Library of Heaven's Path Chapter 2270 -END - 2270 Prequel: The Origin of the Library of Heaven’s Path

Atop the loftiest peak in the Divine Realm, a stone figure shaped like a human stood at the cliff's edge, gazing over the vast heavens.

“Father, Father… Help me catch it!”

Right then, a girl of five or six years old, her hair tied in a ponytail, dashed over. Ahead of her scampered a frantic little yellow chick, some tail feathers yanked out, leaving its bare rear quite noticeable.

Ji ji ji ji!

The tiny yellow chick panicked from the pursuit. With an urgent cry, it beat its wings and perched on the humanoid stone's shoulder.

“Let’s see where you’re going!”

The young miss snorted. In an instant, she flashed in front of the stone figure. With a gentle grasp, she scooped the yellow chick into her palm.

“Little Master, I was wrong…”

Caught at last, the little yellow chick fretted and pleaded.

As though expecting this, the girl lifted her chin and planted a hand on her hip. “Too late to beg forgiveness now. Scrooge, I only want a few feathers for a duster. Refuse, and you won't leave until you lay an egg for me today!”

“???”

The chick blinked its eyes. “I’m a male…”

The girl declared, “Who says males can’t lay eggs? Doesn’t matter to me. Lay one, or I’ll grab a mushroom and stew you together!”

“…”

Tears nearly welled in the little yellow chick's eyes. Just as it opened its beak, a profound voice boomed, “Lingxi, stop fooling around!”

Whoosh!

The humanoid stone statue cracked apart. From it rose a youth with piercing brows and eyes sparkling like stars.

Astonishingly, it wasn't truly a statue but a person who had sat motionless so long that dust had caked and hardened on him.

“Father…”

The little girl pursed her lips.

“No need to sulk. I've just created a Heavenly Domain for you called Freedom Heaven. Think of it as your personal playground. Here are some drops of my blood essence too. If trouble finds you, I can handle them!”

Fondly stroking the girl's head, the youth tapped with his free hand. Several drops of vivid red blood, enveloped in unique energy, floated into her palm.

“My very own Heavenly Domain? Then I want to head there now.”

Safely tucking away the blood essence, the girl's face lit up with thrill.

“Go play.”

Chuckling softly, the youth flicked his wrist, summoning a spatial gateway right before them. The girl hopped through joyfully and vanished instantly.

Though young, she wielded Divine King power. With her father's blood essence added, even Venerable Sovereigns couldn't overpower her. Her safety was assured.

Once the girl had vanished from sight, the little yellow chick morphed into a dashing youth. He stepped back a short distance and saluted the figure with clasped fists. “Master…”

“Fine, go locate Nie Tong.”

The youth dismissed him with a wave.

“Yes!” The former chick whirled away and vanished in a flash. Any Divine Realm denizen spotting him would recognize his God-level cultivation prowess.

Indeed, this little yellow chick ruled Spirit Origin Heaven. He was the Undying Emperor Monarch!

Meanwhile, this youth was Nie Yun, sire of Nie Lingxi—also called Luo Ruoxin—and future father-in-law to Zhang Xuan.

Hu!

Moments later, the Undying Emperor Monarch escorted a stern-faced youth with a longsword strapped to his back.

This was his younger sibling, Nie Tong!

Nie Tong eyed his brother with mixed emotions. “Have you decided?”

“Yeah!”

Nie Yun affirmed, “These years, something keeps beckoning me relentlessly. It disrupts my thoughts, hinders sleep and cultivation. Were it not for sealing my energy, I'd have crumbled ages ago… Now Lingxi's grown and her dantian stabilized, I must uncover what it is!”

Nie Tong offered, “If you're set on this, I'll accompany you.”

Nie Yun refused, “Stay back. I'll scout first. If peril proves too great, safeguard the Divine Realm in my stead.”

Nie Tong grew fretful. “Brother…”

Nie Yun cut him off with a wave. “It's decided. I'm not sending my true self—just a wisp of thought to probe. You've duties too: guard my body against mishaps. At our level, foes deem us unbeatable, yet superiors lurk everywhere. Stay vigilant.”

“Yes!”

Nie Tong assented with a nod.

He grasped his brother's might well—far beyond Venerable Sovereign, in realms beyond fancy. Yet even he trembled at this, pondering eons before probing. The fear was palpable.

Nie Yun rose, staring heavenward with solemn intensity. “Let's commence! Lingxi's off to Freedom Heaven. No peril will touch her.”

“Master, let me remain too!”

The Undying Emperor Monarch urged hastily.

Nie Yun said little. His lithe form abruptly towered like a pillar upholding the skies. Next instant, a surging will like ocean waves ripped through space, racing outward.

Whoosh!

A spatial gateway materialized ahead. Vast lands unfurled in his sight.

This landmass loomed immense, its edges elusive even to gods. Myriad stars drifted overhead, their brilliant beams cascading like silken strands.

These threads acted as conduits, siphoning stellar power drop by drop into the land.

After scrutinizing, Nie Yun's pupils shrank, voice quivering. “Each star is a Divine Realm!”

His sight pierced true: those skyborne stars were self-contained worlds, potency rivaling his own!

Such mighty realms' energies, harvested by one continent…

Unthinkable before!

Clearly, prolonged this way, planetary life would perish, worlds crumble soon.

“What happened?” Zhang Xuan asked Elder Liao with a grim voice.

Nie Yun reeled in disbelief.

Innumerable realms sustaining one continent. How formidable must its denizens be?

Worse, their motive? Why cull other realms to prop this one?

Still reeling, a central figure on the continent detected his intrusion. Whoosh! An enormous palm lunged forth.

Spanning myriad li, it hurtled to the gateway in a heartbeat.

Nie Yun paled. This palm's might dwarfed his; resistance futile. He rushed to retract his mind, seal the gate.

Kacha!

Swift as he was, the palm outpaced. Ere it struck, pressure sundered the gateway. Crushing force numbed Nie Yun's scalp.

Pu!

Blood erupted from his mouth.

“Big brother!”

“Master!”

Twin roars echoed as sword gleam and inferno tide surged at the gateway.

“Get back!”

Nie Yun bellowed, surging upright. Fingers splayed, he charged the palm.

Whoosh!

Collision instant: Nie Yun's frame pulverized to powder, soul teetering on shatter.

“Heaven’s Path, merge with me and halt it!”

His cry unleashed the Divine Realm's Heaven’s Path into fusion. Nie Yun's presence exploded skyward.

The Divine Realm was his dantian, his domain. United with Heaven’s Path, he embodied the world—unassailable.

However…

Limits existed.

Invincible within, vulnerable without.

Boom!

Fused Nie Yun clashed with the colossal palm. Body exploded anew; Heaven’s Path ripped free, splitting into Order of the Heaven’s Path, Deficiency of the Heaven’s Path, and Nature of the Heaven’s Path. Latter two quivered then plunged through spatial fissure, gone.

Naturally, shredding Nie Yun and Heaven’s Path sapped the palm's fury by nine-tenths, taming its rage.

“Master!”

Undying Emperor Monarch bellowed, charging ahead, unleashing his treasure, the drifting Undying City.

City met palm; Monarch's form ashed. City buckled under strain, myriad souls slain, vanishing into the rift.

Hu!

Thwarted by Monarch and City, the palm's power ebbed utterly, fading away.

“Big brother…”

Nie Tong lunged forward.

Events unfolded blindingly fast, ending ere he struck.

Palm's dominance absolute; his might wouldn't alter fate.

Soon Nie Yun reformed, aura frail as any mortal's, visage deathly wan. Profound dread etched his gaze. “That palm's advent signals their awareness. Soon they'll drain our power, doom us like those other worlds…”

Now he fathomed the stars' plight.

They'd endured identical fates—spotted, harvested as fodder…

Nie Tong queried, “What now?”

Pondering deeply, Nie Yun declared, “Alone, we're doomed. Must seek an ally of shared purpose, blessed with fortune and genius. United, we might defy doom… Order and Deficiency of Heaven’s Path fled to lower realms—a chance!”

Nie Tong puzzled but trusted implicitly, holding questions.

Nie Yun pressed on, “We'll bide time. This wound demands seclusion. Inform Lingxi I've entered deep slumber. Dispatch Nature of the Heaven’s Path to her for safekeeping.”

Nie Tong queried, “Why conceal truth?”

Nie Yun shook head. “Divination ties future shifts to her. Too much knowledge risks greater upheaval.”

Nie Tong comprehended.

…

Far from Divine Realm, a youth claimed Order of the Heavens, ascending famed, progeny hailing him Master Kong.

Millennia on, Deficiency of the Heaven’s Path manifested as library, alighting upon a mundane educator in Tianxuan Kingdom.