All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes-Chapter 1621 - 360: [Refusal] [Denial] and [Pain] (5/6)
The hurricane surged like a tide, flooding the entire world, with the heavenly dome bursting and closing chaotically. The entire world trembled and fractured like a fragile screen of snowflakes.
This is the inevitable result of the manifestation of Harmonization Level power within the world. Regardless of which side emerges victorious, it signifies endless possibilities and the complete reshaping, destruction, and rewriting of reality.
The Martial Artist’s long hair flowed like jet-black flame, moving forward, yet he paid it no mind, instead gazing at the drooping branches and the Great Abyss.
In his crimson-gold eyes were reflected the purple-blue fierce flame and the jet-black shadows. An Jing clenched the fist in his hand, the sword in his hand, and Subdue Evil in his hand. He faced it all directly; the earth wailed, the sky shattered into pieces, and the wills of the world and the demon thoughts were canceling each other out. A sense of "freedom" surged in his heart and in the hearts of all those who touched the realm of "Nine Heavens Lingxiao, Primordial Spirit".
The light and the shadow brought by the flame collided, which is dusk. The glow of the setting sun burned at the horizon where the sea and the Netherworld met, emanating a cold yet relieved feeling.
Nine Heavens Lingxiao, is the first step in achieving the Four Great Immortal Professions, thoroughly surpassing one’s past self, to become a higher-level being, the realm of the Primordial Spirit, as its name suggests, hints at the essence of the ’True Spirit’.
Without touching the True Spirit, without touching the source of will that can penetrate infinite parallel timelines, and filter through all possibilities of past and future, one could never reach higher infinity.
But, that is under constrained circumstances. If a world doesn’t have the Heavenly Dao as a barrier and city wall, all Heavenly Venerates would, like water overflowing the Harmonization, search for their path in the infinite wilderness.
Above the heavenly dome, other colors appeared.
The Ten Heavenly Sects, now the Nine Heavens Sect and many Upper Gates, are the locations of sects and mountain gates with potential and foundation for Peak Lingxiao. Different illusions manifested, whether it be bells, tripods, swords, knives, wheels, scrolls, mountains, giant trees, seeds, rivers; all things that can use their logic to explain infinity and the world.
Networks of different colors extended from these mountain gates, reaching straight to the heavenly dome, extending to higher and farther places. Thousands of different hues of light spread toward the distance, then connected with each other, forming vein-like patterns, resembling tree roots, blood vessels, and electric circuits, sparkling.
——Embracing the Void had long prepared everything.
——The Martial Artist is the Little Heaven, the Martial Artist is the Root Seed planted by the Heavenly Dao.
——The Martial Artist is the Little Heavenly Dao.
The Martial Artist’s short lifespan is due to the existence of the Heavenly Dao, making it absolutely impossible to allow another heaven,
The Martial Artist’s mountain gate, the gathering of Martial Artists, is each a Small World that had been backed up long ago.
The lifespan limit of the Martial Artist is about to be opened. In this future when the Huai Xu Heavenly Dao is about to choose self-dissolution, the Martial Artist will become a Little Heavenly Dao possessing infinite lifespan, and each will possess certain Heavenly Dao Power...
A new era is about to arrive.
An Jing sensed this future, the Huai Xu Heavenly Dao was with him just now, although the power had receded like the ebbing sea, the feeling of moisture remained. Relying on this feeling, he saw it all in his eyes. It was truly the sincere hope of Embracing the Void, long-lasting and with blessings, wishing all children could achieve their goals.
The Huai Xu Realm will give rise to a large group of new Harmonizations, these Harmonizations are free and uncorrupted by demon thoughts, they will travel to all heavens and worlds, becoming a brand new, better force to try and defeat more Heavenly Demons.
This may perhaps be a better ending than just surviving.
But.
But...
An Jing refused the ending.
Any ending, regardless of good or bad.
He refused to answer questions, refused all answers, whether correct or wrong, good or bad, as walking on the infinite wilderness does not need a goal and destination, walking itself is the will, walking itself is existence.
An Jing refused the ending, refused answers, refused all——
Stagnation.
Even if just for a brief hesitation.
"Embracing the Void!"
At this moment, An Jing clenched Subdue Evil, the silver-blue sword light soaring to unprecedented heights, rushing straight to the heavenly dome. He nearly roared: "You are asking for my help!"
"Heavenly Dao, I finally understand why you would support the Mysterious Heaven Ceremony and Xuan Mingyu implicitly. Their sorrow is a part of you, or perhaps you influenced them, because they, like me, heard the prayer of heaven and earth, heard the wailing of heaven and earth——"
"They heard——"
"Heard you seeking death, yearning for relief!"
——So they all became demons.
——So you must live!
——Because if you cannot have it all, if all wishes cannot come true, if there isn’t a good ending without any regrets, then it is a compromise to [fall]!
The Heavenly Dao, which shouldn’t have self-will, but serves as the mother body cultivating all possibilities.
Once it has, it would fall into eternalism, and if self-will is added on top of it, with preferences of ’I approve’ or ’I don’t approve’, it no longer remains the natural bearer of all but becomes a complete tyrant.
And this tyrant, even if wishing to sacrifice for all lives... must absolutely not be allowed.
Because this is the Heavenly Demon’s loss-loss, it cannot happen as they wish, in the current situation where the Middle Thousand World cannot regulate the Small Thousand World, once the Heavenly Dao departs, the entire world will fall into a demon calamity. Indeed, the Holy Demon doesn’t exist, but it will still sink into a state where the entire world tends toward demonization, normal survival is possible only under the protection of great powers, and this state...
Is similar to the Great Wilderness Realm!
The choice of Huai Xu Heavenly Dao is merely to turn the Huai Xu Realm into another Great Wilderness, and the Great Wilderness certainly has issues, just like the Holy Demon left from the abyss, but the heaven and abyss still exist, darkness still converges in the abyss.
Just like the Great Wilderness devouring the worlds disturbed by demon calamities.
Yes, everything is clear, the Martial Artist saw the future.
So, An Jing made a decision.
Refusal.
Only by refusing the simple, fast, bright, and easy path, only by denying the tolerant, optimistic, fortunate, liberated possibilities.
Only [refusal]... only [denial].
Only...
[Pain]
This is the path An Jing identified.
"Embracing the Void, your sacrifice can only bring a false good ending, neither developing a new path nor finding a way to confront the Heavenly Demons, it’s merely your self-sacrifice, exchanged for a group of Harmonizations who are clueless, not even fully touching the essence of True Spirit. How could they possibly step toward higher, to confront the inevitably arriving [Evil Demon Hundred Kings], which are absolutely stronger than you, than all the Small Thousand, and even more formidable than the Middle Thousand, capable of contending with the Great Thousand?!"
