Chapter 974 - 754: Success, The Truth of the World (Part 2)

Chapter 974: Chapter 754: Success, The Truth of the World (Part 2)

Two paths, one leading to success, but requiring a tremendous price.

The other leads to failure, though without any loss, it still represents the greatest loss for him.

After a prolonged moment of silence, Qin An suddenly gritted his teeth.

"What I wish to achieve is the supreme essence of the Transcendent Realm. Since that’s the case, why not continue? Perhaps I can try a different method."

According to his understanding just now, the so-called supreme essence of the Transcendent Realm is actually reverse-parsing this world.

Since it’s about parsing this world, he needs to transform into a pure state.

If he doesn’t transform himself into that pure state, could he still parse the supreme essence of the Transcendent Realm?

At this moment, Qin An increasingly felt that this might be possible.

After contemplating briefly, he took a deep breath.

He planned to cleanse the impurities from his own soul as much as possible under the baptism of heaven and earth.

Because he wanted to see if, by doing so, he could parse this world.

As Qin An had this thought, the booming Celestial Thunder struck even more fiercely, while his soul, under continual baptism, grew increasingly condensed.

He knew he could no longer afford to wait, for if he continued waiting, what awaited him was his consciousness and identity being wholly engulfed.

And he himself would transform into that pure soul just mentioned.

Qin An realized that the time left for him was truly limited now; if he didn’t make a choice soon, danger would engulf him like tidal waves.

Subsequently, Qin An made his choice.

He used all his strength to envelop the residual impurities of his soul, preventing them from being cleansed by the Celestial Thunder.

And he utilized the power of Celestial Thunder to frantically parse this world.

Logically speaking, such enigmatic matters cannot be parsed.

But earlier, Qin An had obtained a little insight and clue: when forging the supreme essence of the Exalted Realm, a Cultivator in the Selfless Realm once told him a sentence.

It said that everything in this world is an illusion.

Thus, Qin An followed the clue of this illusion, reverse-teasing the variations of the world.

With this approach, when speculating, Qin An found his mind extraordinarily clear.

Then, he enveloped the few impurities in his soul, reasoning about the truth of this world using them.

Under the continuous bombardment of Celestial Thunder, the most pure and authentic soul also relentlessly squeezed his consciousness.

Amidst the constant soul compression and continued reasoning, Qin An suddenly sensed an unusual change before his eyes.

The moment this change occurred, he realized he had arrived in an incredibly obscure space.

Here, there was no sky, no earth; though in the ear resounded a thundering roar, that cleansing power for the soul had vanished.

Mist pervaded everywhere, sceneries invisible to the naked eye were everywhere.

Even with Qin An’s current power, he couldn’t see through the depths of the mist, to discern what peculiarities resided within.

As Qin An continued exploring and gazing forward, finally a peculiarity appeared in the mist.

A special wave emerged, and then this special wave thrust into the mist like a spear, unveiling it completely before him.

At the moment the mist parted, Qin An beheld a blurry world.

This blurry world was immensely vast, exceeding all worlds he had seen by far.

Moreover, in this blurry world there were mountains and rivers, flowers and grass, even humans.

Yet, these flowers, grass, mountains, and rivers including humans were all blurry to his vision.

However, Qin An felt that this world was very advanced, advanced to an uncanny level even he found disturbing.

Qin An greatly wished to see what more he could discover, but just as he was preparing to continue observing, the anomaly occurred.

The sceneries vanished inexplicably, the thunder sounds likewise dissipated.

Qin An found himself again at the edge of the Ten Thousand Thunder River, and his soul was no longer assailed by Celestial Thunder.

The Celestial Thunder seemed to have accepted his soul, keeping a distance, merely flowing continuously in the sky.

"What is going on here?"

Qin An showed a look of doubt.

He couldn’t understand why merely seeing those illusory scenes made the Celestial Thunder cease targeting him.

But no matter how profoundly he thought, he couldn’t derive a single clue.

The only clue was the scenery he had seen.

"That place was particularly vast, and the energy within, dense to an astonishing level, surpassed any world I’ve seen."

"What kind of world is it?"

Qin An was perplexed, unaware of the reason for all this.

But at the moment Qin An carefully pondered, the anomaly finally appeared.

He found that although he had initially understood this world extremely well, at this moment, the world gave him a sense of intimacy.

This intimacy was born suddenly when Qin An’s comprehension of this world reached its extreme.

In future, when he harnessed the power of this world, the force acquired would be many times stronger than before.

In other words, Qin An at this moment completely forged the supreme essence of the Exalted Realm.

Qin An revealed a realization: "Originally when the Celestial Thunder stopped attacking me, I had already succeeded. Now, I preserved my existence without becoming a mere consciousness and also broke through the barriers of supreme essence."

He clearly understood achieving this was simple, because at the critical moment, following the Cultivator’s words from the Selfless Realm, he deduced some truths about this world.

As for what the truth of the world was, he didn’t know.

He only knew outside this world was an incredibly vast world far scarier than imagined.

Even though he had experienced many worlds, none could compare.

Moreover, he suddenly thought of four words: "dimension-reducing strike."

He didn’t know what these words meant, but he knew he was getting closer to the truth.

Qin An took a deep breath, ceased pondering on it, and prepared to return to the capital of the Daqian Kingdom.

Now he had obtained all the essence; next, it was time to find an opportunity to break through to the Selfless Realm and confront the attack of the Heavenly Demon.

At that time, once he removed this crisis, he would again seek to understand the world he previously saw, and unravel its truth.

Thinking of this, Qin An did not linger, then rose and flew towards the direction of the Daqian Kingdom’s capital.

...

Meanwhile, as Qin An flew towards Daqian Kingdom, at this moment, in the world of the Heavenly Demon.

The Ancestral Mechanical Emperor gathered a large group of Heavenly Demons here to hold a regular meeting.

Plague Emperor was also present, but her expression was rather unusual.

She knew the reason Ancestral Mechanical Emperor could summon them all at this time must be simple, which was that Ancestral Mechanical Emperor had found a lead.

What kind of lead, naturally, it was to deal with Qin An and the method concerning the world Qin An was in.

She wasn’t sure what it was, but it must be a monstrous conspiracy.

While thinking this, numerous Heavenly Demons also shifted their gaze to Ancestral Mechanical Emperor, all curious about what the Ancestral Mechanical Emperor would unveil next.

The Ancestral Mechanical Emperor appeared very calm, then, amid everyone’s gaze, he took out a wooden box.

On the surface of the wooden box was a palm-sized puppet, entirely crafted from mechanical structure.

Without facial features, the surface was smooth like a mirror.

When the Ancestral Mechanical Emperor picked up the puppet, he slowly began speaking.