Chapter 2287: The Heavenly Lord

I've known the Duke of Huai for several years, but Jiang Wang had never seen the old master with such complex eyes.

The old master, accustomed to the winds and rains, having experienced all worldly affairs, was usually as calm as a deep abyss, sometimes roaring like an angry sea. Only this kind of indescribable look had never appeared in his eyes before.

Jiang Wang and the others were all silent. Fallen Immortal Forest, transcended existences, various Saints transforming their lives, Huang Wei Zhen... these concepts were all things that young people like them were still far from being able to touch. What Tai Xu Pavilion member, first Divine Arrival, Zuo Xiao Gong Ye – all still lacked a level.

Zuo Xiao sighed, "Huang Wei Zhen is indeed a very remarkable person." He then added, "He can now be called 'Great'." Great is the highest praise, and also a power level.

"Grandpa Zuo has always greatly admired Huang Wei Zhen! Even before he returned, it was like that," Qu Shun Hua said. "But in my heart, Grandpa Zuo is also a very remarkable person!"

Zuo Xiao laughed heartily, "I am very proud to hear that. Just don't say the same to Qu Jin Kui."

Jiang Wang glanced at Zuo Guang Shu. The boy's mouth was already grinning from ear to ear. Qu Shun Hua, able to charm elders and take care of Guang Shu, sweep through a thousand riders in the army, and be the first in cultivation at the Divine Arrival realm, truly was an all-around excellent sister-in-law.

At this point, she spoke again, "Then, Grandpa Zuo, tell us about your story in the Fallen Immortal Forest? They always hide and tuck away this matter, it's vague and unclear. I'm very curious."

Zuo Xiao twitched the corner of his mouth and put down his chopsticks. "So many years have passed, there's really nothing bad to say." He glanced to the side. Jiang Wang sensibly handed over the cup, and Zuo Guang Shu hurriedly came over to pour the wine.

The wine liquid reflected on a person's face, a person who was no longer young. The old duke stared at himself in the wine cup for a moment, almost unable to remember his youthful appearance. He lifted it up and drank it in one gulp, then slowly said, "My father died in the Fallen Immortal Forest, so from a young age I disliked the Fallen Immortal Forest. That year I was full of ambition, at the absolute peak of two proofs, I already felt there were no heroes in the world and transcendence was a smooth path. I was ambitious, wanting to pacify the Fallen Immortal Forest at once and use this to impact transcendence – finally, I failed. It was the Sheng Zong emperor who entered the forest with national power and personally saved me."

This story was told very briefly, in just a few sentences. But the waves it represented were probably more than even the Xiang River could bear! Originally, Zuo Xiao's path to transcendence that year was precisely placed in the Fallen Immortal Forest, and he also lost it in the Fallen Immortal Forest. No wonder his eyes were so complex when mentioning the story in the Fallen Immortal Forest. His ambition was buried there, once only one step away from transcendence.

"Grandpa Zuo," Jiang Wang asked seriously, "Why do you think you failed?" This question is something ordinary people wouldn't ask, and ordinary people wouldn't need to know the answer.

Remembering the first time Jiang Wang came to Chu Country, he was still full of another person's shadow. Now, looking again, he was already another brilliant sun. Zuo Xiao looked at him deeply. "At any time, the reason for failure is only one – you are not strong enough."

"That is the path above the absolute peak, it is breaking the limit of present world power. The word 'Saint' is not enough to describe it. No matter how much preparation, it is not enough. Everyone who walks to that step will feel they are prepared. But when they truly walk to that moment, perhaps defeat and death are the unchanging answers. You must exhaust your imagination, surpass everything, then it's possible to create a slim chance and grasp it."

Zuo Xiao slowly said, "But if I must find a specific direct reason, my failure was obstructed by that transcended existence in the depths of the Fallen Immortal Forest. He was too secretive, beyond perception. When he made a move, I only knew that such a being existed in the world. The Sheng Zong emperor also fought with him and couldn't know his name and surname."

The "Sheng Zong emperor" he mentioned was the grandfather of the current Chu Tian Zi, whose temple name was Sheng Zong Xiong Shao. A hegemon country's emperor with national power is truly a transcended powerful being, not weak against any opponent. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to go deep into the Fallen Immortal Forest and save Zuo Xiao's life from another transcended being.

But that transcended existence in the Fallen Immortal Forest was truly too mysterious! So many strong people in the present world, with countless methods, yet they don't even know his name clearly?

In the Zuo family, Jiang Wang always felt very natural, no need to hide anything. He pondered and said, "Speaking of the unclear name, it actually reminds me of Long Sheng Jun of the Nan Dou Hall. He also severed his name and escaped, and is still alive now..." He guessed that the transcended existence in the Fallen Immortal Forest might be a figure like the Nan Dou Hall ancestor. If not for similar divine abilities, how could he be mysterious to this extent?

Zuo Xiao coldly laughed, "That one from the Nan Dou Hall is still far lacking! They have no relation. That one inside the Fallen Immortal Forest is an existence that has leaped out of cognition. It's not simply severing his name alone."

Leaping out of cognition, unable to observe, imagine, define. This is truly a distant and unattainable realm. And that one in the Fallen Immortal Forest is an existence that even transcended beings cannot accurately know. Even Zuo Xiao, who once impacted transcendence and was at his peak of life in the Fallen Immortal Forest, even Chu Sheng Zong Xiong Shao, who once solidly held the great power of transcendence, still didn't know his roots after truly contacting him.

Meng Tian Hai hid his name in history, yet he could still be found by great scholars in history. Long Sheng Jun severed his name and escaped, using billions of Nan Dou star citizens as hostages, and can only hide his name for one generation. This transcended being in the Fallen Immortal Forest has definite records of making a move, and it was obstructing Zuo Xiao and battling Chu Sheng Zong, such world-shaking events, yet unexpectedly, his name is still unclear.

Truly mysterious to the extreme. And from this, one can see Huang Wei Zhen's terror even more. Just upon his return, he awakens this mysterious and unfathomable transcended existence, gazes upon its might, locks its trace, and still plans to kill it! As the Shen Xiao approaches, all sides prepare for war. As the contemporary foremost human race heavenly pride, Jiang Wang also knows many of the human race's preparations, and has even personally witnessed many.

The Mirage Realm aimed at Cang Wu Sword pressing against Sa Po Dragon Staff, Yu Yuan Ying Yun Nian gazing at Ancient Mother... Now, looking at it, the Fallen Immortal Forest, called the "world's fiercest," is to be handled by Huang Wei Zhen alone. But other places are still only confronting each other, while Huang Wei Zhen, as soon as he returns, wants to kill a transcended being?

Truly incomparable momentum. Jiang Zhen, who had seen much and was knowledgeable, was shocked, and Zuo Guang Shu and Qu Shun Hua, these two young Divine Arrivals, were even more speechless. Everyone said Huang Wei Zhen was the most romantic person in the Chu land in three thousand years. As he died gradually, more and more people doubted this saying. Now, looking at it, how could it only be three thousand years!

Just at this moment, a servant came in to report, "Duke, Feng Du Yin seeks audience!" Zuo Xiao raised his eyebrows. The kind attitude he had in front of his family members instantly disappeared. His whole person became abnormally cold, stern, and majestic. "Let him in."

Gu Chi, like a stick propping up his black official robe, just floated into the dining hall. Seeing Jiang Wang, he was not surprised, only bowed to the Duke of Huai with a rite. "There is a matter, the Duke specifically instructed before... humble official feels, still needs to personally come and report to the Duke."

Zuo Xiao waved his hand. "From now on, don't casually report the intelligence from the Feng Du side to this Duke. The Feng Du directly belongs to the emperor, this Duke has no right to interfere. You are the emperor's confidant, and this Duke will speak frankly – to rectify officialdom and clean up court discipline, one must start with these small matters."

Gu Chi was moved to tears almost flowed out. As the emperor's direct confidant, he knew good days were coming, but he didn't expect them to come so fast and so good! Could it be that from now on, the Feng Du will break free from the era of the 'group of fathers' and truly enter the realm of 'one below ten thousand above'?

Actually, sometimes thinking about it, Feng Du Yin wasn't that miserable either. Most of his peers weren't that strong. Sang Xian Shou of the Central Heavenly Prison, speaking of him, is actually notorious, but in Jing Country, he dares not investigate this and dares not try that. Everywhere are ancestors. Yan Wen of the Town Prison Department is even more cursed as "Fan Si Nian's evil dog." Where is there a bit of a spy head's dignity?

Now, good. Feng Du Yin stood up, the Feng Du to open the dark side trend of the six countries pioneer! After thinking for a moment, he still restrained his arrogance and impulsiveness and said, "It is related to Lu Shuang He's matter."

Zuo Xiao glanced at him, not speaking. Gu Chi sensibly turned and walked. "Not disturbing the Duke's meal, humble official takes leave."

"Cough!" The Duke of Huai's cough sounded from behind. "Next time is not an example." Gu Chi quickly turned back and fluently reported, "The trace of Nan Dou Hall's Qi Sha True Person has appeared. At this moment, he is wandering near the entrance of the Fallen Immortal Forest. Several groups of people have seen him."

Zuo Xiao turned back and looked at Jiang Wang. Jiang Wang stopped his chopsticks, thoughtful. "He is not wandering, he is waiting for me. Tian Ji is dead, he already feels my power."

"I am not convenient to go to the Fallen Immortal Forest," Zuo Xiao said. "Gu adult, pass the message to An Duke. The head of the Nan Dou remnants is his responsibility."

"No need." Jiang Wang immediately stopped him. "Hearing about your past impacting transcendence, and then shocked to hear about Huang Wei Zhen's romanticism, at this moment my sword is crying in its box, I cannot restrain it. The heroes of the world, their styles are outstanding. Today, one should not let yesterday be lonely – I and Lu Shuang He have an absolute top appointment, and it is time to fulfill it."

Zuo Xiao looked at him. "Remember what I told you last time?"

"Old master, I remember very clearly, please rest assured." Jiang Wang nodded seriously, stood up, and said, "You all eat a little slower, don't eat up the frost flower flying fish I like... I will come back to eat a second bowl."

Saying that, he was about to go out, but suddenly felt something in his heart. He smiled at Zuo Guang Shu and said, "Guang Shu, wait a while if Dou Zhao comes over, just tell him I have a bit of matters outside and will be back immediately – let him sit and wait for me, definitely don't leave."

These words were truly baffling. Zuo Guang Shu didn't understand. Wasn't Dou Zhao lost in A Bi Ghost Cave? How could he "come over"? How did Big Brother Jiang know he wanted to come? But there was no time to ask anything. Big Brother Jiang's figure had already become ethereal, like a fish entering water, his shadow disappearing without a trace.

Deep in Zhang Hua Terrace, in the endless information star river. The dharma image of the Great Chu Duke of Huai stood here, ethereal. The huge star god Xi Mu didn't speak today, only its branches and leaves shook, carefully sorting information.

Deep in the star river, the voice of Zhuge Yi Xian rang out. "Great Chu has fortune, able to get the Left family to protect the country! This old man, on behalf of the billions of people of Great Chu, thanks the Duke!"

Zuo Xiao's dharma image was colder and sterner than his dao body, and also more majestic. At this moment, he was suspended in the star river, overlooking the flood of information, and only said, "The billions of people of Chu Country, the generals, kings, and nobles, should all thank you. Great Chu's accumulated ills began with Tai Zu. Deep-rooted, cannot be shaken. To push the situation to this step, you have done too much."

"I can only do this much... cough cough!" The voice deep in the star river coughed for a long time, then said, "The battle in the River Valley has already exposed the problems. We lost not only national fortune, but also our past choices. Qin Country changed its laws for many years, controlled the hundreds of schools, alternated generals, replaced flags with ten soldiers, and rapidly strengthened national power through cruel competition, with new nobles in the court winning over old merits. That is us, initially raising the flag against Jing, finally becoming more stubborn than Jing Country's noble empire. If Shen Xiao is defeated, all matters rest. If Shen Xiao is victorious, all external troubles are eliminated... Some people are just unable to restrain themselves when the world is pacified. We will no longer reform, we just have no opportunity – cough cough!"

Zuo Xiao frowned, "Your body..."

"It doesn't matter," the voice deep in the star river said. "I should have died two thousand years ago. It was Zhang Hua Terrace that always kept my life, and national power always nourished me. Old and not dying, a rotten disease becoming a demon, it is also time for me to repay."

Zuo Xiao had few people he looked up to in his life, and he greatly respected Zhuge Yi Xian. "Mister has been in Chu, spitting heart and blood for four thousand years. Your giving far surpasses your taking. This country, having you is fortunate."

"The new policy cuts too much flesh and blood from too many people. This is bodily pain, necessarily suffering hatred. Not everyone can be as magnanimous as the Duke, and it's impossible to expect someone to gouge flesh without pain. The world's hatred accumulates and destroys the country. Someone must always stand out to allow people to vent – in the root, everyone is a Chu person, and still needs to unite and move forward."

Zhuge Yi Xian laughed 'hehe', and waves rolled in the information star river, as if waving goodbye. "I cannot hold on anymore. Consider this the last little bit I can do."

Life's ten thousand bitterness, no more than one word: "Endure." The Star Witch has been burning her body with fire, enduring her soul as oil, for too long. Zuo Xiao knew she was already running on empty, and understood this was her final decision.

He also knew that it wasn't just Zhuge Yi Xian who needed to bear it. Great Chu was founded on noble families, Great Chu rose relying on noble families. That year, Chu Tai Zu Xiong Yi Zhen personally said on Jiao Wu Mountain that he wanted to share the world with his brothers. In these nearly four thousand years, the noble families of various surnames in Chu Country fought to the death for the country, using their lives to strive for military merits, every bit of glory stained with blood! The royal family and noble families sharing the world, for nearly four thousand years. Now, the court making a move against noble families is no different from cutting liver and gouging heart. Who is willing to tie their hands? Can this national accumulated resentment be borne by Zhuge Yi Xian alone?

Even with his leadership, the four great noble families actively reformed themselves. Even the Chu emperor controlled the court inside and out, and had eliminated all possibilities of interference... That bodily pain will certainly accumulate hatred in the heart. The Chu emperor's reform of the court is not like Wen Jing Xiu's crude methods, nor does he pin his hopes on individuals, turning reform into a gamble. He personally cut off internal and external troubles, actively chose to act during the gap when the hegemon countries were not attacking, promoted Huang Wei Zhen's early return... After all preparations were made, he began this reform.

But even so, the resentment between the court, he also needs to bear. As the state master, he receives the world's dirt. After the new policy, the current emperor will certainly abdicate. At that time, it will be the time for Crown Prince Xiong Zi Du, who has been nurturing his reputation in prison for ten years, to come out. The new ruler will inherit the world's hope, continue the virtues of past generations of ancestors, and again let slip a little sweetness from the fingers that control the wind and clouds, show a little heavenly heart, promote some capable officials, be able to control the court, and all things will be new. There is a possibility for the layout after the Shen Xiao era. Xiong Zi Du should almost derive dao... The contact between Equality Country's Wang Wei in the ghost prison and the crown prince certainly still has cause and effect.

When the emperor, with his personal identity, went to protect dao for Huang Wei Zhen, it just indicated his determination to clear the mountains and rivers for the crown prince. Zuo Xiao thought about unspoken matters in his heart. He could truly feel Zhuge Yi Xian's tiredness. Dragging his remnant body, bearing the world's heavy burden forward, for several thousand years daring not have a moment's mistake. People are not puppets, how can they always be at their peak!

"Nine phoenixes in the mountains and seas, Hong Hu fell in Yue Country, Yuan Chu fell in Li Country, Lian Hong flew to the Fallen Immortal Forest, Kong Yuan carried its female, the remaining five phoenixes, all return to Chu." The Duke of Huai sighed. "Nine has its five, nine five nine five. The emperor has already won Huang Wei Zhen's support, your merit cannot be erased."

"Actually, I didn't do too much. Sewing and mending, sorting veins, all just some things within my duty," the voice deep in the star river was quite emotional. "With the emperor's determination to leave the country, there is no reason for it not to succeed. Tai Zu was sentimental, not like the emperor. The current emperor is a true emperor."

Zhuge Yi Xian is an old man of Chu Country from the era of Xiong Yi Zhen, having experienced dozens of rulers of Chu Country. By the time of Xiong Ji, he was finally tired, saying he "cannot endure." Perhaps this also represents the end of that era with the word "Yi". Rulers are after all rulers, countries are after all countries, people are after all ever-changing in their thoughts. Where in the world can a country be maintained with the word "Yi"! The boldness of "Yi enjoys the world", ancient and modern, counting the world, only a person like Xiong Yi Zhen could bear it.

"You have worked hard," Zuo Xiao finally said. This was the last meeting between the Great Chu Duke of Huai and the Chu Country Star Witch. When Zuo Xiao left Zhang Hua Terrace, the new policy agreement, personally drafted by the Great Chu emperor Xiong Ji, had already spread throughout the entire Chu Country through the Zhang Hua channel.

Thousands of words were scattered, detailing the great deeds of past generations of sages in Chu Country, and below, stating the difficulties currently faced by Chu Country. Its core was only nine words: "Cut noble families, break shade protection, chop hereditary!" From now on, Chu Country will have no recommendations, no shade protection, no inheritance. From military to politics, all officials will all come from official examinations. Selected from ten thousand people, as the emperor's students!

Heavenly winds passed through the alleys, naturally people talked. "Hey – do you know where the five phoenixes of the mountains and seas returning to Chu fell?" "Chi Feng and Lan Luan are in the imperial palace, Fei Que and Jia Xuan are in Zhang Hua Terrace, Yuan Jiao fell in Wu Tong Lane!" Great Chu's Shen Xiao Phoenix flag has Chi Feng embroidered on its surface. Chi Feng and Lan Luan in the imperial palace represent nobility. Shen Feng and Shi Feng flying in Zhang Hua Terrace are more conducive for the Chu Court to command the world's gods and ghosts. Yuan Jiao is purple, representing steadfastness.

Near Zhu Que Great Street, there is a Wu Tong Lane. Prosperous and shabby, close at hand. Inside Wu Tong Lane, there is a young person named Chu Yu Zhi. His name means glorious and bright. He founded a "Tong Yi Society". That year, he walked out of "See Me Building". His ideal was "equal opportunity". Once unattainable. Yet, it is what today's Chu Country seeks and proves.

Mountains and rivers ten thousand li, sometimes in the palm. The Fei beast, which "sees then the world's great epidemic," stopped in front of the palm lines like heavenly moats. Panicked and hesitant, it couldn't cross. Changes were still happening. It still had a blood-colored ox head. From the ox horn upwards, it gradually turned white. When the whole ox head turned completely white, the true Fei beast was only then considered born. That hand holding it just gently sent it away.

The small, all-white Fei, flew high in the air, flew out of the palm world, opened its panicked eyes, and it saw – a boundless dark forest, surging resentment and killing aura, ghost shadows floating everywhere, disturbing shrieks ringing from time to time, and blue light that almost cut the eyeballs along the line of sight.

This is the Fallen Immortal Forest! The Fei beast is a legendary strange beast, an incarnation of disaster. Every time it appears, disaster descends. At this moment, it was truly born in the Fallen Immortal Forest, hence the disaster in the forest. The Fallen Immortal Forest was illuminated for ten thousand li the previous moment, with a flash of golden glory. The next moment, disaster and shade grew everywhere, and dim shadows filled the place.

That mysterious and unfathomable King Zhao used Ge Fei to pinch out a true Fei beast and give the Fallen Immortal Forest an overall disaster, naturally targeting the transcended existence deep within the Fallen Immortal Forest. He is helping Huang Wei Zhen! The transcended existence deep within the Fallen Immortal Forest is one of the most mysterious and terrifying existences of all time. Unobservable, unperceivable, unclear.

He has made a move several times in history, but all did not leave traces, always in a state of guessed "suspected existence". Transcended beings have a common agreement not to record his name. The most recent time he revealed even a half-claw was that year when Zuo Xiao was impacting transcendence in the Fallen Immortal Forest, He made a move to obstruct and battled Chu Sheng Zong. Afterwards, no transcended being went to search for Him, but all did not find His trace.

It was only this time that Huang Wei Zhen, prior to everyone's expectations, returned from fantasy. He created four phoenixes, greatly prospered the heaven, god, corpse, and ghost paths, shook the foundation of the Fallen Immortal Forest, thus alarming it and catching its trace. This is an eternally unseen opportunity, a possibility for the Fallen Immortal Forest to be cured forever, almost in this one move. Upon this, King Zhao threw the Fei beast, borrowed the "true" from the mountain and sea realm, reversed the molding of the "Fei" that might exist within the mountain and sea realm, and threw disaster into the Fallen Immortal Forest. In that unobservable transcended battlefield, this is just one more weight added to the balance.

Boom boom boom! The Ghost Phoenix was born, and the ghost path greatly benefited. The A Bi Ghost Cave, numbered as the "source of ten thousand ghosts," was inherently restless and difficult to calm. And then, an absolute delicacy escaped, and the ghost saint's inheritance flashed and passed. Countless evil ghosts surged out, to the extent of thunder roaring. Ghost things move often silently. To produce such movement is enough to see how chaotic the A Bi Ghost Cave is. This is something that has never happened before!

Dou Zhao flew out of the cave with a single breath through the rainbow. Having survived the calamity, he suddenly gained a treasure edge. However, he didn't think of rushing home to find his great-grandmother, or finding a place to hide and digest what he had obtained. Instead, he followed the traces of memory and continued to rush through the Fallen Immortal Forest, going to search for Lu Shuang He and Ren Qiu Li.

Dou, a hero for a lifetime – well, Dou, a ghost hero for a lifetime. Since I came, only people avoid me, I dare not say I avoid people! If I say I want to chop off the heads of the two Nan Dou remnants, I must chop off these two heads. One less is not acceptable. Whoever comes is useless, whoever comes cannot stop me. He also cannot clearly say what state he is in now. In any case, he is not purely a "person", but he is not very thoroughly a "ghost" either. On one hand, his dao body has recovered some blood energy, on the other hand, he has replaced soul intent with war intent... In any case, his current state is between the two.

Bah. It's not important. Why is Dou Zhao strong? Because he is Dou Zhao. What his origin is, what his species is, whether he is a person, a ghost, or a demon asura, it's all unrelated. Regarding the cognition of species, these can be slowly researched later. He only knows that his current self... is very strong! Strong enough to punch Chong Xuan Zun and kick Jiang Wang. The dao intent of the Yin Yang True Saint flows in his heart. He only picks those he sees as targets, filling the Bai Ri Meng Xiang with one knife after another. After ten thousand ghosts devoured his body and a hundred tribulations refined his god, he has already, in some sense, walked to the peak. He urgently needs opponents to test his knife!

Just so, with high war intent, he flew horizontally in the high air, rushing straight ahead in the Fallen Immortal Forest that everyone heard with a change of color. Not afraid of danger, only afraid of not enough danger. Suddenly, a dark shadow swept towards him, actually like night covering over – a figure wearing a black dao robe, like bringing a string of stacked shadows flying over, as if the sea tide was howling, making people's vision dizzy. He managed to fix his vision with difficulty, but saw a short beard covering his face, deep eye sockets, and that person cast a very cold glance! Dou Zhao was secretly shocked in his heart, and the dream realm knife in his hand almost instinctively chopped out, but he held it back dead. Cannot provoke him temporarily! But he was also shocked without retreating – in front of him was obviously an absolute peak strong being. If he truly moved to kill, turning and escaping would also be death. Instead, face to face, at least he would die with some dignity. Fortunately, the comer was not itchy-handed.

Just so, two fast-flying figures brushed past, neither of them looking at each other more than once. But the boiling war intent in Dou Zhao's heart suddenly faded a lot. Forget it, still go home first, it's better to fix Tian Xiao first. Going home to eat a meal is also fine. The Fallen Immortal Forest is a bit chaotic recently. Chopping Jiang Wang first is also not bad!

He thinks and does. Immediately reversing the dream realm knife, he chopped vertically with one knife, splitting open the subconscious sea in the roaring, surging angry tide. He collected his soul and restrained his body, leaping into it – you of the surname Jiang, didn't you call me in history's past? Aren't you anxiously wanting to see my heroic posture? I am coming now! Take the knife!

Yin and yang were originally separated by only a thought. Jiang Wang's echo in the subconscious sea had not yet dispersed. A thousand ancients could be crossed, how far is ten thousand li? Dou Zhao jumped out of the subconscious sea, his Bai Ri Meng true, blazing and heroic, his golden body brilliant, wearing a red robe with golden edges, not a hint of gloom. His war intent was high, holding his knife and looking around, yet he only saw – only Zuo Guang Shu, that "Qu Qu" in front of Zuo Guang Shu, and... the Duke of Huai!

"Duke Zuo!" Dou Zhao immediately received his knife and bowed, his face's wildness turning into a smile. "Is this your family banquet? Sorry to disturb, I have something to find Jiang Wang, I will go first –" He sat down involuntarily.

"Since you're here, eat a mouthful of rice first," Zuo Xiao rarely showed kindness. "I have already notified your great-grandmother. As soon as she finishes her proper matters, she will immediately come back and hit you."

What proper matters? Isn't picking me up proper matters enough? Where did my great-grandmother go? No, where is that bastard Jiang Wang? Wasn't he still here just now? Is he afraid of being hit so he called for his parents, so he's hiding? Ten thousand questions exploded in Dou Zhao's heart, but they all sank in the eyes the Duke of Huai cast over.

"Little Zhao, you are someone who knows the rules," Zuo Xiao calmly said. "Don't talk while eating, don't talk while sleeping. Talk after eating."

Li Mao just brushed past Dou Zhao like that. He, familiar with the light vehicle, flew as if destined to the A Bi Ghost Cave above. The A Bi Ghost Cave is the world's fiercest place. Billions of evil ghosts gather, bottomless and endless. If an idle True Monarch unfortunately falls into it, it is also difficult to survive! But he is a Heaven Ghost. He is an existence who can sign a contract here. Coming to A Bi like this, is like returning to his homeland. His old country no longer exists, his ghost hometown can be here.

The path of ghost cultivation is rugged and narrow, eternally difficult to achieve success. The old things inside the A Bi Ghost Cave are all old resentments accumulated over great eras. In the near two thousand years of the present world, only he, Li Mao, has cultivated to Heaven Ghost. It was the already dead Wen Zhong and the perished country Wen Jing Xiu who helped him achieve it. From the moment he became dao, he possessed the authority of the A Bi Ghost Cave. He belongs to this place, he and the ghosts here are of the same kind. Now, he wants to grasp more.

After the Ghost Phoenix Lian Hong was born and the ghost path opened, the A Bi Ghost Cave became more dangerous, and also had more important meaning – and this, is precisely the reason he came. There is no role more suitable than him, no identity more appropriate than him. Having left the country for over a thousand years, his wandering soul was tied to Qian Tang. Yue Country has already fallen, but his ideal still exists. He wants to become king among the Heaven Ghosts, he wants to rule this place, he wants to represent Equality Country and bear the responsibility of governing the A Bi Ghost Cave! Of course, he also wants to harvest the merits of governing the Fallen Immortal Forest.

For example, Mo family sage Yue Xiao Xu, with the "Qian Kun Zheng Chi Two Realms Back Dragon Array", erected a true projection of Wu Guan in Yu Yuan, nailing down a nail for the human race in Yu Yuan, winning merits for the Mo family, and is still praised by people today. Today, if Equality Country can govern the A Bi Ghost Cave, from now on it will have a foundation in the present world. No longer ghosts of the dark night, wandering souls of the human world. But it can be an organization that stands frankly under the sunlight – although this place of sunlight is located in the Fallen Immortal Forest. But this is merit recognized by the present world, it is military merit recognized by the human race. In the current era, only absolute lands like the Fallen Immortal Forest still leave explorable space. An organization like Equality Country, if it raises its flag in any other place, will certainly be pulled out. This also represents the change and attempt of Equality Country, from a shadow organization that supported weak countries against and subverted strong countries' rule, to a sect country that declares its ideals and bears responsibilities. In long history, for the first time it surfaces and, like other forces in the present world, accepts the scrutiny of the world's people. He, Li Mao, will become the first absolute peak to stand in front of Equality Country!

This matter has great danger, he is very likely to become a target for all, but it also contains huge opportunities. With ambition in ten thousand li, what fear is there of a long farewell? To govern the Fallen Immortal Forest, one should start from the A Bi Ghost Cave. Governing the A Bi Ghost Cave, this matter itself is also adding weight to the struggle between Huang Wei Zhen and that mysterious transcended existence in the Fallen Immortal Forest. Equality Country fully supports this war of transcendence, preparing for Shen Xiao for the human race!

"I am Li Mao." Li Mao's voice echoed through the ghost cave, like a heavenly constitution – "Today, I, the Heaven Ghost 'Qian Tang Jun', establish Heaven Public City here. With my heart, my body is the heavenly heart, I will be just to this world! This city will be a corner of safety, cultivating for a lifetime. Helping the strong and supporting the weak, saving disaster and pulling the poor, washing away grievances and eliminating evil. The human race of the world is one family, ten thousand kinds of origin have no high or low! Those in the world with ambitions for equality, regardless of country or sect, can all enter my Heaven Public City!"

Deep in the ghost cave, one after another angry roars rang out. Those were ancient Heaven Ghosts, dissatisfied with the newcomer's provocation. Li Mao also didn't say much, directly leaped and killed into the middle of the ghost cave!

Hua la la! The subconscious sea roared and flowed. Jiang Wang reversed yin and yang, chopped the far sky with his sword, and walked out of the crack in the Bai Ri Meng. He came to the Fallen Immortal Forest. In the Duke of Huai's mansion, he, prior to everyone else, through the echo of the subconscious sea, sensed Dou Zhao's movement upon being born. He also received Dou Zhao's request – this fellow was seeking him, seeking war. Jiang Wang promised his first request.

Relying on the remaining contact in the mirror reflecting time and space, through the connection of the yin and yang inheritance, he built a channel between the subconscious sea and the Bai Ri Meng. This was also because Dou Zhao's Bai Ri Meng had indeed reached great success, becoming true with one thought. And also because his subconscious sea was becoming more and more vast, with surging waves. It was the last inheritance of the Yin Yang True Saint, giving them different feedback, allowing him to truly understand the undercurrents of the subconscious sea. In the past, they would not have been able to do this. Dou Zhao's Bai Ri Meng was sublimated, and his subconscious sea also received a boost.

Dou Zhao just happened to come, and he just happened to go. On the path of yin and yang, he and Dou Zhao just brushed past each other. So one is here, one is there. Saves the trouble of rushing! Connecting the subconscious sea to the Bai Ri Meng, the yin and yang suddenly turned, shocking ten thousand li of dreams. For Jiang Wang, this was his first time experiencing this in his life. The instant he arrived in the Fallen Immortal Forest, suddenly, heaven and earth sensed, and he himself had a black and white rainbow, like a swallow returning to the forest, like a shadow cast on his body. Jiang Wang held his sword and wanted to cut, but then stopped again. He didn't feel malice, instead, he felt a sense of intimacy. When Dou Zhao was born earlier, he had a premonition of something approaching. This time coming to the Fallen Immortal Forest, he also had a reason to "receive a letter". At this moment, his heart and spirit were infinitely distant, and the subconscious sea seemed to connect to a boundless abyss –

At the bottom of that extreme abyss, there was a sad laugh: "Heaven derives without end, life has limit!" That was the voice of Yin Yang True Saint Zou Hui Ming. Following that, was the precept of the Yin Yang family's rise and fall for tens of thousands of years. The yin and yang inheritance of the Five Virtues Small World was continued at this moment. He and Dou Zhao each took one part of it.

Jiang Wang was momentarily too preoccupied to care about the surging knowledge. He only felt a sense of sadness. Why was the first Saint sad? He listened carefully to that sad laugh, but the more he listened, the farther it seemed. That voice seemed to want to tell him something, but was again buried by that boundless abyss. Looking back at history, it was a piece of fog. Gazing at fate, he once could not see the way to come. Viewing and hearing the ten thousand things about himself, amidst them, there seemed to be the sound of fate's tide. Fallen Immortal Forest, Fallen Immortal Forest! Is it ominous for a sword immortal to come here?

Jiang Wang kept guard around him, only feeling a peace from the inside out. Auspicious and ominous, the strong heart proves. The moment he left Qian Tang River, he thought to himself that he had already reached an extreme realm in the Cave True that few predecessors had reached. After receiving the last inheritance of the Yin Yang True Saint, he saw different scenery in the extreme realm again. At this moment, he wanted to gaze further. He did not care about the risks in front of him.

Finding a person in the Fallen Immortal Forest is more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack – provided that this person does not want to be found by you. Jiang Wang's war intent was surging at this moment, and he did not want to wait long. He lifted his eyes and gazed at the sky, suddenly, a sword rainbow pierced through, cutting through evil shadows, splitting purple lightning, breaking through the mist, and his sword cried for ten thousand li! Outside the mirror reflecting history at the bottom of Qian Tang River, Jiang Wang had never truly been to the Fallen Immortal Forest.

The Fallen Immortal Forest inside the mirror reflecting history, and the present world already have many differences. The ever-changing and irregular changes are one of the reasons why the Fallen Immortal Forest has not been explored clearly for so many years. Counting it, this is the first time Jiang Wang has come to the Fallen Immortal Forest in the present world, and he made such a strong declaration! One must know the danger of the Fallen Immortal Forest. Even a True Monarch can fall. He also doesn't know if it's because he descended through the yin and yang path, received the remnant thought of the Yin Yang True Saint, stained by a part of Dou Zhao's dream fragments, influencing him with its habits. Or perhaps... his state at this moment is already unprecedentedly strong, his sharpness cannot be hidden, and must be outwardly emitted.

This one sword cry was simply crazier than Dou Zhao! Dangers are everywhere in the Fallen Immortal Forest. This one sword cry, this one sword rainbow, was like poking a hornet's nest. With one sound, all eight sides were shocked. Countless rustling movements rang out almost at the same time. Dark clouds covered the sky, and groups of ghosts rang out evilly. Yi ya wu wa, sounds of resentment surged. But Jiang Wang only noticed one sound among them – that was also a sword cry. This sound was like the sky pressing low, like clouds about to rain.

Boom boom boom boom! Several tens of thousands of zhang of shocking lightning instantly tore through the sky of the Fallen Immortal Forest. From the crack made by the lightning, a supremely cruel sword fell – its spine was straight, its hilt was flat, and its edge opened into two blades. Speaking of it, it also appeared very "fair". Instead, it echoed the "Heaven Public City" ringing in the A Bi Ghost Cave at this moment.

Everyone in this world has different ideas, even the simplest word has countless understandings. Just like "fair," whose "fair" is fair? Jiang Wang saw and heard a thousand shadows, knew and heard ten thousand sounds, but only gazed at this one "Chen Wen Dao". Lu Shuang He has come! Meeting for the first time on the bank of Feng Xi River, how could they have imagined this meeting?

No half-sentence of nonsense, no half-point of emotion. Both sides had a sword cry, which counted as a mutual greeting. Chen Wen Dao meets Long Xiang Si, it is already a dead end. Cave True has reached here, it has reached the extreme realm. Life has reached here, there should be a stop! The sky is limited, the limit is named "Chen Wen Dao" drawing out the famous sword. Clear sky thunderclap is the thunder that destroys the world. Ten thousand things crack, all because of this sword and were born. That extreme killing force will instantly tear a space of several thousands of li. One sword levels mountain ridges! Countless decomposed leaves, countless screaming ghost remnants, dust flying in the sky, falling into the void late autumn.

Lu Shuang He's Chen Wen Dao brought the killing intent of autumn to the Fallen Immortal Forest, which confuses the four seasons and distinguishes not day and night. In the midst of all the broken remnants, Jiang Wang stood, pressing his sword. Long Xiang Si seemed not to have been drawn out, he seemed not to have moved, but all sharp sword intents were chopped before they could approach him. Lu Shuang He chopped out a sword that shattered heaven and earth. His sword chopped this brokenness!

The scenery within the Fallen Immortal Forest has always escaped suppression. At this moment, the old scenery is like withered leaves, floating piece by piece. In the constantly breaking and constantly restoring broken scenery of space, Jiang Wang's figure standing with his sword pressed is like the only unchanging eternal. Sword intent and sword intent mutually cut. In an instant, there were already ten million clashes. In the ten million clashes, he lifted his eyes – thus seeing that man with white hair draped over his shoulders. Seeing that pair of eyes, as they were when he first saw them as a child, as they were when he woke from countless dreams. This pair of eyes seemed to have no emotion forever.

"There is no hate in your sword," Jiang Wang's emotion was inexplicable. "I thought you would hate me." Lu Shuang He gripped Chen Wen Dao in his back hand. Between him and Jiang Wang, there were countless fragments of space falling into deep abysses. He said calmly, "We have no grievances, no hate."

The two stood on opposite sides, like on the two banks of a bitter sea. Jiang Wang said, "Although I do not regret it, I did kill your disciple Yi Sheng Feng, and also killed your senior sister Tian Ji True Person Ren Qiu Li."

"Sword weapons are born to kill people, killing whom is not essential," Lu Shuang He said. "But it divides strong and weak."

Jiang Wang's eyes were complex. "You have your reasons. Every time, you display your reasons."

"But you never listened," Lu Shuang He said.

"You also didn't care whether I listened or not," Jiang Wang said. "I don't know whether I should rejoice or lament, whether I should praise or sigh."

Lu Shuang He looked at him. "That year, I took Yi Sheng Feng away and didn't save you, did you hate me or not hate me?"

Jiang Wang said, "I once hated."

Lu Shuang He said, "Because at that time you were still very weak. Now you know, you have no reason to hate me."

Jiang Wang shook his head. "At that time, I still had no ability to protect myself. You drew out Yi Sheng Feng's evil thoughts, led to my danger, and chose to ignore it. Do I have no reason to hate you? It's just that you feel I don't, because you are a person without emotion."

Lu Shuang He was expressionless. "Do you want to say I am wrong?"

For this duel, Jiang Wang always thought he didn't care much, but he still came over at such a complex time, coming to the Fallen Immortal Forest. He also asked himself why. Now he understands clearly. He wasn't attending an absolute top meeting, he was attending a childhood appointment.

"You think you can show me where is 'further', and what kind of 'stronger'," Lu Shuang He said. Every step he took forward, his sword momentum became sharper. The killing force, which had already reached the limit of Cave True, was still constantly condensing, constantly elevating. Heaven and earth were one sheath, he himself just represented that sword of extreme killing force. Killing out from the Nan Dou Star, killing from the small world to the big world. The process of moving forward was the process of sharpening. As if because of his movement forward, there was a distinction between heaven and earth – he chopped open all of this, as if his killing force was endless!

Jiang Wang looked at him. It was the dream of looking up at the blue sky and the vertical sword in childhood. It was the later comer on the peak of Cave True, gazing at the person who first occupied this peak. Always until Lu Shuang He's killing force accumulated to the extreme, he then relaxed his grip on the sword hilt and gently led it – as if opening a gate to release a flood. It was the sword wanting to be drawn out, not him wanting to kill people. Long Xiang Si, who could not be suppressed early, almost flew out of the sheath. The roaring, unceasing sword energy was like a tiger howling and a dragon roaring. Jiang Wang's mood, however, was calm. His heart and spirit were leaping.

The unfinished sword in the mirror reflecting history, the sword drawn in Yue Country that suppressed Qian Tang, now appeared in the middle of the Fallen Immortal Forest. This was the first time it was fully embodied in this world, and compared to the unfinished moment in the mirror reflecting history, it was much stronger. His sword chopped out years like a song, it was the vast flow of the long river of history. The subconscious sea simulated countless souls killed under Long Xiang Si's sword, surging in the fragments of the long river of history. Zhuang Cheng Qian, Zhuang Gao Xian, Zhang Lin Chuan, Quan Ying Yang, Jing Tian Six True... either singing high or howling madly or crying.

This time, he truly achieved "heart and intent uniting, thought and reality becoming one". One sword chopped the world, chopped intent, chopped thought, chopped body. This one sword also handed his past over to Lu Shuang He to feel! Jiang Wang at this moment had no intention of hate, he also had no extra emotion. Lu Shuang He's heavenly dao was the emotionless heavenly dao. He saw the heavenly dao, as if it was just "high and vast". He seemed to have reached an infinitely high place, his heart and spirit, as if flying in the upper air of the river of fate.

The waves of the river of fate! Yu Bei Dou once brought him into the river of fate, and he saw nothing. Now, he came again by his own power, but "saw" too much! He "saw" the blue phoenix eyes in the sky, beautiful wings sweeping after, the heavenly dao prospering. He "saw" the disaster beast running wildly in the forest, where it passed, grass and trees withered. In the ox's eyes, he couldn't distinguish cruelty or pain. He "saw" the protector of Equality Country named Li Mao, transforming into "Qian Tang Jun", fighting desperately deep in the ghost cave. His origin was constantly withering, yet he moved forward step by step. He "saw" King Zhao's face, which was like light and like fire, flickering in the dim shadows of the Fallen Immortal Forest, like joy and like sorrow. He "saw" the God Sin Army roaring like a golden river in the Fallen Immortal Forest, Song Po Ti connecting the unknown other shore with a golden bridge. He "could not see" Huang Wei Zhen, could not see the great war happening between transcended beings. But he vaguely understood that all that was happening was part of that great war. This war had started early, even before Huang Wei Zhen returned. Transcended beings use heaven and earth as a board, and ten thousand worlds come to strive. Even including his sword and Lu Shuang He's sword!

When any one of them becomes a person who breaks cognition, that transcended existence beyond cognition must also update its cognition. Thus, it leaves necessary traces, which are captured by Huang Wei Zhen. At such a moment, in Lu Shuang He's emotionless heavenly dao eyes, he saw two roaring rivers, one named "years", one named "fate". Only by experiencing time can one know years. Only by wandering and struggling can one feel fate.

The strength of this one sword made him move for the first time. He truly saw scenery higher than the limit within the Cave True realm. This is not just a sword related to years, fate also had foreshadowing early! At this moment, he is satisfied. Hearing dao and dying, what sadness is there in this heart? White hair danced, the heavenly dao killed the youth, he was willing to die under this sword. He extremely piously strove to welcome his own sword, before fate and years, he held high his emotionless heavenly dao. To others, so; to himself, so. Only seeking to glimpse the supreme "dao mark" within this limit among limits!

But only a "clang"! Like the great bell and drum of the flood, like ten thousand ancient echoes. Chen Wen Dao broke from the middle of its spine, its sword edge flew high, gone never to return. The two long rivers of years and fate intersected, just wanting to sweep this white-haired swordsman away – Jiang Wang's high and vast heart and spirit suddenly felt a trance, as if in the Bai Ri Meng! He seemed to see deep in the river of fate, the back of an old man wearing a trigram robe, waving his hand without turning back, gradually going gradually farther. For a moment, he was anxious, shouting loudly, "Old man! You calculated wrong! On September 25th, Daoli three nine one nine year, in Broken Soul Gorge, you said you wanted to wait over ten years to see a later comer who would surpass Xiang Feng Qi, look at me! Look at me! What did you calculate –"

This shout suddenly stopped. Jiang Wang suddenly remembered that he had just lost one year in Mirror Lake. It had already been over ten years. He was already the world's first true. He returned his sword to its sheath, and said sadly, "Old man, you are fierce."

Originally, the crack in the limit of ancient and modern Cave True, had opened early in the one-line sky of Broken Soul Gorge. I have reached the limit. First, let's sleep for a while. About the summary and the next volume's plan, I will randomly post in a few days.