Chapter 264

In the boundless Chaos void.

Figures flew out one after another from the river of time and space, from the beginning of the eon to the endless future, all turning into imprints that merged into the Qing Emperor's body, layer upon layer, finally condensing into a complete Dao foundation.

At the same time, the half-step Dao fruit condensed by the Qing Emperor's body fully formed, merging with this Dao foundation into the innate spiritual light, which carried the innate spiritual light up from the boundless sea of suffering, completely breaking free from the river of time and space.

Hum

The Qing Emperor's mind and spirit immersed in the endless void, all around dark and empty, with nothing existing, not even up, down, left, right, past or future.

In a daze, his innate spiritual light and his own consciousness also sought to merge with this Chaos void, utterly returning to the absolute void between the two eons.

This is the final tribulation before reaching the other shore, the eternal nothing.

If this eternal void cannot be broken, one's consciousness will utterly fall into extinction, taking the self with it, and past and future will cease to exist.

For a normal creation-level great divine ability user who reaches the other shore, this is almost a nine-deaths-one-life trial.

But for the Qing Emperor's body, which has fused the Chaos Qing Lotus and Pangu's Opening Dao, this tribulation is almost tailor-made for him.

Immersed in this deathly silent void, the Qing Emperor's innate spiritual light twitched slightly, his consciousness merging with the entire Chaos void, directly transforming into a Chaos Qing Lotus rooted in the Chaos void.

As the lotus swayed, it shed endless divine light, perfectly matching the eternal 'nothing,' as if it were a Dao lotus born with this Chaos void, yet it grew by absorbing the Chaos void power between the two eons.

In the void, there is no flow of light and shadow, no concept of time.

It seemed like an instant, yet also like endless ages later, the Chaos Qing Lotus appeared to have reached its limit and quietly blossomed.

Boom

As the Chaos Qing Lotus bloomed, a brilliant, dazzling light appeared in the Chaos void, like a supreme axe-light that opens heaven and earth, born in accordance with the Great Dao, illuminating this deathly darkness and cleaving the absolute 'nothing' between the two eons.

Boom—

As if the great explosion of heaven and earth's opening rang out, the Qing Emperor's vision suddenly returned, seeing the end of the previous eon and the constantly collapsing, destroying ancient eon.

Hum

At the present time node, a brilliant white light suddenly blazed forth, as if from the source of time, illuminating the boundless Chaos darkness, illuminating all things of heaven and earth, illuminating every corner of the myriad worlds, even the deepest undersea relics of the Nine Abysses and the long-vanished top layer of the Nine Heavens were bathed in this white light.

The white light was like a supreme axe-light that opens heaven and earth; within it, shadows flickered, vaguely showing scenes of the ancient eon, illuminated by it.

Other Shore Phenomenon Type Two: Illuminating the Ten Directions!

The deeper the foundation when reaching the other shore, the more places are illuminated.

Among the myriad worlds, all great divine ability users were drawn to this phenomenon that illuminates the heavens, their eyes showing extremely complex expressions.

Everyone understood that at this point, the situation was settled, and the Qing Emperor could be considered truly having reached the other shore.

In the myriad worlds, another lofty will appeared, looking down upon all beings.

At the moment the white light appeared, the other-shore beings engaged in combat paused, their faces showing surprise as they looked toward the blooming Chaos Qing Lotus in the Chaos void, gazing at the figure within the lotus.

At this moment, many other-shore beings seemed to see the ancient Heavenly Venerable who was born in accordance with the Great Dao and performed the act of opening heaven and earth.

Within the Fu Huang's body, the three forces that had been constantly entangling simultaneously condensed, but then they tangled together again.

In the river of time and space, the ancient simple long blade that was blocking the Bodhi tree branch hesitated slightly, then froze in place.

However, the Seven Treasure Wonderful Tree also did not continue to entangle with the blade, but instead vanished directly into the river of time and space, returning to the Bodhi pure land.

The Qing Emperor's arrival at the other shore is now settled; further action would be meaningless.

The ancient simple long blade stood in the river of time and space, its blade light flowing around, faintly showing a tendency to slash down at the Chaos Qing Lotus in the Chaos.

But after a moment, the blade light retracted, and the ancient simple long blade likewise leapt out of the river of time and space, returning to the real world.

As time passed, the white light faded, and the myriad worlds once again displayed a new phenomenon.

Dong!

An ethereal, distant bell rang, time solidified, shadows reversed, the river of time flowed and condensed into an ancient, heavy bronze bell.

Hum

The myriad worlds became illusory; boundless space coalesced, continually gathering, ultimately forming an ancient mirror emitting strange light, standing above the myriad worlds, illuminating all worlds and embracing all cosmic void.

Rattle—

A sound of illusory water flow arose, and a phantom, lofty river of time and space was reflected above the heavens, seeming to be at the highest point of all, near the Dao.

The river of time and space joined end to end, beginningless and endless, encompassing the bronze bell and the ancient mirror, forming a perfect great wheel of time and space.

And within the great wheel of time and space, an ancient, sacred Chaos Qing Lotus appeared, shedding endless Chaos divine light, containing surges of creative power and wood vitality, enveloping every corner of the myriad worlds.

In the myriad worlds, heaven and earth, all living things flourished; who knows how many sprites and demons awakened spiritual wisdom, how many beings improved their aptitude, and many even began to grow young again.

Boom—

As the Chaos Qing Lotus blossomed, an ancient divine figure appeared in the Chaos, like the very beginning, the opener of the Great Dao.

This is the third type of Other Shore phenomenon, the Manifestation of the Great Dao!

Such phenomena are formed according to the manifestation of the Great Dao contained within the half-step Dao fruit condensed by the Other Shore achiever.

According to the deductions of many Other Shore beings, this type of phenomenon numbers in the hundreds, including Riding the Ox of Virtue, Lingbao Holding the Sword, Myriad Buddhas Returning to the Ancestral Sect, Five Virtues Forming a Phoenix, the Alternation of Years, and so on.

Generally, most cultivators, upon reaching the other shore, will manifest only one Great Dao phenomenon that matches their own condensed half-step Dao fruit.

However, the Qing Emperor's body, rooted in the Chaos Qing Lotus and Pangu's Opening Dao, having absorbed the innate wood vitality and life force from the time of the eon's opening, and having merged his own time-space great wheel with Donghuang's time and Haotian's cosmic Dao, also manifested multiple different Great Dao manifestations.

Seeing the many Great Dao manifestations appearing between heaven and earth, each great divine ability user showed an envious expression, realizing that the Qing Emperor's accumulation was far deeper than they had imagined.

After an unknown period, the many manifestations of the Great Dao vanished, and the Qing Emperor's figure returned to the present time node.

However, at this moment he gave an impression of antiquity and vagueness, as if he were both in the present time node and still existing at the end of the ancient eon.

A phantom river stood out, flowing gently around the Qing Emperor's body, full of the erosion of ages, conveying the sense that destiny cannot be defied, similar to the true river of time that runs through the myriad worlds.

Other Shore Phenomenon Type Four: Light and Shadow Entwining the Body!

This is a phenomenon that any cultivator reaching the other shore can attain, serving as the basis for one to regress the past and seize the future.

Gazing at the river of time before him, the Qing Emperor's body stirred; the phantom river suddenly expanded, directly overlapping with the real world's river of time and fate, continually stretching toward older ages and endlessly spreading into boundless future, occupying more future tributaries.

The river of time kept extending, passing the Qing Emperor's just-recalled past history, arriving at the beginning of this eon's opening, submerging the rampant earth, water, wind, and fire, contracting into the Taiji, returning to Chaos, then opening outward again, crossing the absolute void between the two eons, and arriving at the end of the previous eon.

The myriad worlds grew dim, everything seeming illusory, endless Chaos qi filling the heavens, and an ancient figure indescribable in words appeared in the Chaos.

Majestic and ancient, containing all things, He merely standing there seemed like the overlapping of many eras, carrying an indescribable sense of antiquity, as if it were the very beginning of everything.

Yuanshi Tianzun!

Other shore phenomena, fifth category: Seeing Yuanshi!

Because the Yuanshi Tianzun of this Heavenly Realm is a manifestation of one aspect of the Great Dao, He Himself represents the Great Dao.

If a cultivator, upon reaching the other shore, can directly trace back to the beginning of the current era and penetrate the void between the two eras, allowing their own river of time to extend to the previous era, they can then verify this 'Seeing Yuanshi' other‑shore phenomenon.

In theory, as long as one's foundation is sufficient, any cultivator can verify this phenomenon upon reaching the other shore.

Of course, this is merely theoretical; in practice, a cultivator who can verify the first four phenomena upon reaching the other shore is already considered to have achieved a normal other shore.

For example, the Green Emperor on the original timeline, upon reaching the other shore, only verified the first four phenomena, failed to penetrate the two eras, and thus did not obtain the 'Seeing Yuanshi' phenomenon.

At this point, the Green Emperor's form had also reached its limit and could no longer continue to trace back into the past.

In the future, as the Green Emperor's half‑step Dao fruit gradually becomes complete, he will still be able to continue tracing back into the past.

When he traces back to the very beginning of all eras' creation, leaving his imprint at the origin of every era, that is the moment he achieves the embryonic form of the Dao fruit and becomes an ancient being.

The stronger, the more ancient!

In this Heavenly Realm, this saying is the ultimate truth.

The Journey to the West world.

The desolate, ruined Sacred Spirit Mountain.

Before Five Finger Mountain, the figure in a monk's robe saw the anomaly between heaven and earth, his pupils slightly constricting, a hint of surprise in his eyes.

The next moment, He suddenly turned His gaze toward the Heavenly Dao monster entangled with the Human Emperor's shed form in the river of time and space.

Boom

In the river of time and space, the Heavenly Dao monster shuddered violently, instantly scattering into countless dark‑red vortices brimming with utter chaos and madness, enveloping the Human Emperor's shed form in order to give birth to a new will of chaos within it.

Sensing the change within, the Human Emperor's double pupils glowed faintly, and the Human Emperor Sword in his hand burst forth with resplendent divine light.

Sun, moon, stars; mountains and rivers; immortals, gods, demons, monsters; and the myriad aspects of humanity.

Patterns lit up one after another, merging with the sword light on the Human Emperor Sword, forming a realm of human‑dao radiance—a human‑dao paradise—that repelled all external things, forbade any power outside the human dao, causing all chaos and madness to lose their foundation and turn into illusory bubbles.

However, taking advantage of this opportunity, the dark‑red vortices dispersed throughout the river of time and space, fleeing inward to escape this place.

The Green Emperor has already fully come ashore; if he does not leave now, it may already be too late.

Should he be suppressed by the Green Emperor, given their connection, he would likely become nourishment for the Green Emperor to perfect his own foundation.

"Hehe."

"You want to leave now? Isn't it a bit late!"

At that moment, a light laugh rang out; the phenomena around the Green Emperor's form retracted, He took a step forward, and entered the river of time and space.

At this point, He had fully reached the other shore, becoming one of the heavenly wills of this Heavenly Realm.

Gazing at the Heavenly Dao monster trying to flee, the river of light and shadow coiled around the Green Emperor's side condensed into an ancient, heavy bronze bell.

Dong!

A bell that shook all heavens rang out; the myriad worlds dimmed, as if color vanished in an instant.

The dark‑red vortices scattered throughout the river of time and space hesitated slightly, then instantly converged together, as if time were flowing backward.

"Taiyi"

A roar rang out; the Heavenly Dao monster instantly broke free from the influence of the Grand Dao of Time and fled once more into the depths of the river of time and space.

At that moment, the Green Emperor lightly tapped His finger, and an ancient mirror reflecting all worlds and heavens appeared above the river of time and space, shining down upon the Heavenly Dao monster.

The dark‑red vortices about to enter the river of time and space halted in place, solidifying directly into a still painting.

Before the Heavenly Dao monster could break free from the bonds of the Universal Grand Dao, the pure, radiant light hanging behind the Green Emperor suddenly expanded into a supreme axe‑light that splits heaven and earth, striking directly at the dark‑red vortices.

This strike was formed by taking his own condensed half‑step Dao fruit as its foundation and merging it with the true meaning of Pangu's act of cleaving heaven and earth.

The river of time trembled; this heaven‑splitting axe‑light seemed to have come from the very beginning of the eras, passing through the age of the Heavenly Emperor's strife, the era of the Investiture of the Gods war, the time of the Heavenly Court's downfall, the period of Spirit Mountain's destruction, the age of the Human Emperor, the era of the Middle‑Age Sages, the age of the Devil‑Buddha chaos, all the way to the present, covering every temporal node of past and future.

All of the myriad worlds fell silent; everyone's gaze was drawn to that axe‑light, and they lost the ability to think.

Boom—

The tremendous blast of heaven‑splitting earth‑shaking rang out!

The dark‑red vortices were forcibly split by this heaven‑splitting axe‑light, turning into strands of primordial Dao principles that instinctively sought to evolve into a realm of myriad worlds.

Roar

A roar rang out; the dark‑red reversed swastika elements circulated, the primordial Dao principles trembled violently, then reconverged, re‑forming into dark‑red vortices.

At that moment, the ancient heavy bronze bell and the illusory lofty ancient mirror crashed down together, fusing into a river that forms its own great spacetime cycle, completely enveloping the dark‑red vortices.

The dark‑red vortices kept trembling, yet were completely wrapped by the self‑looping river of time and space, unable to break free.

Hum

The Green Emperor extended a hand; the self‑looping river of time and space fell into His palm, transforming into a realm of myriad worlds endlessly cycling the great spacetime, thereby sealing the Heavenly Dao monster completely within.

Among the myriad worlds, everyone stared blankly at the figure in green robes who seemed to uphold a realm of myriad worlds, realizing that another heavenly will of the other shore had appeared in this world, and moreover, one who could suppress peers of the same rank the moment he came ashore.

Boom—!

The desolate, ruined Spirit Mountain let out a tremendous roar; endless demonic qi swept across heaven and earth, and the figure in monastic robes sprang to his feet.

"Green Emperor."

A roar rang out; seeing the Green Emperor display the two great divine abilities of the bell and mirror, He felt an indescribable anger.

Cry!

But the next moment, the phoenix‑winged black gold spear atop Spirit Mountain let out a cry like a phoenix; the five virtues' qi transformed into the five virtue artifacts—the Heaven‑Earth Mystic Yellow Lustrous Pagoda, the Moral Chart, the River Chart and Luo Book—wrapping the entire Spirit Mountain holy ground and forcibly driving the monk‑robed figure before Five Finger Mountain back to his original spot.

(End of chapter)