Chapter 2515: The Only One Who Knows in This Life

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The Great Chu Emperor, Xiong Ji, granted a name to the nameless transcendent being in the Fallen Immortal Forest.

This was the greatest humiliation, and also the process of killing.

Being pressed onto a chopping board means being cut open, disemboweled, having your throat slit, and your blood drained, before finally becoming a fragrant dish in a pot.

Facing the siege of the two transcendent beings, Ksitigarbha and Huang Weizhen, the nameless one reversed the situation and achieved a shocking escape from the transcendent jar. Even with the strength of a nameless one, this inevitably came at a heavy cost.

It even completely peeled off its own subconscious sea and smashed it into the transcendent jar to delay Huang Weizhen and Ksitigarbha.

This indeed bought time, allowing Jiang Wang and Dou Zhao, two great absolute peaks, to gather in the Fallen Immortal Forest. However, it ran headfirst into a sword strike from the Great Chu Emperor, who wielded the power of the entire nation.

This single sword killed it at its most confident moment, and also at the moment it was most unable to cope.

It only allowed Jiang Wang to seize the opportunity and use the Fallen Immortal technique to sever its tail.

This was different from the damage inflicted by several absolute peaks on its amber Dao body within the transcendent jar.

At this moment, it was not a descended body from somewhere, but truly manifested the "substitute form" of the White Disaster Dou King Beast.

Jiang Wang chopping off its tail meant that it had already been truly touched by power below the transcendent level!

The concept of a transcendent being in the human world was broken; the meaning of escaping the world no longer existed.

It could already be defined, captured, and truly killed!

Boom! Boom!

The severed forked tail fell with a boom, instantly becoming incredibly huge. It smashed and destroyed a patch of forest and collapsed three mountains, like a mountain range of blood and flesh, lying horizontally in the Fallen Immortal Forest.

Muscles and veins bulged, blood surged like rivers. Flesh sacs bulged and gradually resembled pillars and forests.

The blood and flesh twisted and wriggled strangely, as if every part had spirituality, even its own consciousness. They conflicted with each other and struggled together, like a forest of blood and flesh dancing in the fierce wind.

*Pa da.*

One boot stepped down.

The forest of blood and flesh became the sole of the boot, with the flowing wind and returning clouds as the boot pattern.

Huang Weizhen seemed to have stepped out of the green and returned, appearing leisurely. With a single foot, he stepped this forest of blood and flesh into emptiness.

Under his foot was spring grass, and his two sleeves were full of spring wind.

And in the distant mountains, resembling forests of the Buddha realm, the figure belonging to Ksitigarbha slowly emerged.

Bits of Sanskrit light gathered into form.

It was clearly Dongzhen Tian Anping, who Huang Weizhen had captured and simulated within the transcendent jar, petrified in the Heavenly Dao Sea, and upon whom Ksitigarbha had descended... now, he had walked out of the transcendent jar and into reality!

This body was no longer related to Tian Anping, nor did it involve Huang Weizhen.

It was the explanation of "Zen," the manifestation of "Buddha."

At this moment, no one yet realized — this was the first time Ksitigarbha had truly set foot in the human world since the molding of "Seal Zen Well Middle Moon"!

After this, only Zuo Xiao, holding the flame flag, descended from the sky and plunged the flag pole into the old site of Tian Gong City, above the Arani Ghost Cave.

In that instant, the flame flag had already replaced the fierce sun, the brightest point in the boundless red tide —

The vast Great Chu, the national power of three thousand seven hundred and sixty-one years, all became this majestic sight.

The nameless one, struggling continuously on the cliff face of the Arani Ghost Cave, instantly froze there.

The process of its mutual struggle with the Chu Emperor had become completely meaningless.

When Huang Weizhen returned to the Fallen Immortal Forest, and even Ksitigarbha stepped into reality,

Its perfect opportunity was lost.

The time it had won was shattered by the Chu Emperor's single sword strike!

The Zhang Hua Tai, ranked among the top three cave heaven treasures in the world, stood high in the sky. Countless streams of information gathered into a star river, roaring and galloping like a long river.

If the long river was the ancestor river of the God Land, this star river was also not unrelated to the origin of the Chu Soul sect.

Zhuge Yi Xian's ancient voice, only now resounding, howled in sync with the star river, majestic and vigorous: "Fortunately, relying on Your Majesty's divine might and the world's lives, this should all end!"

The nameless one, nailed to the cliff face of the Ghost Cave, flattened its pair of dog eyes. At such a moment, it instead showed a strange calm: "You say 'end' now? Is all this truly that simple? Just relying on a 'substitute name' and 'substitute form', as well as this Fallen Immortal Forest, you want to end my life?"

Its dog claw turned into a hand and directly gripped the sword stabbed into its dog neck.

Another hand, embedded within the dog body in the rock wall, emerged like lava lurking underground. This hand held the moon in its palm, holding up Xiong Ji's fist.

"The one substituting my name is ultimately not me, seen by all erroneous intent, yet unknown. Are you becoming more and more familiar with me, or gradually feeling strange towards me?!"

The Chu Emperor nailed it together with the Fallen Immortal Forest, making it impossible to escape and using the Fallen Immortal Forest to substitute its detailed position.

Thus, by "confirming its substitute name," "confirming its substitute form," and "confirming its substitute position," three confirmations of its body, an undefinable transcendent being was fixed there, and then forcefully suppressed with national power.

It also truly treated itself as the Fallen Immortal Forest, integrating all within the Fallen Immortal Forest into the counter-struggle.

The years it had spent operating within the Fallen Immortal Forest far exceeded the Chu people's operation of the Chu Country.

Who exactly should be the master of this piece of land?

"The one substituting your name is ultimately not you, but it is a process of approaching you!" Zhuge Yi Xian's voice at this moment, though ancient, was neither tired nor weak. Instead, it was full of passion and high spirits, like a fierce fire burning at its most brilliant.

"Within nearly two years' time, you continuously exposed yourself. Under the pursuit of the Shan Hai Dao Lord, you had no opportunity to repair yourself. You were unable to learn, unable to advance with the times."

"Waiting within the transcendent jar, facing unknown fear, you frequently acted to break free, manifesting yourself repeatedly."

"You also understand that at such a moment, after leaving the transcendent jar, you will no longer even conceal yourself —"

"Knowing how to die, you still hold onto a weak hope."

"To this day, you still want to hide your name?"

Combining the twelve pivot officials of the Zhang Hua Tai, the three hundred and sixty-five star policy officials, the countless subordinates continuously ascending and withdrawing from the platform, and the power of the Chu border gods and ghosts as decreed, Zhuge Yi Xian's voice was strangely high-pitched.

He did not manifest physically before the people, but you seemed to see a disheveled witch, praying and dancing in frenzy: "You clearly already know you cannot hide again, why still hold such shameful luck?"

Simultaneously with Zhuge Yi Xian's words, Huang Weizhen also stepped forward. He did nothing superfluous; as before for two years, he simply concentrated on interfering with the nameless one, preventing it from cognizing.

If the present world is simply viewed as mountains, rivers, and lakes, the nameless one's cognition is like a ground membrane covering these mountains, rivers, and lakes. Before, it was tight and seamless, perfectly fitting, thus allowing it to hide with the world.

In these two years, mountains have shifted, and the vast sea has become mulberry fields. Especially with several mountain peaks continuously rising high, this unrepaired ground membrane has already been poked with a thousand wounds and a hundred holes.

This is the premise upon which this plot aimed at the nameless one could be launched.

At this moment, Huang Weizhen simply lifted a hand, and the hand the nameless one was extending towards the Chu Emperor's fist was pressed down by him.

The Chu Emperor's fist thus boomed down again, firmly re-embedding the nameless one within the cliff face.

The air suddenly filled with ghost fog, which instantly turned into flying birds. The flying birds instantly fell, exhausting their blood and flesh and dismantling their fine bones. These bones fell to the ground and were inserted upside down into the soil, instantly growing into a peach forest!

Peach blossoms bloomed, peach fruits were red, and fruit insects were born on the peach faces. In an instant, they withered away, leaving only a fruit pit carved into a pavilion, emitting a faint cold light. A small figure stood alone in the pavilion, wanting to flee, but was suddenly extinguished by another small person.

Transcendent-level powers directly collided, using the Fallen Immortal Forest as their carrier.

From mountains and forests to grasses and woods, nothing was not a battleground, nowhere was not a killing field.

The entire Fallen Immortal Forest rapidly changed between virtual and real!

"Then you just tell me," the nameless one's voice said, "Who am I?"

Zhuge Yi Xian's voice, howling along with the star river, also surrounded the star river within the Fallen Immortal Forest: "Transcendent beings cannot be measured, so I do not calculate transcendent beings."

"I only ask myself, what can an existence honored above the absolute peak gain within the Fallen Immortal Forest? Why has it not left for so many years? What is it staying for?"

If Chong Xuan Sheng were here, he would probably say, "Heroes think alike!"

But for a very long time, the Fallen Immortal Forest contained only Zhuge Yi Xian's voice.

"A transcendent being present in the world hiding within the present world, this is one problem."

"The Fallen Immortal Forest is a place where saints attained their Dao, where immortal palaces were broken, and where ghostly things run rampant."

"You, such a transcendent being, have always concealed yourself here for a long time, seeking what?"

"Only four possibilities — the remnants of saints, the remnants of immortal palaces, the netherworld of the ghost path, as well as the original land advantage of the Fallen Immortal Forest being suitable for hiding and concealing. Besides this, there is no other factor that could give rise to the possibility of being pursued by a transcendent being."

"I have asked myself countless times, which one are you here for?"

"As early as the reign of Emperor Shi Zong, the matter of the Duke of Huai Guo obstructing transcendent beings and the nameless one hiding within the Fallen Immortal Forest was already discovered. From then on, the Fallen Immortal Forest lost its effect of helping you conceal yourself and instead became a beacon locking onto you. So, you are not here for this."

"Previously, Lord Qian Tang established Tian Gong City and explored the Arani Ghost Cave, even subduing two heavenly ghosts, but you did not interfere, clearly not caring about those ghostly things."

"As for the remnants of immortal palaces — that year, the Beast Taming Immortal Palace of the Shan Hai Dao Lord, and later Jiang Wang's Cloud Top Immortal Palace, as well as... in short, I have never seen you interested in immortal palaces. In the past, I did once have a thought that you absolutely did not only possess one immortal palace. I don't know if I judged incorrectly — you didn't even want to touch them, intentionally avoiding them to avoid trouble?"

"So, you are staying here, not for immortals, not for ghosts; what you seek can only be the remnants of saints."

"At the same time, I discovered one thing — the Fallen Immortal Forest is a place where saints attained their Dao, but within the Fallen Immortal Forest, there are actually no saintly remnants of sufficient weight! As if an unknown existence swallowed them. And this also corroborates what you seek."

"For a very long time, the problem I pondered was — what kind of transcendent being would be interested in the remnants of saints?"

"Meng Tianhai plotted for saintly inheritance for the sake of transcendence. What can an already transcendent existence still gain from saintly remnants? I still have no answer to this question, perhaps you can tell me before you silently vanish."

"But I already know what the nameless one needs."

"Your final use of the Three Ways Bridge to escape the transcendent jar further proves this point."

Zhuge Yi Xian's voice, reaching its conclusion, became very certain: "Nameless one, I believe you are a remnant from the era of the saints. Even more so — you are one of the saints!"

The hair on the nameless one's body trembled in an instant, as if blown by the wind!

Its eyes turned amber again, the colors mixing together, and its gaze was very complex!

But Zhuge Yi Xian's answer was still not finished: "Originally, after the self-resolution of the Lie Shan Human Emperor, an extremely brilliant era of saints was born."

"At that moment, a hundred schools contended, at that moment, light illuminated ten thousand realms. The former saints not only ran along history and overturned the human world, they also eternally washed away the disaster waters, enriched the barren deserts, and accomplished a merit for ten thousand generations in one generation!"

"Why did such a brilliant era silently vanish overnight?"

"In the past, a hundred schools contended for the path, and the number of former saints was nearly a hundred, all attaining their Dao on this land! Even Mo Saint perished, and Ru Saint and Fa Saint all fell into deep sleep!"

"These ten thousand ancient doubts have no answer until now."

"I believe the answer is in your heart!"

Countless thoughts collided fiercely, the star light within the long river flickering in knots, that is the light of wisdom and knowledge.

"You are now the nameless one, and you are also the only knower in the current world!"

The sky above the Fallen Immortal Forest cleared, and in an instant, everything became clear.

This represented a further clarity in the understanding of the nameless one.

Huang Weizhen's momentum simply tore, tearing off the nameless one's entire arm!

This arm swelled in the air, like a dragon spanning the sky. As the blood and flesh twisted, it instantly exploded open.

Huang Weizhen simply gathered his five fingers lightly —

Those blood and flesh turned into vivid, heteromorphic beasts, running, cheering, and jumping.

First seeing the spirit, then seeing the truth!

All sorts of blood and flesh heteromorphic beasts actually turned into sheets of paper, on which were dense ancient characters. Each character and sentence formed a sheet, all stating the "classics" of the Dao!

The Zhang Hua Tai boomed and rumbled, and the twelve pivot officials all straightened their bodies.

"Spring freezing dissolves, earth qi begins to penetrate, soil dissolves once. Summer Solstice, heaven qi begins to heat, yin qi begins to flourish, soil dissolves again. Ninety days after Summer Solstice, day and night divide..."

"Formerly, during the Yellow Emperor, born with divine spirit, weak and able to speak, young and circumspect, grown and sincere and sensitive, becoming and ascending to heaven..."

"If one examines the ancient, the saint is between heaven and earth, the first among all beings. Observe the opening and closing of yin and yang to determine things, know the door of existence and death..."

"Speak not of the strange, shock not with singing, slightly strange words, will form a chapter. A former holy emperor, handsome in his face, then stands in the demon court, vying to observe its scene..."

Huang Weizhen read the classics with blood and flesh, and the Zhang Hua Tai recited them character by character.

The sound of reading entered the ears like a great bell!

Making heaven and earth roar!

The nameless one's blood and flesh was actually reason.

The nameless one's Dao body was actually classics!

*Fan Sheng Zhi Shu*, *Huang Di Nei Jing*, *Gui Gu Zi*, *Guai Zhi Pian*...

Farmer Family, Medical Family, Vertical and Horizontal Family, Miscellaneous Family...

What kind of monster was this? It actually kneaded a hundred schools as its Dao body, existing across ten thousand ages!

Every single detail analyzed from the nameless one's blood and flesh shocked people's hearts.

The Zhang Hua Tai had already gathered the most learned group of people in Chu Country, and they gradually found it difficult to keep up, each one's face deathly pale, sweating profusely.

Dou Zhao laid the Tian Xiao horizontally across a pile of its blood and flesh, where characters had formed into chapters.

He glanced at Jiang Wang: "These are all the essence of the saint era, why don't you use the Samadhi True Fire to analyze their truth? It would save a lot of hard work."

Jiang Wang quietly felt the changes in the Cloud Top Immortal Palace, and casually replied: "Books are records of the Dao. When I read books, it is not to acquire techniques."

Reading is a difficult matter, but it is also a good matter.

It can allow a young person born in a small town to see the vastness of the sky and earth, the length of the mountains and the distance of the waters. It can allow a medicinal materials merchant's child to see ancient and modern saints, and the heroes of all heavens.

Dou Zhao, a young master from a prominent family who had everything, couldn't quite understand Jiang Wang's seriousness about reading.

But he just casually chopped this pile of blood and flesh into countless characters with a single knife: "My intent is slightly the same!"

Within the sound of reading from tens of thousands of people together, amidst the roaring of heaven and earth, the nameless one began to laugh.

"Hahahaha hahahaha— ha ha ah —"

Its laughter was like weeping.

"You all fundamentally don't know what happened that year..."

"You all fundamentally don't know what we paid..."

"Who am I?"

"For whom!?"

"You actually dare to treat me... high up above!"

It instantly swelled open, "swell" being a greedy, all-consuming rule. Its voice, its body, its power, all swelled at an extreme speed.

The extreme of intent, heaven cannot contain. The extreme of power, earth cannot bear.

The infinitely swelling blood and flesh directly filled the entrance of the Arani Ghost Cave, blocking the boundless ghost qi and driving both the Chu Emperor and Huang Weizhen outside!

At this moment, its power swelled to the extreme, filling all existing space and occupying all definable possibilities. At this point in time, at least within the short span of space within the Arani Ghost Cave, it did not allow any concept outside of itself to exist!

The nameless one instantly swelled into a huge meat ball with forty-nine heads and ninety-eight arms, heads and arms growing in a disorderly and complex manner without rules!

"Name can be named... As I have heard... The best warrior attacks the scheme... Doubt leads to no action, doubt leads to no merit... Cannot not advise loving the people... Though ten thousand people, I will go..."

Forty-nine heads spoke separately, ninety-eight arms stretched and danced separately.

Extremely complex, extremely chaotic.

It was fundamentally impossible to imagine that this was actually a transcendent being.

But it did indeed exist with power that transcended all!

All the confused voices finally roared within its skull —

"Great achievement... Ultimate saint!"