The myth begins with the Lotus Lantern

Chapter 294 Space
"Roar!"

The dragon opened its mouth without restraint.

A brief stalemate.

Emperor Ziwei had used all his strength, but he still couldn't stop the annihilation of the spear tip's radiant light. Even after revealing the true form of the Demon-Subduing Golden Spear, it still wouldn't give up. Starting from the spear tip, this divine weapon began to crumble inch by inch.

The space itself shattered even more, with glass-like fragments raining down like a storm, and the restrictions of the Thirty-Three Heavens swayed violently.

At a certain moment, the shattering of space finally reached a critical point, and it collapsed inward violently.

A massive black hole has appeared.

Suddenly, the Ziwei Emperor's body shone brightly with starlight. This light enveloped him, preventing him from being swallowed by the black hole. At the same time, his spear, whose sharpness had been dulled, was raised, and with the help of the black hole's power, he finally managed to evade the dragon's attack.

"Roar!"

Although the dragon was fierce, it lacked intelligence. Ignoring what lay ahead, it charged forward and was swallowed whole by the black hole.

Emperor Ziwei managed to stall for a little longer, but with the Purple Qi Immortal Seal and the Nine-Bend Pearl falling, and the Demon-Subduing Golden Spear mostly destroyed, defeat seemed inevitable.

The Jade Emperor remained calm. With a wave of his hand, the surrounding void rippled, and a large opening appeared. The dragon burst out again, and as soon as it poked its head out, it was about to charge at the Ziwei Emperor. However, it was restrained by the Jade Emperor's technique of holding back its attack, and could only rage helplessly.

However, the Jade Emperor's actions were not intended to give the Ziwei Emperor a respite, but rather to achieve his goal in one fell swoop.

"Edict!"

The Jade Emperor raised his right hand, joined his index and middle fingers together, and a point of spiritual light shone at his fingertip. He casually flicked it and it disappeared into the dragon's eyebrow.

"Spirit Empowerment?!"

The Ziwei Emperor's expression changed drastically, his eyes filled with surprise and doubt. Last time they fought, the Jade Emperor could only mimic the form, at most giving this Great Luo Realm creation a little more spirituality. But now, with this one finger, he has already given it intelligence.

"Ziwei, you have no chance." The Jade Emperor's eyes were cold. He waved his hand and released the dragon. The dragon immediately charged forward, baring its fangs and claws. Its reckless appearance seemed no different from before, but its dragon eyes were no longer empty. They had suddenly flashed with the light of wisdom.

The finishing touch!

"rise!"

Emperor Ziwei spread his hands, and in an instant, his palms seemed to grow as large as mountains. A star map rose from his palm, and apart from the sun and moon, all the stars in the heavens were drawn into it—the Boundless Star Map.

The Great Emperor of the North Pole of the Central Heaven, Ziwei, rules over all the stars and ranks second among the Six Emperors.

This "Diagram of Limitless Stars" is his true essence, a supreme magical artifact capable of commanding countless stars!
As the Array of Stars Unfolded, the Great Emperor Ziwei stood on the Ziwei Star, where all the stars were in full bloom. In an instant, the world seemed to be shrouded in mist, and countless brilliant starlight fell down and was drawn into the array. He stepped on a star position, turned his body, and grasped the endless starlight in his palm.

The Ziwei Emperor coldly looked at the Jade Emperor. The light of the stars was subdued by the star map, and the Jade Emperor stood in the darkness, his figure still majestic and infinitely towering.

The next moment, the dragon roared and charged.

……

In the Peach Garden, Ding Lin settled the seven fairies in, then looked up at the sky without stopping.

The stone monkey was unaware of the seven fairy maidens' identities, and his worries and actions were actually unnecessary. This year's Peach Banquet was destined to fail. The Queen Mother also knew that Ding Lin was brought in by the seven fairy maidens, but she deliberately sent them to the Peach Garden. The meaning behind this was obvious.

Ding Lin felt dizzy and bewildered. This was the power of the Great Emperor level, easily traversing the starry river and shattering space. He was standing in the third heaven, so his view was not as clear as that of the top of the thirty-third heaven. But this might be an illusion, or perhaps his current level was simply not high enough to see this battle that surpassed the Great Luo level. He strained his eyes to the limit, but could only see countless glass-like fragments flying around.

Previously, Da Luo was just a concept in my mind; I knew about him but it was vague and not concrete. But at this moment, witnessing it with my own eyes, the distant goal has materialized.

Ding Lin felt shocked and amazed, but for some reason, she also felt a faint sense of worry. She thought of Qingyi. When they last met, he already knew that Qingyi had entered Beiming, the last territory of the demon race. Her trajectory should have been two lines running in opposite directions from the Heavenly Court.

That day, Qingyi overheard the Fifth Fairy's warning in the dark, but she was not surprised at all. She even understood the meaning behind the words that were about to happen. Did that mean that the great battle between the Ziwei Emperor and the Jade Emperor today was also orchestrated by the one from Beiming?

At that moment, Qingyi appeared in the Heavenly Court, but was unwilling to reveal his whereabouts.

Ding Lin felt increasingly uneasy as he thought about it.

"Crack!"

A soft sound suddenly came from beside my ear.

Ding Lin snapped out of his daze and glanced up to see a bead falling from above. The restrictions of the Peach Garden had no effect on it; the faint nine-colored light on its surface flashed and pierced through it, before it returned to its grayish appearance and fell directly to the ground.

This is... a treasure that breaks the taboo?
Ding Lin's eyes flashed. He remained expressionless, but a surge of greed rose in his heart. With a thought, a cloud of mist drifted away, concealing the bead's whereabouts, and then silently rolled down to his feet. Ding Lin stepped on it and tried to pick it up with his magic power, but the bead felt incredibly heavy. Even with his current magic power, he couldn't lift it lightly. He could only bend down and pick it up.

As soon as he got his hands on the bead, it began to sink heavily. Fortunately, Ding Lin's physical body was now strong, and he also had magic power moving through it, so he managed not to reveal his presence.

This bead is naturally the Nine-Bend Bead that fell from the starry sky. Although in the eyes of the Ziwei Emperor, it is not as vast as the Boundless Star Diagram, nor as domineering and sharp as the Demon-Subduing Golden Spear, and is rarely used, that is the Ziwei Emperor. In fact, the Nine-Bend Bead contains the wonders of space and is a first-class spiritual object.

The palm touches the beads.

Ding Lin immediately sensed a wisp of thought lurking within it; even this single thought gave him a feeling of vastness and immensity.

But perhaps because it had been severely injured in the recent battle, or perhaps because its master was fighting fiercely and could not attend to anything else for the time being, this thought was temporarily dormant in quiet slumber.

Ding Lin's heart suddenly trembled violently a few times. He couldn't understand or see clearly the battle between the Ziwei Emperor and the Jade Emperor, but he could clearly see the two immortal treasures mixed in with the glass-like fragments of space that had fallen from the sky. They belonged to either the Ziwei Emperor or the Jade Emperor.

Normally, he would never have come into contact with something of this level.

But now, the treasure has fallen right in front of him. Isn't this the will of heaven? Moreover, the thought within it is still dormant. He has just mastered the "Spirit Treasure Technique". Ding Lin does not expect to be able to completely refine the bead. As long as he can gain something from it before the thought awakens, it will be an immense opportunity.

This is a treasure that breaks the taboo.

It can penetrate the restrictions of the thirty-three heavens, so it must contain the wonders of space.

All treasures that break the restrictions, if they are acquired, must have reached their ultimate level, and most of them are innate, ranking at the top among innate spiritual treasures.

Ding Lin, a time traveler who lived in an era of information overload before his transmigration, despite his low educational background (only high school), had read countless online novels and was familiar with the famous saying, "Time is king, space is supreme." The Law of Space was one of the few laws standing at the very pinnacle of the three thousand laws!

If Ding Lin had tried to comprehend it step by step on his own, it would have been impossible. As the saying goes, knowledge is power. His knowledge base in high school was limited to having heard of the word "space" and having a vague idea about it, but he didn't even have a concept of it. As for the underlying principles, please forgive the poverty of a high school student.

Ding Lin did not hesitate. He maintained his posture of gazing at the sky, and the magical power within his body surged, beginning to circulate according to the route of the "Spiritual Treasure Technique".

The area was shrouded in mist, appearing and disappearing in a hazy, dreamlike state.

From every angle, one can see Ding Lin, yet from every angle, one cannot detect any unusual phenomena manifesting in the operation of Ding Lin's "Lingbao Jue".

A large amount of the finest metals flowed into the body of Dharma.

That lingering thought, however, remained dormant.

This Nine-Bend Bead is like a boundless sea, no wonder it is so heavy. It is unknown how much precious metal was used to refine it, or whether it was originally formed innately. Ding Lin has no way of knowing any of this. Even if this bead was originally innate, after being refined by the Ziwei Emperor, all the innate energy in it was absorbed, and it was already difficult to distinguish.

Despite Ding Lin's best efforts, the essence of metals he had absorbed was only a drop in the ocean, like digging a canal on the beach to bring water. No wonder that thought didn't move him at all.

At one moment, a very mysterious feeling suddenly came from the essence of the five metals, mysterious and profound.

Ding Lin couldn't understand, so he could only store it in his physical body. In the inner world, a wave of emptiness rippled, and above the Great Sun Golden Core, at the very top of the cave, a section of snow-white chain extended out.

In the palm of my hand, the bead trembled violently, as if its consciousness was about to awaken.

It doesn't matter how much of the Five Elements Ding Lin extracts; with his Golden Immortal physique, he simply can't consume that much. The ocean won't degenerate just because a pond is gone.

But touching the power of the laws is touching the very foundation. The ocean can lose the water of countless ponds, but it will never allow the sea eye to be blocked, not even by a single thread.

Ding Lin sensed the unusual movement of the thoughts within the bead, but instead of stopping, he finally caught this spatial fluctuation. How could he give up? He recklessly urged the "Spirit Treasure Technique." In that instant, his physical body tore apart, as if countless iron chains were weaving through it, and the speed at which the laws were extracted also suddenly accelerated.

The concept of a round heaven and a square earth, and the laws of space, appear at the very top of the inner grotto-heaven. Judging from the section that just appeared, it only takes three sections to form a complete structure.

The Tao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Two, Two gives birth to Three, and Three gives birth to all things.

Under Ding Lin's relentless pressure, disregarding even the Dharma body, the second section of the chain was formed in an instant.

Within the bead, the dormant thought fluctuated more violently, emanating anger. It wanted to wake up, but was attacked by the true dragon created by the Jade Emperor. Although it had not yet been imbued with spirit at that time, since the Jade Emperor had already comprehended it, the spirituality contained in the dragon-shaped true energy was far beyond what it had been before. It was this spirituality that separated the bead from the thought, allowing it to temporarily escape the control of the Ziwei Emperor.

Ding Lin disregarded everything. If it weren't for the clouds and mist around him, a closer look would reveal that his eyes were already red.

The third section is chain forming.

The seventh law within the Inner Landscape Cave Heaven.

This also means that one of the nine spatial laws within the Nine-Bend Pearl was permanently extracted, and the pearl's thoughts went completely mad in an instant. Even the wisp of spiritual energy that the Jade Emperor had applied to isolate it could not stop it and was instantly broken through.

But he was still a step too late. Ding Lin had been preparing for this moment, and he released the Nine-Bend Pearl the instant the law took shape. This instant was also the instant when his thoughts broke through the spiritual barrier.

"Snapped!"

The bead fell to the ground.

The thought suddenly spread throughout the entire bead. It wanted to go out and search, but the meaning it was engraved with at that time was only to manipulate the Nine-Bend Bead. It was not given the authority to go out at all. It could only tremble unwillingly and find nothing. The next moment, following the inexplicable feeling, it broke through the air and went straight to the Thirty-Three Heavens to find its master who was still fighting bitterly.

A close call!
Ding Lin's heart pounded wildly, even skipping a beat. He stood still for a while before calming down. A sense of unreality rose in his heart. He repeatedly raised his consciousness into the inner world of the cave, looking at it several times before finally confirming the matter with the silver chain that had only three sections.

He seized the laws of space.

Although it is completely incomprehensible, since this law has been imprinted in the inner world, no matter how it was obtained, it has been obtained in the end.

From now on, all you need to do is ponder and eventually you will understand and fully comprehend it.

As this spatial law condensed.

The originally weak and unstable inner world cave suddenly became stable, since the essence of the cave is space.

As for possessing seven laws and having reached the late stage of Golden Immortal cultivation, these seem insignificant.

The bloodshot in Ding Lin's eyes faded, and his vision returned to clarity.

In that instant, he saw the starry sky.

Oh my god, something has collapsed!

……

"The Starry Sky Diagram, is this your last resort?" The Jade Emperor's voice was cold in the darkness. "But even so, you can only withstand my Nine Dragons True Qi at most. I still have many supernatural powers to use, while you are already at your wit's end. What makes you think you can compete with me!"

Until the very end, who can say for sure who will emerge victorious?

Emperor Ziwei said that although his expression may have fluctuated from beginning to end, his eyes remained calm as he unleashed a palm strike that gathered the power of all the stars in the heavens.

The dragon showed no fear and leaped forward to meet the attack.

"One Qi transforms three pure things!"

The Jade Emperor was about to unleash his newly mastered divine power. After being able to imbue his body with spirit, the three other forms he manifested were no longer mere shells, but beings capable of temporary existence, possessing the same intelligence as his original body.

One Jade Emperor was already so difficult to deal with, let alone three.

What about four?
The Ziwei Emperor looked at the three figures rapidly taking shape beside the Jade Emperor, a smile playing on his lips. With a swift strike of his right hand, the dragon, already imbued with spirit, vanished without a trace.

"Zhou Tian Xing Chen Grand Array, activate!"

(End of this chapter)