# 1704
Chapter 1697 - Falling Stars
"Fate, then…" Huo Qubing nodded.
"Then how long will it take for Him to appear?"
"Deriving a life form with thinking ability from causality takes at least several hundred years… Until then, we can only wait. The white pieces in your hands can help you conceal your causalities, but I won't activate them now because all of you have your own historical missions, needing various connections and causes with others. If too much causality accumulates during the concealment period, it might break the concealment and be discovered by the [Key to the Gate].
Therefore, I will wait until some point two thousand years later, when you no longer have excessive connections with the world, and then uniformly activate your white pieces, completely concealing you."
"You mean, for now we just do whatever we need to do?" Yan Zhong said thoughtfully.
"Correct, and this period might last two thousand years." Lin Qiye spoke slowly. "Everything that happened in this broken temple is just a 'covenant'… A 'covenant' that needs to be fulfilled at some point more than two thousand years later.
Causality as the thread, white pieces as the token… This is our [Holy Covenant]."
The group exchanged glances and nodded in unison.
"The future can wait… Right now, we still have one thing left to do." Lin Qiye glanced at the thread of causality floating from the willow branch, his eyes narrowing slightly. "Once you're rested, we set out."
The group had finished eating their dry rations, and the dizziness from riding the flying car had subsided. They pushed open the creaking door of the temple in the wind and snow and walked toward the two carriages.
"Lin Qiye." Huo Qubing called out to him.
"What's wrong, Marquis?"
"Who is Gongyang Zhuo?" Huo Qubing gazed at Gongyang Wan's departing figure, asking with confusion.
When Gongyang Wan killed Chen Pati, Huo Qubing had been resting in the carriage the whole time and knew nothing of her past. Lin Qiye gave him a brief account, after which the former fell into silence.
"This Marquis knew she killed an entire stockade of people… but had no idea there was such a story behind it." Huo Qubing sighed deeply.
"Now Gongyang Wan has taken an interest in the Bureau of Evil Suppression. If we can rescue Gongyang Zhuo, we can bind her completely to us… It's just that figuring out how to get a suitable physical body for Gongyang Zhuo is still a problem."
Lin Qiye shook his head and walked directly toward one of the carriages.
Huo Qubing stood in the broken temple, his eyes fixed on Gongyang Wan boarding the carriage, lost in thought…
…
Outer Space.
In the silent darkness, brilliant bursts of fire erupted across the deep void. Under the countless talismans and divine light sweeping through the heavens, ferocious cracks spread wildly across the surface of that rust-colored star.
Dense hordes of bizarre monsters leapt from the crimson earth, clashing with the gods pouring out from the Heavenly Court, as if the heavens were crumbling.
These monsters seemed to be creatures birthed from this crimson star. Though their combat power wasn't strong, their numbers were immense. Their grotesquely large mouths could easily gnaw through objects a hundred times their own size. Even divine artifacts would shatter under their frantic chewing.
Fortunately, the gods of the Heavenly Court were also numerous and wielded many divine artifacts. After the fierce battle, the gods ultimately gained the upper hand.
Meanwhile, the giant flowing eye on the star locked onto the three Heavenly Lords before it.
"He's nearly at His limit." Yuanshi Tianzun stood atop the countless golden lotuses, his expression serene. "Use the Origin to slash Him."
The Heavenly Lord raised his hand gently. In the distance, the misty Heavenly Court trembled slightly as a golden thread drifted into his palm, coiling around his sword fingers. A terrifying pressure instantly ravaged through the entire space.
Yuanshi Tianzun grasped the Heavenly Court Origin and made a sweeping gesture through the air toward the massive crimson star. The formless Origin power immediately cleaved across the land, and a smooth incision began to appear from the star's center!
Thick black magma gushed violently from the star's severed edge, a foul stench permeating through the void. Yuanshi Tianzun, still holding the Heavenly Court Origin, frowned. Just as he was about to make a second strike, the two halves of the star suddenly erupted with blinding light!
The next moment, before Yuanshi Tianzun could swing again, the two halves of the star automatically disintegrated. Propelled by the terrifying force of the explosion, dense clusters of rust-colored star fragments surged toward a point in the deep void!
Lingbao Tianzun frowned, about to say something, but when he saw the direction these star fragments were heading, his pupils constricted!
"Bad! He's going to directly destroy Earth!!"
This crimson star was enormous, nearly half the size of Earth. Even after disintegration, the fragments were still the scale of asteroids. If even one fragment struck Earth, it would at minimum destroy a city or even an entire nation, or at worst could cause mass extinction.
The three Heavenly Lords immediately took action, racing after the shower of fragments hurtling through space. Divine light swept through the darkness, rapidly annihilating fragment after fragment. But even so, the fastest-moving fragments had already reached Earth's atmosphere!
"This is bad…" Lingbao Tianzun murmured.
…
The two carriages flew over the snow-capped mountain ranges.
Lin Qiye sat inside the carriage, his gaze following that thread of causality toward the distant horizon.
"It should be nearby."
"There's what looks like smoke over there. Is that it?" Chloe's eyes were extremely sharp. She spotted the cluster of constantly shifting colored mist at the end of the mountain range and immediately spoke up.
"That's right. It's Him."
A gleam flashed in Lin Qiye's eyes. After he guided Huo Qubing, the two carriages accelerated sharply, heading straight toward the chromatic mist!
As the distance closed, Lin Qiye finally saw the full extent of this mist. The dizzying chromatic fog几乎笼罩了附近所有的山峰，覆盖范围大概是他们在Chang'an City外见到的那个的数倍，看来从Jade Pool离开后，祂便一直向东方前进，不断的远离这片山脉区域。
"We've finally found it…" Huo Qubing's eyes narrowed slightly.
Before them was Kusun's true form. Kill Him, and all the first and second generation offspring scattered throughout the Great Han dynasty would die simultaneously.
Just as the two carriages were about to charge into the mist, the sky above suddenly flickered!
Lin Qiye froze and immediately looked up. The crimson star in the sky had already dimmed and exploded. Long streaks like meteors crossed the deep void, continuously enlarging within their field of vision!
"What's going on?!" Lin Qiye's expression grew grave at the sight.
The others saw it too. The carriages immediately stopped at the mist's edge. At that moment, the Kunlun Mirror in Lin Qiye's arms shook violently!
He took out the mirror. From within its polished surface, a divine shadow emerged, transforming into the Queen Mother of the West clad in a flowing gold and purple patterned robe. She looked up at the rapidly approaching crimson fragments, her expression grim.