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At the end of the river of time, boundless desolation and emptiness surge like ink.

Xie Que stood alone in this graveyard of myriad realms, with one hundred and eight strands of martial arts Dao energy flowing around him.

They are not only the manifestation of power, but also the embodiment of the nine cycles of reincarnation and the will to live in the face of death.

His gaze pierced through the ancient void, landing on the barrier of that higher dimension.
Above the long river of time, there lies the primordial wilderness, the very source that gave birth to this world's projection!

Chaos explodes!

Xie Que took a step forward, and the river of time beneath his feet seemed to reverse.

At this moment, the barriers of the primordial world were as fragile as paper before him!

The primordial energy surged forth, the immortal mountains stood majestically, and the Milky Way seemed to fall from the sky.

An ancient and austere will, more ancient than the origin of the void, manifested as an indifferent face that shrouded the sky, hanging above the heavens.

This is the source of the void!
The distorted and gradually eroding Hongjun Daoist of all realms.

"How dare a thieving ant covet the holy throne?"

The voice of Heaven resounded like billions of thunderbolts, and the primordial laws instantly solidified, transforming into invisible shackles that bound Xie Que.

That is a higher-dimensional suppression, the absolute control of the Creator over the projection!
Xie Que's body trembled violently, and his immortal body, tempered through nine lifetimes, groaned as if it could not bear the strain.

Golden flames burned in his eyes as he unleashed a punch!
Pure martial will condensed into a giant axe that split the heavens and slashed at the face of the Heavenly Dao.

Where the axe flashed, the Milky Way ceased to flow, and the immortal mountain collapsed!
However, the shackles of the law dimmed for only a moment before absorbing the primordial source to instantly restore itself, shattering the axe light inch by inch.

"A projection is still just a projection." Hongjun's voice was completely calm.

A giant hand, formed from pure Heavenly Dao rules, descended from beyond the nine heavens.

The earth, water, fire, and wind that evolved in the palm returned to chaos, and scenes of countless immortals falling and the end of an era arose and perished within it!
The space around Xie Que was completely locked, and time was also taken away, as if the weight of the entire primordial world was pressing down on him on a single "point"!
In that split second between life and death, the Death Judgment Chart deep within Xie Que's soul suddenly unfolded!

No longer a cold book, but transformed into a martial arts manual burning with the fire of the heart!
Countless scenes from the past flashed by within it.
All experiences, all insights, and all the inner fires of all beings ignited by him are now boiling over!
"So that's how it is..." The confusion in Xie Que's eyes vanished, replaced by a profound understanding that seemed to see through the ages.
"The talisman for judging death is neither a gift from heaven nor an external object..."

"It is the manifestation of my 'heart' that I have sought for nine lifetimes and lived towards death!"

"It is Xie Que's... Transcendent Dao Fruit!"

This Dao Fruit was born in the ruins of an era, tempered in the void, and transcended the framework of all existing Great Daos!

It does not rely on the primordial chaos, nor does it submit to the void; it is itself a brand new path to heaven opened up by "life" and "self"!

Then, Xie Que threw him into the sky, pulling his counterpart from the other world into this space-time!
At this point, the spacetime loop is complete!
Xie Que roared, shaking the universe, and he deliberately disintegrated his immortal body that he had been struggling to maintain!
Flesh and blood, soul and spirit transformed into the most primordial points of light, flowing like rivers into the sea, all of which were poured into the burning Death Chart!

The light of the Dao Fruit surged, instantly breaking through the shackles of the Heavenly Dao, and its brilliance temporarily overshadowed the Great Sun of the Primordial World!
A fiery passion ignites the heavens, ushering in a new era for martial arts!

The burning Dao Fruit did not attack Hongjun, but instead transformed into countless streams of crimson gold light.
Like spring rain, it sprinkles down on the broken and desolate land, on every world remnant that has not yet been completely annihilated in the endless void, and on every corner of the surging river of time!
"Using all living beings as fuel? Foolish!" Hongjun's giant palm pressed down faster, carrying the will to end everything.

However, when his palm touched that seemingly insignificant flame of the Dao Fruit, a sudden change occurred!
Xie Que is not the only one among those who attain the Dao Fruit.

Countless lives were altered by his martial arts, including sweating teenagers, fighting warriors, and plants just beginning to develop sentience...

Their phantoms clearly emerged in the flames of the heart fire!

Hundreds of millions of faint flames of "self-improvement" converged and transformed into a long river of crimson gold flames that spanned the heavens, supporting the palm that was about to destroy the world!
"I am not alone!"

"Martial arts are not alone!"

Xie Que's voice resounded throughout the myriad realms. He himself completely merged into the Dao Fruit, becoming the most blazing source in that river of heartfire.
"This fire of the heart, burning from the smallest beginnings, illuminates the true self; it can burn away the void, it can... open a new heaven!"

The fire in his heart instantly surged upwards!

The giant palm of Heaven, scorched by flames containing the "transcending" will of countless living beings, emitted a sound like shattering glass!
The chains of laws representing the absolute order of the primordial world twisted, broke, and were given new possibilities within the inner fire!

For the first time, a hint of astonishment appeared on Hongjun's eternally indifferent face.

"Impossible! You are merely a projection from the lower realm, how could you possibly shake the fundamental Heavenly Dao?!"

"Because you only see 'Heavenly Balance' and not 'Human Heart'!" Xie Que's Dao Fruit transformed into a giant chisel formed from heart fire, fiercely driving it into the core law of the Primordial Heavenly Dao.
"Today, let us use the fire of our hearts, the fire of all martial arts practitioners, to open a window in this eternal prison!"

The giant chisel exploded with a deafening roar! An unimaginable light engulfed everything!
In the next instant, Xie Que's thoughts pierced through the thick dust of time.

He saw himself outside Tianjin city, on the banks of the Wuding River, sweating profusely, punching the tree trunk again and again.

Beside him, his adoptive father, Yuan Shun, dressed in blue and wearing simple shoes, stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes filled with relief and profound expectation.

As Xie Que's thoughts swept over him, Yuan Shun seemed to sense it, a knowing smile appearing on his lips. He looked up at the sky and nodded slightly.

He saw the Prince of Yan in a desperate situation, about to fight a desperate battle with his back to the wall. Xie Que's thoughts flashed through his mind, and the Prince of Yan's sword-wielding hand paused slightly. He looked into the void, as if he saw a more vast path that he had never chosen.

He saw his grandmaster, Yan Guang, sitting on a prayer mat in the secret sect, facing a Buddha statue with a green lamp. Xie Que's thoughts descended, and his grandmaster's eyes suddenly lit up as he bowed deeply to the Buddha statue.

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He saw the devastating floods brought about by the war between the Lich King and the Demon King in the Immortal Realm, a situation that troubled Emperor Yu. Xie Que's thoughts swept over the area, and Emperor Yu's eyes lit up. He immediately commanded his people to come forward.

He saw the figure of the Great Candle Heavenly Lord faintly appearing in the depths of the turbulent flow of time, trapped by the Dao Palace. Xie Que's thoughts transformed into a faint light, briefly illuminating his path. The Great Candle Heavenly Lord stopped and solemnly clasped his hands in the direction of the light.

"Everyone..." Xie Que's voice, transcending endless time, resounded clearly in the hearts of every old friend.
This is not a command, but an invitation, a call to fellow travelers on the path.

"Old bonds, today's aspirations!"

"My body will become the foundation of a new path, the primordial world will be established, and all realms will be reshaped."

"Are you all willing... to take up this flame of the heart, to journey together to a new heaven, and to ignite the first spark for this eternal era?"

Without any hesitation, Yuan Shun laughed loudly, took a step forward, and his figure merged into the river of time, transforming into a pure stream of "fist way" light.

The evil aura surrounding the Prince of Yan vanished, revealing his true nature. His eyes lost all ambition, leaving only a clear and pure pursuit of the Dao.

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Hideki Furukawa tossed aside his blood-stained longsword, his eyes filled with the unwavering resolve of a swordsman, which transformed into a sharp edge that merged into his gaze.

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Many members of the shamanic tribe raised their hands, and ancient shamanic chants transformed into blessing runes, merging into the torrent.

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There are many more faces that have left their mark on Xie Que's life, fragments of their will.

Their unyielding beliefs, as long as they harbor the fire of "self-improvement," are all stirred by this call, converging from every corner of time! Countless streams of light, each containing different qualities yet equally tenacious and unyielding, flow like rivers into the sea, transcending the barriers of time and space, carrying the voices and smiles of old friends, and carrying expectations for the future, all merging into the Dao Fruit transformed from the Death-Judging Talisman in Xie Que's palm!

The light of the Dao Fruit was more intense and warm than ever before. It carried not only Xie Que's Dao, but also the heart fire of countless people who walked with him, were illuminated by him, and in turn illuminated his soul!
Xie Que no longer hesitated and gently placed the Dao Fruit, which embodied the will and expectations of all his deceased friends, onto the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World.

Silent ripples spread across the primordial heavenly path!
"boom--!"

The Dao of the Primordial Heaven resounded throughout all the heavens and myriad realms!

This sound was not a welcome, but a lament of the old order being utterly shaken and its foundations crumbling!
The seemingly eternal and unchanging embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, Hongjun Daoren, was now surrounded by a violently trembling chaotic light.

For the first time, a crimson-gold light, rising against the current from the "projection from the lower realm" and piercing through the dimensional barrier, was reflected deep within his indifferent eyes.

The will contained within that light was so "strange" and "rebellious"!
"Everyone is like a dragon..."

"How absurd!" Hongjun's voice was filled with divine wrath.

He raised his hand, and the Heavenly Laws trembled!

The so-called Heavenly Laws are the absolute rules that define purity and impurity, distinguish between immortals and mortals, and maintain the balance of the heavens!

The Heavenly Laws transformed into chains, attempting to bind Xie Que, who had transformed into the Dao Fruit.

At the same time, a chaotic divine lightning bolt, formed from the pure concepts of "divine punishment" and "imprisonment," was also born from nothingness.
With the will to obliterate all variables and maintain eternal order, it cleaves towards the opening "window" and the light seeping through it!

This is no longer a struggle of power, but a clash of the very foundations of existence!

It is the ultimate battle between "heavenly rules" and "human nature"!

Xie Que's figure had already become mostly blurred in the light, but he was completely integrated with the will of all his old friends who had merged into the Dao Fruit.

Faced with the Heavenly Laws and Chaos Divine Lightning, which represented a distorted Heavenly Dao, Xie Que did not confront them head-on.
He simply sent the light transformed from the Dao Fruit in his palm forward, making it even gentler yet more resolute.

The moment the Heavenly Laws touched Xie Que, it was like ice and snow meeting crimson flames!

The laws of "imprisonment," "divine punishment," and "insurmountable hierarchy" contained in the Heavenly Laws, in the face of the burning passion of "self-improvement," "breaking free from shackles," and "equal opportunities for all beings," actually uttered a lament of being overwhelmed!
The thunder, representing the supreme authority of the Heavenly Dao, was gradually disintegrated, ignited, and assimilated by that seemingly weak light, which was the result of the convergence of countless individual wills!
For the first time, cracks of astonishment and unease appeared clearly on Hongjun's eternally calm face.

The very foundation upon which he exists is the absolute order that maintains the operation of the primordial world and treats all living beings as mere straw dogs, which is being challenged and rewritten!
He felt that his own existence was becoming "out of place".

He was not forcibly destroyed by external forces, but by the "Tao" he represented.
It is being covered and replaced by a more inclusive, vibrant, and hopeful "new path"...

"The Way of Heaven is constant!" Hongjun uttered a final Daoist sound that seemed like a sigh or a persistent thought, attempting to incite the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World to carry out a final suppression.

However, that "window" is now secure, and the light has become a torrent!

The light of the Heart Flame not only assimilated the Heavenly Laws, but also spread like wildfire, following the deepest connection between Hongjun and the primordial origin.
It spread upwards in reverse, gently yet irresistibly... enveloping him.

There were no screams, no shattering.

Amidst the light of the flames in the hearts of all beings, Hongjun's form, condensed from the pure laws of the Heavenly Dao, began to dissipate silently, like a sandcastle.

Before his indifferent eyes completely disappeared, they reflected countless phantom images of creatures striving upwards in the light!

In this torrent of reshaping, Xie Que's will, like a gentle spring breeze, subtly and profoundly embraces every innocent and newly born soul:

"The Great Dao is fifty, Tianyan is forty-nine, and one of the human escapes is one."

"This 'one' is the spirit of self-improvement, a world-shaking axe that everyone can wield!"

"The spirit of martial arts will never die, and the fire in our hearts will never be extinguished! The bond between those who share the same path will be passed down from generation to generation!"

"In this new era, may everyone be like a dragon, and may all beings hold fast to this inner fire, illuminating...eternity!"

A complex and indescribable light flashed in Hongjun's eyes, ultimately replacing all indifference, and then... he returned to eternal annihilation.

The Purple Cloud Palace collapsed silently, transforming into the most primordial chaotic energy, which merged into the torrent of newly formed rules.

Hongjun, the embodiment of the old Heavenly Dao representing coldness, absoluteness, and monopoly, thus perished.

His demise was not an end, but rather the complete end of the old order he represented.

Its foundation was absorbed by the newly emerging Heavenly Way, whose core concept is "everyone is like a dragon".

The redesign is complete!

Xie Que's flesh and blood, soul, and power from nine lifetimes, along with the Dao Fruit that carried the will of all his deceased loved ones, all surged into the Primordial Heavenly Dao, beginning to reshape the rules of heaven and earth.

The river of time has begun to flow backward and be reshaped!

The Martial Realm, the Immortal Realm, the Maha Realm... fragments of countless realms are revived, completed, and reborn in the light!
It is unknown how much time has passed, but Xie Que once again stepped out of the void.

This is the tenth incarnation! It also allows Xie Que to truly reach a realm that even he himself finds unbelievable!
Saint of Heaven!

No... even at this moment, the Heavenly Dao is not as high as Xie Que's position.

Moreover, according to Xie Que's method, every time he falls, he will be reborn stronger!

At this moment, the primordial land was already reviving!
At this moment, the Future Buddha also returned.
"Welcome to the new era!" Xie Que returned the words to him, and the two exchanged a knowing smile.

In this new era, there will be no more supreme rulers.
Everyone holds the seed to become a true dragon, and all beings together protect this eternal era named after "self-reliance" and "freedom"!
In the long sighs of time, the sea has changed into mulberry fields countless times.

The world changes like a revolving wheel, yet when this ephemeral torrent of phenomena flows past Xie Que, it melts away like spring snow without a trace.
It left no trace on Xie Que's body and soul, only a trace of indifference.

Star trails flowed across the dome, Xie Que and the Future Buddha stood side by side between heaven and earth, looking down upon the masses of people who were as busy as ants, and quietly watching the world change.

Xie Que sighed and looked at the River of Time again.

There, the Book of Death has already flowed backwards into the past.

He shook his head: "I don't know how much longer it will take before 'I' reach this world..."

The Buddha suddenly smiled: "It may take 129,600 epochs."

As soon as they finished speaking, a breeze arose, causing their clothes to flutter wildly.

Xie Que snapped his fingers, instantly speeding up the time: "That... is taking too long! Let's speed it up!"

The next moment, their gazes fell upon the past.

Outside Tianjin city, on the Wuding River, on a small boat, a young man suddenly opened his eyes.

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