Chapter 2023: Boundless Universe

Swift Fire Yu Xiu again begins to contend for world authority, bearing the karma of this world's time on Qing Wang! A set of Creation God Script, a book of Creation, constructs the Floating Land world upon the foundation of the current era's rules. Even Swift Fire Yu Xiu, who represents the descent of the world's will, needs to use it to reclaim authority. What kind of vision and wisdom can achieve such a thing? For cultivators at the God Arrival level, it's simply unimaginable. Of course, to become the foundation of a world's operation, it must fundamentally be fair and open. Utmost impartial without emotion, then heaven and earth will be orderly. So even in this terrifying creation, Swift Fire Yu Xiu can participate in the competition. In the high sky above the Totem Pillar forest, in front of the highest throne, department leaders still kneel. Although Swift Fire Yu Ling and Pure Water Cheng Yan have successively stirred up resistance, more people are still bound by royal power. Qing Wang doesn't even let them join the battle, still having the leisure to protect her own sustenance. The Book of Changes of Creation, she can clearly feel it. It makes her grin, her eyes excited. She certainly doesn't like failure. She absolutely has no possibility of failure. The Floating Land world has limits, the Totem cultivation system has limits, these are all shackles she personally cast. So that she, who has descended into Qing Wang's body, also needs to restore power little by little, even finding it difficult to exceed the Totem Holy Spirit level — even so, this is still a war without suspense. She is excited that things have changed, and even more excited that this world is indeed not a stagnant pool, possessing great possibilities! In those long years, she was always in the resistance of wise beings, feeling the vigorous growth of life. This truly brings much joy! She likes to see the unyielding spirit of Swift Fire Yu Xiu, likes to see the struggles of young geniuses like Jiang Wang, Pure Rite, and Jiang Wu Xie. Infinite possibilities, all in past years. She sees a sword light cutting through the sky dome, as if slashing open the copper-colored sky curtain! Vibrant green Yuan force scatters like a flying waterfall. The Four Symbols Azure Dragon, which possesses the blessing of Wood Origin and whose power approaches the limit of a Totem Spirit, has been slain! Jiang Wang is the first to fly down. And with the burst of Play Fate and Li Feng Yao, the remaining Four Symbols Divine Guardians also successively shatter. For a time, spear light and flying arrows are like pouring rain, Dao techniques and divine powers like a mountain collapse! That exquisite cooperation, the creativity of geniuses, the extraordinary inheritance… they kill until heaven and earth are filled with light and flames! It's hard to distinguish which attack comes from whom, but they all clearly belong to Qing Wang. Qing Wang covers her abdomen, enduring the karma backlash, looking up to the sky in extreme pain and letting out a long howl:

"Painful and exhilarating!"

Truly painful and exhilarating. Because she hasn't felt such pain in a very long time! A terrifying feeling, hard to describe, invades the danger premonitions of the crowd at the scene. At this time, the influence of Li Feng Yao and the Pure Water Department army under his control against the entire Floating Land allied army has already been completely wiped out, like a wave in the ocean, rolling over and over. The crowd didn't seize that fleeting opportunity to strike and kill Qing Wang on the spot. And at this moment, the power of several hundred thousand troops can be easily mobilized. Qing Wang sits on her throne, her power like a mountain collapse! This human body has its limits, but the vast heaven and earth, with infinite possibilities, can draw upon almost inexhaustible external army power. She continuously gathers and releases power. Her whole person is like a volcano erupting! All who approach and attack her are pushed away by violent, incomparable power. This is the purest power, not attached to any attributes, not belonging to any killing methods or divine powers, just the blood energy power of several hundred thousand troops. This pure power rolls wildly like a tsunami, surges like a heavenly river, hitting the so-called heavenly prides present like small boats in waves, pushing them hundreds or thousands of li away! Even Yu Chan spits blood and loses control, and is covered by a blazing flame city. Immediately after, Bai Yu Xia is also thrown in. Jiang Wu Xie on that side casually pushes, sending Swift Fire Yu Ling into this place as well, and he himself follows closely and jumps in. Jiang Wang temporarily has no time to scold him, manifesting Profound Heaven Glass and Heavenly Mansion Body, erecting thirty-six fire steles to consolidate this realm, with the magnificent flame city as the realm core. Vigorous firelight shows unyielding vitality. In front of this terrifying power tsunami, Jiang Wang alone resists with his true source fire realm! Pure Rite, Play Fate, and Li Feng Yao all resist and unload force in their own ways, continuously flying back. Only Jiang Wang goes against the tide in this mad surge! He stands in the forefront of the fire realm, his green shirt fluttering, gripping his sword in his right hand, holding it upright in front of his body, joining two fingers of his left hand to block the sword body! This sword is held upright at the center of his brow, dividing his red-gold double pupils. His face is clear and serene, possessing both an immortal aura and a divine intent. Boundless sword threads fly out from the sword blade, wildly interweaving in front of his body, instantly twisting into a sky-supporting sword peak, only to be destroyed again by this pure power mad tide. But the sword threads interweave again! The bitter sea is boundless, the blood energy is boundless. In the past, he was the sky cover of the human world, and in this place, he is the most immortal god in a green shirt! Qing Wang at this moment manipulates the blood energy power of several hundred thousand troops, having endless supply. Using force to exhaust force is truly not advisable. But Jiang Wang must make Qing Wang feel threatened, absolutely not allowing Qing Wang to realize her battle intent on a clear battlefield! Victory and defeat sometimes lie here, sometimes there.

"Sins, pain, karma…" Qing Wang squanders endless power, muttering to herself. Her focus is of course not on those young people; she said earlier that from beginning to end, only Swift Fire Yu Xiu counts as sitting opposite her, setting up the chessboard! But that's all… Everything in the past was her indulgence, and of course she also has the right to no longer indulge. That hand covering her abdomen suddenly probes deeper. In the sweeping pure power mad tide, she seizes the opportunity to see through the cover of the world's origin, breaking the boundary between spirit and flesh, and at this moment, in the gap between yin and yang, she seizes that dark vortex, and also seizes Swift Fire Yu Xiu's heart!

"I originally bore sins and acted, what is counted as mountains long and waters far? Little girl, you are right, perhaps this time I cannot leave you… and there is no need to leave you!"

Not only is her power far superior? She fully occupies, fully possesses, fully wins, fully gets, this world is invincible! After long years of operation, it is impossible for a stronger existence than her to appear in the Floating Land world. Just like Ya Gan Lake has become a sky pit, just like the Heaven Buddha Bowl, which is now fixed in the sky dome, becoming a barrier for the Floating Land world, waiting for her leisure time to take away. Who comes to this realm without bowing their head?!

But at this moment, she sees that shiny bald head again. Very stubbornly shaking her eyes. That person doesn't know when he stopped the momentum of retreat, standing firm in the mad tide. His monk robe hangs down, still like a reef! That pair of clean eyes, blood slowly overflows from the corners, like a Buddha shedding tears. Why does Buddha shed tears? Buddha is sad for the common people! His hands naturally extend down, fingertips hanging down, palms outward, forming the Wish-Granting Seal. This seal holds great compassion. It indicates that Buddhas and Bodhisattvas can fulfill the wishes of common people, making all that common people seek realizable… but the common people are already all dead! He witnessed hundreds of thousands of bloody corpses! Wanting to eat until full, eat candy, rest for a day, such tiny wishes can no longer be realized. He suddenly opens his mouth, his voice like a great bell, holding Shakyamuni's right mindfulness, unleashing a lion's roar! He chants:

"Cause and effect cycle! Retribution does not miss!"

What is cause and effect? Eating a meal is the cause, a full belly is the effect. Hitting people is the cause, being injured is the effect. Creating sins is the cause… evil retribution is the effect! That group of darkness being pinched by Qing Wang's hand actually seems to gain spirituality at this moment, twisting wildly, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws! Dark lines climb up Qing Wang's palm, spreading towards her arm! Why is there blood overflowing from the corners of Pure Rite's eyes? Because he forcibly used his wisdom eye to see this "karma"! And holding Shakyamuni's right mindfulness, he touches this karma with a lion's roar, amplifying this karma with the cause and effect Zen technique! If earlier Qing Wang was hit by three points of poison, at this moment the poison is already nine points, and the disease has entered a critical stage! These dark elements are all her sins and karma, of the same origin as her, and cannot be simply dissolved by power. Having deeper control over this world, she should bear more pain. All possibilities of pain that this world can birth are evolving on her body at this moment. Continuously torturing her pain senses, trying to saw through her heartstrings. In such a moment, Swift Fire Yu Xiu drives her wheelchair forward, and deeper dark light flies out from her dark eyes, about to touch Qing Wang.

"Retribution, retribution! When I am eternally damned and do not return, then I will receive incense with a good name. When I am long in the grave mound, ashes flying and smoke extinguished, that is my retribution!"

Qing Wang actually laughs, she laughs and shouts:

"Good is without pardon, evil lives long, little bald head, do you understand or not understand!"

Soldier Evil suddenly rises! The Soldier Evil she gathers is iron black, giving people an abnormally cruel feeling. The iron black Soldier Evil almost completely covers her, in continuous surge, vaguely forming a grave mound. Soldier Grave buries itself, and with this, she repays karma! These Soldier Evil of the same origin have different manifestations at the same time. Upon the Soldier Grave is steaming Evil Qi, like mist and thin. At the bottom of the Soldier Grave, it piles up like fine iron sand, like cast iron residue fished out of a quenching pool, coarse and cold. Within the Soldier Grave are metal clanging sounds, listening to them, it seems there are a thousand armies and ten thousand horses fighting endlessly within. That is the entanglement of Soldier Evil, self-forging, refining and sublimating. In such a process, among the thin mist of Evil Qi above the Soldier Grave, a vertical sword image becomes clearer and clearer. That is a rust-stained but killing intent surging bronze ancient sword. The engravings on the sword body are blurred, the inlays on the sword hilt have all fallen off, but the sword is still sharp, the blade still keen! The ancient Soldier Dao killing technique, beauty with white hair and a rust sword grave. This is the first sword unearthed. When it leaps out of the Soldier Grave, it cuts horizontally with one strike—

All Five Elements shatter, time and space are exhausted, and the dark light that suddenly came from Swift Fire Yu Xiu also shatters! The Soldier Grave at this moment then virtualizes, and Qing Wang's state on the throne becomes clear. Vast blood energy gathers above her heavenly spirit.

Boom!

The blood energy entangles into wolf smoke, rushing to the sky, straight to the copper-colored sky dome!

Clang!

The sound is like striking a bell. And the terrifying Soldier Evil gathers into clouds at a higher place, covering the copper-colored sky dome. Heaven and earth suddenly darken, making it impossible to see face to face! What nonsense about war Totems, the means of that girl from the soldier family in the Pure Water Department… what's rare? At this moment, she also gathers soldiers into Evil, giving up the idea of sweeping away these young people with a single hand, truly recreating the grand ambition of a charge array of several hundred thousand troops! This is an unbeatable power, it is an ant against a tilted mountain, a floating duckweed covered by the sea, cutting off all accidents. No matter Jiang Wang, Pure Rite, Jiang Wu Xie, or Swift Fire Yu Xiu, it is impossible to resist. She mobilized the Soldier Evil originally not for them!

But at this time, one person steps into the void, his steps like a woodcutter climbing a mountain, his body undulating like a mountain ridge, his whole body shining with divine power light. The thick Soldier Evil clouds cannot block him, the rushing blood energy cannot block him, and the roaring power mad tide cannot become a barrier in front of him. In the vast heaven and earth, he is without restraint! Wearing simple martial clothes, hanging an ancient and rustic wood knife, the long-missing Lin Xian appears at this moment! One step, he just steps into the fire realm, walking to Jiang Wang's side. His body has injuries, his face has wounds, no extra words, only taking out a roll of yellow silk and handing it to Jiang Wang:

"East Master, fortunately I did not disgrace the mission!"

There is no need to elaborate on what dangers he experienced, and what efforts he paid. At this moment in Jiang Wang's eyes, he is simply a self-brought treasure light! Jiang Wang at this moment is still confronting Qing Wang's power, his hands difficult to free. He directly picks it up with a gaze, lifting this roll of yellow silk into the air, thus unfolding it. This silk has fire patterns as its base, with contract texts above. Those fire patterns are the unique mark of the Qing Fire Department, and the contract texts say—

"Hundred Clans struggle, finally curtains fall."

"Totem power, continue this new chapter."

"King Power Totem. Descends to the Qing Fire Department clan."

"Qing Fire Department, hold Floating Land King Power for a hundred years!"

At the end of this piece of contract texts, there is also Jiang Wang's handwriting, written with fresh blood as ink, on it is written, dragon flying and phoenix dancing, "Zhang Lin Chuan"!

King Power Contract!

Lin Xian possesses the Without Restraint divine power, unobstructed in the world. As long as he single-mindedly wants to go, no place can trap him. So when Jiang Wang went to the Pure Water Department, he specifically brought him, and after taking Pure Water Cheng Yan away for You Tian's research, he sent Lin Xian out separately. At that time, he was still very wary of Swift Fire Yu Xiu, so he personally watched, not exposing Lin Xian's whereabouts. And the place he sent Lin Xian to was the life and death chess game — the place that truly decided the change of King Power in the Floating Land world. Lin Xian indeed did not disappoint his trust, braving thorns and slashing through dangers alone, breaking through layer upon layer of dangers, and taking the initial King Power Contract at the core position of the life and death chess game. What is the King Power Contract? The proof contract of the Floating Land King Power system, the key to ensuring King Power! At this time, this contract is brought back by Lin Xian, unfolding in front of Jiang Wang. The Samadhi True Fire of gold, red, and white directly envelops this King Power Contract. Flames flourish, isolating Qing Wang's gaze, and at the same time, igniting this contract!

"A king without ability is also without virtue! Qing Fire Heng acted as king, unable to pacify the world above, leading to turmoil in the Floating Land. Unable to guard himself below, leading to evil spirits invading his body. Thus he cannot be king!"

Jiang Wang stands in the fire realm, his loud voice like thunder:

"Now I return to this world, to make up for my earlier mistakes. King Power was entrusted to the wrong person, this King Power Contract… I, in the name of the Star General, abolish it!"

In the rumbling sound of external path Vajra thunder, this King Power Contract burns brightly, turning into smoke in an instant, not even ashes remain!

King Power collapses! Floating Land today is without a master, Floating Land at this time is without a king. The majestic and endless King Power Totem on Qing Wang's body thus dissolves. The terrifying Soldier Evil surrounding her scatters on the spot. Several hundred thousand troops, department leaders, in an instant, all detach from control, restoring their free bodies! This was a breathing space she left for this world when she first constructed the King Power system, and today it is captured by Jiang Wang, calling out the iron shackles, inhaling thunder! Now is the gap for various departments to contend for king, and also the moment of absolute freedom for various departments. Now is the time for this world to launch a counterattack!

Jiang Wang looks at Qing Wang through the fire realm, casually waving, a ball of light crosses the sky. The several Totem Spirits he captured earlier at Saint Hunt Mountain are released by him from the fire realm—

"Freedom and fate, all in your own hands. Moreover, decide for yourselves!"