After passing the Empyrean God Tribulation, Zhou Qing returned to the Fengdu Imperial Garden.
At that moment, Daoist Sanqing appeared again.
"Greetings, Master." Zhou Qing immediately bowed to him.
"No need for formalities, my disciple," Daoist Sanqing said with a smile.
"Now that your true body has passed the Empyrean God Tribulation and become an Empyrean God, while your Second Primaltwin is a True Immortal, you've truly established yourself in the Three Realms."
Daoist Sanqing paused, somewhat moved, then continued.
"I won't say much about cultivation. Anyone who has reached your stage must have ideas of his own."
"However, another mighty figure and I noticed earlier that you seemed to intend to combine the Path of Space and the Path of Time and follow the Path of Time and Space?"
"That is indeed my intention." Zhou Qing nodded.
"In that case, I can give you an opportunity."
With that, Daoist Sanqing took out a jade slip and handed it to Zhou Qing.
Curious at his master's words, Zhou Qing accepted the jade slip and examined it with his mind-sense.
What he saw startled him.
It was a technique called "Time and Space."
Although it contained only the first chapter, "Spirit Platform," it recorded in detail the secret to combining the powers of time and space to form the Power of Time and Space.
The entire technique was lofty in its conception, yet explained profound principles in simple terms. One look was enough to tell that it had been left behind by an expert with great attainments in the Path of Time and Space.
Thinking of the experts in the Three Realms who were skilled in the Path of Time and Space, Zhou Qing immediately guessed who had created the technique.
"Master, this is..." Though Zhou Qing had a vague guess about the technique's origins, he still asked Daoist Sanqing.
"A good friend of mine asked me to give you this 'Time and Space' technique," Daoist Sanqing explained.
"You've probably heard of him. His name is Patriarch Bodhi, and he is one of the few mighty figures in the Three Realms skilled in the Path of Time and Space."
Just as I thought...
Zhou Qing's doubts cleared.
Besides Patriarch Bodhi, who else in the Three Realms could have such great attainments in the Path of Time and Space?
Daoist Sanqing continued his explanation.
"While you were undergoing the Empyrean God Tribulation earlier, Bodhi was dreaming the Three Realms in a single dream. He happened to discover your extraordinary talent for combining time and space, so he decided to give you this chapter of the technique."
"He told me that if you can enter the Path of Time and Space and comprehend the Power of Time and Space within three hundred years, he will take you as his disciple and teach you the remaining three chapters of 'Time and Space' as well."
Daoist Sanqing's tone grew serious.
"My disciple, you must make the most of this opportunity."
"Although Bodhi's strength is a notch below mine, I fall far short of him when it comes to staying alive."
"If you can become Bodhi's disciple and receive his true inheritance in the Path of Time and Space, then very few people in the entire Three Realms will be able to threaten you."
"I understand, Master." Seeing how plainly Sanqing had spoken, Zhou Qing immediately answered with a solemn expression.
After clearing out the Skyburner Venomwind vent beyond the skies of the Seven Wonders World, the Second Primaltwin of Zhou Qing's Wu Xian avatar also returned to Fengdu with Lord Cui.
With his Second Primaltwin holding down the fort in the Netherworld Bureau, Wu Xian's true body, which had just become an Empyrean God, left the Three Realms and quietly headed into the chaos.
Countless enormous chaos stars existed in the chaos.
Zhou Qing picked and chose until he finally selected an inconspicuous chaos star and descended onto it.
The surface of this chaos star was desolate, riddled with countless bottomless pits.
He took out the World Prison stele, which was pitch-black from top to bottom, and casually tossed it into one of the pits.
Then Zhou Qing flew to the bottom of the deep pit and began using pure yang magic power to refine the divine runes along the edge of the stele.
Boom!
A moment later, wrapped in a majestic power, he vanished from the spot in an instant.
In the blink of an eye, Zhou Qing found himself in a hazy Chaos Space.
He immediately realized that he had entered the space inside the stele.
But Zhou Qing, who had served time himself, knew that this was not yet the World Prison.
Soon, two dark-skinned humanoid creatures flew over from the distance and knelt before Zhou Qing, kowtowing.
"Greetings, Warden."
Looking at the two jailers, who were exceptionally respectful toward him, Zhou Qing was somewhat moved.
He had gone from a daughter-in-law who had endured long enough to become the mother-in-law, a prisoner who had made it all the way to warden.
"You two, bring out the Chaos Spirit Liquid produced over the past few chaos cycles."
Pointing at the two jailers, Zhou Qing put on an imperious air.
After all, he had once been the disciple of a peak Ancestor God, so playing a pampered young master came naturally to him.
Though the two jailers hesitated slightly at his words, they still handed Zhou Qing eighteen black jade bottles filled with Chaos Spirit Liquid.
But the plumper jailer immediately reminded him, "My lord, as the Warden, you are permitted to use one bottle of Chaos Spirit Liquid under the rules. You must not exceed that amount."
"The Realm Lord knows exactly how much Chaos Spirit Liquid we can gather. If you use more than your allowance, it will cause trouble."
"Why are you so long-winded?" Zhou Qing put on an annoyed expression. "Do you think I know the rules less well than you two puppets?"
"Please calm your anger, my lord! Please calm your anger!" The two jailers immediately begged forgiveness again and again at Zhou Qing's rebuke.
"Go on, get out of here! Stop getting in my sight."
At Zhou Qing's words, the two jailers immediately flew away without looking back, as though granted a full pardon.
Looks like another pampered young master with an extraordinary background.
As they left, the two of them complained about Zhou Qing inwardly, each thinking the same thing.
Once the two jailers had gone far away, a faint smile appeared on Zhou Qing's face.
At last, the Chaos Spirit Liquid was his.
Next, he could cultivate the "Eighteen Fiendgods of Taowu" and split off avatars.
Before cultivating it, however, he first had to finish the Empyrean God portions of the protective divine ability "Immortal Golden Body" and the divine power eruption ability "Great Extinction Divine Power."
That way, the seventeen avatars he cultivated would not have to consume resources all over again to cultivate the protective and divine power eruption abilities.
With that thought, Zhou Qing first took a hundred thousand jin of Annihilation Dark Gold from his estate-world treasure.
The next moment, a mound of red metal piled up before him like a small mountain.
Zhou Qing then followed the method recorded in "Great Extinction Divine Power" to infuse divine power into the Annihilation Dark Gold. He saw wisps of red light exuding a destructive presence flow out of the mass of metal.
The Annihilation Dark Gold that had lost the red light immediately turned dull, then crumbled into powder and drifted away.
After carefully guiding the red light into his divine body, Zhou Qing began condensing the key to the "Great Extinction Divine Power" divine ability-the Extinction Divine Runes.
Dark red divine runes spread bit by bit across Zhou Qing's divine body, finally joining together naturally to form the vicious face of a ferocious beast.
With a thought from Zhou Qing, the dark red divine runes on his divine body blazed with light, and he struck out with a claw.
With a tremendous boom, the space, which had been as solid as a rock, trembled slightly.
"Hahaha!"
Seeing this, Zhou Qing could not help laughing aloud.
Although it was not strengthened by any Primordial Power, the might of this attack far exceeded that of his attacks strengthened by third-level Space Power. It could just barely be considered power at the utmost limit of the Empyrean God and True Immortal level.
After cultivating the Empyrean God chapter of "Great Extinction Divine Power," Zhou Qing did not stop. Instead, he chose to strike while the iron was hot and proceeded to cultivate the second level of "Immortal Golden Body."
Although cultivating the second level of "Immortal Golden Body" was quite costly, it was a mere drizzle to Zhou Qing, who had just come into a windfall.
Before heading into the chaos, he had already gone to the Daoist Sect to exchange for the various materials needed to cultivate "Immortal Golden Body."
Thus, Zhou Qing took out the various materials, including the Daluo Immortal Pill, and swallowed and refined them directly.
As powerful energy poured into his body, Zhou Qing's divine body, which was already comparable to a pure yang magic treasure, underwent another transformation.
Before long, its toughness was equal to that of the "Eight-Nine Arcane Art" at full mastery, making it comparable to a Xiantian mid-grade spirit treasure.