"Victory and defeat are reversed."
Fang Ming spoke the truth.
A staff came towards him, intending to shatter the multiversal assault, but it was twisted by an unseen force.
Yet, under the suppression of sheer magnitude, this twisting power could not ultimately resist the immense strength.
"Life and death are indistinguishable."
Seeing this, Fang Ming spoke another truth.
With these words spoken.
The true shattering blow from an Immortal Emperor-level, multiversal-level attack pulverized every cell, every fundamental particle of his being.
His primordial spirit was torn into dust.
His Dao fruit was shattered.
His physical body turned to ash.
Fang Ming perished.
Yet, simultaneously, he existed.
This paradoxical superposition was precisely Fang Ming's fundamental method of resisting Immortal Emperor-level powerhouses.
Even when facing enemies of a higher magnitude, though greatly weakened, some functions still remained.
This was Fang Ming's method of turning defeat into victory.
"Time reversal."
As this truth was uttered.
All things in the world began to flow backward.
Those who had once died, the people of the Human Race, resurrected one by one.
Past and future were being inverted.
At this moment, time seemed not to be advancing, but receding.
In the receding time, many ancient sages who had descended returned to their original positions.
Returning to the very moment they had just descended.
...
By the sea.
In a river, a fish's eyes emitted a strange light.
A force descended upon the fish's body, and the ancient sage, the maiden in green, descended.
At the very moment of her descent.
Fang Ming appeared before her.
"You..."
The maiden in green looked at the young man before her with a hint of panic.
Her will existed across ancient and future times, omnipresent in the past and future.
In the moment before her cognition, she had been battling Sui Ren Shi, when suddenly time flowed backward, returning her to the prior moment, the moment of her descent!
The future events that had already transpired had been altered by this young man.
The timeline twisted before him, space collapsed before him.
The maiden in green, through the "Wu Huan Department," controlled the myriad world-axes and time-axes of the Primordial World, but now she could no longer sense the "Wu Huan Department," nor could she feel the existence of any time-axes.
Her current state was as if she had been cast down from her existence, which perceived past, present, and future, her will coexisting across ancient and modern times.
"Fang Ming..."
Facing such a figure, although the maiden in green was directly cornered and fear involuntarily appeared on her face, it was only for an instant. In the next instant, she immediately reacted and sought to transition from the "Shi Bu" (Real Department) to the "Huan Bu" (Illusionary Department).
She understood how powerful Fang Ming was.
Although Fang Ming's appearance was that of a childish youth, his strength was by no means something she could contend with.
Facing an opponent of this caliber.
Only within the Illusionary Department, where her power was at its peak, could she, by exhausting all six Dream Dao techniques, have an infinitesimally small chance of victory.
Now, in the Real Department's heaven and earth, though her form was immense, she could not possibly deal with Fang Ming.
The maiden in green manifested her mackerel form, a colossal mackerel whose head could rest on Kunlun Mountain and whose feet could tread upon You Mi Country. Just as she intended to escape to the Illusionary Department.
Suddenly.
At the corner of her eye, she saw a finger.
The youth pointed a finger. The finger seemed to carry nothing, a seemingly harmless, gentle poke, yet the maiden in green felt an overwhelming sense of despair from this single finger.
She would die.
She would undoubtedly perish.
Unable to escape, this strike, even if it crossed timelines, worldlines, spirit and matter, would inevitably hit her, ultimately leading to her death.
No law could obstruct it.
Before this finger, any struggle was futile.
The colossal mackerel form was struck by a single finger.
A gentle poke.
The result was.
The colossal mackerel form plummeted, falling into the ruins composed of countless heavens and myriad worlds, as numerous as Ganges sand.
The ancient sage had perished.
The late-stage Quasi-Immortal Emperor, the maiden in green, had perished.
[Ancient Sage Mackerel Spirit]
[Cultivation: Late Quasi-Immortal Emperor]
[Origin: Formed from half the turbid energy at the beginning of heaven and earth.]
After absorbing its cultivation with the energy converter.
Fang Ming's Imperial Dao法则(laws) became a fraction more complete.
And Fang Ming's origin, his physique, also integrated that half of the turbid energy body.
"Half of the turbid energy body..."
Fang Ming shook his head.
The utility of this body was not great.
Far inferior to the True Dao body.
...
In the Thirty-Three Heavens, by the Milky Way.
Within the Milky Way, stars twinkled.
The ancient sage Shen Ying Shi Zhe appeared here, observing the Crimson Pearl Flower.
Fang Ming also appeared here simultaneously.
As time and space shifted, Shen Ying Shi Zhe sensed it and said, "You have actually confused time and space, transforming the vertical into the horizontal, resetting everything to the past?"
"Even so, with your cultivation and strength, I fear you cannot deal with that monkey."
Shen Ying Shi Zhe's words carried a hint of mockery.
Fang Ming remained indifferent, not engaging him, and simply pointed a finger.
Shen Ying Shi Zhe awaited death.
With the same finger pointed, he had no power to resist.
This single finger could instantly kill any Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level existence.
With a sigh, Shen Ying Shi Zhe perished.
His demise was no different from that of the maiden in green.
After Fang Ming absorbed his late-stage Quasi-Immortal Emperor cultivation with the energy converter, his Imperial Dao法则(laws) became a fraction more complete.
Simultaneously, Fang Ming's physique gained another type: the Five-Colored Stone, also known as the Heaven-Mending Stone body.
"Heaven-Mending Stone body..."
Fang Ming sensed its function and found that with this body, he himself could serve as a form of heaven-mending.
Can a dog change its habits?
The noble ideal of the Heaven-Mending Stone was to serve as a material to participate in the act of mending the heavens. Before his transmigration, when Shen Ying Shi Zhe was still a stone, he harbored the thought that he regretted not being taken by Nuwa to mend the heavens.
The fact that he regretted not being taken by Nuwa to mend the heavens, rather than feeling fortunate, revealed his attitude towards his mission as a Heaven-Mending Stone.
Therefore, for Fang Ming, this body was of little use.
After all, the most important function of this body was to mend the heavens, to sacrifice himself, which was fundamentally at odds with his nature.
As for its other functions, they were considerably weaker. While useful to others, they held little significant value for Fang Ming.
Truly, it was useless to consume, yet a pity to discard.
Fang Ming sighed inwardly.
...
In a certain heaven and myriad worlds in the mortal realm.
The ancient sage Leng Yu Bing appeared here. Upon seeing Fang Ming arrive directly, he raised his hand and unleashed the Thunder Fire Pearls.
Within the Thunder Fire Pearls, thunder and fire were boundless. Each strand of thunder and fire was like a red light, akin to vast, majestic lights that supported the concepts of all heavens and myriad worlds, striking towards Fang Ming.
The attack of the Thunder Fire Pearls was truly infinitely close to multiversal-level strength, far more powerful than the peak Hunyuan Da Jue Jin Xian realm of Jin Bi Feng. It was an existence of absolute peak Quasi-Immortal Emperor level.
However, with a single thought from Fang Ming, these countless thunder and fires dissipated before they could touch him.
Then, Fang Ming had another thought.
The existence of the ancient sage Leng Yu Bing was dissolved and annihilated.
All of it transformed into energy, completing Fang Ming's Imperial Dao法则(laws).
...
The Lone Fire Ghost King was already dead. Fang Ming's "power of thought to action" was greatly weakened even against the Immortal Emperor-level Sun Lu Zhen, making it impossible to delve into the Land of Nothingness to extract energy from the Lone Fire Ghost King.