Chapter 1336: Secret of Huang Tian

Chapter 1336 The Secret of Huangtian

“The first ray of light born with Huangtian…”

Within the Huangtian World, Xu Qing sat cross-legged beside the slumbering Erniu, gazing down at the luminous orb cradled in his palm. Its reflection shimmered within his pupils.

Beside him, Seventh Master also sat cross-legged, watching Xu Qing as he spoke slowly.

“Do as you will. This master shall remain here to guard your cultivation.”

“I, too, wish to know what secret lies within this light—revered by the Huangtian Divine Clan, rumored to be their very origin. What truth does this mysterious radiance conceal?”

Seventh Master’s eyes settled upon the light in Xu Qing’s palm.

They had studied this secret long ago, yet never uncovered its true answer.

Xu Qing nodded. His right hand, still cradling the light, clenched into a fist with brutal force.

He crushed the brilliant radiance mercilessly.

Instantly, the light flickered violently, then unraveled into wisps that seeped beneath his skin, flowing through his body.

It spread through flesh, meridians, and bone, surging across his entire form.

As this happened, Xu Qing’s open eyes blazed with sharp intensity. His aura erupted, shaking heaven and earth, stirring winds and clouds into chaos around him.

Seventh Master watched closely, his hands weaving seals that cast protective wards in all directions.

Within Xu Qing, turmoil surged.

“Primordial Essence?”

As the mysterious light spread through him, he sensed within it a thread of exquisitely pure Primordial Essence!

Though scarce, its purity felt no weaker than the primal stellar essence he had once sensed within the Fourth Star Ring.

This discovery struck Xu Qing as profoundly strange.

Before this, whether absorbing the light of Huangtian clansmen or holding the radiant source itself, he had never sensed even a trace of Primordial Essence.

“Fascinating.”

Xu Qing pondered, slowly merging his divine consciousness with the light within his body, probing its depths.

Yet resistance was inevitable.

This light seemed to possess its own will, resisting his scrutiny and rejecting fusion with him.

As if only the Huangtian Divine Clan could earn its recognition!

Even when Xu Qing summoned his own dawn-light within his body to merge with it, the process remained arduous.

Noticing this, a coldness stirred in Xu Qing’s heart.

In the next instant, his Edicts of Constitution erupted within him, coursing through his veins before crashing down upon the light with crushing force.

Seeking to dismantle it.

Immediately, the light surged violently, resistance stark and undeniable.

Xu Qing’s eyes hardened.

He raised his right hand. Within his palm, the shard of Xianzhu Miming flashed into view, refracting blinding light before drawing inward, flooding his body.

It surged toward the mysterious light source, bolstering Xu Qing as he pressed his assault anew.

In moments, the sacred light revered by the Huangtian Divine Clan churned wildly, yet still resisted.

Seeing this, Xu Qing swept his hand. Master Bai’s divine eye lamp floated before him.

Its flame flickered, igniting faintly.

The sacred eye within snapped open a slit.

Divine radiance streamed toward Xu Qing.

His body jolted. Harnessing the lamp’s power, he transformed it into a raging sea of light within, crashing against the suppressed mysterious source.

At the moment of impact, a shrill cry seemed to echo from deep within the light.

Not a human voice, but the sound of the Dao itself.

As the sound emerged, the mysterious light within Xu Qing flared wildly, struggling still. Yet under such relentless assault, its resistance could not endure.

Its defiance began to wane.

Time flowed slowly.

A day later, its struggle and rejection finally reached their end.

“To withstand my methods for an entire day… this light truly is extraordinary!”

Sensing this, Xu Qing formed hand seals. His Edicts of Constitution erupted once more, becoming the final force to shatter the light.

In an instant, the radiance within him could no longer hold…

Its glow dimmed.

And at that very moment of fading, Xu Qing’s divine consciousness violently pierced the light’s core…

The instant he perceived its interior, Xu Qing’s spirit trembled.

His breath quickened.

“This…”

Before his senses stretched a boundless… sea of Primordial Essence!

Immeasurably dense!

Exquisitely pure!

And in quantity, terrifying.

Beneath the sea, Xu Qing sensed thick layers of crystal, like ice.

Primordial Essence transformed beyond mere density, shifting form!

“This place…”

Xu Qing’s breath grew even more ragged.

Understanding dawned upon him, revealing part of the light’s secret.

“If this light is the lamp, then Primordial Essence is its wick!”

“Once Primordial Essence within reaches extreme purity, arranged in some special inward pattern, it radiates outward as light.”

“Hence, without deeply merging with this light, one cannot sense the Primordial Essence within!”

“No wonder Master said the legend claims the Huangtian Divine Clan’s birth is tied to this very light they revere…”

Xu Qing’s spirit roiled.

After emerging from the temporal chaos of the Fourth Star Ring, his cultivation stood at Summer Immortal. Yet his Edicts of Constitution had transcended that realm, reaching Xianzhu!

Thus, he wielded the power of Law.

Xu Qing knew well: without fusing with a divine body, his combat strength already brushed the threshold of a half-step Xianzhu.

To advance from the Summer Immortal realm to Sovereign of Immortals, what he lacked was Primordial Essence!

Yet the quantity required was immense, making it nearly impossible to achieve in the short term.

Still, his soul edicts had transcended mortal bounds, so the path before him… becoming an Immortal Sovereign was merely a matter of time and accumulation.

"If I were to consume this light that birthed the Radiant Heaven Divine Clan…"

Xu Qing moistened his lips but did not immediately absorb the Primordial Essence within the light. Instead, his divine consciousness settled upon the sea of essence, then plunged downward.

The moment it touched the crystalline layer below, Xu Qing’s soul edicts erupted once more, accompanied by Mi Ming’s soul edicts and the Divine Eye Lamp, its inner eye now fully open.

Pooling these three forces, he slammed them against the crystal.

He willed his consciousness to pierce deeper, to see what truly lay beneath!

The crystalline layer beneath the sea of essence was instantly pierced by Xu Qing’s consciousness, racing downward with blinding speed.

At first, all proceeded smoothly. But as his consciousness sank deeper, an unprecedented resistance surged forth—from the crystal itself, or perhaps from the ultimate secret of this mysterious light.

His consciousness faltered, even showing signs of being expelled.

At this critical juncture, Xu Qing’s heart cried out.

"Master!"

Outside, the Seventh Elder, guarding Xu Qing’s meditation, instantly sensed the plea. Without hesitation, he raised his hand and uttered a low command.

"Thick Earth!"

In the next instant, Thick Earth manifested, its planetary ring power descending upon Xu Qing!

Xu Qing’s body shuddered violently. The arrival of Thick Earth’s power lent his consciousness renewed strength, pushing through the sea’s resistance as it surged downward once more!

This thrust shattered some unseen barrier. A sound like the splitting of heaven and earth exploded within his soul, and Xu Qing’s consciousness finally broke free of its constraints.

He saw…

A star seemingly woven from peculiar flesh and blood!

Thick as congealed blood, the Primordial Essence carried an incomparable alien quality, accompanied by countless divine chants that warped all things, altering everything.

Within this environment, the star’s familiar form, its familiar resonance, instantly summoned a name within Xu Qing’s mind.

"Primordial Mother Star!!"

"Radiant Heaven… is actually the Primordial Mother Star of the Ninth Ring!"

What stunned him further was this: what he beheld was not one Primordial Mother Star!

But two!

Two Primordial Mother Stars, fused together!

Forming a bizarre twin-star existence!

This… was the ultimate secret of that mysterious light!

As this sight churned Xu Qing’s spirit, the twin-like Primordial Mother Stars suddenly trembled.

With that tremor, a terrifyingly immense force of expulsion roared from within the peculiar star.

Unparalleled, far exceeding the Primordial Mother Star of the Fourth Ring.

It surged toward Xu Qing like a tidal wave, unstoppable as splitting bamboo.

In the next instant, Xu Qing’s consciousness quaked violently, retreating at breakneck speed. It barely recoiled into his body before the expulsion force arrived.

The moment he returned, seated cross-legged, he spat a mouthful of blood.

The Seventh Elder also shuddered, his face pale as he gazed at Xu Qing.

"There…"

While reinforcing Xu Qing, he had faintly glimpsed the same vision!

"Primordial Mother Star…" Xu Qing drew a deep, ragged breath, his voice hoarse as he spoke slowly. Then, a sudden clarity struck him.

"The light worshipped by the Radiant Heaven Divine Clan is indeed the first light of Radiant Heaven’s birth. And it is also… the key to unlocking the Primordial Mother Star!"