That eye, barely covered, what kind of scene could it actually hide?

The eye socket was deeply sunken, standing out alone, like a high cliff encircling an abyss. The entire eyeball part had completely disappeared!

Only fresh blood flowed within, rippling slightly as if stirred by a phantom wind.

If one ignored the color of the blood, it would resemble a serene picture of clouds and shadows.

And when the eye cover was removed, it instantly surged like a vast lake or sea!

The strict laws were undone, and in the center of the one-eyed blood lake, a terrifying vortex appeared, as if a beast’s maw was madly swallowing everything. Yet, it formed the exact appearance of an eye.

An eye within an eye!

Looking briefly, it seemed like a blood-colored pupil.

Yu Bei Dou’s finger pressed that drop of ever-changing blood bead, exactly at this time, pointing it into the vortex!

There was a low buzz of rule-level sound, as if announcing the coming of a legend.

Calculating and exhausting the maze world, borrowing momentum for the layout, causing the fearsome Blood King Fish Xin Zhou to suffer frequent disasters, hammered and tempered a thousand times, finally worn down, all for this drop of “truth”!

This drop of “truth” was now at Yu Bei Dou’s fingertip, and it rapidly transformed, evolving into a Bagua platform.

The Blood King’s true self, at this moment, transformed into a Bagua platform!

Outside its mysterious solemnity, it was also dotted with cruelty.

A blood-colored Bagua!!

Blood Divination Art!!!

When Yu Bei Dou was still a True Person, he was crowned as the absolute master of the Dong Zhen realm with his calculating power. He once said that if he used the heavens and earth as a chessboard, he could defeat Feng Qi! How arrogant Yu Bei Dou was!

And in his mouth, the Senior Brother who had opened a new path for the art of divination was a character even more dazzling than himself in all aspects. He always believed that only by personally killing his Senior Brother was he the true genius of the absolute world.

The Blood Divination Art was created by that person.

Yu Bei Dou always deliberately avoided mentioning that person’s name, because it was he who personally wiped out this “error”, and that person’s name was—

Yu Nan Ji.

“Wei Nan has Ji, cannot be raised with a ladle. Wei Bei has Dou, cannot scoop wine pulp with a ladle. Wei Nan has Ji, carrying its tongue. Wei Bei has Dou, lifting its west handle.”

Heaven has Ji and Dou, yet they do nothing.

South Ji and North Dou, just empty names!

The reason for their Master giving them such names was because when they were brought back to the mountain gate and first came into contact with the cultivation world, the art of divination had already reached a dead end, a dead end that had lasted for countless tens of thousands of years!

Their Master was unwilling but hopeless, their life a struggle. They wanted to pass down the path, yet understood there was no road ahead. They wanted to open the heavens, yet knew it was absolutely impossible. They wanted to give up, yet could not. They could only dryly guard the ancient glory of the art of divination, inheriting the legacy of generation after generation of divination seniors, chewing and re-chewing on themselves in the long passage of time.

How could the art of divination not be just an empty name?

This struggle also permeated the lives of Yu Nan Ji and Yu Bei Dou.

For an extremely dazzling genius, to reach here with no road left, unable to go up, unable to come down, and with high peaks all around! What kind of painful thing was this?

He clearly saw a higher place, and also had the ability to walk to a higher place… but this road was blocked!

Pain, despair, doubt, hesitation.

Then some chose to endure, some continued to find a road to walk.

Yu Nan Ji, relying on his self-perseverance and constant effort, and his world-covering dazzling talent, creatively opened the Blood Divination Art, opening a new road for the art of divination.

He shared his joy with his closest Senior Brother, about his unique creation, about everything about Blood Divination. He was completely open with Yu Bei Dou.

But Yu Bei Dou painfully discovered that this was a wrong road! This was an error!

Yu Nan Ji cultivated the art of divination for three hundred years, sought a hundred kinds of paths, and asked the Way with a single heart. But after creating the Blood Divination Art, in just three short years, he had completely changed. His actions were unrestrained and taboo, bordering on demonic!

Yu Bei Dou, based on the tradition of the art of divination and from the standpoint of the human race, made a choice. He chose to personally correct this “error” at the hands of his Senior Brother.

And Yu Nan Ji never defended against him, his absolute world pride dying in a single thought.

“North looks, south considers, three hundred years,” is not about Yu Bei Dou alone, but about the three hundred years he spent with Yu Nan Ji.

He refused to admit that the person who committed wanton evil after three hundred years was his Senior Brother.

So, “Dou turns, stars shift, one life rests!”

Yu Bei Dou, of course, understood the Blood Divination Art.

He understood it better than anyone else.

After killing his own Senior Brother and then his own Senior Nephew, he was the only person in the world who understood Blood Divination.

And because he had never walked the path of divination, in this regard, he was also the only one!

At this moment, with the body of a True King of Divination, he pressed the Blood Divination hexagram, printing it onto that blood lake vortex.

With his standing place as the center, space instantly exploded with black cracks, as if the entire time-space shattered like a mirror!

His right eye looked down below, with faint lines and creases, completely unremarkable.

His left hand pointed the blood bead onto his left eye, and at this moment, opened his Heaven’s Eye!

With the true blood of Fish Xin Zhou pointing out the Heaven’s Eye, what kind of appearance did it have?

The dome of heaven was just depicting the answer!

At this time, the dome of heaven, with all sorts of strange signs overlapping, was in an unprecedented state of chaos.

Gao Jie and Xuan Yuan Shuo confronting the blood centipede was one layer.

The star chart that should be excited by the Star Divination path was one layer.

Ruan Qu’s star light covering the star chart was one layer.

They covered each other, yet did not interfere with each other, because they were originally not in the same rule layer.

And among all these strange signs, a blood color suddenly rose, instantly covering the dome of heaven!

Vast blood color, rotating madly in the dome of heaven, forming a huge blood-colored vortex. The center of the vortex exactly formed the shape of a vertical eye!

It was more complex, more strange than the eye within his eye.

Within the blood color, there were ancient patterns.

Within the profundity, there was the solemnity of fate.

It was so mysterious and so indifferent, so vast and so far.

When you noticed it, you felt yourself being seen through completely!

Bao Bo Zhao, the proud general of Qi, possessed a divine ability called “Heaven’s Eye”. The Heaven’s Eye had two openings. One eye could clearly see the tip of an autumn hair, the other was heavenly punishment. It was a very powerful divine ability.

Yu Bei Dou’s “Heaven’s Eye”, though similar in name, was completely different in nature.

Or, to be more accurate, it should be called “Fate Eye”!

This was an absolute secret technique of the art of divination, which patrolled the long river of fate, seeing through past and future!

It was the eye of the divination master watching the long river of fate.

And today, Yu Bei Dou, with True King Fish Xin Zhou as the consumable material, opened this Heaven’s Eye with Blood Divination!

This eye, crossing over that endless deep sea, saw Gao Jie at the bottom of the sea, and was also seen by Gao Jie.

According to reason, Yu Bei Dou, having just become a True King, would find it difficult to do anything to Gao Jie. But seeing his current arrangement, among the King Masters in the field, none were without extreme apprehension. A flock of birds approached the bright moon, wanting to stop it, yet were intercepted by all the Yan Dao of the human race!

Yu Bei Dou seemed not to see, just watched Gao Jie from afar, saying in a matter-of-fact manner: “You, a flower of the Heaven’s Court, your karma swims in the spirit platform, your treasure light has eclipsed, your divine splendor hides ferocity… sorry, I misremembered, I forgot you are not human. Du! Gao Jie! I see bloodlines in all your scale eyes, very inauspicious, I fear a bloodlight disaster!”

Gao Jie was not one for fighting with words.

The reason he and Xuan Yuan Shuo tacitly moved the battlefield was precisely that he did not want any accidental factors to interfere with their duel again. The tragic end of Ge Hai’s return and shattered death was truly not a beautiful experience for him.

The fall of a legend only emphasized the many hardships on the road ahead for the Sea Race.

And this Yu Bei Dou was precisely the accident he least wanted to encounter!

A human race True King, who had proven the Way through divination.

What did that Heaven’s Eye, which saw through the long river of fate, want to spy on?

Gao Jie resolutely refused to sit and wait for death. He lifted that giant claw, like a mountain, and with only a single toe fingertip, shaped like a triangular spear, drew heavily in the water.

The sea water flowed for a thousand miles!

Hua la la, hua la la.

The sound of water echoed in the ears of every living being in the maze world. It was clearly so noisy, yet it brought a feeling of closeness, tolerance, and vastness.

That was the original appearance of water, stripped away from the evil of natural disasters and all kinds of vicious metaphors.

Regardless of whether they were human or Sea Race, everyone turned to look downwards in unison.

Regardless of which realm they were in, they could all see waves surging, waves rolling, and rapid currents.

The endless “emptiness” of the maze world was thus filled, thus supported!

That dark, constantly shaking “great earth” was precisely the dark, sinking sea!

If Xuan Yuan Shuo suspended the moon as a hook, making the maze world have a heaven.

Gao Jie, at this moment, was precisely bringing the sea to the maze world.

In the mouths and ears of the people, what kind of place was the maze world?

“The dome of heaven for night, the sea surface no light, not seeing northwest, not dividing southeast.”

At this very moment, not a single word was different!

Now, heaven and sea were parallel, illuminating the same world.

That high-hanging bright moon and the blood-colored Fate Eye were simultaneously reflected in the sea.

And within that dark, sinking sea water, even darker shadows swam rapidly, as if desiring to bite the bright moon, desiring to swallow the Heaven’s Eye!

To reflect the moon into the sea and bite it, this kind of ability was unbelievable.

But Xuan Yuan Shuo on the Tian Ya Tai remained as still as a sculpture. He seemed to be connected as one with the architectural meaning of the entire Huai Island, a block of stone, not a person.

The thick curtain of flesh and blood could not cover his eyes.

He gripped his fishing rod tightly, adding strength point by point.

And blue veins, like dragons, violently pulsed on the back of his hand.

With his posture holding the rod as the center, eight Dao characters burst open with a roar. The distance between each Dao character was equal, their heads and tails connected, linking into a circle of brilliant golden characters.

The characters read: Mountains and rivers flow, fish and insects, grass and trees!

The rules of the present world, pressuring all ten thousand realms. The great trend of the human way, rolling forward.

These eight characters seemed to pour incomparable power into him, making him grip the fishing rod, lifting it firmly!

The Great Way is simple, one force breaks ten thousand laws.

The bright moon, like a hook, lifted three feet!

Yu Bei Dou and the giant eagle bone frame beneath Yu Bei Dou’s feet were also lifted up.

Because the bright moon rose high, it encompassed all the rules within a certain area.

Xuan Yuan Shuo fishing for Gao Jie was against the entire Sea Race!

What Gao Jie did not want to see was naturally what Xuan Yuan Shuo wanted to see. Gao Jie wanted to stop Yu Bei Dou from watching, so he just wanted to give Yu Bei Dou a more vast space.

In a race war, there was no fair duel. On the transcendent path, he and Gao Jie were destined not to both achieve it.

So he acted before Yu Bei Dou could react, still holding back Gao Jie tightly. Yu Bei Dou wanted to interfere and help him win the final struggle, so he first helped Yu Bei Dou clear away obstacles!

For cultivators like Jiang Wang, what he saw was just the parallel heaven and sea, and Xuan Yuan Shuo’s desperate effort to lift the rod. Regarding the more subtle changes in the entire maze world, he had a faint feeling, but could not fully discern them.

In fact, the struggle between Gao Jie and Xuan Yuan Shuo had already unfolded around the authority of the entire maze world.

Outside the two lines of battle that had already formed a stalemate, they opened a new third line of battle!

One taking authority from the heaven, one taking authority from the sea.

They defined the heaven and sea, and then divided all the domains of the maze world, and then set the rules.

The powers of both sides were contained, and the terrifying Dao principles clashed in all domains and corners of the maze world. A single strand of energy escaping meant the death of thousands or tens of thousands of human or Sea Race individuals.

At the same time as the bright moon lifted three feet—bang bang bang!

Three of Gao Jie’s scale eyes exploded consecutively!

Yu Bei Dou stood on the giant eagle’s skull, his left hand still pressing the blood pupil with his index finger, and in the dome of heaven, opened the Fate Eye. His entire posture was strong and cruel, yet his voice was very mischievous, saying with certainty: “Look, didn’t I say you’d have a bloodlight disaster! I calculated everything, how could I lie to you?”

Gao Jie did not refute, language was the most useless thing.

He silently swallowed the sea water. In that salty and bitter taste, he chewed on the messages from the entire Yong Ning Sea Domain, and even the entire Cang Sea.

He had already prepared for a counterattack. He absolutely would not give Yu Bei Dou a second opportunity to interfere with him—but this had to avoid Xuan Yuan Shuo’s interference.

But to Gao Jie’s surprise, and also to Xuan Yuan Shuo’s surprise… Yu Bei Dou seemed to have no plan to strike at Gao Jie at all!

He stood tall, leisurely saying: “In the Middle Ancient era, the Northern Desert was barren and unopened. There was a famous tribe called ‘Min He Er Guo’, with a population of over ten thousand, and one night they all died, their bodies strewn naked, in a state too horrible to describe. Only one infant was left, naked and of no sex, placed in a beast shed, where cows and sheep mated. The witch doctor thought it inauspicious and killed it for its crime. Three days later, the witch doctor died of Yang depletion.”

People looked at each other, not knowing why he suddenly spoke of these things for no reason.

The target of the Star Divination pursuit, the transcendent struggle between Gao Jie and Xuan Yuan Shuo, and even the war between the human and Sea Race Yan Dao under the moonlight between heaven and sea, which of these was not more important than those broken matters from history? Not to mention that all of them involved the Middle Ancient era, and these were such village gossip-like things!

But Yu Bei Dou’s voice continued: “In the Near Ancient era, the Divine Way flourished. There was a cultivator named ‘Lu’, who drove a hair spirit named ‘Gui’, plundering three Divine Countries, all of which were never seen again. Not a single person, not a single spirit, not a single place, not a single trace, the matter ended without a trace. Yu Jing Mountain investigated it, but found nothing.”

Jiang Wang listened very seriously. He was perhaps the person on the scene who most recognized Blood Divination. He also understood that although Yu Bei Dou was usually a bit unreliable, at key moments he was a responsible person. But what connection these things Yu Bei Dou mentioned had, he could not grasp.

“In the twenty-fourth year of the Dao calendar, an evil soul emerged from the Wu Yan Du mountain range, sweeping over three thousand miles, dissolving into smoke on its own. Its origin was unknown, its destination unknown, and its cause unknown…”

Yu Bei Dou spoke to here, then turned and said: “These things above, come from the notes of the historian Wu Zhai Xue.”

When he spoke of the Wu Yan Du mountain range, Jiang Wang raised an eyebrow.

When he spoke of Wu Zhai Xue, Zhuo Qing Ru furrowed her brow.

Wu Zhai Xue could be considered a relatively famous historian. His historical evaluations could often be found scattered in other classics, and perhaps that was why they were preserved.

But a very strange point was that this historian, recognized by many, did not have any works circulated.

Sima Heng’s “Shi Dao Zao Hai” made his name known for a thousand years.

How could a historian have no works? It could only be explained as lost. Perhaps the era was long ago, and Wu Zhai Xue’s later generations were unable to preserve them well.

But Wu Zhai Xue clearly had no chapters circulating, even ancient powers like the Three Xing Gong did not collect them, so where did Yu Bei Dou read Wu Zhai Xue’s notes?

“In the one thousand three hundred twenty-one year of the Dao calendar, Wu Zhai Xue set out from the North, to attend the Long Hua Jing Yan at the Sun Palace. That time he brought his work, preparing to give a lecture. Some people saw him outside the Sun Palace, but he never appeared inside that time’s Sun Palace Jing Yan.” Yu Bei Dou’s voice carried a hint of melancholy: “This was also the last time he appeared before people. In the one thousand three hundred twenty-one year of the Dao calendar, Wu Zhai Xue disappeared forever. His life, his learning, his work, all disappeared with him.”

“That work he was preparing to lecture on at the Sun Palace could never be seen by people. But from Wu Zhai Xue’s notes, one can roughly guess the name of that book. For a long time, Wu Zhai Xue always planned to compile a book, named… ‘Gui Pi Ma’.”

Jiang Wang was moved with shock!

The Sun Palace was precisely the predecessor of Ji Xia Xue Gong, a cave heaven treasure of the former Da Yang Empire.

And in a lecture at Ji Xia Xue Gong, he had once heard such a description— “Demons are ghosts wrapped in sackcloth.”

He had also witnessed with his own eyes the evil signs caused by the “Mie Qing Jue Yu Xue Mo Gong”, and had met Huan Mo Jun, who represented the “Tan Zhi Sheng Mie Huan Mo Gong”, in Mu Guo!

The things Yu Bei Dou spoke of seemed to be connected!

Then, did those things in Wu Zhai Xue’s notes all represent the spread of certain demonic arts?

Wu Zhai Xue, as a historian, was pursuing the truth of demons, recording the history of demons?

What did that thing in the Northern Desert in the Middle Ancient era represent? Was it related to the same desire?

What did that cultivator named “Lu” and the hair spirit named “Gui” in the Near Ancient era represent? Were they related to the same divine being?

Up to now, among the names of the eight great demonic arts, Jiang Wang already knew four: “Mie Qing Jue Yu Xue Mo Gong”, “Tan Zhi Sheng Mie Huan Mo Gong”, “Qi Hen Mo Gong”, and the “Li Beng Le Hua Sheng Mo Gong” that Huang She Li had told him about. Each one was terrifying, and the last one even involved the death of the Frost Xian Jun two thousand years ago.

And Yu Bei Dou indeed continued: “Wu Zhai Xue wanted to write a history of demons!”

Wu Zhai Xue’s disappearance was related to this? Was writing a history of demons not allowed?

This time, even the several Yan Dao who were in battle were distracted.

Yu Bei Dou did not care about anyone’s reaction. He just stated what he wanted to state: “The Jing Mu allied army lays on the line of life and death, so demons will forever be blocked outside the desolate edge? The Upper Ancient Human Emperor killed the demon ancestor Zhu You, yet the demon tide still raged for ten thousand years.

“The Upper Ancient era ended, the demon tide ended, and there are no more demons in the world? Demons are always by our side.

“Recently, several demons, Wu An Hou of Qi has also seen. Yang Jian De, the last generation ruler of Yang, Liu Huai, the eunuch in the Yang palace, and Jing Ye, the guard general of Yin Guang City in Rong Guo.”

Yu Bei Dou’s fingertip blood Bagua, at this time, had completely adhered to that blood lake vortex. He began to slowly press his finger inwards, his voice also slowing down: “And even… me!”

In the blood lake of his left eye, the sound of blood demons’ wild laughter suddenly rang out!

“Yu Bei Dou! I told you, we have plenty of time!!!”

The evil, arrogant voice suddenly took a turn: “But you don’t seem to have… ha ha ha ha!”

The blood demon appeared again!

Jiang Wang’s heart and mind were greatly shaken.

He would never forget the experience in Broken Soul Gorge.

Later, he also knew what Yu Bei Dou went to Tian Xing Cliff to do. It was not only to invite the authority of the Legalists to clear his name from demonic defilement. It was also to borrow the power of the Three Xing Gong to forever suppress the blood demon.

And Yu Bei Dou, who was suppressing the blood demon in his body, and also sealed himself for several years with the power of the Iron Law Cage, actually did not succeed.

Yu Bei Dou’s strength did not need to be mentioned, and the Three Xing Gong were even more the holy land of the Legalists, with masters as numerous as clouds. They ruled the heavens, measured the earth, and punished people. All three palaces had Grand Masters.

But they were actually all unable to do anything about this blood demon, unable to thoroughly eliminate it. One could see the terror of this demon!

Even he could clearly feel that Qi Xiao, whom he was supporting, also reacted to the blood demon’s wild laughter at this moment, clearly showing great apprehension.

He of course had complicated feelings towards Qi Xiao. If he could, he wanted to abandon her as far away as possible.

But given Qi Xiao’s dying state at this moment, and the chaotic situation in the maze world now, letting go would be equivalent to murder. He could only pretend she did not exist.

Just like carrying a block of stone!

After several years of “getting along”, Yu Bei Dou was obviously already very familiar with the blood demon, and only said: “Too much attitude when you just woke up, old brother!”

As his words fell, his index finger had already completely entered his eye!

This scene was quite horrifying. He used his finger to block his eye socket, and also block the blood demon’s wild laughter. Coupled with the blood-colored Fate Eye opened in the dome of heaven, his immortal and virtuous posture could no longer be maintained, appearing very eerie and strange.

But he spoke in a long voice: “My first master divined before his death, that the eight great demon bodies will gather again within a thousand years, and the demon ancestor Zhu You is about to return!”

“My first master divined before his death, that the demon ancestor will live forever, and there will be a demon tide destroying the world!”

Yu Bei Dou repeatedly cited examples, and finally said: “After the Middle Ancient era, the masters of divination in my lineage have passed down generation by generation, and died divining generation by generation. None dared to… for the destroyer of the world is the demon!”

As these words came out, everyone was moved!

The talk of destroying the world had truly not been mentioned for too long. Today, the human race dominated the present world,压制 all ten thousand realms. Unless they were to go out and conquer, so be it. When it came to destroying the world, who had this ability?

Not to mention that the return of the demon ancestor Zhu You was illusory. Even if it were to truly happen, when would it be killed again? How could it not reappear?

The so-called “the destroyer of the world is the demon,” was horrifying to hear at first, but on second thought, it was actually ridiculous. However, since it came from Yu Bei Dou’s mouth, and after all, it was the result of generations of divination masters dying while divining, and after all, he Yu Bei Dou was the only True King of Divination in the world now… there was still some credibility.

This time, Ruan Qu’s power of remote descent had already been dispersed. The star chart spread across the sky shone brightly, visible to the crowd through the blood color.

Among them was a cold laugh, echoing among the stars: “In the Middle Ancient era, there was already Star Divination. By the Near Ancient era, Star Divination had completely replaced Divination. By the present world, Divination only has your lineage of three or two cats and dogs left. Leaving you alone to examine the past! How dare you still point to the future? After the Middle Ancient era, you haven’t even produced several True Kings. How dare you divine the future of our human race, and even treat it as a standard?”

Besides Ruan Qu, there were many famous and strong individuals in the Star Divination lineage of the present world. Such as True Person Ren Qiu Li of Nan Dou Dian Tian Ji, the already deceased Zen Master Xing Nian of Xu Mi Shan, and Commander-in-Chief Lv Yan Du of Shen Jiao in Jing Guo…

It was unclear who this person who spoke up now was.

And Yu Bei Dou only looked at the star dome with his fully functioning right eye: “Talking to you? Wang Xi Xu? Get out of my sight!”

From this distance, through the induction of the Star Divination path, and striking from afar, it was still possible to interfere with his achieving the Way. But after he achieved True King, it was absolutely impossible to suppress him from afar.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t be killed, but at least these Star Divination masters had to seriously set up an altar together, or stand before him together!

At this time, another aged voice said: “Considering your past achievements, we just let your lineage remain. Now that you have achieved the Way and become strong, you think you can speak of the mandate of heaven, and dare to spout wild words! Do you truly not know death? Unwilling to divine the unknown, huh?”

Yu Bei Dou raised his hand and slapped it, the blood light of the Fate Eye flared, covering the star dome: “Song Huai, you also get out!”

Number one “Cloth Cloak Strategist” Mr. Wang Xi Xu of Man Jia in Qin! One of the four great Heavenly Masters of Jing Guo, a high-level figure of Peng Lai Island, Eastern Heavenly Master Song Huai!

All were well-known names, and actually all were enemies who had achieved the Way!

Jiang Wang listened and only wanted to cover Yu Bei Dou’s mouth. How could this old fellow curse indiscriminately, offending everyone?

Even if they were all enemies who had achieved the Way, some were more or less heavy-handed. Saying a few soft words now might create an opportunity to escape if someone in their ranks gave him a break. A dignified True King of Divination, how could he be so ignorant?

“I also deeply know the evil of the demon race!”

Before Jiang Wang could think, the voice of thunder blurted out: “Yang Jian De, Liu Huai, Jing Ye, I saw them all myself! They poisoned people’s hearts, the root of disaster is hard to eradicate!”

Having said this, he also brought in a tiger skin: “The Shen Mian Da Si Si of Mu Guo plotted against Huan Mo Jun, stripping away his false face, I was also present! The Da Si Si also said that the demon race is a disaster of all ages. See that the world recognizes the demon plague, and it’s not limited to True Kings!”

As a Divine Incarnation cultivator, in such an occasion where those who had achieved the Way gathered, he did not have the qualification to speak.

But as the Marquis of Wu An of Qi, as an peerless genius of the human race, as a hero of the human race who brought back intelligence from the Shen Xiao world, his words today carried weight in the entire present world!

Moreover, he still had the Shen Mian Da Si Si Tu Hu as corroboration.

Jiang Wang did not understand how powerful Tu Hu was, but how could Wang Xi Xu, Song Huai, and others not understand?

Even when he was only known as “Ren Tu Hu”, he was already famous for his erudition, and also held the Guan Wen Bell, which could know everything in the world.

Until he completed the step of integrating divinity and humanity, accepting the investiture of the Mu Tian Zi, and achieving the position of Shen Mian Da Si Si, all the feudal states were shaken!

The long years of divine power on the Grassland silently bowed to imperial power. That Great Cang Tu Shen Jiao, surprisingly, was as calm as a lake without waves.

Did Tu Hu’s means need to be said more?

Such a character, if he also said “the demon race is a disaster of all ages”, it was feared that the Ten Thousand Realms Desolate Tomb would indeed show signs of activity!

Wang Xi Xu’s voice rang out again: “Ruan Jian Zheng, I thought you, a master of Star Divination, were sitting in control. Your Marquis of Wu An, however, believes in Divination.”

His question hit the key point.

In your Qi country, who comes to explain the mandate of heaven?

Star Divination or Divination?

Ruan Qu calmly said: “Young people having their own opinions is also normal. I am also not good to just say he is wrong. After all, on the Guan He Tai, wielding his sword and looking around, he found no opponent. Under the Marquis of Wu An, he is the youth of all states with unparalleled military achievements. I wanted to find a counterexample to dampen his spirit, but I couldn’t find one. What do you say?”

“Oh.” He seemed to remember something, and said again: “Qin Zhi Zhen is full of your ideas, his foundation is thick, hard to find in ancient and modern times… I don’t know what rank of Marquis he is?”

Wang Xi Xu laughed: “Jian Zheng is fine with it, then I, Wang, have said too much!”

Star light and blood light still tangled in the sky. No matter what was said, no matter what reason Yu Bei Dou found, death was inevitable. Jiang Wang’s support was also too weak. In this era, achieving the Way through Divination was the biggest crime! Ruan Qu said that the Star Divination path would not let Yu Bei Dou live for more than six days, and it was absolutely not an exaggeration. Even if he was still engaged in a war of words with Wang Xi Xu now. Because the Paths were incompatible!

And Yu Bei Dou just laughed.

At first a light laugh, then a loud laugh, looking up at the star dome behind the blood color, as if seeing the eyes behind every star.

Alone, with the identity of the only Divination master and the only Blood Divination practitioner, he roared at all the Star Divination masters in the myriad realms: “You fools, flitting about like dogs and chickens!”

“You underestimate me, Yu Bei Dou!”

“True King is not what I seek! It is just a path I pass through!”

“What you cannot see, I see.”

“What you cannot do, I will do!”

“And see how the Divination master does things.”

“And look at me!!”

He violently pulled his finger out of his left eye. The blood-colored Bagua platform at his fingertip transformed into a blood-colored prison cage. Inside the cage was a blood-colored demon shadow. That was the foundation of the “Mie Qing Jue Yu Xue Mo Gong”, the core of the true blood demon since ancient times!

He let out a long roar on the giant eagle’s skull: “Cover the sea, truly absolute world, cast this bright moon furnace!”

He pointed at the bright moon contested by Xuan Yuan Shuo and Gao Jie: “In the name of Yu Bei Dou, the peak of Divination, borrow this to refine the blood demon!”

Ge Hai borrowed the collision of two transcendent paths, casting the bright moon as a furnace, with himself as iron, forging his own transcendence, the fusion of two races.

Now his body had died and dissipated, all turned to smoke.

Yet Yu Bei Dou seized the opportunity, borrowing the furnace for his own use!

One, walking with the remnants of Bu Lian, he filled the gap at the peak. Two, in the great war between the human and Sea Race, he moved among them,顺势 refining the Blood King, locking the Wing King. And at this moment, he utilized the three transcendent paths. Although it was borrowing Ge Hai’s arrangement, it was impossible not to praise him as “indeed having calculated everything”!

He did interfere with Gao Jie and Xuan Yuan Shuo’s struggle, and interfered more deeply than people imagined. He directly utilized them!

Then, would Xuan Yuan Shuo and Gao Jie agree?

Yu Bei Dou, no matter how strong, was not Ge Hai. He lacked sufficient power to control the situation.

People only saw that no matter in the Near Sea, the maze world, the Cang Sea, or between heaven and earth, the moonlight was bright.

Xuan Yuan Shuo did not say a word. Sitting alone on the Tian Ya Tai, he only added power once again, exerting force simultaneously on the three lines of battle, forcing Gao Jie to resist. He even consumed the fundamental Dao principles against Gao Jie!

He never thought that Xuan Yuan Shuo would instantly push the confrontation between them to the final moment!

Originally, they had a tacit agreement to engage in an all-out battle after this round of bright moon rise. They never thought that Yu Bei Dou would arrive on an eagle and change everything.

Gao Jie was caught off guard, yet could only follow. At this time, there was no road to retreat!

As long as he retreated one step, the sea beasts of the Tian Ya Tai would all die, the Emperor would descend from the dome of heaven, and the control of the entire maze world would also be lost. When Xuan Yuan Shuo gave up the road to retreat, constantly entangled with him, there was no road to retreat for him either.

And for Xuan Yuan Shuo.

The Upper Ancient Human Emperor died precisely because he was fundamentally injured during the great battle with the demon ancestor, only after the demon tide ended.

Xuan Yuan Shuo, as the direct descendant of the Upper Ancient Human Emperor, knew better than anyone how terrifying the demon ancestor Zhu You was. To refine the blood demon and stop the eight great demon bodies from combining, he would of course only support it.

Even if it meant supporting it at all costs!

A gentleman can be deceived by method. Yu Bei Dou indeed calculated his death, and he also silently bore it, without saying a word.

The surname Xuan Yuan was his glory, and also the responsibility he had to bear.

Ji Yan Ru always said he walked too slowly, too not light and quick. He never argued, because his shoulders were too heavy!

If considering the overall good of the human race, annihilating the possibility of the demon ancestor’s resurrection was far more important than Xuan Yuan Shuo’s own transcendence, much more important!

The blood-colored Bagua cage imprisoning the blood demon naturally appeared in the bright moon. A touch of blood color spread out, instantly turning the bright moon into a blood moon.

Yu Bei Dou stepped down, directly crushing the giant eagle bone frame, causing every single bone to fall beneath the bright moon, turning into firewood, burning fiercely.

He used the Blood King as a guide, opening the Divination Blood Eye.

He used Blood Divination as a cage, sending the blood demon into the furnace.

He used the struggle between Xuan Yuan Shuo and Gao Jie, two transcendent paths, as fierce fire.

He used the Wing King’s bone frame as firewood.

Achieving the Way was merely his means, not his purpose.

The peak was merely his path, not the scenery he saw.

If he only sought the peak, how could Blood Divination be disallowed? If Yu Nan Ji were still alive, he would not be isolated and helpless.

The art of divination was based on human beings, while Blood Divination forcibly sacrificed. He would not do it.

He never craved transcendence.

What he wanted, from beginning to end, was to eliminate the blood demon!

That ancient blood demon, which evolved the “Mie Qing Jue Yu Xue Mo Gong”, representing one of the eight great demon bodies from the Ten Thousand Realms Desolate Tomb since ancient times!

He stabbed out one of his own eyes in Broken Soul Gorge, and sat withered in the Iron Law Cage for two years.

His will was thus, it never changed.

He wanted to end the omen of the Divination path from all ages, to smash the legend of the demon ancestor destroying the world, and with his own strength, end the possibility of the demon ancestor’s resurrection!

At this moment, the blood moon hung high in the sky, fierce flames raged, and the demon shadow struggled within.

Both the human and Sea Race looked up, and all the stars in the sky were silent!

Jiang Wang was also one of those looking up at the blood moon. He only felt that Yu Bei Dou today was different, very different!

His eyes were somewhat dazed, then light and shadow flowed, everything changing rapidly!

When everything in his vision settled down, he found himself on a familiar street, riding a familiar red horse, and the old man leading the horse in front of him was precisely Yu Bei Dou?

He of course remembered.

He of course remembered this long street in Lin Zi. This old man led him on the horse, walking the horse and viewing the flowers, looking at the lives of the people on the street.

Could it be that all the later experiences were just the “future” he saw in Lin Zi?

Jiang Wang’s heart was both surprised and amazed.

Yu Bei Dou turned back and immediately cursed: “What are you stunned about, little cub? Still thinking I’m a liar?”

At this time, Yu Bei Dou’s eyes were not yet blind. His clothes were not very particular, but his posture was a little more upright, just with a very con-artist-like aura.

Jiang Wang said: “Don’t you still have protective talismans? Sell me a thousand!”

Yu Bei Dou clicked his tongue: “You’ve made great progress.”

Jiang Wang naturally would not be as wary as he was when they first met. He dismounted from the horse and bowed respectfully: “Thank you for your knife coin. It saved my life in the demon world.”

Yu Bei Dou waved his hand and said: “No need to rush to thank me, you’ll have to repay it.”

“I wonder what Senior wants me to do?” Jiang Wang said very seriously.

Those who knew him well all knew that when he made a serious promise, he would definitely complete it with his life.

Yu Bei Dou squinted at him, and suddenly smiled: “Miss me in your heart.”

Jiang Wang was silent, and in the silence there was a feeling of misfortune.

“Why the long face?” Yu Bei Dou smiled and pinched his face: “Ji Lan Xian all said you haven’t grown much, and now you’re even uglier!”

“Does it have to be this way?” Jiang Wang asked.

“It has to be this way.” Yu Bei Dou smiled.

“Is there no other way?” Jiang Wang asked again.

“Perhaps there is.” Yu Bei Dou chuckled: “But I can’t think of one.”

Demon ancestor Zhu You, what kind of existence was that?

After the human race won a comprehensive war against the demon race and officially became the rulers of the present world, it still, with its own strength, unleashed a demon tide that destroyed the world.

Although the Upper Ancient Human Emperor defeated it, he also died because of it.

The World Honored Ones who achieved the Way in the Middle Ancient era all had lingering fears about the demon tide!

In the vast present world, there are still ancient demon caves from the Upper Ancient era.

On the line of life and death, it is still a training ground for human warriors.

Although the blood demon body was only one of the eight bodies, it still troubled the Three Xing Gong.

Even a powerhouse like Tu Hu, who plotted for a hundred years, could only strip off one false face of Huan Mo Jun.

“Is there really no other way?” Jiang Wang asked again.

“Sigh!” Yu Bei Dou said with some dissatisfaction: “We’re friends, I originally wanted to make you happy. I even helped you adjust the waves of fate a bit, thinking of letting you have an easy time before I leave. I didn’t expect this group of bastards to fight so fiercely, constantly affecting the innocent, almost letting you walk ahead of me!”

Jiang Wang finally knew where the rare good luck he had encountered since entering the maze world came from.

“Why did you want to make me happy?” He asked.

Yu Bei Dou looked at him: “Because you’ve suffered too much these past few years.”

He had once taken Jiang Wang to jump out of the long river of fate, and above the long river, Jiang Wang had seen nothing.

He had personally watched Jiang Wang transform from the highly regarded Huang He Kui Shou to a demon-tainted criminal reviled by all, overnight. Clearly, this child had done nothing evil.

The one who eliminated demons suffered more malice than the demons themselves.

He could not bear for Jiang Wang to disembowel himself to prove his innocence, hence the trip to the Three Xing Gong. He did not want this young friend, who had just returned from the demon world, to suffer again in the maze world, so he repeatedly gave him good luck.

But he thought he might not have done anything right.

And Jiang Wang heard this sentence, just pursed his lips, and finally said: “Buddha says there are eight kinds of suffering, among which is the separation of love. Is this not a hardship that you have made me suffer?”

Yu Bei Dou sighed, then laughed, then sighed again: “You only remember that I went to Tian Xing Cliff to clear your name, you only remember that I suppressed the blood demon, you don’t remember that I forced you to buy and sell, you don’t remember that I almost killed you. If a person like you doesn’t suffer, is there still justice?”

Both of them were silent.

“I’m sorry.”

“I’m sorry.”

The two spoke almost simultaneously.

Then their figures gradually faded, just like the crowd that quickly passed by in Lin Zi.

In the last moment, Yu Bei Dou stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky.

As if he was looking at the vast star dome high above Lin Zi.

Jiang Wang heard him say—

“I am a fisherman of the old era, I fear people will mistake the starry sky for the ocean.”

The brilliant star chart reflected in the sky had now disappeared.

The stars seemed to blush and look away, and the blood pupil of fate was still watching the furnace.

Those stars watching were indeed unnecessary, the Star Divination path’s reaction was superfluous. And Yu Bei Dou still wanted to stare intently at the furnace fire, controlling every detail of the blood demon’s burning and killing with the great power that saw through the long river of fate.

Within the blood moon, the demon shadow gnashed its fangs and clawed.

The angry demon voice faintly shook this bright moon furnace: “Yu Bei Dou! You can’t kill me!”

“Since the day I was born, I was meant to live forever!”

“I exist forever, neither dying nor perishing!”

Yu Bei Dou paid no attention.

Boom boom boom!

Xuan Yuan Shuo was silent, Gao Jie was also silent.

They both clearly knew what kind of opponent the other was, and knew that nothing could shake the opponent’s will. Language was the most useless expression.

In Xuan Yuan Shuo’s situation of holding nothing back, Gao Jie, who was entangled too deeply, could only wait for the last moment. If he could exhaust Xuan Yuan Shuo to death in advance, he would still have an opportunity to take a step towards transcendence and save himself from the great fire.

Whether the demon ancestor destroyed the world or not, what did it matter to the Sea Race? The present world was not controlled by the Sea Race anyway! But he was completely tied together with Xuan Yuan Shuo and jumped into the furnace! Either consume the opponent to death, or be consumed to death by the opponent.

The transcendent struggle of two absolute powerhouses, in their frenzied consumption of each other, produced unimaginably terrifying power. That booming sound, like a heavenly drum, was not thunder at all. It was the trembling of the world’s rules.

Such great power was all burned in the bright moon furnace, causing the demon in the furnace to sizzle and scream wildly.

The Wing King’s skeleton was completely insufficient for such burning. In just a few breaths, it was already burnt to ashes.

And Yu Bei Dou adjusted his collar, and with his calm right eye and only the remaining hole of his left eye, stepped gracefully towards the bright moon, walked into the fire.

The body of the True King of Divination burned with great fire, and the power close to transcendence raged freely over this firewood.

The blood pupil of fate in the sky became more mysterious, more concrete. A phantom of the long river of fate even appeared in the blood-colored pupil!

The demon shadow in the bright moon furnace constantly shrank, its roars gradually becoming unclear, and again becoming low, again becoming small.

In the great fire, Yu Bei Dou stood tall, speaking slowly: “I am the end of an era.

“I once thought, I would just quietly end, without seeking any lingering fame.

“But later I thought again, the art of divination has been passed down for ages, even if it is no longer needed by the human race, even if it finally disperses like smoke.

“I hope people remember that it existed.”

In the great fire that roasted even the blood moon, and had already burned the demon shadow to ashes, was his final cry—

“I am Yu Bei Dou, inheriting the past mandate and ending the future path. The art of divination, which began with the first sage Bu Lian, will end with me, Yu Bei Dou…”

One voice echoed for ten thousand years.

The blood demon was gone, Yu Bei Dou was gone.

But this war was not over.

Under the illumination of the blood pupil of fate, Gao Jie dared not move recklessly.

Everyone who knew him, of course, understood the terror of a divination master. Especially after witnessing Yu Bei Dou burning the furnace and the blood demon, he had to understand Yu Bei Dou’s strength. Although he had not yet stepped towards transcendence, during his life-and-death struggle with Xuan Yuan Shuo, Yu Bei Dou had the opportunity to see through his weaknesses and interfere!

The death of the blood demon was also what he sought.

Because he could no longer afford to delay!

He needed to support the rise of his race, while Xuan Yuan Shuo only needed to cut off the rise of the Sea Race. At least in the transcendent confrontation, Xuan Yuan Shuo had accumulated more over a longer period, and he carried a heavier burden.

He was unwilling to become fierce fire, yet he could only become fierce fire.

He endured patiently in his mutual burning with Xuan Yuan Shuo, waiting.

At the moment Yu Bei Dou’s Dao body burned to ashes and the blood pupil of fate disappeared.

Gao Jie, silent as a mountain range, finally stirred his dragon whiskers.

In that Great Yong Ning Sea Domain, the Sea Race had already evacuated. The sea creatures outside the Sea Race were also driven away like the cattle and sheep of the Sea Race, scattered ten in number and eight or nine.

This meant… he no longer needed to suppress the Yong An Xuan Wo!

Gao Jie took a deep gulp of water at the bottom of the sea. His giant mouth was like a bottomless vortex, drinking out a roaring waterspout. Then his dragon body began to move, freely and autonomously for the first time in long years.

Woo! Woo! Woo!

The entire Cang Sea echoed with the sound of roaring wind. That was the sound of freedom!

Drinking the water of the Cang Sea, moving the mountains of ten thousand miles!

Gao Jie’s great body left the bottom of the sea.

The entire Yong Ning Sea Domain instantly collapsed!

The largest Yong An Xuan Wo in nearly ten thousand years could finally fully display its terror again. Swallowing everything that approached it!

Boom boom boom!

Volcanoes at the bottom of the sea erupted continuously.

But even the magma was to be swallowed by the Yong An Xuan Wo.

Gao Jie no longer bothered with those things. Unburdened, he went into battle lightly.

His dragon body of ten thousand miles instantly slammed into the maze world. When the dragon head approached the gradually receding blood-colored bright moon, the dragon tail was still in the Cang Sea!

Then, with one gulp, he swallowed the bright moon.

The entire maze world, the entire Near Sea, and even the Cang Sea domain near the maze world, all fell into boundless darkness at the same time.

Eternal night arrived!

Things had come to this. He only needed to kill Xuan Yuan Shuo and save the Sea Race, there was no other choice. He also had no plan to give Xuan Yuan Shuo a choice!

But Xuan Yuan Shuo just said calmly: “You’ve bitten… my hook!”

He stood up from the Tian Ya Tai for the first time, his straw hat blown off by the oncoming gale! Only then did people discover that he was eight feet tall, with a wasp waist and monkey arms, and a noble countenance!

Wearing a straw cape, yet like draped in an emperor’s robe!

He still gripped his fishing rod, gripping his spine tightly.

A human stands on the earth and supports the sky. What is the spine of a human?

It is unyielding, it is resistance!

It is responsibility, it is bearing!

He faced everything calmly, including his love, and not being loved.

He bore everything calmly, refusing the Sea Race in the Near Ancient era, and still fishing alone with a rod in the present world.

He approached transcendence twice, and stopped both times.

Once, he fished for dragons in the Cang Sea, forcing Ge Hai to his death. Once, he turned his body into fire, burning the blood demon to death.

His heart was like a bright moon, seeing everything clearly.

He knew Ji Yan Ru did not love him, and Yu Bei Dou was calculating him.

But he did not speak much, nor did he have resentment. Because he understood that this was his own choice.

In fact, no one had ever been able to force him to do anything.

He was just willing to bear it, that’s all.

That’s all!

Inside Gao Jie’s dragon body, which was like a mountain range, a clear outline of the crescent moon was reflected, like a giant lantern.

Or perhaps, as Xuan Yuan Shuo said, Gao Jie had bitten his hook!

In the mutual consumption under the bright moon furnace, Gao Jie had no other choice. Biting the hook was inevitable!

The blood centipede bundled in the Heaven Bag instantly exploded. Ancient golden majesty, hanging down as ancient golden threads, fixed on every scale eye of Gao Jie’s dragon body of ten thousand miles!

With Xuan Yuan Shuo standing on the Tian Ya Tai as the center, a thousand miles of sea domain were instantly cleared! Outside this range, the sea beasts were already sparse, only a few large and small fish.

Xuan Yuan Shuo moved, lifting the rod, pulling Gao Jie’s dragon body, shattering endless rules, even shattering several realms!

At this time, he was like waving a large flag. With the spine of the human race as the flagpole, and the dragon body of ten thousand miles as the flag! The bright moon was the embroidered pattern on this flag!

“Woo—”

From deep within Gao Jie’s throat, a mournful cry that broke heaven and earth was emitted.

After suppressing the Yong An Xuan Wo was a long period of dormancy. Now was the first time he had gained freedom in thousands of years!

Freedom was so beautiful!

Freedom was so short!

But his dream was finally unable to come true, and he was also unwilling to simply watch the human race’s embroidered pattern.

Or rather—

Paving the way for those who come later!

Thousands of voices merged into one voice, all the scale eyes exploded at once! Endless microscopic light, invisible to the naked eye, bloomed on the Tian Ya Tai. This was billions of attacks in an instant, it was Gao Jie’s gaze that did not rest even at this point!

Xuan Yuan Shuo fiercely pulled up the fishing rod—

Endless rule fishing line, pulling up the bright moon hook. Above the bright moon, a ten-thousand-mile long dragon corpse was hooked. It was just an empty shell fluttering in the void.

He fell backward.

In this instant, he killed Gao Jie, making transcendence possible!

But he was also empty.

He turned into a fossil leaning backward, and then was crushed into stone powder.

Blown by the wind, it scattered into the sea.

Pale and ethereal stone powder, fluttering over those lines of text—

The bright moon rises over the sea, from this point, look to the horizon.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The stone platform cracked, giant stones fell into the sea, with splashing sounds… The horizon was broken!

On the peak of the high cliff of transcendence, two absolute powerhouses were cause and effect for each other, and fell together. Two transcendent paths simultaneously shattered, all turning into reflections of the moon in the water, receding with that dark tide.

And although Gao Jie was dead, his voice still echoed in the maze world—

“Within thirty-three years, none above the Divine Incarnation realm shall enter this realm!”

He had once, in his struggle with Xuan Yuan Shuo, controlled nearly half of the maze world’s authority, excluding the heavy territories of the two races. At this time, with his last power, he set iron laws, entangled in every realm of the maze world.

Unless the human race had the determination to overturn the maze world, this law could not be broken.

Cao Jie, Yu Li Yang, Yue Jie, Peng Chong Jian…

Rui Chong, Zhong Xi, Zhan Shou, Xi Yang…

The Yan Dao and Dong Zhen of the two races were instantly expelled from the maze world.

The remaining human and Sea Race, who had been in contact, looked at each other, cautiously pulling apart their distance.

The war ended!

This could be said to be a great victory for the human race, crippling the Sea Race. Otherwise, Gao Jie would not have needed to seal off the high-level war power of the maze world at the last moment, to prevent the human race from sweeping through it again before the Shen Xiao world opened.

Cheers echoed on the floating islands throughout the maze world.

Some ran and celebrated, some had tears in their eyes, some cried out loud.

Only Jiang Wang stood there, holding the dying Qi Xiao, silently looking up at the sky, until the blood color also dispersed, the golden color also dispersed, the moonlight also dispersed, and nothing could be seen.

At this time, Qi Xiao’s voice rang out: “Marquis of Wu An, heed my command.”

Her voice was weak, but it was very clear and calm. She was completely detached from her own life and death, with an unusual coolness.

She was hidden in the shattered Auspicious Armor, taken by Yu Bei Dou into the long river of fate, only then able to escape with her life.

Although Yu Bei Dou said she was already a cripple, at least at this moment, she was still the highest commander of the human race in the entire maze world war.

And military orders were like mountains.

Jiang Wang lowered his head and quietly looked at this commander of the Military Affairs Hall, whose face was covered in blood and who was expected to live no more than thirty years based on her lifespan.

Qi Xiao slowly said: “Now that the maze world is sealed off to powerhouses above the Divine Incarnation realm, seize the time and quickly kill Chen Zhi Bo and Zhu Bi Qiong, and completely end the Fish Sea Tower.”

Her slowness was entirely due to her terrifying will supporting her broken body, allowing her to issue commands clearly. In fact, regarding the content of the commands, she had no hesitation. She had already thought it through very clearly.

Jiang Wang’s eyes widened. He found that he could not see Qi Xiao’s face clearly through the blood.

He completely could not imagine what kind of cruel person this was!

They had just fought side by side!

For this maze world war, the Fish Sea Tower sacrificed from its founder to the current Sect Master, and even Wei Xun had just died not far from Qi Xiao. And after the war ended, Qi Xiao’s first command was actually to let him go and kill the future of the Fish Sea Tower?!

Jiang Wang completely knew the weight of military orders. His voice was also very heavy: “Fish Sea Tower paid a lot in this war.”

Qi Xiao looked at him with some surprise, just as he was also very surprised by her thoughts.

“We paid more. How many people died, you can check the casualty roster later,” Qi Xiao slowly said: “Fish Sea Tower’s payment was conditional. We promised Fish Sea Tower not to interfere with Fish Dragon Guest’s transcendent path, and even… helped him create conditions and protected him in achieving the Way. We did all we could, it was he who did not achieve transcendence.”

“Then now.” She said as a matter of course and with unusual cruelty: “Since Fish Sea Tower has neither achieved transcendence nor has a True King, and there are only two True Persons in the entire sect, they can be killed with a flick of the wrist. Do we still want to hand over Huai Island to them, and the Zhen Hai Meng to them? It’s time for our Qi country to unify the Near Sea and maximize the integration of island resources. Only then can this war be considered our most complete victory.”

“Don’t you have feelings?” Jiang Wang asked.

Qi Xiao furrowed her blood-stained brow: “War doesn’t need to consider this.”

“I don’t agree.”

“I am the commander.”

“Or perhaps we should ask His Majesty…” Jiang Wang unconsciously opened his mouth, and then closed it lonely.

Indeed, there was no need to ask.

Emperor Qi had given Qi Xiao full authority over the maze world military, so all of Qi Xiao’s commands were recognized by Emperor Qi.

But Qi Xiao still clearly stated: “What kind of emperor do you think our Majesty is? Indecisive? Benevolent? Or naive and innocent like you?!”

She breathed heavily, and continued: “Why do you think the Emperor at first tolerated Wei Xun establishing the Zhen Hai Meng? Because he knew that the islands in the Near Sea would sooner or later be incorporated into his empire’s territory. Everything Wei Xun did to integrate the Near Sea powers was helping him.”

Jiang Wang was silent.

And Qi Xiao sighed: “I know Zhu Bi Qiong is your friend. I can understand you, you can have others kill him later, or even recruit him. But Chen Zhi Bo must die, and he needs to be killed quickly, without giving other forces the opportunity to shelter him. He is the Sect Master recognized by Wei Xun.”

Jiang Wang looked at her quietly.

He looked at her until Qi Xiao’s brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and finally she spoke: “Someone once said this to me, and now I say it to you—when your sword is not enough to uphold your principles, know when to advance and retreat.”

Qi Xiao was enraged!

But Jiang Wang had already reached out and closed her eyes.

“You are tired, you are saying some dream talk that I can’t understand. Please rest well.”

Then, still holding Qi Xiao, he turned abruptly and flew across the maze world!

People were embracing, clapping hands, and cheering.

Jiang Wang only felt a tremendous isolation!

In his eyes, a flame appeared, with three colors: gold, red, and white.

They represented spirit, essence, and energy respectively.

This journey in the maze world.

All of his personal guards died, all of his army died.

His guard captain, Fang Yuan You, died.

The treasure mirror he carried shattered, and Ji Yan Ru in the mirror died.

His good friend Zhu Bi Qiong already had white eyebrows.

He saw Yu Bei Dou die again.

The meaning of this… was beyond words!

“Where are you going, Marquis of Wu An?” Amidst the clamor, someone’s voice was heard asking loudly.

In the rustling wind, Jiang Wang only said: “Keeping a promise!”

This volume is concluded.

Yesterday I wrote all day, writing until midnight. Today I wrote all day, writing until now. Walking on thin ice, I finally finished the volume.

I will write a summary tomorrow.

South Ji and North Dou, only empty names.

Water moon, mirror flower, a dream.

Thank you for your companionship.

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