Chapter 232: Chapter 147: Paving My Path with the Bones of Immortal Kings

Inside the Imperial Palace.

BZZZMM!

Wang Xiao felt as if he were inside a vast, magnificent scroll painting.

The scroll was composed of a colossal canvas, which in turn was woven from countless fine threads.

Upon it stood countless people, alongside sprawling cities, towering mountains, and great rivers...

It was like a 3D ink wash painting that contained everything in the world.

The scene upon it was not static.

Instead, it changed bit by bit as time flowed on.

The people on it—from all walks of life, be they high officials and nobles, common folk, or Cultivators—all, without exception, experienced the vicissitudes of life, its endless changes, its cycle of birth, age, sickness, and Death.

City after city experienced rises and falls, moments of splendor and desolation.

River after great river underwent immense transformations, flowing ceaselessly until they dried up and vanished.

This was all the living beings under heaven, everything in the world... It was also... Destiny!

People have a Destiny, cities have a Destiny, and so too do mountains and rivers.

All these Destinies, woven together, formed the fate of humanity and the grand fortune of Heaven and Earth!

’Destiny is intangible, without trace or track, yet it encompasses everything in the world. Everyone is within Destiny.’

Wang Xiao felt his Divine Thought drift higher and higher, gazing down upon the vast scroll painting before him.

The rises and falls, the glory and disgrace upon it, all unfolded before his eyes.

He finally understood why Destiny was so hard to fathom, why the world was so impermanent.

To see Destiny clearly, or even just to catch a trace of it, one had to leap out of the vast Torrent of Destiny and behold its true face.

It was just as the saying goes: you can’t see the true face of the mountain when you’re standing on it.

At this moment, Wang Xiao used the mortal world’s fortune he had accumulated over the years, finally turning it into a springboard to launch himself out of the Torrent of Destiny and catch a trace of it!

Afterward, under the power of his Analyze All Things Talent, this trace grew more and more distinct, clearer and clearer. Finally, it transformed into an intangible aura that Wang Xiao could control and condense!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

As Wang Xiao achieved Enlightenment, his Inner World merged with Heaven and Earth, releasing a vast cosmic ripple.

With the Celestial Capital as its epicenter, it spread out like a boundless ripple.

It swept from one province to all Nine Provinces, reaching every corner of the Yongchang Kingdom.

But the ripple didn’t stop there.

It seemed to set off a chain reaction of fluctuations in Heaven and Earth, crossing beyond the Yongchang Kingdom into the Witchcraft Gu Country, then to the Kangding Country and the Liang Kingdom.

It reached one Immortal Sect after another, one Blessed Land after another, one island after another...

It was as if the entire world was affected by this fluctuation, stirred by its subtle ripple.

However faint the ripple was, it was still detected by a select few.

These individuals were the Earth Immortals of each Immortal Sect.

As well as the various Immortal Kings who were in the process of verifying their own Dao.

Though the ripple was faint, to their perception, it was nothing less than a titanic wave.

Like a great boulder crashing into a placid pool!

「Vast Immortal Sect.」

Inside a small, elegant courtyard.

Master Wuji was sitting in meditation with his eyes closed, circulating the Heaven and Earth Laws to temper his own True Form.

Suddenly, his brows furrowed. He snapped his eyes open, his gaze turning toward the Yongchang Kingdom’s Celestial Capital.

"Someone has achieved Enlightenment. Could it be that Sovereign of Yongchang?"

"So... so that’s how it is. He forged a new path, using the masses as a bridge to help himself attain Enlightenment. To succeed in just sixty short years... A heaven-sent talent, a truly heaven-sent talent!"

He had originally thought that no matter how great the Sovereign of Yongchang’s Talent was, it would take him one or two hundred years to achieve Enlightenment.

But he never expected it would happen in just sixty years!

"It would be a true shame for such a heaven-sent talent to die."

Master Wuji took out a Talisman, flicked it with his finger, and transmitted a message:

"Ming Yu, take a decree from me to the Celestial Capital and deliver it to the Sovereign of Yongchang!"

...

North of the Witchcraft Gu Country lay a range of deep, ancient mountains and forests.

This forest was perpetually shrouded in black gas and poisonous miasma. Even a Cultivator at the True Form Realm couldn’t last long inside without special protection.

Yet, deep within these ancient mountains, there was a mountain range that was pitch-black from top to bottom.

The range resembled a gigantic centipede prostrated between Heaven and Earth.

On each segment of this ’centipede’s’ body, myriads of venomous insects swarmed.

Beneath the insects were palaces and cave abodes.

This was the location of the Witchcraft Gu Immortal Sect!

Suddenly, thick black gas erupted from the palaces and cave abodes.

The black gas coalesced in mid-air, forming numerous faces that spoke in voices old, hoarse, and sinister.

"Someone has achieved Enlightenment. Who could it be?"

"The source is within the Vast Immortal Sect’s sphere of influence."

"It’s that Immortal King who took over the Wenchang Country sixty years ago. He doesn’t seem to belong to the Vast Immortal Sect!"

"JIE JIE JIE, good! This is our chance! That man destroyed our subordinate Witchcraft Gu Country. It’s time for revenge!"

"We must take this chance, before his Law has solidified, to strangle him! Otherwise, he will become a formidable enemy in the future!"

"We Earth Immortals cannot enter the Vast Immortal Sect’s territory, but the Immortal Kings can go to borrow his Law and verify their own Dao!"

"Go, go! Right now, this Sovereign of Yongchang is a juicy prize. Immortal Kings from more than just our Immortal Sect are sure to go. Whether you succeed in borrowing his Law will depend on your own fortune!"

SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!

One figure after another shot forth, stirring up great clouds of black fog and poisonous gas that seemed to poison Space itself.

Accompanied by a chorus of bizarre shrieks,

they rode black clouds and flew toward the Yongchang Kingdom’s Celestial Capital!

「At the same time.」