Chapter 1180: The Ninth Extreme

28 Oct, 2024

Chapter 1180: The Ninth Extreme

The river water churned, and the rumbling sound spread out in all directions along with the waves.

Xu Qing sat cross-legged on the surface of the river. Around him, the ashes of the fourth layer were drifting away.

It was as if snow had fallen from the sky.

However … this world had not been destroyed and had not disappeared.

Although all the buildings of the Immortal Palace, including the heavens and the earth, had vanished into thin air and turned into nothingness.

However, the world itself still existed.

Because Xu Qing was here!

Currently, under the gift of Young Master Aurora, he already possessed the rights to the Immortal Palace.

He was qualified to be in charge.

His Space-Time Constitution was already at Large Success, and the River of Space-Time it formed supported the world of the fourth level, which should have been shattered.

At the same time, he also understood that the current him could leave at any time. He could even return to any of the first three levels with a single thought.

Regardless of whether it was the reality of the third layer, the scene of the second layer, or the lines of the first layer.

As long as he wanted to, he could descend in an instant.

However … if he wanted to go up, he would be restricted.

What restricted him was not his authority or his identity, but the level of his constitution.

To enter the fourth level, only those who possessed a Constitution or a Constitution Treasure would be able to do so. As for the fifth level, the requirement was even higher.

One had to raise the level of the constitution to a certain level, making the power of laws surge, reaching the combat prowess of a Quasi-Immortal Great Emperor.

And now, Xu Qing could feel that he was only a sliver away from stepping into the fifth level!

"If I were to raise the Spacetime Constitution to another level, I would be able to break through all of them!"

"That higher level is my Ninth Extreme!"

A strange light flashed in Xu Qing's eyes.

He had a strong intuition that when his Ninth Extreme appeared, it would be the time when his Ninth World of Soul Accumulation would be formed.

With the help of the ninth level, he would be able to step into the fifth level of the world that only Great Emperors or Constitutional Laws could enter after reaching a certain level.

Once he reached there, he would be able to absorb the World Energy from the Fifth Level.

"A first-step Sovereign who can fight a Grand Emperor!"

Xu Qing took a deep breath and muttered to himself as his thoughts churned.

"As for my Ninth Extreme … After space-time came the words of Young Master Aurora before he left. It had an incomparable impact on him, and the thunder formed by those words was still reverberating.

That feeling of enlightenment grew stronger and stronger.

In the end, Xu Qing, who was sitting cross-legged on the river of time, cast his gaze down onto the surface of the river, where his reflection could be seen.

He stared at the reflection for a long time … Xu Qing, who was on the river, closed his eyes.

At this moment, the reflection in the river opened its eyes!

Then, the reflection sank, landing at the bottom of the river, into the sand, into the very bottom, all the way until it disappeared.

Only Xu Qing, who was still sitting cross-legged on the surface of the river, remained motionless.

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The wind came from the distance, carrying with it a thick Immortal fog. As it churned, it flowed around the cultivators and spread to the stone tablets on the Immortal palace's Immortal Welcoming Platform.

The stone tablet was black in color and covered in moss. It gave off a simple and ancient aura of the passage of time.

The words on it were blurry, but it mentioned that when entering the Immortal Palace, there would be three paths to choose from.

Shockingly, this was the entrance to the Immortal Palace. It was also the first place that all cultivators would see upon entering the Immortal Palace. At the same time, they would choose the path to enter the Immortal Palace.

At this moment, Li Mengtu, the Earth Spirit Ancestor, and a blurry figure were flying over from afar.

The moment he stepped onto the Immortals' Welcoming Platform, most of the cultivators who were originally on the Immortals' Welcoming Platform rushed to the left.

That was the first path into the Immortal Palace. The fog inside was not thick, but it seemed to be different from the space. Compared to the Immortals Welcoming Platform, it was much dimmer.

There was also a drizzle, moistening the ground. The ground was muddy.

As for the second path, it was right in front of him, but it was completely obscured by the thick fog. He could only vaguely make out what seemed to be a bridge on the other side.

On the bridge, there seemed to be a person leaving into the distance.

"That's Xing Huanzi. When he appeared just now, I saw him heading towards this bridge."

Li Mengtu said in a deep voice.

"I wonder what Brother Xu will choose. If you choose the smaller path, we can travel together."

After Li Mengtu finished speaking, the Earth Spirit Ancestor beside him also turned his head and looked at Xu Qing with anticipation.

Standing beside them was precisely Xu Qing!

At this moment, they had returned to the moment when the Immortal Limit Land had opened and everyone had just entered. However, the strange thing was that … no matter if it was Li Mengtu or the Earth Spirit Ancestor, there was nothing wrong with them.

It was as if they didn't know that they had been here before.

Or to be more precise, they had been here before in different time and space.

What was even stranger was that even Xu Qing, who had appeared in this place, did not have any knowledge of this place. It was as if he had truly entered this place for the first time, and he was looking at the three entrances with his head raised.

A small path, a wooden bridge, and a river.

"I want to walk on this bridge."

The Earth Spirit Ancestor glanced at Li Mengtu.

Li Mengtu nodded and cupped his fists towards Xu Qing before flying towards the path on the left.

The Earth Spirit Ancestor hesitated for a moment. In the end, he did not try to persuade Xu Qing. Instead, he bowed towards Xu Qing and chose the same path as Li Mengtu.

Soon, the two figures disappeared.

Only Xu Qing was left on the Immortals' Welcoming Platform.

He stood there and turned his head to the right.

After muttering to himself for a moment, he finally withdrew his gaze and looked at the bridge in front of him. His body flickered, and he took a step forward.

Time passed.

The world behind the bridge was the second level, and as soon as Xu Qing appeared, he was completely immersed in it. He experienced many things, but … he didn't encounter the sword-wielding imp.

Instead, he was sleeping in the Great Demon King's bucket.

In the end, an unknown disturbance occurred, and the Great Devil King let out an enraged roar, spilling out everything in the bucket.

As for him, he had managed to escape from that turbulence for some unknown reason. He had narrowly escaped death.

In the world of the third level.

It was there that he met Li Mengtu, and together with him, they obtained the right to enter the fourth layer.

After that, they entered the fourth level together.

He was no longer the Aurora Young Master. Instead, he had become the guardian disciple of the Scripture Pavilion.

He tried to change history, trying to stir up some waves. He had some small success, but he didn't manage to stir up any great waves. That was because the Xing Huanzi was there, completely maintaining order.

Thus, the appearance of the grand wedding and the descent of the calamity, everything became consistent with history.

Thus, the bubble in the starry sky shattered, and all living beings in the Immortal Palace dissipated, including him.

The instant it dissipated, Xu Qing opened her eyes.

A trickle of water flowed around him, and in the distance, it was as if he saw another version of himself through space and time.

The river beside him was vast and shocking.

"So that's how it is …"

Xu Qing muttered to himself as he sat cross-legged on his own stream and closed his eyes.

The reflection continued to sink.

Then … on the Immortals' Welcoming Platform, the previous scene appeared again.

This time, Xu Qing, who still didn't know anything about this place, chose to enter the path in the rain with Li Mengtu and the Progenitor of Earth Spirit due to the danger of this place.

He, who was walking on this path, did not experience the world of the first and second level. Instead, there, he had a conflict with Xie Lingzi, resulting in a dispute.

Eventually, he got to know Zhou Zhengli.

The two of them, along with Li Mengtu, found the identity to head to the fourth level. Finally, they experienced the changes in history in the fourth level.

When everything was over, and the world of the fourth level dissipated, Xu Qing opened her eyes and saw … two versions of herself.

After a moment of silence, he fell into a trance.

"So that's how it is …"

Then, he closed his eyes. There was very little river water around him.

But the reflection was still sinking.

A series of undercurrents were set off, and layers of ripples reverberated, turning into one Xu Qing after another, appearing at the entrance of the Ethereal Immortal Palace in different space-time.

They walked towards their respective choices.

Just like the most primitive gravel in the desert of time, every time the wind blew, it would form a different space-time line, giving birth to different experiences.

As a result, some figures died along the way!

The space-time he was in turned into nothingness.

The way some figures dealt with problems subverted Xu Qing's framework.

Slaughter, blood and plunder.

They were different.

Their experiences were naturally based on this. Some got to know Xie Lingzi, some got to know Qian Jun Bi Yi, and some didn't even choose to enter the fourth level.

There was also Xu Qing who became friends with Xing Huanzi and chose the Order Faction as well.

All sorts of transformations, all sorts of experiences, were reflected on Xu Qing, who was floating on the vast river. More and more rivers surrounded him, and although the number of rivers varied, each and every one of them contained a version of himself.

In the end, they were densely packed and majestic.

Countless Xu Qings, countless long rivers, occupied the entire void.

Then, a gust of wind blew, and the primordial sand moved. The primordial Xu Qing opened his eyes.

He murmured softly.

"Return to one!"

The moment he opened his eyes … and the moment he spoke …

Countless figures in space-time opened their eyes, and all of them … looked at Xu Qing!

All gazes converged at that moment, intertwined, and … fused together.

Soon after, countless long rivers instantly surged and converged towards Xu Qing, who was the most primitive of them all!

As a result, the river water became even more turbulent, and Xu Qing's mind resounded with an intense and endless rumbling.

It was as if heart had opened!

His eyes were no longer covered!

Countless egos became the true self. Countless rivers became the sea!

In that instant, the Ninth Extreme was born!

Extreme parallel!

It was as if the Heavens and the Earth were being split asunder. The world trembled, and Xu Qing's Ninth World appeared, complete in the blink of an eye.

His cultivation had also skyrocketed!

From the Eighth World to the Ninth World, he had reached the pinnacle of the Soul Accumulation Realm.

As for Constitution, in terms of cultivation level, he made a breakthrough!

At the moment of his breakthrough, Xu Qing stood up on the Sea of Time and Space. He looked up into the sky, raised his foot, and took a step into the void!

He wanted to go to the fifth level world that only those with the battle prowess of a Quasi-Immortal Great Emperor could enter and complete the final breakthrough!

The moment Xu Qing's foot landed on the ground, his surroundings began to blur and distort. It was as if he had stepped through the shackles and stepped out of the barrier.

He had stepped into … the world of the fifth level!

Everywhere he looked, it was a beautiful scene.

Vortexes of different sizes appeared one after another. They looked like galaxies, but also like strange eyes.

It was boundless.

However, the moment he looked at it, even though this place was vast, Xu Qing could see all the vortexes and all the details in it.

Amidst the mystery, he also saw a few figures sitting cross-legged in the vortexes.

Among those figures were Xing Huanzi, as well as cultivators he had never seen before. Judging from their auras, they were clearly quasi-immortals.

Around each of these people, there were different illusions flowing around them.

As for Xing Huanzi, he seemed to be breaking through.

After being stared at by Xu Qing, Xing Huanzi seemed to have sensed something. He suddenly opened his eyes and looked around.

His expression changed the moment he saw Xu Qing. Disbelief uncontrollably surfaced on his face.

"Why are you here?!"