Chapter 537 Part 4

Chapter 537 Part 4: The First Ending (4)

"In this life, I do not seek immortality, nor do I wish to be unrivaled in all worlds."

"I only wish for the world to go according to my heart’s desire, to have no regrets as I look up and down, and to be open and honest!"

"Looking back again, all that should be done has been done, and with all my heart, there is nothing I cannot achieve; old friends, regardless of life or death, are all of one heart with me."

"Though I face death a thousand times, I do not regret!"

Qiao Mu shifted his gaze, the memories of the Wan family’s lights and the bustling cities faded from his mind. He looked up at the giant serpent that coiled between the stars and the river of time.

"And now, this is the last time…" Qiao Mu had been waiting for the moment when the true form of Entropy would reveal itself, until now.

"Heavenly Demon Disintegration Method!"

Qiao Mu, who was millions of years old, had become the strongest being in all the realms. Such a creature has a powerful life force; even if the body is destroyed and reformed hundreds of times, it is difficult to truly perish.

However, he was now cutting off his own path, breaking his martial foundation, using everything he had as fuel when the light was about to go out.

After devouring the Heavenly Emperor for millions of years, Qiao Mu felt he had reached a limit; even if he continued to train, he would not make any progress, as he had truly reached the peak of all realms.

Now, when he unleashed the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Method, he could not suddenly become several times stronger, but he faintly surpassed that limit.

Thus, an invisible divine fire crossed the void, shining between the realms.

"Sun Chasing Sutra · Shape Changing Skill · Kuafu Divine Demon Body!"

In that instant, his physical body swelled rapidly, turning into a towering giant that stood firmly in the vast emptiness.

At this moment, the stars shifted once again, revolving around this mighty giant.

With spirit, energy, and mind united, a vast and formless thought blazed like a roaring flame, piercing through the void and illuminating the layers of countless worlds.

His tall and majestic figure reappeared in the eyes of many beings struggling for survival in the great worlds.

In this moment when the heavens and earth began to collapse and all worlds approached their end, an unknown martial artist raised the Human Emperor Sword and struck at the gigantic serpent at the end of the celestial river and the river of time.

His idea burned fiercely like divine fire, vast yet formless, filling the space between all worlds; even without knowing his name, one could sense the strong desire for death within it.

"Heavenly Slashing Swordsmanship!"

At this moment, the Human Emperor Sword shone with brilliant light, and its blade cut through the vast starry river. Wherever it went, great stars fell and shattered. The time spells of the Undead Immortal Lords were instantly disrupted, as if nothing could stop this overwhelming sword light.

The extraordinary power of All Laws are Inviolable surged once again, charging towards the gigantic serpent at the end of the rushing river of time.

Destruction, destruction, destruction!

The way of the martial artist seeks only strength in battle, with no other mysteries, and now Qiao Mu wants to use this ultimate power of destruction to bring the Jiu Province and all worlds back to their original paths.

The giant serpent’s shadow, lurking at the end of time and space, was disturbed by the shocking light of the sword, becoming slightly faint.

But as the giant serpent’s body moved slightly, the river of time and the stars of all worlds began to surge with massive waves.

At that moment, the stars in the sky collapsed inward, and in Qiao Mu’s eyes, it seemed as if the entire starry sky was rushing violently toward him.

The various worlds appeared to overlap at this moment, simultaneously collapsing and twisting in the void, and the spaces around Qiao Mu were also being torn apart.

This is the Great Collapse that even the Heavenly Emperor and the Dao Ancestor cannot stop, the end of all worlds and living beings; from beginning to end, only the Dao Ancestor has managed to escape.

"This is the Great Collapse."

Just moments ago, the extremely powerful Qiao Mu, whose massive form lay across the void, was now distorted, with great stars pressing toward him, shrinking uncontrollably.

He raised the Human Emperor Sword in his hand but did not swing it.

The idea of Heavenly Slashing Swordsmanship is to give everything and be invincible, so once he strikes with the sword, he has already used all his strength.

However, his life force is so strong that he can absorb the energy of the world even while breathing, allowing him to repair himself. Thus, even though he is exhausted again, he is not dead yet.

A coin with the image of an ouroboros floated out from his sleeve, hovering in front of him.

He held the Ring Snake Coin in one hand and the Human Emperor Sword in the other.

He had once seen the Demon World welcoming the Nine Dead Demon Lord, and when he met the Dao Ancestor, he saw another version of himself in the rivers of time at different moments.

Each branch of the river represents a parallel world, a different choice made by Qiao Mu and other challengers.

These branches of the rivers of time were hidden by the Dao Ancestor, turning reality into illusion, representing the other possibilities that were not chosen by the Dao Ancestor.

However, with the progression of the Great Collapse and the battle between Qiao Mu and Entropy, the myriad worlds have become a chaotic ruin, evolving towards Return Ruins.

At this moment, the endless and vast river of time was drawing toward its end, where the past, present, and future overlapped, and other hidden branches revealed themselves now.

"I am the child of entropy, and they are too."

Qiao Mu held the Human Emperor Sword, watching as the starry sky rushed toward him, sparkling light filling his view.

"To entropy, we are all children, strangers to ourselves."

"But for me, they are fellow travelers on the same path… only they have not walked as far as I have," Qiao Mu suddenly said.

As the essence of entropy, with a mere thought, he could take away the Long Life Lock and immortality from the children, and there was a mysterious connection between them.

And he was the one who had traveled the farthest.

The mortal Qiao Mu had long been dead; after many deaths, his spirit and body had changed greatly, becoming a child of entropy, not completely disconnected from the other children.

At that moment, with Qiao Mu tightly holding the Ring Snake Coin, his immense consciousness instantly crossed the worlds and sensed the distant Nine Dead Demon Lord, Qiao Busi, in the great world.

"To me, anyone who has the will to fight is a member of the Qiao family, just like me."

"So I have never fought alone; I fight alongside others from the Qiao family in different parts of this big small world, at different moments in the past and future."

A great idea crosses through the vast world at this moment, connecting the layered past and future, sending a thought to countless Qiao family members in every realm, past and future.

Gather strength! Fight back!

Thus, Qiao Mu, who was almost out of energy, surprisingly grew stronger again; his wounds began to heal, and a mysterious power surged from different times and worlds.

They come from the Nine Dead Demon Lord Qiao Busi, from Qiao Mu, Qiao Lin, Qiao Sen, Qiao Pifu, Qiao Huo, Qiao Tu, Qiao Jin…

"You draw strength from the overlapping past and future, from other bodies in this vast world?" The giant serpent at the end of time paused for a moment, then felt deep confusion.

"You are just one of many bodies; you are not my true self. How can you draw strength from the other bodies?"

"Because they are all me. I would choose this, and so would they!"

Qiao Mu stood tall in the sky once again, striking with his fist, casting a shadow that shattered the earth and turned mountains upside down.

"Because my power is the punch that the weak throw at the strong."

"Because I am the embodiment of martial arts!"

"Return Ruins Punch!"

The shadow of the punch covered the heavens and stars, swiftly attacking towards the end of time, engulfing the giant snake of unimaginable size.

Under the shadow of the punch, the Return Ruins image that Qiao Mu once saw appeared early in these worlds.

Return Ruins is the end of all heavens, the resting place of all worlds, the final point of time and space.

And under his fist, which replaced the will of heaven with his own, it seemed to connect with the true Return Ruins, shattering the chaos of time and space around him and sending the giant snake lurking at the end of time and space to the ultimate destination.

Using the end of all worlds to confront the end of all worlds!

Qiao Mu’s fists could only bring destruction and death.

He did not actually have a way to save this world on the brink of ruin; the last thing he could do was to kill all the powerful enemies standing before him.

The shadows of the Return Ruins and the giant snake faded away, and so did Qiao Mu’s body.

Only a few drops of blood splattered across the sky, painting the sky of Jiu Province red, with the setting sun looking like blood and the sunset glowing like fire.

Qiao Canxue and Qiao Feixian stood side by side, both opening their eyes, standing on the blood-soaked ground, gazing at the river of time appearing in the void above.

They are the reincarnations of the Heavenly Emperor’s daughters, with eyes that can see all pasts and futures.

At this moment, the infinitely wide river of time did not close, continuing to flow forward endlessly, with no visible end in sight.

No matter how they searched, no matter how they explored every past and future, they could no longer see Qiao Mu’s figure.

"He’s gone, completely gone. I can’t see him anymore; the past him does not exist either," Qiao Canxue murmured, her voice filled with sorrow.

"All futures do not have him." Qiao Feixian whispered, and in her deep, dark eyes, Qiao Mu’s figure was no longer reflected.

"Entropy and Qiao Mu seemed to vanish at the same time," judged the Immortal Diyuan.

"He used martial arts to bring an end to all realms, to confront the true end of all realms, pulling entropy along to face death together."

"Did my brother really die?" Earth Sword Immortal said, feeling a bit lost and struggling to understand, unable to keep up.

Members of the Qiao family from Jiu Province have brought many shocking and groundbreaking events to the world.

They died endlessly, coming back again and again, generation after generation.

Even though the Qiao family members vanished fifty years ago, fifty years later, a Qiao family member still returned from the skies.

Later, Qiao Mu honestly revealed his immortal ability, as one hundred bodies worked together, repeatedly defeating the Undead Immortal Lord until his essence was completely destroyed, which greatly shocked Earth Sword Immortal and other martial artists of the mortal world.

This even formed in them a strong, unbreakable consensus.

It seemed like Qiao Mu could never die; he would always be strong, always standing at the front line of the battlefield, like a fierce sun hanging high in the sky.

Even the Earth Sword Immortal found it hard to believe, always thinking that if he just waited a little longer, just a little longer…

In the next moment, somewhere in the empty space, a member of the Qiao family would pop out from an unknown place.

But in this world, there is ultimately no myth where the sun never sets.

The Earth Sword Immortal played with the wooden sword at his waist and said to himself, "I haven’t had the chance to learn the secrets of the Iron Crotch Skill from him yet…"

Wu Qizheng looked toward the broken Sky River Immortal Boat, where one hundred well-preserved bodies of Qiao Mu lay.

These bodies were millions of years old, each already perfected in their martial arts true body, capable of matching a True Immortal.

As the champion of human martial arts, he had no time to feel sadness; he just stood by the Immortal Boat, looking at the devastated land.

With the simultaneous disappearance of entropy and Qiao Mu, the crumbling mountains did not restore, and the broken land would not either; it merely came to a temporary halt, becoming a wasteland.

Nowadays, the great world of Jiu Province has become a wasteland, and it’s unclear if any large lands can still be formed, but the problems do not end there.

The Great Collapse has been stopped, but the countless realms still overlap with each other. The now ruined realm of Jiu Province is still connected to many other worlds, unlike before the disaster when they were clearly divided.

"Have all those True Immortals from the Celestial Realm really perished?"

Wu Qizheng’s gaze swept over the hundreds of Qiao Mu’s bodies in the Immortal Boat.

The final battle has come to an end.

But this likely does not mean the so-called peace; the countless realms have become a messy brew, and other connected great realms may still have True Immortals or great demons.

Conflicts will never cease and will not disappear with the vanishing of the Endless Great Serpent.

However, the martial path of the Jiu Province has established a clear road that leads directly to the end of evolution.

Bloodlight, like a rosy dawn, falls upon the world, as martial artists emerge from the broken Immortal Boat onto the shattered earth.

The setting sun was like blood, and there were no members of the Qiao family left in the world.