Chapter 967: Chance of Success

"Battle of the Eternals."

Li Pin allowed his mind to quietly immerse itself in the clarity that came with all truths being revealed.

Taking advantage of this unprecedented clarity, he instantly sorted out all the causes and effects of this battle of the Eternals.

The Eternal is an existence above spacetime. He not only exists in the past and present, but will also exist in the future. In other words, this battle spans not only the past, but also the present, and even the future! And up until today...

Li Pin's thoughts flowed silently.

The past Li Qiuxian lost and fell within the long river of history. Except for an extremely few existences, the world had forgotten his existence. And the present me... is also facing the outcome of being cut off by this Eternal, making it so I will never be able to step into the Eternity Realm in this life. As for the future...

His gaze passed through this Divine Treasure World, looking toward the vast starry sky, in the direction of the Ocean of Time.

In the future, the Eternal also exists, embodying an insurmountable mystery. The fact that he cast out Null, who clearly belonged to the future, into my era, is the best proof of that.

Therefore, the past, present, and future had already been enveloped by this Eternal's gaze.

Wherever his gaze reached, cause and effect were determined in a single thought, and all variables were known to him.

In other words, Li Pin's past, present, and future were all destined.

No matter how one looked at it, it was a despair-inducing situation.

The only good news was that the past Li Qiuxian had stirred destiny, letting destiny interfere with the Eternal. After the Eternal cut off Li Pin's current path and determined his future achievements, the Eternal turned its gaze away, no longer observing his cause and effect.

Therefore, now, under circumstances where everything had already been determined, Li Pin had to turn the impossible into the possible, surpass the past, the present, and the future. He had to completely break free from the result determined by the Eternal, carve out his own path, step into the same Eternity Realm as him, and then... defeat the Eternal!

Then, with the pure belief of defeating Eternity, transcending Eternity, touching destiny, and reaching the true end—the origin of everything.

The future!

Li Pin came to a clear realization.

𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

The only chance of victory lay in the future, but it was not the future in the conventional sense.

That was because if things followed the current timeline, Li Pin's future would already be predetermined and fixed by the Eternal.

Therefore, he had to evolve variables from the present, leverage destiny, and surpass the future.

Just as in the past, when Li Qiuxian faced the despair of the unbridgeable gap against the Eternal, leveraged destiny, allowing destiny to interfere with the Eternal, thereby securing a sliver of life for the present Li Pin.

The chance of victory is in the future, but not the present future... instead... a brand new, interfered future...

At that moment, Li Pin's thoughts were pushed to their limit.

If he simply let time flow, what awaited him was a predestined future, unchangeable.

And the current him did not yet have the ability to distort spacetime, travel to the future, and interfere with it. That was the domain of the Eternity Realm.

So how could he create a brand new future?

This was an unsolvable deadlock.

Li Pin forced himself to remain as calm as possible. He carefully sorted through every detail of all the information he had.

The Void Emperor, Li Qiuxian, Dao Realm, King of Gods, Null, Li Pin...

Countless visions swirled around these key figures.

Amongst these changes, the first to be eliminated was the King of Gods.

He may have been considered powerful, ordinary Creators were not necessarily his match, but compared to an Eternal, he was not on the same dimension.

Next, Li Pin focused his attention on the Void Emperor.

Not long ago, he still thought about finding the Void Emperor to learn something from him. But after learning about the experiences of the Infinite Sovereign, he gradually understood the nature of the Void Emperor's life.

Li Pin sighed softly and excluded him as well.

That left only Li Qiuxian, the Dao Realm, Null, and himself, which, strictly speaking, all belonged to the same individual.

Therefore... Li Pin thought of Null.

It was not only Null, but also the Dao Realm.

His Dao Realm and Null's Dao Realm were not the same. Furthermore, Null herself was from the future...

Then, was there a possibility that he could send her back to the future? And then through her, change the future?

"It's not about whether it's possible... but rather... it is the only possibility!"

He summed up all the factors that could cause a variable.

The only hope was Null.

Null, who herself came from the future!

At that thought, Li Pin wasted no more time in the Supreme Divine Treasure World. Or rather, his trip to the Supreme Divine Treasure world had already given him what he wanted.

At that moment, he was about to leave this Divine Treasure World to search for Null.

Just as he was about to act, he seemed to think of something. Taking a step forward, he appeared before Wan Fagui.

Before Wan Fagui could bow and greet him, he directly took out a crystal. "Within this lies one strand of my power. If ever you feel there is no hope of clearing this Divine Treasure yet you still wish to leave, you may activate it. At that time, the power within will shatter this Divine Treasure world, and you will be able to escape from it."

As soon as these words fell, Wan Fagui's eyes widened abruptly.

A single strand of power can shatter a Divine Treasure!? And a Supreme Divine Treasure, nonetheless!?

After spending decades together, Wan Fagui had come to know that Li Pin was likely not Mu Yunsheng, but perhaps an existence even stronger than Mu Yunsheng. However, he never imagined he could be this powerful.

To shatter a forbidden Divine Treasure with only one strand of power? What level of cultivation was this!? A Divine Emperor!? Or perhaps... Supreme!?

"That will be all."

After speaking, Li Pin's figure flickered, and he shot straight toward the vast starry sky.

Wan Fagui hurriedly bowed with respect. "Respectfully sending off Your Majesty..."

He very much wanted to ask Li Pin's name, to see if there might be a chance to pay respects in the future. But since Li Pin was unwilling to leave his name, he dared not ask further.

***

Elsewhere, amidst the vast starry sky, Li Pin merely increased his power slightly and already felt the instability of this Divine Treasure world.

Finding a small gap, he stepped once and traversed through, leaving the world without destroying it.

Such ease compared to the hardship experienced back then caused even Li Pin himself to feel a sense of emotion. He had truly grown a lot stronger. Being able to freely enter and leave a Divine Treasure world was the best proof of that.

Li Pin smiled faintly at his own thoughts.

Seeing the Supreme Divine Treasury Hall Master rush over after sensing his aura, Li Pin merely nodded and didn't speak further. He shot skyward, turning into a stream of light, and shot deep into the starry sky.

Under the somewhat regretful gaze of this Tyrant-level hall master, a brilliant radiance suddenly erupted deep in the starry sky. It was as if a massive, terrifying celestial body had distorted spacetime, moving at many times the speed of light, leaving behind a trail of redshift glow before vanishing into the depths of the cosmos.

Such effortless freedom in traversing the cosmos left the Supreme Divine Treasury Hall Master watching with deep envy.

At the same time, he felt regret for not seizing the chance to form ties with such a great figure, Liberator Origin.

***

As Li Pin's avatar traversed the universe, he also sensed that his true body was inevitably clashing directly with the King of Gods.

He had been delayed in the Supreme Divine Treasure world for decades.

In these few decades, the King of Gods had already fought his way to beyond the starry cosmos.

This mighty existence, who had wandered the Void of Chaos for countless years, clearly possessed a unique ability to locate.

Even though Li Pin had tried several times to draw him away from the cosmos, he was unable to affect him in the slightest.

The King of Gods advanced in a firm, unshakable straight line, directly toward the starry cosmos. By now, his immense presence already enveloped the entire cosmos.

In other words, all beings within the cosmos qualified to enter the Void of Chaos could now see the King of Gods' true form. And also, feel the suffocating despair brought by the King of Gods' true body.

Under this suffocating atmosphere, and as the two worlds drew closer, more and more deities from the pantheon invaded the starry cosmos, filling many regions with war.

The situation seemed to have reached a precarious brink.

Li Pin's avatar sensed briefly, then without hesitation, rushed toward the Ocean of Time, showing no intention of letting his avatar intervene in the battle.

Even if the power of one avatar could slay ten or eight upper-tier deities, or thousands of middle and lower-tier deities, so what?

Even if he expelled every invading deity from the starry cosmos, without defeating the King of Gods, such victories were meaningless.

Therefore, rather than wasting time battling invading deities, what he truly needed to do was to carve out his own Eternity path quickly.

***

Buzz!

Outside the Ocean of Time, Li Pin's avatar distorted spacetime, traversing through it.

Through Sasha, he had already conveyed the message of his intention to meet with Null. Thus, upon arriving at the Ocean of Time, Null appeared and welcomed him within.

"How is your recovery?" Li Pin asked.

"It will take time," Null replied, then paused. "But I am very interested in the proposal from your message."

"And your choice?"

Li Pin did not interfere with Null's thoughts on this matter.

"If I truly came from the future, then to completely repair the underlying logical error, the best method... would indeed be to return to the era I came from."

Li Pin nodded. "The fact that you were sent from the future to the present proves that you do indeed possess the attribute of traversing spacetime..."

He paused. "Or rather... the Eternal bestowed this trait upon you."

He looked at Null. "Therefore, though it may seem unbelievable, I believe that you can do it—traverse spacetime, and return to the future."