Ch 249: . Descending into the Three Kingdoms

“More importantly,” a difficult-to-understand expression appeared in Chu Mo’s eyes, “I now feel like traveling doesn’t require the energy of the Doors of Time!”

What happened?!

Chu Mo stopped in place for a long while, his mind racing.

“Traveling without needing the energy of the Doors of Time… is it because of the Heavenly Dao Authority? These two changes happened at the same time… it’s impossible that there’s no connection!”

“Moreover… does this lack of energy consumption mean… I can be reborn at will? Even if I’m currently reborn in the late Qing Dynasty, after death, I can go back and do it again, with no cooldown, immediately starting another rebirth game, and then choosing another time period to be reborn into…”

Even realizing this, Chu Mo was still not planning to be reborn in the late Qing Dynasty. Even without consumption… such meaningless rebirth would inevitably waste a lot of time!

He continued forward, and when he arrived in the Qianlong era, his eyes twitched slightly. Because he actually saw a brand new tributary appear on the edge of the vast River of Time…

That tributary was initially incomparable to the main River of Time, but as it flowed, its volume continued to increase… one could even see the end of this River of Time. It was still flowing forward at all times… constantly extending…

Yes, compared to the main River of Time, the end of this River of Time could be seen…

“Is this because of me?” Chu Mo’s scalp tingled, and at this moment, he finally realized from a macro perspective what his time travel using the Doors of Time actually meant.

Indeed, it was evolving a parallel world… but he originally thought there were many parallel worlds, so why did it seem like parallel worlds were only created when he time-traveled? Moreover, why was it getting bigger and bigger as it flowed?

Did this mean that… as time passed, one day in the future, this River of Time born from him would become as wide and vast as the main River of Time?

After a long while, Chu Mo raised his head and stared at the Doors of Time above him, wryly smiling, “…What exactly are you?!”

Long ago, Chu Mo had countless guesses about the Doors of Time, but seeing this scene now… he immediately overturned most of his guesses. The position of the Doors of Time was far higher and more outrageous than he had imagined!

Chu Mo continued to move forward, and as he expected, a tributary of the River of Time also appeared at the time node of the late Ming Dynasty. After hesitating slightly, Chu Mo tentatively stepped onto the tributary of the River of Time, and then chose to return to the main River of Time.

“…It really can be done… and it feels like I can be reborn as well!”

In other words, he could actually be reborn into the future of the timeline he created?!

Chu Mo suddenly smiled silently, then strode forward, early Ming Dynasty, the border between the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, early Tang Dynasty…

“Three Kingdoms!” Chu Mo suddenly stopped, staring at the area below, lost in thought for a long time. He was considering whether to intervene at this point in time.

The Three Kingdoms period was extremely special!

Strictly speaking, he was actually in the late Han Dynasty, which was the key time point for degradation… therefore, his power level was not inferior to that of the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties. Moreover, countless talented prodigies appeared in this era, pushing this era to a glory that almost rivaled the peak of the Western Han Dynasty…

Although, the price paid for this was the displacement of the common people.

“Let’s not consider so much for now, let’s first see what time period I can go to earliest!” Chu Mo thought for a while, choosing to first go to the top of the River of Time to take a look. And then…

He easily crossed the boundary line between the Qin and Han Dynasties.

At this moment, he noticed the change.

“…The Heavenly Dao Authority has disappeared… and I also no longer have that feeling of not needing to expend the energy of the Doors of Time when going against the current… Is it as I thought?”

“No, it’s not just that…”

Chu Mo suddenly realized something was wrong. He looked down, discovering that he couldn’t even see what was happening in that time period. He subconsciously took a step back, finding that he had actually returned to the time of the early Han Dynasty.

“…This kind of thing can really be done? Well, wanting to go against the current, no matter how you think about it, requires more power than going with the current… However, this kind of regression can’t go to a time too long before the Qin Dynasty, and then regress again…”

After all, going up to the Qin Dynasty and beyond required consuming the energy of the Doors of Time. Under this circumstance, even if he regressed back, although there was no problem, the energy was actually consumed.

However, within the scope of the Heavenly Dao Authority, from the early Han Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, it was all at will.

“There’s also a difference!” Chu Mo clenched his fists, his expression strange. He took a step forward, his body actually entering the timeline of the early Han Dynasty.

Liu Bang was happily drinking, sitting on his throne, looking at his good brothers, he said softly, “I finally did it… beyond imagination… Hmm? Who’s there!”

Liu Bang’s gaze suddenly became sharp. The originally drunken Liu Bang was like a drawn blade at this moment.

Moreover, many of his important ministers also sobered up at this moment. Some stood up, some held the long swords at their waists, and some were surrounded by the three energies of essence, qi, and spirit.

However…

After scanning for a long time, they were unable to detect the slightest problem. In the end, they could only stare at Liu Bang in confusion.

After a brief silence, Liu Bang suddenly laughed, waving his hand domineeringly, “It must have just been my illusion… Continue the music, continue the dance…”

The atmosphere changed from solemn to carefree in just an instant. And this also showed how high Liu Bang’s prestige was in the eyes of his subordinates…

A moment later.

Liu Bang lazily left the palace, walking in the empty corridor, “This is my empire…”

His voice was very soft, then he slowly turned his head, his eyes shining frighteningly at this moment. There was a kind of divine aura flowing. Like a roaring black dragon!

“If you want to find me to do something… now is your best time!”

He stood with his hands behind his back, domineering and arrogant, staring intently at the corner of the wall. After a long while, not detecting the slightest problem, Liu Bang scratched his head, “…Was it really my illusion?”

After being puzzled, he wandered around a few more times, returning again, muttering to himself, “Was I really drunk?”

“…Truly amazing!” Chu Mo watched Liu Bang’s figure disappear, sincerely exclaiming. He was actually able to realize something was wrong… Of course, he only realized something was wrong!

The corner Liu Bang was looking at earlier was not where Chu Mo was at all, so it was very clear… he actually didn’t see through Chu Mo’s ability in this state.

“It’s also normal!” Chu Mo smiled silently, sensing the surging power flowing within his body, “Because I am the Heavenly Dao!”

Yes, Chu Mo discovered the most terrifying and bug-like aspect of the Heavenly Dao Authority. Or rather… the combination of the Heavenly Dao Authority and the Doors of Time produced an extremely terrifying amplification effect.

That was, no matter which time period from the early Han Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty he was reborn into, he could use the Heavenly Dao Authority.

In other words… as long as he descended into this era, he would be the most powerful expert!

“I just don’t know, if I use the power of the Heavenly Dao here… to sweep away all the experts! Would I directly condense into a top-level Heroic Spirit when I return?” Chu Mo clicked his tongue. He sensed that the limit of the world in the early Han Dynasty was the peak of the Eighth Level.

Shaking his head, Chu Mo’s divine sense left this world, re-entering the River of Time, “Moreover… if I haven’t been reborn, or rather, if I use the Heavenly Dao Authority to directly have my body reborn, in the state of a soul, I can still leave this time point again…”

“Wait a moment!” Chu Mo realized a blind spot, “If I die at a certain time point, re-entering the state of a soul, then can I use the soul to continue extending forward…”

Chu Mo pondered. If he could, then it would be really interesting. That meant that he might be able to be reborn several times during this period from the early Han Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty… and even not choose to return to the main world in the middle?

The problem was…

“If I really do this, will I awaken several Heroic Spirits at once in the future? Or will I simply awaken one Heroic Spirit that can span the River of Time!” Chu Mo’s eyes flickered with a strange light. He felt like he could try it.

Since he decided to experiment, he naturally couldn’t directly be reborn into the early Han Dynasty the first time. He began to regress, finally regressing to the Three Kingdoms period. Although he could continue going with the flow to the Jin Dynasty, thinking about the environment of the Jin Dynasty… well, Chu Mo still felt that he shouldn’t go to that era, lest his blood pressure rise.

His soul randomly landed at a certain point in time.

Emperor Ling of Han was in power.

“…What kind of identity should I create for myself?” Chu Mo said softly, his eyes slightly narrowed. Using the Heavenly Dao Authority, he saw the harem of Emperor Ling of Han, where someone was pregnant…

If he wanted to, he could be reborn as the future Emperor Xian of Han. However, in the end, Chu Mo did not choose to take that step.

Previously, unconscious rebirth was called having no choice… Now that he could choose autonomously, if he still became someone else’s son… wouldn’t that be too cheap! Even in the current time period, he could still be called the Heavenly Dao! Would the Heavenly Dao rush to become the son of an emperor, or even a foolish emperor like Emperor Ling of Han? Everyone who heard that would laugh. Especially since the emperor was called the Son of Heaven… they would be father and son to each other.

Chu Mo let his consciousness rise without limit, finally, with a God’s-eye view, overlooking the evolution of the world.

The Roman Empire in the West, the Great Han in the East, and…

“Jade Emperor.” Chu Mo looked at a deity standing on the edge of the Divine Court, expressionless, peering at the land of the Han Dynasty through the cracks of the world, his eyes twitching slightly.

It was a bit outrageous!

Someone of your status and position… peeking?!

“…Although it’s also normal!” Chu Mo rubbed his forehead, sensing carefully, a slight ripple stirring in his heart.

On the land of the Divine Province, talented prodigies were standing in great numbers at this moment.

Xiang Yu had not yet grown to his peak, but at this moment, he already possessed the strength of the peak of the Seventh Level… terrifyingly powerful! Slaughtering dragons on the frontier… the demons who descended from outside the sky, born powerful, were like chickens waiting to be slaughtered in front of Xiang Yu!

Most importantly…

“The top-level expert actually!” Chu Mo narrowed his eyes. Perhaps because he had not yet condensed into a physical body, so he could enter the River of Time at any time, or perhaps because of the Heavenly Dao Authority… therefore, he could see Xiang Yu’s future…

That was the existence of the peak of the Eighth Level!

This was too outrageous… No wonder Jade Emperor was peeking. There was no generational difference in strength between the upper realm and the human realm. It could only be said that the human realm purely had fighting ability, without all kinds of spells, while the immortals and gods controlled all kinds of divine powers… This was the biggest difference!

“Later generations have a pile of this kind of divine power… In other words, although power is constantly declining as time passes, the methods controlled by the mortal realm are becoming more and more numerous?” Chu Mo was thoughtful.

However, having said that, Liu Bang in the early Han Dynasty was only at the peak of the Eighth Level. And he was already the top expert of that era!

“In other words… from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, there appeared top-level experts of the same level…” Chu Mo’s expression was complicated, then he keenly saw something, “So that’s how it is… From the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was degrading, but the speed was very slow! So although the overall strength of the experts was constantly declining… the upper limit of the world was still exactly the same.”

As long as you were talented enough, you could break through to the peak of the Eighth Level!

Liu Bang did it!

Emperor Wu of Han did it.

Huo Qubing did it.

Even the barbarian tribes of the grasslands during the time of Emperor Wu of Han produced several such existences…

Even in the late Eastern Han Dynasty…

“Not just Lü Bu… Zhao Yun in his prime will also touch this threshold in the future.” Chu Mo smiled silently, then began to seriously comprehend and absorb the many knowledge of this era. Although he could retrieve it with the database during the early Tang Dynasty… after all, the world had already degraded at that time, and high-level knowledge was difficult to preserve.

But now, the mysteries of those techniques, without the suppression of the world… were all complete! Unblemished!

That was the mystery that could always reach the peak of the Eighth Level!

Chu Mo was engrossed in learning, his understanding without the slightest bottleneck… After all, coming to this era, as the Heavenly Dao, even in the state of a soul, he truly possessed the foundation of the peak of the Eighth Level!

Time passed bit by bit.

When Chu Mo regained consciousness, he discovered that time had passed rapidly… it was now the time when the Eighteen Routes of Lords were attacking Hulao Pass.

“…Damn, how many years have passed!!” Chu Mo was a bit confused. Being in that state earlier, absorbing knowledge, he didn’t notice the change in time at all.

“Originally… I was preparing…” Chu Mo’s expression was a bit heavy. He was originally planning to intervene before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, after all… that was truly a group of common people who couldn’t survive, starting a rebellion.

However, after thinking for a moment, Chu Mo sighed, “…It’s meaningless to me.”

Because if Chu Mo wanted to, he could completely leave the world again at this moment, enter the River of Time, and then go to the time period before the Yellow Turban Rebellion again, intervening again… and then, do what he wanted to do…

To Chu Mo, who controlled the Heavenly Dao Authority and possessed the Doors of Time! So-called time was something that could be easily overturned…

“This feeling… No wonder people always say the Heavenly Dao is ruthless! Although, the ruthlessness of the Heavenly Dao should be different from my kind of ruthlessness…”

Chu Mo shook his head. In this situation where he could easily load saves and possessed the Heavenly Dao Authority, being invincible… he could easily treat the entire world as a game. Once he treated it as a game, he naturally couldn’t invest emotions! Wouldn’t that be ruthlessness?

Patting his cheeks, Chu Mo locked onto a tent, where the top heroes of this era were gathering, exchanging ideas.

Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao…

After thinking for a moment, Chu Mo moved his mind, and a terrifying energy fluctuation gathered within his body. He quickly transformed into a slender young man, his appearance, posture, and aura exactly the same as in the main world…