Chapter 1303: Today Becomes Summer Immortal

The fortune teller Liu Xuanji burned the Book of Fate. The moment his life was consumed by flames, he had already divined the Heavenly Dao of his world. "Everyone's destiny is the same destiny!"

The historian Chen Mo exhausted his life's efforts exploring the truth. Illuminated by starlight and candlelight, he finally saw everything, realizing that the end of history revolved within the same cycle. "Everyone who tries to grasp the trajectory of history will eventually become the trajectory itself."

It was not just them. Under the illusion facilitated by the God of Pain, Xu Qing lived countless lives: a scholar, a high official, a commoner, a beggar, experiencing myriad forms of existence. Each of these lives, at some point, through different means and opportunities, arrived at the same realization.

Until finally, as the extremely special artist, he spoke everything with a sense of profound emotion: "Unification is not just about space, but also about time."

He also eventually met himself from another timeline, conveying all his insights to his own being across time and space. They were all Xu Qing.

Ordinary enlightenment flows forward like a river, seemingly a straight line. However, Xu Qing's understanding of the Constitution had reached an extremely high level, making his enlightenment a circle. His future, past, and present selves, from different timelines, all served as his own teachers.

Thus, at the moment the old artist departed with a smile, although his world was shattered, Xu Qing, gazing at the painting, heard the reverberations of the Grand Dao in his mind. That sound seemed to gather and converge from all time and space, becoming the clarion call of enlightenment!

Consequently, Xu Qing lifted his foot and stepped out of the shattered artist's world, appearing in the initial temporal turbulence. This was his anchor point, the center of all parallel realities.

Here, Xu Qing sat cross-legged. After a while, he closed his eyes and softly uttered two words: "Unify!"

The instant these two words resonated, time and space roared, and all parallel consciousnesses surged intensely. A storm arose! Xu Qing could clearly feel the essences scattered across various corners and parallel timelines. They were now flocking towards him like homing birds called by a summons, intent on merging into one entity. And the Great Return officially began!

Time flowed silently like a murmuring stream as these consciousness waves from different timelines returned. Even though time had lost all meaning for Xu Qing at this moment, strange ripples of time and space still emerged in the long river of time. The parallel worlds, each a point of light derived from Xu Qing's Constitution, were infinitely stretched into threads. Within these ripples, they intertwined and began to converge, finally gathering and merging within the turbulence where Xu Qing's true form resided.

This grand spatiotemporal transformation also caused earth-shattering changes for all beings and phenomena within the infinite parallels formed by Xu Qing's Constitution. Mountains and rivers in each timeline seemed to be reshaped by an invisible pair of hands. Originally towering peaks, some dramatically rose thousands of feet higher, while others slowly receded, transforming into rolling hills. Rivers, lakes, and seas no longer followed their former courses; some dried up into vast deserts, while others overflowed, forming new, boundless wetlands.

Birds and beasts seemed imbued with a different kind of spiritual essence; their appearances and habits evolved unlike before. Some grew strange wings, enabling them to soar beyond the highest clouds, while others spoke human languages, as if the door to intelligence had opened for them. As for the myriad beings of the world, they underwent transformations of both soul and body amidst these ripples. Some gained a glimmer of spiritual light on their foreheads, while others moved with a mysterious power they never possessed before. All these incredible changes formed within Xu Qing's thoughts and were born within his parallel realities.

Meanwhile, Xu Qing sat quietly cross-legged in the void of the turbulence, his mind perfectly clear, without joy or sorrow. At this very moment, his cultivation and realm also experienced a long-awaited ascent! Or, to be precise, it was not merely an ascent, but an earth-shattering, unparalleled metamorphosis!

His skin became more radiant, silver patterns emerged on his bones, his hair continued to grow, and his physique became more ethereal. Simultaneously, an Immortal Aura, possessed only by Immortals, gradually flowed within his soul. It eventually spread outward, emanating from his entire being, illuminating the void! An Immortal was being born!

Along with the Immortal Aura, a sublimated consciousness emerged. This was Immortal Sense, and simultaneously, the Law born from Xu Qing's Constitution! It was far more resilient than divine sense, operating on an entirely different level, and its reach traversed time and space, like an invisible and vast net, connecting everything within Xu Qing's Constitution. The moment everything was fully connected, this unprecedented metamorphosis on Xu Qing's being was completed in an instant! He had accomplished a leap in life's fundamental level!

As his eyes opened, the temporal turbulence instantly roared with heavenly thunder, darkness was ripped apart, chaos was adjusted, and everything, the moment Xu Qing opened his eyes, seemed to find its master! His Immortal Sense swept in all directions, piercing through ancient and modern times, shaking heaven and earth!

And what constituted this unique Immortal Sense were all his selves from parallel timelines! Each of his selves was a point, constantly supplying power to the Immortal Sense. As the source, Xu Qing could clearly feel that with a mere thought, his selves in various parallel worlds, regardless of their disparate environments or different experiences, would move in accordance with his will!

Although his selves in those parallel timelines seemed to be mere points, now connected by the Immortal Sense and transformed into a unified whole, they seemed to contain the mysteries of the entire universe! They also held countless possibilities, countless worlds, and countless stories. It was the origin point of everything; all time and space, all causality, emanated from here. Theoretically, this origin point represented infinite time and endless space. It was as if standing here allowed one to traverse ancient and modern times, and journey across the edges of the universe.

This was Xu Qing's Tenth Extreme... His artist self had named it... Dimension!

And Xu Qing, at this moment, finally completed his long-dreamed-of advancement, becoming a Summer Immortal! From then on, he transcended the shackles of mortals and stepped into the extraordinary realm of Immortals.

The moment he opened his eyes, the temporal turbulence revolved around him, and the chaotic fragments dancing within seemed like subjects prostrating before their king. As for the outside world, there were also ripples. Within the Fourth Star Ring, time shifted. All beings seemed to lose a fragment of time, only for it to return in an instant. This change was so rapid that most beings could barely perceive it. Only cultivators and deities who practiced temporal powers experienced a momentary trance, vaguely sensing that the path before them... had gained a great mountain!

Because at this moment, at the level of time and space, Xu Qing's Constitution had reached its absolute peak! In the past, although deities and cultivators had trodden this path, none now stood ahead of him. Now, nothing existed before him, because he himself was among the foremost of all who cultivated temporal divine authority and constitutional laws!

The reason for saying "among the foremost" was that, at the moment of his Tenth Extreme's completion, Xu Qing sensed five other existences, co-equal with him, across all thirty-six Star Rings! Among those five, there were no cultivators, only deities. They were all at the Divine Lord level, each exploring how to take the next step within the concept of time and space!

As Xu Qing sensed them, the five Divine Lords in the Seventh, Thirteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-sixth, and Thirty-fifth Star Rings, whom Xu Qing had sensed in his profound awareness, experienced similar ripples.

In the Seventh Star Ring was a Divine Lord named Aeon. Their divine might was sung by their devotees, and in these hymns, their body was described as being forged from flowing sand. Their eyes were the boundary between dawn and dusk. Legend said that the silver sand pouring from their left eye could freeze any battlefield, while the golden sand falling from their right eye possessed the power to accelerate the growth of civilizations. Their body, meanwhile, consumed all temporal fragments that deviated from the path of destiny.

In the Thirteenth Star Ring resided the deity Xu Qing had sensed. They were humanoid, appearing to be female, and at this moment, they walked through the starry sky. The hem of their moon-white robe was steeped in the ink of eternal night. Bare feet left burning footprints in the space they traversed, and star rivers were affected, flowing backward along these marks. As their nebula-entwined silver hair flowed, broken gears could be seen within. They were the Mother of Star Orbits.

And in the Nineteenth Star Ring was Freya, known as the Weaving Mother. In their divine realm, their true form was a blossoming flower on antlers entwined with countless emerald vines. This flower radiated four-colored threads: verdant threads of spring could make dry bones grow flesh, crimson threads of summer could melt stars, golden threads of autumn wove destiny, and silver threads of winter could freeze souls. Time and space, under their weaving, would also change.

As for the two deities in the Twenty-sixth and Thirty-fifth Star Rings, their stature was equally astonishing. One was the Eye of the Moment! They had no physical form, but were composed of countless overlapping moments. Their body changed according to the observer's gaze. What appeared in their divine realm at this moment was a form covered in mirror-like scales. And each scale, at this instant, shimmered with Xu Qing's figure. It contained all possibilities of his future temporal nodes, but in the next instant, all these possibilities shattered. They could not perceive him!

The other was the Lord of the Abyssal Ruins. They were a colossal serpent coiled at the end of time in the Thirty-fifth Star Ring, their scales forged from solidified darkness. With each breath, they spewed forth black sand that devoured memories, and a rusty bronze compass hung from the tip of their tail. In this Star Ring, there were many legends about the Lord of the Abyssal Ruins. One legend described that when they spread their bone wings, the membranes would display the annals of all forgotten civilizations. And at this moment, their bone wings unfurled again, and Xu Qing's name seemed about to appear on them. But in the end, it was a blur.

Because Xu Qing's constitutional law was just like theirs: It was a Law of the Immortal Lord level!