Chapter 2498: All the World's Cracks

“Need my help?” Zhong Liyan seemed to ask casually, “Jiang Zhenjun and I are old partners, you know.”

“Yes,” Da Liang said.

Zhong Liyan grinned, taking Nan Yue in hand and performing a flourish with the heavy sword: “What do you need me to do?”

“Wait here. Don’t move around casually,” Da Liang dropped a sentence casually, then flew into the sky, passing through the electric light, breaking through the clouds nimbly and rising straight up, connecting with the starlight.

The starlight was like water, rippling in the distant sky.

No matter how thick the clouds or how nimble the lightning, in the boundless sky sea, they were all just a smudge or a point.

Looking down on the human world from such a high place, it was indeed very easy to feel that “all living beings are like ants.”

Jiang Wang followed Star God Da Liang, walking on the surface of the mirror-like star river.

But after a few steps, he stopped.

Da Liang turned back, casting a doubtful gaze.

“Regarding the matter of Left Gong, I certainly have no reason to refuse. But I’m not familiar with you and cannot give you full trust,” Jiang Wang said directly. “You are a servant of the Star Witch. Star Witch adult controls Zhang Hua Tai, patrolling Chu for thousands of years. During Left Gong’s governance, no matter what name he used to set up schemes and weave plots, I couldn’t detect it, and there was no way to seek evidence.”

“I represent the Star Witch,” Da Liang said. “No matter what, he will not set up a scheme to harm you.”

“Star Witch adult’s contribution to the Chu country is worth the trust of all Chu people. Your sentence ‘no matter what’ is indeed a matter of course,” Jiang Wang said. “But I am not a Chu person.”

If sacrificing Jiang Wang was needed for the Chu country, Zhuge Yi Xian would not hesitate. Jiang Wang would not use his own safety to gamble on whether Zhuge Yi Xian would hesitate.

Da Liang said, “Zhong Liyan—”

“Zhong Liyan’s character is still quite trustworthy,” Jiang Wang interrupted directly. “But he doesn’t see far and doesn’t know much. I believe his intentions, but I cannot fully believe his judgment.”

Da Liang stood there for a while: “...That you have this consideration is also common human emotion.”

After a moment, an old voice sounded from Da Liang’s body: “Jiang Zhenjun, I didn’t expect that our first meeting would be at this time.”

Jiang Wang bowed his head in respect but only said, “This probably still doesn’t count as a meeting.”

“Yes, it’s not formal enough,” Zhuge Yi Xian sighed lightly. “But I hope there is still time.”

Zhuge Yi Xian’s time was indeed precious, and Jiang Wang’s time also could not be lightly thrown away.

Facing this legendary figure who established the Chu country with Chu Tai Zu Xiong Yi Zheng, he spoke very directly: “I don’t know what matter Star Witch adult invited me for, and I can’t say clearly. But if this matter truly requires me, why didn’t Hui Guo Gong himself speak with me? There is no need for him and I to be distant, but I and you cannot help but be distant.”

Everyone knew that getting straight to the point was the simplest way, but it was also the most demanding in terms of qualification.

In the past, Diligent Academy Dean Zuo Qiu Wu proved his Dao to the absolute peak. The first sentence after proving his Dao was — “From now on, no longer need propriety!”

This “no longer need propriety” did not mean that he would abandon etiquette from then on, but that he no longer needed to care about cumbersome rules. He no longer needed to worry about whether others misunderstood his intentions; it was others who needed to think whether they truly understood him!

From then on, he could wholeheartedly devote himself to learning.

Jiang Wang was like this now.

If he was unhappy, he would say so. If he had a problem, he would ask. There was no need to hold back.

Zhuge Yi Xian said, “Hui Guo Gong doesn’t know I came to find you, and he himself didn’t think of inviting you to join. This matter cannot be discussed, it all relies on tacit understanding. Just as I set the star plate on Zhuge Zhuo’s body, it also required him to actually meet you, and Da Liang could meet you — in some sense, we are a chance encounter.”

Jiang Wang said, “You created this sense.”

This meeting was of course intentionally arranged by Zhuge Yi Xian, but Zhuge Yi Xian made it a chance encounter in the sense of fate, thereby avoiding other perceptions. From this perspective, requiring a figure like Zhuge Yi Xian to go to such great lengths, with obscure intentions, meant that the target of his scheme this time was almost clear!

“If you practiced the Dao of calculation, I think you would also have very high achievements, at least be very sensitive!” Zhuge Yi Xian praised, then continued, “We need the support of two immortal palaces.”

Jiang Wang was silent for a moment.

He only had one Cloud Top Immortal Palace. Where would two come from?

Whose idea was Star Witch trying to steal?

Yin Guan’s Ten Thousand Immortal Palace?

He just wore the Bian Cheng Wang mask and was already being targeted by the Star Witch?

Or... Ye Qing Yu’s Ruyi Immortal Palace?

During the great war with Zong De Zhen, Ye Ling Xiao’s Ruyi Immortal Palace was already damaged, but relying on the Immortal Capital’s support, it didn’t completely break. The fate of the Immortal Capital and Ruyi Immortal Palace was the same, but for example, the damage to the Ruyi Immortal Palace was more severe. Although it wasn’t like the Hidden Sun Sundial scattering back to the present world, it would be impossible to use it again in a short time.

After the war, Jiang Wang collected all of Ye Ling Xiao’s relics, including the Ruyi Immortal Palace and the Immortal Capital, and naturally handed them over to Ye Qing Yu.

Jiang Wang really didn’t like getting along with these people who calculated every step so clearly.

Because in the end, he would always act according to their ideas, making himself seem thoughtless, like a puppet on strings.

Except for Chong Xuan Sheng.

With Sheng Ge Er, their relationship was like limbs working together. Calculating together was not being a puppet.

Zhuge Yi Xian said again, “This old man has calculated that her divine path has already formed. The divine form can control the immortal palace. There is no need for her true self to be involved in danger.”

Jiang Wang’s eyelids twitched. They all used the word “involved in danger”... Why was it so natural for me, Jiang someone, to be involved in danger?

But the matter involved Hui Guo Gong, and he actually had no choice.

“Her Wealth God is still only a false god, not even a true one has condensed yet,” Jiang Wang said.

Zhuge Yi Xian said, “There’s no need to participate in the war, only to provide immortal palace support.”

Jiang Wang had some annoyance: “You said this matter all relied on tacit understanding. Is this the kind of tacit understanding you mean?”

Because of his tacit understanding with Zhuge Yi Xian, Zuo Xiao went to that unspeakable battlefield, and therefore Jiang Wang had to go.

Since Jiang Wang brought the Cloud Top Immortal Palace, Ye Qing Yu and her Ruyi Immortal Palace also couldn’t escape.

What kind of tacit understanding was this?

It was clearly a kind of kidnapping.

This famous Star Witch was truly not too upright.

“My apologies,” Zhuge Yi Xian’s old voice from Star God Da Liang’s mouth had a kind of jarring conflict: “Immortal palace support is very important to me. Even more so to Hui Guo Gong.”

“You can’t just drive us like this based on my relationship with Hui Guo Gong!” Jiang Wang tried to temper his emotions, then said, “You can’t say what you are doing, but you should at least talk about the nature of the matter. After all, you are not just asking me to get involved in danger. Since she can only move her divine body, and the Ruyi Immortal Palace is her father’s relic after all, I have no reason to just take to the gambling table without a word.”

“My apologies…”

Zhuge Yi Xian said “apologies” again.

“Although this sentence of mine is the truth, it may not be too pleasant to say. But because I need your help too much, I can only say it like this—”

He said, “The thing we are going to do is also very dangerous for Hui Guo Gong. I hope you can make full effort. Not only do I need your Cloud Top Immortal Palace, but you must also send out more than one Dharma body.”

Jiang Wang quietly looked at this Star God, as if seeing the Star Witch adult he had never met through this wonderful body shell.

He gave up his angry emotions.

Because this matter was related to Zuo Xiao’s safety!

“I think I have no dissatisfaction.”

“Perhaps I should thank you for giving me the opportunity to participate and protect those close to me.”

“Saving me from a lifetime of regret.”

Jiang Wang said this, gently opening his hand.

All his bodies and phases turned into streams of flowing light, flying from all directions, returning into his body one by one.

Even his gaze on Tian An Ping was released.

Until points of golden light gathered into a golden ingot, gently falling into his palm.

“Let’s go!” he said.

Zhuge Yi Xian’s voice then retreated, and Star God Da Liang’s female voice was restored: “Please follow me.”

She walked on the mirror-like star river, her plump body gradually scattering starlight. Her bare feet had star map patterns, and every step she took rippled up secret waves.

Just like this, she walked away step by step, disappearing step by step.

And in front of Jiang Wang, a starlight-rippling arched bridge gradually formed.

A Star God who had been cultivated for a thousand years, possessing independent thoughts and will, had made countless contributions to the Chu country, and now it was the last time.

Star God Da Liang, her body falling as a bridge, was just the beginning of this situation.

Jiang Wang gripped the golden ingot tightly: “Are you ready?”

The voice inside the golden ingot was not as clear and quiet as before, but had a divine remoteness and some illusiveness: “The golden body can die, and the immortal palace is meaningless. The most important thing is whether you return as scheduled. Are you ready?”

“Let’s go,” Jiang Wang stepped onto the star bridge.

In the star river above the thick clouds and sea of thunder, it gently lifted like a thin veil, then suddenly rolled away.

In the gradually distant and scattering starlight, three grains of star sand fell.

They passed through the heavy clouds and were washed clean by the sea of thunder.

After the starlight peeled off, a closer look revealed illusory light flowing, skimming shadows and dusk — clearly three grains of translucent immortal thought.

This was the gift Jiang Wang left behind.

One grain melted into the thunder light, following the startling electric current rolling in the East Sea, leaving it for Wang Chang Ji, who would come from the Yellow Springs later.

All the clues he investigated about the white bones on the sea would be taken over by Wang Chang Ji.

One grain suddenly fell into the sea, wandering in the endless surging waves, flowing among the rock crevices on the seabed to some altar.

This grain was for Yin Guan, detailing the plan to rescue Chu Jiang Wang, giving him information about the One True Dao, as a bargaining chip in dealing with the Jing country, and advising him not to be impulsive.

The last grain of immortal thought turned into a rainbow light, hanging in the sky, then heading towards Lin Zi.

This grain was for Chong Xuan Sheng. It contained all his thoughts since descending to Lin You Xia Island — let Chong Xuan Sheng think about it. He should do what he was better at.

The three grains of immortal thought scattered like fireflies, flying through the continuous torrential rain.

Tian An Ping had been looking at this piece of sky for a long time.

The trajectory of every drop of rain was clearly outlined in his heart. The bend of every electric current was a stroke of Dao marks.

He had been puzzled for a long time, and now he also began to doubt—

Did that limitlessly high place not exist?

Was the position Jiang Wang once stood in the Cave True Realm just a fantasy?

Otherwise, no matter how he searched, why couldn’t he find that path?

Where in the world were there unsolvable problems?

Where in the world was there... a place that could not be reached?

He lifted his pale and thin long hand, the chain tied to his wrist swinging gently, his finger resting on his own throat.

The sword scar on his throat was only a shallow line.

But it truly existed.

That sword had indeed come, he had clearly seen it.

“Just now Jiang Wang was in your subconscious sea,” a young and vital voice then sounded at this time.

“Oh,” Tian An Ping said.

“Jiang Wang,” the young voice said.

Tian An Ping said “um” softly.

The young voice emphasized: “He looked at you.”

Tian An Ping seemed to come back to himself at this time, noticing the specific content of what this person said. But he only lifted his eyes: “What does that have to do with anything?”

The young voice was also quiet for a while, seeming to be choked by him.

It was truly puzzling.

What Tian An Ping was doing, and what he was about to do, once exposed, would inevitably lead to a death without a burial place.

Jiang Wang just walked into his subconscious sea and stared, which was almost like putting the Long Xiang Si on Tian An Ping’s neck!

He had walked through a life-and-death juncture, yet he seemed to not care at all.

Even when... Jiang Wang walked into his subconscious sea, the person who came could have reminded him, but out of consideration for not affecting the plan, did not remind him, almost watching him die with open eyes.

He was unexpectedly not angry either.

There was not even a hint of anger.

What exactly was installed in this person’s brain?

His way of thinking could not be applied to the experience of any previous person.

It did not conform to the general cognition of “human.”

The young voice said inexplicably, “I remember you didn’t want to die either.”

“I still have many doubts about this world, I don’t want to die,” Tian An Ping said with almost no emotion. “I am not dying now either.”

Not dying, does that count?

No lingering fear?

No unease?

“No matter how you say it... he’s gone!” The young voice asked, “Don’t you want to know why he came and why he left?”

“Then, where did he go?” Tian An Ping asked.

“I don’t know either,” the young voice said. “There are many forces participating in this situation. We are all constantly spying on each other and hiding ourselves at the same time. No one understands anyone. It’s not that I can stare at all of Jiang Wang’s actions at any time without being detected. I was staring at you, and I just felt him rippling in your subconscious ocean.”

Tian An Ping seemed to truly not care what Jiang Wang was doing. Jiang Wang had left, and that was enough.

He asked, “The last time I chatted with you was Zhao Wang. Why is it you this time?”

“This proves that we are of the same mind and will. It can better promote our plan,” the young voice said with a smile, “Isn’t this a good thing?”

Tian An Ping opened his mouth: “Shen Xia.”

“What is it?” the young voice asked.

“Nothing,” Tian An Ping’s finger still rested on his own throat.

“Do you feel pain?” the young voice asked, “When that sword pierced your throat.”

Thunder roared in bursts, and the torrential rain was like a waterfall.

Tian An Ping stroked his own throat, once again lifting his head to look at the sky, muttering, “All the cracks in this world are doors leading to the truth.”

His bewildered pupils, however, were like a sword, cutting open a gap in the dark clouds and sea of thunder in the sky at this moment.

A line of long-lost sky light unexpectedly penetrated the rain curtain and fell on his slightly raised face.

And his finger was also like a sword, stabbing into his own throat along that sword wound—

“The problem is only how you open it.”

It was at this moment that he took the last step of ascending to the peak.

Terrifying Yuan force howled in all directions, triggering a heavenly tide and a sea of mad waves.

The terrifying movement of a Super凡 cultivator ascending to the absolute peak covered all other waves.

At the moment everyone was looking at him, everyone also ignored him.

In destiny, the heavenly heart was like a dream.

In the depths of the divine soul that could not be seen by the eye or checked by intent, a door stood up, seeming virtual and real.

And Shen Xia’s young voice, hidden within, softly said—

“Open!”

Boom boom boom!

The thunder in the sky did not stop.

This door was unusually heavy.

This was...

The False True Door.

Last four hours of August, asking for one