All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 285 - 146 Heaven and Earth Honor (2/3)

Chapter 285: Chapter 146 Heaven and Earth Honor (2/3)

"Haha, if you’re asking about someone else, they most likely wouldn’t know,"

An Jing extended her lotus-like jade arm, pulling An Jing into her embrace, and poured him another cup of wine—the bystanding You Ruhui hesitated to speak—the Dragon Lady said with satisfaction, "But the Ancestral Dragon Hall is the oldest power within Embracing the Void, a heritage from the era when Immortal Heaven still existed... At that time, every lord of the Immortal Heavenly Court was bestowed with a Heavenly Mandate called ’Heaven and Earth Honor’!"

Heavenly Mandate, for ordinary people, and even for some Sects, is nothing more than a myth or legend, and some may even believe that it does not exist at all.

However, for those Great Sects with long-standing ancient traditions, Heavenly Mandate is not a myth or legend, but a real existence that can be striven for and competed over—a ’status’!

"This is why some Sects, despite having an orderly inheritance and being self-sufficient in their own territories, still seek to expand with each generation..."

By now, An Jing somewhat understood, Heavenly Mandate indeed is not just any Fate Pattern, its very existence signifies a change of eras, representing the expectations of the Embracing the Void, the Great Dao of heaven and earth for all beings in the world.

The Nature Master is hoped to be a powerful being who can develop new Cultivation Methods and increase the diversity of internal cultivation practices.

The Lord of the World is hoped to maintain order and foster development. And its ultimate outcome is the zenith admired by heaven and earth, the ’Heaven and Earth Honor’.

So what about the Seven Fiend...

As An Jing pondered, Jin Yanhua continued, "As for the ’Seven Fiend Tribulation,’ as the name suggests, this Heavenly Mandate emerges when the world stagnates and decays, when everything plunges into darkness, to destroy everything, bring cataclysm to all beings, and obliterate all existing things to initiate a new era."

"Not counting the glorious era from the creation of the world by the Great Immortal to the Demon Calamity, Embracing the Void has experienced five great eras. Each epoch has seen the fall of Heavenly Ancestors, the collapse of dynasties, the rise and fall of Dao, and also the emergence of several Seven Fiend calamity masters."

"An era? Several?" An Jing caught on to these terms, and Jin Yanhua nodded, "Heavenly Mandate does not guarantee success. The Upper Gates and Heavenly Ancestors are not just messing around. You see, even the Great Dao can wrestle with heaven itself, so what can the Heavenly Mandate do? But the Seven Fiend Heavenly Mandate will not stop; if one is lost, there will be a new one."

"And before all of this... or rather, before everything, there was also an ’Ex Nihilo.’

As she spoke of this Heavenly Mandate, Jin Yanhua’s expression became serious, sitting upright and speaking solemnly, "This Heavenly Mandate is often not a person or, to put it differently, some of the ancestors of the newer human races were ’Ex Nihilo’... They, or they, often marked the beginning of a new species."

"According to the records in our Ancestral Dragon Hall, the supreme Chrono-Light Heavenly Dragon God Venerable (the title of Ancestral Dragon) was an ’Ex Nihilo’... Our Embracing the Void Dragon race was born at that time."

"It is said that there are also dragon races in the outer worlds, but those dragons have different origins from us, numerous and varied."

"This is the origin of ’Four Lives Five Names’!"

When talking about others, she could chat flippantly, but when it comes to her own ancestors, she had to tone down the rhetoric, which also reflected a facet of the order within the Ancestral Dragon Hall.

’Ex Nihilo’ ’Nature Master’ ’Lord of the World’ ’Heaven and Earth Honor’ ’Seven Fiend Tribulation’

Four Lives Five Names... An Jing’s mind, however, recalled the corresponding ’Formation, Existence, Decay, Destruction, Four Calamities Five Eras’, indeed, they could be matched one by one.

At this moment, Jin Yanhua also got to the most crucial part, "According to my father’s words, the Calamity Qi in Embracing the Void’s ten continents frequently arises, and it is indeed likely that the era of great strife is approaching. Not only Divine Mandates will gradually emerge, but Heavenly Mandates will also come into being!"

"Without mentioning others, your North Mysterious Sacrifice Continent is very likely to see the emergence of a Seven Fiend, leading to a great calamity and causing the downfall of Heavenly Ancestors!"

—Wow, don’t talk about this in front of me!

Although An Jing maintained a poker face, his heart was already drenched with sweat, "What is this Dragon Lady doing, bringing up this topic out of nowhere, then talking about Heavenly Mandate, talking about Seven Fiends... Could it be that my master told her something?"

Although An Jing also knew that Guangchen most likely figured out something, but officially, An Jing only had two Life Stars, and even the gods above could only say that at the moment, he truly is not a Heavenly Mandate.

"I think she just wants to see you surprised and admiring,"

Subdue Evil astutely pointed out An Jing’s blind spot, "This Dragon Lady actually has a pretty big ego. Your talent startled her, but since you’ve been unmoved from the start, it made her look bad—you know, because of her character, she won’t trouble you, but she definitely wants to gain back some respect from you."

"There’s no need for that, scaring me like this."

An Jing still quite believed in the kind of explanation given by Subdue Evil, because instinct told him that Subdue Evil was likely that kind of sword, otherwise it wouldn’t describe it in so much detail: "Her teaching me cultivation methods has made me admire her thoroughly, feeling a real and deep respect of twelve out of ten—she truly is a great elder sister fallen from the sky."

"The point is to give you a shock."

The Sword Spirit of Subdue Evil spoke with conviction, "Anyway, if you want to find out any information in the future, just pretend to be clueless to bring up the topic, and then wait with an admiring expression on your face, she will definitely tell you everything!"

Since Subdue Evil had taught him, An Jing decided to use the method right away, immediately putting on an expression of ’Jin is so amazing!’ and asked expectantly, "Why do you say that this place might see the emergence of Seven Fiend?"

"Because Seven Fiend is essentially ’the current destruction and collapse’, and it only appears in places with order."

Sure enough, Jin Yanhua eagerly explained, "In other words, places that are always in chaos actually wouldn’t see the emergence of the Seven Fiend, but are more likely to give birth to Fate Patterns from ruling and unrefined dragon-snake types—the places that might be fostering the Seven Fiend right now, are only our Zhongheng Dao Continent and your North Mysterious Sacrifice Continent."

"Our place... after all, is less peaceful than yours. Recently, the True Chi Dragon from the Hanhai tidal fog suddenly returned to the Heavenly Sea. Since our Ancestral Dragon Hall has ties with it, we went to ask about it. Although they didn’t say much, they kept complaining that the people of Da Chen are unscrupulous, with intense infighting—this shows there are serious problems with Da Chen!"

Wow.

This truly was a revelation; hearing about the True Chi Dragon of the Hanhai tidal fog, An Jing knew it must be the one from Da Chen official propaganda, the one whose sudden migration caused the demon calamity of the Hanhai.

This True Chi Dragon’s whereabouts remained unknown after leaving Da Chen. The official propaganda of Da Chen claimed it was one of the initial causes of the demon calamity, or perhaps the True Chi Dragon sensed the approach of the calamity and thus migrated.

But from beginning to end, Da Chen never sent even half a person to track the movements of the True Chi Dragon, nor did anyone investigate why it migrated!

As it turned out, it had already run back to the Heavenly Sea, and the Ancestral Dragon Hall, indeed being the ancestor court of all dragon-snake spirits in the world, actually had a connection with this Chi Dragon, whose whereabouts were unknown to everyone!

"Plus, with Guangyun... ah, even the Town King like Guangyun, who was wholeheartedly devoted to his country, died so quietly. How could Da Chen possibly be okay?"

As Jin Yanhua spoke to this point, her mood also appeared somewhat down—earlier she remained quite calm when facing You Ruhui, but now, with the aid of a little alcohol, sadness genuinely showed on her face: "You humans, why must you always leave me so quickly..."

To a dragon, a lifespan of two thousand years meant they were just entering their prime. But for humans, even Manifesting Holy True Lords had long passed away after one thousand years.

An Jing, of course, didn’t know how to continue the conversation. He bowed his head, pondering his next moves, waiting for his master to have a chat with her old friend.

But in the next instant, he felt lighter. An Jing had been wrapped around the waist by a large tail and pulled in front of Jin Yanhua.

She gazed intently at An Jing with wide eyes, their noses nearly touching.

The fragrance of ink-black evergreen bamboo that was once present disappeared, replaced by a scent akin to iron, gunpowder, and a touch of alcohol from the Dragon Lady’s breath, carrying a hint of bloodthirsty malice.

This was the true nature of Jin Yanhua.

"Divine Mandate."

The Dragon Lady stared at An Jing and said, "You are the first natural Divine Mandate I have seen in these two thousand years."

"Before Guang became King Jing, he told me he wanted to change the world, and for this, he put in every effort, obtaining a Divine Object that could truly change the world. But even until his death, he was not a Divine Mandate."

"No one knows the hardships Guang went through better than I do, he wanted to shine in all directions, he wanted to support the Great Sect; the number of Heavenly Demons he killed, the Demon Spirits he slaughtered, even I, the Conquering General of the East Sea, could not compare. And yet, he was not a Divine Mandate."

"I won’t speak for myself, mainly because I was born into good circumstances. But I too possess grand ambitions, I too have expanded territories, laying down the foundation for a nation within my sect..."

"And you?"

Her purple-red dragon pupils fixed on An Jing, Jin Yanhua asked almost in confusion, "Your talent makes me understand what is exceptional, I admit that it is indeed a perception almost like that of an Immortal... but what about your ambition?"

"What ambitions do you have that can support your Fate Pattern?"