Chapter 1271: Motherworld Chronicles
When Xu Qing heard the voice of Goddess Starryeyes, he scowled, lifted his right hand, and made a grasping gesture. In that manner, he dragged Starryeyes out by the neck and placed hēr on the black glacier in front of him. Then he loosened his grip so shē could speak.
“Tell me everything you know,” he said. “Very accurately.”
His cold gaze coupled with everything shē had experienced after being captured, plus what shē had gone through with Starfire, ensured that Starryeyes’ defenses had all crumbled. Shē knew that hiding things wouldn’t benefit hēr at all.
After a moment of thought, shē said, “Everything here matches the description of a very secret location. It’s... the Fourth Star Ring’s primeval motherworld.”
“Continue,” Xu Qing said tranquilly.
“Supposedly,” shē continued, “the primeval motherworld is the place where the very first god was born in the Fourth Star Ring. Legend has it that before that primeval god, the Fourth Star Ring didn’t have gods at all. It was only because of hīm that gods came to be here.”
Xu Qing’s eyes glittered.
His gaze caused Starryeyes to shiver. After a brief moment of hesitation, shē continued, “It’s a very old story. I heard about it from my father. And not all the gods in the Fourth Star Ring accept it as truth. I guess you can say that the story of the primeval motherworld is just one of the stories that explain the origin of the gods.”
“Tell me some things you know to be true,” Xu Qing said coldly.
Starryeyes nodded. “There’s one thing that’s certain. When gods develop the godrot, and thēir bodies wither, thēy’ll sense a call from the motherworld. At that point, thēy will float through the starry sky, following a prescribed trajectory until thēy arrive here and land on the motherworld. That journey cannot be detected or perceived, so even after countless years have passed, very few gods know the actual location of the motherworld. Only the dead come here.”
“Godrot?” Xu Qing asked.
Starryeyes seemed hesitant to explain what were obviously secrets of the gods, but in the end, shē didn’t hold back. “Gods under the level of True God are not undying. It’s only after becoming a True God that one acquires a true name and becomes undying. However, that undying aspect refers only to the true name, not the god’s body. The bodies of all gods, True Gods or not, will eventually develop godrot after enough time passes.