Chapter 2511: My Will Is Set So-Called Destiny

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Countless strange beast stone statues were suspended in mid-air. Some spread their wings as if to fly, others bared their teeth as if to pounce. Yet the eyes of these stone statues, which should have been solidified, were all full of life, all showing compassion. They guarded Ksitigarbha as if worshipping a Buddha!

These things were fragments of Dao bodies formed by one transcendent one and one being who devoted all efforts to transform and descend, strange beasts of mountains and seas conjured by Huang Wei-zhen, and also the stubborn stones of the Heavenly Sea assimilated by Ksitigarbha with the will of the Heavenly Dao. They were the stones Jiang Wang failed to avoid in time when he wandered the depths of the Heavenly Dao!

What kind of existence was this? It was as if it held the Heavenly Sea in its palm! If a sinless Heavenly Person were to gain freedom, could they perform like this in the depths of the Heavenly Dao?

Jiang Wang stood by Zuo Chao, holding his sword, like a loyal personal guard beside an old commander. The blazing flag illuminated their turbulent moods.

"This whole thing is real... it's over?" Xu San, who witnessed all this, couldn't help but murmur.

Ksitigarbha turned his head and glanced at him: "Do you believe it?"

Xu San was so shocked by this gaze that he almost jumped, but thinking of Huang Wei-zhen's fragmented words about "One True Dao," "Heavenly Capital City," and "being suppressed," as a person of Jing Country, he could not back down. He stood firm, not concealing his nervousness and vigilance: "What do you mean?"

"If you believe it, It can escape and hide. The more people hear this story, the more people believe It is dead, the more It cannot be captured. The nameless one is dead, but It still exists in history, unrecognized." Ksitigarbha smiled: "So you'd better not believe it. And don't spread your wrong perception outside."

"This can't kill It?" Grandpa Zhong Li didn't believe it. He mainly didn't believe this Ksitigarbha, who appeared out of nowhere to steal the show: "You call It out, and I'll chop it twice more."

"If the nameless one could be killed so easily, what would be the point of our cooperation?" In the forest of strange beast stone statues worshipping Buddha, Ksitigarbha smiled in the stone forest: "I must have an irreplaceable role, so I can get an irreplaceable reward." He looked at Zhuge Yi-xian: "Am I right?"

The strongest Chu person present was naturally Huang Wei-zhen, and only Huang Wei-zhen was on the same level as It, named "Ksitigarbha." But the one who truly represented Chu Country and made decisions could only be Zhuge Yi-xian. And this was not a problem that needed to be thought about.

So Zhuge Yi-xian, who was half-squatting in the rubble pile of the altar, only raised his head and sincerely said: "Precisely so!"

If the nameless one could just die like this in the Transcendent Jar, then Ksitigarbha's appearance would be meaningless. As long as It didn't interfere, the nameless one was doomed. How could It demand such a high reward with "not interfering" as a condition?

The nameless one was indeed not truly dead. Or perhaps It intended to use this death today to escape its name. Escaping from Falling Immortal Forest to the East Sea, entering the jar, It set up a trap for the first time to create an opportunity for itself to escape the world, but its identity was exposed by Zhuge Yi-xian, and it finally died under the joint efforts of two transcendent ones... This was a convincing ending. But it didn't escape Ksitigarbha's eyes.

Zhuge Yi-xian, who repeatedly flipped through the rubble pile of the altar, also did not believe it. Jiang Wang just held his sword, and Zuo Chao just gripped his flag. On this point, they were quite consistent. It was nothing more than continuing to fight, always fighting until the nameless one truly died.

Ksitigarbha's gaze slowly moved among the surrounding strange beast stone statues: "Will you come out yourself, or wait for me to catch you?"

Among the strange beast stone statues virtually suspended around Ksitigarbha, there was a black dog with a tail split into three forks, about two zhang long. At this moment, it suddenly opened its mouth: "I always couldn't understand, why did you choose this."

Ksitigarbha just looked at It, with a kind of sympathetic smile: "You always want to ask why. Even though you are already so powerful." And the Zen-like gaze seemed to ignite life. Black Mandala flowers grew at the joints of this stone beast, like grass in rock crevices, abnormally firm and tough.

"I just won't ask why you chose this. Why you were willing to be a stone beast, hiding by my side. And how you achieved this point."

"You see, I don't know anything. But I don't care."

"Because I am not afraid."

"How are you so afraid?"

Guan Lan Heavenly Character Three seemed to have become a Pure Land. Ksitigarbha seemed to have Buddha light. It looked at this Disaster Fight stone beast so tolerantly, as if seeing that extremely powerful yet eternally lonely soul in the long passage of time: "Nameless one?"

Originally, the nameless one had mixed with the Heavenly Dao stubborn stones, fallen into the depths of the Heavenly Dao, and this was how It escaped this trap. There would definitely be another battle in the future in the depths of the Heavenly Dao. No matter how strong the nameless one was, it should not have had the confidence to fight Ksitigarbha in the depths of the Heavenly Dao. That was almost Ksitigarbha's home field, the Buddha country. Just like when Monkey Zhi Ben was asleep, Jiang Wang overlooked all worlds from the peak in the depths of the Heavenly Dao.

So the nameless one must have known something, or even been waiting for something! Only then would it dare to make such a choice, leave such a path. Waiting for a moment when Ksitigarbha was extremely weak, it would seize its name in the depths of the Heavenly Dao. Why would it have such determination? Why would it believe there would be such a timing?

Any other person would find it very hard not to be vigilant, very hard not to be doubtful. While Ksitigarbha did not care. It only saw danger and detonated the danger in advance. Everything followed reason, natural and effortless.

"I'm afraid?"

"I fear?"

Despite the black Mandala flowers growing all over its joints and swaying in everyone's sight, the nameless one seemed not to see them, completely ignoring them. It seemed to have heard the world's funniest joke, laughing until its entire stone body shook, and even amber tears fell from the eyes of the dog-shaped beast: "Praise you a few sentences, and you really think you are the World Honored One!"

"You see." Ksitigarbha always smiled: "You know everything, so you chose the image of a strange beast that is particularly bad."

"So your words are also full of malice, including deliberately mentioning the World Honored One in front of me—"

"This is really a sign of weakness."

In response to the nameless one's provocation, Ksitigarbha's voice became even more tolerant, just like pitying a child who had done wrong, while its face was clearly that of a transcendent one so powerful that it could not be recognized by the world, an old monster who had lived for who knows how many years! This extreme contrast made people feel a suffocating power.

Xu San, who only stood in the corner observing, felt an inability to breathe, as if he was being peeled layer by layer, leaving only a weak soul, trapped and locked in a cage. While Ksitigarbha smiled with compassion. Who would have thought? That face belonging to Tian An-ping could one day be so kind.

It continued to speak, its body radiant with virtue, as if preaching to the great thousand worlds, saving the suffering and relieving the distress, comforting all sentient beings: "But what does this kind of thing mean? Even Jiang Wang will not lose his fighting spirit because of this. You will only make his sword sharper."

"You will also only make me more firm in my path."

"Why do you, who are supremely transcendent, only lurk in the shadows?"

"It's not that you chose this path, it's that you only deserve to have such a path."

"Nameless one, do you hope I call you this? You repeatedly boast of your knowledge. You repeatedly display your vast knowledge. You indeed have the richest memory, using knowledge to fill your thoughts—your mind sea is better than the sea of learning, your spirit platform is better than the Zhang Hua Platform, you indeed possess power approaching omniscience, but is this power truly controlled by you?"

"Are you cognizing this world, or are you being captured by cognition?"

"Do you truly own them?"

"You, this powerful pitiful insect..."

"Shui Clan Wan Tong is also close to omniscience, knowing wherever there is water, but It guarded the Eternal Dark Vortex with its body, supporting the leap of its race, and its virtue and prestige have lasted for a thousand years. The great priest of Mu Country also has heavenly knowledge, and now its morality is widely heard, its divine power is exhausted, and its path ahead is all flat."

"They have not achieved transcendence, and even Wan Tong unfortunately died. But if they proceeded normally, they would all be brighter than you, and certainly more powerful than you. Perhaps you have not thought about it? Their accumulation is far less than yours."

Ksitigarbha slowly spoke the truth of the world. Every word and sentence were precepts that would not change again: "This is because they walk on a truly bright path."

Xu San almost wanted to prostrate himself in worship! He only felt that every word spoke to his heart, making him pleased and convinced. Zhong Li Yan also propped his heavy sword in front of him, showing enough solemnity. His expression had already changed from "don't bother listening to this old boy farting" to "seems to make some sense," and was progressing towards evolving into "regret not meeting the great master earlier!"

Zuo Chao gripped the flag and did not speak, while Jiang Wang held his sword, waiting for an opportunity. While Zhuge Yi-xian only quietly squatted in the rubble pile.

These words were not spoken for them, but the mere ripples of the language also made them inevitably influenced, and required them to resist with all their might. Power within the current world range was fundamentally meaningless in front of a transcendent one. So it wasn't even about power, it was only knocking on the heart of every person.

The body of the Disaster Fight stone beast was already full of black Mandala flowers, as if it was wearing a mysterious floral robe. That black dog face actually appeared kind and benevolent, with very soft eyes. It just said with soft eyes but clenched teeth: "You spoke to the key! They have not yet achieved transcendence. This is precisely the gap between them and me. How can they truly understand this world?"

The nameless one was directly influenced by Ksitigarbha's words and seemed to be on the verge of being converted, only stubbornly struggling. Even Zhong Li Yan could see that conversion was only a matter of time.

At this moment, Ksitigarbha spread his five fingers and lightly let go, as if letting go of a falling petal. Its face held a smile: "I am trying to convert you, and your resistance does not embody true power—you are actually willing to be converted by me. Could it be that after converting you, I will then face the true test?"

"Hahaha ha ha ha." The nameless one also laughed: "Is this all the skill you have? Pretend to be some cross-world Buddha, perform some four emptiness!"

"You are also afraid, you are also fearful. You are afraid of me! I open myself and let you convert, but you don't dare to call me take refuge. Your Pure Land is too small, the temple gate is too narrow, the Golden Body Zen Sect is still too cramped, not enough for the original body to stretch its hands and feet!"

Amidst the laughter, the black Mandala flowers on the Disaster Fight stone beast's body slowly lost their substance and became illusory. One branch like a sharp sword fell, stabbing into the ground just like this, actually resembling a dark stone stele forest. The Buddha light that migrated in the room seemed to be swallowed by shadows.

"Dark and fearsome, as is the human world!"

Ksitigarbha sighed: "Do you know why there is this trap, the Transcendent Jar?"

"It's not that they are really sure this trap can kill you."

"But because you have hidden for too many years, spied on too many secrets, and instead lost the courage to face the unknown."

"You hide in the crevices and spy on the human world, afraid of everything that is not in your control."

"You have great fear of the unknown!"

"They just want to use this Transcendent Jar to see you clearly, and then truly capture you."

"Zhuge Yi-xian does not have the vision of a transcendent one, but he understands human nature very well."

"Penetrating human nature also, in a certain sense, penetrates you."

It looked at the nameless one: "You probably don't have a way to quickly accept it—but you know this is the truth. You are already inevitably walking towards failure. And all of this was destined early on when you stepped onto this road!"

All Its questions were questions, and all Its questions were also answers. Even if you understood all things in the world, knew all secrets, It also saw your heart, and you had no secrets from It. Never before had the nameless one felt so transparent. That gaze was not sharp, yet It was cut.

The Disaster Fight stone beast clearly trembled, but again bared its teeth and grinned, forcing itself to be fierce: "Believing in fate is not being truly strong. If everything were already destined, neither you nor I would have come this far. Ksitigarbha! Don't pretend you understand everything, I understand you far better than you understand me!"

"If you really understand me enough, you should understand." Ksitigarbha smiled with pity: "When I say destined, I don't mean fate is destined, but—my intention is already fixed."

It calmly stretched out its hand, reaching towards the Disaster Fight stone beast, like catching a flying insect trying to escape. It fundamentally did not regard the nameless one as a true enemy, tolerantly treating all its resistance as mere "naughtiness." There was no higher posture than this.

The nameless one also naturally became angry: "This is a trap set by Zhuge Yi-xian, a war started by Huang Wei-zhen, and you, this pitiful prisoner! Yet you are singing the protagonist's part!"

The pitch-black flower branches and stone stele forest spread almost infinitely within the room. The power belonging to the nameless one directly confronted Ksitigarbha. That black Mandala flower withered in an instant, became brilliant in an instant, was full of vitality in an instant, and became stone branches again in an instant.

The whole room also suddenly became bright and then dark, suddenly with flowers falling from the sky in chaos, and suddenly with black water surging from the ground. They shook each other's foundations, changing each other's perceptions!

At this stage, it was very difficult for absolute peaks to intervene. Jiang Wang just wanted to stretch out his hand to block Grandpa Zuo and patiently wait for an opportunity, yet he was already pulled back by Zuo Chao by the collar. More flags were erected in front. Advancing was a bridge, retreating was a barrier. Xu San supported the door wall with his backhand, but his hand sank in! His flesh instantly peeled away, revealing white bone. He leaped up fiercely, without a sound, flying alone in the air with difficulty.

Zhong Li Yan was also not in a good position, but relying on his thick skin, he could still squat on the sword handle for a while, staring intently at the Disaster Fight stone beast. Just the aftermath of the fight between two transcendent ones, or the aftermath of the fight under the limit of the Transcendent Jar, was enough to make everyone retreat. Only Huang Wei-zhen's clothes fluttered as he walked through the stone stele forest, walking through the darkness of a midnight graveyard with the feeling of being before flowers under the moon.

Just at this moment, Jiang Wang's heart suddenly stirred. Ripples rose in his subconscious sea. He slightly lowered his thought and saw a glorious reflection on a boundless sea surface. A brilliant golden figure, like the fierce sun hanging high. And between the real fierce sun and the reflection on the sea surface, a black and white stone bridge slowly emerged—The Three Ways Bridge!

Dou Zhao was now at the absolute peak! This step was sudden, but Dou Zhao's absolute peak was also natural. And at the moment he reached the absolute peak for the first time, he transmitted his intention through the path of yin and yang—"Open the door!!!"

The Three Ways Bridge connected the two poles of yin and yang. In theory, it could penetrate everything, ignoring any barrier. The only limitation of this bridge was the power of the two poles of yin and yang. This trap, the Transcendent Jar, was originally impenetrable by heavenly secrets.

But Jiang Wang was in the jar. At this moment, Dou Zhao had also reached the extraordinary world's absolute pinnacle, possessing the limit of current world power, and the two ends of yin and yang were already balanced. Compared to Dou Zhao, who held the yin side, Jiang Wang, who walked in the human world, was himself a door!