Chapter 1288: The Earth Becomes a Book, Tributaries of Fate

"Our family assets are vast."

Prince Ziqing smiled, raised his right hand, and waved it gently toward the outside of the palace.

With this wave, the rumbling of the entire Swallowing Heaven Domain erupted with a sound even more intense than before, shaking the heavens.

Immediately following, an incredible scene suddenly appeared!

The earth... changed in an instant. The mountains and rivers, the buildings, and even the imperial palace itself, all transformed into a book at this very moment!

The earth became a book!

Throughout the entire Swallowing Heaven Domain, the Mirror of Eastern Wanggu in the sky was currently plundering the national destiny, and having already plundered more than half, it caused all things to become increasingly blurred.

Yet, unexpectedly, the book that the earth had transformed into flipped open a page at this moment!

With the flipping of this page, the mountains and rivers reappeared, all things were renewed, the capital city reappeared, and the subjects reappeared!

Within that page, it was also the Ziqing Upper Kingdom!

And it was extremely complete!

It allowed the Mirror of Eastern Wanggu in the firmament to continue its plunder, and allowed the vortex reversed by Xu Qing to continue its absorption.

Even though the scenes within the Mirror of Eastern Wanggu became incomparably clear as the national destiny was plundered, the pages of the Earth Book continued to reproduce everything.

Even more strangely, even though everything within this page quickly became blurred and was taken away by the Mirror of Eastern Wanggu, the Earth Book flipped open a second page!

This second page was still the Ziqing Upper Kingdom!

There was not the slightest change.

"Little Brother, however much you want, your big brother will give you."

Ziqing smiled.

"Because I have turned every breath of the Ziqing Upper Kingdom's existence into a separate page of fate. In the end, they gained life and began to flourish endlessly..."

"Exactly how many there are, even I am not clear."

This was precisely the divine authority he had displayed back then!

Fate!

It was just that, clearly, the divine authority Ziqing wielded now was far more bizarre than it had been back then, and its scope was even more unfathomable!

And following his words, the speed at which the book formed by the Swallowing Heaven earth flipped its pages suddenly accelerated. It was no longer being plundered by the Mirror of Eastern Wanggu until it blurred before flipping; instead, without waiting for the Mirror of Eastern Wanggu to finish absorbing, the pages began to flip rapidly on their own.

Every page was the Ziqing Upper Kingdom!

Consequently, the plundering by the Mirror of Eastern Wanggu in the firmament was passively accelerated as a result.

As for the national destiny of the Ziqing Upper Kingdom, amidst this rapid flipping of pages, it became... boundless!

It forced a sense of powerlessness to rise in one's heart.

The Mirror of Eastern Wanggu in the firmament also manifested this powerlessness.

It could not achieve infinite plundering, and that reversed vortex could not achieve endless eternal rotation.

Thus, following the sound of a 'Crack!', a fissure appeared on the Mirror of Eastern Wanggu.

These fissures grew more numerous, and under a series of shattering sounds, they spread across the entire surface of the mirror, finally... breaking into pieces and collapsing!

It shattered into countless fragments, scattering in all directions.

At the same time, on the Eastern Wanggu Continent, the Human Empress spat out blood, her body withered instantly, and she looked powerlessly toward Swallowing Heaven.

All the humans beside her who were assisting in the ritual were the same.

And experts like her were numerous among the ten thousand clans.

The cultivators of the ten thousand clans spat out blood one after another.

For a time, the entire Eastern Wanggu fell into silence.

Only the pages formed by the Swallowing Heaven Domain continued to flip rapidly, reproducing scene after scene, time and time again.

It seemed as if time and space themselves were changing.

Xu Qing sighed inwardly.

Prince Ziqing had failed to plunder the divine body earlier.

And here, his own plundering of the Ziqing Upper Kingdom's national destiny had likewise failed.

However, at the moment of failure, Xu Qing, standing on the plaza outside the Ziqing Upper Kingdom's imperial palace, felt a cold glint flash in his eyes. His body moved suddenly, heading straight for the imperial palace hall ahead.

Since the plundering was unsuccessful, ultimately, he would still have to fight in person to settle the outcome!

Inside the hall, Prince Ziqing tapped his finger lightly.

A ripple of fate emerged from the void where his finger tapped, spreading out to block Xu Qing's intrusion from the outside.

"Your opponent is another possible version of me within fate."

As these words echoed, the flipping of the earth's pages suddenly paused at this moment.

It manifested a branch of fate.

The appearance of this branch replaced reality, or to be precise, it existed alongside the real palace hall!

Thus, inside the hall, Prince Ziqing remained seated on the dragon throne.

And outside the hall, the world changed drastically!

On the plaza, a second Prince Ziqing appeared!

He stood upon the statue of the Eastern Wanggu remnant face, his hands outstretched, his expression carrying an evil air and even more coldness, while the lingering echoes of the words he had just spoken in the tributary of fate reverberated around him.

"... Sacrifice!"

Following the utterance of this word, countless fanatical sounds erupted from this Ziqing Upper Kingdom within the tributary of fate.

"Willing to die for the Prince!"

"Willing to die for the Prince!!"

These voices came from the mouths of every subject of the Ziqing Upper Kingdom in this tributary of fate; among them were cultivators, commoners, men and women, the old and the young.

But without exception, their expressions were fanatical.

Under the single word from Prince Ziqing, they all began to burn, began... self-sacrifice!

Sacrificing to... their Prince Ziqing!

This Prince Ziqing in the tributary of fate, who appeared alongside reality, had actually chosen to sacrifice the entire Ziqing Upper Kingdom, pouring it into himself!

Thus, in the next instant, countless sacrificed lives turned into a torrent, heading straight from all directions toward the Eastern Wanggu statue, pouring into Prince Ziqing's body.

The quantity was boundless.

And during this process of pouring in, Xu Qing did not go to stop it.

Because it was meaningless; his Constitution clearly perceived that what he was seeing before his eyes had already happened.

Changing this scene could not change the outcome.

But changing the final outcome could reverse the cause and effect.

Thus, Xu Qing gazed intently, focusing on every detail.

And at this moment, the body of Prince Ziqing on the Eastern Wanggu statue melted rapidly into blood amidst the countless sacrifices pouring in, each drop falling onto the statue below.

The entire process took only a few breaths...

Under Xu Qing's own eyes, this Ziqing Upper Kingdom in the tributary of fate no longer had any subjects, and even Prince Ziqing had completely melted; his blood... covered the entire range of the Eastern Wanggu statue.

Immediately following, a terrifying aura radiated from within that Eastern Wanggu statue, and then this aura surged into the sky.

It formed a vast divine might!

It caused the heavens and earth to change color, the winds and clouds to reverse, and at this moment, alien substances filled the world.

Even the rules were about to dissipate, and even the laws were about to cease to exist.

Only divine authority remained unique at this moment!

That was the aura of a God Lord level!

And within this aura, the form of the Eastern Wanggu statue was changing; the whole thing seemed to be reviving, actually becoming a body of flesh and blood!

And amidst the writhing of the flesh, even the appearance changed.

It formed a human shape!

And the rapidly forming face, in the blink of an eye, presented... the appearance of Ziqing!

Subsequently, he disappeared in a step, collapsing the void, and when he appeared, he was right in front of Xu Qing. Amidst the eruption of alien substances and God Lord pressure, he raised his right hand and pressed it toward Xu Qing.

Xu Qing's own Constitution radiated outward, colliding with Prince Ziqing.

The heavens and earth rumbled!

The world was in turmoil, kicking up a huge impact.

Xu Qing took advantage of the momentum to retreat, stopping a hundred feet away, and looked calmly at the Prince Ziqing standing outside the palace hall.

And at this moment, the Ziqing outside the hall also looked at Xu Qing.

Behind him, the Ziqing inside the hall also looked at Xu Qing.

Both Ziqings spoke at the same time.

"Little Brother, this time, if you are not prepared, then... you will die."

Their voices intertwined in the two segments of fate, echoing together in the current space-time, lingering for a long time.

Ziqing's divine authority was fate!

This method of intercepting a tributary from fate, making another possibility concrete, and having it exist alongside reality... to a certain extent, Xu Qing had also experienced it.

That was in the Fourth Star Ring, in the space-time turbulence.

Xu Qing, at the final point of convergence, had once appeared beside that old painter.

The old painter was another possibility of Xu Qing in other space-times.

It was just that the way he and Ziqing obtained it was different.

Ziqing relied on fate.

And Xu Qing relied on his own Constitution, which transformed into a dimension, piercing through all space-times.

But likewise... having reached this step, he had already reached the level of a Lord.

As a god, he was a God Lord; as an immortal, he was an Immortal Lord. ===== CHAPTER 1291 =====