Chapter 1321: Wishes and Stories

Chapter 1321: Wishes and Stories

In the starry sky outside the Wanggu Continent, within the Ninth Star Ring.

The divine lord who had been forcibly sent by the Mother River shook violently in mind and spirit as he traversed the expanse.

He felt the billowing turbulence behind him, as well as an apocalyptic aura rolling relentlessly toward him.

"A divine lord?"

This deity of the Mother River whipped his head around, gazing into the distance toward Wanggu.

What met his eyes was an endless sea of gold and silver light expanding in all directions against the pitch-black backdrop of the starry void.

It resembled a bizarre flower in full, majestic bloom.

Beholding this, his expression instantly turned exceedingly grave.

Back on the Wanggu Continent, the moment he descended, he had already perceived that the human who had severely wounded the Mother River's pawn possessed not only the aura of a Summer Immortal from the Fifth Star Ring, but his constitutional law had reached the level of an Immortal Sovereign within the cultivator system!

Such a realm was truly a rare sight to behold.

Coupling this with the fact that he had not arrived at full strength, his profound dread of the Fragmented Face, and his mandate from the Mother River, these factors combined forced him to decisively abandon further action and choose to depart.

But now...

"This person is not merely an Immortal, but a god!"

"Especially this divine aura..."

The wave of shock in the mind of this divine lord from the Mother River grew even more tumultuous.

"That is the supreme divinity formed when the former God-Revered of the Fourth Star Ring stole the authority of the Ancient Sovereign, which was subsequently taken by the Fifth Star Ring!"

"A divinity of a half-step god, bound by boundless karma to the Ancient Sovereign..."

"He actually dared to fuse with it directly!"

"He and the Ancient Sovereign..."

The divine lord retreated violently, hurtling toward the distant starry sky at a speed far exceeding his previous flight.

He felt a crisis born from the very instinct of survival.

Moving at full speed, his own divinity flared, radiating a unique divine authority.

"I wish that I have already returned to the Mother River!"

The divine voice reverberated, and the divine lord's body blurred instantly as if about to vanish, yet in the next breath, he materialized once more.

The wish had failed.

"Within the domain of the Fragmented Face, the suppression on my divinity is far too severe..."

"I wish that my journey back to the Mother River will be smooth and unobstructed!"

This time, as his divine words rippled out, a mysterious power circulated through his form, and in the blink of an eye, his speed was bolstered, growing even swifter.

A faint, unseen force descended as a blessing, causing his troubled mind to steady at this very moment.

Even the starry sky beneath his feet seemed to be invisibly compressed and shortened.

The distance to breaking free from the bounds of Wanggu and reaching the point where the Mother River could guide him grew closer and closer.

Yet at that critical threshold, just as it entered the scope of his divine sense and was on the verge of being reached...

Suddenly, a shocking mutation erupted!

Behind him, the sea of gold and silver light that had exploded from the direction of the Wanggu Continent swept through the starry sky with an indescribable, vast majesty, roaring toward this place.

In an instant, it swept across, covering an endless expanse.

Destroying everything in its path like dead wood, its thunderous roar echoed infinitely.

With an earth-shattering might that transcended time, space, and the cosmos, it directly overtook the divine lord, howling past him on all sides amidst the violent trembling of his mind!

Enveloping him completely within!

Ultimately, in the starry void just before the threshold he desired to reach, the sea of gold and silver light kicked up a monumental wave, blocking everything and erecting a wall of light.

It was as if a grand door had been raised!

And amidst the brilliant, blinding light, a figure that made all living beings suffocate stepped onto the illumination, walking out pace by pace.

The moment he appeared, the entire vast universe seemed to freeze in place, and immediately following, the starry sky began to tremble violently.

It felt as though in the next instant, it would utterly collapse and turn to dust before this supremely terrifying power, forever annihilated into the boundless void.

It was precisely Xu Qing after the fusion of Immortal and God!

The divine lord’s pupils constricted violently, and he retreated several paces, his divine soul churning with intense turbulence at this moment.

He could feel that the human before him had already integrated his physical form into the laws and rules of the upper star rings, harboring a terrifying might.

Most notably, the patterns of divine authority branded across his entire body were woven and gathered from countless cosmic galaxies.

Within each and every pattern, a complete world was remarkably nurtured, and within those worlds, hundreds of millions of living beings were born, multiplying, developing civilizations, and seeing dynasties change in a mere span of time.

Yet at this moment, these intricate patterns served merely as ornaments upon him, densely crawling all over his skin.

This was the manifestation of a Divine Lord level!

And most crucially, at the very core of these divine patterns lay that... Divinity of Destiny!

It was shining with a brilliant radiance akin to the light of creation.

Wherever this light touched, the long river of time instantaneously dried up, the invisible barriers of space were torn apart as easily as fragile paper, and it seemed even destiny itself would submissively bow beneath this light, allowing it to rewrite the fated trajectories of all things in the world.

Falling upon this divine lord who had been forcibly sent by the Mother River, his own divinity actually began to tremble in terror!

He retreated once more.

"Wishing?"

Xu Qing raised his head, gazing calmly at the divine lord before him.

"Interesting."

Within his voice resided both divine tones and dao melodies, interwoven with one another, laced with instability and destruction, forming a soul-rending sound of world annihilation.

Like a tangible tide, wave after wave ground toward the endless distance, and everywhere it passed, whether tangible matter or intangible rules, all were thoroughly crushed and reshaped.

Forcing the divine lord of the Mother River to retreat a bit further once again.

The trembling of his mind and spirit grew even more intense following Xu Qing's words.

Truly, the Xu Qing of this moment gave him a sensation of danger that reached the absolute extreme!

Standing in the starry sky, apart from the divine patterns on his body and the immortal melody of his soul, that long hair resembling a purple galaxy was exceptionally eye-catching.

That long hair had already transformed into a true cosmic ocean, every single strand of hair a brilliant galaxy formed by the gathering of countless stars.

As his long hair drifted, these dense, fine galaxies constantly collided, fused, and underwent fission, with every single change triggering cataclysms and disasters for those minuscule worlds.

And it was still spreading!

Expanding continuously in a state bordering on madness, as if it wanted to swallow the entire starry sky, making everything a part of him, turning into nourishment for Xu Qing.

"Ancient Sovereign..."

For one fleeting instant, the Mother River Sovereign sensed—within her very cognition—something of the Primordial Wastes emanating from Xu Qing!

This perception was not mistaken.

It was the inevitable resonance radiating from the fusion of a Fate Divinity Core.

And this path—this temporary road—was precisely the one Xu Qing had chosen for himself.

Even before his return, he had already resolved upon it, for he knew full well: his greatest strength lay in the Law of a Celestial Sovereign!

Yet that Law, constrained by the limits of his mortal flesh, could not be fully unleashed.

Thus came the idea—to borrow divinity through fusion!

The divine body itself was forged from the fragmented flesh of the Masked One; merging with a Divinity Core would naturally birth the true flesh of the Primordial Wastes—a god of blood and bone.

This was the mightiest physical form known to existence!

His Celestial Spirit Body, sourced from the essence of Xia Immortal, could manifest an immortal soul—the very vessel through which his supreme Law now flowed.

By fusing both—divine body as vessel, celestial soul as core—he could wield divine might while simultaneously unleashing the full, terrifying power of a Celestial Sovereign’s Constitutional Law.

With but a single thought, he became a Divine Sovereign.

With another, a Celestial Sovereign.

Through this fusion, he had already ascended to the rank of Sovereign!

“It seems… the one who once reached out to me through a wish, just as you have—must share some connection with you.”

Xu Qing’s golden-silver eyes swept over the Sovereign before him. At that moment, his violet hair surged violently, strands clashing like colliding stars, echoing with the thunder of galaxies. The surrounding sea of gold and silver light surged forward along the trajectory of his gaze, crashing toward the Sovereign with cataclysmic force.

Mortal peril intensified in an instant.

The Sovereign blazed with brilliant golden radiance, channeling every ounce of divine power. Her very form shifted, divine sigils spreading across her body as her Divinity Core manifested openly.

Her voice, resonant with divine decree, echoed across the heavens:

“I wish—not by the power of a Divine Lord—that I shall neither perish nor suffer harm!”

Her words became divine intent, became law, became inevitability.

The golden-silver tide roared forth—but upon touching her, it parted harmlessly around her form, leaving not a single hair disturbed.

Yet her aura visibly weakened—her Divinity Core had been taxed!

“I wish—that all who oppose me shall suffer their own backlash!”

Unmindful of further depletion, the Mother River Sovereign invoked her Divinity Core once more.

In the next heartbeat, the golden-silver sea reversed course—now surging back toward Xu Qing in violent retribution.

“I wish—that all barriers before me vanish! With a single step, I shall transcend this realm!”

Her divine proclamation shook the starry void. She lifted her right foot—and stepped forward.

Xu Qing’s expression remained cold. He raised his right hand—and pressed down gently.

At that touch, his Constitutional Law erupted—not merely swirling about him, but exploding outward like a superstorm engulfing the multiverse.

Space and time twisted and warped beneath its fury, reshaped at will. Parallel worlds shattered like soap bubbles, only to be reassembled into grotesque, nightmarish configurations.

The power of Unification seized every fractured timeline, every chaotic law, forcibly weaving them into a single chain of Law—an unbroken tether stretching across past, present, and future, piercing through every dimension, hurtling straight toward the Sovereign.

It ignored all resistance. The moment her foot touched ground, the chain lashed out—and bound her divinity instantly.

The Sovereign’s mind trembled.

Her cognition clearly perceived the indescribable terror within that iron chain—especially how each faint tremor of its links triggered detonations of fate itself, amplifying its Law-force exponentially.

Ripples spread from the chain, coalescing into Xu Qing’s voice:

“Divinity Core—Reforged!”

…

At that same moment, far away on Wanggu Continent, beyond the Outer Sea—

A lone skiff rocked upon the pitch-black waters. Inside sat Yu Liuchen, gazing upward at the heavens.

Hope shimmered in her eyes; her heart churned with tides of emotion unlike any she’d ever known.

She whispered softly to herself:

“I never imagined… the opportunity I’ve waited for all this time… would truly manifest through him!”

“That idle move I made long ago… has blossomed into something unimaginable—and even drawn the attention of Wishes…”

“In my story, the cultivator named Xu Qing departed—and returned safely…”

“In that tale, his return brought overwhelming power!”

“All these stories have already come to pass—they succeeded. And now, what comes next…”

“In the future tales… he shall… unify Wanggu!”

As she spoke these words, conflict flickered across her face—but then she felt her divine awareness surge, her cultivation leap forward, and after countless eons of waiting, she finally brushed against the threshold of True Divinity.

Gritting her teeth, madness blazing fiercer than ever in her eyes, she steeled her resolve—as if placing everything on a single, desperate gamble—and declared aloud:

“In the story… he shall unify the Ninth Star Ring!”

“In the story… he shall subdue the Divine Lord of the Ninth Star Ring!”

“In the story… he shall become the Supreme of the Ninth Star Ring!”

Having spoken, Yu Liuchen trembled violently, sweat drenching her robes in an instant. She had staked everything—her entire existence—on this one audacious bet!

“In the story… he shall replace… the Primordial Wastes!!”

Then she coughed up a great mouthful of golden blood, collapsing weakly onto the skiff, staring up at the sky, murmuring faintly:

“Youngster… they say gods feel no emotion—but I do… You… mustn’t disappoint me. My entire future… rests entirely on you.”