The Boundless Sea.
"What a magnificent depiction of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils..."
Fang Ming returned to the Boundless Sea from the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.
However, in the inner world he had opened within his Chaos Bead, mirroring the principles of the universe, the trillions of worlds of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils still existed.
Fang Ming had, in essence, copied and pasted trillions of parallel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils worlds.
At this moment, within the Boundless Sea, Fang Ming casually placed a Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world into a world within a wave of the Boundless Sea.
He wondered what connections the martial artists of the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world, their solar system, would forge with the cultivators of the original world within that wave.
In Fang Ming's eyes, the world within that wave paled in comparison to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, or even the world of Shrouding the Heavens. It was merely a world with the volume of tens of thousands of solar systems!
The strongest cultivators within it were only equivalent to the fourth-tier Saint realm cultivators of Shrouding the Heavens, not even reaching the fifth-tier Saint King realm.
In the martial arts world, while cultivators of the Houtian and Xiantian realms were common, those who reached the Grandmaster realm possessed a mental state far surpassing that of cultivators in the Shrouding the Heavens system at the same level.
With a powerful mental state and formidable strength, what kind of optimized fusion would the cultivation systems undergo when the martial arts world's system collided with the fantasy-oriented system?
Fang Ming did not know.
For, within the Boundless Sea, it was impossible to see through the past and future of a world, no matter how small or weak it was.
The great power of karma, the river of time, covered even the realm above the Heavens.
The Immortal Emperors of the Heavens, and that Lord of Black Blood, even in their weakened fan-fiction versions, were beyond Fang Ming's current ability to contend with.
They could not see through everything.
Fang Ming, naturally, could not either.
"The river of time in the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world was originally independent, two separate rivers of time unrelated to the Perfect World."
"But when I placed the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world in the Boundless Sea, the immense power from the source of the river of time above the Heavens instantly overwhelmed the river of time of the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world, turning it into a mere tributary of the source of the river of time above the Heavens."
"The preciousness of the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world's river of time lay in its independence. Now that it has been absorbed as a branch by the river of time above the Heavens, it has lost all its value," Fang Ming mused.
The river of time in the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world was, in fact, immeasurable in value to cultivators of the Shrouding the Heavens universe.
Among the Nine Secrets, there was the secret of 'Xing' (行), which involved the mysteries of time.
This mystery had little effect in the Shrouding the Heavens universe, or even in the Boundless Sea.
However, if a cultivator from the Shrouding the Heavens universe, capable of mastering the secret of 'Xing' and possessing the cultivation of a third-tier Dao-Slaying King, were to descend into the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world.
They would experience a sense of past, present, and future being omnipresent, occupying the source and end of the timeline.
On a smaller scale, although the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world contained no longevity substances, being able to transcend the limitations of the river of time would naturally grant eternal life.
On a larger scale, this comprehension of the omnipresence of past, present, and future would undoubtedly be of great help to a third-tier Dao-Slaying King.
By transcending the river of time and becoming a being that permeated it, it would be easier for this third-tier Dao-Slaying King to break through to the fourth-tier Saint, the fifth-tier Saint King, and even the Great Emperor realm.
—Provided there was sufficient energy.
The preciousness of such a river of time was evident.
Yet, Fang Ming, by placing it in the Boundless Sea, had allowed the source of the river of time above the Heavens to tolerate the existence of another river of time.
Clearly, the river of time of the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world was mere dregs to the river of time above the Heavens.
Thus, it was instantly invaded by the power of that river of time, absorbed into it, becoming a small tributary of the river of time that spanned above the Heavens, no longer independent.
The river of time had become singular again, and consequently, the river of time of the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world held no value. Now, even an Immortal Emperor could not occupy the source and end of time, transcending time itself.
"A single river of time..."
"I should find Huang and see what differences exist between our cultivation systems..."
In the following period.
Fang Ming found Huang Tian Di.
The two first went to eliminate Hong Di and the World-Destroying Old Man.
Then they went to the Ultimate Ancient Land to observe the movements of the Corpse Immortal Emperor.
The situation was good.
Without a pure primordial spirit, this Corpse Immortal Emperor had fallen into eternal slumber and could no longer awaken to fight.
Although Fang Ming and Huang Tian Di could not completely destroy him, the Corpse Immortal Emperor was also in a deep sleep. Since he could never wake up, there was no need to destroy him.
Fang Ming took one last look at the entrance leading to the realm above the Heavens, at the various bloodstains floating in the boundless sea of blood, and then moved on.
Fang Ming thought, "Lord of Black Blood? Suspected to be a half-step beyond Immortal Emperor?"
"The realm above the Heavens in this fan-fiction world should be different from the realm above the Heavens in the Sanctuary of Sacred Ruins."
Fang Ming strongly suspected that in this fan-fiction Perfect World he had arrived in, the fan-fiction author, when writing this book, might have only finished Perfect World and had not yet written Sanctuary of Sacred Ruins.
This led to completely different settings for the realm above the Heavens.
If Fang Ming recalled correctly, in the plot of Sanctuary of Sacred Ruins, the Lord of Black Blood was a High Priest, a Fierce Tiger-class Immortal Emperor.
However, after Fang Ming had a conversation with the primordial spirit of an Immortal Emperor, he discovered that in his memory of having been to the realm above the Heavens, there were no descriptions of Cat-class, Tiger-class, or Tyrannosaurus-class Immortal Emperors.
An Immortal Emperor was simply an Immortal Emperor.
Furthermore, in this fan-fiction Perfect World, the realm above the Heavens was merely the "Upper Realm" of the Boundless Sea, with no concept of bizarre races.
The Lord of Black Blood was merely an Immortal Emperor of the Heavens, not a supreme being of all heavens from the bizarre races.
The settings conflicted with Sanctuary of Sacred Ruins.
Therefore, it could be basically concluded that when the fan-fiction author wrote about the realm above the Heavens, the book Sanctuary of Sacred Ruins had not yet been written.
Naturally, the settings of the two works differed.
Fang Ming was very curious about why two worlds with different settings would lead to such a change, and what differences in cultivation techniques were involved.
Thus, after sweeping away the source of darkness and the dark turmoil, and attending the banquet hosted by Huang Tian Di in the Immortal Realm,
Fang Ming found a secluded spot and asked Huang Tian Di about the differences between the two.
Huang Tian Di, seeing Fang Ming, smiled and said, "Fang Ming, I've also figured things out these past few days. The Boundless Sea you came from should be a parallel world of this Boundless Sea, right?"
"Because it's a parallel world, it's so similar and alike."
"Because it's a parallel world, it has led to the difference in realms."
Huang Tian Di felt he had figured it out and said, "Above the Heavens, in that land where reincarnation is difficult to overturn, there are also parallel worlds, so are there two realms above the Heavens as well?"