Chapter 284: The Crisis of Origin

The figure waved a hand.

The scene Li Heng saw began to shrink, finally turning into a small image, and the surrounding environment dimmed; beneath this small image, a horizontal golden axis appeared.

It was just like a video playback progress bar.

And Li Heng was the one watching the video.

Immediately following, many images of the same size appeared to the left and right of the small image on that axis, and the scenes presented within them were also of a magnificent Great Sun, illuminating the four corners of Heaven and Earth.

However.

The further to the left, the more powerful the aura of the Great Sun presented in the image; the further to the right, the more the aura of the Great Sun faded, finally becoming the Great Sun at the point in time where Li Heng was.

The figure turned its head to look at Li Heng.

"Have you seen anything?"

Li Heng nodded and spoke calmly.

"The horizontal axis below should be the Time Axis, and the various small images above the Time Axis correspond to various points in time. And the Great Sun has been constantly weakening from the past to the present."

The figure nodded in approval.

"As expected, you are quite good to be able to guess this."

"But you had best not be too surprised or despairing about what comes next, otherwise it will be very difficult for me to handle, and I might even have to erase this part of your memory."

He waved his large hand again.

A black dot suddenly appeared on the right side of this Time Axis.

The black dot immediately infected the golden Time Axis, then started from the right and moved constantly to the left, intending to dye the entire Time Axis black.

Those small images covered by the black time, representing various points in time, also underwent changes, appearing as the events Li Heng had seen before; a murmur sounded, the black dot emerged within the Sun, the Sun suppressed the black dot, and then it returned to extinction and death.

"This is the part of the truth that you can see."

"This black dot represents the Calamity and Pollution as you know them, and now you may be afraid. What the Calamity destroys is not the world of a single point in time, but the past and present of the World."

The figure sighed leisurely.

"This murmur, this kind of power, has been traveling along the Light Flow toward the past to backtrack; once it backtracks to the beginning of Heaven and Earth and kills the initial me, this Heaven and Earth will also completely fall."

The figure extended a finger, pointing to the leftmost end of the Time Axis.

The leftmost end is also the initial origin.

In this initial origin time period, only one small image stood; within this small image, Heaven and Earth did not exist, the Void was vast, and only the Great Sun manifested, emitting ten thousand paths and immeasurable light.

The murmuring sound had not yet appeared here.

Although that black color had already dyed most of the Time Axis black, it was still a distance away from the initial time period.

Beneath it.

A Light Orb was misty, Dao Rhyme permeated, and it seemed as if something was gestating; it appeared to be the initial Heaven and Earth.

"Every time this power passes a point in time, the me at that point in time must die once. Of course, I could also not die and run away, but in that case, Heaven and Earth would bear this price in my stead."

The voice continued to speak, and with a wave of his large hand, a branch diverged from the Time Axis, and at the end of the branch, another small image appeared.

Within this small image, the murmuring sound rose. The Great Sun moved at the sound and instantly fled, escaping into the endless Void.

However.

Because it lost the illumination of the Great Sun Radiance, Heaven and Earth instantly deformed, and all things and all spirits instantly twisted into monsters; even the so-called Heavenly Human could not resist.

"Now, what do you think of this kind of truth?"

The figure said with a smile.

Li Heng frowned.

Although he had long anticipated this situation—the Xuantianji of the Tianming Organization had once said that this kind of Calamity was suspected of twisting and infecting through the Time Axis and the Light Flow.

But looking at it now, the situation was three parts worse than that.

If what the figure said was correct, without him bearing the burden.

Heaven and Earth would not even have the qualifications to struggle.

No wonder. He sighed inwardly.

Back then, when he used Source Power to backtrack the past of the Reincarnation Disk, he had once seen a vast Great World where the strong could chase stars and catch the moon, yet it fell directly amidst the murmuring sound, without the slightest power to resist.

And this Heaven and Earth clearly did not have such strong individuals who could chase stars and catch the moon, yet it was able to hold on for so long, which in itself did not conform to common sense.

At the time, he thought it was because the World was special, but now it seemed a large part of the factor might be that there was a stronger being carrying it, such as this Great Sun that could gestate Heaven and Earth.

"What is your current realm?"

"What level are the Ancient Immortal Gods?"

Li Heng did not directly answer the figure's question, but instead changed the subject and asked about these matters.

The figure was dumbfounded and laughed upon hearing this.

He shook his head and spoke.

"Do you think that as long as one can reach my level of this kind of Calamity, or be one or two levels higher than my level, it can be solved? Then you had better not harbor such delusions. I can tell you that the departure of the Immortal Gods is all related to this kind of Calamity."

"Moreover, with your current strength, I do not believe you have enough time to grow. You are only at the Dharma Aspect, not even a Heavenly Human. Let alone that the realms above Heavenly Human do not even count as Immortal Gods."

"You are still three or four stories higher than me."

"And that murmur will soon reach the initial point in time; even the initial, most powerful me cannot withstand it."

This statement from the voice contained a great deal of information, and the tone was serious.

He did not have high hopes for Li Heng.

He was not informing Li Heng of part of the truth now because of his strength, but because what Li Heng could achieve exceeded his expectations and was a variable; that was why he chose to take a gamble.

"That is natural, you are not an ordinary Immortal God either."

"I imagine ordinary Immortal Gods cannot gestate Heaven and Earth, or even operate on the level of the Light Flow, observing the past and present, right?"

Li Heng chuckled.

"Good lad, you're actually buttering me up, but it's a pity I'm already dead and can't give you any benefits. Besides, it's merely a Small World and the space-time order of a Small World at that; it's nothing worth mentioning."

"When it comes to this, I am far inferior to those Deserters."

The figure smiled, but when mentioning the word Deserter, his tone suddenly turned cold and stern; wisps of baleful energy and killing intent actually emerged slowly from the surrounding Void along with this change.

Estimate the intensity.

A tiny wisp of killing intent could kill a Heavenly Human.

Li Heng's expression was calm, with Source Power on his body, he was not panicked in the slightest.

He is an Ancient Immortal God after all; even if he is dead, it is not surprising that he can achieve this.

Or, is this Immortal God not completely dead?

"You say the departure of the Ancient Immortal Gods is related to this kind of Calamity?"

"Why is that?"

The figure shook his head upon hearing this.

"Your strength is insufficient, so I cannot tell you; if I were to tell you rashly, you would not be able to bear it, and a Great Terror would descend. Furthermore, there is no benefit for you to know now; it would only cause your Dao heart to collapse."

"You cannot see through me, so how can you be certain it would turn out that way?"

Li Heng asked in return.

"I cannot see through you, but to avoid risks, I will not let you, this tiny variable, face that kind of Great Terror ahead of time. If you wish to know, you can investigate it yourself."

"Moreover, you haven't even come into contact with that Ghost Place yet, have you?"

Li Heng frowned.

Why is it this term again, Ghost Place?