Chapter 1693
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Chapter 1693 Heaven and Death Star
The surging spiritual power gradually subsided, and Huo Qubing slowly opened his eyes.
“My lord! You’re awake?” Zhan Yuwu exclaimed with delight, “How do you feel?”
Huo Qubing stood up from the ground, lightly shook his sleeves, and the dust fell from the hem of his marquis robe. He stood there straight as an arrow, like a sturdy pine tree.
“Much better,” Huo Qubing looked down at his palm, his eyes incredibly bright.
“Where is Lin Qiye?”
“He went to find the Queen Mother of the West… Oh, here he comes now.”
Everyone turned to look and saw Lin Qiye carrying a hardwood bow, slowly walking toward them from a distance.
“The Marquis is awake?” Lin Qiye raised an eyebrow, “Good timing, we should get going now.”
“To find the Celestial Court?”
“The Celestial Court is beyond our reach now, but we must kill Kusuen’s main body. That thing’s offspring took several days to reach the outskirts of Chang’an, which means the main body doesn’t move quickly. It should still be in the Kunlun Mountains.”
Everyone nodded and immediately walked toward the exit of Yaochi.
“Jialan, the Queen Mother asked me to give this to you,” Lin Qiye took the hardwood bow from his back and handed it to Jialan.
Jialan, who had just managed to stop her tears, saw the hardwood bow and her eyes immediately reddened again. She held the bow in her arms, her fingertips gently rubbing its surface.
“This is the bow the Queen Mother made for me from an evergreen branch when I was newly born… it won’t rot or decay for ten thousand years.” Jialan said softly, “But although this bow doesn’t decay, it’s not very sturdy, so we didn’t use it for archery later on. I didn’t expect the Queen Mother would still keep it.”
“You’ve taken the immortality pill, your lifespan is endless. Perhaps the Queen Mother gave you this bow that won’t decay for thousands of years hoping it could stay with you forever.”
Lin Qiye naturally recognized this bow. When he first released Jialan from Fengdu, this bow was by her side… unfortunately, it eventually broke during battle.
Jialan held the bow like a treasure, took one last look at the desolate Yaochi, and turned to leave.
Just as Lin Qiye was about to leave, as if remembering something, he casually picked up a willow branch corpse and followed closely behind.
In the heavy snowfall, several figures emerged from the void one after another.
“Where should we go next?” Chloe asked.
Lin Qiye raised the willow branch in his hand. In his vision, a thread of cause and effect extended from the willow branch corpse, stretching in a certain direction before disappearing into nothingness.
This willow branch was something left by the main body, with a very close causal relationship. As long as Lin Qiye held this branch, he could follow the trail to find Kusuen’s main body.
“This way,” Lin Qiye pointed in a direction.
Huo Qubing raised his hand, and two carriages that had been buried in the snow and wind suddenly rushed out, stopping in front of everyone.
“Get in, this Marquis will take you in pursuit.”
…
Space.
In the endless darkness and silence, a magnificent ancient celestial court moved silently among the stars.
Among the constellations, a red star was getting closer and closer to them… it was a huge rust-brown sphere, about half the size of Earth, but even so, the celestial court seemed as insignificant as an ant before it.
This rusty star floated lifelessly in space, slowly moving toward Earth. A giant eyeball flowing with what looked like mucus was floating on the surface of the star. Vaguely, one could see strange beast shadows flashing within it, with muffled thunder sounds emanating from it, and a sense of deathly oppression surging forth!
“What kind of monstrosity is this…”
In the celestial court, the Virtue Supreme looked at this strange colossal entity before him, his brows tightly furrowed.
“It looks like some kind of extraterrestrial life form, but it emits a very strange aura, like a deity, yet also like an evil spirit. I’ve never seen anything like it before,” the Primordial Supreme said solemnly.
“An invasion of extraterrestrial deities… Could it be related to the great calamity that this poor Taoist predicted?”
The Treasure Supreme’s fingers moved slightly, as if calculating something.
“This thing is getting closer and closer to the human world. We need to deal with it quickly.”
“We have just entered the supreme realm, our powers are not yet stable, and this thing is extremely strange. We must be careful when we strike,” the Primordial Supreme reminded.
The other two Supremes nodded, and their forms shot out from the celestial court like three beams of rainbow light. Following them, numerous ancient divine shadows flew out like raindrops, descending toward that red dead star in a vast, overwhelming wave!
…
Faint glimmers flashed across the surface of that red star, almost imperceptible to the naked eye when viewed from the ground.
Two carriages swept across the vast snowy mountains, advancing through the blizzard. Blazing flames rose from Chloe’s hands, barely dispelling the surrounding cold, but even so, the wildly bumping carriage made everyone’s faces turn pale.
Lin Qiye seemed to sense something, slightly frowning as he lifted the carriage curtain and looked up at the red star.
“Have the Supremes made their move?” Lin Qiye murmured.
“I can’t take it anymore,” Yan Zhong weakly raised his hand and patted the inner wall of the carriage, hoarsely saying, “Let’s rest… rest a bit before continuing!”
“Ugh—!” Without another word, Chloe vomited directly onto the carriage floor. The smell immediately broke the resistance of the other struggling, suffering passengers, who began to retch one after another.
Lin Qiye’s mouth twitched slightly, and he immediately began looking for a suitable landing spot. His gaze swept over the area below, finally settling on a dilapidated temple in the mountains.
“There’s actually a temple in this place?” Lin Qiye said in surprise.
Under Lin Qiye’s guidance, the two carriages began to descend toward the broken temple. As soon as the wheels touched the ground, several figures rushed out, beginning their journey of “release.”
Lin Qiye lightly jumped down from the carriage and immediately noticed several corpses arranged in the open space of the broken temple, with some willow branches mixed among them.
“On Kusuen’s path of movement, even this place was affected by the counterfeit…” Lin Qiye’s gaze swept over these corpses one by one, and he sighed helplessly.
He stepped into the broken temple to see if there were any survivors, but unfortunately, apart from the silent Buddha statue, there was no sign of life.
“Wasn’t Buddhism not yet introduced in this era?”
Lin Qiye looked at the clay Buddha statue in the center of the temple, raising his eyebrows in confusion.
“Cough, cough… This is the border between Han and the Magadha Kingdom. Some Buddhist beliefs have already begun to cross the border into Han,” Yan Zhong weakly entered the temple and began looking around.
“What are you looking for?”
“Food.” Yan Zhong rubbed his empty stomach and said bitterly, “After riding in those flying carriages so many times today, I’ve almost thrown up everything in my stomach. Since monks originally lived here, there should be some dried food stored.”
Yan Zhong hurriedly walked toward the back courtyard of the temple. Lin Qiye glanced at the Buddha statue and followed him into the yard. His peripheral vision fell on a corner of the courtyard, and his gaze suddenly fixed.
On a spotlessly clean stone platform in the corner, a chessboard sat silently.
