Chapter 252

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Protagonist:

Jiang Xuan

This discussion of the Dao lasted for three thousand years, and Jiang Xuan's One Life Law finally achieved a breakthrough.

He cultivated the Other Self.

Simultaneously, the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror was no longer passively refreshing like before.

Jiang Xuan's consciousness immersed itself in the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror, divine power surging, thoughts flowing like lightning, dozens of light spots flashing — some grand and brilliant, some dim and lightless.

"Tang Dynasty Twin Dragons, Eighty Abbot, Gu Dao Cultivation, Dou Qi Continent..."

"Hm? Tokyo Hot?"

Jiang Xuan was speechless; even this kind of world was searched out.

"Perfect World!"

Jiang Xuan's eyes showed delight; Perfect World is the past of the Zhe Tian Realm — it can actually traverse back to the past?!

Traversing the River of Time — that is Immortal Emperor Authority.

The One Life World he temporarily did not prepare to go to; even with the Moral Heavenly Venerable as background, that feeling of an ant facing a higher-dimensional lifeform was truly uncomfortable!

Perfect World — perhaps there will be unexpected gains.

Amidst the vast misty mountains, a small stone village hid among the peaks.

Dawn broke, the sun rose, its light illuminating Shi Cun.

In the village clearing, a burly middle-aged man led a group of children facing the morning sun to temper their bodies. Elsewhere in the village, strong middle-aged men — some tempering their bodies, some polishing hunting tools — all exuded fearlessness.

The Great Wilderness was fraught with danger; ferocious beasts ran rampant, fierce birds shrieked.

For survival, everyone desperately grew stronger; old and young alike treated tempering as instinct.

At the village entrance, Village Chief Shi Yunfeng watched the village scene, full of gratification. Children were the clan's hope; his gaze fell on a one-or-two-year-old toddler, his eyes brimming with affection.

The toddler had just learned to walk, yet among the older children he earnestly waved his arms; that serious effort moved people.

Suddenly, Shi Yunfeng's heart shook; he looked toward the village exterior — a figure in a green robe flashed into view.

In the blink of an eye, the youth arrived before him. Shi Yunfeng's pupils contracted sharply.

"This is an unfathomably powerful expert..."

He wanted to go greet him, but discovered his body could not move.

Not just him — the entire world had frozen; time slowed; Shi Cun seemed frozen.

The green-robed youth Jiang Xuan arrived at the village entrance, staring at the charred Old Willow Tree.

In his eyes seemed to surge a long river; surrounding spacetime twisted, time in disorder.

After a moment, Jiang Xuan muttered in his heart: "Willow Deity, Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit..." He scanned the crowd, confirming he was in the Perfect World where the strong are revered.

Perfect World is extremely powerful; compared to the world where the Generation's Most Honored resides, it is not inferior in the slightest.

The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths' cultivation system is divided into Moving Blood, Cave Heaven, Spirit Transformation, Inscription, Array Formation, Venerable, Divine Fire, True One, Heavenly God, Void Dao, Severing Self, Escaping One, Supreme — these realms.

Beyond that lies the Immortal Path realms transcending the human category: respectively True Immortal, Immortal King, and the supreme Immortal Emperor.

Even in subsequent development, there emerged the Sacrificial Dao and extraordinary realms above the Sacrificial Dao.

Judging purely from the cultivation system, Perfect World and the Generation's Most Honored's world are hard to rank above or below.

"Obtain this world's cultivation system, absorb its cultivation knowledge, achieve Immortal King — perhaps no longer out of reach."

Jiang Xuan's eyes were full of excitement; with this cultivation system comparable to the Generation's Most Honored's world, his plan had the possibility of realization.

Since the day the Hongmeng Realm opened, over thousands of years, Jiang Xuan absorbed countless cultivators' Dao laws, cultivating a thousand miles a day; by today, he neared the peak among peaks of Red Dust Immortal.

But he had not the slightest clue regarding breaking through to Immortal King; in the Zhe Tian Realm, reaching Red Dust Immortal is already unprecedented; reaching Immortal King is even more impossible.

Unless... unless the Hongmeng Realm's living beings increased a hundredfold — no, a thousand or ten thousand times.

Absorbing the boundless Dao paths of all living beings, one can become Immortal King.

Jiang Xuan's gaze fell upon the charred willow tree before him.

This is a massive section of withered wood, its whole body charred black, as if struck by lightning.

However, on the withered wood a single emerald willow branch gently swayed in the gentle breeze, exuding vigorous vitality, as if undergoing nirvana.

Looking at this withered wood, sensing the powerful life force contained in the willow branch, Jiang Xuan's heart was deeply shaken.

This seemingly frail willow branch actually contains endless mysteries, like a mysterious chain of order.

"Worthy of being the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit, worthy of once being an Immortal King Giant!"

This seemingly withered willow tree actually has an extraordinary origin.

It is the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit of this Great World of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths in the Xian Gu Era, truly the source of the entire world's Sacrificial Spirit lineage.

Only, it once suffered a great calamity; now it is at the critical juncture of nirvana rebirth.

Jiang Xuan was secretly pondering when his heart suddenly stirred; he subconsciously looked toward Shi Cun.

Due to the faint Qi mechanism emanating from him, time in the heaven and earth around Shi Cun had nearly stopped flowing; everything had come to a standstill.

Right then, a strange change occurred on a child in Shi Cun.

It was a mere one-or-two-year-old child, appearance like an exquisite white porcelain doll; at this moment an unusual movement appeared on his chest.

A thread of faint, barely-there mysterious Qi mechanism slowly rose; seemingly stimulated by the surrounding time changes, it faintly showed a tendency to burst forth with light. However, it seemed to still lack some key element; the light could not fully manifest for the time being.

"This is the power of Time? No, merely a part of it." Watching the change on the child's chest, sensing that familiar law power, Jiang Xuan's heart dawned: "Could this be the rule power contained in the Supreme Bone?"

Supreme Bone is a unique Transcendent Divine Ability of this world, similar to the Primordial Rune Bones inside ferocious beasts, but its power is far stronger — truly a supreme divine technique bestowed by heaven.

In Jiang Xuan's view, rather than saying it was a gift from the heavens, it was better to say it was the concrete manifestation of the ancestors' bloodline and talent combined with the Dao of creating life in this life.

Among the ancestors of the Stone Clan, there was more than one expert at the Immortal King level; their descendants possessing transcendent divine abilities such as the Supreme Bone and Chong Tong was not difficult to understand, perhaps this was precisely the powerful ability left behind by the ancestors in the bloodline.

In this small Shi Village, a child actually appeared possessing a talent inheritance like the Supreme Bone; the child's identity went without saying—he was Shi Hao, the future Desolate Heavenly Emperor.

Shi Hao, without a doubt, was the most dazzling existence in this Tian Di.

He possessed unparalleled talent, resonating with the Dao since birth, born for war, a naturally born Overlord.

At this moment, he was still a childish little baby, who loved drinking sweet beast milk all day, happily chasing the colorful Five-Colored Sparrow, carefree and innocent.

Jiang Xuan pondered thus, his heart suddenly stirred, his aura instantly converged, the powerful Mysterious Qi overflowing outward instantly concealed, no longer producing the slightest influence on the surrounding world.

In an instant, the illusory sounds like a surging flood surrounding them stopped abruptly, the stagnant time between Heaven and Earth as if the seal was unlocked, began to flow smoothly again.

In the blink of an eye, everything returned to normal.

The Shi Cun People seemed to awaken from a dreamless sleep, resuming normal actions, the previous strangeness as if it had never happened.

Just at the moment time returned to normal, the mysterious strange change on Boy Shi Hao's chest vanished like a dream bubble in an instant.

He stumbled and sat heavily on the ground, babbling in a milky voice: "Huff... eiya, so tired."

At the village entrance, Shi Yunfeng, the clan chief of Shi Village who had just regained consciousness, was staring fixedly at the blue-robed figure before the ancestral Sacrificial Spirit with a face full of terror.

His eyes widened, the shock remaining in his pupils did not dissipate for a long time.

The moment before his consciousness dissipated, this blue-robed expert before his eyes could actually shake time, control the flow of time; this strength was simply terrifying to the extreme!

Fortunately, judging from the current situation, the other party seemed to have no malice, not like a villain who would bring a calamity of annihilation to Shi Village.

Thinking thus, Shi Yunfeng suppressed the fear in his heart, stepped forward two steps, performed a great salute respectfully, his voice slightly trembling as he said: "Greetings, Qian Sui, I do not know for what matter Qian Sui graces Shi Village with your presence?"

Feeling the old man's fear and tension from the bottom of his heart, Jiang Xuan's voice was gentle and calm, as if carrying a reassuring power: "Do not worry, I have no malice towards your Shi Village."

Speaking, he cast his gaze again toward the scorched Willow Tree before him; in an instant, a mysterious and powerful sensation arose spontaneously in his heart.

Jiang Xuan's words had a magical charm; Shi Yunfeng's anxiety dissipated, replaced by an inexplicable sense of reassurance.

However, when seeing this mysterious expert once again tightly locking his gaze onto his family's Sacrificial Spirit, Shi Yunfeng's heart instantly hung again. An ominous premonition surged in his heart: Could it be that he really came for the Sacrificial Spirit?

Thinking of the other party's unfathomable strength, Shi Yunfeng subconsciously looked at his family's Sacrificial Spirit again.

He was very clear in his heart that this Willow Tree was not Shi Village's original Sacrificial Spirit.

Shi Yunfeng still remembered that Shi Village's original Sacrificial Spirit was a mysterious strange stone, which had always protected Shi Village.

On a terrifying midnight of violent storms and thunder and lightning, this scorched Willow Tree that seemed long dead fell like a falling star, crashing down upon Shi Village.

From then on, the original strange stone Sacrificial Spirit quietly departed, as if completing a certain Mission.

Recalling this, Shi Yunfeng involuntarily saw that heart-stopping scene emerge before his eyes.

It was a night of wind and rain, thunder shaking the heavens; above the Heavenly Vault, endless lightning like furious Dragons surged wildly.

A giant Willow Tree standing tall and proud stood in that terrifying Sea of Thunder; ten thousand crystal clear Willow Branches, like Order Shen Lian from ancient times, emitted a chilling aura, piercing straight toward the Heavenly Vault.

Every swing of each Willow Branch seemed able to tear apart Heaven and Earth; every collision triggered violent Zhen Dong between Heaven and Earth.

In that Shocking World Great War, although the giant Willow was incomparably brave, it ultimately could not match the powerful Enemy in the darkness.

Finally, its body was mercilessly broken, turned into a patch of scorched black, heavily falling before Shi Village, from then on becoming Shi Village's new guardian.

Every time recalling that terrifying scene, Shi Yunfeng could not help but feel a shudder in his heart.

This old Willow Tree must be a super expert from ancient times, and its Enemy was even more powerful beyond imagination.

Could it be that its Enemy followed the Mysterious Qi and came here?

At this time, the other villagers of Shi Village also discovered the strange figure before the Sacrificial Spirit. They were either Curious or Vigilant, gathering around one after another; for a while, the atmosphere of Shi Village became Tense and oppressive.

"Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit... ancient totem... Willow Tree... Tree of Life..." (Chapter End)