Chapter 2461: Heaven's Mercy and Fate

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Liang Shi first’s Zhao Zi, unexpectedly, is the weakest one among “Zhao Qian Sun Li”!

And she didn’t know this before.

She didn’t know that before surrounding Kuang Min, Sun Yin had already prepared to die to reach the peak. She didn’t know that Qian Chou, who always seemed cheerful and friendly to everyone, surprisingly hid the cultivation of a True Monarch.

But her surprise was fleeting.

Everyone has their own secrets; she wasn’t curious about this world.

It seemed she could survive, so she would do what survivors should continue to do.

She silently retreated, preventing herself from becoming this battle’s weak point. Instead, she focused on supporting the Hidden Sun Sundial. With a World True Person and a Cave Heaven treasure, she wouldn’t be a burden in this war, at least. Even if it only slightly delayed Kuang Min’s departure at a crucial moment, it would be a heavy weight on the scale of victory.

Surrounding and killing a Derivation Path expert is difficult, but Kuang Min is in a jar.

Heaven and Earth are boundless, while the Cave Heaven is limited.

An Absolute Peak expert’s infinite possibilities are confined within this Cave!

Kuang Min’s situation was not optimistic.

Qian Chou was unfathomable, while Sun Yin, though newly ascended to Absolute Peak, was already extraordinary.

That spreading sea of blood, that terrifying killing intent infinitely released, simply couldn’t stop the approach of the two esteemed protectors.

Red hair wading in blood redder than blood, treasure ship crushing waves higher than the sky!

“This Hidden Sun Sundial… unexpectedly, it was truly prepared for me!”

At the center of the sea of blood, where dragon and snake lay knotted like an isolated island, Kuang Min stood alone.

If not for the Hidden Sun Sundial, he would be completely unaware of the external situation, relying only on guesses. If not for the Hidden Sun Sundial, these two people definitely wouldn’t be holding him!

Feeling the determination of these two esteemed Derivation Path experts, not hesitating to consume the origin of Dao principle to fight for life and death, he also accurately captured the approach of death— not only from the current encirclement but also from the Great Scenery Emperor Party, who didn’t know when they would free their hands and turn their gaze back on him. Those dirty jackals and wolves who had completely abandoned the glory of the Dao Gate.

So, he not only needed to break out but also needed to do it quickly!

The Convict iron spear transmitted a cold, stabbing sensation. He gripped this spear tightly, treating it for the first time as a power he could truly rely on.

It was fine too!

“Hey.”

He shouted in his heart: “Wake up.”

In a long, almost endless delusion, there was a groggy voice, like someone just waking from a dream.

“Hmm?”

The emotion in the voice quickly plummeted, becoming heavy.

Kuang Ming, whose hands hung long past his knees, lay quietly on a light platform, his eyes slightly closed, his breathing long. His hands were clasped on his abdomen, forming a furnace seal. He had been called up from a long sleep.

Outside the light platform, three steps wide, was profound, boundless blackness.

He had been lying here quietly with his eyes closed for a very long time. At this moment, only his eyelids trembled slightly.

There seemed to be another person living inside my body.

Although I’ve never seen him.

Although I keep my eyes open for twelve hours a day, every moment, every breath’s memory exists.

But always…

Something’s not right.

Something… is not right, is it?

My life. It doesn’t seem real…

I am clearly already such a powerful True Person, clearly saw my Absolute Peak path early on, but the more I walk, the farther I stray. I always have to use a very long time to walk back, then use a very long time to walk far. All the efforts made, all going back and forth before that super extraordinary high. It’s as if the super extraordinary peak that has reached the limit of the current world is just a reflection in a mirror.

I’ve asked many people: Your Majesty, Prime Minister Lu Qiu, Commander Yu, Sect Leader… Everyone tells me, don’t think too much, this is normal.

Later, I wondered if I had asked before.

Why was the tone of their answers all the same?

Sometimes I will question the existence of this world, question everything I see.

Only in the great terror between life and death can I feel that I exist.

Kuang Ming opened his eyes. The light in this endless darkness, he didn’t know where it came from, nor did he know where his gaze was going.

But at this moment, at the end of the light platform’s heaven pillar, the light patterns rippled.

He thus saw a face, a face of his own. Eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, not one difference.

That feeling was like bowing his head to shine into a water mirror, the bright moon reflected in the water, and also his own face.

That face said—

“Wake up!”

This seems like a dry well, and I am at the bottom of the well… Kuang Ming thought.

How many years have I been a person in a well!

A frog at the bottom of a well looks at the bright moon, how can the bright moon pity me alone?

You are a toad ah.

He is in heaven!

The next moment, he then involuntarily stood up, stretched his arms and legs, and leaped up.

At this time, he swept his gaze across the four walls of the light platform’s heaven pillar, flickering with constantly changing light and shadow, one scene after another of past life.

Among them, some were true, some false, already indistinguishable!

But they were interwoven together, just the life of the Great Scenery Empire’s Evil Eradication Army Commander, named “Kuang Ming.”

So real, profound, specific in every detail of everyday life!

At this moment, his heart rumbled.

More voices echoed within his sea of consciousness.

Like a decree from heaven, like a divine principle, like a great bell!

“You and I are one body, two lives, double souls the same longevity.”

“Born from the same womb and joined, sharing the same fortune and disaster.”

“I am you, you are I!”

Splash la la.

The sound of a mirror breaking like water sound.

“Ah roar!”

A strange roar, sounding like both human and beast, brought the listener’s heart to beat like a drum, seeming to shake their soul.

Zhao Zi, standing in the shadow of the Hidden Sun Sundial, looked up and suddenly saw Kuang Min standing alone on the dragon and snake isolated land, holding his spear and looking up at the sky, his hair dancing like snakes!

That strange roar came precisely from his mouth.

A proper Dao Gate profound cultivator, a Dao Country general commander, everywhere as strange as a demon!

But looking at the back of his neck— where there were originally scars connected to scars, blood rolled over blood, pits knotted over pits, ferociously indescribable— now a large bump protruded!

It was like a blister, like a tumor, and it rapidly swelled into a lump of flesh. It was simply as if something was growing outwards, finally about to break through the skin, and finally, amidst fresh blood and sticky fluid, a wet, slippery head would emerge!

Wet hair tangled in strands on the scalp, but that pair of eyes opened. In the dirty, sticky fluid, the cold, cruel features gradually became clear, clearly Kuang Ming again!

Kuang Ming… or Kuang Min?

Zhao Zi could no longer understand. Her eyes at this moment burst out with light, trying to discern its reason, to dissect its body.

But Kuang Min’s change was still happening— not only did he grow a second head, but he also grew a second pair of arms.

Two heads facing each other, two pairs of arms facing each other.

A double-headed, four-armed body!

At the moment of formation, the aura of this body suddenly surged!

Originally, for the Absolute Peak, he could still be stronger.

And in Zhao Zi’s view, she seemed to see a piece of jade ware split into two halves, reassembled, seamlessly joined. It seemed that the current Kuang Min was complete!

But she also saw that these two heads were two people.

The front was Kuang Min, the back was Kuang Ming!

What kind of evil thing is this?

“Hold this.” Kuang Min handed the Convict iron spear in his hand to the hand behind him, which was taken by Kuang Ming.

Different from the wet, slippery, still dripping blood, full-faced killing intent of Kuang Ming. Kuang Min at this time was still relatively calm, his empty hands lightly patted. It seemed like self-mockery, seemed helpless: “It’s hard to imagine I will face all of you in this ugly form.”

He smiled: “All of you really… should die.”

He raised one hand, exactly horizontally separating it above his neck, blocking Sun Yin’s reaching hand. With just one push, he pushed him flying into a distant star point— pushed him to the boundary of the Hidden Sun Sundial!

And after leaping up, he directly crashed and shattered that tall treasure ship, killing his way to stand before Qian Chou, who was standing alone on the deck, and punched him head-on!

There was no magnificent light on his fist.

Such a restrained fist, passing through, passed through path after path of spider web-like cracks— those thousands and thousands of lines of different colors were clearly the cracks in the Hidden Sun Sundial’s internal rules.

This world could almost no longer contain him!

Having retracted all his power, he had already seen through all this. He discovered that the one truly controlling the Hidden Sun Sundial was not Zhao Zi, but this Qian Chou before his eyes, who claimed to be the Hundred Treasures True Monarch.

He wanted to see what kind of person was hidden beneath this seemingly smiling, mediocre face!

He saw that before his fist, Qian Chou’s eyes were still calm.

The illusion of the weak, vain confidence!

He understood that after his fist fell, everything would undergo earth-shattering changes.

But at this moment, his figure paused.

His figure stopped not because Qian Chou displayed some means, or because Sun Yin had already rushed back.

But because behind him, the person connected to him—

The Great Scenery Evil Eradication Commander Kuang Ming, holding the Convict iron spear upside down, inserted this iron spear into the treasure ship’s deck. A black glory burst out from his body, making it impossible to look directly at, forcefully stopping the charge of this double-headed, four-armed body!

Kuang Min, with empty hands, looked at Qian Chou, who was already less than ten steps away. He didn’t rush forward but slightly lowered his eyes, looking at his feet, his voice abnormally cold: “You really want to die, Kuang Ming!”

“You know.” Kuang Ming, who was standing back-to-back with him, sharing one body, slowly grinned: “—I enjoy danger!”

Clearly the exact same face, but one could easily see the difference between the two people.

Kuang Ming constantly gave people a dangerous, crazy feeling.

Kuang Min, however, was high above, looking down on everything.

“For so many years I’ve indulged you, given you a complete life, even now willing to share this truth with you—” Kuang Min also grinned, yet it seemed like a laugh, a mockery: “But you seem, from never knowing how to cherish!”

He walked forward.

Kuang Ming struggled with all his might to stop him from behind.

The Convict iron spear was already firmly inserted into the treasure ship’s deck, but it was just like this, stabbing into the ship’s cabin as it advanced. Profound light collapsed and deck fragments flew!

Kuang Min and Kuang Ming were two people, but born from one body.

They were twins, conjoined infants.

They were together from the time they were born, had two heads, shared one torso, but were born with Dao脉!

Regarded by their parents as evil spirits and evil fetuses, abandoned in a mass grave, they should have been eaten by wild dogs long ago.

Fortunately, a ghost-catching Daoist passed by, was startled by the loud crying of the infants, picked them up, fed them with goat’s milk, and enlightened them with Dao scripture.

Because of “Heaven’s mercy and having life,” they were named Kuang Min and Kuang Ming.

Kuang Min was clever and good at learning, Kuang Ming was dull and taciturn, but both had extraordinary talent for Dao scripture.

A nameless old Daoist, who dipped wine to draw talismans, drawing ghosts that he didn’t recognize, and even he himself didn’t recognize, who missed and leaked sentences when singing Dao songs in front of people’s spirits, only knowing the surname Kuang, used an incomplete excerpt of the Dao canon to raise a born Dao seed!

That incomplete part of the Dao scripture was named the “Jade Pure Supreme Inner Scene True Scripture.”

Of course, it was not a cultivation method, but a scripture widely preached by Jade Capital Mountain, almost every Daoist had seen it. But not everyone understood it.

That year when they were five years old, the old Daoist stumbled into the room, sword in hand, drunk, his face full of tears: “Someone has seen you! They say I am raising demons! The small temple will soon be wiped out, you two, only one can leave!”

Finally, it was Kuang Min who said: “Old Daoist dad, please leave your sword and give us half a night’s time. After dawn, you will have a normal child.”

The next day, only Kuang Ming walked out of the room. From then on, he was no different from ordinary people, except for a large scar left on the back of his neck. Regardless of cold or hot, he always stuck a plaster on it. Later, the plaster was also torn off.

And after worshipping into the city’s Dao academy, the county’s Dao academy, the country’s Dao academy… He rose rapidly all the way.

Later, he returned home in glory, supporting the aging and seeing off the ending of the old Daoist Kuang, whose Yang life was already exhausted. He built a hut in front of the grave and guarded filial piety for three years before going up Jade Capital Mountain.

A Dao Gate prodigy, advancing and leaping all the way, finally grew into the eight-rank commander holding the Evil Eradication Army.

Many years passed.

Kuang Ming almost no longer remembered that there was a person named Kuang Min in the world.

He didn’t remember that someone once shared a body with him.

That sword that Kuang Min used to say goodbye to him by cutting his neck that year when they were five years old, he thought he would always miss, in fact, he didn’t.

The terrifying appearance of two heads, the suffocating embarrassment of being forever hidden in the room unable to go out, the fear and hatred when occasionally discovered… Was his childhood he was unwilling to recall.

At first, he told himself that he was carrying the fate of two people forward and must work harder and harder to live this life well.

Later, he only remembered that he was born poor, adopted by an old Daoist in a broken temple. He had nothing to rely on and could only rely on his own efforts to walk forward.

Kuang Min, like the huge scar on the back of his neck, gradually faded in traces during the days of growth.

He would sometimes touch another segment of life in a daze, not thinking it truly happened, only thinking it was an unscattered childhood nightmare.

Until today!

Under Sun Yin’s eyes that saw double life, on that light platform like the bottom of a dry well, he recalled everything.

He only knew that Kuang Min had never left, and in his past life, in how many life segments, only the dream that Kuang Min wove for him— in the dream, this body was used by Kuang Min.

He could no longer distinguish between what was true and what was false. The Cave world was real, but he had never truly known himself within it.

Life’s mistake, to this extent!

“I am the Great Scenery Empire… Evil Eradication Army, commander!” Kuang Ming’s hands’ veins bulged, he gritted his teeth and supported the spear, his voice exploding through his teeth: “Anyone who violates the central heaven’s might must be killed!”

“At least in this aspect, we can reach a consensus. This group of rats from the Equality Country are precisely reptiles who have touched the heaven’s might of our Dao Country.” Kuang Min said faintly: “Be sensible, don’t disturb me. Wait for me to kill them for you. You will still be the Evil Eradication commander, the Dao Country will still have eternal spring, everything will be no different.”

The double-headed, four-armed body still walked forward.

The spear tip cut off countless wood chips, that was also the divine power named Hundred Treasures being blasted apart.

Even with Kuang Ming’s struggle on top, Kuang Min still didn’t stop his steps, still looked down on the opposite Qian Chou, as if he could crush him at any time.

“The Emperor set up a trap to destroy one true, explaining that for today’s Great Scenery, one true Dao is the biggest enemy.” Kuang Ming said trembling: “So Kuang Min, you are my enemy.”

“Set up a trap to destroy one true—hehehe!” Kuang Min laughed coldly: “You, this eight-rank commander, an empire high-level official, completely unaware of this, were easily thrown away here. You still don’t understand, you are just an abandoned piece? Your life is destined to be abandoned, born one so, raised one so—that year if I hadn’t left you one life, you wouldn’t even have had a chance to grow up.”

Kuang Min jumped up. He dragged Kuang Ming’s struggle, punched Qian Chou’s fist, sending Qian Chou and the treasure ship flying a thousand zhang away!

For a moment, he hung in the air, stern like a demon god: “Are you qualified to be my enemy, Kuang Ming?!”

Qian Chou flipped upside down in the air, drew a beautiful arc, squatted on the mast, holding a hairpin as a dagger in his hand. For a moment, his whole person again showed a beast’s fierce look.

“Born me and abandoned me is his stupidity. The Daoist old dad who raised me didn’t abandon me. That year, I said I was willing to leave, and you directly made the choice with one sword.” The disparity in power made Kuang Ming’s struggle seem very weak, but his trembling yet calm words, one sentence after another, were so powerful!

“You use my body to do things of one true Dao, and I cannot stop it, even completely unaware. It is no problem for the central great hall to treat me as one true Dao. How can this person take on great responsibility, how is he worthy of the ten thousand Evil Eradication army soldiers? If I were to host this bureau, I would also do so.”

He tightly gripped the Convict iron spear, the fresh blood from his tiger mouth split open, spreading bloodlines on the spear body: “Kuang Min should die, Kuang Ming… also should!”

“Doing things of one true Dao, could it be a sin?” Kuang Min felt it unbelievable: “The Dao Gate orthodox is in one true, we are the people who truly maintain the honor of the Dao Gate!”

Kuang Ming burned his blood as flame, in a flash, he gripped the iron spear upside down and stabbed himself in the heart: “One true Dao, a thief of the Dao!”

But from within this heart, a hand suddenly reached out and gripped the spear tip.

Drip drip drip drip!

Blood rapidly dripped, continuously hitting the surface of the military boots.

“I deeply regret that you have such a wrong perception of one true Dao.” Kuang Min’s eyes were colder: “You will understand exactly who the Dao Gate orthodox is, just as you will know who is the master of this body!”

The double-headed, four-armed body, fully showing the power of Kuang Min and Kuang Ming, was just like the Dao Gate, where the Three Pulses of Dao and one true Dao all exist.

They were once one family, once one body, and now their weapons oppose, going opposite ways.

The Convict iron spear in Kuang Ming’s hand was born… bent by this hand reaching out from his heart!

“It’s all the same who is the master!”

Sun Yin, with red eyes, blood pupils, and red hair, reappeared before Kuang Min without anyone knowing when, seeming to have never left.

And his fist fell down, eternal calamity and eternal!

“Why don’t you all… change the place to chat? I mean—the grave!”

This is precisely the first fist of the Eternal Calamity Profound Art. After he ascended to the peak, it had naturally entered a new level. No matter how Kuang Min evaded, it would ultimately fall on his face.

This punch directly shattered his facial bones!

But the shattered area immediately bulged up again, looking up as if he used his face to bounce back Sun Yin’s fist!

Seemingly a headbutt, it directly crashed into Sun Yin’s forehead, and then his five fingers flipped, bombing the tip of Qian Chou’s hairpin with his fist peak—

Qian Chou’s figure, momentarily blurred, only manifested from the mirror light at this time.

Truly, a divine power with a thousand changes and ten thousand variations, unfortunately, it was still detected by Kuang Ming.

At this moment, the power he displayed truly lived up to the name of the executioner of one true Dao.

“Kill me! Don’t kill him!” Kuang Ming roared while holding the spear!

These words, which sounded very affectionate, were his firmest conviction.

He let go of the iron spear with both hands, his fists and palms crossed in front of him, one palm hitting his own skull, one fist bombing his own neck!

Black chains reached out from the void, instantly entwining his fists and palms.

Splash la la!

The chains were pulled straight.

At the end of the chains was a blood-colored execution rack standing in the void!

Kuang Ming’s hands were thus hung unable to move.

“I gave you many opportunities, Kuang Ming. Since you want to die so much, then I will kill you myself.” Kuang Min’s eyes were already covered in blood threads, like many strands of entangled blood-colored crawlers!

“Why have I tolerated you until now! I should have killed you long ago. The moment I personally wiped you out, I was only that true. I will not lose to any Heavenly Master, not even Ying Jiang Hong!”

Thanks to book friend “Greedy eating Mutao” for becoming the alliance master of this book! This is for the 823rd alliance of Red Heart Patrol Heaven!