As Mu Changqing shattered the ultimate confines of the path, the purple ancestral origin became increasingly complete, gradually replacing the gray ancestral origin.
The world’s truths and order underwent a change.
The remaining five great ancestral gods exchanged fearful glances, sensing this development with disbelief in their eyes.
Everything changed; a rule and order, indescribable in words, was transforming.
The ancestral origin was no longer singular; a more formidable, terrifying, awakening ancestral origin had descended upon the world.
Mu Changqing’s subsequent transformation altered the rules and order of all realms, the laws of the Great Dao, and the truths of heaven and earth.
When the gray ancestral origin was the sole entity, it decreed the ancestral gods to be immortal, supreme, and creators of all things.
Now, the gray ancestral origin had fallen silent, and the purple ancestral origin, growing ever more terrifying, was replacing it.
All rules were now dictated by Mu Changqing.
He was the singular, supreme being of all realms, controlling the destinies of all life.
Even the ancestral gods were not exempt from being defined by him.
“How is this possible? Why has such a change occurred?”
Zu Shen Ren perceived the shift in the surrounding cosmic laws and order with bewilderment. He realized he had somehow lost a form of protection, an existence beyond words.
Zu Shen Gu remained silent, his expression growing complex. He looked up and saw Mu Changqing’s figure, akin to a god of all realms, standing beyond the river of time.
That figure was too immense and terrifying; its very being was where it stood.
No matter how vast the realms or how boundless the unknown space, it seemed to be occupied by Mu Changqing’s form.
They, who were once beyond description, had become describable, their forms no longer vast and beyond concept.
“He… has taken another step, undergoing ultimate transformation, growth. The more he devours us, the stronger he will become, eternally…!”
Zu Shen Gu sighed. With the emergence of an existence comparable to the gray ancestral origin, relativity inevitably followed. As relativity led to contention, the supreme authority bestowed upon them by the gray ancestral origin began to be stripped away.
“How can this be? Why is it like this? Can that… also not suppress him? Why has the gray ancestral origin not yet revived, and why does he remain dormant?”
Zu Shen Fa muttered, feeling a despair and powerlessness originating from a sentient being this time.
“The heavens… have changed!”
Zu Shen Mo, his colossal body still shaking, rapidly ascended in power, preparing for a desperate battle.
Even if annihilated, he would not retreat.
The longer they delayed, the more terrifying Mu Changqing would become, plunging them into greater despair.
Passive acceptance was never an option for beings of their caliber.
“Come, the great era of change has begun. The final battle, we have no choice.”
Zu Shen Gu and Zu Shen Mo stood side by side, their overwhelming battle intent soaring to the heavens as they faced Mu Changqing’s terrifying figure.
The five great ancestral gods moved, initiating their ultimate transformation and unleashing their final trump cards.
Five terrifying figures occupied the five cardinal directions, undergoing their ultimate transformations simultaneously.
“All realms resonate, all laws converge, the ultimate of the Dao returns to me. End this enemy.”
As their words fell, the five great ancestral gods simultaneously burned their ancestral essence. Terrifying flames scorched the heavens, the earth, and time, and supreme patterns transformed into destructive power, shattering the ultimate barrier of the path.
All realms erupted with immeasurable ancestral radiance, resplendent beyond description, illuminating myriad ages.
That supreme might descended from the unknown heavens, arriving in the present world.
The power of the five great ancestral gods surged, dense ancestral patterns flowing forth, exulting.
The gray ancestral origin sensed this and briefly revived, spewing forth a great fog to aid the five great ancestral gods in their attempt to kill Mu Changqing.
The power of returning to simplicity, like all things and all laws, returned to its origin, becoming one.
Infinite power descended from the heavens, spreading across all realms, regardless of past, present, or future, any space-time, or any known or unknown place.
The power of the ancestral gods clashed with the power of the purple ancestral origin.
The great era boiled, and sentient beings were born and died.
Mu Changqing looked up, indifferently observing this power, the most formidable attack throughout all history. He waved his black robe.
The ancestral origin trembled, using bizarre beings as pawns, transforming them into eternally immortal races, impossible to exterminate.
Rumble!
The collision of power, immeasurably more terrifying than the Big Bang, shook both the gray and purple ancestral origins.
The great fog transformed into conscious beings, each strike like the clash of the chaotic sea of realms.
The fused and intertwined forces evolved into a sea of cosmic light.
That sea of cosmic light was filled with countless stars, its luminescence filling the sky.
Each star contained an endless chaotic sea of realms.
Converging, they formed countless star rivers, washing over all realms.
At this moment, the so-called realms were but a drop in the ocean.
The scene transcended all concepts, impossible to imagine with thought or describe with words.
At this very instant, a purple sword energy tore through all matter.
That sword energy was eternally indestructible, severing the brilliant star rivers formed by the convergence of the cosmic light.
It extinguished all enemies, and the resplendent figures of the five great ancestral gods gradually dimmed, vanishing above the star rivers.
Their departing forms were like an ancient history, silently erased by Mu Changqing.
In the past, present, and future, within the long river of time, their footprints no longer existed.
“In the end… they still lost!”
Mu Changqing’s figure flickered slightly, the great fog dissipated, and the star rivers ceased their flow, instantly turning into nothingness.
Mu Changqing, with the purple ancestral origin on his back, walked slowly through an indescribable space. No… this could no longer be called space.
It was a concept beyond space, a form of relativity.
At this moment, Mu Changqing seemed to be walking within space, but in reality, the world and space existed within his body, manifesting with his movements.
It was as if… time and space did not exist inherently, and only with Mu Changqing’s appearance did the concept of time and space arise.
Of course, he could also create time and space imaginable by ordinary beings, encompassing all things and all laws.
But for him, this was far too easy.
An unintentional flick of his hair could stir the rules of order, triggering the power of creation.
With a single breath, the chaotic sea of realms evolved, the sea of cosmic light formed by countless chaotic seas of realms evolved, and the star rivers formed by countless seas of cosmic light evolved.
Outside his body, endless star rivers also swirled, like surging waves.
There was no shore, only an embankment that existed invisibly.
The instant the waves surged, countless seas of cosmic light scattered into the formless void.
Within the sea of cosmic light, waves still struck the sky, and each wave was a chaotic sea of realms.
Within each chaotic sea of realms, every drop of tide was the convergence of myriad universes.
Within each myriad universe, there were also endless universes.
Each universe was constructed from countless stars.
The great waves surged, but they did not affect the normal lives of the beings nurtured within them.
The beings in these star continents, throughout their entire lives, could hardly cross from one continent to another, let alone enter the universe.
Even if a protagonist of destiny broke through the shackles, they would only enter the myriad universes that, to Mu Changqing, were less than dust.
No matter how powerful, how terrifying, how defiant of fate you became.
Throughout your entire life, you could never leave the chaotic sea of realms, let alone the subsequent sea of cosmic light, or the brilliant star rivers…!
Mu Changqing’s body, within the formless void, searched for traces of the gray ancestral origin.
Earlier, after Mu Changqing had completely annihilated the five great ancestral gods, that entity, sensing an extreme threat, had gone into hiding.
As for the dao fruits of the five great ancestral gods, they were all devoured by Mu Changqing and were being rapidly digested.
Perhaps a mere moment, perhaps billions of ancient eons…!
It held no significance for him; he had no concept of time, existing beyond all things.