Chapter 2454: The Righteousness Cuts Deep

“Zong Dezhen!”

Within the ruins of the Eternal Heaven Country, the Dusk Heaven Country was being established.

In the era when the divine path had drawn its curtain, a true present-world god was once again achieved.

The Original Heaven God received gifts from various deities and seized control of Tianma Plateau. He was still in the process of consolidating his position as a present-world god—not yet having soothed his believers or even having time to sort out his god country and rectify the divine land—yet, for the first time, he called out the name of the Daoist sect leader.

His hatred was evident!

“Zong Dezhen!!!”

The God on Tianma Plateau declared his anger, his power, and endless dusk rendered the sky. The entire present world advanced into evening: “Don’t you want to lift Yujing Mountain and come, smash my godhood, kill me here, and bury Yin Xiaoheng?! What are you still waiting for?!”

“Come to my god country! Knock on my heaven gate! I haven’t witnessed Yin Xiaoheng’s fall yet, but I can see how you die!”

“A defeated dog contending with column states, a Dao lineage eating old stiff corpses!”

“Ji Yusu treated you like a fart and let you go, Xu Yuan worshipped you and went to the wrong grave!”

“You patted your butt and ascended Yujing Mountain, where is the former Sui Country now? Those who fought for you, those who bet their lives on you, you sold them all clean! Whose master are you qualified to be?”

“What an incompetent thing you are, a rampant fellow, barely enjoying honor in the past, now barking madly, dare to rely on power to bully a god?!”

The long river roared for it, and the sky-sea rippled open for it.

“Still not coming?”

“Don’t dare to come?”

“Like that shrinking head from before?!”

His voice was heard throughout the present world, nowhere to avoid.

He didn’t know how many people were watching coldly. He also didn’t know how many people were laughing and watching the spectacle.

In the increasingly silent Cangtu God, the scene of a present-world god venting anger was already too rare!

“If you don’t come, I may go to Yujing—”

Just in the next moment, the eyes of the Original Heaven God blurred. A man with a gentle temperament, harmlessly gentle features, and a hidden smile in the corner of his eye, wearing a robe of unknown material, appeared before him.

His anger, his roar, thus abruptly stopped.

The man in front of him was excessively gentle, even a bit plump.

His face looked a bit round, and his chin had a slight fold.

He just landed on Tianma Plain so calmly, without waves, gazing around admiringly, seemingly purely appreciating the evening glow.

This was a man who wouldn’t be seen as dangerous anywhere.

He could easily make people feel a sense of closeness from the heart.

Yet the Original Heaven God recoiled as if avoiding a snake or scorpion!

It seemed he had forgotten what a great body he now possessed.

This move caused the earth to move and the mountains to shake.

The man with a hidden smile in the corner of his eye casually pressed down, and waves appeared in the smooth, flat heaven and earth for no reason. He looked at the Original Heaven God with some amusement: “Although there is still a little time left to digest, you are already a present-world god, with a transcendent position—why are you still so startled and jittery?”

The Original Heaven God’s body turned, transforming into a human form.

As a present-world god, he was originally no longer restricted by appearance or concerned with external form.

But since the opposite party had descended and manifested a form, he would not lose courtesy or status.

Manifesting a god body tens of thousands of zhang tall seemed like he was afraid of someone.

As a child of the blue sky, his original name, the god appearance he manifested was that of a youth with disheveled hair hanging to his shoulders, white eyebrows, and green pupils.

Each black hair hung to the ground like arrows, motionless in the wind.

“Jing Er.” The Original Heaven God stared fixedly at the opposite party, his face full of vigilance: “Transcendants do not meddle in worldly affairs, and you have long been outside the world. Today you come to my god country, but for what purpose?”

He, of course, recognized Ji Fureng!

Initially, during the Yellow River Alliance, when Emperor Jing Wen slaughtered and divided the world, forming an alliance with various lords, he was just watching on Tianma Plain, and Guo May also presented a minister's table.

But now times were different from the past. He no longer called him “Your Majesty,” and the other party had long ago taken off his dragon robe and titled himself “Scattered Person.”

“Jing Er?” Ji Fureng smacked his lips a bit and laughed, saying with great interest: “Who was the first to call me that? Did you start it?”

“Do you want to control it?” The Original Heaven God said very harshly, giving no face: “I am not afraid of you.”

He had overheard a small couple chatting in a boat on the long river and had simply borrowed it.

Scolding the ancestors of Jing Country like this would not be heard.

He, of course, remembered the male was called Zuo Guangshu and the female was called Qu Shunhua. But he simply didn’t say.

He was a present-world god. He didn’t have to answer just because you asked!

Ji Fureng didn’t either!

“Indeed, you don’t need to fear me. It is very difficult for me to appear before you with my true power. After all, your god country is still very fragile and difficult to bear my true body—” Ji Fureng didn’t mind, showing great tolerance: “Let’s chat calmly and peacefully. Weren’t we getting along unpleasantly before?”

“That’s only your self-perception.” The Original Heaven God said viciously: “I by nature do not love to laugh, it is very hard to laugh!”

In front of Emperor Jing Wen Ji Fureng, the Original Heaven God was like a child baring his fangs and claws.

Calculating by flesh age, he might be much older than Ji Fureng. But their achievements in the Dao were not on the same level.

The Original Heaven God, of course, also had enough power accumulation, tens of thousands of years of carving divine will, always only a line short of the present-world noble position. Until today, he flattened this line, achieved it in one morning, established proof on the absolute peak, and did not allow anyone to underestimate him. At least on the absolute peak of the world, no one could face him on Tianma Plateau.

But Ji Fureng was an almost complete six-direction emperor, a great eternal emperor, and after abdicating, he proved transcendence!

This was fundamentally incomparable.

Of course, for transcendents, they had long since jumped out of the concept of time, and years were originally meaningless.

Ji Fureng smiled, raised his finger, and poked the sky: “Just now I heard you shout Zong Dezhen.”

“It was me who shouted. So what?” The Original Heaven God was seven parts unconvinced and eight parts indignant: “Do you want to stand up for him?”

When Emperor Jing Wen was in power, he was still very polite to the Original Heaven Venerable God, at least always maintaining the system.

Now it seemed it was all fake.

The people of Jing Country had never considered him a god from the beginning, only viewing him as a dog.

This disrespect was consistent, not changing overnight!

Seeing Ji Fureng’s good voice and pleasant appearance, he was very annoyed—and he now had some qualification to be annoyed.

Ji Fureng didn’t mind, only saying: “Zong Dezhen will definitely not come.”

He smiled and looked at the Original Heaven God: “I am rather curious—will you truly go to Yujing Mountain to find him?”

This question poked at the Original Heaven God’s sore spot.

Although he had obtained Gu Shiyi’s help and put on the dusk crown of various deities, he already held the position of present-world god. But this noble position of present-world god was only manifested on Tianma Plateau.

Outside of Tianma Plain, he was not yet acknowledged by the present world.

If he truly dared to rashly kill his way up Yujing Mountain, who would kill whom was truly uncertain.

“This does not concern you!” The Original Heaven God said fiercely.

“Zong Dezhen is somewhat excessive.” Ji Fureng shook his head, giving the victor good-hearted advice: “But you are still entangled in past humiliation, trapped in weak emotions. This is not the pattern a transcendent should have. The so-called transcendent exists transcending everything, of course also transcending—”

“Got it, you!” The Original Heaven God was completely disdainful: “Wasn’t that you chasing and hacking at He Guan Scattered Person that year? You two even flew over from beside Tianma Plain, I saw clearly—so many people advised you to let go, did you listen to a single sentence? Where did your pattern go then?”

“Ah, sin, sin.” Ji Fureng sighed: “At that time, I was not yet transcendent, and my heart nature was indeed deficient. Now I think, I truly regret that person.”

“Until today, you are not willing to call out his name, you even hate him to this extent, yet you come to me and talk about pattern?” The Original Heaven God exposed him mercilessly.

Ji Fureng smiled, not explaining.

He looked at the Original Heaven God.

Ji Fureng’s eyes were not large, narrowed into narrow slits.

When he looked at you, you felt he was looking at you very intently.

Very gentle, very kind, very pressing.

“What exactly do you want?” The Original Heaven God couldn’t help but ask.

He paused, then emphasized very harshly: “If it is about the matter between me and Jing Country, humph! Forgive this seat—”

“Sign!” Ji Fureng raised a roll of ancient long scroll emitting profound yellow energy and pushed it in front of the Original Heaven God: “I am just running an errand today, representing some existences who are watching you.”

The Original Heaven God swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

He, of course, knew the name of this long scroll—*Haotian Gaoshang End Calamity Alliance*.

Often called… “Transcendent Common Covenant.”

Once tied up like a dog, with his actions not free, he dreamed of signing his name on this covenant. But when people truly came to his door to force him to sign, to restrain himself, he inevitably felt unhappy.

It was so hard to achieve eternal freedom, yet he was again putting shackles on himself. He truly didn’t understand how those transcendents thought.

“Not signing?” Ji Fureng asked with a smile in the corner of his eye.

“Of course! I will, of course, sign!” The Original Heaven God said immediately: “I have already proven the noble position of present-world god. This transcendent common covenant is here. If I don’t sign, who has the qualification to sign?”

He, of course, knew that both Huang Weizhen and Ying Yunian had the qualification to sign, and both had not yet signed, still delaying.

But how to say…

Delaying also required a certain qualification.

Not to mention that Ying Yunian and Huang Weizhen were both true transcendents, not limited to one place. Nor to say how strong and majestic these two transcendents themselves were. Just to say the power behind them, one was Qin Country, one was Chu Country, both representing the highest level of authority within the present world order.

How could he compare?

Contemporary was, after all, an era of great prosperity for the state system.

With his noble position as a present-world god, he could be arrogant, he could be willful, even revengeful, but he had to be clear-headed.

Didn’t you see how gentle and harmless Ji Fureng’s smile was now? This old boy could be ruthless when he started. Perhaps he was just waiting for him to say he wouldn’t sign!

How could he give him a handle, give him an opportunity to target himself?

At once, his divine eyes turned, grasping a wisp of dusk, and patted it on that long scroll. Between heaven and earth, magnificent light turned ten thousand times, instantly restraining all. So then it was considered signed, allowing this highest-level covenant within the myriad worlds of the heavens to produce restrictions on him.

Although this body transcended, from now on it could not act wantonly either.

But within his own god country, there was naturally no restriction.

So his earlier declaration was still effective.

His anger was not to be ignored.

People of Jing Country absolutely not allowed to come to Tianma Plateau again!

Ji Fureng looked at him after he had signed the transcendent common covenant, blinking his eyes slightly with some pity, but still smiling: “No need to be unhappy about this, come, smile a little. You achieved the Dao by borrowing eternal dusk, carved eternal oaths in the crown of various deities, this restriction may be sharper than the transcendent common covenant. The word ‘righteousness’ is like a knife, and the god crown is thorns, you endured them all. *Haotian Gaoshang End Calamity Alliance* only slightly restricts your actions, why are you in such an unwilling state?”

The Original Heaven God wore the dusk crown, which was Gu Shiyi’s crown of achieving the Dao. When he wore this crown, he wore the corresponding responsibility.

For example, a king bears the heavy burden, and a state master receives the state’s dirt.

This was the fundamental of his achieving the Dao; removing the crown meant removing his position, oaths were secondary.

“I and Gu Shiyi are the same kind of people. He is pure for righteousness, I am pure for power, we are both very pure!” The Original Heaven God didn’t come to Ji Fureng with empty talk. Anyway, no matter how they circled, these people could grasp the essence of the matter: “As long as it can give me power, let me daily end foot washing water, that’s fine. What is a slight pain in gaining divine control? Not to mention it just lets me protect the Dao for those who come after! A dog mongrel like Zong Dezhen should have been dealt with by someone long ago! For the sake of chivalry and protecting the Dao alone, why wouldn’t I?”

He looked at Ji Fureng: “If it were me coming to force you to sign today, I would also laugh like you!”

Ji Fureng sighed: “You are right, as long as you can gain power, not to mention ending foot washing water, many people would even drink foot washing water! Gu Shiyi saw through this word ‘righteousness,’ which truly makes me admire him!”

“A gentleman draws comparisons in righteousness, a petty man draws comparisons in profit. But whether one draws comparisons in righteousness or in profit, as long as one walks in the correct direction, it is the right path. All people advancing on this road are realizing Gu Shiyi’s last ideal.”

“Gu Shiyi has drawn out this path today. In the thousand years and ten thousand years to come, the world will know that one can achieve transcendence through chivalry—from now on, there will be many righteous men in the human world!”

Ji Fureng looked at the Original Heaven God with some complexity in his eyes: “Afterward, you will guard it!”

“This seat does not fear trouble. Anyway, on this Tianma Plain, there is nothing else to do.” The Original Heaven God grinned: “Instead, you, with many righteous men and chivalrous heroes in the human world despising royal law. Your central empire should have a headache, right?”

Ji Fureng laughed: “This question should not be answered by me. I am no longer the central emperor!”

“Then this seat will go ask Ji Fengzhou?” The Original Heaven God’s tone was幽幽.

“Perhaps he will give you a not bad answer!” Ji Fureng was composed, and said to himself: “I came to find you today for two things. The first thing, please sign on this covenant, and you have already signed; this second thing—”

“If it is about Jing Country, you do not need to say!” The Original Heaven God interrupted him proudly: “Those stupid insects must certainly pay the price for their arrogance! Every insolent word they left on Tianma Plain, they must swallow back themselves. This seat gives no one face, and no one speaking on their behalf is of any use! You cannot control me either!”

“See, you are anxious again.” Ji Fureng laughed: “I have already transcended the present world, not in the mortal dust. What does the matter of Jing Country have to do with me? From beginning to now, have I ever discussed the word ‘Jing’ with you?”

The Original Heaven God thought for a moment: “This seat actually wants to hear what else you have to say!”

“You have been on Tianma Plateau for so long, presumably you also know that within this piece of eternal dusk, there are many remains of history. At the very beginning, it was the Daoist sect doing this, and later other forces also participated—now it doesn’t hurt to tell you, this is one of their preparations for the end calamity, leaving the fire seeds of different eras of civilization within the eternal dusk.”

Ji Fureng stopped here, his tone sinking a few points to show solemnity: “We all acknowledge your authority here, but you cannot destroy them. Understand?”

“The present world is our common present world, and you and I both have the same sentiment.” The Original Heaven God also straightened his attitude: “I even rely more on the present world than you, and hope more than you that this world does not suffer harm. If the Dusk God Country can have such a function, I am delighted by it.”

But as he said this, he couldn’t help but add a sentence: “In the future, when Jing Country collapses, they are also welcome to leave traces here!”

Ji Fureng thought seriously for a while, and said: “That perhaps has to wait until the state system collapses greatly, which may not necessarily be fortunate for you.”

“It also counts as an era!” The Original Heaven God said.

Ji Fureng only smiled, and then disappeared just like that.

The wind from the long river billowed over, and the wilderness howled. Time calculated in youth will all leave marks in the dusk of life.

The white-browed, green-pupiled youth stood alone on the vast Tianma Plateau, not too much like a god who had jumped out of the absolute peak, but actually a little lonely. Large pieces of dusk rolled behind him, and he looked towards the distant central empire—

He was waiting for Ji Fengzhou to give him an answer.

Thanks to book friend “Mine73” for becoming the alliance master of this book, this is the 818th alliance for Red Heart Patrol Heaven!