Chapter 2703: One Hundred Million Years of Time

Time flows continuously in the human realm.

This time's passage is extraordinarily long, extraordinarily long, so long that the sentient beings of the human realm have thoroughly grown accustomed to the order of the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang, regarding it as naturally as sunlight, soil, and the seasons.

Among these sentient beings, even the ancient emperors and forbidden zone ancient emperors are included; they have long since grown accustomed to everything.

Because, one hundred million years have passed!

One hundred million years!

Even for an ancient emperor, how many hundred-million-year spans does a life have?

Even for a forbidden zone ancient emperor, how many hundred-million-year spans does a life have?

This is already the lifetime of most forbidden zone ancient emperors, a lifetime shrouded in the order of the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang.

If any immortal-path sentient being were to arrive in this era, they would surely be shocked by all aspects of this era, even believing this place to be the immortal realm!

In transportation, the human realm has established the high-dimensional Nine Heavens routes, which are the high-dimensional expressways of the immortal-path cosmos; supremes and above, or specially designed interstellar-domain-class warships, when traveling afar, will first ascend, then ascend further, continuously climbing into the higher dimensions of the Nine Heavens, and then, within the Nine Heavens, travel at speeds exceeding time itself, shuttling back and forth, raising the trade and transport efficiency in the boundless starry void to over a hundred times that of the past, while greatly reducing costs!

This is the Nine Heavens high-dimensional warship jointly designed and constructed by the North Dipper Ancient Emperor after the Boundless Starry Void Imperial Road and the Immortal Gate Linked Cloud Spaceport Heavy Industry Group; initially applied to warships, then, ten million years later, promoted to civilian use, completely opening the trade nodes of the boundless starry void, allowing the economy to flourish by several times or more.

The 'Nine Heavens High-Dimensional Road Design and Construction Planning Draft' issued by the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang further accelerated this process, completely transforming the Nine Heavens high-dimensional passage into a civilian-grade route; even a Qi-refining cultivator, as long as they purchase a ticket for a Nine Heavens high-dimensional warship, can shuttle through the Nine Heavens, surpassing the imagination of countless past powerhouses. The globalization of the boundless cosmic starry void began at that moment, no longer merely describing economic and abstract levels, but describing an objectively existing entity, with transportation greatly facilitated.

From that moment on, the long-held wish to tour the North Dipper in the morning and Zhu Que in the evening was fulfilled by the sentient beings of the human realm.

The North Dipper Ancient Emperor, this extremely ancient forbidden zone ancient emperor, benefited from this super-engineering that moved the boundless starry void, rising to prominence in a single leap, surpassing latercomers like the Nine Leaves Sword Emperor, revealing an edge impossible to ignore, seizing vast quantities of precious immortal-tier heavenly treasures, vast amounts of immortal dynasty soul computational power, and thus the Dao advanced greatly.

This is the boundless starry void after one hundred million years, similar to the immortal realm in every aspect.

Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu.

The climate here is also different from before.

The human realm's Three Thousand Dao converge here, each great Dao coiling like azure dragons before jointly upholding the Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu standing atop the Nine Heavens' peak; myriad primordial creation phenomena float and sink, every change reflecting all things in the boundless starry void.

Threads upon threads of primordial creation purple qi drift like clouds and mist in the air; this is the most precious primordial source of the immortal-path cosmos, the essence of creation, yet here it is as common as roadside flowers.

More terrifying still is the End-of-Dharma Dao among the Three Thousand Dao, which almost suppresses the three thousand Dao of heaven and earth with a single Dao, a singular supremacy, controlling all operations of the immortal-path cosmos.

Yet, the human realm shows no signs of all Dao extinguishing; instead, the immortal-path flourishes ever more prosperously.

This is because the End-of-Dharma Dao reversed the cosmic cycle, turning the immortal-path cosmos toward a stage more suitable for immortal-path development, thereby creating today's so-called 'pseudo-immortal realm' of the boundless starry void.

This is today's boundless starry void, shrouded in the order of the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang. On this day, deep within the Tian Shu, a youth in green robes gazes at the crown before him, motionless for a long time, sunk in prolonged daze.

"Three Character Immortal Scripture."

"Finally…… I've hit a bottleneck, after so long without encountering a bottleneck, this lord thought I could directly become an immortal."

Jiang Ding Zi self-mocked.

One hundred million years, integrating the power of the boundless starry void, gathering its talents, cultivating generation after generation of heaven-shaking, earth-startling forbidden zone ancient emperors, nurturing vast numbers of Feathered Ascension Emperor realm cultivators, continuously cultivating the agriculture and industry of the entire boundless starry void, forming an unparallely prosperous material foundation, upon which countless brilliant immortal-path wisdoms were born……

Now, the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang has indeed become the Three Character Immortal Scripture Ancient Emperor.

At this moment, the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang is terrifyingly formidable, nearly replacing the will of heaven; a mere thought can influence the great Dao changes of the boundless starry void, partially affecting cosmic cycles and laws, a single word spoken can become the ironclad laws between universes, with language replacing human rules.

To speak of heavenly edicts in one's mouth is utterly inadequate to describe the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang.

The Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang wishes to grant a person tens of thousands or millions of years of lifespan, needing no heavenly treasures or secret arts; merely speaking it aloud, allowing that person to live the corresponding additional time, heaven and earth will let that person live exactly that duration—no extra minute, no missing second.

The Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang wishes for a sentient being to die; even if that being is an ancient emperor, they will die instantly.

Of course, the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang doing so will slightly disturb the order of the boundless starry void's heavenly way operation, creating tiny loopholes in the heavenly way's operation, thus bringing about some disasters, earthquakes, etc.; everything must follow equivalent exchange of energy and matter, even the universe cannot create from nothing.

Therefore, aside from bestowing lifespans on a few sentient beings with emotional attachments, the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang will not lavishly grant. "Bottleneck, bottleneck……"

"It feels so unfamiliar, so utterly unfamiliar—what kind of term is this, what does it mean, how have I never seen it before?"

Jiang Ding carefully contemplates the three character elements of the immortal-path cosmos constant experience formula slowly turning in his sea of consciousness.

This experience formula has nearly become one, reaching the envisioned endpoint of the primordial ancient scrolls' becoming emperor and becoming immortal on the immortal path; having become immortal, yet upon close inspection, this seemingly singular experience formula is still composed of three character elements, describing all principles in heaven and earth with three character elements, describing the essence of the immortal path.

The Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang mentally simulates everything, mastering each great Dao, each immortal-path possibility, for the most outstanding sentient being in human history, creating the existence of the pseudo-immortal realm.

But at this moment, he discovers, there is no path forward.

Countless roads, countless possibilities, at this moment all point to a thick great Dao sighing wall, unable to advance even a fraction, theoretically no possibility exists.

This is the bottleneck.

The Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang has cultivated the Dao for who knows how many hundred millions of years, only today understanding what bottleneck means.

Not the limitation of being unable to advance an inch due to heaven and earth as in the first Tai Shang Da Ri Immortal Dynasty era, but rather completely not knowing how to proceed next, where to go—everything is unknown.

The Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang vaguely senses something.

The primordial ancient scrolls' becoming emperor and becoming Dao method is not something from ancient times in the extremely distant, extremely distant cosmic epochs; perhaps humanity did not originally become emperor and become Dao via the primordial ancient scrolls, but via another way, another path of seeking Dao, flourishing greatly, just like the current primordial ancient scrolls' becoming emperor and becoming Dao method. And now, I have already stood at the endpoint of the primordial ancient scrolls' becoming emperor and becoming Dao method.