due to a reckless breakthrough to the Mahayana stage."

"So this is why no Mahayana cultivators have appeared or descended upon the Star Sea Continent for so many years? Or perhaps they did descend but were instantly annihilated, thus making the Star Sea Continent a forbidden area for Mahayana cultivators?"

Soon, Qi Ping considered all sorts of possibilities.

"However, this stage may not be a bad thing. I am still far from breaking through to the Mahayana stage. If the Star Sea Continent has the power to erase the Mahayana stage, I should not face enemies of this level in the short term."

"Furthermore, if the demon race invades, and if their power system is similar to that of the Mahayana stage, wouldn't some of them also be wiped out? In that case, even if the descending demon race is very strong, without Mahayana stage cultivators, the Star Sea Continent's chances of winning would greatly increase."

Qi Ping estimated that it was very likely that, given the strength of the "immortal" appearing in the picture, even the terrifying demons would have to temporarily give way in front of him.

"So, if I develop for a while longer, anyone who wants to defeat me, whether they are at the Fusion or below level, will need a massive number of living beings to overwhelm them. However, given the conditions inside the Chaotic Sea Passage, the more living beings I bring, the more dangerous it becomes. Add to that the journey, which can take years, and it will be even more difficult to bring a large number of living beings to the destination."

"In that case, this power has become a protective talisman for our Star Sea Continent!"

Qi Ping never expected that this power, which severed the foundation of Mahayana cultivation, would become a protective talisman for their Star Sea Continent!

Even without a large number of high-level forces, he is not invincible in mid-to-high-level warfare.

Although the Star Sea Nine Domains don't have many mid-to-high-end combat forces, both the Azure God Army and the ever-expanding Golden Marrow Bees are powerful forces capable of sweeping away opponents of the same level and defeating the many with the few.

The Azure God Army and the Golden Marrow Bees were both forces that shocked Qi Ping.

Therefore, thinking of this, Qi Ping was no longer so averse to the power of the rules that could obliterate Mahayana cultivators. In any case, any power that could be used at this stage was a good power.

As for the issue of breaking through to the Mahayana stage, we'll address that when the time comes.

Qi Ping believed that when he reached the peak of the Integration Stage, his foundation and the development of the Star Sea Continent would be far beyond what they were now.

Moreover, by then he should have already opened up some of the trade routes across the myriad worlds, and he can also obtain some surprising things through these trade routes.

With the combined resources and the existence of the bronze throwing knife, this problem might not be unsolvable.

However, if he could, Qi Ping would never use the bronze throwing knife, because it might be an even more mysterious existence than an immortal.
(End of this chapter)