Space-Time Origin

Crack!

A sound of something breaking suddenly rang out through the void of the universe. The four Supremes looked toward its source and found that it was the Dao Fire Furnace Meng Chuan had become.

This supreme art was still one step from completion. Now that Meng Chuan had used it, its flaw had immediately appeared.

"Haha! You thought you could turn everything around with an unfinished art?" An Xuan sneered. This Supreme favored by destiny was nothing special after all.

"You're courting death yourself. Don't blame us!" Yu Qiong roared, ready to deal Meng Chuan a fatal blow.

"If you're willing to serve us, fellow Daoist, we might yet spare you today. We could still search for the Reception Hall together and ascend to immortality!" Kungu was unwilling to give up. He had his eye on Meng Chuan's supreme fighting strength.

The starry sky fell silent. No one answered them. The flames of the furnace still burned fiercely, trying to mend the cracks.

"Stubborn fool!" Kungu stopped trying to persuade him and struck.

A supreme divine art blazed as it hurtled toward Meng Chuan. The furnace Meng Chuan had become neither dodged nor moved, as though he had given up hope.

Just as the divine art was about to shatter the furnace, Meng Chuan vanished from the starry sky. At the same instant, every attack stopped!

The entire universe fell silent. Time froze at that moment.

Ding! Administrator Meng Chuan has made contact with the Space-Time Passage. Do you wish to destroy the Space-Time Passage?

Ding! You may choose to destroy the Space-Time Passage completely or extract the Space-Time Origin!

These were the prompts the Chat Group had given Meng Chuan before his battle with the four Supremes, when his Emperor Dao Divine Principle touched the Space-Time Passage.

After learning the difference between the two ways of completing the task, Meng Chuan chose without hesitation to extract the Space-Time Origin.

Ding! Space-Time Origin successfully extracted. Group Task complete! Rewards have been issued!

The reward for this task was another increase in his Chat Group permissions. Counting this time, Meng Chuan's permissions had risen three times. He had a feeling certain things would soon become accessible to him.

Once extracted, the Space-Time Origin also became Meng Chuan's possession. According to the Chat Group, he could use it to travel to another world once—a group member's world!

Everything was a chaotic haze. He knew and felt nothing.

"Tiga!"

The shout jolted Meng Chuan awake.

???

Tiga? Meng Chuan was full of questions. If he remembered correctly, the world he had chosen to visit shouldn't have Ultraman in it, should it?

Meng Chuan looked toward the only light in the dark space and met a pair of eyes. Those eyes were filled with confusion.

"Yao Chen?"

"Great Emperor?!!"

Meng Chuan glanced at the... television beside him, where the cry of "Tiga" had come from. His expression changed from surprise and disbelief to sudden understanding. Still in the form of the Dao Fire Furnace, he conjured a hazy hand and patted Yao Chen's equally hazy shoulder.

"Old Yao, you're still young at heart!" Meng Chuan said with a sigh, though his tone was rather peculiar.

Yao Chen was at a loss. He went rigid and stammered, "G-Great Emperor, let me explain. It's not what you think..."

Meng Qi: I'm not listening! I'm not listening!

Daigu Madoka: Why does this scene make me feel... so embarrassed?

The Ancient One: Old Yao...

Bibi Dong: Now I suddenly want to watch Tiga too.

Daigu Madoka: Don't!

Yan Chixia: Hahahaha!

Zhang Sanfeng: Old Yao, it's only a small thing. Don't take it to heart, haha... yes, don't take it to heart.

Lu Mingfei: Even a man living inside a ring longs for the light!

Fei Peng: Master, make me one too. @The Ancient One

Yao Chen was about to say something else to Meng Chuan when messages flooded the chat. He froze, utterly dumbstruck, then slowly slumped to the floor as though his soul had left him...

Though he was already a soul to begin with.

Meng Chuan froze too. Had he... left the livestream running this whole time?

"My lifetime of good reputation!" Old Yao despaired. First he had been branded an old man who sucked people's life essence, and now he faced social death in the group chat.

When newcomers joined, would they ask, "Are you that old man who sucks people's life essence? Are you the elder who's hundreds of years old and hides in a little dark room to watch Ultraman?"

Seeing Old Yao's lifeless expression, Meng Chuan did not know what to say. He had crossed over so suddenly that he had not warned Yao Chen, and now...

"How about I watch with you for a while?" Meng Chuan finally asked with care.

Meng Qi: Twist the knife, why don't you?

Lu Mingfei: Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Daigu Madoka: Can everyone please stop talking about this...

Daigu squirmed with embarrassment, his face giving everything away. Lina kept staring at him!

Daigu hasn't been acting strangely for just a day or two, Lina thought to herself.

"No, thanks. I don't like it that much. I only watch it now and then. Just now and then." Yao Chen refused outright. Watching alone was fine, but watching Ultraman on a livestream? The thought alone was enough to finish the old man off.

Meng Qi: Oh, so you just happened to watch the fight against Gatanothor.

Lu Mingfei: Oh, so you just happened to watch episode fifty-one.

Zhang Sanfeng: How do you know this is episode fifty-one? @Lu Mingfei

System notice: Group member Lu Mingfei recalled a message.

"Old Yao, look, I'm over a thousand years old, and I still remember the green days of my youth. So there's nothing..." Meng Chuan saw the comments and decided to help this old man face what was in his heart. He was still talking away when Yao Chen hurriedly cut him off.

"Great Emperor, why did you suddenly come to my world? Weren't you fighting those four Extraterrestrial Supremes?" Yao Chen had no wish to discuss Tiga any further.

"And Great Emperor, right now... are you refining yourself?" Yao Chen eyed the furnace in puzzlement. He knew his way around refining medicine, but refining a person—especially someone refining himself—was something he had never seen. How strange.

"This is an art I created after finding inspiration in the Burning Art. I turn my own Dao into Dao Fire and use all things in heaven and earth, and the Daos of all worlds, as fuel." Meng Chuan gave the group a rough explanation of the supreme art, enough for them to grasp the basic idea: it was incredible.

"When I got the Burning Art, it was just the Burning Art. But when the Great Emperor got it..." Yao Chen felt a bitter pang. The gap between them was far too wide.

"My art isn't fully perfected yet. You saw the cracks appear in the Dao Fire Furnace during the livestream," Meng Chuan said.

Bibi Dong: Ah! What will you do, Great Emperor? There are still four Supremes in your world! Are you counting on this art to turn defeat into victory?

Meng Qi: There's only one truth! And that is—

Lu Mingfei: Old Yao's world can help the Great Emperor perfect this art!

Meng Qi: @Lu Mingfei ???

Fei Peng: How did the Great Emperor travel between worlds?

If I could use that method, I'd have to visit the Great Emperor's world and ask him for guidance, Fei Peng thought. He had been lonely in this world for far too long, and Chonglou still never came.

"I completed the task the Chat Group gave me and extracted something called the Space-Time Origin from the Space-Time Passage. It lets me travel to one of your worlds once."

Meng Chuan explained, "I can only use it once, and I can stay in this world for a year. Then I have to go back. But a year here is only an instant in the Shrouding the Heavens World, so it won't affect what's happening there."

"As for those four Supremes, I'm not just going to turn defeat into victory!"

"I'm going to go a step further!"

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