txolops Chapter 2004: Fate
Chapter 2004: Fate
Chapter 2004: Fate
In Longhu Mountain, in the Small Chaos Sea, a huge tree penetrates the thirty-three layers of the Chaos Sea, growing to its fullest and looking extremely majestic. Between its branches and leaves, golden and jade flowers bloom, presenting all kinds of strange visions. There are a total of forty-four flowers.
At a certain moment, the forty-fifth golden jade flower blossomed, and a vision of an immortal king holding a sword appeared, causing the entire small chaotic sea to be in turmoil.
Feeling this change, Zhang Chunyi quietly opened his eyes.
"A sword is a weapon of killing. When the Immortal King wields a sword, he will bring about a killing calamity. The timing for this golden jade flower to bloom is just right."
Looking up and seeing the brilliance of gold and jade, a smile appeared on Zhang Chunyi's face. After years of hard training, with the Little Chaos Sea as a precious place for training and the feedback from the Fuli Realm, he finally made a great progress in his training. Forty-five flowers blossomed and forty-five transformations were completed.
At this point, he has achieved success in refining the Tao, and even looking at the boundless chaos, he can be considered a truly powerful person.
"The Five Qis are now complete. The next step is to survive the tribulation. I could have polished it a little more, but time is running out."
With one thought, Zhang Chunyi communicated with the Tianjun Furnace.
The next moment, the furnace opened a ray of light, and Zhang Chunyi's originally concealed aura was suddenly revealed. Almost at the same time, heaven and earth communicated and directly sensed Zhang Chunyi's existence.
At this moment, in that heavenly palace, the will of heaven awakened, the twenty-four-grade chaotic green lotus bloomed with immortal light, and the Book of Destiny emerged.
"The one who defies fate!"
The will of heaven surged, the Eye of Heaven evolved, spanning time and space, locking onto Zhang Chunyi's existence. Then the power of heaven surged, and the Book of Destiny slowly unfolded, with the destinies of all living beings intertwined in it, sometimes like a net, sometimes like a river, it was vast and mighty, and would never return.
At this moment, a green-scaled red-tailed carp is struggling upstream, as if it is going to make a final leap, jump out of the river and break free from the shackles. It is the manifestation of Zhang Chunyi's destiny. Destiny is like a river, destiny is like a net, and all living beings are fish.
Sensing Zhang Chunyi's attempt to defy fate, God's gaze had already dropped and completely locked onto Zhang Chunyi. A terrifying calamity began to unfold. At the same time, Zhang Chunyi also caught sight of the changes from fate and saw the manifestation of his own destiny, the green-scaled, red-tailed carp.
"In this Taixuan Realm, destiny is supreme, and all spirits are under it. Destiny is impartial. No matter you are an ant or an immortal, you are all fish in its eyes, just big or small. As long as you have destiny, you are born to be caught in the net and cannot escape the bondage."
Taking in the full manifestation of his own destiny, ripples appeared in Zhang Chunyi's heart. Through the sight of the green-scaled, red-tailed carp, he saw the web of fate that enveloped all living beings. At this moment, the net was constantly closing in, trying to capture it. It was obvious that the heaven and earth did not want anyone to break free.
The path of cultivation in the Taixuan Realm has undergone many changes, starting with the Xiantian Divine Way, then the Primitive Heavenly Demon Way created by the Demon Ancestor, then the method of cultivating immortals by borrowing demons created by the Taoist Ancestor, and finally the Qi Refining Technique. These four different methods of cultivation have undergone changes in fortune and adversity. Since the Taoist Ancestor's method of cultivating immortals by borrowing demons, the number of calamities that heaven and earth have brought to acquired creatures has been greatly reduced, and even at the Golden Immortal level, there are no more disasters, because this way can give back to heaven and earth to a certain extent.
However, no matter which path one takes, when one touches upon one's own destiny and begins to seek transcendence, catastrophe will be inevitable, and it may even be an extremely terrifying catastrophe, because an existence that has transcended fate already has the ability to interfere with the operation of heaven and earth, and even suppress and replace heaven's will.
It is precisely because of this that, almost instinctively, the heaven and earth do not want such existence to appear.
"A fish can turn into a dragon, and so can a human. It's time to break free."
As a thought came to his mind, the shadow of the Supreme God of Refining Mysterious Creation appeared behind Zhang Chunyi. As the Great Dao underwent forty-five changes, this body of God became more and more mysterious and no longer illusory as before. He seemed like a real ancient god.
“I don’t know how powerful this fate is.”
With a flash of his body, the invisible obstacles were broken, and the Supreme Lord of Refining Mysterious Creation replaced the green-scaled red-tailed carp and appeared in the long river of destiny.
Fate is unpredictable. Facing a fate calamity, most living beings are helpless and can only resist it almost instinctively, because they can hardly touch their fate, let alone fight against it. This is the innate power of fate. In the Taixuan Realm, the most important hurdle for earthly immortals to advance to celestial immortals is the Five Deteriorations of Heavenly Man, which is the manifestation of a fate calamity. Very few can survive it, because living beings have few means to touch their fate.
However, things were completely different after Zhang Chunyi had mastered the art of body and spirit. He entered the inner world with the body of a god, incarnated the will of heaven, and took control of his own destiny. To some extent, he was already qualified to fight against destiny.
And at the moment when the Supreme Alchemy God of Creation stepped into the Long River of Destiny, the Long River of Destiny rioted, raising boundless waves, trying to drown the Supreme Alchemy God of Creation.
Seeing this, Zhang Chunyi, who had transformed into the God Lord, frowned slightly.
"Fate, fate."
Taking a step forward, Zhang Chunyi temporarily broke free from the long river of fate. It was at this moment that a terrible catastrophe befell. Countless icy rains fell from the sky. The moment they fell, the whole world was frozen, including the roaring phantom of the long river of fate.
"The fate of the calamity, the Ice Heart? The heart is the foundation of a person. If the heart dies, the person can no longer live. This calamity, the Ice Heart, is to kill the desire of the person, so that he can be at ease as a fish in the net."
As the calamity approached, Zhang Chunyi suddenly realized something. At this moment, a touch of icy blue had silently climbed up his body.
This calamity is not fatal. Even if the cultivator fails to pass the calamity, he will not die or even be injured. But from another perspective, it is far more terrifying than a fatal calamity, because once the calamity occurs, the cultivator's heart will be frozen, and he will no longer have any thoughts of breakthrough, and he will remain in the current realm for the rest of his life.
Bathed in the icy rain, Zhang Chunyi's figure froze instantly, but in just a moment it turned into an ice sculpture, and the icy rain was still evolving, with no sign of stopping.
Time passed, maybe a year, maybe ten years, maybe a hundred years, the icy rain kept falling, and Zhang Chunyi's figure had disappeared, replaced by a towering iceberg, towering into the clouds, azure all over, flowing with a faint fairy light. Just one glance at it could make people feel calm and free of any distracting thoughts.
Under this icy rain, everything was frozen until one day a soft sigh sounded quietly.
"My heart is unrepentant, but it cannot be destroyed by ice and rain. Refine!"
The dormant consciousness awakened, and Zhang Chunyi turned his heart into a furnace, refining icy rain.
He has been bathing in icy rain over the years in order to further feel the power of fate and to temper his own heart. Now that the key point is clear, there is no need to delay any further.
Whoosh, the fire of refining Taoism rose, the towering iceberg melted instantly, and finally turned into a drop of blue ice rain that was caught in Zhang Chunyi's palm.
At this moment, a new disaster was about to occur, but Zhang Chunyi transformed into a god, stretched out his hand, and tore the skynet apart. In an instant, the shackles of fate broke, and all scenes collapsed and returned to nothingness.
Watching these changes, Zhang Chunyi felt an unprecedented freedom.
"After ten thousand years of hard work, the result is today."
A thought is born and dies. After taking a look at the lofty Book of Destiny, Zhang Chunyi's consciousness fell and returned to reality. From then on, he completely broke free from the shackles of lifespan.
(End of this chapter)