Outside of Time - Chapter 1330

Chapter 1308 Becoming an Immortal Today!

The fortune teller Liu Xuanji burned his Book of Fate. In the moment his life was engulfed by flames, he had already foreseen the Heavenly Dao of his world.

“Everyone’s fate is the same!”

The historian Chen Mo, having exhausted his life’s efforts to explore the truth, finally saw everything in the interplay of starlight and candlelight, understanding that the endings of history all flow within the same wheel.

“Everyone who tries to grasp the trajectory of history will ultimately become the trajectory itself.”

Not only them, but also Xu Qing, through the illusion created by the God of Pain, experienced a myriad of lives—scholar, official, commoner, beggar—

each at some point in their lives, through different means and opportunities, gaining the same insight.

Until finally, the extremely special painter, with a heart full of emotion, revealed everything…

“Returning to One is not just about space, but also time.”

He also finally saw himself in another time and space,

and shared all his insights with himself through time and space.

They were all Xu Qing.

Ordinary enlightenment flows like a river, seemingly in a straight line.

But Xu Qing’s understanding had reached an extremely high level, so his enlightenment was a circle.

His future, past, and present selves, across different timelines, were all his teachers.

Thus, at the moment the old painter departed with a smile, though his world was shattered, Xu Qing, gazing at the painting, felt the echo of the Great Dao resonate in his mind.

That sound seemed to gather, converging all timelines, becoming the cry of enlightenment!

So, Xu Qing lifted his foot, stepping out of the shattered world of the painter, appearing within the initial temporal turbulence.

This was his anchor point, the center of all parallel universes.

Here, Xu Qing sat cross-legged.

After a long while, he closed his eyes and whispered two words:

“Return to One!”

The instant these two words were uttered, time and space roared, and all parallel consciousnesses surged violently.

A storm arose!

Xu Qing could clearly feel the auras scattered in every corner and in every parallel timeline.

At this moment, like birds summoned to their nests, they all converged upon him, seeking to merge into one.

And the return officially began!

…

Time flowed silently like a gentle stream, carrying the waves of consciousness from different times and spaces back to the present.

Even though time held no meaning for Xu Qing at this moment, strange ripples still appeared in the long river of time.

The parallel worlds derived from Xu Qing’s constitution, their individual points of light, were infinitely stretched into threads, intertwining and merging within these ripples.

Finally, they converged and merged within the turbulent current where Xu Qing’s true body resided.

This grand transformation of time and space also caused earth-shattering changes to all things and beings within the infinite parallel worlds created by Xu Qing’s constitution.

Mountains and rivers in their respective times and spaces seemed to be reshaped by an invisible hand.

Some towering peaks rose thousands of feet higher, while others gradually shrunk, transforming into rolling hills.

Rivers, lakes, and seas no longer followed their former course; some dried up into vast sandy lands, while others overflowed, forming new boundless wetlands.

Birds and beasts seemed to be imbued with a different kind of spiritual energy; their appearances and habits evolved beyond recognition. Some grew strange wings, able to soar through the heavens, while others spoke human language, as if the gates of intelligence had been opened.

As for the myriad beings of the world, they underwent a transformation of soul and body amidst these turbulent waves. Some developed a glimmer of spiritual light between their brows, while others carried a mysterious power never before seen in their movements.

All these incredible changes took shape in Xu Qing’s thoughts, born within his parallel universe.

And Xu Qing, quietly cross-legged within the turbulent void, his mind utterly clear.

Neither joy nor sorrow.

His cultivation, his realm, also experienced a long-awaited ascent at this moment!

Or, to be precise, it wasn’t an ascent, but a world-shaking, unparalleled transformation!

His skin became even more rosy, silver veins appeared on his bones, his hair continued to grow, and his body became even more ethereal. At the same time, an immortal aura, possessed only by immortals, gradually flowed through his soul! It

eventually spread outwards, radiating from his entire body,

making the void radiant!

That was the birth of an immortal!

Along with the immortal aura appeared a sublimated consciousness.

That was immortal consciousness, and also the law born from Xu Qing’s constitution!

It was more resilient than divine consciousness, and completely different in level, its scope traversing time and space, like an invisible and vast net, tightly connecting everything within Xu Qing’s constitution.

The moment of complete connection, this unprecedented transformation was completed in Xu Qing’s body in an instant!

He had completed a leap in the level of life!

As his eyes opened and closed, the turbulent flow of time and space was instantly filled with thunderous roars, the darkness was torn apart in an instant, the chaos was instantly adjusted, and everything, in the instant Xu Qing opened his eyes, seemed to have a master!

His immortal consciousness swept across all directions, piercing through the past and present, shaking the heavens and the earth!

And what constitutes this special divine consciousness are all the versions of himself in parallel universes!

Each of them is a point, constantly providing its own power to the divine consciousness.

As the source, Xu Qing can clearly feel that as long as a thought arises, his counterparts in each parallel world, regardless of their vastly different environments or experiences, will follow his lead!

Those versions of himself in parallel universes, seemingly just individual points, are now connected by divine consciousness, becoming complete, seemingly containing the mysteries of the entire universe! They

contain countless possibilities, countless worlds, countless stories.

It is the source of everything; all time and space, all cause and effect, originate from here.

Theoretically speaking, this source represents infinite time and endless space; it seems that standing here allows one to transcend time and space, traversing the boundaries of the universe.

This is Xu Qing’s tenth level…

which his artist self names… Dimension!

And in this instant, Xu Qing finally achieved his long-awaited advancement, becoming a Xia Immortal!

From then on, he transcended the shackles of mortals.

He stepped into the extraordinary realm where immortals reside.

The moment he opened his eyes, the turbulent flow of spacetime swirled around him, the chaotic fragments leaping within it seemingly becoming subjects, bowing in worship to their king.

As for the outside world, ripples also appeared.

Within the fourth star ring, time had shifted; all things and beings seemed to have lost a moment, only to return to normal in an instant.

This change was so rapid that most beings could hardly perceive it.

Only those cultivators of the power of time and deities experienced a moment of disorientation, vaguely sensing that

a great mountain had appeared on the path ahead of them!

Because at this moment, on the level of spacetime, Xu Qing’s constitution… had reached its pinnacle!

While deities and cultivators had traversed this path before, none had ever stood before him as they did now.

Now, there was no one before him, for he himself… was one of the very foremost cultivators of spacetime divine authority and constitution!

The reason for saying “one of” was that at the instant of the tenth ultimate achievement, Xu Qing could sense that within all thirty-six star rings, there were five beings on par with him!

Of those five, none were cultivators; they were all deities.

They were all at the level of God-Lords, exploring the concept of spacetime and time, trying to take the next step!

Simultaneously, in the seventh, thirteenth, nineteenth, twenty-sixth, and thirty-fifth star rings, the five God-Lords whom Xu Qing sensed experienced the same ripples. In the

seventh star ring, there was a God-Lord named Eion, whose divine power was sung by his people. In those hymns, his body was described as being forged from flowing sand.

His eyes were the boundary between dawn and dusk.

Legend had it that the silver sand pouring from his left eye could solidify any battlefield, while the golden sand falling from his right eye possessed the power to accelerate the growth of civilization.

As for his body, it devoured all fragments of time that deviated from the trajectory of destiny.

And in the eleventh star ring, the deity sensed by Xu Qing possessed a human form, appearing to be a woman, and at this moment, he was walking in the starry sky.

Beneath her moon-white robes, the hem was stained with the ink of eternal night. Her bare feet left burning footprints in the space they traversed, influencing the Milky Way, causing it to flow backward along these marks.

Within her silver hair, entwined with nebulae, shattered gears could be seen.

She is the Mother of Star Orbits.

Then there is Frey of the nineteenth star ring, known as the Weaver Mother.

In her divine realm, her true form is a blooming flower atop countless emerald vines entwined on deer antlers.

This flower flows with four-colored threads: the green threads of spring can regenerate withered bones, the red threads of summer can melt stars, the golden threads of autumn weave destiny, and the silver veils of winter freeze souls.

Even spacetime changes under her weaving.

As for the twenty-sixth and thirty-fifth star rings, the two deities there are equally astonishing in status.

One is the Eye of Moment!

She has no physical form, but is pieced together from countless overlapping moments. Her body changes according to the gaze of the observer; at this moment, she appears in her divine realm covered in mirror-like scales.

And on each scale, in that instant, flickered the image of Xu Qing.

It contained all the possibilities of his future timelines, but in the next instant, all these possibilities shattered.

He could not perceive them!

The other was the Lord of the Netherworld.

He was a giant serpent coiled at the end of time in the thirty-fifth star ring, its scales forged from solidified darkness.

With each breath, it spewed forth black sand that devoured memories, a rusty bronze compass hanging from the tip of its tail.

This star ring held many legends surrounding the Lord of the Netherworld, one of which described how, when He unfolded His bone wings, the wing membranes would display the chronicles of all forgotten civilizations.

And now, His bone wings unfolded again, bearing Xu Qing’s name, as if about to be listed.

But ultimately, it all blurred.

Because Xu Qing’s constitution, like theirs…

belonged to the level of a Celestial Lord!