Chapter 1236: Chapter 531: Converging Timelines, Stepping into the Forbidden Domain!_2 Chapter 1236: Chapter 531: Converging Timelines, Stepping into the Forbidden Domain!_2 It also introduced a variable that was outside the Heavenly Emperor’s plans, an unforeseen variable.

Jiang Yuan pondered for a while before suddenly looking up at the sky above him.

“Could that purple light be an object from beyond the heavens?”

He couldn’t help but voice this question, then slowly nodded and murmured to himself, “It must be so. If it were not a foreign object from beyond, how could it have such wondrous effects! The effects of the panel are clearly far beyond any opportunity this world has to offer!”

“Hence, it must be a chance from beyond this world, inevitably a most miraculous treasure.”

The next moment, Jiang Yuan slowly returned to his senses.

Today had been immensely rewarding for him.

Peering into his past life and present existence, he uncovered the greatest secret of this world.

It nearly resolved all the puzzles in his heart.

He now completely knew what he had to do in the future.

The first thing, after achieving great success, would be to flatten the Three Major God Mountains beyond this domain. Whether it was the immortals from those God Mountains and the Dao Fruit they cultivated or the treasures of heaven and earth within the mountains, all would be of immense help to him.

The second was to eliminate the True Spirit Mark of that Heavenly Emperor. Through peering into his past and present lives, Jiang Yuan understood all the secrets of the Heavenly Emperor; he and the emperor had irreconcilable conflicts and only one of them could exist.

Even if he did not strike at the emperor, knowing his nature, it was obvious he would inevitably make a move against him.

By peering into the emperor’s past, Jiang Yuan also knew that a million years had passed, and the emperor might have returned to his peak. The body buried deep within the Immortal World had likely been nurtured to perfection, no less formidable than in his prime and perhaps even stronger.

That is to say, once he confronted him, he might have to face the Heavenly Emperor at his prime, capable of fighting three, able to kill three Third-Level Venerables of Half-step Transcendence.

This was an extremely powerful and dangerous individual.

In this world, from ancient times to the present, this Heavenly Emperor has also stood at the pinnacle of all beings.

His talent and ingenuity were unquestionably powerful and awe-inspiring.

Yet, the more this was the case, the more Jiang Yuan dreaded such an existence.

Even though he now possessed more than ten red strands of Innate Energy Luck and his potential talent vastly surpassed that of the Heavenly Emperor, he still dared not underestimate him.

As the one who understood the Heavenly Emperor the most, he was, in fact, extremely wary.

The third item was to clear all formidable enemies in the upstream of the Time River. If he wanted to achieve transcendence, it would inevitably require a massive amount of energy.

The beings in the upstream of the Time River were the best source of that energy.

The Dao they cultivated was the Path of Cultivating Immortals.

Qi gathering, foundation building, gold elixir, Nascent Soul…

Ultimately, Immortal Emperor.

Jiang Yuan was somewhat familiar with this system and not at all unfamiliar.

As existences in the upstream of the Time River, the bits of information they inadvertently leaked out became the flashes and inspirations in the minds of all spirits downstream, became stories, novels, and biographies passed down among the mortals.

The next moment.

Jiang Yuan slowly shook his head: “Forget it! Thinking more is useless. I must focus on enhancing myself first!”

With this in mind, Jiang Yuan instantly cut away the random thoughts within his heart.

Then, the projection of the Time River immediately appeared above his head.

With grand momentum and surging waves.

Suddenly, countless afterimages emerged from the projection of the Time River and merged into his body, one after another.

Seeing these afterimages, Jiang Yuan felt a sense of familiarity.

Because they were interwoven with the image of himself walking step by step from the mortal realm to his current state.

It was him from billions of timelines, now converging, converging to a single point.

Time slowly passed, and the great sun gradually set, its blinding light now transformed into a warm orange-red glow.

This was the scene of the sun about to sink behind the western hills.

At this moment.

Jiang Yuan slowly opened his eyes, and the aura emanating from his body underwent some subtle changes once more.

Afterward, he clenched his fists, quietly feeling the power within his body.

After a while, he nodded in satisfaction.

“After the consolidation of timelines, it’s not just that I no longer exist in the past or future, but only in this moment. It also made my strength surge once more, becoming unique, becoming the only “me” afterward! I will only be me, no longer any other existence!”

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“This is equivalent to stepping into the Forbidden Domain.”

“No wonder those Heavenly Lords who enter the Forbidden Domain are unmemorable to ordinary people, forgotten as soon as they are seen.”

“Because the Heavenly Lords are the beings that have completed the gathering of the timelines, they do not exist in the far future, only in the present.”

“Hence, the characteristic of being forgotten upon sight.”

At this point, Jiang Yuan also suddenly thought of Shu Xiaoxiao.

When he had just glimpsed the past of the Heavenly Emperor, he also saw in the Heavenly Court that peerless swordswoman of exceptional beauty.

Her appearance was identical to that of Shu Xiaoxiao.

The moment he saw that woman, Jiang Yuan understood that she was Shu Xiaoxiao’s previous life, known as the peerless sword immortal.

She was also one who became a Heavenly Lord and stepped into the Forbidden Domain.

She had also perished in the battle at the upper reaches of the Time River.

Afterwards, based on Shu Xiaoxiao’s profile, it wasn’t hard to guess that she had reincarnated as Shu Xiaoxiao.

That peerless sword immortal was Shu Xiaoxiao’s previous life.

Within the past of that Heavenly Emperor, Jiang Yuan also knew of a peerlessly beautiful swordswoman who had always kept her gaze fixed on the supreme shadow of that Heavenly Emperor, always admiring the supreme Heavenly Emperor.

This thread of affection arose simply because the Heavenly Emperor had reached out his hand to help her when she was most in pain, most in despair, pulling her out.

Just as Jiang Yuan had previously done for Shu Xiaoxiao.

Ever since then, the Heavenly Emperor had quietly occupied all of that peerless sword immortal.

The reason the Heavenly Emperor did so was merely that he felt the peerless swordswoman was a buried gem, an excellent candidate for sword cultivation, a useful person.

Indeed, this proved the Heavenly Emperor’s discernment; after embarking on cultivation, the woman soared upwards, reaching the ranks of the Supreme in just a few short decades, stepping yet again into the Immortal Dao.

And in the span of tens of thousands of years, she had stepped into the Forbidden Domain, becoming one of the strongest in the Heavenly Court.

By the time of the ultimate battle, this peerless swordswoman could even be ranked within the first three seats of the Heavenly Court.

Such was the terror of her talent.

Thinking of all these past events, Jiang Yuan couldn’t help shaking his head.

“What a pity! Alas, the blossoms have intentions, but the flowing water is heartless; in the heart of that Heavenly Emperor, there is only the Great Dao, only transcendence, and all spirits and beings are merely stepping stones in his eyes, his tools!”

Immediately after, a smile slowly appeared on Jiang Yuan’s face.

“After gathering the timelines, I have become the only ‘me’!”

“I am me, no longer anyone else!”

“Next, it’s time to welcome the baptism of the mysterious substance from the outside world!”

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Time River.

Jiang Yuan’s figure appeared again on the surface of the river.

As his figure surfaced, he quickly reached the previous limit, where the water was up to his knees.

The next moment.

As his figure slowly ascended again, Jiang Yuan suddenly felt as if there were billions of iron chains binding his every muscle below the knee.

However, these iron chains soon broke one by one, the binding force upon him greatly diminished, and his body continued to float upwards slowly.

At the same time.

Jiang Yuan instantly felt the entire Time River rapidly shrinking.

Or rather, compared to the Time River, his body size was rapidly increasing.

Realizing this change, Jiang Yuan instantly understood.

A million years ago in the battle upstream, the Heavenly Emperor altered the course of the Time River, making the fork narrower, with the purpose of cutting off those Half-step Transcendents from entering this tributary.

Because as any life form embarked on the path of transcendence, in the process of constant transcendence, these life forms relative to the Time River were expanding by hundreds and thousands of times.

Thus, the closer one is to transcendence, the greater the size.

If a Half-step Transcender were to come before one who had just taken the first step in transcendence, the difference in body size between the two cannot be reasoned with–it’s the difference between the body of a mythological giant and an ant.

So that Heavenly Emperor deployed his Divine Power, causing the river’s entrance to narrow, leading to Half-step Transcenders being unable to enter this tributary of the Time River.

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