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Chapter 1003 - 266: It’s Time to Infuse the Immortal Path with Martial Virtue Using Martial Arts! (4400)_2

Chapter 1003: Chapter 266: It’s Time to Infuse the Immortal Path with Martial Virtue Using Martial Arts! (4400)_2

"Indeed, we have undergone a rebirth, completing the initial transformation to become better versions of ourselves... but this is entirely due to your existence, rather than merely having a will of the Heavenly Dao guiding us to do so."

"Similarly, isn’t Ye Yunsheng the same? Without any accidents, he would have remained obscure throughout his life, and without your resources, he might not have even reached Foundation Establishment, let alone explore outward, delve into the Ancient Immortal Ruins, and find his true ’destiny’ of a love for exploration."

Huo Qing nodded repeatedly: "Yes. Moreover, if I must say, I think the awakening of the Fate Pattern and the ’weight of destiny’ may not have been predestined from the start."

"I remember you saying my original Fate Pattern was not good, even quite lowly, leading to a very easy death, and would cause no ripples in life or death. At that time, I absolutely couldn’t have awakened the current Fate Pattern; it was later, under your guidance, that I gradually grew into these conditions."

"I think Ye Yunsheng is the same. It was under your influence that he grew to the Foundation Establishment Realm, and many of his traits only became useful then—otherwise, with so many ordinary people in this world, wouldn’t there be similar people elsewhere?"

"You all seem to truly value me."

An Jing thought carefully, only to find that the two brothers’ thoughts on the Fate Pattern might even be deeper than his own... They truly pondered seriously, questioning why they could attain a Fate Pattern.

Ha, because I am the Heavenly Mandate, do I instead feel everything is orchestrated by the Heavenly Dao?

An Jing laughed: "Indeed, it’s a Knowledge-obstacle, and this kind of thinking..."

An Jing couldn’t help but think of the Heavenly Demon.

[Humans will put all the blame on us Heavenly Demons. All mistakes, all calamities, all destruction, death, and despair, exist because of us!]

The original words weren’t exactly like that, but that’s the meaning.

This way of shifting ’responsibility’... maybe it’s a kind of ’fall.’

Unconsciously, I also started to overestimate the ability of the Heavenly Dao, thinking all this as ’destiny’ controlled by an invisible hand.

But the invisible hand does not exist. Because I am part of that hand, formed by tangible intertwined causes and effects.

"I understand now, thank you, I’ve realized something."

He smiled and patted the shoulders of the two brothers, An Jing had more ideas rising: "If so, the granting of a Fate Pattern, is not a Heavenly Gift, but truly as long as the conditions are met, the weight becomes significant... then why haven’t other Heavenly Ancestors developed techniques that allow everyone to have a Fate Pattern, everyone can cultivate Martial Arts?"

Perhaps they aren’t absent, but each has their own limiting conditions.

Like the Talisman Granting Heavenly Official of Da Chen, and the ’Spirit is Fate’ of the Shangxuan Sect.

And the people around me, with the Fate Pattern awakening so quickly, apart from the tremendous destiny weight I bring to others’ lives, is probably also because a certain condition is met.

[Companions and Subordinates of the Heavenly Mandate]

This may be one of the privileges given to the Heavenly Mandate by the Heavenly Dao: the ability to quickly cultivate a large number of qualified teammates, avoiding the Heavenly Mandate fighting alone.

Even in the Seven Fiend Tribulation, it’s not fought alone, just the teammates died one after another, eventually becoming the Heaven Fiend Lone Star.

The reason An Jing could leisurely chat with Huo Qing and Nian Quan during Ye Yunsheng’s risky exploration was not because he was idle.

It was because he was about to get busy too.

There were only three days left until the Four Cities Competition, an event no less important than the Bright Mirror Sect’s grand ceremony.

The preparations had already begun, and An Jing had to represent the Third Middle Jingwei Academy and gather at the official entrance of Chonggang Town.

Theoretically, as one of the contestants, An Jing and Nian Quan Huo Qing should have gathered at the accommodations organized by the school—but since An Jing himself had an establishment in Chonggang Town, they could do some preparations at his own warehouse.

The Four Cities Competition had a rather elegant and more fitting ancient name, known as [Spirit Ruins Mingyu], referring to the Taixu Spirit Ruins, the competition ground for the young generation of the Immortal City’s Spirit Vein, though due to the end times of Tianyuan, the whole world truly became a ruin. Even though the originally elegant ’Spirit Ruins’ referred to ’the dwelling of True Qi,’ it now seemed a bit inappropriate.

The reason why the Four Cities Competition wasn’t fitting was that it wasn’t a ring match, nor a competition between four cities, but each major academy sent their own disciples to complete a trial or task with others from different academies, and the most outstanding were known as ’Jade Wearers,’ receiving encouragement and rewards from the elders of each power.

It’s not required to compete against each other, but neither is it compulsory to cooperate; overall, it’s more of a speed race.

This time, the task of the Four Cities Competition was straightforward, as An Jing had previously heard hinted by the principal and board—that is, to venture deep into the Ancient Immortal Ruins to [find the path leading deeper].

This task, put nicely, was to utilize the young generation’s initiative, put harshly, to use the young generation’s destiny to take a chance and find a way out.

If An Jing wanted to win, he only needed to produce the Initial Cave’s Great Void Passage leading to the Ganyuan Sea, and he could directly declare himself the winner—needless to say, An Jing could imagine the longing and earnestness of those True People and True Lords, or even the Heavenly Lords and Heavenly Venerates of the Tianyuan Realm after learning of the Ganyuan Sea’s existence.