I wield power with my innate talents, and forge the Heavenly Court.

Time flies, and several years have passed in the blink of an eye.

As the Ming Dynasty world was completely integrated into the Celestial Empire world system, it transformed into another world star in the sky of the Dao Lord's Realm.

The scope of the world force field has expanded by nearly double again.

At the same time, the boundless power of the world was unleashed, most of which merged into the Dao Lord's realm and the chaos beyond.

This made the power within the Dao Lord's Realm even more concentrated and profound, and the chaotic energy also increased significantly, expanding its coverage area to a certain extent.

Only a greatly diminished amount of power remained, continuing to radiate and spread into the void.

It was as if, within the area shrouded in chaotic energy, there were only two weak worlds.

In addition, the dynastic power's erosion of the new Ming world has become even more significant.

Many extraordinary martial artists in the world have combined with the new Great Dao and developed new martial arts techniques and paths.

Even many countries have begun to experience changes in their national fortunes.

All of this has caused the laws of the Dynasty to gradually spread and radiate throughout the world, constantly encroaching upon the level of rules.

Of course, this is only a superficial erosion; it is still a long way from truly penetrating the level of rules and invading the origin of the world.

Besides the dynasty itself manipulating the laws of the Great Dao to erode them, this naturally requires the help of other Dao Lords to further interfere with the operation of the rules.

Meanwhile, Wang Dahu and the others had almost digested the insights they gained from the Ming Dynasty world where Tianqi was located.

Even the strongest among them, such as Wang Jingchen and Wang Dahu, have already broken through to the mid-stage of the Dao Lord realm.

In an instant, dazzling rays of light bloomed and rose in various places in the Dao Lord Realm, and then spread throughout the entire Dao Lord Realm.

Then the Great Dao flowed, and within the Celestial Empire and the Apocalypse World, boundless radiance began to bloom. The Great Dao's imperial voice resounded, and the world was improved and enhanced to a certain extent.

Under that boundless radiance, hundreds of millions of people were immersed in it, comprehending its principles and mysteries, and their cultivation levels began to rise rapidly, with some breaking through to new heights from time to time.

Only after Wang Dahu and the others awoke from their breakthrough state did the immeasurable radiance of the Great Dao and the endless divine pronouncements of the Great Dao gradually fade into silence.

After waking up, Wang Dahu and the others began to divert their attention to this new world of the Ming Dynasty.

Immediately afterwards, everyone manipulated their own Great Dao, using the loopholes in the dynastic power's erosion and the national fortunes that extended and expanded within the world as a medium, to gradually erode and infiltrate the world.

What follows is quite simple; it's nothing more than repeating what the Ming Dynasty did before.

Therefore, the dynasty only paid attention to it for a period of time, and after confirming that there were no problems, it withdrew its attention.

Subsequently, the dynasty returned to the Bright Realm and began to adjust the world's power and information once again.

Another year has passed, and the power of the Great Dao of the Celestial Empire has penetrated even deeper into the new world.

At the same time, the world power and information adjusted by the dynasty once again resonated with a region of the world.

A great sun suddenly appeared, drawn by the Bright Realm, and plummeted downwards at breakneck speed.

one year later
"boom!"

With a deafening roar, the rapidly falling world sun crashed into the outside of the world's force field, creating a huge hole in the chaotic layer outside the Dao Lord's domain.

Endless void energy surged and poured into the Dao Lord's realm.

This time, because the dynasty's laws and the rules of heaven and earth have been further improved after the complete control of the realm, the damage caused has been reduced once again.

On the other hand, the Great Ming World was pushed far away due to the impact of the New Territories.

Fortunately, the dynasty and the laws of the Great Dao of all people had already invaded that world.

Even if they are struck and forced to leave the Celestial Empire again, they can still descend to that other world through their connection with their own Great Dao.

Even after everything calmed down, the dynasty used its great power to bring it back to normal.

With the flow of magical power within his body, the dynasty instantly descended into a new world, transcending the operation of the Great Dao, elevating his own status, and breaking through the protective barrier of the world in one fell swoop, pouring a ball of power into it.

As the power exploded and radiated across the world, Wang Chao's face revealed an expression of "I knew it."

The new world is still in the Ming Dynasty, but the level of power has increased. The historical process has regressed by one era, to the reign of Emperor Muzong of Ming, Zhu Zaiji, also known as the Longqing Emperor.

The dynasty had anticipated this.

The Ming Dynasty was the main period in which dynasties underwent changes in power and information.

Naturally, the world that resonates with it is mostly the world of the Ming Dynasty or the late Ming Dynasty.

Of course, it is also possible that the world would resemble the Qing Dynasty period following the Ming Dynasty.

After drawing in a new world and breaking through its protective barriers, it becomes easier to interfere with the workings of its rules by injecting power.

The dynasty then stopped paying attention and continued to adjust the world power information of the Ming Realm.

As time passed, various worlds were drawn in, forming a small cluster of worlds outside the main world.

Furthermore, as the number of worlds increased, these worlds began to resonate subtly with each other, and their world force fields no longer exhibited obvious repulsion.

Until one vast world, surpassing all others, crashed into the Chaos Layer, creating a hole comparable to the very beginning.

The boundless power of the void poured out, impacting and eroding the land of the Dao Lord's Realm below, creating a vast ocean no smaller than the initial impact.

As the turbulent aftershocks of the impact dissipated, the chaotic layer closed up and recovered, and the other worlds outside the chaos also stabilized again, a stronger resonance was generated.

Those worlds resonated with each other, and the repulsion between their world force fields completely dissipated, instead merging together.

Immediately afterwards, a hazy, indistinct phantom appeared outside those worlds, enveloping and connecting them together.

From a distance, it looks like an illusory river.

Originating from that final, colossal world, endless void energy was drawn in and devoured, transforming into countless illusory drops of water that continuously flowed into the illusory river.

The river flowed swiftly down to the world it first came into, which was the world during the Wanli era.

Within those rivers, there exist scenes depicting the development of these worlds and all life.

"The River of Time."

Upon seeing this illusory river, Wang Chao couldn't help but murmur aloud.

Indeed, isn't the illusory river formed by the resonance, fusion, and evolution of those dozen or so worlds similar to the long river of time and space?
Or rather, it is the river of time and space.

At least, that was the prototype of the river of time.

As time goes by, the resonance and connection between these worlds deepens, and in the blank spaces between those worlds, phantoms of other worlds begin to appear.

Under the combined correction of the rules of the world and time, the development of those worlds will always, through various coincidences, lead to the current state of the next world.

Moreover, this newly formed illusory river of time is also subtly extending in both directions, tracing back history and evolving into the future.

However, history is fixed and constant, with only one fixed timeline, constantly moving backward.

The future, however, is illusory and unpredictable, constantly changing, and has even given rise to countless illusory timelines, constantly arising and ceasing.

Moreover, it seems that the entire river of time is collapsing towards the last world, attempting to merge and evolve into a vast world with a true river of time. Under normal circumstances, perhaps after millions of years, it will indeed merge and evolve into such a vast world.

However, the situation is different now.

Because those many worlds are all subject to the intervention of dynasties and the power of the Celestial Empire.

In particular, at the end of this illusory river of time, the world during the Wanli era has almost been completely conquered.

These mysterious paths connected it to the Celestial Empire.

Thus, the waters of the long river of time flowed continuously towards the Celestial Empire.

Within the countless rivers of time, illusory figures emerged, evolving into illusory worlds that stretched directly towards the Celestial Empire.

Upon arriving in the Celestial Empire world, the dynasty could clearly sense a special and mysterious force that seemed to want to penetrate into the core of the world and seize the information of the Celestial Empire world.

However, this special power, though mysterious, seemed illusory and unreal. It appeared that the dynasty could shatter and erase it, or even completely devour it, with a mere thought.

Feeling that he could easily control it, the dynasty relaxed and, with a thought, lifted the blockade on the Celestial Empire world.

In an instant, those countless illusory rivers of time penetrated deep into the core of the world and overflowed the entire world.

In an instant, countless surface-level pieces of information were imprinted and integrated into the river of time.

Of course, information about the fundamental principles of the Celestial Empire, dynasties, and others is still firmly blocked by them.

Just because something can be easily manipulated doesn't mean it's time to reveal the fundamental information.

With our cards completely exposed, who knows what will happen?
However, even some superficial information has still caused a global sensation.

Countless pieces of information about the Celestial Empire flowed upstream along the river of time, eventually merging into those real and illusory worlds.

In an instant, those dozen or so real worlds trembled simultaneously, causing the entire river of time to shake and waves to surge.

Each wave is a microcosm of history, or the life of a powerful and famous figure.

Meanwhile, the historical microcosm reflected in those waves is undergoing a series of silent changes.

It looks the same as before, but the underlying logic is undergoing a mysterious transformation.

At the same time, the dynasty began to sense familiar energy flowing through these historical microcosms, the long river of time, and those various worlds.

It contains his own power of the Great Dao, as well as the power of the Great Dao from Wang Jingchen, Wang Dahu, and others.

This illusory river of time, and those real worlds, are actively embracing the power of the Great Dao of the Celestial Empire and its people.

This situation was something the dynasty had never anticipated.

Looking once more at the River of Time, one can see streams of the Great Dao rising from the Celestial Empire and the Wanli World, flowing upstream along the illusory River of Time, constantly merging into one world after another.

The convergence of countless forces of the Great Dao and the information of the world caused what was originally an illusory river of time to rapidly solidify and continuously transform into reality.

Outside the Wanli world, powerful Dao Lords looked up in alarm.

Feeling the changes in their own Dao, it seemed as if they were constantly merging into different worlds, leaving them completely bewildered and utterly unaware of what was happening.

"How is this going?

I feel my path is merging into other worlds.

"I also sensed something."

But we're waiting to completely conquer this world; we haven't even gone to other worlds yet.

"yes.

Could this great path possibly slip out of control?

"But it doesn't seem like it either."
I feel that I still have normal control over the path to integrating into other worlds.

"Well
I sensed a special, mysterious power emanating from around me.
"Yes, just like the power of time."

"The power of time? Hasn't that proven to be an illusion?"
There may be no real power of time in this world.

There is only the movement and flow of matter and energy, and the operation of the rules of heaven and earth.

The long river of time in our Celestial Empire is less a river of time and more a river of historical information.

What exists within it is nothing more than a collection of all the information about the development and evolution of the world.

However, some people have spoken out against the existence of the power of time.

However, everyone still couldn't help but carefully observe their surroundings.

Gradually, everyone's expressions became serious.

Because a mysterious power had indeed appeared around them, and it vaguely resembled the power of the River of Time that they had encountered in the Celestial Empire.

However, this power is even more mysterious, vaguely carrying the meaning of erosion, dissolution, and decay of all things, truly resembling the great power of time.

For a moment, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, a huge wave of emotions rising in their hearts.

Could it be that this really is the power of time?

After a moment of contemplation, someone finally couldn't resist using the laws of the Great Dao as a medium to sense the information that the Great Dao had integrated into the world.

Through this process of sensing, everyone discovered that there seemed to be countless illusory worlds connecting more than a dozen real worlds.

The historical development of these worlds together forms a vast river of history and time.

At the source of the river of time lies a vast world, where many stars of the solar system have already evolved and formed.

Moreover, the level of martial power in that world far surpasses that of the world we have discovered so far, and there are already beings at the Celestial Realm.

The time in that world was precisely at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a time of numerous peasant uprisings, when Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and drove out the Tartars.

A vague understanding arose in everyone's hearts.

Perhaps it is precisely because these dozen or so worlds all represent a period of development in the Ming Dynasty that they resonated and merged, truly giving rise to such a real timeline.

As for why, in the past, these worlds did not resonate or merge.

That's because they are ultimately different.

Both the timeline of historical development and the level of military strength are different.

However, once they were drawn here, the dynasty poured all its own power of the Great Dao into these worlds.

Using this as a medium, coupled with the similarities in historical development and the narrowing of the distance between them, they finally resonated and merged, ultimately evolving into this illusory and vast river of time.

However, the final destination of the future, which was once elusive and constantly changing, eventually converged at a single point and flowed towards the Celestial Empire.

No matter how these worlds develop, as long as their power does not surpass that of the Celestial Empire, their ultimate destination will always be the Celestial Empire; there are no other possible futures. (End of Chapter)