Chapter 708: The Eternal Lords

"Limitless, what have you discovered?"

The other towering figures looked over.

There were thirteen towering figures in total, all of whom were Thirteenth Order Eternal Lords.

They were also the Eternal Lords who had disappeared from the Second Source World, which Lin Yuan descended into, before the great upheaval of heaven and earth.

"The Devilish Qi has diluted a bit."

The towering figure who spoke first spoke in a solemn tone. It was the Limitless Lord, the founder of the Eternal Immeasurable Sect.

Since the birth of the Origin World, if the Lord of Heavenly Light was the first Eternal Lord,

then the Limitless Lord was the second Eternal Lord.

The Eternal Immeasurable Sect also possessed the most profound foundation among the six Eternal Sects.

"The Devilish Qi has diluted?"

The twelve towering figures were slightly stunned.

The thirteen Eternal Lords actively bore the brunt of most of the power from the source of the Demon Disaster, locking themselves in a stalemate here, and thus could not interfere with the Origin World in the slightest.

If not for the thirteen Eternal Lords, the Origin World would have been completely eroded as soon as the great upheaval of heaven and earth occurred.

At that time, the thirteen Eternal Lords could survive, but all living beings in the Origin World would undoubtedly die, and the entire Origin World would enter the Great Annihilation prematurely, with no one knowing when the next rebirth would be.

This was also the nearly inevitable conclusion derived by the thirteen Eternal Lords after observing hundreds of millions of future timelines.

The only glimmer of survival was for the thirteen Eternal Lords to actively abandon everything in the Origin World and hold back most of the sources of the Demon Disaster, so as to delay the speed at which the Origin World was completely eroded by the Devilish Qi as much as possible.

And among trillions upon trillions of future timelines, after the thirteen Eternal Lords chose to willingly trap themselves here,

there would be several timelines—

A new Eternal Lord was born among the living beings of the Origin World.

The new Eternal Lord would clear out the Demon Disaster, resist the erosion of the Devilish Qi, and join forces with the thirteen Eternal Lords, giving them a slim hope of completely saving the Origin World.

Overall, the possibility of the Origin World finally being saved was practically slim to none.

One could even say there was no hope at all.

Yet the thirteen Eternal Lords resolutely chose to do so.

As Eternal Lords and high-and-mighty Time Lifeforms, they observed numerous timelines, but they were not completely devoid of emotion after all.

They allowed their hometown world to experience a complete Great Annihilation cycle, but they definitely did not want to see it destroyed prematurely due to erosion by the Devilish Qi.

"The Devilish Qi is thin?"

The Lord of Wu Mountain, with a towering figure, observed carefully for a moment before nodding and saying, "It has indeed become much thinner. What on earth is going on here?"

According to the repeated observations and plans of the thirteen Eternal Lords before the great upheaval of heaven and earth, it was impossible for the Devilish Qi to thin at the current timeline node.

Even though they were extremely far away from the Origin World at this moment, they could still sense that the Devilish Qi pervading the inside and outside of the Origin World was thinning, so one could imagine what kind of changes had taken place inside the Origin World.

"That shouldn't be the case, right?"

"Could a variable have occurred?"

The Lord of Black Sky spoke with a hint of worry in its tone.

The so-called variable—

was a future timeline that the thirteen Eternal Lords had not observed.

Even though the thirteen Eternal Lords joined forces to observe the future, they were ultimately not Fourteenth Order Perfect Time Lifeforms, and thus could not perceive all future timelines. The true future was not necessarily one of the future timelines they had observed.

This was a variable.

And variables had no concept of good or bad.

It might be good.

It might be bad.

For example, the Devilish Qi becoming thin right now.

Perhaps it was a good thing; after all, the denser the Devilish Qi, the more terrifying the erosion of the Origin World would be.

With the Devilish Qi thinning, the speed of eroding the Origin World would slow down, the Cultivate environment for living beings inside would also improve, and the hope of birthing a new Eternal Lord would become greater.

But perhaps it was also a bad thing.

The Devilish Qi is thinning? Why is it thinning? Was it absorbed and devoured by some existence?

Who could absorb and devour Devilish Qi on such a large scale? A Demon God? Could a Demon God absorb and devour Devilish Qi on such a large scale? Was it making final preparations to completely erode the Origin World?

That would be a bad thing!

"Since a variable has appeared, I will re-examine the future timeline taking the present time point as the starting point."

The Limitless Lord pondered for a moment and said.

The thirteen Eternal Lords were trapped here, not doing nothing, but constantly observing future timelines.

It was just that the future timelines they observed had their starting points before the great upheaval of heaven and earth in the distant past.

Back then, the thirteen Eternal Lords selected a large number of timelines and observed them one by one, examining each timeline deeply until the Origin World was completely destroyed.

Even as Time Lifeforms, observing timelines trillions upon trillions of years later consumed a lot of energy and mental effort, let alone selecting a large number of starting timelines to observe all at once.

Ever since the great upheaval of heaven and earth, some Eternal Lords had indeed re-selected starting points to observe future timelines, but the closest ones to the present were tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years ago.

There was no Eternal Lord who observed the future with a certain time point within ten thousand years as the starting point.

Ten thousand years was simply too brief for the Eternal Lords.

"Let me take a look."

The timelines in front of the Limitless Lord unfolded once again.

Since an unexpected variable had occurred in the Origin World, re-observing with this moment as the new time starting point would inevitably reveal the impact of this variable on the future.

"Hmm?"

Having casually chosen a timeline and observed it for tens of thousands of years—

the Limitless Lord saw from this future timeline that in the distant Origin World, which was wrapped in endless Devilish Qi, a black and white Yin and Yang Taiji diagram suddenly emerged.

At first, the Taiji diagram was extremely tiny, but after only a few breaths, it became infinitely colossal, enveloping the entire Origin World.

Rumbling.

As the black and white Yin and Yang Taiji diagram rotated, the endless Devilish Qi was refined in rolling waves.

The Devilish Qi covering the inside and outside of the entire Origin World quickly vanished.

"This?"

"An Eternal Lord?"

"A new Eternal Lord has been born?"

The Limitless Lord took a deep breath.

In this timeline, the person who made a move to create that wheel of black and white Yin and Yang Taiji diagram that enveloped the entire Origin World tens of thousands of years later must be an Eternal Lord.

"Limitless, what did you see?"

The other Eternal Lords inferred from the change in the Limitless Lord's expression that the future timeline had changed.

It was a new change completely different from all the future timelines they had observed before.

"I will take a look too."

The Lord of Black Sky also began to observe the new timeline.

The Lord of Wu Mountain was the same.

The other Eternal Lords also quickly unfolded new timelines to observe.

As Time Lifeforms, observing timelines was an instinct.

Before long,

all the Eternal Lords opened their eyes with turbulent expressions.

"An Eternal Lord, a new Eternal Lord has been born."

"Indeed, it is a new Eternal Lord. This Eternal Lord completely cleared out the Devilish Qi and saved the Origin World."

The Eternal Lords looked at each other, their expressions filled with excitement.

The Limitless Lord was still continuing to observe along the timeline it had seen,

wanting to glean more information about this newly born Eternal Lord from the more distant future.

But the movements of the other Eternal Lords immediately made it realize that something was wrong.

"You?"

The Limitless Lord stopped observing the future timeline and looked at the other twelve Eternal Lords with a solemn gaze: "Did you all see that a new Eternal Lord was born?"

Hearing this, the Lord of Black Sky, the Lord of Wu Mountain, and the other Eternal Lords quickly calmed their expressions.

"I saw it."

"I saw it too?"

"In the future I saw, thirty thousand years later, a black-and-white Taiji sword light sufficient to sever everything swept out, annihilating the endless Devilish Qi."

As one Eternal Lord after another spoke,

the expressions of the other Eternal Lords began to change slightly.

The future timelines seen by each Eternal Lord were different.

They were clearly different timelines.

Yet in all the timelines, the exact same thing was happening.

That was the birth of a new Eternal Lord.

The birth of a new Eternal Lord

was a good thing.

But if the timelines casually viewed by all thirteen Eternal Lords were all this kind of future, that was extremely horrifying.

The Limitless Lord's thoughts raced.

The other Eternal Lords also had solemn expressions.

Soon, the many Eternal Lords gave up on deeply observing any single timeline.

Instead, they chose to observe as many timelines as possible.

After a moment,

the thirteen Eternal Lords opened their eyes once again.

"Impossible."

Incredulity surfaced on the faces of all the Eternal Lords.

Observing timelines hundreds of millions of years into the future required energy and mental effort.

But if they only observed timelines tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years later, it was very easy.

In just a short moment,

the timelines observed by the thirteen Eternal Lords added up to over one hundred thousand.

Without any exception,

in all future timelines,

a new Eternal Lord would be born in the Origin World.

Then, it would clear out all Devilish Qi and save the living beings of the Origin World.

Previously, the millions, tens of millions, and hundreds of millions of timelines observed by the Eternal Lords were all about the Origin World being eroded by Devilish Qi and stepping toward complete destruction.

But the timelines observed now were about the birth of a new Eternal Lord, saving the Origin World from the erosion of Devilish Qi.

Such a completely opposite future made the thirteen Eternal Lords feel incredible.

"A new Eternal Lord is bound to be born?"

"Can an Eternal Lord even be bound to be born?"

"How is this possible?"

The Eternal Lords found it hard to believe.

They vaguely realized that the background of the newly born Eternal Lord might exceed their imagination.

There was fundamentally no such thing as certainty in the transformation of Time Lifeforms. In the final test of the time cycle, innate talent and methods were basically useless.

Even if one cultivated the Legacy left by the Lord of Heavenly Light, which had a way to break through the time cycle, to the Perfection of the fifth level, it only increased the probability of breaking through the time cycle.

This was already the limit.

As for the future they saw?

Even if it was not all futures, it was extremely bizarre.

"Regardless of what, this newly born Eternal Lord harbors no ill intentions toward our hometown."

The Limitless Lord thought for a moment and said in a deep voice.

At least in the one hundred thousand future timelines they currently saw, a new Eternal Lord would definitely be born, and this Eternal Lord would definitely make a move to clear out the Devilish Qi.

"Correct."

The other Eternal Lords nodded.

From this point, it could be seen that the newly born Eternal Lord, just like them, held deep feelings for their hometown Origin World.

The thirteen Eternal Lords on the scene were willing to be trapped here for countless years for a slim possibility in the future, also because of their affection for their hometown Origin World.

Origin World.

Hidden World.

"Many thanks to Lord Galaxy for making a move." The expressions of several Sect Masters were excited.

Lin Yuan's strength exceeded everyone's expectations. He was actually able to contend head-on with a Demon God without relying on any Eternal Treasure?

If not for Lin Yuan, it would only be a matter of time before the Hidden World was breached under the continuous attacks of the Demon God.

"It is fine. I could not possibly take those five eternal sources for nothing," Lin Yuan smiled and said.

Without the final five eternal sources allowing him to completely finish opening up the boundless Ganges sand particle worlds,

Lin Yuan could only barely resist under the attacks of the Demon God, completely unable to fight back, let alone forcing the Demon God to voluntarily retreat.

Barely resisting did not hold much meaning. As the Demon God continuously attacked, Lin Yuan would eventually have a moment of oversight, at which point the Demon God might seize the opportunity to directly suppress him.

"Mere five eternal sources in exchange for Lord Galaxy making a move—this price is far too small," a Sect Master of an Eternal Sect could not help saying.

This was also the truth.

The five eternal sources were condensed by the Eternal Lords at a great cost. Logically speaking, hiring an Eternal Lord to make a move was more than enough.

But it depended on when.

Before the great upheaval of heaven and earth, this transaction was valid.

But after the great upheaval of heaven and earth, all the Eternal Lords disappeared.

Eternal-level combat power was scarce. At this time, how could a mere five eternal sources invite an Eternal Lord who was willing to make a move?

At this time, the Sect Leader of the Eternal Immeasurable Sect cautiously asked, "Lord Galaxy… are you already an Eternal Lord?"

As soon as these words came out,

the other Sect Masters immediately listened attentively.

They were also curious whether Lin Yuan was currently an Eternal Lord or not.

Logically speaking, being able to fight so fiercely with a Demon God—who else could do it besides an Eternal Lord?

But ever since the great upheaval of heaven and earth, there had been no anomalies produced when an Eternal Lord was born.

Furthermore, before the Eternal Lords disappeared, there definitely did not exist any Eternal-level combat power in the Origin World other than the Demon Gods.

"I am not an Eternal Lord," Lin Yuan said directly.

There was no need to conceal this point.

With his current strength, whether he was an Eternal Lord made no difference.

"Not an Eternal Lord?"

Receiving this answer that they had already thought of in their hearts, the Sect Masters were deeply shocked.

Not an Eternal Lord, yet fighting a Demon God to that extent?

"As for those Demon Gods, do you know what background they have?"

Lin Yuan did not explain much about his own strength, but asked directly.

Through fighting with the Demon Gods, Lin Yuan had gained a great deal of understanding of the latter.

However, the more he understood, the more astonished Lin Yuan became. He was very certain that the previous incarnation of the Demon God must have been a Thirteenth Order entity.

But why would a Thirteenth Order lifeform appear within the Origin World without suffering the backlash of the Origin World?

"The background of the Demon Gods?"

The Sect Masters looked at each other in dismay, then replied, "We do not know. We only know that it is one of the important sources of the Demon Disaster."

"Didn't the Eternal Lords tell you either?" Lin Yuan asked.

With the Eternal Lords' means of observing timelines, they must know the true background of the Demon Gods.

"No."

The Sect Leader of the Eternal Immeasurable Sect said truthfully.

"No?"

Lin Yuan was surprised in his heart.

There were two possibilities.

One was that none of the Eternal Lords knew the true background of the Demon Gods.

The second was that the Eternal Lords knew the background of the Demon Gods, but were unwilling to speak of it.

Lin Yuan's gaze was profound, and he felt that the second possibility was greater.