Chapter 1749 — The Will of Heaven and the Heart of All Beings
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The raging karmic fire had finally died down.
In the extinguished sea of flame only ashes remained, and nothing else besides.
"Earth Count..."
Celestial Venerable You turned around, facing the vast army of devils and monsters of Youdu. A fellow Daoist had passed away, just like that.
What he had glimpsed in his daze must have been only Earth Count's obsession, not a thing that had truly happened. Within that obsession, Earth Count had surely fulfilled his own wish.
Shen Fengqing watched this scene from afar, and he felt that he had grown a great deal more, and drawn a great deal closer to the true Earth Count.
"Walk well, big fellow..."
He stirred the Six Paths Heaven Wheel and said in a low voice, "Rest assured, I will do as you taught me. I will guard well the justice that comes after death, and give all living beings the same impartial justice!"
He stepped down from the Six Paths Heaven Wheel. His magic power was still sustaining the Wheel's turning, yet in this moment he no longer needed to maintain it at every instant.
Celestial Venerable Xu had departed together with Earth Count. With Celestial Venerable Xu gone, the Heavenly Court's threat to the Yuan Realm was much diminished, and he had no need to sustain the Six Paths Heaven Wheel at every moment.
Shen Fengqing closed his eyes and drew a long breath. The Youdu of the Yuan Realm was joined to Youdu, no longer two separate worlds. As Celestial Venerable Xu and Earth Count transformed into the dao of Youdu, the great dao of Youdu was once again made whole; the great dao pervading Youdu was growing and swelling, making him feel filled with power.
In this moment, the Yuan Realm was free of the threat of Youdu. And he too could now stretch his limbs and fulfill his ambitions!
Above Jingping, Little Xuandu.
"Fellow Daoist Earth Count, has your wish been granted?"
Heaven Duke looked down. The fire of the Yuan Realm's Youdu had gone out; his heart and spirit trembled, and he felt a mood that was both great sorrow and great joy.
When Earth Count departed, he had probably left behind no regrets.
"To outsiders, perhaps his passing brings grief, but to you, fellow Daoist, there is likely joy in your heart that his wish was granted. You became human, and you also became dao; you are forever together with your daughter, your family. Is this not a great liberation?"
Boom!
The Ancestral God King gathered the heavenly dao and transformed it into a supreme treasure, smashing it hard into Heaven Duke's face. Heaven Duke's features twisted; he was struck tumbling and rolling, crashing back and forth within Little Xuandu, and only after a long while did he come to a stop.
He had lost his wits for a moment, grieving and rejoicing for Earth Count, and in that single instant the Ancestral God King seized the flaw and beat him miserably.
He had never been a match for his son, the Ancestral God King, to begin with. Though he had comprehended the heart of the heavenly dao, and had cultivated his dao realm to an extremely high level, in a short time he could not achieve the dao through the heavenly dao, and could only contend with the Ancestral God King by relying on the heavenly dao supreme treasures.
But at this moment the heavenly dao supreme treasure had transformed into Little Xuandu, blocking Xuandu's army of gods and devils, buying time for Celestial Venerable Yue and Lang Wan so that Xuandu's army could not pour into Jingping. Therefore he had been at a disadvantage from the very start.
Within Little Xuandu, Celestial Venerable Yue stirred Zaiji Void, slicing space apart, dividing Little Xuandu into countless spaces. Lang Wan stood at her side, visualizing innumerable gods and devils, visualizing a brilliant river of stars, to meet the armies of Xuandu's Sun Guards and Moon Guards in battle.