Chapter 666: Jiang Li's Origin

The Divine Vault Sovereign frowned deeply. He could only vaguely discern Jiang Li’s origins.

From the Divine Vault Sovereign’s perspective, Jiang Li was undoubtedly strange, or rather, incomprehensible.

He could see through the Dao Ancestor’s origins, see through the Immortal Emperor’s ambitions, see through the Confucius Sage’s helplessness. Although the Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortal was powerful enough, there was nothing mysterious about him; he was always beneath Him.

He was the Heavenly Dao. All living beings were under His control.

How could there be someone who escaped His control?

If it was because He had transcended the rules, what was the principle behind it?

Everything has its root; nothing happens without reason.

“So that’s it, so that’s it… You are a creation born from the collective wish energy of all living beings,” the Divine Vault Sovereign murmured to himself, having glimpsed something.

Jiang Li did not take the Divine Vault Sovereign’s words to heart. “Naturally. The Nine Provinces Earth Vein carries the collective wish energy of all beings, and I am the Human Sovereign, the spokesperson of the Nine Provinces Earth Vein. Of course, I was created by that collective wish energy.”

The Divine Vault Sovereign could see that Jiang Li carried the wish energy of the Nine Provinces, that he was the spokesperson for the embryonic Heavenly Dao of the Nine Provinces. However, that was not what He meant.

“Is this body truly yours?”

“Your body and your soul are not the same. Your soul comes from another world, several years older than this body.”

As soon as these words were spoken, not only was Jiang Li greatly shocked, but even the Immortal Emperor, the Buddha, the Confucius Sage, and others were utterly astonished.

This was body possession. But how could someone who possessed a body be this strong?

Logically, someone who possessed a body shouldn’t even be able to survive the heavenly tribulations required to advance to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, let alone reach Jiang Li’s level.

“Body possession… No, something more advanced than that.”

“Your Nine Provinces World suffered attacks from so-called Outer Realm Demons. Countless Human Sovereigns perished. Whenever a Human Sovereign fell, the people would be overwhelmed with grief, feeling the Human Sovereigns had sacrificed too much, hoping for a Human Sovereign who would never fall, one who could protect the Nine Provinces.”

“For nine thousand years, this wish accumulated bit by bit, condensed within the Earth Vein, and finally took form.”

“This wish was originally impossible to fulfill. For a human to fight an immortal, success was absolutely impossible.”

“Yet, you appeared.”

“Probably even the collective wish energy itself doesn’t know why it was you. Wish energy is the power of causality. The ’cause’ was the hope to find someone capable of defeating the Outer Realm Demons. The ‘effect’ was finding you. The process in between, the wish energy did not govern.”

“At the moment you were on the verge of death, the wish energy found you, separated your soul from your body, and pulled you from your original world to the Nine Provinces World.”

“Your soul and the new body were perfectly compatible, as if from the very beginning, surpassing the concept of body possession. This was also the work of the wish energy.”

“Moreover, doing this did not violate the rules of the cycle of life and death.”

“But which world did you originally come from? And why are you so powerful that even I cannot see through you completely?”

The Divine Vault Sovereign could not fully see through Jiang Li’s origins. These were questions even Jiang Li himself could not answer.

“And this program-like thing within you, it resembles something I would do, yet not entirely.”

“Was it done by a future version of me? Or is there another reason?”

The Divine Vault Sovereign’s murmurs could only be heard by Jiang Li, the Immortal Emperor, the Confucius Sage, and the Buddha. Other immortals were not qualified to listen.

Jiang Li finally understood the reason for his transmigration. Indeed, nothing in the world happens without reason.

And this utterly useless system really was related to the Heavenly Dao.

“Interesting. You are far too interesting.”

The Divine Vault Sovereign laughed heartily. As the Heavenly Dao, there actually existed something even He could not see through. Was there anything in the world more interesting than this?

Then, the Divine Vault Sovereign abruptly changed the subject.

“Unfortunately, your existence is too contrary to common sense. In the plan to destroy the myriad heavens and worlds, without a doubt, you are the biggest stumbling block.”

“If I do not eliminate you, the plan to destroy the myriad heavens and worlds cannot be implemented.”

“To save the world, only by me becoming that sole existence is it possible. You cannot do it.”

“The conflict between you and me is destined to be irreconcilable.”

The Divine Vault Sovereign revealed his killing intent. The aura surged through the thirty-six heavens, causing the Immortal Realm to tremble, the Immortal Emperor to shudder in fear, and the host of immortals to quake.

The Immortal Emperor had never seen the Divine Vault Sovereign emit such intense killing intent. Even when facing the Dao Ancestor nine thousand years ago, it was far less than this.

The Immortal Emperor could also understand. Jiang Li had beaten him until he had no ability to fight back. Calling him the “great enemy of the Immortal Realm” was no exaggeration.

“Dao Sword!” the Divine Vault Sovereign roared. A sword emitting an aura of primordial chaos appeared in His hand.

The moment this sword appeared, the immortal artifacts in the hands of the immortals trembled, as if this sword was the king and the immortal artifacts were subjects. When the king goes to war, his subjects must bow in reverence.

The immortals lost control over their immortal artifacts.

The sword’s hum resounded through the heavens. The immortal artifacts stopped trembling, detached from the immortals’ hands, and prostrated on the ground, respectfully welcoming the Dao Sword’s emergence.

The three Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortals were shocked. They had never heard that the Divine Vault Sovereign possessed a weapon. Even when fighting the Dao Ancestor, the Divine Vault Sovereign had fought bare-handed.

This indicated that in the Divine Vault Sovereign’s eyes, Jiang Li posed a far greater threat than the Dao Ancestor.

“This sword was forged from the ‘Dao Treasury’ mastered by the Dao Ancestor!” The Confucius Sage recognized the Dao Sword’s origin at a glance, his eyes nearly splitting with rage.

When he first sought the Dao from the Dao Ancestor, the Dao Ancestor sat in the Miluo Palace. Behind him was a wall filled with the ‘Dao Treasury,’ though the Dao Ancestor had just become a Primordial Chaos and Limitless Immortal then, and the number of volumes in the ‘Dao Treasury’ was far less than now.

As the Dao Ancestor’s insights increased, the number of ‘Dao Treasury’ volumes grew more and more, until the entire Miluo Palace was used to store them.

The Dao Treasury was the culmination of the Dao Ancestor’s life’s work, representing his standing at the pinnacle of the immortal path, unmatched by anyone.

Legend stated that if one could comprehend even half a volume of the ‘Dao Treasury,’ one could attain the fruit of a Celestial Immortal.

Half a volume could make one a Celestial Immortal; therefore, the ‘Dao Treasury’ was also known as the Celestial Book.

The Dao Treasury was universally acknowledged as the number one treasure in the Immortal Realm, surpassing the concepts of immortal artifacts, rare treasures, and Dao techniques. Its significance was extraordinary; even the Heavenly Dao had to acknowledge the Dao Treasury’s status.

The Heavenly Dao’s incarnation called Himself the Divine Vault Sovereign. The character ‘Vault’ in His name originated from the ‘Dao Treasury.’

The appearance of this sword represented the Dao Ancestor’s cultivation level. Only now did the Immortal Emperor realize how vast the gap was between himself and the Dao Ancestor.

The Immortal Emperor whispered, “So, back then, the Immortal-Burying Spear was able to pierce the Dao Ancestor only because it took advantage of the Dao Ancestor’s exhaustion after his battle with the Divine Vault Sovereign.”

“The Dao Ancestor is truly the Dao Ancestor. His comprehension of the rules of life’s evolution, the power of unifying the three corpses, exceeds everyone’s imagination.”

“How laughable that I thought, with the host of immortals’ formation empowering me just now, my power had reached its peak, rivaling the Dao Ancestor. It seems I am still far from enough.”

*Hum—*

A peerless sword light tore through all things. Worlds were born beneath the sword and annihilated beneath the sword. Heat death and cold death coexisted. Heaven splitting and earth opening, world destruction and heaven shattering, cyclically repeating, like reincarnation, like destiny.

The Dao Sword struck Jiang Li’s shoulder. Sparks flew in all directions as a singularity exploded on Jiang Li’s shoulder.

Jiang Li felt nothing from the Dao Sword striking his shoulder. He punched the Divine Vault Sovereign in the face.

“Don’t embarrass yourself by bringing out tricks like singularity explosions.”