Chapter 70: I Am the Heavenly Dao!!! (Third update, seeking monthly votes!)

【You feel a heart-wrenching pain in your head.】

【You close your eyes and see tens of thousands of disciples shouting before you—"As long as Mount Shu exists, the righteous path shall flourish forever."】

【You open your eyes, only to be astonished to find yourself ten thousand years in the past.】

【Disordered memories continuously piece and assemble themselves; in a trance, you see that Mount Shu Dao Venerable standing proudly above the firmament.】

【But when you regain consciousness, what you recall is a child who grew up beside Jiangyang Fishing Village.】

【Yet what has never changed is your heart of innocence.】

【What is good, what is evil.】

【From beginning to end, you have had your own definition.】

【Whether human or demon, you have your own set of standards; you will not show mercy just because an evil person is human, and you will not kill without hesitation just because a good demon is a demon.】

【Once upon a time, you were always lost, always hesitant, always pondering whether your actions were right or wrong.】

【The answer to your fate given after the Four Thousand Bureau is—adhere to your original heart, never forget your initial intent.】

【You silently hold your forehead and shake your head to keep yourself clear-headed.】

【"What is wrong with you?" Long Xi still has that cold expression, but in that tone, you can feel her concern.】

【"Thank you." You push the scale in your hand back, "This is the Reverse Scale of your Dragon Race, used to protect the Heart Bead."】

【"As for me, a mere commoner in the secular world, a life of no consequence, with only a few years left to live, it is useless for me to take it."】

【Immediately, you smile at Long Xi and say: "Actually... in this life... I have never believed in any deity; I am a person who... does not believe in gods."】

【"But... I do not know why... I have become your Believer."】

【"And I do not know why I have become your only Believer."】

【"However... I have personally felt the benevolence of a deity."】

【"Since you view me as your only Believer."】

【"Then you are the only god in my heart."】

【Long Xi's expression shifts slightly, and the stillness like an ancient well on her face finally shows a trace of change.】

【Congratulations, you have unlocked a brand new character skin—The Only God · Long Xi.】

【"And I, too, must face the tribulation and enter the world."】

【"I hope we have the chance to meet again."】

【She reaches out her hand, and for the first time, your right hand is held by hers, and in Long Xi's eyes, there are unfathomable thoughts, "This is our promise."】

【"Our promise." Gu Jiangming did not expect the other party to be so serious; he had always thought that a noble creature like a dragon would not care about the life or death of a human, just as humans never care about the grass and trees beside them.】

【"It is just that when we meet again, it might be my reincarnation, and I do not know if I will still be able to remember you." Gu Jiangming says in a wistful tone.】

【In fact, you also know that your lifespan will meet its end during the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.】

【"No... you will not forget me."】

【"Because I am the only god in your heart."】

Long Xi, in the depths of the ocean, awakens once more; her eyes, bright as jewels, are filled with a faint joy as if about to be reunited.

My only Believer.

But after the brief joy, what emerges in her heart... is nothing but a desolate loneliness; here, ten thousand years later, she has nothing left.

Her Imperial Father, her sisters...

Do not know where they have gone.

But everything... she remembers it all.

"And my friend... only you remain."

But in Gu Jiangming's mind, the 【Mie Changsheng】 scene still has not stopped.

【Zhenyuan Calendar Year 138, there are five years left until the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth; that gradually awakening will is increasingly affecting your judgment and cognition.】

【You can feel the changes in this world more clearly than anyone else.】

【Looking at the surface, the whole earth is still lush and prosperous, but they are already hollow; you feel that deep within everything around you is a deathly stillness.】

【However, the conflict between the Human Race and the Demon Race has not stopped because of this; instead, it has intensified.】

【In the Nine Provinces, you finally find Wang Qinghe and your three sons.】

【She seems to have many, many things she wants to say to you, but when she wants to speak, you wave your hand.】

【You gently embrace her.】

【"Heaven and Earth have a tribulation; I must enter the game with my own body."】

【"What tribulation... is it the Heavenly Dao?" Wang Qinghe grips your hand tightly.】

【"Perhaps."】

【"But this time, I will win half a move against Heaven."】

【You reveal the most joyful smile of your life.】

【No matter what kind of tribulation it is, he will naturally do his utmost; are we not people of ambition?】

【And you know this will be the most stunning move of your life.】

【Qianyuan—】

【The Heavenly Dao Leader takes off her Bronze Mask; the Taiyi Stone in her hand is absorbing the Spirit Qi of Heaven and Earth.】

【You can see hundreds of millions of Spirit-Gathering Arrays surging within the Taiyi Stone.】

【Give it another thousand years to absorb the Spirit Qi of Heaven and Earth, and the Taiyi Stone will absorb all the Spirit Qi in the world; from then on, there will be no cultivators who transcend mortals, no demons, and even less so, gods.】

【For this game, she has laid plans for three thousand years, and finally, finally, she sees the dawn of hope.】

【However...】

【It is already useless.】

【"Because before this, Heaven and Earth will face a massive catastrophe."】

【"Tianxiang, or should I say, Lord Heavenly Dao Leader?" Gu Jiangming's figure slowly appeared in the space.】

【The Heavenly Dao Leader no longer hid her layout and plans at this moment, "You? Have you come to break this bureau for the sake of the people of the world?"】

【"No." Gu Jiangming shook his head and said, "I feel like you should have some connection to me."】

【"It shouldn't be... that I have some connection to the Senior Brother you speak of."】

【"But now, there is one thing I want to tell you."】

【"You were never the one outside the bureau, the one who set the board for the people of the world."】

【"You are also one who must face the calamity."】

【As the words fell, Gu Jiangming's figure arrived beside the Heavenly Dao Leader, and he reached out to take the Taiyi Stone from the Leader's hand.】

【The Heavenly Dao Leader did not make any extra movements, nor did she attempt to stop him; she let the Taiyi Stone be taken away by Gu Jiangming.】

【And Gu Jiangming, almost right in front of the Heavenly Dao Leader, stuffed the Taiyi Stone into his mouth.】

【"You—"】

【"Are you crazy?" The Heavenly Dao Leader's gaze was full of astonishment, "Do you think doing this can stop the Heaven and Earth catastrophe?"】

【She sat back on the throne of the Heavenly Dao Leader and revealed a bitter smile, "One wrong move in the game, and every step is wrong."】

【"I once thought I had mastered the entire game, but who could have foreseen that I would eventually become a piece within the game myself."】

【"I never imagined that when the gods lost the faith of the people and the order of Heaven and Earth collapsed, it would lead to the Heaven and Earth catastrophe."】

【The reason she did not stop Gu Jiangming from taking the Taiyi Stone was simple: whether the Taiyi Stone was taken or not, the order of Heaven and Earth had already collapsed.】

【Everyone had to face the catastrophe of the restart of Heaven and Earth, and the catastrophe of the restart of Heaven and Earth was a disaster dominated by Heaven that destroyed everything.】

【No one could be spared, all sinking into the end.】

【Then everything, everything, would start again from the newest origin, carrying out a new Heaven and Earth Reincarnation, and all things would begin anew.】

【So when Gu Jiangming took the Taiyi Stone, she did not make any move, because when the Heaven and Earth catastrophe started, it was already over.】

【There were no winners.】

【The Demon Race did not win, the Human Race did not win, and the gods did not win.】

【It was Heaven that won.】

【"Heaven and Earth need gods to maintain rules and order; this is the meaning of their existence, and now, without divine power, they can no longer maintain this kind of law."】

【"So Heaven and Earth collapsed because of it."】

【"In the face of the Heaven and Earth catastrophe, even cultivators of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment are the same as mortals."】

【"Hahahahahaha—"】

【"So that's how it is?"】

【"To Heaven and Earth, everyone is a tiny part of all things, so whether mortals have this kind of extraordinary power or not, it is actually fair."】

【"It is also for the sake of fairness that it brings us back to the starting point."】

【She spoke, but was full of a sense of powerlessness.】

【What the Heavenly Dao pursues is a Great Harmony of Heaven and Earth where everyone is equal, not an end that sinks into a land of deathly silence.】

【"No, this is not over yet." Gu Jiangming's voice rang out softly, "If there is no order, then I will rebuild this order."】

【"Do you know?"】

【"People have lifespans... but divine abilities do not."】

【"As long as there is enough Spirit Qi."】

【"It can exist forever."】

【In the 143rd year of the Zhenyuan Calendar, the winds and clouds of Heaven and Earth changed suddenly, and monstrous waves surged on the sea surface, but the gods on the sea no longer had the divine power to obstruct this phenomenon born from the wrath of Heaven and Earth.】

【The Dragon Kings of the Four Seas rushed out from their respective sea areas, attempting to use their own divine abilities to stop the flood from surging and rolling toward the Nine Provinces.】

【A heavy atmosphere permeated Heaven and Earth; the sky that originally lit up the mortal world no longer had sunlight, and the Golden Crow, as the one in charge of the power of the sun, lost its former divine power and could no longer illuminate the Nine Provinces.】

【Looking at this sky that could no longer light up, endless sorrow and despair solidified in everyone's hearts.】

【The sun and moon had no light, with only dim afterglow shining powerlessly.】

【What was even more terrifying was that whether it was humans or demons... including the gods, the Spirit Qi that should have belonged to them within their bodies was rapidly dissipating, as if it were being ruthlessly snatched away by Heaven.】

【The monstrous flood washed away the originally fertile soil of the Nine Provinces, and large swaths of land sank into the seabed.】

【Those cultivators who lost their Spirit Qi paled in the face of the power of nature, no longer having their former imposing appearance.】

【This deep despair appeared in the hearts of all things in Heaven and Earth... every blade of grass, every tree, every person, every object, and even the gods.】

【"Hello?"】

【That was the voice of a person.】

【"I think... everyone should be able to hear my voice, right?"】

【Who was he?】

【This was the question everyone wanted to ask.】

【Why could he still use divine abilities?】

【But at this moment, this man's voice became the only hope amidst the darkness.】

【The only remaining hope.】

【"I will temporarily construct an order to prevent the collapse of Heaven and Earth."】

【"However... I hope everyone can become a part of me as much as possible."】

Before Gu Jiangming, the scene showed thousands of rules and regulations composed of arrays.

【"After the Four Thousand Bureau—"】

【From this moment on, everyone heard the peerless divine ability named after this.】

【And they had never heard the name of this divine ability before.】

【But】

【After the Four Thousand Bureau, it will become a legend, from now on... becoming the very pinnacle of the end of the techniques of Heaven and Earth!】

【"Golden Crow, are you willing to become a chess piece in the Four Thousand Bureau, to illuminate Heaven and Earth for the common people of Heaven and Earth?"】

【What room for refusal did the deity called Golden Crow have at this moment? If things continued like this, it would be dissolved by the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.】

【"That is my wish."】

【Suddenly, Heaven and Earth shone with dazzling light; within the divine ability of Heaven and Earth centered on you, a divine ability appeared with the Golden Crow as its incarnation.】

【It became a divine ability of your Four Thousand Bureau, shining light for Heaven and Earth.】

【Heaven and Earth, which had been lightless throughout the night, shone with brightness from this moment on.】

【There was never a moment that made people miss this ray of sunlight so much.】

【What that voice said... was true.】

And at this moment, it was not only the thousands upon thousands of struggling cultivators on the screen who felt shocked.

There was also Jiu Jiu, who was watching every scene on the screen.

Wang Qinghe, watching all of this, was likewise caught up in it.

【"Dragon Kings of the Four Seas, are you willing to become the four needles that stabilize the seas in this Four Thousand Bureau, to govern the waters for the common people of Heaven and Earth, so there are no water disasters?"】

【"This old man is willing."】

【"Consider it a journey taken for the sake of the common people of the world."】

【"I dare not disobey."】

【"I shall meet the tribulation and face death."】

【They became four divine abilities of your Four Thousand Bureau, governing the safety of the four sea regions for Heaven and Earth.】

【"Your Highness Vermilion Bird, are you willing to govern the south, suppress summer, control fire, represent Li in the Eight Trigrams, preside over fire in the Five Elements, and be placed in my bureau?"】

【"No need for more words."】

【Vermilion Bird became a divine ability of your Four Thousand Bureau, governing the south, summer, and scorching fire for Heaven and Earth.】

【After your Four Thousand Bureau, countless divine abilities named after deities lit up; the duties and rules they required would all take your bureau as the central axis and become the order within Heaven and Earth.】

【Their power was too immense, and you soon suffered a backlash, but you endured everything and continued to name one deity after another.】

【But your... body... could not withstand such great pressure after all.】

【Yet the divine abilities named after the Four Thousand Bureau still continued to light up in this Heaven and Earth.】

【The demons did not win, the humans did not win, the gods did not win, and Heaven did not win either!】

【It is I... who won.】

【"In this game, I beat you by half a piece."】

【"I Am Heaven—even if only for one day... one hour..."】

【Your vision plunged completely into darkness.】

【Reincarnation ended, saving progress】

【Congratulations on unlocking a brand-new personal portrait skin—I Am Heaven · Gu Jiangming.】

【This portrait skin is used to commemorate the outstanding contribution you once made during the seventh Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth, becoming the final light within this Heaven and Earth.】

【Congratulations, you have changed the history that once was and rewritten the future in your own way.】

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