The peerless black hand that covers the sky

Chapter 999: I don’t want to ascend the throne, just to play abstraction in the world!
The sword turned around, and after killing all the crazy creatures in the world, it finally swung towards the source of all this, the initiator, the culprit... that is, the elegant man himself!

He couldn't forgive himself and wanted to pay with his own life.

This was the final blossoming of his humanity... All the turmoil started because of his humanity, and finally ended because of his humanity.

What transcendence, what man-eating... he no longer cares.

If it were the original rules of the Tao that were without any emotions, the transcendent Tao nature that was neither born nor destroyed, then one would not be so "impulsive".

However, the elegant man chose the path of strengthening his humanity. He would rather be an ordinary person with flesh and blood, and naturally he would also follow the ordinary person's mental path.

Extreme regret and determination for self-destruction were so strong that he committed suicide by beheading himself!
"…But, when I chose to destroy myself, and killed the culprit, I became…sublime."

The elegant man sighed, "Just like back then, I am transcendent in the realm of Taoism!"

A bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

As the saying goes, when you try to plant flowers, they may not bloom, but when you plant willows by accident, they may grow into a shade.

There is nothing better than this when fate plays tricks on people.

The Divine Emperor didn't care about pretending to be stupid at this moment. He pricked up his ears and listened to the great secret.

"That year, a group of extremely powerful creatures devoured the Dao, interfering with the operation of the One Dao, causing it to become defective... I can be said to have been born to meet the calamity. I fought my way to the group of creatures, wiped them out, and restored order to the entire world."

The elegant man said, "By accepting the spoils of war and gaining their countless years of research and experience in the Way of Devouring, I can already draw most of the 'map' of the One Way in my mind. I have truly touched the limits of the world and am infinitely close to transcendence. I can already see the edge of the One Way."

He talked about the past, although it was so detached and...abstract that even he himself couldn't explain it, but before he transcended, he was on the most solid path.

There was no trickery at all, he just killed his way through.

The Divine Emperor was so amazed when he heard this... It sounded like this was similar to the "Prototype of the Only Way" that the Great Freedom Taoist had been tinkering with, depicting the map of the Only Way and mastering all the mysteries.

The difference is that, compared to the peak of the elegant man before his transcendence, the "only prototype of the Tao" of the Great Freedom Taoist Master is at best just a baby!
"In this state, I took advantage of the fact that the One Dao was incomplete and could not perfectly control the world to practice. It can be said that I took advantage of the loophole and sneaked away. I successfully upgraded myself to the most perfect state. In terms of level, it is equivalent to the One Dao, but I just didn't have a clear path."

“So, when the One and Only Dao revived and wanted to take control of everything again, I calmly resisted and made it impossible for the One and Only Dao to do anything to me.”

The elegant man said calmly, "So, we will naturally move on to the next step, and I will take your place."

"The only way...the only way!"

"What is unique?"

"Of course it's the only one!"

"When I have proven my excellence and extraordinaryness, and can surpass the old One and Only Way, then the entire world will re-evolve with my Dao Fruit as the core, and embrace me as the new One and Only Way!"

The old way abdicates and the new way takes the throne!

The "throne" of the entire world is waiting for a refined man to ascend the throne!
In this world, there really is a throne to inherit!
Of course, the new emperor needs to be good enough to defeat the retired emperor in the duel of Tao.

The "Emperor Emeritus" has no opinion on his own failure. After all, as the only original Tao, it does not have a clear and definite self. Its existence is more like a total collection of the entire world, the heaven and earth, and all living beings. It can be said that it is unintentional, or it can be said that it has intention.

It is like a saint... A saint has no impermanence of mind and takes the heart of all living beings as his own.

Now, a most extraordinary leader has emerged from among all living beings, overshadowing all living beings in the past, present and future. It is natural for him to become a saint.

However, the elegant man at that time was unwilling to do so and did not want to inherit such a throne. He just wanted to play abstraction and make a big fuss in the world.

"How could I accept such an outcome? Of course I would not." The elegant man said faintly, "So I chose to return the good fortune I had gained from the One and Only Dao along the way, even if it meant killing myself."

Hearing this, Jiang Yifei nodded, "I understand. Cut off the bones to return to the father, cut off the flesh to return to the mother..."

"..." The elegant man's originally sad mood was inexplicably stuck. He always felt that with the interruption of the little mouth of the Demon Ancestor in front of him, the taste of many things became subtle and abstract.

But seriously speaking, it’s not wrong.

The Great Dao of Heaven and Earth is the root parent of all living beings. There is nothing wrong with that.

The elegant man paused, "The only way absorbed the good fortune I cut off myself and became complete...but the situation became delicate afterwards."

"Originally, I was powerful, but the One Dao was flawed. Now, the One Dao is complete, and I am damaged... An inexplicable change has occurred, and the complete One Dao is still resonating with me."

"I entered a strange state, suffering one loss after another, but never ending, which turned into a different kind of development... In the end, I inexplicably crossed the edge of the radiation of the One Path, entered a realm beyond the world and unobservable, and completely surpassed the One Path."

“At this point, I’m beyond it.”

"Being outside the Tao, I am omnipotent, above the only Tao. Everything in the world can be changed by my will..."

A true dimensionality reduction attack!
It is so transcendent that it is not even in the same dimension!
"Later, I tried to replicate this experience in human nature, but I made a big mistake. I was filled with regret..." The elegant man sighed, "Even if I have supreme power and can reverse what has happened in a moment, even if I can deceive all living beings, how can I deceive myself?"

You can cheat your brothers, but you can’t cheat yourself!
So, in extreme regret, he destroyed himself!

"I don't want to live. I just want to die. I want to use my last bit of strength before I die to restore the world and the broken humanity. I want everything to return to the time before reincarnation. But there will be one less person, me..."

The elegant man whispered, "I will return everything I have devoured from human nature, in order to atone for my sins..."

“But because of this, I entered an indescribable state… The thoughts of countless sacrifices resonated with me. I destroyed myself, and they repaired and replenished me…”

"The past, present, and future... the light of countless heroes' sacrifices will strive to dispel the regret in my heart."

“I don’t know how much time has passed, and I don’t know how much it has cost… I have awakened, and I have reached an indescribable height in the realm of humanity, which can match my own transcendent Dao Fruit!”

"Isn't this a good thing?" the Emperor of God interrupted.

He felt that talking at this time should be... okay, right?

However, the elegant man looked expressionless. "As the price of such consumption, during the awakening process, I was trapped in the past, repeating the past events after the forging of reincarnation again and again, and transformed into countless heroes. I transformed into them and experienced their struggles in the endless reincarnation and eternal calamity..."

The Divine Emperor immediately tried hard to shut up!
He saw in it some similarities with his own sacrificial method!

However, he did it on his own initiative and was mentally prepared enough, and he was "bad" enough to simply regard this process as a sharpening and tempering of his soul.

A gentleman is different!

He was completely passive, or perhaps it was a bit of regret and atonement that was at work, allowing himself to personally experience the torment and struggle that countless heroes had experienced in the reincarnation cycle, and to feel the sadness and helplessness of watching the world fall bit by bit in the endless reincarnation cycle...

Even, you can experience the feeling of those heroes who, after countless cycles of battle, were crushed time and again, and finally collapsed on their own!

Before, he was just regretting, but once he came out, he found that the whole world had become abstract and unfamiliar, with countless heroes falling. He felt sad and sympathetic, and decided to do something. It was just a description of empathy.

Now, he is one with the victim’s experience!
“So, I went crazy!”

The elegant man smiled carefreely, "I have preserved my humanity, but have been burdened with countless sacrifices, and have experienced endless despair and collapse. With the power of perfection and transcendence, I have destroyed and recreated endless time and space, the universe, chaos, and the Tao... I have overturned and restarted it countless times, and I have sacrificed them over and over again!"

"The endless original land has been wiped out by me. From ancient times to the present, nothing exists anymore. Only I am left... Everything has lost its meaning to me!"

"To this day, I still can't tell whether it was a release of my breakdown or a spread of despair? Or both?"

The elegant man sighed, "I don't know how long it has been since I was so crazy. I finally calmed down... or maybe there is nothing more sad than a dead heart. I am numb and dead."

“Is it the scarred human nature that is escaping?”

“I don’t want to give up my humanity, but I carry scars all over my body… because these scars are also part of my humanity!”

"I tried to heal, to restore everything in a single thought, to revive all my relatives and friends, and to recreate the glorious world."

"But my heart is no longer moved, it is as still as a well."

"I look at this world very calmly, as if I were the only Tao that is above all else, and I have that kind of Tao nature."

The elegant man said.

"Although I occasionally recall the memories of the past, those memories of the past keep flashing and lingering on, and to maintain my humanity... I don't think there is any need anymore."

"However, after much consideration, I decided to give it one last try... I killed myself again, and once again sacrificed myself, leaving only an ordinary me, living a quiet life with my old friends."

"Yes, I am trying to restore my humanity..."

The elegant man sighed, "It does have an effect...

"However, when a little bit of humanity returns, the scars also return a little bit. They linger on and turn into negative emotions..."

“Shape comes from the heart.”

"Regret, remorse, self-blame, guilt, shame, anger, frustration, sadness, pain, despair!"

"Ten negative emotions have undergone incredible changes due to the transcendence of human nature."

"So, ten symptoms appeared on my body..."

This is the origin of the ten original substances on the plateau!

Appearance is determined by the mind, this is the result of heart illness.

After all, how could Taoism cause disease?

"Finally, in a barely conscious state, I made the decision to burn myself, use a triple copper coffin and a stone jar to hold my ashes, wipe out all traces of the supernatural, and bury me on the plateau..."

"I'm afraid. I'm afraid that I'll fall into madness again and destroy the world countless times before I can calm down again."

"Also, leaving behind the final arrangement, adjusting the rules of reincarnation, restoring the 'infinity' of human nature, all living beings will die in one life, and will not be able to preserve themselves to the next life..."

The elegant man murmured.

After listening to these words, the Divine Emperor tried hard to reduce his presence and tried to protect the Demon Ancestor in front of him.

After all, to hear the elegant man say this, it was already a good outcome if the world was merely experiencing a weird and ominous sacrifice to all living beings!
At least they are still alive and surviving tenaciously, and can even occasionally fight back against the evil spirits on the plateau.

Instead of being directly destroyed and wiped out by an unstoppable force, like the countless eras that withered before the present world!

"Your problem is indeed very troublesome."

Jiang Yifei spoke with emotion, "Perhaps, when you calm down, you will occasionally think... Even if the old only way was replaced, the situation would not have become so bad?"

The elegant man smiled bitterly.

"Yes, thinking about it carefully, the approach we took back then was too radical..."

He sighed, "Looking back, I roughly understand the optimal solution for transcendence."

"Becoming the only way and replacing others may not necessarily be a bad thing..."

“What is detachment?”

"If you step out of the edge of the only path that can radiate and enter the realm that cannot be observed by the world, it can be considered transcendence..."

"You can also say that if you make your own Dao Fruit strong enough, you can live forever and stand in the eternal void..."

"But all of this...is what the One and Only Dao possesses!"

"The One Tao itself exists in the eternal void, and it is constantly reborn, resisting the assimilation of the eternal void..."

“When living beings take their place, they themselves become the only way, and the world becomes their form, which in itself satisfies the conditions for transcendence.”

He said something that made the God Emperor and the Demon Ancestor look subtle.

To replace the only way... is to transcend?
You know what, it’s really like that.

If you regard the only way as a cage, breaking the cage, jumping out and contacting the outside world is transcendence.

But this cage itself is in contact with the outside world!
Of course, this is not without cost.

Replacing the one and only way of transcendence, that’s very powerful, right?
Humanity is changed!
"It's a bit like the ancestor..." Jiang Yifei chuckled, "The Immortal Emperor sacrificed himself and was baptized by the original matter, and then he broke through the sacrificial path."

"However, this kind of sacrifice is very forced. I know the result but not the reason. In this realm, I am at the bottom of the contempt chain. It can be said that I cannot beat anyone of the same level in a single fight."

"Well, it's even worse... The original ancestor can still move freely occasionally, but this replacement of the One Path has even suppressed his own humanity."

"Human nature has been suppressed, but it can be regained." The elegant man sighed, "Even if it is the sand and stones of mountains and rivers, a wisp of breeze, or a cloud, after billions of years, it can become wise and spiritual, and then evolve into human nature... let alone the world?"

"If there is a little more external force..."

As he spoke, he slowly exerted force from his chest and took out a...seed!