My Bottle Cosmos

Chapter 788

Sylvie and Sylph also began to argue, gradually extending to their own cultivation techniques. Besides fighting, discussing philosophy is the essence of proving one's beliefs.

In the current cosmos, there are two types of battles: either through action or through words.

Both are ways to validate one's own path.

However, they still exercise restraint deliberately, avoiding those exaggerated arguments among the Ancient Gods at the marketplace, where the weak are not worthy of having a mother.

Li Qing appeared relaxed, attending to their emotions, earnestly accompanying them on another journey through All Heavens and Myriads of Realms. After a few years, Li Qing sat in the back seat, quietly turning on the camera.

"Time to take a look at this era."

Information about some of the evidently stronger entities flowed into his mind, facilitating his understanding of the era's power dynamics.

The top forces among Ancient Gods across the Great Celestial Realms, Ancient Holy Land.

Influential Ancient Gods from the Origin World, Abyssal Nobles from the Abyss World, Nether Gods in the Netherworld...

Streams of information kept surging in.

Li Qing's capability to process information is exceptionally strong now, being a Life Ancient God, which is far superior to the other two Level 1 Gods.

However, while he could probe into the forces within the current cosmos.

Certain hidden entities, if they remain inconspicuous and do not make a name for themselves in the cosmos, Li Qing cannot perceive them.

Those who hide their strength and pose as ordinary weaklings—Li Qing's camera isn't omnipotent.

After all, now, Crystal Wall and Crystal Core are his subordinates; the common beings remain free entities.

"I wonder if there have been any newer figures like Star Lords or Light Ancient Gods appearing in hidden shadows?" Li Qing pondered inwardly.

It's not the thief that one fears, but the thief who keeps eyeing you.

Beings of sage caliber in the cosmos can surely want to emerge again should a few arise.

He thought for a moment, deciding not to worry unnecessarily as he hides well, with clones of the Light Ancient God taking blows on the surface.

His consciousness silently fell upon Atabia.

Pick the softest persimmons to squeeze!

Since Li Qing couldn't identify other potentially existent sages in the cosmos, it's natural to focus first on the secretly burrowed Atabia, to check his background.

At this moment.

This Emperor Atabia was still clad in research attire, conducting experiments and quietly exploring in a tower.

Periodically, Atabia would venture out to reincarnate once, resetting his lifespan, then return. The research days were monotonous, yet he enjoyed living in pursuit of truth.

Li Qing meticulously studied his current physical structure, suddenly showing a hint of joy.

"The Time Diagram is almost complete.... This guy has indeed been hiding deep, enduring solitude through successive historical eras, finally about to bloom brightly."

Atabia's Life Map is now 99% complete, with just the final bit needed to break through the bottleneck.

However, this bottleneck isn't reachable through bitter cultivation; it relies on chance!

How did the previous Star Lord break through?

A life-and-death battle.

That passionate young hero sacrificed his adoptive father, the Thunderbolt Ancient God, in pain, and after exhausting a time travel opportunity, he erased all hope in despair, fulfilling his destiny as the true Life Ancient God.

Only then did he comprehend the essence of life.

This was the opportunity!

And Li Qing released the Life Map for others to study, precisely for this reason.

He couldn't personally take the blows to understand the fundamental essence of life through survival between life and death, hence allowing others to realize it and then retrieve the insights.

And now Atabia also needs an opportunity.

A great battle could completely open the last door.

"I didn't mistake him." Li Qing drew a deep breath, feeling a satisfaction akin to nurturing a seedling one has cared for meticulously, finally growing into a towering tree.

Having raised such a diligent lad for so long, he was finally ready to step out to show off and then take the beating.

For a moment, he suddenly felt that if he had kept the Star Lord back then, it might have been another main force.

But that if was inevitably not meant to be.

Li Qing had to debate with him; two major Life Ancient Gods needed communication, while he later... knew too much.

He absolutely had to die!

To completely erase any concept of his existence, it was impossible to imprison him and have the Star Lord secretly research, helping to keep pushing the era forward.

That's too risky; with time, space, and perfecting the future, any almighty authority is possible.

For example, the Time Ancient God, tracing historical information, extracting, fishing out the Star Lord from the river of history, glimpsing his anomaly, the silhouette of a certain puppet master.

Leaving such a ticking time bomb, ready to be dug up by young heroes from history, won't it lead them to overthrow him as the villain?

Such a foolish act would only occur if he were afflicted by the protagonist. Otherwise, extermination is the only option.

Soon, Li Qing's gaze was directed at the Emperor.

The Emperor was asleep in a blood-colored coffin within a high-dimensional void.

The coffin was not originally blood-colored; it simply kept bleeding, gradually converting to blood-red.

Moreover, the fresh blood kept overflowing, forming the Blood Race's ultra-ancient taboo Holy Land: Sea of Blood, he vomited blood to nurture the entire cosmos's Blood Race.

"This guy, is he also on the verge?"

Li Qing showed surprise, and upon careful study, he discovered the reason.

It's Atabia helping him, accelerating time to passively bear bodily adaptation and evolution.

Although the Emperor seems asleep, in reality, this Martial Arts Celestial Emperor fights with his body every minute, competing in techniques, where a slight misstep may force him to be struck dead by the Space Fragment.

However, he's only completed more than 80%, probably not enough.

After watching for a while, Li Qing silently withdrew his gaze.

"The war is about to begin."

....

"The war is about to begin."

Five million years later in the Netherworld, atop massive reincarnation, Life Empress Elis opened her eyes.

"Our sides keep preparing for war, accumulating troops, in the Burial Ground inside the Gate of the Underworld, Demon Cultivators clash with the Righteous, and he collides between the two worlds on the Rainbow Bridge...."

It's almost ready.

Development has reached the limit; internal conflicts are intensifying, and these tensions must be vented externally to maintain internal stability within factions.

Not only she felt it, but the leaders of great Holy Lands and factions in the cosmos also silently sensed the impending storm.

Lately, preparations for war have been ongoing, readying for the imminent calamity.

Currently various pills, godheads, prices are slowly rising, serving as hidden indicators—forewarnings of the approaching war.

"Yes, it's about to happen."

Beside her, the ferryman of the Netherworld, Professor Wales, sighed deeply, his gaze filled with the vicissitudes of life, "We've genuinely passed through five million years, and now a great calamity is near."

"Five million years, huh?" Elis chuckled softly, gazing towards Heaven's Ancient Tree, "For them, it's merely a blink of thirty-odd years, so short."

Back then, the battles of Minshan, Divine King Xu Li, these entities happened once every few decades.

At the time in the Supreme Realm above the heavens, people didn't feel it far away, but now having truly descended to the Lower Realm and being grazed in the Lower City District, they clearly feel how long a term thirty-plus years from All Heavens and Myriads of Realms is!

For the common people, it's a terrifying era across the way.

If it weren't for their longevity now...

They would've died of old age long ago!

And hence, Elis yearned even more to return to Heaven.

The disparity buried underground for millions of years fills her heart with an intense longing for the days back then.

It isn't that her reincarnations in the Netherworld lack the qualification to change the flow rate; it's because it cannot be changed—reincarnation, amidst All Heavens and Myriads of Realms, worldly rebirth must synchronize with a five-thousand-day pace.

"But reincarnation cannot accelerate; there's no rule preventing me, as the Emperor of Reincarnation, from going to reside in the two Supreme Realms since this time is too long, and I do not rest well in sleep."

Elis's eyes flashed with fire, she said, "I want to unite the Three Realms, become the Lord of the Three Realms naturally and ascend."