Beyond the Timescape

Chapter 1278: God Lord Mi Ming

At the same time as Young Lord Aurora’s words rang out… a huge eye appeared outside the space-time rift above the opening torn in the planetary skin.

The eye was holy and immense! The pupil was a golden vortex that devoured starlight, while the iris was made of silver lightning bolts. It was astonishing to behold. The projections of innumerable heavenly bodies were visible in it, as if it contained infinite universes and unending star domains. Silver rivers surged past the eyelids, causing the void to boil like mercury.

And the eye was peering through the space-time rift to look at what was happening on the primeval motherworld! As hē looked on, the void that contained the primeval motherworld started to collapse.

The damaged planetary skin shattered like glass. The magical laws within it collapsed, becoming pure ringsource. It wasn’t just the planetary skin. The rest of the primeval motherworld reacted the same, as did the power of all the gods that was flowing to Young Lord Aurora’s godhood.

The eye began to absorb all of it. It was as if this eye was a vortex that could devour all things. Everything the eye looked at became nothing but motes of light. Hē was taking all of the nutrients Young Lord Aurora needed, while also erasing Young Lord Aurora’s future!

The light of the pupil swirled, and astonishingly, the images of Young Lord Aurora’s future appeared therein. Some of the images were smashed to pieces by the gaze, while others were used to give the holy vision even greater power. Whatever timeline was involved, it seemed as if the eye could prevent it from happening. This was God Emperor Eternal’s response to Young Lord Aurora!

The entire primeval motherworld shook violently. The planetary skin withered and crumbled. Blood rain poured down like a silver river. Even the color of the motherworld was being extracted, leaving it pale white! Space rippled. Time cracked. Dust collapsed, causing countless dazzling nebulas to form and dissipate.

Everything was being subverted by the gaze of God Emperor Eternal!

Xu Qing’s soul was already showing signs of collapsing into destruction! But his true name proved its effectiveness, making him like a little boat struggling on the surface of the ocean during a storm. Next to him, Immortal Fairy Spirit Phoenix’s face was pale.

Then, a mighty figure suddenly appeared in front of the two of them, blocking them from the gaze from beyond the heavens.

“Just what I would expect of a God Lord,” a calm voice said. It was Young Lord Aurora, who was standing protectively in front of Xu Qing and Spirit Phoenix.

Hē met the gaze of God Emperor Eternal!

When the two gazes made contact, the black crystals covering the young lord vibrated, and cracks started spreading across them. It looked like they would start collapsing at any moment. The ringsource within hīm temporarily went still. It was as if all the stardust in heaven had collapsed into the godly voice that echoed in hīs soul, and every bit of sound was devouring hīs god soul.

“That’s what I’m talking about!” Young Lord Aurora said. Hē laughed, and innumerable blood-red incantation symbols appeared in the vertical eye on hīs forehead, all of them emitted deafening rumbling sounds.

Next, Young Lord Aurora extended hīs right hand and made a scooping gesture. Astonishingly, hē scooped the eye out of his forehead and then flew it up toward the direction of the sky.

A never-ending aurora erupted out like the tide! It shot up into the canopy of heaven.

Xu Qing observed it all, struggling to breathe steadily. He hadn’t noticed anything unusual about the eye earlier, but now that it was flying upward and sending out the aurora….

He recognized it! It was the gaze of Immortal Lord Aurora! That eye… was a remnant of Immortal Lord Aurora! Put most precisely, it was Immortal Lord Aurora’s eye, which he had left to his son because it contained his canon!

As the eye brought forth the aurora, the dome of heaven over the primeval motherworld rippled as it became a flowing, jade-like ocean.

It wasn’t just red! Tens of thousands of multi-colored bands of light were like splashes of ink. They made a waterfall of indigo, reddish purple, and silver white that surged out with great vigor. The colors intertwined and spread. From outside of the primeval motherworld, it looked crystalline and semitransparent.

Every inch of the protective shield danced with a glow that could eradicate god souls. Even higher, it was just barely possible to see the illusory projection of an enormous eye that stared into the space-time rift toward the eye of God Emperor Eternal….

The two gazes met! Intense rumbling echoed out! A muffled grunt drifted out from the space-time rift.

Profound magical symbols appeared within the jade-like canopy of light, along with veins of light, within which danced flowing sparks of blue electricity. It was like a prismatic beast that had devoured innumerable living things, and it was blocking the gaze of God Emperor Eternal!

It even proliferated into multicolored butterflies made of light particles. The light butterflies of ringsource spread through the aurora, filling the sky with their fluttering wings, and moving at top speed toward the space-time rift.

They completely and fully blocked the gaze of God Emperor Eternal! They stopped all of hīs absorption efforts, and prevented hīm from interfering! All of the interference that had turned things around had ended. Everything went back on course. The scattered godly might became ripples in the spectrum of the aurora.

The boundless aurora was creating a splendid totemic design in the canopy of heaven! In life, the owner of this canon had struggled to endure the torment of losing a wife and son, and had longed to die. After death… he would offer protection!

Everything shook. All of the True Gods in the vicinity of the primeval motherworld felt a deep, instinctive drive to retreat. The eye in the space-time rift dimmed, having been overwhelmed by the butterflies of light.

The only thing left behind beneath the aurora covering the motherworld was the godhood power gathering at that critical moment! It was erupting!

From the viewpoint of Xu Qing and Immortal Fairy Spirit Phoenix, as of this moment, Young Lord Aurora’s godhood glowed with unprecedented brightness. The black crystals covering hīm devoured all light rays, and each scale of the armor filled with more and more of the true name designs. Several breaths of time passed in which the true name designs continued to build toward completion. And then… they started moving like living things!

They gathered at the chest, where they became a spinning golden vortex. Within the vortex golden threads moved casually, spreading out before hīm to connect to the blood-red godhood.

The rapidly forming godhood also contained designs that were the same as those on Young Lord Aurora. Every part thrummed with astonishing power that could destroy heaven and earth.

As the golden threads connected to the godhood, Young Lord Aurora’s appearance gradually became less and less like that of a cultivator. Hē grew taller and more holy, and what was more, there was a will building within hīm that defied description. Especially noteworthy was that hīs spine seemed like a string that connected the illusory and real dimensions, every thrum of which formed a resonance with the star ring. It became a godly voice that filled the star ring.

“Godhood, form!”

The godhood in front of hīm shone with dazzling light! As it became complete, heaven and earth trembled, the universe shook, the star domain vibrated, and the entire Fourth Star Ring… filled with shock waves!

All beings shook. All gods shivered with fear. The sea of memories was covered with boundless, huge waves. The ringsource everywhere turned into a mountain-toppling, sea-draining tide that flowed in reverse.

In an area that was millions upon millions of light-years, all stellar systems seemed to be sucked into a vortex that was dragged toward the primeval motherworld. The entire Fourth Star Ring was falling into gloom. The influence was so massive that gods in other star rings noticed what was happening, and unleashed godly might to investigate.

With the darkness of the Fourth Star Ring, only the primeval motherworld shone with light, and it was a scarlet light that came from Young Lord Aurora’s godhood. It was a cube made of crimson magical symbols, each surface like a mirror that reflected the ultimate fate of all the civilizations of all the gods and living beings in the Fourth Star Ring. It was… authority of fate!

Put most precisely, it was… something like the mirror canon, specifically, fate stolen from the God Paragon! Immortal Fairy Spirit Phoenix looked at the godhood, alarm in her eyes. She knew that the most critical moment was coming. Next to her, Xu Qing looked at the fate on the godhood, and was stunned.

That’s… Eminent Desolation’s godly authority….

At that moment, enlightenment hit him.

***

Right when Young Lord Aurora’s godhood finished forming, something happened in the depths of the Fourth Star Ring, in the forbidden region surrounded by crimson dust. On the altar of god bones and tiny bugs, was the bronze coffin of primal-chaos fog secured by countless chains. Raspy laughter echoed out from the coffin.

“Now I get it…. Nan Ke, you really were worthy to steal godly authority from Eminent Desolation. Maybe you did seal me here up until now, but it has to be said that you are no simpleton! Had you detected earlier that this would happen, you would have stopped it.

“But that immortal who has risen to our level borrowed Eminent Desolation’s karma to cover your fate and omniscience. And thus, it happened before you sensed it…. You could have corrected the matter, but chose to let it go. And that is because… this is also an opportunity for you!

“You want to use this opportunity to have all of the gods of the Fourth Star Ring substitute for you in suffering the lingering tribulation of Eminent Desolation! You have been preparing for this moment ever since you took away Eminent Desolation’s karma and authority, and accepted that tribulation. I just wonder what your subordinate god emperors are thinking right now.”

The laughter grew louder and louder.

***

Elsewhere in the darkened Fourth Star Ring, in the twelve god dynasties, all of the god emperors… were silent. Thēy could see the karma, and understood everything. Slowly, thēy looked up at the most paramount god court in the Fourth Star Ring. Even God Emperor Eternal slowly closed hīs eyes and gathered hīs senses.

Except… the God Paragon in the paramount god court, even now, did not react.

***

In the Fifth Star Ring, space-time was astir. All living beings could sense it. The Immortal Paragon was on the move forward.

In his left hand was the reflection of the scene when his son, Immortal Lord Aurora, ascended the throne and took command of destiny aura. In his right hand were a thousand years that had been erased starting on that day.

“The time has come.”