CHAPTER 55:The Past, The Future, And The Present Are The Only Ones! A Proof Of Eternity!

The picture of this world began to accelerate gradually.

And the minds of many powerhouses across the heavens and myriad worlds began to rise and fall in waves.

This rain is born in the sky and dies in the earth. The process in between is life.

My life, how magnificent. Why should I fear death?

Those who hear the Dao may die soon after, but those who go against it possess a heaven-defying heart. From it is born an unyielding thought—what is there to fear in death?

I subverted the heavens to straighten your reflection. I reversed the world because that day could not conceal your open eyes. I broke through the endless void so that you might find your way home.

The Dao of Heaven is imprisoned. All beings must endure countless kalpas. But with a single obsession, they escape the deep prison and dedicate themselves to the cultivation of the self.

My Lord Blackwater Immortal Monarch, come. Retrieve the old things and destroy this world.

A series of images continued to unfold.

With the changing scene surrounding the Daoist shadow, words echoed across the heavens and the earth.

Unparalleled dominance swept forth.

Each scroll, each uttered phrase, shook all who witnessed it.

When it came to the scene where Shen Lian arrived in the Tianchen World, he had the system deliberately conceal it.

Countless powerhouses from the heavens and myriad worlds watched this image, their hearts captivated and stirred.

Yet doubt clouded their minds.

"With such strength, he ranks at most in the top twenty. How can he be ninth?"

They did not wait long.

Soon, the Gold List of the heavens and worlds gave an answer.

It was the final image.

Wang Nixian, this is your dream. Whether it is the Tiangang Continent or all of this, it is but an illusion.

You do not remember your past life, and in the eyes of this old man, that makes you pitiable. Wang Nixian, I tell you that there are four great realms in the universe, and this world is only the Heaven and Dust Realm.

As for you, in your previous life, you were the strongest in the realm of the heavens. You cultivated to resurrect your wife.

You even used your dream technique to dissolve your true self, enter reincarnation, and gamble everything in hopes of fulfilling that dream—to resurrect her and reverse the fate of the world.

Even this old man is astonished by the madness of your thoughts and actions.

An old man wearing a multicolored Taoist robe laughed loudly, bordering on hysteria.

Across from him, Wang Nixian merely sighed lightly.

You are wrong. The past you believe you saw was only my future, part of the long river of time.

Put simply, the past you see is nothing more than my future—a future that has been altered.

As his voice fell—

Boom!

A young man in black with the exact same face as Wang Nixian, but with a colder, sterner expression, stepped forth upon the long river of time.

This was Wang Lu.

Wang Nixian's killing clone.

He walked upon the long river of time, one step at a time, from the past toward the present.

At that moment—

Tianyun Daoist, dressed in the colorful Taoist robe, was completely dumbfounded, just like countless powerhouses watching throughout the heavens.

"Wait... that means all of the previous images were actually created by Wang Nixian changing time?"

"It's more than that. It was not the former Wang Nixian reincarnated into the current one. What happened was that the current Wang Nixian sent a clone into the past, purposefully creating those scenes to make Tianyun Daoist believe he was the reincarnation of the past Wang Nixian."

Countless people gasped, their eyes filled with terror.

Reincarnation alone was no longer considered extraordinary.

But to overturn and restart the timeline, manipulate the laws of time at will, send one's present self into the past, and alter the future through changes made in that past—

Such methods could only be called heaven-defying.

In a multiverse universe, any slight difference in choice could create countless possibilities.

And those possibilities would evolve into countless developments.

These developments, in turn, formed countless parallel worlds.

And these parallel worlds constituted a multi-dimensional universe.

The multiverse was like a Rubik's Cube.

Each side of the cube represented a different parallel world formed by unique variables.

Every rotation of the cube revealed a completely new face—a new outcome.

Yet Wang Nixian overturned the timeline of the multiverse, reshaped the rules, and altered the origin of everything.

He changed the past to influence the trajectory of the future.

Such power was unheard of, unseen.

At this moment, all watchers awakened from their stupor. A storm raged in their hearts.

Such methods far surpassed mere battles against the Dao of Heaven.

One must understand—walking upon the long river of time to observe the past and future could only be done by those at the peak of power in the heavens.

But Wang Nixian did more than observe.

He sent his clone to the past, reshaped it, distorted its flow, and thereby influenced the course of the future.

The intelligence, the spiritual computing power required to accomplish such a feat, was simply staggering.

Just as all the powerhouses were reeling from shock—

The image of the Tianchen World shifted again.

A white-haired man, identical in appearance to Wang Nixian, sat cross-legged in a palace, gently lifting the crystal ball before him.

Inside the crystal ball, the scenes of the Tianchen Realm unfolded.

And there were countless other crystal balls just like it.

After Wang Nixian picked up the crystal ball—

Laughter echoed behind him.

"Congratulations to Daoist Wang Nixian. You have united the past, the future, and the present. One proves eternity. You have reached the Ninth Step into the Heavenly Realm."

Wang Nixian turned his head and offered a gentle smile.

"Daoist Su, Daoist Meng, Daoist Bai—this celebration is shared by us all."

The figures looked at one another and laughed together.