Destiny is ashes

Chapter 999 The Land of the Seven Luminaries (43, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Ultimately, these ancestral divine beasts were nothing more than the essence of the three thousand primordial ancestral beasts devoured by the Huai Xu Ancestral Dragon Saint Venerable. In essence, they were a kind of transformation principle. Although they were born noble and far stronger than the flesh and blood offspring of later generations, with full potential, they were therefore "belonging to Heaven".

An Jing felt that the state of the Ancestral Divine Beast was related to the 'Fallen Immortal'. For the Ancestral Divine Beast, the feeling of being completely restricted by the Scale Realm, unable to become stronger, and only able to experience one death cycle after another was also unacceptable.

But strangely, Youruhui gave them a sense of liberation.

But if I had to say, it wasn't You Ruhui himself.

Instead, it was a secluded and dark cave.

"even!"

The Golden-Winged Roc emphasized at the end, "It's not just about eating the King's friend; being killed by the King's friend feels the same to me!"

"Is that so?"

An Jing thought of the 'Calamity Gold' and 'Flowing Silver' that he had killed and merged into his own inner world. He pondered for a moment and asked Fu Xie, "Fu Xie, I have a guess... what do you think?"

"Essentially, those demon spirits wanted to imprint their own Dao into You Ruhui's inner world, using it as a foundation to become true 'ancestral spirits'."

Fu Xie's voice followed, his tone thoughtful: "Your Cave Heaven Technique only creates a world with empty 'space'. Generally speaking, that's enough. But in such a 'small world,' at most a little 'sun' element can be accumulated. It will never be possible to unleash a great supernatural power like 'Taiyin Wuji,' which involves infinite future cause and effect."

“Because there is no cosmic light.” An Jing thought to himself, “With only the universe, one can only accumulate the past. Without the infinite possibilities, infinite cause and effect, and infinite parallel universes of the cosmic light branches, it is impossible to reach the level of ‘Celestial Venerable’.”

"No matter how vast the cave heaven is, it can only hold the power of a Heavenly Venerable at most. Let alone the Dao of Returning to the Void, even a half-step Dao of Returning to the Void like the Lords of the Heavens would not be able to do so."

"Yes."

Fu Xie agreed with An Jing's speculation: "However, the Youruhui Cave Heaven does seem quite different to me."

"Her grotto seems to truly possess a special 'future'."

An Jing was also puzzled: "Why is that? Why does her grotto-heaven have such characteristics?"

"Could it be that……"

An Jing did have a guess in his mind. To confirm it, he released the "Little Qi" that had been sleeping in his cave.

The others didn't react much to this scene, simply assuming it was Anjing's spirit pet.

But in the far center of the Zhaolin Realm, atop the faintly visible Dragon Spine Ancestral Mountain, the enormous Candlelight Wheel seemed to flicker slightly because of Xiao Qi's appearance.

After emerging, Xiao Qi first looked around curiously, then its gaze was drawn to the distant Ancestral Mountain, revealing a longing expression. But after only a short while, it waddled over to You Ruhui's side, nuzzling her affectionately, as if wanting to enter her cave.

Upon seeing this, An Jing couldn't help but laugh and curse, "You heartless wretch."

However, this scene also clearly proves that the cave heaven that You Ruhui created with the help of the will of Heaven is indeed extraordinary and special.

"Indeed, it is the Lesser Huaixu Heaven and Earth..." An Jing pondered, a bold guess forming in his mind: "Could it be? The Huaixu Heavenly Dao intends to..."

"Move over?"

But he quickly shook his head, suppressing the thought.

This speculation is so startling that it is currently just a conjecture without sufficient evidence.

An Jing, who had been clinging to You Ruhui and making the girl somewhat flustered, grabbed Xiao Qi by the scruff of her neck and turned around to the group from Tianji Mountain, saying, "We are going to deal with the Seven Luminaries Ancestral Spirits and open the Ancestral Mountain Path. You can rest here."

With that, An Jing handed over the three dragon pearls from the dragon clan base that he had obtained earlier, amidst the reluctant gaze of the Golden-Winged Roc: "Your Senior Sister Jiang Ziji is quite an old acquaintance of ours. Your Tianji Mountain is professional in this area, so please help us analyze this thing and see what its value is. Perhaps we can continue to cooperate in the future."

He patted the Golden-Winged Roc and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I said I'd give you one, so here it is—use it as my mount, you won't be shortchanged."

"Your Majesty is invincible! Your Majesty is divinely mighty! Long live Your Majesty!"

Amidst the increasingly skillful flattery of the Golden-Winged Roc, the leader of Tianji Mountain accepted the Dragon Pearl and nodded solemnly: "Of course, we will do our utmost to analyze this alien dragon base for you!"

"I'm really looking forward to it." An Jing and the others didn't linger any longer. They rode on the roc, transformed into a golden light, and disappeared into the horizon.

"Fate is truly incredible..."

Standing there, the people of Tianji Mountain looked at the dragon pearl in their hands, and recalled An Jing's miraculous swordsmanship and the souls of their fellow disciples who had been rescued. They were filled with emotion: "When I heard about the deeds of our patriarch in the past, I always felt that there might be some exaggeration. That he could decipher the secret techniques of the eighteen puppet sects overnight and create the Yuanling Law was probably just a teaching from the Venerable One..."

"But now it seems that An Tianming, who is only at the Divine Realm, has such abilities. The legends of our patriarch may have been too modest!"

Among them, a real person who had previously participated in the cooperation project between Anjing and Tianji Mountain regarding the 'divine soul chip', that is, the Tianji Mountain martial artist who had previously communicated with Hui Tianyu, suddenly had his eyes light up.

"My fellow disciples!"

At that moment, he raised his arm and urged the crowd, "An Tianming has given us a second chance at life! I propose that we invest the proceeds from this exploration into Senior An Jing's project to repay this kindness!"

"Seconded!" "That's right! Guaranteed profit!" "Heh heh, it's not just about the profits; after I leave the Zhaolin Realm, I'll definitely bet my entire fortune on An Tianming!"

The proposal received an immediate and unanimous response.

"However, should we invest in the Divine Soul Chip, or this Dragon Clan base?"

One of the martial artists involved in the project frowned and asked, "Both projects seem very promising."

The master thought for a moment and said, "Regarding the Soul Chip project, I remember that Fellow Daoist Hui Tianyu from the neighboring Miaofa Divine Sect has already been persuaded to invest. We won't compete with our brother sects for this small share of the profits."

"Forget it, I'll withdraw my investment from the Soul Chip business too!"

With a flourish of his hand, he made the decisive decision: "Let's focus on this dragon base! We'll analyze it with all our might and make sure we achieve results. We can't let our benefactor down!"

……

The other side.

Guided by Su Xinbai, An Jing and the others quickly arrived at the location of the first Seven Luminaries Ancestral Spirit.

"This is it."

Su Xinbai guided the Golden-Winged Roc through layers of labyrinthine spacetime twists and turns. Many areas of the Zhaolin Realm were like labyrinths, secret realms folded beneath layers of normal spacetime.

If it weren't for Jin Qixu's formidable ability to foresee the future, even An Jing would have to put in a lot of effort to find it.

After leaving the time-space maze, everything suddenly became clear.

An Jing raised her head and looked ahead.

At the same time he saw, he also heard.

It was a vast brown plain where the pulse of the earth beat exceptionally clearly, as if the heart of the rocks, mountains, and the vast land was throbbing incessantly, like the booming of thunder.

This is the heartbeat of the earth, the rhythm of the mountains, the thumping of the soil and rocks, and also... the 'movement' of the power that forms the foundation of all things opening its eyes.

As if sensing the arrival of An Jing and the others, the entire landscape began to tremble violently.

The ancient ancestral spirit, which has been dormant for countless ages, is slowly awakening.

In the center of the plain, a yellowish-brown mountain rises abruptly from the earth, as if beating with the heartbeat of the land.

At the summit of the mountain, an ancestral spirit, its body composed entirely of the purest golden soil, with antlers on its head and covered in earth-yellow scales, slowly opened its eyes, which shone like yellow sapphires.

The seven luminaries of Earth, the ancestral spirit of Saturn.

【Kunyu Divine Deer】

(End of this chapter)