Chapter 1144: A Treasure in South Heaven
Upon realizing the imp had gone back to its insolent way of talking, Xu Qing clenched his hand into a fist. A loud crunching sound rang out. The jade slip shattered.
Xu Qing sat down cross-legged in the dao sermon area and waited patiently. Eventually, he felt a familiar sensation in the palm of his hand as the jade slip yet again formed anew.
Xu Qing paid close attention to the process. It started out as a dot in the middle of his hand. Then more dots appeared until they formed a thread. The thread rippled and distorted, grew larger, and eventually created a flat surface that resembled the jade slip as it had looked in the second world. It seemed to be absorbing something marvelous from the world around it, as it eventually gained true height. And then... it became a real jade slip.
Xu Qing paid very close attention the entire time. Truth be told, this wasn’t the first time he had studied it as it formed. He had done the same thing on the previous occasions. After multiple inspections, he felt that he had a basic understanding of what was going on.
The jade slip is an object that starts out as nothing but turns into something. For it to come from the second world into this place, it obviously needs space-time canon. But this use of space-time canon differs from how I use it. It almost seems like... the power of imagination?
Xu Qing thought about it for a moment. His space-time state relied on the five elements as the foundation. By making the five elements part of space and time, I can form space-time on a macroscopic level. But Immortal Lord Aurora is taking the substructure of something from a lower-level world on a microscopic level.
Even as he pondered such things, the imp spoke from the newly-reformed jade slip, sounding flustered and exasperated.
“That was going too far! Can’t you even let me finish talking?? It’s not like I said ‘I’m definitely not telling you!’ Can’t you at least give me some face here, huh? I mean, aren’t you ashamed to act like this? I did help you get out of the second world, didn’t I?? You heartless thug!”
Xu Qing listened carefully to everything the imp said, and had to admit it made sense. Therefore, he put the jade slip down, took a few steps back, straightened his robe, and then clasped hands with great respect and bowed deeply.
The imp was once again stunned.
After bowing, Xu Qing picked up the jade slip firmly in his hand and said, “Please tell me!”