Chapter 2501: Confirmed Name

The 2464th Chapter: Confirming the Name

The heavy gates of the Central Heaven Prison slowly closed behind Huang Wei Zhen. The two massive runic black iron pieces embedded together finally sealed away that chilling sensation.

He ascended the stairs, accompanied by two executioners, and walked onto the bustling streets of Heavenly Capital City.

The morning light was still dim, but the roads were already crowded with pedestrians.

He paused there for a moment, looking up at the light of the heavens.

"My lord?" one of the executioners asked softly from behind.

"Have you also—" The other executioner began.

"Already felt..." Huang Wei Zhen murmured, "Freedom?"

This was very strange.

The three individuals at this moment seemed like disparate parts, not each a living person, piecing together a sentence somewhat stiffly.

Three unrelated sentences, linked together without cause and effect, sent forth as a single sound, becoming a ruthless question to the heavens—

My lord, have you already felt freedom?

This sentence itself held no great power, yet it could be touched by the will of heaven in such a way.

Few individuals, throughout the annals of history, could be respected as "My lord" by a Divine Hero.

And the one who could elicit such a veiled greeting from him was none other than the one in the prison.

He had taken a circuitous route to reach this point, overcoming a thousand hardships, just to step into the heart of Heavenly Capital City. Only at this moment could he say that he had completed his task.

Only now could he receive this greeting under the will of heaven, only now could he have this moment of composure.

He had come to Heavenly Capital for the ideal of equality.

The Divine Hero was the leading figure of the nation of equality.

The ambitious individuals of past and present, the foremost among them was the World Honored!

As early as the Middle Ancient Era, in the shadows of the magic tide that had not yet fully receded, the World Honored, walking barefoot in the human realm, had proposed the idea of "equality for all beings."

For countless years after him, there had always been people who struggled for this ideal.

And this legendary figure within legends, born in the late Upper Ancient Era and achieving the Dao in the Middle Ancient Era... had disappeared many years ago!

In the demon realm, he was called the "Past Buddha Ancestor," known by the name "Bear Zen Master," his title being "Hidden Light Tathagata," signifying that the Buddha's light was hidden.

In the vast sea, he was detested by the entire race, called "Evil No Heaven," the embodiment of disaster and evil.

In the present world, he was respected as the founder of a prominent school of thought, the "Buddha Ancestor."

But he, in reality, no longer existed.

No matter how devout the believers, how powerful the Zen masters, none had ever received a response from him.

Incense burned without offerings, golden statues lacked splendor.

Because he had been sealed long ago!

Huang Wei Zhen quietly looked ahead.

In front of his eyes, pedestrians crisscrossed, a crowd of learned scholars from Heavenly Capital.

Who could have imagined?

The World Honored was sealed right here!

Within Heavenly Capital City, in the deepest part of the Central Heaven Prison.

This greatest city of the present world, which suppressed the door of myriad demons, also suppressed the World Honored!

The misalignment of space-time in the deepest part of the Central Heaven Prison was precisely related to the seal of the World Honored.

This seal predated the Central Heaven Prison, even predated Heavenly Capital City!

That year, the great calamity that sought to exterminate Buddhism, sparked by the resentment with the Dragon Buddha, almost swept across the Buddhist systems of all heavens and myriad worlds, and finally ended with the disappearance of the World Honored.

The Dragon Buddha announced that the World Honored had fallen, while the Light King Tathagata and the Demon Master Tathagata in the demon realm only said "light is hidden." The holy lands of Buddhism in the present world, however, all firmly believed he still existed, calling it "My Buddha is eternal."

The Suspended Temple, which cultivated the "now," often chanted "Namo Ben Shi Shakyamuni." The merit from chanting and cultivation also yielded results.

But where was the great one whose honored name was "Shakyamuni"?

He had experienced an entire Nearly Ancient Era.

In the long flow of time, a certain answer emerged, floating in the gaps of the hidden will of heaven. It was regarded by some as a guide from heavenly secrets, or perhaps Shakyamuni's self-salvation—

After the great calamity of the extermination of Buddhism, the World Honored was sealed and suppressed by Dao Zun.

Heavenly Capital City was precisely the sealing ground.

And only the first empire of the present world, with its surging and majestic power of the present world system, could take on the seal related to the World Honored.

And the effort related to this game today had been laid for a long time, tracing back to the earliest "Guang Wen Ye Sha Wu."

The name "Ye Sha Wu" represents a hero.

Hero of Guang Wen!

The sky-blue giant bell enshrined in the Guang Wen Ye Sha Wu Hall today, with the story of the Cang Tu Divine Messenger Min Ha Er preaching carved on it, has repeatedly sounded over the years, making the name Guang Wen resonate for a long time, echoing in the long river of history.

And that year, when Min Ha Er first set foot in the Middle Domain, preaching the faith of the Cang Tu god here for the first time, attracting more than thirty thousand people, it was the most successful preaching of the Cang Tu god's teachings in the Middle Domain that history could record, and also a brilliance that would never be seen again after this.

In today's era where imperial power suppresses divine power, one could even say it was the last flicker of the Cang Tu god's teachings.

That brilliant preaching journey of the divine messenger to the south ended with Min Ha Er's death.

The people of the Shepherd Country built the Guang Wen Ye Sha Wu Hall, summoning this legendary divine messenger, begging him to return.

And the reason for his death has always been hidden in history.

The Jing Country never announced it, nor did the Shepherd Country ever declare it.

In fact, the reason for Min Ha Er's death was precisely his attempt to touch the seal of the World Honored.

At that time, the Jing Country was under the reign of Emperor Jing Qin, Ji Hong Zai. The central empire allowing the Cang Tu Divine Messenger Min Ha Er to preach in the Middle Domain also involved internal power struggles within the Dao Country; it was not without the imperial court's intention to use external forces to check and balance the Dao Gate.

It was a pity that the Cang Tu god's intention was not in the faith; of the believers who leaked out from the cracks in the Dao Gate's fingers, it benefited very few. What it gazed upon was the one suppressed beneath Heavenly Capital City, within the Central Heaven Prison!

This one, sealed within the flowing time of the Central Heaven Prison, became harder to find the longer time passed.

Yes.

The first one to attempt to save the World Honored was that undoubtedly most powerful present-world deity since the beginning of the Dao Calendar—the Cang Tu god.

Perhaps there were beings who acted earlier than it, but only through the Cang Tu god's messenger Min Ha Er did the seal within the Central Heaven Prison truly tremble, and this experience also left an indelible mark in history.

It was precisely because of that political strategy failure that the ambitious Emperor Jing Qin suffered a head-on blow, remaining silent in the court for a very long time. When he finally made some moves again, it just happened to be the "Five Countries' Emperors Meet in Heavenly Capital," making him a monarch nailed to the pillar of shame of the Jing Country, and from then on, he never recovered from his setbacks. Of course, this is another story.

When Min Ha Er was killed, the central empire suppressed the ripple with the momentum of thunder.

But that Dao Seal related to the World Honored was, after all, shaken.

For a great being sealed and suppressed in this manner, even just a glimpse through the gap in the space-time seal towards the outside world would be enough for legendary stories to unfold.

Thereafter, the Dao Country strengthened its patrols year after year, repeatedly checking for leaks and filling gaps without getting them, repeatedly reinforcing the seal, adding shackles upon shackles.

It seemed as if everything had calmed down.

Time flowed slowly until the moon in the sealed Zen Well was shaken for the second time...

That was the moment when Jiang Wang, in Yi Zhen, killed six True Ones, when the peak Dharma Image of the world faced Heavenly Capital, a moment watched by the world.

That battle, witnessed by all, involving the foremost heaven's pride of the contemporary human race, that wonderful and ultimate battle, is still used as a model for practical combat by many masters.

Even if one day, the Dao laws that appeared in that battle become outdated, the divine powers developed are no longer fresh, the fighting choices and fighting will displayed within it are still proven common throughout ancient and modern times.

Of course, the convergence of all directions on Heavenly Capital represented a shaking of the central empire's authority, something the Jing Country needed to face with utmost caution during that period. A slight carelessness would be a repeat of the Qin Emperor's story.

And the contemporary Jing Emperor endured calmly and smoothly welcomed that period.

After this, the sealed "Zen" could already influence the Central Heaven Prison, and even manage to release "outsiders" like the Military Officer Wang! Of course, that was also a series of coincidences, naturally—

There were naturally decisions within the Central Heaven Prison, naturally the Military Officer Wang was fished out, and naturally, due to a series of unexpected events, the Military Officer Wang unexpectedly escaped.

No matter how responsibility is pursued, it is all an internal problem of the Central Heaven Prison, the stupidity of some people, the weakness of some people; it is impossible to involve the moon in the sealed Zen Well.

Of course, just as the one who called himself "Earth Store" said to the Military Officer Wang, he only needed to ask for help, agreeing to escape was enough.

Because the escape of the Military Officer Wang from the Central Heaven Prison itself represented that the sealed "Zen" had another part of its power escape.

It could already release all prisoners within the Central Heaven Prison, even all jailers, but it still could not release itself.

It could already manipulate the will of heaven, but it still could not control freedom.

It was not until today, when the Divine Hero stepped into the Central Heaven Prison with the arrest whip. The highest punishment power granted by Jing Tai Zu Ji Yu Su, shattered the shackles of the era. The shackles entangled on its body, the seals pressing down on its head, were not only from the era, but lacked one crucial section, and could no longer suppress it.

Boom rumble rumble!

The human world was different.

Stepping over the star bridge made of the Great Beam, Jiang Wang, holding a gold ingot, had arrived in a completely different human world.

One step before, he was still in the East Sea with its strong winds, sudden rain, and rolling thunder; one step after, he had already stepped into the vast and boundless "emptiness" where the sky and sea could not be seen.

As soon as he arrived here, he had a sense of awareness in his heart.

This was the Fallen Immortal Forest! The place where he first entered the heaven-human state.

At the moment he defeated Lu Frost River with his sword, borrowing the heaven-human state, he already had a rather profound understanding of the Fallen Immortal Forest—although the Fallen Immortal Forest was constantly changing, different each time, when he was in it, he could immediately feel where he was.

Fallen Immortal Forest, cannot be spoken... This step sent by the star bridge has already said everything.

The layout of the Star Witch indeed involved that mysterious transcendence within the Fallen Immortal Forest.

That one!

But Jiang Wang's landing position at this moment was not simply within the Fallen Immortal Forest alone; if he only wanted him to arrive in the Fallen Immortal Forest in a timely manner, there was no need to use the Great Beam Star God as a bridge.

He only needed to speak a word, and today's Jiang Wang would naturally arrive with a single thought.

The specific landing point of his step through the star bridge was precisely within a space-time gap amidst Huang Wei Zhen's continuous killing!

What the sacrifice of the Great Beam Star God penetrated was... the battlefield of transcendent beings!

In principle, transcendent beings cannot be detected, measured, or calculated.

The battles between transcendent beings are even less likely to be interfered with by beings below transcendence.

In previous years, when the True Dao Master stabbed Yuan Xi, the million-strong demon army could only quietly await the result. A few days ago, when Zong De Zhen drove the legacy shed of the True One to stab Ji Feng Zhou, a group of Jing ministers like Ji Yu Min and others could only watch from the sidelines.

Zhu Ge Yi Xian, however, captured the traces of the battle between two transcendent beings, even built a bridge with a star god, burned out the power of a True God, and made a dedication that would collapse upon completion, sending Jiang Wang, who was far away in the East Sea, into this interval!

Even with Huang Wei Zhen's help, and with the support, this was still an extraordinary feat.

Just this one step of connection was enough for Zhu Ge Yi Xian to be called the Star Witch, enough to be the first person to combine star divination with witchcraft, and enough to be the most powerful contender for the title of the foremost person in contemporary calculation methods within these several thousand years.

And as Jiang Wang stepped onto this place, he also captured a wisp of blue light that was disappearing.

There was a kind of enlightenment in his heart—

This place was not just the space-time gap where Huang Wei Zhen was killing, but a piece of space-time expanded by this gap.

What completed this expansion was precisely the Heaven Phoenix Empty Mandarin Duck created by Huang Wei Zhen!

The star god's Great Beam had already been paved as a star bridge, the Star Witch was not waiting here, and it was impossible for him to leave any traces like sound or text. In front of his eyes was only boundless emptiness, and a wisp of blue light disappearing.

The plot involving transcendence cannot be spoken.

Even someone as powerful as Zhu Ge Yi Xian, wanting to interfere within it, could only borrow one "coincidence" after another.

Jiang Wang understood that now was the time for him to do what he needed to do.

And the hint had already been given to him, precisely what Zhu Ge Yi Xian said through the body of the star god's Great Beam—

"Tacit understanding."

It could not be said more clearly, it could not be clearer.

His wisdom was... trusted by someone like Zhu Ge Yi Xian.

But what should he do?

The gold ingot in his palm emitted a faint golden glow.

Suddenly, a small Wealth God, in the form of a Ruyi Immortal Thought, climbed up.

The golden light flickered, appearing quite joyful. It rolled around, somewhat dazed.

It regarded the gold ingot as a boat, sitting on the edge of the "boat" just like this, looking at this vast and boundless space-time.

Ye Qing Yu was clever and quick-witted, but her strength and vision were not enough to participate in this level of matter. Only because of the Ruyi Immortal Palace did she come here.

Ruyi Immortal Palace?

Jiang Wang stood quietly, suspended in mid-air, silently reviewing this piece of space-time once again.

He finally confirmed—this was not the space-time gap where Huang Wei Zhen was killing, but a space-time gap in a place where they had already finished killing and left.

Then, why did the Heaven Phoenix Empty Mandarin Duck need to expand such a piece of space-time?

And why did Zhu Ge Yi Xian pursue the tail traces of the battle between two transcendent beings? Why did he even go to such lengths to send him here?

Why did he say he needed his help so much?

What was his special connection to this place?

He had traveled across the borders of mountains and seas, seen the Empty Mandarin Duck, and understood the power of the Empty Mandarin Duck.

He had a certain degree of understanding of the Fallen Immortal Forest.

He had the Cloud Top Immortal Palace on his body...

A flash of inspiration went through Jiang Wang's mind—Fallen Immortal Forest!

"Speaking of which..." The little Wealth God tilted its head slightly at this moment: "Why is the Fallen Immortal Forest called the Fallen Immortal Forest?"

Because the era of immortals ended here!

Because the Immortal Emperor who opened that era was precisely at this place, struck by a True Dao Master, sinking the immortal boat and breaking the Dao body!

Outside the Fallen Immortal Forest was the old site of the first immortal palace of the immortal era. After the Soldier Immortal Palace was broken, the terrifying aftermath of power mixed with soldier evil, forming an eternal soldier ruin here.

The ancestor of the soldier Dao in the Far Ancient Era fell at the site of the soldier ruin, becoming a legend sung throughout the ages. Later, the Soldier Immortal Palace was established in this place. It was called "inheriting the will of the soldier ancestor, opening the heavens for immortals"... the first palace of the immortal era!

Jiang Wang roughly understood what he needed to do.

Why the Fallen Immortal Forest got its name, and what they wanted to bury was!

Zhu Ge Yi Xian needed the support of the immortal palace, wanting to confirm the name of a person in this famous place, using the famous to kill the nameless!