Chapter 420: Cosmic God

In the blink of an eye, three million years had passed.

Within a vast cosmic domain, countless Level One civilizations and innumerable planetary civilizations bloomed and withered among the stars.

Inside one such planet still in its barbaric age.

“This planet is somewhat interesting.”

On a ten-thousand-meter peak, Lin Qing stood at the cliff’s edge; wild winds charged with cosmic energies swept past him, yet not a single ripple touched him.

In that instant, his consciousness had fully enveloped the planet—roughly twelve thousand kilometers in diameter—observing every grain of sand, every living being, down to the most fundamental particles and their spacetime trajectories and causal links.

This level of observation meant nothing to his current stature.

If he wished—

A single thought could reduce the massive star system spanning millions of light-years around this planet to nothingness.

“A wild, undeveloped planet, yet so vast? And from such crude body-refining methods, how did so many stellar beings arise?”

Lin Qing observed this peculiar planet with keen interest.

Over these several million years, he had manifested countless forms and walked throughout the Main Universe.

The boundless Main Universe was divided into countless cosmic domains by the countless branches of the Cosmic Tree, each corresponding to a vast Void Sea in the High Dimension.

Even with his countless manifestations, having surveyed every cosmic domain and Void Sea, he had only explored less than one-thousandth of the Main Universe.

The Main Universe was simply too vast.

During this time, Lin Qing had discovered many unusual places, but none were more than relics left behind by Ultimate Beings—none connected to the Cosmic God.

Though this planet was somewhat unusual, among all his discoveries over the past three million years, its peculiarity didn’t even rank in the top thousand.

So he had merely glanced at it casually, paying it no real attention.

“Hmm?”

Suddenly, Lin Qing froze, studying the planet closely, unable to believe his eyes.

“The spacetime of this planet… is cycling? Triple-layered spacetime evolution?”

The spacetime structure here was exquisitely crafted and profoundly hidden; even one who mastered spacetime laws could never uncover its secrets.

It was like… if one were born with only black, white, and gray vision, one could never comprehend color.

Different perspectives yielded different conclusions.

Only one who understood the three spacetime laws—past, present, and future—could glimpse the true mystery of this spacetime.

—Though he had not transformed his inner world using all three spacetime laws, he had long since comprehended past, present, and future!

If he wished, he could even manifest the subtleties of the past law through thought alone—though not as powerfully as the other two.

“Interesting.”

Lin Qing’s interest stirred; he immediately began carefully observing the changes in this spacetime.

Soon, his consciousness pierced through layers of spacetime and discovered a hidden world deep within the triple-layered spacetime.

“The aura of this world…”

After sensing the faint, elusive aura emanating from this world, Lin Qing’s eyes flickered with shock.

He attempted to observe its future timeline—but saw nothing.

“Unobservable?”

Lin Qing frowned slightly and tried to project his awareness one second into the future.

Yet—

“This world doesn’t exist in the future spacetime?” Lin Qing was stunned. “Or perhaps… my future self cannot find it?”

Even the Future Realm of a Future Realm God, he could enter!

He withdrew from the future and returned to reality.

“This world must have a grand origin!”

Lin Qing stared at the world hidden deep within the triple-layered spacetime and began attempting to penetrate it with his consciousness.

Suddenly—

“Whoosh!”

The world seemed to sense his intrusion; a vast, majestic, and irresistible strange ripple surged forth, enveloping Lin Qing entirely—body and spirit—and instantly dragged him inside.

…

In boundless darkness, a vast and majestic divine temple stood, its primordial aura sweeping in all directions, perfectly harmonized with cosmic vibrations.

Beneath the temple’s colossal green-copper gates, as tall as celestial barriers, a figure suddenly appeared.

“Where is this…?”

Lin Qing stared in surprise at the towering divine temple before him.

The temple stood tens of thousands of light-years tall—large enough to embed the endless stars of the entire Milky Way into its structure, radiating boundless cosmic primordial energy.

Looking up along the endless staircase, he saw two gateways before him, each as tall as cosmic walls—tens of thousands of light-years high!

“Hmm? What’s on these gates?”

Upon closer inspection, Lin Qing saw intricate, lifelike bas-reliefs and murals carved across both gates.

Then he realized—the murals depicted an epic chronicling the universe’s origin from its very beginning.

The first and last panels were the largest.

The first panel showed a Cosmic God curled within chaos—a colossal, human-like deity occupying infinite spacetime, dominating half of the present and all of the past.

“Is this the Primordial Cosmic God?”

Lin Qing immediately recognized it.

This was the legendary Primordial Cosmic God who had shattered heaven and earth, then collapsed from exhaustion.

“Creation of heaven and earth? This is the birth of the Main Universe?”

“Are these the Three Cosmic Gods born from the universe’s operational laws?”

“Did the Primordial Ocean give rise to the Source Clan? Did the Spacetime River merge with cosmic essence to birth the Mother River Clan?”

“Hmm? Where did the Cosmic Tree come from? Why is there no record of the Void God Clan’s origin? And it appeared earlier than the Source Clan and Mother River Clan…”

“Humanity emerged early too—were they created in the image of the Three Cosmic Gods?”

On these twin gates, Lin Qing saw the origins of every super-clan in the universe, even the rise of countless Transcendent civilizations.

The Mother River Clan civilization, the Source Clan’s Fire Source civilization, humanity’s first civilization—Shijing…

One by one, these civilizations transcended the universe.

But what shocked him most was the section on the Void God Clan!

According to the gate’s records, the Void God Clan had appeared at the universe’s birth—even earlier than the Mother River Clan and Source Clan, the two oldest races—yet he saw no account of their origin.

—Six Void God Clan beings, each with three pairs of seven-colored wings, led a vast host as if they had suddenly materialized in this universe.

And the Cosmic Tree, said to have coexisted with the Main Universe, showed no sign of gestation or growth—appearing fully formed as if rooted in the universe the moment it was born.

“The Void God Clan… are they outsiders?”

Lin Qing instantly reached this conclusion, his heart pounding rapidly.