From the Ming Dynasty, we will conquer the world

Upon sensing these three familiar auras, Xu Xing unconsciously curled up his lips, revealing a smile.

It seems that my old friends are all doing well, especially one of them, who, even after twenty years, still retains his charm and remains as captivating as ever.

Thinking of this, Xu Xing laughed even more happily. His figure swayed again, and the rapidly changing, bizarre scene around him suddenly froze and stood still.

This also means that he has reached the end of this journey—a dark and empty universe.

This was a scene that Xu Xing was already familiar with in the Yangshen Universe. However, the vast world of the Yangshen Universe was a huge continent floating in the center of the universe, like a beacon, and extremely easy to find.

In the previous world, Xu Xing never tried to break out of his ancestral planet, and he had no idea where he was now.

He floated in an asteroid belt, looked around, and extended his divine sense. He couldn't help but sigh that as his cultivation level increased, the Haotian Mirror was becoming less and less important.

When I first entered the Yangshen Universe, although I happened to stumble upon the scene of the Great Zen Temple Battle, it was still considered part of the Great Thousand Worlds. Now, however, I've ended up in this kind of place.

Xu Xing used the star map recorded in the "Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing" to try to determine his position and made a preliminary judgment that he should be in a certain galaxy.

The nearest planet is hundreds of light-years away, making it virtually boundless.

Fortunately, although Xu Xing did not have a star map, he had his own means to pinpoint his location and use that location to find the position of his ancestral star.

He was jolted awake as his primordial spirit leaped out of his physical body and arrived at a wondrous level that transcended the material universe and surpassed billions of galaxies.

This transcends the material realm and belongs solely to the level of "law and principle." Only those who have cultivated to a very high level in the fundamental laws can perceive the existence of this level.

In the "Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing", this place is also called the "Realm of Truth", which means to transcend all external appearances and see the truth. The "truth" in the so-called "borrowing the false to cultivate the true" refers to this place.

According to Xu Xing's experience, this place is similar to the "Origin Land" of the Yangshen Universe. However, the Origin Land is independent of the Great Thousand Universe, while the "Realm of Truth" is the foundation of this universe.

If we compare the "realm of truth" to an ocean, then all the objects that ordinary people see, whether as small as dust or as huge as celestial bodies, are merely existences floating on this ocean.

Therefore, even the slightest change in the "Realm of Truth" will cause a massive upheaval and have a wide-ranging impact on the material universe.

Those with sufficient cultivation can ascend to the "Realm of Truth" with a primordial spirit based on a trace of innate spiritual essence, thereby fundamentally altering the laws governing the universe and achieving all sorts of incredible phenomena.

Of course, while changing the universe in this way is convenient and quick, the universe also has its own inertia. Acting rashly will inevitably lead to a backlash or even a negative reaction.

Therefore, in the material universe, few people act directly in this way. Most people use external forces against each other, without making large-scale changes, but rather using the properties of the "realm of reality" to exert influence in extremely subtle ways.

Only now has Xu Xing truly understood why the "Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing" and other orthodox Taoist texts regard "Taoist foundation" as the basis of cultivation.

In battles at the "Realm of Truth" level, the "Dao Foundation" is like a lever; only when the lever is strong enough can it leverage greater forces.

On the contrary, if one only knows how to accumulate magical power and does not understand this principle, even if one's cultivation is profound, one may still be defeated by a junior who is far inferior to oneself.

Here, Xu Xing can clearly see the "mysterious and boundless world" that envelops the material universe like a misty fog, and he can also see the Primordial Demon Ancestor, which is like a black hole.

However, from the perspective of the Realm of Truth, the connection between the "Mysterious and Boundless World" and this world is already faint, and it seems to be about to completely separate and evolve into another material universe based on spiritual consciousness, following its own laws.

The Primordial Demon Ancestor is like the lowest level of the Realm of Truth, drawing all laws to converge, shrink, and even completely collapse into his dwelling place, resulting in utter destruction.

The distance between these two, one above the other, is immeasurable by the scale of the material universe. No wonder the Primordial Demon Ancestor could never reach the "mysterious and boundless world".

However, for Xu Xing, who was in the midst of it all, neither the highest nor the lowest point was unattainable.

Being here, he could not only sense the presence of the Primordial Demon Ancestor, but also the presence of many Demon Lords who had touched this place.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Xing followed the patterns of the laws and detected the aura of someone he had dealt with before.

It was Devanati, a close attendant of the Primordial Demon Ancestor, whose fundamental spiritual consciousness had been destroyed by Xu Xing!

This Demon Lord, who holds a high position within the Demonic Sect system, is not staying under the tutelage of the Primordial Demon Ancestor to listen to his teachings. Instead, he is leading the Star River Demon Kingdom toward the edge of the universe.

Xu Xing smiled as soon as he checked the direction the other party was heading. Sure enough, old friends are reliable, and this was so easy to get!
The direction that Deva had been heading was precisely towards the ancestral star of the gods and immortals!

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Beyond countless light-years, billions of stars shine brilliantly. If the universe is viewed as a scroll, then this is a celestial river that stretches across the entire scroll and flows endlessly.

Although it is described as "flowing," the speed of this "celestial river" is so fast that words like "rushing" and "galloping" cannot even begin to describe it.

This is because it is constantly breaking through the void structure, moving faster than the speed of light through one wormhole after another.

Without the foundation and realm to ascend to the "realm of truth" and stir up the winds and clouds, one cannot even capture the full picture of the Milky Way; one can only see fragmented silhouettes, like mirages.

Even if the Milky Way only stays in the material universe for a moment, the aftershocks of the power that opened the wormhole will transform into a super energy storm that sweeps through the endless void, engulfing the universe within countless light-years.

This is Devanata's Star River Demon Kingdom. The aftershocks of his journey have already destroyed countless planetary civilizations and shattered the stars on which they depended for survival.

But Devanati didn't care about any of this. To these demon lords who served the Primordial Demon Ancestor, the material universe was nothing more than the Demon Ancestor's pasture, which he could take whatever he wanted.

Only that "mysterious and boundless world" that transcends the material universe and even vaguely surpasses the "realm of reality" is truly worthy of the attention of all demon lords.

The Celestial God Ancestral Star was one of the key points for the Demon Lords to explore the "mysterious and boundless world." Even the Primordial Demon Ancestor personally made a move on it, which shows its importance.

Even so, this plan, which had been in the works for thousands of years, not only failed to achieve its goal of corrupting the entire world with demonic influence, but even the Heavenly Demon Star mysteriously disappeared.

This failure cannot be simply described as a missed opportunity; it was a complete and utter loss. In the twenty years since then, numerous demon lords and celestial demons have come from all corners of the universe, attempting to breach the ancestral star's defenses and search for the whereabouts of the Celestial Demon Star.

Due to its inherent deficiencies, the Demonic Sect has always sought to distort and pervert the inheritance of immortals and gods, as well as the spiritual essence of cultivators, and will never destroy it unless absolutely necessary.

Otherwise, given the absolute dominance of the Heavenly Demon Clan in the material universe, they could have long ago reduced their ancestral star to ashes, without needing to devise any grand plan spanning millennia.

Now that the plan has failed, these demon lords who are in accordance with the Primordial Holy Path will naturally try their best to make up for it. They will no longer care about any bottles or jars and will put great pressure on the enemy as soon as they make a move.

Led by more than thirty Demon Lords, the vanguard of the Heavenly Demon Clan even once rushed into the heart of the ancestral star, nearly collaborating from within and without to shatter the protective energy layer and allow the Heavenly Demons to move freely.

But at this very moment, a group of immortals and gods left the "Mysterious and Boundless World" and came to the ancestral star in person. Together they repelled the demon lord who had invaded the ancestral star, and repaired the protective energy layer, making the defense here as solid as a rock and unbreakable.

It was precisely because of the interference of these outsiders that Devanata, who was almost an emperor of the upper realm, and the most powerful figure in the demonic path system of the Western Paradise Buddha, personally took action.

In order to unleash his full combat power, he even went so far as to expend boundless magical energy to move his demon kingdom over as well, ensuring that nothing went wrong.

Devanati stood in the center of the Milky Way, gazing at the ancestral star in the infinite distance. His magical power surged and boiled, blending seamlessly with the power of the entire Star River Demon Kingdom, becoming one with it, and constantly accelerating his teleportation.

He recalled the information that the Demon Lords had sent back to the Demonic Path system, and couldn't help but feel a little curious.

Since the immortals and gods gradually abandoned the material universe and ascended to the "mysterious and boundless world," he has rarely fought against these great enemies.

But who knows if these immortals and gods have made any new progress over the millions of years, and how delicious their Dao foundation and spiritual nature have become?
Thinking of this, Devanati recalled the little fellow who had once shattered his spiritual consciousness, and his heart was filled with anticipation.

The Heavenly Demon Clan is the embodiment of "demonic obstacles" on the path of cultivation. Every cultivator who makes a breakthrough must overcome tribulations and break through demonic obstacles. The growth of Heavenly Demons also requires the act of seizing the Dao.

When ordinary cultivators undergo tribulation, the extraterrestrial demons follow their instincts and swarm to snatch the supplies without any discipline. However, demon lords like Devanata use demonic methods to mark the "resources" they desire in advance for the future.

After his defeat in the past, Devanati regarded Xu Xing as the cultivator he had been most looking forward to in the next thousand years.

However, after that battle ended, this person completely disappeared from Devanati's perception. He thought that this person must have ascended to the upper realm, which was why this change occurred.

This is a common occurrence among the Heavenly Demon Clan.

After all, even the Primordial Demon Ancestor could not reach the "mysterious and boundless world". Once these immortals and gods ascended, it would mean that the Demon Lords' plans had completely failed.

However, Devanati believed that, given this person's true nature, he would never be willing to remain in the upper realm like other gods and immortals, detached from worldly affairs, in order to avoid calamities and disasters.

But who knows if this Pingtian Sect Leader will be among the immortals and gods descending to the mortal realm this time?

While he was pondering this, Devanati suddenly heard a voice.

"Twenty years have passed since we parted. Demon Lord, how have you been?"

The voice seemed to come from an infinitely distant place, ancient and weathered, a grand voice that had witnessed the birth and death of the universe, yet it also sounded like the endless demons in the Star River Demon Kingdom speaking in unison, shaking the demonic figure of Devanati so much that its cultivation was severely damaged.

Devanati felt that it was not just a voice, but more like a long river of time that pierced through the past, present, and future, flowing from the beginning of the universe to its end, reaching far and wide, without end.

Compared to it, his Star River Demon Kingdom is simply unworthy of the word "river." At most, it can only be considered a line of water or a thin wisp of rain, so insignificant as to be insignificant.

Before Devanati could even process this thought, he discovered a barely perceptible fluctuation in the void at the edge of his perception, actually about four hundred light-years away.

As soon as this fluctuation appeared, it expanded at an indescribable speed, causing the void to resonate and vibrate, and then shattered together!

This fragmentation phenomenon is like a storm sweeping across the vast expanse of space and time, raging and shattering billions of nebulae into dust, which then merges into the storm and flows freely in the void where all phenomena are disintegrating.

Even the boundaries of spacetime have disappeared. The void fields are tearing each other apart and then shattering. The turbulent currents of cosmic light are swirling back and intersecting with each other.

This scene was almost comparable to Devanata's full-force attack.

This demon lord instinctively activated the Star River Demon Kingdom, using its power to enter the "Realm of Truth," attempting to find the source of this attack from the level of fundamental laws and to respond accordingly.

But he soon realized he had made a mistake.

First, although chaos occurred in the "Realm of Truth," the attack did not originate from there. Rather, it was the collapse of the material universe that affected the "Realm of Truth."

Devanati felt an indescribable absurdity, as if there were an "island" floating on the ocean, causing the sea to change by its own mass.

Can such an "island" still be called an "island"?

This kind of power, which does not involve any change in the laws, and even causes the fundamental laws to shatter, was something that Devanati had only felt in the Primordial Demon Ancestor.

Secondly, Devanati realized that the other side had not actually launched an attack; the phenomenon just now was merely an "aftershock."

Like a giant whale rising suddenly from the depths of the sea, it can cause towering waves and have a wide-ranging impact even if it does nothing.

However, this "giant whale" is just too "giant," and the resulting impact is too great!

Amidst this extreme destruction, a humanoid figure, radiating boundless light and seemingly composed of 129,600 blazing suns, slowly stepped out.

The terrifying torrent that could shatter the void and engulf galaxies and even star clusters fell before this human figure like a gentle stream, calm and tranquil, not even able to stir the hem of his clothes.

This scene alone was enough to give Devanati an unparalleled shock. Such immense power—who on earth was this celestial being from the upper realm?! (End of Chapter)