Eternal Time and Space

Chapter 63 Dragon God, Purgatory

The Nine Nether Cauldron was hanging upside down, its mouth pointing directly at the souls and demons.

The four pillars of the celestial sphere contracted simultaneously, pressing the soul demon, along with his Soul Refining Cauldron and Soul-Sweeping Bell, into the mouth of the cauldron.

The souls of gods and demons struggled frantically, the sea of ​​souls within the Soul Refining Cauldron surged wildly, and the Soul-Sweeping Bell resounded incessantly.

The lid of the Nine Nether Cauldron slammed shut, the bell tolled abruptly, and the soul sea was suppressed within the cauldron. The cauldron trembled for a moment before returning to calm.

The aura of the Nine Nether Cauldron surged once again. The soul god and demon fell, and his soul path, soul refining cauldron, and soul-sweeping bell were all refined by the Nine Nether Cauldron and merged into the underworld of the Eternal World.

Kong Xuan's side went even more smoothly; he didn't even need to use the Red Dust Prison, and all fifty jade platforms rotated simultaneously.

As the five elements interacted, the five-colored radiance grew ever brighter, dimming the divine fire bell and heavenly fire flag of the Heavenly Fire Ancestor.

As the five elements clashed, the Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light was unleashed once more. The five-colored interwoven light, like a pillar of heaven, pierced through the Heavenly Fire Ancestor's Divine Fire Bell, tore apart the Heavenly Fire Banner, and shattered the Crimson Fire Demon's true form into fragments.

When the Heavenly Fire Ancestor perished, his Great Dao of Fire transformed into a pure primordial fire, merging into the sun, moon, and stars of the Eternal World.

The three gods and demons perished, and their origins, their spiritual treasures, and everything they had accumulated over countless eras flowed into the Eternal World like three great rivers.

The sky of the Eternal World rose a little higher, the earth grew a little thicker, and the Netherworld a little deeper. The size of the world expanded slightly under the infusion of the essence of the three Primordial Golden Immortals, like a boy who is growing.

Zi Chen sensed the end of the three battlefields and stopped observing. With a thought, the light of eternity surged from every corner of the shattered world.

The old man's scythe froze in mid-air, poised to strike. Behind him, the Great Banner of Ten Thousand Bones froze at the moment of its fluttering, the skulls on the banner remaining in a roaring posture, and the torrent of skulls surging from the banner suspended in mid-air, maintaining a diving posture.

The wind stopped, the sound stopped, time stopped, space stopped, and everything was still.

The old man's pupils contracted. His consciousness was still functioning, but his physical body, his magical power, and his Great Banner of Ten Thousand Bones were all frozen in the eternal light.

Eternity is not the infinite extension of time, but the complete disappearance of time. In eternity, there is no past, no future, no present. All existence is frozen into an eternal and unchanging state. The moment the old man was in was separated from the river of time by Zi Chen and transformed into an eternal moment.

Zi Chen walked up to the old man, raised his right hand, and gently touched the old man's brow with his index finger.

The old man's consciousness was exposed to Zi Chen without reservation, like a shell that had been pried open. Zi Chen read all of the old man's memories from countless eras: his birth in the chaotic era, his escape from the Great Calamity of Creation, his wandering in the depths of the Chaos Sea, and his experiences in the Purgatory Great World.

After reading, Zi Chen withdrew his finger, and the old man's figure began to dissolve in the eternal light, his flesh and bones turning into specks of light, and the Great Banner of Ten Thousand Bones sinking into the earth.

The Myriad Bones Banner, a supreme innate treasure, merged into the Netherworld of the Eternal World, transforming into countless wandering ghostly skeletons. At this moment, the essence of the Netherworld increased by at least ten percent.

The Eternal World expanded once again, with four Chaos Gods and Demons at the level of Primordial Golden Immortals, the origins and spiritual treasures of the four Gods and Demons, and one innate supreme treasure among them. Although this nourishment was far less than the accumulation invested when Zi Chen created the world, it was already extremely abundant for the newly born Eternal World.

Zi Chen closed his eyes, digesting the information from the memories of the skeletal god and the other three gods and demons. Most of these memories were useless, but deep within these useless memories, Zi Chen found what he was looking for.

Two great worlds: one is the world once visited by the Skeleton God and the Soul God, the Dragon God Great World; the other is the world once occupied by the Heavenly Fire Ancestor and the Blood Army, the Purgatory Great World.

Zi Chen opened his eyes. The Chaos Sea was boundless and limitless. The Primordial World and Eternity were but grains of sand within it. In this boundless void, how many great worlds were still in operation? How many creators who opened up the world were still rising and falling? How many beings who had surpassed the Primordial Golden Immortal and the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal were still looking down upon the Chaos?

Zi Chen didn't know, but time would slowly reveal all of this to him. What he needed to do now was to grow up as quickly as possible and find more and more delicious food for the Eternal World.

Sitting cross-legged on the Eternal Sea of ​​Light, the three halo behind Zi Chen's head slowly rotated. The memories of the four Chaos Gods and Demons—the Skeleton God, the Soul God, the Heavenly Fire Ancestor, and the Blood Army God and Demon—unfolded in his consciousness like a scroll, being turned page by page.

The Dragon God World is a world filled with dragon beasts, completely different from the true dragons of the prehistoric world. The dragon beasts of the Dragon God World have four legs and two wings, their bodies are as thick as mountains, and their wings can cover the sky and the sun when spread out.

The sky of the Dragon God Great World is a blue-gold color like dragon scales. The earth is covered with the nests of dragon beasts and ancient battlefields soaked in dragon blood. The twelve Dragon God Ancestors worked together to evolve this Great World. Finally, when the world was formed, the twelve Dragon Gods' bodies disintegrated. Their flesh and blood transformed into countless dragon beasts, their dragon bones into mountains and mineral veins, and their dragon souls into the laws of heaven and earth.

After the fall of the twelve dragon gods, their bloodlines evolved into twelve golden-blooded dragons in the Dragon God Great World. Each golden-blooded dragon carries the legacy of a dragon god ancestor. Once any golden-blooded dragon reaches adulthood, it possesses strength comparable to a Golden Immortal. When the twelve golden-blooded dragons join forces, they can summon the ancestral will of the twelve dragon gods. Each of these twelve wills is comparable to the ninth level of the Primordial Chaos Realm.

The Skeleton God and the Soul God were severely injured by Pangu's Axe during the Great Calamity of Creation and fell into the depths of chaos, unintentionally ending up in the Dragon God's Great World.

The two spent countless years lurking in the Dragon God Great World, starting by devouring the lowest-level dragon beasts and gradually restoring their cultivation.

When they finally recovered to the peak of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, they attempted to unify the Dragon God Great World. In that battle, the twelve golden blood dragons joined forces to summon the will of the twelve Dragon God Ancestors.

The wills of twelve peak-level Primordial Golden Immortals descended simultaneously. The Myriad Bones Banner of the Skeleton God Demon was severely damaged, and the Soul Refining Cauldron of the Soul God Demon was burned through by the dragon's breath. The two escaped from the Dragon God Great World at the cost of severe injuries and drifted in the Chaos Sea for countless millennia before barely recovering from their injuries.

The Purgatory Great World has a more peculiar structure than the Dragon God Great World. Unlike the Primordial World, which has a clear distinction between heaven and earth, or the Eternal World, which has three realms, it is composed of countless planes stacked on top of each other. Each plane is an independent world with its own ecological environment, its own laws of operation, and its own groups of living beings.

Some planes are endless fiery hells, some are dark and sunless poisonous swamps, some are ancient frozen wastelands, and some are living nests of writhing flesh. Each plane has its own purgatory lord, and above the lords are deeper and more powerful purgatory monarchs.