Chapter 575: Past Reincarnation

It is very difficult to trace people or objects destroyed by Calamity and monsters, or rather, it is fundamentally impossible to trace them. Even Li Heng, now at the Venerable Realm, cannot achieve this.

However, as the saying goes, use a bug to deal with a bug, use a cheat to deal with a cheat. Since the Calamity and monsters are unreasonably powerful, he, Li, must bring out Source Power to deal with these unreasonable things.

Source Power surges, tracing time and space.

That period of history when the Ten Thousand Worlds Great Reincarnation collapsed has been thoroughly polluted by Calamity and monsters, or perhaps destroyed in an instant, turned into nothingness; that history fundamentally no longer exists. What Source Power must do now is purify the pollution, create something from nothing, cause that completely destroyed history to emerge, and reconnect the Time-Space Fault.

With his current reserves of Source Power, he naturally cannot fully recreate that history. Because to fully recreate history means resurrection. For figures who have achieved Transcendence over time and space, there is no such thing as history or the present; they can roam at will, reversing and displacing them.

Li Heng cannot yet afford the price of such a total resurrection. However, being able to roughly investigate what happened in that history is something he can manage.

Light and shadow streak past him; he seems to be in a time-space tunnel, leaving the present, constantly tracing back into the ancient and Taboo past.

During this process, Li Heng sees terrifying shadows, endless fog, and unspeakable existences manifesting, intending to devour and destroy any existence attempting to trace this history.

Li Heng's expression is calm, as if lost in thought.

Are these things likely the culprits that caused the destruction of the Ten Thousand Worlds Great Reincarnation back then? But he did not encounter them just now; could it be that they are hiding? Or have they long since left the Ten Thousand Worlds Great Reincarnation?

For a moment, he feels a sense of regret.

Although these things that can be called Great Terror are difficult to deal with, if one could successfully hunt them, that would mean heaps of Source Power and Golden Source Points; getting rich overnight is no dream.

It is a pity that these here are merely phantoms of history, not the originals. Although they possess the same threat, killing them does not yield Source Power or Golden Source Points.

Since there is no benefit to slaughtering them, Li Heng cannot be bothered to entangle with them too much; he merely memorizes the aura of these terrifying existences, hoping to see if he can find their true bodies in the future, then covers himself in a layer of Source Power shield and instantly pierces through their obstruction.

Tracing this history, there are monsters, Calamity, and Great Terror blocking the way. The more this is the case, the more curious Li Heng becomes, and the more he wants to know what is hidden in that history, and why the Ten Thousand Worlds Great Reincarnation was attacked and collapsed, receiving special targeting just like the Heavenly Court.

This situation is actually quite special and mind-boggling. After all, most Calamities do not have personalities, or they disdain having personalities.

For example, the Unknown Disaster, which he still finds terrifying to this day.

Its level of terror permeates the entire Great Void; even Li Heng, who has ascended to the Venerable Realm, cannot see its upper limit. It is entirely a non-personalized natural disaster. So how could a natural disaster target a specific place, a specific faction?

While monsters mostly possess a certain degree of personality, it is not much. Moreover, monsters are merely derivatives of Calamity, and in terms of status, they are a notch lower than Calamity. If the Ten Thousand Worlds Great Reincarnation was targeted by personalized monsters, it shouldn't have been this miserable.

Li Heng thinks while breaking through the blockades of Calamity and monsters. As he draws closer to that ancient history of the Ten Thousand Worlds Great Reincarnation's collapse, the sounds of shouting, weeping, and fighting gradually reach his ears, becoming clearer and clearer, until he is gradually immersed in the scene...

Fire fills the sky, and fresh blood is scattered across the firmament.

Li Heng sees it.

In this ancient history of the Ten Thousand Worlds Great Reincarnation's collapse, blood cuts off the Time-Space River; broken blades and shattered spears, weapon fragments, and corpses lie across the Void, filled with endless blood and fire, movement and chaos.

Behind the movement and chaos are endless unspeakable shadows!

"Truly tragic, but is this all there is?"

Li Heng whispers softly. The event has already occurred; this is already a piece of history. Although he is moved, there is nothing he can do, and furthermore, this is only a small scene for him now.

He does not sense the aura of a Venerable from within it.

However, thinking back to that past ancient history, the Heavenly Court dominated the Great Void. The only Supreme Venerable, the strongest of the era, was likely only that Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Court. And since the Ten Thousand Worlds Great Reincarnation vaguely submitted to the Heavenly Court, it can be seen that Reincarnation likely did not have a Venerable Realm.

Yet he feels it will not be that simple.

Taking a step forward, he detaches from time and space, placing himself entirely within this ancient history, feeling the war, chaos, and despair within it; one Immortal God after another dies, one Sacred being after another falls, and one World after another is either swallowed by Calamity or blooms like fireworks.

In this tragic ancient history, everything is just a number.

Without stopping his steps, Li Heng continues to trace. He merges into a ghost that does not exist in the world, strolling through this battlefield of blood and fire, traveling from the edge to the Core Land.

"I've lived enough, come on, look at me, you bastards!"

Boom—!

The Void shakes; a Sacred being self-destructs, the terrifying power of destruction expanding instantly, swallowing all Calamity and monsters for countless miles around, finally washing it into a blank slate. However, in the next second, it is swallowed again by the swarming Calamity monsters, once again becoming a battlefield.

This situation happens often, even every moment; every time it happens, it represents the fall of a Sacred being. But Sacred beings are finite, not many; they are not mere cannon fodder.

This even makes Li Heng vaguely feel a sense of compassion.

It is a pity that this is a piece of history.

Even though he possesses Source Power and can turn the impossible into the possible, the Source Power on him is not enough to make this history reappear and anchor it as True Reality.

Then, his intervention and changes are also meaningless.

But in the end, he still intervenes; the might of a Venerable erupts, clearing away all obstacles in his path. He knows this is futile, but precisely because it is futile, he does it.

Not for anything else, just to make himself feel at ease.

Moreover, he also wants to try whether killing these historical phantoms of monsters and Calamity can yield Source Power; perhaps he cannot obtain Source Power simply because he hasn't killed enough?

Slaughtering his way through the battlefield, Li Heng finally arrives at the Core Land.

He sees a Supreme Goddess standing here, situated at the core, stabilizing the entire structure of the Ten Thousand Worlds Great Reincarnation, which is why the Great Reincarnation did not collapse in an instant.

And opposite this Shennü.

Ten incomparably terrifying, vast, Unknown, and chaotic figures stand, whether Calamity or monsters, their auras combined, vaguely possessing the image of a Venerable, the two sides confronting each other.

Li Heng looks at that Shennü, lost in thought.

It seems the predecessor of that corpse is the person before his eyes?

Suddenly, this Shennü turns her head to look in Li Heng's direction, her face showing surprise as she speaks.

"Which fellow Daoist is here? Are you someone from the Heavenly Court!"