Chapter 1180: The Ninth Extreme!
The river water churned, sending a great spray of water out in all directions.
Xu Qing sat cross-legged on the surface as the ash from the fourth world dissipated around him. It was like falling snow.
However... the world had not been destroyed, nor had it disappeared. True, the buildings of the immortal palace, and everything around it, had vanished into nothing. But the world itself still existed.
And that was because of Xu Qing’s presence! As of now, Young Lord Aurora had ensured that the immortal palace belonged to him. He had the proper status to use it. He had achieved major success with his space-time, turning it into a manifestation of the River of Time, and thus maintaining the existence of the fourth world.
At the same time, Xu Qing understood that he could leave it at any time. With one thought, he could return to the third world if he wished. Whether it was the living third world, the painting that was the second world, or the single line that was the first world, he could descend to all of them easily.
That said... there were limitations in terms of going the opposite direction, in other words, up. Those limitations weren’t anything to do with status or identity, but rather, the level of his canon. Anyone with canon or a canon treasure could get into the fourth world. But the requirements for the fifth world were more stringent.
The canon had to be at a very high level, with its power of law immense. In other words, it required battle prowess equivalent to a Quasi-Immortal Grand Emperor. As of now, Xu Qing could sense that he was just on the cusp of being able to enter the fifth world.
I need to take my space-time to the next higher level. That will be when I can achieve a breakthrough. And that higher level will be my ninth extreme!
His eyes glittered brightly.
Xu Qing’s intuition was telling him that when his ninth extreme appeared, he would become a nine-world Smoldering God. In other words, the ninth extreme would allow him to step into that fifth world, a place reserved for either Grand Emperors or people whose canon had reached a certain level. Once he was there, he would be able to enter the fifth world, whereupon he was confident that he could...
Step into Imperial Sovereign and fight a Grand Emperor! As for my ninth extreme... after space-time is... parallelism....
The words spoken by Young Lord Aurora upon his departure were deeply moving to Xu Qing, and right now, they were like thunder rumbling in his mind. The sense of enlightenment that had begun when he heard them was now growing in intensity.