Becoming a Deity from Planting the Bodhi Tree-Chapter 1189 - 423: Please Slay Chao Ge

At the periphery of the Sea of Realms, the realm where Chao Ge resides, known as the [Chaohua Realm], naturally takes the name from Chaohua Mountain.

This is also the underlying rule of the Sea of Realms, where strength is respected, and the representative of a realm is naturally the strongest.

For the vast majority of beings in the Chaohua Realm, this catastrophe akin to a natural disaster and human calamity descended suddenly overnight.

Even for the All Saints of this realm, it is also a...

Disaster from out of nowhere.

Some of the truth is just as Ji Jingqiu speculated earlier.

This realm was indeed targeted by a terrifying force, willing to trigger the power of the Bitter Sea to bury this realm, leading it toward eternal silence.

Ultimately, Chao Ge had no choice but to take a risky breakthrough to uphold the final protection for this realm, leaving the last spark of incense.

At the root, it was a disciple of the Chao Ge School who, when impacting the True Saint Domain, accidentally stepped into another mysterious realm, becoming locked onto by a powerful entity claiming to be the "Red Lotus Realm Master."

The force behind him gave this disciple, known by the Taoist name "Freedom," two choices.

Join or die.

And to join, one must sacrifice the realm they are in to truly gain their own freedom.

The choice was to die together or survive alone—this was the choice given to the disciple of Chao Ge.

Under the pressure of life and death, Freedom chose the extinction of the realm to obtain his own freedom, personally opening the "door" of this realm for the Red Lotus Realm Master.

By the time Chao Ge and other True Saints realized this "natural disaster and human calamity" was arriving, it was already too late.

And this force was referred to by Chao Ge as [This Shore].

In Buddhism, "This Shore" refers to the mundane world of birth, aging, sickness, and death.

This Shore is life and death, the Other Shore is Nirvana.

While Ji Jingqiu continued attempting to trace the origin, Hel's urgent warning reached him:

"Ji Jingqiu, your Dao Power is still increasing rapidly, and it's about to exceed the limit of what a Heavenly Venerable's position can sustain!"

"The Killing Tribulation in this realm is not complete, with empty Dao Power and no office. If you can't resolve this issue, you will directly blow yourself up! And not just be enslaved by Dao Power!"

Ji Jingqiu could vaguely sense this point as well.

The vast and endless Dao Power continued to rush down, seemingly without an end.

The unification of the four tribulations was like a key that opened the door to the origin of this realm.

Ji Jingqiu continued forward, the water gently flowing, and scene after scene slowly changed.

Sitting within it was Chao Ge, not yet transcended, suppressing a terrifying spiritual incarnation that sought to seize him, both locked in fierce conflict.

At this moment, that unpredictable spiritual incarnation suddenly raised its head, as if noticing a gaze from Time River.

Through this gaze, it backtracked and locked onto Ji Jingqiu, saying with a half-smile:

"A mere Heavenly Venerable, daring to spy on us? Truly not knowing the immensity of heaven and earth. Boy, I see you. Try to escape, though no matter where you run, we can find you. Chao Ge and this realm are your end."

Ji Jingqiu's mouth twitched.

For a supreme like Chao Ge, what remained in this Time River should only be a mark, not his true form, as his own time had long been unified.

To be entangled with Chao Ge, the opponent's strength is only strong, not weak.

Yet now, this spiritual incarnation, theoretically merely a mark, still saw Ji Jingqiu traveling upstream in the Time River.

Such means are simply astonishing!

Fortunately, the opponent did not have the ability to act directly through the Time River.

Ji Jingqiu finished viewing this final flowing image and understood everything.

Chao Ge, at the last moment, had no choice but to attempt a breakthrough to transcendence; he succeeded and also failed.

In the end, the breakthrough still failed, and Chao Ge's death was already destined.

But he successfully suppressed the terrifying spiritual incarnation within himself and locked away the projection from being summoned by it, preserving the remaining spark of the realm.

So...

Killing Chao Ge was also to kill this spiritual clone?

Ji Jingqiu looked forward along the Time River, then looked back. This Time River, this realm, no longer held any light between Heaven and Earth, only a scene of destruction under the Bitter Sea's invasion.

Numerous sentient beings were like walking corpses, numbly awaiting death.

But even if they died, they would not be released, for this realm was tainted by the Bitter Sea, and they would sink into it together.

The reason they had not completely fallen was that Chao Ge was still persisting.

It was as if there was no other torch in this world, and Chao Ge became that only light.

Ji Jingqiu bent down, scooping up a handful of the flowing time.

Whose fault was this catastrophe?

Was it that Freedom sold out a realm to live alone, or was it the fault of Chao Ge, the unteaching master to his disciple?

The sentient beings of this realm were so innocent, truly a natural disaster and human calamity. The world is vast, yet why is it so difficult to simply live?

He looked up, coincidentally meeting the gaze of another self in the Time River, the one who bore the brunt of the Killing Tribulation's taint—Life Destruction.

In the eyes of the latter, the infinite world of Chaohua Mountain was reflected.

Ji Jingqiu had already understood the meaning of Life Destruction, which was also his own intent.

He sighed, turned back, and said, "Seniors, won't you show yourselves yet?"

The water flowed gently, in one scene of ongoing water flow, someone looked up, speaking in a gentle voice:

"Young friend, this matter will trouble you after all."

Ji Jingqiu shook his head and said, "Senior has placed me in such a precarious position and now starts to negotiate with me? That's not fair." 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Chao Ge looked apologetic and said, "It is my fault. This matter is naturally unfair to you, but we have no other choice, this karma can only be repaid in the next life."