Chapter 233: Chapter 147: The Bones of Countless Immortal Kings Pave My Road

On a small island.

A dark-skinned man who looked like a fisherman suddenly raised his head, looking in the direction of the Yongchang Kingdom’s Celestial Capital.

He carried a wooden bucket in his hand. Large fish thrashed about inside, but they could never escape the small container.

"Five hundred years... I’ve finally waited for this fish, and a big one at that..."

WHOOSH.

The man abruptly vanished from where he stood.

On an ice plain.

Gales howled across the vast expanse, sharp and biting like the roars of a furious dragon.

A figure amidst the endless snow and ice relentlessly threw punch after punch.

The afterimages of his fists were fierce, tearing rift after rift into the surrounding space.

The sheer force caused the endless snow and ice to instantly vaporize, surging back up into the sky.

He suddenly stopped his punches and looked up at the sky in surprise and doubt.

"Hm? The Celestial Gate is about to open, yet someone is still able to achieve Enlightenment? Interesting, truly interesting. It would be a real shame not to go and meet such a person!"

He tore through the endless snow and ice, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

「At the same moment.」

From the Eastern Divine Land to the Antarctic Ice Sheet, the North Sea Islands, and the Western Continent, every Immortal King in the Immortal Sects, and even the Loose Cultivator Immortal Kings, all sensed this intangible fluctuation in Heaven and Earth!

Everyone was spurred into action by the news.

They had only one destination.

The Yongchang Kingdom’s Celestial Capital!

...

’Destiny... Destiny... It is formless and without substance, yet it is everywhere. It is the air, the flowing water, the plants and trees, the livestock, every single person... The great torrent of humanity, the changing of mountains and rivers, the shifting of the stars—none can escape its grasp.’

Wang Xiao was immersed in this strange sensation.

He felt as if the entirety of Heaven and Earth had been encompassed within a grand dream he had woven.

Relying on this peculiar experience, he had finally managed to capture the Destiny Great Dao Rules.

Wisps of energy swirled continuously in the hands of his Great Daoist Nascent Soul, exuding an incredibly profound aura that was both detached from and integrated with the mortal world.

This energy was slowly taking shape, transforming into a pale golden fruit.

This was the Dao Fruit that Wang Xiao was condensing.

The Destiny Dao Fruit.

Of course.

For the Destiny Dao Fruit to fully form, it still required the polish of time.

However.

As long as nothing unexpected happened, condensing the Destiny Dao Fruit was merely a matter of time.

This process could be long or short, but it would inevitably be completed.

For Wang Xiao had already overcome the most difficult step.

’Although the Dao Fruit has yet to fully form, I can already wield a portion of its power. Is this the origin of Divine Techniques? No, the power I’m using now can’t be called a Divine Technique. It can only be considered a prototype of one.’

Wang Xiao carefully savored the vast information and power flowing from the still-unformed golden Dao Fruit.

This power far surpassed the Gang Qi that Wang Xiao could wield.

This was Dao Power!

All things in existence could form a Dao.

But among the myriad Great Dao Rules, there was a hierarchy.

The Origin Great Dao was supreme.

Next were the Basic Great Daos involved in the workings of Heaven and Earth, such as the Five Elements, wind, lightning, and thunder.

After that were the Natural Great Daos that supported the workings of Heaven and Earth, such as Slaughter, Emotion, Weaponry, and Literature.

And last were the unorthodox Daos, such as Puppetry and Glamour. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

The Origin Great Dao was the most difficult to comprehend, but once condensed, its Dao Power was also the most formidable!

Of course.

Dao Power did not represent the strength one could actually exert; it only represented a person’s potential.

It was like water in a pool. The Dao Fruit was the pool, Dao Power was the water, and Divine Techniques were the water pump.

How much water it could hold depended on the size of the pool.

How much power could be unleashed depended on the strength of the water pump.

If one comprehended a stronger Divine Technique, even an unorthodox Dao could surpass a Natural Great Dao or even a Basic Great Dao.

’I wonder... with my current strength, could I fight an Earth Immortal?’

Wang Xiao silently activated his Destiny Dao Fruit and felt as if the fates of all living beings were held in his hands.

However, with his current strength, he could only interfere with the destinies of those who were deeply connected to him. Otherwise, he had no way of influencing them at all.

After activating the Destiny Dao Fruit, he could see a thread of fate on every person, connecting their past to their future.

Although it was called a thread, manipulating it was incredibly difficult.

He could manipulate the threads of mortals to some extent, but when it came to Cultivators—especially powerful ones—it was another matter entirely.

Their every move could cause fluctuations in Heaven and Earth. How could it possibly be easy to manipulate their destinies?!

Unless they took the initiative to entangle their fate with his own.

In that way, by manipulating his own thread of fate, Wang Xiao might be able to influence the fates of others.

Wang Xiao called this the "Hand of Destiny." It was the prototype of the Divine Technique he had just begun to comprehend.

From behind him, Shangguan Xiyue couldn’t help but speak up. "Young Master, are you all right?"

She had been by her young master’s side for seventy-eight years, and this was the first time she had ever seen him so lost in a daze.

However, she also knew that Eunuch Chen held a special place in her young master’s heart.

If not for Eunuch Chen, her young master likely would have died young, never living to see this day.

Now that Eunuch Chen had passed away—albeit from old age—it was inevitable that the Young Master would be saddened.

But she had the faint feeling that her young master had changed somehow. She just couldn’t tell what exactly that change was.

In the past sixty years, she had merely integrated her True Form with Heaven and Earth, taken control of a portion of their authority, and become a Human Immortal.

She was still a long way from achieving Enlightenment and becoming an Immortal King.

And the fluctuations in Heaven and Earth that Wang Xiao was emitting could only be sensed by Cultivators at or above the Immortal King realm.