A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 664 Sculpting Past and Present, A Magnificent Chapter Across All Realms

As soon as Li Changling's figure appeared outside the sword-forging site, he had already shed his human form and transformed into a tiny sword pellet, leaping through the void.

In an instant, countless large holes appeared on the body of the Thousand-Winged Demon Dragon in the sky.

Some of the holes were so large that they twisted and deformed the entire body, essentially piercing it through, leaving only a thin, rounded edge that barely connected the two parts.

The next moment, the entire dragon collapsed into wisps of pure white air.

Xia Yusheng was freed from the dragon's grasp. Stepping into the void, he was still shaken, but then burst into laughter.

He hadn't expected that Li Changling also had a mental projection here.

This demonic dragon dragged him to this place, only to run right into Li Changling's mental projection. For the demonic dragon's supernatural powers, this was a death sentence, but for Xia Yushengsi, it was an incredible stroke of luck.

The positions of the eight great saints of the human race are not easily taken away. Even if Heavenly Venerable Mu Feng were to take action, it would take quite some time to sever the connection between a saint and the corresponding ancient holy land.

As for Xia Yu Shengsi, he had no ability to actively break free from the entanglements of the ancient holy land. So even though he had managed to escape and hide in the Great Wilderness, he still carried a huge hidden danger on his shoulders.

But now that he has met Li Changling and received his protection, he no longer needs to flee, nor does he need to worry about being tracked down and controlled because of the connection between the ancient holy land and himself.

The difference between being subdued by the dragon and having all worries eliminated in an instant was like heaven and earth, yet it happened in the blink of an eye.

"Hahaha, there's always a way out! There's always a way out..."

Xia Yusheng's laughter grew even more arrogant. "It's clear that the path I've chosen is correct, and even Heaven is on my side. You are the ones who are wrong!"

Before he finished speaking, the pure white air currents suddenly resonated and disappeared into thin air.

It should be a means of replacing causal time sequence and primordial energy.

The three figures that had been at the entrance to the Great Wilderness suddenly appeared in the void not far ahead as the pure white air currents disappeared, their gazes fixed on the Sword Forging Ground.

"What a terrifying Buddhist conception, what an unwavering dedication to the way of sword forging!"

Guan Luoyang sighed in admiration, a faint emerald light flickering in his eyes. "I never imagined that a mere ball of Eternal Divine Fire without a seed could be used to such an extent, like the finishing touch on a masterpiece, producing such a powerful effect!"

Even in Mu Feng Tianzun's eyes, there were shimmering traces of cause and effect, which flowed past in an instant, allowing him to grasp the cause and effect of this matter, and he couldn't help but be deeply moved.

"So that's it! The thing I vaguely deduced that could potentially change the entire situation is this sword!"

When the two of them were observing cause and effect and capturing information from the void, they didn't put much effort into Xia Yushengsi.

The plan to test the waters has been completed. Xia Yushengsi has done his job well, and there have even been unexpected surprises.

Originally, they only wanted to test the attitude of the Five Sages of the Great Wilderness, but unexpectedly, they directly tested this crucial point.

"Holy Master, while your connection with the Holy Land is still intact and you retain the combat power of a mid-level Celestial Venerable, I will have Puli transfer the portion of the Heavenly Court's array authority he controls to you. You will then cooperate in moving the entire Sword Forging Ground away."

The sword pellet spun in mid-air, and Li Changling's figure appeared in front of Xia Yushengsi. Suddenly, the light and shadow split apart, layer upon layer, as if the phantoms of the Heavenly Venerables, Immortal Venerables, and Holy Lords of the Four Departments of Heaven all flashed together and then poured into Xia Yushengsi's body in large quantities.

"The Dao has attained its divine form, governing all realms, operating throughout the heavens, its true and constant nature constantly changing!!"

A thunderous roar resounded from the sky above the Great Wilderness, and a giant wheel of light spun out. From the opposite side of the wheel, one could see the figures of many powerful figures from the four departments of the Heavenly Court in the Northwest Boundary Sea.

Originally, the place where the sword was forged could not be moved easily, because it was the accumulation of the Great Sage Chi Qiao over countless years and needed a stable environment for brewing and transformation. However, now, the sword forging has reached the final stage, and extremely intense changes are taking place inside, so it no longer cares about the slight changes in the external environment.

Li Changling intends to dig up the entire sword-forging site from the Great Wilderness and move it to the Northwest Boundary Sea, to the formation of the four departments of the Heavenly Court.

This would not have been difficult for Li Changling. With his cultivation level, he could simply draw a circle with his sword and activate his supernatural powers to move the sword-forging site away.

However, Xia Yusheng quickly understood why his cooperation was needed.

Because when the vast wilderness came into contact with the intense aura of the Heavenly Court on the other side of the light wheel.

The entire Great Wilderness seemed to be pulsating with a heartbeat.

That dreamlike, elusive, yet incredibly awe-inspiring vibration caused the deepest divine and demonic imprints within the boundless wilderness to manifest spontaneously.

These divine and demonic figures are not like ordinary divine and demonic marks, which seem to maintain a state of life without being aware of it, until they are stimulated and awakened, and then they fall into battle.

On the contrary, these figures of gods and demons at the deepest levels, after being awakened, appeared even more lonely and unmoved, as if they all knew the fact that they were dead, and were indifferently observing everything with truly clear eyes.

But even these gazes from the distant past, acting together on the land where the sword was forged, were enough to make Xia Yu Shengsi feel immense pressure.

He dared not delay and immediately activated the array's power, responding to the four powerful figures of the Heavenly Court in the Northwest Boundary Sea, intending to separate the entire sword-forging ground from the earth and elevate it into the sky.

"Making such a big show of things in front of me is really disrespectful."

Mu Feng Tianzun sighed, raised his hand and thrust out a golden ancient dragon from his sleeve.

The power of the true form surged forth, causing the golden dragon's scales to gleam with an unusual luster. With a single strike of the divine spear, it shattered the majestic and powerful path of all demons, completely disregarding the divine and demonic auras in the void.

Apart from the towering, deep-seated divine and demonic imprints in the distance, all the more "ordinary" divine and demonic imprints in the void were swept away by this spear.

Even the dragon scales on the spear were shattered by the aura of the spear, and moved by the spear, which increased the power of the golden ancient dragon by three points.

"So the supernatural powers are entrusted to the Holy Master, but senior, it is only to show respect that I personally attend to you."

Li Changling's expression turned serious. He pointed his fingers like a sword and drew a line in the air. Eight sword pellets flew out from the trajectory of the sword light.

Thunder Pool, Incense Burning, Stars, Strange Illnesses, Mountain Shapes, Water Methods, Alchemy, Time!

The eight sword pellets, clearly symbolizing the eight departments of the Heavenly Court, actually recreated the magnificent scene of the Heavenly Court when it was intact, with the nine heavenly realms and the eight celestial palaces all appearing.

In the vast and ancient world, a celestial scene appeared that the entire Great Wilderness could not ignore, which forcibly trapped that ancient golden dragon.

When Mu Feng Tianzun made his move, Shenjia Daojun's figure suddenly disappeared. He directly withdrew this wisp of his mind and focused all his attention on uniting the human race and the Thunder Department, using a surging momentum to target the Heavenly Court formation in the Northwest Boundary Sea and hinder its operation.

Guan Luoyang paused noticeably before actually making his move.

He didn't use a knife, he just threw a punch.

The heavens and the void trembled together. The image of the Feathered Demon Dragon possessed the aura of an ancient god and demon more than most other divine and demonic imprints. It even caused some of the dormant, deep-seated divine and demonic phantoms to stir.

Because they all sensed an aura similar to their own brand within that punch.

Guan Luoyang's brief pause just now had already simulated some of the characteristics of the deep imprint of the Great Wilderness. He used his original boxing principles to create such a punch.

Li Changling's expression changed slightly, his eyes gleaming with a bright light: "Normally, when we fight against each other at the same cultivation level, I'm the one who calls others 'senior.' I never imagined that one day I would be fighting as a senior!"

As he spoke, he revealed a three-foot-long sword in his palm for the first time, and with a seemingly effortless yet incredibly fast swing, he unleashed a sword strike.

A vast silence, a brief stillness.

At the moment the sword was unleashed, the unprecedentedly powerful Feathered Demon Dragon suddenly paused, then split into a dragon and a phoenix, which roamed in opposite directions.

These dragons and phoenixes, which split from the Feathered Demon Dragon, do not belong to any dragon race or divine bird previously known in the myriad realms.

But from the point where the dragon and phoenix split apart, countless magnificent chapters were born, each of which, with its golden divine script and Daoist inscriptions, leaped forth with endless scenes.

As a raptor soaring through the clouds landed in a grove of trees, it startled a venomous snake perched on a treetop. The raptor's talons were stained with the snake's blood, but its fangs had already bitten into the bird's warm body...

A martial arts master who dominated the world, possessing immense internal energy and a dragon-like aura, watched the tides rise from the Qiantang River with his fist techniques, causing the tides to flow backward. His fame overshadowed the entire era, yet he was stabbed to death on his throne by a swordsman as swift as a swallow...

With a vast army and boundless ambition, a dynasty forged in blood and fire built a dragon-like destiny, challenging sects that cultivated extraordinary arts, aiming to bring them under its rule and reorganize all their resources for its own use.

The practitioners of Qimen Dunjia were repeatedly defeated in their resistance, and many of them passed away. The spirits of the practitioners of each generation lifted their mountain gates into the stratosphere, where they drifted in the sky like divine birds with their legs cut off, never to fall again, becoming distant sacred places and ethereal legends...

In the vast deep sea, a giant dragon rose up, tearing through the ocean. Under the influence of the dragon's breath, billions of aquatic creatures, taking the dragon as their highest evolutionary goal, began to show various traces of being close to the dragon.

Within the dense ancient forest, a phoenix descended with drooping wings. The sky was ablaze with brilliant clouds and rosy light. The creatures bathed in this rosy light cheered and worshipped, taking the five qualities of the phoenix as their guiding principle.

As a result, aquatic and terrestrial creatures developed, expanded, and multiplied until the moment their boundaries came into contact, and an inevitable war ensued.

Perhaps it was just a coincidence or some uncontrollable emotions that caused the war, which should have been brought to a halt after a brief period of depletion, to continue to expand until finally, it involved the dragons at the top of the aquatic tribes and the divine birds that reigned supreme on land, igniting a protracted mythological war...

In the vast starry sky, many stars are endowed with special meanings, and together they outline the shape of a dragon in the dark space.

All the civilizations that observed these stars, without prior agreement, incorporated them into their cultures in the image of the dragon, and even embarked on their own journeys into space under the eternal, tranquil starlight.

However, the ray storms that linger in the universe have become a deadly enemy that all civilizations that have ventured into space must confront.

Their course, like a soaring dragon or serpent, weaves through the stars, while the storms of varying sizes, like primordial cosmic calamities, come to destroy the traces of these dragons and serpents.

The largest ray storm, which has existed since the birth of the universe, operates periodically throughout the universe, much like a migratory bird circling the cosmos.

With dark, surging energy as its wings and distorted traces of spacetime as its feathers, it veils the image of a giant dragon composed of stars, washing away the brilliance of the starry sea.

As stars die one by one, and the rays weaken with the lifespan of the universe, the struggle between the "migratory birds" and the "star dragons" will continue until the end of the universe...

Within the Boundary Sea, each Great Dao Realm contains infinite universes and countless tributaries of time, which can be called world clusters or universe clusters. Some of these world clusters have waters of time that resemble the evolutionary traces of a certain kind of divine dragon, with countless offspring that flow indifferently and mercilessly, taking away the lifespan of all living beings.

Ironically, almost all living beings, after conforming to the process of birth and growth, want to resist the subsequent process of declining and aging from their peak, until their colorful lives return to nothingness and the unknown.

The development and resistance of all living beings are like building an eggshell to protect themselves and isolate themselves from the flow of water. They gradually rise to the surface of the river of time. Although they will still be washed away by the still waters of time, they can pursue the effect of prolonging their lives.

Only a very few can truly struggle and transform from that eggshell, completely escape the troubles of time, spread their wings and fly, gain freedom in life, and become travelers, variables, and sages in the vast ocean of existence...

Before Li Changling unleashed that sword strike, there were few records of such demonic dragons and phoenixes throughout the myriad realms.

But after this sword strike, at this very moment, every particle, every wisp of primordial energy, every drop of supernatural power change, and every Daoist truth that constitutes the demonic dragon and the phoenix contains historical traces that have been intertwined and extended from countless ages ago.

They are intertwined and opposed, repelling and attracting each other. No matter how they try to avoid each other in the myriad realms, they will always meet again and fight each other once more.

The trajectory of fate is like a spiraling twin vine, always constraining the existence of the other, even at the cost of distorting its own corresponding growth trajectory, neither of them can break free from the other, until forever.

Guan Luoyang, far away in the Northwest Boundary Sea, suddenly felt a heavy calamity pressing down on him. Although it was formless and intangible, it was a hundred times heavier than that of an ordinary holy land. It pressed down relentlessly, leaving no place to escape. The violent calamity energy was also growing rapidly, becoming more and more ferocious and terrifying.

The opponent's sword strike, seemingly just a brief moment of delivering a single blow, was actually an endless, continuous sword technique, or rather, an explanation of the entire way of the sword.

This swordsmanship has sculpted the cause and effect in the myriad realms, turned the basic rules of one world group after another, and created the development process of many world groups that ignores the obstacles of time and spreads throughout the past, present and future.

Logically, time, like a riverbed or a linear progression, should become like different petals growing on the same rootstock.

The past is a petal, the present is a petal, and the future is a petal.

The condition of each petal can affect the foundation of the entire flower, and in turn, the condition of other petals.

Therefore, it can not only show that the past is the cause and the future is the effect, but it is also possible that the present is the cause and the past is the effect, and the future is the cause and the present and the past are both effects.

The intricate and complex evolutionary relationships are accumulating enormous causal relationships at a speed far exceeding common sense, converging into the causal calamity that is erupting in Taiqing Chiming.

What might have initially been a mere tap of the sword tip could have evolved into an unbelievably heavy calamity, stemming from the cause and effect of the demonic dragon and the divine bird.

This is the culmination of Li Changling's life's work, the path of the sword immortal across all realms, and his hope of truly achieving supreme enlightenment in this tribulation.

"The Dao Achieved Divine Palace: The Sword of No Calamity"

(End of this chapter)