All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes-Chapter 945 - 228 Collapse of the Heavenly Heart

The dark gray dome shattered.

Golden sunlight poured down like a waterfall from the high heavens, instantly washing away the world’s original gloom.

The Netherworld Domain that had enveloped the entire Dust Li crumbled towards the horizon. A series of light beams continually expanded, imprinting ever-larger golden light spots on the earth eroded by the Netherworld’s breath. The scorching heat cleansed the residual coldness of the Netherworld, illuminating the desolate land after the great battle.

All the Heavenly Demons and Ghost Gods howled and wailed as they retreated. With the collapse of the Tai Ming Mountain Gate and the breakdown of the Xu Shen Tuo Sun Mountain, the Nether Abyss Caves rapidly shrank as if they’re ice blocks evaporating on a heated iron plate.

Only at the height of the Heavenly Dome, the soul sun and the Mirror Light of Three-Life did not dissipate immediately. This didn’t mean the Taiming Sect could still cling to life; it was merely because they were too powerful that even death couldn’t swiftly descend upon them.

The shell of the Light Giant, transformed from the Heavenly Divine Light, blew away with the wind, gradually fading to reveal the Candle Dragon Battle Armor returning to its original form. The Haotian Mirror at its heart gleamed brightly, like a second sun on earth.

A dim, dead sun stood opposite this bright, heart-derived sun.

Not as individuals.

Upon the land of Dust Li, the two most powerful sects, the Bright Mirror Sect and the Taiming Sect, stood opposed.

[We... have lost]

At this moment, Yin Ze Heavenly Monarch’s Youdu Earth Uncle form replaced the Xu Shen Tuo Sun Mountain.

In his hand, he held up the Soul Sun Mirror Light, and along with the Divine Mandate-transformed, Three-Life Mirror emitted countless unnoticeable fragments in tranquility.

The fall of a Pure Yang Heavenly Lord could be mighty enough to change the landscape of a region or as subtle as rain moistening silently, quietly altering everything, dispersing spirituality.

Since the face-to-face confrontation was lost, Yin Ze Heavenly Monarch admitted defeat with grace. He sighed deeply, carefree: [The northern part of the North Mysterious Sacrifice Continent long suffers Yin-Yang imbalance due to the Frost Calamity, with lesser sun and Supreme Yin overshadowing the Four Qis, making it barren compared to other domain regions, creating myriad Ghost Gods, which even benefited our Taiming Sect.]

[With the fall of our Taiming Sect, most of the dissipated Spiritual Fiend will convert to Shaoyin Qi, and as samsara is a cycle of Yin and Yang, even though Yin Qi prevails, there will be more vitality.]

[Just as the Haotian Mirror embodies the grasp over Lesser Yang, both reconcile in the aftermath of the Frost Calamity retreating, and the Extreme North Icefield preparing to leave the North Mysterious Sacrifice Continent, Dust Li may transform into a new paradise.]

This spoke of the outcomes after Taiming Sect’s fall and the Bright Mirror Sect becoming the largest sect in Dust Li.

After all, the Liuguang Sect fled afar, the Zuohuan Sect was destroyed, and the Huangyang Sect reclined in a corner, neither daring nor able to intervene in the battle between the Bright Mirror and Taiming, leaving only the Bright Mirror Sect to dominate where once stood the Five Sects of Dust Li.

By then, the celestial issues difficult to govern in the time of the Five Sects would be much more manageable. The Bright Mirror Sect would have Cheng Guang Xi Yi’s two Heavenly Lords, and Chenyinzi, this half-Heavenly Lord, along with the Haotian Mirror that re-ascended to the realm of Lingxiao Daoist Soldiers... The Bright Mirror Sect would have no shackles.

Of course, Cheng Guang and Chenyinzi both burned themselves out in this battle, perhaps finding it hard to endure for long, but they would live longer than he, who is already dead, and it’s not his place to ponder future strategies.

[Yin Ze, at least you can afford to lose. Not discussing other matters, this much is worthy of my admiration.]

At this moment, under the residual power of the Haotian Mirror and the Three-Life Mirror, the conversation between Cheng Guang and Yin Ze was completely shrouded within the ’Mirror Corridor.’ Even the Heavenly Ancestor sect could not eavesdrop or intercept, so Cheng Guang spoke no more nonsense.

Seizing this last moment, he asked the question burning within him: [You and I both know Da Chen would never allow any Upper Gate to achieve Lingxiao lightly. Those secretly using various fortuitous Daoist Soldiers to break through would be let go, but your ambition to achieve Lingxiao with great enterprise was sure to prompt their intervention.]

[What exactly did you do, to not be interfered by Da Chen at the Youli Sea?]

This had been Cheng Guang’s greatest puzzlement all along.

To speak of heaven and earth’s devastation, the Bright Mirror Sect could summon the Sun Heavenly Light to ignite Dust Li and recreate worldly all, just as the Huangyang Sect could stir up an expansive sea to inundate the world—how else could they last for an epoch?

But such power held little meaning against a fully united Heavenly Ancestor Sect, and the Grasping Heavenly Da Chen, if willing, could even issue a decree from Shenjing to force Taiming Sect to combat. Although it wouldn’t harm Taiming Sect, it would hinder Taiming Sect from smoothly mobilizing Netherworld Law to infect Dust Li.

Yet Da Chen did not.

This wasn’t because they were unwilling, but because they couldn’t.

Thus, the value of the answer to Cheng Guang’s question may outweigh the existence of a Heavenly Lord itself.

[Heh... if it were anyone else, I might prefer to take this to the grave, but Cheng Guang, you are indeed a worthy opponent.]

To this, Yin Ze Heavenly Monarch also smiled, candidly: [This matter is lengthy to tell and is related to the Heaven and Earth Phenomenon at the time of the Divine Court Emperor’s fall in a previous epoch—our sect ancestors were once true transmission members of the Divine Court Heavenly Palace, even close friends. Without that, there would be no past alliance of the Dust Li sects.]

[Those who attained Daoist Soldiers were all celestial talents, core members of the sect, and naturally knew that as the Divine Court collapsed... it also shattered the ’Heaven and Earth Core.’]

[Indeed]

The only ones privy to this conversation besides Xi Yichen, Chenyinzi, and An Jing were Cheng Guang, who merely cast a deep gaze, unshocked, while Xi Yi and Chenyinzi frowned deeply.

They were aware of the existence of the ’Heaven and Earth Core,’ knowing it was what qualified the Heavenly Ancestor to be such, but never knew that the collapse of the Divine Court also shattered the Heaven and Earth Core!

This is a truly undisclosed secret, passed down through the generations to each era’s sect master and Supreme Elder by the fragments of the Haotian Mirror.

Yet An Jing remained calmly composed, neither surprised nor disturbed, as if he and Subdue Evil took it for granted.

—We of Embracing the Void are like this; everything is a fragment, everything requires piecing together.

Seeing Cheng Guang comprehending, Yin Ze Heavenly Monarch nodded with eyes lowered: [This isn’t a detriment, as the Divine Court’s rule for several epochs had long condensed its Heaven and Earth Law—Heaven and Earth Core shattered, and the broken law of the Divine Court, and the essence of the Lingxiao Heavenly Venerate’s fall, and the wisps of the disintegrated Lingxiao Daoist Soldier merged, they are reforming anew, destined to forge an entirely new Heaven and Earth Core, to be grasped by the next generation of the Heavenly Ancestor.]

[The fragments of the Haotian Mirror are so scarce precisely because most of them were drawn into and integrated into the newborn Heaven and Earth Core by the remnant shards.]

[So-called shattering and reconsolidating are the cycle of death and rebirth, allowing the Heaven and Earth Core to merge with the shattered essence of the Lingxiao Daoist Weapon. This is not a bad thing, because the shattering of the Divine Court in the past, coupled with the integration with the new Heaven and Earth Core’s birth, will let the Bright Mirror Sect introduce a new cosmic order as the one and only Great Sect in the Chenli Land. The balance of Yin and Yang has been restored, and the era of the sects’ division will come to an end, the truth of Heaven and Earth will no longer be hindered in one place. The Bright Mirror Sect will be able to become the ruler of a new world.

Of course, both Cheng Guang and Chenyinzi expended themselves in this battle and may not last, but at least they will outlive me, a being who has already fallen, and it will not fall upon me to ponder future strategies.

[Yin Ze, at least you can accept defeat, leaving aside other things, I must admire that about you.]

At this moment, under the light of the Haotian Mirror and the Three-Life Mirror, the conversation between Cheng Guang and Yin Ze was shielded, as if in divine silence. Cheng Guang ceased to speak further.

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