Chapter 1260 - 340: The Truth About Xian in the Present

Chapter 1260: Chapter 340: The Truth About Xian in the Present

Ning Zheng still couldn’t quite understand.

The place where the past and future converge is: the present?

The young man said indifferently, "To put it more simply, the past is a mass of data, the future is a mass of data... all mirages."

"The present is reality, where the two masses of data interfere with each other... now."

The more he spoke, the less comprehensible it became.

Ning Zheng suddenly said, "So, my whole being is false, I’m just a mass of data? My entire era is also data?"

"I know this is cruel for you, denying your life’s value, existence, dreams, friendship, love..."

"But I’m very sorry, you really are just a mass of data."

"Humph, then I’ll just show you!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand with a slap.

Thud!

Ning Zheng’s chest was slapped, and he flew backward, his body turning into countless particles, with his soul being fiercely knocked out.

In the process of flying backward, his soul rapidly flattened from a 3D creature, downgraded to two-dimensional in an attack.

Then it completely lost color, and he turned into a sketch outlined in dotted lines.

Ultimately, Ning Zheng became a data silhouette without a physical form.

Ning Zheng pondered in his heart:

"Did he extract my body? Only my soul remains?"

"No, it’s no longer just about the soul, I really am just a mass of data... and this data is only somewhat larger, merely a few ten thousand TB, am I such a small powerhouse of the future?"

Turns out, I am like a data character in a game, seemingly never truly alive.

This feeling seems familiar.

Painter?

Yes!

Now, people like us are like a painter’s apocryphal timeline, Divine Court Jiu Shui, Lamp Buddha...

They too, like the Divine Court’s world line, are merely just drawn-out data, virtual characters...

With a rush of matter, we painters can become entities.

"Am I a virtual character deduced?" Ning Zheng frowned. ℯ

The young man said indifferently: ⅇℓ.

"Do you know why I did that?"

"Because in your eyes, the war with Xian and the three Immortal Venerates was over 15 million years ago, but in my eyes, I’m [now] still fighting them."

"Let me show you some scenes of my battles with them."

He chuckled softly and pointed a finger at Ning Zheng’s brow.

Boom!

In an instant, endless information flooded into Ning Zheng’s mind, and he saw vivid scenes from the battle.

Chaos.

Heaven and earth were all chaos.

The laws were chaotic, Yin and Yang were inverted, the entire era’s River of Time was violently shattered.

The River of Time was layered with blood like stacked carpets.

Severed limbs and countless True Immortals fell.

The three Supreme Immortal Venerables formed a triangle, surrounding Xian in the center.

Xian wielded a long halberd, the dao laws flowing, frenziedly fighting with the three, even the nearby lesser Immortal Venerates did not dare to penetrate their battlefield.

The fight between both sides intensified.

Xian gradually found himself at a disadvantage due to the siege and suddenly called out to the other Immortal Venerates fighting alongside:

"We can’t continue like this, defeat is certain if it goes on, I must use my [present] strength to pry into the past, deduce the future, and summon the other five Immortal Venerates from distant times and spaces to aid me."

Thunder Immortal Venerate frowned:

"But they haven’t yet attained Tao, the current Heavens lack five Venerable positions."

"Moreover, their Venerable positions are perplexing and unclear, not knowing how to verify them, with some Venerable positions vaguely being twin or triple positions... linked together, not to be verified individually."

Wind Immortal Venerate said, "It doesn’t matter, no matter how difficult the path to verification, when the five achieve Tao in the future, they will enter a ubiquitous realm,

at the moment of the other’s verification, they will exist simultaneously in the past, present, and future,

meaning, they exist now,

we just need special means to summon them, once we shatter decay and usher in our era, believe the other five Immortal Venerates will definitely aid us."

Several Immortal Venerates looked solemn.

Facing the assault of the three Supreme Immortal Venerates, they must summon the destined to become Immortal Venerates from endless unknown times among the unknown future five.

"Act now!"

"But since we must deduce the future, the past must not be an influence."

With a swing of his long halberd, Xian severed the River of Time, imprisoning a group of prehistoric figures in the past.

Rumble.

The River of Time was intercepted.

He begins to deduce the future, the River of Time starts to become chaotic, and vague phantoms of one, two, three... appear in the sky.

The Immortal Venerables of those future eras are about to descend.

The Three Immortal Venerables opposite them cannot help but murmur:

"He deserves his title as the Immortal Venerable who controls the principles of all fundamental matter; he intends to accelerate time in an unprecedented mode. In the next second, five new Immortal Venerables will appear; the entire world will be completed, and even destiny will emerge..."

"Then, we only need to do one thing: he wants to deduce the future and scheme against us. We will use the past to suppress the future, to influence the future."

Boom!

A fierce explosion.

Time becomes meaningless at this moment; for the supreme existences contending on the battlefield, it’s as if fifteen million years have passed, or perhaps less than a second.

"Here it comes!"

Suddenly, Xian calls out.

At 0.7 seconds.

The first Immortal Venerable descends.

A tall and imposing figure, draped in nine grains of rice flowers, assembled into a ring, summoned forth.

At 0.73 seconds, the second...

A figure surrounded by calamity.

At 0.78 seconds, the third...

A figure burning with golden words and flames, bearing a mount.

Boom!

When the scene halts, the entire world freezes at that moment; both sides’ figures are summoning the future Immortal Venerables for aid.

Stuck at three Venerables, two remain.

"Do you understand?" a calm voice clashes into Ning Zheng’s mind, "In the present’s view, the war is still ongoing."

"You believe that fifteen million years have passed since that decisive battle, but in reality, for the present, only less than a second has passed."

Opening his eyes, Ning Zheng sees a young man smilingly watching him. Ning Zheng parts his lips but cannot speak.

After a moment of ease, Ning Zheng finally says:

"Are our fifteen million years all a virtual second of the future, fabricated with immense mana and supreme methods?"

The young man smiles, "You’re very perceptive."

Ning Zheng remains silent.

The powerhouses of both sides, during combat, unleashed extremely powerful Divine Techniques, using endless might to forcibly summon five Immortal Venerables from the future within a second.

In other words, our history was created using a virtual computer for the arrival of those five Immortal Venerables.

After inviting Ring, Shadow Calamity, Oath Master, and the upcoming two others, totaling five Immortal Venerables, they will continue the battle.

And in their time perception, not even a second has passed in the battle.

However.

In the perspective of the three Supreme Immortal Venerables of the past, they can leisurely enjoy tea, hold meetings everywhere; their lives are utterly pleasant.

"To you, who live within a second of your perception, we are like insignificant plankton."

Ning Zheng says, "But in my view, with injected matter and energy, these future timeline phantoms are indeed real life and world."

"Not what you think, but what I think."

Xian reveals a hint of indifference, "I deem you real, hence you are real."

Xian calmly says, "I regard you as false, so you must die; true and false... are distinguished by strength."

"If you can’t defeat me, then you’re false!"

"If you can win, whatever you say is right; not to mention treating the history that erupted in that second as official history, even if you trample all existence as dogs, no one can say anything."

"So, strive hard."

"In our eyes, aside from the five Immortal Venerables, everyone else is just data we deduced. Once we resume the battle, those data will mean nothing and will self-destruct and disappear."

"Only by becoming a Celestial Phenomenon Immortal Venerate could you bring along other creatures you wish to save, but of course, you have to win the next battle."

Ning Zheng understands in his heart, he says, "When the five Immortal Venerables gather, they will heed your summon and join the final battle."

The young man smiles, "Exactly, now, the ultimate battlefield."

Ning Zheng fully comprehends.

To put it simply.

Just like the painter once constructed a two-world martial stage, meticulously devising an alternate historical timeline, fabricating an array of characters...

Now in their battle, they fictively deduce a remote world’s history to summon future characters on the verge of proving their path.

This piece of history is both false and real.

Ning Zheng says, "Then you must assist me, I want to know the issue on Blue Star, which affects the final Venerable Position’s ownership."

"Of course."

Xian calmly says, "But I don’t know; I never concern myself with such trivialities."

Ning Zheng is left speechless.

"But this planet comes from prehistoric times; you can follow its trajectory to find out, one slipped here implies countless parallel planets in prehistoric times."

"Go there, seek the answers."

He points toward the prehistoric, "I’ll give you a prehistoric drop coordinate, head there and search for answers."