All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes-Chapter 913 - 204: Demon of Corruption and Fall (5/6)

In front of him, a bizarre swollen, tarry humanoid with a smile as deep as an abyss, while beside it, a beautiful woman with snow-white skin, scales, barely clothed, hiding her form with a pair of wings, watched expressionlessly, her light golden eyes curiously observing.

In the cold woman’s arms, an ice-blue small dragon stared indifferently at An Jing, or rather, at the Broken Sword Fu Xie manifested in An Jing’s hand.

Decay, Jiexin, Bitter Silence. The three Great Heavenly Demons most entangled with An Jing had manifested here, facing An Jing in this Heavenly Demon space.

[Lord of Heavenly Destiny]

As one of the rare Heavenly Demons with human-like thoughts and often merging with humans, Decay spoke with a laugh about An Jing’s Heavenly Destiny identity, with a cheerful, genderless voice echoing from its abyssal mouth: [We originally wanted to contact you at Mingguang Peak, but who could’ve known you eradicated so many Demon People, not giving us a chance to meet you].

[And now, we haven’t come to fight you—though we wouldn’t mind a fight—we simply want to ask you a question]

[If you knew, this time we want to help you, how would you feel?]

"Help?"

Hearing this, both An Jing and Fu Xie were momentarily stunned; they couldn’t possibly believe such a thing. But if the Heavenly Demons were to lie, they definitely wouldn’t tell such a crude lie. He frowned: "You mean to say your act of eroding the Ghost God, eroding Yulun, and Yan Gui True Lord is intended to help us?"

[At the time, our goal aligned somewhat with the Taiming Sect]

Decay laughter continued: [The goal of the Taiming Sect was straightforward, to stake the entire Sect, overthrow all Sect forces in Dust Li, slaughter all lives, rebuild the Reincarnation, completely resurrect the Three-Life Mirror, realizing the grand merit of the Reincarnation, bringing forth a Ling Xiao Heavenly Venerate and the peak ’Three-Life Reincarnation Divine Mirror,’ returning to the pinnacle Upper Gate state, to vie for the entry ticket to the Great World Heavenly Sect battle]

[Our goal, similarly, was to massacre life, utterly subvert the boundary between life and death in the Netherworld. We had already begun infiltrating the Ghost God within, leveraging Taiming Sect’s grand scheme, with all life returning to Reincarnation, and we could seize the opportunity to infiltrate the Reincarnation, causing some newborns to be born as Demon Seeds, and some Ghost Gods to be born as our Heavenly Demons]

[In this way, the entire Netherworld Dust Li would become demonic land]

"Isn’t the plan quite smooth?" An Jing raised an eyebrow: "Why stop, and instead want to help us?"

[It is an ancient task; demonic land is not our true goal]

At this moment, the Heavenly Demon Jiexin spoke, its voice extraordinarily elegant, and if not knowing Jiexin was a Heavenly Demon, one might think it was a Goddess descended from the Nine Heavens.

At this moment, this Heavenly Demon calmly stated its thoughts: [Back then, for existence, demonic land was necessary, but now, circumstances are no longer dire, naturally we have different ideas]

[Though Taiming is eroded by us, as long as there is a Lingxiao in the world, it has ample time and power to obliterate us, and then all eroding will be meaningless, otherwise, do you truly think the Taiming Sect is unaware we’re also using them? Never underestimate the Heavenly Ancestor of the Upper Sect, we are mutually exploiting each other]

"I see."

While An Jing exchanged ideas with Fu Xie on how to break this demonic land space and return to the outside, he also communicated with the Heavenly Demons, pondering: "Do you think Dust Li under a single dominion instead hinders achieving your goal, so you want to assist our Bright Mirror Sect, to continue opposing Taiming Sect?"

[Exactly so] Jiexin nodded expressionlessly: [Of course, whether you help or not is the same; we will go forth as planned, we just want to obtain your answer]

[Lord of Heavenly Destiny, should you know we Heavenly Demons have no desire to be your ’enemy,’ what would you think?]

"Ha, what a good question."

At this moment, An Jing vaguely sensed an epiphany, an answer slowly forming to a question that had troubled him for a long time.

This question was simple.

[What indeed is the objective of the Heavenly Demons?]

In the past, An Jing always thought the goal of the Heavenly Demons was to destroy the world, to expand themselves, a total disaster of absolute destruction of all civilization and sanity.

But... it doesn’t seem to be so.

Whether from the Dao Courtyard, or from Fu Xie’s memories, or through what An Jing had witnessed along the way, there seems to be this faint feeling.

That is, the goal of the Heavenly Demons isn’t destruction.

Conversely, the people killed by the Heavenly Demons, probably are far fewer than those killed by humans.

From the earliest Supreme Heart Demon, Heavenly Demons have been inciting conflicts, orchestrating mutual killings, stirring battles between life and civilization—yes, they do sometimes annihilate worlds and Cave Heavens, but forcibly setting their objective as the extermination of all, undoubtedly isn’t the case.

An Jing once saw many decaying and fallen worlds in Fu Xie’s memories, worlds covered by Heavenly Demons that were dark, despairing, deeply fallen and rotten, yet, unquestionably, those lives were living.

They’re not obliteration.

So, what is the purpose of the Heavenly Demons? freeωebnovēl.c૦m

Comparing the struggle between Bright Mirror Sect and Taiming Sect, the answer, vaguely appeared.

It was... [Corruption].

Heavenly Demons are not doomsday collectives obsessed with killing and destruction.

On the contrary, they savor, savor the crab-in-the-bucket strife, the hope of escape yet the eternal inability to truly escape, that fall, the perpetual feeling of inability to escape from the [Abyss].

Indeed, indeed. Just like this.

"You..."

An Jing murmured: "Just want to see the fall, the sinking?"

[Indeed, just like the beings in this world]

Hearing An Jing’s comprehension, the Heavenly Demons laughed heartily: [The Divine Court seeking a new path is interrupted by five Heavenly Destinies; the Ancestral Dragon about to revive but is sealed by the Great Chen Dynasty]

[The Immortal Path had a whole new future, but was intercepted by the Shangxuan Sect; the ancient Heavenly Ancestor intended to open up a new Great Void star path, yet was jointly defeated by other Sects]

[This world is filled with endless sinking, countless fallings... each emergence of the Seven Fiend Tribulation marks the beginning of a new dip and fall, each appearance of a Nature Master inciting the rage of countless decayed humans, even the Ex Nihilo and Heaven and Earth Masters are sealed by countless desires, even our existence, is the desire of the ancient Immortal Gods, is the wish of all beings]

[Were it not so, we would have been obliterated long ago, how could we have endured till now?]

[But you are different, An Jing, you are a Heavenly Destiny we’ve never seen before, within your heart lies infinite Destruction and anger, your ideas exceedingly novel, we want to know, know you, your Heavenly Destiny, your Heavenly Dao’s attitude: Therefore we inquire, much like human curiosity]

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