Eternal Time and Space

Chapter 56 Eternal Light Sea

Three blood lotus seeds flew out from Zi Chen's sleeve, fell to the ground, took root and sprouted, and transformed into three ninth-grade blood lotuses. Boundless blood energy surged from the lotus platforms, merged into the sky, and transformed into clouds.

The Four Symbols Banana Tree flew out from Zi Chen's sleeve. The four banana leaves unfolded, and the power of the four elements—earth, wind, water, and fire—flowed on the leaves. The trunk grew taller, the crown expanded, and inch by inch, it opened up the heavens and the earth.

The sky was pushed upward by the Four Symbols Banana Tree, and the earth was pressed downward by the roots of the Myriad Spirits Blood Tree. The higher the sky, the thicker the earth, the farther the distance between heaven and earth, and the wider the world became.

But that's not enough; the power of these few innate spiritual roots cannot support a complete great world.

Mo Yun unfurled the Milky Way axis, the scroll stretching across heaven and earth, the starry celestial realm within the scroll transformed into a miniature sea of ​​stars.

Mo Yun shook the scroll, and a vast amount of rare and precious materials poured out from it: veins of Taiyi Divine Gold, veins of Shoushan Copper, veins of Kunwu Stone, sedimentary layers of Tianhe Star Sand, veins of Earth Fire Crystallization... Countless divine metals and rare irons, both known and unknown, poured down from the Milky Way axis like a torrential rain.

Nine-colored divine flowers, jade-leaf lingzhi mushrooms, void vines, sunflower fruits... countless precious medicinal herbs and spiritual roots flew out from the Milky Way axis and scattered across the earth.

The corpses of seventy-seven chaotic gods and demons fell from the Milky Way axis, crashing into the earth and transforming into towering divine mountains. On these mountains, the Daoist essence of the chaotic gods and demons still lingered, rising and merging into the laws of heaven and earth.

These rare and precious materials, medicinal herbs and spiritual roots, and the remains of gods and demons, like countless seeds, were scattered into this nascent world. Once the seeds landed, they began to take root and sprout.

The divine gold veins sank into the earth, transforming into ley lines; precious medicinal roots took root in the mountains and rivers, transforming into vegetation; the corpses of gods and demons transformed into divine mountains, supporting the sky. At this moment, the originally barren world finally began to take shape with all things.

Jiuyou summoned the Nine Nether Cauldron, a pitch-black cauldron that crashed into the churning turbid air. The cauldron expanded, transforming into a colossal cauldron that reached the heavens and stood upright. Its mouth opened wide, surging forth with boundless suction, drawing in the turbid air churning between heaven and earth.

The turbid air entered the cauldron and was refined by the Nine Nether Cauldron into pure earth essence, which then poured out from the cauldron's legs and merged into the earth. Under the suppression of the Nine Nether Cauldron, the earth stopped churning and became thick and solid.

Five-colored light shot up from behind Kong Xuan's head, the five colors of divine light—blue, red, yellow, white, and black—like five sharp swords, piercing into the entangled turbidity and purity.

With a ripple of the five-colored divine light, the clear and the turbid were separated. Kong Xuan threw out the Crimson Prison, and the blood-red giant city continued to expand. The city walls extended in all directions, pushing the sky upward and pressing the earth downward. The distance between heaven and earth was stretched further and further by the Crimson Prison.

Zi Chen appeared in the center of the world at this moment. His figure flickered and then disappeared. A vast and indescribable sea of ​​light, with dazzling brilliance and continuous light from beginning to end, surged out.

Endless light surged within the sea of ​​light, appearing as pure white, as silvery white, and as if all colors were blended together. This was the light of time, the light of space, and the eternal light resulting from the fusion of time and space.

The eternal sea of ​​light surged, illuminating this nascent world with brilliance. As the light shone into the sky, the sky became more stable; as the light shone into the earth, the earth became more solid; as the light shone into all things, all things gained an extra layer of eternal Daoist charm.

Within the Milky Way axis, the celestial realm of stars flew out, with the sun, moon, stars, the Purple Star, the Big Dipper, the Milky Way nebula, and the entire starry world peeled away from the scroll and ascended into the sky.

The sun hangs in the east, the moon in the west, and the Big Dipper, the Southern Dipper, Venus, Mars, and countless other stars revolve in the sea of ​​stars according to their own trajectories.

The celestial sphere unfolds anew in this newly born world, transforming into the sun, moon, and stars of this world.

Within the Nine Nether Cauldron, the Netherworld churned up endless turbid air, sinking deep into the earth. The River of Oblivion, the Yellow Springs, the Sea of ​​Darkness, the Weak Water—everything in the Nine Netherworld unfolded anew deep within the earth. The Netherworld merged with the turbid air deep within the earth, transforming into a complete Nether Land.

In the underworld, the River of Oblivion flows, the Yellow Springs surge, the Sea of ​​Darkness churns, and the Weak Water surrounds it. The aura of death settles in the underworld, transforming into the final resting place of death for this world.

Within the mortal prison, all living things swarmed out. The birds, beasts, insects, and fish that Kong Xuan had evolved in the mortal world poured out of the blood-red giant city and scattered between heaven and earth.

Although these creatures do not yet possess sentience, their very existence is life itself; with them, this desolate world comes into a cycle of life and death.

When living beings grow, they are born; when living beings die, they die. After death, they return to the underworld, where the death energy that settles transforms into life, nourishing the earth, and new living beings can then be born on the earth.

The Three Realms have returned to their proper places.

Mo Yun's form dissipated, transforming into an immense primordial energy that merged into the heavens.

Above the sky, the sun, moon, and stars shone brightly at the same time, and the height of the sky suddenly rose a notch at that moment.

Jiuyou's form dissipated, transforming into an immense source that merged into the Netherworld.

Within the Netherworld, the River of Oblivion and the Yellow Springs surged and roared simultaneously, and the depth of the Netherworld suddenly sank a notch at that moment.

Kong Xuan's form dissipated, transforming into an immense primordial energy that merged into the earth and all living beings.

On the earth, birds, beasts, insects, and fish all cried out to the sky, and the concentration of vitality suddenly surged at this moment.

The Starry Sea World, the Netherworld, and the Mortal World were all completely merged into this great world at this moment.

The Celestial Realm, the Underworld, and the Human Realm are no longer independent incarnations of the same world, but rather three components of this great world.

The celestial realm is above, bearing the sun, moon, and stars, and governing the celestial order; the underworld is below, bearing the final resting place of the dead, and governing the cycle of reincarnation; the human realm is in the middle, bearing all living beings, and governing the life force.

The three realms are divided, each in its own place, each following its own path.

At this time, the beginningless and the immeasurable also differentiated.

Wushi, holding the Eternal Bell, transformed into a long river of time, merging into the past of this great world.

The eternal bell tolls, its sound echoing through the past of the Great World, constantly dividing and extending it. One past becomes two, two become four, four become eight...

The past is infinitely differentiated, and the foundation of the great world is infinitely deep. Every past is a possibility, and every possibility is a foundation.

Boundless, riding the Zhongtian Gate, transformed into endless spatial veins, merging into the future of this great world.

The Zhongtian Gate opened, and the power of space surged out from it, transforming into an invisible net that extended towards the chaos beyond the Great World. The chaos was swallowed into the Great World and transformed into a part of it. The boundaries of the Great World continued to expand outward, absorbing the chaos and expanding its territory.

At this moment, the two innate treasures, Zhongtianmen and Wanguzhong, were completely integrated into the Great World. Zhongtianmen became the spatial network of the Great World, and Wanguzhong became the temporal foundation of the Great World. Time and space merged into one with the Great World at this moment.