Chapter 531: Spiritual Domain 341st Era, Boat of the Universe!
When the square under Zhao Xing and Ji Si's feet lit up, the time displayed was the 341st era before the Desolate Domain. However, which solar year it was specifically, others could not see; only Zhao Xing and Ji Si themselves knew.
"Fellow Daoists, Zhao Xing will go first."
At this time, everyone on the three floors congratulated them in unison.
"I wish Farmer Zhao attain Dao and become a god!"
Congratulating others on attaining Dao and becoming a god is a polite phrase, but Zhao Xing, this Hill Head, is different.
Many people believe that Zhao Xing can not only become a Carefree God but also a Tribulation-Free True God.
And having one more Farmer True God in their own faction is undoubtedly a great thing, from which everyone can benefit.
According to the rumors of the Farmer Dao.
One more True God in the Earth-Profit School means one more blessed land or one more divine mountain.
One more True God in the Self-School means one more kind of god-level plant, which can bear divine fruits.
As for the Heavenly Time School True God, everyone has not heard the rumors, but I think it is also a level of benefit.
A Tribulation-Free True God who attains Dao in heaven and earth will always benefit others.
Farmer True Gods perform particularly prominently in this regard.
"See you later."
After saying this, the floor under Zhao Xing cracked, and he and Ji Si fell together.
Third era of the Desolate Domain, sixth solar year, Zhiluo Dynasty.
"Report to the Divine General, the believers can no longer use conventional sacrificial methods toward him. It requires space-time sacrificial magic, which proves that Zhao Xing has left the current space-time." The Zhiluo Carefree God was reporting to the Heavenly Princess Thunder Mother.
"The subordinate believes that the solicitation of Zhao Xing can come to an end."
Clearly, in these five thousand years, Zhao Xing had not been successfully converted, and now he had left the third era of the Desolate Domain.
The only possibility was that he was traveling through space-time to become a god.
This attitude already proved that the conversion plan for Zhao Xing had failed.
The Zhiluo Carefree God believed that the inducement had ended, and they could proceed to the next stage.
"Can you find the space-time territory he is going to?" Heavenly Princess Thunder Mother asked.
"Finding the space-time travel point is not difficult." The Zhiluo Carefree God said. Heavenly Princess Thunder Mother fell into thought. Finding the space-time travel point was not difficult; what was difficult was that Zhao Xing had two Divine Generals protecting the Dao, and perhaps even more.
She must give Zhao Xing a certain sanction, at least to interrupt his plan to become a god this time, and let Zhao Xing feel the power of the Five Abyss Thunder Divine Division.
"Find his space-time travel point and end the sacrifice here."
"Yes."
The Zhiluo Carefree God responded respectfully.
Soon he left the underground secret room and ordered the demigod priest He Chengzi to stop the sacrifice to Zhao Xing.
"Divine Venerable, I don't understand." He Chengzi said: "Why stop the offerings to Zhao Xing?"
"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask." The Zhiluo Carefree God said coldly: "Just do it."
"Yes." He Chengzi responded respectfully, then watched the Zhiluo Carefree God leave.
"Five thousand years of offerings, but now they have to be stopped." He Chengzi muttered to himself. "It seems the Divine Venerable is going to take action against Farmer Zhao."
"Senior Brother." His junior sister, her face painted black:
"Senior Brother, wake up. This is just a task. You don't really have reverence for Zhao Xing, do you?"
"How could I? I revere him?" He Chengzi snorted. "Junior Sister, hurry up and destroy those altars, and stop all offerings of incense from Emperors and demigods to him!"
"That's for the best." The junior sister breathed a sigh of relief and quickly went to handle it.
After the junior sister left, the fierce expression on He Chengzi's face slowly relaxed.
"Five thousand years of offerings, I learned Farmer Zhao's Dharma theory, and my sacrificial spiritual reading has reached a higher level."
"Sigh, is it going to be beaten back to the original form? Farmer Zhao is a True God who has the possibility of attaining Dao in heaven and earth."
Third era of the Desolate Domain, sixth solar year, Black Heaven Des
In a dangerous area outside Mount Minggu, there stands an ancient temple known as the Temple of the Undying Underworld God.
At this moment, Kuang Chuan is bowing before the statue in front of him.
"Divine Venerable, Zhao Xing has already left this space-time."
"I can no longer perceive his causality."
In order to gain the trust of the Undying Underworld God, Kuang Chuan, after consulting with Zhao Xing's study-abroad clone, specifically took the initiative to report this news.
Whoosh—black flames burn in the censer before the statue, and a pair of red eyes appear within the black flames.
"Kuang Chuan, you have done well. As for Zhao Xing, he is obsessed and refuses to repent; he will receive the punishment he deserves."
Kuang Chuan listens respectfully, but the black flames soon vanish.
Also within the Black Sky Desolate Domain, in another hidden location.
A Kun-Void Giant Beast lies within the ancient layer of the Black Sky Dao, also reporting the news of Zhao Xing's disappearance to another entity.
"Father God, I saw with my own eyes the Space-Time Boat of the Temple of Reincarnation depart, disappearing from the sixth solar year and tracing its way back."
"Zhao Xing should be on it. Should we do something?"
On the forehead of the Kun-Void Giant Beast sits a statue of a beast god, very small, appearing like a gemstone embedded in the giant beast's forehead.
"Child," the phantom of the Heavenly Mountain Beast God within the gemstone ripples. "The life or death of a genius of Zhao Xing's level is a game between human Divine Generals and even Divine Kings. We only need to complete our own tasks and not meddle in other affairs; that is the way to survive."
After falling from the grid on the Space-Time Boat, Zhao Xing first enters a milky-white columnar passage.
Just after falling, there is no concept of time or space, and his True Spirit experiences a severe sense of dimensional imbalance.
But immediately after, this sense of True Spirit imbalance slowly weakens, replaced by physical discomfort.
Magic power surges, the various Great Daos of the Five Elements and Yin-Yang he had previously comprehended begin to misalign, and his senses become chaotic, as if the world is spinning; one moment he is tossed high, the next he is slammed down heavily.
The white pillar of light extends downward, and the moment Zhao Xing and Ji Si fall back into the River of Time, Zhao Xing sees the sun first.
Below, 1,200 suns appear in his mind, connected in a string.
"This represents the 1,200 solar years of the 341 epochs before the Desolate Domain; it is the greatest reference point in the River of Time."
"Using the orbital cycle of the sun stars to represent the movement of the River of Time is the most symbolic method."
After seeing the sun, the god-level technique of the Heavenly Time Faction begins to take effect.
With the reflection of the Great Sun Burning Sea, Zhao Xing quickly restores his full stability.
He and Ji Si fall into the first sun.
"Yu—"
The white pillar of light vanishes, and Zhao Xing feels his feet touch solid ground, which signifies the end of the Space-Time Boat's transport.
Looking closely, he is on a desolate meteorite, surrounded by similar meteorites.
"Ji Si, how are you?"
"Grand Minister of Agriculture, I feel a bit dizzy." Ji Si breathes rapidly, her brows tightly furrowed; space-time travel is even more uncomfortable for a Fate Master.
Because the causality sensed by a Fate Master is clearer, the sense of causal disorder brought by traveling through space-time is manifested more severely in her.
Fortunately, Ji Si also practices the Path of the Historian, which allows her to clarify things more quickly and restore her True Spirit.
Ji Si habitually pinches her fingers, then quickly stops: "This is completely different from the space-time travel of the Boundary-Crossing Tower."
"In real space-time travel, the consumption of any of my spells has increased twofold, the backlash has also increased twofold, and the longer I stay, the more it will continue to grow."
"There is no way around it," Zhao Xing transmits via telepathy. "Unless you are willing to completely leave the Desolate Domain epoch and defect to the Evil God, letting the Evil God help you sever your many causalities and fix you in the past space-time, otherwise this negative feedback will persist."
When an Evil God takes believers below the god-level away and returns to an established space-time territory, this negative state will be eliminated in some way.
However, neither Zhao Xing nor Ji Si would ever defect.
Seeing that Ji Si is fine, Zhao Xing checks his panel.
The space-time location he and Ji Si are heading to is the 1st solar year and 4th boundary-star year of the 341 epochs before the Desolate Domain.
It could also be said to be the 15th epoch since the beginning of the Spirit Domain era, though this statement is not as rigorous as the first, because the dark clouds shrouding the River of Time might hide even more epochal space-times.
The specific landing location is near the Origin Heavenly Palace.
However, looking at the panel now, he finds himself in the 1st solar year and 45th boundary-star year of the 341 epochs before the Desolate Domain, with the location displayed as the "Phantom God Star System."
"The time is off by 41 years, but that is fine. When the past faction pushes the River of Time to launch an attack, a slight time deviation is a normal fluctuation."
"But how is the location so far off?"
"Does the Grand Minister of Agriculture already know what place this is?"
"The Phantom God Star System."
"The ancient Kingdom of Yueluo in history?" Ji Si is stunned.
She is all too familiar with this place name; the Great Zhou's first pot of gold was dug out from the Yueluo Mausoleum in the Phantom God Star System.
"Could there be some conspiracy?"
"Ji Si, there is no need to be suspicious," Zhao Xing quickly regains his composure. "The deviation for Xiong Yue and the others was even greater. It is already quite good that we were able to land in a familiar region."
"That is true," Ji Si nods. "I have been fighting in the Tianze Star Domain for too long; I am indeed overthinking it."
"We are not traveling to the era of the Five Emperors. The entire time territory of the Spirit Domain era is still under the control of the Desolate Domain epoch faction. Although control is not as sufficient during special periods, there is no need to worry unnecessarily."
Zhao Xing has the confidence to say this mainly because, according to the panel, neither his nor Ji Si's luck has changed significantly.
It has only dropped by about three to five ranks, which is a normal fluctuation for space-time travel.
If it had dropped by more than five ranks, it would be very troublesome, proving that this trip would definitely encounter danger.
"Let's go, report to the Origin Heavenly Palace first." After identifying the direction, Zhao Xing wraps Ji Si in his power and travels rapidly through the Dao-Manifestation Layer.
The landscape of the 341 epochs before the Desolate Domain is very different from the Desolate Domain epoch. At this time, even the ancient Kingdom of Yueluo still exists, and the Red Star Empire has only been established for three epochs; the reputation of the Primordial Realm is not yet prominent. The Ancient Kingdom Alliance has not even been formally established, various great kingdoms are conquering each other, and the Academy City is in a state of displacement.
However, there are three super-powers that have always existed: the Primordial Hill, the Temple of Reincarnation, and the Origin Heavenly Palace.
After Zhao Xing arrives in this space-time, his first stop is to report to one of the three Palace Masters at the Origin Heavenly Palace, and then transmit to the place where he will obtain his opportunity.
"After space-time travel, you must minimize interaction with people in this space-time to avoid creating extra causality, but interacting with god-level realms, divine objects,
and god-level areas is fine."
Within his internal world, Bowei performs his role as a scholar's guide.
"Therefore, you and Ji Si must first find the Palace Master Lu Ya of this space-time. He has a divine power clone in this space-time. Through him, find the Palace Master of the Moon God to record you and Ji Si on the 【Time Hidden Table】 of the Profound Spirit History Book."
"Once this step is completed, your subsequent actions will not change this space-time. After deciding to leave, you must also come to the Origin Heavenly Palace to complete the solidification and stabilize your divine positions."
"This makes the fact of your becoming gods established, avoiding being distorted by the Evil God."
"Of course, the Profound Spirit History Book is in the hands of the Moon God Palace Master; once you become a god, it is impossible to be distorted, even an Evil God King cannot do this."
"Variables can only arise in this intermediate process."
Zhao Xing listens quietly.
"Lu Ya and Yan Ao have already completely broken their state of divine concealment. As for the Moon God Palace Master, he has never hidden from beginning to end."
"He has sat in the Domain for 365 epochs and the Desolate Domain for 3 epochs. The Moon God Palace Master, as well as Lu Ya and the others, know that you traveled from the Desolate Domain epoch."
"So there is no situation where they do not remember or recognize you and Ji Si."
"It does not matter if Lu Ya and Yan Ao meet their selves in this space-time, because the god-level realm converges all causality, life, and fate lines; there is no issue of causal conflict when a divine power clone meets its original body."
"However, there would be issues below the god-level, but fortunately, you are not there at this time, so there is no need to worry."
Zhao Xing nods. As long as he keeps one point in mind—before becoming a god, minimize interaction with life below the god-level; interacting with the god-level is fine.
The causal convergence of the god-level realm is equivalent to 1; 1 multiplied by any number is the original number and will not increase.
After traveling cautiously for half a year, Zhao Xing and Ji Si have arrived outside the Origin Heavenly Palace.
The familiar void vortex reappears, and Zhao Xing and Ji Si quickly enter Su'nan in the Second Void Ancestor Star System using their tokens.
"Wait a moment." The Little Yellow Duck and Yan Ao fly out from Zhao Xing's internal world.
About four days later, two Little Yellow Ducks fly back, one of them carrying a piece of paper with a pale blue background in its beak.
"Sign with your soul blood, then hand it to me."
"Yes."
Zhao Xing and Ji Si sign obediently.
After signing, the divine power clone of the Little Yellow Duck flies away with it in its beak.
"Alright, you can act now. With the protection of the history book, the cost has been reduced to a minimum," Lu Ya says, looking at Zhao Xing. "Your safe action time in this space-time has been expanded by ten solar years."
"Ten solar years? That is ten thousand years of time," Zhao Xing thinks to himself. "That is very ample."
"As for you," Lu Ya looks at Ji Si, "the situation for a Fate Master is more troublesome; you still have to wait a bit. The Palace Master said that even if you can act,
your safe time is only one solar year."
"How can this be?" A trace of gravity flashes in Zhao Xing's eyes. This means Ji Si only has one thousand years of safe activity time; exceeding this range, the cost would be quite high.
This includes triggering the True Spirit Tribulation, being shrouded in inexplicable bad luck, and so on.
"The Palace Master said that it is rare for a Fate Master to become a god, and those who do are basically inseparable from the Ten Directions Mountain. And this little friend of yours is quite powerful, with a foundation as deep as sixteen tribulations."
"Being able to have one thousand years of safe time to contact opportunities is the Palace Master's extra grace, consuming divine power to extend the time."
"Normally, she would only have five hundred years; this kind of situation requires extra payment."
"Grand Minister of Agriculture, it does not matter. You go first, do not delay for me," Ji Si says. "I will wait for you on the boat."
"Alright, Ji Si, you take care of yourself too." Zhao Xing nods; since even the Moon God Palace Master has said so, this is the only way.
After parting with Ji Si, Zhao Xing arrives at Su'nan, the capital of the Second Void Ancestor Star, for secret transmission.
Here, there is a Space-Time Guardian, which is a Heavenly Time Giant Beast formed by a History Book Puppet.
"Guardian, please clear the causality for me and transmit me to the 'Cosmos Boat Fall Event' of the Primordial Hill!"
The Book Puppet Giant Beast raises its eyebrows and looks at Zhao Xing: "The opportunity event you have chosen will consume all your contribution points, and the danger level is increased.
Are you sure?"
"Confirmed." Zhao Xing nods. Fifty million contribution points would not be enough to reach the 341 epochs before the Desolate Domain, so he simply combined three opportunities into one!
After all, in the same space-time, opportunities vary in size; fifty million is only the entry ticket for the lowest-level opportunity.
One hundred and fifty million contribution points, three opportunities combined into one, to gamble for a great opportunity.
"Swish!"
The giant beast raises its claw, and a green light falls on Zhao Xing, circulating throughout his body.
"Stand on that book. You will be transmitted to the Boat Mountain Domain of the Primordial Hill in three days to participate in the Cosmos Boat Fall Event."
"You need to return here within ten thousand years, otherwise, there will be big problems."
"Yes."
Zhao Xing walks onto a book under the giant beast's claw. This huge paper is also emitting green light, with countless magic arrays and divine patterns circulating.
The transmission he has chosen now is not an ordinary transmission array, but what is known as the 【Causality Ten-Table Transmission Array】.
The Ten Tables are a classification in the historian system, involving time, space, and major causal chronicles.
The 【Causality Ten-Table Transmission Array】 allows Zhao Xing to reasonably participate in historical events without triggering causal continuation effects.
That is, all the influence produced by his actions will be limited to the duration of that major historical event.
"The Cosmos Boat Defection Event is the most serious split in the history of the Primordial Hill," sitting in the magic array, Zhao Xing recalls repeatedly.
"About 350 epochs before the Desolate Domain, a major event occurred in the Primordial Hill."
"That is the Cosmos Boat Defection Event that occurred in the Boat Mountain Domain."
"It radiated to the twelve mountains and nine great domains of the Three Realms' gods, and even led to the destruction of several ancient kingdoms."
"Afterward, in the system of the Primordial Hill, a certain school of spells was almost banned and modified beyond recognition, and a previously popular ideology was completely blocked."
"That is the Extreme Land Cosmos Theory and the Boat Mountain Faction."
After becoming the Mountain Head of the Primordial Hill, Zhao Xing naturally learned many secrets of the Primordial Hill.
Why was the Mountain Master of Yuan Mountain, Venerable Xinhe, taken away and suppressed after showing his Dao book at that discussion on the Earth God Altar, and even that segment of his lecture completely erased?
It was because Venerable Xinhe proposed the Extreme Land Cosmos Theory and the Divine Boat Method. And the Primordial Hill had once experienced a serious split in history because of this method and faction.
"Venerable Xinhe had not yet taken actual action, but in the Boat Mountain Domain 350 epochs before the Desolate Domain, two Divine Kings, the Boat Mountain Divine King and the Earth Store Divine King, had already joined forces to build a Cosmos Boat."
"They took away a large amount of resources from the Primordial Hill, divine mountain soil, the Three Realms' earth veins, and the origin of divine power, launching the Cosmos Boat to seek the edge of the universe."
"The two Divine Kings believed that the universe is the Extreme Land; as long as they could break through the Extreme Land, they could escape this universe. This was the only true way out," Zhao Xing thinks to himself.
"The background at that time was the sixth epoch after the end of the Luo Emperor era."
"The Divine Emperor was no more, Evil Gods were causing chaos, ancient gods were running rampant, and natural disasters were constant."
"In the late Bai Zhuoji period, the last Divine Emperor 'Luo' finally appeared, but Emperor Luo also fell, and endless panic filled the hearts of all in the god-level realm. At this time, all in the god-level realm were very confused about the way out for the future."
"The Extreme Land Cosmos Theory and the Boat Mountain Faction therefore gained the upper hand. Not only did many of the Three Realms' gods of the Primordial Hill believe in it, but even the major ancient kingdoms had many followers."
"The Cosmos Boat built by the Boat Mountain Divine King and the Earth Store Divine King also absorbed countless god-level powerhouses on board."
"And nine epochs later, the Cosmos Boat shattered and fell in the Covering Mountain Domain," Zhao Xing sighs.
The Boat Mountain Divine King and the Earth Store Divine King died, countless god-level beings perished inside the divine boat, and the mighty Cosmos Boat fleet formed a Divine Boat Graveyard.
This is the Cosmos Boat Fall Event!
"It is precisely because of the Cosmos Boat Fall Event that the act of the Boat Mountain Divine King and the Earth Store Divine King building the Cosmos Boat was also characterized as the Cosmos Boat Defection Event."
"From then on, the Extreme Land Cosmos Theory and the Boat Mountain Faction disappeared from the Primordial Hill for a long time. Although they appeared again later, they had been modified beyond recognition."
"And the Primordial Hill before and after the Cosmos Boat event, compared to later generations, was completely incomparable in terms of strength. Whether it was the territory occupied, the number of powerhouses, or the spell system, it was much weaker."
"The Red Star Empire rose later and surpassed the Primordial Hill."
As the Mountain Head of the Primordial Hill, Zhao Xing's first time traveling through space-time to find an opportunity to become a god, the first place he naturally comes to is the 341 epochs before the Desolate Domain.
The first solar year.
He not only wants to obtain the origin to become a god on the Cosmos Boat, but also wants to retrieve some treasures of the Primordial Hill from this fallen Cosmos Boat. This is something every Mountain Head wants to attempt.
"It is a pity that there were two Divine Kings and numerous Divine Generals on the Cosmos Boat, and many ancient kingdoms were destroyed because of it, causing a great upheaval in the landscape. Even if the Moon God Palace Master has boundless power, this historical event cannot be reversed."
Reversing the defection and fall of the Cosmos Boat involves the deaths of two Divine Kings; to reverse it is equivalent to resurrecting two Divine Kings and numerous divine soldiers and generals, which is simply impossible to do.
"A third-tier opportunity is not necessarily worse than a first-tier opportunity; it only depends on the issue of safety. If it is not safe enough, then no matter how great the opportunity is, the success rate is relatively small."
"And my choice of the Cosmos Boat Graveyard for this trip is undoubtedly an adventure, but with four Divine Generals by my side and being the Mountain Head of the Primordial Hill, safety is still guaranteed to a certain extent. If I can gain something, not only can I become a god, but I can also earn another wave of contribution points. It is absolutely worth a try!"
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