Chapter 312 Forced to fight?
When Ni Kun rushed to the Guardian Temple, the atmosphere in the temple was quite heavy.
The guardians who stayed behind in the temple all had frowned brows and looked worried, as if the sky was about to fall.
"Who can tell me in detail what happened?"
Ni Kun asked while fixing his hair.
He was having a great time holding a Dharma Assembly when suddenly a rainbow light descended upon the world in his painting, bringing a thought from Xiaolongnu and a message to him.
He did not say what had happened, but simply asked him to come and protect the temple as soon as possible.
Seeing Xiao Longnu's urgent tone, Ni Kun quickly put on his clothes and went straight to the Guardian Temple without even having time to comb his hair.
"Master Xuanzang and his companions are missing!"
Xiao Longnu came over to help him comb his hair, and said quickly:
"More than a month ago, Athena detected..."
He recounted the story of the universe collapsing, Xuanzang and his companions going on a reconnaissance mission, and their sudden disappearance after going deep into the dark universe, and concluded:
"The mages' life lamps have not yet gone out, so they should still be alive, but the lights are dim and their condition is very bad. The temple's guiding light can't find their whereabouts and can't bring them back. We have no choice but to ask you to come over."
Master Xuanzang, the Elf Prince, Misaka Mikoto, Rey, and Hulk are all senior guardians.
Master Xuanzang, in particular, is the strongest among the guardians of this session.
Even the five of them disappeared inexplicably. If the five guardians who stayed in the temple, as well as Xiaolongnu, Kongo, and Frieza, act rashly and go to rescue them, there is a 99% chance that they will just continue to die in vain.
Therefore, not wanting to trouble Ni Kun anymore, the guardians had no choice but to ask him to come and discuss countermeasures.
After listening to Xiao Longnu's story, Ni Kun was startled:
"The universe collapsed? And it trapped five guardians at once?"
Such a grand undertaking is obviously not something that an ordinary person can accomplish, and it must be related to the "Lord of the Stars".
Ni Kun had been preaching for forty-nine days and had just sorted out the Tongtian inheritance. He was planning to return to the origin universe and retreat for ten years first. He had no intention of colliding with the Lord of the Stars right now.
But plans cannot keep up with changes. The Lord of the Stars obviously has his own pace of action and will not act according to Ni Kun's arrangements.
He half-closed his eyes and gazed into the depths of the universe. A faint starlight was reflected in his pupils. A flash of inspiration flashed in his soul. He silently deduced for a while and sighed inwardly:
"Athena's estimate was wrong. The remaining time of the reincarnation universe is less than a year..."
Although the speed at which the universe is collapsing is only one billionth of a second now, the collapse will not always remain at a constant speed.
After two hundred and fifty-seven days, the degree of collapse of the universe will exceed the critical point, forming a snowball effect. The collapse process will be greatly accelerated like an avalanche, rolling faster and faster. In just one hundred and four days, the remaining half of the universe will collapse completely.
In other words, from now until three hundred and sixty-one days later, the entire reincarnation universe will no longer exist and will be completely swallowed up by the Lord of Stars.
With Ni Kun's current realm and his close relationship with the Samsara Universe, the matter involves the survival of the Samsara Universe. Even if the collapse of the universe is related to the Lord of the Stars, his deduction is almost correct.
What's more, the Lord of the Stars did not hide the secret and was openly devouring the universe. Ni Kun's deduction can be said to be absolutely accurate.
As for why even the secrets of heaven were not concealed...
"You don't take me seriously!"
Ni Kun sighed inwardly:
"Yes, if it were me, and I had single-handedly overwhelmed all the high-end forces in a universe and destroyed most of it, I probably wouldn't care too much about the last struggle of this universe, right?
"I even hope that the last resistance force in this universe will jump out and throw itself into the fire..."
What the Lord of the Stars did was not only to show that he did not take Ni Kun seriously, but also to lure the snake out of its hole.
The purposeful act of not concealing the secret was to let Ni Kun know clearly that time was running out in this universe, forcing him to take the initiative to go for the decisive battle.
"Master Xuanzang and his men have probably become bait to lure me... Should I go or not?"
If he went, he would probably be forced to fight the Lord of Stars before he was ready.
But if they don't go, not only will Master Xuanzang and the others be dead, but there will also not be much time left.
Even if the time flow ratio in the origin universe could reach ten to one with that in the reincarnation universe, he could still cultivate for more than two thousand days in the origin universe before the snowball effect of universe collapse occurred...
But the Lord of Stars devours the reincarnation universe, and every time he devours it, his strength grows.
Can Ni Kun’s gains from practicing in the Samsara Universe for more than two thousand days be comparable to what the Lord of Stars gained from devouring half of the Samsara Universe?
The river of time emerged under Ni Kun's feet.
He stood on the river, overlooking the illusory river of sparkling water below. Countless images were reflected in his pupils and countless flashes of inspiration were in his mind, colliding with each other to produce intense sparks.
Following the flow of time.
Ni Kun raised his head and looked towards the downstream of the river.
As he deduced billions of times in an instant, the long river of time, in every instant, branched out into billions of tributaries.
Each tributary corresponds to every different choice he made.
But no matter what choice he makes, no matter how many tributaries the long river of time splits into, all the tributaries will eventually converge at the same point.
That is the end of the long river of time.
It is also the end point of the reincarnation universe.
Destruction, destruction, destruction, destruction, and more destruction...
No matter how he deduce it, no matter what choice he makes, it will ultimately lead to the same ending.
The universe is destroyed, everything is annihilated, even Ni Kun himself...
If he does not choose to escape, escape to the origin universe, and completely sever the connection between the two worlds, he will also perish along with the reincarnation universe.
But is the end of it if we escape to the origin universe?
The Lord of Stars who has completely digested the reincarnation universe will have the possibility to jump out of the universe and become a truly eternal and immortal being.
From now on, every universe will be a pond under His feet. As long as He wants, He can choose to enter any pond.
By then, even the reincarnation universe will no longer be safe.
We can only pray to the Lord of the Stars not to look down upon that place of the end of the law and of no spiritual energy in the universe of origin, which is immeasurable in size but has no spiritual energy at all.
But how could Ni Kun pin his hopes on his enemy's lack of interest or mercy?
Even if he could take the people around him with him, he could even pack up the Guardian Temple and bring it to the Origin Universe.
Ni Kun would also be in a constant state of panic, worrying day and night about the terror that would come from outside the universe at any time.
"There is still a glimmer of hope."
Ni Kun closed his eyes and no longer looked at the end of the long river of time.
There is a great god like the Lord of Stars, standing at the end of the long river of time that seems destined to point to destruction. Ni Kun's deduction is actually not absolutely accurate.
All he saw was destruction.
But there is still a glimmer of hope.
However, that glimmer of hope was obscured by the huge shadow of the Lord of Stars, making it impossible for him to see clearly.
The Lord of the Stars may not interfere with Ni Kun's deduction of the specific time of the end of the reincarnation universe, but he will definitely interfere with the secrets of heaven, obscuring the way forward and making it difficult for Ni Kun to see where the road lies.
In this case, let's clear away all the confusion first.
As long as you make up your mind, you can find opportunities.
Ni Kun suddenly opened his eyes, and the illusory river of time under his feet suddenly disappeared.
He looked towards the huge statue of Athena deep inside the guardian temple.
"Athena, I need your strength."
He said lightly.
"As you wish." Athena's soft voice sounded.
Purple air burst out from Ni Kun's head and turned into auspicious clouds, spreading over a hundred thousand miles and covering the entire Guardian Temple in a blink of an eye.
When the auspicious clouds converge.
The guardian temple is nowhere to be found, and even the guardians in the temple are nowhere to be found.
"Next... is the prototype of reincarnation."
Ni Kun's figure flashed, and the next moment, he appeared in the core space of the cube-shaped small reincarnation.
He raised his hand and pressed the unpredictable ball of light in the core space of the cube-shaped reincarnation.
When Ni Kun first came into contact with this ball of light, he was almost assimilated by it and turned into the "little main god" of the cubic small cycle.
But now.
In just a moment, the light ball that controlled the entire cubic cycle was instantly absorbed by Ni Kun.
Countless images flashed across Ni Kun's pupils in an instant.
Each picture represents a small world and all the living beings in it, an infinite cycle from creation to destruction to rebirth.
The aura on Ni Kun's body began to rise and expand.
His eyes became increasingly indifferent, and his aura gradually became inhuman, as if it was God's will.
When the countless images in his pupils disappeared, his pupils became blank, as if they could reflect everything in the entire reincarnation universe. He could see countless worlds and countless lives at a glance, sort out all causes and effects, see through the past and the future, but he lost all emotional ups and downs.
The small cubic reincarnation world disappears.
Ni Kun appeared in the void of the universe again.
There are shining stars everywhere, front, back, left, right, up and down.
If you look closely, each star is a miniature galaxy tightly shielded by an invisible crystal wall.
These "stars" are all existing reincarnation worlds.
And at the bottom of this sky full of stars, in the darkness that seems like a bottomless abyss, there is a piece of exposed and broken land floating.
The earth seemed to be made up of countless building blocks, with the edges constantly peeling off and falling into a bottomless abyss.
On the earth, there are countless messy city ruins and endless doomsday monsters.
It is the garbage recycling site at the bottom of the universe, the doomsday wasteland.
Ni Kun stood in the void, his indifferent pupils reflecting countless stars.
At this moment, he seemed to have become the origin of the universe, and everything in existence was revolving around him. It also seemed to be the end of the universe, and everything in existence would eventually collapse onto him.
Suddenly, all the acupoints in his body opened up at the same time. The "stars" that represented the reincarnation worlds, pulled by some invisible force, drew brilliant streaks of light in the void, all came towards him and sank into his acupoints.
But only a moment.
All the "stars" had already been absorbed into the acupoints around Ni Kun's body. Even the wasteland apocalypse had been absorbed into the acupoints on the soles of his feet.
The small half of the reincarnation universe that was still intact fell into the deepest darkness, and was no different from the large half of the dark universe that was destroyed by the Lord of Stars.
The only source of light was Ni Kun.
Countless starlight projected from inside his skin, illuminating the darkness around him.
And his body is also constantly expanding.
Ten feet, a hundred feet, a thousand feet... a thousand miles, ten thousand miles... a million miles...
In the blink of an eye, he had expanded into a giant tens of millions of miles tall.
However, in this vast dark void, having lost all visible and invisible references, no matter how huge the size expands, it seems to be meaningless.
Suddenly, a deep voice came from the depths of the dark universe:
"In order to avoid being devoured by me, you devour yourself first? That's a solution. Unfortunately...
"With your realm, suddenly engulfing so many worlds and being washed away by endless information, can you still maintain your self?
"Are you now a 'prototype of the universe' or a human being?"
Amidst the low laughter, a pair of star-lit eyes appeared before Ni Kun's eyes:
"Look, you have almost become the Heavenly Dao, almost the same as the Heavenly Dao without self...
“Without my help, your body will also expand and explode, transforming into a rudimentary universe. Your soul will also evolve into the source of the heavenly way of that rudimentary universe… just like the legend in this universe and many other worlds about Pangu creating the sky and transforming himself into all things.
"So, what's the point of everything you do?
"Not only will you lose your self, but if I swallow you, everything in your embryonic universe will belong to me..."
In front of the Heavenly Lord, distance has no meaning.
Even if there are infinite galaxies or even the entire universe, for Tianzun Daozu, it is no different from kissing each other.
The starry eyes stared at Ni Kun standing at the other side of the universe, with no intention of attacking him, as if waiting for him to expand to the limit and evolve into the prototype of a universe.
His body was still expanding, but since he had no reference, he had no idea how big it had grown to. A strange smile suddenly appeared on Ni Kun's face:
"Can't you see through me?"
"Um?"
"You don't see through me." Ni Kun laughed.
He shouldn't have laughed like that. He should have completely lost his self-awareness and turned into the almighty "Heavenly Way".
His eyes were indeed as high as the sky, cold and heartless, without any human touch.
His smile seemed a little forced, but there was a real sense of joy in his laughter.
In front of Ni Kun, the Lord of Stars had a pair of eyes that were as bright as two galaxies, but a hint of solemnity emerged.
Ni Kun laughed:
"The Great Way of the Universe and the origin of time are in my hands. After I obtained the Great Way of the Universe, every change in my thoughts can add a tributary to the long river of time. Can you guess how many times I have changed my thoughts so far?"
"I see... You pulled all the you in all the tributaries of the long river of time over here, and used countless of your wills to fight against the Dao... But does this make sense? You who control the great way of the universe have become the 'only one' in time. No matter how many of you you pull over here, there will only be a superposition of wills, and the power of those tributaries will not be superimposed on you..."
"Of course it makes sense. All I need is the will, and that's all."
In Ni Kun's eyes, which were as indifferent as the sky and reflected the universe, a touch of humanity suddenly emerged:
"You haven't taken the initiative to attack me until now. It's not that you don't want to, but you can't, right?
“You haven’t completely devoured the entire source of the Heavenly Dao. You can’t even quit, because you have become an important pillar that maintains the existence of this universe. Once you quit, this universe will collapse in an instant, and all your previous efforts will be wasted.
"So, you can only passively devour this universe. If I don't take the initiative to find you, you can only watch me become stronger like now..."
The Lord of the Stars said calmly:
"So what? You have achieved enlightenment in this universe, so no matter how strong you are, you are not stronger than me. After 361 days, I will be able to completely free myself. By then, you will have no way to escape. Not only will you perish along with this universe, but everything you have will also become my nourishment for climbing higher... Cherish your last 361 days."
"Really?" Under Ni Kun's feet, the sparkling river of time emerged again.
The Three Treasures Ruyi flew out, Yuanshi Tianzun held it and floated to the surface.
The exquisite pagoda flew out, and Taishang Laozi floated to the surface with the pagoda on his head.
The Zhu Xian Sword flew out, and Tong Tian Sect Master emerged from the water holding the sword.
When he first took control of the Great Dao of the Universe, Ni Kun summoned Yuanshi, Tongtian and Ru from the long river of time, but he could only maintain their existence for five seconds.
And now, with the inheritance of Tongtian and the integration of the guardian temple, the cube-shaped reincarnation, and countless existing reincarnation worlds, the projection imprint summoned by Ni Kun can exist for a full month.
The Sword of Killing Immortals and the Sword of Exterminating Immortals flew out and fell into the hands of Yuanshi and Laozi.
Ni Kun also holds the Xianjian Sword, and together with Taishang, Yuanshi, and Tongtian, he sets up the Zhuxian Sword Formation.
There is no distance in front of the Heavenly Lord and the Taoist Ancestor.
As soon as the Zhu Xian sword formation was completed, the starlight that was devouring the universe from the depths of the dark universe fell into the center of the sword formation.
A Taoist with a dignified face and eyes as bright as stars was sitting cross-legged among the starlight.
This Taoist is the Lord of the Stars.
"Taishang, Yuanshi, Tongtian. They are just defeated generals." The Lord of Stars sat still and said calmly: "Even if you are included, what can you do to me?"
"What you defeated was only the Three Pure Ones of this universe." Ni Kun smiled slightly: "What I invited is not just that."
Outside the sword formation, behind Ni Kun, an ancient stone door covered with cracks suddenly appeared.
The stone door slowly opened.
Endless mysterious aura, like a tide, surged out from the door and fell on Ni Kun, Tai Shang, Yuan Shi and Tong Tian.
Ni Kun's aura only slightly increased.
However, the aura of Taishang, Yuanshi and Tongtian underwent extremely subtle changes at this moment.
It's not about becoming stronger.
But become more lively.
The branded projection was originally like a puppet. Although it was powerful, it did not have much intelligence and would only act according to the wishes of the summoner.
And at this moment.
The expressions of Taishang, Yuanshi, and Tongtian all changed strangely, becoming as if...
Fresh people.
Laozi is invincible, Yuanshi is majestic and arbitrary, and Tongtian is fierce and murderous.
Ni Kun's enlightenment has never been limited to the reincarnation universe.
Sensing the subtle changes in the Three Pure Ones, the Lord of the Stars was slightly moved:
"Oh? This doesn't look like a brand projection pulled out from the long river of time..."
Ni Kun played the sword and laughed:
"Now, I think you should at least stand up."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ni Kun swung out the Xianjian Sword, freezing the entire universe, ending all movement, and even freezing time and space. The extinction sword light poured out towards the Lord of Stars.
Laozi, Yuanshi and Tongtian also drew their swords together, and the Zhuxian Sword Formation started to operate with a loud bang. The possibility of the end of the entire universe evolved in the sword light and surged towards the Lord of the Stars.
