Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me-Chapter 1329 - 905 LongYin_2

In the past, the Great Divine Transcendents had all thought the same way. But now, they grew unsure, as Jiang Chen, standing before the Saint’s Dao Fruit, hesitated to make a choice.

It unavoidably led to speculation. Could it be that Jiang Chen did not wish to become a Saint?

Just as everyone guessed what Jiang Chen might be thinking, he suddenly smiled and took a step back, distancing himself from the Saint’s Dao Fruit.

"I am inherently an anomaly, born against the heavens, never meant to conform to them in this life. This sacred position is not destined for me!"

Jiang Chen had come to realize and had understood that he could never become a Saint in this life. He was not a creature of this world, but rather an anomaly, smuggled from some unknown time and space for reasons unknown.

Being an anomaly, he was the ’one’ that had escaped.

Through the information he had already mastered, continually changing the inherent course of the Chaos World, and with his own power leveraging the whole of heaven and earth—that was his Tao.

As an anomaly, Jiang Chen could not become a Saint.

A Saint is a constant, while Jiang Chen if he became a Saint, would be turning from an anomaly into a constant. He would move from being outside the control of the Heavenly Dao to back under its control.

Then, his Tao would break, and his extraordinary performance would fade from him. He would become obscure among the masses, competing against the other Saints. No, he would be even less than the other Saints.

Having lost the advantage of being an anomaly, how could he, a life being only a few hundred years old, compete with those ancient monsters that had lived for hundreds of millions of years?

Thus, for Jiang Chen, becoming a Saint meant severing his own future prospects; he absolutely couldn’t become a Saint.

After understanding this, Jiang Chen’s refusal was straightforward. Even faced with the supreme sacred position, he rejected it without hesitation.

To be honest, the temptation of becoming a Saint wasn’t as great for Jiang Chen as others imagined, for he already possessed the Primordial Dao Fruit!

One million years later, when the Chaos Green Lotus devoured the Twelve-Petaled Karma Fire Red Lotus and the Northern Profound Elemental Control Banner, he would naturally transform into a Chaos Demigod and leap into the status of a Daluo Jinxian of the Primordial.

Jiang Chen had more choices and wasn’t limited to just becoming a Saint. Thus, the temptation of sainthood wasn’t that great for him. Rejecting it might bring regret, but not heartache or remorse.

"It’s a pity that I’ve used the Cycle Divine Palace to repair the Boundless Starry Sky. Otherwise, just by relying on the Cycle Divine Palace to ascend as a Primordial-level Divine Artifact, the power it would feed back to me could push me into the realm of the Primordial."

Jiang Chen suddenly realized that he had made a bit of a loss. He had destroyed the Divine Palace, a force of the Primordial level, only to gain a Saint’s Dao Fruit which imposed great limitations on him. This deal wasn’t worth it!

"He refused..."

"He really refused!"

When the Great Divine Transcendents of the Prehistoric World saw this, they were all shocked. They didn’t consider Jiang Chen’s actions foolish, but rather admired him immensely.

They admired Jiang Chen’s determination in his Taoist heart. This is the mentality that a cultivator ought to have—steadfast and able to refuse all the temptations of the world.

Those with such a determined Taoist heart naturally deserved their respect because even if they refused the Saint’s Dao Fruit, their future wouldn’t dim but would become even more brilliant.

The further one goes in cultivation, the more important the Taoist heart becomes, and only those with a determined Taoist heart can reach the end of the Great Tao.

"He refused?"

Primordial Heavenly Sovereign subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. He was unwilling to see Jiang Chen become a Saint. How could he bear it if a junior who had practiced Taoism for no more than a few hundred years stood on an equal footing with him?

...

The Heavenly Dao has its dignity, and seeing Jiang Chen’s refusal, It did not plead for him to stay nor offered him a second chance. It simply dissolved the Saint’s Dao Fruit.

With a thundering boom!

The Saint’s Dao Fruit exploded, reconstituting into a sea of golden Profound Yellow Merit.

"Hmm?"

"The Heavenly Dao is so calculating!"

It was at this moment that Jiang Chen discerned some truths about the Saint’s Dao Fruit amidst the obscurity.

The Saint’s Dao Fruit itself had no issues, but like Mother Earth’s Saint’s Dao Fruit, a limitation had been imposed upon it.

Namely, once he refined this Saint’s Dao Fruit, Jiang Chen would be imprisoned within the Boundless Starry Sky until its complete recovery, only then would he be free.

Otherwise, Jiang Chen would forever be trapped in the Boundless Starry Sky, unable to leave even half a step, just like Mother Earth was restricted to the Netherworld.

Realizing this, Jiang Chen felt an immense sense of relief. Fortunately, he had rejected the temptation to become a Saint; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Trapped in the Boundless Starry Sky, how could he carry out his forthcoming plans? The Heavenly Dao was truly ruthless, capturing someone and exploiting them to death.

Not to say Jiang Chen being trapped in the Boundless Starry Sky would impact his plan to rebuild the Chaos World; in fact, it wouldn’t, since the Boundless Starry Sky was also part of the Prehistoric World. To reconstruct the Boundless Starry Sky was to reconstruct Heaven and Earth.

The Heavenly Dao imprisoned Jiang Chen in the Boundless Starry Sky because it wanted him to fully repair this place before reconstructing the lands of the Prehistoric World. In doing so, with the support of the complete Boundless Starry Sky, Jiang Chen’s restoration of the Prehistoric lands would surely be easier.

Although the goals were the same, the Heavenly Dao had its own thoughts, and Jiang Chen had his. Jiang Chen didn’t want to follow the Heavenly Dao’s plans, and the Heavenly Dao didn’t want to follow Jiang Chen’s, hence the matter with the Saint’s Dao Fruit.

"Sneaky!"

Cursing the Heavenly Dao for being sneaky, Jiang Chen began to gather the Merit Qi in front of him, to cultivate the Divine Ability, Merit Gold Wheel. Without the Original Source of the Heavenly Dao, this Merit Qi was just Merit Qi. Even if he refined all of it, it would not lead to becoming a Saint.

However, while it couldn’t make one a Saint, the amount of Merit Qi had not decreased. After Jiang Chen absorbed it all, he directly brought the cultivation of the Merit Gold Wheel Divine Ability to the state of great perfection.

Buzzing...

The void started trembling mysteriously as twelve resplendent Merit Gold Wheels emerged behind Jiang Chen’s head, slowly rotating, showering down endless golden light that submerged his body.

Simultaneously, as the twelve Merit Gold Wheels turned, the forces of Heaven and Earth continuously surged forth, constantly transforming Jiang Chen’s physical body, aiming for the legendary Profound Yellow Indestructible Body.

The Profound Yellow Indestructible Body, the supreme and exalted Saintly Body that stands between Heaven and Earth, even Saints cannot obliterate it, only seal it away.

Of course, this is if no Creation-opening Treasures are used. In the vast Prehistoric World, there’s nothing that Creation-opening Treasures cannot destroy, including the Heavenly Dao.

It’s not that Creation-opening Treasures lack power, but those who wield them lack strength.

"I am invincible now. With twelve Merit Gold Wheels for protection, apart from the Daluo Jinxian of the Primordial, who can break my defense?"

Although he had not become a Saint, refining the Merit Gold Wheel to perfection was enough to excite Jiang Chen. From now on, he need not tread carefully around the Great Divine Transcendents, for they could no longer harm him.

Unless they self-destruct or wield an Innate Treasure, no matter how the Great Divine Transcendents attack, they would never breach Jiang Chen’s defenses.

"The Boundless Starry Sky has been reconstructed, and the Purple Mist Star has also fallen into my control. Now, it’s time to put my great aspiration of unifying Heaven and Earth into action."

Stepping forward, Jiang Chen made his way towards the Purple Mist Star.

Taking command of the Purple Mist Star, in an era without the Tiandi, Jiang Chen would become the most exalted monarch among men, the master of the stars, wielding thunder and ruling over countless ghosts and gods of the Three Realms...

Compared to the Sun Star and the Moon Star, the Purple Mist Star didn’t nurture any treasures. Because its very significance was the greatest treasure.

In this world, is there anything more precious than power? To control the Purple Mist Star is to possess power, and that is the most precious treasure in the world.

Boom!

At the moment Jiang Chen took charge of the Purple Mist Star, with the Purple Mist Star at the center, all the stars began to tremble, casting down strands of brilliant starlight towards the human world.

The lights of these stars met in midair, merging with the Purple Mist Star’s light, forming a rainbow-colored divine light that descended into a small village by the Jiang River in the Nanbuzhan Continent.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this small village was unremarkable and had nothing special. However, in the eyes of those major powers, this seemingly ordinary small village was terrifyingly formidable, provoking deep dread within them.

Because this was the ancestral home of the Flame Emperor, it was also the Jiang Family’s residence in the Human Path, and more importantly, it was where Jiang Chen had been born.