Destiny is ashes

Chapter 1004 Martial Arts Divine Treasure, Three Paths Return to One (4200)

As the Heaven-Turning Seal pressed down, An Jing was being besieged by countless earth and stone divine beasts in the secret wilderness.

The will of Chengyu Zhenjun drives the earth. With just a thought, hundreds and thousands of stone spirit beasts crawl out from the depths of the earth. Some of them are shaped like Pixiu guarding a place, and they open their mouths to spit out amber-colored divine light, which freezes and seals the place where they hit, turning it into solid stone. Others are shaped like the dragon son Baxia, carrying mountains on their backs, with the momentum of a mountain collapsing. With one step, they are enough to crush everything.

Even more striking was a jade dragon, seemingly cast from jade, that soared into the sky. It disappeared into the sandstorm, spewing forth streams of dragon breath that were powerful enough to distort magnetic forces, warp matter, and create ionizing storms.

These divine beast incarnations, made of earth and stone, each possessed strength comparable to the Divine Treasure True Man. Their attacks surged from all directions, sealing off all space for evasion. The light of their supernatural powers intertwined to form an impenetrable net, aiming to completely crush An Jing at the center.

But they underestimated Anjing's 'skill'.

Even without a sword, it didn't matter. As the 'Four Seasons Master's' domain expanded, An Jing's figure became erratic, and all the combined divine abilities that were originally as sparse as a net were disordered in the distorted flow of time, creating many gaps that would never have existed before.

In these gaps, An Jing moved swiftly, his fists transforming into palms, his hands into knives and fingers into swords, each strike accurately hitting the vital points of all the attacking divine beasts.

In the blink of an eye, he killed nearly ten divine beasts, which scattered into sand and stones.

These mythical beasts are all incredibly powerful, perhaps second only to the Golden-Winged Roc, a lord of a forbidden land who possesses true talismans. Each of their attacks is comparable to the full power of the Divine Treasure True Man.

If it were the previous Heavenly Mystery Mountain Divine Treasure, even if it were a group challenge, they probably wouldn't last more than a hundred moves before dying on the spot.

But in front of An Jing, whether it is Huanglong or Pixiu, mountain giant or dragon son Baxia, these mythical beasts are like fish swimming in a basin or bird eggs in a nest. They can be crushed with a simple scoop!

Like now.

A Baxia's charge was enough to shatter mountains, but An Jing merely stepped to the side and brushed past it. He then struck down with a palm, the immense force penetrating its carapace and penetrating its internal organs. He even used its sturdy shell to create a resonant echo effect, directly shattering its dragon heart.

A beam of amber light shot out from the side, but An Jing seemed to know it in advance. He walked on the wind, flipped over and made the light miss its target. In the next instant, he landed lightly on the Pixiu's head, and with a kick, he pierced through its head and soul.

They're all the same, there's no difference.

Whether it was Yulong's Yuan Magnetic Heavenly Attraction or the Rock Mountain Giant's Sealing Technique, they were useless to An Jing. He could always transform into a Tai Xu body at the most precise moment to avoid all gravitational and mass-related attacks, and at the most crucial moment, he could point out with a single finger to shatter the sealing aura and dissipate everything.

Every dodge he made seemed to foresee the future, and every step he took was precisely placed in the gaps between the beasts' attacks.

Of course, it was neither a coincidence nor a prediction.

Perhaps in the future, An Jing will truly be able to 'foresee the future' and be 'blessed by divine favor'.

But this time, it was purely a matter of 'skill'.

At this moment, An Jing spread his 'divine will' and 'grotto-heaven' together, enveloping his entire body.

Within the area covered by his grotto, he is 'heaven'; no matter who or what, the operation of all things is reflected in his mind.

Given enough time, he could probably wipe out the entire army of divine beasts with his pure swordsmanship.

Moreover, his goal was not merely to kill.

With each strike, with each kill, An Jing's 'divine will' was like a sword blade, penetrating deep into the essence of these stone spirit beasts.

These divine beasts, directly created by Chengyu Zhenjun, are at their core a part of Chengyu Zhenjun's will. Anjing is using the killing of them to reverse-analyze the essence of Chengyu Zhenjun's will and find the opponent's true weakness.

"Ishino Sword..."

After slaying dozens of divine beasts once again, An Jing transformed his finger into a sword and unleashed a strike. A ring of sword light swirled and spread in all directions, like an invisible whirlwind, blowing past nearby and far away.

All the divine beasts touched by this wind, regardless of their form, broke apart at the chest at the same time, turning into rubble.

Amidst countless rubble, surging sword energy condensed, and the Killing Sword reappeared in An Jing's palm.

After doing all this, An Jing raised her head.

He didn't look at the [Fan Tian Seal] that was slowly pressing down in the sky, gathering the power of the entire world, but instead looked at the Chengyu True Lord in the distance who was activating his divine power.

His eyes flashed; he had found it.

Within the body of True Lord Chengyu, a colossal heart composed of the purest Breath Soil is beating.

It exists, yet it doesn't exist.

It will only appear as the final weakness when all of Chengyu Zhenjun's bodies are completely destroyed; while Chengyu Zhenjun's bodies are not destroyed, it will merge with the entire body.

Just like with Su Xin Bai before, even if one-fifth of its body is destroyed, it cannot harm its heart in the slightest.

But now, after it became a True Monarch, the situation has changed again—the entire secret realm is the body of True Monarch Chengyu!
In other words, the entire arena and the entire secret wilderness are its core!
—The crux of the matter lies in the core.

But what is the core of it?

—In fact, there is no specific core, or rather, its entire body, its entire world, is the core!

It is simply impossible to kill Chengyu Zhenjun by destroying his core.

But this is just the perspective of an ordinary person.

Faced with the Heaven-Turning Seal that had locked onto him and was crashing down with the power to suppress all things and spirits, An Jing did not retreat but advanced. He leaped up and transformed into a shooting star flying in reverse, taking the initiative to meet the opponent.

boom!
The colossal Heaven-Turning Seal pressed down. It was the ultimate form of [suppression]. As it fell, it spun, drawing in countless divine beasts, which instantly turned into dust and powder, merging into it.

A sandstorm formed by countless earth and stone divine beasts followed behind the Heaven-Turning Seal, crushing downwards.

And it, which was even larger than a mountain, finally fell to the ground, the moment it came into contact with An Jing's tiny figure.

Everything in the world fell silent.

boom! ! !
The entire world was shaking violently!
The shockwave was so strong that it had already exceeded the scope of the secret realm. Outside the arena, in the outer area of ​​the spacetime maze where Jin Yanhua and others were located, and even in the outside world of Zhaolin Realm, in the area where many Tianji Mountain True Persons were located, and even in all other True Persons who did not know what had happened, they all sensed the abnormality of the earth at the same time.

The earth suddenly sank downwards!
The entire stratum was violently subsiding and shaking, with continuous cracking sounds coming from deep underground.

"Showing divine power?"

"Who has advanced to the level of a saint?"

"Did they fight? With whom?"

Countless doubts and speculations arose everywhere.

At the entrance and exit of the arena, Jin Yanhua, who had returned at breakneck speed, looked at the Heaven-Turning Seal that suppressed heaven and earth from the sword mark left by An Jing, and his mind was shaken: "It is a great divine power! True Lord Chengyu has used its fundamental great divine power!"

She gasped, "An Jing... is he still alive?" "I can't sense his presence anymore..." You Ruhui said softly, but there was no fear in her eyes. Instead, they grew brighter and brighter, and her tone carried a hint of surprise and realization that she herself was unaware of: "I can't sense An Jing's presence anymore!"

She exclaimed in near-awareness, "He is now in his own world!"

At the same time, beneath the Heaven-Turning Seal.

An Jing's flesh and blood shattered the instant he collided with the Fan Tian Seal.

The Fantian Seal is a part of Buzhou Mountain, just as Chengyu Zhenjun is a part of the Ancestral Dragon Scale. This is not only the Fantian Seal pressing down, but also Chengyu Zhenjun himself, and the entire Secret Realm Wasteland pressing down!

In that instant, his body shattered, just like other earth and stone divine beasts, his flesh and blood turning into rock, then being crushed into dust and solidified into amber.

However, his bones were formed from the purest [Taibai Haoling Divine Restriction], and were also the purest Taibai bones.

The presence of Taibai bone prevented him from being completely pulverized and killed immediately by the overwhelming suppressive power.

Therefore, there is room for maneuver.

In that very instant of suppression and annihilation, An Jing saw it.

He saw a scale shimmering with the colors of the seven luminaries, reflecting the candlelight.

A faint, pale golden light descended from the scales, conjuring countless phantoms of true spirits in the void. Finally, it settled and transformed into the true form of True Lord Chengyu, this vast and endless wasteland itself.

The spiritual light on the scales transformed, thus creating this body of earth and stone, and the heart of the earth!

Therefore, this is cause and effect.

"I saw it."

Before his body completely turned to dust, An Jing used his last strength to swing the Killing Sword in his hand. The sword light was like blood and like flames, scorching everything and embedding himself into the bottom of the enormous Fantian Seal.

Then, he retreated back to his own grotto.

At this moment, Chengyu Zhenjun felt that the challenger's existence had been completely erased and turned into dust.

Although something seemed to be missing, causing Him a slight sense of doubt, the anger in the world caused by the provocation gradually subsided with the arrival of victory.

But at that very moment, just as the True Lord thought he had won and his mind was most relaxed, he began to slowly retract the Heaven-Turning Seal.

An Jing's body appeared in his cave.

Within the Heavenly Punishment Realm, at the center of the world, the Heavenly Punishment Divine Tree, which pierces through heaven and earth, is radiating endless light and power.

An Jing's remaining, broken bones and will returned here, guided by the power of the divine tree.

Immediately afterwards, the entire cave world transformed into two enormous vortexes.

The first is the sun, the furnace of creation from ancient times to the present.

[The first is Taiyin, from today to eternity, the millstone of cause and effect.]

Anjing's will, along with his Taibai bones, was thus thrown into this world's crucible.

The Immortal Path redefines itself, and thus the [Tai Xu Zi Fu] that An Jing has attained is the 'Master of the Four Seasons' who [controls the changes of the four seasons], which is his supernatural power and his 'skill'.

Yu Huadao rediscovered himself, and thus the [Four Extreme Heavenly Spirits] that An Jing attained were the 'Divine Will of Heaven' that [controls the principles of calamity, destiny, and punishment], which were his soul and his 'nature'.

And now...

Martial arts... are reborn!
Boom!

The millstone of the moon and the furnace of the sun mercilessly crushed and obliterated An Jing's bones, will, remaining flesh and blood, and spiritual light, as well as everything An Jing had accumulated in the past, including everything accumulated in the secret method of "Nine Tribulations Ascending to Heaven," turning it into the purest Primordial Primordial Evil.

The old body has completely perished.

But this demise is also the beginning of a new life.

The Heavenly Punishment Divine Tree sprouts countless roots, which are also countless 'earth veins'. These roots head towards the 'furnace and millstone' of the sky, just as the earth veins connect with the heavens and the sea, and the earth connects with the heavens.

Based on the Heavenly Punishment Divine Wood formed from the True Spirit Blood Ancestral Dragon Seed, it draws upon the nearly inexhaustible Primordial Primordial Evil and begins to weave and recreate!
Just like how the Ancestral Dragon devoured countless ancestral gods and ancient beasts in the past, eventually giving birth to the Seven Luminaries Ancestral Spirits.

At this moment, Anjing's grotto is also devouring 'Anjing himself', using all his past accumulations as resources to give birth to a completely new existence.

His divine will was no longer merely a will, but was completely connected with the entire Heavenly Punishment Realm, truly transforming into the 'Heavenly Dao' of this world!
The bones of Taibai were reshaped and reconstructed. Similarly, the bones were no longer composed of the simple Taibai Divine Restriction, but rather a new existence that, like the Ancestral Dragon Scales, incorporated many other Yuan Sha. Although there are still many empty spaces that are temporarily filled by the Taibai Divine Restriction, in the future, the Seven Sha Divine Restrictions will surely gather together!
With the skeleton as its core, the flesh, blood vessels, internal organs, and the nerves and tendons on the spine [Cheng Tian De], like a reflection of a grotto, reflect the myriad [Ming Jing Xin], the [Tong Zhong Huo] condensed from the endless furnace fire and the millstone light, and the blood vessels [Tian Di Gen] that spread from the brain and run through the limbs, organs, and bones.

And finally, it had become the very spirit of the grotto-heaven, equivalent to the 'divine will and soul' of the Heavenly Dao, the 'Heavenly Time' that governs everything.

Everything, under the impetus of the [True Spirit Blood - Ancestral Dragon Seed], was created from nothing, reforged from destruction, and rebuilt from death.

[Melting away the old self, recreating the body!]

[From nothing comes something; the Tao becomes flesh!]

boom!
Inside the Heavenly Punishment Cave, a body consisting only of flesh and organs, without any skin or hair, suddenly opened its eyes.

These eyes resembled dragon pupils, yet they were not vertical; instead, they shone with a holy, crimson-gold light, making them almost like a dragon, but even surpassing it.

An incomparably powerful aura suddenly burst forth from this body. Then, the skin was covered again, the hair grew back, and the Taibai Battle Armor fused with this body, transforming into a dark red armor, complete with arm guards, wrist guards, and iron boots. Dragon scale-like armor plates spread out, as if a great dragon were coiling around the body.

—Martial Arts Master, Divine Treasury of the Void—

Let's ascend here!

And the next moment.

I was reborn, I got to know myself again, I redefined myself...

Having attained the status of a True Person three times, and having integrated the accumulation of the three paths into one, An Jing's "divine", "nature", and "life" have never been so perfectly integrated as they are now.

Although he was still a "True Person," the unification of the three paths based on the cave heaven gave birth to an incredible pressure.

With a sigh of relief, An Jing took a step forward, crossing the boundary of the cave world and returning once again to the desolate wilderness of the Zhaolin Realm!
At this moment, the suppressive power of the Heaven-Turning Seal had dissipated, and the dust in the world slowly settled. True Monarch Chengyu was gathering the power of the earth again to repair the tiny flaw left on the Heaven-Turning Seal by the Killing Sword.

But at that moment, the Fantian Seal suddenly trembled without warning!
hum!
Suddenly, Chengyu Zhenjun saw a sword mark burst forth from his fundamental seal!
With a flash of sword light, An Jing burst into loud laughter and slashed out with his sword!
(End of this chapter)