Chapter 392

Nuwa seemed to be waiting for Tang An to ask this question.

"Guardian."

"Guardian?" Tang An was very unfamiliar with this term.

Nuwa looked into the distance, as if looking at the long river of time.

"In the early days of heaven and earth chaos, heaven and earth were opened by Pangu, and later he merged himself into all things in heaven and earth. The initial Heavenly Dao also came into being."

"The Heavenly Dao maintained the stability of the entire Three Realms and Six Paths, and many initial gods were born in the world."

"But that seemingly peaceful paradise was broken by the battle between the Water God Gonggong and the Fire God Zhurong, who hit and broke Buzhou Mountain, leading to the collapse of heaven and earth."

"It was also from that time that the creatures of the Three Realms and Six Paths were exposed to the eyes of the Outer Realm Demon Race."

The spiritual energy and all living things in this world were like a piece of fat full of temptation to the Outer Realm Demon Race. They invaded and plundered wantonly, to the point where the world was in misery, the earth was scarred, and the gods fell."

"Thus, selected by the Great Dao, the first generation of Demon-Suppressing Pass Guardian was born."

"It was I who took the five-colored stones to mend the sky, and together with the initial gods, slew the Outer Realm Demon Race and drove them all out of our heaven and earth."

"Later events revolved, various great tribulations continued, and new Guardians were constantly produced."

"First generation, second generation, fifth generation..."

"To this day, I can't even count how many generations of Guardians have appeared."

"Those Guardians, some sacrificed, some lived in seclusion, some were seriously injured and hard to heal, some died in depression..."

"And the Guardian before you was the disciple of Taiqing Saint, Xuandu Dafa Shi. He guarded the Demon-Suppressing Pass in Xuandu City, protecting the peace of the Three Realms and Six Paths."

"Fairy Yunxiao knew about this."

Tang An's heart rose and fell, unable to calm her mind for a long time.

Because in Yunxiao's memory, there were indeed some memories about Xuandu City. She even reinforced Xuandu City and fought against the Outer Realm Demon Race.

But those memories seemed to have been deliberately sealed, and it was only after Yunxiao passed all her Dharma power and Primordial Spirit power to her that those memories appeared in her mind.

It was just that she hadn't had time to think through those things when Nuwa came to find her.

It seems that at the last moment before Yunxiao's Primordial Spirit fell asleep, the words she said were because she had recovered her memory and guessed that she was the next generation of Guardian.

"Did you seal Yunxiao's memory about the Guardian?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because she, like you, did not respect the will of heaven and was unwilling to be controlled. If she had known everything in advance, she would definitely have helped you shake off your destiny."

"I cannot let variables arise. The creatures of the Three Realms cannot wait."

Tang An smiled, "So, you cut off all my channels to know the truth, making me forever unable to guess the possibility of my true destiny?"

It turns out that she, this Destined One, is not only the key figure of the Journey to the West Calamity but also the Guardian after the Journey to the West Calamity ends.

It turns out that all the suffering and torture she experienced was to create a hero who could guard the peace of the Three Realms and Six Paths.

It turns out that she thought everyone's calculations were ultimately to let Yunxiao return. But now it seems... the two of them are both bitter people who have been calculated.

Even Yunxiao's death-defying refusal to enter the Investiture of the Gods was probably within the calculations of the Heavenly Dao or Nuwa.

Nuwa saw that Tang An had not spoken for a long time and said: "Do you know why, in the battle of Lingshan, the Saints took action to cut off your strike with Rulai?"

"Have you noticed that even when Saint Tongtian fights the Heavenly Dao, he rarely creates cracks in space?"

Tang An had really noticed this problem before, but she didn't expect the involvement behind it to be so deep.

"The Heavenly Dao has a problem?"

With one sentence, she asked the most critical point.

Nuwa nodded very gratified, "The Heavenly Dao has gone through years, although it has merged with Hongjun Laozu, it has consumed too much origin power because it needs to maintain the defense of heaven and earth, and it is about to be unable to maintain the balance of heaven and earth."

"Unless a new Heavenly Dao is born in time to replace Hongjun Laozu and take over the relay to maintain the balance of heaven and earth."

"Otherwise, once the Heavenly Dao collapses, the Outer Realm Demon Race will definitely invade on a large scale."

"As the Guardian of this generation, you must possess powerful strength to be able to turn the tide, be invincible, and guard the sentient beings of the Three Realms at such a critical moment."

Tang An listened to everything Nuwa said and couldn't calm down for a long time.

But if the Heavenly Dao and Nuwa were playing the same game, why block her from slaying Rulai?

"The Tang Emperor appeared with a million-strong army and won against heaven with human power together with me; was that a drama deliberately conceded by the Heavenly Dao?"

"No." Nuwa explained: "I am ordered by the Great Dao, not the Heavenly Dao."

"What I do and what the Heavenly Dao does are two completely different paths."

"The Heavenly Dao cultivates itself, while I cultivate every generation of Guardian."

"Today, the Heavenly Dao is weak and difficult to suppress the Saints, so it can only urge great tribulations to descend one after another. Using the power of the creatures who died in the tribulation to supplement the power of the Heavenly Dao."

"However, the causality you established with half of the human race while opening up territory for Great Tang on the Journey to the West road was not determined by me, nor by heaven, but by yourself."

"This matter coincided with me, so I fought against the Heavenly Dao in the chess game, resulting in neither side being able to intervene."

"In the battle of Lion Camel Ridge and Lingshan, I had to save your life, not only because of Pilanpo but also to lure the million-strong Great Tang army and the Tang Emperor to come in person. Thereby, through your hands, reproducing the magnificent feat of human power winning against heaven."

"Although the Heavenly Dao also needs you to become the new Guardian, it prefers to act according to the fixed number of the Heavenly Dao Great Tribulation."

"Even if it means sacrificing you, this Guardian, it doesn't feel it's a pity. Because after you pass away, the Great Dao will re-select the next Guardian."

"What I do and what the Heavenly Dao does are destined to be different. So in this game of chess, you won, and I and the human race won by a slight margin."

Tang An listened to all this, her heart surging, unable to calm down.

"But you, for your purpose, watched me seriously injured, nine deaths and no life, but let the situation continue to develop in the direction you wanted."

"You lured the Tang Emperor and the million-strong army to come, you lured the origin power of Huaxia's luck into my body, and it was not to save me."

"It was to make the origin power of Huaxia's luck and the lives of my Great Tang people become the most solid shackles that could restrain me."

She, Tang An, a living person, was forged into a sword that could guard the Three Realms and Six Paths.

Protect the home and country, protect the world's sentient beings.

Tang An laughed bitterly a few times and looked at Nuwa.

"But if I said, I don't want to be any hero."

"Is this sentence very inappropriate, very sentimental, and very unrighteous?"

Nuwa was not surprised by any of Tang An's reactions.

"No one wants to be a hero, no one wants to sacrifice. But the stability of the Great Wilderness and the peace of the Three Realms always require someone to carry the burden forward."

"The Huaxia land has gone through crises but stands tall, precisely because there are countless people who have sacrificed one after another. Sacrificing the small self to achieve the great self is what supports the Huaxia land to live and grow."

"For the sake of the world and the sentient beings of the Three Realms, sacrificing some people and closing some causalities, I also have no choice."

"And you are destined to shoulder the safety of the Three Realms from birth; you are destined to walk the path of the Guardian."

Tang An questioned Nuwa bitterly, "But I have always just wanted to be an ordinary person."

"It was such a simple wish, why is it so hard to achieve?"

Nuwa was silent for a while, and she couldn't give Tang An an answer.

"You are about to be reborn as an immortal; you should let go of mortal thoughts, forget seven emotions, comprehend the Great Dao, improve your cultivation, and wait for the tribulation to rise."

Tang An did not agree with Nuwa's point of view, "If I have no feelings, how can I have righteousness? If I have no small love, how can I love the sentient beings of the Three Realms?"

"I can accept my destiny, but I protect the world, not because of what you said, letting me have to guard the world."

"But for the people I care about, for the stability of Huaxia, and for the people of Great Tang, I guard the world."

"However, this so-called Guardian, I will only be it for three thousand years at most. Three thousand years later, whether there is a new Guardian or not, I will leave."

"I can endure three thousand years of loneliness. But it doesn't mean I must endure it and contribute without compensation."

"I, Tang An, don't owe the world anything; the most I owe is my closest kin and myself."

"So no matter how I choose, I have a clear conscience, just following my heart."

Nuwa heard this and had no anger.

"Perhaps, you should also know one thing."