Da Xuan Martial Saint Chapter 1495 - 717: One Pot of Wine, The Past Has Ended (Part 3)

Previously on Da Xuan Martial Saint...

Chen Mu encounters Yu Jiujiang in an ancient courtyard, offering him a pot of spiritual wine infused with the power of creation. The divine brew instantly heals the old steward’s internal injuries and restores his decaying blood qi, granting him the vitality to re-enter the martial world and pursue the grandmaster path. After fulfilling his old friend’s hidden wish, Chen Mu observes familiar figures like Xu Hongyu from above the clouds, reflecting on the nature of time and the connection between past and future selves. Before departing this fragmented reality, he bestows immortality upon Chen Yue to ensure her safety in his absence.

To compensate for the old man's lingering regrets, Chen Mu granted Yu Jiujiang a new chance to step back into the Martial World.

Regarding Xu Hongyu, he decided against making any specific arrangements. Her heart’s deepest yearning was the search for her father. While Chen Mu possessed the power to intervene now—restoring her father from the state of Corpse Refinement back to a normal human—it would ultimately be a hollow gesture. Because this was merely a fractured segment of the past, he lacked the means to extract her father from this timeline and bring him into the original Universe, making the effort futile.

"It is certain; Yue’er and Yao’er have truly been swallowed by the past."

Chen Mu did not stay in this pocket of time for long. His form flickered and dissolved, vanishing from the world as his consciousness ascended. He rose until he stood high above the Universe, where the very trajectory of Time became visible to his eyes!

Countless dense 'Universes' manifested within his vision. These were fragmented timelines, sliced away from the original Universe by the Power of Time. They appeared infinite in number, though a Dao Venerable possessed the strength to obliterate them by force.

Within that vast expanse,

Chen Yue and Chen Yao had been pulled into two separate, broken temporal dimensions.

Unlike Chen Mu, the two girls were not Dao Venerables and could not see through the temporal mists. Their memories were completely veiled; to their perception, they had simply returned to a specific point in their own history.

Chen Mu turned his attention toward those two fractured spaces, both of which housed a version of 'himself.' However, that 'Chen Mu' was nothing more than a projection. Though it appeared to experience human emotions like grief or joy, it was actually a construct following a fixed, predetermined path of evolution.

Should he use his power as a Dao Venerable to meddle even slightly with that chaotic fragment, the past 'himself' would instantly transform into a mindless puppet. It would become a projection severed from its natural course, stripped of the ability to evolve.

Naturally,

He could choose to let his primary consciousness descend into any specific moment, replacing the projection entirely. Yet, even after doing so, he would be bound by the laws of temporal evolution. Attempting to forcibly alter the past timeline would trigger massive resistance; the more significant the change to the future, the more intense that resistance would become.

Still, such rules only applied to the standard timeline. These regions were broken timelines forged by the Power of Time, entirely detached from the original Universe. Here, he could descend as he pleased, changing anything or even wiping the timelines out of existence.

"The System panel, a Supreme Treasure of Transcendence... it is truly enigmatic."

A faint light shimmered in Chen Mu's eyes as he observed his past incarnations within those two temporal zones.

Even though he had not fully mastered the Dao of Time, his status as a twin Venerable of Creation and Void meant his understanding of the Time Lineage had reached Nine Layer Heavens Perfection. He grasped many secrets of how time evolved, yet the System panel remained a total mystery that he could not fathom.

This was because within those fragments of broken time... the System panel existed there as well!

Even for a Dao Venerable, there should only be a single true timeline. How could a Supreme Treasure of Transcendence like the System panel not be unique? This phenomenon proved that his observations were missing something, and his perceptions were still limited.

Chen Mu looked over the various broken spaces, each containing his past projection and a functional System panel. However, whenever he tried to interfere or trace the System panel's roots through his past self, it was like reaching for the moon's reflection in a pool of water—completely useless.

It was beyond understanding.

Chen Mu gave a slow shake of his head.

Despite being a Dao Venerable, he remained entirely in the dark regarding powers at the level of Transcendence. He could neither comprehend them nor unravel their secrets.