Ruan Xiu did not want to agree!

Within the Floating Land world, he was currently completely in the dark about the situation.

But no matter what, the danger within was beyond doubt.

It involved the power of the Heavenly Buddha, a mysterious will, and a suspected tomb world… In such a place, Jiang Wu Xie, at the God-Descending realm, fundamentally couldn’t protect himself.

How could he nod and send Jiang Wu Xie in?

No matter how freely the Emperor of Great Qi raised his children, Jiang Wu Xie was currently one of the three palace masters most likely to contend for the dragon throne. Especially after cultivating the Hongchen Tiandi Ding this time, advancing to the God-Descending realm in one step, his momentum had greatly increased, and he already showed the appearance of a Crown Prince. If he were to meet with some misfortune and truly be buried here, how could the Qi Emperor not be resentful?

Even if the Qi Emperor was a world hegemon and wouldn’t be jealous because of this, every time he thought of his ill-fated son, it would be very difficult for him, Ruan Xiu, to have any good feelings.

When the Eleventh Prince departed, the Yan Tu who commanded the Zhan Yu Army was actually flayed alive!

But at this moment, Jiang Wu Xie referred to him as “Ruan Jianzheng” and himself as “Gu.” This expression was not just determination; it was a request proposed with the authority of the Master of Nourishing Heart Palace!

This couldn’t be considered a command. Even if it was Jiang Wu Xie, he had no right to command Ruan Xiu.

However, even though Ruan Xiu’s position was extraordinarily detached, as the Jianzheng of Qin Tian Jian, he only needed to be responsible to the Emperor. Towards the most likely successor to the Crown Prince, he also had to maintain a certain degree of respect.

“These words of mine are a bit like leaning on old age and selling seniority…” Ruan Xiu said very seriously, “But Your Highness’s body is worth a thousand pieces of gold, there’s truly no need to take risks. This Floating Land world is easy to enter, but difficult to exit. Even if there are more opportunities within, they are not as precious as Your Highness, the Master of Nourishing Heart Palace of our Great Qi.”

Jiang Wu Xie said, “If it were for opportunities, Gu would not go.”

Ruan Xiu asked, “Your Highness feels that you are sufficiently prepared in this world?”

Jiang Wu Xie said honestly, “I did make some preparations at the beginning, but they require time to ferment. Only a few short years have passed, and it is difficult for them to play much of a role.”

Ruan Xiu understood the weight of this decision but still asked, “You must go?”

Jiang Wu Xie replied, “I must go.”

Ruan Xiu said, “The Buddha sees ten thousand eight thousand insects in a bowl of water. I see ten thousand eight thousand holes in this bowl. The copper wall and iron wall in front of you are not as impenetrable as you see. It is actually more like a fishing net, blocking big fish but not small ones. Even if He is deliberately strengthening the seal now, sending a God-Descending realm cultivator in is not difficult… Why this bowl does not block the God-Descending realm, with Your Highness’s wisdom, you should not find it difficult to figure out.”

“He is saving power, and He also thinks that the God-Descending realm will not affect the situation…” Jiang Wu Xie analyzed up to this point, raised his eyebrows and said, “But since He needs to save power, He is not qualified to think that I, at the God-Descending realm, will not affect the situation.”

No matter what kind of deity this “He” was.

Today was already a new era, and today’s Jiang Wu Xie was not an ordinary God-Descending.

The confidence of a descendant of a heavenly lineage was precisely in this sentence!

Ruan Xiu still advised him again, “Just now, if I hadn’t arrived, Your Highness would have already entered the cage. This world is dangerous, why doesn’t Your Highness wait a little longer?”

Jiang Wu Xie smiled lightly, “If Jianzheng weren’t here, Gu might not go in. But since Jianzheng is called to witness, how can Gu not enter this evil cage? The Emperor bears the weight of the world, Gu stands in the human realm, shouldering the heavens. If I don’t even dare to step forward to protect my own woman, what can the world’s myriad people rely on to believe that when the sky collapses and the earth cracks, Gu can stand in front of them?”

Ruan Xiu was unable to advise further, because although Jiang Wu Xie spoke in a joking tone, he had already mentioned his grand ambitions and elevated this matter to the height of “the Emperor bears the weight of the world.”

Unless he were to say that Jiang Wu Xie was not worthy of this great ambition, not worthy of contending for the tripod.

Ruan Xiu sighed lightly, raised his hand and pressed it remotely on the copper bowl, starlight rising in his palm. He gave one last piece of advice: “Your Highness, if things are not going well, retreat completely. Jiang Wu An is skilled in avoiding disaster, you can seek a place to hide with him. I will unlock the seal as soon as possible and go to meet you.”

As this starlight brushed the copper bowl, immediately within the fine dense patterns and profound Sanskrit characters, concrete and microscopic, honeycomb-like holes were brushed out – that was what Ruan Xiu meant by seeing ten thousand eight thousand holes in the bowl.

Not gaps, but portals.

The so-called gaps in all things are only where light enters.

The Buddha saves those with affinity.

People at the foot of the mountain strain their eyes and only see a copper wall and iron wall. People at the top of the mountain casually push, and a convenient door is already open.

Since the starlight had opened the way, Jiang Wu Xie then wore red light and stepped forward with big strides.

Truly a tiger stride and dragon walk, his posture was noble beyond words.

Before stepping into the Floating Land world, he casually pulled off and broke a pendant, and with a flourish, threw it in front of Ruan Xiu: “Today’s journey is entirely my own will. If I meet with misfortune, leave this pendant to my father emperor. Do not resent Jianzheng!”

His voice still lingered here, but his person had already entered Floating Land.

Ruan Xiu held this pendant from the Master of Nourishing Heart Palace, which still held his body temperature, and couldn’t help but sigh again.

Today’s Emperor was a world hegemon, leading the Great Qi Empire to unprecedented heights. And the several Crown Princes contending for the dragon throne were actually all dragons and phoenixes among men.

Truly, he didn’t know whether it was fortune or misfortune!

Before this sigh had even faded, his eyes were again filled with surprise – just at this moment, a wisp of flowing light suddenly arrived, precisely passing through the channel he had opened, like a long rainbow piercing the moon, piercing into the Floating Land world!

It wasn’t that someone was staring at Ruan Xiu’s movements.

But rather, this person had made arrangements in the Floating Land world early on, only they had never received a response and had never found their way in. It was precisely at the moment he opened the convenient door to send Jiang Wu Xie in that a single call received a hundred responses.

What a magnificent sight of drawing a bow at night and shooting towards Floating Land near the sea!

He shook his head and did not stop. Turning around, he saw another person wearing a moon-white long robe, stepping on starlight.

It was truly lively here.

He smiled openly and went forward to greet them.

Although Ao Kui was dead, the copper-colored sky dome had not yet faded.

The story of a brave person slaying a demon dragon to save the world should have turned a new page when the demon dragon died, yet it had not ended… This itself was the biggest horror story.

King Qing still stood on the war chariot, protected by the King’s guards, looking towards this side with difficulty concealing his vigilance and fear: “Mister Lin Chuan, the demon dragon is already dead? Why is this omen of world destruction still not over?”

The movements of the Wurzhu of Qing Huo Guan Wen in the sacrificial dance slowed down.

Qing Huo Yuan Chen, who had dispatched the army to transport the blood corpses, also silently withdrew his forces and maintained more combat formations.

If this dead demon dragon couldn’t destroy the world, and the crisis of world destruction still existed, then who was the one who would destroy the world in the legends?

Bai Yu Xia and Lian Yu Chan simply gave up on commanding the army and silently stood at key positions on the entire battlefield.

Xi Ming withdrew his one hundred and eight Yuan Forbidden Empty Tubes and sped up the repair of the eight-winged Ink Warrior.

Ji Huo Yu Xiu quietly leaned back in his chair and did not speak.

Everyone in the field had their own thoughts, and the unified atmosphere changed in the short silence. Only Jing Li’s chanting voice continued, still the same as at the beginning.

Ao Kui was already dead, a large number of blood corpses were moved out of the formation, and the Tian Tu Wan Jue Array itself was also in disarray. His efficiency in subduing blood corpses greatly improved…

“Actually, I should be asking you, you are the king of Floating Land,” Jiang Wang said. “As you can see, the demon dragon that was supposed to destroy the world died before your eyes. My task is complete, and I can leave at any time. But the sky is still like this… Why? Is there anything else you are hiding from me?”

He turned his head and looked at Ji Huo Yu Xiu: “Or, is there something you want to tell me?”

Ao Kui was already dead, but the copper bowl was still there.

This showed that he was fundamentally not the controller of the Qi Huo Ru Shi Bowl, or rather, he was only one of the beings trying to control the Qi Huo Ru Shi Bowl, possessing only a very limited part of the power.

This could explain why in the previous battle, he was unable to mobilize more power from the Qi Huo Ru Shi Bowl.

Jiang Wang’s barrier confined to the God-Descending realm was not without reason, and his body’s weakness did not prevent him from having any reaction at all. The true reason was that he was constantly confronting some existence, vying for the control of the Qi Huo Ru Shi Bowl, and also struggling in many places outside the Qi Huo Ru Shi Bowl – that’s why he said before his defeat that he did not lose to Jiang Wang and his group.

And now, he was slain.

The power he occupied had already been yielded, so the existence that was struggling with him should also surface!

King Qing was completely baffled: “How could I know more than you?! You said there would be a demon dragon to destroy the world, and I commanded all departments of the world to fully support you. You fought in the Ji Huo Department, and I summoned the army and personally led them here! Now everything hasn’t changed, the sky is still this ghostly appearance, and you actually want to ask me?”

Qing Huo Yuan Chen, who was a little more familiar with the Blue Sky guest, took the initiative to speak at this time, trying to ease the atmosphere: “Mister Lin Chuan… The demon dragon is already dead, but the sky hasn’t changed. Our Floating Land world is thus locked, is it not because of the demon dragon?”

Jiang Wang temporarily ignored these two people who couldn’t give an answer and focused on looking at Ji Huo Yu Xiu.

“I see from your eyes that you already know many things,” Ji Huo Yu Xiu obediently sat in the wheelchair and countered, “When did you know that in this world, there still exists a will that transcends all others?”

“History gave me the answer,” Jiang Wang said frankly. “After the change in Saint Hunting Mountain, several Totem Spirits who rushed to the scene for the first time died successively within a few years, leaving no intelligence. If it is said that those four Totem Spirits who investigated Saint Hunting Mountain tacitly hid their gains at that time to prepare for rushing to the Totem Saint Spirit realm, this is also understandable. But after other Totem Spirits successively failed and died, as the strongest of the tribe, did no one think to leave some clues in the tribe? These clues should have existed but did not, so they were deliberately erased.”

“Furthermore, in the murals of the rock cave in Saint Hunting Mountain, I discovered that a significant part of this world’s history has disappeared. It should have been written with thick ink and heavy colors, but it is actually blank.”

Jiang Wang looked at her, and the next words were only between the two of them: “And that page of the Book of Creation that was born with you was misinterpreted by the Wurzhu of your Ji Huo Department. You are the descent of the world’s will. I can only understand it as some existence interfering with your authority… And so on, all point to the same possibility – in the long history of the Floating Land world, there still exists a hand that stirs history!”

Given that Ao Kui said that the Floating Land world had the inheritance of Wu Han Gong, he inevitably suspected whether the hand that stirred the history of Floating Land was related to Wu Han Gong. Even… it might be Wu Han Gong himself.

But Wu Han Gong had been dead for a very long time, dying in the ancient era. During the time of resisting the demon tide, he died at the hands of Demon Ancestor Zhu You, both body and soul annihilated, dying completely clean. This matter is recorded in historical books, with records in many classics, it is not false.

How could he stir up wind and clouds in the Floating Land world?

Was it possible that he, like the Fate Divination Ancestor Bu Lian, left a wisp of thought, hidden in the fate river of the demon race, only responding when touched by the fortune of the demon race?

The realm of such a great existence was not something that Jiang Wang could understand. It was not impossible that he truly had means of dying and reviving.

But the situation of this hand was completely different from Bu Lian. It had too heavy traces in the history of Floating Land. Moreover, looking at the actions of this hand within the Floating Land world, it was really difficult to call it “wise,” and it was not easy to associate it with an ancient sage.

In the distant ancient era, he resisted the demon race’s heavenly court, in the ancient era, he resisted the demon tide, fighting for the human race his entire life, creating many techniques, achieving the source of ten thousand laws… How could such a great existence hide in the Floating Land world, engaging in petty theft and acting evil like Ao Kui?

But if it wasn’t Wu Han Gong, then who would it be?

Ji Huo Yu Xiu lightly raised her head, her voice full of admiration: “That stupid dragon actually called uncle a fool, I want to loudly complain for uncle! How long have you only been in Floating Land, and you have already seen through everything, what has been hidden from your eyes?”

“It is precisely because I cannot see through everything that I was deceived into coming here. In Floating Land, I am only lucky, finding clues wherever I go. Speaking of which, I suddenly thought—” Jiang Wang said in a low voice, “Why can I so quickly touch upon the truth of this layer of the world? Is it not that someone is helping me?”

Ji Huo Yu Xiu giggled and smiled: “Since uncle can discover my identity, presumably you have a certain understanding of the world’s will, and you should know how the world’s will ‘rejects foreigners’ under normal circumstances… Right?”

Jiang Wang naturally counted as knowing.

The so-called “rejecting foreigners” was also a form of self-protection by the world’s will, just like a human pulling a thorn out of their flesh.

But the world’s will has no “will,” only “rules,” so such self-protection behavior must also be within the world’s fundamental rules.

In the behavior of “rejecting foreigners,” it usually manifests as giving more opportunities to the native beings of this world – opportunities for growth, opportunities to slay foreign enemies.

For example, when he, Jiang, was first in the demon realm, he was resented by the demon realm’s heavenly will. He hid in Mo Yun City, and then prodigies and strong individuals constantly gathered, causing him to constantly encounter dangers. If he could still stubbornly stay, demon races would constantly awaken, demon races would grow, and heaven-bestowed talents would be born… Until this human race prodigy was slain or driven away, everything would only be considered over.

Or he could become a demon race, submit to the order of the demon realm, which was also a kind of solution.

For example, the White Bone Venerable God tried to establish a divine kingdom in the present world, to become a deity in the present world. His plan repeatedly failed. From Zhuang Cheng Qian to Wang Chang Ji, even him, Jiang Wang, as Zhang Lin Chuan, never once received the support of the heavenly will when they were on the opposite side of the White Bone Venerable God.

“I know a little,” Jiang Wang said.

Ji Huo Yu Xiu raised her head towards him, that exaggerated strange mask, as if crying, and as if laughing: “Then have you not considered why I was born?”

Jiang Wang was stunned.

Combining the various circumstances of the Floating Land world, this question seemed to leave only one answer—

The native beings of Floating Land were actually already extinct!

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