Chapter 1315: Contaminated Fate, Upholding Justice Through Chaos

"Infinity."

Xu Qing stood in the sky, gazing into the Well of Myriad Worlds at the Ancient Immortal reflected within, and all the karma and destiny surrounding him. He admitted that this Ancient Immortal truly deserved the title of a Heavenly Prodigy. The truth was, even though Xu Qing had fought extensively in the Fifth Star Ring and possessed vast experience, he had never encountered anyone with such a profound Constitutional Law. To some extent, this was beyond the grasp of an ordinary immortal; it was no exaggeration to say he was extremely close to the Immortal Lord level.

"He's a whole level stronger than he was thirty years ago!" Xu Qing murmured inwardly.

In the well's surface, the aged Ancient Immortal also looked up at this moment, gazing at Xu Qing. The two were separated by the water's surface, one above, one below. The convergence of their gazes made the Desolate Ancient Continent tremble, mountains crumbled, the earth split, and the skies changed color. The oppressive weight of their powerful might settled heavily upon the hearts of all beings across the myriad races.

This was precisely the Ancient Immortal's integrative power of his Constitutional Law, adjusting each distinct entity that the opponent had separated across all parallel and spatiotemporal dimensions. Countless chaotic memory fragments surged through Xu Qing's sea of consciousness.

The golden hue of his essence faded to dark brown, and at its ends, grotesque, tumor-like growths formed. His immortal power was similarly affected; it now flowed outwards along the cracks formed by his wrinkles, turning into wisps of white, turbid gas. Another portion flowed backward within him, causing his bones and blood to boil like molten lava wherever it passed. This was the storm brought by all the defiled karma and destiny, which in turn affected Xu Qing's main body.

His aura surged sky-high in an instant, stirring the tides of heaven and earth, pulling down starlight.

"Rotate!" the Ancient Immortal commanded.

A mouthful of white blood mixed with ice crystals spurted out, and Xu Qing stumbled backward. The next moment, all the mirror surfaces turned towards Xu Qing, and the Ancient Immortal's rotating left hand clenched suddenly! Red stars fell to earth, burning mountains and splitting seas; spiritual rivers inverted, engulfing cities.

As these two words echoed, all the mirror surfaces spontaneously shattered. The inverted karma and destiny within them instantly dispersed, surging towards Xu Qing like malevolent water. The opponent's Constitutional Law was indeed astonishing, using the infinite to push his divine ability to its limits, like a tiger breaking out of its cage, shattering barriers and causing the divine ability to collapse completely.

"Infinite. This was the beginning of this old man's Constitutional Law. To achieve its full potential, I dispersed countless divine thoughts, forming countless avatars, even relinquishing control, allowing any single avatar to become the main body. Thereafter, I allowed all avatars to grow, devour, and merge... Until finally, this old man's Dao was perfected, and my Constitutional Law was infinite!" the Ancient Immortal declared.

"The genesis of your Constitutional Law is myriad, and its grand culmination is infinite, but I don't believe you haven't given birth to regulative power. But your regulative power... has always been hidden by you."

The Ancient Immortal's raised left hand suddenly spun, his gaze icy, as he whispered, "A single thought spawns myriad worlds, parallel to the cosmos, coalescing into the flower of time and space, intending to form the Dao Fruit."

And the well water, amidst these ripples, became clear. What made it clear was the infinite karma and infinite destiny emanating from Xu Qing's body.

"Unify!"

One could see that the refracted projections of Xu Qing's karma and destiny within these mirror surfaces were being forcibly reversed and altered. Females turned male, males turned female, androgynous beings changed similarly. This was parallelism; these were not different worlds in the same spacetime!

The upgraded Divine Ability of 'Fishing for the Moon in a Well' experienced an irreversible collapse. Consequently, Xu Qing's aura began to wane, gradually seeming as if he were transforming from an immortal to a mortal. It seemed as if a mere push would make him vanish into thin air, and his life's flame would completely extinguish.

But often, what restricts a fierce tiger isn't necessarily a sturdy cage! A resilient vine can also work!

"What you are waiting for is what I am waiting for, and time is on my side. And you... this old man can see, are also before that leap," the Ancient Immortal stated.

All this manifested in Xu Qing's body: one could see the spiderweb-like wrinkles on his aged face now becoming actual cracks, breaking open! His snow-white hair, cascading like a silver river, now withered and curled strand by strand, its tips flecked with scorched white, like embers after being burned by the fires of destiny. The multicolored immortal mist that enveloped him now became sticky and viscous, like decaying spiritual fluid clinging to his robes, forming patches of mildew.

The most fatal contamination, however, came from deep within his soul. This caused veins to bulge on his forehead, and millions of overlapping curses echoed in his ears – the backlash from all the self-thoughts he had devoured in this life. Everything became distorted, like a painting dusted with poison, where vibrant colors turned into virulent toxins, stinging his divine soul. He tried hard to circulate his immortal power, but found that the immortal might that once moved at his will was now shrouded in layers of misty barriers. The immortal light gathered at his fingertips transformed into withered moths, fluttering and falling to the ground, like a spiritual spring polluted by the blood of decaying corpses.

"And this contamination has clearly taken hold, yet he can still restrain it, not drawing closer to this old man..." the Ancient Immortal mused.

Xu Qing's pupils contracted. As it transformed into an indescribable palpitation, the Ancient Immortal's hoarse voice echoed in all directions. "Since you are unwilling to easily reveal it, then at this moment, will you use it or not? As for your Constitutional Law, this old man has not entirely never seen it. Ten thousand years ago, within the seventy-first Star Ring, there was a deity whose... was very similar to yours. This old man entered the game personally, observing your Constitutional Law as the ultimate of parallelism, and also assessing your regulative power."

"But this old man has a feeling that your observation of my regulative power is merely superficial... You, it seems, are waiting for something. What are you waiting for?"

Xu Qing fell silent. After a long time, he slowly looked up. He suddenly smiled.

"You talk too much; it's a bit noisy," Xu Qing replied.

Xu Qing's gaze was profound, devoid of joy or sorrow. As he spoke, he lifted his left foot and took a step forward. The moment that step landed, the well's surface boomed, and the well water churned into enormous waves. This, in turn, affected the Ancient Immortal's main body.

The space within the Ancient Immortal's Divine Ability of 'Fishing for the Moon in a Well' instantly trembled. The truth and falsehood within it also twisted, and all the independent elements comprising this divine ability showed signs of collapsing at that very moment. Thus, truth and falsehood were pushed to their limits, on the verge of disintegration. The Well of Myriad Worlds suddenly collapsed, and truth and falsehood also scattered in all directions.

In an instant, the countless fragments of the collapsing divine ability had their intrinsic nature directly altered, becoming individual mirror shards. As they rolled back and scattered, they refracted Xu Qing's infinite karma and destiny, reflecting different scenes. All the mirror fragments twisted, and utterly inconceivable changes appeared within them. One could see that the refracted projections of Xu Qing's karma and destiny within these mirror surfaces were being forcibly reversed and altered. Females turned male, males turned female, androgynous beings changed similarly. Especially within one mirror fragment, a World-Protecting Immortal Tree existed in that world – this tree was also a reflection of a wisp of Xu Qing's karma. At this moment, it was rotting from its roots, its branches adorned with blood-red tears. And the Xu Qings in those worlds were not all cultivators! And it seemed irreversible! Even if, in that process, his former self had vanished, the Dao remained!

"What a fine reversal!" Xu Qing exclaimed, forming a terrifying pressure, erupting with an overwhelming force, ready to sweep away everything, as he prepared to take the seventh step towards the Ancient Immortal.

Then, a faint light flickered in the Ancient Immortal's eyes. He raised his left hand and pressed downward. As that step landed, heaven and earth crumbled.

"Open the Parallel Realms!"

Not only that, but natural disasters successively appeared within these parallel realms!

Xu Qing's voice still echoed as he took the seventh step. As that seventh step landed, a cracking sound instantly emanated from the well's surface. Cracks appeared in the void, in spacetime, in parallel dimensions, and across myriad worlds.

"And you, using force to suppress, wish to observe my regulative power," the Ancient Immortal stated.

Xu Qing shook his head, taking the eighth step. "Returning here, gathering strength, seeking one thing, only for the final leap."