Chapter 16 He is Going to Space

Enshrouded in the shimmering light, An Qisheng remained calm.

He knew exactly what Chu Fan was here for.

Even they could see the hidden crisis beneath the surface of the calm, so An Qisheng, the initiator of the cataclysm, naturally couldn't be ignorant.

"Mr. An, who exactly are you?"

Chu Fan took a deep breath and faced An Qisheng directly. He felt an immense, overwhelming pressure welling up within him, and the words he had pondered for so long seemed to catch in his throat.

"Who I am? Shouldn't you have known long ago?"

An Qisheng's gaze flickered, and behind him, the unmoving Wang Quan (Sovereign Authority) statue within the waterfall of shimmering light seemed to come to life.

"You..."

Looking at the incredibly familiar face of the statue within the glowing divine light, Chu Fan felt his heart leap violently, then almost stop:

"You, you really are the Founder..."

Even though he had suspected it for a long time, even though similar rumors had circulated among countless dreamers, actually having it confirmed sent a tidal wave of emotions crashing through Chu Fan's mind.

Who was Wang Quan Dao Ren (Sovereign Authority Daoist)?

The founder of the Wang Quan Dao, the supreme grandmaster of the Jiu Fu Realm (Long Floating Realm) who had passed down his teachings for three thousand years!

Legend had it that he only began practicing martial arts after the age of seventy, yet in just three years, he swept across the realm, unmatched, establishing the Wang Quan Dao and using his sword to govern the nations.

He ended the tens of thousands of years of incessant war in the Jiu Fu Realm!

This Mr. An was actually Wang Quan Dao Ren...

"Wang Quan Dao Ren!"

Gu Changsheng's heart fluttered with emotion, and his blood qi surged for a moment, crushing the ground beneath his feet.

He had met An Qisheng before his rise to prominence, when he was on the verge of death, withering blood qi, and even a small fry from the Beggar Sect could pose a life-or-death struggle.

Only a short decade or so had passed, yet the same person now stood at the very peak of the Xuan Xing (Profound Star) cultivation world, past and present.

And he was also the peerless grandmaster from the dream, whose fame had endured for three thousand years?!

For a moment, Gu Changsheng felt as if he were dreaming.

Chu Fan stood frozen for a long time before finally waking up as if from a dream. He bowed deeply and performed a grand salute: "Disciple, disciple Chu Fan, greets the Founder..."

This time, Chu Fan felt no resistance in his heart.

In the dream, he had worshiped the statue hundreds, even thousands of times, and all resistance had long since vanished.

"You don't need to worship me. Wang Quan is me, but I am not Wang Quan anymore..."

An Qisheng casually raised his hand, and Chu Fan involuntarily straightened up: "You should still call me Mr. An, it's better..."

The carving of the statue naturally contained not only runes, formations, and restrictions, but also An Qisheng's experiences and imprints.

When he carved the statue, he was also stripping away the distracting thoughts in his heart.

To some extent, Wang Quan was still him, but he was not, or rather, not only Wang Quan Dao Ren anymore.

"Thank you, Founder..."

Looking at An Qisheng in the shimmering light, Chu Fan's expression grew increasingly complex. After a long while, he suppressed the turmoil in his heart, his lips moved slightly, but he still didn't say it.

"Mr. An."

At this moment, Gu Changsheng stepped forward and spoke, under Chu Fan's complex gaze: "Your martial arts are miraculous, and it is said that you possess the divine ability to see past events. You must know why we've come..."

The artificial intelligence had issued warnings about the kind of damage the emergence of ‘spiritual energy particles’ would cause to contemporary society as early as when the change first began.

If it hadn't been for An Qisheng's unparalleled sword seven years ago, there would have been more than just the few of them arriving at Tianlian Mountain (Heaven Connecting Mountain) at this moment.

In fact, in the month or so since the cataclysm, Da Xuan (Great Profound), and even the major powers around the world, had initiated several 'conversations.'

"Some things, it's not that I want to mystify them, but that I myself haven't figured them out, understood them..."

An Qisheng's gaze was deep and his tone somewhat ethereal:

"But you should understand that with my current cultivation, even if some earth-shattering change were to occur on Xuan Xing, I could still take my family and retreat unscathed..."

When a person has no desires, their character is naturally elevated.

It wasn't that An Qisheng had no desires, but he had no demands of Xuan Xing, and therefore, he could be clear in his conscience.

"This..."

Gu Changsheng's heart stirred, and the intense crisis he had sensed more than a month ago resurfaced.

"Founder, I..."

Chu Fan was about to speak.

But An Qisheng glanced at the two of them, unwilling to say more:

"I've explained enough..."

Rumble!

With just a glance, Chu Fan and Gu Changsheng felt as if the entire world before them had been blown apart, all their doubts shattered to pieces.

They felt themselves break into countless fragments, floating in the void, dazed and confused, not knowing where they were.

They even forgot 'themselves.'

Om~

As if in an instant, yet also as if countless eons had passed, a buzzing sound echoed in their hearts.

Then, in the dim, indistinct, seemingly existent and seemingly non-existent sea of their minds, waves suddenly surged.

"This is..."

Their hazy consciousness gradually cleared, and Chu Fan focused his mind, only to see a 'sea' composed of endless runes and principles, exceeding the limits of his perception, crashing towards him.

In a fleeting glimpse, he seemed to see a flickering 'sphere of light' within the boundless sea of runes.

What was that?

......

"How much you can obtain depends on yourselves."

Withdrawing his hand, An Qisheng slowly exhaled.

In the Myriad Sun Realm, his three flowers had converged, and his divine will had reached the point of transformation, causing the third transformation of his Innate Dream ability.

This step of transformation was even greater than the previous two.

Not only could he connect to the worlds he had once set foot in, but he could also send others to a random time period within those worlds, or rather, worlds with accurate space-time coordinates!

Perhaps without the Dao Yi Diagram (Diagram of the Oneness of the Dao), their actions would not affect the space-time of those worlds, but this was still an incredibly significant change compared to before!

This was his first attempt.

Hu~

With a slight thought, An Qisheng rose from the mottled yellow mud platform and gazed into the depths of the starry sky.

The starry sky was vast and boundless, beyond the comprehension of mortals.

But within An Qisheng's divine will, images sensed from the universe's magnetic field emerged.

A 'giant sphere' enshrouded in endless flames, with a size even greater than the sun, was traversing through the void.

At a speed beyond anyone's imagination, it was heading towards Xuan Xing!

And he had already seen this scene a month ago...

Om~

As An Qisheng stopped, it seemed that an invisible wave was spreading, expanding towards the infinitely distant at a speed beyond the limits of anyone's perception.

In an instant, the whistling astral winds and air currents in the sky came to a standstill.

"It's gone, the chaotic air currents are gone!"

As the astral winds shrouding Tianlian Mountain disappeared, many satellites that had been locked onto Tianlian Mountain's location but had been blocked by the astral winds immediately captured the scene.

In an underground base somewhere in the northwest, Mr. Di suddenly stood up and saw the image transmitted by ‘Yinglong’ (Responding Dragon).

The pillar of shimmering light that had stood tall for more than a month had actually disappeared at this moment!

It's over?

Many people around the world who saw this scene had such a strange thought in their minds.

In the next instant, everyone's expressions changed in unison:

"How is that possible?!"

Bang, bang, bang!

Beneath Tianlian Mountain, Truman and the others were fighting when they suddenly felt the world shaking violently, as if an unprecedented earthquake had erupted.

Visible to the naked eye, countless hideous and terrifying ravines instantly split open across hundreds of miles of land.

"An earthquake?! Why isn't there any warning?"

"What happened?!"

"Heavens, how terrifying!"

Caught off guard, even the dreamers present were taken aback.

Countless ordinary people who saw this scene through the live broadcast were even more dumbfounded, not knowing what had happened.

And the most shocked were the government leaders of various countries monitoring the satellite images.

In the images transmitted by the satellites, they saw a scene that they would never forget in their lives!

Boom!

A gale suddenly arose, and a surge of air rushed into the sky.

Amidst the fluttering clothes, An Qisheng suddenly stomped down, amidst the violent tremors of the entire Tianlian Mountain, and even hundreds of miles of land.

He soared into the sky!

Boom!

In a huge sonic boom so sharp that it could be heard hundreds of miles away, an unimaginable mushroom cloud forced open the endless air currents in the most domineering manner.

It completely dominated the vision of everyone who saw this scene through various means!

A pillar of white air rose from Tianlian Mountain, dividing yin and yang like a heavenly sword, piercing through the atmosphere. It seemed to take less than a second to break through the atmosphere.

It rushed into space!

Rumble!

The vast and mighty air currents surged and raged, sweeping across the endless atmosphere, causing the astral winds to collide around the world.

It triggered global weather changes!

The many dreamers beneath Tianlian Mountain all turned pale, and even Truman, Wang Zhixuan, Qinglong, and the others failed to steady themselves amidst the sudden change.

Those with slightly weaker martial arts were instantly blown away by the air currents, drifting like straw to who knows how many miles away.

But an incredibly bizarre scene occurred!

Amidst the earth shattering, the cataclysm, and the air currents more terrifying than any nuclear explosion, there seemed to be an invisible barrier protecting everyone from harm.

"This, is this spiritual energy?"

One dreamer had thought that he would be smashed to pieces, but he discovered that he was unharmed. The spiritual energy around him was like an invisible net, catching his body and dissipating all the force.

"Heavens! What, what exactly is happening?"

"Mr. An? Is it Mr. An? What, what is he trying to do?"

"Flying into the sky, escaping into the earth, flying into the sky, escaping into the earth! This is true flying into the sky, escaping into the earth!"

......

The silence was only for a moment. In the next instant, everyone who saw this scene through various means was boiling over!

Even the dreamers were stunned.

"This, how is this possible..."

Truman's expression changed drastically, and he felt a bucket of cold water poured over him from head to toe, chilling him to the bone.

They were both dreamers, so how could there be such a huge gap?!

"He, he..."

In the base, Mr. Di's hands and feet turned cold with shock. He roared like a beast, ordering ‘Yinglong’ to turn the image towards space.

There, he saw that tiny, almost invisible figure in space.

Enshrouded in blooming divine light, it stretched out its palm.

As if to, push the entire Xuan Xing!