Chapter 1342: The Lands Become a Book, Fate and Destiny Intermingle

“Our family riches are many.” Zi Qing smiled and waved his hand.

All of the Heaveneater Region rumbled with even greater intensity than before. Then, something completely unbelievable happened! The lands... transformed. Whether it was the mountains, rivers, buildings, or even the imperial palace itself. Everything transformed into a book! The lands became a book!

Because of the enormous Mirror of Revered Ancient hovering above the Heaveneater Region taking the destiny aura, all things below had started turning blurry. However, once the lands turned into a book, a page flipped! When that page flipped, the mountains and rivers appeared again. All things returned. The kingdom was there, and so were all the citizens!

Within that page was the Sovereign Kingdom of Violet and Cyan! And it was completely intact!

There was no attempt to stop the mirror from taking the destiny aura, nor to prevent Xu Qing from reversing the vortex. In fact, the images in the mirror became clearer than ever. However... the lands also appeared clearly within the pages of the book.

Even stranger, the images in the page then started to blur as the Mirror of Revered Ancient took the destiny aura. And yet... that was when the lands in the form of a book actually turned to a second page! That second page was also the Sovereign Kingdom of Violet and Cyan! There was no change to it.

“How much do you want, lil’ bro? Your big bro can give you whatever you need.” Zi Qing smiled. “You see, I took every moment of the Sovereign Kingdom of Violet and Cyan and turned it into an individual page of fate. In the end, each page has its own life force, constantly growing and multiplying.... In fact, not even I’m sure how much there is in total.”

This was the godly authority he had unleashed long ago.

Fate!

But there was no doubt that Zi Qing’s use of this godly authority was far more bizarre than in years past. And the range and scope was off the charts!

When he spoke, the giant book formed from the lands of the Heaveneater Region began flipping through pages more quickly. And now, the Mirror of Revered Ancient didn’t have time to blur the contents and absorb all the destiny aura. Every single page was the Sovereign Kingdom of Violet and Cyan!

As a result, the absorption process of the Mirror of Revered Ancient was increasingly in a passive position. As the pages flipped and flipped, the destiny aura of the Sovereign Kingdom of Violet and Cyan... seemed to become infinite! Anyone dealing with something like this would quickly start to feel powerless.

The Mirror of Revered Ancient made that very clear. It could not absorb destiny aura forever, and the vortex couldn’t spin endlessly. In fact, popping sounds started echoing out, and a crack even appeared on the surface of the mirror.

The crack got bigger and bigger. Then a series of popping sounds rang out as the crack went all the way through the mirror. Finally... the mirror started falling apart. So many cracks filled the mirror that great shards started splitting off and falling down.

At the same time, down in Revered Ancient, Empress Summer Departure coughed up blood and withered significantly, then turned to look dispiritedly in the direction of the Heaveneater Region. The other humans surrounding hēr powering the ceremony reacted similarly. It was the same with the powerful experts in the other species. Countless cultivators were coughing up blood. In the blink of an eye, Revered Ancient fell into a deep silence.

And yet the pages of the book just kept flipping faster and faster. It was as if space-time had become an illusion.

Xu Qing sighed in his heart. Zi Qing had failed to seize Xu Qing’s clone. Similarly, Xu Qing had clearly been unsuccessful in seizing the destiny aura of the Sovereign Kingdom of Violet and Cyan. Yet in the moment of failure, as Xu Qing stood in the square outside the grand hall, his eyes turned cold, and he burst into motion. If seizing the destiny aura wouldn’t work, then he would just have to fight personally to settle everything!

Inside the hall, Zi Qing gently flicked his finger. A ripple of fate flowed out from his fingertip, which blocked Xu Qing from entering.

“Your opponent will be another possible version of me, extracted from fate.”

As the words left his mouth, the pages suddenly stopped flipping. As a result, one subsidiary branch of fate became prominent. When that branch appeared, it subverted reality. Or perhaps it was most correct to say that it appeared at the same time, right there in the hall!

The Crown Prince of Violet and Cyan still sat on the Dragon Throne in the hall. But outside the hall, dramatic things were happening!

A second Zi Qing had appeared in the square! He stood atop the statue of Eminent Desolation’s broken face. His arms were stretched wide, and his expression was evil and cold. And he had just completed saying something that he had begun to speak while in the subsidiary branch of fate.

“... sacrifice!”

As that final word echoed out, countless fanatical responses came from within the Sovereign Kingdom of Violet and Cyan in that branch of fate.

𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

“I’m willing to meet death for the sake of the crown prince!”

“I’m willing to meet death for the sake of the crown prince!!”

All citizens of the kingdom from that branch of fate shouted the same thing, including cultivators, mortals, men, women, young ones, and the elderly. There were no exceptions, and their faces were completely fanatical.

And in response to Zi Qing’s words, all of them burst into flames... to sacrifice themselves! They were sacrificing themselves... to the Crown Prince of Violet and Cyan! And then, the Zi Qing from that branch of fate took the sacrifice of the entire kingdom and absorbed it into himself! Countless streams of sacrificed life force shot toward the statue of Eminent Desolation’s broken face, where they merged into Zi Qing. There seemed no end to them.

Xu Qing did nothing to stop them. Doing so would have been pointless. With his canon and statute, he could sense that what was happening had already occurred in the past. Trying to change it would have been impossible.

But if he waited until the act was complete, he could reverse the karma. Therefore, he paid very close attention to every detail of what was happening.

As Zi Qing atop the statue of Eminent Desolation rapidly absorbed all the sacrifices, his body began to melt into drops of blood that fell onto the statue. The process only took a few breaths of time....

Xu Qing watched as all of the citizens in the branch of fate disappeared. What was more, that version of Zi Qing melted, and his blood... eventually covered the statue and everything surrounding it. Then, a terrifying aura erupted from the statue, which shot up and turned into a majestic godly might!

Heaven and earth flashed with wild colors. Winds screamed in every direction. Mutagen filled the world. Natural laws actually disappeared, and magical laws ceased to exist. This godly authority became the only thing that existed! This was the majesty of the God Lord level!

Because of that majesty, the statue of Eminent Desolation transformed, as if waking up. It turned into a body of flesh and blood! The flesh and blood wriggled and began changing appearance. It became humanoid in shape! In the blink of an eye, the facial features... became an exact copy of Zi Qing!

The figure took a single step and vanished. Upon reappearing, hē was right in front of Xu Qing, pulsing with mutagen and the pressure of a God Lord. Reaching out, hē pushed hīs hand in the direction of Xu Qing.

Xu Qing’s canon and statute collapsed due to Zi Qing’s touch. Rumbling sounds filled heaven and earth! The entire world trembled as a massive attack hit Xu Qing. He was shoved backward, stopping after only about 300 meters. There, he looked calmly at Zi Qing standing outside the hall.

That version of Zi Qing was looking back at him. Behind hīm was the other Zi Qing, also looking at Xu Qing.

Both Zi Qings spoke at the same time.

“This time, lil’ bro, if you haven’t prepared in advance, then... you’re going to die.”

As both of them spoke, two fates intertwined and echoed out through space-time. Zi Qing’s godly authority was that of fate!

The idea of materializing a possibility from fate and using it in reality... was something Xu Qing had some experience with. He had done the same thing in the chaotic flow of space-time in the Fourth Star Ring. He had unified everything into a final singularity, which was when he had appeared next to the painter version of himself. That painter was another possible version of himself from a different space-time.

Xu Qing just went about it in a slightly different way than Zi Qing. Zi Qing relied on fate, while Xu Qing relied on canon and statute to form ontology, and then pierce through other space-times.

But at the same time... reaching this level meant being at the “Lord” level. For gods, that meant God Lord. For immortals, it meant Immortal Lord.