Chapter 2264: Chapter 2308: Meeting Heavenly Mechanism Elder Again

He just didn’t know how effective they would be against the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis. Even with three trump cards in hand, Jiang Fan felt no sense of security whatsoever. The Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis had learned from his previous lesson and would not be easily fooled again.

If there was one method guaranteed to take down the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis, there was only one option left: Entering the Sage Realm! He needed to step into the Virtuous Realm as an Ancestor Path Practitioner! At that time, he would receive the Heavenly Dao’s blessing, granting him the power to kill anyone below the level of a Saint. And he had already unraveled the mystery of why Ancestor Path Practitioners could not enter the Virtuous Realm.

The *Daily Life Record* once described a particular passage: "There are also Practitioners who break through their own shackles, Entering the Sage Realm to prove the Ancestor Path." These words came from the mouth of the Daqian Monarch, which indirectly verified one issue. The inability of the Ancestor Path to enter the Virtuous Realm did not stem from external limitations, but from within oneself!

In other words, there was a flaw in Jiang Fan’s Divinity Transformation Realm. That was why he had been delayed in combining the five flames as one and forming the Melted Divine Stele. Along the journey fleeing from the Martial Vault all the way to Nanqian, he had been pondering this. The so-called shackles likely did not exist on the level of his Physique or soul. His Physique and soul had long since surpassed ordinary Great Venerates by an unknown number of tiers, yet he still could not reach the threshold of Entering the Sage Realm. Therefore, the problem could only lie within his five great Domains.

For others, typically only one of their Domains served as the core, while the remaining four were merely supportive Domains revolving around it. However, Jiang Fan’s five great Domains were each independent and extraordinarily powerful. He suspected that this was caused by one of his Domains lacking Perfection. Yet, logically speaking, since a Flame Mark had been lit, it meant his comprehension of the corresponding Domain had reached its absolute limit. There shouldn’t be any so-called flaws.

Carrying this doubt, he re-examined his Domains. His first Domain was "Better Destruction than Imperfection." This Domain was born from the indignation in his heart after learning of his destined death; it was a Domain that destroyed all things.

His Second Domain was "Turning Imperfection into Perfection." This was comprehended when Qin Wangchuan begged him to spare her from a child’s body so she could pass away in the form of an elder. The eternal youth that everyone yearned for was a nightmare for Qin Wangchuan. The girlhood she wanted, the marriage she desired, and the natural cycle of birth, aging, illness, and death had all been stripped away from her. Thus, Jiang Fan was deeply moved. When in full bloom, it is the life of a flower; when withering away, is it not also the life of a flower? Flourishing to the extreme before declining, and declining to the extreme before perishing—that should be the entirety of a flower’s existence. Hence came the Domain that mended imperfections.

The Third Domain was "Imperfection Leads to Completeness." This was summarized from the lifelong insights of the nine Great Wine Sacrifices. The long journey of life was covered in thorns. There would always be injuries and heartache, but they would ultimately transform into brilliantly blooming flowers at the finish line, turning into a shining galaxy illuminating the path ahead. Consequently, he comprehended a Domain that converted the damage inflicted by enemies into restorative healing for himself.

The Fourth Domain was "Checking for Flaws and Filling the Gaps." This came from the changes in his state of mind after experiencing his godmother’s "death" and return, as well as Liu Qingxian’s departure. This Domain could detect the flaws of all things, and even the closeness and distance in human relationships.

The Fifth Domain was "Rebirth." He had witnessed the tragic heroism in the Mystic Sky Realm, where the Nine-leaf Wood Emperor and its mother used their own lives to ensure the continuation of their descendants. He also recalled how the Xingyuan Venerable sacrificed himself for the future of the Central Earth, completing the thousand-year grand plan known as "Spring Mud." Fallen blossoms are not heartless things; they turn into Spring Mud to better nurture the flowers. Life had not withered away; it was merely reborn in another form. Therefore, he comprehended the Newborn Domain. It could glean entirely new Chapters from the ruins of literary domains.

In his mind, Jiang Fan meticulously re-examined the comprehension process of the five great Domains, as well as any flaws they might harbor. Time trickled by.

Three two-hour periods later.

He slowly opened his eyes, his brows furrowed deeply. "What exactly is wrong?" he murmured. He sorted through it from the beginning to the end, completely unable to detect where the problem lay. Everything seemed to be absolutely perfect.

"The Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis is catching up," the Big Black Dog reminded him upon noticing he was awake.

Jiang Fan’s heart chilled. So fast? Even though his mode of travel had switched from the Void Feather Robe to the Big Black Dog, the enemy shouldn’t have caught up this quickly. It seemed the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis had slaughtered quite a few people along the way to reconstruct that eerie blood moon. He must have then increased his speed by activating the Power of Blood Moon. This battle was unavoidable.

Jiang Fan turned around and looked back coldly, his gaze calm. There was no way he could escape this battle. Was he truly going to fall here today?

Right at that moment, the Big Black Dog beneath him suddenly slammed on the brakes, and Jiang Fan nearly tumbled off its back.

"You damn dog, are you trying to drop me to my death so you can inherit my fortune?" Jiang Fan scolded in annoyance.

The Big Black Dog, however, stared blankly into the distance. "Hey, have you ever seen a White Paper Crane? Like, a super massive one."

Hmm? Jiang Fan turned his head to look, his eyes widening in disbelief. In the Void ahead, an exaggeratedly gigantic White Paper Crane was flying toward them from the distance at an unhurried pace. As it drew closer, he couldn’t even see the edges of the White Paper Crane on either side. Its sheer volume was nearly comparable to Du Xiyuan’s black battleship.

"Who... who folded such an oversized White Paper Crane?" Jiang Fan clicked his tongue in amazement. Quickly, he realized something was wrong. How could an ordinary White Paper Crane withstand the turbulent currents of the Void? Could this be a flying Magical Treasure? He patted the Big Black Dog’s head and warned vigilantly, "Stay away from it."

The Big Black Dog also felt a trace of unease and leaped away with a powerful kick of its four legs. Anyone capable of folding such an enormous White Paper Crane was by no means a simple figure. But the White Paper Crane was clearly aiming straight for them. The moment they moved, the White Paper Crane also changed its direction to follow.

Jiang Fan laughed out of sheer frustration. "I can understand the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis, but is a paper crane trying to hunt me down now too?"

SWISH!

The remaining hundred or so top-grade spirit swords flew out from behind his back, forming a massive Lotus Sword Formation. Jiang Fan pointed his finger, just about to manipulate the Sword Array to obliterate the paper crane.

A panicked, elderly voice drifted over from the paper crane in a hurry. "Don’t attack, we’re on the same side!"

Hmm? Jiang Fan raised an eyebrow. This voice sounded somewhat familiar! Under his watchful gaze, a cyan silhouette appeared on the paper crane from a distance.

It was an ox. A massive, cyan-black ox! Seated on the ox’s back was an old man in a filthy Daoist robe.

Jiang Fan simply couldn’t believe it. "The Heavenly Mechanism Elder?" he exclaimed.

Wasn’t the ox-riding old Daoist before him the Heavenly Mechanism Elder of the Central Earth? It was exactly his divination of heavenly secrets that had sealed the destined deaths of Jiang Fan, the Six-Path Masters, and the Heavenly Listening Bodhisattva. When the Heavenly Mechanism Elder looked at the three of them back then, his gaze held surprise for Jiang Fan’s death, and pity for the Six-Path Masters. For the Heavenly Listening Bodhisattva, it was a sense of tragic heroism.

And when the Heavenly Listening Bodhisattva activated the third great vow, bearing the destiny of the common people and perishing along with his enemies to fulfill his tribulation, how tragically heroic was that? His fate had perfectly aligned with the Heavenly Mechanism Elder’s gaze. Therefore, the Heavenly Mechanism Elder must have seen something.

"Why are you in the Void?" Jiang Fan asked, his face full of disbelief.

Ever since the divination, the Heavenly Mechanism Elder had ridden his great cyan ox, streaking naked around the Nine States at the request of the Spirit Sound Priest. Since then, he vanished into Wu Ying. During the war with the Ancient Giants, he hadn’t even shown his face. He never expected that the elder had actually left the Central Earth and was drifting through the Void!

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