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Chapter 1398: Chapter 1392: Child Of Destiny… Son Of Heaven
Abandon illusions… People always have illusions; the more desperate the situation, the more they pin their hopes on illusions.
For example, many in their Azure Cloud Li Clan placed their hopes on the Imperial Dynasty lending a helping hand, hoping the factions within the Imperial Dynasty would realize the errors of their ways and return to the right path.
They just needed a single life-saving straw to grasp with all their might, until they could crawl out of the bottomless abyss and bathe in the sunlight.
Li Wei was seeking a life-saving straw, and the members of the family were also searching for that life-saving straw.
With all their might.
Li Xinnian grabbed onto that life-saving straw.
He followed Su Chen, who had undergone his mortal transformation, to the Peerless Hall.
He watched as Su Chen killed a person with every step, witnessing Heavenly Venerable Xuan’er from sixty thousand years ago return to his absolute zenith.
He was waiting to return to Azure Cloud Prefecture with his eldest brother to deal with Min Tiange and the immortals, and to pull Nangong Qingya out of the vortex of destiny.
And then… he finally crawled out of the abyss, only to find himself in another.
[Special Event — Child of Destiny]
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The Child of Destiny, reborn after sixty thousand years—none of this was a coincidence.
It wasn’t until entering the Peerless Hall and seeing Mu Xueqing sitting cross-legged at the end of a secret spatial domain that Li Xinnian completely sank into the dark abyss.
He saw that the current Su Chen had finally met Mu Xueqing.
He had dreamed of killing Min Tiange and Mu Xueqing, this adulterous couple.
Yet, when Su Chen actually saw Mu Xueqing, he was terrifyingly quiet.
Mu Xueqing was not hysterical either; she was just as gentle as she had always been over the tens of thousands of years, like a statue, except her eyes seemed to hide the world’s most profound tenderness and disappointment.
Mu Xueqing’s sigh seemed exceptionally long in the space.
“Su Chen, you ultimately still walked down this path.”
The life-and-death struggle between old lovers that Li Xinnian had imagined did not occur.
He had guarded Su Chen for many years until Su Chen successfully completed his mortal transformation.
He wanted Su Chen to change Nangong Qingya’s destiny, to face the family’s impending predicament alongside his eldest brother. Yet, with this single sigh, all those hopes were shattered.
“Boom!”
The Peerless Hall let out a deafening roar as the rubble and shattered stones from the ruins floated into the air.
The Spiritual power hidden within the Peerless Hall flowed backward, entering this dark space and surging into Su Chen’s body, welcoming the king who ruled the Peerless Hall sixty thousand years ago.
At this moment, Su Chen also reclaimed the majesty that inherently belonged to Heavenly Venerable Xuan’er back in the day.
Even from far away, Li Xinnian could feel the oppressive might of a supreme ruler radiating from Su Chen.
The absolute number one genius in the world from sixty thousand years ago finally bloomed in the sunlight, like a snow lotus buried deep within a snowy mountain.
An oppressive might belonging uniquely to an immortal gradually surfaced from Su Chen’s body.
Li Xinnian was incredibly familiar with the aura of an immortal.
Even across the entire family, only the oppressive immortal might radiating from Li Yaoqing could compare to the aura on Su Chen right now.
And all of this… originated from a single ring.
Li Xinnian lowered his head.
The ‘Calamity’ Ancient Ring worn on his index finger broke free from his control and flew toward Su Chen.
“Eldest Brother…”
Li Xinnian murmured. At this moment, the Su Chen in his eyes was so incredibly foreign.
Su Chen caught the floating ring. He spoke calmly to Li Xinnian,
“Sixty thousand years ago, I was Heavenly Venerable Xuan’er, the Hall Master of the Peerless Hall, the absolute number one genius in the world. Earning this title began from the moment I entered an ancient tomb.”
“An immortal tomb.”
“There, I obtained the Calamity Ancient Ring and saw a Blood Moon. The Blood Moon told me that the place I was in was the Ancient Immortal Court.
My lifelong goal was to activate the Blood Moon so the ancient immortals could bless the mortal realm.
At that time, everything in the world was peaceful and healthy; the Immortal Court controlled everything, yet it was destroyed by living beings.”
“I bear the heaviest responsibility in the world; I want to recreate the glory of the Ancient Immortal Court.”
“They called me—”
“Son of Heaven.”
Li Xinnian stood petrified in place, his mind going completely blank.
“Bearing destiny and executing destiny, this is my mission.”
Su Chen noticed Li Xinnian’s deathly pale face.
He furrowed his brows deeply; how could he not know the predicament Azure Cloud Prefecture was currently facing?
He shook his head with a face full of guilt, then looked toward Mu Xueqing, his eyes gaining a cold glint.
“Until they destroyed everything of mine, scheming against me in secret right at the moment I was breaking through to the Body Integration realm.”
Eldest Brother wanted to restore the Ancient Immortal Court…
He wanted to restore the Blood Moon—the Blood Moon in the Western Frontier that was currently about to invade their Southern Frontier!
No!
It couldn’t be!
Li Xinnian stood as if petrified. The fury filling his heart nearly seeped out of his skin, and his entire body trembled!
“Child of Destiny… Child of Destiny… Son of Heaven…”
At this moment, Li Xinnian finally understood why the Old Ancestor called Su Chen the ‘Child of Destiny’.
Heaven did not mean the sky above, nor did it mean the Heavenly Dao; it meant the immortals!
“I had to kill you.” Mu Xueqing stared calmly into Su Chen’s eyes.
Sixty thousand years had passed. Seeing Su Chen again, Mu Xueqing’s eyes were still full of tenderness.
“I still remember the day you returned from the immortal tomb and told me absolutely everything.
But Su Chen, you were already the Hall Master of the Peerless Hall; you were already a genius.
Relying entirely on yourself, you could have broken through to Body Integration, broken through to Mahayana. Why weren’t you satisfied?”
“The Immortal Court cannot be revived. I believe in the Imperial Dynasty; I believe in the mortal realm.”
“So you allied with Min Tiange to kill me?” Su Chen scoffed. “And then?”
“And then Min Tiange turned into another you, following in your footsteps until this very day. Now, sixty thousand years later, you have returned again.”
The space fell into a heavy silence.
His mind entirely blank, Li Xinnian looked at Su Chen, and then at the tear-filled eyes of Mu Xueqing.
His entire life, he had always thought he was in control of everything.
Serving as the Patriarch in Azure Cloud Prefecture, he had always believed he could see through anyone’s heart.
But he had never seen through Su Chen.
Spirit City.
Beneath the Spirit Lord, the immortals and half-immortals remained silent.
The intelligence from the Imperial Capital had also fallen into their hands.
Over the past few days, a spear had appeared in the Imperial Capital.
This spear originated from the Azure Cloud Li Clan they were about to invade. Carrying world-destroying might, it awakened everyone in the mortal realm, and it also awakened the immortals.
As for the master of this spear, even someone as powerful as the Hundred-Slaughter Star Lord among the immortals lacked the courage to confront him.
So much so that in Spirit City, this city of war dominated by the Spirit Lord, not a single immortal dared to even mention it.
This was merely a sliver of the sharp edge Azure Cloud Prefecture had revealed.
At this moment, the immortals finally began to take Azure Cloud Prefecture, a place beneath mere mortal ants, seriously.
“To think the Human Race actually has such a person!
We absolutely cannot sit idly by and wait for death; otherwise, the day this person returns, we will face the same predicament as the Human Race’s Imperial Capital!”
“This person’s rules of space and time are a major threat, but our Immortal Court is not without countermeasures.
It is merely the useless trash of the Human Race scheming against each other, weighing too many options, rendering them powerless to deal with him.
Moreover, as long as the Great Golden Immortals of the Immortal Court make a move, this person will undoubtedly die.”
“I propose we strike at the Azure Cloud Li Clan while this person is away; otherwise, I fear unforeseen changes will occur.”
“…”
Inside the Spirit Hall, the immortals and half-immortals discussed animatedly.
The Spirit Lord still sat upon the jade throne. Even though the immortals were currently in a state of panic, He remained as steady as Mount Tai.
The so-called Spirit Lord commanded the spirits of heaven and earth. He still remembered the time when He received the faith of all living beings, when every household had His shrine, receiving their incense and observing the changing of the world.
All things in the world arise and perish, yet He remains.
His only pleasure was merely to sit back and watch living beings struggle desperately for the sake of ‘survival’. To Him, the immortals within this grand hall were also just a part of those living beings.
Now, seeing the immortals distressed by the sharp edge revealed by the Li Clan in the Imperial Capital, the corners of His mouth curled up slightly.
“The mortal realm is but a play; watching living beings dance with a smile, how joyous is that?”
His gaze turned toward Min Tiange among the half-immortals.
He saw that at this moment, Min Tiange’s face was deathly pale and absent-minded.
No matter how He Qianxia, who acted like a jester beside him, waved his hands and danced about, Min Tiange paid absolutely no heed. The amusement in the Spirit Lord’s eyes grew even deeper.
Seemingly sensing the Spirit Lord’s gaze.
Min Tiange abruptly raised his head. His eyes were bloodshot, and a trace of unwillingness and stubbornness flashed across his expression. “Spirit Lord, he has returned!”
This low growl stunned all the immortals and half-immortals within the Spirit Hall.
He Qianxia blinked, his hoarse voice full of confusion. “Boss, who has returned?”
The Spirit Lord’s eyes held only mockery.
“Why has he returned? He should be dead!”
Receiving no response, Min Tiange’s voice grew increasingly furious.
“Sixty thousand years! To revive the Immortal Court, I have served you for a full sixty thousand years! I have sacrificed the greater part of my life.
Through the Grand Tower and the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems, I provided a continuous, endless supply of flesh and blood for you to devour.”
“For the revival of the Immortal Court, I hid in the Imperial Dynasty like a rat.”
“I racked my brains, all just to ignite the flames of war in the Western Frontier.
For you, I engaged in a battle of wits and courage with the Imperial Dynasty and with my father. My father has treated me as his mortal enemy for tens of thousands of years!”
“The immortal tombs buried beneath the Blood Moon right now were also personally built by my hands. Why… why, after I worked so hard, has Su Chen still revived today, sixty thousand years later?!!”
Silence.
The immortals stared at Min Tiange in astonishment, then furrowed their brows at each other. As if they hadn’t heard a thing, they continued discussing the war.
The Spirit Hall returned to its noisy state, leaving Min Tiange with a blank mind.
Ignored. He killed Su Chen, spent sixty thousand years for the revival of the Immortal Court, went against his conscience, and severed his father-son relationship with Min Youguo.
Yet just as everything was nearing completion, these immortals still turned a blind eye to him!
Burning with rage, he walked up the jade steps, directly confronting the still-languid Spirit Lord.
“Lord Spirit Lord, why?!!”
“Why?”
The Spirit Lord said casually, “Why do you feel you have the qualifications to question me?”
“You…”
Min Tiange’s fury surged to the heavens.
But before he could speak, the Spirit Lord yawned, His mockery growing even more apparent.
“I didn’t do it. There are very few who can bring the dead back to life. However, considering your absolute loyalty within my Spirit Domain these days, I can explain a thing or two to you.”
“To us, who opened the immortal tombs, is not important. What is important is that the immortal tombs open, and the Immortal Court revives.”
“It could be you, or it could be Su Chen.”
“Of course, perhaps the immortal who allowed Su Chen to resurrect today after tens of thousands of years has His own plans.
Our revival requires an agent in the mortal realm to offer tributes on our behalf. Clearly, Su Chen possesses qualities that you do not.”
“Qualities… Qualities?!!” Min Tiange’s face flushed red.
“You are clearly the son of Min Youguo of the Human Race’s Imperial Dynasty, yet you could disobey even your own father.
You could betray the Imperial Dynasty to which your own family was loyal, and you even stabbed to death your fellow disciple Su Chen just to become the ‘Son of Heaven’.”
The Spirit Lord sighed, “Do you really think anyone in the world would trust you?”
“…”
Min Tiange was instantly struck as if by lightning. As if losing all his strength, he stumbled back a few steps, continuously murmuring, “What have I done… what have I done???”
“Ah!!!”
Min Tiange let out a furious roar and instantly flew out of the Spirit Hall.
The numerous half-immortals who had come with Min Tiange were bewildered. Only the mad He Qianxia called out, ‘Boss,’ and hurriedly chased after him.
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