All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes-Chapter 1610 - 349: Embrace and Sacrifice (2/8)
More and more, an increasing number of Stars are descending, falling onto the earth, their splashes like one starry lotus after another.
What has happened exactly?
The people who composed themselves, along with many Heavenly Venerates and Heavenly Demons, could not fathom why this phenomenon was occurring over the entire Huai Xu realm.
However, the so-called wisdom is the ability to infer the unknown, especially for those who have seen a similar scene before.
[Stars fall from the heavens, the Heavenly River surges back; golden lotuses bloom on the ground, all things rejuvenate, could it be... the phenomenon of Harmonization?]
The Haotian Mirror murmured, and the Heavenly Essence Four Saints were even more astonished: [An Jing... has been chosen by the Huai Xu Heavenly Dao for Harmonization?!]
In fact, this is not the case.
Because An Jing wasn’t chosen for Harmonization.
Instead, An Jing was chosen to become the [Heavenly Dao]!
At this moment.
An Jing heard a voice.
"Why reject?"
A voice, a will.
A form of communication that is not verbal.
It was as if someone was whispering softly by his ear, or like being gently embraced in a soft bosom, a light yet abundant, a graceful yet grand will that directly resonated in the deepest part of An Jing’s soul and spirit.
Heavenly Mandate.
In the deepest part of An Jing’s Heart Soul, amidst the fire and light of the [Heavenly Destiny·Seven Calamities], such an echo resounded: "What you wish for and desire to do shall come to pass as you will. What you abhor and detest shall also vanish as you desire."
"An Jing, soul from another world, the ignited Fire Seed, resisting destiny’s mandate, I have seen your assent, and I have also seen your refusal. In all other infinite futures, infinitely many versions of you have chosen [acceptance]."
"But why... only you."
"Choose [rejection]?"
An Jing slightly opened his mouth; he wanted to speak, but words were no longer needed.
Because there’s no need to inquire whose will this is.
And whatever he wished to say, there was no need for a response; [naturally], it would be known.
—You haven’t even solved the problem of the Heavenly Demon, and you want me to fill in?
Such a thought flashed through An Jing’s heart, but in the next instant, he furrowed his brow.
No, that’s not right.
Perhaps it was a Heavenly Revelation, or maybe it was his own wisdom, An Jing thought of a possibility.
Something he hadn’t seriously considered before due to the vast distance, but now, upon earnest reflection, he considered it as a possibility.
"Are you..."
An Jing hesitated: "Planning to take all the Heavenly Demon’s corruption away from the Huai Xu Realm—and then leave a pure and clean Huai Xu Realm for me?"
—Too far-fetched.
—How could such good fortune happen?
Even in fantasies within fantasies, in dreams before dreaming, one wouldn’t imagine such good fortune happening to oneself... how could it? A Heavenly Dao of a Great Realm choosing self-sacrifice, bearing all suffering, calamity, and corruption upon itself, and then leaving, bequeathing a pure and peaceful, clean and stable world for posterity...
The greatest beneficiary of this would be himself.
Could such a thing... really happen?
It will.
Of course, it will. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
Since the beginning of Huai Xu, all Heavenly Mandates have involved those chosen, with the potential to assume the position of Harmonization, as Huai Xu Heavenly Dao sifts through all possible future outcomes, selecting the optimal result. Each of them possesses the potential to become Harmonized and... the [potential] to bear the Heavenly Dao Authority.
The so-called [potential] isn’t merely a possibility, but because of [recognition], thus there is [capability], it is the trend lifted from beyond the infinite [Chaos].
It’s not about enduring the tide, but making a choice in the torrents.
Even individuals who theoretically cannot bear the Heavenly Dao Authority, if recognized by the Heavenly Dao and if the being themselves recognize, then the choice made by the Heavenly Dao and this being can filter and elevate from the infinitely complete potentiality, [renew] and rise, even to the extent of Creation from Nothing, creating a [possibility].
As long as An Jing [recognizes] such a future, the Heavenly Dao will proceed as such.
The Huai Xu Heavenly Dao shall incarnate as the strongest Heavenly Demon, Holy Demon, in Huai Xu’s history, then with its power and will, assimilate all lower-tier Heavenly Demons and Demonic Qi, then sever itself from the Huai Xu Realm, leaving a pure and clean world to the successors, while it falls into the Abyss Without Bottom.
It can be done, it certainly can be done.
The erosion of the Heavenly Demon on Huai Xu doesn’t affect the fundamental core; Subdue Evil’s sword back then shattered the Heaven and Earth Core but also shattered the power of the Heavenly Demon.
This is currently, if no [miracle] were to occur, the only way to achieve Harmonization in all the possibilities of all beings of the Huai Xu Realm.
"Please don’t speak in a narrative way!"
An Jing tightly grasped Subdue Evil with one hand, and supported his head with the other: "I can hear... you speak normally, right."
This method of conveying similar to narrative instantly imparts information vastly exceeding verbal explanations because words are a distorted form of thought, whereas narrative is an unequivocal, surpassingly true form of thought. If not for An Jing’s status, already considered to be a ’Lord of Cave Heaven,’ he wouldn’t even be able to hear all this.
"I cannot predict even a fraction of your unique possibility."
The gentle yet authoritative, light yet grand will acceded to An Jing’s request: "Thus, I have chosen you."
"Just now, in that instant, countless versions of you agreed to become the new Heavenly Dao, but then in the future, you became mundane, foreseeable, one of the countless possible verities of Huai Xu, distinguished no more, just like me."
"Even though that would still be considered a victory, against the impending great calamity of the demonic tide, I cannot win, and neither might you."
"Only [you], the one present now, because you refused, thus maintaining, thus still unique, still unforeseeable."
"I desire your acquiescence, yet if you acquiesce, perhaps you will also become mundane, I cannot judge, cannot predict, thus I desire to know... your answer."
"An Jing, what do you think?"
An Jing stayed silent for a while, then said: "Because I still don’t know why."
He took a deep breath, at this moment, the Martial Artist tightly grasped Subdue Evil, and while Subdue Evil had not yet awakened from slumber, that inherent power was enough to prevent him from being forcibly Harmonized, but at this moment, An Jing also noticed that, after his refusal, the Huai Xu Heavenly Dao indeed didn’t force him to Harmonize.
Indeed. The Huai Xu Heavenly Dao is a being that knows both past and future, battling Supreme Heart Demon across infinite parallel timelines, concurrently observing infinite possibilities. In theory, in front of the infinite, whether he refuses or consents, the possibilities are infinite.
Yet, in reality, infinite versions of himself agreed, but only one version of him, knowing full well, that Huai Xu would take away all the demonic corrosion, chose not to become the Heavenly Dao, thereby...
Refusal.
What makes him truly special?
"I simply feel."
So, An Jing candidly expressed his thought: "I clearly can save you in the future, so why rush?"
