Chapter 1697
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Chapter 1697 Falling Stars
“Destiny, huh…” Huo Qubing nodded.
“How long will it take for him to appear?”
“For life with thinking ability to evolve from causality, it will take at least hundreds of years… Before then, we can only wait.
The white pieces in your hands can help you hide from causality, but I won’t activate them for you now, because you all have your own historical missions and need to intersect with people and create various causalities. If too many causalities are produced during the hiding period, it might break the concealment and be discovered by [The Key to the Door].
So, I will wait until a certain time two thousand years later, when you no longer create too many causalities with the world, to uniformly activate your white pieces and completely conceal you.”
“Are you saying that for now, we should just continue doing what we’ve been doing?” Yan Zhong pondered.
“That’s right, and this period might last two thousand years,” Lin Qiye slowly said. “Everything that happened in this dilapidated temple is just a ‘promise’… a ‘promise’ that needs to be fulfilled at some point more than two thousand years later.
Causality as the thread, white chess pieces as the token… this is our [Sacred Covenant].”
Everyone exchanged glances and nodded simultaneously.
“Future matters can be discussed in the future… Now, we still have one thing to complete.” Lin Qiye looked at the causality thread floating from the willow branch, narrowing his eyes. “Once we’re rested, let’s set off.”
Everyone had finished their dry rations, and the dizziness from riding the flying car had disappeared. They pushed open the creaking temple door in the snowstorm and walked toward the two carriages.
“Lin Qiye,” Huo Qubing called out to Lin Qiye.
“What is it, Marquis?”
“Who is Gongyang Zhuo?” Huo Qubing asked curiously, watching Gongyang Wan’s departing figure.
When Gongyang Wan killed Chen Bapi, Huo Qubing was resting in the carriage and didn’t know about her past. Lin Qiye briefly described it to him, after which he fell silent.
“I knew she killed everyone in a stronghold… but I didn’t know there was such a story behind it,” Huo Qubing sighed deeply.
“Now Gongyang Wan has developed an interest in the Demon Suppression Department. If we can rescue Gongyang Zhuo, we can bind her completely to us… However, finding a suitable physical body for Gongyang Zhuo remains a difficult problem.”
Lin Qiye shook his head and walked straight toward one of the carriages.
Huo Qubing stood in the dilapidated temple, his eyes fixed on Gongyang Wan as she boarded the carriage, lost in thought…
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Space.
In the silent darkness, brilliant flashes of fire erupted in deep space. Under the flying divine spells and godly lights, terrifying cracks spread frantically across the surface of that rust-colored celestial body.
Dense, bizarre monsters leaped from the red ground, engaging in battle with the gods pouring out from the Heavenly Court, like heaven and earth shattering.
These monsters seemed to be creatures born from this red celestial body. Though not individually strong, they were extremely numerous. Their disproportionately large mouths could easily devour objects a hundred times their size. Even divine artifacts would shatter under their frenzied gnawing.
Fortunately, the gods of the Heavenly Court were also numerous and possessed many divine artifacts. As the two sides fought, the gods eventually gained the upper hand.
Meanwhile, that flowing giant eye on the celestial body locked firmly onto the three Heavenly Venerable before it.
“It can’t hold on much longer,” the Primordial Heavenly Venerable said calmly, standing on countless golden lotuses. “Cut it down with the Origin.”
The Heavenly Venerable raised his hand slightly, and the distant Heavenly Court, shrouded in spiritual energy, trembled slightly. A golden thread floated into his palm, wrapping around his sword fingers, and a terrifying pressure instantly spread throughout the entire space.
Holding the Origin of the Heavenly Court, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable made a sweeping gesture toward the huge red celestial body before him. The invisible power of Origin instantly cut across the ground, and a smooth fracture began to appear at the center of the celestial body!
Viscous black magma gushed out frantically from the fracture, and a foul stench spread through deep space. The Primordial Heavenly Venerable, holding the Origin of the Heavenly Court, frowned slightly. Just as he was about to swing his sword a second time, the two halves of the celestial body suddenly emitted a dazzling light!
The next moment, before the Primordial Heavenly Venerable could swing his sword, the two halves automatically disintegrated. Under the terrifying propulsive force of the explosion, countless rust-colored fragments swarmed toward a certain direction in deep space!
The Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Venerable frowned, about to say something, when he saw the direction these celestial fragments were heading. His pupils suddenly contracted!
“Not good! It’s going to destroy Earth directly!!”
The red celestial body was too massive, about half the size of Earth. Even after disintegration, the fragments were still the size of small asteroids. Any single fragment hitting Earth could at best destroy a city or even a country, and at worst cause biological extinction.
The three Heavenly Venerables immediately moved, rapidly pursuing the fragment cluster shooting through space. Divine light swept through the darkness, quickly annihilating one fragment after another, but even so, the few fastest fragments had already reached Earth’s atmosphere!
“This is bad…” the Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Venerable muttered.
…
Two carriages flew through the snow-covered mountains.
Lin Qiye sat in the carriage, his gaze following the causality thread toward the distance.
“It should be nearby.”
“Is that a patch of smoke over there? Could that be it?” Chloe’s eyes were very sharp, and she immediately spotted the constantly color-changing smoke at the end of the mountain range. “Is that it?”
“Yes, that’s it.”
Lin Qiye’s eyes flashed with a gleam of light. After giving Huo Qubing directions, the two carriages immediately accelerated, heading straight for the colorful smoke!
As they got closer, Lin Qiye could finally see the full view of the smoke. The dizzying, colorful smoke had enveloped almost all the nearby peaks, covering an area several times larger than what they had seen outside Chang’an. It seemed that after leaving Yaochi, it had been continuously moving eastward, getting further away from this mountain range.
“Finally found it…” Huo Qubing narrowed his eyes.
This before them was Kusuen’s true form. If they killed it, all first and second generation offspring scattered throughout the Han Dynasty would die simultaneously.
Just as the two carriages were about to charge into the smoke, the sky above suddenly began to flash!
Lin Qiye was startled and immediately looked up. He saw that the red celestial body in the sky had darkened and shattered, with streaks like meteors cutting through deep space, growing larger in their vision!
“What’s happening?!” Lin Qiye’s expression immediately became grave.
The others also saw this scene. The carriages immediately stopped at the edge of the smoke. At the same time, the Kunlun Mirror in Lin Qiye’s arms began to vibrate violently!
He took out the Kunlun Mirror, and from its smooth surface, a divine shadow flew out, transforming into the figure of the Queen Mother of the West wearing a gold-trimmed purple robe. She looked up at the rapidly approaching red fragments, her expression extremely grim.
