Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

Chapter 582 Reflection in Determination
The momentary confusion was a portrayal of a life-and-death experience. When Wang Luo felt that he had lost his way, the world immediately spun around him. The thousands of shadows under his feet seemed like thousands of ferocious beasts, trying to drag him in.

Wang Luo had no choice and without hesitation, he immediately used the talisman in his hand which was barely warm yet.

The talisman unfolded millions of snow-white talisman papers, which unfolded like the interlaced shadows of millions of worlds under his feet, and then naturally pieced together into a grand blank scroll, carrying Wang Luo lightly on it.

It's like a huge warship standing proudly at the forefront of the stormy waves.

Relying on the accumulation of thousands of years of Song Huizong, Wang Luo was not involved in any of these pictures, and was even able to observe the changes in the world relatively calmly.

Then, he roughly figured out his situation.

The change occurred at the moment when he looked directly at the ruins of the illusion, and the result of the change was that he was dragged into a gap between reality and illusion.

The so-called cracks have existed since ancient times, before the establishment of the immortal way. Starting from Jingzhou, all ethnic groups have had legends of "repairing the sky", which is essentially the history of the ancestors of each ethnic group using various means to find cracks and fill them. However, as the civilization of Kyushu stabilized, such cracks have become increasingly rare, and the knowledge related to them has mostly become legends.

However, with the knowledge accumulated in Lingshan from ancient times, Wang Luo knew a little about this. It is said that the birth of the Kyushu Continent can be traced back to this "crack".

Of course, this is just the subjective speculation of the Immortal Ancestor Chi Cheng himself. When he traveled around Kyushu, he combined the legends of various ethnic groups and related landforms to roughly speculate the history of the birth of the entire world.

The origin of Jiuzhou is Jingzhou, and Jingzhou is the product of the chaos of the boundless chaos sea in the west, and the transformation of order. As for the Chaos Sea itself, it comes from the ancient times, or even the era before the ancient times, when a huge "crack" suddenly erupted.

That eruption not only created this world, but also tore the cracks into thousands of pieces. Some of the pieces were immersed in the sea of ​​chaos, and then entered Kyushu with the chaos order, and caused terrible natural disasters in ancient times... According to legend, through those cracks that have been floating in Kyushu for hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of millions of years and still not closed, people can peek into the origin of the world... However, the ending of this peek is always extremely tragic, so that several years later, the immortal ancestor Chicheng traveled all over Kyushu, but could only witness the ancients' fear of cracks from the fragments of legends. As for what the scene in the cracks is, it is kept secret in all the stories.

As for Chi Cheng himself, during his long history of cultivation, he had also passed by cracks in some extreme areas, but he chose to avoid them very rationally and did not try to spy on them. He would even take the initiative to close them when he had the strength to do so. As for the immortal world after attaining the Tao and ascending to heaven, he did not touch the mortal world, so naturally he had no intersection with the cracks anymore.

Therefore, what Wang Luo hears and sees now can be said to be a pioneering achievement in human history.

but why?
Why did the cracks that only existed in legends suddenly appear in the illusionary ruins? Was it the magic of the ruins themselves, or was it caused by the magic power of the Great Demon Lord? In other words, was this crack really that crack? If it was the cracks in the historical books that often caused a state to face the disaster of sinking, how could he be safe? No matter how magical Song Hui's one-man heavenly book was, it was only a book for one person, and the cracks were something that even Chi Cheng, who was about to ascend to heaven, was unwilling to touch.

And if it is not that gap? Then what is this gap?
After all, why did I conclude that this was the legendary crack right away? Where did this "self-evident" cognition come from?

Standing on the scroll transformed from the heavenly book, Wang Luo was in a state of uncertainty for a moment. Endless questions came to him like a tide, as if they were going to drown him.

At this moment, the changes in the painting under his feet attracted his attention. When his attention fell on the painting, the information about the painting came flooding in.

In the brief moment when he was lost in thought, the thousands of paintings that started from the same starting point and evolved along different trajectories had become brilliant. The painting in front of him had evolved into the land of Kyushu in the 1300th year of the New Immortal Calendar!

According to the history in the scroll, Wang Luo and others never came out after entering the Rongcheng workshop... But the two Tianzun Taichu and Taixu seemed to have been strangled in the workshop at the same time and disappeared. Therefore, the Immortal Alliance was equivalent to using a group of high-level leaders to exchange for a decisive victory in the Dinghuang War.

After that, due to the lack of a leader, the Immortal Alliance fell into a brief civil strife, and many countries even broke out in war, but everything was settled within ten years. Ten years later, the Immortal Alliance walked out of the shadow of the fall of Lu Youyou and others, and under the leadership of the new chief of the Immortal Dry Forest, Changshengjun, the lord of Zhouguo, officially restarted the development of wasteland. The strategic idea of ​​this development is to take a long time. The Immortal Alliance supports Yueyang's Baiyao City to go deep into Luzhou. It took five years to reach the edge of Jingzhou. When Changshengjun stood on the high tower of Baiyao City and looked at Jingzhou, he saw a cemetery of immortals covering the entire state... From the Lord of the Heavenly Court to the immortal servants and spirit birds in each immortal palace, everything belonging to the immortals was buried. Jingzhou has completely become a fertile wasteland for anyone to cultivate.

In the eighty years that followed, the Immortal Alliance carefully annexed and digested the four states of the left of the sky, and gradually re-established the prosperity of the Nine States. In the 1300th year of the New Immortal Calendar, Changsheng Jun officially announced that the Immortal Alliance had finally realized its long-cherished wish of a thousand years, completely eradicating the wasteland and completely integrating the Nine States. There was no longer an inch of wasteland under the heavens, and from this moment on, the Immortal Alliance would abolish the New Immortal Calendar and adopt the Nine States Calendar.

What Wang Luo saw was the grand scene of the people of Rongcheng singing and dancing in the square where the original Stone Street was located in 1300 of the New Immortal Calendar to celebrate the first year of the Nine States Calendar. There was a bronze statue of him and a museum with him as the theme in the square. But everything about the Stone Street in his memory was completely different. Even the tall and proud bronze statue seemed small and humble under the shadow of the jade statue of the new Governor Gu.

In the blink of an eye, eighty years had passed... However, just as Wang Luo was sighing in his heart, another scroll attracted his attention.

The scroll records a completely different history. It also starts with Wang Luo entering the workshop to rescue, but the subsequent development is tragic... A few days after Wang Luo disappeared, the workshop exploded, as if something unprecedented and terrifying broke out of its cocoon. The impact of the explosion instantly flattened the entire Rong City and even overturned half of the sacred mountain.

However, such a horrific disaster was only a prelude, because the one who came out of the cocoon was Taichu Tianzun. He successfully turned the tables when the long-term battle was in a desperate situation, and used his magical power of turning virtual into real to kill Taixu Tianzun and most of the high-level members of the Immortal Alliance, and made up for his own shortcomings that came from fiction in this life-and-death battle. Then he descended on the Immortal Alliance in his true form and wiped out all traces of human civilization in one fell swoop.

It was a terrifying power of a completely different level. The accumulation of mankind for thousands of years was like dust. Even the way of heaven succumbed to its will... It took Tianzun three days to forcibly combine the entire Kyushu continent. And there were almost no living creatures in the unified Kyushu.

Tianzun didn't care about it. Instead, he seemed to have done his housework and was relaxed and comfortable in this lonely world. After exterminating Jiuzhou, he continued to look at the Xinghai Tianyu, and continued to open up the Xinghai according to the method in the fictional dream... The method in the dream is naturally very different from reality, but the whole world has succumbed to him. The stars kept falling, and the sky became shallower and shallower. Finally, when everything was open, an indescribable crack opened up on the scroll. Tianzun cast his eyes, as if he saw something unimaginable. He was horrified and excited. He stretched out his hand to tear the crack, and then, this Tianzun who could exterminate the world with a move of his hands and feet was sucked away by the crack and disappeared. The whole scroll turned into ashes with the fall of Tianzun. The extreme and bizarre historical evolution carried in this scroll made Wang Luo quite enlightened for a while, but before he could sort out his thoughts, his attention was drawn again to the third painting.

This painting dates back to the year 1500 in the New Immortal Calendar, and at this point in time, the New Immortal Calendar had long lost its practical significance.

Because the entire Immortal Alliance had been shattered in a huge storm that swept across Kyushu. That storm was not as terrible as the apocalypse in the second scroll, but it lasted for nearly three hundred years, and all civilizations were blown away. Only a few thousand people remained from the tens of billions of humans, scattered across the broken land like an archipelago, and civilization regressed to its primitive state... and in the middle of the storm, the two instigators were still fighting fiercely.

It was Taixu and Taichu, two celestial masters, who originally lived only in the illusion, but both gained physical form in the painting, and fought desperately with magical powers of similar ranks. The celestial masters only cared about life and death, and completely ignored the devastation on the ground beneath their feet. This battle that would never end seemed to be a punishment for each other.

Then, at the corner of this apocalyptic painting, Wang Luo suddenly saw an unexpectedly familiar figure. It was a small island with a rare sunny day in between storms. There was a thatched cottage on the island. In front of the cottage, a man in white clothes, with his hands behind his back, looked up at the sky, and was fascinated by the collision of the two storms in the sky. Then, the man looked exactly like Wang Luo!
When Wang Luo saw him, he also saw Wang Luo. The moment their eyes met, Wang Luo felt an inexplicable strange feeling spreading all over his body. The next moment, the man's figure disappeared from the painting...

At the same time, a sigh of relief came from beside me.

"I've finally waited for you."

Wang Luo turned around immediately, only to see that himself in front of the thatched cottage had jumped out of the painting and was standing beside him!
At close distance, Wang Luo can better determine the other party's identity.

"Lord of Heaven...you are not dead?! I thought..."

The Lord of Heaven said, "If I'm dead, all you see are corpses and ghosts... It's not hard to understand, right? If I'm not dead, how could I let Taichu break free from the framework? And since Taichu was able to break free from the framework and attack Rongcheng Workshop with unexpected magical powers, and the sneak attack was successful, it naturally means that the stumbling block from Jingzhou has been crushed by him. Then, the old man was quite dissatisfied with my deception and suppression. Not only did he kill me, but he also refined me into a being similar to a weapon spirit, and followed him to fight here. Thanks to you just glanced at me and brought the heavenly book of the paper man, I had the opportunity to escape from the painting when he was not prepared."

In just a few words, the Lord of Heaven explained the origin of the entire incident and its evolution to date.

In this regard, Wang Luo said: "I expected this when I saw the blank in the Ascension Record. Now the official authority of the mountain master is completely in my hands. No matter how important Chi Cheng is as a founder, he should not be able to interfere with the authority of the current mountain master, unless even you..."

"This is a misunderstanding. When I entrusted the Ascension Record to you, I no longer had the ability to interfere with it. But the Ascension Record, as proof of the inheritance of Lingshan, can never get rid of the influence of its founder. This time, old man Chicheng is betting everything because this is his last chance."

Wang Luo nodded without interrupting.

The Lord of Heaven said, "To make a long story short, you shouldn't dig up the remains of the illusion, because the so-called remains are actually the core essence of the Taixu Illusion that was accidentally exposed after it was broken. At the same time, it is also the place where Taixu Tianzun entrusts his true body. For Taichu, he is bound to lose in the long-term battle. The only chance to turn the tables is to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and attack Huanglong. However, Taixu is different from Taichu. There is such a Huanglong that can be shattered by anyone, and that is here."

Upon hearing this, Wang Luo couldn't help but frown and swallowed subconsciously... Because from here on, there were some information that the Lord of Heaven gave him that he couldn't understand, but now was obviously not a good time to interrupt and ask questions, so he might as well be patient and listen to it.

"After you saw the essence of the Taichu Illusion that year, you should have thought about this question, right? If Taichu was seduced and attracted by the Xinghai Tianyu, and thus could not distinguish between reality and illusion. Then how did Taixu Tianzun live in the Taixu Illusion? How did Lu Zhiyao comfort and restrain him? The so-called Tianzun is ruthless and heartless is just a lie. Tianzun has always had his own heart and soul, but he was firmly bound under the Taiyin River by Lu Zhiyao with an extremely clever trap. In the end, only an empty body was left for her to drive, and sometimes he would pose as a Tianzun drawing a bow as a deterrent. In the past, I was also puzzled for a while. What kind of beautiful dream did Lu Zhiyao weave for Taixu Tianzun to make him dream for a thousand years without waking up? Now that the illusion is broken and the core is exposed, the truth is finally clear at a glance... It is really amazing."

The Lord of Heaven said this and pointed to his feet.

"These millions of phantoms are the dreams of Tianzun. Lu Zhiyao did not design any predetermined dreams for him. There is no starry sky, no carrot hanging in front of his forehead, only millions of different possibilities, millions of streams branching from the long river of history, and millions of pictures that Taixu Tianzun has never imagined! In simple terms, the Taichu Illusion designed by the Heavenly Court with all the power of the immortals is just a path with a fixed script setting, while Lu Zhiyao prepared for Taixu, but an open world that breeds all possibilities. However, now this open world is also open to Taichu, so Taichu gave up everything and completely dug this world out from under the Taiyin River and exposed it to the outside. And he took the opportunity to invade it and look for Taixu's body. As long as Taixu can be successfully eliminated, at least at this point in time, he can still achieve the final victory!"

After hearing this, although Wang Luo still didn't understand some details, he roughly understood the current situation, so he pondered: "So, what we have to do is to help Taixu block Taichu's strongest wave? But how can I do it with you? Or is there any way to send me out, I can..."

However, before Wang Luo could finish his words, he saw the person in front of him who looked exactly like him disappear like a mirage.

At the same time, in the scroll where he came from, the two Heavenly Lords simultaneously used their world-destroying magic that they had accumulated for hundreds of years on each other, and then they both died in the collapse of heaven and earth. The scroll itself turned into ashes and disappeared in countless erroneous shadows.

Wang Luo was speechless for a moment.

"So, from now on, you can only rely on yourself?"

(End of this chapter)