Chapter 1534 - 445: Zhou Qing, How Could It Be You? (6k)

The pregnant women who were first imprisoned here exchanged glances.

They had already witnessed the arrival and death of two batches of escorts, vaguely understanding that this person was lying in wait.

This realization extinguished the flame of hope that had just ignited in their eyes.

"It’s the Spirit Severing Realm..."

Someone whispered softly, voice full of despair.

The presence that could easily slay a Divinity Transformation Realm won’t let them go, which only signified one thing: they were all to be cleared as witnesses.

The female cultivators within the iron cage immediately curled up, some started sobbing silently.

They truly couldn’t understand who they had offended.

Or what conspiracy they had gotten caught up in to end up in such a plight.

Three days later, the familiar roar sounded from outside the mountain again.

The restriction runes on the stone gates lit up one by one, casting an eerie red glow in the darkness.

Accompanied by the muffled sound of mechanism movements, the heavy stone gate began to slowly move...

...

Until a month later!

Zhou Qing, who was originally sitting in a dark corner, suddenly opened his eyes, cold light appearing in his gaze.

At that moment, faint footsteps sounded from the tunnel outside the stone gate.

Unlike the usual arrogance of the Divinity Transformation cultivators, these footsteps were as light as a feather but carried a certain heart-stirring rhythm.

He slowly stood up.

At this moment, within the pitch-black cave, the number of iron cages had increased to over five hundred, imprisoning more than three thousand pregnant women.

They almost unanimously looked towards Zhou Qing.

During this month, they had witnessed this silent man slay wave after wave of escorts.

Initially thinking he was a killer sent to eliminate witnesses, they now had renewed hope—

Perhaps, they had guessed wrong about this person’s identity from the start, and he might truly be able to save them.

After all, even they weren’t aware of such a massive force operating behind the scenes.

Every few days, new flying ships would arrive, each time led by new Divinity Transformation Perfection cultivators.

This was definitely not something a minor force could achieve.

Not letting anyone leave was to avoid alerting the snake.

He was waiting for the true mastermind to show up.

But now, seeing the man’s unprecedentedly serious expression, all the pregnant women felt a tremor in their hearts.

They unanimously held their breath, the entire cave fell into a deathly silence,

"Tap, tap, tap..." The footsteps drew nearer, yet stopped eerily at the stone gate.

Zhou Qing furrowed his brows slightly, his right hand unconsciously touching the hilt of the Tetanus Sword.

"Woah..."

At this moment, a pregnant woman in the iron cage suddenly covered her mouth, letting out an almost inaudible sob.

The other pregnant women reacted immediately and started crying along.

Indeed, it was too quiet, almost unreasonably quiet.

In an instant, cries rose and fell in the cave, over three thousand pregnant women jointly participating in this sudden "performance."

Zhou Qing saw this, a bitter smile appearing at the corners of his mouth.

These female cultivators’ good intentions backfired—right before they were dead silent, yet now collectively weeping, anyone would become suspicious.

Pregnancy dulls the mind for three years; it seems the cultivation world isn’t exempt from this rule.

In the next moment, Zhou Qing’s pupils split into blood-red heavy pupils, and his gaze pierced through the stone gate like arrows.

Upon seeing the figure outside the gate clearly, icy gleams emerged in his eyes.

"Xuanyuan Sha—"

He had seen this person before and had even been chased by him.

Apart from the Old Emperor Xuanyuan Chong, the current Emperor Xuanyuan Hao, and Prince Xuanyuan Shuo, this man was the fourth and final hidden Spirit Severing Realm of the Xuanyuan Royal Family.

Back then, Sikong Yan led him to sneak into the abandoned Ancestral Land of the Royal Family to seek the secret of Spirit Severing, where they saw the corpses of geniuses from past generations who had failed to breakthrough.

Those corpses were collectively refined to extract three "Blood Spirit Tao Cutting Pills" from their remaining potency.

These were evil pills condensed from the life essence of two thousand geniuses, offering a 40% success rate in advancing to the Spirit Severing Realm, without the risk of body explosion.

It was Xuanyuan Sha who first discovered Sikong Yan, and in the midst of their fierce battle, he seized the opportunity to sneak into the cauldron, slyly stealing those three elixirs.

Unfortunately, Emperor Xuanyuan Hao arrived in time. Against the combined forces of two mighty figures, they could only flee in panic.

More troubling, the elixirs were already implanted with tracking marks, ultimately forcing him to detonate them, escaping via the Hidden Dragon Path teleportation channel.

At this moment, through the heavy pupil’s vision, Zhou Qing clearly saw Xuanyuan Sha furrowing his brows upon hearing the cries.

He cautiously retreated three steps, and suddenly a golden-yellow war halberd appeared in his hand.

The halberd had an ancient, unadorned look, yet exuded an aura of deadly resolve built from years past.

Moreover, Xuanyuan Sha’s stance holding the halberd was immensely peculiar; left hand supporting the handle, right hand loosely gripping, with a slight wrist twist, the halberd’s tip burst forth with dazzling golden light.

Especially at the tip of the halberd, countless runes appeared—it was the exclusive royal "Golden Imperial Decree Script."

"Zheng—"

The halberd blade trembled, emitting a clear and ethereal resonance.

This sound seemed to carry a special rhythm, causing the fetuses in the wombs of the three thousand pregnant women to stir simultaneously.

Zhou Qing’s gaze turned icy, and he no longer hesitated.

"Boom—"

Suddenly, Purple Gold Thunder Arc erupted around him, thunderbolts exploding violently, his figure surged like lightning through the black stone gate.

As the stone gate shattered, before the flying debris settled, Xuanyuan Sha’s eyes had already locked onto Zhou Qing’s figure.

"Friend, you shouldn’t have come here!"

Xuanyuan Sha’s voice was as cold as iron, and the Xingtian halberd in his hand suddenly lifted high!

The dark red mottled bloodstains on the halberd blade suddenly lit up, with countless fine golden runes appearing, entwining like moving chains around the halberd shaft, emitting the imperial Dao suppression that could subdue the eight wildernesses!