Chapter 163 Heaven's Will

　　Immortality was within reach, but alas, it ended in failure. At this moment, the victor needs no words, and the defeated offers his neck to the blade.

　　A Celestial Heart realm cultivator can no longer intervene.

　　The Prince of Lu knew that the Yuan Emperor was now unable to help him again. As an agent of a Celestial Heart realm expert, to be slain by two immortals, it was not a disgrace to his status. The value of immortals from the Outer Mountains and Rivers was much higher than those from the Inner Mountains and Rivers.

　　The Prince of Lu suddenly spoke, addressing both Ji Xiang and Qin Nvxiu behind him.

　　"I do not believe I have offended either of you. Why must you relentlessly pursue me?"

　　The Prince of Lu sat down on the spot, indicating that he would no longer resist, and voiced his question. In fact, he no longer had the means to resist immortals. There was a vast gulf between the Ascension realm and the Pure Yang realm, but his current Pure Yang strength was less than ten percent of what it once was. In this state, he was inferior to those two Refinement realm cultivators.

　　The other cultivators around him were terrified by the siege of the two immortals. Jiang Quzi and Bai Wuzi also knew they were no match and did not resist, simply standing with their hands bound.

　　Ji Xiang spoke first, "Would you believe me if I said it was the will of Heaven, Your Highness?"

　　The Prince of Lu looked at the starry, radiant night sky, "You speak of the Heavenly Dao? I do not believe it. The Dao has no will. Its favor and hatred arise from violating certain laws of the world. Heaven and earth are impartial, treating all things as straw dogs. The Heavenly Dao views all things equally."

　　"Therefore, all the gods of the Thirty-Six Heavens are formed from the collected desires of people. Powerful desires, through thousands of years of sacrifices and chants, form Heavenly Dao godhood, residing in the Great Floating Li Earth, in the Azure Heavens. This is precisely a manifestation of the Heavenly Dao's impartiality."

　　"The good and the evil are all under the Heavenly Dao, all within its operation. I am but a mere prince. Even if I eat the hearts of children, manipulate the desires of millions of people, even if I have rebellious intentions, all of this is within the Heavenly Dao's allowance."

　　"These are things that will happen in the world of living beings. Have yin and yang ever been separated? The evil and wicked paths are also paths. Where there is good, there is evil; where there is light, there is shadow; where there is the sun, there is the moon; some are born virtuous, some are born malicious."

　　"Even birth is the same. There is no Heavenly Dao that is unfair, only random changes. You are born into a royal family, this is your luck, not the Heavenly Dao's selection; you are born as a poor beggar, this is not the Heavenly Dao's dislike, but only your luck."

　　"It is you who are responding to the Heavenly Dao, not the Heavenly Dao responding to you."

　　Qin Nvxiu stood behind the Prince of Lu, listening to the prince's words, and could not help but smile, "If you were not so evil, you would have a good understanding of cultivation."

　　The Prince of Lu also smiled wryly, "I am at least a Pure Yang cultivator, and half a step away from ascending to immortality. Compared to you, I can shamelessly call myself a fellow Daoist, right?"

　　"Therefore, those who do great evil can wear the skin of goodness to disguise themselves, and those who do great good will be slandered as great evil and demons, but they will not receive the help of the Heavenly Dao, because all of this is within the allowed range."

　　"Only those in the Celestial Heart realm, who claim to be the Heavenly Dao's half-body, who think they have comprehended the Grand Yi arts and the Grand Luo Dao Fruit, can glimpse the secrets of Heaven, who think they have obtained some characteristics of the Great Dao, can understand the laws of the Heavenly Dao's operation."

　　"The Great Dao of the dynasty is a state presented when the Heavenly Dao descends. It changes with the birth and death of the dynasty, and is obtained by successive holders. If you want to say when it appeared, you have to trace back to eighteen hundred years ago, to those eight words 'Having received the Mandate from Heaven, may he enjoy longevity and prosperity.'"

　　"I have said so much, just to argue two points with you."

　　"First, the Heavenly Dao will not care about me, and there is no true will of Heaven, including those tribulations, which are not formed by the will of Heaven, but are punishments obtained by reversing certain established laws. After you resist them, nothing will happen, which is also a kind of law."

　　"Second, I am innocent!"

　　The Prince of Lu took a deep breath, and coughed up blood again. His Dao heart was constantly breaking, and it was difficult to recover. His aura was rapidly weakening, and even his manifested form in the outside world almost collapsed. The manifestation was that his appearance was a little blurry.

　　Ji Xiang breathed gently, standing firmly in front, with his hands behind his back, his black robe covering the ground.

　　After listening to the Prince of Lu's explanation of the Dao, he could not help but agree slightly:

　　"The Dao does not care what people do. The so-called obedience and rebellion are people responding to its laws. Countless sages have verified this since ancient times, but if you say that the Heavenly Dao does not care about the good and evil of the human world, so there is no good and evil in the human world, that is nonsense."

　　"If you really think you are innocent, why would you let demons do thirteen hundred evil deeds, and then do thirteen hundred good deeds yourself? This kind of behavior itself has a distinction between good and evil."

　　The Prince of Lu was speechless.

　　Ji Xiang smiled and dismissed it:

　　"But I don't mean to discuss the Dao with you here."

　　The Prince of Lu asked weakly, "Then why kill me? Is it because of the Fire Lord?"

　　After saying that, he pointed to the Fire Lord, whose expression suddenly tightened, his breathing quickened, and he was ready to release the immortal-human form within him at any time.

　　She had a trump card.

　　"Or is it just for the Wanli Emperor, to be a lackey of the court, to prevent me from rebelling here? Then you are really a good dog."

　　Ji Xiang smiled, "That's not right. If I were a lackey of the court, wouldn't everyone around you be your lackeys? When scolding others for being dogs, you should also see if there are more dogs around you. But you are just a dog jumping up to bite its master. If we follow this theory, then everyone can sit down and not argue, anyway, we are all dogs."

　　"I heard that you have dealings with the Yin World. Unfortunately, the Yin World is my great enemy, and I have many grievances with it. Moreover, your Jinshan Water Mansion, Milong Casino, and Dongdacheng Temple were all destroyed by me."

　　The Prince of Lu was stunned for a moment, and then said, "No wonder I couldn't find Zen Master Huyan."

　　"That makes sense."

　　"But I have severed some ties with the Yin World. Even if I become the Moon King of this Great Ming, I will not allow those guys to restore their dynasty in my territory."

　　Ji Xiang: "As for the other reasons, it's simply that you are doing evil, so I came."

　　"Let me add one more sentence."

　　"The will of Heaven..."

　　The Prince of Lu's pupils trembled violently.

　　"Perhaps it exists."

　　Ji Xiang released the aura of a Demon King. The Prince of Lu's expression became extremely wonderful, and Prince Liejie and the Fire Lord were also greatly shocked!

　　I descended from the Azure Heavens, from the Great Floating Li Earth.

　　"Celestial Demon...!"

　　The Prince of Lu could not close his mouth in surprise, "True Lord of the North Pole... I remember... according to the news, you, should be an old immortal from the Han Dynasty!"

　　"What unspeakable things happened to you!"

　　Ji Xiang: "Who knows."

　　"Perhaps there are too many people in this world who have the same thought as you, who cannot distinguish between good and evil and invert them."

　　"So....."

　　"The will of Heaven, sent me to the mortal realm!"

　　The Prince of Lu was silent for three or five breaths before resigning himself to fate:

　　"So that's it, neither the Five Heavens Great Demon nor the Great King of the North Emperor who eliminates demons are the real demon tribulations."

　　"So that's it, perhaps the will of Heaven... really exists now!"

　　"There is a Demon King possessing an old immortal, descending to the mortal realm! Haha, this kind of thing... has never happened since the opening of the art of cultivation, for two thousand years in the Outer Mountains and Rivers, and more than ten thousand years in the Inner Mountains and Rivers!"

　　"Although I die today, my soul will not be extinguished. There will be a time when we meet again!"

　　..........

　　Yin World, Longevity Immortal Palace.

　　The Yuan Emperor, covered in nine-colored treasure light, unable to see his face clearly, sensed the death of the Prince of Lu. He was silent for a while, then looked at the three divine tablets in the depths of the Longevity Immortal Palace, which were gradually blooming with brilliant light.

　　Having seized many Yin World dharma realms, these three divine tablets, separated from the Jade Emperor's authority, can also play their role to the greatest extent.

　　"The will of Heaven...?"

　　"After I obtained the supreme Dao."

　　"I no longer know what the will of Heaven is."

　　"If the Heavenly Dao is autonomous, its hundred methods are complex, without exceeding the realm of the three teachings."

　　"Then the supreme Dao is without a master, and the myriad phenomena of the universe are inseparable from the nurturing of yin and yang."