All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes-Chapter 1613 - 352: Dangerous All-Possibility (5/8)
"This..."
An Jing closed his eyes in deep thought, and when he opened them again, he exhaled slowly, saying, "It’s too dangerous."
"Oh... you have noticed," said the Huai Xu Heavenly Dao with a sense of relief, "You have become aware of the danger I pose, which surpasses many Dao Masters of the past."
"Too dangerous," An Jing solemnly stated, "because your existence represents ’all possibilities.’"
An Jing understood this.
A mortal may make a wish to the Heavenly Venerate, hoping for a lifetime of happiness and peace. The Heavenly Venerate can grant him a conceptually normal life of happiness and peace, with a virtuous spouse, obedient children, and free from illness and disaster.
A mortal may wish to the Harmonization Dao for a lifetime of happiness and peace, and the Harmonization can grant him infinite lifetimes of happiness and peace across infinitely different worlds. Although the methods of realization may vary, with thrill and peril intertwined, the conclusion will always converge, maintaining the original definition.
But if a mortal were to wish to Embracing the Void for a lifetime of happiness and peace...
It would be best to be precise.
First, one must define what ’self’ is.
Define what ’happiness’ is.
Define what ’peace’ is.
Define what ’life’ is.
Besides this, it’s best to clearly define what is human, what hope is, what love is, what a positive trend is.
Otherwise, with Embracing the Void’s power, it can materialize countless infinite futures, granting a broad conceptual lifetime of happiness—whether it’s becoming a tree, being transformed into a limb-less person in ecstasy by a sickly lover, becoming a microbe with only a three-second lifespan, a wisp of wind, a rock, or a frantic grub in a sea of feces—all are possible.
Even becoming a happy raccoon rummaging through trash, a bouncing little piglet, or a turtle that can fly, can be seen as a joyful, happy life.
Human words are weak, thoughts are like water, like wind, a form of sensation; whereas words are marks etched in stone, filled with ambiguity and loopholes, needing to be filled.
But even water and wind have gaps, unless human language is surpassed, using the language of the Great Dao, otherwise, the Great Dao always has possibilities beyond human imagination to fill in.
In overly perfect and dense possibilities, everything is possible, all meanings thus shift, all requirements are misinterpreted, deviating from their original significance.
Hence... there are gaps for the Heavenly Demon to invade.
"It shouldn’t be so."
An Jing pondered, "If every Small Thousand World is completed like you, Embracing the Void, an infinite entity, then all Small Thousand Worlds will inevitably be invaded by Heavenly Demon; what can happen is bound to happen within the Small Thousand World, and all Small Thousand Worlds at their inception would inevitably fall into the confrontation like you, endlessly tangled with the Supreme Heart Demon."
"Moreover!"
At this point, An Jing furrowed his brow, "In this case, taking away all the Heavenly Demon’s invasions becomes meaningless, because even if I become the new Heavenly Dao, I must accept all possibilities, naturally including the Heavenly Demon; the Heavenly Demon will come to invade me again, and I must combat them. Although mastering all possibilities allows me to resist all Heavenly Demon, it’s just a better stalemate; if a Heavenly Demon truly equal to the Supreme Heavenly Demon comes to attack me, even if I defend ’everything’ now, it can create another ’everything’ to clash with me, thus transforming into a stalemate like you are now!"
"This is the danger!"
"Indeed."
Embracing the Void sighed, "Exactly, this is the danger of existence at our level, the logic of offense and defense has been thoroughly alienated."
"In finite worlds, namely the Present World, Heavenly Demon can be eradicated, for they have physical forms, strength, life force. Since you are stronger than Heavenly Demon, you can destroy them."
"However, in my realm, the Supreme Heart Demon and I are equivalent, even if I maintain all defenses, it can still create infinitely large, my failed conclusions to collide with me, becoming a kind of ’Eternal Battle’."
"But it’s not that simple..."
Now, An Jing, wielding Zhi Ya’s power, explored all possibilities, saw countless victories, countless failures, and endless stalemates and disturbances where success or failure remained unknown.
He furrowed his brow, "The Dao Courtyard, or rather, the Huai Xu and Emperor of Change, and the creation of all heavens, surely didn’t intend for all Small Thousand Worlds to become breeding grounds for Heavenly Demons; there must be a power set by them as a sort of screening mechanism, regulating the possibilities within your Small Thousand Worlds in some sense!"
"Certainly some higher level mechanism, greater than you, Huai Xu, malfunctioned, leading to your stalemate and downfall!"
"Middle Thousand World..."
"Yes, precisely, you’ve calculated it out." At this moment, Embracing the Void’s will was delighted, speaking joyfully yet somewhat sadly, "Indeed, we lost the constraints, thus, we fell to this. For infinity, constraint ironically becomes a regulation, making our structure more powerful and orderly."
"Come, I’ll lead you to see."
An Jing felt it, Zhi Ya was being retrieved, himself being embraced, gentle touching sensations arose from soul to thought, resembling the initial ’sense of Harmonization,’ he was either falling, or elevating to the true heights, reaching the same level as the will of Embracing the Void.
At this level, even with Subdue Evil at hand, he couldn’t refuse the counterpart’s Harmonization; in other words, if Embracing the Void Heavenly Dao reneged now, An Jing would irreversibly become the Heavenly Dao of the Huai Xu Realm.
But... An Jing [trusted].
Thus, he followed the guidance of that will, as ice melting under the sun, vapor weaving upwards, transcending the infinite Heavenly Dome, reaching the unattainable sun.
During his ascent, Embracing the Void posed a question to An Jing.
A moment for contemplation.
"An Jing, why do you suppose the Heavenly Demons are the type of Heavenly Demons you have encountered?"
This question, Embracing the Void knew the answer, and An Jing just happened to have formulated the answer moments ago.
"Because of the constraints of the Middle Thousand World... because of that Daoist Rule..."
He thus answered, and at this moment, he arrived beside the will of Embracing the Void, arrived within the tree, outside the tree, on the crown of the tree, at the root of the tree, arrived at ’the source of Embracing the Void.’
He saw, outside Embracing the Void, an infinite void, saw within the infinite void infinite worlds, the Tianyuan Realm, the Great Wilderness Realm, and many more worlds, all seen in that instant.
And then all vanished.
The entire void, all void, encompassing infinite Small Thousand Worlds and Mortal Worlds, faintly, two rays of light were shining.
An Jing’s answer, which he initially intended to articulate, was drawn back.
For, he saw it, the silver-blue, and purple-blue light.
Those were... two axes.
[Devouring Evil and Returning to Truth].
And
[Endless Heavens].
The two beams of light spanning across all heavens formed absolute axis lines anchoring all order, all sequences of cause and effect, arranging everything into orderliness.
"So it’s two axes..."
An Jing murmured to himself, "Indeed, how could I forget Endless Heavens, this is the essence of the Middle Thousand World... the world above worlds."
