Buddha speaks of six paths: the heavenly path, the Asura path, the human path, the animal path, the hungry ghost path, and the hell path.

Of course, within the Buddhist teachings in the demon world, the path of “human” is replaced by “demon.”

If sentient beings cannot attain enlightenment and become a Buddha, then they can only cycle repeatedly within these six paths, suffering the eight tribulations.

This is just one school of thought!

Cultivators who reach a certain level all know that the source sea is the destination of all things in the world, and death is the eternal end of all living beings.

The so-called six paths and the so-called cycle are just concepts similar to those found in Pure Land worlds, fantastical notions close to the divine way.

Moreover, not to mention that the six paths mentioned by Buddha still include the human path… The human race was created by the demon race; saying that the six paths are innate isn’t this nonsense?

As the pinnacle of Buddhist law in the demon world, a powerful demon once questioned Abbot Xiong about this.

And Abbot Xiong’s answer was that the three good and three evil six paths are the same as those for ordinary people, just distinguished by differences in the realm of good and evil karma. The six paths themselves are not important; what is important is the cycle.

The cycle is not about the body entering the source sea and then returning to live the same life again.

There truly are Pure Land worlds. Pious believers who do good and observe precepts throughout their lives can enter these places after death and be with the Buddha. But this is also a divine world that many sects possess; it’s nothing rare.

Indeed, within Pure Land worlds, the cycle of six paths also exists, there is a cycle of cause and effect, and there are the so-called previous life, present life, and future life. But that is merely an evolution of the divine way, akin to closing the door and finding one’s own joy.

Apart from Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, there are no true humans or true demons in Pure Land worlds. Because that world is not real. All that was in the past makes me who I am today, and all that is now shapes the body of tomorrow.

The previous life, present life, and future life reflect the past, present, and future. This cause bears this fruit, which is the true meaning of the cycle.

The Buddhist practice cultivates the future life, cultivates the future, and grasps the present.

Those who truly entrust themselves to the illusory and vague future life are all practicing erroneous transmissions, Hinayana! At best, when they cultivate to the end, they will only experience illusion and dream birth and death within a Pure Land like the Pure Land world.

Buddha transmitted the six paths simply to tell worldly sentient beings that good and evil are distinct, and that good and evil have retribution.

And what does Yu Zhen seek by planting the forest of six paths at the entrance of the Divine Vault world, deeply concealing the outline of the cycle?

Chai Yijian cut away the redundant branches and leaves, revealing the original appearance of the forest of six paths. It was precisely at this moment that the bell sounded.

The shocking sound of the Knowing Hear Bell did not come from Jiang Wang’s initiative.

Under the suppression of the protector god general’s pair of golden melon great hammers, his situation was extremely difficult. Although this protector god general was also merely a god possessing a body, this time Duke Xuannan had already completed the preparatory work for the god king’s body. His priority was to maintain the balance of the divine body, prevent it from collapsing, and wait for an opportunity to summon the response of the ancient imperial city’s Fengshen platform.

The various god images on the demon altar that day could all spare Nine Honors to deal with Xie Ai, which was sufficient to show that his mind power had already gained partial liberation.

At this moment, Chai took off the Three Lives Orchid Cause Flower. He also reclaimed this part of his mind power to the protector god general. With the celestial demon’s realm, hitting Jiang Wang’s martial arts was fundamentally impossible to display. Divine Communication Sword Technique was like child’s play. Even Jiang Wang, who had killed several demon kings, could not make the Knowing Hear Bell shake!

Every time he tried to use the Knowing Hear Bell, it would be interrupted beforehand.

As Duke Xuannan’s mind power continuously liberated, the gap between the two sides grew larger and larger. Even with the support of the Immortal Jade Bead, Jiang Wang could not endure.

During the fight, Duke Xuannan even saw the causal line that Abbot Mingdie tied to Jiang Wang’s body at the time of the karma fire!

It was precisely this causal line that brought the Knowing Hear Bell to Jiang Wang’s side without gods or ghosts knowing. Jiang Wang himself could not see it, and even true demons like Gou Yingyang could not detect it.

At that time, Abbot Mingdie’s full power descended into the Divine Vault world, unlike Duke Xuannan who merely borrowed the god images of various gods to act. Although he had seen this line, it was not easy to pull.

But Mingdie was already dead, and he was still alive. As long as he reclaimed one-fifth of the god images’ mind power, he could wrap this causal line around Jiang Wang’s neck.

At this moment, his biggest consideration was how not to waste that god king body after Great Ancestor Yu Zhen refused to return… After all, it was the accumulation of the Fengshen platform for how many years!

The divine body was personally designed by Emperor Yuan Xi and specifically created for the supreme honored god. It could be said to have reached perfection in the divine way.

If he hadn’t known there was no possibility of achieving the honored god position himself, he would even want to occupy this body! This bell sound was truly sudden.

Because all of Jiang Wang’s responses had never exceeded his expectations. This person, with fighting talent almost not inferior to the new king First Qi Weiyi, exerted all his efforts, but under the celestial demon’s gaze, he was just like an ant scurrying about, using eighteen kinds of martial arts.

It was indeed wonderful, and indeed posed no threat. Only at this moment was there the first accident.

Among all the entrants throughout the Divine Vault world who participated in the Divine Vault Secret Realm from the beginning and simultaneously underwent the six paths test,

Who was the first to understand that “the six paths are originally one,” and to know that several teams were actually walking in the same place?

Not the divinely inspired Lu Qilang, nor the deep-scheming Spider Lanruo. But it was Jiang Wang!

In the mirror world, he gained a “bystander’s clarity.” He watched the journeys of Chai Asi, Ape Mengji, Pig Dali, and Snake Guyu, and from them, he glimpsed the true meaning of the Divine Vault world. He felt “cycle” and “infinite possibility.”

At the moment when Chai Yijian cut open the forest of six paths and exposed the arrangements within to the world, it was not Jiang Wang who rang the Knowing Hear Bell, but his “knowing and hearing” within the forest of six paths that was sought by the Knowing Hear Bell!

When he devoured the mirage dragon in the Vermilion Makeup Mirror, at that moment when Chai Asi and Ape Mengji knew nothing, he had already detected the difference in the forest of six paths. He also quietly left a trace of his thought interpretation technique within the forest as a recording of an idle chess piece—he truly grasped every possible opportunity and made every effort he could.

But this idle chess piece did not play any role. A trace of thought that was not powerful enough was devoured by the cycle of this forest early on.

On the contrary, the thinking from that time echoed at this moment!

At that time, he asked himself two questions in his heart—what is the link between these six paths? What is the living source of the Divine Vault place?

When he first entered the Divine Vault world and knew very little, he thought that only by finding the answers to these two questions could he find the possibility of returning to the present world.

Later, he saw the Immortal Spring, saw the Celestial Demon Altar, had other conjectures, tried them one by one, and failed one by one. After hope ignited and was extinguished time and time again, he returned to this moment… He had already found the answers to both of these questions!

The link between the six paths in the forest of six paths is the cycle of six paths, good cause and evil fruit.

And the living source of the Divine Vault place is precisely the fate bubbles growing on the tree stumps in the forest of six paths!

Pig Dali was once inside one of those bubbles, and with the help of the Pacification Path Lord, he killed a certain possibility of his own future.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

Jiang Wang’s continuous thinking and searching welcomed a burst of inspiration at this moment, causing the Knowing Hear Bell to ring incessantly.

Divine Vault world!

A world full of hope and despair. Who knows how many wishes are realized here? How many dreams are shattered here?

Jiang Wang had rung the Knowing Hear Bell countless times, wanting to summon the Old Path of the World Honored One. But at the moment when the Knowing Hear Bell rang in the forest of six paths, he suddenly understood—

Where does the World Honored One have an Old Path?

And where is not the World Honored One’s road?

Buddhist law does not cease, the World Honored One does not perish.

Where the heart is, the body is.

He, Jiang Wang… cannot reach it.

Although the six paths transmitted by Buddha exist, this is not his path!

Although it is said that Buddhist law is boundless, in the bitter sea, there is no ferry boat for me.

If the true meaning of the Divine Vault world is “infinite possibility,”

If it is said that in this world, success and failure each have a predetermined destiny, then after so many “possibilities” are shattered, what kind of success will the Divine Vault world welcome?

Jiang Wang’s mind was filled with continuous inspiration, leading him to a terrifying possibility. With his duty as a human, he had to transmit this possibility back to the present world. But this body was trapped and could not move. He could not even touch the door to the present world, could not even see the direction of his home, so how could he transmit a message?

What to do?

At this very moment, a subtle change occurred in the Divine Vault world.

It was happening. This was a change in the foundation of this world, occurring once again after time and space had been reshaped.

Chai waved and stood calmly, looking at the forest of six paths and listening to the Knowing Hear Bell. His eyes were so distant, as if gazing at the ascetic practice of the World Honored One.

That great being, born at the end of the ancient era, attained the Way in the middle ancient era, and shone brightly in the Battle of the Lie Mountain Chasing Dragon, transmitted the law regardless of demons, humans, dragons, or monsters, without any partiality. How high was his realm, his Brahma conduct?

This was the vast scenery of the cultivation path, and although there was a distinction between human and demon, it still made his heart yearn for it.

Now, in his hand, he held the Three Lives Orchid Cause Flower he had cultivated for a long time. It reached through three lives, grasping the possibilities of the past, present, and future. As long as he took this last step, he could achieve transcendence.

Then he could also glimpse the realm of the World Honored One. He would also have the opportunity to see the scenery that the World Honored One saw.

The layout of three thousand years, now is the time for harvest.

The struggle with Ying Yunnian can now end in victory!

But how can the current predicament of the demon race be solved by just one or two transcendences? Yu Zhen once transcended, why did he establish the Celestial Demon Altar himself?

Yu Zhen clearly had the possibility of returning to transcendence, so why did he refuse Yuan Xi in the end? Who can refuse the scenery at the absolute peak?

Don’t you see how hard Tiger Taisui is striving? Using every means, even not hesitating to provoke the dignity of the ancient imperial city!

There is no more Yu Zhen under heaven, hence no demon can understand Yu Zhen’s decision.

Whether it is Duke Xuannan, Ji Xingkong, or any Celestial Demon in Moyun City at this moment. Emperor Yuan Xi perhaps understood, but he only left a sigh.

Now it was Chai’s turn.

This was the six paths transmitted by Buddha, and the forest of six paths planted by Yu Zhen. Chai, of course, understood.

After cutting open this forest of six paths with one sword, he understood too much! He understood Yu Zhen.

The forest of six paths within this Divine Vault world is perhaps the place where those young demons are most likely to reap rewards. It’s a pity that among the twelve young demons who entered the forest of six paths to undergo the test, some have died, some are injured, and only a few remain.

He stood on the mountain path after both mountains had been shattered.

Looking in all directions, he only saw Ling Xihua, whose Courage had already broken among the Demon Rakshasas, and Lu Qilang, who had one of his two demon marks cut off. Of course, he also saw further away, Snake Guyu hiding towards the corner of the world, and Pig Dali chasing after him closely.

And this body… This Chai Asi, who has already some awakening, but still does not know where the road is, nor how far he can walk.

These are the future of the demon race. Or rather, they are a part of the future of the demon race. No one can believe that they can contend with the human race afterward.

Compared to Jiang Wang, who is currently fighting Duke Xuannan to the death, they all pale in comparison!

One must know that Lu Qilang, Ling Xihua, Spider Lanruo, Yang Yu, Rat Jialan, these five demon race prodigies at their peak were all killed or severely injured by Jiang Wang in the process of chasing and killing him, three killed and two severely injured!

Although Ling Xihua’s courage has already broken, he never gives up striving. Just like the most humble but most tenacious crawler, no matter how much you despise him, hate him, he can always find soil to survive.

Although Lu Qilang’s demon mark has been cut off, he has not lost a single bit of confidence. He knew from the beginning that he, Lu Qilang, was powerful, not his divine powers. Even if it were a thousand or ten thousand times, he would still dare to face Jiang Wang.

Although Snake Guyu is heartless and cold, he possesses extremely vigorous vitality. For “being alive,” he has a persistence that no one can reach. Being alive is the most powerful word, being alive is infinite possibility.

Although Pig Dali is unremarkable, that burning ideal makes him possess a light that no one can ignore.

Although Chai Asi’s talent was ordinary before, now he has… a brave character. Is the future worth it?

Perhaps no answer is needed.

Chai suddenly laughed loudly: “Flying light, flying light, I advise you one cup of wine, I give you three thousand years!” At this moment, his unrestrained nature made Chai Asi’s not outstanding face also possess a moving splendor.

He laughed and waved his rusty iron sword, as if holding a wolf hair brush, turning his full belly of heroic spirit and sky-rushing sword qi into thick ink, indulging in splashing it,

On the back of the stele in front of the forest of six paths, four large characters were written.

“Isn’t it also happy?”

There is a stele in front of the forest of six paths.

There are words on both the front and back of the stele.

The front says “Guest from afar comes.”

The back says “Isn’t it also happy?”

This is a dialogue between two great demon ancestors across time.

Perhaps they never met before, their lives had no intersection.

The time when they bloomed their light was not in the same era.

But at this moment in this place, they may become bosom friends!

Those who aspire to the same goal and whose ways are aligned will always meet!

This sentence, started by Yu Zhen and continued by Chai, “Guest from afar comes, isn’t it also happy?” is almost the same as a sentence of an ancient sage from a human Confucian classic.

The first sentence of the Analects, the so-called “Learning and timely practicing it, isn’t it also pleasing? To have friends come from afar, isn’t it also happy? To be unknown by others and not resentful, isn’t it also a gentleman?”

This sentence was annotated by great Confucians as “Entering the door of the Way, accumulating the foundation of virtue.” How similar is that place to this place.

It is to say that the Great Way is originally true, all returning to one!

In the midst of that unrestrained laughter, Chai crushed the Three Lives Orchid Cause Flower in his hand with one pinch, without any attachment, his posture free and easy. Just like casually throwing away a piece of fallen leaf.

Bits of flying light scattered between heaven and earth.

His laughter also scattered and faded away.

Chai Asi suddenly woke up, he was already in control of this body again, he raised the rusty iron sword again, and saw the Ten Thousand God Sea, the Fengshen platform, the Ten Thousand God Images, and Lu Qilang and the others again.

For a moment, he was confused!

He knew the most about what happened, and also was the least able to speak.

How short was his time with Chai, but from fear, resentment, suspicion, again to shock, excitement, and now close to complete admiration and respect!

Chai gave up the transcendence within reach, and gifted this three thousand years of time, this three thousand years of scheme, all to the demon race. He was confident that by giving up this three thousand years of struggle, he could still prove the Dao and transcend! He was confident that this three thousand years of effort was worth it!

A Celestial Demon lives for ten thousand years, and I wager half my life! What kind of breadth of mind is this, what kind of spirit!

The changes in the Divine Vault world did not stop for a moment.

The protector god general’s golden melon hammer had originally sealed Jiang Wang’s time and space, but ripples of cause and effect, circle after circle, temporarily rippled him away.

How could the ripples only be between Jiang Wang and Duke Xuannan, between Lu Qilang and Ling Xihua? All beings in this world could feel the power of cause and effect at this moment.

These ripples of cause and effect did not originate from the Knowing Hear Bell, but rose from the forest of six paths, surged within the world’s rules, and stirred up waves in the entire Divine Vault world!

After the remnants of the flying light shattered, the Divine Vault world rebuilt the order of time and space.

After the forest of six paths was cut open, the Divine Vault world began to establish cause and effect, construct the cycle. This world is leaping!

Chai’s Three Lives Orchid Cause Flower scattered at this moment.

Pop! Pop! Pop!

Those fate bubbles on the tree stumps in the forest of six paths shattered one after another!

Yu Xin was born with a pair of beautiful silver wings, wanting to inherit Yu Zhen’s treasures and become a true “Little Yu Zhen.”

Xiong San wanted to take revenge on the Three Evil Calamities Lord.

Spider Yin’s body carried many schemes, wanting to adapt to the circumstances, wanting to truly rise, and to make Spider Lanruo’s “elder brother” have true emotions and real feelings.

Spider Lanruo held the Orchid Cause Floss Fruit in his hand. After Spider Yi retreated, he acted as a chess player with the body of a chess piece, wanting to win his own game.

Yang Yu carried the Knowing Hear Bell into the game, wanting to win everything for Ancient Southern Mountain. Rat Jialan single-mindedly wanted to seize the Knowing Hear Bell.

Lu Qilang wanted to step into the God Sea, seize the God Infant, and seek his own opportunity. Ling Xihua wanted to become the world’s first true spirit race.

Ape Mengji wanted to return home safely, be his Celestial Demon nobleman, and enjoy inexhaustible resources.

Chai Asi believed the nonsense of the Great Ancient God, thinking himself a destiny demon, a future great emperor. Snake Guyu wanted to avoid trouble, escape danger, and originally did not want to come to the Divine Vault world. Pig Dali established the ideal of the Pacification Path, but the Pacification Path fundamentally does not exist!

Even so.

Abbot Mingdie hid in the demon world for five hundred years, a lonely boat crossing the river,

Wanting to bring the Knowing Hear Bell home.

Crane Huating hid in the fragments of past time, wanting to revive in the future and continue the myth.

Spider Yi schemed to seize the Immortal Spring, and still wanted to take Crane Huating as a collection.

Deer Ximing coveted the Ten Thousand God Sea, greedily wanting the God Infant, thinking that by using Gou Yingyang as a chess piece, he could win everything.

Gou Yingyang wanted to probe the truth of the Divine Vault world, invade the world rules of this newborn world, and take a big step on his own path. He wanted to avenge his blood descendant Gou Xizai, and still wanted to take something from the human race prodigy.

Spider String wanted to retrieve all of the Spider family’s schemes, wanted to bring back the traces of the Orchid Cause Floss Fruit, and still wanted Chai to compensate.

Tiger Taisui, after glimpsing the path of transcendence, still wanted to invade the Fengshen platform and accelerate his ascent to the absolute peak.

Cicada Fayuan, in the Divine Vault game, first sought to occupy everything, and then sought to seize back the Knowing Hear Bell.

Ji Xingkong, from the beginning, laid out two unrelated lines. One line wanted to snatch the Knowing Hear Bell, and one line wanted to pick Tiger Taisui’s fruit. Later, after teaching the Demon Rakshasa, he set his sights on the Three Lives Orchid Cause Flower.

Winter Emperor Xie Ai came specifically for the Three Lives Orchid Cause Flower, not hesitating to pay a huge price to act across the world, but when the flower bloomed and fell, she had no destiny.

Duke Xuannan wanted to complete Yuan Xi’s legacy decree, promote the enfeoffment of the supreme honored god, and sideways glimpse his path of transcendence.

Emperor Yuan Xi wanted to revive Yu Zhen!

And at this last moment, Chai crushed the Three Lives Orchid Cause Flower he had cultivated himself, personally destroying his success within reach… Shattering this biggest fate bubble.

No matter the origin, no matter the cultivation, no matter how much preparation was made.

All the seeking in the past… all are empty mirrors and moon in water! On the other shore that possesses infinite possibilities and infinite changes.

A figure wearing a white jade crown and white clothes walked from the depths of time. And a figure wearing a crown, domineeringly looking down, walked towards the depths of time. The former is the Yu Zhen who sat and discussed the Way with Emperor Yuan Xi before.

The latter is the Chai whose image only manifested in Chai Asi’s sea of consciousness. Yu Zhen slightly bowed his head and said respectfully: “Thank you, Fellow Daoist!”

Chai returned the greeting, also saying: “Thank you, Fellow Daoist!” He thanked him for his fulfillment.

He thanked him for the sacrifice he made for the demon race.

They met only once in this life on the river of time. They had never met before, and they will never meet again afterward.

Meeting, then passing each other.

Each goes their own way, each moving forward.

Yu Zhen walked above this long river of time, opening his wide sleeves, facing everything alone: “All borrow me to attain the Way, and I also attain the Way!”

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Clang! Clang! Clang!

This world changed violently, the Knowing Hear Bell rang chaotically like crazy! Mountains and rivers cracked into valleys, and plains were covered by rivers.

Rain was sudden as arrows, wind was wild as crying.

Again the sun shone high, again mud and stones were like dragons.

All existences in this world, whether you are a descending god, a demon king, or a true demon, can only watch this change occur with wide eyes.

All possibilities in the Divine Vault world have been exhausted, all foreshadowing has been unveiled, this moment is truly “beyond heaven, there is no evil,” no one can interfere with all of this anymore.

Whether human or demon, no existence can stop Yu Zhen.

This was originally a world possessing infinite possibilities, but in this Divine Vault game, all possibilities did not stand, all beautiful dreams were shattered, all layouts failed!

At this moment of establishing cause and effect, recasting the cycle, and the world’s leap, the rules of this world itself respond to its “fairness.”

Exhausting all to gain one, gaining one by losing everything!

The “cause” of failure is piled up to the extreme, to achieve the “fruit” of success!

This game deceived all existences from ancient times to the present, including countless demon race prodigies and many demon race great powers who have been playing chess in this world for tens of thousands of years, even Duke Xuannan who controls the Fengshen platform did not know the inside story!

Of course, it also deceived the human race!

Whether it is the remnants of flying light, the Immortal Spring, including the mirage dragon, including all the accumulation of tens of thousands of years in this world, all are provisions for this great world that is leaping in essence.

No matter who, participating in the Divine Vault game is just achieving the Divine Vault game.

All who wanted to attain the Way by borrowing the Divine Vault world were all achieving Yu Zhen’s “Way.”

This “Way” did not allow him to go further after transcending. This “Way” was this Divine Vault world itself!

In this last Divine Vault game, Yu Zhen destroyed the schemes of all those who entered the game, even including his own revival.

With their ten thousand losses, he gained this one success.

Achieving perhaps the most impossible possibility in this era!

Because what he needed to contend with in this step was the master of the present world, the human race who suppressed all heavens and ten thousand realms!

Originally, he failed in his struggle for position and went far into the Chaos Sea, which was to seek a road for the demon race.

But in the Chaos Sea, there is no road for the demon race. As early as the ancient era, the “possibility” had already been cut off by the human race.

Later, he returned to the Divine Vault world, extended Emperor Yuan Xi’s life with his transcendent body, and then established the Celestial Demon Altar himself… What he sought was this moment in time, today, a bridgehead communicating with the outside of heaven, a key to open the ten thousand-year lock of the demon race!

The Divine Vault world is open to all existences outside of heaven, treated equally.

And “openness” is the greatest possibility this world seeks!

From now on for ten thousand years, the Divine Vault world is open to the demon world! Open to the present world! Open to all heavens and ten thousand realms!

From now on, the demon race… is no longer prisoners!