All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes-Chapter 1508 - 276: Sovereign of a Realm, Heavenly Heart and Heavenly Mandate (2/8)
"Save, save me—"
In the Ghost Capital of Shenjing, the many Shenjing people who had been fortunate enough to have offerings of incense in the Ghost Capital screamed and fled in panic, as the space-time of the Ghost Capital began to violently tremble due to the aftershocks of An Jing and Yin Gujin’s clash.
Although these unleashed forces were not intentionally targeting them, they indeed caused a part of the Ghost Capital of Shenjing to collapse.
The continent originally floating above the endless Sea of Suffering of the Netherworld thus began to crumble, and the affected part of the Underworld’s land sank violently.
The land, constructed from incense and faith, was covered by even stronger faith, turning into void, making many Soul Spirits not floating in the air but bound by incense in the city scream as they fell, plummeting into the sea.
Yet, amidst the countless Soul Spirits’ panic, some Soul Spirits, not bound by incense, floating in the air, mocked before as ’outsiders’ by other Soul Spirits, discovered something incredible.
Underneath the entire land of the Ghost Capital of Shenjing, apart from incense and dust, lay immense, intertwined, and complex tree roots.
Those were... the roots of the Immortal Candle Shining Immortal Tree!
They were deep and mysterious, extending straight to the bottom of the Sea of Suffering, seemingly endless, but golden incense roots emerged from the root system, wrapping around those ’elite lost souls’ who could settle in the Ghost Capital due to ritual offerings.
These incense roots endowed these lost souls with ’substantial’ rights in the Underworld, allowing them to eat and enjoy as if alive rather than being phantom bodies, ensuring these Soul Spirits would not entirely fall into the Sea of Suffering after the collapse of the Ghost Capital of Shenjing, and wouldn’t be eroded by the Netherworld.
But for some reason, a great terror swept through the hearts of all the lost souls witnessing this scene.
Although the residents of Shenjing had been annihilated by the strong today, beforehand, many Soul Spirits presumably lived in the Ghost Capital too, definitely a considerable number.
Especially since Shenjing never lacked wealthy familial clans capable of worshipping ancestors for eighteen generations, their lingering incense meant they could have slaves and attendants in the Underworld, just like in the present world.
But if so...
Where have they gone now?
No time to ponder this answer.
For in the present world, the two figures responsible for all this destruction were still clashing.
"I see, you are no longer mortal, you are a ruler of realms; your Manifesting Holy and Pure Yang fundamentally have no difference!"
At this moment, relying on the feedback from their engagement, Yin Gujin understood An Jing’s essence: "Moreover, you hold the Four Great Immortal Professions—if it were the Human Clan, even if it were the Dragon Clan, mastering the Four Immortal Professions would undoubtedly be incredibly powerful, yet even so, it would be impossible to confront Lingxiao."
"But if it were a realm, it would be completely different! With a world of such magnitude and infinite potential similarly growing, operating the Four Great Immortal Professions is precisely what Lingxiao ’aspires to be like’!"
The cultivation of the Human Clan, from the beginning to the end, encompassed one phrase, ’borrow the false to cultivate the true’, or one character - ’imitate’.
Because they were neither Spirit Beasts, nor True Dragons, nor Heaven and Earth, they simulated analogous structures on human bodies, substitute, mimic, thus transforming the false into the true.
The difference between Martial Arts Manifestation and Pure Yang was originally ’condensing one’s true intent of heaven and earth, demonstrating it to the World, becoming a ruler’, then further refining the true intent into a Daoist Form like the Heavenly Heart, subsequently truly peering at the initial infinite, possessing power akin to the Heavenly Dao in one’s domain’.
As for Lingxiao, it was even more terrifying, its essence transcending heaven and earth, no longer possessing but controlling, mastering, and capable of infinitely driving Heavenly Will Divine Power.
But if so, what if there was ’a world will’ pursuing the Human Clan’s Dao path, then they could completely blend Manifesting Holy and Pure Yang!
Because they wouldn’t need Great Heaven’s Sanctification, they were innately the ’Great Heavenly Sacred’ of their world, nor would they need to construct their Pure Yang Dao Palace, for their world, their body, was their ’Great Dao Palace’!
Not to mention, this world will was also the ’Heavenly Mandate’ of a greater world!
"Incredible, is this truly the Feather Transformation Dao’s purpose? The previous Dao path required humans to transcend into immortals, then simulate heaven and earth as immortals, indeed adding a step, so you went directly to the goal, becoming the heart of heaven and earth!"
Because battles are the quickest means of communication among martial artists, a thousand words are not worth one punch; the collision of An Jing and Yin Gujin’s forces not only allowed Yin Gujin to peer into the essence of Feather Transformation Dao but also allowed An Jing to peer into the essence of Yin Gujin’s power.
All Heavenly Officials have no Fate Pattern, theoretically unable to cultivate, but it’s exactly that word ’imitate’; the Dragon Qi Talisman can simulate the Fate Pattern, filtering Demonic Qi with Human Dao Dragon Qi, allowing Heavenly Officials not only to operate Divine Skills but also to cultivate.
Though most Heavenly Officials, upon knowing their posthumous life’s cultivation power would return to the Imperial Court, don’t particularly value this fact, Yin Gujin was entirely different; ever since he was bestowed the talisman 4,900 years ago, he has devotedly cultivated, honing his Soul and Spirit.
Spiritual Fiend, physical body, Divine Skills, Dao Law, none of it mattered, the Heavenly Official Talisman would automatically cultivate for him, he only cultivated Soul Spirit, only divine sense, thus during his appointment as General Manifestation, he achieved the ’Path of Nature’, subsequently attaining the ’Way of Laws’ in Pure Yang.
And when he became the Grand Marshal of the World, he became Lingxiao, further perceiving the essence of the world’s Spiritual Fiend, recognizing the essence of Spirit Qi transcending time and space, achieving the ’Spirit Path’ through the ’Taiyin Wuji’.
His Soul and Spirit, strong and tenacious to an incredible degree, where he passed, heaven and earth law also altered accordingly, capable of with an unimaginable will, directly blurring the boundary of reality and illusion, briefly annulling the constraints of heaven and earth on oneself, achieving ’complete control’.
This was his cultivation of ’Heavenly Will Divine Power’ after achieving Lingxiao!
And this deep and unfathomable, stubbornly tenacious divine sense was not only spreading in the Huai Xu Realm, but it also sought to probe into An Jing’s body through their clashing fist, even directly into An Jing’s Cave Heaven!
However, to Yin Gujin’s surprise, his exceptionally pure soul’s divine sense, regarded as unparalleled, no longer effortlessly persisted as it had in the past; rather, touching An Jing’s true core, it dispersed and vanished.
"Is this the Heavenly Mandate? Seven Fiend Tribulation truly extraordinary"
Thinking thus, Yin Gujin laughed heartily, only feeling joyful: "Now this is interesting!"
And at that very moment, An Jing also furrowed his brow. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢
He used the Heavenly Punishment Sword Intent to annihilate the divine sense contained in Yin Gujin’s fist, defending impeccably, yet the divine sense contained in Yin Gujin’s fist branched off, doubling with each extinguished thought.
And within an instant thousands of thoughts, he and Yin Gujin had exchanged blows over six moments, but Yin Gujin’s divine sense still branched off, apparently the Grand Governor’s research into the ’Path of Nature’ had reached an unimaginable extent, easily capable of counting billions of reincarnations in the universe’s material particles.
Though it still wasn’t true infinity, it belonged within the realm of Lingxiao; possessing such a divine sense, even if it leveraged ’Taiyin Wuji’ to connect to future and infinitely parallel timelines, lacked qualitative transformation only a sheer quantity pile-up, yet piled to this extent, his strength absolutely cannot be only this.
