Chapter 2129: Yesterday, Forever

The venerable True Monarch of the newly emerged Blood River cultivated spiritual elegance and handsome looks. He wore an ink-wash Confucian robe embroidered with flowers and grass. In his hand, he held a folding fan, giving off an air of comfortable romance.

He walked out of the Blood River with a carefree posture, paying no mind to the people's gazes, and simply said, "Stay with me and become part of the story!"

Spiritual light rushed from the top of his head to the sky, weaving into a brocade. Spreading his five fingers, he pressed down from afar—

His power spanned the True Monarchs' battlefield of slaughter, manifesting a pure white literary energy that suddenly transformed into a clear, textured large hand, pouncing towards Xu Ximing.

The palm was like the heavens covering, its momentum pressing down on the nine heavens.

Xu Ximing, who carried a six-chi long sword, currently only manifested the power of the Cave True realm, so there was, of course, no possibility of resistance.

But his face was expressionless, not even glancing at Meng Tianhai. He only looked at Jiang Wang and said calmly, "When you have thought it through, just call my name directly."

Then, just like that, without any warning, he disappeared.

That literary energy large hand, which was originally majestic and vast with the momentum to pluck stars and seize the moon, instantly turned gentle. It extremely gently and slowly pinched the fate rose and did not pursue Xu Ximing, returning directly towards the Blood River.

During this process, this man in the ink-wash Confucian robe smiled slightly at Chen Pu, who was looking at him: "I am Fu Lanting, the fifth generation sect master of the Blood River Sect. Relying on the world's people lifting their love, they mistakenly praise me as the 'Water Governance First Person'!"

Fu Lanting, the fifth generation sect master of the Blood River Sect, was not originally a disciple of the Blood River Sect. He is one of the representative examples of "yielding position" in the history of the Blood River Sect.

Originally from the Dragon Gate Academy, his literary name spread throughout the world, and he was once a romantic figure for a time.

Abandoning Dragon Gate and joining Blood River once caused a great uproar.

But after succeeding as the Blood River Sect master, he repeatedly stopped waves and suppressed calamity water multiple times, relying on his own outstanding performance to prove his choice to the world's people—of course, it is now known that those were all Meng Tianhai's performances.

"Fu Lanting..." Chen Pu lightly 'tsk'ed, looking at Meng Tianhai in front of him: "In these fifty-four thousand years, wearing different human skins, how many wonderful plays have you contributed! In the long night that no one knows, are you also appreciating them in solitude?"

"Wonderful?" Meng Tianhai smiled gently: "Mistaken praise, there were actually many dangerous times as well."

The two were clearly confronting Dao principles, competing for victory in the cruelest and most dangerous way for True Monarchs, yet their words were abnormally relaxed, as if old friends were chatting idly.

Chen Pu said: "For example?"

"For example, when Si Yuan initially patrolled the calamity water in the east, he just almost discovered my problem." Yet, he was in the midst of confronting Huo Shi Ji with Si Yu An and opened his mouth: "At that time, Xia Country had extremely great discourse power in calamity water. If they had truly started to investigate, it would have been very difficult for me to hide. Fortunately, at that time, his main goal lay in establishing hegemony. I proposed the calamity water plan to leave a trump card for his decisive battle with Jiang Shu, and he did not investigate deeply. Now that I think about it, if Si Yuan had won initially, I would probably have been exposed thirty years earlier!"

Meng Tianhai revealed his true name because Huo Shi Ji performed a great escape through death, arousing the suspicion of Chen Pu and others.

Huo Shi Ji chose a fake death escape because he was held by Qi Country and arbitrarily driven, seeing that his own secret could no longer be preserved.

Why was Huo Shi Ji held by Qi Country? It was because of his calamity water plan with Emperor Si Yuan of Xia Xiang.

And why did he propose the calamity water plan? It was because Emperor Si Yuan of Xia Xiang had discovered the abnormality of the Blood River Sect earliest!

Everything today has traces to follow. Faintly, it seems heaven-destined.

Between Great Xia's grand hegemony and the Blood River Sect's abnormality, Emperor Si Yuan of Xia Xiang chose to temporarily shelve the latter.

That year, although he detected the Blood River Sect's abnormality, he certainly did not think that behind this abnormality was such a huge problem. A generation's hegemon naturally has the confidence to plan things gradually.

It was even more impossible for him to think that he would be utterly defeated in the upcoming country-tilting great war, his body would die, his country would be extinguished, and his hegemony would become empty. This shelving then had no period.

"Jiang Shu is a good person, ah, he won me precious thirty-five years of time." Fu Lanting looked at the three True Persons strung on the fate rose, praising endlessly: "And he cultivated two such outstanding ingredients for me!"

Ruan Qu's gaze was fixed at this time, but he had already stopped the waves of the fate river, thus freeing his hand. He pulled out his ink hairpin and drew from afar—

Between Fu Lanting and the fate rose, he drew out a vast star river. That literary energy large hand pinched the flower and went, its speed extremely fast, yet it wandered within the star river, unable to reach the opposite shore no matter how hard it tried.

Guan Changqing said not a word and pounced forward with his sword.

Ruan Qu's face was serene. He held the ink hairpin like a dagger, calmly resisting the sword edge, and only said: "If you have this heart, why not go east to Linzi and personally thank my emperor?"

"I will!" Huo Shi Ji swept the waterfall-like flow of Dao techniques, bombarding nonstop, and responded with his free hand: "Wait until I transcend, I will definitely go east and thank Jiang Shu for his friendship of using me!"

Fu Lanting waved his large sleeve, forming literary energy like a white dragon, and then wanted to scoop the flower from the star river.

But as soon as this literary energy dragon entered the river, the star river rippled up, instantly becoming several times vaster.

Ruan Qu drew this star river casually, yet it was greatly meaningful! It was absolutely not merely the vastness of star power alone, but it truly hooked connected the fate river. All external powers would trigger influences within the star river, just like the ripples of the fate river.

If one cannot truly grasp the rules within, the more one wants to approach, the more one can only push away.

Fu Lanting quietly looked for a moment and laughed loudly: "You, Ruan Qu, swim across with your body, and I will also swim across with my body!"

He simply stepped forward, and his Dao body directly stepped into the middle of the star river.

Chen Pu noticed this scene and couldn't help but sigh: "Dragon Gate Academy's most talented individuals in transforming dragon literary energy, even if Fu Lanting has been swallowed by you for so many years, his literary energy can still be seen as spiritually elegant, like a heavenly horse soaring, not confined to one style... Meng Tianhai, how many prodigies have you destroyed? Among them, perhaps there are those who could have achieved transcendence!"

Meng Tianhai said indifferently: "World heroes cannot be made with innate endowment alone. Being swallowed by me only explains that they have no fate to transcend. From ancient times until now, there have been countless absolute peaks, but few have proven eternal through transcendence. Do you truly think everyone has the qualification?"

The great ritual sacrificial fire burned quietly. On their opposing palms, the flesh had already been completely burned away, leaving almost only white bones. Now even the bones were dissolving.

This was their true bodies, derived from their Dao bodies!

But the two of them both acted as if they didn't see it.

Chen Pu said in a deep voice: "Fifty thousand years ago, when the calamity water was turbulent, the ancestor of the Blood River Sect alone suppressed the calamity water for one hundred and three days, exhausting himself and dying. After death, the essence blood of his entire body transformed into the Blood River, forever separating it from the calamity water... At that time, had you already reached a transaction with the Innocent Heavenly Person?"

The Three Evils of the Evil Sea are said to be the Bodhi Evil Ancestor, the Primordial Evil Immortal, and the Innocent Heavenly Person. These three evils are the strongest in the calamity water, their positions above absolute peaks. They only emerge during a great calamity.

Meng Tianhai said with interest: "Why the Innocent Heavenly Person?"

"Why must you pretend not to know?" Chen Pu said: "Up to now, among the Three Evils of the Evil Sea, only the Innocent Heavenly Person has shown the patience to lay out a long game. Moreover, you also swallowed Fu Lanting."

"You understand the Three Evils of the Evil Sea very well, but you guessed wrong." Meng Tianhai shook his head, his tone regretful: "I said, although you found my name, you don't truly recognize me."

He then asked: "Why do you feel that I want to transact with Them?"

"I am human, a human of the human race." He said firmly: "I am confronting Them moment by moment. I will only swallow Them! For the sake of seeking the Great Dao, I, Meng Tianhai, may owe personal virtue, but I do not owe the great principle of the human race! In these fifty-four thousand years, no matter what kind of identity I have taken the stage with, I have all truly been governing the calamity water. All that I have done, is it difficult for history to not record? Is it difficult for you all to not see?"

"Do not owe the great principle of the human race? Swallowing prodigies to fatten yourself, cutting off the future of the human race to fill your broken ship, you say this is not owing the great principle?" Chen Pu looked at Fu Lanting trudging in the middle of the star river: "Just speaking of Fu Lanting, if he hadn't been swallowed by you, with his talent and creativity, perhaps he could have been someone who pushed the era forward. And you swallowed him, what benefit is that to the human race?"

"If I transcend, then it will be a great benefit to the human race!" Saying this, Meng Tianhai laughed heartily again: "Furthermore, do you think Fu Lanting is what kind of good person?"

In the star river, Fu Lanting also turned back and smiled at Chen Pu: "This scholar friend, thank you for your recognition of me! I indeed have some creativity, and I consider myself a genius!

"The Dao techniques spread in the world that are mine are all mediocre works and cannot reflect my true creation. Do you perhaps know what my treasure is?"

He strolled carefree in the star river, his tone relaxed: "Honestly, as Huo Shi Ji said, the secret method of seizing people's root bones within the Blood River Sect was created by me... I am the true creator of this secret method!

"Even if my merit is not comparable to founding a Dao clan, it is far better than those grandmasters who deceive the world and steal fame? Open Pulse Pill can change the cultivation talent of the human race, and this secret method of mine can let people with talent have more talent, let prodigies reach the absolute peak, it is a method for the great prosperity of the human race!

"Unfortunately, the world's people are mostly foolish, wearing robes of false benevolence and ritual, guarding some useless rules, yet not thinking of progress! Although I have this great method, it is not suitable for wide promotion in the world.

"The most wonderful thing is, exactly when I was executing this method in the calamity water, I was discovered by the then Blood River True Monarch. Unlike those hypocritical gentlemen, he completely didn't mind my actions, and even called me a 'heaven-endowed奇才', and issued an invitation to me, saying he wanted to pass me his mantle! I then followed the trend and left Dragon Gate Academy, joining the Blood River Sect.

"I have feelings for the academy. I was thinking of when I could swallow the Blood River True Monarch, then I could gain true freedom, and I did indeed try to kill him—I didn't expect, ah, I didn't expect to encounter the eat-people ancestor!"

The initial battle of wits and courage between Fu Lanting and the fourth generation Blood River True Monarch also counts as a wonderful historical chapter. It's only a pity that Fu Lanting never found his true opponent from beginning to end, not knowing that Meng Tianhai was always waiting for him in the Blood River. Otherwise, with his heaven-endowed talent and ruthless schemes, he could definitely have achieved his own evil reputation.

Throughout the history of the Blood River Sect's sect masters, in the final step, all must merge their bodies with the Blood River to gain the so-called generational power passed down by the Blood River Sect and control the source of all Dao techniques of the Blood River Sect.

When they walk into the Blood River, they also become the provisions of the Blood River.

The Blood River Sect doesn't need the secret method of seizing people's root bones because Meng Tianhai directly swallows all people with the Blood River and can naturally occupy talent.

But it also does not affect Huo Shi Ji taking this secret method and taking Fu Lanting's name to take the blame, using it to explain all remaining problems in history—if Meng Tianhai's true name had not been discovered, he could have originally justified himself.

Hearing Fu Lanting's speech, there was no expression of disappointment on Chen Pu's face. He only said: "I once discussed ancient history with Yao Fu, and he said that in the history of Dragon Gate Academy, there were several people who were particularly regrettable. Among them was Fu Lanting's name. This is good now, he doesn't need to be regretted."

"You don't need to use your formulated moral standards to comment on the past. Eras are different, morals are different, and your pursuits are also different." Meng Tianhai, in the tone of a person from the past, criticized: "How can you speak such frivolous words!"

In the star river, Fu Lanting had already waded through the water's ripples, grasped the rules, and was approaching the fate rose.

His face was smiling: "Fu Lanting is not what kind of good person, and neither is Meng Tianhai. But is being a good person something worth pursuing?"

"Anyone can be a good person, anyone can be good to you, anyone can get the evaluation of 'good person'. Nothing but weak, nothing but not striving, nothing but enduring. The word 'good' is too cheap!

"What should we pursue? It is the milestones of the cultivation road, it is being strong among billions, it is transcendence, it is eternity, it is breaking limits!

"Swallowed by Meng Tianhai, I am gladly like it. Essentially, we are the same kind of people. We don't care about worldly things, we only care whether we ourselves are strong!"

He inserted his folding fan into his waist and reached out to pick the flower: "Although you have great malice towards Meng Tianhai, towards us, and cannot understand our greatness. But I must thank you!"

"Thank you for helping me make a determined decision, letting me formally take this step forward.

"And thank you for adding to my meal!

"The qualifications of these three people are all rare in ancient and modern times. Now that they are merged, it is hard to find such in the passage of time!

"Junior Ruan Qu, haven't you asked what Meng Tianhai has been researching in these fifty thousand years? Now, don't hinder yourself and open your eyes wide to see the answer—after this bite, I will let you witness this eternal, unique transcendent path!"

Fu Lanting spread his large hand, as if he were the master of the world. That branch of fate rose became incomparably tiny in his sight.

The bodies of the True Persons hanging on the fate rose were also listless and without vitality.

A huge cavity opened in the palm of his hand. Within the cavity was a roaring torrent of Blood River, welcoming the flower with it.

But just at the moment when his hand approached the fate rose—

Above the blood-stained flower branch, Chong Xuan Zun opened his eyes!

It was as if he would use all the strength he had accumulated for this single opening of his eyes.

So his gaze was so bright.

His eyebrows were divine and shone like bright mountains, his ink pupils were the pieces of a life-death chess game.

As this gaze fell, seven dazzling stars rose from their original place, horizontally blocking Fu Lanting's large hand!

They had not yet come into contact, but these seven stars were simply pressed and offset by a terrifying aura—they spun in their original place, like the handle of a ladle suspended over a si nan.

The shadow cast by the evil Brahma Heaven mountain range on the edge of the sky was broken by the star light!

The high vault also had seven stars bright.

The seven stars of the calamity water corresponded to the Big Dipper in the star vault!

The ladle handle pointed north, thus the world was all winter.

The star light of the Big Dipper entangled together, wrapping an infinitely heaven-intended solemn killing aura, pouring down instantly!

Yet it did not fall on Jiang Wang, who was shaking the Big Dipper, but infused into Dou Zhao's body, whose eyes were wide with anger.

And Dou Zhao grasped Tian Xiao!

At this moment, star light and gold light shone together, killing intent and war intent burned together.

The edge of Tian Xiao, the knife light counter-pounced, the first knife first chopped himself.

The first knife, chopping off the powerlessness and weakness of the past!

Dou Zhao's gold body was brilliant and dazzling, Dou Zhao's aura rose wildly.

He held the knife horizontally, the knife light split open, and simultaneously fell on the bodies of Jiang Wang and Chong Xuan Zun.

The second knife, chopping away the bindings and confinements of the Dao body!

With the same knife, he chopped out a third time in the movement of his mind. This time, the knife edge was unprecedentedly bright, and he was like a blazing sun, unable to be looked at directly—

"Thirty years of life to this point, chopping you fifty-four thousand years!"

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