That flower seemed to be showing an anomaly.

After absorbing a portion of the Great Elephant Lord's power, it began to change. The mist of time poured into it, and the fire formed from the collective wishes of countless lives, accumulated over countless eons, suddenly blazed forth.

The flower began to emit light, dazzling and piercing, to the point that it severed all old timelines. Even those plunged into madness were illuminated by this light, driving the already insane Jiajing Emperor even further into delirium.

He, too, began to melt. Merely being illuminated by the flower's radiance for a moment caused him to lose a portion of his *xiang* (form/phenomena). His aura and realm plummeted from the Heavenly Dao True Realm. Some of the dissipated *xiang* was absorbed by the flower, while another portion scattered into the old timeline, where it began to generate the primal yin-yang phenomena.

This scene was witnessed by Ji Xiang, greatly shaking him.

"Even the old timeline, where nothing should exist, can be touched by this flower. It's drawing upon *xiang*, refining everything into its petals."

Ji Xiang manifested the form of the Celestial Worthy, with the Wushi Wuzhong (Without Beginning, Without End) Celestial Worthy replacing Ji Xiang's appearance, severing the flower's ability to absorb. However, the *fangshi* (Taoist alchemists) such as Dongfang Shuo suddenly shouted, filled with shock and endless laughter:

"Ah! This is it! The Undying Immortal Flower is being refined!"

"It's about to be completed!"

He seemed to have gone mad, further bewitched by the flower, and flew towards it like a moth to a flame. At the same time, all the *fangshi* in the entire Divine Mystery World became frenzied. They sacrificed everything, offering themselves as fuel and materials, flying towards the flower.

One by one, powerful or weak, the *fangshi* threw themselves into the flower, refined by time and wishes, vanishing into smoke, leaving no trace of their existence in the world.

Then, Ji Xiang saw a sealed shadow within the flower.

Ji Xiang saw their *yuanfa* (affinity) scattered. They seemed to have become "one with" that world, with that flower.

The Undying Immortal Flower, named Hunran (Wholeness).

The flower created the world, the world lured the cultivators, the cultivators fell into the world and became *fangshi*, living for the flower, never dying as long as the flower exists.

This, too, was a kind of longevity.

No matter how many old timelines passed, the *fangshi* would never cease, until someone could obliterate that flower.

"Even the Great Elephant Lord can be assimilated, becoming one with it, then forgetting his own past, becoming the most powerful *fangshi*. This is the result of those who are not strong enough being influenced by the flower's power after seeing it."

"The Great Elephant Lord, who manipulated the *xiang* of a world, evolving countless phenomena, ultimately lost to a flower."

"To not be influenced by the *xiang* of the world, merely manipulating a single great *xiang* is far from enough. One needs a second, a third, even countless ones. Not only tangible *xiang*, but intangible *xiang* must also be manipulated, thus encompassing both the Great Xiang Realm and the No Xiang Realm."

"Is there truly such an existence in the world who can achieve this?"

Within that shadow, the scenery of an unknown place was illuminated.

Countless flowers bloomed in a flower garden. Each flower possessed unimaginable power, containing rules unseen in the world. Even the Dao was evolved from the flowers, for such flowers were the root of the Dao.

Before the extreme of Dao.

That flower wanted to contain everything, but the world of Wushi Wuzhong (Without Beginning, Without End) had no beginning or end, being incompatible with Hunran (Wholeness). The flower was stimulated and intensified its light, but was constantly being contained by Ji Xiang, like endless seawater pouring into a bottomless abyss, with no hope of ever filling it.

Affected by these rays of light, Ji Xiang's consciousness also began to drift.

In the darkness, a voice resounded. After the fusion of the boundless light of Hunran (Wholeness) and the realm of Wushi Wuzhong (Without Beginning, Without End), a phantom seemed to appear at the end of Wuzhong (Without End).

"Great Comprehension of the Ultimate Principle of All Phenomena!"

This was like a thunderous shout. That phantom was none other than the Wushi Wuzhong (Without Beginning, Without End) Celestial Worthy himself. Because of constantly resisting and absorbing the divine power contained within this flower, the Celestial Worthy form and Ji Xiang's own thoughts and heart were elevated to a new level.

This was an improvement achieved by borrowing the power of this flower!

He was not assimilated by it, but only a portion was assimilated. However, this portion of power still resided within the Wushi Wuzhong (Without Beginning, Without End) Celestial Worthy. Thus, the Wushi Wuzhong (Without Beginning, Without End) Celestial Worthy also obtained a power of thought and will similar to its own. This was not reflected in magical power, but in profound and mysterious matters. The Great Elephant Lord was ultimately completely different from realms below the Heavenly Dao True Realm. On the path of Primordial Beginning, he had already reached the starting point of the ultimate Dao, mastering his own *xiang*, and would never be easily changed by external phenomena!

After Wuzhong (Without End), the Celestial Worthy form of the Ultimate Principle of All Phenomena appeared, and before Wushi (Without Beginning), there appeared a dark and distant *xiang*.

That *xiang* appeared, suppressing all the light, causing the flower to be fiercely burned by the fire of wishes!

Within the world of Wushi Wuzhong (Without Beginning, Without End) evolved by Ji Xiang, the Xuan Xiang (Mysterious Phenomenon) reappeared!

From within the flower, a thought was transmitted. Something entrusted to it felt shocked at this moment:

"What does the *xiang* transform into after the subtle and mysterious *xiang* is seen?"

"Someone on that shore also grasps 'the Beginning of All Things'."

"Unfortunately, you have not fallen into the Realm of Delusion, driving you mad."

Behind the white gates of Heaven, accompanied by the flapping of wings, Christ coldly watched the severing of the old timeline, along with the destruction of all his faith in the human world. All followers and the development of doctrines needed to start anew, but he did not want to go to the new timeline.

He saw the Primordial Emperor lose his identity as Yuqing (Jade Purity) and sink into the unknown distant past. That past now no longer existed, but perhaps it did.

He also saw Mr. Gu devour everything, but unexpected things happened at the end of the old timeline. Ji Xiang's return surprised Christ, and that realm beyond the Heavenly Dao True Realm convinced him of one thing.

The world is incomplete; no one can self-evolve an independent *xiang*.

Someone must complete this part.

The heresy he pioneered was a way to break away from the evolution of *xiang*, incompatible with everything in the world. It relied on ancient cults and reorganized their doctrines, replacing the old with the new, transforming them completely. Gathering the power of all beings to worship him, collecting their *xiang* to piece together an ultimate Supreme Being, was still a viable path.

He only needed to surpass the four *xiang* within the Great *Xiang* to take a shortcut, breaking away from the past and the future, reaching the world outside the Great *Xiang* from a mysterious place, or going to other old timelines, becoming a residual *xiang* projected there, and merging with the *xiang* there, to create a new path.

"The gates of Heaven, and what is that?"

Like Buddha, Mahavairocana, and the Twelve Jade Purity, Christ entered a mysterious place. However, because he himself was the entire Divine Kingdom, and the entire Divine Kingdom was one with him, when he entered, the entire Divine Kingdom entered with him.

The Realm of Light.

In the doctrine, believers firmly believe that the beginning of life is a light, a light that was with God in the beginning. All things were made by God, and life was in him, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness does not receive it.

Christ left the Realm of Light and saw a special portal. He was sure that although he had never been to the Realm of Light, such a portal should not exist here.

This was a path, not a path wandering in various old timelines, but not a path to the Heaven of Heavens either!

Christ thought of the actions tried by the Zhaoming World. The Zhaoming World believed that this world was this shore, and beyond this shore there was another shore, a world of infinite light. Therefore, based on that concept, all the great Confucian powers of all dynasties simultaneously refined the Zhaoming World.

And it did achieve the power to separate the other shore from this shore, so that even Mr. Gu could not easily cross it, and had to look for the flaws in the Zhaoming World.

Buddhism believes that those who have attained Buddhist principles have reached the other shore, which is the flood of cause and effect, the origin of affinity.

"Is there an even greater other shore outside of the world or the Heaven of Heavens?"

Christ was greatly shaken, and suddenly a voice sounded behind him.

"The Realm of Delusion is the other shore, the Great Qing History is the other shore, and the Heaven of Heavens is also the other shore. There is no difference between this shore and the other shore. From the perspective of the other shore, we are also other other shores."

"It's like going from a pond to a lake, from a lake to a river. Although the water in the stream is flowing, it is not wide enough. The water in the pond does not have much movement, and although there are winds and waves on the lake, they are trapped in one place. Only by reaching the river can you find the way to the sea."

"And the sea is just a speck of dust in the universe."