Chapter 2453: An Immortal Hero's Grand Aspirations

“Forgive me for speaking plainly—what particularly great things has Gu Shi Yi done?” Ou Yang Jie put away his arrest warrant, the endless cyan-blue chains, like a thorn tree, retracted its branches and buds. His voice was also sharp: “In my impression, there are no earth-shaking legends related to him. If there are, count me as ignorant and inexperienced.”

“Today is precisely the biggest thing he has done: crying injustice for an evil thief from an equal country, daring to block the blade edge of the central empire,” Ji Xuan Zhen said, slightly harshly. “Or perhaps his failed attempt at transcendence can also be counted as his legend. After all, not everyone has the qualification to fail.”

Jing Country has the ability to intercept any person's path to transcendence in the world—as long as the other side does not have corresponding power to protect their path.

The fierce sun hung high in the middle, sparkling on the sea waves.

Ji Jing Lu slowly retracted his fist: “At the moment Gu Shi Yi died, I heard many sounds of sorrow. Although Gu Shi Yi’s power was not enough, I have already seen Gu Shi Yi’s influence.”

“We allow mourning! We allow someone to cry for him!” Ji Xuan Zhen stood there, he understood everything: “But we will absolutely not allow him to stand on Jing Country’s opposite side and provoke Jing Country’s will just because he has such influence.”

Large patches of evening glow, one piece in the east, one piece in the west, stuck in the sky, as if the sky dome was sloppily patched.

Of course, it was all in vain.

“Just still some unwillingness, that's all!” Ou Yang Jie raised his palm in front of him to cross, as if blocking some disgusting thing he was unwilling to see. His Dao body then transformed into heavenly light.

The battle at sea had already ended. Ji Xuan Zhen once again looked around this quiet sea, then returned to the sky, flying horizontally in the world, exiting with a magnificent posture.

Finally, only Ying Jiang Hong remained. He walked alone towards the dusk, looking at the constantly condensing and dispersing divine power, feeling that stubbornness and unwillingness. Finally, he sighed: “The righteous one dies today!”

He reached out and wiped off Gu Shi Yi’s eyes, which could not close: “Xia, no longer exists.”

But at this time, in the darkness, he heard a kind of echo.

It seemed the already dead person was responding to his lament.

That voice asked: “What do you think Xia is, Ying brother?”

In the darkness, many voices responded—

“Xia zhe, one who wears a long sword.”

“Xia zhe, values promises heavily, life and death lightly.”

“Xia is a free person.”

“Xia is one who carries a sharp weapon and whose killing heart arises, and also one who should be locked in a cage.”

“Xia is also flesh and blood mortal, also fears and feels pain, also will be eliminated, be killed. Xia is brave because Xia can face all that, because Xia is a braver person.”

Ying Jiang Hong did not speak.

Finally, he heard Gu Shi Yi's own answer: “Xia is a kind of undying heroic spirit. As long as there is injustice in this world, there is oppression, there are unrighteous people, unrighteous things. Xia will forever exist.”

In that piece of vanishing dusk, originally left Gu Shi Yi's eternal echo: “You killed me, but you cannot kill the existence of Xia.”

Regarding the definition of Xia, Ying Jiang Hong had heard many. Regarding the views of Gu Shi Yi as a person, Ying Jiang Hong had also seen many kinds.

He suddenly realized, now it was truly time to close the coffin for Gu Shi Yi and conclude.

Because Gu Shi Yi had already died.

His whole life did not do bad things, all were righteous acts.

He helped the weak, supported the endangered and saved the poor.

He spoke for the truth, drew his sword for justice.

The Zheng Country prince was evil. As the Zheng Country prince, only he raised his sword to kill him. He said, “Where righteousness is, even imperial orders are not received.”

The people of Zheng Country were being harmed. Only he, alone, killed his way onto the grassland. He said, “Even if it is the Cang Yu Patrol Yamen, they should not act without scruples!”

Tian Gong City was destroyed, Bo Lu was killed. Only he, who was called the world’s number one hero, stood out to block Ji Xuan Zhen’s blade. He said, “Tian Gong’s ideal is not wrong.”

There are too many hypocritical people in this world, too many who deceive the world and steal reputation. So many that people have started to dislike those who seem to have no moral flaws, those perfect shells.

But time will examine all equally.

This is a person who used his two feet to measure the world, used righteous deeds to measure time.

Of course, you can also say, this person's great public image is false, his great justice is like evil, his great benevolence is treacherous! All things he did were for inviting fame. Behind those seemingly selfless dedications of his, there must be a conspiracy. If he were still alive, he would certainly have the day to show his true colors. But unfortunately, your ‘if’ can never be realized again.

Because he has already died.

Ying Jiang Hong at this moment only suddenly realized with shock, a person who in various meanings has already truly died can truly be crowned with the pure name of ‘righteous’, without any suspicion being able to truly fall on his body. Only then can people truly believe that the present world deity framed by ‘righteousness’ can purely exist.

Because he can never change again.

He will forever not soil this name.

Gu Shi Yi’s battle death today, his transcendence’s failure, only truly completed his life, completed the character of ‘righteous’.

Then…

Ying Jiang Hong realized the problem, suddenly turned around with such violent force that it nearly caused a confused space-time cavity in the sea! In one step, he crossed millions of miles, already soaring into the sky above Tian Ma Plateau!

South Heavenly Master flew to Tian Ma Plateau for the first time, already drawing his sword horizontally!

But.

Too late!

A voice, strongly suppressing wild joy but fundamentally unable to suppress it, had already sounded grandly—

“In the name of dusk, I give you an eternal oath!”

Original Heavenly God’s voice!

“Gu Shi Yi! My eternal close friend! In the Original Heavenly God Country, forever enshrine your honorable name! The world’s righteous framework, forever witnessed by me!”

“In the name of god, I eternally swear, forever as the first agreement. After ten thousand years up to eternity, if there is truly one who achieves Dao with ‘righteous Xia’, I, as the protector god, will sweep away all Dao enemies!”

That chopped-to-pieces dusk heavenly pillar was collapsing back into eternal dusk.

But in the boundless splendid rosy clouds, a kind of supreme precious power was ascending, it was a crown burning with flowing divine glory!

And in the capital city, the Original Heavenly God Temple's pitiful clay sculpture, *hong hong ran*, shook up!

East Heavenly Master Song Huai in an instant approached Tian Ma Plateau, Long Wu Grand Governor Zhong Jing also presented his eight-sided sword.

Ying Jiang Hong’s sword had already struck down even more!

But it was too late, everything was too late—

Jing Country and Jing Country have long-term prohibitions on Tian Ma Plateau, and chains are fastened on Original Heavenly God’s body, but the one who took away the gods’ crown is Gu Shi Yi.

Gu Shi Yi was the most free person in the whole world, not under any chains, not under any constraints.

Honor, interests, bloodline, everything could not imprison him. He upheld righteousness and acted his whole life.

He obtained the mythological era’s gift, took the Qing Tian God Lord’s inheritance, and at the moment of impacting transcendence, the deepest part of this crown of gods' dusk, condensed by countless broken god intents, was respectfully presented to Original Heavenly God!

This crown fell on the clay sculpture’s body.

This was the mythological gift that Original Heavenly God was willing to be a dog and horse for, bitterly waiting on Tian Ma Plateau for tens of thousands of years, the most precious thing of dusk!

Original Heavenly God’s almost impossible to achieve transcendence road, that remotely unreachable one-line chasm, was thus smoothed.

In the darkness was Gu Shi Yi’s only remaining echo—

“I can only do this much, but I entrust hope to the future.”

“Now with the dusk of justice, ignite the gods’ crown.”

“Xia never dies! Righteousness lives forever in hearts!”

This is Gu Shi Yi’s ideal!

Gu Shi Yi wanted to establish a kind of order outside the solid present world order that supervises all strong ones, not treating all living beings as ants, not regarding human life as grass, making those who disrespect mortals fall into eternal dusk—that kind of order, he named it Xia!

But even a grand ideal, without the power to practice it, is just a castle in the air.

So he wanted to achieve the ‘righteous’ god.

But this step was absolutely impossible to succeed.

With ‘righteousness’ as the framework, to practice its Dao, one would inevitably stand on the opposite side of those strong powers, and inevitably be crushed!

The solid order is unbreakable, the weight of reality is too heavy!

So he retreated and sought the second best, made a fixed agreement with Original Heavenly God, presented the crown to him, and left his ideal to the future.

The truly transcended Original Heavenly God will protect the way for this.

He had already drawn the outline of righteousness, left the power of righteousness.

Thousands of years later, if another Gu Shi Yi emerges, he will certainly not die alone like today.

The only remaining Original Heavenly Supreme God Temple, the only building in He Country that preserved the faith of Original Heavenly God, the obedient ‘reward’ given by Zong De Zhen—at this moment, bloomed with endless glorious divine light.

The eternal god country descended!

Past ruins and the new-born god meet.

“Ha ha ha ha ha!”

“Ah ah ah ah!”

The whole Tian Ma Plateau was shaking, turbulent!

Original Heavenly God wildly laughing for a while, angrily shouting for a while.

It had already taken the highest authority of Tian Ma Plateau, formally taking over eternal dusk.

Tens of thousands of years of pent-up feelings, resentment, humiliation, were swept away in one morning!!!

It was originally the existence closest to transcendence in the present world. It was not just one step short, but just one movement of the foot and it could succeed. Yet it could only remotely look at that gap, look but not reach. It was only fastened outside Tian Ma Plateau, being a dog for tens of thousands of years, and not long ago it was mercilessly whipped and insulted by Jing Country people!

Zong De Zhen called it a dog to its face.

The Jing army swept away the Original Heavenly God religion!

With its power, it couldn’t even get a bit of respect!

Now it was different from the past!

Billowing, boundless power howled on Tian Ma Plateau.

Eternal dusk rolled, sometimes revealing the base color of the blue sky.

In He Country, the Shen Ce Commander stationed here, Xian Nan Kui, was instantly gripped by invisible power by the neck, fiercely smashed against the high wall of the Original Heavenly God Supreme God Temple. After *hong po* more than ten walls, he was pressed there like a dead dog!

What contemporary True Person, eight commanders, holding a strong army not inferior to Yan Dao… fundamentally had no power to resist.

On the vast Tian Ma Plateau, Yin Xiao Heng’s corpse, which had been placed in a coffin, instantly flew across mountains and rivers, crashing towards Jing Country’s territory.

And Ying Jiang Hong’s sword was slapped away by one palm!

Original Heavenly God’s great divine body sat up on Tian Ma Plateau, lying like a ridge, sitting like a mountain.

The dense rune chains on its body cracked and shattered into fragments for a time!

South Heavenly Master Ying Jiang Hong, and East Heavenly Master Song Huai who arrived back and forth, retreated thousands of miles away almost simultaneously.

Original Heavenly God’s grand voice echoed on Tian Ma Plateau—

“From now on, Tian Ma Plateau is a forbidden area for Jing Country people!”

The color of dusk rolled on the plateau, manifesting a giant face, suddenly pressing down, pressing towards Zhong Jing: “And you!”

Zhong Jing held his eight-sided sword, his body carrying the momentum of an overlord country, yet he retreated again and again! He retreated out of Tian Ma Plateau’s range.

From this, Jing Country and Jing Country’s thousands of years of control over Tian Ma Plateau, and if you calculate back to the Dao Gate period, that is tens of thousands of years of authority, all dispersed today!

From now on, Tian Ma Plateau does not belong to any country, only obeys the will of Original Heavenly God.

The true present world deity, Original Heavenly God, upon this established Its present world god country.

The already perished eternal heavenly country, the already perished mythological era, had the most resolute echo in the spring of three nine three zero year, after the Dao Calendar newly started.

And the person who truly opened all this had already died.

This is the cruelest fairy tale of this spring.

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He still had words unsaid. So what happened on the Mirror World Platform side was likely not from Qin Guang King’s instruction, but Chu Jiang King acted on his own.

Intervening in Jing Country's actions, randomly picking a True Monarch to seek death, and breaking through oneself with this… such crazy behavior is not surprising on Qin Guang King’s body.

“Such a person will die without a burial place sooner or later. Of course, this is not a curse to him.” Ou Yang Jie waved his hand: “First, let’s leave it like this. The matters at sea are over. There will be plenty of time later.”

“Probably not, right!” He self-asked and self-answered, sheathed his sword: “Now saying all this is not important, he failed. We can say he was destined to fail. We write history.”

“Xia violates prohibitions with force.” As the world’s Chief of the Arrest and Punishment Department, Ou Yang Jie’s position was very clear, because the Arrest and Punishment Department had to deal with these so-called Xia Guests many times: “We allow Xia to exist within a certain limit, but we absolutely do not allow Xia that exceeds the law to exist. We absolutely do not allow attempting to cross national hegemony and practice the so-called spirit of Xia.”

Ji Jing Lu had no interest in continuing to discuss a dead person’s life here, he also had more important things to do. He looked in the direction of Tian Jing City for a moment, then leaped high in one step, disappearing without a trace.

“Great Secretary!” Xu San, the South City Secretary of the Tian Jing Arrest and Punishment Department, walked out of the sea: “This time, the action of Hell No Door, other Yan Luo feigned approach. Our people had not even passed yet, they had already run off. Only Qin Guang King truly made a move—we successively discovered the altars he arranged on some uninhabited islands, counting the ones previously discovered, a total of thirty-three, all already dismantled and brought back to Jing Country for research. If the subordinate is not mistaken, he probably originally wanted to borrow the pressure of being chased to forge himself, and in between life and death impact the absolute peak!”

He paused: “Gu Shi Yi and Bo Lu’s actions necessarily pinned down part of our side’s forces. At most, only one True Monarch chased and killed him, this just made him not without hope. As early as the time he impacted Divine Arrival, he did such things. Now he probably wants to repeat the old trick.”

“He only adhered to his ideal, being a pure Xia Guest, upholding righteousness and acting, holding a positive constant will, so unswervingly walking through his life—does this count as great?” Ying Jiang Hong asked.

Or perhaps, it is precisely because Gu Shi Yi actually had such influence, actually could make the world’s roaming Xia draw their swords for him, that when he tried to block Jing Country’s will, he was even less allowed to live.

Xu San at this time only looked at the evening glow, habitually easygoing like him, with a bit of hard-to-hide shock: “Gu Shi Yi is still not thoroughly dead, is he?”

In the dusk, Gu Shi Yi’s divine body, every part separated very far, every part scattered into the dusk—but there was still the color of dusk, constantly surging, gathering, wanting to condense into a pair of eyes, a mouth, or a pair of hands.

Time seemed to have never changed.

But Bo Lu died, Gu Shi Yi was gone.

Did dusk appear before?

Or was it always noon?

Gu Shi Yi’s transcendence road was forcibly cut off!

Ji Xuan Zhen, Ji Jing Lu, Ou Yang Jie, Ying Jiang Hong, such a terrifying military force lineup, was not all that Jing Country could invest in the sea battlefield.

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