Chapter 2367: I Am Me

For myriad generations, Chaos is the beginning, the origin of all matter. To walk in the "origin" without "truth" leads nowhere. Grasping "truth" is merely the foundation. A true self sword immortal at the peak state wields a sword within chaos. They also sit and observe freely with the ear of an immortal, stand in the immortal pupil with the eye of an immortal, separating Yin and Yang at a fork in the path, clothing themselves as heaven with frost, and illuminating civilization with red fire... Constantly leaping upwards in power, they merge into the boundless immortal light of the true self! Immortal light is the first wisp of light within chaos, an immortal body is the only real existence within the void. I am the "true self," I am the "myriad immortals." From non-existence birth existence, proving emptiness with "I." Evolving again within chaos is the true state of the myriad immortals, the sword immortal! Divine splendor falls consistently, piercing through chaos, like an eternal, unextinguished startling rainbow! Facing this person and this sword, even the Heaven Way sword immortal, who chops out a thin thread of luck, has not a single deviation. Although it is a manifestation of the Heaven Way, it is already the strongest truth of ancient and modern times. Within chaos, it still retains itself, grasping its own truth, as if it existed before chaos. In that obscure void of birth and extinction, initial rules are created, and incomplete wind manifests frost-colored heaven patterns, inscribed on the body of this Heaven Way sword immortal—Heaven Way is constant, myriad ancient times are the initial. The world's extreme truth is ungrindable and unextinguishable. Thus, the innate eternal gold venerable is born! There is no other scenery within chaos, only the kill-immortal rainbow of eternal gold light. The two current world's strongest true persons, with the fastest speed, adapt to chaos and, within chaos, further evolve their kill methods, elevating themselves. Both sides clash sword against sword, intent against intent, spirit against spirit, unfolding a self-forgetful deathmatch in this piece of chaos that no one can see. Divine powers, Dao techniques, sword methods, ear-hearing eye-seeing... A thousand changes and myriad transformations, constantly pushing out new ones. For a time, the fighting figures of the two venerables are everywhere within chaos, and power ripples constantly surge within the void. Here, clarity and turbidity have not yet appeared, and the five elements of this world are not yet fixed. The victor will be the first true being to open heaven and split earth! Transcending death, heaven's mechanism confused. Heart prison stands, the heaven person is alone within. Chaos is formed, heaven and earth undivided. Without undivided heaven and earth, how can the Heaven Way be formed? Defeating the heaven person Jiang Wang, perhaps now is absolutely not the only opportunity. The heart prison imprisons the "heaven person" and the "true self," isolating the Heaven Way and all else, including time, which can be described as "no years within the cave, not knowing the year outside the mountain." An encounter within the heart prison can be a flash of lightning, or it might accumulate months and years. If it drags on past the Heaven and Earth Decline Period, whether this heart prison can still imprison the heaven person is a question! But the true self Jiang Wang does not pursue a quick battle. He has already exhausted everything to strive for victory and truly does not care about time. The heaven person Jiang Wang also never thought of delaying the battle. Although it is a heaven person, it is also Jiang Wang. At least in this moment as the heaven person Jiang Wang, detached from the Heaven Way and alone, It also strives for victory with all its heart, pursuing the strongest. Outside the demon realm lies the chaos sea, which is dangerous even to absolute top demons. The two venerables, the strongest truths, kill their way out of chaos. Although it is far from as terrifying as the chaos sea, like a puddle compared to a deep sea, it still consumes both their truths moment by moment. Trapped in chaos is walking towards death. They are in a process of constant wearing down, constant falling, constantly fighting to the death, constantly growing. In the bitter journey of the abyss, they compare life and death, displaying all their accumulations. In the time of exhausting heart and strength, in exhaustion, they see the hand of victory and defeat. Threefold burning truth, incomplete heaven wind, fork path chaos situation! What a deathmatch! It is truly unknown how many rounds they have killed, the two true persons themselves do not remember. Because all heart and strength must be invested in the ongoing encounter. Outside the sword, there is only each other; inside the heart, there is only this current combination and that future combination. Sword qi entangles the rolling chaos, the true self Jiang Wang's intent is excited and wild, fighting more fiercely: "Since you say the heaven person does not have to be Jiang Wang, now do you dare not transform into others!? In this extreme realm, I want to try the sinless heaven person and the world venerable!" Long swords cross, the two again pass by each other. At the same time they pass, they again counter with immortal methods, again head-to-knee and elbow-to-elbow, fists and fingers attacking quickly. After a round of inch-by-inch life-and-death struggle, they truly pull apart the distance. The heaven person Jiang Wang was always silent, but this time it said indifferently: "Why do you fight?" "Strange, how strange!" The true self Jiang Wang wielded his sword and lunged forward again: "The Heaven Way is muddled, the heaven person is muddled, yet you actually ask why!" The heaven person Jiang Wang lifted its sword and met the attack, a continuous clanging, nine sounds merging into one. Both sides resisted swords and faced each other. Sun and moon pupils shot out heaven light, killing towards the gaze of the immortal red pupils. Four paths of gazes twisted within chaos like flying rainbows, cutting the nearby chaos even more confusingly. "You do not understand the Heaven Way, what kind of ignorance would call it 'muddled', and then call the heaven person 'muddled'? You are getting further and further from the Heaven Way because of your ignorance and bravery. Yet in this heart prison, I am recalling more and more parts of 'Jiang Wang'." The heaven person Jiang Wang said indifferently: "You strip away the Heaven Way and walk alone. Yet I touch 'true self', the sea contains a hundred rivers, the Heaven Way includes all, not just yesterday and today. Finally, I am the strongest and most complete existence. The heaven person can certainly be others, but I am the true 'Jiang Wang'." It was answering why It did not manifest as others, because It was originally Jiang Wang! It was also answering why It would ask "why." Because It was actively touching "true self," and It believed that this was precisely the opportunity for victory. The true self Jiang Wang yet laughed: "Your touching 'true self' exactly proves your Dao path is wrong! You know the Heaven Way cannot help you win, you know 'Jiang Wang' is the key to victory and defeat. While I, from beginning to end, firmly believe in 'I'!" The person is in the bitter sea, the body in the East Sea, the spirit in the subconscious sea, the fight in the chaos sea. This venerable true state sword immortal of myriad immortals is truly like a boat rowing in the bitter sea, and actually becoming more and more high-spirited and fierce. The most difficult battles provide the most abundant nourishment for "I." The most painful experiences can bring the most rapid growth. There are many hardships in the world, but there is true joy in bitterness! The true Heaven Way heaven person will ultimately swallow the true self to exist. Yet the heaven person Jiang Wang is fighting in this heart prison, constantly influenced by the "Jiang Wang" parts, trying to gain a more complete "Jiang Wang" within the heart prison by touching "true self." This indeed makes It stronger within the heart prison, but it also goes against its previous path! If one cannot carry through one's own path, how can one grasp the final victory? The true self Jiang Wang's spiritual flame flourishes greatly! "Before truly growing, every person thinks they are the center of the world. Only after slowly growing up and jumping out of the narrow view of the old self do they know what the vast world looks like. My current imprisonment of the heaven person, merging 'true self' into the Dao, is seeing the extreme Dao within the heart prison. That day, pushing open the heart prison and transforming the true self in the deep sea, it may not be impossible to dispel the clouds and see the moon, only then knowing the true heaven." The heaven person Jiang Wang, expressionless, counterattacked the true self Jiang Wang and said indifferently: "You think my Dao is not firm, not knowing this is a natural principle of heaven." Long mutual thought and thin thread of luck have today unknown how many times they have met, each verifying each other's sharpness. The sound of swords crying does not stop at the ear. The true self Jiang Wang laughed contemptuously: "Your natural principle of heaven is still the law of the jungle, the biggest fist sets the rules! Within the heart prison, the strongest one who merges 'true self' is the one who merges 'true self'. Outside the heart prison, returning to the Heaven Way is the strongest, you just bury 'true self' and return to the Heaven Way—don't ask why I fight, just taste this biggest fist of mine! Knowing the way back after being lost, imprisoning heaven is not late!" "You don't understand!" The heaven person Jiang Wang bombarded fist against fist, leg against leg, sword exchanged for sword: "All things in the world have their traces. I do not hate those who bully heaven or slander heaven, I do not resent myself, rather I am myself. All things in the world were originally free, it is just that the Dao obstructed and I went alone. What you want is the biggest fist, Jiang Wang. I fight for the present world!" Sword light was at its feet, becoming a bridge to fix chaos. Thin thread of luck was in Its palm, becoming a sword to open heaven. This innate eternal gold venerable, with an immortal posture, stepped onto the bridge, left hand a fist, right hand a sword. It grasped the Heaven Way, chopped the human way, and bombarded out an utmost public and emotionless great vow. Behind it was a glorious light and shadow, engraved on the root of chaos. A thousand sails compete, myriad spirits contend for the path. The grand and great world seemed to be within it. "Five turbid evil worlds, eight sufferings are not empty. The old order is not peaceful, the new order is not stable. The End Dharma will arrive!" The heaven person Jiang Wang's power was still surging upwards! "The heaven person descends to return all to proper order. Jiang Wang!" Its sword pointed at the heart prison door: "Today I go out of this door, greatly benefiting the common people!" Thus, it returned its sword and, with one sword, opened heaven! This sword opened Yin and Yang, this sword divided clarity and turbidity, before this sword, chaos all divided. Under this sword, the true self also hung on for life! This sword had already transcended all previous powers, again pushing the cave truth limit kill force forward! While the true self Jiang Wang's eyes were quiet as the sea. No, ripples were clearly rising on the sea surface, and undercurrents were clearly present at the bottom of the sea. "You said 'benefit', what does it benefit? Does the true monarch die to benefit heaven and earth; does the old sun extinguish to fertilize the nine countries; does the giant whale die for myriad things to be born?" This red-gold-eyed true person grinned: "If the heaven person could save the world, today the heaven person Jiang Wang would not need to exist." "If the heaven person truly wants to save the world, how to explain the heaven's fate in the demon realm?" "Although the sun and moon hang high, why does this world need you to save it!" "Go back!" He faced the heaven person Jiang Wang, returning sword with sword—boom! The whole piece of chaos violently rolled. The true self limitless immortal light almost scattered. The true self Jiang Wang was chopped flying! Blood splattered within chaos, raising no ripples. This was the first time since the fight began that he truly showed signs of defeat, the first time he was struck back in a frontal collision, even presenting a situation of being crushed. In such a top-level fight, a difference of a hair's breadth is a life-and-death distance. Not to mention now, the heaven person Jiang Wang held such a huge advantage. Chaos was separating, heaven and earth were opening, a new world was being born. While the heaven person Jiang Wang's sword still had not returned, it was still pursuing, still opening—when this sword completely killed the true self, it would also completely chop open chaos, open heaven and split earth, recreating the human world. The inverted flying true self Jiang Wang spat blood endlessly, but his expression was absolutely not dejected. There was only attachment to all that had passed and a strong heart that expounded tranquility—I believe this is the road I want to walk, and no one can deny it. Having "I"... Invincible! At this moment, within his Dao body, within his chest, that red-gold immortal heart suddenly rose with seven-colored flowing light! In his process of flying back, it sprinkled colorful glory within chaos. And he lifted his hand to press the seven-colored flowing glory on his chest, looking at the heaven person Jiang Wang's indifferent sun and moon pupils: "Do you know Ling He?" "My big brother was a very good person, you should remember him, but you don't care. You don't hate those who bully heaven or slander heaven, nor do you love good-hearted, pure-hearted people. You are originally emotionless towards common people, yet you say you benefit common people." Fresh blood winded at the corner of the true self Jiang Wang's mouth, making him look somewhat like a smile: "My big brother gave me a heart, and inside are the remnant thoughts of all the dead in my hometown, Maple Forest city domain. You don't go listen, or even if you listen, you don't have any feelings. You say you are Jiang Wang, but you don't care about Jiang Wang's past. You want Jiang Wang's power, yet you don't care about Jiang Wang's pain." The heaven person Jiang Wang faced it indifferently: "You all always like to assign endless meanings to experiences. Do you want to say that your power comes from pain? I want to tell you, true strength is being able to skip those meaningless processes and directly get the result." The true self Jiang Wang grinned, fresh blood already staining his teeth red: "Do you know?" He tightly pressed the heart Ling He had given him: "So many people unfortunately died in Maple Forest city. What those remnant thoughts inside remember most is not hate." "But their regrets, their loved ones." "I don't have any great vows." "I only wish the world has fewer regrets!" If I must be asked why I fight, must have a reason to stand here..." The true self Jiang Wang lifted his eyes—"I fight for I!" He suddenly stopped his inverted flight, his whole person emitting an unprecedented brilliant light. Brilliant to the extreme, making him appear as if his Dao body was woven from light. For this road that I have walked, all sadness and joy! For my not letting go, for my not forgetting. Today Jiang Wang stands here—"To fight you!" I want to live well. Whatever is said, I will live. Because I love this imperfect world, it is unrelated to what I have experienced, unrelated to whether this world loves me! Behind him, there were virtual shadows of demon apes, immortal dragons, and common people, flashing past and all merging into this body. Chaos boiled and surged! Jiang Wang instantly retreated quickly and turned to advance urgently, absolutely not turning back, absolutely not avoiding, his sword pointing at the heaven person! This sword... is my imperfect life! Traveling within the world you opened. No matter how much pain fate gives me, someone loves me. And I also love. This is perhaps the last collision between long mutual thought and thin thread of luck, a sword that opens heaven against life. Eternity intersects at an instant. Infinite, endless brilliant light, tearing everything apart. Silent, shadowless, dreamless. Only truth. Chaos no longer exists, occasionally there are gold light points, which seem to be cracks in the frost-colored heaven patterns engraved on the Heaven Way sword immortal gold venerable. In such a moment, in the ghost face fish sea domain of the present world, Jiang Wang's sinking sea Dao body trembled wildly. The heaven person sought the Heaven Way outwardly, yet it did not leave "home." Failing to find the Heaven Way outwardly, the heaven person Jiang Wang, who had already sharply declined within the heart prison, went to shake Longevity Town again, trying to summon the power of the first layer of heaven person state to gain a possibility of redoing. Just at this moment, within that endless brilliant light, a bow suddenly appeared. This bow was high and giant, like a towering tree. And there was a pair of muscular, knotty, furry big hands, grasping this bow and pulling the string. "Drink!" The demon ape dharma phase roared low, the bow was already full drawn. Truly like the Mid-Autumn moon. Boom!!! The string was still trembling, but the arrow had already flown. That was a dragon's whisker arrow! It shuttled within the non-existent clear qi of chaos, like a freely flying bird, yet in the instant it leaped out, it roared as a dragon! Roar! The vast blue god dragon bowed down and howled, its endless dragon body condensing within the brilliant light, terrifying pressure pouring down, dragon claws stretching and dancing, fixing even the opening world. Subduing the heart sea, opening the human sea, fixing the anger sea... Li Longchuan's fix sea style! But not only that. From the Huai state duke's study, to the Nine Towns Stone Bridge. From Grandpa Zuo's Peace Town, to the Nine Towns of the Long River. From the Xia Mountain separate mansion piled with East Domain seal classics, to the head of Dukang Street in the hundred states of worldly affairs. From Yan Sheng's insights into seal techniques, to Gu Shiyi's gifted "Wind After Eight Arrays Diagram." From Chen Zhitao's Heaven Reaching Tower, to that line on the paper... Every step taken on this road, every hardship counted. The vast blue dragon body was truly like a sea, its forward pouncing process was like sea waves rolling, every dragon scale was engraved with different seals. Ten baskets of waste paper leaving one word, deleting and modifying until blood made the poem. Home safe. Dead son again dead grandson. One arrow fixes the sea. Man buried in the sea. Many things in the world are not as wished. If heaven had emotion, how could it endure? How could so many regrets happen? Roar! The vast blue god dragon, twisted and entangled on that innate eternal gold venerable. That pair of sun and moon pupils gradually closed. The heaven person's gold crown and gold hair all restrained their color, and the frost-colored heaven patterns on its Dao body also floated outwards as carved patterns. The god dragon's wind pillar, layer by layer sealed, finally stood as a heaven pillar, resisting in the heart prison, standing between the heaven and the sea. This is called the Fix Sea Town. Or perhaps... the Fix Sea God Needle! The subconscious sea had originally merged with heaven, at this moment, the high heaven did not stop a single line. Heaven high, sea vast, boundless. The four wilds were silent, the star tower fixed and locked the ghost face fish sea domain, the Jiang Wang trapped at the bottom of the sea slowly opened his eyes. "I'll practice one cup for you... Alas! Come drink!" It seemed to hear such a voice by his ear, gradually fading away. He looked at the sky through this piece of deep sea. The ripples made the light turn, everything seemed gentle. Although heaven and earth were in decline, the day was divided into five. But this first hour of white day had not once been deprived. Dawn had arrived.