Chapter 582 - 25: Zhen Wu Descends as Jasper Pool Proves the Dao
Six Desire Heavens, Jasper Pool Heaven.
This is the pinnacle of Toli Heaven, yet it does not belong to the category of the Thirty-Three Heavens.
The world knows that Toli Heaven is the most unique layer of the Six Desire Heavens, composed of a total of Thirty-Three Heavens.
These Thirty-Three Heavens symbolize all the desires of all beings.
Each layer offers a different scene, a place where Desire Demon Kings have long dwelled.
Above these Thirty-Three Heavens are the Yama Heaven where All Buddhas and Bodhisattvas reside, implying a subtle meaning of "Right Mindfulness suppressing desire."
However, what everyone does not know is that Toli Heaven currently has only Thirty-Three Heavens, but that does not mean it will always have only Thirty-Three Heavens.
Every time an additional desire arises in all beings, that desire will evolve into a new heaven.
This Jasper Pool Heaven is the embodiment of all beings’ desire for "immortality" becoming tangible.
To be honest, the desire for "immortality" among wise creatures is engraved in their bones.
But over the years, this craving for "immortality" has often been intertwined with other desires.
Be it reluctance to relinquish power or fear of death...
Few creatures’ desires are purely for "immortality."
Until Xiluo descended upon this Toli Heaven at Indra’s invitation.
The "immortality" desire, originally mixed among numerous other desires, was isolated and evolved into the current Jasper Pool Heaven.
Although the current Jasper Pool Heaven seems so insignificant compared to the Thirty-Three Heavens,
those who have crossed time and are overlooking the River of Time understand the immense fame Jasper Pool Heaven will hold in the future.
This fame is unrelated to Jasper Pool Heaven itself, nor to the Thirty-Three Heavens, or even the Six Desire Heavens.
If the fame of the other Thirty-Three Heavens comes from the Six Desire Heavens, from the position of the "Celestial Realm of Three Realms,"
then the fame of this Jasper Pool Heaven comes from its mistress—the Queen Mother of the West.
"Is this why the Celestial Destiny Divine Power led me here?"
"If I had known earlier that this place would aid my pathfinding, I would have come long ago."
Floating quietly above the clouds, Xiluo gazed with a hint of awe at this not-so-large Grotto Heaven.
The Six Desire Heavens as a whole are derived from the Great Freedom Heaven, a place specifically created by Li Boyang for Pathfinders.
Naturally, this Jasper Pool Heaven also inherits the dreamlike, indistinguishable reality of the Great Freedom Heaven, greatly reducing the difficulty of the pathfinding.
Especially after practicing the method of Dreaming Enlightenment, Xiluo can freely transform every blade of grass and tree in this Jasper Pool Heaven.
Her will is the order of this Jasper Pool Heaven...
Her thoughts are the rules of this Jasper Pool Heaven...
In just a few days, this Jasper Pool Heaven, spanning only a thousand miles, has undergone drastic changes.
Towers of jade rose from the ground, layers of golden pavilions hidden amidst the clouds and mist.
Whether by the inertia of her thoughts or intentional imitation of the Cloud Dream Jade Pool Mirror,
The Jasper Pool Heaven created by Xiluo also lacks land, presenting an expanse of lakes and mountains.
——Beautiful flowers and jade trees grow amidst the lakes, thousand-foot peach trees bearing fruits of longevity.
The clear lake water reflects the sky, with a jade tray adorned with trees of Flat Peach.
Those Flat Peach trees are rooted deep within the lakes, with only a third of their branches flowering on the lake’s surface.
Though these Flat Peach trees have yet to bear fruit, Indra seems to already envision the blossoming peaches and the bountiful fruit in the future.
"It’s getting closer to that time..."
Landing gently on the highest jade platform of Jasper Pool, Indra looked up at the sky and said.
From Indra’s current perspective, the materialized Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi can be clearly seen turning into clouds and smoke, then converging like stalactites and dripping into the lake.
Within it, Xiluo manifested a myriad of rays, with countless Divine Spirits seemingly emerging from her back.
Those Divine Spirits are not illusory but real entities.
With sharp eyes, Indra can even see the impatience and helplessness in some Divine Spirits’ eyes.
After all, with Xiluo’s way of "making friends," surely some Divine Spirits unwillingly left their names on the [Jade Pool Celestial Book].
Now that Xiluo has absorbed the gains from her dream and enlightenment is imminent, she needs the assistance of these Divine Spirits.
Even unwilling, they have no choice but to send an incarnation here.
"Has it come to this already?"
In utter silence, a valiant male Deity also manifested.
Unlike the other Divine Spirits,
his form is more illusory, so much so that it barely counts as an afterimage.
In fact, he was never supposed to be here.
He is not a Deity of this era, or rather, in this era he has not yet grown enough to assist Xiluo’s enlightenment.
He has crossed time, descending from a future time to this world as a Pathfinder.
"Is this your true form?"
"You’re more formidable than I imagined, Zhen Wu."
Turning to glance at Zhen Wu, Xiluo noticed the robe adorned with a turtle and snake.
"You haven’t even grown yet, exposing your identity like this..."
"Aren’t you afraid that future enemies will recognize you and appear to obstruct your enlightenment when you attain your path?"
What Xiluo spoke was not speculation, but an established fact.
Since Zhen Wu descended at this time, it indicates that he has already been born in this era.
This alone is enough for future Pathfinders to trace the origins and find Zhen Wu’s true form in this era.
"You worry too much; do you know what path I’ve found?"
Unlike the humility and meekness the Dragon Turtle showed before Xiluo,
Zhen Wu, who had come from across worlds, only spoke in a calm tone, his voice filled with an undeniable authority.
"In the era I was born, Evil Demons and monsters ran rampant, foreign Ghost Gods frequently emerged, disturbing the peace of the world."
"With the edge of a three-foot sword, I cut down demons, cleansed the evil, and brought six hundred years of peace to the human realm."
"Therefore... I have no enemies left."
Such a simple sentence left Xiluo dumbfounded.
She doesn’t know what happened in the era Zhen Wu was born, but she understood the chilling meaning in this seemingly mild yet murderous sentence.
"Since when did Pathfinders become so easy to kill?"
After a moment of shock, Xiluo looked at Zhen Wu with some hesitation, only to find him smiling without speaking.
The counterpart seemingly possessed some means to relentlessly hunt down Pathfinders.
Even crossing time and space, traversing past and present, Zhen Wu could track them, truly wiping out evil.
With this understanding, it seems hardly surprising that Zhen Wu could transform into Xuan Wu Dragon Turtle and become one of the first Pathfinders born in this era.
"It seems your threat level might be higher than Zhuang Zhou’s?"
Neither acknowledging nor denying, Zhen Wu merely glanced around and continued with that eerily calm tone, chuckling softly.
"Who knows how many Evil Demons and Ghost Fiends will die by my sword after this enlightenment."
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