Chapter 657: The Truth

Ji Hanzheng’s voice appeared in the ears of the Taoist Ancestor, Buddha, and Confucian Saint.

If it were like this in the past,

the Confucian Saint might have panicked, for this would mean Ji Hanzheng’s Celestial Dao avatar had locked onto his location.

But now, with the matter of the world will encountering inexplicable terror and vanishing, the fact of the Celestial Dao avatar locking on seemed unimportant.

The Confucian Saint is a figure who has existed for countless eras, from ancient times to today, accustomed to the vicissitudes of time, with rarely any emotional fluctuations. Yet now, he was like an ordinary person who encountered a major blow, struggling to control his emotions.

“How is it possible, how can it be like this, tens of thousands of years of planning, I was prepared for failure, but such failure, how can I be willing, how can I accept it!”

The Confucian Saint seemed to have been drained of energy, the whole person collapsed sitting on the ground.

In the dark night, a fluctuation came from the void,

three figures appeared, precisely the Taoist Ancestor, Buddha, and Ji Hanzheng.

Ji Hanzheng walked at the front, followed closely by the Taoist Ancestor and Buddha.

“Friend, the cycles of the ages ultimately rotate, the world varies in size, has existence and destruction; all things have destiny yet none actually have destiny, do they not?” Ji Hanzheng said softly facing the Confucian Saint.

The Confucian Saint raised his head, looking at Ji Hanzheng, said: “You are the Celestial Dao, yet aren’t you also pursuing the Great Dao? Who can accept the destruction of the Great Dao?”

Ji Hanzheng said: “I have witnessed the birth of the universe, and also its annihilation. I’ve seen the turbulence of the Realm Sea and its calmness. I am not human, I cannot understand the human heart, but I have seen countless living beings, those innumerable pursuing the Great Dao.

Every being chooses a different Dao, but ultimately all methods converge and are unified. Your pursuit is selfless and desireless, taking the whole human world as your Dao seed, dedicating yourself to accomplish the world for generations. Now having failed, these emotions are not expected of you.”

The Confucian Saint retorted: “Nonsense, what emotions should I have then?”

Ji Hanzheng said: “A selfless person is devoid of desire; one without desire has no quest; one without quest returns to the void, even though a thousand-year plan falls empty, it is but to laugh at, even though the Great Dao is destroyed, the Dao Heart isn’t. You are not selfless.”

“Nonsense!” The Confucian Saint hurriedly said: “How am I not selfless and desireless? Everything I did was for the human world, for countless living beings across generations, never having schemed anything for myself!”

“Amitabha,” Buddha uttered a Buddhist chant, stepping forward saying: “Confucian Saint, I initially thought you were not on the same path as us, although foes for tens of thousands of years, in my heart I always admired you. But now, I understand you are just like us in some way, except, you’ve even deceived yourself!”

“Nonsense!” The Confucian Saint said in a deep voice: “I’ve never been on the same path as you two lackeys. You betray for the Dao fruit, siding with the Celestial Dao to harm living beings, forgetting your roots, you were initially just feed in the eyes of the Celestial Dao.”

The Taoist Ancestor shook his head saying: “Confucian Saint, you’ve made virtues and morality your plaything, you’re correct, we are cowardly, afraid to die, for the Dao fruit, surrendering everything, we admit it. What about you, do you truly refuse to side with the Celestial Dao for the human world?”

The Confucian Saint was silent.

The Taoist Ancestor said: “You are also after the Dao fruit, only you’ve deceived even yourself using virtues and morality as your cover, leading the whole human world for your own path.

We chose to side with the Celestial Dao, however creating chaos in the human world, yet left a few sparks of hope, of course, this isn’t self-praise, we passed down the cultivation method, the purpose was merely to satisfy the Celestial Dao, for the Dao fruit; as for leaving hope, that was merely unexpected.

But you, claiming to be for the human world, in reality, only disgusted by the long time the Celestial Dao method would take, merely opted for another way to obtain the Dao fruit, allowing yourself to pull the human world to its funeral, likewise weaving lies, but your lies even deceived yourself.”

The Confucian Saint coldly said: “Yet my method at least offered some hope for the human world.”

“The Great Dao is fifty, Heaven extends forty-nine, the one that escapes, anything carries some hope in itself,” said the Taoist Ancestor: “You are just the same, Buddha and I wove the lie of becoming immortal in the human world during ancient times, yet didn’t you emerge as what we didn’t expect?”

Buddha slowly said: “Confucian Saint, you deceived everyone, including the Celestial Dao, including us, and even the world will was fooled by you. The method you designed to change world civilization seemed like a way to free the human world from the Celestial Dao’s control, in fact, was aiming to replace the world will during civilization’s transition and its weak period, obtaining its Dao fruit, was it not?”

“I…”

The Confucian Saint opened his mouth, wanting to argue, but didn’t know how.

The Taoist Ancestor sighed and said: “No wonder you have suffered such a blow, originally we suspected you weren’t selfless, thought you had a motive, but none of us thought you had this intention, our previous precautions against you were all wrong.”

Ji Hanzheng said: “Indeed, if not for this world will vanishing incident, you could have succeeded, I didn’t anticipate your plan.”

“Yet, it still failed!”

The Confucian Saint sighed deeply, saying: “Who after all, who is it that ruined my plan?”

Ji Hanzheng shook his head, said: “The Celestial Dao’s primary body responded, none of the Great Emperors made an appearance in all the heavens and worlds.”

“Then why did the human world suddenly birth a Great Emperor? Could it be the human world itself? The human world besides your Celestial Dao avatar, just us three Immortal Kings, how could it possibly give rise to an Immortal Emperor?

The human world is merely a Small Thousand World, entirely supported by the three of us into a Middle Thousand World, and then demoted by my design, lacking even a cultivator from the Immortal Realm where would a Great Emperor come from?”

“Who says there aren’t cultivators from the Immortal Realm.” Ji Hanzheng said.

Buddha and the Taoist Ancestor, and the Confucian Saint were surprised looking at Ji Hanzheng.

“More than a decade ago, the Celestial Dao’s primary body spied on the human world thrice in succession, exactly because there appeared the aura of an immortal in the human world,” Ji Hanzheng said.

The Confucian Saint and the others showed unexpected expressions,

“While we three were in the human world, an Immortal Realm cultivator appeared? Not only evading our sense but also evaded the Celestial Dao’s spying? How can it be?”

Ji Hanzheng smiled slightly and said: “There’s a saying in the human world, the Great Dao is fifty, Heaven extends forty-nine, and the one that escapes, nothing is absolute, I was so close to Your Majesty yet didn’t think that Your Majesty was the exception I’ve been searching for.”

Speaking as such,

Ji Hanzheng bowed toward the darkness: “Celestial Dao avatar, Ji Hanzheng, minister of the human world, welcomes the Martial Emperor!”