Zhou Qing went to the scene of his car accident. All traces had been cleaned up, and it was impossible to tell that an accident had occurred here a few hours ago.
Tracing the cause to the effect, Zhou Qing found the official personnel who handled his accident and saw the case information they collected.
During this process, Zhou Qing remained secret, did not appear in this world, and was not discovered by anyone.
For the time being, Zhou Qing had no intention of disturbing this world. There were too many things hidden under the lake, and he couldn't figure them out for sure, so it was better to keep a low profile.
Furthermore, there is no point in him appearing in this world openly.
What would it mean to let humans know of his existence? To show his god-like power and let humans worship him, or to rule the world?
To Zhou Qing, this was totally worthless and there was no need to do so.
Since this world is hidden, it means that someone does not want it to be disturbed.
Zhou Qing’s current situation is already an exception.
But I have to say that it is a unique experience to see how you died "after death".
Regarding Zhou Qing's case, according to official investigations, the brakes of the perpetrator's vehicle suddenly failed. Apart from that, the man did not perform any irregular operations, such as running a red light or driving under the influence of alcohol.
The strange thing is that the car had just been inspected a few days ago and there were no problems in any other aspects. The brake failure happened very suddenly.
Zhou Qing simply traced back the time and confirmed that this was true, everything was true, and there was no such thing as escaping the crime.
As a Great Celestial Master in the Yuan Realm, it is very easy to go back in time and reflect historical scenes.
Time is just a kind of power possessed by the Great Lord of Yuan Realm.
Looking at the flashback scene, in which the driver slammed on the brakes but there was no response, and the car was speeding up, Zhou Qing could not help but remain silent.
Logically speaking, judging from the initial trajectory of the car, there was no reason for it to hit him. The driver was driving normally, and Zhou Qing did not violate any traffic regulations at that time. He was walking on the sidewalk. But in the end, such a thing happened.
Difficult to stretch.
So I have to die, right? Could it be that there really is a "god" of mud trucks in the world that can send people through time? While going back in time, Zhou Qing did not sense any power that was secretly influencing all this.
But this only means that he has not discovered it, it does not mean that it really does not exist. After all, the level of some powers is too high and it is not something that Zhou Qing can trace back now.
Zhou Qing was extremely certain that there must be something hidden behind the scenes.
Because it can be clearly seen in the historical footage that after Zhou Qing lost his life, his "corpse" turned into rainbow.
The body, which was originally covered in blood, suddenly turned into twisted rays of light, and finally disappeared into the space.
Obviously, this is the beginning of the time travel and where the dream begins.
Unlike what Zhou Qing had expected at the beginning, after his physical body died, it was not that only his soul left the earth and went to the Xuanhuang Realm. It was not the so-called soul crossing.
Instead, his entire body turned into light and was taken away. His body and soul all went to the Xuanhuang Realm and entered the body of another "Zhou Qing", and then Zhou Qing lived another life.
No wonder he never felt any gap between himself and his body after traveling through time, and even strong people could not see any signs of possession, because it was not possession in the conventional sense.
But Zhou Qing at that time was just a mortal. He turned into a rainbow and disappeared, which was something that only immortals could do in the history of the earth. It was obviously abnormal for it to happen to him.
It may be due to the gold finger, or it may be due to other forces behind the scenes.
However, during this process, Zhou Qing did not find any trace of the golden finger. This thing is mysterious and no one knows what form it exists in.
“Something interesting.”
After Zhou Qing turned into rainbow and traveled through time, official personnel came to the scene to deal with the matter, and then a rather strange scene occurred.
The official personnel pointed at the empty ground, protected the scene, and then "collected" Zhou Qing's body.
But in fact, they took nothing away and left with a cloud of air, but no one noticed the problem.
From their perspective, it was as if there was really a dead body there.
If you say this is normal, that's ridiculous.
"Is there some kind of power that I cannot detect across time that has confused the perception of the relevant personnel after I crossed over?"
This is quite thoughtful.
The historical image ends here, Zhou Qing ponders, with a myriad of thoughts in his mind.
This abnormal time travel made him think a lot.
After a while, Zhou Qing left.
Speaking of which, if Zhou Qing’s death and time travel were really intentionally orchestrated by “someone” in secret, then the driver really suffered an unprovoked disaster.
There is no place for reasoning.
Originally Zhou Qing was thinking that if this person was driving under the influence or something else, then he would have to avenge the collision, but now...
Zhou Qing decided to wait until he found out the truth before taking any action.
If a mortal was truly innocent, Zhou Qing would not bother with him.
After leaving the "yamen", Zhou Qing came to a residential area. Looking at this place, a look of nostalgia flashed across his eyes.
This is not where Zhou Qing lived before he traveled through time, but it is where he lived when he was a child. However, at that time this was not a residential area, but an old orphanage.
In his previous life on Earth, Zhou Qing was an orphan, a very complete one.
"Zhou Qing" from the Xuanhuang Realm still had his parents alive when he was a child, but they were killed later. However, Zhou Qing on Earth has been in an orphanage since he can remember. It is said that he was found in his cradle and was later adopted by the orphanage.
I haven't even seen the shadow of my parents.
Later, the old director of the orphanage passed away and the orphanage moved to another place. The original site was developed into a residential area.
But by that time Zhou Qing had already left the orphanage and lived on his own, so his impression of home as a child had always been this place.
Unfortunately, it can no longer be seen now and we can only remember it in vain.
Therefore, after Zhou Qing traveled through time, although he missed this world, he never worried about whether his relatives would be sad after his "death".
My dear, this is simply not possible...
Standing outside the community, Zhou Qing used his great power to go back in time again, and scenes from the past continued to appear.
The completed high-rise buildings disappeared bit by bit, and the world seemed to have been rewound. The orphanage in Zhou Qing's memory appeared and continued to flow backwards.
Finally, it came to the time when Zhou Qing appeared. Yes, he appeared.
It wasn't that someone dropped Zhou Qing off at the door of the orphanage; he showed up on his own.
I saw a light appear out of nowhere, constantly flowing and twisting, and finally formed a baby. The baby burst into a loud cry, attracting the staff of the orphanage, and then the baby was taken in.
Next, it was time for the baby to grow up into a human being. Zhou Qing didn’t pay much attention to this part because he knew his own experience best.
Zhou Qing went back in time to the moment when he appeared, and watched this period of history over and over again, trying to find something.
But he couldn't find anything. Just like the situation when he traveled through time, he couldn't see any other forces intervening in secret.
But, how could there be no problem with Zhou Qing's appearance?
When time froze at the moment when the colorful light formed a baby, Zhou Qing looked uncertain.
I... am not a human?
This kind of birth should be impossible in this world where there is no spiritual practice and no supernatural powers.
Zhou Qing was really shocked to find out what his life story was like.
He was not a natural human in his previous life, so what was he? "What exactly are these rays of light? They evolved into me in a way that is difficult to identify. After my death, they returned to this form, and then traveled to the Xuanhuang Realm and found another Zhou Qing..."
"What is my true nature? I am now undoubtedly a true human being, there is no doubt about that. In other words, I have undergone a transformation, from an existence with an unknown nature to a real life."
"Those rays of light don't look like life at all. What do they represent?"
The discoveries after returning to Earth were completely beyond Zhou Qing's expectations.
His time travel was not accidental, but inevitable. Even he himself was not ordinary and was different from the ordinary people on Earth.
In this way, many things can be explained, but more difficult and puzzling questions also arise.
Zhou Qing left the community, his perception spread, covering the earth, conducting a carpet search.
All over the earth, whether it is the dense forests where few people go or the unexplored forbidden areas in the deep sea, everything is very ordinary and there are no traces of the extraordinary left.
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Even places like Kunlun Mountain, which have endless legends, are mundane from Zhou Qing's perspective.
The environment of heaven and earth is normal and there is no problem.
Next, Zhou Qing focused his attention on some sects and temples, and took a look at the scriptures of their inherited skills from a distance.
Zhou Qing kept deducing the contents of each martial arts scripture in his mind, and finally, he was a little surprised.
“It’s actually true.”
According to Zhou Qing's deduction, some of the scriptures within the many sects on Earth can really be practiced. As long as you go to a normal environment, you can use this to embark on the path of practice.
Moreover, the quality of these scriptures is not low, and their intentions are extremely high. Some of the scriptures are even inextricably linked to some external Tianming Taoist traditions, and it is obvious that they are derived from the inheritance of Tianming Taoist traditions.
This level of inheritance is considered precious even in the void.
"Unfortunately, with only scriptures but no environment, even if one practices hard day and night, these inheritances can only help strengthen the body and clear the mind, but will not have any extraordinary power."
Zhou Qing felt sorry about this matter. There are treasures of knowledge buried deep on the earth, but no matter how brilliant the inheritance is, it is of no use here.
From this we can infer that there was indeed a mysterious and extraordinary period in the history of the Earth.
At that time, a large number of powerful people from the void descended here, leaving behind legends and heritage. Eventually they left, burying the myths in the depths of history, leaving them nowhere to be found.
Perhaps during the time when the powerful beings from the void descended here, the Earth could still be used for cultivation, but no one knew what happened later that completely ended the transcendence.
Apart from these dusty scriptures, Zhou Qing did not find any other special things on Earth. He checked carefully the center of the earth, the bottom of the sea, and even the sun, but found nothing.
The inheritance of scriptures seems to be the only thing left by the saints of secret history.
After a while, Zhou Qing left the earth again and came into space. Taking a deep breath, he began to trace back history on a large scale, including the entire earth.
The secret history of the divine advent has been buried in the years, and now there is no trace of it. So if you want to know the truth, you can only look for it in history.
Zhou Qing's hands emitted a bright white light. They moved gently, tearing apart time and space. The light and shadow of the years emerged and began to retreat. The earth in history appeared in front of Zhou Qing, and he saw the evolution of human civilization on the ground.
The development and disputes among countries and the continuous breakthroughs of modern science and technology disappeared one by one, and finally the ancient scenes emerged.
The recorded history of civilization on Earth is not long, but Zhou Qing's recollection is not fast either. He looked at all the historical scenes carefully, fearing that he might have missed something.
As dynasties changed reversely, Zhou Qing saw many ancient eccentrics recorded in contemporary legends. Unfortunately, those so-called eccentrics and strange things were just rumors, and they did not have any actual cultivation.
At least in the dynasties closest to modern times, there was no such thing as spiritual practice, and it was the same all over the world.
Soon, Zhou Qing traced back to the period before 907, which was the Tang Dynasty and earlier in the country where Zhou Qing was born.
During this period, Zhou Qing finally saw the existence of extraordinary powers. There were individuals who truly possessed extraordinary powers walking in the world and created legendary stories.
However, the world in this era is still not suitable for cultivation. The reason why those extraordinary individuals are different from others is that they possess some magical weapons.
The reason why those objects are called magic weapons is because they are different from the magic weapons and martial weapons prevalent in the Xuanhuang Realm. These magic weapons do not have spirits, but use the method of dripping blood to recognize their masters.
Once it recognizes its master, it can be activated by consuming mental energy or blood, and display its power, but it cannot last long.
Low-level weapons like the Xuanhuang Realm's martial arts weapons are fine. When mortals get them, although they don't have the true energy and can't activate the characteristics of the weapons, it is at least a sharp and solid weapon, and they can still be used to chop people.
However, as for low-level magical instruments, most of them are not usable by mortals. They are not as "casual" as these magic weapons and have no threshold for use.
This has been the case on Earth since the end of the Tang Dynasty and since the Qin Dynasty. There are groups of people in every country and every place who use magic weapons to show off their power but have no self-cultivation at all.
During the late Tang Dynasty, the magic weapons between heaven and earth had gradually become ordinary, until they completely lost their divine power in the next dynasty, and since then there has been no more extraordinary things on Earth.
Before the Qin Dynasty, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Zhou Qing finally saw the existence of practitioners. At this time, there was still energy of heaven and earth and spiritual inspiration on the earth, but they were relatively thin, and there was no shortage of scriptures for practice.
Therefore, true practitioners emerge in large numbers in this era.
Like the various schools of thought, they are all sects of cultivation, and the leaders of the most prominent ones are the most powerful people in the world.
Otherwise, how could those people travel around the world, spread their own doctrines, and make the rulers of all countries obey them without any accidents, because they have both reason and fists...
However, this is still a period that is even more degenerate than the Dharma Ending Period. Practicing cultivation is extremely difficult, and the realm of the strongest people in the world is not very high.
The most crucial thing is that, although there were some inspirations on Earth during this period, they were unable to form a complete cycle.
Every bit of energy from the heaven and earth, every bit of spiritual inspiration, once absorbed by humans, will be gone forever. Even after the practitioner dies, they will not give anything back to the heaven and earth. Therefore, the opportunities for cultivation will become fewer and fewer.
The living beings during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period exhausted the last spiritual energy of the world. When the Qin Dynasty was founded, the practice of spiritual cultivation came to an end.
Of course, the same was true for other regions in the world, which were also frantically consuming the Earth's limited resources during that period.
During the Zhou Dynasty, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was more intense, and the environment became better as time went on, but it was still countless times more difficult than the normal Dharma-Ending Period.
Until the end of the Shang Dynasty, the long river of time suddenly became turbulent and chaotic to the extreme, giving people a feeling that it was about to collapse during this period.
During that period of time, Zhou Qing could not see the specific situation of the earth because it was obscured.
The four-color sword light traverses time and space, and the sword formation of Zhuxian will last forever; the yin and yang energies flow endlessly, and the Tai Chi divine diagram shines forever; the chaotic world descends, and the Yuanshi Banner cuts through the primordial chaos; the Buddha's light is immeasurable, and the burning sound is immeasurable...
Looking at the end of the Shang Dynasty space and time shrouded by a large number of horrific scenes, Zhou Qing was stunned.
At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, everything was still normal. There were only practitioners who were comparable to Yin Gods and True Blood Realms in the world.
But it was just one step forward, to the end of the Shang Dynasty...
How did it become like this?
All the major armies of destiny actually appeared here, fighting against each other. The traces of their Dao were eternal and directly cut off time and space, and the levels directly skyrocketed by countless dimensions.
Is this reasonable?
More importantly, who is controlling these destiny soldiers to fight?
Zhou Qing learned from Qingshou Tianzun that, like the Tai Chi diagram, except for its sudden disappearance nearly ten thousand years ago, this weapon of heaven had been enshrined in the Taishang Taoist Palace for a long time before that.
In the Xuanhuang Era and the Taiyi Era, the Tai Chi diagram never left the Taishang Taoist Palace.
So what is the situation now? Did this happen before the Taiyi Era, or did someone quietly summon the Taiji Diagram away during the Taiyi and Xuanhuang Eras without being discovered by the people of the Supreme Dao Palace?
Looking at the chaotic time and space at the end of the Shang Dynasty, as well as the traces of the soldiers of destiny, four words emerged in Zhou Qing's mind: The Battle of the Gods.
This unique time point, coupled with the traces, is very similar to some legends on Earth? Myths are the other side of history! (End of this chapter)