Destiny is ashes

Chapter 1165 The Gate of Spirits (Incomplete)

In that instant, there was no sound, because all matter had been pushed aside by the fierce force.

Centered on the point where the halberd's edge and the sword's finger touched, it was as if a holy spirit was displaying its power, as if a thousand suns were shining together.

And that figure was swallowed up by the light in that instant.

Of course, he did not die.

However, he was thinking about a problem.

All life is a problem.

Since the very beginning of life, questions have been born. Even in the time when "I" no longer exist, even in the time before "mind" existed, questions whose names, meanings, origins, and essences are unknown still pursue humanity, asking "what is the answer?"

Life gave its initial answer to this.

Existence and continuity.

With their lives, their actions, their instincts, the years, their repeated deaths, and countless cycles of evolution and reincarnation, they have etched their marks on time and space, writing their answer.

Then, more answers emerged, based on existence and continuation, extending to infinity.

In this infinity, life creates more life, seeds transform into more flowers, and infinite dreams are perfected generation after generation. Countless different and even contradictory dreams also emerge.

Each answer represents an infinite possibility.

But is it possible that the answer itself is, beyond the infinite, an erasure of even more infinity?

Because they chose to answer and embarked on a smooth road, the overgrown, vast, and endless wilderness was ignored.

of course.

Of course, some people will say that those paths are infinitely long and infinitely wide, that they can be achieved by anyone, that they do not impose any restrictions but depend solely on one's heart, and that one can leave at will if one wants to.

Therefore, the road itself is equivalent to the wilderness, and every road is equivalent to all the wilderness.

but……

Choice itself is ultimately a limitation.

Therefore, as the world changes constantly with time, and as living beings travel through the flow of time, there will always be fish thinking.

Why must I swim along the river?

"Whether it's success or failure, death or suffering, short or long, nothingness or confusion, I just want..."

"Walk the path of 'myself'".

Time flows without waves, youth leaves no trace.

There will be, and there always will be. There will always be fish that choose to leave that surging river of meaning, carrying endless life forward, dragging their wet scales, and come to the earth of existence.

He was removing the scales.

He is refusing.

Refuses to answer any questions.

He presented his will as the sole language... allowing all the problems imposed upon life to fall away.

"Meaningless."

In the endless light, the figure, the fish that refused to answer, and the creature named Anjing gripped the blade of the Earth Vein Halberd.

He watched as the power of the Heavenly Sea and Earth Veins exploded and scattered, transforming into pure streams of light that surged toward him, and calmly said, "Your methods of using the power of the Divine Capital Grand Formation are too shallow. It's as if you possess an entire treasure trove but only know how to use gold and silver to pelt people."

He sighed and released his grip, letting the torrent of high-entropy light, powerful enough to scatter all molecules and reduce everything to basic particles, wash over his body. At that moment, the collapse of the Heavenly Sea Giant God ignited a giant firework in the entire Divine Capital, and even in the center of the Divine Capital Domain and the Northern Profound Sacrifice Continent. Countless scattered streams of light swept across the sky, turning into a shower of falling meteors.

"Without the Heavenly Official system, with your talents, you would probably stumble and fall even when exploring the Divine Treasury."

However, despite being at the center of this terrifying energy torrent, An Jing was unharmed. The dense, even the most stable molecular bonds, and even the electrons around the atoms, were blown away by the winds of the sea and sky, which seemed to penetrate nothingness as if they were piercing through his 'body', and were even swallowed up by his 'body'!
The true body does not exist in the 'Dharma Body' 'here' at all. By operating the Five Emperors' Dharma, he transformed himself into a 'door'.

This 'door' tamed, contained, and integrated this violent power into its own inner world, while the energy that was too violent and required more effort to contain was all dissipated, shifted, and moved away.

In an instant, amidst the torrent of light, a star shone brighter than the light itself!
“But I’m different.”

With arms outstretched, he observed the myriad things through the 'Way of Sexuality,' manipulated the flow of energy through the 'Way of Law,' and bore everything through the 'Way of Destiny.' An Jing absorbed this almost inexhaustible power with abandon, laughing as he strode forward: 'If I had enough power, I could reach the Divine Treasury in a single step…'

"Reach the highest heavens!"

boom!
Under the shocked gazes of the heads of the four great families, An Jing took a step forward, and the already turbulent capital city immediately erupted into an even more violent tremor.

The entire western half of the capital city collapsed hundreds of feet in an instant, then the ground shattered, and all kinds of buildings, palaces, pagodas, and imperial guards were all shattered, and then all the buildings turned into mist and dust.

If this were in another part of the Northern Xuan Sacrifice Continent, a super earthquake of magnitude 15 or higher would occur. The violent force would completely lift an entire continent, the entire Earth, away. Mountains that once seemed incomparably majestic would float in the vast and boundless sky like flour blown away by a child.

But this is the capital city, layer upon layer. The talismans that were long ago engraved in the bottom layer of time and space automatically activated when faced with such a Heavenly Monarch-level attack, preventing the power that was capable of destroying everything from spreading too far. It only spread for a thousand miles before it began to extinguish and slow down.

However, when all the smoke and dust cleared, everyone, from the imperial guards and celestial soldiers to the heads of the four great families, and even the civil and military officials who were still silent and waiting for various reasons, opened their eyes wide.

Because of that figure, that figure that finally revealed its face.

Peace.

Despite the impact that could shatter the world, he remained standing where he had been, and even took a few steps forward.

But that's not the most surprising thing—if a powerful person who dares to come to the capital to provoke us doesn't have the ability, then it would be a real joke.

What truly surprised everyone was what he was holding in his hand.

It was a square piece, entirely blue-green, semi-transparent, its interior shimmering with an intense brilliance, like the radiance of a supreme star…

A piece... colossal, as massive as a mountain, twenty li long, twenty li wide, and twenty li high...

Spiritual stone!

"It exists continuously and is used without being used infrequently... This is my spiritual way. Reaching this point is both an end and a new beginning."

Holding up the spirit stone mountain, An Jing continued to step forward: "If we were to use Huai Xu's terminology, I would call it the 'Gateway to All Wonders,' or perhaps the 'Root of Heaven and Earth.'"

"But I prefer to use the method I'm used to, and call it..."

"The second type of perpetual motion machine of spiritual power."

(End of this chapter)