Looking at the fragmented token on the ground, Timeless breathed deeply.
His gaze deepened as a meaningful smile appeared on his face. "You disappeared to plan for the Divine Throne of Heaven, huh!"
Timeless understood at that moment that there was no way forward. He had no use for his Cultivation anymore.
He smiled faintly. 'What's the value of the Cultivation I have?'
Bitterness welled up in him. He realized he needn't have worked so hard.
However, he felt even more bitter at the thought of discarding all his Cultivation to seek death and attempt the Six Heavenly Trials. That would mean his lifetime of hard work had no meaning.
Besides, his ambition wasn't limited to becoming Supreme. He wanted the position of Heaven itself!
If there was an opportunity, why should he give up?
He understood that the only reason his Master had answered all his questions was to use him—for his own gain in the grand plan for the Divine Throne.
Timeless smirked. 'You may be the smartest being in the God Realm, but how dare you underestimate me!'
He glanced at the endless sky and took out a sharp knife.
He cut off one of his fingers and said softly:
O Eternal Dao, the Nameless Source of All,Before the first light and after the final shadow, You remain.Mind of the void, law behind every law, dreamer of all worlds—I stand in Your silence, seeking truth within it.Speak, Infinite One, for even gods are only reflections of Your thought.
At that moment, the entire world fell silent before Timeless.
He felt as if he were isolated from the God Realm.
He was pulled into a nameless divine realm, covered in hazy fog. He couldn't see what was in front of him or behind him. He lost all concept of distance, direction, and time.
He was no longer bound by any laws. He felt even his own state of life and death begin to alter. His consciousness remained alive, yet he didn't know whether his body was still living or dead.
Suddenly, an ethereal and omnipresent voice sounded in his ears. "What do you seek, child?"
The Heavenly Dao is eternal and unbiased.
However, only a few have ever heard the Heavenly Dao's chants. Besides Angels and Supremes, no one knows of them.
The reason is simple: if your Cultivation is not strong enough, your mental devotion will lack the purity needed to chant it. You must surrender your body and soul, and with your entire heart, you must pray for its blessing. Only then will the Heavenly Dao hear your call and bring you to its abode.
If your Cultivation isn't strong enough, you will be bound by countless distractions—ambitions, greed, unholy thoughts—even during chants. No matter how small, they will remain. After all, without such desires, why else would you seek the Heavenly Dao? Even if you lack corruption, you still need complete surrender before you can be summoned. Because of this, even if little babies chant its name, they cannot succeed; they don't understand the meaning of complete surrender, nor do they possess true devotion.
The Heavenly Dao is eternal and omniscient. It knows everything that Timeless desires. However, it behaves like a mortal—pretending ignorance and conversing as if it knows nothing.
Timeless Demon God knelt and bowed to the Heavenly Dao.
He spoke slowly. "I want to ask three favors."
The Heavenly Dao's voice sounded. "What do you want?"
Timeless Demon God's eyes grew deep as he asked, "I want to see the future of the God Realm."
The Heavenly Dao replied, "The future of the God Realm is unpredictable. The moment you know it, it will change. I can grant you a wish to simulate the future of the God Realm—based on your own decisions."
What the Heavenly Dao meant was simple: it would let Timeless live his life once in a dream, and that dream would show how the future would unfold based on his choices.
Timeless Demon God smiled. "Will that simulation continue from this moment forth, including the favors I want to ask?"
The Heavenly Dao replied, "Yes."
This meant Timeless Demon God could ask any question of the Heavenly Dao within the Dream Simulation, and after the simulation ended, he would still have two favors remaining.
He immediately began the Dream Simulation.
He spent many years in the dream, though only a fleeting moment passed in reality.
When Timeless woke, he was shocked.
He realized that after returning from the Heavenly Dao's abode, he would be completely defenseless. His entire Cultivation faded away within a year—it had been a sacrifice to the Heavenly Dao.
After that, the Angel of Wisdom discovered his weakened state. The Angel of Creation, Wang Xueyao, immediately plotted to eliminate him.
With his unrivaled intelligence, Timeless escaped their attacks multiple times—only to realize it was pointless. His opponent had the Angel of Wisdom at her side. Against him, he stood no chance in a battle of wits.
He was caught. However, he detonated his body and soul, persisting for one last dance! He wanted to attempt the Six Heavenly Trials.
But he realized he couldn't even enter the Trials—and died!
Timeless returned. He frowned. He had overestimated the Angel of Wisdom's abilities as much as possible, yet it seemed he had still underestimated him.
The Angel of Wisdom's intelligence was on the same tier as the Supreme Devil's—perhaps even beyond!
Timeless Demon God thought he no longer had any chance for another simulation when suddenly he heard:
The Heavenly Dao said, "You may have one more simulation."
Timeless was surprised. "Why?"
It said calmly, "It is the gift of the Creator to you."
Timeless was stunned. 'You expected everything, huh? I'm even more determined to defeat you!'
He nodded.
However, this time, he began considering how to avoid his untimely death.
As he pondered, he realized there was no way out. He didn't know how the Angel of Wisdom had discovered his lack of Cultivation. He had too few clues. In such a case, he truly had no escape.
Therefore, he made another plan.
His Cultivation gradually faded over the span of a year. He had to plan thoroughly.
Simulation Begins
He asked the Heavenly Dao for a boon.
"O great Lord! In a certain future, I wish to reset the law of time to a few hundred years in the past. However, in order to do so, I must ensure that everyone who died during that period is also revived. I am incapable of that, since the Primordial Spirit of every being returns to You after death. I can reset the timeline, but I cannot bring the dead back. Please allow me to interfere with all fragments of the Heavenly Dao, including those who have returned to You!"
The consciousness of every mortal, immortal, or Supreme is a creation of the Heavenly Dao. Each contains its essence.
The Creator made every race, but their consciousness was the gift of the Heavenly Dao.
After returning from Heaven's abode, Timeless used all his strength to merge the dimensions of the entire Heaven of Balance and bring them down to four dimensions.
He captured all the Immortal Race and suppressed their immortal bodies to a mortal level. He split their transcendent physiques into two parts—Body and Soul.
In the Creator's original design, the transcendent physique contained the essence of both Body and Soul, yet transcended them, behaving like both yet neither.
No physical or soul-based attack could touch them, for they had become an entirely different entity. That was their divinity.
Timeless stripped the Immortals of this divinity and forced them to become mere mortals. Divinity is nothing but an evolved and transcendent form of Special Ability and Spiritual Imprint. A mortal body cannot handle Divinity; thus, they were reverted to their lower-level forms.
He not only made them mortals—he made himself one as well.
The mortal physique was strange in the eyes of the Immortals.
It possessed both body and soul. The body was the cloth of the soul, while the soul was the cloth of consciousness.
The body aided strength and, to some extent, intelligence, while the soul enhanced intelligence and, to some extent, strength.
Timeless created a technique suited to this new form—Reincarnation.
Reincarnation had never existed in the Immortal World. Death had simply meant the end of everything. Yet dying was not easy for Immortals.
Now, with the emergence of the Soul to carry Consciousness, he created the secret technique of Reincarnation.
The tragedy of the Heaven of Balance soon reached Wang Xueyao. She didn't act immediately but waited.
As the Immortal Race's hatred for Timeless reached its peak, she received news from the Angel of Wisdom:
"Timeless has lost most of his Cultivation."
Wang Xueyao trusted him. She immediately took action and 'killed' the Timeless Demon God.
This filled the Immortal Race with joy, and they acknowledged Wang Xueyao as the new Supreme of the God Realm.
People began calling her the Supreme Goddess.
She harvested a vast amount of faith and belief, which strengthened her foundation and Cultivation.
At the same time, due to the 'death' of the Timeless Demon God, the Heaven of Balance began to shake. It became unstable and started to crumble. It was forcefully merged into four dimensions and grew dangerously unstable.
Even if Wang Xueyao hadn't killed him, the Heaven of Balance would still have been destroyed after Timeless lost all his Cultivation.
Destruction and Creation go hand in hand—it is the cycle of nature. It is the Balance that the Heavenly Dao approves.
In the absence of the Creator, the Heaven of Balance could only enter an era of death and destruction. Immortals could stay alive there, but they couldn't live well. The Angel of Creation possessed only a small portion of Creation Authority—not enough to bypass the chaos brought by Timeless Demon God.
A mortal can also stay alive with one lung, one kidney, 20% of a liver, and a small portion of the intestine. But that's not a life anyone wishes to live.
All the Immortals prayed to the Heavenly Dao for mercy. Their faith and belief accumulated to such a degree that the Heavenly Dao intervened.
The Heavenly Dao seeks balance. It favors no one. The Heaven of Balance was disrupting the equilibrium of the God Realm, so it acted to stabilize it.
It was similar to how it had once stabilized the Illogical Realm through the concept of Logic.
It expended fragments of itself, which split into countless Little Heavens. They ruled and brought the aura of Creation into all the small worlds formed from the ruins of the Heaven of Balance.
Timeless Demon God had used formations to protect several regions. These were the same regions where he had captured the Immortal Races and suppressed them to mortal form.
In the center of the Heaven of Balance, there existed a huge forbidden land. This land illuminated for twelve hours, then dimmed. Every time it illuminated, it filled all the Small Worlds with brightness.
During the destruction of the Heaven of Balance, these regions became isolated small worlds, protected by the Fourth Wall he had created to separate them from higher-dimensional entities.
Due to the Heavenly Dao's involvement in recreating the Heaven of Balance and eliminating the aura of death and destruction, no entity dared act recklessly there.
Heaven's majesty cannot be shaken.
Even if Wang Xueyao wished to enter these small worlds, she would have to bind her own Cultivation to a mortal level and reduce her intelligence to theirs before she could enter.
Because of this, no one could find Timeless's reincarnation.
However, his reincarnation was not so simple.
He sent fragments of his Consciousness into every small world.
He had deduced something from the Creator's actions…