148: Let's turn the tide! Open!

Instantly, a powerful Domain of the Dead opened.

Countless souls and spirits soared into the sky.

They resisted the violent falling planetary atmosphere.

At that moment, Lu Chen noticed something!

He turned his head to look, his expression hardening!

The girls noticed it too.

Sun Feifei rushed forward and said anxiously:

"The inscription is being rewritten! It's heavenly dao contamination!"

Then everyone looked up, and the word "Awakening" on the stone tablet was twisting into "Fall."

Clearly, the Heavenly Dao had still found them!

It even intended to use the remaining power of the stone tablet to deal with them.

Sun Feifei summoned the five elements flags and ignited the Samadhi True Fire!

"Qian position change, profound orthodox method, rise! I'll break its energy resonance!"

Lu Chen nodded upon hearing this and flew into the sky with the tianwen sword against the Solar Prominence!

Standing in the storm, he used the tianwen sword to draw the starlight of the Big Dipper!

He chanted softly:

"Treading through time to seek the true meaning, the sword challenges the star river to question the past and present. If the heavenly mandate is said to be irreversible, then watch as mortal fire burns the heart of heaven!"

"—Ancestral Dragon Art, Break All Laws!"

A powerful Sword Qi was unleashed, cleaving through heaven and earth.

This was the very sword technique Lu Chen had taught the First Emperor in ancient times.

With one strike, Lu Chen cleaved the plasma flow!

In an instant, the bronze tablet exploded.

The sand of time reversed like the Milky Way, condensing into a layer of bronze-like armor on the surface of the protective suits they wore.

Ignis flew to Lu Chen's side and grabbed his wrist; their figures intertwined amidst the pouring sand of time!

"Little Skeleton, I'll help you!"

Saying this, Ignis poured out all the magic power in her body.

She gave it all to Lu Chen!

The next strike—Sword Piercing the Firmament!

It ignited a sea of fire that stretched for ten thousand miles like a prairie fire.

It illuminated the peak of Mercury!

...When they returned to the bridge, Morning Dew was helping the engineering crew repair the scorched equipment.

Shelley was collecting the sand of time in bottles.

A scientist sent by the accompanying Cultivation Association reached a conclusion after analysis and testing:

"Each grain of sand carries a 0.73-second time fragment."

The scientists tested it by sprinkling the sand onto the Antimatter Engine, and the Nano-robots actually evolved a simple anti-decay functionality.

Ning Xiwei's reconstructed bone puppet was wiping the observation window.

At that moment, the bridge scanner suddenly pointed to a specific location in the starry sky.

The pilot hurriedly reported:

"—A distress signal!"

Sun Feifei's Divining Plate also began to spin frantically at this moment.

Lu Chen did not hesitate and made a prompt decision, "Connect it."

The quantum communicator automatically played the recording, but—it was actually Lu Chen's own voice:

"...Do not approach Betelgeuse... They are outside of time..."

Lu Chen gave a cold laugh, "An ugly trick. Does the Heavens play such games too? I want to see exactly what this Heavenly Dao Incarnation is!"

Ignis, who was checking the weapons and equipment in the back, leaned against the armory door and looked at the new inscription projected on her tablet:

[July 15, 2055, Earth Calendar: The power of the Flame Demon ignites the heart of the star.]

She tilted her head back to finish the concentrated Magic Spring Water, raised her glass bottle toward the starry sky outside the window, and said with a heavy expression,

"—To this damn fate."

The starship's engines roared to life, jumping toward a newly appeared wormhole in the shadowed region of Mercury.

At the moment of entering Quantum Tunneling, no one hesitated much.

Even Lu Chen remained firm.

This was the path that was meant to be taken.

He had never once stopped his footsteps.

When he was alone at midnight.

Lu Chen recalled the recent situation.

Whether it was the exploration of the bronze tablet, the future dates and member images carved on it, the time paradox phenomena caused by the sand of time, or the memories of her ancestors that Ignis had seen—all of these pointed to the most crucial issue: the Heavenly Dao had never been completely destroyed.

All living beings destroying the Heavens, or the Heavens destroying all living beings, were two sides of the same coin.

For example, today's Solar Prominence crisis on Mercury—whether it was the massive stellar energy and the magic barriers they constructed, or the confrontation with Eastern Taoist immortal arts—all presented a bizarre fact: others had done this before.

But the difference was that the predecessors, at least the most recent group to embark on the journey, did not have the temporary bronze armor granted by the sand of time.

This was what made every attempt different from before.

The predecessors were constantly trying and failing, yet constantly leaving new things behind.

If you toss a coin a thousand times and it always comes up heads.

The tails you want has never appeared.

You either give up or keep tossing the coin.

Given infinite time, there will eventually be a probability that tails appears.

As for those memory fragments in the warm currents of space-time, perhaps they revealed a possible snippet of the future.

Was it not just a fantasy?

Lu Chen had some thoughts in his heart.

But it also made it harder for him to fall asleep.

"There were at least four warnings today. Whether the Heavenly Dao did it intentionally or it's just a trick to toy with people... at least I need to think about the issues ahead."

Lu Chen recalled the final warnings from today, or rather, the cautions or hidden dangers.

He would have to pay close attention to these later.

1. The Betelgeuse warning: Was that an illusion of the Heavenly Dao, or a distress recording of a possible future self predicted by the Heavenly Dao?

2. Ignis's issue: It predicted that the power of the Flame Demon would trigger a stellar anomaly.

3. Application of the sand of time: It is of great help to the starship; I wonder if it will be helpful for Cultivation? It's worth developing and considering!

4. My own undead sensing seems to have enhanced: It should be because I regained my previous power, thereby increasing my perception ability.

Lu Chen gradually fell asleep while thinking.

In his dream, he seemed to see the surface of Mercury as it was today.

Ilmenite crystals reflected a rainbow halo under the sunlight.

The ice crystal mountains in the shadow zone gleamed with a bronze rust color.

The inner walls of the craters were covered with vein-like lava tubes.

He also seemed to dream of every scene from the recent Quantum Tunneling, even every detail, as if it were happening right before his eyes:

Turbulence of gravity flowed along the edges of the wormhole.

It caused the cultivation runes on the starship's hull to resonate with virtual particles.

Standing outside the observation window, one could even vaguely see phantoms of wars from different historical periods flashing by.

All of this was in the dream, and also in reality... the Solar Prominence of Betelgeuse was like billions of crimson-gold dragons stretching their bodies in the dark Universe.

The starship "Civilization Tinder" hovered at the gravitational edge of this Red Supergiant, the cultivation runes on its nano-alloy hull glowing with a green light, carving the Earth's coordinates from six thousand light-years away into the Quantum Navigator.

"Temperature sensor failure!" The mechanical warning voice of the machine echoed through the bridge.

Immediately, the crew began to get busy at the consoles, and Formations were constantly being activated as golden streams of light flowed rapidly along the circuits.

"The Positron Layer is devouring our shield energy," Shelley, who was in charge of the front, said anxiously.

The gilded cross on the holy codex in her hand was actually beginning to melt.

Sun Feifei performed astrology and divination, revealing the Qian hexagram from the I Ching.