Outside of Time - Chapter 1324

Chapter 1302 Disorder of Time and Space, Reversal of Cause and Effect

What is Spacetime Turbulence?

For most cultivators, it’s difficult to describe it clearly.

To some extent, it seems to be just a descriptive term.

Literally, it’s the chaos of time and space, causing the infinite size and infinitesimal of a singularity.

Therefore, it also contains infinite possibilities.

But describing it in detail is difficult to express, due to the limitations of cognition.

It seems that only those whose own constitution is related to time and space can explain the existence of spacetime turbulence.

Xu Qing originally thought so too.

Before entering, he thought that spacetime turbulence should be similar to his own Infinite Space Technique, only more vast and more mysterious.

And through his own constitution, he should be more confident in returning from within than others.

But after entering, everything exceeded his expectations.

The scenes there left Xu Qing’s mind only with confusion.

Just like now, he raised his head, and what he saw were countless colorful vortexes.

The vortexes, large and small, boundless and varied, some orderly, some chaotic, some still, some rotating, many even intertwined,

forming an abstract and complex starry sky .

A single glance at them would cause a throbbing pain in the mind, an inability to contain such information.

Prolonged exposure could even lead to a sense of shattering.

And the abstraction wasn’t limited to these elements; it also encompassed the state of Xu Qing and Er Niu in this place.

Xu Qing’s body was no longer human.

It had become a swarm of glowing insects pieced together from countless triangular fragments. Each glowing insect, from birth to death, existed for only a fraction of a breath.

At the moment of birth, it amplified its own light, forming an extreme source of light.

After death, it would explode like fireworks, creating chaotic future scenes, then instantly burn into ashes like dust, burying all light.

This cycle repeated endlessly.

As for Er Niu, due to Xu Qing’s changed state, he no longer existed within his hair but was manifested externally. His

appearance was even more abstract,

like a kaleidoscope composed of millions of flickering points of light, its form forever changing.

The words that were uttered also carried a sense of confusion.

Just like now, Erniu’s voice echoed.

He wanted to say…

“What’s going on, Xiao Aqing, where is this?”

But after it was uttered, it became in Xu Qing’s perception…

“What’s going on, Qing Xiaoqing, what’s wrong?”

Everything was chaotic—time, space, and even themselves.

Everything was distorted.

It was as if time had no meaning here, and space had no value.

Xu Qing was bewildered.

This was different from his own!

Even the so-called progress and exploration could not be done in the conventional way.

Here, moving forward didn’t require actual movement; just having the thought would cause everything around to rotate, as if moving.

Exploration was the same.

It was as if everything here had revealed all its secrets; as long as you could see clearly, as long as you could understand, as long as you could bear it, then you could know everything at a glance.

Just like now, in Xu Qing’s exploration, amidst this confusing flow of time and space, he saw his own humanoid figure in the unknown distance.

That so-called distant place could be the past and future in time, or different levels in space.

Even when his thoughts focused on his distant self, he quickly discovered that he wasn’t seeing one, but… countless.

Countless selves, countless states.

He even saw liquid planets.

Planets became flowing molten iron, distorted and drifting through his perception.

Galaxyes became worms covered in rotting fruit, flashing by. Starfields

became unknown words carved on tombstones, seemingly alive and at war.

It also included the universe.

But this universe looked like a shroud riddled with holes.

Moreover, the state of his existence with Erniu, as his thoughts progressed and explored, sometimes shone brightly, sometimes dimly, as if it could be extinguished at any moment.

Inexplicable.

Utter chaos.

This was the turbulent flow of time and space.

Xu Qing’s confusion deepened, and he didn’t know how much time had passed—it felt like ten thousand years, or perhaps just a moment.

Erniu’s distorted voice, carrying a strange tone, echoed again.

“A few scenes I’ve seen before seem similar to what

I’ve seen…” “A few lifetimes ago…”

These two sentences came in a disordered manner, as if stretched out in time and space, landing in Xu Qing’s perception like increasingly powerful thunderclaps.

They blasted Xu Qing’s insect swarm body, causing it to roar.

Countless triangular insects collapsed, releasing more future images, causing Xu Qing’s consciousness to fluctuate violently, unable to return to its original state.

Only light, between brilliance and darkness, formed a strong flicker.

Until a long time later, when the fluctuations caused by these two sentences gradually dissipated, Xu Qing’s state slowly returned to stability, and his consciousness regrouped, he could no longer see Erniu beside him. Erniu

had vanished.

As for the words he uttered before disappearing, they were now strangely erased from Xu Qing’s perception. He clearly remembered hearing them, but the content was unknown.

Xu Qing remained silent.

He clearly felt his thoughts slowing down, his consciousness showing signs of dissipating without him realizing it.

The thought of impending death rose in his mind.

Yet, the sense of crisis that should have preceded death did not arrive.

This realization was brought to the surface by the explosion of his own body earlier. Along with

it, his body instantly transformed from its insectoid state back into human form, followed by the sudden appearance of cocoons woven by Xian around his body.

Those were his Xian.

Only after all this occurred did a seemingly belated thought arise in Xu Qing’s mind.

“I should use my constitution to create an infinite space within myself, to resist the spatial and temporal chaos outside.”

“Chaos against chaos!”

This thought arose, and Xu Qing’s mind jolted. He abruptly opened his eyes, staring at the cocoon of constitution that enveloped him, his eyes showing solemnity.

Normally, he would first have this thought, and then implement it.

But here, it was reversed.

Cause and effect and logic were chaotic here.

Or to be precise, there was no logic here, and cause and effect were also reversed.

“What a spatial and temporal turbulence…”

Xu Qing murmured. Only now, within the cocoon formed by his own constitution, isolated from the outside world, did his own existence tend towards normalcy. His

thinking also regained a certain logic.

Then, he thought of Er Niu’s disappearance.

“Normally, I should have unfolded my own constitution the moment I entered here…”

Xu Qing pondered, searching his memories for the reason why he hadn’t used his own constitution to weave it from the beginning.

Gradually, he became dazed.

“Everything, in fact, is just a moment.”

Xu Qing murmured.

He remembered everything he had felt and known before, including the confusion, the exploration, Erniu’s voice, and even his own actions in forming the cocoon.

All of it happened the instant he entered this chaotic flow of time.

But in that instant, too many things happened simultaneously.

Simply put, the moment he entered this place, everything from different timelines happened synchronously, overlapping and exploding

in an instant .

Xu Qing remained silent.

But soon, a strange light appeared in his eyes as he looked up at the cocoon before him, his mind flashing back to his experiences in the outside world.

“Everything here is chaotic, illogical, cause and effect reversed, but existence is its own justification.

To some extent, this is actually another manifestation of time.”

“Beyond my Boundless Realm…”

Xu Qing pondered, suddenly understanding why he had been able to successfully comprehend the chaotic time within the illusion of the God of Pain.

“Because the chaos of time itself is actually a higher-level manifestation of the temporal constitution!”

Xu Qing’s eyes flashed with a sharp light.

“It’s difficult to leave this chaotic spacetime in a short time. My senior brother is nowhere to be found, and I can’t stay outside either.”

“Then I’ll try to hone my understanding here, using this turbulence!”

“But first, I need to understand what spacetime turbulence is, and how it relates to and differs from my own constitution!” “

Only through understanding can I transcend.”

Thinking this, Xu Qing sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and merged his consciousness with his own constitution in the outside world.

Within this spacetime turbulence, he was like an isolated island in the ocean, motionless under the waves.

Only his thoughts were infinitely open.

Externally, this manifested as dense downy hairs growing on a cocoon formed by these constitution threads.

These were the strange changes in Xu Qing’s thoughts under the chaotic spacetime; though their appearance was like this, it didn’t affect the function of their synapses.

They transmitted external perceptions into Xu Qing’s understanding,

becoming nourishment for his comprehension.

Time also flowed slowly within this constitution cocoon.

But in reality, this flow had no lasting value; everything was limited, unable to be concretely manifested externally.

Just like Xu Qing, who remained clueless in his comprehension,

he couldn’t find an orderly line in the chaotic spacetime outside, a point of entry for himself.

Without that point, it was like trying to see flowers through fog or the moon’s reflection in water;

the fine hairs growing on his cocoon grew longer and longer, spreading throughout this chaotic spacetime,

attempting to explore deeper.

But the outcome remained the same.

Xu Qing opened his eyes, his brows furrowed, gazing at the outside world.

“A tangled mess, I can’t untangle my thoughts.”

“Like countless broken pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, I can’t find a reference point to piece it together…”

“I need a reference point to see the essence of this spacetime turbulence,”

Xu Qing murmured.

“The role of this reference point is to become an entry point, a line to see the chaos of this spacetime…”

“Then, what kind of reference point would be suitable…”

Xu Qing pondered.

“This spacetime turbulence is uncontrollable, containing all possibilities, yet seemingly subject to invisible constraints, like fate…”

Xu Qing suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

“Fate?”

His eyes shone brightly for a moment.

The next instant, he raised his right hand and waved it across his body. In the blink of an eye, a dazzling divine spark appeared in Xu Qing’s palm.

That divine spark was a gift from Young Master Mi Ming!

The power contained within it was none other than Destiny!

Gazing at the divine spark, the light in Xu Qing’s eyes grew even stronger.

“Using Destiny as a diagram, I will piece together the chaotic flow of spacetime, making it the starting point for my research!”

And Destiny is abstract,

just like this chaotic flow of spacetime.

If we consider the chaotic flow of spacetime as countless puzzle pieces, then on this diagram of destiny that is about to be pieced together, the first piece…

Xu Qing has chosen himself.