Bamboo Forest.

Emerald green leaves drifted diagonally, like rain and catkins.

Tian Qingzi, holding a horsetail whisk, spun like a top, flashing between the seven people like lightning.

Having reached the Juling state, everyone reverted to the most primitive form of close combat.

Various weapons, gleaming with light mist, represented the countless concept modification abilities mastered by the Quanlis.

A mere touch would instantly modify one's own concept, turning them into a solidified concept corresponding entity mastered by the Quanlis.

Only concepts could fight against concepts. The result of different consciousnesses twisting the same concept of existence was that the Quanlis' fight once again became a contest of consciousness.

Clang!

Tian Qingzi flicked his horsetail whisk, deflecting the first generation's golden greatsword. He stepped forward, just managing to avoid the slicing of two blades from behind.

The eight spider arms behind him suddenly opened, blocking the swords, spears, and other weapons attacking from other directions.

All the weapons pressed against him, forming a simple cage.

The light mist on the weapons rapidly mixed, attempting to forcibly imprison and suppress him, enveloping him in a large sphere.

But it was to no avail.

The phantom of a golden tree flashed behind Tian Qingzi.

The giant tree emitted golden waves of energy, violently blasting everything around it.

Boom!

The seven individuals were simultaneously forced apart and retreated in disarray.

'Something's not right! His power, his consciousness, suddenly became stronger!!?' Yongling's gaze shifted beneath his mask.

'Indeed, something's not right. I have fixed data on Tian Qingzi's power. It's impossible for him to reach this level! Even the Primordial Tree of Creation... The burst just now was at least ten times stronger than his previous self!' Ying Huang also frowned, realizing something was amiss.

It wasn't just him; the other five Quanlis all wore solemn expressions, sensing that something was wrong.

The light mist on everyone's bodies was still present, but the explosion just now had consumed a significant portion of it.

"How laughable," Tian Qingzi said calmly. "Did you really think we wouldn't anticipate the hiding of the final piece of the puzzle?"

The horsetail whisk in his hand shone with a dazzling golden light, illuminating the surrounding bamboo forest in a golden hue.

"That's not right!" Yongling suddenly exclaimed. "Your power... it should have only suddenly increased!"

He carefully recalled the details of the changes just now.

Suddenly, he dashed forward.

His figure instantly appeared behind Tian Qingzi, his greatsword slashing out a slanting golden line.

'Flower Utterance: Blade of Predestination!'

The solidified concept related to karma was used in an instant, applied to his golden sword. At the same time, all of his consciousness was poured into this one strike, so that this solidified concept could resist any distortion and achieve its ultimate goal.

Boom!

The golden mist on the golden sword suddenly surged, like a brilliant sun-god sword, carrying a illusory colored halo, and countless conceptual solidified consciousnesses, striking straight towards Tian Qingzi.

Unable to be twisted!

Unable to be changed!

Unable to be stopped!

The golden greatsword, carrying the unique conceptual light mist, struck down fiercely.

Clang!!!

But, at the last moment, just as it was about to strike Tian Qingzi's nose.

A hand instantly appeared directly in front of the blade.

The palm clenched, grabbing the blade.

The bamboo forest instantly fell silent.

The remaining six people also took the opportunity to teleport simultaneously, appearing in the six cardinal directions around Tian Qingzi, attacking at the same time.

But all of their attacks were, at that moment, blasted away by the huge shockwave created by the collision between the golden greatsword and the palm.

Buzz!!!

A golden spherical ripple, centered on Tian Qingzi and Yongling, instantly erupted.

The ground was destroyed, the bamboo forest collapsed, the sky shattered, and everything was once again transformed into the dark, boundless, unknown void of the Black Sea.

But in an instant, a flash of green light, and everything around them returned to the lush green bamboo forest scene.

Tian Qingzi stood in the center, holding the sword with one hand, his palm unscathed.

He simply stared calmly at the other party.

"Useless."

Crack.

Cracks suddenly appeared on the golden blade in his palm.

"The difference between you and me is like a firefly to the starry river."

"Impossible!!?" Yongling's face showed an unbelievable expression.

Not only him, but the other six were also extremely shocked in their hearts.

Because at that instant, Tian Qingzi's power had climbed again, at least several times more than before!

At this point, the Quanlis were competing with nothing more than the final contest of consciousness.

But... what exactly was going on with this Tian Qingzi!!?

And even more exaggerated was that the consciousness fluctuations on Tian Qingzi's body were still increasing!

Boom!!

In an instant, the golden greatsword instantly collapsed, shattered, and turned into countless fragments scattering.

The concepts of permanence and indestructibility attached to it were also completely shattered under Tian Qingzi's forcible modification.

At that moment, the golden sword even completely lost the concept of sword and attack sharpness.

Directly transformed into countless harmless golden light spots, becoming mere scenery.

"Something's not right!! You are not Tian Qingzi at all!!?" Suddenly, the Origin Duke took a step back from the left, as if he had thought of something, his face changed drastically.

"I still have a copy of Tian Qingzi's Liancheng Association consciousness relic here, as a symbol of the chairman's identity!! But just now!! The consciousness attribute is completely wrong!!"

The Duke's face was extremely ugly, as if he had thought of something indescribable.

Whoosh!

A circle of breeze, centered on Tian Qingzi, naturally spread to the surroundings.

He stood in place, his white eyebrows lowered. Allowing the surrounding people's suspicious gazes to fall on him.

"Who said I'm not Tian Qingzi?" Tian Qingzi released his hand, letting the seven people retreat and distance themselves.

He casually put down the horsetail whisk, letting it shatter, turning into countless golden light spots.

"Or rather, why do you think that Tian Qingzi is not me?"

As soon as these words came out, the seven people, including Yongling, were shocked in their hearts.

"Could it be!?" The colored lights in Yongling's eyes flashed rapidly, completely unable to hide the shock in his heart.

Tian Qingzi did not speak again, but his face was raised, and his face flashed instantly, transforming into the face of Tian Hong Daoren.

Another flash, transforming into Tian Yan Daoren.

Then there was Tian Xuanzi, who should have died at the hands of Yongling's main body, and finally Tian Qingzi himself.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you." A relaxed smile appeared on his face.

"In Tianju Pavilion, the Four Old Men of Caitian have always been a single entity with four faces. I am Tian Qingzi, and also Tian Hong, Tian Yan, and Tian Xuan."

"That's not right!! I have traveled with Tian Xuanzi for thousands of years!! He can't be you!" The leader of the Ancient God Palace suddenly dispersed the disguise on her body, revealing a green-skinned woman with four eyes, she said incredulously.

"Twenty thousand years ago in the Black Sea Calendar, he was indeed not me. But now, we cultivate the Unique Heaven as one entity with four faces. Every time one disappears, the total amount and strength of the remaining people's consciousness increases tenfold."

Tian Qingzi opened his arms.

"Now... at the moment of Tian Xuan's death, my power is already a thousand times its original amount!!"

Buzz!!

In an instant, the Primordial Golden Tree of Creation, a huge black hole, a giant Buddha with a face full of eyes, and an incomparably huge azure eyeball appeared behind him.

The four phantoms represent the four main bodies of the Four Old Men of Caitian.

They twisted and merged with each other, with the Primordial Golden Tree as the foundation, the black hole turned into countless leaves on the tree, the giant Buddha became a bas-relief on the front of the ancient tree, and the eyeball hung in the canopy, turning into countless fruits.

The four old men's main bodies were completely integrated, turning into an incomparably strange form, a terrifying behemoth with a sacred, ancient, and indescribable aura.

"My dream, the beginning of all things!"

Tian Qingzi's outstretched arms suddenly lit up with dazzling golden light.

In an instant, countless golden ribbons flew out from the golden light, and countless moving scenes on the ribbons changed rapidly.

On them, there were flowers, birds, insects, fish, seas, mountains, rivers, stars, moon, sun, and even galaxies.

Everything was changing rapidly, as if the time inside was evolving rapidly in units of thousands, ten thousand, millions, and billions of years.

The golden ribbons instantly appeared beside the seven people, and the intense paralysis made it impossible for them to make any useful resistance.

That kind of paralysis was not physical, but a complete paralysis of thinking and consciousness.

Under the huge pressure of consciousness, their will was crushed.

As a result, the state of change of their bodies was controlled and stiffened.

And change of state, in ordinary things, also has another synonym.

That is—time.

At that moment, the personal time of their bodies was forcibly stopped for an instant by the huge difference in consciousness.

This was a defeat in the conceptual modification.

"I awake, the end of all things."

Tian Qingzi lowered his hands.

All the ribbons that flew out from the golden light became translucent at the same time at this moment.

And along with it, the remaining seven Quanlis who were bound and surrounded by them, also began to become translucent at this moment, as if they were about to completely dissipate and decompose with the ribbons.

"Disappear, this world, only needs one uniqueness."

Tian Qingzi's eyes were deep, watching the seven people, watching them rapidly turn transparent, about to completely disappear, and lose their self-will.

"All things are bubbles, like dreams, illusions, shadows, and mist."

Suddenly.

Deep in the bamboo forest, in the direction to the right of Tian Qingzi.

A tall figure shrouded in black mist slowly walked out of the darkness.

A clear and enchanting female voice, accompanied by a breeze, blew into Tian Qingzi's ears.

He slightly turned his head and stared in that direction.

"I've been waiting for a long time."

The female figure walked to a position more than ten figures away from several people and stopped.

Her body still did not show anything, and it was still a dark shadow.

"Life is emptiness, and death is also emptiness."

The woman pointed her finger at random.

Suddenly, the bodies of the seven people who were controlled and were becoming transparent rapidly recovered and solidified.

The golden ribbons silently broke, shattered, and disappeared.

"Go!" Yongling instantly transmitted the message in the first moment of breaking free.

"That's... the Mother of Emptiness!! You!?" Ying Huang couldn't understand why the Mother of Emptiness shouldn't help them no matter what the reason was!

"The Mother of Emptiness has no will of her own! She just wanted to turn the most conspicuous things into nothingness, to achieve the unique void! Now Tian Qingzi is the biggest threat in her eyes, if we don't run, we will die afterwards!" Yongling said coldly.

The other six people's minds were shocked, and they instantly understood. Immediately, everyone turned into golden light and fled this area at high speed.

(End of this chapter)