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Chapter 269 - 130: The Heavenly Timing of the Universe, I Shall Take Charge (1/3)

Chapter 269: Chapter 130: The Heavenly Timing of the Universe, I Shall Take Charge (1/3)

Late at night, An Jing was cultivating the Son of Heaven Method.

After days of continuous meditation and exercise, the time he took to enter the state of the Son of Heaven Method had reduced from an hour to about fifteen minutes.

While still lengthy, it was at a level where he could reflect on it whenever he had free time, making it significantly more practical.

However, An Jing’s true intention was to make the Son of Heaven Method viable in real combat.

In other words, he needed to reduce the time to enter the state of the Son of Heaven Method to "in a flash."

If he succeeded, in that flash, An Jing would be able to enter the Son of Heaven Method state and maintain that desireless and egoless state while fighting with others.

In doing so, he could control the circulation of his Spirit Qi within his body with pinpoint accuracy, adopting the most optimized, least self-damaging method of attack, prolonging his combat time, reducing internal consumption and injuries, and achieving a state of ’complete self-control in battle.’

Even if he was injured due to an enemy’s attack, he could immediately suppress the injury and use Spirit Qi to heal, expelling any residual poison and hostile energy with the Injury-Sword Finger technique.

The idea was excellent, but evidently, it still required a long period of practice, so An Jing would meditate whenever he had time, especially since entering the state of the Son of Heaven Method also greatly increased the speed at which he circulated his Inner Breath and condensed Magic Prohibition, allowing him to kill two birds with one stone.

Recently, through adjustments made by the Son of Heaven Method, An Jing had completely eradicated all Demonic Qi lingering in his body from his previous cultivation in the Tianyuan Realm and had healed the internal injuries from his recent continuous battles.

He even gradually adjusted some of the organs and muscles that had not fully developed since his childhood to what he considered perfect condition.

The most direct effect was that the innate qualities of An Jing’s body had slightly improved — this wasn’t an improvement gained from circulating Magic Prohibition techniques but from the most fundamental Innate True Force.

Though it might seem minor, An Jing was only twelve years old and still in a rapid growth phase. The slight improvements made at this time would multiply significantly in the future.

Combined with the enhancement from his cultivation techniques, the amount would be considerable.

However, as long as one is alive and still practicing, the condition inside one’s body will continuously change.

The Son of Heaven Method could not reach true perfection, but rather continually approached perfection, maintaining a dynamic equilibrium.

But by persisting in cultivation, one could always await a perfect moment.

Like now.

It was in an instant during this night that An Jing suddenly sensed a perfect harmony between his soul and body.

It was a state of Body and Spirit as One, not inferior to that of a True Person of the Divine Repository like Mingguang Dust.

In that instant, the Essence Qi and Spirit Qi surged within An Jing’s body, like a tremendous tide within the boundless sea of Inner Breath, stirring up one massive vortex after another.

And there was such a vast "vortex" right at the center of An Jing’s Soul and Spirit.

—It was time.

Just as naturally, a genuine Heaven’s Will.

An Jing realized that the Heavenly Timing had come!

The sound of the circulating tidal Essence Qi was like the tolling of grand bells. An Jing’s body slightly trembled, feeling an aperture open at the center of his Divine Sea. He was not distracted by these sensations but continued to maintain the state of the Son of Heaven Method, keeping his mind clear and tranquil, as sharp and transparent as a perfectly honed blade.

The surging Inner Breath and Taibai Fiend Qi rushed towards An Jing’s Soul and Spirit. Refining Destiny Qi, a task most difficult for ordinary martial artists, was in fact the simplest for An Jing, who had already completed Qi Refinement.

For a moment, a much more substantial amount of Spirit Qi poured into An Jing’s Soul and Spirit than would for an ordinary martial artist at the peak of Inner Strength realm, then under the operation of the Son of Heaven Method, it shed its Golden Qi’s sharpness and transformed into the most primal Spirit Mechanism, integrating into the ever-turning vortex.

Not just that, from the deepest part of An Jing’s Divine Sea, the spot of the Heavenly Mandate, gushed a stream like a river of blood flame.

This was the essence of Destiny Pattern needed during advancement in martial arts, the purest Mars Blood Fiend.

The Taibai Fiend Qi and Mars Blood Fiend, clashing in red and golden hues, made the vortex surge like the wheel of time.

Thoughts began to accelerate.

Enormous pressure evenly descended on An Jing’s Soul and Spirit and body. If it were an ordinary martial artist at the peak of Inner Breath Like Tide realm, they probably wouldn’t last a breath before they couldn’t withstand it and would then exit this profound state of "Heavenly Timing."

Only by achieving the cultivation of the Son of Heaven Method, with a body that is perfect and flawless, and a spirit that is constantly without leaks, could one maintain a state of Heavenly Timing for as long as possible.

Suddenly, numerous paths emerged in An Jing’s mind.

Sundials, water clocks, hourglasses, sundial sticks, gear clocks, oil lamps, time sticks, pocket watches, pendulum clocks... Countless different styles of timekeeping tools appeared in his mind, and these different styles evolved into countless detailed divergent paths, as if waiting for him to choose.

An Jing knew that these paths were all images that fit the ’Grasping Heavenly Moment’ Divine Abnormality; each different image represented different details of the same abnormality.

Just as with Pupil Fire, if ten thousand people cultivate it, there will be ten thousand variations in the details, and the capabilities represented by different ’details of time’ will also slightly differ.

The Sundial flows from yang, the lunar hour from yin, the water clock from water, the wooden carvings from wood, the hourglass from earth, the oil lamp from fire, the gear clock from metal...

While the acceleration of thought is the same, the choice of method of acceleration would determine the basis of An Jing’s Martial Meridian in the future, as well as the form and potential of his Divine Skill.

What An Jing needed to do was to choose one road that he wanted to follow.

This road has no right or wrong; the choice itself is a part of fate, and An Jing had a strong premonition that this choice would affect his future path.

And what kind of future did he want?

An Jing was not anxious; he steadied his mind and continued to maintain the state of Heavenly Timing.

In the past, there must have been Saint Heirs or geniuses in the Heaven’s Will Demon Sect who had also cultivated ’Grasping Heavenly Moment’.

But even with their extraordinary talents, they were unable to maintain the state of Heavenly Timing in the Inner Breath realm for a long time.

Their bodies and souls had limits, and they might not have been able to choose the most suitable Divine Abnormality for themselves, settling for something passable instead.

But An Jing was different. His Body Refinement cultivation had reached a strong level within the Inner Strength realm, and his Soul and Spirit were so commendable that even Mingguang Dust praised him, believing he might be the reincarnation of an Immortal God.

As someone also comprehending the Great Freedom Heaven Method, where others might reach their limit, An Jing was just beginning to sweat.

Settling his spirit, An Jing continued to simulate, simplifying many different forms of Divine Abnormality by removing the superfluous and keeping the essence.

—What is Heavenly Timing?

Spring, summer, autumn, and winter, the rotation of the four seasons, can also be called Heavenly Timing.

But... Can just the rotation of the mere four seasons be called Heavenly Timing?

Although the Embracing the Void realm appears to be a world with an Armillary view, a world that emphasizes a circular heaven and a square earth, vast and boundless, its four seasons, compared to the four seasons of a mere single planet in his previous life, are definitely more magnificent.

But An Jing also knew that the stars above were by no means false.

Beyond the Stars, there are still stars, and beyond the world, there are still worlds.

Those too are boundless and majestic entities.

Compared to the mere adaptation to the ’four seasons’ set by the previous Dao Courtyard, which likely led to the rotation of seasons, An Jing believed that true Heavenly Timing should be the scale of the world’s own operation, a rotation and interaction among many different worlds, resembling a cosmos where stars and Heaven Star orbits intersect!

"My fate is with the Seven Fiend, I hold the seven stars... Merely grasping the four seasons of heaven and earth certainly does not align with my desires and my heart!"

As his desires became clear, the numerous images that had emerged in An Jing’s Divine Sea began to dissipate, and a complex, precise image that resonated with heaven and earth appeared in his Divine Sea.

[Grasping Heavenly Moment ∙ Armillary Sphere Shadow]

The instrument encapsulated the globe, recording the Heaven Star, and among many Star Mansions, there were faintly seven great stars moving retrograde to the celestial trajectory, defying common logic, showing various ominous and disastrous signs.

However, among the seven stars, only one red giant star burned like blood flame, another Taibai Star faintly shined, while the other five stars were immovable, as if they were not yet awakened.

It was already sufficient.

An Jing opened his eyes, his pupils ablaze with fiery blood, Taibai’s sharpness flickering like stars; he had made his choice for the future and would not waver anymore.

"In the stellar heavenly timing, I shall grasp it!"