A journey of survival starting from Zhetian

Chapter 581: Meeting on the Long River of Time
Gazing at the extremely rare scenery on the long river of time ahead, the fire of time rising in Diying's hand became even stronger.

Reaching out your hand and gently pushing on the river, a dazzling cosmic light blooms from countless water droplets with reflections of history, turning into a road before your eyes that explains the true meaning of time, penetrating countless mists that already carry an ominous flavor.

Stepping into this avenue of time opened up in the long river of time, the past history once again passes clearly before one's eyes, and the different laws of immortality and humanity gradually become active from an almost solidified state.

At the same time, the dark matter floating in the boundary sea and chaos was gradually moving away from the influence of the Absolute Spirit and becoming active, and the ominousness hidden in the fog became even heavier. The speed of opening up the avenue with the true meaning of time also seemed to encounter some kind of resistance, with a slight delay.

Until a certain moment, a supreme weapon like a scepter and the illusory reflections of four strange Taoist ancestors were reflected in front from the long river of time below, making the ominousness in the fog reach an almost tangible state.

Emperor Ying glanced at the quasi-immortal emperor weapon in front of him, as well as the figure of an old man who clearly exuded the aura of the Nine Nether Beast Treasure Technique. A hint of speculation flashed through his mind, "The ancient artifact of origin, and the Dark Dao Ancestor F4 consisting of Yu Emperor, Hong Emperor, Cang Emperor, and the old man who destroyed the world?"

"It's been so long, but Emperor Desolate Sky hasn't put them to death forever? Is he too busy fighting the Dark Immortal Emperor and the Weird Ancestor to spare any time? Or has he left some tricks on them so they won't be afraid of being reflected by the Weird Supreme and doing something disgusting?"

After thinking for a moment, Emperor Ying raised his hand and blasted out a ray of light with great power, which directly burned the fog in front of him into illusion and walked through this period of history.

As for their traces in history, they have not been erased.

Although carrying an extra dark supreme weapon and the karma of time of four dark Dao ancestors was nothing to him, his own karma of time was already heavy enough, and it was not worth it to continue to carry five more quasi-immortal emperor-level karma of time.

Moreover, this period of absolute spirituality at the end of the Emperor's Fall Era was difficult for even him to see through.

The period of absolute spirit mixed with dark matter that the boundary sea and chaos ushered in did not conform to the logic of the era cycle that he knew. He could only vaguely guess that the occurrence of absolute spirit was related to the layout of the strange party.

As for the emperor of the strange side, he would sacrifice all the creatures of the many great worlds, or thoroughly cleanse the sea of ​​​​worlds and chaos to eliminate the resistance that has always existed, or sow the seeds of cultivation and wait for the harvest at a certain time point in the future. He currently does not want to study the established history in detail, nor does he have the extra energy to explore it.

Suppressing a Dark Immortal Emperor in the Emperor's Cauldron and intercepting three Dark Immortal Emperors in the endless illusory future had already occupied a lot of their minds. If they attracted more attention from the Evil Land and continued to arrange more Road to the Supreme Attack Barrier, they might feel exhausted.

Of course, if in an even more ancient era, so ancient that even the Dark Immortal Emperor, who is at the forefront of the long river of time today, cannot clearly perceive the era involving past cause and effect, then there may be more things that can be done and more actions that can be taken.

Similarly, the cause and effect of the years caused at that time would be relatively smaller and would not bring him more burden. After all, the older the era, the smaller the impact on the "present" time node at the forefront of the long river of time.

For Lu Jin Zhi Gao, the "present" time node at the forefront of the Emperor's Fall Era and the long river of time is still too "close" in terms of historical distance.

Strands of time surrounded his body, and three-dimensional runes of time and history were derived, resonating with the long river of time beneath his body, making the aura of the two almost merge into one, making the Emperor's already illusory and hazy figure become more and more transparent, almost losing his sense of existence.

Suddenly, Di Ying looked at the long river of time below him.

I saw a Taoist standing on the embankment of the boundary sea. Looking at the rising dark matter, a look of determination gradually appeared on his face. He left a footprint on the spot and crossed to the dark land at the other end of the boundary sea, wanting to eliminate the darkness and turmoil in the world.

Emperor Ying murmured in his heart, "The footprint emperor who left footprints on the sea boundary dam."

"I need to be more careful on the road ahead. The time is not long enough. Once my existence is noticed, it will lead to intersections, thus touching history and triggering many causes and effects of the years. It may be a bit unbearable."

Immediately afterwards, the Dao Fire of Time on his body burned more violently, and the hidden effect it brought became increasingly powerful, almost completely pulling his own "existence" out of the long river of time and making him cease to exist in the world.

At the same time, the self-beacon that had been preserved during this period of time was directly stuffed by him into the depths of the chaos inside the boundary sea dam, turning it into an extremely ordinary, inconspicuous chaotic stone, almost showing a trace of fluctuations belonging to the realm of immortals.

After moving forward for thousands of steps, he saw the brilliant sight of one Dao Ancestor after another breaking through the king realm and ascending to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor, flashing in the sky above the long river of time. At the same time, he also saw the shocking scene of many Quasi-Immortal Emperors or Dao Ancestors being besieged and falling on the other side of the Boundary Sea.

Although not every era and age has a quasi-immortal emperor born, but every five or six eras, when tens of thousands of kings have accumulated in the chaos within the dam, a relatively strong era will appear. The flourishing luck will stimulate the birth of a number of sons of luck, allowing them to gain countless opportunities and fortunes, gather the fate of the emperor, and successfully break the king and become an emperor.

Afterwards, these quasi-immortal emperors or Dao ancestors would cross the boundary sea with a touch of determination and head to the dark land on the other side of the boundary sea, trying to end the turmoil, like a fateful cycle.

These figures and the traces of their fate have been deeply engraved on the years, like indelible marks, telling songs of sorrow that are difficult to describe.

However, in the extremely long years, endless history, and endless cycles of eras, there are always a few "lucky ones" who have escaped from their fate.

After they entered the dark land, because of their powerful fighting ability, or perhaps their special cultivation system, or perhaps their obsession with becoming the highest being had become unreasonable, they accepted the dark matter, comprehended a certain scripture infected by the weird, and became part of the group that started the dark turmoil.

He ruled over the Immortal Court and ultimately sacrificed himself as Emperor Cang of his own world.

The Feathered Emperor who drives a chariot, holds the Imperial Spear, and has wings on his back.

Emperor Hong, who practices what he preaches, wears a purple gold crown and has refined the ancient artifact of origin.

Entering the dark land, he was the first to touch the origin of the Immortal Emperor polluted by dark matter, and actively accepted the infection of dark matter, thus stepping half a foot into the supreme realm and calling himself the Old Man of Destruction, the ancestor of the Nine Nether Beasts.

They are all the "lucky ones" who have escaped this "reincarnation" and thus temporarily extended their lives.

At the same time, if one continues to practice for dozens or hundreds of epochs, there should be hope that one will gain a firm foothold in the highest realm and become a "lucky person" standing on the cliff of the Tao.

This was the general conclusion that Di Ying came to after watching their practice and growth experiences on the Water Moon River.

The title "lucky man" is also his most sincere opinion of the four system ancestors.

Compared to most of the quasi-immortal emperors and Dao ancestors born in the sea of ​​boundaries and chaos, they are more powerful and have existed for a longer time. Even at the cost of being infected by dark matter, the true self has undergone a terrifying change. "I" is no longer the original me, like a ship of Theseus with all its parts replaced.

No, to be more precise, even the "people" on the ship were replaced silently, which was the Ship of Theseus.

Emperor Ying looked at the reflection of the long river of time below him, with a hint of sarcastic smile on the corner of his mouth, which seemed a little inexplicable and weird, as if he was mocking the four Taoist ancestors who voluntarily accepted the dark matter, but it also seemed like some kind of self-mockery to himself.

He sighed softly, "I took the initiative to accept the strange infection, launched a series of dark turmoils, and finally fell at the hands of Emperor Huang Tian. This is the end I deserve. But at least, I have broken free from the original fate of reincarnation and transcended the original fate of continuous repetition."

As soon as the words fell, a deep voice came from the void, responding to Di Ying's sigh, "This can't be considered as breaking free from the original fate of reincarnation, nor can it be considered as transcending the original fate of continuous circulation."

Emperor Ying stopped his steps to go back through time, and looked further upstream in the long river of time. A figure of the same level of the end of the road slowly materialized.

This is a middle-aged man with a slightly weathered face, wearing an ancient feather robe, with primitive patterns faintly visible on his body.

With some emotion, he said to Emperor Ying, "As long as the result of his fall does not change, and he does not gain a firm foothold in our field and become an Immortal Emperor, what does it matter if he continues to exist with the help of dark matter?"

"It is nothing more than entering another destined reincarnation from one destined reincarnation. The final fate is predetermined. The future result has been engraved in the vast years of history at the moment when consciousness was born, and has become the inevitability behind countless coincidences."

“They did not perish on the road to ending the dark turmoil, but as long as they did not resist the Immortal Emperor’s origin that was infected by dark matter, and did not resist the Immortal Emperor’s scriptures that were already filled with weirdness, their final fate was destined to be destroyed by Huang.”

"Being devoured by the polluted Immortal Emperor's origin and being destroyed by the wilderness are both deaths. From the final result, there is no difference. Both are death, both have lost the qualifications to become the Immortal Emperor, both are destined to be silent in the vast ancient history, and both are forgotten by countless sentient beings."

Listening to the middle-aged emperor's slightly sighing words and looking at the Immortal Emperor slowly walking towards him, the look in Emperor Ying's pupils became slightly profound.

Emperor Ying said in a very subtle tone, "It seems that you, the unlucky fellow who has reached the highest level of sublimation, stood firmly in the realm of the end of the road, and completely ascended to the Immortal Emperor, but before you have stabilized your realm, a drop of black blood has infected your Immortal Emperor Yuan Shen. You feel that becoming a living being at the end of the road is the most critical node to break free from the original reincarnation and fate."

"However, you actually walked out of the eternal annihilation. At this point in time, it seems that it is not yet time for your corpse to crawl out of the reincarnation path, right?"

Emperor Ying looked at the Immortal Emperor who had come to him, and said thoughtfully, "It seems that after Emperor Huang Tian successfully performed the Dao Sacrifice, his ability to bear heavy pressure has increased dramatically, and he has the spare time and energy to reflect you, the Immortal Emperor who was forever silenced by him."

The middle-aged emperor's face suddenly turned dark.

The feeling of having one's dark history revealed by a fellow Taoist of the same realm is so great that even a dying creature standing on the cliff of Tao would feel a sense of social death in their hearts.

He said with a slightly stiff tone, "As a fellow in the same camp, you call me 'Corpse', and I don't object. This is a title that has been passed down through the years, immersed in history, and I have accepted it."

"But you call me an unlucky guy. Isn't that a bit disrespectful to me, a fellow who achieved supremacy several epochs earlier than you?"

The Corpse Immortal Emperor looked at the Taoist ancestors that appeared from the long river of time beneath his feet, with a look of relief on his face, and sighed slowly.

He explained with some seriousness, "Also, even after I was promoted, before I could completely stabilize my realm, I was plotted against and infected by that drop of black blood, which caused me to fall into darkness and become a member of the weird."

"But I have finally settled in the Road Ending Realm and am an Immortal Emperor. My traces will always echo in the long river of time. Even if I experience countless disasters and countless hardships, I will eventually return from eternal extinction just like now."

The Corpse Immortal Emperor said proudly, "The beings like us who are at the Immortal Emperor level are completely different from those who have not yet truly settled in this realm."

"Compared to me, these creatures who have never even reached the highest level are the real unlucky ones!"

"He who reaches the end of his road is the strongest! The highest! Invincible in the world!"

Emperor Ying looked at the Corpse Immortal Emperor with a slight grin on his face, as if he was half crying and half laughing, as if reflecting some unspeakable and unknowable horror.

As a traverser who knows part of the "future", knows all kinds of important secrets, and has completely established himself in the realm of the end of the road.

He deeply understood that the so-called supreme and invincible Immortal Emperor, in this "World of Covering the Sky", was nothing more than an "ordinary person" who was qualified to play chess in the heavens and all worlds, qualified to plan some situations that were beneficial to himself, and had some resistance to the weird forces.

The one who reaches the end of the road is the strongest? The highest? Invincible in the world?

Everything is fake!

It couldn’t be more fake!

When the strange creatures really exert their strength, they will hold a grand sacrifice in all the heavens and worlds. Except for some Immortal Emperors whose combat power has reached the "Lunwai" level, even the "Tyrannosaurus" level creatures will be sacrificed alive and become their power.

The ten strange ancestors walked out of the plateau together, left the disaster land, and conquered the world. Even the strong ones in the sacrificial way could not escape the disaster and there was a high probability that they would be completely and forever silent.

Even if many powerful warriors in the sacrificial path fought bloody battles and sacrificed their own essences to send these strange ancestors to eternal silence in the deepest places, they would not be able to be resurrected with the help of the plateau.

But when Gao Yuan's will awakens, everything will become useless, and everything will be "corrected" to the side that is most beneficial to "Him".

I want to survive this horrible "world" while keeping my true self from being distorted.
From the beginning to the end, there is only one way to survive, which may exist but may not exist.
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Detached.

(End of this chapter)