Chapter 1673: 19: Honest Confessions
Chapter 1673: Chapter 19: Honest Confessions
“My divine skill allows me to see other timelines of myself. If I were fully developed, I would already be a Heavenly Venerate by now, and so would You Ruhui. But we have chosen a new path, the Pocket World Technique, the Feather Transformation Dao… This path, you pioneered it, and we are still exploring, working on the finer details below, so we’re only at the Heavenly Lord level now, perhaps still unable to catch up with you.”
“Only by personally walking the path you once traveled can we glimpse a bit of your thoughts.” You Ruhui softly added, her tone distant: “You don’t have to worry that our feelings will block your Dao. Actually, what I want and what you want are exactly the same, just hoping that one day, we can live peacefully… without thinking too much, a life just wasting time like that.”
“Yes, I know, perhaps what you’ve been pondering all along are those extremely distant things, even beyond the boundaries of this world. But at least now, in your present, we can absolutely help you.”
As she spoke, You Ruhui pointed above her head. Although it was still the top layer of the Pure Dao Forging Platform, for some reason, there was a ripple of the Great Void flowing, as if a passage could be opened at any time, and a feeling extremely familiar, like another self, was passed to An Jing: “We are ready and can return your Life Star to you at any moment.”
“An Jing, you can return now, in the strongest and most complete form!”
In theory, for an existence like An Jing, if he wanted to revive and return, he would either need a long time of waiting to gather all necessary elements, then restore completely in one breath, or even directly advance to a more powerful state.
Or, he could return in a broken form, even just a thought, then slowly gather all fragments, and ascend to the peak again.
An Jing has been gone for over a hundred years, so it’s basically impossible to meet the conditions for the former, and for the latter, according to common sense, he needs to collect his soul fragments, memory fragments, body fragments, Fate Pattern fragments, and maybe also divine skill fragments and Evil fragments, Heavenly Dao fragments, and so on… There are plenty of fragments, and he has a lot of work to do.
For some reason, An Jing feels this game of gathering fragments is the underlying logic of the Embracing the Void faction, play it if you don’t mind.
However, that’s no longer necessary.
“After reviving, do I have to collect pieces one by one, overcome challenges one by one, to restore all memory and power? That’s not a thing, An Jing, we’ve been prepared long ago!”
You Ruhui proudly pointed above her head: “Look, your Pocket World, divine skill, and Life Star that you gave us, we’ve already fully studied them, and have carefully separated and preserved them, we can return them to you at any time, allowing you to return completely in an instant!”
“That’s it, whenever you want, you can restore all memory and power at any time.”
Bai Qinghan and Gu Yeqi nodded slightly, and the latter even sighed, “Actually, to welcome Eldest Senior’s return, I even thought about not breaking through, staying in the Great Wilderness Realm all the time.”
“But who would have thought, my power accumulated too much, even after becoming the Divine Wood, using the physique of the Divine Wood, constantly expanding the True Spirit Dharma Body, forcefully holding back the realm, but in the end, the pure mass of the Divine Wood pushed it up… Sigh, it wasn’t until this moment that I fully understood, the realm is essentially an illusion, fundamentally, it’s the divine skill and suppression possessed after holding enough power, and how to enhance power, and sustain power, is the essence of cultivation. My full effort to maintain the perfect realm suppression of Spiritual Evil Reincarnation is essentially in line with the ’Spirit Immortal Realm’, leading me even due to physical reasons, to comprehend the ’Life Immortal Realm’.”
Casually speaking of many achievements in the Double Immortal Realm that many cultivators wouldn’t achieve in their lifetime, Gu Yeqi felt no pride, because her Eldest Senior, was an actual monster who, at twenty-some years old, achieved more than the Four Immortal Professions, even creating a new path on the side. Probably only the legendary Emperor of Change and Huai Xu could compare with him.
Moreover, those achievements might be no match for the friends beside either, as the girl glanced at Bai Qinghan and You Ruhui, she exhaled a barely noticeable sigh: “Actually, this already aligns with the foundation of the Heavenly Venerate realm. As long as I continue to research how to keep my Dao running uninterrupted, like the ever-growing Divine Wood, I can fully ’Primordial Spirit’, hence advance to Heavenly Venerate.”
“Of course, I need enlightenment, while Qinghan and Miss You, have mastered it, but they still have doubts.”
“Hmm. Right now, we indeed don’t quite want to advance to Heavenly Venerate, the Primordial Spirit on the Immortal Path, ends up lacking a bit against demons.”
Bai Qinghan nodded, acknowledged Gu Yeqi’s words, and added: “But the Lingxiao of the Martial Artist, is achieved by relying on Huai Xu, or the power of the world. As of now, in a hundred years since leaving Huai Xu, no Martial Arts Pure Yang has successfully achieved Lingxiao; rather, some Heavenly Lords switched to the Immortal Path, and smoothly transitioned into Primordial Spirits.”
“This can’t be said to be bad, but they also lost the resistance against demons. Recently, in terms of defending against Heavenly Demon invasions, these newly ascended Heavenly Venerates have not performed well.”
“But there is nothing to be done about it.” You Ruhui also seemed extremely troubled, holding her head: “The essence of Immortal Martial Arts is one, Fate Pattern is no longer necessary in the Great Void without Demonic Qi, Martial Arts eventually integrated and returned to the Immortal Path as a variant branch, ultimately all returning to Primordial Spirit.”
“But I think, maybe things are not that simple, the essence of Martial Arts is to cultivate oneself into a Little Heavenly Dao, which has compatibility with the Pocket World Technique. You could even say the Pocket World Technique is a more complete version of Martial Arts, I think it’s just because you, An Jing, had not developed the Heavenly Venerate path for the Pocket World Technique back then, that Martial Arts ceased after leaving Huai Xu… We are attempting developments, but if it’s you, the true creator of the Feather Transformation Dao, surely it would be possible to create a more complete path.”
Their gazes, filled with expectation, turned toward An Jing.
The feelings, An Jing didn’t shy away from admitting, naturally they wouldn’t shy away from mentioning either; in the Martial Arts World, affairs of the heart were straightforward and efficient.
And besides that, An Jing wasn’t just admired, loved, someone they wanted to live with, or even straightforwardly saying, someone they wanted to sleep with—An Jing was also the hope of this world’s new path, the hope for Harmonization, and the hope for all heavens and worlds.
Both from an individual and from the perspectives of organization, order, and civilization as a whole, they hoped that An Jing would make a decision soon, return, and then become the banner that leads them, that leads everyone.
Only.
After a while of contemplation, An Jing slightly shook his head.
“Not now.”
He stood with his hands behind his back, the massive Platinum Armor hovering in mid-air, now possessing a masterful demeanor, An Jing spoke calmly: “Although I also want to restore to a complete state as soon as possible, right now it’s a case of too much too soon.”
He looked around at the three young ladies present, at those eyes he had begun to feel familiar and nostalgic for, but still refused: “The power I entrusted to you, in the end, is merely fragments of my past power.”
“Those things, indeed are important, but if it’s truly something I need, I wouldn’t need you to return them, I can find them myself, and if it’s something I don’t need, then it is the ashes I’ve discarded. Originally, some skills I had mastered weren’t essential, just learned along the way, hindering my future.”
“The me now is walking a path that is pure and self-contained, I feel very good about this.”
Saying this, An Jing pointed to himself, directing to the Taibai Armor: “A shell constructed purely of Spiritual Evil, armed inside is a small Pocket World, based on this point, I think this is the true path of the Feather Transformation Dao, I even believe that a new path requires the creation of a new Human Clan first.”
“More importantly, at this point, I already know part of the situation in the Great Wilderness Realm… After surpassing Golden Core and Manifesting Holy, what is called the ’Sacrificial Spirit’ stage here, I will be forcibly ascended—if I get my fragments back, even the smallest piece, I will definitely be forcibly ascended.”
“And I do not want to ascend.”
As An Jing spoke, his tone became serious: “Within the Great Wilderness Realm, there is something more important than outside.”
“I need to find Embracing the Void and Subdue Evil.”
Upon hearing this, the three of them looked at each other in confusion.
— Subdue Evil is one thing… but who is Embracing the Void?
— Could it be that the Huai Xu Heavenly Dao and An Jing have some kind of contract or agreement?