Persevere and abandon, and ten thousand paths are difficult to grasp; persevere without abandoning, and immortal techniques may be attained.

Had it not been for the circumstances of this day, had it not been for the sustenance of the Undying Jade Pearl, the countless destructions wrought by Dog Suppressing Yang, Jiang Wang might never have unveiled the secret of the As-You-Wish Immortal Robes.

As his cultivation grew, fewer and fewer beings could injure him. And those who could injure him were also capable of extinguishing him.

For the As-You-Wish Immortal Palace to conceal its heritage within the immortal robes in such a manner, with such arduous conditions for unlocking it, could indeed be called safe, ensuring the lineage would not be severed.

Since the fall of the nine great immortal palaces, since the curtain call of the immortal era, the As-You-Wish Immortal Robes had drifted through the ever-changing currents of the world, passing through the hands of countless masters.

Those who understood its preciousness would surely be loath to damage it. Even after repeated research yielded no results, they would only cherish it – just as it lay forgotten in the national treasury for a long time before being bestowed upon Jiang Wang.

Those who did not understand its preciousness would likely wear it until it was broken repeatedly, and then abandon it.

Even for someone like Jiang Wang, a Duke who had carved his way out of battlefields with sword and spear, he had not been injured enough times to meet the As-You-Wish Immortal Robes’ unlocking requirement.

If the descendants of the immortal palace who knew the secret had already been extinguished, then barring any accidents, the heritage of the As-You-Wish Immortal Palace might not reappear in the human world for ten thousand, or even tens of thousands of years.

Perhaps the power of time could help the As-You-Wish Immortal Palace resolve the adversaries they could not overcome initially.

It is unknown whether Qi Tianzi, when he chose to bestow these As-You-Wish Immortal Robes, was aware of the location of the As-You-Wish Immortal Palace’s inheritance barrier.

But it must be said, the As-You-Wish Immortal Robes’ inheritance greatly tested the bond between monarch and minister.

Having endured countless life-and-death struggles while still wearing these robes, Jiang Wang naturally acknowledged the majesty of Tianzi and never forgot his kindness.

Only today did Tianzi’s reward from the Yellow River Contention finally bear fruit for Jiang Wang.

As a formidable organization that once dominated an era, numbered among the nine great immortal palaces, the As-You-Wish Immortal Palace’s core immortal technique was “with intent as technique,” uniquely employing intent as a means of combat.

At its peak, it boasted, “But have any seek, none not as-you-wish!”

The cultivators of this immortal palace were nigh unbeatable in the divine soul battlefield, always proclaimed invincible in the same realm of divine soul. However…

Just like the Cloud Top Immortal Palace, the Ten Thousand Immortal Palace, the immortal era had ended, the As-You-Wish Immortal Palace had been destroyed, and its techniques no longer existed in the world. The Cloud Top Immortal Palace still had a ruin, a few intact buildings, and the Azure Cloud Pavilion capable of producing the azure cloud of good fortune.

The As-You-Wish Immortal Palace, however, was reduced to a single As-You-Wish Immortal Robe. Though the immortal techniques were obtained, they could not be utilized.

Of course, Jiang Wang was already familiar with the immortal technique system and had his own insights into how to borrow from it.

But to truly apply this inheritance to combat, it would require repeated contemplation, just like the Voice-Hearing Immortal Canon, to form a weakened version of Dao techniques with the Like a Dream Order as a core substitute.

This required too much time and energy, impossible to achieve in one go.

Even if accomplished, it would be of no help against Dog Suppressing Yang, nor could it break the current predicament.

If within the immortal palace’s heritage there truly existed an immortal technique that could be grasped at a glance, breaking common sense in cultivation, allowing a Divine Manifestation to defeat a True Cave, the As-You-Wish Immortal Palace would probably not have perished back then…

They would have established an eternal immortal dynasty long ago!

A door of immortal techniques that could not be immediately converted into combat power was likely just an empty shell. These unlocked As-You-Wish Immortal Robes would probably end up like the Knowing-Hearing Bell and the Undying Spring, becoming Dog Suppressing Yang’s collection after Jiang Wang’s death.

Years later, the As-You-Wish Immortal Palace’s inheritance would become a part of the demon race. Just as the Knowing-Hearing Bell had been the treasured artifact of Ancient Hard Mountain for a very long time.

But as the saying goes, the Great Dao ultimately converges. After receiving the As-You-Wish Immortal Palace’s immortal technique inheritance and understanding its core “with intent as technique,” Jiang Wang suddenly discovered that he possessed a similar secret technique – Thought Dust!

Transmitted by his good friend Lin Youxie, it was the original application of thoughts by his uncle, Lin Kuang of Tianluo.

Thought Dust, like the As-You-Wish Immortal Canon, had commonalities, and Jiang Wang had already conceived an idea. But for inspiration to take form, it required time, and at this moment, what he most lacked was

Time.

But… he still had the Knowing-Hearing Bell!

All the possibilities he could create were rooted in the Knowing-Hearing Bell, in “as make knowing-hearing”!

Dog Suppressing Yang thus saw, within the sphere of light kill, that Jiang Wang, whose body endured the world’s extreme torments, with his blood-soaked hands, struggled to ring the Knowing-Hearing Bell he tightly grasped!

Within Jiang Wang’s mind, unseen by Dog Suppressing Yang.

Countless thoughts raced like flying lights, coming and going like lightning, turning this way and that. Human desires, a thousand thoughts born and extinguished in a single breath.

An uncountable complexity of information collided, and amidst the sound of that ancient bell, a spiritual light flashed. It was like fresh snow after a long night, like the initial clarity after rain… everything suddenly opened up!

Jiang Wang had never understood himself so profoundly. After his golden body and jade marrow had been repeatedly struck and collapsed countless times by the myriad light rays, and then repaired countless times with the support of the Undying Jade Pearl, his understanding of his own flesh surpassed any time in the past.

He had also never been so distressed. Controlling any part of his body required paying a huge price.

But he had also never been so clear-headed. With the help of the Knowing-Hearing Bell, he gained a new, even comprehensive understanding of the so-called “immortal techniques”!

The sound of rain on the lake shattered like beads.

Among the slightly rippling waves, a thought leaped out of the sea of consciousness, transforming into a human form that landed in his left ear. Amidst the waterfall-like flow of blood, it remained unstained, indescribably free and elegant, like an immortal seated in a rock cave.

His entire being was crystal clear, not visible to vulgar eyes.

Combining the Thought Dust technique and the As-You-Wish Immortal Canon, pursuing the inspiration born in Jiang Wang’s heart, penetrating the knowing and hearing of immortal and technique, at this moment, dust thoughts ascended to become immortal!

With the thoughts of immortal techniques seated in his ear, he resolved the most crucial problem regarding techniques in the Voice-Hearing Immortal Canon. Jiang Wang at this time replicated the ear immortal depicted in that one ‘Ten Thousand Immortals Come to Court’!

No, not replicated.

It was a fusion, a replacement, an integration of the Thought Dust technique, the As-You-Wish Immortal Canon, and the Voice-Hearing Immortal Canon. This was an ear immortal possessing the Contemplate Self-Freedom Ear, within the Voice-Hearing Immortal State!

The absolute skill of the immortal palace era, reappearing in the world.

This was the first kind of possibility regarding immortal techniques born within this Divine Firmament World! It was still not enough.

Jiang Wang’s two hands, whose white bones had regrown flesh and blood, one hand tightly gripped Longxiangsi, the other tightly gripped the Knowing-Hearing Bell.

The hand gripping the Knowing-Hearing Bell was already riddled with blood holes, almost unable to move.

But clang! Clang! Clang!

The sound rose with intent, the Knowing-Hearing Bell rang on its own. One ring of Knowing-Hearing, discerning and hearing in all directions!

Madly fleeing under Dog Suppressing Yang’s pursuit, Jiang Wang had tried all sorts of methods, but had never considered starting from spiritual awareness.

Because the first step from Divine Manifestation to True Cave was precisely to refine the spirit into a god. To use the divine soul that controlled spiritual awareness to achieve the “primordial spirit” in the primordial spirit sea.

What was “primordial”? The beginning of all things.

Refining the spirit into a god meant moving from the human “god” towards the “god” of the world. (This “god” is not deities.)

The gap between Divine Manifestation and True Cave was already huge in reality, and in the world of the divine soul, there was an even more essential gap.

Jiang Wang had never harbored the idea of striking a stone with an egg, and could only display his own power as much as possible, grasping the possibility of escape.

But at this time, it was different.

Early on in the Taixu Illusion Realm, when he attempted to construct another set of fighting systems, he had developed the voice-hearing domain relative to the fire domain. In his battle with Shi Shanyin, it had also achieved good results.

And at this moment, under the blessing of the ear immortal and the Knowing-Hearing Bell, his own unique voice-hearing immortal domain thus unfolded!

Invisible sound patterns penetrated like tangible light, instantly spreading three thousand zhang! Of course, it also included Dog Suppressing Yang and his massive ball of light.

Regardless of wind sounds, breathing sounds, or the sounds of chanting transmitted from the divine mountain… within this three thousand zhang, all sounds of this world converged towards Jiang Wang.

And then exploded in an instant!

Several infinite sound kills, similar to Dog Suppressing Yang’s infinite light kill!

Everything concerning light in this place was controlled by Dog Suppressing Yang.

This was a true demon. Everything concerning sounds in this place was controlled by Jiang Wang! This was an immortal!

Jiang Wang naturally could not compare with Dog Suppressing Yang, even while clinging to life with the help of the Undying Jade Pearl, and propping up the voice-hearing immortal domain that discerned and heard in all directions with the help of the Knowing-Hearing Bell.

But at least at this very moment, within this three thousand zhang radius. This terrifying sound kill that suddenly erupted, after the Knowing-Hearing Bell rang dozens and hundreds of times, coupled with a thorough understanding of Dog Suppressing Yang, instantly unleashed infinite sounds and infinite attacks upon Dog Suppressing Yang’s body.

Outside that dazzling ball of light, like a golden sun, a terrifying sound explosion occurred!

And within this completely collapsed sound world, four words still rang clearly. That was Dog Suppressing Yang’s voice, steady as he extended a hand beyond the range of the sound explosion, his five fingers pointing towards the sky——

“Heaven! Earth! Receive! Mandate!”

Dog Suppressing Yang, with the cultivation of a contemporary true demon, mobilized his understanding of this world’s rules, intruding upon Jiang Wang’s control of sounds. The sound explosion was suppressed in an instant.

Ten thousand sounds fell silent. Drip~ drop!

Thus, this sound was exceptionally clear.

A drop of true blood fell through the air, burning the air, emitting a sizzling sound, and a faint, strange fragrance diffused.

Dog Suppressing Yang was injured!

This was the first time he had been injured since the battle began. A majestic true demon, actually injured by a Divine Manifestation cultivator!

Even if the opponent possessed the Knowing-Hearing Bell, even if he had the Undying Spring, even if the opponent was the renowned prodigy Jiang Wang, this was an immense shame that could not be washed away!

He immediately took a step forward——

But the massive ball of light in front, which gathered nearly half of the Divine Firmament World’s light, was already empty as if.

He suddenly turned his head, only to see, in the far distance of his line of sight, a blood rainbow piercing the divine mountain!

The blood-drenched Jiang Wang had already rushed to the heavenly demon altar, killing his way to the scene below where Yuanxi Great Emperor’s remnant thought and Great Ancestor Yuzhen’s spiritual essence were conversing——under the pursuit of him, Zhao Yunfeng, Dog Suppressing Yang, he had achieved this much with his Divine Manifestation realm cultivation!

How would the world describe him, Dog Suppressing Yang, in the future? A human race prodigy, stepping on him to achieve fame!

At this moment, upon the divine mountain.

The sky reflected the silhouette within the long river of time. Yuanxi Great Emperor and Great Ancestor Yuzhen sat opposite each other, their faces unseen, their voices unheard.

The various god arrays on the heavenly demon altar all converged towards the god king’s body.

Xuan Nan Gong’s intent was entirely within the form of the god king’s body.

Great Ancestor Yuzhen had once returned in the position of a supreme honored god. He would surely, according to his promise before the multitude of heavenly demons in Mo Yun City, relinquish all authority regarding the Seal God Platform.

But with the merit of supporting a supreme honored god, with deep involvement in the form of a supreme honored god, he also had the opportunity to glimpse what lay above his absolute peak!

On the mountain path from the mountainside to the mountain platform stood a Night Bodhisattva transformed from a faith insect, and a newly born Demon Rakshasa knelt.

On the mountain path from the mountain platform upwards was the silent Chai A Si. Jiang Wang arrived in this situation, piercing through as a blood rainbow.

Night Bodhisattva couldn’t believe Jiang Wang could still return at this time, nor did he expect Dog Suppressing Yang to be so useless. He had allocated little attention, and after bestowing law upon the Demon Rakshasa and perfecting the eight divisions of ghost gods, he was still contemplating the flower-shaped stone carvings on the cliff face, pondering the dialogue between the two transcendent beings on the long river of time.

Ling Xihua, this so-called Demon Rakshasa, had no ability to intercept, nor could she react.

Xuan Nan Gong was still carving the god king’s body!

Thus, Jiang Wang was actually unimpeded for a time, approaching the mountain platform directly.

From the battlefield with Dog Suppressing Yang to the escape to the divine mountain, Jiang Wang had urged his qi and blood almost without end, pushing himself to the fastest speed of his life, a speed that even his golden body and jade marrow could not sustain.

He could only seize the opportunity to escape Dog Suppressing Yang’s line of sight so rapidly.

Also because this extreme speed itself was self-inflicting, it was not until he killed his way to the divine mountain and leaped onto the heavenly demon altar that the Undying Jade Pearl caused his body’s dense cracks to heal rapidly.

And the fresh blood that rolled down the road was a line that cut straight through the mountain platform. Blood stained the heavenly demon altar!

On the heavenly demon altar, the various gods stood solemnly, burning their bodies, looking up at the god king’s body, quietly awaiting the birth of a supreme honored god.

The divine fire covering the altar was like a blooming flower of flame.

Jiang Wang’s fresh blood fell into the fire, making its color brighter, its blood color more intense.

He wore the blood-dyed As-You-Wish Immortal Robes, like a freely flying bird, soaring over that bronze giant cauldron said to have been refined from Great Ancestor Yuzhen’s flesh.

His left hand rang the Knowing-Hearing Bell, his right hand held the sword raised towards the sky. The Divine Firmament World originally had no sun, moon, or stars.

But within that long river of time, ripples of light appeared, reflecting the Big Dipper’s seven stars.

These seven dazzling stars possessing great power were connected by star paths, turning lightly in the glory of time, shifting towards the north.

From this, the Divine Firmament World had a true north. It had a direction that anchored ten thousand worlds. The Dipper handle pointed north, and under heaven was winter.

Within the light and shadow projected onto the sky of the Divine Firmament World, above the sky where the two great existences sat opposite each other discussing the Dao, a single snowflake actually fell.

Jiang Wang he… rang the bell to seek the old path, raised his sword against the transcendent!

Dog Suppressing Yang, who had arrived outside the divine mountain in a furious rage, was already stunned. Night Bodhisattva, transformed from a faith insect, was also speechless for a time.

Ling Xihua was so shocked she lost her voice, her entire body even her bones were weak!

Precisely at this moment, the heavenly light drawn and released by Dog Suppressing Yang had already returned to this world, and the vast divine mountain shone brightly with it.

The mountain platform, the heavenly demon altar and the bronze giant cauldron, the long river of time and the two great existences sitting opposite each other discussing the Dao, as well as the blood-colored Jiang Wang flying high in the middle, were all drawn into this painting of extreme tension.

Time seemed to pass for a very long time, yet it also seemed to have ended in an instant. In the reflected long river of time above the sky.

That figure in white clothes, wearing a white jade crown on his head, disappeared amidst flickering appearances and disappearances.

That majestic figure, with crown pendants hanging down, then shook his head, sighed, and left from above the long river of time.

No one could say clearly what impact Jiang Wang’s sword strike had. But Chai A Si would forever remember this sword.

Indeed, it was light shining upon the world!

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