Chapter 1226: Aurora Epoch

On the flesh-and-blood earth of the primordial mother star in the Fourth Star Ring, having fully become a divine spirit, the fleshly form shed the shape of a cultivator, transforming into the holy Aurora Young Master.

It slowly raised its head.

The one standing there emanated an ineffable presence!

The spinal column, like a string connecting the virtual and real dimensions, trembled slightly, as if breathing, tugging at the gravity resonating with the star ring, sending forth continuous ripples.

Though its form clearly entered the eyes of Xu Qing and the Spirit Phoenix Fairy, it could not leave the slightest imprint in their minds.

Visible, yet unforgettable.

Even in thought, its form could not be woven.

It was as if… due to its exalted status, others' vision and even perception could not construct what they saw.

If one tried to force such a construction, it would trigger an irreversible collapse of one's own consciousness.

Like… facing fate head-on.

And fate cannot be fathomed!

Only that breath… earth-shaking, as if all things and beings must worship it.

Xu Qing's mind and spirit trembled; here he was, though possessing an immortal body, in the Eastern Wanggu continent he held a divine spirit form, and that divine form was originally forged from the primordial flesh of the Upper Wasteland, containing remnants of fate.

Adding to that, the fate-carving blade transformed from divine authority he once held, and his divine spirit's understanding of fate…

Thus, in this instant, Xu Qing's heart had already understood the reason.

He knew why the Immortal Sovereign had let him come.

He also sensed, on the Aurora Young Master's ascension to godhood this time, the familiar source within the divine nature gained.

"Upper Wasteland…"

As Xu Qing murmured in his heart, the Aurora Young Master's voice, like the earth-shaking sound echoing during the formation of the Fourth Star Ring, spread in all directions.

"In each cycle of fate, souls are self-iterations on multidimensional manifolds."

"They are variables imprisoned within causality, yet also strange attractors that unravel the boundaries of chaos."

"And the true God of Fate… is actually… merely one who wields an iron pickaxe in the ore vein called cognition, hewing light for oneself."

"All beings, cultivators and divine spirits alike, are their own Gods of Fate."

The first word, from the moment it left the Aurora Young Master's mouth.

The entire primordial mother star rumbled; upon its flesh-and-blood earth, new skin grew, vegetation appeared, life appeared, rivers and seas appeared.

All beings and things appeared.

In a short time, the primordial mother star actually became a prosperous star.

Even during the utterance of these few words, life had formed civilization, having traversed countless years across the entire mother star.

Precisely… one sound, all things born!

At the same time, waves of earth-pulse sounds also trembled with vitality, no longer merely resonating with the Aurora Young Master, but… accommodating!

It, in accommodating the Aurora Young Master!

At the same time, outside the primordial mother star, those true gods who had originally come to block it now trembled violently, the immense difference in their life commands making them instinctively bow their heads, kneeling toward the primordial mother star, toward the Aurora Young Master.

Not only were they so; at this moment, as the Aurora Young Master ascended to God Sovereign and its divine voice echoed, nearly ninety-nine percent of the divine spirits of the Fourth Star Ring instinctively worshipped everywhere.

The divine statues in temple after temple, the myriad clans of divine races, even divine nations—all were thus.

The Fourth Star Ring, under this worship in the darkness, slowly saw starlight appear—at first a point, then patches, finally boundless…

As if seeking to rekindle.

This is the manifestation and reciprocation of a star ring's value after the birth of a God Sovereign.

The God Sovereign is the darling of the star ring!

Thus, the Fourth Star Ring at this moment, in this process of rekindling, its entirety also surged with ripples, as if the final brilliance formed would surpass what came before.

And just then, on the primordial mother star, the Aurora Young Master who brought all this turned its head, gazing toward the Spirit Phoenix Fairy.

Its gaze was cold, devoid of emotion.

Such a gaze made the Spirit Phoenix Fairy's body tremble; the marriage letter before her, at this moment, seemed to turn pallid, its color rapidly fading.

Even the marriage contract inscriptions upon it began to dissipate.

"Husband…"

Spirit Phoenix quavered.

The Aurora Young Master nodded slightly.

"I am unharmed; all past remains intact, though emotions have faded and color lost, I have not forgotten my purpose in coming here."

As the divine voice fell, it transformed into myriad bolts of Lei Ting that shattered the heavens; in that Lei Ting, the Aurora Young Master's gaze fell upon Xu Qing.

"Xu Qing, do you remember, in the mirror-like years, the scene of my father's ascension!"

Upon these words landing in Xu Qing's ears, he jerked his head up, gazing at the Aurora Young Master.

"Having come to the Fourth Star Ring, here I borrowed the primordial mother star's flesh and blood, borrowed the causality of the birthplace of its first divine spirit, and used the divine remnant within my body… to reroute into the Fourth Star Ring's divine spirit!"

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"This is fate's choice, and also fate's arrangement."

The Aurora Young Master spoke lightly, walking toward the firmament.

Behind it, the veins within now flowed with golden blood, supporting its form, rising higher with each step.

The voice echoed.

"After becoming a god, on this Fourth Star Ring's primordial mother star, ascending to God Sovereign, becoming one of the Fourth Star Ring's divine veins, urging the divine remnant, thereby seizing the supreme divine authority of the Gods Sovereign, transforming my fate!"

"And now… the Dao sound shall rise, the time is near, coming next… the sun and moon shall return!"

In midair, the golden light upon the Aurora Young Master's body surged intensely, its entire form seeming to become the sun of this star, exploding with a boom!

At that instant of explosion, within the Fifth Star Ring, the old man walking in the void, clad in coarse hemp robes and straw sandals, paused his steps.

He raised his head, gazing into the distance toward the direction of the primordial mother star of the fourth star ring in his perception, then slowly released his hands.

In his left hand, the image of the Aurora Immortal Sovereign's ascension and assumption of fate during his lifetime transformed into specks of crystalline light, merging with the void.

The flowing years of a thousand years, erased together in the past, streamed from his right hand at this moment, flying out as sands of time, returning……to the world!

A thousand years ago, on the day the Nine Shores Immortal Sovereign departed office, the Aurora Immortal Sovereign chose defiance, chose to end.

That day was both his descendant's wedding day and his own coronation day, the pivotal moment when he was to take charge of the entire fifth star ring in the coming years.

If nothing had changed from before, then from that point onward, the fifth star ring would belong to his era.

But he chose to betray the Dao!

Then……the Immortal Sovereign arrived, personally slaying his son.

Furthermore, to prevent anyone from remembering cause and effect, the Nine Shores Immortal Sovereign concealed the thousand years with his own constitution, while the Immortal Sovereign himself……also raised his hand, taking away cause and effect.

And he arranged for the Nine Shores Immortal Sovereign of that time to continue governing the fifth star ring, extending his term by a thousand years.

And today, is the final day of that thousand years.

This moment, is the final moment of that thousand years.

When a Dao resonance echoed throughout the entire fifth star ring, and a new day arrived, the thousand years of cause and effect taken by the Immortal Sovereign returned to the star ring!

The entire fifth star ring trembled as one.

In the Nine Shores' heaven beyond heaven, within the Dao Palace, the Nine Shores Immortal Sovereign stood before the palace, gazing into the distance, a smile appearing on his face, accompanied by a sense of ease rising within him.

"I hope you, surpass your father, and even surpass your grandfather, in excellence……"

Muttering, he raised his hand, slowly removing the Era Crown formed by the convergence of the fifth star ring's fate upon his head, returning it to……the star ring!

Thus, the fifth star ring, in this roar, within this Dao resonance, rose from countless stars, countless universes, countless star fields, and all realms beyond heaven and within heaven……an unprecedented surge of fate, surging as if welcoming a new master!

For, if one traces back to the past, this day is the day the Aurora Immortal Sovereign ascended a thousand years ago!

Back then, the Aurora Immortal Sovereign's ascension ended in failure.

Today……his son, Míngmíng, returns the sun and moon, inheriting his father's position!

The Aurora Era, suddenly surges forward! ——

Having been unconscious for two days, just now revived.

First, I'll post these, I'll continue writing, more later.