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Chapter 1130 The truth!

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Wang Ping opened his heart, and Yu Lian instantly understood what they were facing. She immediately connected with Wang Ping's primordial spirit and crawled into Wang Ping's collar, watching the tattered peacock phantom warily.

Wang Ping then carefully observed his surroundings. He sensed that Yao Xi was on the verge of exhaustion, his breath so weak that it seemed he would dissipate at any moment. The void space no longer possessed the oppressive and threatening feeling it had before.

At this moment, in this void space, only the life form within the sealing array at the core is beyond Wang Ping's comprehension; everything else has lost its threat to him, and he only needs a thought to leave.

Therefore, Wang Ping's gaze fell on the golden light in front of Yao Xi. Then he saw Yao Xi reach out his hand, and a wisp of wood spirit energy flowed out from his body to check whether there was any contamination inside the golden light.

When Wang Ping confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the golden light, he did not directly use his own primordial spirit to read it. Instead, he manifested a golden-armored soldier as a medium.

Wang Ping controlled the golden-armored soldiers to reach out and gently touch the golden light.

The flowing light merged into the golden-armored soldiers like mercury, instantly transforming into a massive torrent of information. Wang Ping carefully read these fragments of memory through the puppet medium.

When these memory fragments fully appeared in Wang Ping's sea of ​​consciousness, he used his powerful cultivation to rearrange them in an instant.

The memory surprised Wang Ping from the very beginning, because what he saw was a newly born cultivator of the Jade Purity Sect at the third realm, a celestial body formed by the Jade Purity True Monarch with great magical power.

The owner of the memory was named Qingchen. At that time, under the starry sky, only the Yuqing Sect, the Taiyin Sect and many demon tribes stood side by side. The human race was also a weak branch among the demon races. Although the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was abundant, it was violent and chaotic. Absorbing and cultivating it was extremely dangerous, and there was always the danger of spiritual veins being disordered and demonic possession.

Qingchen's memories are filled with struggle and hardship. He followed the Golden Core Path of the Jade Purity Sect, breathing in and out of the chaotic spiritual energy with great difficulty. This process was extremely slow and was accompanied by the pain of his meridians being torn apart. Fortunately, he was born with the body of an immortal, which made his path of cultivation less difficult.

But it was a bloody and dark era. Demon tribes fought endlessly for relatively peaceful spiritual lands. I remember countless battles with powerful demons. Qingchen protected the not-so-vast territory of the Jade Purity Sect with his increasingly refined Golden Core Daoist techniques.

Blood and gunpowder smoke are almost all of his early memories!
The turning point came when he reached the fourth realm and attempted to break through to the fifth realm. At that time, he encountered a bottleneck, and the allied forces of the demon race were pressing in on the border. At this critical moment, the contemporary Jade Purity True Monarch, a senior who had also struggled to reach the fifth realm in a chaotic era, made a tragic choice.

The memory is frozen on a majestic altar, where the aged Jade Purity True Lord used his own primordial spirit as a guide to forcibly tidy up the chaotic spiritual energy within a radius of ten thousand miles, forming a short but relatively pure torrent of spiritual energy, which forcefully paved the way for Qingchen's enlightenment!
Qingchen was thus able to advance to the fifth realm, but this senior fell into a state of mental confusion in the next hundred years. At the last moment, he detonated his golden core on a planet where the demon race gathered. That planet is now Saturn, causing heavy losses to the demon race.

Qingchen inherited his predecessor's will, used an iron fist to unite the remaining clansmen, and joined forces with the Taiyin Sect to recruit many demons, engaging in a fierce war with many powerful demon lords that lasted for thousands of years.

My memories are filled with countless thrilling battles, countless sleepless nights filled with exhaustion, mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and choices that threatened the very survival of our tradition.

Qingchen, or rather this new Jade Purity True Lord, with his extraordinary perseverance and wisdom, gradually pacified the four directions and eventually unified the entire known cultivation world, thus establishing a preliminary order.

After unifying the cultivation world, Qingchen's memories did not find peace. The brief peace of the starry sky was shattered by a sudden threat from beyond the realm. In the scroll of his memories, Wang Ping saw that foul demonic energy began to seep from the edge of the starry sky barrier. Strange demonic cultivators from beyond the realm invaded this starry sky that had just regained order, like locusts.

These demonic cultivators used unpredictable methods that could pollute spiritual veins and erode the primordial spirit of cultivators. Wherever they went, life was cut off. The nascent alliance suffered heavy losses in the face of the demonic calamity, and the newly unified order was on the verge of collapse.

In this critical moment of life and death, Qingchen once again stepped forward. In his memory, he was a figure who roamed the star space. He studied the characteristics of demonic cultivators in depth and created many supernatural methods to counter demonic arts. He took the lead and led the allied forces to fight bloody battles against demonic cultivators on one star field after another.

This battle lasted for ten thousand years. During this process, Qingchen's cultivation level continued to improve, and he built a powerful faith kingdom. On a pitch-black night, his physical body transformed into energy particles of the starry sky. He cultivated to the perfection of the fifth realm, and was only one step away from completely integrating his physical body and primordial spirit into the universe.

Then, relying on his unparalleled strength and prestige, Qingchen single-handedly eradicated the demonic cultivator forces that had invaded the interior of the starry sky.

However, Daoist Qingchen knew that the threat from beyond the realm had not been eradicated. In order to ensure the long-term peace and stability of the starry sky, Qingchen made an even bolder decision: he took the initiative to launch an expedition to beyond the realm.

In his memory, he crossed the star barrier alone and plunged into the endless chaos beyond the realm. In that region full of unknowns and dangers, he waged a thousand-year war against an even more powerful demon lord. In the end, he wiped out all the demonic forces that had been entrenched around this star barrier.

After this battle, Qingchen's prestige and strength reached their peak. He mobilized the resources of the entire starry sky to cultivate diligently, eventually pushing his cultivation to the limit of the fifth realm. Then, he built a huge starry sky on what is now Venus, and soon fell into a deep slumber, attempting to break through the barrier of the sixth realm over a long period of time.

Upon seeing this, Wang Ping realized that this Qingchen was the Yuqing Sect senior from 100,000 years ago. He frowned slightly, unable to understand why Yaoxi had the memory of this person, so he looked at Yaoxi's illusory figure.

Yao Xi understood Wang Ping's gaze and signaled him to continue observing.

Wang Ping calmed himself down, cleared away unnecessary thoughts with a self-disciplined mind, and continued reading the remaining memories.

He saw Qingchen fall into a long slumber at the Venus Dojo, trying to touch the elusive sixth realm. However, after countless years, a chaotic and painful scream originating from the will of the starry sky itself startled Qingchen from his deep slumber.

When he awoke, he saw a disaster more severe than ever before. Not only had the demonic energy from beyond the realm infiltrated again, but what was even more terrifying was that the life essence of the native creatures of this starry sky had been deeply corrupted by the demonic energy. Furthermore, countless people had even turned to the demonic path, attempting to pollute the order and rules of this starry sky.

Through a specific magic array, he observed that the life rule network of celestial beings also showed signs of contamination.

In this state, he could not sweep away everything with overwhelming force as he had done before, because that would be tantamount to personally slaughtering all living beings in this starry sky.

After pondering for a long time, Qingchen used his supreme magical power to deduce the past and future, seeking a way to solve the problem.

Ultimately, he found a method, but it was also a near-self-sacrificing solution. He needed to use his perfect cultivation and profound understanding of the Heavenly Dao to forcibly invoke and guide the power of the Heavenly Dao's rules, transforming it into purifying lightning that covered the entire starry sky. This lightning would not destroy matter, but it could directly act on the source of life, purifying the consciousness and spirituality that had been polluted by demonic energy. However, this action required two sacrifices: first, Qingchen's own cultivation would serve as the catalyst and fuel; second, it would severely deplete the spiritual energy accumulated in this starry sky over countless millennia.

Qingchen pondered this for a very long time, and ultimately, human instinct prevailed over rational instinct.

In the memory, Qingchen stood atop Venus, radiating light beyond limits. He merged with the Dao, communicating with the will of the stars, chanting mantras, and forming hand seals.

In an instant, the rules of the entire starry sky were activated. Endless heavenly lightning, containing pure purifying power, swept across every corner of the starry sky like a golden rainstorm, precisely burning the demonic seeds deep within the souls of every corrupted being, purifying the distorted network of life rules.

This was consistent with the legend Quan Xing had told Wang Ping, but Wang Ping was astonished when he saw this. However, his self-disciplined state at the moment allowed him to easily filter out those useless emotions and continue to observe.

After guiding the Heavenly Thunder to purify the entire starry sky, Qingchen's cultivation was greatly damaged, but he did not immediately dissipate. He stubbornly maintained his remaining Dao foundation and entered meditation for hundreds of years in an attempt to find a way to restore his cultivation.

The deduction points to an ancient and ethereal legend: a sage.

In the scene of his memory, Qingchen ordered the construction of an unprecedentedly magnificent altar on Venus, using all the remaining power of the entire starry sky.

On the day the altar was completed, Qingchen stood on the top of the altar and activated it with all his remaining cultivation. The vast power of his vows and the Dao fruits of Qingchen's life turned into a dazzling pillar of light, breaking through the barrier of the starry sky and attempting to connect with that unknowable and immeasurable supreme being.

At the final moment of the sacrifice, just as Qingchen's consciousness was about to completely vanish into nothingness, an unexpected change occurred...

Suddenly, Qingchen's originally deep eyes contracted and deformed, turning into two eyes with flowing golden halos. It was as if golden magma was flowing and spreading under the skin around his eye sockets, outlining mysterious patterns.

These newly formed eyes, reshaped by his life's attainments and communication with sages, are illusory eyes capable of peering into the past and future; the essence of the universe will be laid bare under their gaze.

Upon seeing this, Wang Ping could no longer suppress the violently turbulent emotions surging within him. He quickly formed hand seals and used his supreme cultivation to directly seal a portion of his consciousness before calming down. His gaze then turned back to Yao Xi in front of him.

After staring at each other for a long time, Yulian poked her little head out to look at Wang Ping, then at Yaoxi, and then asked Wang Ping in her spiritual sea, "What did you see?"

Wang Ping gently stroked Yu Lian's little head that was peeking out, and then continued to observe her next memory.

In his memory, the moment Qingchen opened his golden vertical pupils, countless images from the past and future flooded into his fading consciousness like a burst dam.

Under the endless impact of spacetime information, Qingchen used his last strength to materialize the five elements and yin-yang energy of the future he had glimpsed into a huge black stone tablet. The surface of the stone tablet was as smooth as a mirror, yet it seemed to bear the ultimate truth of the birth and death of the universe.

Wang Ping tried to observe the black stone tablet, but it gave him a vague feeling; he could see it but could not observe the details.

At this moment, Qingchen used his new golden vertical pupils to pierce through endless dimensions and accurately captured an independent consciousness full of vitality and potential in the vast spacetime turbulence. Without hesitation, he completely merged all his remaining memories, emotions and obsessions with this independent consciousness!

A brand new consciousness was born, carrying both the memories of Qingchen for 100,000 years and the obsession with protecting the starry sky, as well as the pure essence and infinite possibilities of that independent consciousness.

At the very moment this new consciousness was born, Qingchen's remaining power and the spacetime power of the black stone tablet concealed Qingchen's soon-to-collapse physical body and the black stone tablet together under the underlying rules of the starry sky, and they escaped into an alternate dimension independent of normal spacetime.

Wang Ping looked up and met Yao Xi's gaze again, then asked, "In that endless spacetime, what era is Earth in?"

Yao Xi replied, "It must be a distant civilization from before the Great Cosmic Era!"

Is this the starry sky?

"Most likely yes!"

After processing this information, Wang Ping's consciousness returned to that memory.

He saw that the new being that combined Qingchen's memories with an unknown consciousness was none other than Yaoxi!
For the first tens of thousands of years, Yao Xi's consciousness revolved around the black stone tablet, like a silent guardian and observer, hiding in another dimension, using the illusory eye left by Qing Chen and the power of the black stone tablet to quietly observe this starry sky that had survived the catastrophe.

Through long-term observation, Yaoxi clearly saw that the Heavenly Dao rules of this starry sky lacked the Five Elements primordial energy to maintain balance, making the spirituality of the starry sky extremely chaotic and hindering the cultivation of cultivators.

He tried to make up for it with his own strength, but it was like a drop in the ocean.

Therefore, he turned his attention to the outer realms, using the black stone tablet to penetrate the star barrier and use the Eye of Illusion to deduce time and space, trying to find clues and methods to repair this world.

After tens of thousands of years of observation, one day his perception finally pierced through the endless darkness and suddenly captured an unusually pure and enormous fluctuation of the five elements energy!
He concentrated all his energy, following that glimmer of feeling, and his Eye of Illusion traversed an unimaginable distance, finally seeing a star field shrouded in strange mist, where the five elements of energy converged in a perfect cycle, forming a unique and closed system.

Upon seeing this, Wang Ping immediately understood that it must be the predecessor of the Misty Sea.

In his memory, Yao Xi immediately locked onto that star field with the black stone tablet, and then he began to observe the life rule network of the starry sky, intending to descend his own consciousness into the real life consciousness to guide this starry sky.

(End of this chapter)