Lord Shenxiu-Chapter 971: Grand Finale

Zhong Shenxiu let his mind wander, feeling the three unique divine essences within him.

The Light of Order!

The Ideal Nation!

The Fragment of the Secret History!

These three divine essences formed a triangular arrangement, with threads of radiance interconnecting them, vaguely suggesting the possibility of fusion.

"Ascension... Supreme... Path..."

"What is my path? What is supreme?"

Zhong Shenxiu even had a feeling that, after arriving in this Taihuang Heavenly Immortal Realm, with his accumulated knowledge and the mysterious secrets he had inexplicably acquired, he was already capable of breaking through the supreme bottleneck.

But there were multiple supreme paths.

"What is my path? Is it Shenxiu? No..."

"Is it alteration, is it history… too narrow..."

"The path composed by the restructuring of these three unique divine essences does not necessarily have to have limitations."

"What is called 'Shenxiu', 'alteration', 'breaking the norm'... is not but a possibility of transcendence, even if minuscule, yet a hope that still exists!"

"Transcend, transcend everything, transcend the limits of imagination!"

"Transcend... the impossible!"

A triangular pattern reappeared on Zhong Shenxiu's forehead.

And this time, the pattern continuously twisted and changed, about to form a brand-new symbol.

Buzzing!

Throughout the Immortal Realm, over countless regions, the void transformed, and the winds rose and the clouds surged.

A great number of immortals had no idea what was happening, only capable of staring blankly at the phenomena in the sky.

The next instant.

In the sky above the area corresponding to the history where Zhong Shenxiu resided, suddenly appeared two Immortal Ancestors.

One was clad in a five-colored feathered robe, with five-colored dharma images flowing behind his head. It was the Five Mysterious Immortal Ancestor: "A great fortune... an opportunity for breakthrough emerges!"

His originally handsome face now turned vaguely hideous: "Our leadership of the Immortal Clan and the monsters and devils into war was due to the realization of the supreme way of heaven, confirming that as long as one race completely triumphs, there would be an opportunity for the emergence of a chance to break through to Immortal Ancestor... Why is it that now a chance appears before the war ends?"

The other Immortal Ancestor was an elder-looking figure, holding a gourd: "The flow of time here has shifted, and there is the presence of an interdimensional visitor... In terms of cultivation, likely no lesser than you or me as Immortal Ancestors..."

"An interdimensional visitor?"

The Five Mysterious Immortal Ancestor pondered: "After achieving Immortal Ancestor realization, we also left this world to explore endless worlds, but most were barren, far inferior to this Taihuang Heaven... Could an Immortal Ancestor emerge from an interdimensional world?"

They also knew the differences between Taihuang Heaven and other heavens, even having explored other realms, yet had not encountered true powerhouses.

"A troublesome person is about to appear."

The Immortal Ancestor holding the gourd sighed, as if a great terror was descending.

Demon, monster, ghost, specter...

The distinct features of the four major races materialized into endless phantoms, appearing one by one in the sky, while a peculiar and hoarse voice sounded, as if four different voices of one person: "The inspiration for breakthrough of the Heavenly Dao must not be obtained by outsiders, what do you two old ghosts think?"

"Be it demon, monster, ghost, or specter, they are indeed not outsiders as they are spirits born from the dark side of Taihuang Heaven!"

The Five Mysterious Immortal Ancestor smiled slightly: "Unexpectedly... today, we must join forces." 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

For them, this was an outsider attempting to seize the opportunity to achieve the Supreme Dao Fruit in this realm, totally intolerable!

The Immortal Ancestor holding the gourd tossed it into the air, casting a spell upon it, and the gourd immediately emitted boundless divine light, illuminating the river of time, and finding Zhong Shenxiu who was hiding beneath layers of historical veils.

At this point, the trio of Dao Ancestor-level figures gazed at Zhong Shenxiu, who was undergoing transformation, especially at that symbol on his forehead representing 'miracle' and 'possibility', their divine thoughts wildly fluctuating: "A half-step Dao Fruit? Absolutely cannot let this person continue to accomplish it!"

That four-in-one Dao Ancestor was the first to strike, an abnormal arm growing with various heads of demons, monsters, ghosts, and specters directly crossed the boundaries of time and space, reaching in front of Zhong Shenxiu!

This arm was just a fraction away from touching the hem of Zhong Shenxiu's garment, yet that fraction was like a chasm of heaven and earth, becoming a distance that could never be reached.

The next moment, the heads belonging to demons, monsters, ghosts, and specters on the arm wailed and turned into vast data being deleted.

"Transcendence, transcend!"

Zhong Shenxiu opened his eyes, a coldness in his gaze: "Still need provisions... all seeking death!"

His figure flickered and he was already before the Five Mysterious Immortal Ancestor, a piece of Ideal Nation crashed down, directly enveloping this Immortal Ancestor.

Meanwhile, chains formed from countless lights of order already heavily bound the four-in-one Demon Dao Ancestor.

This attack from Ideal Nation and the Light of Order seemed to carry traits of transcendence and a half Dao Fruit, and in an instant, refined most of the two Immortal Ancestors...

Only the Gourd Immortal Ancestor, tearing through layers of historical veils, piloted the gourd which smashed into Zhong Shenxiu's back.

Rumble!

Zhong Shenxiu's true body shuddered and then began to disintegrate into ashes...

"The Creation is hidden within the Innate Gourd, and the Dao Fruit's opportunity brooks no sharing!"

The Gourd Dao Ancestor chuckled softly, "You think this gourd is merely an Immortal treasure of mine, but you don't know, it comes from before the fragmentation of the Taihuang Heaven, concentrating part of this world's Primordial Qi Shu... It seems the fate of achieving the Supreme Dao Fruit's creation is still mine!"

"You're celebrating too early."

Zhong Shenxiu stepped forward with hands behind his back, his expression unchanged.

"Impossible, even if you wield the power of time, under the might of my Creation Gourd, you will surely turn to ashes, and no resurrection is possible in any time stream!" cried out the Gourd Immortal Ancestor in disbelief.

"Indeed, you are also a Dao Ancestor, and with this unique divine artifact, my reboot was suppressed..."

Zhong Shenxiu shook his head and said, "But I have already begun to ascend, possessing traits of transcendence... Transcendence, being supreme and unique, surpassing time, surpassing all!"

As he spoke, he arrived beside the Gourd Immortal Ancestor, placing a palm atop the Immortal Ancestor's head.

In an instant, this Immortal Ancestor, who instilled awe in the five domains and was followed by over a million disciples, turned to ash and vanished.

At the original spot, only two radiant things remained, one being a peach blossom, and the other the Creation Gourd.

"To have only refined the Dao Ancestor of two unique divine natures, I wonder who gave you the courage to pursue the supreme opportunity..."

Zhong Shenxiu sneered, collecting the Ideal Kingdom and Light of Order.

More and more strange items appeared.

Zhong Shenxiu carefully identified them, extracting several clusters of unique divine nature belonging to different supreme beings, and directly fused them into his body.

His body seemed infinitely large, yet infinitely small.

The rune on his forehead, amidst various miraculous transformations, gradually settled.

"My Dao..."

Zhong Shenxiu sighed, his figure had already vanished from Taihuang Heaven, traversing infinite dimensions and time, witnessing two existences playing chess with Taihuang Heaven as the board.

They seemed to exist in the past, in the eternal past, and surely would continue to exist in the future!

At this moment, a chess player whose face was unclear seemed to glance in his direction.

Zhong Shenxiu, fearless, using his transcendental traits, directly began to 'define' countless futures of the Taihuang Heaven!

Another supreme existence joined the chess game.

As the two supremes tugged at the balance, with the addition of a new supreme, the original scales were immediately overturned.

The rise of the human race, with the Immortal Dao oppressing demons and ghosts, was instantly set in stone.

Rumbling!

Those two existences, overlooking all from a higher dimension, vanished instantly, seemingly heading to an even more vast, exalted battlefield.

Zhong Shenxiu's heart moved slightly, using transcendence, directly crossing countless regions of the eternal battlefield, finally tracing back to the origin!

"So... the true core of the eternal battlefield is the Origin Star!"

"Many supreme beings are fighting over the Origin Star!"

Layer upon layer of realizations, mystery upon mystery, was quickly unraveled by Zhong Shenxiu.

And his transcendental nature, in an instant, seemed to break through a certain boundary, reaching somewhere above the Origin Star.

It was an ordinary residential building, inside unit 504.

The afterglow of sunset shone through the glass, illuminating a yellow wooden long table.

The mottled brown-striped tabletop held a tablet computer, where fingers flew across the keys.

Facing the computer was a bespectacled, round-faced slightly chubby thirty-year-old man, muttering to himself incessantly.

Suddenly, his ten fingers moved, writing a line in the manuscript—The End.

At the very top of the document, there was a title—"Lord Shenxiu"!

...

Zhong Shenxiu watched it all with a cold expression.

"So that's how it is..."

"The so-called supreme beings, able to access the Origin Star, is this what it means?"

"What countless supreme beings vie for, is it truly the Origin Star, or the possibility that the story continues?"

"How can my story end just like that?"

Zhong Shenxiu smiled faintly, touching his forehead.

Upon achieving supremacy, the condensed transcendence instantly pierced through infinite time and space, spreading far and wide...

In the neighborhood, the slightly chubby author who was writing, suddenly felt a blur before his eyes. When he looked at the document again, he was shocked to discover that the words 'The End' had somehow been deleted...

In a brand new line, unfamiliar words were inscribed:

—To be continued...