My disciple's cultivation returns ten thousand times, so I have to be invincible.

Although Zhong Qingchang often feels that his path to immortality is different from others.

But this difference is reflected in power or form of expression. Fundamentally speaking, he is still following the path of immortality.

Ultimate sublimation is another level of sublimation.

Zhong Qing felt that the sublimation realm of ordinary immortal cultivators was the same as the end point of his own sublimation realm.

The destination is to wash away the imprint of time and space, travel freely through the past and present, and no longer be restricted by the times.

In Zhong Qing's opinion, this state is likely to be a prerequisite for reaching the state of transcendence.

If the transcendent is the great freedom that transcends time and space itself, then the end point of the sublimation state is the small freedom within time and space.

Of course, this distinction between size is a bit rough, but it is appropriate to call the end point of sublimation freedom.

It’s just that most cultivators don’t have enough power to achieve their goal in one go, so they can only settle for the next best thing and enhance their life essence and power through repeated sublimation, taking a long way around to reach their destination.

Zhong Qing's ultimate sublimation is that he has enough strength to transcend this limitation and pursue a one-time crossing of the river to reach an unrestrained state.

Zhong Qing is still a long way from breaking through, and the peak immortals of ancient and modern times and most of the innate gods and demons have stopped before this realm.

As an innate god and demon, Chi Ji is powerful, but his realm is not much different from that of the peak immortals.

The pinnacle of the immortal path is actually just a transformation based on four sublimations, reaching the ultimate of this level.

Therefore, although the peak of the immortal path is far superior to the immortal king who has sublimated four times in terms of strength and means, the life level is not higher than the fourth sublimation.

Zhong Qing also understood this during the catastrophe era.

Anyone can only push the door twice, which means achieving four sublimations.

After the two attempts, everyone who tried to push the door open and ascend again, from ancient times to the present, disappeared behind the door, and no one succeeded.

Therefore, the fifth level of sublimation is only a theoretical realm, and no one has actually achieved it.

The powerful immortals speculated that pushing the door itself only helped the cultivators break through the bottleneck, but in fact, other conditions were needed to complete the five sublimations.

As for what the conditions are and what kind of realm the fifth sublimation is, no one really knows.

Some people speculate that the fifth sublimation is a level above the innate gods and demons, comparable to the primordial stage.

Some people speculate that the fifth sublimation does not actually exist, and the transformation after the fourth sublimation is already the ultimate for cultivators, so this realm is called the peak of the immortal path.

But these are all conjectures and cannot be confirmed.

And now, in this long river of time and space, Zhong Qing, an illiterate cultivator, has gained some understanding.

He had some understanding of this before, but it was very vague and not clear.

After witnessing the battle between the Scarecrow and the Puppet Man this time, he once again felt the surging power of the River of Time in the cracks in time and space, and combined it with the information he obtained in the Great Catastrophe Era, thus verifying it.

The fifth sublimation is the next realm after Zhong Qing’s ultimate sublimation, freedom!

The scarecrow and the puppet man should have reached a state of freedom.

Therefore, they can track Zhong Qing across hundreds of millions of years of time and space, and the aftermath of the battle can even span tens of millions of years and spread to every corner of time and space.

Although they have not yet transcended time and space or the universe itself.

But it has reached the extreme below this.

"so……"

Zhong Qing's eyes flashed and he looked back.

He had a guess about the identities of the scarecrow and the puppet.

If we say that the scarecrow and the puppet man are both from this universe.

So in our cognition, this universe has gone through the Age of Chaos, the Age of Primordial Beginning, the Age of Gods and Demons, the Age of Immortals, the Age of Spiritual Gods, and all the way to the era when Zhong Qing was born.

Throughout history, perhaps the only person who has ever achieved the state of freedom is...

While Zhong Qing was thinking, his position in the Time River finally arrived at the position hundreds of millions of years later.

He stopped here, ready to enter time and space.

Right now.

An inexplicable sense of danger suddenly came from within time and space.

It seemed that as long as Zhong Qing took a step into it, he would immediately face some great terror.

It seemed that there was something in this space and time, staring at Zhong Qing outside of time.

"What the hell!"

Zhong Qing frowned and stepped in without hesitation.

Danger?

What a joke.

When has he ever been afraid of this?

But just when Zhong Qing was about to enter.

A hand as white as jade suddenly grabbed Zhong Qing's arm from behind and pulled Zhong Qing back.

This seemingly slender hand actually contained a power as vast as the universe. This pull caused the unprepared Zhong Qing to lose his balance.

The next moment, his eyes blurred and he seemed to fall into a certain space.

When everything in front of him became clear again, what Zhong Qing saw was an endless starry sky.

The appearance of this starry sky was very familiar, but Zhong Qing's eyes moved.

"here it is……"

He could feel that this starry sky was definitely not the real universe he was going to, but rather it was somewhat similar to it.

"Why, you don't recognize me?"

A pleasant and kind voice sounded in my ears.

Zhong Qing turned around and his pupils shrank.

I saw a familiar figure standing behind me, looking at Zhong Qing with a smile.

"goddess?"

Zhong Qing exclaimed in surprise.

Yes, this figure was none other than the goddess Guyue who he had sent into the branch of time and space.

"So, this is..."

"Goddess Guyue" smiled slightly and nodded.

"Yes, this is the independent timeline you created when you tore the River of Time apart."

"To be precise, it's where that timeline intersects with the main timeline."

"It's just that I'm not the person you know."

The face that looked like the goddess Gushe looked at Zhong Qing with a meaningful smile on her face.

"We finally meet, Zhong Qing."

"I am Di Xi."