Chapter 915 - 354: My Name Is Jiang Ran (2)
He felt this description was somewhat absurd.
But intuition told him that the truth might indeed be this absurd.
This intuition, of course, was brought to him by the Eye of Eternity and the Ear of the Defier, similar to Zhuge Hong’s intuition.
Fan Wubing realized he must figure out the specific destiny node from which Jiang Ran was extracted.
He thought of the All Things Law Dao.
This Acquired Dao was a method he used to glimpse fate when he was still the Seven Luminaries True Monarch.
After regaining the will of the Seven Luminaries, he tried to operate the All Things Law Dao but never succeeded. He thought it was due to being in the Small Thousand Worlds. But now it seemed the All Things Law Dao itself couldn’t operate in the form of real life.
Fan Wubing was certain that he must have been in the form of a Dao life when he created the All Things Law Dao.
Sure enough,
He skillfully operated the All Things Law Dao in this form.
An unprecedented new experience made him feel somewhat ethereal.
Once he forced himself to return to self-awareness, he found that his "Fate’s Recurrence," starting from birth and ending with becoming a Dao life, began to slowly expand. However, the expanding fate traces were so vague that it was difficult to discern finer things.
He could not see what he would encounter tomorrow.
Until Fate’s Recurrence no longer expanded. He saw his endpoint, the conclusion of fate—
"Become the ultimate eternity."
Just as his senior sister said.
When he heard his senior sister say this, he couldn’t truly feel the helplessness of fate being hard to resist, so he couldn’t really understand her intense desire for him to be free.
But now, even though the fate seen by the All Things Law Dao was still not reached and very vague.
Yet the suffocating feeling had already begun to shake his will.
He couldn’t help but think,
"Is that my destiny? An inescapable fate conclusion..."
He saw himself becoming that ultimate eternity. And he knew, long ago, he was chosen by fate. No matter how he resisted, he would inevitably return to fate’s embrace, accept the essence of eternity, and let the Great Thousand Worlds exist eternally within absolute order.
"Destiny’s prison..."
Since obtaining the Seven Luminaries Thunder Control Skill, the so-called destiny’s prison has been a shadow hanging in his heart. As the years passed, he grew much stronger, yet the shadow not only failed to dissipate but became even heavier.
His will continued to sink, slowly falling towards "accepting fate."
But within his will, another voice existed. This voice shouted words of fiery passion called chuunibyou on Earth; I am the master of my fate, not the heavens!
No, this voice originated from his self on Earth!
Fan Wubing abruptly woke up.
At that moment, he understood the significance of his "Earth self."
It was to constantly remind him not to accept fate!
He had three kinds of personal wills.
First was the Seven Luminaries will, which knew fate;
Second was the Earth will, or rather, the free will that surpassed fate;
Third was the personal will that resists fate.
When he was unaware of fate, the Seven Luminaries will constantly urged him forward, giving him strength and pointing him in the right direction;
When he wanted to accept fate, the free will from his Earth self would wake him up.
Yet the true choice,
Could only be faced with personal will!
Fan Wubing suddenly felt enlightened, once again firm in himself, further operating the All Things Law Dao.
At this moment, he desperately wanted to see clearly the full extent of destiny’s prison. But Baili Yao Yue’s words kept echoing in his consciousness.
She repeatedly said:
"Just find Jiang Ran, don’t mess around..."
Fan Wubing understood that Baili Yao Yue telling him not to mess around was definitely not out of fear of being punished by his senior sister, but rather... messing around might indeed lead to very bad outcomes. This was probably also why his senior sister didn’t tell him who Jiang Ran was.
He restrained his strong, restless yearning, focusing fully on searching for traces of Jiang Ran in fate.
He pushed his will and capacity to the limit, operating the All Things Law Dao to the maximum possibility.
Over and over again.
Each time he saw the conclusion of fate, he would feel a strong urge to accept fate.
Yet the free will originating from his Earth self always woke him up as soon as such thoughts emerged.
"Trinity,"
Fan Wubing’s personal will, honoring the All Things Law Dao left by the Seven Luminaries will, finally found some clues.
He precisely dialed Fate’s Recurrence to the night of opening the Celestial Gate in Changning City.
He discovered that his fate, after mastering nine types of Demon Dao to achieve Celestial Demon will, showed very subtle distortion.
And the same distortion happened again at the same moment on the seventh day after this.
He concentrated his will, gathering the All Things Law Dao, fully excavating the secrets of these two destiny nodes.
"Jiang Ran... Jiang Ran... Jiang Ran..."
He repeated this name continually, hoping he would suddenly remember.
But he understood that was impossible.
Fate does not change according to his will, whether it changes in the future is uncertain, but at least currently, it is like this.
"Since it changed after mastering nine types of Demon Dao to achieve Celestial Demon will... could it be related to this?"
He felt all nine types of Demon Dao.
Starting from Meat Demon Dao, to Enchanting Demon Dao, Nether Demon Dao, Beast Demon Dao, Decaying Demon Dao, Anger Demon Dao, Greed Demon Dao, Demon Slaying Dao, and Blood Demon Dao.