“The Path of Humanity…”

A voice, calm yet filled with profound Daoist implications, echoed between heaven and earth. A figure emerged from the purple light, standing above the Great Divine Court, overlooking all.

“Greetings, everyone. Long time no see!”

The figure wore a Taiji Daoist robe, surrounded by various colors. He was not particularly tall, yet he seemed more majestic than the Divine Court beneath him and more vast than the starry sea behind him. Like the heavens and the Dao, he encompassed all things.

With his appearance, many who had survived from the Huangtian Era trembled.

Many of them had experienced the Huangtian Era and had seen this Daoist single-handedly resist the heavens, never to return. Back then, they didn't even have the strength to approach.

Now, seeing the Daoist’s illusory figure and hearing the familiar voice, they couldn't help but be moved to tears.

“Daoist An!”

Yan Chixia’s burly frame shook, and he laughed through tears, “To see you again, Daoist, makes all these years of torment worthwhile!”

“Teacher!”

Ye Xiaoyi finally couldn't suppress the sorrow in her heart, and tears streamed down her face.

Hoo~

Amidst the interweaving divine light, An Qisheng surveyed the world. In that instant, the passage of 170,000 years since his departure, the changes in the human world, all flowed into his mind.

The Descent of the Three Immortals… The Taiji Daoist Temple’s conflict with the Three Immortals lasting tens of thousands of years… Sa Wuling guarding the Divine Court, Wang E patrolling heaven and earth, Wei Shaoyou transmitting the Dao and the Dharma…

Gou Huang howling at the moon every year… Ye Xiaoyi sitting in solitary closed-door cultivation… Yan Xiake, Ruyi Monk, and Pity-Life Daoist willingly trapping themselves in the Fengshen Platform…

Until, a boundless, enormous Phoenix soared over…

With a slight thought, he could even sense the changes in the minds of all living beings in this world.

From the various Qi Refiners above to the mountains, rivers, grass, and trees below, even the trajectories of dust invisible to the naked eye, all were clear in his mind. He could discern their past and foresee their future.

He had sensed this feeling when fighting with the Heavenly Will of the Path of Humanity, but now, it was much stronger.

Back then, the Path of Humanity's Heavenly Will was deranged, the universe collapsed everywhere, and the Heavenly Will's perception of the world was too limited, far less than one ten-thousandth of what he could sense now.

The Lord of a world, omnipotent!

The thought flashed through An Qisheng’s mind. At this moment, everything in heaven and earth was like a pattern in his palm.

He could observe it, and he could overturn it.

‘This, is this the realm of a ‘Sage’?’

A hint of solemnity rose in An Qisheng’s heart. Everything that had been speculated or unconfirmed in the past finally became clear.

And at that moment, he finally sensed the realm of a ‘Sage’ and truly understood the true mysteries of the Sages’ transmission of the Dao in the Earth Immortal Realm.

He also understood why the Sage realm was so powerful and insurmountable.

Between the opening and closing of his eyes, all the laws and Daos that had emerged in this world in the hundreds of thousands of years since his departure, all the supernatural powers and immortal techniques rooted in ‘Qi’, were instantly mastered by him. Without needing to familiarize himself, they were already at the Great Accomplishment realm!

Even, they could reach the peak of perfection!

He could even, with a single thought, draw away all the cultivation of the trillions of living beings in this world for more than a hundred thousand years, turning it into his own foundation!

One person could block the path for all later generations in a world!

Even though he was the one who possessed this power, a chill rose in An Qisheng’s heart. Compared to the so-called solidification of order in the mortal world, this was true despair.

Even with his realm, he couldn’t imagine how, without external intervention, any later generation could overthrow the ‘Sage’ who had established all order.

“Teacher…”

“Grandmaster!”

Wei Shaoyou and Ye Xiaoyi were shaken. Being closest, they almost instantly crossed over to outside the Great Divine Court, hearing their teacher’s (grandmaster’s) second sentence upon arriving in this world:

“As expected, as long as there are Sages, there will be great thieves…”

Sages?

Great Thieves?

Ye Xiaoyi and Wei Shaoyou exchanged glances, both shocked. Sa Wuling seemed to have said something similar when he drove away the spiritual energy to the heavens…

“Everyone, there’s no need to bow to me…”

As thoughts flashed through his mind, An Qisheng sighed softly, no longer feeling the joy of returning to his old home, but rather a touch of unspeakable melancholy.

Hoo~

With a wave of his hand, the Qi fluctuated, and he lifted everyone in heaven and earth according to his will.

Wei Shaoyou was shocked and involuntarily straightened his body.

Sensing with his divine will, he was even more shaken. At this moment, how many people were kneeling in the heavens and on the earth, on the various continents, and even on the life-bearing stars in the starry sea?

With a wave of his hand, the Grandmaster had lifted everyone, without distinction.

Such power…

“Teacher!”

Ye Xiaoyi, no longer young, still felt somewhat uneasy, feeling that her mindset had momentarily returned to her younger days, filled with apprehension, admiration, and joy.

“You’ve worked hard.”

Looking at his only female disciple in this world, An Qisheng felt pity. Overseeing and managing a world seemed impressive, but in reality, the pressure was immense.

Especially since Huangtian’s capture of the Path of Humanity had never stopped. The pressure they faced in governing and spreading the Dao in the world was no less than that of Yan Xiake, only more.

“Compared to Teacher back then, this disciple still has many fellow Daoists by her side, so what hardship is there…”

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Ye Xiaoyi turned her head, not wanting her teacher to see her tears, but her heart was filled with sorrow.

Only by standing at a high place could she understand the kind of pressure her teacher had endured back then.

No one by his side, all living beings behind him.

How bleak.

“Disciple Xu Xun greets Grandmaster!”

Xu Xun stepped forward and knelt down piously.

“Xu Shengyang, of the Taiji Dao, you have cultivated it extremely well, surpassing your teacher back then…”

An Qisheng calmly sized up this son of destiny born in response to the calamity.

If not for his arrival, the convergence of the Path of Humanity’s destiny would not have been Sa Wuling, Wang E, and Wei Shaoyou, but only this Xu Shengyang.

Even, in the trajectory of the Path of Humanity’s destiny that he had deduced, this Xu Shengyang was the only one who could have a chance of survival amidst the collapse of the universe.

Xu Xun respectfully thanked him and, with permission, stood up, “Thank you for your praise, Grandmaster…”

“It’s been more than ten thousand years since we parted. Daoist, are you, are you still well?”

After a moment of hesitation, Yan Xiake, Ruyi Monk, Pity-Life Daoist, and other old acquaintances from back then also stepped forward, some with sadness, some with excitement.

Many of those present had been enemies in the past, not very friendly, but at this moment, looking at each other, they felt that the past was like smoke, something to laugh about and move on from, leaving only memories.

The flow of time in the various worlds was vastly different. For him, even counting his time in dreams, it was only ten thousand years, but for them, it had been nearly two hundred thousand years.

An Qisheng also felt a sense of emotion. All his words ultimately turned into one sentence: “This poor Daoist accepts everyone’s sentiments.”

“Grandmaster, where have you been all these years?”

Wei Shaoyou suppressed the sorrow in his heart and asked.

“My time is limited, and words cannot clearly explain…”

Looking at the disciples and old friends before him, An Qisheng raised his hand, and a purple light flew out, transforming into dozens of streams, flying towards everyone present.

Within these streams were his understanding of divine powers and scriptures, his understanding of the Earth Immortal Dao and even the Huangtian Realm, and extremely complex supernatural powers and immortal techniques…

Buzz!

None of them would resist the purple light, and as it washed over them, the sound of thunder suddenly echoed in their hearts, and rolling information poured into their minds like a torrential river.

For a moment, even Ye Xiaoyi, Wei Shaoyou, and Xu Xun were stunned, overwhelmed by the mountain of information.

Boom!

Accompanied by the roar of Qi, the aura flowing between heaven and earth suddenly flowed back.

Accompanied by the howling and mournful cries of the sky's Qi, they all poured into the Great Divine Court.

Whoosh whoosh~

In the next instant, under the gaze of the people who had recovered, the Great Divine Court, which had stood unmoving between heaven and earth for hundreds of thousands of years, collapsed in the torrent of flowing light.

It began to collapse!

Violently!

It was not the collapse of pavilions and buildings, but the space where the Great Divine Court was located that began to collapse from the outside in. In what seemed like only the blink of an eye, the vast Divine Court, stretching for countless miles.

Had shrunk to less than the size of a fist, held in the palm of the increasingly hazy An Qisheng, pulsating like a heart, like a living thing.

“Teacher… have you encountered a great enemy?!”

Seeing his teacher put away his remains, Ye Xiaoyi suppressed the turmoil in her heart and chased after him as a ray of light, “Take your disciple with you, I beg you to take your disciple!”

“Foolish child, foolish child.”

Holding the Qi Seed, An Qisheng sighed softly, fixing the disciple who had chased after him in the sky, before bowing to everyone:

“If there is a day when we meet again, we shall enjoy tea, discuss the Dao, and play Go together…”

In the next instant, under the gaze of countless exclamations and eyes, An Qisheng transformed into a stream of light invisible to the naked eye and even to divine will. Under the impetus of heaven and earth, and with an inexplicable attraction.

He ‘ascended’ here.

“Teacher!”

“Grandmaster!” “Daoist!”

…

Buzz!

Unlike when he came, with the blessing of the Path of Humanity’s Qi Seed, An Qisheng clearly sensed the entire process of his escape from the void and breaking through the boundaries.

And he saw the dark and gloomy void, the Huangtian Great World already close at hand!

“The Huangtian World…”

A ripple arose in An Qisheng’s mind, but his divine will did not linger on that magnificent golden ‘light sphere’, too large to be described, covering an unknown expanse of the void.

With a thought, it burst forth from his heart, and along a wisp of aura taken from the ‘Altar of Wishes’, he traced back to the source!

With the mountains, rivers, and Qi of the Earth Immortal Dao on the outside, and the luck of the Path of Humanity, An Qisheng, at the strongest state of his life, holding the Path of Humanity’s world as his foundation.

Only wanted to see, to what extent that ‘great battle’ outside the Huangtian World, unknown to anyone, had reached!

…

Countless hundreds of millions of miles away, almost on the other side of Huangtian, in the desolate and boundless void.

That earth-shattering game was still continuing.

In the dim void, a majestic figure formed from starlight sat cross-legged, a nineteen-line law chessboard stretching for countless billions of miles lying between Him and Huangtian.

And on the other side of the chessboard, before Huangtian, in the dim void, six Dao Platforms rose and fell.

Invisible and terrifying auras rose and fell on the chessboard, exploding into waves that could shatter galaxies and destroy ten thousand stars.

At a certain moment, eyes as bright as the sun and moon lit up, indifferent and domineering, and a voice that could resonate through the void without any medium sounded:

“The final game is about to begin!”