Chapter 2428: Is There a Deity?

As soon as Yuanye's first question came out, Yu Xianyu was stunned on the spot.

No, it wasn't her, because recently she had taken a master—the current commander of the Dou'e Army, King Dai Shan, Ji Jinglu.

And before she came to the Asking Dao Celestial Palace this time, her master had specifically instructed her to ask the "Celestial Dao Deep Sea Diver" a question—whether there were true immortals in the depths of the Celestial Sea.

As Yu Que's biological daughter, she had naturally read the history of the destruction of the Immortal Palace era. Living in the Central Empire, what she saw was as vast as the deep sea, and she was even more aware of a vague legend—a legend that when the Immortal Palace era was destroyed, in addition to the nine great Immortal Palaces each having secret connections for inheritance, the immortals also used supreme immortal techniques to condense a group of the most profound and potential immortals into immortal seeds, allowing them to escape the calamity of the era's collapse and leap above the Nine Heavens, which was called "ascension."

These true immortals would escape the final great calamity and cultivate in "heaven," and would descend in the most glorious era to lead the era anew.

However, the thirty-six heavens mentioned by the Dao Gate, no matter which one, showed no trace of immortals.

If one wanted to realize this legend specifically, after much thought, there was only one foothold—the depths of the Celestial Sea.

If there were still immortals, they could only be hiding there.

Yu Xianyu, who was fifteen years old this year, had just reached the Dao Pulse stage and was still outside the inner courtyard gate.

She was born with a serene appearance but an extremely strong-willed temperament.

The day Ji Jinglu accepted her as his disciple and gave her Embracing Sword, she directly pushed back her Dao Pulse to the Tongtian Palace, abandoning Dao cultivation and cultivating martial arts!

Although Ji Jinglu had told her early on that she didn't need to change her Dao and that he could also teach Dao Yuan cultivation.

She only said—"Master is the absolute peak of the martial Dao, and I wish to inherit Master's mantle, so I can only succeed with qi and blood."

Ji Jinglu then said nothing more.

A sect master of the martial Dao, his life's learning was naturally in the martial Dao.

He took Yu Xianyu as his disciple for three reasons: first, to protect the Yu family and handle the aftermath for Yu Que; second, to succeed Yu Que's name and completely control the Dou'e Army; and third, to make slight amends for the emperor.

As for taking a disciple itself, it was not a very important matter.

But Yu Xianyu was very clear-headed.

Since she wanted to become a disciple, she wanted to learn Ji Jinglu's true skills, and not just borrow a tiger's skin—relying on a mountain will collapse, relying on people will run away, none of which are reliable; only her own fist is real.

After her father died, she particularly understood this principle.

And there was another deeper layer of thought—the emperor appointed Ji Jinglu as the Dou'e commander and painstakingly paved the way for Ji Jinglu's command reforms, which meant that the martial Dao must be very important in the emperor's grand plan.

Her father often said when he was alive that walking the right path was more important than anything else.

Undoubtedly, in the Jing Kingdom, if there was only one correct path, it was the path the emperor's sword pointed to.

Therefore, Yu Xianyu abandoned Dao cultivation without hesitation and started again.

The reason why she had not yet shown the state of a martial artist and was still in the Zhou Tian realm of Dao cultivation was because Ji Jinglu was still helping her build the foundation of a martial artist.

Once everything was ready, she would break through Zhou Tian, shatter the Dao vortex, return the Dao Yuan to her body, and refine the qi and blood within her body and soul.

Exactly why would Ji Jinglu care about the same problem as Yuanye?

Ji Jinglu was born in the Central Empire and held a high position. No matter what problem it was, he could find a suitable strong person to ask, so he didn't need to ask Jiang Wang.

Only one point was something Yuanye had already said—a person who proved the celestial realm at thirteen and crossed the Celestial Sea was an absolute peak. This unique ancient achievement made Jiang Wang perhaps have a unique ancient vision.

The water control great meeting last year particularly demonstrated Jiang Wang's commanding power in the Celestial Dao Deep Sea.

So, what kind of secret did this problem hide?

What important message would Jiang Wang's answer contain!

Yu Xianyu held her breath and seriously looked at the celestial person dharma image. She felt she was about to touch a profound secret, because she knew that the problem Ji Jinglu asked her to ask would not be a problem Ji Jinglu himself wanted to ask.

Why did such a problem still need to be asked indirectly?

Who wanted to ask, and who did they want to hide from?

Now that Yuanye was asking on his behalf, it was truly the best outcome!

The celestial person dharma image sat there motionless.

As Yuanye's question was posed, he clearly felt that the many gazes that fell on him at that moment had more or less changed.

Wang Changji told him that "gazes have weight," and he always remembered this sentence. He also always measured it.

Having cultivated all the way to this point, he already thoroughly understood the weight of gazes, and furthermore, after his master's Red Dust Tribulation, he had completely grasped the emotions in gazes!

Although he couldn't fully know what they were thinking like Grandmaster Guan Yan's mind reading, he could tell how a person was feeling at that moment by looking at them—whether it was hate, anger, or disgust—which would be a wonderful way to grasp war opportunities in battle.

Yuanye's problem was not simple. If he simply asked "whether there is an immortal," he could casually grab any cultivator on the street and they could answer.

How to define "immortal"?

Since ancient times, immortals have been "mountain people," who fly outside the red dust and are different from human vulgar beings.

Common people who see superhuman cultivators sometimes also respectfully call them "immortal sirs."

"Immortal" is roughly a powerful reference, a concept that transcends the vulgar.

Then immortals are everywhere.

Immortals also do not exist.

But in the long history of cultivation, "immortal" still has a more specific definition—those who, in the Immortal Palace era, centered on "technique medium," created a new system of immortal techniques...immortals.

The Immortal Palace era, or the immortal era, has already completely come to an end.

The so-called immortal technique system of "reforming heaven and earth law" was also torn to pieces, with what was lost lost, what was blank blank, and what remained was also dismantled and smashed, all returning to the Dao technique system.

For a long time, the world has not heard of immortals.

The nine great Immortal Palaces were all destroyed, and those glorious scenes were ground into dust.

The once extremely prosperous Immortal Palace inheritances were cut off one by one, only sporadic fragments scattered at the edge of the world, occasionally picked up by passersby.

Jiang Wang was precisely one of the fortunate ones who had picked up fragments of the Immortal Palace for a long time.

Of course, perhaps that wasn't fortune.

Time had not yet given the final answer.

The celestial person dharma image looked at Yuanye indifferently: "I want to know, with what kind of identity are you asking this problem, fellow Daoist?"

Yuanye's hair band had a magic circle with wonderful patterns, grooming his long hair as if it were also constantly grooming Dao marks.

"Do those who seek Dao in the Asking Dao Celestial Palace today have differences in identity?" He stood there and said, "Or is it that—if your identity is different, the answer you get here will also change?"

"Screening is a Legalist's thing. I only transmit Dao, I don't care who you are."

The celestial person dharma image said indifferently: "The answer itself will not change with me. But I need to know who you are, then I will know how I should speak, and only then can you understand." If the transmitter cannot be impartial, the Asking Dao Celestial Palace will lose its intended meaning.

This was precisely the reason why Jiang Wang was sitting here with the celestial person dharma image.

The Immortal Dragon is proud, the Demon Ape is violent, All Beings are compassionate, and the True Self is indulgent, only the Celestial Person is high and indifferent, the most impartial.

"Who you see me as, I am who," Yuanye said, straightening his body and standing in the hall, but not being covered by this Dao Discussion Hall. Holding the Dao in his hand, he suddenly felt as if he was outside the heavens: "What answer you want to give me, I will just harvest that answer."

Bo'er Zhi Jin · Fu Yan Ci, who was sitting in the last row, suddenly raised his head. That pair of gray eyes, besides the usual death intent and divine intent, had a look of surprise.

Because at this moment, he suddenly realized—Yuanye was not Yuanye.

But the carrier of the present world deity's will.

Although Fu Yan Ci was young, he was the great-grandson of the Joint Elder Council's chief elder, Bo'er Zhi Jin · E'kelie. He was born with a pair of gray death eyes and could grasp the power of death without much learning.

The Bo'er Zhi Jin family tilted their clan to cultivate, and E'kelie often kept him by his side, teaching by word and example. Although he had not yet formally started the charge on the cultivation road, only swallowing pills and opening veins in the You Pulse realm, he already understood many things.

Especially understanding deities.

This Yuanye's identity, his speaking posture at this moment, and information related to the Original Heaven God, when combined, easily pointed out the true identity of the questioner.

And the Original Heaven God did not conceal it either.

The Joint Elder Council was originally a force that shared monarchical power and stood side by side with Mu Tianzi under divine right. Later, the Joint Elder Council was first suppressed and submitted to monarchical power, and then divine right was also suppressed.

The will of the Great Mu Empress He Lian Shan Hai was above all.

In this process, the Li'er Zhi Jin family had a very profound understanding of gods.

Fu Yan Ci also knew the power of present world deities. He was very clear about what was happening on the grassland.

At this moment, his eyes also repeatedly told him about the immense power of present world deities, which was immeasurably deep and fundamentally endless, a great power that could not be outlined.

So he also especially found it hard to hide his surprise—why did the Original Heaven God come here?

Did a present world deity also need to seek Dao from Jiang Zhenjun?

Or, as one of the only two present world deities in the present world, would the Original Heaven God have any actions? Would it affect the grassland?

Thinking of these, Fu Yan Ci silently wrote a letter to the present world divine envoy adult hiding in the Concealed Law Pavilion.

This complex matter, surely couldn't be left to him, an eleven-year-old child, to be responsible for?

"Looking at you, I suddenly thought—"

The celestial person dharma image said faintly: "If Yuanye stood in front of me, what Dao he sought, he would ask what problem."

For Jiang Wang,

The priest named Yuanye walking into the Asking Dao Celestial Palace was itself an announcement.

Yuanye could not possibly pass Ju Kui's nine-grid examination.

So, the one who came could only be the Original Heaven God.

As the so-called "child of God's fate," when his body was used, he was already dead!

Yuanye paused for a moment, then suddenly asked: "Are you very familiar with him?"

The celestial person dharma image said: "Not particularly."

Yuanye asked again: "Do you understand him very well?"

The celestial person dharma image said: "Not at all."

"Then put away your rampant sympathy," Yuanye said indifferently, "He has no relation to you. You also don't know how joyfully he welcomed the honor of God's fate, how happily he has spent these years. Give him ten thousand more chances, and he will make ten thousand such choices."

The celestial person dharma image didn't show much emotion: "Even if he would choose thus a thousand times, ten thousand times, even if I don't understand him. But only on the matter of 'cultivating for half a lifetime, a god descends and dies,' I will sympathize with him a thousand times, ten thousand times.

His story, you know. His years, I pity. Unrelated to anything else, it is simply the compassion of the human heart."

He knew how Wang Changxiang died, and how the Wang clan was exterminated. He was also clearly aware of why Wang Changji was so distant and always unable to establish a sense of belonging in this world.

If one were to say that the child of God's fate of the And Kingdom was similar to the existence of the White Bone Holy Son.

Then where was the difference between the present world deity Original Heaven God and the White Bone Honored God?

In power?

In position?

In one being respected and worshipped in the present world, while the other was resisted in the netherworld and reviled as an evil god?

If he were to say that his path was different from the Original Heaven God's, even if he faced an equivalent transcendent present world deity, he would not think he was wrong. A person who has walked to this step will not doubt themselves.

Yuanye was very calm: "If the Dao is not transmitted, I shall float a boat on the sea. If the monarch does not speak, I will bid farewell."

If the Asking Dao Celestial Palace had not been established, if Jiang Wang had not repeatedly upheld his faith and practiced his Dao.

If Jiang Wang was not the one who raised the highest banner in this era.

It probably would never have come to ask Jiang Wang this problem.

Or rather, it would not have come to ask in this way.

Its coming to the Asking Dao Celestial Palace to ask Dao was to give Jiang Wang, and this Celestial Palace, supreme honor.

If Jiang Wang actually deluded itself into teaching It a few sentences, that would be truly too much.

Of course, It was not angry because of this; anger is a useless emotion.

It was just a wasted trip, and ultimately not very good to look at.

Although It had been silent beside Tianma Plain for a long time, It also had a very magnificent period.

In Its magnificent time, there was no Jiang Wang in the world, not even the And Kingdom.

Original Heaven God—had It fallen to this now?

The celestial person dharma image calmly said: "Fellow Daoist, regarding your problem, I once got an answer to a similar problem from a celestial person, but I don't know if it is true or false, right or wrong. Now that the Celestial Sea is turbulent, I also cannot verify it."

Yuanye said:

"The answerer only needs to give the answer; judging is the listener's business."

The celestial person dharma image looked fixedly at Yuanye and slowly said: "He said, 'There are no immortals above the heavens. And there should be none in the human world either.'"

The corner of Yuanye's mouth curved into a strange arc, seeming to be laughing, but without happiness.

Finally, this person said: "He is right."

Yuanye's body underwent a very strange change at this time, right in front of the crowd, like a candle. The glorious light on its body was like candle tears, falling drop by drop. The broken light flowed like ripples and flew within the room.

And It just slowly sat down, closed its mouth, and probably did not plan to open its mouth again.

The hall was silent for a time.

The end of the Myth era was precisely the beginning of the Immortal Palace era.

Meng Tianhai, a strong person who was active in the Myth era, precisely lost the struggle of the era's protagonist, and then later transformed into a river of blood, devoured heaven's pride, and embarked on a journey of fifty-four thousand years.

The scenery of this world is only revealed to those who can see it. Jiang Wang, who has reached the absolute peak, overlooks the world without omission, and now naturally knows that the Tianma Plain, which is marked as a forbidden zone on all sides and never permitted for exploration, is precisely the place where the divine kingdom shattered and the Myth era ended!

That place that he had passed by many times but had not looked at carefully, was once a dangerous place like Yunxian Forest, but was later completely suppressed and has been silently standing there for many years, confronting the Guan River Terrace across the long river.

And in some people's discussions—the Original Heaven God was just a small character in the destruction of the Myth era, and only by guarding the Tianma Plain for a long time and absorbing some nourishment from the era's shattering was it able to achieve the status of a present world deity.

Jiang Wang does not know if this discussion is true or false.

Because Jing Country's evaluation of Cangtu God also seems to be similar, saying that Cangtu God picked up the nourishment from the fall of the Myth era and was able to achieve the Dao, saying It "wore the crown of a wolf eagle by heavenly luck."

Perhaps the contempt for present world deities all began with this sentence, just like cursing people always involves their families, it cannot all be true, to the extent that Jiang Wang cannot determine its authenticity.

But one point is certain—the And Kingdom has been beside the Tianma Plain since its establishment, never moved, expanded, or been invaded. The Original Heaven God's divine light has never exceeded the range of the And Kingdom. These many years, It has indeed existed in the role of a guardian.

What was the Original Heaven God asking for today by asking about immortals?

"Ah, I have a question." The lively and bright Bao Xuanjing opened his mouth at this time, innocent and cute: "Uncle Daoist Yuanye, what is the light dripping from your body?"

Yuanye turned his head and looked at this little kid faintly.

The faintly sorrowful eyes of the temple worship of the And Kingdom looked at the innocent and bright eyes of the young master of the Qi Country's famous family.

Finally, Yuanye said: "I am also a seeker of Dao; I am not responsible for resolving your doubts."

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