Chapter 542: Chapter 539: Celestial Spirit’s End, Invincible Power
Ji Hantian looked at Candle Star and asked respectfully, “I hope the senior can enlighten us, what exactly is the opportunity?”
Candle Star smiled and said, “The Immortal Dynasty will soon disperse, that is the opportunity.”
The Immortal Dynasty will disperse?
Whish—
The elders were shocked, to them, the Immortal Dynasty and Holy Court were colossal entities within Great Heaven and Earth, Overlord Level forces, the chaos in the world was due to the struggle between these two powers.
How could the Immortal Dynasty, which had stood through countless calamities, now fall?
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Long Qing also felt surprised and looked at Candle Star in astonishment.
Candle Star smiled and said, “Ever since the Yang Immortal Emperor perished, although the Immortal Dynasty has introduced a new Immortal Emperor, he simply cannot quell the internal turmoil. Thousands of years have passed, and this towering tree of Cangtian is finally going to fall. But with its fall comes vigorous life for all beings on the earth, be it Daoist Techniques, Magical Treasures, or fortunes of the land, the Supreme Sect could gain much, much more from the fall of the Immortal Dynasty.”
These words made the elders’ hearts surge with excitement.
They began to inquire when the Immortal Dynasty would fall, to which Candle Star smiled mysteriously and said, “Soon!”
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The news of the Immortal Dynasty’s impending fall spread throughout the world like a whirlwind, causing great alarm.
Without the Immortal Dynasty, wouldn’t the Holy Court dominate the world, and wouldn’t the world welcome an era of peace?
Such thoughts arose in the hearts of ninety percent of those in Immortal Cultivation, and in time, more and more beings and powers started to anticipate the fall of the Immortal Dynasty, which forced the internal factions of the Immortal Dynasty to struggle even more fiercely.
It seemed as if the dissolution of the Immortal Dynasty was the direction of the Celestial Mandate, and under such a major trend, the Holy Court, on the contrary, appeared very silent.
Because the Yang Immortal Emperor had moved another Great World next to the Celestial Spirit Great World, powerful forces began to rise there as well. Hearing that the Immortal Dynasty would fall, the powers on the other side developed even more rapidly, as if afraid of missing their chance.
Against this backdrop, another ten years passed.
Deep in the universe, within the Silent Extinction Domain, fog from the Great Dao surged, making the universe seem so quiet.
The World Gate, symbolizing the end of the universe, remained steadfast.
The Celestial Spirit God, sitting in meditation beneath the World Gate, radiated strong Heavenly Dao light, dazzling and splendid. Beneath the strong light, the figure of the Celestial Spirit God seemed to have even more presence than the World Gate.
Suddenly.
The World Gate burst forth with a red light, flickering slightly, and in nearly an instant, the Celestial Spirit God opened his eyes, and two cold rays burst forth, scattering the Great Dao fog as if it had met its natural predator.
The Celestial Spirit God stood up, and the space of the universe twisted around him.
He raised his right hand and reached out across the distance. As he clenched his fist, the red light on the surface of the World Gate vanished abruptly, and all seemed to return to calm.
At the Daoist Field of the Beginningless, by the lakeside.
Gu An, who was fashioning clay pottery, looked up and saw the mighty destiny that had enveloped the continent of the Immortal Dynasty dissipate in an instant.
Without destiny, the rules binding the Immortal Spirits suddenly vanished, as did the transcendent force uniting the Immortal Spirits.
Next, the Immortal Dynasty would face unprecedented chaos.
Slaughter, plunder, revenge, and so on—even Immortal Spirits born into the Nirvana Realm revealed the dark side of human nature.
The continent of the Immortal Dynasty turned into the Human World’s hell in a very short span of time.
Those who wielded great power began to seek their own interests, tearing apart their usual facades to become entities that the common people of the Immortal Dynasty feared.
Gu An continued to shape his pottery while watching this unfold.
Having experienced so many lives through Reincarnation, Gu An’s Dao Heart had entered a higher level. In the worlds created by the Great Dao, tragic scenes were everywhere. If one could not overcome the psychological impact and emotional pull of witnessing the tragedies of the Human World, how was one to achieve Enlightenment?
With the Celestial Spirit God personally dissolving the destiny of the Immortal Dynasty, Gu An saw the endpoint of the Celestial Spirit Great World.
The Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit, symbolizing the heart of heaven and earth, would emerge in the future, and the world’s powerful would flock to it. When someone obtained the power of that Dao Fruit, the Celestial Spirit God would appear, and this time, he would destroy everything.
Pieces of the Great World within the universe would cease to exist, one after another. In that vast and spectacular scene of destruction, the Celestial Spirit God turned and stepped toward the World Gate.
As he entered the World Gate, it too turned into ash, indicating that this universe, this shattered Great Thousand World, would disappear.
Watching this future, Gu An couldn’t help thinking about An Hao, Li Ya, and others.
With the Life Span Dojo and his own cultivation level present, even if the universe perished, he was able to keep the people he cared about alive.
But An Hao, Li Ya, Long Qing, and Profound Celestial Intent were not the kind to quietly stay in the dojo, and they also had their own loved ones to think about.
Human World was like a net, with each person intertwined in countless relationships that connected the whole of Great Heaven and Earth.
A person could be insignificant, trivial, but a person could also be crucial, indispensable.
Gu An was faced with only two choices.
The first was to annihilate the Celestial Spirit God, offend the Celestial Court, the second was to play dead, give up the world he had lived in for a lifetime.
He wasn’t in a hurry to decide, even if he chose to annihilate the Celestial Spirit God, he would still strive to delay as long as possible.
The longer he could stall, the more life span he would accumulate, and the more confident he would be in dealing with the trouble from the Celestial Court that would follow.
“When faced with trouble, don’t rush, don’t panic, just one word, delay.”
Gu An said leisurely, the pottery in his hands now taking the shape of a cauldron, its surface seemingly adorned with a dragon.
The Blood Prison Great Saint, standing by his side, curiously asked, “Master, what are you referring to?”
The Blood Prison Great Saint could sense the changes in heaven and earth but couldn’t pinpoint exactly what was changing; he just felt that the world had become more tense, more dangerous.
“Any matter.”
Gu An’s answer made the Blood Prison Great Saint’s eyes light up; he felt his master was guiding him.
The Blood Prison Great Saint pressed on, “Master, how many more years will it take for this great chaos under heaven to end?”
Gu An looked at the pottery in his hands and said, “It will be faster than you imagine but also worse than you can imagine.”
He knew what An Hao was thinking, understood the young man’s lofty ambitions.
But no matter how great the opportunities An Hao had, even if he merged with the power of the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit, he wouldn’t be a match for the Celestial Spirit God.
Well, it was good for the young man to realize that the affairs of the world were far from as easy as he thought.
He’d wait for An Hao’s despair, then he would make his move.
Thinking this, Gu An began to look forward to An Hao’s transformation.
An Hao was good in every way, except he didn’t value feelings enough; his heart was always filled with Gu An and An Xin, he always felt he was born alone, that he only needed to repay gratitude. As for the wife who didn’t show him kindness, he could abandon her.
With An Hao’s cultivation level, he must have sensed that he still had blood relations alive, but he didn’t acknowledge them. This displeased Gu An.
Simply put, An Hao lacked a sense of responsibility.
However, it was precisely because An Hao had flaws that Gu An felt more motivated to guide him.
If the young man was perfect, it would be hard for him to give advice.
“Worse? How bad?” asked the Blood Prison Great Saint.
Gu An glanced at him, and gold light burst forth from his eyes, piercing into the Blood Prison Great Saint’s forehead, freezing him in place.
Afterward, Gu An continued to shape the pottery.
For a long time.
The Blood Prison Great Saint awoke with a gasp, then started breathing heavily, trembling all over, sweat pouring down his forehead like rain, and blood quickly filled his eyes.
He looked at Gu An in fear and asked, “Master, who exactly was that figure?”
“The Celestial Spirit God.”
Because it was inside the dojo, which isolated cause and effect, Gu An wasn’t afraid of being discovered by the Celestial Spirit God.
After hearing this, the Blood Prison Great Saint memorized the name, looking at Gu An, wanting to say more but hesitating.
The might of the Celestial Spirit God had deeply shaken him; he hadn’t imagined someone could be so powerful.
The vastness of the Celestial Spirit Great World was turned into dust by the Celestial Spirit God in an instant, not just the Celestial Spirit Great World, but countless other worlds too were destroyed.
The Blood Prison Great Saint wanted to ask Gu An who was stronger between him and the Celestial Spirit God but was afraid of offending him.
Although the Blood Prison Great Saint held Gu An in the utmost awe, after witnessing the strength of the Celestial Spirit God, it was hard to believe again that Gu An was invincible.