Conferred Gods: Start with a Phoenix clone

Chapter 1809 Don’t be like this, I’m afraid

Knowing full well that there's a cauldron in the mountain, she still headed towards it. This wasn't Deng Chanyu's style. She never fought unprepared battles, always ensuring her own invincibility, and always trying to outnumber the enemy. This was the secret to her undefeated success throughout the ages.

But this time, the call from the level of the Great Dao kept touching her mind. It seemed to be some kind of opportunity, or something beyond opportunity, calling to her. If she ignored it, she might not have another chance next time.

After much deliberation, she still set foot on the ground of the Timeless Wasteland.

Although it was described as a timeless wilderness, once she actually set foot on the ground, she realized that it was a problem stemming from her own limited understanding.

It is a wilderness of time and space, but not entirely.

Her understanding of the various Great Daos as a Primordial Golden Immortal was somewhat one-sided in this peculiar space.

However, she believes that in general, they are about the same.

This is indeed the starting point of space and the end point of time.

The Wasteland of Time and Space is extremely repulsive to external forces, namely the power of the Great Dao. However, having initially mastered the power of time and space, Deng Chanyu still has some mobility here. Every step she takes is like walking in mud. It is definitely strenuous, but she can eventually take two steps.

The third day after entering the Time-Space Wilderness.

Deng Chanyu saw an old Taoist priest under a large tree whose name she did not know.

This was none other than the Taiqing Sage, who had been away from the primordial world for thousands of years and had not sent back any messages.

At this moment, the old man with white beard and white hair sat under the tree, looking relaxed and calm. However, his tightly closed eyes and the fingers of his right hand constantly calculating something in his sleeve proved that he was not as relaxed as he looked.

Deng Chanyu glanced at him from afar without disturbing her fellow villager.

The Sage Taiqing appeared to be close at hand, but in reality, he was far away. The two were not even in the same plane, and his time did not match Deng Chanyu's time. Even if she went over and shouted, he would not notice anything unusual.

Following her intuition, she continued walking forward.

About ten days later, even with the support of time and space power, which made her consumption far less than that of the Taiqing Saint, she still felt extremely exhausted. Most of her spiritual energy was depleted, and her divine consciousness was completely suppressed within her body. At this point, she could only walk forward with a cane, stumbling along.

Just as she was sitting down to rest for what felt like the umpteenth time, and began to doubt whether she could reach the finish line, a blurry figure, as if disconnected from the internet, stood stiffly about ten feet in front of her.

Although she couldn't see the face or the clothes clearly, she recognized the person at a glance. It was Yang Mei, or more precisely, a shadow left by Yang Mei in the desolate wilderness of time and space.

Yang Mei has perished, but his influence on the primordial world and chaos still exists in various peculiar ways.

This is the power beyond that of a Primordial Golden Immortal.

Deng Chanyu went over to take a closer look and found that if the difference of Yang Mei's afterimage being without a real body was removed, his form in the wilderness of time and space was similar to that of the previous Taiqing Saint.

They all wanted to reach the finish line, but failed for one reason or another.

The Sage Taiqing, lacking the power of spacetime, could only venture into the wilderness before being unable to continue. Yet, his resilience was remarkable; he was still transforming his surroundings and the entire desolate spacetime at the level of the Great Dao, attempting to create an atmosphere of "following nature's course." This process was extremely slow, but like Jingwei filling the sea or Yu Gong moving mountains, it couldn't be said to be ineffective. Yang Mei, on the other hand, had perished in his physical form, leaving only a lingering shadow, unable to take another step forward.

"Great Immortal, take care. I will continue on your way." Deng Chanyu said to the afterimage of Yang Mei, who was not even in the same plane as her. Then, without waiting for a response, she continued walking forward at her own pace.

She walked and walked, and the road seemed to have no end in sight. If it weren't for the occasional sight of a few chaotic demons trapped in different times and spaces, she would have thought she was just going around in circles in a small area.

The Chaos Gods are mostly humanoid, and the further "forward" they go, the more expressive and human-like their expressions become.

A young, handsome, fair-skinned, male-looking but female-looking chaotic demon god even glanced in Deng Chanyu's direction.

Even though they are from different planes and different times, this demon god can sense Deng Chanyu's existence, which means that he is even stronger than the Taiqing Saint.

Deng Chanyu persevered with her inner strength, determined to see the scenery at the end, ignoring the gaze of the Chaos Demon God, and continued forward.

Just when she thought she had been wandering in the wilderness of time and space for hundreds of years, a broken piece of jade caught her eye.

With just one glance, she knew where this thing came from.

This is one of the fragments of the Jade Disc of Creation, a very small piece that might go unnoticed if one doesn't look closely.

Deng Chanyu was able to discover it entirely because she had seen the Jade Disc of Creation and Hongjun, and she knew the source of this power.

Hongjun also came here?
This question is actually quite silly. Where hasn't Hongjun Lao Deng been? It's perfectly normal for him to have been here; it would be strange if he hadn't.

Leaving behind a fragment of the Creation Jade Disc—does it represent "Hongjun was here"? After that, Lao Deng didn't continue forward but turned and left.
She had a feeling that she was getting closer and closer to the finish line.

Deng Chanyu's vision blurred, as if she had broken through some kind of boundary. The boundless wilderness disappeared, and she stood on a steep cliff with surging seawater below, the sound of waves crashing against the rocks echoing from time to time.

A middle-aged woman stood with her back to her on the edge of the cliff, gazing at the sea in the distance.

Deng Chanyu used her last bit of divine sense to scan the middle-aged woman. It was like an old television set with no signal; all she could see in her divine sense was a jumble of static, with only a few twisted and meaningless lines occasionally visible. This was a powerful being that she could not comprehend at all.

Deng Chanyu stopped using her divine sense to observe, and instead used her ordinary vision to observe. After a while, she chuckled and said, "Your appearance is not funny. Please change your appearance a little."

The middle-aged woman turned around.

Her face bore a striking resemblance to Deng Chanyu's, a resemblance that Deng Chanyu had never seen before. However, she knew that this was Deng Jiugong's first wife, and Deng Chanyu's biological mother who had died young.

The middle-aged woman said softly, "I originally thought this would make the conversation easier?"

Deng Chanyu shook her head repeatedly: "No, it's inconvenient. It only confuses me. Deng Jiugong's wife is just an ordinary person, definitely not the Mother of Chaos. I'm scared of you looking like this."

"Okay." The middle-aged woman's appearance changed slightly, the change was very small, but it was clear that she looked completely different from before.

(End of this chapter)