Chapter 1431 — Fragments of the Great Luo Heaven
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The surface of the coffin was covered thickly with Great Dao runes Langxuan could not recognize; amid the great annihilation of the cosmos, it came flying along with a fragment of the Great Luo Heaven, seemingly flying toward them.
What was peculiar about this coffin was that it lay within the fragment of the Great Luo Heaven, and within that fragment stood a massive wooden altar; the coffin rested upon the altar, standing upright.
Half of the Great Luo Heaven fragment had already entered the Ancestral Court and was buried in the ground beneath it.
The reason Divine Emperor Langxuan had not been able to see it was that his divine-consciousness eye could not perceive the Great Luo Heaven.
Watching this scene, Divine Emperor Langxuan was somewhat at a loss. Shen Mu's voice came, unhurried: "The being in this coffin was a mighty one of the previous cosmic year.
At the very moment of the cosmos's great annihilation, he sought to enter our cosmos through sacrifice. The point in time he occupies is exceedingly peculiar: the rear end of the coffin lies in his own cosmos, where time and space do not exist, still frozen at the instant of the great annihilation, preserving himself by means of the Great Luo Heaven fragment.
But the front end of the coffin has already entered our cosmos—and has existed within our cosmos for a vast span of ages. " Somewhat uncomprehending, Divine Emperor Langxuan eyed him doubtfully and asked, "How many years has he existed in our cosmos?
" "Since roughly the very beginning of the cosmos's opening, he has existed.
" Shen Mu could not be certain either.
"Probably at the very beginning of the cosmos's opening, he began to steal the Primordial Essence Fluid of the Jade Pool—only, at that time he must have had misgivings, fearing discovery by the Ancient Gods and Creators of that era, and so dared not recklessly plunder the Jade Pool's power.
Once the Creators and the Ancient Gods and Demigods had all left the Ancestral Court and sealed this place, he had no more scruples: he severed the Jade Pool's eight dragon veins outright and plundered its power without restraint. " Divine Emperor Langxuan shook his head, his voice hoarse: "How can that be? How can half of him remain in the cosmos of the previous annihilation, and half in our own age? " "If you erase the element of time, it becomes comprehensible. " Shen Mu explained to him earnestly: "Time does not exist.
Remove time, and even the destruction and birth of a cosmos is nothing but the transformation between energy and matter.
The process of energy becoming matter is the cosmos's expansion; the process of matter becoming energy is the cosmos's collapse.
The change of matter gives rise to the illusion of time's passage. In seeking to enter our age from the previous cosmos, all he wanted was to avoid becoming the energy of the cosmos's destruction—and so he steals energy from our age to substitute for himself. That is why he plunders the Jade Pool's power: he must maintain the mass-energy balance between the two cosmoses. " Divine Emperor Langxuan was still somewhat perplexed, yet he knew that someone had achieved tremendous success by means of this theory. Heavenly Venerable Ling's Immutability Divine Ability was precisely such an incomprehensible enigma.
After Heavenly Venerable Ling created this divine ability, the Ten Heavenly Venerables were shaken beyond measure. Because it was unknown, it inspired dread.
Nearly all Ten Heavenly Venerables set out, determined to eliminate Heavenly Venerable Ling—yet Ming Fangyu seized the prize first, her primordial spirit entering the Heavenly Emperor's fleshly body to slay Heavenly Venerable Ling above the Heavenly River, so that in the end Ming Fangyu's primordial spirit and the Heavenly Emperor's body vanished together without a trace.