My Enemy Became My Cultivation Companion

Chapter 1305: Chapter 717: River of Time (Double-Length)

Decades have passed, and finally...

The illusory face of the Purity Saintess, originally outlined by a hazy white light, now appears even more ethereal, as if a pure human-shaped light source, formless and shapeless.

The Buddhist Scripture says, "All forms are illusion. If you see that all forms are not forms, then you see the Tathagata." The Buddha statues that the world worships are merely incarnations of Buddha, and what is called Buddha is the reality of all dharmas. Since Buddhist Law is inherently formless, she, who has long transformed into dharma, also has a dharma body without form.

The Purity Saintess has become formless and shapeless, devoid of eyes, yet her "gaze" slightly lowers, falling upon the Bright Hall in her palm. Realizing she is performing such a mundane action, she smiles.

However, she quickly adapts.

She stands quietly, holding the Bright Hall in her hand. For decades, she has wandered the World of Ignorance in solitude, and now the time has finally come.

The form, condensed from pure light, seems to have stood here since time immemorial, merging with the breath of the Bright Hall in her palm, indistinguishable from one another.

Since Chen Yi set foot in the Southern Border, she has faintly sensed something from the World of Ignorance. The reason being, she initially sensed a unique Sword Intent resonating slightly with the Bright Hall, yet forming a world of its own, even stirring slight ripples in her long-dormant Heart Lake. Upon a brief contact, it indeed turned out to be an unexpected delight.

Such a perfectly compatible "vessel," hence, she tacitly allowed and even guided certain processes, abandoning chess pieces like the Infinite King was an inevitable decision upon weighing the circumstances.

There were later twists and turns. Initially, she intended to secretly guide his wishes to fruition, indulging in illusions and thereby seizing control. However, that woman surnamed Min, with her unexpectedly keen sword heart, vaguely perceived her intentions at the last moment, nearly ruining the grand plan.

When it came to the final step, again caught by that Sword Armor, but looking back now, all was thrilling yet without danger. The Bright Hall has fallen into her hands.

All dust has settled.

A few twists were ultimately unable to change the overall situation.

The position of the Ming Venerable had long been vacant for an unknown number of years, perhaps the Ming Venerable never existed at all. From start to finish, there was only the Bright Hall, which is both the authority of the Ming Venerable and the foundation of the World of Enlightenment.

The Purity Saintess deduced such secrets from ancient texts,

whoever masters the Bright Hall, becomes the Ming Venerable.

The key within, Gongsun Guan was not entirely unaware, but the one revered as the Sect Hierarch of the Ming’an Divine Sect saw the future as vague and indistinct, and the Purity Saintess knew that even he was not sure whether Chen Yi would become the Ming Venerable.

He glimpsed the faint yet existing variation within that destiny.

According to his deduction, Chen Yi would become the Ming Venerable, with a ten to one chance, yet there remained that "one," and the Purity Saintess grasped that "one."

This was the ultimate chess game she laid in silence over decades of waiting. Now, she has seized this "one," overturning those "eight or nine."

After decades of scheming, a sudden success, the Purity Saintess did not rejoice too wildly, as if it was a natural progression, completing a step long predestined.

A heart of no form, reflecting all things, unaffected by them.

She raises her hand and presses vaguely, causing a haze of a long river to appear, origin unseen, end unknown, where light and shadows float, flowing not with water, but myriad phenomena, countless past scenes.

To ordinary people, time is a strict law, but to some beings, it is a broad, endless river.

And those ordinary of the ordinary, unaware of the great power of the Ming Venerable, dared to oppose the Resentment Demon Master with a foolish nature, finding themselves at a disadvantage.

The World of Enlightenment arises from the Bright Hall, just as the Resentment Demon Master is the ruler of the World of Ignorance. The Ming Venerable is the ruler of the World of Enlightenment. With this in mind, altering time, though requiring a price, is not impossible.

Fingers lightly stroke above the river, countless light and shadow fragments rapidly whirling.

She sees herself stepping naively into the mountain gate, studying scriptures under the lamp, being revered as the Saintess, and standing against the doctrine, astonishingly declaring, "Man can replace God," ultimately leading to a schism... all such past events now appear as clear as palm lines.

Fingertips pause.

It was a dim period of time.

On that day, Gongsun Guan personally took action, executing this "heretical" Purity Saintess under the gaze of many, allowing her to fully disappear into ignorance, laying out the plan till now.

Thus... this is the last step.

Erase that "death," with a twist of heaven and earth, and her decades of lurking, patience, and plotting will end here.

As her fingertip slowly approaches, the River of Time boils like a lake into which a boulder is thrown, churning violently, like a cascading waterfall, all scenes mixing messily, changing one point alters countless causes and effects, pulling on a single thread moves the whole system.

The entire River of Time shakes violently, continuing to flow like a thousand-mile waterfall, countless scenes beginning to twist, collapse, rearrange, emitting an unbearable hum.

The fingertip already barely touches the surface of the River of Time, ripples spreading during boiling.

Beyond the boiling waterfall, a blurry shadow slowly emerges.

The fingertip of the Purity Saintess hesitates.

It was not she who stopped actively, but an overwhelming Martial Intent, across the boiling waterfall River of Time forcefully pushed away the fingertip poised to change heaven and earth.

Boom!

Fist Gang forcibly shatters the waterfall,

a figure in green steps out, squeezing into this World of Ignorance.