Supreme Emptiness

Chapter 1383: Chapter 1400: Enlightenment

Dharma Seal asked in surprise, ”Oh? Which aspect are you referring to?”

Yuwei replied, ”The calmness of facing death head-on.”

”In a short time, going from despair to calmly facing death is not easy to achieve.”

”Many sages live for a thousand years, and when faced with death, they may not be able to be calm.”

”For example, me.”

”With only a remnant soul left, I still want to cling to you to linger on.”

Dharma Seal laughed, ”I have always said Brother Jiang is a person of great wisdom.”

”One phrase, ’To hear the Way in the morning makes it alright to die in the evening,’ makes me feel inferior.”

”My cultivation is still far from enough!”

”Let’s go, let’s tour the Nine States and appreciate heaven and earth!”

The Continent.

Jiang Fan stepped on the familiar land, a thoughtful look in his eyes.

”Since I’ve returned to the place where it all began, I should seek my own path.”

”It would be best if I could break through to the Divinity Transformation Realm before dying, and slay a few Giant Kings for the Central Earth!”

He flew into the sky, closed his eyes, moving with the wind and clouds.

His mind fell into deep thought.

”Master Xin Nie said that one’s path is on the road one has traveled.”

”And the Continent is the road I’ve traveled.”

”I lived under others’ roofs at the Xu Family for ten years, married Xu Yining at eighteen, was abandoned by her, and then married Xu Youran.”

”To marry her, I saved a betrothal gift, broke through my cultivation, dueled Wang Yingfeng, and fought Lu Zheng.”

”Later, I entered the Green Cloud Sect, where no one cared for someone with no spiritual root. It was Liu Qingxian and Gong Caiyi who looked after me, Wen Hongyao and Zhao Wuji who favored me, and several Supreme Elders who saw my extraordinary nature and allowed me to integrate into the Green Cloud Sect.”

”Not long after, the Beast Tide attacked, and I executed the Green Cloud Sect’s tasks, traveling back and forth across the Nine-Sect Land, winning honor for the Green Cloud Sect.”

”The Beast Tide erupted, the Boundary Mountain war suddenly broke out, sect disciples died tragically, Fu Chaohun left with regret, and I fought to the death, chasing the Demon Moon.”

”When the battle subsided, I met Concubine Yunxia, later landed in the Demon Emperor Court, and finally, at the Tiger Demon Emperor Mansion, to save Concubine Yunxia, I tested poison with my body, forming a good bond.”

”Finally, to save Ling Shu, I fought the Demon Emperor. Luckily, the Spirit Sound Priest intervened, and Ling Shu came back to life.”

Scenes emerged like yesterday, flooding his mind like tides.

He slightly opened his eyes, a sense of clarity brewing in his heart.

”It seems I’ve always been protecting others.”

”Protecting Xu Youran, protecting the Green Cloud Sect, protecting the Nine-Sect Land, protecting Concubine Yunxia, protecting Ling Shu.”

”Could it be that the path I’ve walked is the path of guardianship?”

The more he thought, the brighter it appeared before his eyes.

An underlying sense of penetrating through layers of fog and touching the essence arose.

”The Path of Guardian.”

”Protect those I love, protect those who love me, protect the mountains and rivers I love, protect the boundless Human Clan I admire.”

”Protection is the road I’ve traveled.”

Jiang Fan murmured, feeling increasingly clear.

The path that had confounded him for so long finally had a structure at this moment.

The Little Qilin seemed to notice something.

A furry head peeked out from his arms, eyes bright with joy:

”Master, have you finally found your path?”

Jiang Fan nodded slightly, ”It seems like it.”

Seems?

The Little Qilin looked puzzled.

Jiang Fan smiled and said, ”Don’t rush, I’ve just started to see a few clues.”

”Let me further appreciate the Path of Guardian.”

He closed his eyes again, drifting with the wind.

A day passed.

The morning clouds and the evening glow caressed his cheeks, and light and darkness alternated guarding him.

Two days passed.

A torrential rain washed his body, with raindrops clinging affectionately to his hair and eyebrows.

Three days passed.

The Cloud Sea cradled his body, as if he was drifting freely and joyfully in an Immortal Palace.

When a humid warmth wafted over.

Jiang Fan finally opened his eyes, his eyes sparkling, reflecting an enlightened understanding.

And a hint of faint fervor and persistence.

This is precisely a sign of pursuing a certain path to the extreme.

”I want to protect everything, not allowing others to destroy it!”

”Protection is my path!”

At that moment, he found his path.

Jiang Fan finally let go of the heart he had been holding onto.

He looked up to the sky, unable to resist shouting, ”I have found my path!”

”Now, step into the Eight-Orifice Nascent Soul, go mad for protecting everything!”

He took out a Spirit Pill surrounded by thunderbolts.

It was the Sixth Grade Spirit Pill given to him by Venerate Xin Nie, capable of breaking through the Late-stage Nascent Soul to a higher level, the Sky Breaking Pearl!

Eagerly, he pressed the Sky Breaking Pearl to his lips.

However, as he touched his lips, he did not swallow it.

In his eyes, there was a hint of hesitation.

The Little Qilin watched Jiang Fan’s actions and asked, ”Master, what’s wrong?”

”Why stop?”

Jiang Fan was silent for a moment and then said, ”I don’t know why, suddenly I’m a little hesitant.”

”Clearly, I am very persistent about protecting everything, and I have indeed done so along the way.”

”But when it comes to truly pursuing this path, I falter.”

He remembered what Venerate Xin Nie had said.

The Path of God Transformation is like a meteor streaking across the sky.

Elevate oneself to the extreme, burn brightly, exhaust life, transforming into a brilliant light diving into the vast earth.

Without madness, no demon is born!

Would he truly go mad to protect something?

If it were to protect Fairy Yun Shang, True Word Venerable, or Gong Caiyi, perhaps he would.

But to protect the people of the Central Earth, would he go mad?

It seems not.

He would only do his best to protect them, not necessarily go mad!

Yet, if his path is not the Path of Guardian, what is it then?

For a moment, he was unsure of how to choose.

Should he force himself to practice the Path of Guardian?

Or seek another understanding?

Suddenly, Jiang Fan recalled Bai Xin’s words.

Return to where it all began and ask his heart.

After a long silence, he put down the Sky Breaking Pearl from his lips.

His heart’s hesitation indicated that this was not his most persistent path.

But if not the Path of Guardian, then what path could it be?

At this moment.

A warm and moist current breezed over again.

He involuntarily looked down below.

A lush, endless grassland lay in view.

As the breeze blew, the grass bowed low, revealing small beasts grazing in the meadows.

”Unexpectedly, I’ve drifted here.”

Jiang Fan chuckled in surprise.

This place was the grassland Ling Shu always yearned for.

She always longed to build a house here, chop wood, herd horses, watch the clouds roll by, and listen to the stars whisper in the silence.

On the distant mountains, there was a grave he personally erected for her.

He smiled warmly, soaring to the mountaintop.

He saw the grave with no tombstone.

The grave was overgrown with weeds and abandoned.

The tombstone had been removed by Ling Shu, who preserved it carefully, having erased the ”tomb of” inscribed on it.

He recalled sitting in front of this grave, laden with sorrow and sadness, accompanying Ling Shu for a month.

Later, Ling Shu ”revived,” and he held her in his arms, the two tearfully recounting their hearts.

Everything seemed like yesterday.

Jiang Fan let out a gentle laugh.

But, as if remembering something, his smile suddenly froze.

The Little Qilin asked in surprise, ”Master, what’s wrong?”

Jiang Fan immediately sat cross-legged in front of the grave, eyes showing an understanding, saying:

”I think I know what my true path is!”