Chapter 446: Chapter 356: The Ruined World, the Twisted Demon God (Part 2)
"Too weak."
SPLAT!
Fresh blood splattered.
Xu Qing waved his right hand, forming it into a Sword Pointing. With just that gentle slash, a terrifying Sword Aura erupted, tearing everything apart.
A rain of blood fell.
Hong Wu had been slain by Xu Qing’s single strike. His entire body was pulverized by countless streams of Sword Qi, exploding into a bloody mist that filled the air.
BZZZT! BZZZT!
However,
The bloody mist quickly began to coalesce. In an instant, it formed a black Eye of Calamity, which emanated an intensely seductive aura.
’Believe in me, revere me, worship me, and I shall grant you everything you desire...’
Vaguely,
Xu Qing seemed to hear the seductive voice of the Eye of Calamity.
"Ridiculous."
Xu Qing shook his head. The seductive voice had no effect on him whatsoever. He took a step forward and snatched the black Eye of Calamity with his right hand.
"Perish..."
POP!
Xu Qing clenched his right fist. Countless streams of Sword Qi erupted from his palm, directly obliterating the black Eye of Calamity.
"Taken care of..."
Xu Qing flicked his hand. The difficulty of a D-Level Task was indeed too low. Even after he’d ignored it for a month, this was as strong as it had gotten. It couldn’t withstand a single blow and was dealt with effortlessly.
BZZZT!
[D-Level Task Complete!]
[Reward: Ten Candidate Value.]
The next moment,
a prompt appeared before Xu Qing’s eyes.
Immediately after,
Elf Tutor No. 01 appeared before Xu Qing.
"Honored Candidate, congratulations on completing the D-Level Task."
Elf Tutor No. 01 spoke respectfully, "The ’Candidate Value Leaderboard’ is now available to you."
"We can talk about that later."
Xu Qing waved his hand dismissively. "Get me out of here first."
"Yes,"
said Elf Tutor No. 01.
BZZZT!
As soon as the words were spoken,
a beam of white light descended from the sky and enveloped Xu Qing. His figure vanished into thin air, leaving that dimension and returning to the blank, isolated room.
BZZZT! BZZZT!
Meanwhile,
after Xu Qing left, that dimension immediately began to change. Countless cracks appeared and it began to collapse rapidly, the entire space turning to nothingness.
「Inside the blank room.」
Xu Qing had returned.
SWOOSH!
At that moment,
a Candidate Value Leaderboard appeared before Xu Qing. It had taken him a whole month to complete a single D-Level Task, for which he had only received ten Candidate Value.
Therefore,
Xu Qing’s ranking was last—twenty-eighth place.
Apparently,
out of the countless powerhouses and chosen ones from the Profound Yellow Realm, only twenty-eight individuals had the qualifications to participate in this assessment.
First Place: Zhang Ling, Candidate Value: 1,110.
"Oh."
Xu Qing raised his eyebrows and mused, "So Zhang Ling is in first place. Judging from his Candidate Value, he must have completed one D-Level Task, one C-Level Task, and one B-Level Task."
Then,
Xu Qing continued to scroll down the list.
Most of the names he saw were familiar—they were the Direct Disciples of the Nine Great Sacred Lands. There were, however, a few dark horses who had squeezed into the top ten.
"Honored Candidate,"
Elf Tutor No. 01 said, "You spent far too much time on the D-Level Task. It took you a whole month to complete one, which is why you are ranked last."
"I hope you will pick up the pace, Honored Candidate."
However,
Xu Qing paid no mind to Elf Tutor No. 01’s words.
"This one."
After browsing for a moment,
Xu Qing found a C-Level Task that seemed suitable.
[C-Level Task]
[Mission Details: A world is on the brink of destruction. To save itself, the Celestial Dao has given birth to a twisted consciousness, which in turn has spawned a ’Twisted Demon God’. Please enter this world, destroy the ’Twisted Demon God’, and save the world.]
[Reward: One hundred Candidate Value.]
"Tsk, tsk..."
Xu Qing clicked his tongue. "A C-Level Task is already about saving a world. Tasks above C-Level must be even more terrifying."
"Teleport!"
BZZZT!
As soon as he spoke,
a beam of white light descended and enveloped Xu Qing. His figure promptly vanished from the blank room.
’Is he really Candidate 01? To be ranked number one, his aptitude and strength should be the greatest among all the candidates. So why did he spend a whole month on a single D-Level Task?’
Elf Tutor No. 01 wondered to itself.
Unfortunately,
even it could not pry into a candidate’s experiences within a mission world.
’So this is the world on the verge of destruction?’
BZZZT!
Xu Qing opened his eyes again to find himself in another dimension. The moment he arrived, he sensed an oppressive atmosphere. The entire world was in a state of constant decay and destruction.
The feeling...
was as if the world had entered its twilight years.
Xu Qing took a deep breath.
Moreover,
after sensing his surroundings for a moment, Xu Qing discovered that the energy contained within this world—the Heaven and Earth Energy, spiritual qi, and the like—was imbued with the twisted and frenzied consciousness of the Twisted Demon God.
This meant that
any being who absorbed this Heaven and Earth Energy for cultivation would have their own consciousness eroded by the Twisted Demon God.
At that point,
if they couldn’t resist,
their consciousness would descend into madness, and they might even throw themselves into the arms of the Twisted Demon God, willingly becoming a part of it.
"Tsk, tsk..."
Xu Qing clicked his tongue and mused, "In other words, it’s impossible to absorb Heaven and Earth Energy for cultivation in this world."
"For Extraordinary Beings, there’s no situation more tragic than this."
SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!!!
With a wave of his right hand, Xu Qing summoned one Dao Rhythm Sword Puppet after another. These were puppets he had acquired from the Shu Mountain resource treasury.
He took out nine in total.
He named them sequentially: Number One, Number Two, Number Three...
and so on.
"We pay our respects to our master!"
The Dao Rhythm Sword Puppets had already reached the Sixth Realm, possessing nearly complete sentience. The nine of them knelt before Xu Qing.
"Mm."
Xu Qing nodded slightly and ordered, "I have more important matters to attend to. Your mission is to stay here and investigate the specifics of this world. Report your findings to me when I return."
"Yes."
"As you command."
"We shall obey our master’s decree!"
"..."
The nine Dao Rhythm Sword Puppets spoke with the utmost respect.
"Mm."
Xu Qing waved his hand. "Go."
"Yes!"
"..."
SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!!!
As soon as he finished speaking,
the nine Dao Rhythm Sword Puppets all departed. They headed off in nine different directions to investigate the world, just as Xu Qing had commanded.
"Time for me to go, too,"
Xu Qing said.
Then,
Xu Qing’s consciousness connected with the Encyclopedia of All Things. Using its power, he teleported away, leaving the Xuanhuang Guardian City.
「In the blink of an eye.」
Xu Qing returned to the Level 27 Beastman Mini World.
BZZZT! BZZZT! BZZZT!!!
Under a time acceleration of 100,000 times,
Xu Qing could clearly feel the fluctuations of the river of time and even sense traces of the Space-Time Dao. Countless events were unfolding in the Level 27 Beastman Mini World...
BOOM!
With a single thought, Xu Qing directed his consciousness to the Celestial Dao Space of the Level 27 Beastman Mini World. There, he sat cross-legged, meditating on and practicing the Chaos Sword Dao to accumulate a massive amount of Experience Points.
As the saying goes,
time holds no meaning in cultivation.
Immersed in Cultivation, one loses all sense of passing time...
Before he knew it,
a year had passed in the Profound Yellow Realm.
In contrast,
under the 100,000 times time acceleration,
a full 100,000 years had passed in the Level 27 Beastman Mini World.
「On this day.」
Xu Qing opened his eyes, and within them was the profound weight of endless ages...
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