The Destiny of the Space-Time Scepter
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Where am I?
In the darkness, a thought suddenly arose.
Then, a bright light appeared from nowhere, dispelling the darkness.
In the boundless void, an enormous tree stood proudly upright, its branches towering menacingly, and countless tiny threads branching from the tips of its roots, slowly wriggling in the void, absorbing the nutrients of this plane.
This giant tree is so enormous that it is breathtaking, covering an area equivalent to dozens of star systems. A single branch extends over a distance of millions of light-years.
For a moment, Gu Ding forgot why he was there. He simply gazed at the giant tree from afar.
If the Sea Emperor were here, he would definitely recognize that this giant tree and the teleportation channel they had encountered in the Space-Time Disordered Land were of the same kind of life form, only it was more than ten times larger than the previous teleportation channel.
The scene before his eyes suddenly flipped, and Gu Ding felt a momentary daze before finding himself even closer to the giant tree.
He saw a man suddenly appear at the foot of the giant tree, stroking the trunk with one hand and muttering something under his breath. Then, with a flick of his two fingers, a branch the size of a thumb appeared between them...
"Such a massive thing, yet a branch was easily broken off... Just who is this man?!" Just as this question crossed Gu Ding's mind, the scene shifted again.
It was an infant, clutching the twig the man had broken off earlier, babbling and laughing. The twig was now covered in intricate, cryptic characters, clearly carved on by someone. The infant's body was wrapped in a white cloth. The Purple Ribbon around its waist was the same one projected by the Space-Time Scepter earlier—exactly the same in color and pattern.
"Is this baby me?!" Gu Ding frowned slightly, but patiently continued to look.
The scene suddenly changed again.
This time, a man in a large cloak appeared in the void, holding an infant in his arms.
His sudden appearance caused a violent tremor throughout the entire plane, and due to this tremor, the small twig in the baby's hand suddenly slipped from its grasp and fell into the cracks created by the tremor.
The man glanced at it but did not turn around; he simply vanished into the void.
The subsequent footage had no further connection to the baby.
The insertion of the small branch caused the spacetime rift, which should have been quickly mending, to show no signs of healing, and streams of spacetime energy continued to flow into the small branch.
The bark of the branch shimmered with patterns, sometimes bright, sometimes dark, and it began to grow rapidly at a visible pace. But it didn't grow roots, nor did it produce any more branches. It just kept getting bigger.
As the branches continued to grow, they gradually began to take on the shape of a scepter.
It is unknown how much time passed, but a new rule of time suddenly emerged from the scepter. As the rule of time emerged, the original spacetime rift suddenly burst open, giving rise to a completely new plane in the distance.
A new plane emerged, and the Space-Time Scepter became its center, constantly gathering countless specks of dust and fragments of rock. Day after day, it was buried deep within a colossal planet.
Until one day, a nascent consciousness was born from the center of the planet. The planet exploded, and a gigantic scepter reappeared in the void. The original planet began to merge with the surrounding meteorites once more, reforming into a new planet.
This new dimension was eventually invaded by a celestial being, and the Space-Time Scepter made its first interaction with humanity. Furthermore, it granted humanity's bloodline the permanent right to enter and exit this dimension.
Subsequently, the entire family of that deity moved in, bringing with them many ordinary residents, and the entire plane gradually began to prosper.
Looking at everything projected in the void, Gu Ding finally understood that the Space-Time Scepter, hailed as a wondrous treasure, was merely a small twig that had slipped from the infant's hand. He was also astonished to discover that he himself was that infant. Without his release, the Space-Time Scepter would not exist, and this plane would not exist.
At this moment, a voice that sounded somewhat familiar to Gu Ding came from the void. He could recognize that the voice came from the Void Scepter.
"Three hundred epochs ago, you made me who I am, and you also created this plane. Now, three hundred epochs have passed, this plane is on the verge of collapse, and yet I have finally encountered you again..."
"Wasn't I already dead? Why am I here? What is this place?!" Gu Ding finally asked this question.
"After learning your identity, I collected all the particles that had drifted away from your body. Right now, you are just a remnant of consciousness, which I have hidden within my body," the Space-Time Scepter explained.
"How can I be resurrected? Also, how are Lily and the others? Is there anything wrong with the Sea Emperor?" Gu Ding was eager to know everyone's situation.
"Your companions... have all perished..." Although the Space-Time Scepter couldn't bear it, it still told Gu Ding the truth and projected the scene it had seen into Gu Ding's consciousness.
Gu Ding was stunned as he watched the spaceship disintegrate and everyone turn into particles and dissipate into the void.
"How could this be? Lily, Bigge, Elsa... everyone's dead?!"
"I can help you bring them all back to life, including yourself." Gu Ding was somewhat surprised by the Space-Time Scepter's words.
"But their bodies have already turned into particles and dissipated into the void. Is it really possible?!" Gu Ding asked in surprise.
"Yes, but at the cost of this plane collapsing and my consciousness vanishing." Gu Ding fell silent upon hearing the words of the Space-Time Scepter. "But don't worry, I will become a part of your body and exist in your Miniature World. When your Miniature World evolves to a certain extent, my consciousness will re-emerge."
"Why are you helping me like this?" Although Gu Ding was eager to revive Lily and the others, the Space-Time Scepter left him somewhat at a loss.
"I was born because of you, destined to be this way from the moment I was broken off from the mother tree of the Space-Time Giant Tree. But you are different. You have a longer journey ahead, more companions, and unfinished stories..." The Space-Time Scepter seemed quite magnanimous.
Gu Ding remained silent. He was not a selfish person, but for the sake of Liliath and the others, he chose to keep quiet.
"Besides, I won't truly die; I'll still exist in your Miniature World. Don't be sad for me, because this is just the beginning..."
In the void, countless golden rays suddenly burst forth from the Space-Time Scepter, radiating outwards. In an instant, they swept across every corner of the entire plane, illuminating every planet, every creature, and even every speck of dust... (A fantastic event with freebies falling from the sky! Win a cool phone! Follow Qidian/WeChat Official Account (Add Friends - Add Official Account - Enter qdread) to participate now! Everyone wins a prize, follow the qdread WeChat Official Account now!) (To be continued~^~)