Destiny is ashes

Chapter 1068 The Ancestral Dragon Seal, the Heavenly Fiend Sword (33)

It was as if the heavens and earth were falling, plunging into an endless abyss.

Some time after the Ancestral Dragon's will awakened, the Supreme Heavenly Demon's will also awakened as a result.

Resurrection is a miracle.

Resurrection is transcendence.

Resurrection is breaking free from constraints, creating entirely new possibilities, and transcending the cycle of life and death.

It is the absolute opposite of depravity.

Therefore, it must be stopped.

In that instant, as all things in heaven and earth converged, the boiling of all inert demonic energy, and all the ongoing processes of 'resurrection,' 'restoration,' and 'repair,' came to an abrupt halt.

However, the resurrection came to an abrupt end.

Because this time, in this world, the will of the Supreme Heavenly Demon was defeated in its struggle against the Ancestral Dragon. Therefore, although it can be revived and prevent the Ancestral Dragon from accomplishing some earth-shattering feats, it cannot accomplish much more.

However, it doesn't matter if it can't be done.

The Heavenly Demon never forces 'victory'.

The will of the Heavenly Demons is not to force the death of all living beings. In fact, they do not force all living beings to suffer, to grieve, or even to despair.

He simply wants to prevent 'miracles' from happening, prevent 'transcendence' from coming true, prevent all 'guidance' from arriving, and prevent all 'innovation' from occurring.

The dead must truly die, just as cause and effect and possibility are completely severed, so that all living beings and all things have no other possibility. This is the most terrifying ending, and it must not be changed.

Those beings who were transformed by the power of the Blood Sea, existing between life and death, and not yet completely devoured, had their state frozen. They were still alive, but had forever lost the possibility of returning to their original state. This was also a kind of distortion and depravity that pleased the Heavenly Demon the most.

Just like the eternal mediocrity of all living beings.

This is eternity. It is also absoluteness. It is also infinity.

[Eternal mediocrity], [absolute ordinariness], [infinite depravity].

All the mundane, ordinary, and decadent things that one takes for granted are part of the demonic realm. A life with infinite possibilities is now living an eternally mundane existence, unable to look up at the stars or even experience the small happiness of eating a delicious cake. This is like being trapped in an abyss.

—Live on.

The Heavenly Demon never intended to 'kill all life'.

They were just smiling and watching.

—Live on.

—And so you live on, yearning for endless beauty, expecting happiness and desire, yet never able to grasp even a fraction of it, forever living a mundane life!
—And we will be with you, forever, infinitely and absolutely, never leaving, never abandoning you, more common than miracles, more powerful than transcendence, more intimate than guidance, more enduring than innovation…

Let it continue like this...

This is the world that the Heavenly Demon wants to create, the world that the Heavenly Demon truly desires!

However, just as the will of the Supreme Heavenly Demon and the divine might of the Ancestral Dragon reached a stalemate...

A glint of light flashed in the eyes of the Ancestral Dragon, eyes that contained infinite space and time.

【It's now! 】

You've appeared!

The will of the Ancestral Dragon reached out with a claw, grabbing into the depths of the void, and instantly grasped 'something'!
He no longer attempted to reverse the life and death of the entire world, but instead contracted all the awakened power of the Dao, along with the suppression of the supreme demon.

In an instant, the colossal dragon of cosmic light, large enough to span the entire sky and sea, along with all the divine wonders within it, collapsed and transformed once again into that independent spacetime.

【Zhaolin Boundary】.

Immediately afterwards, the Radiant Scale Realm also began to become illusory, its radiance condensing until it was reduced to a faint phantom and disappeared from the real world. Then, it transformed back into a 'scale'.

[The Seal of the Ancestral Dragon]

The ancestral dragon scale floated in front of An Jing, no longer shimmering.

And this is the true name of the Ancestral Dragon Scale.

Seeing this, An Jing couldn't help but sigh.

No way.

This was a plan that Zulong and Fuxie had discussed with him before.

I cannot truly change this world, because the Void is filled with countless inert demonic energies and countless celestial demons. Forcibly reversing life and death will only allow the power of the celestial demons to take advantage of the void and cause even more terrible consequences.

[Our battle with the Heavenly Demon was only won because of you. You briefly gained the upper hand, causing the Supreme Heavenly Demon to awaken a little later than me... It sounds meaningless? No, this is already a tremendous victory!]

[It's not just because this short period of time was enough for me to change the course of the entire world and hinder the invasion of the Heavenly Demon, but also because I taught you the method of merging with the Dao and revealed the truth of the world to you.]

At that moment, Zu Long calmly said to An Jing: "So next, I will try to change the world and provoke the Supreme Heavenly Demon to take action—in this way, I can seal it again and wait for the next thousand years, waiting for you to begin to touch the infinite."

[If I win again in the next millennium, and you also reach the Lingxiao realm, perhaps I can help you temporarily suppress all the demonic energy within Huaixu, allowing you to attempt 'Dao Integration'!]

Of course, we've tried this before, but everyone failed because it's impossible to suppress endless demonic energy. But if it's you, perhaps there's a chance...

"It won't take that long, and perhaps you won't need to come to help me a thousand years from now."

An Jing simply smiled at Zu Long's plan: "A thousand years is too long. By then, I'll probably be at the peak of Lingxiao. Before that, I'll definitely have tried to merge with the Dao—but thank you, Zu Long Saint Venerable, none other than me."

"That would be for the best," Zu Long laughed, then sighed, "Things have come to this point. It's not just the Huai Xu Realm; almost every known world contains Heavenly Demons, severing the possibility of achieving Dao. We can't even allow you to achieve Dao in other worlds."

Upon reflection, it is we, the predecessors, who have wronged you.

“How can you say that?” An Jing was unconcerned by the sigh of the Ancestral Dragon: “The fact that we can live, understand this world, cultivate, and experience and perceive this world more deeply is itself the greatest miracle—a miracle that even the Heavenly Demon cannot take away.”

"And this miracle undoubtedly relies on your contributions and those of other powerful figures in the Dao Court, such as Fu Xie. You have not treated him unfairly at all; at most, you have not won."

"But we didn't lose either."

"In that case, I will try... to bring you, and us, a real victory!"

Neither Zulong nor Fuxie questioned Anjing.

Yes. This is unprecedented; no one in the past could have accomplished this.

However, if it's Anjing...

If it were Anjing...

An Jing was looking down at Huai Xu Realm at this moment.

Although the First Emperor did not truly reverse life and death, due to An Jing's actions, the First Emperor, who awakened prematurely, did indeed change everything except life and death.

This cataclysmic event, which should have engulfed Huaixu for years, even decades, was abruptly ended after only a few days. Although countless lives were lost in those few days, on a grander scale, concerning the very survival of the world…

The casualties were not serious.

Within the final, collapsing illusory image of the Radiant Scale Realm, countless rays of light burst forth and returned to the Embracing Void World.

Jin Yanhua, You Ruhui, Golden-Winged Roc, Ming Heguang, Zhou Jin, Duan Chenguang... In an instant, everyone returned to the 'Ancestral Dragon Hall', which had been reversed by time and reshaped back to its original form at some unknown time.

An Jing stood in the center of the main hall where the Ancestral Dragon Scale was originally enshrined.

He could feel a pure, warm, and fiery power, yet containing endless destruction and the meaning of ending, emanating from the Supreme Heavenly Demon Mark that he had personally destroyed in the Radiant Realm. It was being burned and purified by the Ancestral Dragon's Candlelight Divine Power and the power of the 'Candlelight Star' within his own body.

Then, it completely merged into his body, so that he could condense the third of the four poles in that cave!
【Heavenly Punishment Four Tribulations - Heavenly Fiend Sword】!
(End of this chapter)