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Fragments of Eternity (Web Novel) - Chapter 1343: Fate Unified
Chapter 1343: Fate Unified
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“Gods and immortals aren’t really different,” Xu Qing said calmly to Zi Qing. “But upon abandoning the journey of Deep Earth and choosing the higher star rings… the substructure changed. In the higher star rings, gods and immortals seem totally different. But really, they have the same origin.
“Therefore… if I die, so will you. What interests me more than death, though, is seeing whether your fate is more profound, or my ontology is more infinite!”
As his voice rang out, Xu Qing took a step which spanned 300 meters. It propelled him directly toward the Zi Qing outside the hall.
That version of Zi Qing looked coldly at Xu Qing and didn’t say a word. Further back was the Zi Qing inside the hall, whose expression was as gentle as before as he spoke in a soft voice that could pierce through the primary fate and echo into the branch of fate outside.
“You’re thinking the same thing I’m thinking, lil’ bro. Fates… overlap!”
The expressionless Zi Qing outside the hall raised his right hand and pushed it toward the incoming Xu Qing. That gesture caused the power of fate to quietly descend. It created an indescribable will that surrounded Xu Qing and filled the area with pulsing ripples.
Within the ripples were many scenes. The scenes featured Xu Qing, not by means of the parallelism of space-time magic, but rather… branches of fate stripped from the primary fate of Xu Qing. It was also possible to say that they were possibilities that had eventually decayed away in his life! Every single possibility was an image.
From within the hall, Zi Qing softly said, “Time fundamentally doesn’t exist. It’s a fabrication of living beings as they struggle to calculate their own decay, and that of all other things. Because of that, your space-time is flawed. As for me, I don’t define myself by means of space-time.”
All of the images were very conflicting. In some, Xu Qing fought and killed other people. In other images, the Xu Qing in those exact linchpins of fate just sat in meditation. In certain images, he would die at certain points in fate, while in other images, he gained good fortune and destined opportunities. In yet other images, his friends and loved ones weren’t present, while in others he was surrounded by comfort. This was the overlapping of fates!
As a result, Xu Qing was full of contradictory fates. The intersection of fates caused Xu Qing’s surroundings to look like they were shattering. Within that shattering, his true form blurred as if it were about to be erased from existence. Every time he moved forward, the shattered surroundings would fill with unending transparent afterimages. Those afterimages were new possibilities within fate.
There was no end. It was as if he was experiencing an unending amount of lives, all of them different versions.
In this state, Xu Qing’s every move, even his heartbeat, created a storm of possibilities and probabilities, which in turn made fate very unstable. At any moment, other fates could take over. It was hard to maintain control!
The main fate and the subsidiary branches were in complete chaos. This was a conflict between the true self and usurper selves.
However, a calm voice then echoed out into the chaos and conflict.
“I’ve experienced something similar to this before. My cultivation does not take place in only one space or time. The canon and statute I gained enlightenment of… is that of unification…. Unify! Unify time, unify space, unify space-time, unify parallels, unify… fate!”
As his voice rang out, the increasingly illusory version of himself lifted his right hand. A will of canon and statute exploded from his hand, turning into threads of unification that stabbed through everything around him. They pierced the shards of fate, stringing them all together in an instant….
Then Xu Qing viciously clenched his right hand into a fist. All of the fragments of fate rumbled, and the images within them transformed to become exactly the same as the current version of himself! Then, all the images swept toward Xu Qing and superimposed with him.
Because all of those images looked exactly like him, they became like projections that quickly fused together. Xu Qing had previously looked blurry, but then all of the outlines combined and became corporeal. In the end, all the images disappeared, and Xu Qing stood there as true and real as ever!
Then he spoke.
“Reduce!”
Instantly, the surroundings rapidly transformed! Heaven and earth filled with loud rumbling sounds, all while the area around Xu Qing became like an ink painting! Xu Qing was in the middle of the painting, engulfed by rapidly expanding canon and statute. Everything was being affected!
The imperial palace, the imperial capital, the Heaveneater Region… all of it was pushed away as Xu Qing grew more true and real! The concept of height was stripped away, making everything flat. All things became like an ink painting. This was… ontological reduction!
Even the hall in the imperial palace, as well as the cold-faced Zi Qing on the outside were affected. All things became part of the image!
Only Xu Qing remained in full color, standing on top of the ink painting! He lifted his right foot, which overtook the dome of heaven. And then he stepped down onto the grand hall of the imperial palace in the painting. This was another manifestation of Xu Qing’s canon and statute.
However, as Xu Qing’s foot descended, the version of Zi Qing outside of the hall in the painting looked up into the shadowy dome of heaven.
Voice cold, he said, “Back in Peerless City, the first time you died, your predestined age was seven!”
As he spoke the words, the image of Xu Qing as a child back in Peerless City appeared in his eyes. Then the image shattered, materializing into seven silver threads. Each thread represented a year of age.
“In Seven Blood Eyes, the instances of good fortune and blessing you experienced numbered five!”
As his second statement rang out, Zi Qing’s right eye filled with an image of Xu Qing in Seven Blood Eyes. Then they emerged in the form of five golden butterflies. Each butterfly represented one destined opportunity!
“When the empress changed her fate, you died a second time, marked by two tribulations!”
As this third statement was uttered, an image formed in the air in front of Zi Qing. It was the scene in the imperial capital of humankind when Xu Qing died. In his moment of death, two black chains flew out!
“Today, the silver threads of your predestined age meet the golden butterflies and the chains of tribulation. Together, they become your butterfly of fate….”
The images combined. The gold, silver, and black merged, turning into a single three-colored butterfly! The moment the butterfly appeared, the entire ink painting swelled and rippled! As the three-colored butterfly flapped its wings, color spread out from it into the ink painting! As a result, the ink painting was no longer simplistic, but actually contained life force! Then the butterfly shot up toward the dome of heaven!
Where it passed, the painting melted. Higher and higher it flew, eventually breaking out of the world of the painting. It shot out into the open. As soon as that happened, the entire ink painting started to collapse.
The three-colored butterfly split into innumerable versions that spread out in a sky-obfuscating, land-enshrouding mass that rushed toward Xu Qing!
Xu Qing could sense that every single one was deeply connected to him. It was as if… they were all him!
When the ink painting collapsed, the Zi Qing in the hall said, “Let your butterfly of fate become your cage of fate! Be imprisoned!”
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