Outside Of Time

Chapter 1739  The ”Crescent Moon” Dao Artifact

”Your name is Xu Qing, correct?”

In the chaotic battlefield, above was a distorted and rippling abstract scroll, its appearance almost impossible to discern.

The scroll unfurled, with black and white swirling within, exuding supreme power. Waves of energy spread across the battlefield below, bringing death wherever they passed.

On the battlefield, the armies of the cultivators and the gods clashed like countless rivers of dust, their collisions resounding endlessly.

Blood filled the air, and corpses littered the ground.

It was a horrifying sight!

The tearing of the starry sky and the collapse of space-time added even more danger to this already chaotic battlefield.

This universe seemed on the verge of collapse!

Amidst this chaos, a golden-armored, purple-haired, and eerily beautiful jade-faced True God strode forward, speaking as It moved.

Its divine voice echoed, clearly reaching Xu Qing, who was fleeing in the distance. In an instant, the voice transformed into a straight, terrifying cutting line that sliced through the starry sky in front of Xu Qing.

Xu Qingʼs eyes narrowed, a sharp light flashing within them. With his left hand forming a seal, his immortal embryo surged forth, surrounded by meteors of metal, wood, water, earth, and the forces of time and space.

His body also began to overlap, as the Ordinance of space-time and parallel dimensions erupted.

Gathering his strength, he charged forward.

A deafening roar erupted.

With this charge, he directly collided with the cutting line blocking his path. Then, with a flash of his Ordinance, the line dimmed!

His figure burst through.

At the early-stage Quasi Immortal Realm, he could already battle peak Divine Platform experts. Now, at the mid-stage Quasi Immortal Realm, although he still couldnʼt bridge the gap between the Divine Platform and the True God Realm, he had gained the ability to resist.

After breaking through, his face paled slightly, but his speed increased.

”The battlefield is chaotic. Even if I return to the cultivatorsʼ army, Iʼll still be caught in the slaughter. So… I need to escape the battlefield and leave this area.”

Xu Qing had made up his mind. But even as he broke through the cutting line and increased his speed, the jade-faced True God behind him clung to him like a shadow, twisting through the void.

It rapidly closed the distance, raising its hand to create a second cutting line that tore through the void, blocking Xu Qingʼs path.

Then a third, a fourth, a fifth…

Ninety-nine cutting lines appeared, surrounding Xu Qing on all sides, isolating him in a space riddled with holes.

The power of a True God was truly formidable.

Then, the jade-faced True God clenched Its right hand.

Instantly, the ninety-nine cutting lines that had blocked and isolated Xu Qing came to life, detaching from the starry sky and transforming into threads.

They converged toward Xu Qing!

As they moved, the power of sealing, the force of cutting, and the divine pressure contained within them erupted in full force.

They charged straight at Xu Qing!

In this critical moment, Xu Qingʼs pupils contracted. If this were happening elsewhere, he might have been able to fight back.

But on this chaotic battlefield, being delayed was the worst possible outcome.

As for his trump card, he did possess the Immortal Lord Dao Artifact, but its power was immense. Using it even once with his current strength, aided by the pull of fortune, would leave him weakened.

Thus, in such a dangerous situation, he didnʼt want to use it unless absolutely necessary.

In this perilous moment, Xu Qingʼs eyes flashed. With his right hand, he reached into the void and grabbed the unconscious Starry Eye Goddess, whom he had taken earlier.

He used the goddess to block the oncoming cutting lines.

This move immediately caused the jade-faced True God to pause.

Its raised hand hesitated.

The cutting lines charging toward Xu Qing also stopped.

Seizing this moment, Xu Qingʼs speed surged again. The overlapping dimensions around him became even more pronounced, and multiple parallel space-times formed around him.

At the cost of shattering these dimensions, he instantly broke free from the encirclement.

He darted through the battlefield, swiftly passing through one area after another.

Behind him, the jade-faced True Godʼs face shone with golden light, and It made a decision.

Even if the goddess died, She could be revived. If It continued to hesitate, Xu Qing would exploit this weakness, putting It at a severe disadvantage.

”So be it!”

The jade-faced True God spoke calmly, taking a step forward and crossing the battlefield. Its voice echoed around Xu Qing once more.

”Do you know why I was chosen for this exchange?”

”Because the more chaotic the battlefield, the richer my divine aspect becomes.”

The jade-faced True God spoke calmly.

These words reached Xu Qing as he fled, and his expression darkened. The True God had no reason to speak, yet It had done so both earlier and now.

Its words seemed deliberate.

”Is it related to Its divine authority?”

As Xu Qing thought this, a sense of crisis suddenly exploded in his heart.

He noticed that although the jade-faced True God was still far away, golden threads had appeared out of thin air around him after Its words.

These threads were similar to the earlier cutting lines but seemed slightly different.

What made Xu Qingʼs pupils contract even more was that these golden threads, after appearing, suddenly spread out. Their target wasnʼt him, but… the floating corpses of gods and cultivators around him.

In an instant, almost every golden thread connected to a broken corpse. Thousands of golden threads linked to thousands of corpses.

Then… every corpse connected to a golden thread trembled and opened its eyes, revealing a golden light.

Their state was identical to the five human cultivators the jade-faced True God had absorbed earlier.

Xu Qingʼs expression darkened. He immediately realized they were divine puppets!

”This is Its divine authority!”

”Transforming thoughts into threads, threads into puppets. Wherever It leads, whether gods or cultivators, they all become Its puppets.”

Xu Qing frowned. This divine aspect was clearly more powerful on the battlefield.

Now, as the corpses revived, they all flew toward Xu Qing from all directions.

Although they werenʼt at their full strength, they retained some of their power. Combined with their numbers, they posed a terrifying threat.

Xu Qing retreated rapidly, unleashing a storm of space-time to block the corpses while stepping onto a skull-shaped meteor.

But the moment he landed, the meteor beneath his feet suddenly lit up with golden patterns, then began to writhe, forming facial features as if it had come to life.

The meteor had also become a puppet!

It opened its mouth and spewed a cloud of cursed mist.

But the moment the mist touched Xu Qing, he used the clay foxʼs power to release his own divine curse, which instantly clashed with the puppetʼs curse.

Silently, the surface of the meteor collapsed, turning into dust and scattering.

But this delay allowed the surrounding corpses to close in, and the jade-faced True God in the distance became clearly visible.

Xu Qingʼs expression turned grim. He sensed the terrifying nature of the True Godʼs curse and gained a deeper understanding of the strangeness of Its divine authority.

”Can It turn anything into a puppet?”

Xu Qing raised his hand, and the iron stick flew out, sweeping with a sharp force. The sound of bells echoed, causing the corpses to pause, and many were pierced by the iron stick.

As for Xu Qing himself, he didnʼt stop. He activated a secret technique to increase his speed even further.

From a distance, his robes fluttered in the chaotic currents. Wherever he passed, fragments of stars and corpses suddenly lit up with golden light, then revived.

They charged at him relentlessly.

”Clay fox…”

Seeing this, Xu Qing roared inwardly. The clay fox once again opened Her mind, acting as a bridge for Xu Qingʼs divine power. Then, Xu Qing let out a low shout.

His voice became a divine sound.

It was the divine technique—sound snatching!

The battlefield suited the jade-faced True God, but it also suited Xu Qingʼs sound snatching technique.

In an instant, Xu Qingʼs sound authority erupted. Divine sounds transformed into ancient runes, emerging from every source of sound around him.

The battlefieldʼs roars became his sound, the cries of slaughter became his sound, the wails of death became his sound.

These divine sounds surged into the sky, forming a mysterious array of incantations that entangled all the corpses, including the jade-faced True God chasing him.

This scene surprised the jade-faced True God, causing Its eyes to gleam with curiosity.

”He can use divine techniques?”

As It murmured, It raised Its hand and pressed down. More golden threads emerged from the void, piercing through the incantations formed by Xu Qingʼs sound authority and turning them… into puppets as well!

Then, they charged toward Xu Qing!

But this chase was filled with too many variables.

Whether it was the dense clashes of the armies or the chaotic currents from the Lord God and Immortal Lord sweeping through, both sidesʼ speeds were affected, and their lives were at risk.

At this moment, a current from the Lord God swept through. Even though Xu Qing was some distance away, he still coughed up blood, his mind trembling.

Even the jade-faced True God had to dodge.

Thus, Xu Qing and the jade-faced True God, one in front and the other behind, fought and fled through the battlefield.

Countless star fragments and the corpses of divine beings and cultivators floated in the battlefield. Some, under Xu Qingʼs deliberate actions, silently disintegrated into fine cosmic dust.

As for those that couldnʼt be destroyed, they instantly became puppets of the jade-faced True God, charging at Xu Qing.

As this continued, the distance between them gradually closed.

At the same time, something that made Xu Qingʼs heart sink occurred.

In the distance, another True God began striding toward him.

Fortunately, a Lower Immortal from the cultivatorsʼ side intercepted It almost immediately.

But Xu Qingʼs sense of crisis grew stronger. He quickly scanned his surroundings, and in the next moment, he locked onto a specific location. His mind stirred, and he turned, a cold light flashing in his eyes. He had made a decision.

His body suddenly stopped. He no longer fled but stood still, calming his mind and pressing his right hand to his forehead.

His soul rippled, transmitting a Dao thought.

”Crescent Moon!”

A shadow of a moon appeared on Xu Qingʼs forehead.

What he was summoning was… the Immortal Lord Dao Artifact, guided by the fortune of a True Monarch!

As he summoned it, numerous parallel space-times appeared around him. In each one, a version of himself raised a finger and pressed it to his forehead.

All of them spoke the same words!

”Crescent Moon!””Crescent Moon!!”

As the voices from different space-times echoed, in the current battlefieldʼs space-time, a blood-colored crescent blade emerged from the moon shadow on Xu Qingʼs forehead, as if piercing through the starry sky!

It resembled a fragment of armor peeled from the bone of some vast being, its surface covered in billions of fine blood vessel-like patterns.

Each pattern seemed to flow with starlight from different eras.

Some were pale purple star marrow from ancient times that had long since dissipated, while others were deep green star sand that seemed to have soaked in the primordial sea. As for the main vein in the center, it pulsed with a gel-like substance—a map of the Fifth Star Ring!

It was a horrifying sight!

As it appeared, an eerie crimson light, representing death and blood, instantly enveloped the surroundings.

Within its range, star fragments, meteors, and corpses were dyed and melted…

As if shedding tears of blood.

Not far away, the jade-faced True God, which had already caught up, looked at this scene. For the first time… Its mind was thrown into turmoil.