Chapter 2638 - Determining His Own Destiny

Su Yi’s private cultivation grounds included a room for secluded cultivation, a bedroom, and a medicine refining room, as well as a lotus pond.

All manner of lotuses grew in the lotus pond, and they bloomed with all the colors of the rainbow, glowing with auspicious light. They were utterly stunning.

When Su Yi looked over, he saw that the rustling originated from the Five-Colored Earth at the pond’s base. A tender shoot emerged from the soil, as thin and delicate as a bean sprout, yet overflowing with shocking energy fluctuations.

The earlier rustling noise was the sound of the tender shoot erupting from the soil.

Lightning flashed through Su Yi’s mind, and he swung his sleeves.

The Five-Colored Earth at the pond’s base emanated startling energy fluctuations of the Grand Dao, then poured into the tender green shoot.

The shoot grew, its stalk thickening and extending until it pushed past the water’s surface and sprouted lush, glistening leaves...

The process continued for a whole six hours.

Su Yi watched as a new life emerged from the earth and grew. When the lotus’s glittering golden petals bloomed, a sense of peace and joy arose in his heart.

The flower swayed, scattering auspicious, colorful light. To Su Yi, its movements were like the fluctuations of life itself, and he saw vestiges of destiny in the subtle shifting of its leaves.

A strange, wondrous sense of enlightenment coursed through him. The experiences of his past cultivation and the past few months of pondering overflowed, like flood waters bursting through a dam.

He just stood there, gazing intently at the swaying golden lotus in silence, neither happy nor sad.

Three days later, Su Yi watched as the lotus silently dimmed, its life force slipping away. Its lush, glistening leaves withered, and its once colorful petals fell...

In the end, the whole plant dried up and died, leaving only a lifeless stalk lying limp in the pond. Just like that, it was gone.

𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

But Su Yi noticed that seeds fell around its roots, landing in the Five-Colored Earth, and they were giving rise to new life!

He lifted his head, gazed into the sky, and smiled.

A single sentence rose to the surface of his mind.

I seek the Dao within myself, and determine my own destiny!

His path through Eternity required using his vital source as soil, with the Epoch Spark at its roots. The Tribulation of Destiny would then serve as its fertilizer, giving rise to an Eternal Dao unlike all others!

It was just like the lotus. It might have

seemed

like it had withered and died, but in truth, it scattered its seeds, and its life continued in a cycle without beginning or end. It could manifest endless transformations, and fill the pond when it bloomed!

His Dao would be similarly unfettered by the River of Destiny, flowing and transforming without end until it covered the entire River of Destiny!

When that day arrived, “flowers would bloom beyond the pond,” and he’d reach the Far Shore of Destiny!

“Gradually occasions lead to ‘sudden’ breakthroughs. Without all that hard work, I could never have had this revelation,” whispered Su Yi. “I’ve found my path to the Eternal Dao. How could I possibly fear failing to break through?”

He finally set down his hunger to break through. His heart lifted, and his mind cleared.

If you wanted to gain something, you had to first set other things down. Obsession would inevitably hold you back.

Now that he could see the Eternal Dao he was striving for clearly, Su Yi understood. There was no need to fixate on breaking through!

That very day, Su Yi left seclusion. He’d decided to set course for the Central Divine Continent with Xi Ning.

But against all expectations, Xi Ning wasn’t on Sunset Perch Island.

“A’Ning went home?” Su Yi exclaimed.

“Miss Xi Ning said that her clan ancestor was on the verge of breaking through. It was a matter of the utmost importance for her entire clan,” said Wen Qingfeng, passing Su Yi a jade slip. “You were in seclusion, so she left you a message and went on her way.”

Su Yi read through it. He couldn’t help but find this a pity.

The message inside was simple. Xi Ning had left to take care of some things back home, and she told Su Yi that he could head straight for for the Central Divine Continent. She’d be sure to meet him there before the Battle for Order began.

Su Yi put the message away and gathered the friends remaining on the island for a feast. It was only when the banquet ended that he announced his imminent departure.

Everyone had been expecting this, so none found it strange. Still, parting ways was parting ways. Moreover, the Battle for Order would be far too perilous. No one knew what kind of dangers lay in store for him, and they couldn’t help but worry.

Su Yi, however, took it all in calmly.

Before he left, Yi Chen walked over and said softly, “Take care, Father.”

It was just three words, a title and an expression of concern, concise and to the point, but Su Yi suddenly felt an indescribable emotion course through his heart. He walked up to Yi Chen and patted him on the shoulder. “Be good to your mother.”

With that, he turned to leave.

Yi Chen just stood there in a daze. If he wasn’t mistaken, this was his stranger of a father’s first time patting him on the shoulder, as well as his first time urging him to be kind to Lu Qingmei.

Lu Qingmei had been there the whole time, but she didn’t rush to bid farewell. No, she didn’t say anything at all.

But when she saw Su Yi pat Yi Chen on the shoulder, her heart shook, and the rims of her eyes silently reddened. Inwardly, she whispered,

He... really isn’t Yi Daoxuan anymore, and yet... he once was, and he’s still Chen’er’s father...

She knew that Su Yi had long since ceased to be the Yi Daoxuan she remembered, and she’d accepted it. She had no untoward thoughts.

Su Yi shot off beneath the clouds, like a wisp of ethereal light. He gradually faded into the distance.

Meanwhile, on the shore of Sunset Perch Island, his friends waved goodbye. A long time passed before he retracted his gaze.......

The Central Divine Continent.

Thunderclouds surged, and baleful mists hung in the air, giving the barren landscape an air of utter desolation.

This was once the most prosperous of the Divine Continents, and ten thousand peoples had lived side by side. Orthodoxies were as numerous as the trees in a forest. Everyone knew it as the origin of the myriad Daos of the God Domain.

Back then, everyone considered it an honor to go to the Central Divine Continent to cultivate.

The Central Divine Continent was to the other four Divine Continents what the imperial capital was to citizens of mundane empires!

Even if they couldn’t reach it, their hearts longed for it.

But ever since the end of the Ages of the Five Supremes, the Central Divine Continent was reduced to lifeless ground. A cataclysm had swept throughout its vast territories, eradicating its trillions of inhabitants.

The entire Central Divine Continent lay in ruin!

It had been a forbidden zone throughout the countless years that followed, the greatest forbidden zone in the God Domain.

Even Master Gods who went there never returned. All who tried perished!

But now that the Dark Days of Legend had begun, countless Fragments of Heaven’s Will had fallen into the Central Divine Continent. This had led to numerous changes in the enormously vast forbidden zone, and it had given rise to endless opportunities.

By now, countless cultivators were gathering here from across the God Domain, exploring in search of good fortune.

The Central Divine Continent was still perilous, and most who came here still died, but it no longer represented certain death!

That aside, as more people came to the Central Divine Continent in search of treasure, word spread, causing a huge commotion.

As a result, more and more cultivators were rushing toward the Central Divine Continent.

Three days later, in a stretch of ruins in the Central Divine Continent.

A strange phenomenon appeared beneath the sky, like a soaring blue lotus scattering countless arcs of sword qi. It tore through the air, illuminating the nine heavens.

This strange phenomenon lasted for an entire day before fading away.

Even so, this unbelievable scene drew countless cultivators in search of good fortune.

“According to the ancient records, this was once Hidden Blue Mountain, the ancestral ground of Hidden Blue Sword House, a former peak orthodoxy of the Central Divine Continent,” someone said.

“Doesn’t that mean that the blue lotus that appeared here is connected to the long-lost Hidden Blue Sword House?”

“I’m sure of it!”

“Dig! I’m sure there are relics of Hidden Blue Sword House buried beneath the ruins!”

Cultivators were frantically excavating the ruins. By now, they’d created a massive crater, and they were still pressing ever downward.

Ten thousand feet.

Thirty thousand feet.

One hundred thousand feet.

Finally, when the crater reached three hundred thousand feet, dazzling blue sword light exploded into being.

The cultivators were instantly excited, their eyes lighting up.

Has a relic of the Hidden Blue Sword House entered the world?

But then, an enraged voice emanated from the depths of the pit. “Who dares to disturb my rest?”

The voice was like the roaring of a dragon or the humming of a sword. It resounded throughout heaven and earth.

The crowd’s minds buzzed, and they saw stars. It was just a voice, but they felt as if their souls were splitting, and their hearts almost crumbled.

Before they could respond, the depths of the chasm split open, and a glittering blue sword whooshed through the air. Wherever it passed, the air was sliced to ribbons.

The cultivators nearby were similarly reduced to bloody chunks of flesh that sloughed onto the ground.

Boom!

Sword qi shot into the heavens, stirring up the wind and clouds and illuminating heaven and earth.

It was indistinct, but a blue lotus swayed within that far-reaching sword qi, mysterious and beautiful.

The cultivators throughout the ruins died instantly, their bodies incinerated like paper.

They didn’t even get the chance to struggle!

Off in the distance, atop a mountain, an otherworldly man in yellow robes watched the sword qi intently, his expression solemn. He murmured, “Yet another old monster who survived that cataclysm has reawakened.”

Meanwhile, a tall, upright figure appeared not far away, faced the yellow-robed man, and bowed in greeting.

“Forgive the interruption, Fellow Daoist, but this is my first time here, and I’m lacking in knowledge and experience. Might you explain what you meant just now?”