"Because I won’t allow you to sacrifice yourself on a whim."

An Jing smiled calmly and replied, "Because this is a battle."

"Do you think that by sacrificing yourself, the future will get better? No, on the contrary, in this world that hasn’t achieved Harmony for years, when you leave, and many new Harmonizations arise, the final result will inevitably not be the many Harmonizations joining forces to eradicate the demonic plague for other worlds, but many Harmonizations engaging in a grand chaotic battle until they duel out the strongest."

"Such a result is definitely not beautiful. All of this is because of your arrogance, thinking that sacrificing yourself can bring a good outcome, not realizing that your existence is more important than this sacrifice."

At this moment, Embracing the Void did not reply, and everything fell into silence.

Without minding the silence of the Huai Xu Heavenly Dao, An Jing continued, "Huai Xu, not long ago, I comprehended a Divine Skill called ’Heart Unquenched, Eternal Battle Body.’

"I once used this Divine Skill, in a state where my Soul and Spirit and body were almost reduced to Void, to battle Heaven and Earth with my own strength, and reforge my true form... This is an absolutely powerful Great Divine Power. I believe that even the ’Heavenly Destiny Destruction of the World’ bestowed by the Heavenly Dao cannot surpass it."

"But, once I obtained this Divine Skill, I realized it had reached its limit; it has no path forward, because neither Heaven wants to fight me nor does the Demon, and even if they do, it might not allow me to progress. I’ve always been searching for a way to make it grow."

Upon hearing this, the Huai Xu Heavenly Dao somewhat understood: [Could it be that you want to...]

"Yes. Just now, when I heard you explain the True Spirit to me, I understood—the Soul and Spirit are ultimately still a form; I should return to the source and attempt to communicate with that Void."

At this moment, An Jing clenched the Subdue Evil in his right hand, and from his left arm, accompanied by the left side of the Heavenly Punishment Cave Heaven, began to turn into ashes, transforming into countless golden-red fragments, like ashes in fierce flames: "If everything of mine completely dissipates, I will even abandon the persistence of the Mona Consciousness."

"Can I, through my True Spirit, begin to fight once more, allowing me to be reborn again?"

The Huai Xu Heavenly Dao did not answer this question.

Because even it is only a form of True Spirit, not exceeding this essence.

"Don’t worry about me."

An Jing lowered his gaze and looked at the Huai Xu Saint Demon who was still struggling but now completely immobilized due to the joint suppression by the Huai Xu Heavenly Dao and Subdue Evil; his left side’s face was also shattering, and his eyes turned to ash, leaving only a fiercely burning flame: "Just now, cutting you and the Saint Demon together with Subdue Evil allowed my Eternal Battle Body to also make some progress; it seems this counts as a battle with the Heavenly Dao, or even beating the Heavenly Dao?"

"Perhaps, the orthodox method of Swallowing Heaven and Earth is to go to worlds where the Heavenly Dao isn’t so powerful, continually fighting the primitive Heavenly Dao, forcibly using one’s power to cover the areas originally covered by the Heavenly Dao, finally completely defeating the ambiguous Heavenly Dao, using the essence of the Heavenly Dao to accomplish oneself."

[No, this is still too difficult]

Regarding An Jing’s conjecture, Embracing the Void admired An Jing’s insight but also pointed out some errors: [The method of Swallowing Heaven and Earth does indeed apply to those primitive worlds, but its target is definitely not any Heavenly Dao—once the Heavenly Dao takes shape, it cannot be defeated through internal transformation and ascension; one can only choose to integrate with it or become a new infinite source]

[Swallowing Heaven and Earth truly targets ’strangeness’ and ’Heavenly Ghosts,’ those emerging from the Chaos Sea, representing a part of the Dao but lacking true authority of the Dao. Swallowing Heaven and Earth is to transform oneself into the new Heavenly Dao, to battle with these old gods who serve as representatives of the celestial authority, eventually defeating them all, taking away all authority, and becoming the only deity.]

"Great Wilderness..." An Jing pondered, "The Great Wilderness is such a world, right? The Heavenly Dao of the Great Wilderness has actually fallen, or fallen away, and that world is actually maintained by a few Lords of the Heavens struggling to hold it together?"

[Yes... The situation in the Great Wilderness is not optimistic, so all parties are attempting to communicate with me, seeking a way out]

Embracing the Void revealed the truth behind the phenomena of the Great Wilderness, different from what everyone imagined. Although the lower forces in the Great Wilderness seem arrogant, the high-level beings are actually well aware that their situation may be worse than Embracing the Void.

The Candle Dragon of the Dragon Clan even sent its offspring, establishing a cause and effect relationship with the Destiny of Huai Xu, and while probing, certainly also keeping an option to leave behind a Fire Seed should things not work out.

As for why the Fire Seed would be left in the also not-so-optimistic Huai Xu, naturally, it is because the situation in the Great Wilderness is even worse.

At this moment, the silvery-blue Heavenly River surrounding Huai Xu is also mixed with ashes from the burning Huai Xu Divine Wood, transformed into a crimson river of flames, flowing around the Ten Continents of Huai Xu. As the Heavenly Sea boils, the distance between the Ten Continents is drawn closer, and originally separated by almost infinite distances, they can now even sense each other’s Qi.

However, in the end, the Ten Continents did not fully merge.

Because An Jing’s body shattered, finally reaching the sword-wielding right hand.

The Sword Light faded, the Heavenly Sea was no longer ignited, and the Saint Demon was completely burned to nothingness, leaving no more Heavenly Demons in the Abyss of Eternal, but at the same time, the Huai Xu Saint Demon almost turned to ash as well, although compared to the initial mutual destruction,

—Is this worth it?

No matter who you are, whether you understand this scene or not, whether you understand the reason for all this, at this moment, everyone looks up to the high sky, to the fragmented figure of the sword-wielding Martial Artist, and the same thought involuntarily flashes through their minds.

Regardless, just to keep the Heavenly Dao, which already intended to sacrifice itself, alive in such a broken state, does it really cost an unprecedented genius of the Huai Xu Realm? Is this really worth it?

This question is meaningless.

Because the result has been achieved.

"An Jing, is this the path you chose?"

At this moment, in the center of the North Mysterious Sacrifice Continent, on the Realm of Nonexistence manifesting the essence of the Heaven and Earth Core through blooming seeds, You Ruhui gazed at the scene of An Jing’s body shattering, feeling for some reason, apart from shock and an incredible sorrow, a sudden emergence of tranquility... and heat.

And on the other side, having always been holding her forehead, frowning, as if seeing possibilities of other parallel timelines, Bai Qinghan lifted her head, she looked at the phantom of the Martial Artist in the sky, and couldn’t help but widen her eyes: "Eldest Senior, are you really planning to do this?"

No answer, because in the next moment, at the top of the Huai Xu Sky Dome, seven great stars lit up!

The Yin Yang Five Elements Light rotates in the sky dome, deriving a complete Small World, with the four directions resembling extremes, the Heavenly Sword suppressing, a Divine Wood located in the center, the Grand Heavenly River Earth Vein, the Youli Nether Sea, the Sun and Moon rotating, the stars swirling.

In the high sky of the North Mysterious Sacrifice Continent, surrounded by the Four Great Emperor Soldiers, holding the Southern Dipper Life Infusion, Gu Yeqi, who was looking towards the direction of An Jing, was the first to sense that intense ’sense of gaze.’ She saw that before An Jing’s body completely disintegrated, he turned his head and looked at her.

He seemed to say something, but it was already inaudible, the girl merely felt a warm embrace, felt an encouragement like a pat on the shoulder, and then, in the next moment.

Among the seven stars, the one corresponding to ’Purple Qi,’ the Age Star, carried the Divine Wood from within the Cave Heaven and flew swiftly towards her!