Cosmic Boat and the Frontline Battlefield

(Still ten thousand words today.)

However, the divination secret art operated with great difficulty, like a rusted sword sheath, completely jammed and unable to move.

"I see." Taiyin already understood what had happened.

Although the surroundings appeared incomparably real, they were not real.

"This is the future."

"I'm having some kind of precognitive dream."

"My Divine Sense has crossed through time and is now within a phantom of the future."

Suddenly, divine light like the sun illuminated all directions. A blazing sun hung high in the starry sky, and a figure emerged from within it.

The arrival was none other than the Sun Holy Emperor. His expression was somewhat weary as he waved his hand, sending out formation patterns that engraved themselves into the void and connected closely with the Four Symbols Killing Array.

"Taiyin, new cracks have appeared in the Realm Barrier. Hurry and complete these Four Symbols Killing Arrays, then head to the front line. A new wave of the Dark Storm's assault is coming soon!" the Sun Holy Emperor said gravely.

(What exactly is the Dark Storm?) Taiyin was about to ask when he suddenly discovered that he could not control this body. He could only sense the body nodding on its own.

Taiyin's thoughts raced. Is just a strand of Divine Sense attached to my future body?

He tried to unleash his Divine Sense and communicate with this future Sun Holy Emperor, but failed.

He could only watch helplessly as this body belonging to his future self engraved formation patterns in the void alongside the Sun Holy Emperor.

They continued embedding Law Cubes placed within square White Tiger and Vermilion Bird barrels into the void, providing the Four Symbols Killing Array with an endless supply of power.

Strange disturbances periodically appeared in the starry sky, and waves like tsunamis rippled through space-time.

Like the tidal forces at the edge of a black hole, they ravaged vast stretches of the starry sky.

An inexplicable fluctuation traveling faster than light swept across a supercluster eighty million light-years in diameter, utterly pulverizing all matter down to its most fundamental structure.

Taiyin stood shoulder to shoulder with the Sun Holy Emperor. Together, they evolved their respective Dao and constructed a Taiji Diagram, forcibly smoothing away the strange tremors that continued spreading outward. With astonishing efficiency, they engraved formations across the scale of the entire universe.

One supergiant star after another, black holes, and Quasars were no more than insignificant dust within this grand formation.

Only rivers of stars and superclusters spanning millions or even tens of millions of light-years could be considered the most basic components of the formation.

From time to time, Taiyin saw this future Sun Holy Emperor and himself pause their work on the formation before stepping toward another region of the universe.

There, terrifying black cracks nearly tore apart a corner of the universe. Dense black mist seeped from the other side of those cracks like living creatures.

Like seamstresses, the two continuously engraved formations in the void, painstakingly stitching the cracks shut with formation patterns.

They continuously evolved the Yin-Yang Diagram into chaos and recreated the process of opening a new world, using small chaotic worlds as furnaces to grind away the black mist that had seeped out and penetrated space-time.

Along the way, although the Taiyin of the past could not actively extend his Divine Sense, he could passively perceive everything this future body sensed.

In his perception, the entire universe had become incomparably silent and dead.

When the past Taiyin had returned from the Immortal Ascension Road to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and traveled through the universe, he had sensed one vibrant Ancient Life Star after another. Yet in this future, nearly all of them had turned into nothingness.

Whether it was the Big Dipper, Ziwei, Flying Immortal, Honghuang...

All those Ancient Life Stars with their various mysteries had vanished without a trace.

And the once-prosperous, bustling life starfields surrounding those Ancient Life Stars had likewise become silent and lifeless.

Along the way, the smaller Life Planets had not been destroyed, yet there was no trace of any living being. Nor was there any death aura to be seen. It was as if, overnight, all life had been mysteriously relocated.

Taiyin grew increasingly puzzled, yet had no idea what had happened.

He remained trapped within the body of this future Taiyin Sacred Emperor, helplessly watching it race through the starry sky for several months.

Finally, on this day, Taiyin could no longer produce Law Cubes containing endlessly surging energy, and the Four Symbols Killing Arrays engraved throughout the starry sky no longer had new sources capable of supplying limitless power.

After a brief silence, Taiyin heard the Sun Holy Emperor sigh.

The Sun Holy Emperor stared at the strange sight of formation patterns spread everywhere, densely linking every galaxy cluster in the universe like a spiderweb.

He let out a heavy sigh. "What a pity. Fellow Daoist Fang Zheng suddenly disappeared, and the number of Law Cubes he left behind was truly limited. Now, this is already the limit to which the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands can be reinforced."

Taiyin also heard the body he occupied sigh. "It is indeed a pity, but this is already very good."

"Fang Zheng owes us nothing. Rather, we owe him far too much."

"Although he suddenly came to this world and then suddenly vanished, he already left us many Law Cubes. We cannot demand more from him."

The Sun Holy Emperor fell silent for a moment and looked up at the black mist spilling from a crack in one corner of the void.

After once again evolving a Yin-Yang Diagram with the Sun Holy Emperor to grind it away, the two burned all their Essence Blood, erupting with endless yin and yang qi.

Accompanied by an incomparably vast Taiji Diagram, chaotic qi revolved and transformed into boundless radiance that illuminated the entire universe.

Under that endless radiance, the countless formations engraved throughout the universe, along with all kinds of mysterious ruins left in the universe by the Heavenly Court during the ancient mythological era, were connected into one whole.

At once, the Realm Barrier of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, which should not have been observable from within, gradually appeared inside the universe.

Countless formations were also engraved upon it. As all the formations operated together, the form of the Realm Barrier began to undergo subtle changes.

Taiyin heard the Sun Holy Emperor beside him sigh.

"Let's go. The time is about right. The preliminary stage of refining the Cosmic Boat has been completed. We should also head to the front line and provide support."

(The Cosmic Boat? And a front line? Could it be...)

"Yes, let's go." Taiyin replied as he formed mysterious seals alongside the Sun Holy Emperor. The Realm Barrier automatically opened a passage, and the two entered a strange world deep within the Immortal Ascension Road.

(This place is a gap between the Immortal Ascension Road and the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands?)

Taiyin's consciousness from the past sensed a familiar aura here.

Several hundred thousand years ago, when he had broken through the Immortal Ascension Road, he had sensed a fissure space deep within it.

At the time, he had paid it no mind.

After all, such fissures were actually quite common in the universe.

Since ancient times, the Immortal Ascension Roads within the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands had not numbered merely one or two, but many.

It was just that most were abandoned paths. Very, very few could truly lead through to the Immortal Domain.

Every Supreme who wished to truly enter the Immortal Ascension Road had entered more than one abandoned path and studied them carefully.

For example, in the Central Province of the Big Dipper Star, there was a strange small world of limited area. It was a small world formed from an Immortal Ascension Road that had opened and broken apart at some unknown time in the past.

Because the opening of an Immortal Ascension Road brought immortal qi containing Immortal Substance as well as fragments of Immortal Realm laws,

these small worlds often contained quite a few treasures. They were simply of little use to Emperor-level beings.

Yet the strange world Taiyin observed at this moment was exceptionally vast. It could already support the existence of countless living beings, and its Immortal Substance was extremely abundant. Its Dao laws were merely incomplete, making enlightenment difficult for cultivators.

Taiyin could sense that if a Great Emperor-level being entered this place, they could likely rely on the immense amount of Immortal Substance to live for at least several hundred thousand years.

And at this moment, the place was already filled with living beings.

Layers upon layers of incomparably powerful formations surrounded it, firmly sealing away an enormous number of Life Planets.

The living beings of the entire universe had probably been moved here.

The two did not linger here.

As the sound of a bell rang out, powerhouses named the Wushi Great Emperor, the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and one who called himself the Ming Emperor joined Taiyin and the Sun Holy Emperor.

The five powerhouses, each far surpassing the level of a Great Emperor of a single era, formed seals together, and the Realm Barrier opened once more.

They arrived at the Law Mighty Pass at the entrance to the Immortal Ascension Road.

Still ten thousand words today. Normal updates will resume tomorrow; my stockpile can't hold out any longer. This arc will not conclude until Chapter 56. I originally wanted to keep it as continuous as possible, but my stockpile truly cannot support it.