Chapter 2366: If Heaven Doesn't Give, I'll Seek It Myself

Tianren Jiang Wang held his sword horizontally, like a self-illuminating light. Its cold gleam resembled water, with ripples undisturbed.

This sword, named Thin Luck Lang, was world-renowned. For a long time, it had been deeply hidden in its sheath. People knew its name but had forgotten its edge!

Since the destruction of Southern Dipper Hall, the Longevity Lord had gained fame and then hidden away. Perhaps even his name wasn't remembered by anyone.

From now on, the Heavenly Way intended to make it shine brightly.

The forging patterns on the sword body were naturally formed, always depicting two scenes of spring. One side showed flowers before the moon below, the other side showed the moon above willow tips. Only with extremely deep emotion could one see the true thin luck.

The scene of flowers before the moon below was performed in the pupils of the sun and moon.

The bright moon hung eternally, shining with cold, clear glory, looking upon countless infatuated men and resentful women in the human world.

But the side facing the true self, Jiang Wang, was the one with the moon above willow tips—

Moon above willow tips, people appoint the time after yellow dusk.

The true self named "Jiang Wang" was, despite his great nonsense, quite the opposite.

Once this sword was unsheathed, it determined life and death.

That sword edge, thin as paper, drew out an extremely perilous path of fate. It skipped over infinite changes in sword forms, using the edge as paper and the power of the Heavenly Way as characters, to write down the final chapter of "Jiang Wang"'s life.

It also understood Jiang Wang. It had mastered all sword forms for Jiang Wang. Ordinary means could absolutely not defeat this "true self." To gain an overwhelming advantage, one must use "having" to defeat "nothing," using the Tianren against the Heavenly Way's mastery, to crush that defiant spirit against the Heavenly Way.

Hence, this style was formed.

Heavenly Way killing sword · Heaven not lend years.

Since ancient times, many heroes had grand ambitions, but alas, the years were not with them, leaving them with only resentment. Their heroic hearts were hard to fulfill.

All things have a lifespan. The limit of a lifespan is the most dangerous barrier under the Heavenly Way.

From cultivating and making it bright, to gaining insight into the world's truth, then to deriving the path to the absolute peak, then to transcending above the absolute peak—all of these are challenges to one's own limits, to the Heavenly Way's barrier. Thus, each step is a difficult passage of life and death. With each step crossed, the lifespan limit is broken open, and the number of years of life changes decisively.

The lifespans of all things in the world are all within the operation of the Heavenly Way.

Hence, the Tianren is also, naturally, the existence that understands "lifespan" the most. It is only limited by the constraints of "Jiang Wang" himself in this path, which is why it is not so exaggerated. If they could wander in the realm of the Heavenly Way for some time, whether it be You Que Zhi, or Chong Xuan Chu Liang Zhi, none would be enough to rival the Tianren Jiang Wang.

The Tianren Jiang Wang had already fallen into the deep sea of the Heavenly Way, thoroughly returning to the Heavenly Way. Although his body was currently in the heart prison and unable to directly communicate with the Heavenly Way, he naturally possessed the ability to manipulate lifespan. In this cage match, which shocked ancient and shone now, this instantly transformed into an unprecedented killing move.

Discard the evil fruit of the Tianren; it is time to repay it with this sword!

The road ahead is for you to walk; the lifespan ahead is not for you to seek.

The sword edge is like thin paper; fate is even thinner than paper.

The sword walks on the path of fate, which is a straight line without turns. Fate is destined; Heaven does not lend years.

Let you be a hero who covers the world, unmatched in the world... your lifespan is exhausted!

All things also end.

At this moment, the entire world seemed to become virtual and fade away. Even the two battling lords became background.

Only this clear line of the fate path, leaping out of the long river of fate and existing— "True self Jiang Wang, lifespan ends here."

When Thin Luck Lang reached the end of this line, the story would simply conclude.

But this line, which should have been straight, suddenly bulged, like vast land, something wanting to break out of the soil. Then it was suddenly pressed flat again! But this bulging point was like the sound of a war horn. After that, the line of this fate path was no longer calm.

Points were densely packed on the line, like countless ancient times, with people advancing one after another. It seemed like spring bamboo shoots after the rain, constantly bulging, and constantly being pressed down again... and finally, one head was exposed. Before this horizontal line of the fate path that goes and does not return, a straight line suddenly stood erect! That was the stubborn erect shadow of Long Xiang Si.

It broke through the seal of the Heavenly Way and directly faced Thin Luck Lang.

Like a strange peak suddenly rising, like a strong man guarding a pass.

If this life's final chapter was merely to be written down, the writing would be like looking at mountains, not flat! There should be ups and downs, there should be waves. The long river of fate should have some rapid currents and turbulences. How can a heroic epic be ordinary?

This was a confrontation of swords, but even more, it was a clash of paths. It was the human way challenging the Heavenly Way.

The path of fate drawn by the Heavenly Way was one that could be seen to the end at a glance, narrated flatly until death. But before the final sentence, a dangerous peak suddenly rose. This single glance, from here, had twists—that snow-bright cold peak stood alone, the road was at its feet, and "I" was the high mountain.

All ordinary people have one death. How many people in the world attain longevity?

Extraordinary beings strive for lifespan with heaven. From ancient times until now, how many can achieve eternal life?

But people never stop their steps, and humanity never stops its struggle.

From ancient times until now, there have been only a few transcendent beings, but beneath the feet of each transcendent, there are figures of countless climbers.

From birth to death, a life, whether long or short, how many people exhaust their full strength and write down something, more or less grand?

Even if they don't achieve great deeds, or "Heaven doesn't lend years," how can it be said that they are not heroes?

This was precisely the sword expounded by the true self, Jiang Wang, from the flood of the human way—

Human way killing sword · I self seek!

Strive with people, strive for power, strive for intent, strive for the way, strive for reason.

Strive for fortune with heaven; the strong ones forever have fortune.

Strive for life with heaven; seize one line of life.

Everything that "Heaven does not give," all "I self seek."

Breaking through the Heavenly Way's seal was just the beginning. Sword edge met sword edge, colliding in the dead end of fate.

The sound of colliding sword edges was deafening. They used each other as weapons, the sounds heard controlled by each. Like knives, spears, swords, halberds, they clashed ten million times in an instant! The sword edges crossed with cold lights, suddenly grasped by the Tianren, suddenly seized by the true self. Between the two figures, they crossed vertically and horizontally, forming an intricate net of light!

The Tianren Jiang Wang could perfectly expound what was heard and seen, and the true self Jiang Wang could perfectly expound "Jiang Wang" in battle. Both sides could reach an extreme state within the limitations of the person "Jiang Wang." Their senses controlled each other, making it impossible to harm one another. So this was just the aftermath of this battle, mere small techniques.

The true killing move... The sparks that exploded from the crossing sword edges filled the void for a time. Suddenly, one particle leaped up, transforming into a burning moon.

The light of this moon was divided into three colors: gold inside, red inner, white outer. Its curved string was like a knife. As it manifested, it was already approaching, directly splitting the moon eye of the Tianren Jiang Wang!

The second particle, the third particle, the fourth particle... A cluster of star seeds all manifested.

In an instant, there were moons all over the sky, each burning, all striking the Tianren. They howled, covering the sky and earth, striking at the absolute place of return for all things.

Combining sights seen with divine powers.

Immortal method · True fire burn moon!

At this moment, sword edge was still colliding with sword edge. The Tianren Jiang Wang maintained the posture of carving the fate path, only lightly raising his snow-moon pupils. Then, a wisp of frost wind flew out of his moon eye. It suddenly circled like a tornado, enveloping all the flame moons in the sky within it.

Although it was flowing wind, it had an eternal state, spinning into a cage, forbidding the fierce flames. It did not allow a single wisp of flowing fire to pass through the sky wind.

Technique · Unmoving sky wind!

The true fire burning moon, which covered the sky and earth, suddenly expanded and exploded into infinite flowing flames, wanting to break through the barrier. However, within the frost-white sky wind, frost and snow condensed, constantly extinguishing the flowing flames. Finally, with a low muffled sound, the true fire burning moon and the unmoving sky wind... annihilated together.

Meanwhile, the confrontation between Long Xiang Si and Thin Luck Lang still continued.

One chopped from above downwards, one cut from left to right.

Thus, sword edges missed sword edges, each completing one life.

On Thin Luck Lang, the sword patterns trembled. This spring scenery of "moon above willow tips" reached its end. The Tianren Jiang Wang brushed past and walked away, leaving only cold lights that covered the sky and earth, all heading towards the true self Jiang Wang. After countless turns and returns of tender feelings, it was a resolute departure, a shadow that would never return!

The long sword seemed like a heartless person; where the cold light passed, fate was also empty.

Countless lines of cause and effect were all cut off, seeking to strip the "true self" into an isolated "self," removing his resistance.

This was the "fate empty" sword.

However, the true self Jiang Wang did not retreat but advanced, wielding his sword and chasing. One sword crashed into the sky full of cold lights; one sword emptied all the cold lights in the sky!

Who he loved, hated, missed, and resented in this life was all self-determined, not determined by heaven.

This was the "I grasp" sword.

The Tianren Jiang Wang wielded his sword, painting a scene that should have cut off the fate path and exhausted it. But the true self Jiang Wang climbed up from the bottom of the cliff, leaped out of the marsh deep. The mountain road turned, the willows were dark, and the flowers were bright.

After the direct clash in the realm of calamity without emptiness, neither side used the moves of "Jiang Wang."

Because all the past powers of "Jiang Wang" were useless to the current "Jiang Wang."

Thin Luck Lang and Long Xiang Si, the Heavenly Way killing sword and the human way killing sword, the laws of the Way and immortal laws, Buzhou wind and Samadhi true fire, not to mention "fate empty" against "I grasp," each expounding and confronting Buddhist teachings... Both sides engaged in an all-around confrontation in terms of powers, cultivation, insights, and other aspects.

The exposition of these new killing methods was the growth shown by both sides respectively, after the division of fate among the remnants of calamity!

The "strongest" of the past was no longer enough to settle with one blow.

Because for true absolute world prodigies, all intelligence about powers was outdated!

The Tianren Jiang Wang and the true self Jiang Wang not only had to perfectly expound their respective powers but also needed to progress as quickly as possible in this battle.

Whoever could transcend their "past self" faster in this battle would obtain the final victory.

The true self Jiang Wang relentlessly pursued the Tianren with the "I grasp" sword, creating forceful cause and effect within the endless and constantly emptying lines of cause and effect.

Long Xiang Si seemed like a lonely boat flying in pursuit, forcefully tying "fate" with the gradually distant Tianren Jiang Wang in the "fate empty" sea.

The melon is not ripe, the stem does not fall; forcefully twist it off.

No matter if you are heartless or emotionless!

Just at this moment, the true self Jiang Wang's heart suddenly sounded an alarm. The Tianren Jiang Wang's heart also stirred.

Facing this spiritual awareness's warning, this perception of danger, the true self Jiang Wang had no intention of retreating. Instead, he saw an opportunity. When the enemy showed danger, it was exactly the time to expose a vital point. It was not that insufficient to decide the outcome—his red pupils were fierce as if lit with fire, his heart fire burned on his sword. The true self Jiang Wang's body flew like a wild goose, pouncing towards the left front where the alert was heaviest, drawing his sword and rising, like the rising sun!

The Tianren Jiang Wang also suddenly turned his body at this moment, wiping away white flame with one sword. Sky fire attached to the sword, cutting the dust of fate!

And unexpectedly... both fell empty.

The true self Jiang Wang's sword struck an empty space. Quickly, he leaned back in the air like a dragon flipping, flipping his body back to look, like a fierce tiger lying on a mountain.

The Heavenly Way Jiang Wang's sword wiped emptiness empty, almost losing strength and harming himself. Yet, he spun his body and stood firm, resolving the momentum, his sword erect before his body, like a rhinoceros resisting horns.

The two lords confronted each other again, on the two sides of this heart prison.

This scene looked very comical.

The two strongest true persons in the present world unexpectedly struck at empty space without appointment, their killing moves against the air. It was truly worse than children fighting with swords.

But each to each, there was a greater share of caution.

One thought then lost, one thought then wrong.

Wrong thought! Wrong hit!

Both sides had entered the wrong path!

Within the Tianren Jiang Wang's golden sun pupils, there were silver fish swimming. Within his silver moon pupils, there were golden fish swimming. This pair of gold and silver yin and yang fish within his sun and moon pupils remotely turned in a ring, then each hid.

While within the true self Jiang Wang's red eye pupils, a pair of black and white yin and yang fish slowly swam, also sinking into the red sea.

The Tianren Jiang Wang and the true self Jiang Wang both possessed everything of "Jiang Wang," including the knowledge, insights, and thoughts within the life named "Jiang Wang," including this dao body, and even divine powers!

But at the moment these two lords were born, they also had differences.

Just like the Tianren Jiang Wang used the "Heaven not lend years" sword to strike the true self Jiang Wang, what he was bullying was the true self's resistance to the Heavenly Way, making it difficult to know heaven's lifespan.

Discarding the Tianren meant losing the support of the Heavenly Way.

But what was lost by abandoning the true self?

Naturally, it was the "I."

It was the power of the heart.

So the Tianren Jiang Wang possessed everything, integrated all laws, and accommodated divine powers. This included Samadhi true fire, Buzhou wind, the sword immortal person, and the wrong path, only not the "red heart."

In principle, whether it was the Tianren Jiang Wang or the true self Jiang Wang, both could avoid the divine powers of the wrong path!

The true self Jiang Wang had the divine powers of the red heart and could control the wrong path.

The Tianren Jiang Wang simply followed the rules of the Heavenly Way, fundamentally having no choice and not being disturbed by the wrong path.

But they both understood each other too well, and they also understood battle too well.

Almost at the same time they put the wrong edges past, that moment of one chasing and one pursuing, was regarded as an excellent battle opportunity.

The Tianren Jiang Wang used the divine powers of the wrong path to virtually set a strong danger, skipping the protection of the red heart divine powers, creating a natural battle choice for the true self Jiang Wang that arose from his heart.

The true self Jiang Wang then used the divine powers of the wrong path to stir the order of the Heavenly Way within the heart prison, making the Tianren Jiang Wang face an inevitable attack under the order of the Heavenly Way.

Precisely because all of this happened at the same time, both sides strangely missed each other and struck air. Each subsequent continuous attack was interrupted before their own "miss."

Moreover, their killing moves were all wasted.

Not only did "heart fire" and "sky fire" each carry out that fierce sword style, but both sides also used "wrong path" to influence the other's trump cards. After being revealed, they did not create the expected advantage, and there was no possibility of them being effective again from now on.

Fate was completely empty.

The small heart prison was vast like the universe. Boundless and endless, it allowed heaven to collapse and earth to crack. The extreme true fight within it could not get out.

At this moment, the true self Jiang Wang held his sword horizontally, his pupils red. He stood in the northwest, occupying a high vantage point.

The Tianren Jiang Wang held his sword erect in the southeast, his body against the high sky. The sword edge, thin as paper, stood erect, dividing his sun and moon pupils.

This battle was still far from ending, or rather, neither side had yet found the possibility of ending this battle.

This was the first time Jiang Wang had truly faced himself.

Only by facing Jiang Wang did he truly understand how strong "Jiang Wang" was.

He could understand how tormenting it was for those past enemies to face such an opponent!

He was never strong on paper; he was strong in past stories, strong in his life experiences. He did not need to raise a banner for himself; his enemies naturally became annotations!

Excellent battle opportunities were grasped, top-notch battle intuition. Any battle intent could be seen through, any killing method would be cracked. Any power shown would be impossible to be effective a second time... In battle, he made almost no errors and constantly forced out your errors! Your pouring attacks would not leak a single drop, and your single thought of difference would mean you could never turn over.

How to defeat such an opponent?

Whether it was the Tianren Jiang Wang or the true self Jiang Wang, both had to review themselves once more and re-evaluate this battle cautiously!

But thinking also could not influence the battle.

Thinking itself was also a kind of battle!

Whoever could not cut off杂 thoughts and focus on battle, whoever was disturbed by factors outside the battle, was preparing to be slaughtered!

So after both sides struck empty, they only exchanged a glance, then charged towards the opponent again.

Facing such an opponent, many people didn't even have the qualification to think.

Because during the time of thinking, they also had to strive on the sword.

The true self Jiang Wang was like a dragon traveling in the high sky, one sword horizontal in front of his pupils. His pupils turned from red to red-gold, and his long hair scattered and danced. At this instant, he wore frost wind, bathed in red fire, illuminating the sky mansion light everywhere. His entire body's sword qi rushed to the sky, this was it. The frost seemed to connect to the sky curtain, everything was the background of this lord. The sword qi, thousands and ten thousands of threads, seemed to tie the sky dome.

And then he pounced and fell, one sword sinking down. The entire sky dome of the heart prison sank with it, as if one sword pulled the heavens and tilted them!

This sword, heaven tilts northwest!

The Tianren Jiang Wang only lifted that erect straight sword high. In the instant the sword hilt was above his forehead, his entire body became brilliant gold. His jade crown also became a gold crown, his black hair also became gold hair, seeming like a gold lord sculpted standing on the ground! He also wore frost wind, but it was white sky fire around his body. His sword qi was like an abyss, like a sea, howling and surging, deep and immeasurable, remotely unknowable.

This was it!

Originally, there were no immortals above heaven; the Heavenly Way controlled it.

He stood firm and unmoving, and beneath his feet was already a deep dark expanse, seeming like a bottomless void.

Ground bricks did not exist; the great earth had already collapsed. The thick yellow soil that carried all things was all flowing into the universe.

Although this sword was lifted high, it caused everything seen, heard, and thought to sink down. Although this sword clearly existed, it had to wipe off the foundation of all existence.

It was the true extinction sword.

Everything within the heart prison was falling, including the sword qi of the two direct clashes, including the divinity constantly scattering in the confrontation, including the colliding immortal thoughts... Everything was constantly falling. Only that long sword named "Thin Luck Lang" became clearer and clearer.

This sword, earth traps southeast!

Originally, the true self sword immortal person should have been in the human world, yet he was chopping down from the sky. Originally, the Heavenly Way sword immortal should have been in the high sky, yet his feet were treading on the human world as he lifted his sword.

Because heaven tilting northwest was man-made, while earth trapping southeast was the collapse of heaven.

The two intersected in the void, light and sound, all annihilating.

In such a terrifying confrontation.

Heaven and earth seemed to also have limitations.

The sky dome tore down a corner and fell, the great earth lifted up a corner and rose. The two touched each other, and in an instant, heaven and earth mixed and turned.

Everything mixed together. From here on, the clear and the turbid were not divided, the sun and moon were not bright.

Within the heart prison, chaos stood!

Everything no longer existed!

Only the Tianren Jiang Wang and the true self Jiang Wang still gazed at each other.

Within the chaos, they gazed, transcending everything.

The red-gold immortal eye pupils gazed at the sun and moon heavenly pupils.

The Heavenly Way followed a destined, perfect trajectory.

The true self, however, grasped all possibilities, not to mention impossibilities!

"I feel that all of this is still not the limit—" within the red-gold immortal eye pupils, intense emotions flickered. The true self Jiang Wang was far more intense than normal. He howled loudly, upon hearing the dao at this moment and going mad: "There is still a road to walk ahead!"

Within the chaos, he lifted his sword and advanced again!