All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 332 - 189 Return to the Northern Border (1/3)

Chapter 332: Chapter 189 Return to the Northern Border (1/3)

When An Jing traveled from Kanming City to the Northern Border, he felt as if he had stepped directly from spring to deep winter, bypassing summer and autumn.

The familiar cold wind, the fierce frost and snow.

Breathing out would condense one’s breath into ice crystals. He gazed upon a boundless expanse of silvery-white land merging with the sky.

And the air that had no taste, was extremely dry, and had nothing but the cold—no signs of life or moisture.

This was the Frost Calamity.

It hadn’t ended yet—it just hadn’t continued to spread.

The cold wind from the center of the Extreme Northern Frost Plains had turned half of Dust Li and half of the Northern Border into a snowfield. It was said that even parts of the Northern Sea had frozen into dense ice layers hundreds of feet thick.

"The Northern Border... Hanbei path."

Returning to his homeland once more, An Jing deeply inhaled the air of this endlessly white world.

This time, the low temperature wouldn’t crack his nasal passages, his lungs could hold the cold air that could condense the fervor in his heart, and his blood still flowed steadily. His skin and flesh could freely be exposed.

He was no longer vulnerable to the Frost Calamity.

He was now a martial master of Inner Strength.

Only then did An Jing feel an indescribable sense of relief—an instant dissociation from all strong gazes, with all karma temporarily transferred to his teacher, Mingguang Dust. This was beneficial for both mentor and disciple; Mingguang Dust could use this opportunity for Great Heaven’s Sanctification, while An Jing could disappear from everyone’s sight.

After such a major upheaval, where many Divine Repositories and Martial Meridian Grandmasters had fallen, and even attracted the attention of numerous Pure Yang Heavenly Lords and some from Lingxiao.

Even Heavenly Mandate needed to take a rest and accumulate karma.

Heavenly Mandate did not mean ceaselessly inviting trouble; An Jing had a feeling that he was about to enjoy a considerably long period of calm.

And...

He patted the weighty pouch at his waist.

An Jing smiled, holding all the spoils he had gained from battling grandmasters.

Though he hadn’t checked them yet, they included several high-grade Spirit Stones. Just bringing these items to the Tianyuan Realm would, if not make him wildly rich, at least bring sudden wealth!

Together with the grandmaster’s assigned troopers and some other personal belongings he hadn’t quite understood at first, An Jing could confidently say, he was now at his wealthiest!

"Fighting really is exhilarating," he remarked.

An Jing knew well, this was the reward of overcoming a Human Tribulation—the loser’s possessions became the winner’s spoils, as it had always been.

If it were others, they might not have a channel to convert their spoils into the items they needed, at least not so swiftly.

But An Jing had the whole Tianyuan Realm as his support!

Now, with a massive victory under his belt and a pile of spoils in tow, An Jing had returned to his old home, the Northern Border.

It was akin to a dragon entering the sea or a tiger returning to the mountains!

But he couldn’t relax just yet.

An Jing coughed, his hand clasping the familiar Coagulated Iron Blood Silk.

Though Ruohui and Granny Huai, along with the Heavenly Profound True Talisman, had given An Jing sufficient Yuan Qi to restore his mobility, only at the end during the clash with He Wuchang, and after utilizing the Injury-Sword Finger, did An Jing run completely out of energy.

He lay in place for a quarter of an hour before he could barely use the power of the Taibai Luminous Godly Ban to stimulate his severely wounded body into motion.

Having used the Injury-Sword Finger, An Jing was truly without internal issues, suffering from sheer weakness and severe injuries—without proper recovery, it wasn’t about finding his parents any longer; even encountering a Ferocious Beast would be troublesome for him.

However, running was still not a problem.

After roughly determining his bearings by the sunlight and wind direction, An Jing did not hesitate. He accelerated and dashed toward the southeast.

An Jing believed that if Cheng Guang Ancient Ancestor from the Bright Mirror Sect was truly as wise as Mingguang Dust had said, possessing great divine power, he would definitely do something to hinder other powerful beings from tracking him.

Moreover, An Jing could also head to the Tianyuan Realm to sever the karma, causing those people to completely lose track of him and thereby escape the eyes of those with ulterior motives.

But before that, he needed to get away from the teleportation point for a while—if it were Da Chen, relying on the Earth Vein and carefully investigating, he would definitely find his landing spot.

Although the other party would not harm him, and might even treat him with great honor, that could lead to further entanglements in karma—before finding his mother, An Jing really had no energy to be dragged into any messy side plots.

Side plots... hmm, that term from his past life really fits!

In the midst of the wind and snow, An Jing recalled the fuzzy memories of his past life, feeling the harsh wind that no longer posed a threat to him, his entire being flitted through the snow like light smoke.

His whole body was surrounded by a vibrant, lively crimson Blood Fiend light, like mist, assisting the "Mysterious Steps" to exert force, allowing him not to truly tread on the ground, but to lightly touch the snow surface and fly between heaven and earth.

Within his body, the Taibai Luminous Godly Ban and Imperial Heaven technique operated together, one enhancing vitality and strength of his flesh and blood, the other enhancing structural strength and elasticity, enabling An Jing to more smoothly propel his Essence Qi and Evil Qi, transforming his whole body into a light yet explosive and resilient form, freely roaming between heaven and earth.

During this process, An Jing did not make a sound, leaving no trace that could be tracked.

"This is Inner Strength..."

At this moment, it was An Jing’s first time using the body of Inner Strength with the power of Nine Prohibitions; although his injuries were severe and he could not travel at full speed, his pace was nearly ten times faster than when he had run around the mountains near Hanging Fate Manor!

Back then, he could easily travel thousands of miles in a day, but now, as long as his Essence Qi did not run out, An Jing could easily traverse tens of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in a single day!

However, Embracing the Void was vast beyond the ordinary.

An Jing had previously traveled thousands of miles, and he had not even left the edge of the mountain range near Hanging Fate Manor; tens of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in the Northern Border were merely a small corner, and one could not even leave the province.

But avoiding that particular Earth Vein was enough.

While speeding with the Mysterious Steps, An Jing also saw, in the distant northwest sky, a series of silver stars twinkling.

Godly mirrors hung in the sky, along with a majestic and domineering figure intertwined and rushing toward the beyond heavens.

Soon enough, the lights and shadows in the sky began to twist and rotate, transforming into a starry funnel, displaying the phenomena of "Myriad Stars Worship."

"Is this the battle of the Pure Yang Heavenly Lord?"

Seeing this scene, how could An Jing not know, this was indeed Lord Cheng Guang taking action, battling with a certain Pure Yang?

Regardless of the other’s motives, the battle of the two Pure Yangs would draw the attention of everyone and change the spiritual atmosphere of the entire Northern Border, making any method of tracking An Jing almost ineffective.

"It seems that the Bright Mirror Sect is not as bad as my teacher described." An Jing thoughtfully said, "I remember Cheng Guang Ancient Ancestor is already very old, yet he is willing to take action for my master and me?"

"It’s precisely because of his age that he looks forward to the future," Subdue Evil seemed to understand this mindset: "Such talent as yours, along with the displayed ’Divine Mandate’... it would be odd if he did not take action."

"Then I should be grateful."

With a smile, An Jing stopped walking, paid his respects to the divine mirror in the sky, and then continued on his way.

"Eh, the density of Spirit Qi is starting to increase."

At this moment, Subdue Evil’s tone was somewhat surprised: "When your master showed Great Heaven’s Sanctification, I found out that in the realm of Embracing the Void, it was possible to entangle with Fate Pattern karma, shatter Demonic Qi with immense karmic forces, turning it into Mysterious Primordial Qi, diminishing the concentration of Demonic Qi in an area..."

"Now, with the great battle of the two Pure Yang Heavenly Lords, not only can they draw chaotic yuan Qi from beyond the heavens, their immense karma, borne by these two, will also continue to purify Demonic Qi during their battle!"

"And the purified Demonic Qi then becomes their power for battle, and even a part of their cultivation!"

"In the end, if one party dies... their Formation Realm within their bodies will return to nature, which again is a massive outpouring of extremely pure Spirit Qi returning from the Small World to the Great World!"

At this point, Subdue Evil paused, marveling: "Incredible, the Dao laws of the realm of Embracing the Void actually encourage cultivators to entangle with each other, battle one another, and even..."

"Kill each other?"