Chapter 184: Covering the Sky and the Way Back
Chapter 184: Covering the Sky and the Way Back
It was originally just a thought that came to him spontaneously, feeling that leaving the All Heavens World Gate open was not ideal.
What if it was a two-way gate, and the other side was also a High-Martial Great World, and such a large, swaying gate was just left open? That would definitely bring him risk, as this side of the gate is connected to his own Inner World, making the danger extremely high.
The crisis had already passed, so he hadn't thought about leaving here so quickly.
The situation was somewhat opened up, the circumstances were half revitalized; leaving just like that felt too unwilling.
So, Fang Ming had a spontaneous thought and decided to let one of his All Heavens Small Thousand Worlds pass through the World Gate to scout the way.
If after such a Small Thousand World passed through the World Gate, the World Gate closed immediately, his loss wouldn't be significant and would be completely acceptable.
The result was unexpected; after his All Heavens Small Thousand World went through, the World Gate not only didn't close but remained open, and that All Heavens Small Thousand World didn't lose contact either, still easily recallable!
"Swish!"
With a flash of light, Fang Ming and his Immortal Body tore through space and left this place.
Somewhere in the Three Thousand Provinces, Fang Ming and his Ci Shen appeared here.
Formation flags inscribed with Immortal Dao patterns fell one after another, and an Immortal Dao formation appeared.
In the center of the Great formation, the Great Dao Ancient Tree was suspended in the void, and most of his attention was focused on the other side of the World Gate.
At this time, he didn't want to leave this realm yet, so he urgently wanted to know what was happening on the other side of the World Gate.
This place turned out to be a strange valley, formed by the convergence of tens of thousands of dragon-headed peaks, creating a peculiar valley.
Spiritual energy was abundant, and the radiant light was endless, appearing incredibly sacred!
Amidst this endless, colorful, and resplendent light, a ball of light flame pulsed; it was precisely the Small Thousand World that Fang Ming had extended over.
In the void, boundless Great Dao patterns emerged, carrying Extreme Dao might, pressing down towards Fang Ming's Small Thousand World.
This was an intricate and complex Great formation, and this Great formation had gained its own life, evolving towards an Immortal Dao great formation!
However, Fang Ming's Small Thousand World had already grown to its limit; under its instinctive reaction, the boundless Dao laws trembled, easily shaking away these Great Dao laws.
Subsequently, several more Small Thousand Worlds that had grown to their limit appeared out of thin air, their World power spreading out, easily suppressing the nested Extreme Dao great formation.
Inside the World, Fang Ming's figure manifested, his gaze piercing through the World barrier, but he did not see the existence of the All Heavens World Gate.
Looking at this world, he was immediately stunned, somewhat disbelieving.
As his thoughts turned, a certain shielding of the All Heavens World was lifted, allowing the characteristics of his Spiritual Root to take effect.
The All Heavens World, as an extension of his main body and part of his main body's Spiritual Root, naturally possessed the characteristics of his main body.
The origin of the Great Dao of this world had a high degree of similarity with the origin Dao laws of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, only it was more complete than that of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, while also being significantly weaker.
"It really is!?"
Fang Ming's thoughts turned, his divine sense spread out, rushing out of his own World.
Like a spring breeze and fine rain, it silently enveloped this giant life ancient star.
Afterwards, his expression became strange, and he muttered to himself silently, "Covering Heavens? And it looks like nothing has changed? What's going on?"
With a sweep of his divine sense, he already knew the current situation; this was Earth's Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountain, the place Di Zun used to nurture his Immortal Cauldron.
"If nothing has changed, then what did I do all that for in the luan gu era?" Thinking of this, Fang Ming couldn't help but frown.
Although he wasn't that obsessed with this, there was always an inexplicable feeling of displeasure.
With a thought, ball after ball of radiance appeared, a total of forty-nine balls of radiance emerged; they were Small Thousand Worlds crossing realms one after another.
Fang Ming wanted to mobilize as much of his combat power and divine sense as possible; he wanted to understand more.
Instantly, his vast divine sense infinitely divided, silently spreading out, starting from the ancient star beneath him, expanding towards the sea of stars, spreading boundlessly.
Ziwei, Huosang, Gouchen, Tianlang, Feixian, Northern Dipper...
As his divine sense spread out, Fang Ming's expression grew increasingly heavy.
On the Beidou Ancient Star, he saw the Bronze Immortal Palace and also an Immortal Pagoda similar to Little Pagoda; in a certain part of the starry sky, he saw the Without End Immortal King's Immortal Bell...
Finally, he even used a great divine ability, attempting to trace history to see what had happened in the past.
The result was frustrating; just like Ye Fan, after breaking through the barrier of the Mythological Era, he was blocked by Shi Hao's figure, and no matter how much power he exerted, he couldn't penetrate through.
"How could this be? After doing so much, it's back to how it was?" Fang Ming frowned, he didn't believe this could happen.
There was deep doubt and confusion on Fang Ming's face, and he whispered, "Logically speaking, it shouldn't have developed into this current state..."
The Without End Immortal King's Dao Bell fell into his hands; there was no reason for it to end up elsewhere again.
The Bronze Immortal Palace was also gone, having been refined by Liu Shen long ago.
Even if the Other Realm invaded, they were all finished; there was no reason for these things to have been left behind.
Moreover, this Dao Bell was currently in his hands, and he had even sent it here.
That is to say, at this moment, there were two identical Dao Bells existing simultaneously.
"Existing simultaneously in endless space-time, endless futures, with never-ending differentiation, are these different futures?" Fang Ming withdrew his divine sense, understanding something in his heart.
It could be confirmed that here, there truly existed endless evolving space-time and endless derivative futures, with new futures being born and constantly differentiating at every moment.
It wasn't parallel space-time and parallel worlds in the usual sense, but more like countless lines that didn't interfere with each other, worlds with the same name and similar trajectories.
It was not an uncertain future, but one that already definitely existed.
The characters and strength within them were similar.
As for whether they would merge into one after cultivating to a certain level, that was certain.
Above Sacrifice Dao, it was definitely unique.
As for Immortal Emperor and Sacrifice Dao, Fang Ming wasn't sure, because the concept of space-time here was slightly different from the concept of parallel space-time he knew.
In other space-times, the Plateau, Primeval Ancestors, and Weird Immortal Emperor also existed.
"For now, this side isn't very valuable to me." Fang Ming's thoughts turned, feeling somewhat disappointed.
The world opened by the All Heavens World Gate this time was not of much help to him.
Essentially, there was no difference in high-end combat power between this side and the Perfect side, but for now, most cultivators were just hovering in the Human Dao realm, which wasn't of much help to him.
With Fang Ming's current strength, if he made a move, he might be able to sweep across this realm.
Of course, for now, there was no need for him to do this, and the various resources in this realm also had little effect on him.
"However, for me, it's a retreat path; if the Other Realm really launches a large-scale attack, I won't be afraid of being cornered." Thinking this way, Fang Ming felt much more at ease.
For Fang Ming, this side was undoubtedly much better; if he hid here, with his strength, he could have at least over 700,000 years to grow.
He was a Spiritual Root, a special being, and had no hidden worries about lifespan.
Moreover, becoming Immortal was not difficult for him now, and he didn't need to worry about the so-called longevity substances.
Once he stepped into the Immortal Dao realm, achieving Immortal King wouldn't be difficult either; at that time, he could enter the Chaos, or enter the Boundary Sea, and extensively refine the Great Thousand Fragmented Worlds within the Boundary Sea to strengthen his All Heavens World.
For him, this was a very good retreat path.
"For now, I should also consider how to break through the shackles of Immortal King." Sensing the origin and rules of the Great Dao of this world, Fang Ming fell into contemplation.
For him, Immortal King and everything below Immortal King were already clear, with no more fog, but Quasi-Immortal Emperor above Immortal King was still not very clear.
Should he continue to stack the number of Great Chiliocosms, using quantity to drive qualitative change, pursuing quantitative change to bring about qualitative change and elevate his realm?
Or should he follow the current path, letting the Great Chiliocosms advance and elevate into higher-level Great Realms, thereby driving the elevation of his realm?
Or perhaps it needed to be done simultaneously; he still didn't have a clear direction.
Because he didn't know if quantitative change could lead to qualitative change, nor did he know if it was possible to advance above Great Chiliocosm.
If so, how should they advance, and how could he, as an Immortal King, make them advance? That was the key. Would devouring and refining the entire Boundary Sea be enough?
Currently, the Other Realm, Immortal Domain, and Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were all super Great Realms formed by the fusion of many Great Chiliocosms, but essentially they were still Great Chiliocosm Universes, although they were far stronger than ordinary Great Chiliocosm Universes.
Just like the Immortal King level, there were ordinary Immortal Kings, and naturally there were Giants, Supreme Giants, and Immortal Kings who had cultivated Quasi-Immortal Emperor radiance.
His intuition told Fang Ming that such Great Realms existed; perhaps he didn't need to search in other All Heavens; within this All Heavens, he could find such Great Realms in The Heavens.
The Heavens was not within the Chaos All Heavens, leaving no trace to be found; even Quasi-Immortal Emperors found it difficult to locate, only Immortal Emperors could pursue it.
However, for now, The Heavens was too distant for him, so there was no need to pay too much attention to the so-called The Heavens.
In fact, he didn't know much about The Heavens either, only knowing that at this time, The Heavens was at an absolute disadvantage against the Weird, but still had some power to resist.
"My All Heavens World is essentially still a World, and having grown to this extent, external help is crucial; perhaps the path ahead should also continue to focus on matters related to external forces..." Fang Ming's thoughts turned, and various plans arose in his heart.
Carefully sensing and savoring the origin and rules of the Great Dao of this world, a plan gradually formed in Fang Ming's mind, and he thought, "Perhaps I can utilize the method of Prove Dao in this world's cultivation system, use the Heavenly Talents of this world, and borrow their hands to strengthen my All Heavens World."
The cultivation system of this realm was Shi Hao's Five Great Secret Realms system, which completely solved the problem of Dao seeds.
The system had changed too much to fully correspond; roughly speaking, the early stage to peak of Supreme corresponded to the first to ninth heavens of Quasi-Emperor.
Of course, a newly entered Venerable was stronger than a newly entered Quasi-Emperor, roughly equivalent to a second or third heaven Quasi-Emperor.
This era was different from the luan gu era; after passing the Great Emperor Heavenly Tribulation, one's own Dao would also merge with the Heaven Heart Imprint, and one's Great Dao would be imprinted upon the Great Universe, one Dao suppressing ten thousand Daos.
Compared to the Extreme Dao Supreme of the luan gu era, this was a huge advantage.
Of course, to some extent, this was also confronting the heavens and earth.
Man obtains Heaven Heart, Heaven slays Human Dao!
If one failed, one's own Dao would naturally transform into one of the origin Dao laws of the heavens and earth, becoming nourishment for the heavens and earth.
This method of Prove Dao indeed had benefits for the heavens and earth.
The Dao of the Dao Prover itself was already imprinted in this heaven and earth; no matter what happened in the future, the great heaven and earth where they Proved Dao would always benefit.
"For other cultivators, the upper limit of the Secret Realm method is not the Five Great Secret Realms, nor the Sixth Secret Realm; the limit of the Secret Realm method should be the Seven Great Secret Realms..." Inside the Small Thousand World, Fang Ming muttered to himself thoughtfully, "As for the Sixth and Seventh Secret Realms, they don't necessarily have to take the form that Shi Hao did..."
Thinking of this, a vague idea gradually formed in Fang Ming's mind.
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