Chapter 218

The center of the hundred-thousand-li Great Wasteland.

Above the mountains shrouded in clouds and mist, ancient, simple yet magnificent palaces appear and disappear, situated at various points of the mountain range, forming a complex of buildings.

This is the guardian deity of the hundred-thousand-li Great Wasteland, the location of the Sword Gate.

Originally, due to the decline of the Fuxi clan, even on the ancestral star, humanity was a lowly existence, like slaves and food for the other races.

But tens of thousands of years ago, the first patriarch of the Sword Gate appeared out of nowhere, opening up the hundred-thousand-li Great Wasteland as the sole human gathering place on the ancestral star, and it has been passed down through the generations to the present era.

Outside Sword Gate Mountain, Zhong Yue gazed at the familiar Sword Gate Golden Summit above the sea of clouds, and a feeling of being worlds apart welled up in his heart.

Especially feeling that his cultivation inside his body was now countless times stronger than before, his heart grew ever more emotional.

The last time he left the Sword Gate, his cultivation was merely at the Soul-Sacrifice Realm, having just become an inner-door disciple.

Now, upon returning to the Sword Gate once more, his cultivation had not only surpassed the Essence-Nurture and Aperture-Opening realms, entering the Wheel-Opening Realm, but he had also reversed the opening of the six great secret realms, constructing his own minor six-paths reincarnation system; both his cultivation and his foundation were countless times stronger than before.

Zhong Yue felt that even a cultivator of the Spirit Body Realm, or even the Dan Yuan Realm, if they appeared before his present self, he could easily suppress them.

After the guidance of Forefather Xihuang, he underwent a transformation that could be described as shedding the old self and being reborn, making fighting above his level seem like an ordinary occurrence.

Zhong Yue had never imagined that a cultivator of the Wheel-Opening Realm could be this powerful!

In less than a year, he had gone from being an insignificant inner-door disciple of the Sword Gate to an existence comparable to the top experts of the younger generation.

And all of this is because.

Thinking of this, Zhong Yue unconsciously glanced at the figure beside him, a hint of respect appearing in his eyes as he said, 'Forefather, this is the Sword Gate, the guardian of the hundred-thousand-li Great Wasteland.'

As Zhong Yue described the Sword Gate's details, Feng Yi's eyes shifted slightly, reflecting the inner and outer scenes of the Sword Gate, including the demon-soul forbidden zone below and the Xuanyuan Sword that suppresses the heart of the Evil-Exorcising God Emperor.

Not bad.

After hearing Zhong Yue's account, Feng Yi nodded and said, 'In this era when the Fuxi clan has declined, for humanity to win this pure land of the Great Wasteland, all past patriarchs of the Sword Gate deserve praise.'

Saying this, Feng Yi's mind conjured the many figures in the Sword Gate who had poured their hearts and blood for humanity, and a feeling of emotion welled up in him as well.

Compared to the pure-blood Fuxi of the secluded lands of the Ziwei Star Domain, the many humans in the Sword Gate actually possess the true spirit of Fuxi, making them the true Fuxi.

Thinking thus, Zhong Yue led Feng Yi as they stepped into Sword Gate Mountain.

Along the way, seeing the familiar surroundings, Zhong Yue's heart involuntarily felt a hint of complex emotion.

Although he was an inner-door disciple of the Sword Gate, he had never even visited his own cave dwelling, basically always traveling outside, and his cultivation growth seemed largely unrelated to the Sword Gate.

'Ah, I'm probably the Sword Gate disciple least like a Sword Gate disciple!'

This thought arose in his mind, but looking at the surrounding scenery, Zhong Yue's heart still felt very warm.

Although the Sword Gate did not provide much help for his cultivation progress, it gave him a strong sense of belonging, something no other place could replace.

His thoughts turned, and just then Zhong Yue suddenly stopped his steps, gazing at a girl not far away.

She was a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old girl, clear-spirited and lovely, with an outstanding appearance, like a ripple of clear water.

However, the moment he saw this lovely girl, a barely concealed killing intent flashed in Zhong Yue's eyes, and his inner qi shifted slightly.

Feng Yi, who was admiring the scenery within Sword Gate Mountain, at that moment sensed Zhong Yue's gaze and also turned his eyes toward the girl, a hint of understanding appearing in his eyes.

'Has she been possessed by a demon god's soul!'

A faint voice sounded, and at that moment, in Feng Yi's eyes, an illusory and strange shadow floated upon the girl's body.

It was a monster with a spider's body, bearing eight different-shaped heads resembling an elephant, a snake, an eagle, and others.

A demon god of the Heavenly Phenomena clan.

And the girl's name surfaced in Feng Yi's mind: Shui Qingyan.

To some extent she could be considered Zhong Yue's first love, or the first girl to take a liking to him, but now she has been possessed by the demon god's soul of the Heavenly Phenomena clan.

Startled by the voice in his ear, Zhong Yue then thought of the Forefather Xihuang beside him, a hint of expectation appearing in his eyes as he said, 'Forefather, can you drive out the demon god's soul of the Heavenly Phenomena Old Mother from Junior Sister Shui, so that she may return to normal?'

Feng Yi nodded and said casually, 'Expelling that Heavenly Phenomena clan's demon god's soul from the girl's body is no problem, but her soul has already shattered, even scattered into the Reincarnation Burial Zone; wanting to rescue her again.'

Saying this, Feng Yi's eyes showed a hint of thought, and he couldn't help but recall the experiment he had long wanted to try: incorporating the two paths of time and space into his own reincarnation system to form a unique Grand Time-Space Reincarnation of his own.

'Perhaps we could use this girl's soul for a trial; maybe we can really rescue her, and it would also be a test of the Grand Reincarnation path I have been contemplating lately!'

While Feng Yi was recalling his recent insights into time-space reincarnation, not far away, 'Shui Qingyan' also sensed Zhong Yue's presence.

She came over to Zhong Yue with a smiling face and said softly, 'Senior Brother Zhong, long time no see.'

Before her words even finished, feeling the faint yet powerful aura emanating from the Zhongshan clan youth before her, her eyes widened instantly, disbelief flashing in her gaze.

'How could this be?'

'How could the Zhongshan clan be this strong!'

Before her thoughts had fully settled, she saw the Zhongshan clan youth before her bow respectfully toward the figure beside him and say, 'Please, Forefather, act!'

'Huh?'

Upon hearing those words, 'Shui Qingyan's' face twitched slightly, and she finally noticed that beside the Zhongshan clan youth there was another figure.

Why had she not noticed it before?

This thought arose in her mind, and 'Shui Qingyan' unconsciously turned her gaze to the dark-robed figure beside the Zhongshan clan youth, meeting a pair of deep eyes.

Boom

In an instant, her body trembled, as if she had seen an endless cycle of a vast universe, and her mind instantly went blank.

In her spiritual world, a spider-bodied elephant-headed monster cowered on the ground, its face showing utter terror.

Powerhouse!

An unimaginably terrifying powerhouse!

A powerhouse countless times stronger than she was in her past life as a demon god!

This thought arose in her mind, and the demon god's soul felt an indescribable fear for a moment.

How could this be?

How could this world contain such a powerful being?

And moreover, what relation does it have to the Zhongshan clan?

On the other side, Feng Yi's deep eyes surveyed the girl before him; after a moment, he reached out, and the mysterious power of reincarnation circulated, the demon god's soul instantly appearing from the girl's brow, falling into his hand with no power to resist.

However, he did not pay too much attention to the demon god's soul, but instead once again turned his gaze to the girl.

Looking at the girl who seemed to have directly lost her vital aura, Feng Yi's internal qi shifted, and six brilliantly radiant light wheels appeared behind him, forming a perfect cycle with each other.

However, upon close observation, one would find that it is actually not six light wheels but twelve, the two merely overlapping, like the yin and yang of the Great Dao, the positive and negative sides of the universe.

The light wheels took yin and yang as their primary aspect and the six paths as their substance, forming a marvelous positive-negative six-paths reincarnation; turning slowly, they drew everything around Feng Yi into his own great reincarnation, with the birth and death of all things entirely determined by him.

In an instant, the girl's internal aura underwent rapid change, and her originally damaged sea of consciousness was to undergo a new reincarnation, to be reborn as a new soul.

But just then, Feng Yi's hands moved slightly, tracing a mysterious trajectory, and faint illusory sounds of flowing water arose beside him.

In the next moment, an endless river appeared at his side, encircling him, causing his aura to become ancient yet ethereal, as if simultaneously existing in past and future.

At the same time, his surroundings became hazy, as if many different spaces appeared, each a phantom world, giving his figure a sense of being in an empty void at an infinite distance.

""Time-space, manifest!""

A low voice sounded, and two brand-new light wheels appeared at Feng Yi's side; one was weathered and ancient, like an eternal river of time, the other ethereal and illusory, like the manifestation of space.

""Combine!""

Feng Yi's hands moved again, following the Dao of time and space he had comprehended during this period, he induced the transformation of the two cosmic light wheels.

In an instant, the two light wheels merged directly into the six light wheels behind him, perfectly compatible, forming eight light wheels that circulated on their own, constructing his own positive-negative eight-paths reincarnation.

Hum

Heaven and earth fell still; a mysterious vibration arose from the slowly turning light wheels behind him, and everything around came to a halt.

At this moment, Feng Yi's mind sank into an unprecedented emptiness and clarity, his innate spiritual light continually rising, as if he stood upon the river of time, with a sense of lofty detachment overlooking past and future.

Countless insights arose in his mind, giving him a new understanding and realization of the Dao of time-space reincarnation.

But just then, with a crack, fissures appeared on the eight light wheels behind him, as if they were about to shatter at any moment.

""No, whether it is my mastery of the Dao of time and space or my understanding of the totem system, I have not yet reached the limit, nor can I perfectly harmonize them to truly form my own positive-negative eight-paths reincarnation.""

This thought arose in his mind; Feng Yi withdrew his mind from within, looked at the girl before him, pointed a finger, and a slowly rotating light wheel appeared at her brow.

In an instant, the girl seemed to exist outside of time and space, her past and future forming a self-contained cycle of reincarnation.

Her originally damaged sea of consciousness instantly became whole, not through re-condensation, but as if it had always been complete.

""This is the great time-space reincarnation!""

After doing all this, Feng Yi's heart stirred; the eight light wheels behind him instantly shattered, turning into endless Dao patterns that merged into his body.

Hng!

He let out a muffled groan from his mouth; his internal qi fluctuated slightly, and the surrounding heaven and earth returned to normal.

Feng Yi ignored the fluctuation of his own qi, instead fully immersing himself in his mind, comprehending the great Dao insight of the eight-paths reincarnation he had just accommodated the time-space reincarnation.

""Universe light wheel, space-time light wheel.""

""Indeed, within the Dao of time and space lie mysteries completely different from the other six paths.""

""If I could truly incorporate the time-space reincarnation into my own great reincarnation system, even perfectly harmonizing with the two systems to build a true positive-negative eight-paths reincarnation system, allowing my own time-space to form a self-contained cycle, then even if I have not yet attained the Other Shore Realm, when I reach the World of the Supreme of One Lifetime, facing those heavenly intentions of the Other Shore will no longer leave me utterly powerless.""

Various insights continually arose in his heart; Feng Yi as a whole gained an essential understanding and insight into his own great reincarnation system, and his internal qi underwent a somewhat different change.

(End of chapter)