The Ancient Saint Emperor of the Heaven-shading

Chapter 327 A Battle Beyond the Sacrifice Path, A Variable That Can Cover the Sky
In the long river of time, the three emperors traveled back in time, straight into the chaotic ancient era.

Above space and time, two enormous shadows coiled like a spider web, encompassing the origin of everything and the endless future.

From the perspective of the beings below, it is as if countless versions of them are fighting simultaneously in various timelines, main streams, and tributaries. Although the battles in that realm are incomprehensible, some inferences can still be made through changes in world history.

Because the aftershocks of their battle are spreading across various time periods and tributaries of the worldview, only the supreme beings can perceive them. A single ripple from these aftershocks has created countless great evolutionary civilizations in the vast ancient history of time and space, and some of their mysteries can enlighten the supreme beings.

This has become a battle that sweeps across all timelines and worldviews. Their power sweeps across the void, and even a breath from billions of years ago can cause changes and alterations in the endless distant future. They are essentially modifying the worldview, structure, and foundation.

For example, they directly reversed the essence of cultivation. Originally, it was from the human path to the immortal path and then to the emperor path, but under their distortion, everything was reversed. When a living being is born, it is on the emperor path, and then it falls step by step, only to return to the mortal realm.

Some timelines were affected, and all cultivation systems became Tai Sui paths and ominous methods, where absorbing ominous substances was the orthodox practice; in other timelines, there were no cultivation systems at all, only pure technology and mortal life; in all these forms, the underlying logic was rewritten.

Just like the natural cycle of sunrise and sunset, day and night, this common sense and understanding has simply disappeared! All living beings take it all for granted and have no such knowledge or concept; there are many other similar cases, but they are merely the aftershocks of a battle.

In their battles, they are creating worldlines that cover and influence each other. In some worldviews, the Ten Ancestors are actually protagonist-like figures. Although they inherited the primordial matter, they still have light in their hearts and govern the world. Under the evolution of the Plateau Consciousness, beings with the same experiences as invincible beings such as the Pollen Emperor and Wang Shi have appeared, but they have fallen into depravity and darkness.

These timelines clash and fight each other, creating a war involving countless protagonists!

This is a duel between the protagonists they created, each of whom is an inheritor of a worldview, composing the heavenly order, bearing the destiny of all things, and revealing the essence of all paths.

At the same time, in a higher dimension and at a higher level, the speed of the two existences surpassed logic, time and space, and concepts. Like a raging torrent and a giant wave crashing against the sky, the ferocity, ferocity, strength, power, and dominance of their offensive were unprecedented.

In a fierce and merciless clash, the two powerful figures unleashed countless wondrous techniques and boundless power in an instant. Even when fighting at the very end of all worlds, with the endless void of chaos as a buffer, both nearby parallel world lines and distant other worldviews were all affected by them, distorted into exaggerated shapes.

It is hard to imagine that a single worldline contains a complete universe, countless realms, and a long river of time; now, these dense and countless worldlines are bending and swinging like noodles to their left and right, twisting into arcs and circles, forming flowers and plants, arranging into squares, and changing in countless ways with a single thought.

They have an inexhaustible supply of attacks and an endless array of moves; a single clash can create a new 'world line'.

The number of worlds generated by this worldline is increasing at an extremely abnormal rate: hundreds of billions, trillions, Ganges sands, thousands of Ganges sands, countless asamkhya, countless nayutas, an inconceivable and immeasurable number!

Visible to the naked eye, countless great worlds appeared within this worldline, and within each great world were countless heavens, within each heaven were countless realms, within each realm were countless universes, within each universe were countless celestial bodies, within each heaven were countless living beings, and each living being spread out to different worldlines... in an endless cycle.

And in the next instant, they clashed again, and that incredible, immeasurable, and incalculable vast world was once again completely destroyed, scattered, and reduced to chaotic dust.

The two strongest beings, with each strike, continuously carved out more unique time and space, more glorious history, and more magnificent world.

They are no longer destroyers, but creators. Every force brings new life and vitality, creating life, building civilization, writing history, and composing myths.

Nothing in the world can stop their existence, so their power is left to roam freely, becoming well-known myths and legends, and deeply rooted common sense and concepts.

"You and I have both surpassed the path of sacrifice, but with this endless accumulation, we will never reach the path of sacrifice!" The highland consciousness was quite surprised. It really did not expect that the two people after merging would actually have the strength to fight against it. Although it was because it could not truly use the power left behind by the master of the bronze coffin, it was still extremely terrifying.

At this moment, it actually took out the missing stone zither and stone jar. These things had been hidden by the consciousness of the plateau all along. From the stone jar, there was also a hazy ashes that it absorbed and integrated into its body along with the jar.

Then, the Lotus of Eternal Reincarnation appeared and merged into the consciousness of the plateau, causing his body to swell again, and then he suddenly plucked the strings of the zither.

All the laws of the heavens are contained within a single string; the endless paths of the myriad worlds are not as sharp as a fingertip!

As soon as this sound rang out, all the killing moves and changes that had appeared before were overturned and blasted over from the very beginning of the plateau. It was as if the plateau consciousness used itself as a fulcrum to leverage the power of the entire worldview. All the power since its appearance converged and blasted over together!

This was already the strongest power it could muster. Even the Plateau Consciousness itself felt fortunate that it had comprehended and mastered this power through continuous battles with Wang Shi and the other person, and that it was also progressing and sublimating.

"Using all methods? What a pity, you're using what I'm best at. You don't understand what it means for all things to return to oneness."

The voice of Wang Shi after merging into one rang out, pushing the cycle of self-attachment to its ultimate sublimation. He used his own heart to represent the heart of heaven, and his body to transform into all things. He wanted to integrate countless worlds, and even more so, every living being that has ever been born in the past, present, and future!
All the heavens are my manifestations, but the one true truth is eternal!
This statement came true at this moment. Everything was him, a manifestation of his thoughts, defining all existence as a projection of "I". All cycles of reincarnation, past, present, and future, were extensions of "I" consciousness. All living beings were seen as different facets of "the true self" in reincarnation. Mountains, rivers, stars, civilization relics, and even strange substances were all concrete extensions of "self-attachment" in the material world.

At this moment, his long hair was scattered in the void, and even more eye-catching was a ten-colored halo that stretched from his right shoulder to his left shoulder and condensed behind his head. Wang Shi's gaze swept in all directions, and at this moment, all beings in all time and space turned their gaze toward his location, and all matter and concepts converged toward him.

The next moment, an endless universe unfolded in Wang Hongwu's mind. He felt his thoughts constantly extending and being stretched, and his consciousness sank into an unprecedented realm.

Everything seemed to have vanished, a second could be infinite, and everything before our eyes seemed to never change again.

Immediately afterwards, more and more information entered his consciousness: the sound of flames burning wood, the sound of weapons clashing, the delicious taste of cooking, the gentle touch of countless hands caressing his body, the glory of climbing a peak... but most of all, it was loneliness, the loneliness of endless emptiness.

As endless information poured into the void, he was sublimated, bringing all things back to one.

Living and dead, concepts and nothingness, the existing and the non-existent, the past and everything else are all under the control of the same consciousness. He is everything, and everything is only a part of him. He can control everything, as long as he wants.

The power that Wang Shi, appearing in this form, mobilized was even greater than that of the Plateau Consciousness. But he was not satisfied with this. Instead, he used this power to occupy the Origin, evolve the Origin, and rewrite everything that followed. This was the power of his system, which he intended to use to completely suppress the Plateau Consciousness!

Everything has its cause and origin, and the initial cause cannot be anything else but God, becoming the eternal origin!
He denied the original origin and replaced it with himself, becoming the origin of all world lines, like the Lord of the Plateau, the Lord of the Three Coffins, and the true master of that small courtyard.

In an instant, all the forces that the Plateau Consciousness had grasped and manipulated were affected, losing their original concepts and instead becoming a part of Wang Hongwu, becoming the 'effect' derived from the first cause.

This means that the power he inherited from the Bronze Coffin Master was no longer his own, but rather a remnant of Wang Hongwu's origin. He himself became a subordinate branch of it, and all of his cycles were built on the foundation of Wang Hongwu's origin. When he changed it, everything collapsed.

Not only was the high-altitude consciousness's killing move ineffective, but even its existence was denied by Wang Hongwu Zun and constantly divided. However, the division of existence has an end. When it is divided to the limit, existence can be divided into nothingness. At the same time that it does not exist, it is another special state of existence.

Wang Hongwu has now transformed the plateau consciousness into this state, weakening and knocking it down, leaving it in a situation it cannot resist, and then it is occupied, reversed, or even devoured and seized!
"You?! You want to possess me?" Gao Yuan was shocked, never expecting to end up like this in the final showdown!

"The origin is me, you are a later creation, we are already one!" Wang Hongwu sneered, becoming part of the plateau, vying for dominance. As his and Shi Hao's power spread, the power of the sacrificial path that was originally buried under the plateau and inherited by them also merged with them and could be used. This was equivalent to reducing the plateau's 'share'.

This is also the method they came up with to deal with the plateau. Direct confrontation is ultimately not advisable, so deciphering and seizing its power is the best option.

"Damn it! Do you think you can deal with me like this? I am immortal. In countless timelines, as long as I succeed in just one, it is destined to come true!" The highland consciousness roared, and endless power covered countless timelines.

In an instant, the struggle between countless timelines also became part of the battle between the two sides. When all the timelines were dictated by Wang Shi and his companion, it proved that they had succeeded, completely dispelled the plateau consciousness, and mastered the power above the sacrificial path.

Conversely, if they succeed, they will fail and enter a long tug-of-war in which neither side can gain the upper hand.

However, among these countless timelines, Wang Hongwu and Shi Hao were extremely confident because there was one variable.

A variable left behind by them.

In an instant, a golden flame gradually lit up in that endless world line shrouded in ominous gloom and eerie mist.

Although faint, it is real, like a spark igniting a prairie fire, and continues to grow and spread.

It illuminates the fog and haze, making them sparkle.

That was the radiance of an indestructible golden body.

There, a lone figure stands guard against peril, his single leaf obscuring the sky!
Ye Fan!

He is a crucial link left behind by Wang Hongwu and Shi Hao, a savior connecting other timelines, just as he said when he descended upon the Chaotic Ancient Era:
"I will surely end this ominous era!"

Now, as the Dao Ancestor, he fights and battles against strange creatures in one dark world line after another.

Meanwhile, the Empress, Wushi, Qingdi, and Duan De also rise in different timelines to resolve the misfortune in that world.

Such battles were endless, almost leaving people without hope, but they persevered because after their meeting in the Chaotic Ancient Era, they understood the true meaning of the future.

In one time and space after another, in one different land of calamity after another, the great battles they experienced were so brutal that even the world being their enemy was insufficient to describe it. There were even instances where the Supreme Being and the Ancestor had preemptively killed them, but these were all resolved by the power of Wang Hongwu and Shi Hao, who then projected them into countless timelines to proceed simultaneously, so that one success would lead to the success of all.

Ultimately, in such a fierce battle, Wu Shi was the first to achieve the Supreme Realm and began to fight against the High Priests. Then Ye Fan was ambushed by the High Priests during his leap to the Supreme Realm, feigned death, secretly broke through, and lured the two High Priests into the Sea of ​​Sacrifice to kill them in return. After that came the Empress and the Azure Emperor, while Duan De was the last to achieve the Dao.

The six Immortal Emperors joined forces to conquer the Calamity Land, constantly clashing with the Priests. From injuring them to eternally annihilating them, the Priests suffered repeated defeats. In the end, all ten Priests were killed. On that very day, the Ancestor was born, severely injuring six of them to the brink of death. They had no choice but to hide in the Three-Life Copper Coffin and flee far away, sinking into the Sacrifice Sea to cultivate.

During this process, Ye Fan decided to merge with the bronze coffin, turning it into a part of his power. With the secret help of Wang Hongwu and Shi Hao, he succeeded, thus taking another step forward. He also sacrificed his own Great Dao, completing the sublimation at the end of the path and achieving the success of the Dao sacrifice.

It took him much longer and more arduous time to get to this point than Wang Shi and the other two. Even after the sacrificial ceremony was completed, he faced the combined attack of ten ancestors. Fortunately, his imperial law was special, and the ancestors could not find him under his cover. Thus, he fought and retreated, and had a chance to turn the tide.

Having reached this level, Ye Fan was also able to sense the state of Wang Hongwu and Shi Hao; the two of them had already surpassed the Dao of Sacrifice!

However, this realm is not truly above the Dao of Sacrifice; it is infinitely close but ultimately not, as there is a qualitative difference. It can simply be considered a separate realm from the Dao of Sacrifice.

After receiving the methods of the Eternal Ancestor from the two, Ye Fan tried them out and indeed killed one of the ancestors. This greatly shocked the Calamity Land, and the other ancestors came out to completely destroy Ye Fan, this variable.

At the critical moment, the Empress and Wushi came to the rescue. The former also successfully sacrificed herself in the fierce battle to help Ye Fan retreat successfully.

They lay dormant in the sacrificial sea for many epochs, until Wushi had cultivated the law of time to its limit and pushed the law of space to the same level, and then they were burned together and ascended the sacrificial path before reappearing.

Unfortunately, Qingdi and Duan De felt they couldn't reach this level, so they stopped pursuing it and instead collected items such as the Time Furnace, the Stone Mill, and the Stone Zither to help the three of them fight the remaining nine ancestors.

After a series of bloody battles, the Azure Emperor died and was reborn as a lotus seed. Duan De was also buried in the earth and reincarnated in a near-death state. The three were seriously injured, but the four ancestors also passed away.

The remaining five progenitors relentlessly pursued and killed them, and the two sides fought fiercely for one era after another.

During this process, two more progenitors perished, and Wushi and the Empress almost died in battle. Ye Fan put them in a bronze coffin and sent them away, leaving him alone to deal with the remaining progenitors.

A duel between four people, spanning the ages.

The final result was that a single leaf could cover the entire sky!
Ye Fan single-handedly blocked the source of misfortune, and by himself, he silenced the last three progenitors, swept away the evil land, and suppressed all the heavens with his fist.

At this point, the power struggle between Wang Shi and his companion and the worldline consciousness of the plateau has completely changed!

(End of this chapter)