Chapter 918 Tower to the Heavens · Horn of Time (6000)

Sealing the Great Cosmos, five hundred million years ago.

In this era, Earth was still in the Cambrian period. Ancient primordial transcendent organisms, such as Leise jellyfish, Taibai trilobites, Titan Anomalocaris, and Eternal Rainbow Cotton, still roamed the oceans. Primordial behemoths engaged in life-and-death struggles in the oceans, and even the Earth's crustal plates were being worn away.

And just as the ancient Earth was experiencing the incredibly exciting Cambrian melee, the universe was experiencing an even more spectacular universe fragment free-for-all.

In the pitch-black, silent vacuum, super-civilizations that had been incredibly advanced since ancient times, even mastering the essence of the universe, were confronting each other in numerous space-time fragments and even the void of the multiverse. The entire universe was like a vast arena.

And one contestant after another, took to the stage in turn.

——Existing within numerous 'probabilities', a near-eternally existing possibility civilization, an undefeatable civilization with absolutely no possibility of failure, the 'Probability Science Consortium'!

——Creating a small universe, wantonly altering the constants of the universe, able to create and replicate anything at will, the ancestor of numerous other-powered origin civilizations in the multiverse, the 'Primeval Empire'!

——Able to resurrect the dead at will, and also easily seize the minds of any being, constructing their own divine realm on the collective consciousness of all beings in the universe, the supreme spiritual civilization, 'Three Realms Pure Land'!

——The void is nothing more than a stepping stone, taking black holes as dwellings, the ultimate existence condensed after endless waiting, the 'People of the End'!

——The truth of the universe is simply too cruel, therefore veiled with curtains, revealed layer by layer, the balance-maintaining sweepers covering the universe, the dispute mediators, the 'Veil Masters'!

——Merely existing is already the embodiment of power, coming from a destroyed alien universe, the last survivors of the Aether, the 'Aether Progenitor Dragons'!

——The most powerful machine minds, willing to explore the unknown at all costs, the first civilization to break through the cosmic barrier and detect the void, the 'Precursor Protocol'!

——The commanders of space-time, existing in all things and existing because of all things, eternally undying, the guardians of all living beings, the 'Subspace Divine Tree' also exists here!

——Elemental bodies are not stepping stones, the breath of immortality still echoes in the void, all the spiritual energy in the universe is part of it, the collective pan-will of spiritual energy, the 'Super Spirit Manifest'!

Numerous civilizations and powerhouses whose strength is evident simply from their names, with exaggerated settings that even science fiction/fantasy/xianxia/system flow/urban/light novel writers would not dare to use lightly, no matter how much praise and reverence, it would be truly deserved for these existences.

And their battles, deservedly so, could grind away the Great Dao and stir up the primordial chaos!

In this era, the Nihilism Cult was nothing more than a roadside passerby organization, and the super-villains of later generations still preferred to watch the sunrise and sunset as peaceful ordinary stardust. The major civilizations were brimming with martial virtue, and now they would compete in this cosmic void to see who was the strongest, who could seize the universe itself, and even the multiverse's treasure, the 'Final寰 Seal'!

And in the midst of such intense moments, in a fierce battle that could shatter the universe itself, Deus, the Sky God King, appeared in the very center of the battlefield, looking utterly bewildered!

Boom!

The divine light, so clear that it was almost tangible, was infinitely sharp, incinerating numerous space-times as soon as it was released, as if to penetrate the void.

The aftershock alone brought about an endless tide of negative entropy, rekindling extinguished stars and illuminating the dark side of the universe, even time itself would be replaced by this light, completely burned into a blank!

This was the ultimate technique released by the supreme powerhouse of the 'Three Realms Pure Land', the Supreme Celestial Awakener, against his nemesis, the 'Super Spirit Manifest'. The might of the Dao Integration pinnacle erupted at this moment, like a vast ocean, the divine realm collapsing!

Originally, as the pan-will aggregate of the endless spiritual energy of the entire sealed universe, the Super Spirit Manifest planned to use its sub-infinite power to directly blast this clear divine light back. Not only that, it also wanted to unleash a second, tenth, hundred, thousand, million fists, completely smashing the ugly face of its nemesis, killing it in a most miserable manner!

However, no one had expected that, accompanied by an unfamiliar wave, a bewildered cloud giant would appear on the battlefield!

[What's going on?]

Before this question could be answered, the brilliant divine light pierced through its chest. Deus didn't feel any damage for a moment, and the next instant, the Super Spirit Manifest's heavy punch, seemingly containing an entire small galaxy, struck its right cheek.

Sudden! So sudden!

Terrifying! So terrifying!

Not to mention that Deus had only achieved the Dao Integration pinnacle by relying on the Musical Chapter Great Cosmos and would never grasp the edge of eternity without eternal elements, even if it was truly on the verge of eternity, it wouldn't fare well if it were hit by this blow without paying attention.

Not to mention that it was actually hit twice!

In an instant, the heavily injured Deus was stunned, and the Supreme Celestial Awakener and the Super Spirit Manifest, who had hit it, were also stunned—in order to have a fair and just life-and-death battle to compete for the power of the Final寰 Seal, they had long turned the entire sealed universe into the ultimate arena. Once the battle began, it was absolutely impossible for anyone to interfere.

But Deus not only interfered, but also entered the arena! Although it was beaten senseless and almost fell apart, the result would not change!

[What's going on!]

An Aether Progenitor Dragon spoke, pointing at the battlefield with its tail in confusion and asking, [Who is he? Why did he appear here?]

[Yes, why?] A group of supreme powerhouses, equally shocked and equally unclear about what was happening, looked at each other and asked, [Is this a secret aid invited by someone?]

[Don't know]

[Strange, he appeared without any warning, this is theoretically impossible!]

[No probability has changed, his arrival here is inevitable, but we cannot predict it, cannot judge it...]

[Is he a powerhouse from another universe in the void? But he doesn't seem strong, not like he can bypass our seal]

[Who cares where he came from, this universe doesn't need a tenth competitor!]

Some were confused, some were curious, some were contemptuous, and some were rough replies echoed in the void.

And the next instant, an incredible tide of brilliant light was jointly set off. At the same time as making Deus shudder in horror, the terrifying and vast wave that could destroy the universe, tear apart the heavens, and even make time itself abnormal, swept towards the Sky God King like a tsunami!

[Where did these old monsters come from?!]

Deus was more than just astonished, he was almost scared to death—where did these nine Dao Integration pinnacle-level contestants come from in this sealed universe? Their Musical Chapter Great Cosmos had taken advantage of all the Dao Integration seeds to only have four, okay? Not to mention that he didn't sense the aura of the Primordial Candle Dragon just now, but this universe actually had nine!

A Dao Integration pinnacle could unify an entire multiverse world group. That was more terrifying than the Dao Ancestors of ordinary worlds, with the ability to climb to true infinity and affect the infinite world groups of the multiverse!

——Speaking of which, where the hell is that Primordial Candle Dragon?!

Cursing inwardly, Deus, who had been heavily injured, immediately activated Time Flow again—fortunately, because of the interference of the grudges between the many powerhouses, their attacks were not combined. Unfortunately, the combined strikes of the many Dao Integration pinnacles had cut off the ages, and the Sky God King could no longer travel to the time five hundred million years ago.

The road had been blocked. Even though the rules of the multiverse prevented the Dao Integrations from piercing through space-time, their power itself was enough to affect causality, preventing time travelers who were not targeting them from interfering with their past and future.

[Cough!]

His head shattered and a large hole pierced through his chest, the Sky God King was now grateful that he didn't have a concrete body, but was just a cloud of mist. Otherwise, those two blows would have been enough to extinguish him completely.

But even so, he was now severely injured. Facing the wall blocking the flow of time that was jointly blasted out by the many Dao Integration powerhouses, he could do nothing, no matter how much he burned his eternal elements.

[If I don't burn eternal elements, I can't fight those old monsters...]

With this realization in his heart, the heavily injured Deus rapidly healed his injuries. He was now racking his brains: [But where is it? Is the Primordial Candle Dragon not in this space-time at all? Or...]

An incredible possibility, a possibility that no one could guess, suddenly jumped up and floated in the God King's mind.

Deus widened his eyes, and he murmured to himself in the Time Flow in shock, letting those drifting times pass through his body: [Could it be?!]

[Could it be that the age of the Primordial Candle Dragon is even less than thirty million years?!]

This was truly unbelievable, after all, that could be a Dao Integration pinnacle that was almost touching the torrent! An ultimate powerhouse who was about to reach true infinity relying solely on his own path, without relying on eternal elements!

There wouldn't be many such powerhouses in the entire multiverse. Their existence itself, in those multiverses that could travel through time, was equivalent to an eternal anchor point. All time, all space, all possibilities, causality and probability, all forces, both tangible and intangible, that could be described and could not be described, would converge in front of such existences, and ultimately return to One!

It was All, it was One, and it was even more Infinite!

This was the torrent, the near-saint who was almost transcending, the embryo of eternity, the absolute control, the true and unfeigned seed of infinity!

——How old would such a powerhouse be, at the very least, ten million years old?

——No, that's still considered a gifted talent. It takes five hundred million years for trilobites to reach higher spontaneous intelligent life, at least one or two hundred million years wouldn't be surprising, right?

——That's considered moderate. After all, which powerful existence in the multiverse doesn't have extraordinary opportunities (cheating)? Accelerating it by dozens of times, several million years would always be needed, right? After all, it takes a long time just to travel through countless worlds and witness the essence of many worlds!

After thinking for a while in his mind, Deus suddenly realized: [I've overestimated!]

[This Primordial Candle Dragon was able to suppress and beat our Four God Kings at the start, ordinary Dao Integration pinnacles can't do that, he must have extraordinary opportunities (absolute cheating)!]

[Does such a powerhouse with extraordinary opportunities (absolute cheating) need to cultivate like ordinary Dao Integrations? Definitely not, tens of millions of years is too long, I need to shorten it a bit!]

Actually, he couldn't go any further either. The heavily injured Sky God King had no power to continue resisting the suppression of the universe itself. He had no choice but to go with the flow, rapidly retracting from the ancient five hundred million years ago, and heading towards the other end of space-time at a rapid speed.

——Ten million years——

[No good! I can't sense it at all. It seems that the Primordial Candle Dragon really has luck on his side. He can achieve Dao Integration pinnacle in less than ten million years?]

[Not good, why is that old dragon still there?!]

——Five million years——

[Still nothing, why? Theoretically speaking, I should be able to see some karma, it's impossible to not see any trends at all?!]

[Speaking of which, what exactly is going on with this universe? Why were there so many terrifying powerhouses five hundred million years ago, only one old dragon thirty million years ago, and not many Dao Integrations five million years ago?]

——One million years——

The Sky God King was shocked: [Still nothing?!]

Not to mention anything else, even he, a Dao Integration God King designated by the Musical Chapter Great Cosmos, was over a million years old! After all, an epoch is hundreds of thousands of years, or even longer, and a true epoch cycle, with the rotation of the Four Musical Chapters, starts at a million years, and he had already lived for more than a dozen true epochs, for tens of millions of years.

Therefore, when Deus first went back in time, he went back thirty million years at the beginning—he felt that he was fast enough, even if other Dao Integration pinnacles were exceptionally powerful, they would definitely not be able to defeat him thirty million years ago.

As a result...

[Really nothing!]

Searching through many space-times, Deus even left the sealed universe and ventured to the multiverse void during the Ice Condensation Void period to observe, but the result was that he couldn't find even a trace of the Candle Dragon, let alone the Primordial Candle Dragon: [Even a Candle Dragon that feels very ancient doesn't exist... What's going on? This is completely different from my impression!]

The sacred bloodline of the Candle Dragon, which was almost a multiverse wanderer, should have at least tens of millions of years of circulation no matter what... No matter how strong it is, there needs to be karma flowing through the many space-time radiations!

He, a native of the Fate World Group, rarely comes into contact with Precursor Space, and even abnormally rejects those guys who bring unknown fields, but he doesn't know that there is such a convenient tool area in this world.

Deus continued to trace back.

But whether it was seven hundred thousand years, five hundred thousand years, or three hundred thousand years, he couldn't find any trace of the Candle Dragon.

It was as if it didn't exist at all, without a single trace.

[No good!]

At this moment, Deus had completely realized that he was definitely going to fail—he had burned too many eternal elements. Even if he found the Primordial Candle Dragon and returned, there was no possibility of reaching eternity again, and he would once again be reduced to an ordinary God King who could return to mortality at any time in the next epoch.

Because of fear, hatred, inferiority, and despair, this God King let out a roar: [Damn it, I must, I must find you!]

Ten thousand! Five thousand! Three thousand!

Exploding with his last strength, Deus rapidly traced back space-time, scrutinizing all the history related to dragons, divine birds, and swords, bit by bit.

But nothing, still nothing!

On Earth, those existences that were similar to the Primordial Candle Dragon were indeed powerful and had potential, but they couldn't resist his power. But because too many eternal elements had been burned, it was impossible for Deus to touch those existences even at the risk of his own decline.

The more he explored, the more terrified Deus became. It was quite laughable, because he really saw some shadows of the Candle Dragon of later generations from those transcendent civilizations that had only appeared in the last four hundred thousand years.

If the Primordial Candle Dragon was really a descendant of these transcendent civilizations...

Then, what kind of opportunities did he encounter, what kind of hardships did he experience, and how many monsters and enemies did he fight to grow to this point...

Himself...

Was it really possible to defeat such an existence?

"Of course you can."

As if there was a hallucination-like voice ringing out, coming from beyond space-time, but the God King could hardly hear it: "The multiverse is full of wonders, what's so strange about having an existence comparable to me?"

"But, unfortunately, you who have chosen such a wrong path cannot do this."

Time traced back, traced back to ten thousand years ago, the time when the silent era descended and the spiritual energy was cut off—all of this did not affect Deus, who was protected by eternal elements, but he didn't care about these things anymore. He began to use all his strength to set the smallest time of each time tracing back to a thousand years.

Nine thousand, five thousand, three thousand, one thousand!

But still nothing. Deus's brain was now blank. Although he was already a god, his mouth was still dry: [Could it be, could it be even shorter...]

[Primordial Candle Dragon... what kind of monster are you?!]

Yes, it was even shorter.

Until the end, Deus finally found it.

That was like a supernova explosion, like the Big Bang, like the moment when the multiverse was opened up, in a short moment, it suddenly erupted and then expanded to the unimaginable level of the future source point.

Thirty years.

About thirty years ago, the Primordial Candle Dragon was born.

Then...

"Then I became the current me."

The Sky God King could hear such a voice.

But now, even the remaining strength to be afraid no longer existed.

Deus stared blankly at that time node—it was a time node that he could not enter at all.

Why?

Too short.

Compared to the history of the universe, compared to the history of the strong, compared to the history of the void, compared to the history of everything...

It was like how short the time that human civilization has existed is for the entire universe.

The history of the Candle Dragon's existence was too short.

He simply couldn't land his power so precisely. Once he failed, it would be his own demise, used to restore everything.

He could hear a thought-provoking voice ringing out.

"Do you really want to continue trying?"

That was a familiar voice, the Primordial Candle Dragon's cold, ruthless voice that did not accept any compromise, like a monster, that would only bring fear and despair: "It's time to give up, Sky God King Deus. Have you forgotten? Eve of this epoch is also a disciple who walks my path, and in the epoch where the Starry Sky God King of the future is located, the Eternal Daughter is also a Candle Dragon."

"I can also trace back time and erase your existence—but I won't do that. The correctness defined by the Great Existence, I also think is very correct, and I will lead by example."

"What's more, you are really showing off your skills in front of an expert... Before this correctness is achieved, guess whose time magic is the strongest?"

At this moment, Deus was not only suddenly enlightened.

——No wonder, yes, so that's how it is, no wonder the Primordial Candle Dragon didn't stop him at all. So he already knew all of this? Yes, his actions were like a clown...

Faintly, the Sky God King sensed that in addition to the Candle Dragon's voice, which was like a maggot in the bone, there were other, more vast, incredible gazes that were not so much gazes as they were eternal presences, always watching him, watching all the worlds and all things...

[Candle Dragon]

He murmured to himself: [Candle Dragon, what kind of monster is it?]

The time tracing back ended.

Thirty years passed quickly, and everything returned to the original source.

The moment when the Primordial Candle Dragon first entered the Musical Chapter Great Cosmos and fought with the gods.

At the same time, the Candle Dragon's voice rang out.

"Candle Dragon?"

"Candle Dragon is not a monster."

——Bang, bang——

Crack!

It seemed like something was broken and something was reborn and transformed.

Countless geometric figures, sacred triangles, balanced quadrilaterals, mysterious pentagrams, extended hexagons, immortal holy crosses, cyclic sun wheels, and stable obelisks, and the Tower to the Heavens.

Solid, balanced, mysterious truth.

Extended, immortal, cyclic immortality.

Stable, penetrating, infinite transcendence.

——Great Inheritance · Sacred Geometry——

——Tower to the Heavens · Horn of Time——

At this moment, at the moment when the 'Primordial Candle Dragon' entered the Musical Chapter Great Cosmos and fought with the gods, a Tower of Babel that reached the sky pierced through space-time and appeared on top of the many facets of the Primordial Candle Dragon.

This was a right that would eventually be defeated, would eventually collapse, and would decline under the constraints of the 'Gods'... but it was still a right.

So, the next instant, space-time shattered.

The decadent God King who had traveled through space-time was held by the neck by the Candle Dragon who had also traveled through space-time, dragged in his hand and behind him, and strode towards the other gods who were terrified and had no idea what was happening in the shattered geometric time fragments.

All time traced back to the moment when Su Zhou traveled to the Musical Chapter Great Cosmos. The gods had no memory of fighting Su Zhou, but their ending of defeat was already doomed and had become a reality.

In contrast, in the light and shadow that had already happened but had not yet happened, all the dead were resurrected, all the lost was recovered, but what already existed still existed, and the defeated gods were still defeated.

——No one will die.

——No one will be sad.

——No one will sacrifice,

——Everything is a good ending, as long as the chooser is willing to pay the price to pursue this power and bear its responsibility, then you can choose no matter what.

——fLAg? Did you choose the wrong one before, so you can't reach a good ending?

——You're wrong about something, the power of chaos is a Bug! Who cares about cause and effect!

Unreasonable, illogical, causeless, the chaotic Tower to the Heavens, the corner of light and shadow that shattered space-time, was now blooming its last great power.

"Candle Dragon is not a monster."

And Su Zhou's voice rang out in the space-time where all of this had become a certainty and destiny.

"Candle Dragon is an ideology."

The young man said, as if expounding the truth: "It may not be right for you, but for me."

"It is correct."