Exploring Immortality Cultivation

"Now, cast a defensive spell to protect yourself, Old Wang!"

WTF!?

Wang Qi was instantly defeated by Ai Changyuan's shameless antics. However, he quickly burst into laughter.

This kind of thing... just sounds so interesting!

The "move" that Ai Changyuan was about to use seemed to be centered around the mana that he had injected into Wang Qi's body. Wang Qi could have used the Heavenly Entropy Technique to burn away the mana Ai Changyuan had forced into his body, but he was just too curious about the power of Ai's "move."

A trump card that even that shameless guy has to use must be really interesting!

Wang Qi felt the space around him warping. Heaven and Earth began to twist before his eyes, becoming spherical. Ai Changyuan's proportions were all wrong, turning into a "giant" with an oversized head—Wang Qi felt like he was observing the world through several lenses.

The movement of light was being affected by space.

Wang Qi cranked up his Life Flame to its maximum. White Flame wrapped around him like armor, with Spiritual Energy automatically gravitating toward Negative Entropy. He was like a natural vortex, endlessly swirling in Spiritual Energy. As long as Ai Changyuan didn't blow his brains out, annihilate his soul, or cause him to lose seventy percent of his body, he was certain not to die. Then, represented by a dark red mana sphere, the Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm hovered around him.

Positive Entropy and Negative Entropy, creation and destruction, these two diametrically opposed forces constituted an integrated offensive and defensive defense.

Ai Changyuan extended his finger, lightly tracing through the space as if he were an Ancient God sketching out a galaxy. Wang Qi saw an unbelievable sight. Although Ai Changyuan's body didn't move, his hand just swept across space, which according to human anatomy, should have been a curve centered on himself. But Wang Qi unmistakably saw Ai's finger orbit around him.

And then, Wang Qi felt the Sun expand significantly in an instant.

"What the hell," Wang Qi shielded his eyes with his hand. The light was terrifyingly intense—just looking outside made everything in front of him turn white.

Was Ai Changyuan's long-prepared move related to optics? Wasn't one of the Yuanli Masters also one of the founders of the Light Hall?

No, that can't be right... Optics is just a branch of electromagnetism. If Ai Changyuan was stewing over an optical big move, he would definitely also be practicing the Heavenly Song. But I can't feel a hint of Heavenly Song Qi Intent in him. And...

Wang Qi sniffed the air, immediately feeling a burning sensation in his nose and a bit of itchiness. The air was now filled with True Power of the Great Sun—a type of Spiritual Energy that had accompanied sunlight to this planet, generated by stellar fusion and spreading with electromagnetic waves.

The concentration of the True Power of the Great Sun surged suddenly, which was not normal. Unless the Sun had just experienced a dramatic change and was emitting a large-scale solar flare toward Shenzhou's region—but everyone knew that scenario was nearly impossible.

But Wang Qi had no more time to think. He heard the violent flow of air, like Sword Qi but different. Ai Changyuan's attack was coming.

It wasn't manipulating the air with mana. It was Tidal Force that made the air flow on its own. This was a "blade" formed by Gravity Waves. When it passed through non-fluids, the unbalanced gravity would disrupt macro structures, causing objects to be torn apart by themselves.

"If it's just a single one…" Wang Qi moved his arm, positioning the power of Silent Annihilation Sky Burning Palm exactly in the path the Gravity Wave Blade would have to follow. But at that moment, Wang Qi's expression changed. The iron-slicing Gravity Wave Blades swarmed toward him. They covered every direction, sealing off all of Wang Qi's movements.

"How is this possible?"

This can't be possible, right? If Gravity Wave Blades were so easy to create, Ai Changyuan wouldn't have needed to use the Sky Collapsing Palm just now!

...

In the eyes of the onlookers, the scene suddenly became mysterious. Just now, the aftermath of the two fighters' battle seemed to boil the seawater on a large scale, with the steam blocking everyone's view. They had originally refrained from using their Spiritual Sense to watch the fight, so as not to affect the battle, but as the duel progressed to this point, they couldn't hold back anymore and stretched their Spiritual Sense into the fray. They only felt a sudden change in space, and then Wang Qi disappeared, leaving just a dark sphere in front of Ai Changyuan.

Had Ai Changyuan used some spell to trap Wang Qi?

But Ai Changyuan's subsequent actions confounded everyone. He outstretched his arms, steadily building up strength and gathering Qi, integrating Gravity Waves and borrowing the power of the earth. Then he flung out a Qi Blade. He changed positions, again building up strength, and reshaped another Gravity Wave Blade. This process repeated countless times, with Ai constantly changing positions to create waves.

"Could it be... he's sealed Wang Qi, and Wang Qi is still resisting inside?" Huang Shiyun, relying on his rich "live-streaming" experience, barely came up with an explanation.

Bai Junjie sneered, "Wang Qi is not some Evil Demon; this is just a sparring session. If he's been sealed, he should automatically admit defeat."

"Perhaps... they are exchanging methods of sealing and breaking seals?"

"What were you just hitting?" Bai Junjie said, "And even if it's about sealing, Ai Changyuan should be continuously reinforcing the seal instead of attacking the inside of the seal."

Ai Changyuan's inexplicable manipulation of wave blades persisted for about half an hour.

Then, with a snap of his fingers, the dark sphere shattered like a soap bubble.

...

The onrushing Gravity Wave Blades were too fast, piercing through Wang Qi's body like bullets and leaving him riddled with holes. The Tidal Effect caused Wang Qi's blood to surge erratically, sometimes flowing powerfully or in reverse, leaving some organs suddenly deprived of oxygen, while others were suddenly engorged. Pain, nausea, dizziness, and a sense of suffocation all emerged simultaneously.

"Ugh..." Wang Qi vomited the dark blood mixed with his breakfast. Thanks to the Flame of Destiny, most of the cells at his wounds hadn't lost their vitality and would heal quickly. He felt darkness loom before his eyes, but it was because the sun had suddenly "dimmed."

No, not dimmed, but...

Wang Qi looked up at the sky and felt that the sun was much higher than "just now."

...To be precise, it was much higher compared to my personal time's "just now."

Wang Qi opened his mouth to ask, "Time? Did you accelerate the passage of time?"

"No, not quite," Wang Qi quickly dismissed his own suggestion, "If you used the 'Cave Heaven Comparison Ruler,' you wouldn't have been able to hit me just now at all. After our reference frames diverged, you would have to attack me at the speed of light for it to work, and although Gravity Waves themselves are at light speed, the blades you amassed don't propagate at light speed..."

"'Existence and Nonexistence Border,'" Ai Changyuan said. "This move I created is based on the 'Existence and Nonexistence Border.'"

"'Existence and Nonexistence Border'..." Wang Qi repeated the term.

On Earth, the "Existence and Nonexistence Border" is known as the "Event Horizon"—an absolute point of no return in space-time. It encircles the singularity of space-time—the Black Hole—and cloaks the ultimate secrets of the universe. Within the Event Horizon, any incident has no effect on anything outside of it.

If one Immortal were to push another into the Event Horizon, and the enterer, with sufficient strength to resist the Black Hole's gravity, were to radiate their information at superluminal speed, what would the two Immortals see?

Firstly, the Immortal outside the Event Horizon wouldn't notice anything happening to the one inside. Even if they cultivated for thousands or tens of thousands of years beside the Black Hole, they wouldn't see the other falling into the singularity. They would never see it because, in their eyes, that event would never occur.

However, the Immortal inside the Event Horizon would instantaneously experience all the light, gamma rays, X-rays, etc., generated from the moment of their descent to the universe's destruction—at once. Since they can resist the pull of the Black Hole, naturally, they can endure such an attack. They would witness the death of the universe within the Event Horizon—in an instant.

For those outside the Event Horizon, everything inside lasts an eternity. But for those inside, everything outside is but a moment.

The Existence and Nonexistence Border, a dividing line between "Nameless" and "Named," "Void" and "Reality."

"Of course, this is the ultimate form of the spell," Ai Changyuan explained. "The Gravity Field I created has a time flow discrepancy of only about a hundredfold inside and out, and it lasts only for a moment."

Wang Qi clapped his hands: "I see! When your spell reaches its peak, it becomes the 'Ability to Control Eternity and Moments,' doesn't it!"

"'Ability to Control Eternity and Moments'..." Ai Changyuan savored the phrase: "Such a strange way of putting it... but really cool! Brother Wang, you truly have a talent for naming!"

Wang Qi excitedly grasped Ai Changyuan's hand: "This is the first time someone has ever said that to me!"

"But come to think of it, this must be a spell related to the Cave Heaven Comparison Ruler, right?" Wang Qi furrowed his brow again: "The key to the Cave Heaven Comparison Ruler still lies in Mana. You're only at Late-Stage Foundation Establishment, so how did you pull it off?"

"Most of the power came from the Shenzhou Land itself," Ai Changyuan said, pointing at the ground. Wang Qi was stunned to discover that the sea had risen unnoticed, almost level with the harbor's docks.

"Today was clearly a neap tide, right...?"

"The tide will recede soon."

Wang Qi pondered: "I see, it's a gravity model... An advanced military version of Wanxiang Heavenly Attraction based on the cutting-edge gravity model. Speaking of which, the Immortal Alliance's research on gravity is really profound."

Profound to an abnormal degree. In Wang Qi's opinion, Shenzhou's gravitational model under the framework of General Relativity had already surpassed Earth's at the time he left. Conversely, Shenzhou had made virtually no progress in quantum gravity models.

Ai Changyuan spoke softly, "The Immortal Alliance has hidden many technologies. It's strange; their data on Heavenly Phenomena is far more detailed than it should be. I can't imagine how they observed this... to the extent that it seems as if Xuanxing Temple was established millions of years ago and then used Modern methods to observe the Heavenly Phenomena. Many of the phenomena they have recorded shouldn't have been observable from this planet, or they would have occurred millions of years ago..."

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