great-warnovel Chapter 765 Obtaining a Better Trial Opportunity!
Chapter 765 Obtaining a Better Trial Opportunity!
As soon as he finished speaking, a faint light flickered on Jiang Wang's back again. One after another, condensed, translucent white scales of the Great Dao slowly rose up and floated in mid-air. Each scale was filled with a warm and gentle Dao rhythm, and the faint rumbling sound of the Great Dao could be heard.
Upon seeing this, the group of Qilins instantly slowed their breathing, their eyes grew even more intense, and they stared intently at the scales in mid-air, afraid of missing even the slightest detail.
Jiang Wang pointed to the Qilin holding the innate treasure and said, "You can exchange the Dingchen Glazed Lamp for a scale. This scale also contains a quarter of an hour of original protective power, which can help you safely pass through the first three levels of the Secret Realm Tower and resist all restrictions, killing attacks, and attacks from the laws of heaven." The Qilin was overjoyed and quickly waved its hand to summon a crystal-clear, radiant glazed lamp. The lamp floated in mid-air, trembling gently and emitting a faint glow, isolating all surrounding aura fluctuations.
"Thank you very much, Brother Milk! This treasure is presented immediately, without the slightest falsehood!"
Jiang Wang slightly raised his hand, and a scale slowly flew out and landed in the Qilin's hand. At the same time, he calmly said, "Remember, the power only lasts for a quarter of an hour. Do not delay after entering the tower. Clear the level as soon as possible and do not waste the protective power."
"This junior will remember your teachings!" The Qilin carefully put away the scales and treasures, bowed respectfully, and then turned and walked quickly toward the gate of the Secret Realm Tower without daring to delay.
Jiang Wang then looked at the Qilin who possessed the All-Heavens Insight Technique and said, "You exchanged the incomplete All-Heavens Insight Technique for a scale. In return, I require you to swear a Great Dao oath that in the future, whenever you deduce any traces of the human race in the outer world, the trajectory of human civilization, or clues to the origin of the human race, you must immediately inform me of everything. You must not conceal anything, delay, or intercept any information." The Qilin immediately bowed solemnly and replied, "This junior is willing to swear a Great Dao oath! In this life, whenever I glimpse, deduce, or hear any secrets of the outer world related to the human race, I will immediately and truthfully inform Brother Xiao Nai. If I break this oath, my Dao foundation will collapse, my soul will perish, and I will be eternally condemned to reincarnation, never to be reborn!"
The oath of the Great Dao was uttered, and the invisible Daoist sound quietly echoed, confirming the authenticity of the oath.
Jiang Wang then presented the second scale, which landed in his hand.
"Thank you, Brother Xiao Nai! I will certainly keep my oath and dare not break it!"
The Qilin was overjoyed, bowed in gratitude, and then turned and stepped into the secret tower.
Seeing this, the remaining Qilin became even more anxious and stepped forward to urge them to speak.
"Young brother, my ancient secret realm map contains coordinates of many remnant realms of the heavens. It may be able to help you find traces of the human race. I humbly request your help!"
"Young brother, my innate spiritual liquid and chaotic spiritual stones are top-notch cultivation resources that can help you stabilize your body and focus on comprehending the Dao. I offer them all up, asking for only one scale!"
Jiang Wang remained calm and slowly said, "I don't need too many resources. I'll accept your secret realm map for now and exchange it for a scale."
You may keep the spirit stones and spirit liquid for yourselves; there's no need to give them to me.
The Qilin, who possessed the map of the secret realm, quickly bowed and expressed his gratitude, presenting an ancient jade slip engraved with countless void patterns. The jade slip shimmered with light, concealing the coordinates of numerous secret realms.
Jiang Wang raised his hand to accept the jade slip and then presented the third scale.
In the blink of an eye, only two Qilin remained untraded. The rest of the Qilin, each holding a scale, stepped into the Secret Realm Tower, vying for the trial opportunity.
One of the remaining Qilin hesitated for a moment, but finally couldn't help but ask, "Brother Little Milk, there is something I don't understand, and I don't know if I should ask it."
Jiang Wang said calmly, "Speak freely." The Qilin cautiously asked, "The prehistoric human race is extremely weak, without top-level experts to protect them, and without the inheritance of supreme Dao. They are the most humble and insignificant among all races, and have always been seen as ants and mortals by all races."
But you, a peerless power, invincible in the primordial world, with boundless resources, why are you so fixated on the human race, willing to sacrifice your own primordial scales to search for their secrets and traces?
Another Qilin quickly chimed in, "Yes, little brother, the human race is no threat or value to the myriad races of the prehistoric world. They are everywhere, extremely insignificant, and not worth your trouble in searching for them."
Your actions are truly perplexing to us.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Wang was not angered. Instead, he gazed into the distance and slowly spoke, his tone calm yet full of profound meaning: "The humans you see are merely those confined by the primordial world, sealed by the Heavenly Dao, suppressed by the years, and bound by the existing order. They are not the true original form of the human race."
The two Qilin were stunned for a moment, their faces full of confusion. They asked in bewilderment, "What do you mean? We have been reading our clan's ancient books since childhood. Throughout the primordial era, the human race has always been weak and has never had a peak of prosperity. How can you say that we have the true original form?"
Jiang Wang slowly spoke, "What you see is the human race that Heaven wants you to see."
What you know is the truth about humanity, obscured by layers of heavenly secrets and distorted by numerous major paths.
The primordial human race, seemingly insignificant and humble, is in fact the oldest, most mysterious, and most enigmatic race in all the heavens.
Spanning countless realms, endlessly regenerating, enduring countless eons of cataclysm, the collapse of the Heavenly Dao, and the destruction of worlds, all races have perished, except for humanity, which has remained forever.
The two Qilin's pupils contracted slightly, their faces filled with disbelief, and they exclaimed, "All the races of the heavens have been destroyed, but the human race will never perish? How is that possible! In the primordial era, there were very few Golden Immortals among the human race. How could they withstand the great calamity of the era and the collapse of the world?"
Jiang Wang's gaze was calm as he said softly, "That's because the Primordial Human Race is merely a tiny branch of the human race's origin, not the true core or orthodoxy of the human race."
The true origin of humanity transcends the Heavenly Dao, reigns supreme above all heavens, is not bound by the primordial laws, and is unaffected by epochal calamities.
"Tu Miaomiao said that humans are born with innate Dao bodies, which you think is nonsense, but it is the truth."
"Mortal beings, seemingly made of flesh and blood, actually possess a supreme Dao foundation hidden within their physical bodies, and their souls contain endless mysteries. However, they are forcibly sealed by the Heavenly Dao, their innate talents suppressed, and their innate Dao bodies imprisoned, reducing them to weak mortal forms." A Qilin couldn't help but ask, "Why does the Heavenly Dao do this? Why deliberately seal the origin of humanity and suppress its Dao bodies? Allowing humanity to rise would not have been harmful to the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World."
Jiang Wang shook his head slightly and slowly said, "It's not that the Heavenly Dao is deliberately suppressing it, but rather that the origin of the human race is too terrifying and too transcendent."
If it were completely unsealed and fully revealed, the Primordial Heavenly Dao would be unable to bear the foundation and power of the human race, and the entire Primordial World would instantly collapse and be completely annihilated.
Therefore, the Heavenly Dao could only forcibly seal the origin of humanity, erase human memories, suppress human talents, and reduce humanity to lowly mortals, existing quietly in a corner of the world.” The two Qilins were shaken to their core, their faces filled with shock, unable to recover for a long time. After a long while, they finally spoke in trembling voices: “So…so humanity actually possesses such terrifying potential? We have lived in the primordial world for generations, studying ancient secrets, and only today do we realize that we have misjudged humanity our entire lives!”
Jiang Wang looked into the distant void and said softly, "It's not just you. Throughout the ancient times, countless powerful beings, saints, gods and demons have all misjudged the human race."
Everyone regards humanity as ants, as mortals, as a weak race that can be manipulated at will. Little do they know that this primordial world we inhabit may simply be a prison where humanity's true nature lies dormant.
"Perhaps, the existence of the primordial world, the flow of the great Dao of the heavens, and the changing of countless eras are all just to nourish the human race and wait for the day when the human race's origin awakens."
The two Qilin cultivators were completely stunned, their minds shaken. All their existing knowledge collapsed, and all their past records, clan traditions, and understanding of the world were completely overturned. For a moment, they were speechless.
After a long while, one of the Qilin swallowed hard and asked in a trembling voice, "Little Brother, then...why did the Sage Nuwa create humans from clay? Could it be that the Sage Nuwa was not the creator of the human race?"
Jiang Wang spoke with certainty, slowly saying, "Nuwa did not create the human race. She merely awakened a scattered remnant of the human race's origin in the primordial world, which then coalesced into a branch of the human race in this primordial world."
The true human race existed long before the Great Dao of the Heavens, before the creation of the world; so ancient that its origins are untraceable, so mysterious that they are unfathomable.
The other Qilin hurriedly pressed on, "Since the human race is so ancient and powerful, why does it allow the Heavenly Dao to seal its origin, and allow its own branches to remain weak and insignificant, never resisting, never awakening?"
Jiang Wang pondered for a moment, then slowly replied, "Perhaps it is still asleep, perhaps it is deliberately lying dormant, or perhaps, the human race is the original carrier of all the great laws of the heavens, and all the laws, all living beings, and all the world depend on the origin of the human race."
"As long as humanity remains undone, the Great Dao will not perish; if humanity awakens, all the heavens will return to nothingness."
As these words fell, an endless Daoist aura quietly permeated the air, causing the surrounding void to tremble slightly and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to surge wildly. Even the distant Secret Realm Tower trembled slightly, emitting a faint golden light.
The two Qilin cultivators felt their souls resounding and their Dao hearts trembling. Their hair stood on end, and they instinctively bowed in respect, not daring to utter another word.
"This junior...this junior has never heard of such an earth-shattering secret before. Only after hearing it today have I truly glimpsed the true mysteries of heaven and earth!"
"No wonder the human race is considered the greatest taboo in the primordial world, no wonder prying into the secrets of the human race will inevitably lead to backlash. Such a terrifying race is indeed the greatest secret of all the heavens, and ordinary beings are not allowed to delve into it!"
Jiang Wang slowly withdrew his gaze from the distance, looked at the two of them, and said, "Do you two have any more information about the heavens and the human race? If so, tell us everything, and we can still trade scales."
The two Qilin quickly came to their senses, shook their heads frantically, and replied sincerely, "Brother Little Milk, we have told you all the secrets and information we know, and there is nothing left to hide."
The secrets of humanity recorded in the clan's ancient books are limited to this; no further heavenly secrets have been preserved, not even by the clan's elders or in ancient fragments.
Jiang Wang nodded slightly and said softly, "If that's the case, then so be it."
"You two should also enter the tower for the trial. There's no need to be obsessed with exchanging for scales; just rely on your own strength to pass the levels."
The two quickly bowed and said, "Thank you for your understanding, Brother Xiao Nai!"
After saying that, the two stopped talking and turned to step into the gate of the secret tower. In an instant, only Jiang Wang was left standing outside the tower gate.
The world was silent, a gentle breeze blew by. The Secret Realm Tower was ancient and majestic, with layers of golden Dao patterns flowing across its body. It was shrouded in endless Heavenly Dao pressure from top to bottom, and layers of trial restrictions were hidden within the tower, operating silently and with countless rules.
Jiang Wang looked up at the towering Secret Realm Tower that seemed to reach into the clouds and connect heaven and earth, and murmured to himself, each word clear: "Earth, humanity, the heavens, the past, the future... all the clues are intertwined and entangled, yet all are obscured by the secrets of heaven and severed by the Dao of Heaven."
"The world I lived in in my previous life was also a place where humans lived and multiplied, where civilization continued, without the Great Dao of cultivation, without gods or demons, and without the taboos of the Heavenly Dao. Was that ordinary human world just one of the countless human planes in the heavens, or the core essence of the human race?"
"If it's an ordinary plane, why did I travel from there and descend upon the primordial world? If it's my core essence, why is it so weak and ordinary, without any extraordinary Dao charm or any manifestation of its origin?"
Countless doubts lingered in my mind, layer upon layer, refusing to dissipate.
Jiang Wang stood quietly for a moment, then spoke again in a soft voice: "What I thought before was that if the history of the prehistoric world completely deviated and could not evolve into the Earth of later times, I would personally recreate the Earth, reenact the history of the past, and replicate the mountains, rivers, years, and humanities of the past."
"But now it seems that this matter is far from simple."
The origin of humanity transcends all heavens, involving countless celestial secrets and taboos. If I rashly recreate Earth and replicate human civilization, I don't know how many hidden secrets of the heavens I will touch, or how many changes I will trigger in the celestial realms.
He lowered his eyes slightly, his fingertips gently caressing the object, his tone calm and resolute: "But no matter how dangerous or unpredictable the road ahead may be, I must find out the truth."
"I must find traces of Earth, find my way home, find the remnants of my past lives, and even more so, I must unravel the origins of humanity and uncover the ultimate secrets of the heavens." Just then, a series of violent roars suddenly erupted from within the Secret Realm Tower. The tower trembled violently, golden Dao patterns flowed rapidly, and layer upon layer of trial restrictions were instantly broken through. Violent Dao fluctuations swept out from within the tower, surging in all directions.
The first figure to emerge from the layers was Tu Miaomiao, who was the first to enter the tower. She was covered in a shield made of condensed scales, and her aura was calm and steady. She easily broke through the first trial and stepped into the void at the boundary between the first and second layers. She turned her head to look into the depths of the tower and murmured to herself.
"Little Milk Brother's scales are too powerful! The first level of the inner demon trial and illusion array restriction can't get close to me at all. All the illusions and inner demon thoughts are completely isolated by the Daoist charm of the scales. I can't even feel the slightest disturbance."
She took a light step forward, facing the second level of the trial's restrictions, and said with a smile, "A quarter of an hour of protection is enough for me to pass the first three levels, and maybe I can even try to reach the fourth level and obtain a better trial opportunity!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the second level of the trial's restrictions activated with a deafening roar. Endless killing intent swept in, and countless sharp blades of law crisscrossed, crushing towards Tu Miaomiao. (End of Chapter)