Chapter 758: Chapter 757: Time, Will Eventually Wear Down Everything
 

Time flowed like water.

Year by year, it continually slipped away.

Occasionally, Qin Changqing would also enter a long period of Dao Integration.

The Dao Integration of a Saint differed from that of a Quasi-Saint.

It was not fraught with great risk and bore some resemblance to representing Heaven in executing the Dao.

The Qin family continued to grow stronger, and the Immortal World became increasingly powerful.

With the passage of time, the number of Saints in the Qin family continued to increase.

When Qin Changqing reached the age of two hundred million, there were already more than a dozen Saints in the Qin family.

The Great Luos were innumerable.

The Immortal World was propelled to an incomparable level of strength because of the Qin family.

The Ten Heavens of the Immortal World had become the Nineteen Heavens.

Nine extra heavens had been added.

Several of these Nine Heavens had been re-forged by Qin Changqing.

Others were worlds that Qin Changqing had unearthed from ancient relics deep within the Chaos Sea, which he then annexed and transformed into new heavens.

According to ancient tales, the Immortal World once comprised thirty-three heavens.

Its expansion was not limitless, however.

It depended on the overall state of the Immortal World.

If the Immortal World were not prosperous enough, adding too many heavens might actually prove detrimental.

As eras went by, the Upper Immortal World continued to add new heavens.

These newly added heavens naturally belonged to the Qin family.

Thus, the Star Sea also became more prosperous.

Before long, several hundred million years had passed.

By the time Qin Changqing was eight hundred million years old, both daughters of the Ancient Emperor with Chaos Bodies had successively become Great Dao Saints.

The Qin family alone boasted three Great Dao Saints.

Moreover, the number of Saints in the Qin family had broken through to an astonishing thirty.

In the Monster Immortal Realm, Qin Changqing had two Saintly wives and offspring.

In the Devil Immortal Realm, the Saintly wives and descendants of Qin Changqing had exceeded the original four Demon Saints.

After storing such immense Heaven-Stepping Energy for so long, Qin Changqing was nearly ready to step through heaven.

But it still wasn’t enough.

Qin Changqing continued to accumulate energy.

This accumulation lasted another two hundred million years.

On this day, Qin Changqing turned one billion years old.

Having lived through such vast stretches of time, Qin Changqing’s condition remained astonishingly good.

On this day, Qin Changqing held no grand birthday celebration.

Instead, he stood at the peak of the world, gazing out upon the entirety of the Chaos Sea.

A billion years later, within the Chaos Sea, several worlds had given birth to beings comparable to Saints.

Indeed, these Saints were naturally either wives or descendants of Qin Changqing; in other worlds, the beings comparable to Great Luo, Semi-Saints, and Quasi-Saints were numerous beyond count.

The multitude of worlds within the entire Chaos Sea had merged into a vast expanse.

Forming a true Myriad Realms of the Heavens.

“Xi Yi, tell me, how shall such a splendid era decline?” Qin Changqing asked softly, observing this thriving scene.

The Ancient Emperor’s gaze swept across the many worlds.

She could not see these worlds.

It was Qin Changqing who allowed her to see them.

Qin Changqing had strategies in place in each of these worlds, nearly linking them all together.

“You will come to know,”

She said.

“Is that so? Then let us wait and see.”

Qin Changqing said softly.

The Ancient Emperor said, “Back then, I was somewhat different from now. Let’s wait a few more years and see. Perhaps if you surpass the Immortal Emperor, things might change.”

Qin Changqing hummed in response.

First to surpass the Immortal Emperor, then see.

It wouldn’t take much longer.

Time continued to slip away.

One year, another year, yet another year.

Soon, the fifteenth billionth birthday of Qin Changqing arrived.

On this day, Qin Changqing finally decided to undertake a new breakthrough.

He was ready to step through heaven!

As Qin Changqing started his path enlightenment, this day, all the worlds of the Heavens trembled.

The Way of Treading Heaven, with its arising tumult, was felt not just in the Immortal World.

Even the many worlds within the Chaos Sea trembled as well.

“Father is about to begin.”

In Outer Heaven Realm, the Ancient Emperor and her two daughters waited.

As Qin Changqing prepared to step through heaven, even the Ancient Emperor’s gaze was filled with expectation.

In her previous life, she was far from stepping through heaven.

In this life, though she was confident enough, her assurance was still not absolute.

To surpass the Immortal Emperor, to tread upon heaven itself, to subdue even the Great Dao itself,

It seemed easy to talk about, but to actually do it was exceedingly difficult.

At the very least, to endeavor to step through heaven would inevitably provoke backlash.

As you tread on heaven, the cosmos will no longer lend you its power.

At that moment, you must contend with the cosmos solely by your own strength.

This venture was far more perilous than Dao Integration.

Dao Integration was about harmonizing the self with the Dao, aligning with heaven.

To tread on heaven was to defy it.

Plus, the heaven Qin Changqing aimed to tread was not just any heaven.

Worlds differed from each other.

If it were a mere Ling Yu (Spirit Domain), a Great Luo, if not sealed off, could enter in their true form and cause the Spirit Domain to collapse outright.

The heavens of such a Spirit Domain could be tread upon easily by Great Luo.

In fact, such Spirit Domains did not even possess a World Will.

But now, as Qin Changqing attempted to tread on heaven, it was the heavens of the entire world he faced.

This was what made the task difficult.

From ancient times until now, there were not a few beings who had reached the Immortal Emperor Level.

Yet none had ever succeeded in stepping through heaven.

This was the level of difficulty involved.

“What is the Emperor Master intending to do?”

Within the Three Realms, all the Saints were also alerted.

Over these billion plus years, apart from the emergence of many Saints within the Qin family, a new Saint had also been born in the Immortal World.

Similarly, a new Saint had emerged in the Devil Immortal Realm.

Soon, not only the Saints were alerted but many Semi-Saints and Quasi-Saints were stirred as well.

After more than a billion years, the Saints of the Immortal World had also progressed, but they were still far from becoming Great Dao Saints.