Qing Ling's footsteps did not stop as he walked towards the distance.
Above his head, the giant bodies of a hundred dragons swept past.
A hundred beasts wandered, and ten thousand spirits trembled.
He raised his head and watched the hundred dragons depart, showing respect.
The wind chimes on his feet danced, their sound echoing through the wilderness. The great wind novels.
As the golden bells rang, spring arrived.
The power of the main spring god, the Spring Order, enveloped the Primordial World, and flowers bloomed across the endless land. Now, as the auxiliary spring god walked by, new grass turned green.
"Ding Ling~"
"Ding Ling~"
The Tai Xu Bell's notes overlapped, resounding among the hundred flowers, the hundred grasses, and the hundred beasts, then drifting towards the distant plains.
"Ding Dang~"
The illusory sounds of the sonic domain fluctuated, emitting a slight anomaly as they swept across ten thousand miles of flat land.
The sound of the bell merged into his Great Dao of Life, and where it sounded, life surged forth.
But in the north, there was an anomaly.
Qing Ling stopped and looked towards the north.
In the distant sky, there was a stretch of yellow sand, connecting to the surrounding wilderness.
The yellow desert was desolate, devoid of life.
Qing Ling seemed to recall something, a smile appearing on his face. The past events resurfaced in his mind.
He changed his direction and walked towards the vast yellow sand.
A spring breeze blew from the south, bringing life to the desert.
In the Great Wilderness, an old man sitting cross-legged opened his turbid eyes.
In the dead land of the sand domain, a streak of green light broke through the black mist, like a stagnant pool being infused with flowing water from the south.
"Senior, the Multi-verse is unseen, but your demeanor is even more impressive than in the past."
The green light parted the blackness, and two colored lights separated on either side of the young man. Four golden bells were tied to each of his ankles, his green robe fluttering, his long hair flying, vibrant and captivating.
At least in the old man's eyes, Qing Ling's kind of "life" was a living being he disliked.
"Come to die?"
The old man said indifferently.
A smile flickered in Qing Ling's eyes, and he replied, "Indeed!"
"Hmm?" Such an unexpected answer, even for an old man who had lived for hundreds of Yuanhui, couldn't help but be stunned.
In his eight hundred Yuanhui years, this was probably the first time he had encountered such a strange occurrence.
Qing Ling cupped his hands in a salute amidst the green light, saying from afar, "This junior, Qing Ling, once accidentally intruded upon the battleground between Senior and Mu Gong. Fortunately, Senior's mercy spared my life, leading to today."
Although Qing Ling and Luo Hua had escaped through luck and strength back then, which was quite dishonorable for a great power, this matter, when rephrased, was extremely pleasing to the ears of the Devouring Supreme.
The old man's ears felt better, and it reached his mind, and his expression softened.
"To think that a mere ant from back then would have such an achievement today. The second level of Da Luo Golden Immortal, your strength is not bad."
Qing Ling smiled humbly and replied, "Senior is too kind. This junior is nothing compared to you; perhaps a peerless great power will soon emerge in this world."
Etian Supreme was praised again, and for his most desired outcome. His heart felt a little lighter.
"Alright, boy, no need to beat around the bush with me. Speak your mind. What is it you want?"
"Senior has a keen eye. This junior is here for Mu Gong, who is beneath the death domain."
"Oh? I suppose so, as you cultivate the same Dao. " Etian Supreme was surprised. "But even though I've suppressed this old fellow for tens of Yuanhui, he is still a great power of heaven and earth. What can you do?"
Qing Ling chuckled and shook his head. "This junior has only just entered Da Luo; what thoughts can I have about a great power of heaven and earth?"
If one were to divide the realms according to the immortal path opened by the Dao Ancestor in the future, a great power of heaven and earth would be equivalent to a quasi-saint who had severed two corpses. His cultivation in the early stages of Da Luo Golden Immortal was indeed insufficient.
"Then why are you looking for Mu Gong? Are you truly seeking death and wishing to rescue him from his predicament?"
Etian Supreme narrowed his eyes, exuding an unfriendly aura.
"What ill intentions could this junior have? I just feel that Senior Mu Gong has been in the death domain for too long, so I wish to..."
"So you want to go down and accompany him?" Etian Supreme interrupted, slowly raising his right palm.
Qing Ling was not afraid at all and smiled faintly, "This junior is just a flower planter, I only wish to plant a flower in Mu Gong's heart."
"Plant a flower? That's truly novel." Etian Supreme lowered his raised hand and asked with interest, "How do you plant it?"
"What kind of flower do you plant?"
"Can it grow?"
"Is it beautiful?"
Qing Ling smiled and said, "You only need to open a crack in the seal, Senior, and I can plant it."
Etian Supreme said with a half-smile, "Could it be that young friend wishes to rescue that old fellow Mu Gong?"
"This junior dare not and will not."
"Hmph hmph~ It's best if you don't.
If you do, it doesn't matter, I'll just suppress you along with him."
Now, at the nineteenth level of Da Luo Golden Immortal, he was more than three points stronger than Etian Supreme of the past. Mu Gong's fortune and destiny had withered to the extreme, making him no match at all. Even if Qing Ling was now a great power, in his eyes, he was just a child who had grown from an invisible ant.
If he's disobedient and has bad intentions, a beating will suffice.
"Fine, I'll see what kind of flower you can plant. If you succeed, it will be your fortune, and I will not interfere."
"Thank you, Senior, for your accomplishment!"
Qing Ling bowed.
Etian Supreme's brow opened wide with the Senluo Death Seal, and an extremely yin energy permeated the air. The sky instantly darkened, and the sun vanished.
The vast yellow sand turned into a death domain, with endless vengeful spirits piling up to form a terrifying sea of death, filled with countless resentments, anger, and hatred, making an unbearable noise.
In the center of the sea of death, the bodies of countless vengeful spirits were stacked like mountains. Beneath the ten-thousand-zhang Death Soul Mountain, Mu Gong was suppressed.
Even after tens of Yuanhui, he only looked gaunt and pale, his aura weakened, far from being life-threatening.
When the seal of the death domain opened slightly, Mu Gong sensed it but did not resist, as he truly lacked the strength to break the chains, a result of many attempts.
However, he was not in a hurry. Within the Da Luo, his own Dao realm was formed, his spiritual energy was inexhaustible, and his magic power was boundless. Even if he couldn't absorb any external spiritual energy, his cultivation simply couldn't grow.
But when he saw Qing Ling, he was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that tens of Yuanhui ago, it was this ant who had distracted him, leading to one wrong step after another!
His eyes instantly turned sharp, and he discarded his wooden staff, which transformed into a beam of green light that shot towards the approaching figure.
Qing Ling smiled faintly and faced Mu Gong's primordial spirit. His Life and Death Eyes rotated, yin and yang of life and death revolved, and the Wood Dao and the Dao Seed were planted in his heart.
The enormous green light, while flying, was swarmed by countless vengeful spirits, engulfing the green light. The wooden staff flew back.
Qing Ling's primordial spirit sensed it. The Six Paths united, activating the Divine Ability of Heavenly Mandate. His Life and Death Eyes planted the Luo Sheng seed. The moment it entered, it was a lifetime.
Mu Gong instantly sensed the abnormality in his heart. The Wood Dao within him surged wildly, trying to expel the flower seed that was attached to his heart and growing.
But the flower seed had already formed, the Dao was planted, and it had merged with his heart. As long as the heart did not die, the flower would not perish!
This was Qing Ling's innate great divine ability as a congenital deity and his only innate divine ability as a snake. He had also integrated it into the Six Paths to form the Life and Death Eyes.
Its power was not great, but it was monstrously perverse and disgusting.
With just one glance, the Life and Death Flower Seed would enter the heart, merge with it, and then connect to the primordial spirit and the spiritual platform, drawing on the vitality of the host to strengthen itself.
While it was not a curse or a蛊毒, its danger level far surpassed both.
Because this was a Dao technique that even the caster could not resolve!
Only an unsolvable divine Dao technique was invincible.
Even if Qing Ling himself were afflicted by this technique, he would be unable to resolve it.
But there was a solution, and that was strength!
If a peerless great power were to intervene, all unsolvable problems would be easily solved.
The Life and Death Eyes that Qu had planted in the past were merely his Life and Death Eyes at the Tai Yi realm. After reaching the Da Luo realm, his innate divine abilities underwent an incredible transformation. Now, they were combined with the Dao of Wind, the Dao of Wood, the Dao of Life, the Dao of Death, the Dao of Taiji, the Dao of Withering and Flourishing, and the Dao of Light and Darkness, a fusion of seven Daos.
Below the peerless realm, no one could resolve it.
Mu Gong's vast vitality within him was drawn out, attempting to assimilate the Dao seed within him, but with Qing Ling's innate Dao Seal and the password of his primordial spirit imprint locking the true core, his Wood Dao could not merge with the Wood Dao of the Dao seed.
It would only be encrypted and transformed by the Dao of Wind, the Dao of Death, and other Daos, absorbed and integrated into the Wood Dao, strengthening the Dao seed itself, and gradually growing, sprouting, branching out, growing leaves, and forming flower buds.
Even though Mu Gong was a great power of the Wood Dao, capable of suppressing the growth of the Luo Sheng flower with his Wood Dao, he could not stop its growth.
The Luo Sheng flower was still growing at an extremely slow pace, its roots and branches connecting to countless blood vessels and meridians in his heart, even ascending into his spiritual platform and primordial spirit.
Etian Supreme closed the seal, once again trapping Mu Gong, who was filled with shock and anger, within the sea of death. The death domain transformed back into the great wilderness's yellow sand.
"Your divine ability is so strange, what is its name?"
Etian Supreme asked with some surprise.
Qing Ling smiled and said, "This technique is my innate divine ability, named Life and Death Eyes. One glance determines life and death, one eye plants Luo Sheng.
Senior need not worry, I will not use this technique on you."
"Oh? Why?"
Etian Supreme glanced at him, then quickly averted his gaze, not daring to meet his eyes.
Qing Ling smiled and said, "Because even if I were to use the Life and Death Eyes on Senior, you would still have time to suppress or even kill me before the flower blooms."
Etian Supreme recovered his senses, slapped his forehead, and laughed, "That's right, my head is forgetting things. When one lives for a long time, the mind can become dull."
Qing Ling said with a half-smile, "Although Senior is forgetful, you wouldn't be unclear about cause and effect, right?
You can't possibly owe this junior a small karmic debt, can you?"