Becoming a Deity from Planting the Bodhi Tree-Chapter 1096 - 391: Dao Wonders, Moon-cutting Sword Light (3)

At the height of Emperor Heaven's glory, there were also several True Saints, but they all fell one after another, one of them sinking into the Nether Sea.

The so-called tribulation return for a True Saint, in essence, means that even when a person dies, the Dao does not perish, so it does not include death outside the realm, and the Nether Sea falls into this category.

Therefore, the True Saints of the heavens rarely explore the Nether Sea, let alone join forces to enter the Nether Sea to suppress the Four Demons…

In the past few months, Ji Jingqiu has been distracted by paying attention to the movements on Emperor Heaven's side.

Upon realizing that more preparations were still needed over there, he temporarily withdrew his attention.

After an unknown stretch of travel.

Ji Jingqiu finally arrived at an unknown area deep within the Nether Sea, feeling a vague sense of awareness.

In the darkness where one's hand could not be seen, it gradually brightened, with blood-like crimson haze rolling in the depths from afar, intertwined with mysterious, dazzling colors.

Just by approaching, Ji Jingqiu could clearly sense that the rules here suppress all Dao. Upon entering, his entire Dao Power sank into silence.

"Is this the wildest depths?" Ji Jingqiu cautiously moved forward, "Have you visited here before?"

Wuzhou coldly snorted, "The Nether Sea is so vast, there are too many places we haven't reached."

Hel mocked, "Didn't you once harmonize with half of the Nether Sea?"

Wuzhou didn't respond to the woman.

These past few months, Ji Jingqiu was urged by Wuzhou to delve into the Nether Sea.

According to him, he wanted to verify certain things.

He even told Ji Jingqiu to rest assured, that he was different from before, and along with a bet with Mu Shitian, if a true danger unfolded in the Nether Sea, he would offer guidance.

Ji Jingqiu didn't believe a single word of it.

What drove him here was the call of the Nether Sea itself.

After this breakthrough, returning to the Nether Sea, speaking of a 'feeling of going home' might be an exaggeration, but to some extent, it was. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Previously, in the Nether Sea, the sense of being watched and threatened, omnipresent and formless, had completely vanished without a trace.

In its place was a sense of "gentleness."

This time, Ji Jingqiu also wanted to delve into the Nether Sea, hoping to explore some origin or essential elements.

He walked for an unknown duration.

Ji Jingqiu stopped in his tracks.

He saw the true form of the previous crimson haze and dazzling colors.

The former was a broken blood moon.

The latter, accompanied by the sound of rushing water, was a long river raging behind the cracked vault of the sky, its meaning unclear, reflecting a dazzling brilliance, illuminating the "vastness" beneath the pitch-black curtain.

Ji Jingqiu was taken aback, not expecting that what he would see at the end was actually it.

Against the black night, a massive mountain range stretched across, broader and more magnificent than what he had seen in the past, as deep and boundless as the starry sky.

Wuwang Mountain.

To be precise, it was the inverted Wuwang Mountain.

He stood below, looking up at the inverted Wuwang Mountain, seeing what he hadn't seen when he reached its foot back then.

Was it Wuwang Mountain that summoned him here?

Though he had long heard that Wuwang Mountain and the Nether Sea were almost two sides of the same coin, as evidenced in Emperor Heaven, Ji Jingqiu had never found Wuwang Mountain in the Nether Sea before.

"…Seriously, have you ever found the true body of Wuwang Mountain in the Nether Sea?"

Hel asked calmly, with rare lack of emotion.

Wuzhou did not answer.

But the answer seemed self-evident.

His gaze flickered with uncertainty, eventually fading into silent annihilation. After a long time, he sighed softly as if admitting defeat in an invisible struggle of the Dao, his expression returning to normal.

Ji Jingqiu stood alone below the mountain for a long while, without communicating with Hel, gazing at the "submerged" Wuwang Mountain, gradually becoming lost.

At the end of the Ancient Road, Wuwang Mountain, with most of its body shrouded in mist.

And now, standing beneath the inverted mountain body, Ji Jingqiu clearly saw atop the mountain…

A temple?

Dim and dilapidated, buried in dust.

Once Ji Jingqiu regained his senses, the Heart Moon shone, and a subtle connection was formed with the Nether Sea, swiftly restoring the Dao Power that had been suppressed by the local laws.

He attempted to approach the inverted mountain but, realizing he could not touch it, changed his approach, trying various methods, yet neither the Bodhi Tree nor the Heart Moon could get closer.

Until he ignited the Newborn Wisdom Light.

He circulated his own Dao, evolving the supreme essence of the World Venerable Lineage, illuminating his body and mind with the Wisdom Light, brilliant inside and out.

At this moment, he still couldn't get closer, but saw deeper things.

As if he saw not only the present but also the past and future—

Everything was in silent annihilation, myths collapsing, the world decaying, gods and buddhas journeying afar, but ultimately leading to silent annihilation, all turning to void.

"Is this the future, or the past?"

"Or does it mean that in both the past and future, all sanctities will dissolve?"

Ji Jingqiu mused, believing this was likely the past.

Because this shouldn't be the future he belonged to.

Was Wuwang Mountain summoning him here to warn him?

Ji Jingqiu slowly closed his eyes, seated himself on the ground.

He did not cease circulating the Heavenly King's Dao, instead continuing to deduce, while the Bodhi Tree behind him silently rooted, soon connecting heaven and earth, truly with the aura of propping up the sky.

His physical self sat beneath the Bodhi Tree in enlightenment.

His Spiritual Body emerged from behind, resplendent and radiant, accompanied by the sound of Zen chanting, it illuminated the ten directions of silent annihilation. Upon its appearance, it elicited a peaceful response from the surrounding Nether Sea.

At that moment, Ji Jingqiu let his thoughts roam freely, unconstrained by the ebb and flow of his mind, subsequently roaming the Inner Heaven and Earth, as if in a Spirit Divine Travel, treating the Nether Sea as though it were Buddha Land.

As Wuzhou and others said, the Nether Sea is vast and boundless.

His Spiritual Body traversed the vast, cold Nether Sea, as if patrolling, with every place he reached, the sky and earth were filled with bright illumination.