The Legend of the Great Desolation: I Am the Fortress

"Go! Go! Go!!!"

Lei Zhan stood high in the sky, surrounded by turbulent spacetime currents.

The omnipresent spatial turbulence transformed into streaks of spear light that streaked across the sky the moment it appeared.

"clang!"

"Qiang!"

"Wow!"

Collisions and battles raged on and on.

On one side is the Way of Space-Time, which has comprehended and perfectly combined the five strongest Ways.

On one side is the Spacetime Path, which combines the four strongest Paths and has reached the edge of the Dao Integration Path.

It was as if two swordsmen, whose swordsmanship had reached the pinnacle, were competing in a profound swordsmanship contest.

One was older, the other younger, and the young swordsman was growing rapidly in this competition.

"Time and space..."

"Time and space."

"Space-time! What exactly is space-time?"

Lei Zhan kept thinking about it.

"Annihilation is spacetime..."

Wow~~~
Suddenly, one enormous black hole after another appeared high in the sky, each black hole being incredibly large, its edges tearing through space.

The power emanating from each black hole becomes increasingly terrifying, and the annihilation and destruction fluctuations become increasingly pure.

"Hmm?" The woman with her hair tied up suddenly brightened up. She flipped her hand and her fist fell like a meteor, hurtling towards Lei Zhan from afar.

“There seems to be a shadow of the Thousand Realms style in this.” Lei Zhan looked at the fist that was coming towards him in the blink of an eye, turned his spear and suddenly pulled it out.

Rumble~~~
The black spear collided with the woman's fist, shattering even the distant void.

“'Annihilation' is spacetime, and so is 'a thousand worlds'.”

Lei Zhan murmured to himself, his spear flashing like a shadow.

Sniff～～～
It easily pierced through the space-time dimension in front of it, the black spear moving through the space-time dimension with uncanny strangeness.

From the outside, it appeared as if Lei Zhan had suddenly vanished from the void and then instantly traversed a vast distance to appear directly in front of the woman with her hair tied up.

call out!
The black spear moved with ghostly speed, piercing through layers of defense set up by the opponent and directly striking the woman with her hair tied up.

"Therefore, the Shadow Step is naturally also a principle of spacetime..."

"The way of time and space is simply the way of time and space."

The Cycle of the Five Elements of Time and Space...

The Five Forms of Time and Space: Shattered Star...

At this moment, all the insights I had gained in the past seemed to be connected by an invisible thread.

It should be understood that everything Lei Zhan comprehended was only a part of the Way of Time and Space.

Under immense pressure, the five techniques of time and space were unleashed in sequence, and Lei Zhan fully understood and was completely immersed in that mysterious state.

It's as if you've cast everything aside, and all that's left in your heart is the exploration of time and space.

"The power of the moves is getting stronger and stronger, that's interesting." A faint smile appeared on the woman's face.

With her insight, she could naturally see that Lei Zhan was now immersed in a profound and mysterious enlightenment.

And this sudden realization is also inextricably linked to time and space.

"The Five Styles of Time and Space..." Lei Zhan fought against the woman with her hair tied up time and time again, always feeling a glimmer of inspiration in his mind, but he just couldn't figure it out.

The more you fight against your opponent, the more you vaguely sense that feeling.

It should be noted that cultivators skilled in the art of time and space are extremely rare in the endless realm.

Those who can reach the same level as Lei Zhan are even rarer there.

As for beings like the woman with her hair tied up, who inherited all of Ruosang Daojun's insights, their understanding of the Dao of Time and Space is comparable to that of some Eternal Emperors!
For Lei Zhan, competing and fighting against such a powerful being of time and space is a very rare opportunity.

“Your talent in the Dao of Time and Space is unmatched, even by my master. It’s a pity…” The woman with her hair tied up shook her head and sighed, “Beyond your perfection in Time and Space, there are even stronger levels of Dao. You are probably the most promising one I have ever seen. Unfortunately, it seems that you are still somewhat lacking.”

The Tao is mysterious beyond mystery. Sometimes, even a "little" can be worlds apart.

As for that level of Dao, even her master had only heard it casually mentioned by some powerful being by chance.

"A little less?" Lei Zhan was taken aback. "Huh?"

suddenly.

The rally stopped.

At the same time, in the void space of the dantian, under the Dao Tree and beneath the 36,000 divine crystals, an inconspicuous black bead began to shine.

"The Five Forms of Time and Space... The ultimate technique of time and space..."

He felt his soul and spirit become clearer than ever before, and in that instant, he thought of many things.

From the very beginning, I comprehended the principles of time and space.

Having comprehended the two fundamental powers, they perfectly combined to form spacetime...

The teachings of Master Bodhi, and the various experiences I had in the inner world of the earth.

Even the legacies left by Daoist Ruosang and Daoist Qianhuo...

All the past scenes rushed into his mind, appearing one by one in Lei Zhan's mind as if they were just passing through a series of images.

"The Five Elements of Time and Space..." Lei Zhan murmured softly, "The Way of Time and Space is right there, so why divide it into five different paths?"

“Shattered Star, Annihilation, Thousand Realms, Reincarnation, and Instant Shadow each represent a school of thought, but why must the Way of Time and Space be divided into so many schools?”

Lei Zhan said this softly, but his eyes grew even brighter.

"What is spacetime annihilation, what is spacetime reincarnation, even shattered stars, a thousand worlds, and fleeting shadows... these are all ultimately part of the path of spacetime."

"I see!"

"I see."

As you hear the news, you can die in the evening.

Lei Zhan now has this feeling.

This is not just excitement, but a realization of the ultimate truth of the Way of Time and Space, a satisfaction that comes from the depths of the heart, the perfection of the 'Way'.

Lei Zhan has cultivated for tens of thousands of years, and the time he has spent cultivating within the Time Acceleration Magic Treasure is calculated in hundreds of millions of years.

Regardless of whether he had reached the strongest path or perfected all five techniques of time and space, some questions remained in his mind that continued to perplex him.

Once one reaches the pinnacle of their own spacetime path, they yearn for complete perfection. When the five spacetime techniques are perfectly combined and complete perfection is achieved, they then yearn to embark on the final ultimate goal.

But the ultimate path is the most perfect path in the entire chaotic universe, so how could it be so easy to walk?

Even within the entire chaotic universe, those who ultimately reach the ultimate path of life and death are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

The path to ultimate mastery is difficult to comprehend and not easy to follow.

The ultimate path, which is the path above the strongest, is even more difficult to comprehend.

To reach the end and achieve eternal harmony with the Dao is like crossing a river by feeling for stones.

“However,” a smile appeared in Lei Zhan’s eyes, “the ultimate path…this is the strongest path of time and space.”

"Rumble~~~~~~"

A mysterious power was surging, which resonated within Lei Zhan's heart.

Lei Zhan looked up at the sky and, relying on this sense, immediately sensed that in the endless and distant depths of chaos.

It was a place very, very far away from the original body of Lei Zhan. It was so far away that it was located in the very core of the area surrounded by the eight major source domains.

That place is the true origin of this universe.

There lies the origin of time and space.

The origin of spacetime is one of the origins of this universe.

"The core of the universe, the origin of spacetime in this universe." Lei Zhan can now clearly perceive that origin of the universe.

"Rumble~~~"

In that instant, one of the fundamental sources that maintains the stability of the entire universe, the 'Origin of Spacetime,' also resonated with Lei Zhan.

"Boom!" Above the island in the middle of the lake.

Lei Zhan, who had been standing quietly in the void, opened his eyes.

Suddenly, a terrifying aura emanated from him.

He seemed to be the origin of spacetime at the core of the universe, walking through endless territories, and every move he made contained the mystery of spacetime.

"The Lord of Time and Space?"

Lei Zhan sensed a resonance between the distant origin of cosmic spacetime and his own.

Only at this moment could he confirm that this was the strongest way of time and space, the truly ultimate way of time and space.

The Way of Time and Space is a complete Way.

Just like how one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things.

There is no such thing as a few strongest paths in the ultimate way of time and space.

Previously, Lei Zhan had comprehended the five strongest paths and combined them perfectly, as if he had comprehended this 'three'.

It is possible to combine the three together well, but this is not the ultimate way of time and space.

To comprehend that 'One' is the ultimate! That is completeness! That is true mastery of the Way of Time and Space, and stepping onto the truly 'strongest' path.

"This is the true spacetime, the true way of spacetime."

Lei Zhan vaguely felt that in that instant, he had undergone a transformation, as if his life had leaped to a new level.

After all, comprehending even more of the strongest paths is nothing special.

Because above them lies a complete 'way of time and space'.

All practitioners who follow the path of time and space, and their so-called schools of thought, are merely gleaning a part of this complete path of time and space.

……

"This is……"

"What a prodigy! The ultimate path..." The woman with her hair tied up stood in the air, looking at the black-robed youth standing in the void.

Her gaze was leisurely, but her eyes held a complex mix of emotions—doubt, relief, and contentment…

"Is this the ultimate end of time and space? The master searched for it for countless years, but never had the chance to see it."

"Now, countless years have passed, yet after her fall, I have witnessed the ultimate end of the path of time and space..."

"If the master were still here, he would be very happy to see this scene." The beautiful woman in white walked to the side of the woman with her hair tied up, and also looked at the black-robed youth who seemed to be the origin of the universe.

“You made the right choice.” The woman with her hair tied up smiled at her.

"If you hadn't spotted this little guy when he was still very young, we probably wouldn't be able to see this scene today."

Before Daojun Ruosang passed away, he left behind many methods, among which his greatest concern was to cultivate some geniuses for his hometown, this chaotic world.

Ruosang Daojun was born countless eons ago. Although he was a born ancestral god, he broke through to become a World Realm expert by relying on his great perseverance.

While passing through that unstable spacetime passage outside the Three Realms, they were unexpectedly teleported to one of the territories in the Sixteen Realms Alliance, the Qingyang Realm.

Throughout his growth and journey to the edge of Dao Integration, Daoist Ruosang endured countless hardships.

Before his death, Daojun Ruosang's only obsession was to cultivate some extraordinary geniuses in his hometown.

He left instructions, 'The prodigies of the world must be carefully nurtured.'

The stunningly beautiful woman in white was willing to give Lei Zhan a test to obtain the treasure of the universe, which naturally included the instructions of Daoist Ruosang.

"The ultimate principle of the Way of Time and Space..." The stunningly beautiful woman in white smiled.

That smile was like a glacier that had never melted in ages suddenly bursting into vibrant colors, becoming incomparably beautiful.

"Congratulations, Frostmoon."

The woman with her hair tied up had a distant gaze as she turned to look at the stunningly beautiful woman in white beside her.

"Having spent many years in this homeland of your master, you are about to be recognized as his master. Given the speed at which this little fellow grows, it probably won't be long before you can spread your fame throughout the entire Flame Dragon Domain again."

"Hmm." The stunningly beautiful woman in white nodded lightly. "I've waited far too long for this day. I even thought that even after ten more Chaos Eras, I might not be able to find such a monstrous genius again."

Fortunately... the final result was the most perfect.

The treasures of the universe are the most powerful magical artifacts in the endless realms, and magical artifacts are born for battle.

As the undisputed king among countless magical treasures, the Treasure of the Universe is even more eager for battle.

……

In a dilapidated palace, infinitely far from the Flame Dragon Domain.

A cultivator dressed in a golden robe sat cross-legged in front of a gate, his eyes closed.

The golden-robed cultivator appeared to be a young man, with countless flames swirling around him.

Not far from the golden-robed cultivator, two other figures were sitting cross-legged.

suddenly.

boom! ! !
A terrifying aura emanated from the golden-robed youth.

He simply sat there cross-legged, as if the very origin of time and space had descended, with vast currents of time and space surrounding the young man.

This golden-robed Qing Zhengzhen was actually the second primordial spirit that left the Three Realms and was directly transported to Lei Zhan in the Blazing Sun Domain, one of the Eight Great Origin Domains, through that unstable spacetime teleportation channel.

"The origin of spacetime in the universe." Lei Zhan raised his head and looked into the distant void, as if he could easily see the core of the universe in the endless distance.

"Having gained the approval of the origin of the universe proves that I have chosen the right path," the golden-robed figure murmured softly, his face remaining calm and composed.

The original body and the second primordial spirit were originally one, and their memories were exactly the same.

Although Lei Zhan's main body and second primordial spirit are in the Great Mo Domain of the Flame Dragon Domain.

One of them, however, is located in a dilapidated ruin in the Northern Region of Blazing Sun, one of the eight source domains at the core of the universe, and the distance between them is quite far.

But as the team's strength has continued to improve, the original vague feeling has become very clear.

"The origin, the spacetime origin of the universe." Lei Zhan's thoughts surged.

"The Eight Origin Domains are located around the core of the universe, very close to it. Now that I have comprehended the ultimate Dao, I can also sense the origin of spacetime within the core of the universe."

"However, compared to my main body, my second primordial spirit perceives things much more clearly. This opportunity is my own destiny."

Wow~~~
With a single step, Lei Zhan vanished from his spot.

"Hmm? That fluctuation in aura..."

Both the Armadillo World God and the Azure Fire World God were startled awake from their cultivation by this vast spatial and temporal fluctuation.

"Space-Time... that was just the fluctuation of the aura of the Space-Time Dao." The Armadillo World God was extremely shocked. "A World Realm cultivator can directly attract the Origin of the Universe?"

"World Realm? No brains."

Is the energy that can trigger the origin of the universe called the world realm?

Even some Dao Lords of Life and Death would find it difficult to achieve this!

The Azure Flame World God remained indifferent, glancing indifferently at the Armadillo World God. "With Guiyi's strength, if you weren't in the ruins of the Tiannan Sect, you would probably have been crushed to death with a single finger."

"Hmph! You brainless Chaos Beast, how dare you speak to me like that?" The Armadillo World God looked over, but his heart tightened.

The words of the God of the Azure Flame World were like rubbing salt into his wounds.

While in seclusion to cultivate their understanding and obtain the remaining opportunities from the Nanfeng Sect, and also bound by the array restrictions, the three of them were still quite in sync.

The three of them were calmly trying to decipher the restrictions on the main gate of the hall.

As for who will ultimately prevail, the armadillo is quite confident in its own strength.

But after nearly ten thousand years of cultivation and enlightenment, even though he, the Armadillo World God, was from an ancient cultivator clan, he was becoming increasingly less confident.

No matter how strong the ancient cultivator clan is, or how extraordinary their talent may be, they cannot withstand a cultivator at the World Realm level making a major breakthrough every so often.

The commotion caused by each breakthrough startled the Armadillo World God.

"He is skilled in spacetime and has likely perfectly combined multiple of the strongest paths. Furthermore, this World God of Unity is also skilled in mental power, making him a mental power cultivator..."

Now that things have come to this, the Armadillo World God felt an endless threat simply from a single glance at the other party.

"That World God of Unity has probably made another breakthrough."

The Armadillo World God cursed inwardly, "Damn Guiyi World God, damn Qinghuo World God. I don't know where that stupid beast Qinghuo found such a monstrous helper."

"It resonates with the origin of the universe... It seems I need to find a safe way out as soon as possible."

...(End of chapter)