Chapter 2374: For Me

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At the edge of the universe, in the void's return, Jiang Wang finally arrived.

Countless fallen stars, piercing this square universe, paved this lonely road.

Speaking from the perspective of the Dongzhen realm, Lou Yue was already powerful enough.

But for Jiang Wang, this was still far from sufficient.

The opponent's weakness made it impossible to verify his true self.

With just this level of power, how could he say he had reached the end?

"I came to the Central Domain to be crowned with an unstoppable momentum of being invincible in the world. But until now, you haven't been able to satisfy my expectations at all."

Within the universe in his palm, Jiang Wang gazed at the universe beyond, completely composed, as if he were the master of the universe, and Lou Yue was in his palm: "True Person Lou, I heard that at sea, you had an unstoppable momentum and the determination to step onto the Tongtian Path. The heavenly road was paved for you, and the East Sea once boiled for you! Where is that strong one now?!"

These words sounded truly arrogant.

He waited there quietly to see the trump card Lou Yue hadn't revealed in the East Sea.

He was, of course, looking forward to this battle itself, but within it was also an unstoppable resentment born from Li Longchuan's death—

If it weren't for this suddenly initiated Pinghai Plan, how would Li Longchuan have accompanied Wang Kun to the Gui Mian Yu sea domain?

Wang Kun was already dead, and the process of the matter might never be known to people.

Lou Yue, who led the team to sea, you shall receive a lesson!

The entire universe was silent.

Then Lou Yue's voice resounded— "As you wish!"

What is the end of the universe? Perhaps it is a grand proposition. Since ancient times, countless strong ones have explored it, giving different yet all mysterious answers.

Yet the end of this universe in his palm, in an instant, lifted the answer—

A majestic power descended!

It carried a crushing posture, as if the entire universe had sunk several points.

That was a dim yellow world, with a round sky and square earth, where all things grew. Flying birds gathered, and walking beasts fled. It possessed infinite vitality and hope!

This world existed in three dimensions, yet it was like a piece of paper. At that moment, it spontaneously lifted a corner, rolled up high, turning into a mountain-range-like fist. Rivers flowed on the surface of the fist, and high mountains stood as its peaks.

"First Fist, Taihuang Huang Zeng Tian!"

Daoism has a saying of thirty-six layers of heaven. Setting aside the high, distant, and immeasurable, the Three Pure Heavens refined by the Dao Venerables, there are still thirty-three layers of heaven in total, which are the "heavens" in their entirety.

Among the "Six Heavens of the Desire Realm," the first heaven is named "Taihuang Huang Zeng."

Lou Yue used the world as his fist!

A fist pressed one world, unstoppable.

And after this world lifted, another world manifested subsequently.

Although it was also full of vitality and existed substantially, in its overall appearance, it had a "false" nature, as if it were an artifact, not natural.

This was because this world was like jade carvings, brilliantly radiating bright light. Every blade of grass and every tree seemed to be the work of a famous craftsman, meticulously carved out. How could it have been nurtured by heaven and earth?

Suddenly, the jade light gathered, and one world folded, again becoming a fist.

"Second Fist, Taiming Yu Wan Tian!"

"Third Fist, Qingming He Chong Tian!"

"Fourth Fist, Xuantai Pingyu Tian!"

"Fifth Fist…"

"Thirty-third Fist… Da Luo Tian!"

Lou Yue's uniquely created world-covering fist canon— "Thirty-Three Heavens Tyrannical Fist"!

The tyrannical fist possessed tyrannical power.

It was the central supreme, invincible in the universe, undeniable.

At that time in the East Sea, he was preparing to use this fist art to powerfully bombard Cao Ji. He wanted to use the Pinghai Great Plan to sweep across the central domain with great momentum and achieve his hope of transcending the Tongtian Path.

That fist was not unleashed at that time, yet at this moment, it was entirely given to Jiang Wang!

It was a pity that this scene occurred within the palm universe and could not be seen by more people.

Truly unparalleled spectacle!

One world lifted, still another world remained; one fist fell, still another fist remained.

Only until this moment did Lou Yue truly display his power at the peak of the Dongzhen realm.

Every one of his fists was refined into a true small world!

A Shenlin realm cultivator's spirit domain, after ultimate sublimation, can achieve a small world. There are also Dongzhen cultivators who capture small worlds from the outer heavens for their own use. In that step from Dongzhen to Tongtian, the primordial spirit exits the body and refines the small world into a Dharma body.

Most true persons have one small world with them.

Jiang Wang carrying three small worlds was already very rare. The Ziyuan Huojie, Yanfu Jianyu, and Zhiren Xianyu, each small world had evolved deeply and was tending towards perfection. With these three domains as his three Dharma forms, they were always his powerful means. Any Dharma form released casually possessed Dongzhen combat power.

Yet Lou Yue possessed thirty-three heavens!

He truly developed the palm heaven and earth to an unprecedented realm. Not only did he evolve a palm universe, but he also filled it with thirty-three small worlds within this square universe.

Such merit participated in creation, refining thirty-three heavens and possessing the power to cover all.

Thirty-three fists together represented the fall of thirty-three worlds.

Jiang Wang wanted to see Lou Yue's trump card.

With the trump card revealed, the gambling table had already collapsed. He also wanted to know how Jiang Wang would receive it.

Jiang Wang applauded loudly!

"Good fist art! This is what I came west to see!"

He raised his head high, facing the thirty-three heavens, directly confronting the evolution and growth of every world: "This trip was not in vain!"

At this moment, his frost robe unfolded, his true fire was bright, and his ears and eyes were all seated with immortals… Clang!

The clang of a sword resounded throughout the universe.

Only now did he draw his sword!

The sword sheath made of Shenlong wood seemed to hide another world. Infinite endless brilliant light, like fierce beasts escaping their cages, was released within the sword sheath, tearing and biting at the universe for a time.

When he straightened up, he was already the Wanxian Zhenyi Jianxian Ren!

At this moment, Jiang Wang truly exerted his power.

In an instant, the universe saw an immortal rainbow.

Thirty-three fists, thirty-three layers of heaven, already encompassed all, horizontally pressing down on the universe.

But the immortal rainbow penetrated all!

This was the first wisp of immortal light within the chaos, transcending matter and existence.

With a speed that could not be caught by ears and eyes, it pierced through one small world after another, first "Taihuang Huang Zeng," then "Taiming Yu Wan"…

When it pierced through Da Luo Tian and existed beyond, Jiang Wang, with his sword and red pupils, already saw Lou Yue's face reflected in the void.

That face was majestic, as if it bore the carvings of the Heavenly Dao, chiseled out with a kind of indifference and sternness.

At the end of the universe, Jiang Wang looked up at the void.

The drifting frost robe unfolded like a new heaven. After this frost robe, those thirty-three colossal fists, like ancient weathered mountains, gradually collapsed after the passage of time.

The tyrannical fist power, originally one, collapsed like fine sand.

The frost robe drifted, and the sand waterfall flowed, not losing its grandeur as a scene.

"True Person Lou, you should not only be this!" Jiang Wang held his sword in the immortal rainbow, lowered his eyes and said: "Please let me see a stronger you."

Before he displayed the Wanxian Zhenyi Jianxian Ren, he had already touched the boundary of this palm universe.

At the moment he drew his sword, the so-called end of the universe could not even withstand a thin sheet of paper.

He could tear it apart with a raised sword, but he waited quietly.

He was full of anticipation, hoping that the number one in the Central Domain could display more possibilities.

In the void, Lou Yue's face emerged.

His five senses at the end of the universe appeared profound, undulating like mountain valleys and hills.

At this moment, he was as if a terrifying giant spirit that this piece of universe could not contain. Just the protrusion of one face already formed a shadow that covered all and darkened the star sea.

Then, the starlight rolled into a long robe that roared with tigers and mountains and rivers.

Lou Yue's figure manifested here. He stood in his own universe, stepping on the surging star sea, facing Jiang Wang remotely, and reaching out with one palm—

"Hongmeng Extinction Calamity, Ten Thousand Grinds This True."

The entire universe was collapsing!

All starlight dimmed, all stars died.

All void returned to nothingness. What could be seen were groups and groups of deep dark black holes, as if this piece of universe had one destruction node after another.

Hongmeng returned to the unopened state, heaven and earth mixed as one.

The palm universe returned to Honghuang!

And the destructive power continuously ground away at Jiang Wang's "true."

In this moment of universe collapse and Honghuang seamlessness, Jiang Wang's double pupils transformed. One eye turned brilliant gold, and the other turned snow silver.

The frost robe suddenly turned into a gold robe, the jade crown became a gold crown, his black hair turned gold, white heavenly fire surrounded his body, and frost-colored heavenly patterns were inscribed on the sword body—

Jitian State, Xiantian Yongjin Tianzun!

This existence that ten thousand tribulations could not grind remained eternal in the palm universe. The universe collapsed, but its true form did not change.

Thus, one sword horizontally cut!

The sword split the shadow, and the sword divided the clear and the turbid.

The sword opened heaven!

Heavenly persons had already been sealed, and the Heavenly Dao had been separated.

Without the power of the Heavenly Dao, this was not the strongest Xiantian Yongjin Tianzun.

But it was already enough.

The falling stars had stopped, and the deep black holes no longer moved. The universe was like a void crystal, solidified in an instant.

Then, gaps appeared in the void, cracking open the light from outside heaven.

This collapsing universe was unexpectedly fixed by one sword, and then split open!

The so-called Lou clan was the first family to respond to heaven, an ancient famous clan in the Central Domain.

The first true person in the Central Domain supported the current family.

Lou Junlan, who served in the Military Affairs Building, was considered an excellent successor. But compared to Chen Suan, Xu San, etc., she was not outstanding. Compared to Lou Yue's past brilliance that crowned his generation, she was far inferior.

At this moment, she held a bowl of thick black medicine soup and sat in a dim room.

Beside her was a gold-lacquered full-surround screen bed, like a closed small wooden house. Thick bed curtains hung down, airtight. A human shadow vaguely sat inside. For no reason, a faint cold air spread outwards.

It was not yet time to drink the medicine, and her younger sister might not be able to communicate.

Lou Junlan's hand holding the medicine did not tremble. Her eyes looked at the standing mirror not far away—that large, person-high bronze mirror was something her father had brought back from outside heaven on her younger sister's birthday one year. It allowed her to see the outside world without stepping out the door.

At this time, the flowing light and shadow in the mirror were precisely that battle above the clouds.

Of course, limited by the limitations of the bronze mirror and her own strength, she couldn't see the details of this battle between the world's first true persons very clearly.

She could only see two people confronting each other, then her father flipped his palm and trapped Jiang Wang in his palm heaven and earth.

And after that, the battle could no longer be seen. Everything happened within the palm of the first true person in the Central Domain.

The power of the palm heaven and earth was known to everyone in the Central Domain.

In the past, no matter what kind of opponent he faced, after Lou Yue flipped his palm, the battle was already over.

The only thing Lou Junlan noticed was that when Lou Yue flipped his palm to cover Jiang Wang, Jiang Wang barely resisted.

As if… he was willing to walk into Lou Yue's palm to wait for Lou Yue to perform everything.

How could he have such self-confidence?

Where did such strength come from?

This world changed too quickly. Those heaven's favored standing at the absolute peak and covering the world were constantly rewriting the history of cultivation, making her exert her full effort, yet she couldn't even catch up with a glance.

That year on the battlefield of the Star Moon Plain, she still had the opportunity to contend sharply. Now, facing her father, who had always been the first in the Central Domain, she unexpectedly yielded first!

"Sister, how far has the battle progressed?" The voice from inside the curtain rang out.

At the same time, a pale hand reached out from the curtain, took the steaming bowl of medicine, and retracted into the curtain. Only two gurgling sounds were heard as it was drunk.

If her younger sister hadn't been sick, perhaps…

In the sudden chill, Lou Junlan tightened her outer clothing and softly said: "Jiang Wang is still trapped in the palm heaven and earth."

But she immediately swallowed this sentence back.

"Already…斩 broken!"

The four directions are infinite, and heaven is not the absolute top.

Above the Cloud Platform, people only saw Lou Yue flip one palm, and Jiang Wang was no longer visible.

And then in the next moment, this palm flipped back.

That one knuckle-thick, almost invincible big hand in the Central Domain, showed a sword wound from the tip of the index finger, over the middle finger, all the way to the Shenmen acupuncture point on the wrist. It was deep enough to see bone, and blood surged like a spring.

Looking at Jiang Wang again, he was still standing in his original spot, his jade crown proper, his black hair hanging over his shoulders.

As if nothing had happened, there wasn't even a wrinkle on his blue shirt.

Only the long sword at his waist was already out of its sheath, held in his hand, implying that a battle had perhaps occurred.

Had victory and defeat already been decided?

Lou Yue's famous palm heaven and earth had been斩 broken!

Had this battle already ended?

Jiang Wang shook his head: "Still not enough."

The first in the Central Domain was indeed well-deserved, his palm universe and thirty-three heavens tyrannical fist were unprecedented. But only up to this point was still not enough. With this intensity, how could he be crowned, how could he be worthy as a旒 bead?

Lou Yue lowered his head and looked at his own palm, also grinning: "Indeed… not enough!"

His palm was like mountains and rivers, the earth. That sword wound was like a crack valley in the earth. At this moment, wisps of "qi" steamed out from the crack valley.

The Qi of Hundong Taiwu Yuan Shang Yuqing.

This qi initially only came out from the sword wound, then from the seven orifices, then from the pores. In the end, it expanded outside his body,虛 expanding into a giant image that shook the heavens and the earth.

Above the nine heavens, it was as if there was the sound of book pages flipping.

One page was one long life.

Lou Yue's momentum surged madly, displaying a power that was absolutely not to be moved lightly from here, the "Hundong Taiwu Yuqing Chapter"!

In the past, True Person Huaide Zhuang Gaoxian's skilled Dao art "Hundong Guiyuan" was only a Dao art derived from the "Qi of Hundong Taiwu Yuan Shang Yuqing."

And the "Hundong Taiwu Yuqing Chapter" was the fundamental chapter of the "Qi of Hundong Taiwu Yuan Shang Yuqing"!

The core Dao laws of the Yu Jing Shan脉 were mostly controlled by the Yuqing Qi.

Lou Yue was an unquestionable Emperor Party member, and he cultivated this profound chapter to this degree. Even among the quiet cultivators on Yu Jing Shan, throughout generations, not many could match him.

His Dao title "Tai Yuan" recorded in the Yuanshi Jade Book precisely came from this.

At this moment, the Qi of Hundong Taiwu Yuan Shang Yuqing constituted his outer body. He was only half his body in the sea of clouds, yet he was already majestic as a high peak.

One eye was a deep dark abyss, and the other eye was a ring of swirling star rivers.

The universe in his left eye, the mixed cave in his right eye.

Now manifesting, the Yuqing Zhongyang Jiefa Zunshen Body— Yuan Shi Dadao Jun!

This was an honorific name, and also an honorific body.

Only strong individuals who cultivated the "Hundong Taiwu Yuqing Chapter" to an extremely high realm could summon and manifest it.

When this monarch was present, heaven and earth received his decree, and all laws were in his palm!

But Lou Yue only saw one sword.

The sword handle was like ink, the sword body like snow, and the whole body had no flawed color. Hidden frost patterns were heavenly patterns, and hidden red patterns were human patterns.

Then even the sword could not be seen, only brilliant light, infinite endless brilliant light that could not be penetrated.

The universe in his left eye, the mixed cave in his right eye, were all covered by brilliant light.

And the spectators outside the Cloud Platform only saw—

The sun falling into the sea of clouds!

The sun at the edge of the sky was fundamentally invisible. Only the young true person standing on the Cloud Platform was radiating infinite brilliant light, even his hair strands seemed to be woven from light.

And he only unleashed one sword.

Wanxian Zhenyi State, life has shaken!

That colossal, majestic, decreeing heaven's Yuan Shi Dadao Jun, at this moment,轰然 collapsed.

Like a heavenly pillar tilting.

Countless Yuqing Qi, also only like cloud gas in general,轰轰隆隆, steamed up to the high heavens.

Ji Bainian, standing at the edge of the field, opened his mouth, momentarily speechless.

Everyone knew Jiang Wang was strong, everyone knew Jiang Wang had come from the east and must have some reliance. But they truly didn't know he could be this strong.

Lou Yue had already displayed strength surpassing generations, undoubtedly the first in the Central Domain.

But this Yuqing Zhongyang Jiefa Zunshen Body had not even shown its might, just been斩 broken!

The world-famous Yuqing Qi seemed to scatter like wind-blown clouds.

The remnant body of the Yuan Shi Dadao Jun was only a摇摇晃晃, but finally determined Lou Yue.

"I admit you are the strongest in this realm. From ancient times to now, searching through history, I have never heard of such a true person. I admit that in this Dongzhen realm, I can never surpass you. After so many years of waiting, I thought my opponent was only Huang Fu—you have cut off the invincible road of all contemporary Dongzhen." He stood there, in the steaming white qi that was leaving him, his eyes tightly closed, each with a blood mark wind. But his injured eyes suddenly opened, and he took a step forward!

This one step was to ascend to heaven!

Lou Yue had waited for a long time, only one step away from the Tongtian Path.

But he also sought the invincible road of the Dongzhen realm, seeking a greater hope of transcendence after the Tongtian Path. But the world still had Huang Fu, and they restrained each other. Neither could truly crush the other undisputed.

In the long years of mutual competition, they had already reached a situation where every further step was extremely difficult, and both were unable to defeat each other, almost trapped in a dead end.

To this extent, he went to the East Sea, through the Pinghai Plan, to seek new possibilities.

However, the Pinghai Plan also failed.

His heart still held the confidence of being invincible, lingering to take further steps.

But today he saw Jiang Wang's sword—officially announcing this road impassable!

Thus he ascended.

This was a battle where heaven was not the absolute top. His proving of the Dao and victory did not count as a violation.

The road from Dongzhen to Tongtian, some people walk it their whole lives, some people can only gaze at it their whole lives, unable to reach it. An existence like Lou Yue, however, only needed to lift his foot.

And now he was ascending—

Jiang Wang's voice rang in his ears.

It was so clear, bright, calm, and beyond doubt: "Today… not permitted!"

Lou Yue's eyes, which were originally gazing at the scenery of the absolute peak, suddenly could see nothing.

His heart was endless night, and his eyes were boundless and borderless emptiness.

When his vision recovered again, his Dao body fell down, and Jiang Wang's sword pressed on his shoulder. How could that thin-edged sword not weigh ten thousand jun? It was as if fate had determined it, as if heaven was tilting.

His fate path had been almost斬 cut off in that instant, but Jiang Wang timely retracted his hand.

And all his power, all his momentum, were all鎮 suppressed under this sword, unable to escape!

Only half a step away from the absolute peak, but this lifted foot would never fall down.

In a trance, one thought was already the world's most distant distance.

Ji Jinglu stood in the clouds, wanting to speak but stopping.

After reaching the absolute peak, the vision was vastly different. In the past, receiving this sword, he would have been muddled and defeated. Today, seeing this sword again, he finally saw clearly, penetrated its wonderful place, and inversely felt it was more wonderful.

What a sword of Jie Wu Kongjing!

Jiang Wang actually… interrupted Lou Yue's Tongtian Path!

Lou Yue, the first in the Central Domain, was defeated beyond doubt for the first time in a confrontation at the same realm!

After taking out his most peak state and performing everything, he was still unable to change this outcome.

No one could say Lou Yue was not strong, and no one could say he didn't fully exert himself in this fight.

This invincible road of the Dongzhen realm had been walked to this point, and could finally be announced as complete.

The last旒 bead on the True Monarch's crown had also been tied on.

Ji Jinglu, of course, knew that the absolute peak realm was a scenery Jiang Wang must see. But at the time of the polite farewell by the boundless stone wall, he truly didn't think this day would come so quickly. He always thought that a cultivator like Jiang Wang would still need to spend a huge amount of time and repeatedly grind before taking the last step. But he had already walked to this extent… it was truly advancing with no way to advance, so what now?

The entire Cloud Platform battlefield, the entire Jing Country, the entire Central Domain, even the entire world—

In the gaze of all people.

Jiang Wang slowly retracted the long sword from Lou Yue's shoulder. The unparalleled edge of Xiangsi returned to its sheath, becoming obscure from here on.

He won the victory in this battle, truly completing the invincible road of the Dongzhen realm, winning that "world add" momentum.

Before starting the war with Lou Yue, he said he "was willing for this body not to be at the absolute top."

Those words could be seen as madness by everyone.

But it was as if…

He had indeed already walked to the absolute top, walked to an unprecedented historical limit.

A single line separates the front, which is already another side of heaven and earth. Not in this place.

But just end like this? This crowning ceremony?

The sea of clouds churned waves.

Heavenly wind blew his hair.

Jiang Wang lifted his eyelids.

This heaven, this cloud, this earth, the strong ones from all four directions, countless complex gazes, were all in his eyes, all seen by him.

He didn't care what kind of road others walked. He only knew that all of this was still not enough for him.

Why come to the Central State? Why seek to be invincible in the Dongzhen realm?

He fought the heavenly person in the prison of his heart, saying he had no grand ambition, "only wishing the world had fewer regrets."

But traversing this life to here, swallowing frost and drinking snow, experiencing wind and enduring rain, how clear was he—only within the encirclement of Xiangsi's sword could he speak like this, think like this, and act as he wished!

Each person in the world has their own path, each person traverses their own life. No one will care about your pain, care about your regrets.

Unless you stand there, a mountain that everyone must see and cannot surpass!

So.

Defeating Lou Yue could not be the end point.

On the contrary, the crowning ceremony belonging to "Jiang Wang" was only truly beginning now.

He had already made preparations, but he didn't know if this world was ready?

Jiang Wang held his sword at the edge of the clouds and bowed to Lou Yue: "I want to apologize for my lightheartedness towards you. You do not shame the title of the first in the Central Domain—concede!"

And then he took a step back and looked up at the extreme heavens.

"Li Yi!"

"Are you watching?!"

He finally shouted out that name.

This voice resonated throughout the entire Central Domain.

From hearing this name outside Guanzhen Guan, it had been more than twelve years, a whole cycle!

Meeting again at the Yellow River Meeting, it had also been ten years since then.

Twelve years was but a flick of a finger, how much cloud deep obscurity, how much spring and autumn shattered!

From breaking the offering table outside Guanzhen Guan, all the way to in front of Zuo Guanglie's corpse, he had taken a total of four hundred and sixty-one steps.

From the youth who buried the corpse outside Guanzhen Guan, walking to the Cloud Platform above Jing Country today, taking down the name of "Dongzhen Invincible," and seeing that True Monarch's "crown," how many steps had he taken in total? Who could count clearly?

"On Guanhe Tai, your sword wept for me!"

At this moment, he spoke not with a loud voice, only opening both hands to face heaven—throughout the entire border of Jing Country, all long swords wept from their sheaths!

"Now I come to tell you… why!"