Chapter 174 - 104: The Celestial Will Has Come
Chapter 174: Chapter 104: The Celestial Will Has Come
In the Library Pavilion, Kong didn’t answer, which was an answer in itself.
He was the One King.
A figure of immense mystery who overshadowed the Two Venerables, the demons of the Human World, and the Three Immortals, the prodigies who had reached the pinnacle of the Immortal Path. He was someone whom both Grandmasters and Qi Cultivation Immortals deliberately avoided mentioning.
Like the Black Abyss Ancestor, who had been tragically sealed for a millennium, Kong came from the true Human World.
"Immortal Arrival."
"A deadly calamity will descend, and I will act."
"And all I want is to go home."
Kong narrated.
A Great Immortal had fallen, and his body became the Human World. This was the truth of this world’s birth—a crippled heaven and a flawed earth, with no Reincarnation.
When heaven and earth were first born,
there was not yet a Celestial Will.
Countless prodigies from the Immortal Sects of the true Human World entered this place, hoping to seize the Heaven-Reaching Creation left behind by the fallen Great Immortal.
Unfortunately,
far too many died.
Moreover,
not a single one left this place alive.
As time passed, even the Gate connecting to the Human World closed.
The long ages wore down these prodigies of the Immortal Path until they died, leaving only a few scattered Demons still clinging to life.
He wanted to go home.
So did Zhuo.
Kong’s Longevity Technique couldn’t last a thousand years, so he seized the Ten Extremes Skill, the Ten Lives Body, to reincarnate through one life after another until, in his final one, he became Jie.
Zhuo, too, could not last a thousand years. He sealed himself, using the Ten Extremes Skill—Stealing Heaven and Changing the Day—to survive until now.
However, he lost the Magical Artifact, the Four Holy Pearls, and suffered the miserable fate of being truly sealed.
"Never mind."
"So be it."
Su Chen sighed softly, took out the Four Holy Pearls, and placed them on the stone table.
"Thanks."
"Don’t you go and die, kid."
"If you ever get the chance to come to the true Human World, you can look for me at the Demon Profound Sect for a drink..."
The Black Abyss Ancestor, Zhuo, spoke.
They left.
That night, Su Chen stood for a long while under the tree, gazing at the empty Library Pavilion in silence.
The Library Pavilion was still the same Library Pavilion.
He had arrived here in the twenty-third year of Tianwu.
Now,
the Human World had seen dynasties change hands several times.
The Daqian Dynasty was already a year old.
’Has it been thirty years?’
’How fast it’s gone.’
Su Chen mused.
There was no point in waiting any longer.
Peace across the land!
A worthy sovereign had emerged!
He had been stuck before this final ritual, the Wish of All Living Beings, for far too long.
It was time to end all of this.
That night, Su Chen strode forward, closed the great doors of the Library Pavilion, and walked through every corner of the Imperial Palace amidst the wind and snow.
He went to the peach blossom forest that had once been the Imperial Palace’s Chaotic Burial Mound, and to the great hall that had housed the Martial Arts Bureau and Military Supervision Bureau, now converted into the Imperial Small Cabinet where Central Ministers screened memorials for the Emperor.
Everything was changing, yet he alone remained in place.
Familiar faces had come and gone, one generation after the next, yet only he remained, even though the surroundings were familiar, the people were not.
Su Chen left.
He reverted to his original appearance and, after a long time, changed into the familiar robes of a Little Black-robed Eunuch.
He said goodbye to no one.
He simply...
...under the cover of night, knocked on the door of a certain residence in the Imperial City, and placed the Blood Sunflower that the real Xu Ge had obtained at the cost of his life by the entrance.
Before the door,
he personally witnessed Princess Yunyang silently retrieve a Blood Sunflower.
’Is there anything else left undone?’
Su Chen thought for a moment.
He then went to the mausoleums in the Imperial City to pay his respects to the old eunuch from the pharmacy, Chen Ge, as well as to Ye Xuan, who had been buried here by Kong under a different name.
There,
Su Chen saw Chen Xuan, who was dressed in sackcloth and mourning, having kept a long vigil over the two tombs.
After the founding of the Daqian Dynasty,
he had vanished without a trace. Su Chen never thought he would be here.
It was then
that Su Chen learned that Chen Xuan was actually the biological son the old eunuch Chen Ge had left behind before entering the palace, who had then been adopted by his current parents.
"Who’s there?"
Chen Xuan looked toward Su Chen with alarm and suspicion.
There was clearly nothing there,
yet he sensed a presence.
"Have you been well recently?"
Su Chen withdrew from his state of Merging with heaven and earth. He walked over, took three incense sticks, and paid his respects at the grave of the Purple-robed Thousand Years.
"Ah..."
"You!"
"Lord Sword Immortal."
Chen Xuan was stunned.
He stared at the impossibly handsome, immortal-like young man before him and rubbed his eyes in disbelief.
This legendary figure, as elusive as a Divine Dragon showing only its head but never its tail, had actually appeared before his very eyes tonight.
Of course.
This was the tomb of the Purple-robed Thousand Years.
The Wind Snow Sword Immortal was bound to come, sooner or later.
Just then, Su Chen remembered that he currently had the appearance of the Wind Snow Sword Immortal, not the lazy White-robed Imperial Physician from the Imperial Hospital.
"Making a fuss over nothing."
Su Chen commented.
Then, he turned to the tombstone of the Purple-robed Thousand Years with a complex gaze and brushed the accumulated snow from its surface.
In a trance,
he saw a young man, whose every word seemed to weep blood, lamenting for the common people and recklessly vowing to eradicate all injustice from the world.
In the end,
that young man died on this path.
He was no demonic prodigy.
Nor was he some protagonist chosen by Celestial Destiny.
He was just an ordinary eunuch.
"Perhaps..."
"it was for the best that you never met me in the pharmacy."
Su Chen prepared to leave.
This time,
he made no effort to conceal his presence.
With his third sword, he could fully rank among those in the Innate Realm who snatched life from the heavens, on par with a Ninth Level of Qi Cultivation Immortal.
His ability to step into the Extreme Realm Minor Grandmaster at any time gave him an unparalleled foundation of confidence.
He had no fear, not even of the true titans who had reached the pinnacle of the real Human World!
Without realizing it, after some thirty years of cultivation, he could already move unhindered across the Human World, able to contend with the ancient monsters of this realm who had lived for centuries.
Tonight,
the One King, Two Venerables, and Three Immortals were all watching him.
The creator of this eleventh Absolute Skill.
The Wind Snow Sword Immortal, whose true depths no one had been able to fathom for thirty years, a figure forever shrouded in mystery.
They were guessing whether this Wind Snow Sword Immortal was willing to take the final step for all the world’s people—to cut down the heavens themselves.