That enormous ghost body, extending like mountain ridges, suddenly transformed into fine sand.

It collapsed slowly in a rustling sound.

The massive shadow that had enveloped the floating land world for tens of thousands of years only began to dissipate at this moment.

The half-squatting dragon demon body and the whale fish star beast, following the collapse of the ghost body mountain ridges, were strangely silent.

Jiang Wuxie suddenly leaped up again after the demon spirit asked that question.

The demon spirit’s question was powerless, unable, and offered no solution, but its demonic intent was overwhelming!

In fact, he didn’t entirely deny the demon spirit’s identity as “Mother Han Gong.” The reason he, like Jiang Wang, firmly chose to fight it was because this so-called “Mother Han Gong” had already committed too many wicked deeds.

Many times, good and evil are just a single thought away.

He strongly agreed with Legalist master Wu Bingyi’s statement – if there is no restraint from power or rules from the law, then the world is full of wild beasts everywhere!

The demon-possessed Mother Han Gong would only be more cruel than true demon heads, bringing fiercer disaster!

At this moment, although the truth had been revealed, demonstrating that the demonic art was not a true demon and the world destroyer was not Mother Han Gong, as this demon spirit said, Mother Han Gong could still use the demon spirit’s method to try and return to the present world. Could Mother Han Gong resist such a temptation?

In this floating land world beyond the heavens, there was no restraint.

As an imperial clan member, he had the ambition to control tripods, mountains, and rivers. He would absolutely not test anyone’s morality, and he would absolutely not place hope on anyone’s humanity. Not even if that person was a great pillar of the human race, an ancient sage.

Was it only him, Jiang Wuxie?

Jiang Wang, Li Fengyao, Xi Ming, Bai Yuxia, Lian Yuanchun, Lin Xian… who among them didn’t suddenly feel a sense of vigilance at this moment?

Qing Huo Qiming, perched on the body of the whale fish star beast, was also fixedly looking at this dragon demon named Mother Han Gong.

The battlefield was abnormally quiet.

The scattered locations of several million people were of course not quiet. Uncontrollable cries of pain, sorrow for lost comrades, fear that had not yet dispersed, extremely tense whispers, even struggling movements in the soil…

But all sounds became noise, seeming very distant.

The rustling sound of the Evil Ghost Heavenly Way collapsing like quicksand flowed clearly in their ears, as if it had become an eternal background sound – she was too enormous, even her extinction required a long time.

Of course, this extinction process, which was short, taking several hours, or long, taking three to five days, was almost negligible compared to the long time, perhaps tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, that her formation consumed.

The dragon demon was half-squatting in front of this ghost body, feeling her extinction with both hands. Suddenly, she sighed: “Truly… very attractive ah.”

How could the demon spirit not understand Mother Han Gong’s greatness?

But seeking survival is the fundamental human desire!

Mother Han Gong, who was already dead and had chewed on the feelings of ten thousand ancient silences, wouldn’t she want to return?

Survival is the biggest fantasy, requiring no means. In the face of death, she had seen too many ugly postures!

So, even though she was being wiped away, she still left such an interrogation.

This was her and Mother Han Gong’s last war.

Mother Han Gong, of course, understood.

But even Mother Han Gong sighed. After sighing, she turned her head and looked at Jiang Wang, Jing Li, and these young people from the present world, with a touch of playfulness in her eyes: “How do you all think I will choose?”

At this time, she discovered that all the people who had come from the present world were looking at Jiang Wang, as if Jiang Wang could represent all of their thoughts. In a situation that was absolutely not safe for these young people, to still be able to give such trust to a person whose cultivation was not advanced was truly rare and valuable.

So her gaze finally fell on Jiang Wang’s body.

Now Jiang Wang was facing Mother Han Gong’s gaze, having to answer an ancient sage’s question… this was a dangerous question!

He hung in the air, neither humble nor arrogant: “A legendary existence like you created great history. Your choice will not be shaken by anyone or anything. So I think, how we ‘feel’ is not important.”

“Young people, especially some talented young people, always mistakenly think of themselves as the center of the world, the most important one among the multitude. When he discovers that the world is not so, that the operation of the heavenly way does not follow his will, he begins to grow.” Mother Han Gong’s armor was mottled with bloodstains. She half-squatted there, possessing a deep and vast sense of quiet power, like mountains and seas: “You are right, how you all feel is not important to me. But what makes me curious is, how I feel, is it important to you all? I mean – how will you choose?”

The drooping dragon whiskers gently brushed, and the dragon head, carved like rock, slightly turned.

There were no deterrent actions, but the mountains seemed so small.

Equally small was Jiang Wang.

He calmly gripped his sword: “You are the sun and moon that illuminate ten thousand ancients, and I am a floating firefly on a summer night. Under the sun and moon, how can the light of a firefly be seen? So how I choose is actually also not important. But the sun and moon have the virtue of illuminating mountains and rivers, and the firefly also has an inch of its heart to illuminate.”

Sages have the choices of sages, illuminating ten thousand ancients. Later generations have the choices of later generations, not changing this heart.

We all walk our own paths!

Mother Han Gong did not affirm or deny, only slowly said: “It’s a pity that this method of the demon spirit has too many loopholes and too many parts that are taken for granted. She is not a true Zhu You, she doesn’t even fundamentally understand transcendence. She actually thinks transcendence is such a simple thing. I didn’t even think of a way to return to transcendence, but she actually felt her method was perfect. Hiding in this world and doing as she pleases for too long, she then thought herself omnipotent.”

Bai Yuxia’s expression was strange, and he couldn’t help but speak: “The demon spirit’s game spanned the entire floating land world, running through tens of thousands of years of history, and you say… it’s simple?”

This was still simple?

The demon spirit occupied Mother Han Gong’s soul, painstakingly operated the floating land world, used an entire Evil Ghost Era to raise the Evil Ghost Heavenly Way. Then she created the Creation Book to maintain the world’s operation, used a complete totem cultivation system to nurture the human race, and only after a time often measured in tens of thousands of years did she see the prototype of the Human Way Shura, having the possibility of transcending by merging the two.

Now Mother Han Gong said, this was still too simple, too taken for granted?!

Just how terrifying an existence is transcendence, and what kind of path must one step on to reach it?

Mother Han Gong lightly smiled: “Accumulating time, piling up quantity, is the easiest payment. Many people think this is just called effort. This demon spirit has absolutely no creativity, only knows schemes and struggles. She never truly thought about the path of transcendence, only thought about following the old tracks and replicating already successful experiences. If transcendence was so simple, all the heavens and myriad worlds would have been overcrowded long ago!”

Qing Huo Qiming had a different opinion on the evaluation that the demon spirit had no creativity: “She created the totem cultivation method, and also created the Creation Book, replacing the operation of the heavenly way.”

Mother Han Gong faintly said: “The totem method is my creation, slightly modified by her, simply adding a layer of shackles at the origin. The Creation Book is indeed her thinking, but the floating land is just a small world, and the rules of the heavenly way’s operation are easy to capture.”

Jiang Wang said: “I know there is a sky demon named Hu Taisui, who created a new race called the spirit race as a ladder to transcendence, and all the demons seem to think it’s feasible. Now this demon spirit created the floating land evil ghosts, and then created the floating land human race, and later also wants to create the totem spirit race… isn’t it possible for her to ascend this way?”

Mother Han Gong shook her head: “I don’t know the nature of that spirit race. But this demon spirit never created any race, she fundamentally has no ability to create a race. The star beasts are my broken flesh mixed with the karma of the floating land, the evil ghosts are my remnant soul mixed with the native spirits and souls of the floating land, and these people…”

Her gaze swept over the scattered warriors of the floating land, survivors of the disaster, on the body of these mountain ridges, and then looked back at Jiang Wang: “They have no essential difference from you all, they are just humans.”

Jiang Wang was suddenly shocked!

Qing Huo Qiming, who had transformed into a star beast and was holding the Creation Book, also looked a little uneasy.

Mother Han Gong explained: “In the war of the far ancient era, we fundamentally had no grasp of victory. Before the decisive battle began, we quietly sent many members of the human race away, scattering them into all the heavens and myriad worlds – the human race was once a vassal of the demon court, helping the demon race rule all the heavens and myriad worlds. The places that the demon race disliked as dirty, tired, barren, or simply lazy to go to, our human race had all been to. So this matter was not difficult, one could even say it had been done early. We did it silently.

“This plan was named ‘Guyu.’ Guyu is the solar term for sowing. The seeds of the human race were scattered in all the heavens and myriad worlds, from then on endlessly. Even if we failed, there would still be later generations.”

This was the Guyu plan that happened in the far ancient era!

The far ancient sages took charge with the determination to die!

In that dark era, diligent and brave people united, burned their bodies as torches, ground their bones as swords, and thoroughly ignited the fire of civilization. In ten thousand years later, it still illuminates the human race!

But the focus of the crowd’s attention in the field was now on – were the floating land human race also part of the present world human race?

This not only broke the impression of the present world crowd, but also subverted the cognition of the floating land human race!

But if they thought about it carefully, it was a reasonable thing.

Jiang Wang already knew part of the historical truth, knowing that the human race was the creation of the demon race, originally existing as a servant race. But what kind of strong being created the human race back then? The demon spirit’s power was indeed far from reaching that level, how could she talk about recreating the human race? It was just that she borrowed Mother Han Gong’s remnant soul and drove Mother Han Gong’s broken flesh, constantly saying “I” or “Mother Han Gong,” only giving people the illusion that true transcendence was within her reach and creating the human race was also within her ability.

“Dare to ask the sage.” Jiang Wuxie asked at this time: “Although you say the floating land human race also originated from the present world human race, after so many years of development in different worlds, are there always differences?”

This question was obviously not asked for himself. Ji Huo Yuling behind him also quietly looked over, worry and expectation both hanging in her beautiful eyes.

Mother Han Gong’s attitude towards them was also no different, and she responded gently: “Not all human races scattered throughout the heavens and myriad worlds can survive, and not all can be recognized by that world. Of course, it is also unavoidable that the human race within some worlds, based on the instinct for survival and under the influence of the environment, will produce essential changes.

“But as for the floating land, the demon spirit conducted strong interference in this world in order to cultivate the Human Way Shura. The human race here basically has no possibility of becoming heterogeneous.

“By now, the difference between the present world human race and the floating land human race is just like the people of the Qing Huo tribe and the Chi Lei tribe. The strength of the tribe will affect the status of the people. Going to a new tribe also requires getting the acceptance of that tribe… which is also the recognition of the world order. But there is no essential difference between the two.”

Jiang Wuxie’s grip on Ji Huo Yuling’s hand tightened slightly.

As a member of the imperial clan of the present world’s overlord country, he naturally had ways to resolve the world order’s recognition of a human of the same kind and same race. The problems that Ji Huo Yuling worried about were no longer problems.

Lian Yuanchun quietly guarded Li Fengyao’s side.

Compared to the breath-weak but still radiant Li Fengyao, she also had her own delicate beauty. But at this moment, there was a wisp of sigh in her eyes.

Putting it plainly, not one of the demon spirit’s ten sentences was true! Creating this and that, returning, reappearing, suppressing demons, running a heavenly river with her mouth.

She still thought it was nine true and one false, somewhat believing, and several times in the middle she wavered.

Looking again at how firm the people from the East House and the little saint monk were, she couldn’t help but feel a little ashamed. The gap between heaven and man indeed has a reason to be separated!

Mother Han Gong’s gaze went back and forth over the bodies of several blue sky visitors: “Actually, there is still one thing that makes me curious – in an environment like the floating land, which she has operated for many years, and with the demon spirit’s power far surpassing yours, it should be very difficult to be doubted. What made you all so firmly not believe her?”

Jing Li said seriously: “Because her heart is dirty.”

Mother Han Gong nodded seriously.

Xi Ming then replied: “Just a moment ago she still wanted to kill me, how could I believe her? Unless I am in an absolutely safe situation, I am willing to judge the truth of her words. Otherwise, I treat it all as a fart. Even if a fart is magnificent, it’s still just a fart.”

Mother Han Gong smiled.

Jiang Wuxie stealthily glanced at her, and finally chose to be honest: “I treated her as a demon-possessed Mother Han Gong to deal with.”

Mother Han Gong’s tone was playful: “That is to say, even if it were the true me, you would still raise your gun and kill?”

Jiang Wuxie chuckled: “Isn’t that just the case?”

Mother Han Gong then looked towards Li Fengyao.

Facing this far ancient sage, the usually frosty Li Fengyao’s posture was also respectful. But besides respect, she still had her own attitude: “I stayed in the floating land for a while. I felt that their lives were vivid and I couldn’t treat them as crops. Our paths are different, so we shouldn’t plot together. Besides, I believe Jiang Wang’s judgment.”

Mother Han Gong thus looked back at Jiang Wang.

Jiang Wang said: “Actually, it’s that question.”

Mother Han Gong indicated doubt with her eyes.

Jiang Wang said: “I asked her if constantly giving people hope and then constantly making people despair made her happy. She answered yes, saying that was one of the few joys in her long life.

“I think a truly strong person, no matter whether they are good or evil in a secular sense, must be a person who has great belief in themselves, believing that they are walking the right path and doing the right things.

“Insulting innocent people for joy is absolutely not a correct act. Not in any situation. It is a perverted psychology of the weak, unable to enjoy the fun of challenging the strong, only seeking cheap pleasure in weaker ones.

“I think she has no strong heart. Naturally, it is absolutely impossible for her to become you.”

A cultivator in the realm of a god’s arrival, evaluating the demon spirit of the Eight Great Demonic Arts, an existence that reached the level of deriving a path and spied on transcendence, had no strong heart!

But because he was so firm with every sword stroke in the battle, it actually gave people such a matter-of-course feeling.

As if this young man in a green shirt with a sword truly had the qualifications for such a judgment!

“Humans are always so vivid, so powerful ah.” Mother Han Gong sighed: “So even if only a little broken flesh, a wisp of remnant soul, a trace of remnant thought remains. Even if sealed inside the dragon demon art, unable to get out for hundreds of thousands of years. I always firmly believed that with the demon spirit’s game, I would absolutely not lose. My winning points are two, both within the human race. One is the great trend of the human race throughout all the heavens and myriad worlds. Two is the human race’s unyielding spirit, even though weak in this world, still having a fire to pass on. I always believed that they could create possibilities, and what I had to do was always struggle, always… whether as Mother Han Gong, or as a dragon demon.”

Jiang Wang heard something wrong and looked over with some worry.

Mother Han Gong’s hands, covered in fine scales, sank down, accelerating the passing of the Evil Ghost Heavenly Way. Her tone was light: “The demonic art that I have parasitized, named ‘Mountains and Rivers Broken Dragon Demon Art,’ was originally capable of drawing on the power of the end of days. The mountains and rivers of this world were broken, thus the dragon demon art achieved great success. So after I was unsealed, I had such power and could smoothly wipe out the demon spirit. But as you all see… I have already become a demon.”

“Don’t be nervous. The demon spirit temporarily became Mother Han Gong, but after all, she did not achieve true Mother Han Gong. I temporarily became a dragon demon, and I still haven’t truly become a dragon demon.”

“However, time is not much.”

She lowered her head and looked at her own armor and dragon scales, then raised her head and smiled: “After being weakened for so many years, I am still quite powerful now, perhaps with one percent of the strength of that year, and still constantly rising… so I must die.”

She described it so lightly!

As if she was just saying, I have to go out once and look at that flower.

She smiled again: “Not right, I have been dead for a very long time.”

The crowd in the field was moved for a moment!

This person before their eyes was a legend of the human race, a sage who spanned the far ancient era and the ancient era, the backbone that supported the human race, and the one who broadened the path for the human race.

To be able to meet her was the supreme honor for those born late.

But it was actually only this one encounter.

“Na Mo A Mi Duo Po Ye, Duo Ta Jia Duo Ye, Duo Di Ye Ta, A Mi Li Dou Po Pi…”

At this moment, the sound of chanting sutras rang out.

Mother Han Gong turned her head to look over, seeing Jing Li with a serious face and emitting Buddha light from his body, and couldn’t help but laugh: “Are you so anxious to send me away? Little bald one!”

Jing Li said seriously: “You are a good person, I wish you blessings.”

Mother Han Gong was silent.

She turned back, gazing at and accelerating the passing of the Evil Ghost Heavenly Way.

Even though the demon spirit’s will had already been wiped away, only the power of the ghost path was now returning. She was still doing this very seriously.

The person who once stood alone before the demon tide knew best how powerful demons were. How could she be willing to relax even half a point?

After a period of time, neither long nor short.

The mountain-like evil ghost body had already scattered completely.

Mother Han Gong then sat down, sitting on the great earth of the floating land. Dust flew up and drifted down with her.

“Sitting here is not as steady as in the present world. But at least my feet are on the ground,” she complained slightly.

Sitting down was truly very comfortable, to the extent that her eyes were a little dazed.

“I can already feel the call of the ten thousand worlds’ wild tomb. And the end of the demonic art… truly intoxicating power.”

But without waiting for Jiang Wang and the others to do anything, she shook her head, wiped away that intoxication completely, and her eyes became clear.

She raised her head and looked at the sky: “Those two derive path experts are very insightful, they should be enough to wrap things up… the river of time is about to be wiped out by them, and my time is also running out.”

She looked towards Jiang Wang: “Have you seen Bu Lian?”

Jiang Wang pondered and said: “I haven’t formally met her, only fortunately intersected in the long river of destiny of the demon race. In an inn in a demon race city, I saw the words she left.”

“You call it intersecting in the long river of destiny arranged by her ah…” Mother Han Gong said meaningfully.

Fortunately, she was now a dragon head with a human body, so her expression could not be seen.

Otherwise, Jiang Wang would have had a very hard time dealing with that kind of ridicule.

Jiang Wang said seriously: “I once saw the end of fate divination, and also the source of fate divination. I am proud of this, and I will forever miss it.”

Mother Han Gong quietly looked at him for a while, then said: “I am about to leave. For Bu Lian’s sake, I will grant you three final questions, young man. Ask them and I will leave.”

Jiang Wang was silent for a moment. He truly wished he would never have to ask these three questions!

“Don’t think too long, be careful I lose control.” Mother Han Gong smiled: “If I become a demon, there probably aren’t many people in the present world who can deal with me.”

Jiang Wang pursed his lips, then said: “I mentioned the demon race’s Hu Taisui to you. He created a new race called the spirit race… this demon is very evil. Since you already know its true name, can’t you immediately cross time and space and strike it dead?”

“…I’m letting you ask questions, not make requests.” Mother Han Gong was quite helpless: “Solve your own grudges, don’t always think about inviting your parents!”

Jiang Wang said “Oh.”

“Do you have no confusion about life? Or doubts about cultivation?” Mother Han Gong almost hinted: “I have taught more people than Bu Lian has calculated fates.”

Jiang Wang thought for a while again, then said abnormally seriously: “That year you alone resisted the demon tide, did the Confucian ancestor and the Legalist ancestor truly break their promise?”

Mother Han Gong’s eyes were a little surprised, probably surprised that Jiang Wang would ask such a question.

She counter-asked: “Do you hope all sages are perfect without flaw?”

“No, I never thought that way.” Jiang Wang shook his head seriously: “Perfection should only be a pursuit for oneself. Demanding it of others must be an evil act.

“I have no right to demand perfection from anyone. Even less right to have any demands of the predecessors and sages. They have already paid too much.

“It’s just that if history has truth, I want to return history with truth.

“I hope the name Mother Han Gong is treated more justly.

“I believe that great beings like the Confucian ancestor and the Legalist ancestor can certainly face their own past, no matter if it was right or wrong. If they did not break their promise, I hope to be able to clear this unfounded stigma for the sages… this is the meaning of my reading history.”

Mother Han Gong quietly listened to him finish, and gave the same serious answer: “You are right, this is the meaning of reading history.”

“But since you want to explore the truth of history, you cannot listen to my one-sided words. I am somewhat… resentful. This also became the fundamental reason why I was suppressed inside the dragon demon art.” She lightly spoke of that thrilling struggle, finally smiling: “The truth of history is within history. If you have the opportunity, go seek the answer yourself.”

What was that! The East House asked something equivalent to nothing!

Bai Yuxia was anxious listening. He, who was accustomed to calculating accounts in the Bai Yu Jing tavern, almost wanted to jump out and help ask. For example, what top skills and secret techniques, for example, a perfect cave true method, for example, whether Mother Han Gong had left any inheritance somewhere… how could these not be more valuable than what was asked now?

“There is still one last question.” Mother Han Gong reminded.

Jiang Wang thought of many things at this instant.

Facing this “teacher of ten thousand people,” “teacher of ten thousand worlds,” and “source of ten thousand laws” of the human race, those born late sought knowledge, sought the way, and wanted to resolve doubts… how could three questions suffice?

Finally, he asked: “I want to ask – looking at this era today, are you satisfied?”

Mother Han Gong was silent!

She seemed silent for a very long time, but time was still pushing forward.

The mountain-like dragon demon body began to feel a little dazed.

She raised her head and looked at the sky. The river of time was already broken, and the star map robe and the moon white long shirt were floating over together in the starlight.

Finally, she slowly said: “Beyond all my imagination… of that time.”

Her voice became lower and lower, gradually turning into a murmur.

The majestic dragon demon body disappeared in an instant.

Like a page of a history book being turned over.