Chapter 47: The Cosmic Vessel and the Frontline Battlefield

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Yet, the secret divination technique struggled to operate, like a rusted sword sheath completely jammed and unable to move.

“I see now,” Taiyin finally understood what was happening.

Although the surroundings appeared utterly real, they were not truly so.

“This is the future.”

“I am experiencing some kind of precognitive dream.”

“My divine consciousness has crossed through time, inhabiting an illusion of the future.”

…

Suddenly, a divine light as radiant as the sun burst forth, illuminating all directions. A great sun rose high in the starry sky, and a figure emerged from within it.

It was none other than the Solar Holy Emperor, his face weary. With a wave of his hand, he etched a series of array patterns into the void, closely linked to the Four Symbols Killing Array.

“Taiyin, the boundary wall has developed new cracks again. Quickly complete the deployment of these Four Symbols Killing Arrays, then head to the front lines. The next wave of the Dark Storm is imminent!” the Solar Holy Emperor said gravely.

(The Dark Storm—what exactly is it?) Taiyin was about to ask but suddenly realized he could not control this body; he only sensed it nodded on its own.

Taiyin’s mind raced. (Is this merely a divine consciousness possessing a future body?)

He tried to unleash his divine awareness to communicate with this future Solar Holy Emperor, but failed.

He could only watch helplessly as this future self inscribed array patterns in the void alongside the Solar Holy Emperor.

They continued embedding the law fragments placed within the square White Tiger and Vermilion Bird barrels into the void, supplying endless energy to the Four Symbols Killing Array.

Strange fluctuations occasionally appeared in the starry sky, and spacetime rippled like a tsunami.

Like tidal forces at the edge of a black hole, they ravaged vast stretches of the cosmos.

Mysterious waves propagating faster than light swept across a supercluster eighty million light-years in diameter, utterly shattering all matter down to its most fundamental structures.

Taiyin stood side by side with the Solar Holy Emperor, evolving their own paths, constructing a grand Taiji diagram to forcibly smooth out the bizarre oscillations that spread outward. With astonishing efficiency, they inscribed arrays across the entire cosmic scale.

Supergiant stars, black holes, quasars—within this grand formation, were but insignificant specks of dust.

Only the vast rivers of stars, and superclusters spanning millions or even tens of millions of light-years, constituted the fundamental components of the array.

From time to time, Taiyin saw the future Solar Holy Emperor pause their array deployment and stride toward another corner of the universe.

There, a terrifyingly dark rift nearly tore apart a corner of the cosmos. Thick black mist, like a living creature, seeped out from the other side of the fissure.

Like cosmic menders, the two tirelessly carved arrays into the void, painstakingly stitching the rift closed with intricate patterns.

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They continuously evolved the Yin-Yang diagram into chaos and reestablished worlds, using countless chaotic micro-worlds as furnaces to extinguish the black mist that seeped and permeated spacetime.

Along the way, although the past Taiyin could not actively probe with his divine consciousness, he passively sensed everything perceived by this future body.

In his perception, the entire universe had become eerily silent and dead.

When the past Taiyin had once returned from the path to immortality to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, wandering the cosmos, he had sensed one vibrant ancient life star after another. In this future, almost all had become void.

Whether it was the Big Dipper, Purple Star, Flying Immortal, or Primal Wilds…

All those ancient life stars, once rich with mysteries, had vanished without a trace.

The once-thriving life star regions surrounding them had likewise fallen silent and lifeless.

Wherever they passed, smaller life planets remained physically intact, yet all signs of living beings were gone. No trace of death either; as if overnight, all life had been mysteriously relocated.

Taiyin’s confusion deepened, yet he could not discern what had truly occurred.

He was trapped within this future Taiyin Holy Emperor’s body, helplessly watching it journey through the starry sky for months on end.

At last, this day arrived: Taiyin could no longer summon the law fragments that produced infinite surging energy. The Four Symbols Killing Array inscribed in the starry sky no longer had a new source to sustain its power.

After a brief silence, Taiyin heard the Solar Holy Emperor’s sigh.

The Solar Holy Emperor gazed at the strange spectacle of web-like array patterns connecting all galactic clusters throughout the universe.

He sighed heavily, “What a pity. Comrade Fangzheng suddenly disappeared. The number of law fragments he left behind was truly limited. This is now the maximum reinforcement attainable for the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.”

Taiyin heard his own body sigh in agreement, “Indeed a pity, but this is already very good.”

“Fangzheng owes us nothing; rather, we owe him greatly.”

“Though he suddenly appeared in this world and vanished just as abruptly, he left us many law fragments. We can no longer demand more.”

The Solar Holy Emperor fell silent for a moment, then looked up toward the black mist lingering in a rift in the void.

After jointly evolving the Yin-Yang diagram to eradicate it once more, the two burned their vital blood, unleashing boundless Yin-Yang energy.

Accompanied by a vast Taiji diagram, the chaotic energy wheel turned, transforming into endless radiance that illuminated the entire universe.

Beneath this infinite brilliance, countless arrays etched throughout the cosmos, along with mysterious relics left by the Celestial Court during the mythic era, were all connected as one.

Suddenly, the boundary walls of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, which should not have been observable, began to emerge within the universe.

Countless arrays were inscribed upon them, and as all arrays operated in unison, the boundary walls subtly transformed.

Taiyin heard the Solar Holy Emperor’s sigh beside him:

“Let’s go. Time is nearly up. The initial phase of refining the cosmic vessel is complete. We must proceed to support the front lines.”

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(Cosmic vessel? Front lines? Could it be…)

“Yes, let’s go,” Taiyin replied, simultaneously forming a marvelous magic seal with the Solar Holy Emperor. The boundary wall automatically opened a passage, and they entered a strange world deep within the path to immortality.

(Is this the crevice between the path to immortality and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths?)

Taiyin’s consciousness from the past sensed a familiar aura here.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, when he had pierced through the path to immortality, he had detected a crevice space deep within it.

At the time, he had paid it no heed.

Because such crevices were actually quite common in the universe.

Since ancient times, the path to immortality within the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths was never just one or two lines but many.

However, most were abandoned paths, and very few truly connected to the Immortal Realm.

Every supreme being who sought to enter the path to immortality had entered more than one abandoned path and studied them carefully.

For example, the Central Continent of the Big Dipper had a small strange world, once a path to immortality that had opened and broken eons ago, forming a microcosmic space.

Because the path to immortality brought with it immortal energy containing undying substances and fragments of immortal realm laws, these small worlds often harbored many treasures. Though, for beings of imperial rank, their usefulness was limited.

At this moment, the strange world Taiyin observed was vast, capable of supporting many lives. It was rich in undying substances, though incomplete in laws, making cultivation and enlightenment difficult.

Taiyin sensed that if an emperor-level being entered here, they could easily leverage the abundant undying substances to live for at least hundreds of thousands of years.

At present, this place was already teeming with life.

Heavy, layered arrays surrounded it, firmly sealing countless life-bearing planets.

It seemed the universe’s living beings had been relocated here.

The two did not linger.

As a bell tolled, three powerful beings joined Taiyin and the Solar Holy Emperor: the Primordial Emperor, the Undying Heavenly Sovereign, and a formidable figure calling himself the Bright Emperor.

The five, far surpassing the rank of a single lifetime’s emperor, simultaneously formed magic seals, and the boundary wall opened once more.

They arrived at the law-guarded pass at the entrance to the path to immortality.