Chapter 1130: The Ninth Pole

The river water churned, and the sound of roaring rose with the spray, spreading in all directions.

Xu Qing sat cross-legged on the river surface, the flying ash transformed from the fourth-layer world around him drifting away.

It was as if it were snowing from the sky, filling the air.

But... this world had not shattered, nor had it disappeared.

Although all the buildings of the Xiangong, including the heaven and earth, had vanished into smoke and become nothingness.

This world itself still existed.

Because Xu Qing was here!

Now, thanks to the gift from the Aurora Young Master, he possessed the ownership of the Xiangong.

He possessed the status to wield it.

His Time-Space Constitution had reached great success, and the long river of time and space he had manifested supported this fourth-layer world, which should have shattered.

At the same time, he understood that he could leave at any time, and could even return to any of the first three layers with a single thought.

Whether it was the mundane world of the third layer, the images of the second layer, or the lines of the first layer.

As long as he wished, he could descend in an instant.

But... if he wanted to go upward, he was restricted.

What restricted him was not ownership or status, but the level of his Constitution.

To enter the fourth-layer world, one only needed to be a Constitution wielder or possess a Constitution treasure, but the fifth-layer world required something higher.

He had to raise the level of his Constitution to a considerable height, making the power of his laws surge to reach the combat power of a Quasi-Immortal Great Emperor, only then could he do it.

And now, Xu Qing could feel that he was only a sliver away from stepping into the fifth layer!

"If I raise my Time-Space Constitution by one more level, I can break through everything!"

"This higher level is my Ninth Pole!"

Xu Qing's eyes revealed a strange light.

He had a strong intuition that the moment his Ninth Pole appeared, it would be the time his Spirit-Hidden Ninth Realm was formed.

And by relying on the level of the Ninth Pole, he could step into the fifth-layer world, which only Great Emperors, or those whose Constitution laws had reached a certain level, could enter.

Once there, absorbing the power from the fifth-layer world, he was certain...

"One step to become a Sovereign, capable of fighting a Great Emperor!"

Xu Qing took a deep breath, his thoughts surging as he whispered to himself.

"As for my Ninth Pole... after time and space... is parallel..."

The words of the Aurora Young Master before he left had moved him incomparably, and the thunder formed by them was still echoing at this moment.

That sense of enlightenment was also becoming increasingly intense.

Until finally, Xu Qing, sitting cross-legged on his own long river of time, lowered his gaze and landed it on the river surface.

There, his reflection was.

Gazing at the reflection for a long time... Xu Qing on the river surface closed his eyes.

And the reflection in the river water opened its eyes at this instant!

Subsequently, the reflection sank, falling toward the riverbed, toward the gravel, toward the very bottom, until it vanished from sight.

Only Xu Qing on the river surface remained cross-legged, motionless.

The wind blew from afar, rolling up thick immortal mist, flowing among many cultivators, and spreading onto the stone tablet of the Xiangong's Welcoming Immortal Platform.

The stone tablet was black, covered in moss, and exuded a sense of antiquity and the passage of time.

The handwriting on it was blurred, recording information about the three paths one could choose when entering the Xiangong.

This was the entrance to the Xiangong, and also the place where all cultivators saw their first sight after stepping into the Xiangong; at the same time, they would all choose their route into the Xiangong here.

At this moment, Li Mengtu and the Earth Spirit Ancestor, along with a blurred figure, were whistling over from afar.

The moment they stepped onto the Welcoming Immortal Platform, the vast majority of cultivators already there were rushing toward the left side.

That was the first path into the Xiangong; the mist inside was not thick, but the space seemed different, and compared to the Welcoming Immortal Platform, it was much dimmer.

There was also a drizzling rain, moistening everything, and the ground was a patch of mud.

As for the second path, directly in front, thick mist obscured everything, and one could only see in the blur that there seemed to be a bridge there.

On the bridge, vaguely, there seemed to be a person walking away.

"That is Star Ring Son; the moment he appeared just now, I saw that the place he went to was this bridge."

Li Mengtu, at the side, spoke in a deep voice.

"I don't know how Brother Xu will choose; if you choose the small path, we can go together."

After Li Mengtu finished speaking, the Earth Spirit Ancestor beside him also turned his head, looking at Xu Qing with full expectation.

Standing beside them was none other than Xu Qing!

And the time at this moment had returned to the moment the Immortal Fall Land opened and everyone had just entered, but strangely... neither Li Mengtu nor the Earth Spirit Ancestor had the slightest abnormality.

It was as if they did not know they had been here before.

Or to be precise, they, in different time and space, had been here.

Even more strangely, even Xu Qing, who appeared here, had no knowledge of this; he was just like someone truly entering here for the first time, looking up and gazing at the three entrances.

The small path, the wooden bridge, the river water.

"I want to walk on this bridge."

The Earth Spirit Ancestor glanced at Li Mengtu.

Li Mengtu nodded, bowed to Xu Qing, and flew directly toward the small path on the left.

The Earth Spirit Ancestor hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he did not try to persuade him, instead bowing to Xu Qing and choosing the same small path as Li Mengtu.

Soon, the figures of the two disappeared.

On the Welcoming Immortal Platform, only Xu Qing remained.

He stood there, first turning his head to look to the right!

After pondering for a while, he finally withdrew his gaze, looked at the bridge in front, flickered his body, and stepped toward it... in one step.

Time passed.

The world behind the bridge was the second layer; the moment he appeared in that scene, Xu Qing was immersed in it, experiencing many events, only... he did not encounter the little person holding a sword.

Instead, he slept in the Great Demon King's bucket.

Finally, following an unknown upheaval, the Great Demon King roared in anger, splashing everything in the bucket out, spreading it everywhere.

And he, in that upheaval for unknown reasons, survived a narrow escape and finally fled out.

He was in the third-layer world.

There, he met Li Mengtu, and together with him, obtained the status to enter the fourth layer.

Subsequently, they stepped into the fourth layer together.

He was no longer the Aurora Young Master, but had become a guardian disciple of the Scripture Pavilion.

He tried to change history, tried to create waves, and had some small success, but no big waves were raised, because Star Ring Son was there and had completed the order.

Thus, the grand wedding appeared, and thus the catastrophe descended; everything became consistent with history.

Thus, the bubbles in the starry sky shattered, the sentient beings of the Xiangong dissipated, and he was included in that dissipation.

And the moment he dissipated, Xu Qing opened his eyes.

A trickling stream circled beside him, and as for the distance, as if separated by time and space, he saw another himself.

That self, the long river beside him, was vast and shocking.

"So, that's how it is..."

This Xu Qing whispered, sitting cross-legged on his own trickling stream, and closed his eyes.

The reflection continued to sink.

And then... on the Welcoming Immortal Platform, the previous scene appeared again.

This time, appearing there, Xu Qing, who was still ignorant of this, chose to enter the rainy small path together with Li Mengtu and the Earth Spirit Ancestor, out of caution for the danger of this place.

Walking on this path, he did not experience the first and second-layer worlds, but there, he had a conflict with the Evil Spirit Son and became entangled.

Finally, he got to know Zhou Zhengli.

The two, together with Li Mengtu, found the status to go to the fourth-layer world, and finally, in the fourth-layer world, experienced the changes of history.

When everything ended, following the dissipation of the fourth-layer world, Xu Qing opened his eyes and saw... two of himself.

After a long silence, he was in a trance.

"So, that's how it is..."

Subsequently, he closed his eyes; the river water beside him was very, very little.

But the reflection was still sinking.

It stirred up a series of undercurrents, echoing layer upon layer of ripples, turning into one Xu Qing after another, appearing at the entrance of the Xiangong in different time and space.

Walking toward their respective choices.

Just like the most primitive gravel in the desert of time, every movement of the wind would form different time-space lines, thereby deriving different experiences.

Thus, some figures died on the way!

The time and space they were in turned into nothingness.

Some figures' ways of handling problems subverted Xu Qing's framework.

Slaughter, blood, plunder...

Each was different.

The experiences were naturally based on this; some got to know the Evil Spirit Son, some got to know the Thousand Armies, and some did not even choose to enter the fourth layer.

Even more Xu Qings became friends with Star Ring Son and chose to maintain order with him.

Various changes, various experiences, finally manifested externally as Xu Qing on the vast long river, with more and more long rivers around him; although the river water varied in amount, there was a self on every river.

Finally, vast and dense.

Countless Xu Qings, countless long rivers, occupied all the nothingness.

Until the wind blew, the most primitive gravel moved, and the most primitive Xu Qing opened his eyes.

He whispered softly.

"Return to one!"

The moment his eyes opened and closed... the moment the words were spoken...

Countless time and space in all directions, countless of him, also suddenly opened their eyes, all... looking at him!

All gazes converged at this instant, intertwined at this moment, and at this instant... merged.

Immediately after, countless long rivers churned instantly, also converging toward the most primitive Xu Qing!

Thus, the river water became even more turbulent, and Xu Qing's mind felt an endless, violent roar.

As if the heart were opened!

As if the eyes were no longer covered!

Countless selves became the true self.

Countless rivers became the sea!

The Ninth Pole was born at this instant!

Pole Parallel!

As if heaven and earth were opening, as the world shook, Xu Qing's Ninth Realm also appeared, reaching great success in an instant.

His cultivation base also skyrocketed!

From the Spirit-Hidden Eighth Realm, he stepped into the Ninth Realm, reaching the extreme of Spirit-Hidden.

And his Constitution, in terms of level, broke through directly!

The moment of breakthrough, Xu Qing stood up on the sea of time and space, looked up at the top, lifted his steps... and walked toward the nothingness in one step!

He was going to that fifth-layer world, which only those with Quasi-Immortal Great Emperor combat power could go to, to complete the final breakthrough!

The moment his foot fell, the surroundings blurred, a patch of distortion, as if crossing shackles and walking out of a barrier.

Stepping into... the fifth-layer world!

Looking in all directions, it was a patch of brilliance.

One vortex after another of different sizes, like galaxies, and like strange eyes.

Boundless.

But the moment he looked, although this place was vast, in Xu Qing's cognition, all the vortexes, all the details, could be "seen".

Amidst the mystery, he even saw that among these vortexes, in a few, there were figures sitting cross-legged in meditation.

Those figures included Star Ring Son, and some cultivators he had never seen before; looking at their aura, they were clearly Quasi-Immortals.

Around these people, there were dreamlike, strange, and different illusions flowing.

And Star Ring Son there seemed to be breaking through.

After being gazed at by Xu Qing's eyes, Star Ring Son seemed to notice something, suddenly opened his eyes, and swept his gaze.

The moment he saw Xu Qing, his expression suddenly changed, and a sense of disbelief emerged uncontrollably.

"How did you come here!!"