Chapter 835 - 325: Seeking Truth, Returning as a Dragon
The rain started to fall from the sky.
Rainwater mixed with the blood mist, dispersing some of the horror, yet becoming even more eerie and bleak.
From the appearance of the first Demon Cultivator until now, merely one hour had passed.
But in this one hour, so much had happened that Ye Wuyue felt as if she had been transported to another world.
She had witnessed the opening and closing of the Sealing Spirit Array, the arrival and defeat of Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao.
Changning City was like a terribly chaotic chess game, with no idea of how many invisible hands were moving the pieces.
She found herself utterly powerless in the face of such circumstances.
Neither did she know who was causing the chaos, nor did she know how to end it.
However,
"All I can do is to give my all and do what I should, isn’t that enough?"
The figure of Guan Xin leaving flashed through Ye Wuyue’s mind, and she recalled what she had said to her, suddenly realizing,
"So Guan Xin thinks I’m an excellent person? Even though she herself is truly remarkable..."
She took a deep breath, ending her brief distraction, gritted her teeth, and continued to divide her soul into parts, coordinating the situation across Changning City. After Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao retreated, Changning City completely fell into chaos. Not to mention the Demon Cultivators wreaking havoc, there were quite a few people taking advantage of the chaos, as this Immortal City housed a vast amount of resources for cultivation.
To prevent these looters from causing further chaos, Ye Wuyue’s decision was violently ruthless, allowing Demon Extermination Bureau members to directly kill anyone interfering with the demon suppression work.
The Demon Extermination Bureau, in this turmoil, displayed an amazing level of execution, far exceeding the official city guard of the Immortal Dynasty.
....
What... is this ability!
Guan Xin stared intently at Du Changge. He stood just a few steps away, but no matter what, she could not get closer.
Guan Xin unleashed all her means, whether they were pure Spiritual Qi attacks, Divine Techniques that materialized the void, or various lethal methods refined from literary aura, none produced any effect. Not to mention producing an effect, she couldn’t even get close to Du Changge.
He did nothing at all, merely stood there, with no signs of Qi movement, looking indistinguishable from an ordinary person.
Guan Xin understood the saying "return to simplicity," but that wasn’t truly becoming a mundane thing, rather it’s an expression of penetrating the essence of the Dao.
This Greedy Demon Lord before her—what is going on?
She tried to excavate any information regarding the Greedy Demon Lord from her mind, and then found that this world had very few records of the Greedy Demon Lord, and those few records were not substantive, rendering them completely worthless.
His origins, his cultivation, his deeds, were all unknown.
Even what the Greed Demon Dao truly entailed, remained utterly unclear.
In this world, it seemed no one has ever confronted him directly.
Defeating him seemed to have become a sort of illusion.
Suddenly, Guan Xin remembered the Greedy Demon Lord mentioning "Jade Ancestor" before. She couldn’t help but ask,
"Do you know Jade Ancestor?"
Du Changge laughed,
"Logically speaking, we should be enemies, and I shouldn’t answer your question. But as I mentioned earlier, I’m giving you a lesson... so I am your teacher."
Guan Xin completely couldn’t discern what kind of person Du Changge was, nor did she understand the significance of his words.
Du Changge said,
"Let me introduce myself again, I am Du Changge, also known as the Greedy Demon Lord, and a student of Jade Ancestor."
Guan Xin’s pupils shrank,
"Absurd! Jade Ancestor’s students are either Saints of Wenxin Heaven or the heads or Danpao Scholars of academies around the world! How could a student be a Demon Cultivator! I’ve never heard of Jade Ancestor having a student named Du Changge either!"
Du Changge smiled slightly, lightly tapping his right index finger on the palm of his left hand.
A droplet of ink fell into the space, stirring ripple-like resonance. Amidst the swaying resonance, an article slowly emerged. It was Jade Ancestor’s "Hua Tian Wan Fang Talk."
"Have you read this article?"
Of course Guan Xin had read it,
"Hua Tian Wan Fang Talk!"
"What a rebellious child, this article was classified as banned literature by Wenxin Heaven."
With a cold face, Guan Xin said, "It has nothing to do with you."
Du Changge smiled gently, "Indeed."
"Simply relying on one article to prove you’re a student of Jade Ancestor? Don’t dream!" Guan Xin would never allow anyone to bring shame to Jade Ancestor.
Du Changge didn’t say much. His fingers continually skimmed over the words of the article, like a dragonfly on water, light and graceful. Each character began to shake, strokes and components intersecting persistently. At this moment, they were no longer just characters in a grid, but possessed independent life, reenacting the stories within "Hua Tian Wan Fang Talk" in this resonant space.
"Hua Tian Wan Fang Talk" tells the story of a nation, from being a common vassal state to rapidly growing into a prosperous dynasty through annexation and conquest, yet quickly collapsing in just ten years. The ideological exploration within the article examines the scope of state law in binding ordinary people and Cultivators.
Guan Xin always found this article difficult. Jade Ancestor didn’t explicitly express ideas within, but provided four different thinking perspectives, and these four perspectives inherently contradicted each other, differing in interpretation among people.
Guan Xin also picked one perspective to touch upon the true meaning, but what she harvested was always barren.
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