Chapter 1354: Earth Becomes a Book, Fate's Tributary

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

With this wave, the rumbling of the Devouring Heaven Great Realm surged forth with even greater intensity than before, shaking the heavens.

Immediately, an unimaginable scene appeared!

The earth... instantly transformed—whether mountains and rivers, buildings, or even the imperial palace—all became a book in this very moment!

The earth became a book!

At this moment, the Eastern Wanggu mirror in the sky of the Devouring Heaven Great Realm was seizing the nation's fortune, having already seized more than half, causing all things to grow increasingly blurred.

Yet, the book formed from the earth, at this very moment, opened a page!

As this page turned, mountains and rivers reappeared, all things were renewed, the capital reappeared, and the people reappeared!

Within this page, it was actually the Purple Azure Upper Realm!

And it was extremely complete!

Allowing the Eastern Wanggu mirror in the heavens to continue its seizure, and also allowing the vortex reversed by Xu Qing to continue its absorption.

Even as the scenes within the Eastern Wanggu mirror grew extraordinarily clear with the seizure of national fortune, the pages of the book formed from the earth still recreated everything.

Even more astonishingly, even if everything on this page soon became blurred and was seized by the Eastern Wanggu mirror, the Book of the Earth turned to a second page!

This second page was still the Purple Azure Upper Realm!

Without the slightest change.

"Younger brother, however much you want, elder brother will give you that much."

Prince Ziqing smiled.

"Because, I have made every breath of the existence of the Purple Azure Upper Realm into a separate page of fate; in the end, they gained life and began to endure endlessly..."

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

This is precisely the divine authority he once displayed!

Fate!

But obviously, the current Prince Ziqing, the divine authority he now displays, is far more strange than before, and its scope is immeasurable!

And as he spoke, the book formed from the Devouring Heaven and Earth suddenly accelerated its page-turning, no longer waiting to be blurred by the Eastern Wanggu mirror in the heavens before turning, but instead flipping rapidly on its own before the mirror could finish absorbing.

Every page was the Purple Azure Upper Realm!

Thus, the seizure by the Eastern Wanggu mirror in the heavens was consequently accelerated.

As for the national fortune of the Purple Azure Upper Realm, in this rapid page-turning, it became... boundless!

Making people inevitably feel a sense of helplessness rise in their hearts.

The Eastern Wanggu mirror in the heavens also manifested this helplessness.

It cannot achieve infinite seizure, and that reversed vortex also cannot achieve endless perpetual turning.

Thus, with the sound of a crack, a fissure appeared on the Eastern Wanggu mirror.

This fissure grew more and more, spreading across the entire mirror surface amid a series of shattering sounds, ultimately... splitting into five parts and collapsing apart!

It shattered into countless fragments, turning into a large amount of debris, scattered in all directions.

At the same time, on the Eastern Wanggu Continent, the human female emperor spat out blood, her body instantly weakened, and she helplessly gazed toward the Devouring Heaven.

All the humans around her participating in the ritual were in the same state.

And those of equal strength to her, among the myriad races, were commonplace.

Myriad race cultivators all spat out blood in succession.

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

Only the book pages transformed from the Devouring Heaven Great Realm continued to flip rapidly, reenacting scene after scene, time and again.

It seemed as if time and space were shifting.

Xu Qing softly sighed in his heart.

Prince Ziqing previously failed in seizing the divine body.

And here, his attempt to seize the national fortune of the Purple Azure Upper Realm also failed.

But in the moment of failure, Xu Qing, standing outside the main hall of the Purple Azure Upper Realm palace, flashed a cold light in his eyes, his body suddenly moved, and he rushed straight toward the front of the palace main hall.

Since seizure did not succeed, we must ultimately fight in person to determine the universe!

Inside the hall, Prince Ziqing lightly tapped his finger.

A ripple of fate, from his finger tapping the void, turned into ripples spreading out, blocking Xu Qing's intrusion from the outside world.

"Your opponent is another possible me within fate."

As these words echoed, the turning of the earth's book pages suddenly paused at this instant.

Manifesting a branch of fate.

The appearance of this branch replaced reality, or more accurately, it existed alongside the real hall!

Thus, inside the hall, Prince Ziqing still sat on the dragon throne.

But outside the hall, heaven and earth underwent a great transformation!

On the plaza, a second Prince Ziqing appeared!

He stood upon the statue of the Upper Wasteland, arms outstretched, his expression carrying evil and also indifference, the surroundings echoing with the lingering words he had just spoken about the fate's tributary.

"... Sacrifice!"

As this word was spoken, the Purple Azure Upper Realm within this fate's tributary emitted countless fervent voices.

"Willing to die for the Prince!"

"Willing to die for the Prince!!"

These voices came from the mouths of every citizen of the Purple Azure Upper Realm within this fate's tributary—among them cultivators, commoners, men and women, old and young.

But without exception, their expressions were all frenzied.

At a single word from Crown Prince Ziqing, they began to burn, they began… self-sacrifice!

Sacrificing to… their Crown Prince Ziqing!

The Crown Prince Ziqing appearing in this fate tributary alongside reality had evidently chosen to sacrifice the entire Ziqing Upper Realm, pouring it into himself!

Thus, in the next instant, countless sacrificed lives turned into a torrent, rushing from all directions toward the Upper Wasteland statue, pouring into Crown Prince Ziqing's body.

The quantity was vast, boundless.

And during this influx, Xu Qing did not attempt to stop it.

Because it was meaningless, his Constitution clearly perceived that what he saw before him had already happened.

Changing this scene cannot change the outcome.

But changing the final outcome can reverse causality.

Thus Xu Qing gazed, focusing on every detail.

And at this moment, Crown Prince Ziqing on the Upper Wasteland statue, his body melting rapidly into bloodwater amidst the countless influxes of sacrifice, dripping drop by drop onto the statue below.

The entire process took only a few breaths…

Under Xu Qing's own eyes, this fate tributary's Ziqing Upper Realm now had no subjects left, not even Crown Prince Ziqing, who had completely melted, his blood… covering the entire area of the Upper Wasteland statue.

Immediately after, a terrifying aura emanated from within the Upper Wasteland statue, and then this aura surged skyward.

Forming vast divine might!

Causing heaven and earth to change color, wind and clouds to reverse, the alien to fill the world at this moment.

Even rules were to dissipate, even laws were to cease to exist.

Only divine authority remained unique at this moment!

This was the aura of a God Lord level!

And within this aura, the form of the Upper Wasteland statue was changing, overall as if revived, actually becoming a flesh-and-blood body!

And within the writhing of the flesh, even the appearance was changing.

Forming a humanoid shape!

And the rapidly forming face, in the blink of an eye, presented… the likeness of Ziqing!

Then, in a step, it vanished into nothingness, appearing suddenly before Xu Qing, amidst the eruption of alien and God Lord pressure, its right hand raised, pressing down on Xu Qing.

Xu Qing's own Constitution emanated outward, making contact with Crown Prince Ziqing.

Heaven and earth roared!

The world trembled, raising a great shock.

Xu Qing, following the momentum, retreated his body, stopping at a distance of a hundred zhang, calmly gazing at the one standing outside the hall, Crown Prince Ziqing.

And at this moment, the Crown Prince Ziqing outside the hall also gazed at Xu Qing.

Behind him, the Crown Prince Ziqing inside the hall likewise gazed at Xu Qing.

The two Crown Princes Ziqing spoke simultaneously.

"Younger brother, this time, if you are not prepared, then… you will die."

Their voices intertwined in the two fates, echoing together in the present spacetime, lingering long without fading.

The divine authority of Ziqing is fate!

This method of extracting a tributary from fate, materializing another possibility, coexisting with reality… to some extent, Xu Qing has also experienced it.

That was in the Fourth Star Ring, amidst spacetime turbulence.

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

The old painter is another possibility of Xu Qing in other spacetimes.

Only, he and Ziqing obtained it differently.

Ziqing, relied on fate.

And Xu Qing, relied on his own Constitution, transforming it into Wei, penetrating all spacetimes.

But similarly… having reached this point, he had already attained the level of the Lord.

To be a god is to be a God Lord; to be an immortal is to be an Immortal Lord.