Chapter 1614: True Fire Scorches the Plains | Red Heart Survey [Translation]
Red Heart Survey [Translation] - Updated on April 30, 2025
Guangping Marquis, Li Fu!
Anguo Marquis, Jin Ling!
Yangling Marquis, Xue Chang!
North Township Marquis, Shang Yanhu!
And the head of the Great Xia Chu family, the inherited Dongping Marquis, Chu Rang!
Adding to this, a God Arrival realm Crimson Blood Ghost Bat!
A total of six God Arrival realm combat strengths, five of whom were Great Xia Marquises.
The auras belonging to these God Arrival cultivators surged into the heavens and clashed with the earth, momentarily filling everything, causing the wind, rain, clouds, and moon to tremble. This part of the world was theirs, imbued with their magnificent presence!
Spiritual sense spread across the ground, leaving no gaps.
The dark blue fire curtain dissipated, as it was no longer needed.
Though injured, Chu Rang stood atop the bat’s back, his gaze fixed upon Jiang Wang and the others as if they were already corpses – indeed, it was a desperate situation.
Such a luxurious lineup, capable of influencing the outcome of a major battle across the entire Qi-Xia battlefield, had gathered here to surround the mere two thousand surviving soldiers of the Victory Camp, the one-armed Zhong Xuanzun, and the Outer Building realm Jiang Wang.
It was like a towering mountain crushing a fragile egg!
North Township Marquis, Shang Yanhu, turned his head to look at the several dozen zhang tall figure of Zhong Xuansheng. Though clearly looking up, his demeanor suggested he was looking down: “This Marquis truly underestimated every one of you, especially you. To utilize a military formation to this extent, at your age, is truly remarkable. Would you care to give this Marquis a little more surprise?”
“I say,” the tall and imposing Xue Chang interjected, “Shouldn’t we stop wasting time? We’ve been killing a young man all this time and he’s still not dead. We should find a piece of tofu to bash our heads in!”
“Go ahead and do that yourself, you big oaf, that kind of death suits you.” Li Fu’s tone was relaxed: “It’s quite normal to expend a little effort. Jin An Hu’s helmet was nearly knocked off, the Chu family’s large bat was beaten into a silly sparrow, and our North Township Marquis is as stubborn as a rock… Hehe, don’t underestimate these young people, at least they have brains.”
This person appeared refined and courteous, yet the moment he opened his mouth, he seemed to offend everyone around him.
No wonder no one among the court officials and military officers had good relations with him.
Yangling Marquis, Xue Chang, had once vied for the path in Hu Tai, their relationship as volatile as fire and water. Naturally, he didn’t give him a friendly face: “If you spent your verbal energy on cultivation, you wouldn’t have necessarily lost to me in Hu Tai.”
Dragging his Guan Dao, Jin Ling couldn’t help but say, “Alright, let’s all say less.”
“Ha!” Li Fu squinted at him and said, “Isn’t this the Anguo Marquis who, a few days ago, couldn’t catch Zhong Xuanzun even with several tens of thousands of troops? Thanks to your masterful command, the Imperial Tomb suffered an insult later. You are truly a great meritorious official of the Qi country!”
Finally, he understood where Li Ziye’s style of cursing and stomping his feet on the Shou’an city wall originated.
This fellow truly belonged to the canine species! He’d bite anyone he could!
But no matter what, their attitude was so relaxed. Naturally, it was because they now held an absolute advantage, with almost no possibility of being overturned.
Even the world-renowned Heaven’s Chosen, Zhong Xuanzun, had escaped for a day and a night under the pursuit of five Great Xia Marquises. But at the moment of being surrounded, he still only said in a low voice: “I’m not good at saying apologies. I will die in front of you all.”
Even the incredibly intelligent and eloquent Zhong Xuansheng, who controlled the military formation, fell silent for a moment.
No matter how smart he was, it was impossible for him to calculate all the variables in the world. Everyone had many choices, and the intersection of countless choices created infinite possibilities.
Who knew that so many God Arrival strongmen would participate in the encirclement and annihilation of Zhong Xuanzun?
Wasn’t the North Front battlefield incomparably more important than the insult to the Imperial Tomb?
He speculated that in addition to surrounding and killing Zhong Xuanzun, these people might have other tasks, and perhaps more powerful forces were participating in the North Front battlefield… Did the Southern Dou Hall truly dare to fully engage in the war?
But these guesses, these considerations, were all useless at this moment.
He was very clear that this was a desperate situation!
If the power of the entire Victory Camp at this moment hadn’t been delivered into the collective will of the military formation and controlled by Zhong Xuansheng, it was likely that even with the Victory Camp’s elite, not many could stand steady.
This didn’t even have to do with courage; the disparity in strength was simply too great, making people fundamentally unable to muster any will to resist.
And at this moment, Jiang Wang, who was standing high in the air and had just pierced Chu Rang’s back with a single sword, was still calm.
Calm not because he didn’t know fear.
But because he had faced too many desperate moments, and he knew he only needed to face this one.
Watching Li Fu, Xue Chang, and Jin Ling join the battlefield one by one, listening to Zhong Xuanzun’s still proud words, he only gripped his Long Xiangsi tightly and opened his mouth to say: “Zhong Xuansheng, what did I tell you?”
This sentence seemed like a command, like an expletive.
Zhong Xuansheng, several tens of zhang tall, his massive body wrapped in soldier evil, let out a boom!
Like an arrow leaving the string of a moon-shooting crossbow, he streaked towards the southeast direction with terrifying speed.
A desperate escape!
On the east side, Guangping Marquis, Li Fu, waved his large sleeve, just about to intercept.
Suddenly, he felt a terrifying power, incomparably terrifying, rise up into the sky!
Bang bang!
Does Heaven also have a heart?
Why did it tremble at this moment?
Rumble rumble!
There were no great rivers in Sangfu, so why was the sound of surging mountains and rivers heard?
Such violent, such terrifying movement!
Li Fu, both surprised and shocked, turned his head and saw Jiang Qingyang, his cloak bathed in fire, standing proudly, his body radiating an immortal crimson-gold divine light!
Every muscle, every bone, every drop of blood, every strand of hair on his body seemed to shout a name, to resonate with a certain movement.
And heaven and earth also changed color for it!
With just this delay, Zhong Xuansheng, rolling the soldier evil, had already rushed past Li Fu’s side with utmost speed, heading straight for the southeast, breaking out of the battle formation in an instant!
He fled, fled without regard for anything.
The soldier evil cloud’s speed was extreme, breaking through space for a while before a boom!
The entire soldier evil cloud exploded.
Pale-faced Victory Camp soldiers scattered like rain.
Some immediately climbed up, while others never opened their eyes again. Zhong Xuansheng roughly counted, only eight hundred and thirty-six people remained alive.
Many soldiers died from sheer exhaustion!
These were the brothers who had accompanied him and Jiang Wang in conquering cities, storming strongholds, and transferring wars for thousands of li, now only eight hundred and thirty-six remained.
And Fourteen…
Fourteen, held in Zhong Xuansheng’s embrace, was also on the verge of losing her breath.
Zhong Xuansheng shattered her armor, lest the heavy armor crush her in her current state, only to see her face as pale as gold leaf.
As a superhuman cultivator whose strength far surpassed ordinary soldiers, because she could hardly participate in a God Arrival level battle, she had almost without reserve exhausted herself within the military formation.
All her True Origin, all her Qi and blood, were constantly delivered to the battle array.
She was more powerful than any soldier in the Victory Camp, but she was the first one to be exhausted!
That’s why she was so exhausted at this moment!
“Brothers!” Zhong Xuansheng said in a hoarse voice: “Find a way to hide nearby, I’ll go find reinforcements, I, Zhong Xuansheng, will absolutely not abandon you all!”
The warriors who could still speak, their voices rang out in disarray.
“General, go quickly!”
“Go find someone to save Commander Jiang!”
“We’ve never suffered such a great loss, bring people back to avenge our brothers!”
Not at all neat, not at all imposing.
Yet, each was the most fervent heart.
These beliefs, these passions, these hopes…
These voices gradually faded into the sound of the wind behind them.
Zhong Xuansheng was simultaneously busy and flustered, feeding Fourteen pills to save her life, while holding her and flying rapidly. He had to be faster, he wanted to go back to Huifu to rally troops, he wanted to gather a great army to come, he wanted to strangle this group of Xia country’s damnable Marquises!
“Sheng… brother.”
In Zhong Xuansheng’s embrace, Fourteen, who had swallowed a life-saving pill, said weakly: “Jiang Wang… that sentence he asked you, what did he tell you?”
At such a moment, she asked such a question.
She was naturally introverted, not good with words, and had sealed herself in armor year after year.
The most important person in her life was of course Zhong Xuansheng. But apart from Zhong Xuansheng, the only person she could still consider a friend was that brute, Jiang Qingyang, who was sometimes smart and sometimes blockheaded, and who constantly wanted to beat Sheng brother.
“You heard it too.”
Zhong Xuansheng repeated, as if to give Fourteen confidence, and also to give himself confidence: “You heard it too…
“He said…”
He only said these two words, and tears suddenly welled up without warning.
He was too smart a person, he had never regretted anything since he was young.
But at this moment, regret consumed his heart!
He regretted it greatly, why did he risk coming to Guiyi!
He prided himself on his talent, he wanted to win back what he deserved, but what did he rely on to drag Jiang Wang to gamble his life with him again?
That was a world-famous Heaven’s Chosen, a person with an infinitely bright future!
Even the position of North Ya Duwei he could refuse, even the Qi Emperor’s good intentions he could push away. This person named Jiang Wang, did he truly care about power, status, or glory?
Why did Jiang Wang come to this Fa Xia battlefield, why participate in everything on this battlefield, from the general’s platform in the western suburbs of Linzi all the way to Sangfu in Xia country, it was all for him. It was all for him!
He laughed at this person’s stupidity, laughed at this person’s silliness.
Laughing and laughing, he brought this person into a desperate situation.
But this stupid fellow, still only said, what did I tell you?
Still reminded him to bring the brothers of the Victory Camp to escape!
Zhong Xuansheng shed tears, and his not-so-handsome fat face was full of wrinkles.
This was the second time in his life he shed tears.
Only once before, and never again after.
He shed tears and said: “The God Arrival realm him… will be very strong! He said the God Arrival realm him, will be very strong!”
His body surface was already seeping blood, he was already exceeding his limit, flying rapidly in a way that consumed his life.
“What he said he would get, he will get.” Fourteen weakly emphasized, tears also falling.
The person who escaped would not affect the battle situation.
Normally, Shang Yanhu would have to scold Li Fu until he was spitting blood, because in his view, Zhong Xuansheng, whose military leadership skills were already unmatched, posed a greater threat than both Jiang Wang and Zhong Xuanzun.
But at this moment, he had no time to care, his emotions uncontrollably captured by Jiang Wang’s leap.
Whether it was Li Fu, Shang Yanhu, Jin Ling, Xue Chang, Chu Rang, or even the Crimson Blood Ghost Bat with half a wing torn off, their gaze was fixed at this instant!
The four star towers standing remotely in the ancient starry sky at this moment burst forth with an indescribable brilliance, more arrogant and fierce than sunlight!
Only those with true divine eye power could vaguely see from the blazing light…
A green seven-story stone tower, standing at Yu Heng.
An ancient, clumsy seven-story five-cornered small building, standing at Kai Yang.
A red seven-story four-cornered flying eaved small building, positioned at Tian Shu.
A majestic seven-story purple building, solidifying and suppressing the wind of the Yaoguang star path, traversing Yu Heng, connecting Kai Yang, penetrating Yaoguang, and responding to Tian Shu. It also passed through Tian Quan, Tian Ji, and Tian Xuan.
Vast and immeasurable star power surged in the vast starry path.
The heavens seemed to appear as a magnificent river of stars, and this river of stars was exclusively for Jiang Wang.
Majestic power possessed a majestic will, proclaiming to the universe his “true self” path with these four glorious buildings.
Heaven and earth together changed color!
This part of the world was all responding to his path.
Jiang Wang closed his eyes, and such immortal crimson-gold light flowed over his body.
The blazing light of the five wheels in front of his chest and abdomen seemed to illuminate eternity.
The frost-white cloak fluttered like a great banner.
Behind the burning red fire curtain, the illusion of a magnificent Bi Fang divine bird appeared, every fine feather present, seemingly condensing into substance. The God Arrival secret technique transmitted from Huang Weizhen at this moment clearly flowed and disappeared into his mind.
What was Huang Weizhen’s God Arrival secret?
Why was he the most romantic figure in Chu for three thousand years?
To perform the Dharma in the palm, to originate and extinguish the origin.
This was Huang Weizhen’s process of retracing the path to God Arrival after walking it, demanding the ultimate in every step.
Jiang Wang had completely failed to grasp it before, but as his true self path developed to this point, he had no regrets after killing Yi Shengfeng.
The details concerning every drop of blood, every point of bone marrow, every piece of muscle concerning God Arrival, at this moment, perfectly leaped!
His blood surged mightily, echoing throughout Sangfu!
His divine soul power condensed infinitely, condensed infinitely, that kind of feeling…
It felt like he had once swam in the world origin of the Senhai Yuanjie.
Although it was condensing and compressing, the feeling was one of inclusive power.
The process seemed to be infinitely elongated, but Jiang Wang understood it only happened in an instant.
In the Tongtian Palace, the Entwine Star Spirit Python, which had been shuttling in the Dao Xuan, suddenly shed its outer skin, its scales and armor appeared, its head adorned with majestic horns, and with a long cry, it leaped and transformed into a starry light divine dragon!
Its body was illusory and vague, its star light was beautiful and real, the Heaven’s Chosen’s form swam between the Dao Xuan, every swallow and spit was an immense amount of Dao Yuan.
The entire Tongtian Sea roared, raising boundless giant waves, as if celebrating this moment.
Rumble rumble!
In the Five Fu Sea, all five fu emerged, shining everywhere with glorious, endless five-colored light.
In the Hidden Star Sea, four brilliant stars fixed the four corners of the sky. In the clear wave light, the shadows of the stars were reflected.
Hua la la!
An agile to the extreme Dao Pulse Teng Long leaped out from the bottom of the sea, stirring and breaking the dream of star light, rushing up into the endless starry sky, constantly ascending, ascending…
Breaking through the limits of form and formlessness, it fell into the last ocean within the human body – the Yuan Shen Sea!
The Dao Pulse Teng Long, growing more and more vigorous and majestic, flew in this vast ocean of green light like the universe.
One resistance from the dragon’s horn resisted a door.
With a gentle push from the dragon’s horn, this ancient door was pushed open, and a magnificent great hall, between the virtual and the real, seemed to emerge from history.
This was the hidden glory within the human body’s secrets, the last kind of magnificent manifestation, its name: Container of God Hall!
The Dao Pulse Teng Long leaped high, over the dome of the Container of God Hall, and flew towards the vast and boundless universe within the human body.
And the divine soul manifested as a green-robed immortal, pressing his hand on Long Xiangsi, stepped into this Container of God Hall, walked in the hall where jade pillars stood high, passed through a curtain of glorious scenes that were born and extinguished in illusion, and finally sat down on that high throne.
Rumble rumble like the sound of heavenly thunder.
This sound seemed to echo throughout the entire present world.
Hua la la, hua la la.
The Tongtian Sea, the Five Fu Sea, the Hidden Star Sea, the Yuan Shen Sea, the four oceans of the human body surged together, the mad tide unstoppable, the waves ceaseless.
At this moment, the four seas connected!
At this moment, divine soul power transformed into spiritual sense, which could manifest externally in the world and interfere with reality!
Jiang Wang felt his thoughts were unprecedentedly clear, countless spiritual lights flying and turning in his mind.
What he didn’t understand before, he suddenly understood. What was obscure before, was now clear and bright.
At this moment, heaven and earth sympathized, and incomparable changes were occurring. It was not just the physical body evolving into a golden body and jade marrow, not just the divine soul power leaping to spiritual sense, not just the transcendence of life limits.
Jiang Wang clearly felt that he and the entire present world had been imprinted once again.
The present world embraced all, with the same love for everyone.
Every person had two contracts with this world.
The first time was birth.
The second time was God Arrival.
So why was it said that one could not achieve God Arrival outside the present world?
Because God Arrival outside the present world could not gain insight into the truth of this world!
All this took a long time to describe, but it only happened in an instant.
The so-called “with gap, heaven and human separate; without regret, one kick achieves.”
Li Fu, Shang Yanhu, Jin Ling, Xue Chang, and Chu Rang, all were Marquises of great countries, long experienced in battle formations, and seasoned killers. Of course, they would not sit and wait for Jiang Wang to leap, but before they could even make a move, Jiang Wang had already opened his eyes!
Zhong Xuanzun said, “I have already seen all the scenery on this road.”
He could indeed say that.
From Tai Xu True Monarch to Blood River True Monarch, many strongmen who stood at the absolute peak of superhuman power all favored him.
From Linzi to Mijie, there was endless scenery.
Born with a Dao Pulse, cutting through falsehood without confusion, seizing all the glory of his generation.
Only at the Yellow River Meeting, when he encountered Dou Zhao, compared to Jiang Wang who had won the champion of the Inner Mansion, his achievement was slightly less.
But again on the general’s platform in the western suburbs, he contended for the vanguard position and indeed defeated Jiang Qingyang of the Outer Building realm.
He had seen all the scenery of the Outer Building realm.
Making up for the palpitation he felt when appreciating Jiang Wang’s battle under the Guanhe Platform at that time.
He could take that step without regret.
And for Jiang Wang, what did he see on this difficult path?
He saw Yin Guan’s rugged path to the Tongtian path, achieving God Arrival alone through the minor path of curse techniques.
He saw Jiang Wuqi capture Li Youjiu, the path of the Fish Cabinet, clearing the hidden troubles of Fa Xia. One step to God Arrival, tied as autumn frost.
Dou Zhao’s invincible advance, the magnificent golden body of King Du of Chu.
Zhong Liyan’s never-ending struggle, repeatedly defeated and repeatedly fighting, from technique to martial arts, all on the edge of danger.
Wang Changji’s fish mountain and sea realm, falsely becoming a heavenly mansion, from which God Arrival was not lacking.
Yue Tiannv obtaining a pure land early, proving her original nature spirit boat.
Xiao Shu’s heart filled with regret, his efforts almost successful, dying without a word.
Zhu Weiwo’s arrogant sharpness, never losing to anyone in his lifetime.
Zhang Xun’s swallow and spit of sword pills, his sword Qi already like silk, one stroke sweeping across the moonlit sky.
Of course, there was also Zhong Xuanzun, the so-called “reading through the scenery of the Outer Building, achieving an unshakable God Arrival.”
These dazzling figures, these glorious silhouettes. They seemed to flow in the river of time, yet they clearly existed in Jiang Wang’s heart.
He had seen it all along the way, the scenery of the God Arrival realm!
How these Heaven’s Chosen figures walked their own paths, how they guarded their own lives!
Before heaven and humanity separated, how many magnificent waves there were.
What is God Arrival?
What is god and its brilliance?
What is… “I like a god arriving in the world?!”
It was at this moment.
At this moment, the blood-stained white-clothed Zhong Xuanzun cried out in a long voice: “Jiang Qingyang! Do you have no regrets now?”
Jiang Wang, suspended not far away, holding his sword in his green robe, only said: “Yes!”
Achieving God Arrival today, without regret, without omission, without lack!
When his eyes closed, it was as if he sealed his life, his heart.
One close, one open, the world was already different!
When his eyes opened, the black and white colors were so distinct, like hanging the sun and moon, giving people a feeling of vastness beyond time.
And in the next moment, they turned into immortal crimson gold!
At this moment, he was a god!
He possessed the might of a god, the power of a god, the dignity of a god!
The light in his eyes was long like a flame, and wherever he gazed, red-colored Samadhi True Fire rose.
His gaze swept over Li Fu, Shang Yanhu, Jin Ling, Xue Chang, and Chu Rang, and wherever he looked, flame flowers bloomed!
Flowers formed from Samadhi True Fire.
In an instant, the world was filled with clusters of flame flowers. The light shifted, a world like a divine realm.
This fire was everywhere, this fire burned everything.
As his gaze shifted, true fire burned the plains!
He actually launched the first attack, one person attacking five!
The fully armored Jin Ling flipped his Guan Dao, the twelve-zhang long Guan Dao as agile as an embroidery needle. It lightly fell upon the flame flower, scattering light across time. It split open the flower bud, the petals, decomposing the fire!
The flame flower burned and burned again, spreading along the edge of the Guan Dao blade.
Divine fire, essence fire, qi fire, and also the monarch fire, the minister fire, the people fire.
In the fire of Samadhi, he could not be extinguished!
A black light instantly flowed across the blade ridge, like ink, dyeing the entire Guan Dao ink-colored.
The remaining fire was just extinguished.
“They all say only Chu has talent, but this Marquis observes today that the Heaven’s Chosen of Qi seems to surpass the Heaven’s Chosen of Chu!” Jin Ling sighed: “There are actually two Dou Zhaos!”
In his voice, there was both a sigh and fortune.
The sigh was for Jiang Wang’s powerful God Arrival with a single kick, no less than the Zhong Xuanzun he had chased and killed with his army. The Qi country actually produced such a generation of Heaven’s Chosen, its national fortune prosperous.
The fortune was that such two peerless Heaven’s Chosen were now surrounded and were about to die here!
Not far away, Li Fu’s large sleeves fluttered, his hands slightly spread, as if holding a virtual sphere. An invisible power solidified, fixing that vibrant flame flower within. He held it as if holding a lantern, and within it burned enough to extinguish all light.
He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but he vaguely smelled a floral fragrance on this flame flower?
Perhaps it was the scent of burning?
But he still said: “After a trip to Chu, you only know Dou Zhao every day. Have you left your heart in Chu country?”
“Why not two Dou Zhaos?” Unlike Li Fu, who still had the leisure to mock his companion at such a time, Xue Chang was a straightforward person. He grasped a pair of short halberds from the void, their edges crossing, and he had already chopped the flame flower in front of him into pieces, not even leaving a single spark!
“Kill these two, and win a slaughter of one army of Qi country!”
These senior Marquises were experienced and powerful, as evidenced by the way they dealt with the flame flowers.
At first, no one knew how powerful Jiang Wang’s true fire was, or what qualitative changes his Samadhi True Fire had undergone after God Arrival.
Jin Ling’s initial solution to the flame flower still required a supplementary method.
Li Fu, after observing for a moment, easily fixed the flame flower.
By the time Xue Chang acted again, this flame flower was no longer a secret, and a crossing of the halberd edges extinguished it!
This kind of grasp of the battle situation and rapid adaptation was what true strongmen possessed.
Chu Rang, although severely injured, only used a dark blue fire line to freeze the flame flower that was burning towards him.
Among all the Marquises, Shang Yanhu was the most direct. His skin color changed from gray-white to iron-gray.
He did not dodge, nor flash, nor avoid, but collided with his body, directly shattering the flame flower in front of him!
The shattered Samadhi True Fire burned on his body, yet left nothing.
And he was already close, welcoming Jiang Wang with a fist, an iron-gray fist, heavier than before by more than a factor of ten!
“Let me see how you dare call yourself without regret!”
Jin Ling, Xue Chang, Li Fu, Chu Rang, including the Crimson Blood Ghost Bat with half a flesh wing torn off, also pounced forward at almost the same time!
Jiang Wang was completely fearless, drawing his sword and meeting them.
His edge after God Arrival seemed no longer contained by space.
At this moment, the sword light moved, and the world between heaven and earth sounded like a divine dragon’s roar!
Dang! Dang! Dang!
A wheel knife like a snow moon chopped on Shang Yanhu’s fist, forced back the Crimson Blood Ghost Bat, and then crossed Xue Chang’s halberd edge!
Zhong Xuanzun’s body floated down, and at the same time, his sword met Jin Ling, Li Fu, and Chu Rang, standing back and resisting Jiang Wang, who had just suffered an injury.
“Although my condition is not very good…” He raised his left hand holding the knife, wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, and also wiped away that cold sternness: “You didn’t even leave me one bat!”
A wisp of hair on Jiang Wang’s forehead, after being swept by the strong wind, lightly fell down.
In the crimson-gold world, it left a black trace.
Not all stories have a fixed ending.
And he wanted to write his own answer once again, whether it was life or death, win or lose.
Never give up.
Forever not give up.
He gripped his sword, silent.
This heart, this person, what words were needed?
One green robe, one white robe.
One long sword, one wheel knife.
Standing back to back.
Two God Arrivals… battling six God Arrivals.