Whoosh, whoosh!

The Rift Valley was wild and rugged, with winds sharp as knives.

A plump figure scraped against the wind, a sound of innocent surrender.

Pig Dali, the messenger of Taiping Dao, had finally caught up to Snake Gu Yu, the Red Moon Demon King.

Or perhaps, Snake Gu Yu was uncharacteristically unvigilant and allowed him to catch up. Her purple hair floated lightly, and she looked over with an expressionless gaze.

Her empty eyes seemed to ask why he had come.

“Join Taiping Dao!” Pig Dali said directly. Snake Gu Yu didn’t speak.

“Join Taiping Dao,” Pig Dali repeated. “I’ve come to tell you why we want to live.” He pulled off his face covering. His plump, unattractive face was full of seriousness. “I’ve come to help you find the answer.”

Is this guy trying to tell me, or himself? Snake Gu Yu thought this to herself but remained silent.

She wasn’t originally a homeless demon with nowhere to go.

She was born into the prominent Lin Wu Snake family, possessed stunning talent, and quickly became a new king on the Heaven List.

But no one knew that the entire Lin Wu Snake family was secretly connected to Ku Long Sect members. She, too, had been indoctrinated from a young age and joined Ku Long Sect.

Ku Long Sect was filled with despair for this world. Their hearts were solely focused on self-destruction, and they spent their lives pursuing a brilliant death to bid farewell to the sea of bitterness.

The Lin Wu Snake family planned a major scheme to destroy Shen Xiang Flower Sea, responding to Ku Long Sect’s fervent call. They wanted to use the destruction of Shen Xiang Flower Sea to liberate the entire Lin Wu Snake family. Snake Gu Yu, the new king of the Heaven List, was a crucial tool in this plan.

But “tools” have their own ideas.

Snake Gu Yu, who had accepted Ku Long Sect’s ideology since childhood, found herself unwilling to die as she grew older. Her desire for life constantly grew, finally burying the chains that bound her.

Thus, the Lin Wu blood case occurred.

Although she didn’t know why she so strongly wanted to live, where the meaning of life lay, or what hope there was in this vast, cage-like world, she wanted to live.

She had nothing, sought nothing, only this basic desire for life.

Now, Pig Dali said he wanted to lead her to find the meaning of living, to find the answer to why one should live. She had no expectations for Taiping Dao, but she didn’t seem to resist much either.

Whatever, it doesn’t matter. Life couldn’t get much worse.

In the future that Chai Suo saw, this scene was just one among many. It wasn’t necessarily wonderful.

It was even hard to say it was worthwhile.

But it was for these ordinary scenes, in their myriad forms, that he was willing to exchange three thousand years for the future of the demon race.

Taigu Imperial City’s management of the evil god Yin Si wasn’t very strict, as the Feng Shen Tai absorbed vast amounts of divine power each year, and there were also contributions from numerous “wild gods.”

But a school of thought like Ku Long Sect, which couldn’t even be classified as a clear organization, was an absolute taboo for the demon race. Any discovery of a Ku Long Sect member would be met with Taigu Imperial City’s bloodiest extermination.

But Ku Long Sect didn’t fear this; instead, they rejoiced.

Ku Long Sect said that the demon race was born as prisoners, that birth was suffering, and only death could bring eternal liberation. They pursued various brilliant ways to die, so that their end would have some glory. Being intensely pursued and killed by Taigu Imperial City could also be considered one of these ways.

Many demons considered this a form of bravery because Ku Long Sect “viewed death as returning home.” But to Lu Qi Lang, this was the greatest cowardice.

Because they lacked the courage to face reality, the courage to break free from the cage, they only used death to escape everything.

Truly great wisdom and courage belonged to generations like Yu Zhen, who never gave up the struggle, forever forging a path for the race. It belonged to those like Chai, who accumulated and sacrificed more than three thousand years in an instant, forever believing in themselves and the future.

Sacrificing one who might achieve transcendence, preventing one who would surely achieve transcendence, and sacrificing one who had already achieved transcendence…

A magnificent new era, unveiled before the demon race! All the heavens and myriad worlds, once again opened their arms to the demon race!

The demon race would no longer be trapped and confined!

Lu Qi Lang was only shocked when the god infant was seized.

He still drew his sword when Spider Lan Ruo was killed. He only valued Demon Zheng as an opponent when Demon Zheng was cut down. Only at this moment, seeing Great Ancestor Yu Zhen embracing all the heavens in the river of time, did he uncontrollably burst into tears!

How great!

How difficult!

At that time, above the river of time.

Great Emperor Yuan Xi and Great Ancestor Yu Zhen sat and discussed the dao. What were they saying?

Great Emperor Yuan Xi, who wrote the words “Er replace Your Majesty fate” on Yu Zhen’s transformed bronze cauldron body, was perhaps the only being in the world who had guessed Yu Zhen’s plan.

He had left his strategy ten thousand years ago, intending to use the divine power of the demon world to shape a god king body, bestow the title of supreme honored god, and welcome Yu Zhen’s return. By helping Yu Zhen achieve his great ambition, he would let Yu Zhen lead the demon race and welcome that new era that embraced all the heavens.

But establishing a truly open Shen Xiao world, breaking the demon race’s ten-thousand-year confinement, and Yu Zhen’s return and transcendence happening simultaneously had too low a probability of success.

Yu Zhen chose to refuse and also invested Great Emperor Yuan Xi’s strategy as a resource. He even made his own revival a “loss” to pave the way.

Thus, Great Emperor Yuan Xi sighed.

Besides sighing, there was nothing else to say.

Originally, he and Yu Zhen competed for the position of Demon Emperor, each with their own correctness, each believing in their own path, believing they could lead the demon race towards a better future.

He focused on the internal affairs of the demon race, believing in their own potential, believing they could once again rise to greatness and stand at the center of all the heavens and myriad worlds.

While Yu Zhen personally took risks, plotting the return of the dragon race. The failure of this chess move directly led to this greatest competitor withdrawing from the Demon Emperor competition.

Yuan Xi’s tenure as Demon Emperor wasn’t unsuccessful.

After all, under his leadership, the demon race won the Wu Ling blood war, once flattening the five evil basins and almost breaking through the myriad demon gate! Although they ultimately failed, it was still the most glorious victory since the new world began.

But the demon world was inherently insufficient; the heavenly prison was originally a giant cage.

The demon race was trapped and confined in this place. As long as they couldn’t break free, no matter how much they struggled, it was only delaying their death.

Although the human and demon races were constantly at war, the demon race never retreated.

But within a closed world, the demon race’s war potential was constantly decreasing. While the human race resided at the center of their myriad worlds, their war potential increased daily.

Great Emperor Yuan Xi was very clear: if there were no earth-shattering changes, the Wu Ling blood war was almost the last burst of vitality for the demon race. That glorious victory was steeped in blood!

After the Wu Ling blood war, he made many more efforts. He organized multiple counterattacks to the present world outside and also hosted various reforms within the demon race.

For example, they extensively learned human culture and introduced human cultivation methods. For example, they actively held various martial arts competitions to select talented demons. For example, they reformed the military system and innovated military formations…

However, all that he did during his tenure as Demon Emperor couldn’t compare to Yu Zhen’s one step—unless during the Wu Ling blood war, he had truly broken through the myriad demon gate.

Ten thousand years ago, he and Yu Zhen each held their own dao, not convincing each other. Ten thousand years later, it was still the same. He sighed, yet he was also willing to help Yu Zhen’s strategy.

How could Taigu Imperial City’s ten-thousand-year strategy for Feng Shen Tai not be a huge fate bubble shadow, a rich resource?

He knew that once Yu Zhen succeeded, once the Shen Xiao world was truly “opened.”

This would be a merit great enough to rival the last Demon Emperor of the ancient era who opened the demon world!

The ancient Demon Emperor gave the demon race the possibility of survival. Yu Zhen opened up new hope for the demon race! He hoped Yu Zhen could use such immense prestige to push the demon race back to the center of the myriad worlds.

But Yu Zhen required absolute safety and was unwilling to let his own revival add risk to the final plan, or even become fuel for the ideal. Just as Chai later crushed the San Sheng Lan Yin Flower, unwilling to share the “victory fruit” of ten thousand failures, he instead used the power of the San Sheng Lan Yin Flower to further consolidate the cause and effect reincarnation of this world.

So Great Emperor Yuan Xi’s final sigh was only “Yu Zhen is unwilling.”

Yu Zhen’s wish, he didn’t say.

If Great Emperor Yuan Xi was the only one from ancient times to the present who had anticipated Yu Zhen’s plan…

Chai was the second existence from ancient times to the present who saw through the truth of the Shen Xiao world. Then Jiang Wang was the third existence to touch the truth of this world.

Of course, he had the help of Zhi Wen Zhong, but it lay more in his relentless questioning and burning thoughts about this world!

Before Yu Zhen embraced all the heavens in the river of time, he already had a guess about this world’s final evolution!

He guessed that the fate bubble shadows within the six dao forest were the source of life for this Shen Xiao world. He guessed that among ten thousand failures, there would be one success.

And besides freedom, besides the freedom of the entire demon race, what else was worth such a great existence as Yu Zhen sacrificing himself for?

He guessed the most magnificent possibility for the demon race, the most terrifying possibility for the human race.

The unbreakable seal line built by the human race around the myriad demon gate over several major eras had now been bypassed!

The demon race could now travel to all the heavens and myriad worlds through the Shen Xiao world, no longer solely relying on the adventures of some heavenly demons in the chaotic sea to gain knowledge and resources from the vast universe… From now on, there were infinite possibilities!

He guessed it, but he was powerless, unable to do anything.

He could only watch as that most terrifying possibility evolved step by step into reality.

A great world on the verge of a leap, already unstoppable. A great race with infinite possibilities, already unstoppable.

But!

Since the Shen Xiao world was open to all the heavens and myriad worlds…

Then the human race and the demon race should have the same possibilities within this world! Whoever first occupied this world would gain the initiative.

At this moment, the Shen Xiao world was like an egg in the vast chaotic sea. All life budded, grew tenaciously, and everything happened within the eggshell. No matter how turbulent, ambitious, how many derived dao conflicts and transcendent falls occurred within this world, outside, there were no waves.

This was the world’s self-protection, this so-called “no evil outside the heavens.” Zen Master Xing Nian induced the world’s rules to create an opportunity for Jiang Wang, this “outside of calculation” human pride. Yu Zhen solidified this protection for the absolute safety of his final leap and to clear hidden dangers.

When the Shen Xiao world completely completed its leap, it would naturally “break the cocoon and become a butterfly.” It would no longer be “no evil outside the heavens” but would leap out of the chaotic sea, opening its arms to all the heavens and myriad worlds.

The demon race would, of course, have the advantage of the first move.

Over the past ten thousand years, countless demon race powerhouses had laid out strategies and contended in this world. Within Moyun City alone, there were several heavenly demons guarding it! They were just waiting for the Shen Xiao world to open, and many countermoves could be employed.

Besides, at this very moment, there were gods present. Xuan Nan Gong, who stayed in the Shen Xiao world, had many methods and would timely pass the message back to the demon world.

Perhaps the demon race army was already assembling!

Indeed, the Shen Xiao world was created by a great ancestor of the demon race. It could be said that the demon race was more familiar with the Shen Xiao world, possessing all the advantages of heavenly timing and earthly location.

However, in the present world, the human race had defeated the demon race, and the human race overshadowed all the heavens and myriad worlds. This was the grand trend, like the sun at midday!

If the human race could timely find this place and engage in competition with the demon race, the outcome would still be uncertain.

It was imaginable that at the moment the Shen Xiao world completed its leap and the demon race strongly entered this world, the demon race would certainly find a way to conceal the heavenly secrets.

They would certainly operate the Shen Xiao world like an iron barrel, just like the Civilization Basin to the present world… and invite all the myriad races of the heavens to enter the game again.

The moment the Shen Xiao world leaped out of the chaotic sea, there would certainly be no small wave. But as long as they had the intention to hide it, whether by covering it with clouds or concealing it with waves, there would always be a way.

Even if the heavenly secrets couldn’t be hidden for long, gaining even an hour of operation would be a huge advantage.

Yu Zhen had left the demon race an infinitely vast world and a future with infinite possibilities. He had already paid everything.

Other advantages would be contended for by the demon race themselves. And what kind of person was Jiang Wang?

Although just a speck of dust in all the heavens and myriad worlds!

He couldn’t influence the grand trend between the human and demon races, nor could he shake the plans of great beings like Yu Zhen. But as long as he could timely inform the human race about the opening of the Shen Xiao world, even if it was only one breath or two ahead, it would be a great contribution!

This kind of possibility didn’t exist before. Now it did!

Because before, Yu Zhen wanted to “exhaust all to seek one gain, gain all with one loss.”

While this time, all fate bubble shadows were broken, and the world finally achieved its leap. Yu Zhen’s dao succeeded, but his body wasn’t restored.

At the same time as the Shen Xiao world’s entire world leaped, Zhi Wen Zhong rang wildly.

While helping Jiang Wang see more clearly, it was also helping him search for a path in destiny. Bang!

Jiang Wang grasped Zhi Wen Zhong with one hand, fixing it in the air. The crazy ringing suddenly stopped.

I have my own path! Why do I need Zhi Wen?

Within the booming, leaping Shen Xiao world, Jiang Wang and his Chang Xiang Si seemed so peaceful.

Zhi Wen Zhong, once a treasure of the World Honored, helped him smooth the ripples of cause and effect, allowing him to maintain peace amidst this great change in heaven and earth.

And as the third existence from ancient times to the present who had guessed Yu Zhen’s plan, although he didn’t have the ability to destroy Yu Zhen’s plan or stop the Shen Xiao world’s leap, with preparation in advance, he had the opportunity to do something with the Shen Xiao world’s leap.

Great Emperor Yuan Xi guessed Yu Zhen’s plan and chose to welcome Yu Zhen back. Chai saw Yu Zhen’s plan and chose to help Yu Zhen achieve it.

While Jiang Wang only discovered the truth when this plan was about to end… As a human, he chose the human race. As Jiang Wang, he achieved himself!

The traces left by the two great beings from earlier times, sitting and discussing the dao in the river of time. I fly here, and with one sword, I cut through the void!

At that time, stars shifted and time flowed like water, snow fell between heaven and earth. This could also be considered a preliminary setting of direction for this world. The Big Dipper points north, and where my heart yearns is my hometown! Searching for Yu Zhen’s old path failed.

Searching for the World Honored’s old path failed.

Building Wu An City to respond to Wu An, even the bridge of wish power collapsed.

In the Shen Xiao world, no, in the attempts to make the territories flowing to the demon race a home, all efforts failed!

If the Shen Xiao world is about to undergo another essence leap, after the space-time order is reshaped, cause and effect will be re-established. If the world’s rules are to return to their fairness…

Yu Zhen gained one success with all his failures.

I, Jiang Wang, should also gain one success with all my failures!

The Shen Xiao world supports you, it should also support me.

His ten thousand losses exchanged for a leaping world.

My ten thousand losses exchanged for just one home!

At this crucial moment of the world’s leap, Jiang Wang imitated Yu Zhen, also borrowing the cause and effect reincarnation of this world to achieve his extravagant hope!

Using the fruits of countless failures, he opened the cause of success. In this world of overturned heaven and earth, the Shen Xiao world…

Traversing the high sky above the river of time, Yu Zhen had already disappeared within his embrace of all the heavens outside. He used his complete disappearance to interpret the true fairness and openness of the Shen Xiao world he created.

“All of you borrowed me to achieve the dao, and my dao is also achieved!” The lingering sound remained. And within the time waves, there were reflections of starlight.

Four dazzling stars, one winding star road, and a handle of starlight spoon gently stirred it, probing into the river of time. Starlight scooped up time, and time also shattered the starlight.

Within the Shen Xiao world, where mountains and rivers were inverted, infinite starlight was sprinkled. It was a dreamlike scene.

Endless starlight paved a road, extending to Jiang Wang’s feet. I use the star road as my outer structure, I use the star road to become my outer structure!

The starlight reflecting all the heavens and myriad worlds also once shone upon my hometown. The Seven Star Holy Building… take me home!

In Ling Xi Hua’s vision, the collapsing mountains and cracking ground, the sudden rain and strong winds, all became distant for a time. He saw starlight in the starless, moonless Shen Xiao world. He saw starlight all over the sky, hanging down a brilliant pool.

The human pride Jiang Wang, who once made him fear, had already stepped onto that starlight-paved distant road, leaving this world at the speed of instantaneous thousand li!

He no longer cared about stabilizing himself, no longer cared about resisting this world of overturned heaven and earth, only shouted in a sharp voice: “He wants to run!!!”

Who was “he”? There was no need to describe further.

At this moment, the only one who could stop Jiang Wang from leaving was Xuan Nan Gong, who of course perceived the changes earlier than Ling Xi Hua.

The mutual achievement of Great Ancestor Yu Zhen and Great Ancestor Chai naturally moved him. Great Emperor Yuan Xi’s ten-thousand-year painstaking plan was also finally known to him.

But as the present heavenly demon in control of Feng Shen Tai, he couldn’t indulge in emotions like those minor demons.

He fully recognized the great significance of the Shen Xiao world’s opening.

For the first time in the essence of this world’s leap, he did two extremely important things.

The first thing was to quickly inform Taigu Imperial City of everything happening within the Shen Xiao world. He requested the Demon Emperor to immediately mobilize strong forces. They must enter the Shen Xiao world at the first moment of its leap and thoroughly bring this world under control.

This matter was related to the future lifeblood of the demon race for ten thousand years. It was the most important matter.

The second thing was to immediately begin consecrating a god! Even if the power of Taigu Imperial City’s Feng Shen Tai couldn’t temporarily be transmitted here, simply using the Feng Shen Tai of Wan Shen Hai for this world, even if it would extremely waste this perfect god body, this god king body must be quickly consecrated as the master of the Shen Xiao world!

Because the Shen Xiao world sought infinite openness, even if the god master was successfully consecrated, it would be very difficult for them to have too much authority.

But they didn’t need much authority. Controlling the Shen Xiao world’s master meant having control over the mountains, rivers, wind, rain, thunder, and lightning of this world in one’s heart, which was already the greatest advantage.

Once this matter succeeded, the benefits of controlling the Shen Xiao world were self-evident.

While initiating the Feng Shen Tai of Wan Shen Hai and consecrating the Shen Xiao master, he then diverted some power to smooth the waves of cause and effect and move to stop Jiang Wang.

Actually, killing or not killing a human pride was not very important. How remote was the God Lin Dong Zhen, and how far-reaching was the Dong Zhen derived dao?

Even an absolute peak, however strong, could hardly play a key role in the race conflict.

The key was that Jiang Wang knew the intelligence about the Shen Xiao world, and second, Jiang Wang carried heavy treasure!

Xuan Nan Gong controlled the protector god general. He stood above the reverse-surging flood, throwing down a pair of golden melon hammers, which turned into majestic giant peaks, hammering down on the mountains and rivers!

And he raised a single hand high…

Half of the array of thousands and tens of thousands of god images on the heavenly demon altar instantly scattered!

That already radiant god king body, receiving the consecration of Feng Shen Tai, all shook as if to fall, showing signs of collapse!

If he hadn’t abandoned more possibilities, using the Feng Shen Tai of Wan Shen Hai to support this god king body, withdrawing so many god images at once, this flawless god king body would have likely exploded immediately.

The reason for recalling so much mental power wasn’t that Jiang Wang was so difficult to deal with. It was that Jiang Wang indeed pried loose the cause and effect of this leaping world; he was borrowing the dao to achieve the dao!

Fortunately, Jiang Wang’s losses weren’t many—compared to Yu Zhen’s laying of ten thousand losses, involving countless absolute peaks and four transcendent beings… Jiang Wang’s personal failures, even if repeated ten thousand times, seemed tiny.

Hence, the Shen Xiao world’s feedback to Jiang Wang’s “success” wasn’t much either. It could still be influenced and redirected by Xuan Nan Gong.

He raised his right hand directly into the void. In the midst of the time waves, a big hand of flowing divine light probed in, suddenly grasping that starlight spoon!

He wanted to reverse the star road, forcibly move the Big Dipper! To make Jiang Wang walk towards him!

But at this moment, Jiang Wang, covered in blood, walking the starlight road and ascending the heavenly stairs, held Zhi Wen Zhong. A line, like a dream and an illusion, seemed to leap out like a flying rainbow.

Xuan Nan Gong recognized it. It was the cause and effect line he had seen earlier, tying Jiang Wang and Zhi Wen Zhong together. It was the cause and effect line left by Zen Master Xing Nian!

One end of this line fell on the star road, and the other end hung into the river of time. And the distant star road flashed and passed.

Jiang Wang’s figure flashed and passed.

Although he was at this end earlier, he was already at the other end now. He and his star road all appeared on the other shore of the river of time, leaping out of this Shen Xiao world, traversing towards the infinitely distant future!

Zen Master Xing Nian, of course, hadn’t calculated the opening of the Shen Xiao world.

Yu Zhen had hidden everything about the demon race, and also hidden everything about the world.

But as the foremost existence in Sumeru Mountain’s calculation power, he couldn’t possibly not sense the six dao forest, couldn’t possibly not perceive the cause and effect reincarnation being laid out in this world.

Although there were many absolute peaks in the world, who could understand cause and effect better than him?

In the midst of the uncontrollable calculation results, he saw an unexpected “one.”

He had entrusted Zhi Wen Zhong to Jiang Wang. It was impossible not to leave a backup plan, hoping that Jiang Wang, a God Lin cultivator, could bring back heavy treasure on his own.

But only if Jiang Wang himself reached this step would this final method appear. Only variables could induce variables.

Xing Nian cultivated the “Future Star Host Tribulation Sutra,” seeking that very moment of “future.”

He used the karma fire of his past burning within him to achieve the “future” in the cause and effect of the Shen Xiao world, leaving a path for Jiang Wang.

This path led to the heaven outside of heaven.

The future had already arrived!

That big hand of flowing divine light grasped forcefully in the river of time, grasping emptiness. Xuan Nan Gong, like a fish in water, scooped up a handful of time water.

Zen Master Xing Nian dreamed of seeing flowers, and the flowers bloomed in the heaven on the other shore!