Chapter 1038
Three Eras! The Grand Finale!
When Fang Qing of the Saint King Realm reached his peak, just as he was about to ascend to the God Realm and touch the essence of God, this immense amount of experience, knowledge, power, and breakthrough in realm flowed back into Fang Qing's body in the Eternal Realm along the thread of origin.
At this moment, in a highly secret space-time depth within the Eternal Realm, Fang Qing sat cross-legged.
His appearance was fundamentally similar to that of the domineering leader of the Holy King Realm, but even more profound and ancient. With each blink of his eyes, it seemed as if the light and shadow of the birth and death of countless worlds flowed within them.
His original cultivation level was already at the peak of the Heavenly Monarch realm, spanning nineteen eras. Looking across the Eternal Realm, apart from those ancient Immortal Kings hiding inside the Gate of Eternal Life, waiting for their final opportunity, almost no one could rival him.
However, the realm of Immortal King remains an insurmountable barrier, requiring endless accumulation, extraordinary opportunities, and a profound enlightenment on the essence of the path to immortality.
And now, the immense gift from the Holy King Realm is the strongest opportunity.
"boom!"
An indescribable torrent of knowledge exploded in his mind.
That was the entire process and enlightenment of Fang Qing of the Saint King Realm, who conquered countless powerful enemies, devoured thousands of worlds, and fused the rules of the heavens, finally touching the threshold of godhood. It contained not only the growth of power, but also a supreme Dao realm that transcended a single worldview and integrated the essence of different systems.
This realization resonated and combined with Fang Qing's own body's accumulation of knowledge and understanding of the mysteries of the Gate of Immortality during his arduous cultivation in the Immortal Realm for hundreds of millions of years.
The realm of Immortal King requires precisely this kind of transcendence of one realm, control over the origin, and deep integration with a certain supreme rule—a great realm and a great enlightenment.
Fang Qing's eyes flashed with a light of enlightenment that seemed to penetrate the ages, and the aura that had been stagnant for so long began to surge wildly.
The barrier of nineteen eras proved utterly fragile before this terrifying force, a convergence of internal and external forces and a fusion of the essence of two great world systems.
"break!"
A soft shout, yet it was like the first thunderclap at the dawn of creation, resounding throughout every particle and every rule within his body.
In an instant, a realm surpassing even that of the Heavenly Monarch suddenly opened up within him.
Celestial King!
He successfully broke through to the Immortal King realm!
Moreover, this is far from an ordinary Celestial King!
His breakthrough was achieved by integrating the endless knowledge and insights of the Saint King Realm, and by possessing an extremely profound foundation.
His foundation as a Celestial King was more robust than that of any ancient Celestial King who emerged from the Gate of Immortality.
His path, combining immortality with the creation and dominion of the Holy King realm, became more perfect and more powerful.
The aura of breakthrough was like billions of active volcanoes erupting simultaneously, breaking through the blockade of time and space and shaking the entire Upper Realm.
Countless streams of immortal energy were forcibly drawn from the void, forming a giant funnel that poured into Fang Qing's body.
Even more terrifying is that as he broke through to the Immortal King realm, the feedback from the projection of the Saint King realm did not stop. On the contrary, due to the improvement of his original realm, he was able to bear and digest more and deeper power and rules.
Over there, every step Fang Qing took in the Divine Realm, and every understanding he gained of the Divine Realm's rules, was being transformed in real time into nourishment for the frenzied growth of his cultivation in this realm.
Thus, a scene unfolded that terrified the entire realm of immortality and unsettled the ancient immortal kings still slumbering within the Gate of Immortality.
Fang Qing's Immortal King cultivation level did not stabilize after the breakthrough, but continued to soar at an astonishing speed.
Twenty-one epochs, twenty-two epochs! Twenty-three epochs!
His cultivation broke through some conventional constraints, completely ignoring the long accumulation and enlightenment required for each additional era of cultivation in the Immortal King realm. It rose wildly in a straight line, with an unstoppable momentum.
All of this stems from the continuous and ever-deepening feedback from the Holy King Realm.
Fang Qing, the Holy King, led his army through the God Realm, enduring and resisting the erosion and baptism of the God Realm's rules every moment, while constantly absorbing, understanding, and mastering the power and rules belonging to the "gods".
These fundamental mysteries are priceless treasures for the cultivation system of the Immortal Realm.
They can break down the inherent cognitive barriers of the immortal realm, providing more efficient ways to utilize energy and comprehend rules.
Moreover, Fang Qing's own Chaotic Primordial Dao in the Saint King Realm is an ultimate path of complete inclusiveness and evolution, which is similar to the eternal freedom and all-encompassing Dao pursued by Fang Qing's main body in the Eternal Life Realm, and can even be said to complement each other.
When these two supreme paths, which share a common origin yet each possess their own unique strengths, are mutually validated and integrated through this miraculous connection that transcends the world, the resulting effect is far more than simply one plus one equals two.
That was a qualitative change and leap forward in a geometric progression.
Thus, unexpectedly, Fang Qing's cultivation level, after breaking through to the Immortal King realm, rapidly advanced through twenty-five epochs, twenty-eight epochs... and finally, he broke through that legendary threshold, which was extremely rare in the history of the Immortal King realm and represented the pinnacle of Immortal King status.
Thirty Celestial Kings of different eras!
"boom!!!"
The moment his cultivation stabilized at thirty epochs, an indescribable, vast aura swept across the entire Eternal Realm, centered on him.
Not only the upper realm, but also countless great worlds and star fields as numerous as the sands of the Ganges in the lower realm.
All living beings, regardless of strength, felt a sudden jolt, as if a supreme will, above all else, had awakened at that moment.
A Celestial King spanning thirty eras!
What is this concept?
In the history and legends of the Immortal Realm, Immortal Kings who can reach this level are extremely rare, each one an absolute ruler who once dominated an era or even multiple eras.
Their names, like ancient stars, shine deep within the memory of the Gate of Immortality.
In this era, before the great cataclysm of heaven and earth has truly arrived and while other immortal kings are still dormant within the Gate of Immortality, Fang Qing has become the only, and unprecedented, supreme immortal king in the world to have cultivated for thirty eras before the cataclysm.
The boundless benefits truly manifest as one's realm stabilizes.
His Great Dao of Chaos and Eternal Life became incredibly solid and vast.
With every gesture, one directly triggers the fundamental rules of the Gate of Immortality.
Even a wisp of energy he creates at will can transform into an astonishing artifact of immortality.
With a single glance, he could pierce through eternity of time and space, seeing countless possibilities of the past and future.
His will has already been able to truly influence and rewrite the operating rules of the immortal world.
This power has transcended the realm of ordinary Immortal Kings, touching the edge of a higher realm, namely the Supreme Shattering Realm.
At this moment, Fang Qing slowly opened her eyes.
In his eyes, his left eye seemed to contain a chaotic divine kingdom that was constantly being born and evolving, while his right eye reflected the majestic and ancient phantom of the Gate of Immortality.
Two supreme Daoist principles blended perfectly within him, becoming inseparable.
His aura was like a deep and boundless sea of stars, or the chaos that gave birth to all things, and carried an eternal meaning that transcended all time, space and rules.
His cultivation level of thirty epochs of Immortal Kings made him truly invincible in this Eternal Realm, which had not yet faced its final destruction and where other Immortal Kings had not yet emerged!
It's not just relatively powerful, but absolutely invincible and despair-inducing!
With a slight movement of his divine sense, he could cover the entire Upper Realm and perceive the rise and fall of countless beings.
The slightest manifestation of his will was enough to terrify countless ancient monsters and gods hidden deep within time and space, causing them to tremble in fear and cower in fear.
He could even sense that deep within the Gate of Immortality, the wills of those ancient, slumbering immortal kings were also experiencing violent fluctuations due to his breakthrough. There was surprise, confusion, and above all, a deep sense of apprehension and fear.
Because they understood what it meant for a Celestial King who had cultivated for thirty epochs before the destruction.
That means breaking with convention, and having the potential to seize an absolute advantage, or even control everything, in the impending final cataclysm and the beginning of a new era.
Fang Qing stood up and supported the entire sky of the Eternal Realm.
He felt the terrifying, surging power within him, a power that seemed capable of splitting the heavens and earth at any moment, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.
All of this did not make him feel complacent in the slightest. Because his vision had long since expanded beyond the realm of immortality.
Through his deep connection with Fang Qing of the Holy King Realm, he could clearly sense that he, on the other side, had led a vast army of the Protector Alliance and successfully crossed the most dangerous core area of the God Realm barrier, and was about to truly set foot on that legendary God Realm land.
Within the realm of gods, there must be a vaster world, more powerful adversaries, and the ultimate secret that brings one closer to true immortality and infinite possibilities.
At the same time, beyond endless dimensions and time and space, there exist other vast worlds similar to the Holy King Realm and the Immortal Realm.
Every world has its unique rules and systems, and every world breeds unimaginable powerhouses and opportunities. And his projection, in those worlds, is also conquering and growing.
All the experiences and gains from these projections will eventually converge in his original body, becoming the resources for him to continuously transcend and evolve, and ultimately explore the supreme and transcendent Tao.
This is an unprecedented and supreme path that belongs exclusively to Fang Qing.
Fang Qing sat calmly in the Realm of Immortality, his projections spreading throughout the myriad worlds.
There is a world called the Dragon Symbol Realm.
There is a world called the Realm of Deception and Deception.
There is a world called the Star River Emperor Realm.
There is a world called the Realm of Supreme Being.
Fang Qing's countless bodies traveled to many worlds.
The passage of time can span billions of years, or it can be a fleeting moment.
As a result, Fang Qing's cultivation level continued to soar, from the supreme shattering of thirty epochs to the supreme shattering of three thousand epochs.
Three thousand eras!
When that incredible number solidified within Fang Qing's Dao Fruit, all the soaring growth, all the qualitative changes, all the fusion and transcendence reached an unprecedented pinnacle at that moment.
Between thirty epochs and three thousand epochs lies an essential difference that cannot be measured in numbers; it is the natural manifestation of a thorough understanding and mastery of the "Tao," "existence," and "eternity."
The Gate to Immortality was no longer a supreme divine object that he needed to look up to or comprehend.
It seemed to have become a part of his body, an extension of his will.
Inside and outside the door, past and future, all the secrets, all the rules, all the cycles of birth and death, were clearly reflected in his heart, as if he could see the lines on his palm.
Fang Qing, the god of the Holy King Realm, had already transformed all the mysteries of the entire God Realm into the purest nourishment during his conquests, and returned it back to the divine realm.
Fang Qing, on the other side, had already become the supreme god emperor who ruled the god realm and created an unparalleled god kingdom. Every thought of his could cause waves of creation and destruction in the god realm and its endless subordinate lower realms.
All of this is only a part of Fang Qing's true Dao Fruit.
In addition, in other corners of that endless dimension, there are various projections of Fang Qing who are revered for their martial arts, who prove their Dao through demonic means, who govern reason with science, and so on. They all walk different paths but have all reached the pinnacle.
Their experiences and their attainments are constantly converging through that mysterious and profound connection to the origin.
The supreme shattered realm of three thousand eras is the ultimate qualitative change achieved after the perfect fusion of the essence of the Dao fruits of all others and all projections with the foundation of the Eternal Realm.
This realm has surpassed all the imaginations of the "Immortal King" in all eras and legends of the Eternal Realm!
Perhaps, it could be called—the realm of immortality!
It is not immortality obtained by attaching oneself to the gate of immortality, but immortality itself, the source of all paths, and the ultimate unity of all possibilities.
Fang Qing stood quietly.
He did not emit any aura, but the entire Eternal Realm, and even all the projections of the myriad worlds that had come into contact with him, fell into an absolute, mind-emptying tranquility at this moment.
It was as if all the noise, all the struggles, all the passage of time were waiting for his single thought to determine the future course of things.
Those ancient immortal kings who lurked deep within the Gate of Immortality had long since lost their will to this indescribable oppression. They were so utterly subdued that they could no longer even feel fear, leaving only the most primal form of absolute obedience in the face of the supreme being.
Countless gods and powerful beings in the Holy King Realm and the God Realm, no matter where they were, couldn't help but kneel down in the direction of Fang Qing's projection, offering their most sincere reverence.
They knew that their God-Emperor had transcended the concept of God itself.
Fang Qing's gaze swept calmly over everything.
He saw the impending final catastrophe of the Immortal Realm, and the countless possibilities that a new era would be born anew from the ruins of destruction.
He foresaw the endless propagation and evolution of the Holy King Realm and the Divine Realm over the future.
He also saw in those endless dimensions the other worlds he inhabited, and beyond those worlds, an even more vast and unknown realm.
Everything was under his control, yet it all seemed to have nothing to do with him.
Because he is already invincible.
It is not invincible relative to a certain world or system.
Rather, it truly transcends all concepts, all rules, all possibilities and impossibilities, reaching the pinnacle of the Dao, where no other existence can compare to it, let alone challenge its absolute invincibility.
His path has been perfected.
His power has reached its zenith.
His very existence is the end of all answers and the beginning of all the future.
A genuine smile finally appeared on Fang Qing's lips.
That smile contained the satisfaction of conquering everything, the enlightenment of exploring the ultimate truth, and even more so, a calm and serene composure that transcends all things and overlooks the endless river of time and space.
He spoke softly.
A calm statement, yet it seemed to carry the ultimate power to define, end, and create everything, resounding at the source of all dimensions and timelines related to him.
"From this moment on, I am one, and I am ten thousand; I am existence, and I am non-existence; I am the beginning of all things, and I am the end of all things."
The instant the sound faded, something indescribable happened.
The impending final cataclysm of the Immortal Realm solidified and dissolved silently, transforming into the purest source that nourishes the new era, gently ushering in an unprecedented and infinitely vibrant new age.
The Gate to Immortality is no longer an ultimate symbol hanging above the heavens, but has naturally integrated into the foundation of this new world, becoming a part of it.
Those ancient immortal kings accepted all of this in their slumber. Their will and memories were gently erased of all strife and prejudice, leaving only the purest pursuit of the Dao. They will begin anew in the new era with a new look.
In the Holy King Realm and its Divine Realm, the flow of time and space was adjusted to a perfect ratio. All conquests and suffering were like dust swept away by a gentle breeze, leaving only endless prosperity, endless exploration, and endless possibilities.
All the many worlds, all the different kinds of worlds, have achieved a great perfection.
Fang Qing felt the perfect and flawless Dao fruit within his body, which encompassed and transcended all things, the "realm of immortality".
The power of three thousand eras?
That was just a symbol to make it easier to understand.
True power lies in the ability to create something from nothing with a mere thought, to create countless new worlds that are far more vast and have more wondrous rules than the Eternal Realm or the Saint King Realm.
It is the will that can make anything that already exists or will exist operate according to any logic it sets.
His very existence is the sum of all possibilities, the ultimate answer to all paths.
He's invincible.
It's not because he has no rivals, but because the concept of rivals has lost all meaning for him.
He is the rule-maker, the creator of the game, and the stage itself. Everything evolves within his mind.
He slowly closed his eyes, as if they had never been open at all.
His consciousness, in an incomprehensible way, spread beyond and above that void. There, perhaps, there still exist mysteries untouched even by the realm of immortality, or perhaps... there is nothing at all.
But that doesn't matter anymore.
For Fang Qing, who had achieved true invincibility, true immortality, and true perfection, the story had already ended.
"This is spiritual practice!"
Finally, a single sentence fell into the void, into all the heavens and myriad realms. (End of Chapter)