"Lord Guardian, I have a plan that can stall for time for you. This is also the method I thought of for myself to escape previously. Originally, I wasn't confident, but with you around and my cooperation, there won't be a problem."
The painting old man said excitedly.
"Lord Guardian, when the finger returns later, I'll tell it that you have the Golden Crow Body. Hence, your appearance caused this skeleton to be fully active, and there's no need to fuse other living beings."
"After that, I'll draw for the finger. I can control this process and draw slower. I'll only finish drawing after you give me a signal."
"I've thought it through. It will look like I'm drawing a body, but I will be drawing a flesh cage. After that god's finger was heavily injured by the Prison Department, its consciousness became blurry. Besides, outsiders won't be able to understand painting. I'm confident that it'll be very difficult for it to sense what I'm doing."
"After it fuses into it and discovers that it's a cage, it will be time for us to escape!"
"Because it's drawn from the remains of the sun, the might of this cage isn't small. Originally, I estimated that I could trap it for a few days, but with your Golden Crow, I think I can trap it for more than half a month."
"This time will be enough for us to escape. What plan do you have? I can cooperate to complete it."
After the painting old man said so much in one go, he added.
"By the way, Lord Guardian, you might not know but during this period of time, I discovered that after this finger broke out of prison and was injured by the Palace Master with the Taboo magic treasure, there seems to be a problem with its mind. It has become a little forgetful…"
Xu Qing glanced at the old man and nodded. He then closed his eyes in silence and absorbed the power of the sun's remains with all his might. At that moment, the Golden Crow had already spread out and stretched its body inside the remains.
In Xu Qing's perception, as the Golden Crow crazily absorbed it, its tails continued to grow one after another. By now, there were already more than 60 of them.
According to Xu Qing's previous judgment, after the Golden Crow broke through 99 tails, his Golden Crow Refines All Life would advance to the third level.
The might of the third level was the Nascent Soul realm!
Also, because the Golden Crow was placed in the Fifth Heavenly Palace, once the Golden Crow advanced, Xu Qing's Fifth Heavenly Palace would undergo an earth-shattering transformation and form a fake Nascent Soul body that belonged to the Fifth Palace in advance.
At the thought of this, Xu Qing was filled with some anticipation.
Time flowed bit by bit. As the Golden Crow absorbed the remains, the aura on Xu Qing's body continued to rise, becoming more and more astonishing. The head and the painting old man felt terror from the energy fluctuations.
The sun's corpse also became more and more active and a sense of revival appeared.
At that moment, in the distant abyssal sea, the terrifying divine sense that belonged to the god's finger rumbled over. In an instant, the finger appeared here with a large number of nonhuman cultivators tied behind it. Among them, there were the most numbers of Smoke Race.
These Smoke Race members were all incomplete. They were flicked by the finger and all of them landed on the sun's corpse.
Being able to live in the desert, their race had a certain connection with the sun. Hence, at that moment, they were rapidly absorbed by the remains. This also provided Xu Qing with quite a bit of help in his cultivation.
Even so, the return of the finger still made Xu Qing a little nervous. When he opened his eyes and looked at the finger, the finger clearly sensed the abnormality in the sun's flesh. Its divine sense swept over.
At the side, the painting old man had an excited expression as he spoke loudly.
"Great Master, you're indeed the chosen god. I discovered that you actually captured an extraordinary fellow."
"It's him!" The painting old man pointed at Xu Qing.
"Lord, you might not remember this person. He's our D132's guardian. I checked him carefully just now. This person has the Golden Crow Body. He's a descendant of the sun."
"His appearance is a blessing given to you by the world. He alone is enough to allow this sun's flesh to possess a certain level of life activity."
"I can draw your divine body now!"
"I am extremely excited to be able to have the honor of personally painting the divine body of the chosen god!" The painting old man's expression was incomparably pious. He knelt under his finger and spoke excitedly.
The god's finger emitted a buzzing sound and abruptly spun, locking onto the sun's remains and emitting waves of clear fluctuations of desire.
As soon as this fluctuation appeared, the surroundings trembled and the void began to shatter. Cracks appeared on the ground.
The painting old man was startled. He lifted his hand and was about to draw when Xu Qing endured the discomfort he felt from facing a god and spoke in a low voice.
"Great god, it's a pity that the sun's activity isn't enough now. You can check it. Give me a little more time and I can make the activity of this sun's corpse even greater. The body drawn by the completely active sun's flesh will be even more perfect and the success rate will be higher."
"After all, the sun's remains are rare. A failure means one less remains."
"Great god, why don't you wait a little longer?"
As Xu Qing spoke, the Golden Crow in his body spread out in a large area, causing the flesh of the sun's corpse to emit an even denser aura of recovery. After the terrifying divine sense of the god's finger swept over, it stopped moving, as though it was thinking.
At the side, an undetectable glint flashed in the painting old man's eyes. Xu Qing's words were different from the plan they had discussed previously.
Xu Qing didn't bother with the old man. He looked at the god's finger and suppressed the nervousness in his heart before speaking again.
