Chapter 579: River of Eras (3/3)

This is a vast, white expanse of Heaven and Earth.

And within this Heaven and Earth that is like a sheet of white paper, a river flows silently, its beginning unknown, its end unknown.

Li Heng steps forward to observe this river carefully.

He discovers that this river is actually a Time-Space River, where every single drop of water is a Great Thousand World. Although it does not appear vast, in terms of its essence, it is the first one he has seen besides the Time-Space Mother River.

Moreover, this Time-Space River is not a straight line; the further forward it goes, the further into the future, the more it curves and arcs, as if it wants to form a circle but cannot close.

This... Li Heng knits his brows.

If this is truly the greatest secret of Reincarnation, then it does not seem like anything remarkable. It is just a Time-Space River, something that can be seen everywhere in the Da Xu Kong, costing nothing.

He continues to observe and immediately discovers something different.

This Time-Space River seems to possess multiple Time-Space Source Points. These Time-Space Source Points divide the entire time-space into one river segment after another, each segment equivalent to an independent Time-Space River, symbolizing a complete era!

Immediately, a sense of vast history rushes toward him. Li Heng realizes that this is not just a Time-Space River, but also a River of History, sealing away the history of countless eras!

He sees an era where the Divine Dao is supreme. Countless gods walk through the Da Xu Kong, creating and destroying Great Thousand Worlds, opening up Divine Kingdoms, acting as the masters of all things and the supreme beings; it is a brilliantly glorious era.

But suddenly, a strange change occurs; Calamity and monsters descend, the gods fall, the Great Thousand Worlds are destroyed, and the Divine Kingdoms hanging high above the heavens collapse like falling stars, as everything enters the Calamity of the End.

In the end, this era is destroyed.

Aside from this era, almost all eras cannot escape the same Fate. The era of demons, free and wild, is still devoured by the suddenly descending monsters. The era of Buddhism, teaching Reincarnation, still collapses when the Calamity that transcends the Supreme Heavenly Demon descends.

Only a few eras can gather all their strength at the final moment to perish together with the invading Calamity and monsters. Or they manage to preserve a Fire Seed, fleeing to the Wuqiong Weizhi, or retreating along the upstream or downstream of the Time-Space Mother River, eventually disappearing completely.

Li Heng is lost in thought.

Is this a database of the history of countless eras? So, there were already so many eras in existence before the Da Xu Kong? No wonder that person back then was not the only victim in the Heavenly Court.

And there were powerhouses or civilizations from eras that escaped, whether heading to the Wuqiong Weizhi, or heading upstream or downstream of the Time-Space Mother River, constantly tracing forward or backward.

As for those fleeing to the Wuqiong Weizhi or downstream of the Time-Space Mother River, we shall not discuss them for now, but those fleeing upstream of the Time-Space Mother River, constantly tracing back to the more ancient past, might be the predecessors of the Multiverse Alliance?

This is likely the reason why the Multiverse Alliance keeps fleeing.

After all, the Time-Space Mother River is truly without beginning or end; as long as you are willing to trace forward, you can always find a more ancient past. In those ancient pasts, the Calamity and monsters have not yet descended, so one can linger there for a while; it is a temporary sanctuary.

But since it is called temporary, it certainly cannot be permanently effective. The Calamity and monsters seem even more incomprehensible, always descending upon every era and every time period.

Therefore, after staying in one era or one time period for too long, one will definitely encounter the Calamity and monsters again. In this way, the Multiverse Alliance can only keep migrating, constantly tracing back to the more ancient past.

Is this the so-called holy land that is untainted by ten thousand calamities?

Li Heng reveals a mocking expression.

Indeed, if nothing goes wrong, it is indeed difficult to encounter the Calamity and monsters this way, unless the more ancient past is already occupied by the Calamity and monsters. But doing this cannot be called a holy land; what kind of holy land is one that constantly runs away and migrates?

He, Li, can only bring up the old matter once again.

No wonder the Multiverse Alliance does not want this information to spread!

At this moment, Li Heng finally understands what the Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Court meant by those initial words. No wonder the Heavenly Emperor gave up on tracing the more ancient past of the Time-Space Mother River and instead went to the Wuqiong Weizhi; he likely looked down on those people in the Multiverse Alliance.

Regarding this, Li Heng makes no judgment. After all, sometimes avoidance is indeed useful, and it is the only solution.

Furthermore, the Multiverse Alliance must have some tricks up its sleeve; otherwise, it would not choose to keep fleeing, and not long ago, it even made the Transformation Body of that Heavenly Emperor surprised, feeling that he had underestimated the Multiverse Alliance.

What he is more curious about now is, who created this massive, beginningless and endless Time-Space River, this huge era database? Who established it? Nature and the Great Dao would not create something with the characteristics of a database; it is clearly man-made.

After thinking about it, there is a lack of evidence and no answer. Moreover, the Causality of this River of History is very clean, as if it popped out of nowhere, making it impossible to deduce or track.

Li Heng feels it is time for the Identification Function to step in.

Identifying such a vast River of History and database will certainly consume an unimaginable amount of Source Power, but he currently has plenty of Basic Source Power; as long as it does not consume Golden Source Points, then it is easy to handle.

After sensing the Source Power consumption in advance, Li Heng breathes a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he can bear it; if nothing goes wrong, it will consume at most half of his Source Power, which is within his acceptable range.

If it were any more, he would have to consider it.

After all, this is just information.

The Identification Function is activated, and information appears before Li Heng's eyes.

【Shi Dai Chang He: One of the supreme products of the Salvation Plan, codenamed Number Five, containing backups of data from almost all eras from nothingness to the present, and forming a Reincarnation of its own, possessing the characteristic of Absolute immortality, which can ensure it lasts until the end.】

Shi Dai Chang He? Salvation Plan? Codenamed Number Five?

Li Heng raises his eyebrows, finding it interesting.

He can guess a lot of information from the four characters "Shi Dai Chang He".

And the "Salvation Plan" is even more interesting.

When he first learned of these four characters, it was back when he was identifying that Mysterious Jade Slip in the Present World. That Jade Slip was a product of the Salvation Plan, recording the results of several projects.

However, this plan seems to have failed in the end. How did a supreme product of the Salvation Plan pop up now? And the codename is Number Five?

This inevitably reminds him of the experimental subject Number Nine, Wujian.

Could it be that Wujian also belongs to the Salvation Plan just like this Shi Dai Chang He? Although for the sake of rigor, he used a tone of possibility, he feels that this is the truth; it is almost certain.

Li Heng's eyes flicker, feeling that he came to the right place this time.

He has always been thinking.

How to once again come into contact with the so-called Salvation Plan, and find the series of experimental subjects related to Wujian. After all, these matters are highly likely related to the world he was in before he transmigrated.

And now it seems he has encountered another one.

If Wujian, as Number Nine, has the main function of imprisoning monsters and Weird, focusing on combat, then the main function of this Shi Dai Chang He, as Number Five, seems to be preserving hope in the worst-case scenario, or reproducing everything in the best-case scenario.

After all, it is a large-scale historical backup database.

However, Li Heng does not have the faint despair of the creator of the Shi Dai Chang He. To him, the Shi Dai Chang He is not a database for preserving Fire Seeds, but a knowledge base containing the essence of countless eras that can help him comprehend the Great Dao and cultivate!

Li Heng takes out the Strange Fire Pile.

This fire pile clearly contains an extremely profound Absolute Dao. If he can fully comprehend and understand it thoroughly, he will likely be able to condense his own unique Absolute Element and complete the puzzle of the Three Elements.

But being profound means it is difficult to comprehend and understand. Even though he is now at the Venerable realm, it is still somewhat difficult to understand, at most not as confused as he was before.

Facts prove that the Multiverse Alliance has reasons for making such a big fuss; the Strange Fire Pile is definitely a top-tier wonder; otherwise, it would not have stayed in the Wuqiong Weizhi for so long without being eroded.

So if he wants to fully comprehend and understand it thoroughly, it will probably take a long time, at least starting from an era, but he, Li, cannot wait that long; he can only use a cheat.

Originally, he only had one choice: to activate the Source Power cheat.

But now he had two choices; he could activate the Dao-enlightenment cheat! And only children make choices; adults choose to do both, activating both cheats!

Li Heng planned to use Source Power as an auxiliary to absorb the essence of countless eras within this Shi Dai Chang He, and by doing so, gain insight into and penetrate the Strange Fire Pile; that way, he could condense the Absolute Element at a faster speed!

The future, a place of the nether.

A sound of surprise rang out once more, breaking the silence again.

"Eh? Besides Jiuhao, how has someone else found Number Five? This makes no sense; I should have hidden it very deeply. Could it be that the situation is even worse than I imagined?"

"No, I must investigate who exactly is in contact with Number Five!"

The owner of the voice murmured to themselves, feeling somewhat concerned.

But the next moment, a voice surprised to the point of losing composure rang out.

"What is going on? It is the same person who contacted Jiuhao?"

At this moment, Li Heng was quietly enlightening himself on the Dao, the Strange Fire Pile before his eyes burning calmly, emitting boundless Dao rhyme.

Under the resonance of his Dao-enlightenment perception, this quietly flowing Time-Space River also erupted with Great Dao Runes one after another. Each era was a Rune, whether god, demon, Buddhism, sage, or immortal; all sorts of things, containing almost every possibility, all submerged into Li Heng's mind. At this moment, Li Heng existed alongside the civilization and Wisdom of almost all eras from nothingness to the present!

Ten thousand Daos circled, Runes filled the sky, and chants rang through the Void; countless eras transformed into phantoms, setting Li Heng off and causing him to stand above the infinite eras, as if he were a supreme god.

At this moment, the Strange Fire Pile was finally shaken, beginning to reveal its inner self to Li Heng, opening up the true meaning of the Absolute, and slowly constructing his own Absolute Element.

The Three Elements of Absolute, Infinite, and Eternal.

The structure of these Three Elements might not be absolutely correct, or perhaps able to contain everything. After all, the chaos, Unknown, and indescribable nature of the Calamity were clearly not within the Three Elements.

At least, not within the current Three Elements.

But the Three Elements belonged to Li Heng's Dao, so he had to construct them completely; only then could he take a further step. Furthermore, this was not something one could not regret once broken through; who stipulated that one could not add more after the Three Elements, or that the Three Elements could not explain everything?

Therefore, there was no great risk in constructing the Three Elements.

So, now.

During the process of constructing the Absolute Element, it did not repel the other two elements, Eternal and Infinite; instead, it manifested a complementary situation, verifying Li Heng's judgment.

This path was undoubtedly relatively correct.

Time in the Time-Space Mother River gradually passed, the Node constantly shifting forward—be it a year, a hundred million years, or perhaps just a day—and Li Heng arrived at the most critical stage.

The Absolute Element was about to be successfully constructed!