Chapter 1429: Chapter 506: The Mystery of God-Sealing, Heavenly Court Rivalry

Abandoning the act of reining in the branches of fate, and directly leaping out of the River of Destiny...

This was without doubt an extremely perilous step.

Ordinary Heavenly Venerables often first pierce through their own Heavenly Destiny, then rein in the Fate Veins, and finally, as a matter of course, take the initial step of jumping out of the River of Destiny, thereby obtaining true great freedom... or at least a portion of it.

To tear oneself forcibly away from the River of Destiny without first collecting and binding the Fate Veins—such an act had never been heard of within the Netherworld.

And Ji Jingqiu’s greatest hidden card at this moment was precisely the Lawless Method that he had obtained from Ancestor Shouzhen, within which was contained the Realm of Transcendence—[Lawless]!

Just as soon as the thought arose.

The space around Ji Jingqiu was already erupting with countless visions, the phenomena of the Dao surging forth majestically!

The meridians throughout his body surged like a star river, his blood like a long River of Dao Source, his Qi Veins like dragons and serpents rising upon the land; meridians, blood, Qi Veins, Martial Intent... all like one Dao after another.

The vast and mighty phenomena of the Dao burst forth in abundance, as though they would transform the space around him into an independent Heaven and Earth of the Dao!

"Still not enough..."

Ji Jingqiu forcibly pressed down this vast Dao phenomenon, withdrew his Spirit God, and returned to reality.

Having recalled the Heart Monkey, the next step was the Will Horse.

The Supreme True Buddha in the Nine States had, these past few years, been doing one thing unceasingly—performing a severance, cutting out the Fruit Position of the True Buddha, to make a final ending. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

And before No Heaven came out of seclusion, the Supreme True Buddha had already succeeded, with the aid from Emperor Heaven’s side.

The severed Supreme True Buddha became the purest of Gods and Buddhas, receiving the offerings of Emperor Heaven.

Ji Jingqiu forcibly suppressed the faintly surging Fate Veins, and was just about to rush to Emperor Heaven at the first possible moment when he suddenly felt something in his heart, and abruptly lifted his head to look.

He saw endless brilliant starlight, like the Milky Way overturned, pouring into his field of vision.

Countless points of starry radiance gathered and converged, transforming into a boundless ocean.

It was as if an entire vast starry sky had been forcibly reflected into his eyes, and also into the eyes of all living beings in the Sea of Realms.

"This is..."

Ji Jingqiu’s Spirit God trembled, as though he beheld a vast celestial phenomenon, a Heaven and Earth of the human body outlined by endless Group Stars!

"Doumu?!"

The sight of the tumult among the Group Stars before his eyes caused Ji Jingqiu to instantly associate it with that Primordial Monarch Doumu, famed as the Mother of the Group Stars!

"You know this person?" A calm voice sounded behind him. "The strength of this person’s Daoist career is such that she has, with the Tao of her own body, stirred the vast Group Stars of the All Heavens World into resonance. This is the so‑called Great Dao Ancestor? Truly strong to a fantastical degree, enough to set the heart racing in longing—"

Ji Jingqiu whirled around abruptly, stunned on the spot.

Standing before him, in a fluttering green robe, with an aura empty, quiet, and unfathomably deep, was none other than the second True Saint of the Heavenly Saint Lake—Wu Fa Daoist!

But the problem was...

Was this not the Dao Body of Ancestor Shouzhen?!

Ancestor Shouzhen had broken through and attained Transcendence, seeking to peer into the Ultimate Realm of the Dao; why then had he not recalled Wu Fa Daoist, thereby pushing his own Dao Power to its most consummate peak?

Over these ten‑plus years of cultivation, Ji Jingqiu had already clarified this person’s identity.

Their situation was similar to that of Nine Mountains; both bodies of Nine Mountains had attained True Saint, and he had once been hailed within the Netherworld as being in the very first tier, a step behind the Five Pillars.

But Shouzhen had reached this step long before Nine Mountains.

And the Methods they cultivated were similar, both originating from the first—now should be called the second—batch from aeons past.

The Methods cultivated by the two had both been obtained from the second batch of Outer Realm powerhouses who visited the Netherworld.

When the two bodies merged into one, Dao Power would soar; a newly advanced True Saint could thereby match an Ancient, and an Ancient could then wrestle with a True Saint of the Supreme Rank.

Ancestor Shouzhen had clearly sought to climb to the peak and behold how lofty the Dao truly was, willing to leap even at the cost of death; why then did he not "recall" the Lawless Saint?

Unless...

Wu Fa clasped his hands behind his back, withdrew his gaze from the Group Stars, and with just a glance at Ji Jingqiu, knew what he was thinking. He said evenly:

"Originally, we were meant to fuse; only when the two of us become one will it be the true [Lawless]. But at the instant of the breakthrough, that fellow seemed to have seen something, and changed his mind at the last moment."

Ji Jingqiu said in a deep voice, "At the instant of the breakthrough, Ancestor Shouzhen pushed [Lawless]to the Transcendence Level!"

Wu Fa nodded. "I know. In that instant of breakthrough, he acted twice, at the price of abandoning his remaining Fruit Position and allowing his True Spirit in the next life to fall into dust. Once was used to force Emperor Yi in the Burial Sea to emerge, and the second time was left here, with me."

Ji Jingqiu’s thoughts surged.

When Late-period Martial Artists break through the Dao barriers, it is not uncommon for them to, with the help of the Time River, glimpse some fragments of the future—let alone when breaking through to Transcendence!

What had Ancestor Shouzhen seen in that instant? What had made him suddenly decide not only to act and force Emperor Yi of the Burial Sea to surface, but also to deliberately leave a backhand here with the Lawless Saint?

Lawless...

"You need not think too much." Lawless True Saint said calmly, "With me still at the Heavenly Saint Lake, you need not tarry here overlong. But you must remember, you bear No Heaven’s Karma upon your body; one day, you will have to repay it."

Ji Jingqiu said solemnly, "I will never forget!"

"Then that is best. Shouzhen indeed thinks very highly of you; perhaps in you he sees a portion of the figure of Li Shoucheng from those years..."

Lawless True Saint waved his sleeve, sending him off, and said,

"I can feel that you already stand on the brink of a breakthrough, a single kick from stepping through the gate. Why do you not take that step? Go. [Lawless]is the lifelong heart’s blood of his cultivation; it will not lose to anyone, not even to your two teachers."

Ji Jingqiu, adopting the posture of a junior, cupped his hands in farewell, said no more, and turned to stride away.

As he stepped out of the domain of the Heavenly Saint Lake, Ji Jingqiu’s gaze swept once, and the Nine Dragon Carriage had already emerged from the Void to appear before him.

He lifted his foot and boarded the carriage, and asked, "Is this Dao phenomenon on the Primordial Monarch’s side?"

The coachman drove the carriage, riding upon the starry radiance that flowed across the sky toward the direction of Emperor Heaven. Hearing this, he replied respectfully: