Chapter 535 – This Is Not the Ending I Wanted (Double Chapter, Grand Finale)
by spirapira“The original intent of the Dao was to shatter the shackles of heaven and earth, to secure for future generations a true chance at equality with heaven and earth!”
Su Xing let out a sigh.
“But in the end, he still failed… Though he shattered heaven and earth, the world itself… he exhausted his strength and perished!”
“Little did anyone know that after his death, there would never again be one who could prove the Dao through force…”
Su Xing shook his head slightly.
The original intent of the Dao was to shatter heaven and earth — only then could there emerge… an existence that truly surpassed Saints, equal to heaven and earth itself!
Because heaven and earth did not permit any realm above Sainthood.
Therefore, Saint was the supreme realm, yet Saints were still suppressed by heaven and earth!
But the Dao had shattered the shackles of heaven and earth, and thus above Sainthood, there were no more shackles.
He had secured an upper limit for all the myriad living beings under heaven!
The only pity was… the Dao had died!
Had he not died, perhaps an existence above Sainthood would truly have been born!
But with his death, heaven and earth were incomplete. Even producing a Saint became difficult… let alone anything above Sainthood.
Su Xing shook his head slightly. He felt both admiration and regret for that being called the Dao, who had existed countless years ago.
Shattering the shackles of heaven and earth to secure a higher realm for future generations…
What tremendous power and ambition that was!
But alas, the Dao had died, and those who came after failed to live up to his legacy!
In later ages, no cultivators as astonishing as those of the ancient period ever appeared again.
Forget transcending the Heavenly Dao — not a single person could even reach Sainthood…
“Speaking of which, is proving the Dao through force really this difficult?”
Su Xing drew a deep breath, feeling the immense pressure and agony bearing down on his body.
With his level of strength, crossing the Tribulation of the Infinite actually felt strenuous…
One must understand — before formally attempting to prove the Dao through force, Su Xing was a genuine physical Saint!
“No, that’s not right… In the ancient period, very few cultivators proved the Dao through force. The difficulty speaks for itself…”
“Moreover, back then, perhaps they had the Dao itself to serve as a safety net, so the pressure of opposing the Heavenly Dao wasn’t so great…”
“But now, I can only rely on myself. Difficulty is inevitable…”
After thinking this through, Su Xing held nothing back and brought out his deepest reserves.
Beyond physical sainthood, Su Xing still had other trump cards!
“Since it’s the Heavenly Dao’s pressure… then let me pit world against world!”
“Spirit Domain, emerge!”
Su Xing silently invoked the command, and his Spirit Domain expanded to its fullest extent!
Su Xing’s Spirit Domain now spanned a full twenty million li (10,000,000 km)!
Though it remained at the Greater World level, its power had multiplied compared to before.
Sure enough, the moment his Spirit Domain unfurled, Su Xing felt the pressure on himself plummet!
Su Xing’s Spirit Domain had already reached a level equivalent to a true world.
Although a Greater World’s power was still far too weak to contend against the will and Heavenly Dao of the entire Pangu Greater World.
It was, however, enough to shield Su Xing from a portion of the world’s pressure.
Under these circumstances, the pressure of crossing the Tribulation of the Infinite was greatly reduced!
And so, a prolonged battle of attrition began.
With absolute physical strength, formidable Great Dao comprehension, world power, and a hundred different techniques at his disposal, Su Xing ultimately withstood this tribulation.
One day… one month… one year… ten years…
A hundred years!
Su Xing could feel the power of the Pangu Greater World being gradually worn down by him.
Yes — even a world, even the Heavenly Dao, had limits to its power!
Because the Heavenly Dao had too many concerns. It couldn’t devote all its strength solely against Su Xing.
And under these circumstances, perseverance was victory!
Finally, after Su Xing had endured for well over a hundred years…
One day, that terrifying pressure receded like a tide, swiftly ebbing away!
Su Xing seemed to sense a trace of unwillingness emanating from between heaven and earth…
But what was done was done!
As the Tribulation of the Infinite was finally crossed, Su Xing felt an unprecedented, magnificent power descend upon him!
Surging magical power gestation within Su Xing’s body.
Su Xing could feel that an invisible shackle within his body had, at this moment, finally been shattered.
At the same time, strange phenomena appeared throughout heaven and earth.
Above the Nine Heavens, white light descended. Boundless Great Dao comprehension was born from beyond the Nine Heavens, blessing the land for hundreds of millions of li in every direction.
Golden light surged from the earth, transforming into vast quantities of dense immortal qi that scattered in all directions.
Mortals who came into contact with it ascended to the heavens in broad daylight in an instant, reaching the realm of immortals!
Between heaven and earth, strange sounds seemed to resonate.
A celestial voice came from an unknown source, settling into the hearts of every cultivator.
“The cultivator Su Xing, with spatial laws as his foundation, has crossed the Ten Tribulations of Sainthood, endured over a hundred years, and proved the Dao through force… achieving the Saintly Dao Fruit!”
As this celestial voice fell, across the entire Pangu Greater World, countless living beings turned their gazes toward where Su Xing stood.
At the same time, every living being in the Pangu Greater World felt the same thought arise simultaneously in their hearts.
Their mission was complete!
At the same time, the Ninth Heaven began to collapse, layer by layer…
…
This chaotic temporal flow that had existed for countless ages finally vanished from between heaven and earth!
The entire spacetime of the Pangu Greater World — from Saints above to mortals below — dissipated like smoke in a single breath!
Watching this scene, Su Xing seemed to gain a flash of understanding.
He took a single step forward, departing the Ninth Heaven’s temporal flow and returning to the Eighth Heaven.
Before leaving, Su Xing glimpsed two faint silhouettes within that spacetime — silhouettes that did not seem illusory.
Su Xing’s heart stirred. In the Ninth Heaven, the only ones who truly existed were the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master and the Blood River Ancestor!
So Su Xing took a single step and appeared before the Blood River Ancestor, who had just recovered his memories.
Before the ancestor could even process his shock, Su Xing struck out with a palm.
In an instant, the Blood River Ancestor was reduced to nothingness…
At the same time, a somewhat dimmed and weathered small mirror floated up from his corpse.
“Hm?”
Su Xing exclaimed in surprise. He took the small mirror and examined it carefully, his expression shifting.
“One of the three great primordial chaos treasures… the Mirror of Origin?”
Su Xing blinked, not having expected such a pleasant surprise.
“The last primordial chaos treasure was in the Blood River Ancestor’s hands all along?”
“No wonder… the Advent Cult that Blood River Ancestor founded managed to endure for so long… Such reserves are no small matter!”
Su Xing stored the Mirror of Origin and quickly discerned the abilities of this final primordial chaos treasure.
“The Mirror of Origin… actually possesses the heaven-defying ability to absorb world origin, strengthening one’s cultivation, Great Dao comprehension, and even other magical treasures?”
Su Xing was somewhat astonished by the Mirror of Origin’s power.
The three great primordial chaos treasures each had different functions.
The Mirror of the Void possessed power over past and future, able to seize future power and channel it back to the present — its might was boundless.
The Luotian Mirror could replicate all things in existence and control the flow of time inside and outside — a truly peerless treasure for establishing a sect…
And this final Mirror of Origin was even more extraordinary!
This mirror was practically a cure-all…
By killing worlds, one could directly absorb Origin Force from the world origin. As long as one had sufficient origin energy —
Cultivation, magical power, physical body, lifespan… it could even be used to refine innate treasures.
“No wonder the Blood River Ancestor, who was on the verge of death tens of millions of years ago, suddenly rose again — not only advancing further to achieve half-saint status… but also founding the vast Advent Cult…”
Su Xing mused thoughtfully.
It wasn’t hard to imagine that this supreme treasure, the Mirror of Origin, was likely what the foreign race had found and used to buy the Blood River Ancestor’s allegiance.
But now, this treasure belonged to Su Xing!
“Come to think of it, the abilities of these three treasures… seem rather familiar!”
Su Xing raised an eyebrow. The suspicion in his heart was further confirmed.
After casually slaying the Blood River Ancestor, Su Xing didn’t linger. He quickly found the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master.
Then he brought him back to the Eighth Heaven.
“Proving the Dao through force, physical sainthood… Now, both my body and magical power have reached Sainthood…”
“It’s time… for the final attempt…”
Su Xing murmured.
The current timeline in the simulation was around the fifteen-hundredth year.
The Five Great Domains had been thoroughly invaded by the foreign race’s resurgence, along with the emergence of Sovereign-realm beings.
But the human race had not yet been completely annihilated…
Not to mention that Su Xing’s Spirit Domain still harbored a considerable number of human survivors.
Before entering the Ninth Heaven, Su Xing had also warned the White Emperor and the others.
If the situation became untenable, they should prepare early and temporarily take refuge in the Eighth Heaven.
“Then… let the Eighth Heaven serve as the final battlefield!”
…
After returning to the Eighth Heaven, Su Xing quickly located the White Emperor and the others based on his prior arrangements.
After learning about the state of the Three Thousand Worlds, Su Xing’s brow furrowed slightly.
The situation was even worse than Su Xing had anticipated.
The dozen-plus chief gods who had been previously destroyed were all truly dead.
But the foreign race’s power exceeded Su Xing’s expectations.
The Void Sovereign had descended upon the Five Great Domains a thousand years ago.
Descending alongside him were over a dozen Peak chief gods, each one no less powerful than the former Seven Deadly Sins.
Coupled with a countless foreign race army that surged back, in a mere thousand years they had recaptured the Five Great Domains.
And with unprecedented aggression, they indiscriminately annihilated worlds and human populations across the Five Great Domains!
Thus, in a mere thousand years —
The human population across the Five Great Domains had been reduced by over ninety percent…
The number of worlds destroyed was well beyond the tens of thousands…
The Azure Origin Domain, Celestial Demon Domain, Eastern Domain, and Southern Barbarian Domain had all been occupied once again.
And several decades prior, even the Heavenly Secrets Domain could no longer hold.
This time, the White Emperor and the others chose not to hold their ground to the death.
Instead, several Great Firmament Golden Immortals acted together, bringing the Celestial Secrets Realm along with the living beings from several nearby worlds, and fled to the Eighth Heaven in search of a chance at survival.
However, that was all they could manage.
The Void Sovereign, leading a new foreign race legion and chief gods, had once again ascended to the Eighth Heaven.
Had Su Xing not returned, the human race in the Eighth Heaven would likely have been completely exterminated within a hundred years…
“But fortunately, there’s still a chance…”
“The key question now is — with my current strength… can I defeat the Void Sovereign, and the other Sovereign behind him?”
Su Xing felt a surge of eagerness.
Breaking through to the Saint realm in both Body Tempering and Qi Refinement had given Su Xing tremendous confidence!
And so, at Su Xing’s initiative, war broke out without the slightest surprise!
Around the sixteen-hundredth year of the simulation.
In the Eighth Heaven, Su Xing led the surviving human cultivators in a final counterattack against the foreign race.
This counterattack had only one objective: kill the Void Sovereign!
…
In the Eighth Heaven, several Great Firmament Golden Immortals and over a hundred Supreme Unity Golden Immortals followed behind Su Xing — this was the last remaining strength of the human race.
At this moment, high above the Eighth Heaven, a massive rift appeared in the sky. Countless densely packed foreign race deities — looking like ants from a distance — poured through the crack.
“They’ve finally come!” Su Xing gazed at the spatial rift and murmured.
Behind him, the remaining human powerhouses surged forth in full force, charging toward the foreign race.
Su Xing did not move. He remained standing firmly in place, his gaze fixed on the foreign race pouring from the rift.
Those deities were not worth mentioning.
As for the chief gods, several Great Firmament Golden Immortals were already engaging them.
His opponent was the only Void Sovereign among the foreign race’s forces this time.
Soon, Su Xing locked onto a humanoid existence.
It simply stood placidly in the high sky, as though it emanated no aura at all, easily overlooked.
In an instant, their four eyes met.
The moment Su Xing saw Him, He also saw Su Xing.
Neither made any rash moves. Each sensed upon the other the pressure unique to those of the same realm.
In the Eighth Heaven, the number of invading foreign race members grew ever greater, each one an existence above the level of gods.
The foreign race’s power was even greater than Su Xing had imagined.
Even though he had annihilated the vast majority of the foreign race across the Five Great Domains,
beyond the Five Great Domains, the foreign race still retained many elite forces, as well as several of their most powerful existences.
Fortunately, thanks to Su Xing’s advance arrangements, the human race had also preserved the vast majority of its fighting strength.
Among them were several Great Firmament Golden Immortals, including the White Emperor… and the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master!
The Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master alone was worth ten thousand soldiers!
Body Transforms at Will allowed the battlefield to be flooded with countless Celestial Secrets Avatars, each possessing strength above the level of gods.
Combined with eighty-one Celestial Secrets Avatars above the Supreme Unity Golden Immortal level, the human race on this battlefield was not at a disadvantage.
Seeing that the foreign race was not achieving the overwhelming victory they had expected, the Void Sovereign in the sky could no longer restrain himself.
With merely a light raise of his hand, a wave of void power enveloped the entire battlefield.
Eighth realm void laws! This was the power belonging to a Sovereign.
At the same time, Su Xing moved as well.
With his physical body, he met the void laws head-on!
With the Great Dao of Space, he sealed off the void power!
With the Sword Dao, he struck directly at the Void Sovereign’s true body!
There were no flashy techniques, no desperate combat maneuvers.
Before absolute realm and absolute strength, the only thing to compete with was depth of foundation!
The instant his physical body contacted the void laws, Su Xing felt the surging void power devouring his primordial energy.
The speed of the devouring was too fast! The eighth realm’s void laws possessed the power to annihilate an entire Greater World in a single breath.
But Su Xing’s primordial energy was too vast. The Great Shaman Body Forging Art, Ninth Layer, and the materialized Celestial Primordial Tree granted him nearly inexhaustible primordial energy.
He could feel the void laws devouring his primordial energy, but with Su Xing’s reserves, he could hold out for a very long time.
“Worthy of being a veteran Sovereign — these void laws are far from as simple as someone who just entered the eighth realm…”
A thought flashed through Su Xing’s mind.
The Void Sovereign gave him a feeling far stronger than the Sovereign of Death, Red Moon, had back then.
“However, this is still far from enough…”
The corner of Su Xing’s mouth curved upward. He could feel that his overall strength exceeded the Void Sovereign’s by a narrow margin.
Because he was not merely a Saint, but a physical Saint combined with one who had proved his Dao to become a Saint!
The ultimate destruction brought by the void laws had already been withstood by his physical body’s primordial energy.
“Next, it’s my turn…”
Su Xing willed it, and his Spirit Domain expanded to full power at that moment.
The ultimate Sword Dao enhancement was applied instantly, reaching the eighth realm Mastery-level.
Sword radiance shot toward the Void Sovereign in the high sky, blocked by a net of void woven from eighth realm void laws.
But the Sword Momentum pressed ever forward, ultimately breaking through the void net and wounding the Sovereign within the void.
A flash of shock passed through the eyes of the Void Sovereign in the sky. Since he had achieved the Sovereign realm, how long had it been since he had been wounded…?
But Su Xing’s intentions went far beyond merely wounding him.
One sword, two swords, a hundred swords, a thousand swords…
In this moment, Su Xing held nothing back, pouring the ultimate Sword Dao toward the Void Sovereign in the sky.
Bit by bit, he wore down the Void Sovereign’s aura.
The Void Sovereign naturally defended with the full force of his void laws.
But Su Xing’s mastery extended far beyond the Sword Dao — he also commanded the Great Dao of Space, the Great Dao of Thunder, the Five Elements Dao…
More than ten great Daos, all enhanced by the Spirit Domain, could reach the level of the eighth realm!
And upon reaching the Saint or Sovereign level, whether magical power or divine power, both had already reached their ultimate limit and could not be further increased.
The only thing left to compete with was the Power of Laws of the Great Dao!
And so, the prolonged battle continued.
This war lasted a full four hundred years.
The entire Eighth Heaven became a landscape of corpse-mountains and blood-seas. Countless foreign race members lay fallen upon the earth, while human race experts had likewise perished or sustained grievous wounds.
Su Xing was drenched in blood from head to toe, his physical body eroded by void laws beyond recognition.
And the Void Sovereign facing him no longer bore the calm, unruffled demeanor of their first meeting.
Now, Su Xing condensed sword intent into a blade, pressing it against the Void Sovereign’s body, and spoke plainly:
“You have lost!”
At the brink of life and death, the Void Sovereign showed little fear. Having reached His level, perhaps He no longer knew what fear even was.
“I have lost… but my race has not!”
“My race still has the great Eternity… You are indeed strong, but you will be no match for Eternity!”
Su Xing’s brow furrowed tightly upon hearing this, and he asked in a deep voice:
“What is Eternity?”
The Void Sovereign sneered:
“Eternity — undying and indestructible! No matter what method you use… you cannot kill him!”
“That is an existence above the Sovereign level!”
Su Xing’s brow furrowed even more tightly, and he wanted to ask more.
But the Void Sovereign spoke no further, only asserting with certainty that the human race would inevitably be annihilated.
Su Xing did not believe it. So his sword struck, and with the ultimate Sword Dao, he extinguished the Void Sovereign’s life.
Afterward, he destroyed the Void Sovereign’s godhood and annihilated the Void Sovereign’s divinity!
With this, the foreign race that had invaded the Five Great Domains for countless years was wiped out by Su Xing’s power alone…
After slaying the Void Sovereign, Su Xing’s expression was calm — no joy, no sorrow.
His divine sense spread outward like a tide, and he saw the state of the Eighth Heaven.
The Five Great Domains of the human race had all been devastated. Perhaps in some hidden corners, a few cultivators still clung to survival.
Across the entire Eighth Heaven, the majority of the human race combatants had perished in battle.
Including the White Emperor, the Celestial Secrets Pavilion Master, and others — all had sustained severe injuries.
But at this moment, their faces bore smiles, because they had won!
Only Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly, murmuring:
“This… is not the ending I wanted…”
……
When the immersive simulation finally ended, Su Xing returned to reality.
His gaze turned to the simulation panel.
【In the sixteen hundredth year, the human race and the foreign race fought their final great battle in the Eighth Heaven.】
【This war lasted a full four hundred years…】
【In the two thousandth year, you single-handedly slew the Void Sovereign. The human race won!】
【But the price the human race paid exceeded all imagination…】
【You knew this was not the perfect ending!】
【But this was the ending in which the foreign race was defeated.】
【And so, time passed in a daze for another three thousand years…】
【During these three thousand years, the human race recuperated. The Five Great Domains of the lower realm had long since seen their spiritual energy grow even thinner from the great war, making it difficult to even produce cultivators.】
【So, using world power, you relocated the surviving cultivators to the upper three Heavens and established a new civilization of immortal cultivation there.】
【Until the ten thousandth year of the simulation…】
【One day, above the tranquil Eighth Heaven, a rift tore open…】
【An unnameable existence appeared.】
【The instant you beheld Him, you knew His name — Eternity!】
【And so, battle erupted.】
【Eternity was immensely powerful, yet did not possess ultimate destructive force…】
【He could be wounded, could be weakened, but His terrifying strength lay in the fact that He was undying and indestructible!】
【No matter how you harmed Him, He would not die.】
【What alarmed you even more was the number and level of laws He had mastered — far beyond what you could match.】
【So, you lost!】
【And the price of failure was the annihilation of the entire human civilization along with you…】
【Ding — this simulation has ended!】
Returning to reality, Su Xing stared at the text before him and was silent for a long time.
“Does Eternity truly exist?”
“Undying and indestructible… how can it be defeated?”
Su Xing took a deep breath and reviewed the text before him again and again.
In the end, he arrived at a conclusion.
“Eternity is undoubtedly powerful… In fact, He has surpassed the Sovereign realm and taken one more step forward!”
“But that step was ultimately not fully taken… His existence should be akin to the ‘Dao’ that was born in the Pangu Era, countless years ago!”
“Above the Saint… the Dao realm unfulfilled!”
“And Eternity — He too is above the Sovereign, at an unfulfilled Eternity realm…”
“He has initially acquired the undying, indestructible quality of eternity… but has not yet attained the destructive power to match it.”
Thinking this, Su Xing let out a bitter laugh.
“Even so, He is still an undefeatable existence… No — or rather, He can be defeated, but not killed!”
“Unless I can surpass the realm that the Dao achieved back then…”
At this moment, everything became clear to Su Xing.
The Dao sought to break through the heavens, and thus there existed a realm above the Saint.
Countless years ago, the Dao had already begun exploring this path.
That path was to fuse all the great Daos under heaven. If one could, by one’s own power, merge all the great Daos into oneself, one might advance further.
But this was a realm no predecessor had ever reached. Even the original “Dao” had only taken half a step.
“So, this realm… would be that of the Dao Ancestor, then?”
“The Dao Ancestor realm would be equivalent to the foreign race’s Eternity realm… As long as I can reach this realm, I can slay Him!”
Thinking this, Su Xing’s spirit was reinvigorated.
But reaching this realm would not be easy.
The Dao had worked toward it for countless years without success.
The being among the foreign race who called himself Eternity — who knew how long he had spent — had also only taken half a step.
“However… I am different!”
“As long as I borrow the power of time, even fusing the three thousand great Daos to achieve the Dao Ancestor realm is not impossible!”
The path ahead was now clear. All that remained was to focus on advancing the Dao of Time!
“As for this simulation’s ending… it’s not what I wanted!”
“Though I drove out the foreign race, the human race suffered far too many casualties…”
“I must break through to the Dao realm before the time limit arrives!”
Su Xing willed it, expending a massive amount of simulation energy to bring out all the rewards from this simulation.
In an instant, Su Xing’s realm completed its transformation, finally reaching the Saint realm!
“Sainthood is only the beginning!”
“There is still the final… Dao realm!”
“Merging with the three thousand great Daos… this is destined to be a long journey, isn’t it…”
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End of Book!
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Writing up to this point, the main story has more or less reached its grand finale.
The final enemy is the Eternity of the foreign race!
But fusing the three thousand great Daos would require far too many chapters to write — I can’t possibly write them one Dao at a time; that would be a waste of everyone’s time.
Therefore, the ultimate ending will be released in the form of side stories.
Those will be stories spanning many, many years…
PS: The perfect ending will be in the side stories, don’t worry.
The new book is nice and plump, ready for reading — feel free to check it out if you’re interested.