Chapter 1484: Chapter 522: You’re Wrong, I Am the Other Shore (Part 4)

"All sentient beings possess the Tathagata’s wisdom and virtue, yet they remain submerged in the Bitter Sea, unable to transcend, unable to see the Tathagata, all because the world has not seen me."

At this moment, Hela’s ears seemed to echo Mu Shitian’s final words—

Hela, my friend, in this world, even if one or two, or even a hundred and eighty people reach the Other Shore, what difference does it make? Thus, the Other Shore is never our true pursuit.

"Ji Jingqiu, you will regret it."

Ji Jingqiu murmured: "It is only today I realize that the temple is a prison, trapped within the four corners of the heaven, uneasy in my heart."

It was also at this moment.

Hela began actively approaching Ji Jingqiu.

In the center of Buddha Country.

Unknown when, a Heavenly Maiden with a human head and serpent body surrounded the Buddha Master’s presence, an entity of beauty and allure, pure and unstained, subtly conveying the essence of Great Bliss.

She coiled around the Buddha Master’s back, one hand covering her face, the other over the Buddha Master’s eyes, whispering softly at his ear:

"I dare ask my Buddha, as the great calamity approaches, with the evil demons controlling the Dao, what should be done?"

A transient ripple appeared in Ji Jingqiu’s eyes, then was completely smoothed out.

This was the scheme Marshal Ji had set up once, a self-questioning Dao inquiry now voiced by Hela, as if the story was repeating itself.

"Descend, demons!"

The heavens and earth shook violently.

At this moment.

An exceedingly magnificent will, as relentless as the sun and moon, rose up within the Sea of Realms.

In the Sea of Realms, all who reached the Eight Realms and sensed the Dao tremors were shocked and terrified, and all looked towards—

At the end of their gaze, amidst the scarlet mist, a figure with a human head and serpent body, wearing an imperial crown, loomed faintly, with a hand covering its face.

She slowly lowered her hand from her face, revealing eyes infused with radiant golden light, pure divinity.

Stern and indifferent, ancient and solemn.

...

Waiting in the Netherworld, Doumu Yuanjun lost composure for the first time, as if witnessing something intolerable.

Especially after those chilling golden eyes gazed coldly through the scarlet mist, their expression twisted slightly, infuriated beyond restraint:

"Degenerate and indescribably foolish scum!"

"Actually voluntarily yielded the Dao to lower realm beings, paving the way for them with one’s own body?!"

"Ji Jingqiu, do you truly believe this can evade the detention of the Investiture of the Gods?!"

In a rage, Doumu Yuanjun fully awakened the Investiture of the Gods for the first time, no longer confining Ji Jingqiu, even risking awakening that person, determined to forcibly strip Ji Jingqiu of the Divine Dao Fruit Position!

...

Within the Inner Universe.

After being silent for a long time, the Moon-cutting Sword Light suddenly burst into brilliance, witnessing until now as an Observing Dao, having found the answer on Ji Jingqiu, no longer calling to their true name.

It laughed heartily: "World Venerable, if you are to act, then I, Cang Jian, shall accompany your madness! Lend you a hand!"

A sliver of sword light shot from the Inner Heaven and Earth, wandering like the majestic Great Sun, Supreme Sword Intent circulated within the Sea of Realms, reflecting a towering Sword Dao!

As if the Dao laws of the entire Sea of Realms were intimidated by this magnificent Sword Dao!

One sword light froze the hundreds and thousands of worlds, even Doumu Yuanjun changed color at this moment, unanticipated that Ji Jingqiu still held surprises!

This sliver of sword light reflected a Sword Dao where their true self once established the Transcendence Fruit Position, at this moment with the Dao reflecting the Sea of Realms, even amongst Transcenders’ desperate battles, none could compare!

Now, it treated all things of heaven and earth as swords, all Dao laws must bow in submission at this time!

The Heavenly Court erected layers of divine Forbidden Arrays, blocking foes beyond the Void.

Even though Doumu Yuanjun fears not this sword, yet they are absolutely unwilling to clash at this critical moment, risking potential self-damage.

But this sword was not launched, rather hanging in the Sea of Realms, gathering all its might and drawing forth the heaven and earth Dao into a single point, as if waiting for something.

Until—

A man in a blue robe, with an emptiness and profound aura, stepped into the void space, raising his hands in salute towards the sword light-transformed Sword Dao.

His Daoist title is Wu Fa.

The sword light flickered, saluted in return, then exuberantly descended into Wu Fa Daoist’s hands.

The two silently and seamlessly achieved harmony, like a heart-to-heart communion in the Dao.

With the sword Dao in hand, the Lawless Saint sensed Ji Jingqiu’s special state at this moment, a Dao Rhyme unique to [Xing Wuji], yet seemed to have completely transcended outwards, revealing a smile.

Ji Jingqiu did not abandon their Daoist Method, instead has forged a Heaven-reaching Path!

This proves their path was correct!

Lawless Saint raised the sword, the kind of transcendence from the worldly dust, unrestricted boundless Freedom instantly swept through heaven and earth!

All four directions, from ancient to present, cannot constrain this sword’s utmost brilliance, in the Ten Thousand Realms, none surpass one sword!

This sword is [Taiping Universe Slash Foolish], also [Lawless], truly the sword of Transcendence!

One sword falls, yet not to cut men, but cut karma.

After the sword, the sword Dao condensed into a long sword shattered abruptly at this moment, scattered by the wind.

"Go forth, and sing high!"

The Lawless Saint, after the failure of Shouzhen’s proof of Dao, unleashed his final divine skill. His aura flickered like a candle in the wind, yet he laughed heartily, as if he had truly attained Great Freedom and Great Transcendence.

At this moment, in the Divine Temple opened by Ji Jingqiu with the Divine Treasure Skills.

The God, who had been sitting undisturbed from beginning to end, opened His eyes for the first time. The shackles entwining His body from the Investiture of the Gods shattered at that moment.

That God stood up for the first time, human-headed and snake-bodied. He walked out of the temple, left the Buddha Country, and entered the Pure Land, giving rise to a Bodhi Heart.

Was it the cuckoo occupying the magpie’s nest, or the Dao relying on each other?

Only Hela knew the answer.

As the Divine body carrying the Divine Dao Fruit Position walked out of the temple, returning to Hela, Ji Jingqiu’s Daoist career plummeted alongside it, swiftly falling from near transcendence to True Saint, Dao Ancestor, barely holding onto the Daoist Ancestor’s Initial Realm!

Yet on Ji Jingqiu, Hela saw an incredibly miraculous change.

Why, even though she had seized his path to the Other Shore, did Ji Jingqiu’s spiritual cultivation not retreat but instead advance, as if stepping into another layer of realm?

Hela suddenly looked up, first noticing the strangeness of the True Spirit Heavenly Rank, and exclaimed:

"Ji Jingqiu... are you dragging the True Spirit Heavenly Rank, transforming it into a tangible object, no longer unreachable and hard to find?!"

Doumu tried to use all spirits of all beings as the cornerstone to ascend the True Spirit Heavenly Rank.

Yet at this moment, Ji Jingqiu was laying his own foundation for all beings to glimpse the True Spirit Heavenly Rank, letting the paramount Origin Dao between Heaven and Earth—the True Spirit Immortal Path—truly fall into this Sea of Realms!

Hela suddenly smiled brightly:

"Ji Jingqiu, congratulations, you have found your ’other shore’."

That was Ji Jingqiu’s other shore, but not the other shore for all beings, also the realm Mu Shitian pursued in vain throughout his life.

Back then, he jokingly suggested that this realm might be named...

[Bitter Sea].

It might not surpass the other shore, perhaps it’s just two choices at a crossroads.

...

...

Doumu Yuanjun’s face filled with silent anger.

How could there be someone in this Heaven and Earth capable of breaking the shackles of the Investiture of the Gods?!

Indeed, Ji Jingqiu had seen that man long ago, the name left within the Investiture of the Gods possibly wasn’t his True Name!

The Investiture of the Gods’ hold on him had cracks from the very start!

But before she could respond—

A vast Heaven Rank, like a sea of smoke, descended from above, penetrating countless realms of Heaven and Earth, displayed before the world.

At this moment, everyone felt a resonance and shock from their Spirit’s spiritual light...

"True Spirit Heavenly Rank?!" For the first time, Doumu was speechless.

She stared unblinking at this Heaven Rank, unable to comprehend what means Ji Jingqiu used to summon this True Spirit Heavenly Rank here!

How could he possibly have such capability and skill!!!

Doumu instantly rushed out of the Netherworld, heading towards the Buddha Country, to verify the reality of this Heaven Rank with her own eyes!

Could it be that Ji Jingqiu had found a method to ascend the Heaven Rank directly over the years?

Yet before she could arrive.

The entire Sea of Realms, All Heavens World, all living beings saw such a breathtaking scene—

A "God" descended from the sky, a line plunging to earth.

A "human" rose from the ground, a line opened the sky.

As if two brilliant golden lines connected Heaven and Earth.

And that figure rising from the ground,

human-headed, snake-bodied.

The beginning of the word Dao.

...

Already enlightened Hela, embracing Ji Jingqiu, soared straight up, rising to the level of Dao.

En route, Hela gently lifted Ji Jingqiu’s face, softly saying:

"Ji Jingqiu, you will never reach the other shore."

And the God who forcibly dragged the True Spirit Heavenly Rank from falling, alone said with a laugh:

"You’re wrong."

"I am the other shore."

On this day.

The once final Four Demon, Dream God Hela, achieved the Returning to Truth Fruit Position, becoming the first Transcender of this epoch.

From then on, the situation of this war completely reversed.