Chapter 1573: The Future Appearance

Hunched, with shriveled flesh and only a layer of old skin clinging to his bones, he appeared almost like a skeletal ghost. Yet, he was recognized—it was likely Luo Qiudao from ancient times!

In a bygone era, he had once visited the mortal realm, causing a sensation. During that period, he shone across heaven and earth, a peerless being of the "Enduring" level.

Throughout history, very few young prodigies of the "Enduring" level had emerged, whether in the mortal realm or other great worlds!

Luo Qiudao was not just such a peerless being; he had also ventured into the mortal realm alone, a testament to his immense pride and extraordinary heroism.

In his great world, he was truly known to all. His brilliant radiance filled the heavens and the earth, and he was hailed as the foremost being of recent antiquity, a future supreme overlord!

Yet, this very person… vanished, suddenly disappearing in that bygone era!

Now, creatures from his great world, including powerhouses approaching the Immortal King level, arrived at the two-realms battlefield, and someone recognized him!

For those on the path of evolution, "recent antiquity" wasn't a mere few centuries as mortals perceived it, but rather counted in units of ten thousand years!

"I can't believe he entered the path of reincarnation and was submerged in the so-called ancient king-level palace of young overlords. If not for that, would he not already be a True Immortal? Or even stronger!"

"Such unparalleled monsters, already rare since ancient times, have all fallen into that ancient palace within reincarnation; it's truly astonishing!"

Someone else sighed.

Even an Immortal King from the Crimson Rainbow Realm felt his pupils constrict, seeing a competitor from his youth who had originally been stronger than him, now revived and emerging from reincarnation.

Several monstrous beings of astonishing identity, renowned throughout history and extensively documented in the chronicles of their respective great worlds, all former young overlords, arrived one after another at the two-realms battlefield. They briefly paused there, absorbing the lingering aura left by Chu Feng, intent on slaying him!

Each of these monsters, in their own era, had stirred up great commotions across heaven and earth, dominating a realm and leaving all competitors far behind.

Now, with "Enduring" level monsters converging, resurrected from the King's Palace, it would undoubtedly shake heaven and earth!

All peerless monsters in the world would collectively hunt Chu Feng!

A grand era, a truly magnificent spectacle, an age illuminating countless ages, might have unexpectedly and briefly erupted.

If such monsters from different evolutionary civilizations were to clash intensely, what brilliant sparks would fly?

Some speculated that these strongest beings from various eras had accumulated power for long enough, and their goal was not merely to become True Immortals, or even ultimately to attain the status of an Immortal King!

The matters behind the path of reincarnation were very deep. Were some hoping for the birth of monsters surpassing Immortal Kings?!

If just one person, due to terrifyingly vast accumulation, were to break through supreme barriers one day, it would be considered a successful outcome of a brutal selection process!

Outside, the world was in turmoil; heaven and earth trembled, filled with heated discussions and widespread clamor.

However, all of this was temporarily irrelevant to Chu Feng. He had succeeded. From the place where Luo Qiudao and others appeared, he found clues, and by following inexplicable, vague runes, he pinpointed a certain section of the reincarnation realm.

He entered with the help of the stone jar!

What kind of world was this?

It was vastly different from the reincarnation realms Chu Feng had previously seen and experienced!

Was this a path? An ancient path of reincarnation?

No, it was more like a realm itself, vast and desolate, boundless and chilling, covered by endless darkness, enveloping hundreds of millions of miles of mountains and frozen earth.

Chu Feng was shaken; this wasn't like the path of reincarnation he had traveled before!

He felt as if he had arrived in an ice age; it was too cold, without sunlight or celestial bodies, the entire world shrouded by a pitch-black sky.

Even Chu Feng, with his super fiery eyes, couldn't see very far. This world was filled with the aura of death, like the final kingdom ruled by a supreme Underworld Lord.

He couldn't see the sky or the entirety of the land; only darkness and coldness covered everything, as if an abyss had swallowed the mortal realm!

Chu Feng stood still for a long time, pushing his super fiery eyes to their limit. He finally gradually discerned some outlines and understood what kind of place it was.

It was still the path of reincarnation, but it was exceptionally grand, enormous, and also very dilapidated.

Gazing towards the end of the darkness, one floating continent after another, or rather, ancient ruins, connected together to form an intermittent, ancient path.

This path was too vast, composed of broken continents, leading to the end of the frozen world!

Chu Feng set off, moving forward through the cold frozen earth, rushing from one broken continent to the next, as if ascending one great world after another in the darkness.

"Don't let me find the secrets deep within the path of reincarnation, don't let me discover the King's Palace, or I'll wipe out the entire nest and make it collapse!"

Chu Feng's gaze was sharp, revealing killing intent.

He wasn't bluffing, because he possessed a powerful weapon that could be detonated at a crucial moment to cripple and destroy the lair of the predators.

If the so-called King's Palace, where many of the strongest beings from various eras slumbered, were to be pierced through and utterly destroyed like this, it would be enough to drive the reincarnation tomb guardians mad.

Chu Feng pondered whether touching upon the core secrets of reincarnation and causing the collapse of the entire old land might lead to the death and ultimate destruction of some peerless old entities who might themselves be struggling and unconscious within reincarnation.

He had a feeling that this matter was very deep; some peerless fiends, even old monsters surpassing ancient history, might be trapped within reincarnation, undergoing metamorphosis!

He wanted to interrupt, or even destroy, this process!

Now, various signs indicated that the reincarnation tomb guardians seemed entangled with the ominous source, their relationship unclear, and they had already betrayed.

The situation here was very complex.

Perhaps, because the ancient Underworld was naturally adjacent to, and even connected with, the path of reincarnation, the guardians were subverted.

"The ancient Underworld, its paths extend in all directions, connecting to the heavens, transcending all worlds."

Credible evidence indicated that the ominous and inauspicious beings only occupied a corner of the ancient Underworld.

The true path of the ancient Underworld was unimaginable and unfathomable; no one knew when it began, whether it was naturally formed by heaven and earth, or created by someone!

It was too quiet, deathly silent. There was no living being on the entire path, no signs of life, colder and darker than the legendary netherworld.

Staying in such a silent world for a long time would drive a person mad.

Chu Feng moved very fast, rushing from one continent to the next, feeling as if he were ascending to heaven, walking on continent-sized steps, traversing the deathly silent netherworld.

"What lies beyond the boundaries of this path of reincarnation?" he wondered.

He had a suspicion.

Because he had a certain feeling, as if he had touched something.

He looked up; darkness surrounded him. These broken continents seemed to float in the universe, suspended over a world ocean, giving him a very unreal sensation.

Finally, he became aware; his divine sense extended infinitely far, touching a thin wall, like window paper, beyond the sky.

Heaven and earth, everything, formed a path of reincarnation leading forward.

After reaching the end of deep space, it was almost entirely solid passage barriers.

Now, he actually found a damaged area. What did the world outside this reincarnation barrier look like?

Chu Feng moved at extreme speed, instantly reaching beyond the sky, arriving at the damaged section of the colossal path of reincarnation, then forcefully swung the long blade in his hand.

Yet, despite his unparalleled divine abilities and endless marvelous techniques, spinning out billions of blade lights from his long blade like an ocean rolling across the sky, he still couldn't do anything about that thin layer of barrier.

Chu Feng was shaken; he had vaguely seen the scene outside the barrier, suspecting some colossal entity stood there, yet such a thin layer of obstruction was impossible to cleave open.

He exhausted all means. Finally, he pressed the stone jar onto it, and surprisingly... it worked!

Like a red-hot branding iron on thin ice, with a sizzle, Chu Feng successfully passed through.

He had actually broken through; using the stone jar to smash it was quite easy!

It was like tearing open a layer of window paper; he saw the world outside of reincarnation!

What was that?

It was a vast, boundless void, even more shattered than what he had seen within reincarnation. This place seemed to have endured hundreds of millions of years of war, ultimately reduced to ruins.

Endless earth and rocks floated in the cosmic void.

Upon closer inspection, they were all shattered planets, very large, but relative to the vast void, they now appeared densely packed like dust, extremely tiny.

What kind of creature was that? A colossal statue?

One sight was truly shocking: boundlessly massive, it seemed to fill an entire great cosmic world. Even with his fiery eyes, Chu Feng couldn't see its full extent.

Finally, he used his Grand Dao sense and peered with his mind, gradually discerning its rough outline.

A bird, towering between heaven and earth, overshadowed everything in the world, yet what he had glimpsed was merely a single feather!

Later, he used his mind to sense its state: it seemed to be a true Kunpeng, transcending worldly limits, pierced by an iron chain and locked in place.

Its body was petrified, rigid, long dead; otherwise, if such a Kunpeng were still alive, even a trace of residual energy would be enough to make beings below the True Immortal level self-destruct upon seeing it.

"It most likely surpassed Immortal Kings?!" Chu Feng was shaken.

Upon closer inspection, around the colossal Kunpeng were extinguished bonfires, and the burned firewood was actually immortal bones?! It might even have been Immortal King bones!

This place was too eerie, chilling him to the bone.

Afterward, further away, Chu Feng once again saw something ominous: a crude stone millstone, boundlessly massive, not much smaller than the Kunpeng.

Moreover, shrill screams emanated from there; if one listened carefully, one could actually sense them.

There were truly ominous sounds, extremely piteous, as if something was being continuously ground and repeatedly crushed by the stone millstone, day after day, year after year, enduring torture there for an unknown number of epochs.

Chu Feng gasped; it was a super ominous creature, absolutely terrifyingly powerful, yet it was imprisoned in a rotating stone millstone, enduring punishment. It was too intimidating.

Even terrifying powerhouses among the ominous beings were experiencing this?

What kind of place was this?

Why did the world outside the path of reincarnation appear so desolate and dilapidated, and why did both enemy and friendly camps seem to be suffering here?

Why was this so?

How many years ago did this happen?

No matter how he looked at it, the era was extremely ancient. Even the Kunpeng, which surpassed Immortal Kings, was petrified and withered, and the bonfires burning Immortal King bones as fuel were extinguished, all their energy depleted. It must have been more than just a few epochs!

Chu Feng's hair stood on end. After so many years, that super powerful ominous creature was still howling and hadn't died; it was truly unnerving. One could only imagine how powerful it had been back then.

This was a great war that happened in the past, where both sides suffered greatly. Were there other forces involved?

Thinking of these things and looking at the dilapidated scene before him, Chu Feng had an intuition: all old events were in a cycle of reincarnation; the entire ancient history was changing and returning once more.

Did this mean that what happened back then was continuously repeating?

Just like what was already known, every epoch reached its end, and all realms in the heavens were constantly destroyed, unable to escape their tragic fate.

And did the current scene also mean that these past events were about to unfold upon their generation?

Chu Feng sighed, then felt chilled from head to toe. He increasingly felt that he, too, would ultimately be unable to escape that day.

Although he was optimistic, deep down, he had to admit that time was short, and he and the powerhouses of the heavens had no chance to rise to a level where they could contend with supreme beings.

Even if the Empress had appeared, she ultimately could not return. Taking away an ultimate-path level supreme being was already turning the impossible into possible, an absolute defiance of heaven.

She was, in essence, rewriting ancient history!

What about next, and in the future? Who else could contend with the truly terrifying source behind the Chief Sacrificer?

One should know that even from his title, one could guess what kind of role the Chief Sacrificer played and what his duties were.

The true source would likely be many times more terrifying and frightening!

"Will I, one day, also be reduced to cosmic dust, with only a few decaying bones floating in the dark void?" Chu Feng sighed softly.

Although he possessed great ambition, was indomitable, and refused to give up, whenever he thought calmly, he also had endless worries: time truly waited for no one. The path he had walked wasn't deep enough; he needed time!

An epoch was already at its end; for him, time was simply not enough!

"Is this what the future looks like?"

Chu Feng whispered that some things would happen repeatedly, and what he saw now might be the future of all heavens.

It was at this moment that he felt something within, resonating with the Dao. In a trance, through the desolate wasteland, he vaguely saw the distant future.

Perhaps it was caused by the stone jar; it hummed softly, breaking through the mist, causing resonance and rumbling in this dilapidated place, which led to some scenes appearing.

"Hmm, what is that place? An incomparably terrifying black prison? Is it... him?"

Chu Feng was greatly surprised; he saw a vague figure, very much like the strange person he had encountered on a particular night long ago.

That person had once said he had been king for ten generations, unsurpassed across heaven and earth.

However, he ultimately fell, plunging into darkness, like a prisoner, only able to go out for a breath of fresh air like a malevolent ghost after countless years.

Was he seeing him again now? Chu Feng seriously doubted if he was experiencing hallucinations.

Far, far ahead, in an infinitely distant area, a pitch-black prison, seemingly underground, opened a door stained with black blood. That person, dishevelled, staggered forward, walking with shackles.

"Ah!"

Suddenly, Chu Feng let out a loud cry, an uncontrollable gasp.

Because, in a trance, he actually saw himself!

In the deepest part of that black prison, as if beneath the ninety-nine layers of hell, there was a person who looked exactly like him!

It seemed many epochs had passed, and he was just one person, locked there, lonely, silent, sadly waiting to die alone.