novelraw Chapter 421 - 411: Hearing of the Divine Envoy Again!
Chapter 421 - 411: Hearing of the Divine Envoy Again!
As the words, "How could this be!" escaped his lips, the blind old man’s entire body began to tremble violently.
From his probing of the Heavenly Dao, he knew Qin Fan didn’t match the description of the prophesied Child of Destiny. Worse still, he couldn’t sense any trace of Martial Arts Cultivation within Qin Fan’s body!
No Martial Arts Cultivation, yet he killed a master of the Transformation Realm? No Martial Arts Cultivation, yet he’s acclaimed by the Martial Arts World as a young Grandmaster? How is this possible!
The blind old man questioned himself. Though his eyes were blind, his heart was not. He had nurtured Hua Xiaotian from a wandering orphan who fought with stray dogs for scraps into the man hailed as the strongest in Huaxia. While he personally considered this "strongest" title to be complete and utter nonsense, it was still a testament to his own extraordinary, truly exceptional abilities.
He was certain his senses weren’t mistaken. So what was going on?
He could have accepted it if he’d sensed that Qin Fan had Divine Realm Cultivation. But to sense no cultivation at all... what did that imply?
Either Hua Xiaotian brought the wrong person, or Qin Fan has already entered the legendary realm of the Vast World! But neither of those options makes sense. They’re both impossible! Forget the fact that Qin Fan isn’t the Child of Destiny—even if he were, he couldn’t possibly enter the realm of the Vast World before the age of twenty!
He was absolutely, unshakably certain of it.
"Disappointed?" Qin Fan asked with a playful smile, observing the unconcealed turmoil on the old man’s face.
"Are you truly the young Grandmaster who slew a master of the Transformation Realm?" the blind old man shouted in astonishment.
"I’ve never claimed to be any young Grandmaster. But yes, I killed Lan Xiaosheng. Is there a problem with that?" Qin Fan continued to smile.
"Impossible! Why can’t I sense any Martial Arts Cultivation on you? Could it be that your Realm has reached the Vast World? No, that’s impossible! If you were at the level of the Vast World, a so-called master of the Transformation Realm wouldn’t be able to withstand a single one of your moves before being instantly killed!" the blind old man cried out, his shock growing.
At that moment, his suddenly tilted head, faintly twitching ears, and deeply furrowed brow made him look just like one of the blind martial arts masters from Jin Yong’s novels. The image of Ke Zhen’e from the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan immediately came to Qin Fan’s mind.
But the amused smile had barely formed on his lips before he was captivated by the old man’s words.
The Realm of the Vast World? What kind of Realm is that? Is it still within the scope of Martial Arts?
"The Vast World?" Qin Fan voiced his thoughts, frowning.
Hearing Qin Fan’s tone, which suggested complete ignorance of the subject, the blind old man was stunned for a moment. He then shook his head and let out a troubled sigh.
"Fine, I might as well explain it to you," he said. "The progression of Martial Arts Cultivation is as follows: above the Transformation Realm is the Gang Realm, above the Gang Realm is the God Realm, and legend says that above the God Realm is the Vast World. It is said that the Vast World is the threshold one must cross to shatter Xu Kong and join the ranks of the Immortal Class. However, in my nearly two hundred years, I have never witnessed any proof of the Vast World’s existence, so I came to understand it as the final destination for the Child of Destiny. Only the Child of Destiny can achieve Ascension and become an Immortal, and by extension, only the Child of Destiny can enter that realm.
"As far as I know, there are a few individuals currently striving for that plane of existence, but alas, they have been stuck in the God Realm for almost a century. The legendary Vast World remains completely out of their reach. If I hadn’t peered into the Heavenly Dao and learned of the existence of a Child of Destiny, I too would have dismissed the so-called Vast World as nothing more than a fanciful tale. But since the Heavenly Dao Reincarnation can give birth to a Child of Destiny, that must prove that such a plane does indeed exist!"
It was a rare occurrence. The blind old man, who never spoke to strangers, was now revealing these secrets of cultivation—realms unknown to the secular world—to Qin Fan.
After speaking, he shook his head again, a hint of disappointment in his voice. "I really thought the Child of Destiny had appeared. What a shame! Another disappointment. However, since fate has brought us together, Friend Qin, allow me to offer you a piece of advice. I don’t know how you managed to kill that Transformation Realm master, but please try to keep a low profile from now on. You wouldn’t want your overt brilliance to displease the Child of Destiny when he appears, causing him to see you as a rival. That would not end well for you."
"Ha! Hahaha!"
In response to the old man’s words, Qin Fan suddenly burst into hearty laughter.
This was ridiculous. Keep a low profile? Avoid provoking this so-called Child of Destiny? Bullshit! As long as I, Qin Fan, remain on this Earth, any damned Child of Destiny had better step aside! I’m a Golden Core Stage Cultivator. Why would I need to make way for anyone? On this Earth, I, Qin Fan, am the Sovereign! I don’t care about destiny. Before me, dragons must learn to coil and tigers must learn to crouch! Anyone who dares to provoke me? I will kill them without mercy!
He had both the power and the conviction to back it up.
"What are you laughing at?" the blind old man asked instinctively.
"I’m laughing at how you worry too much, old man! Even if there is a Child of Destiny in this world, he’d have to prostrate himself before me! Because I wouldn’t mind erasing any of these so-called Children of Destiny, just to make the Heavenly Dao go through another cycle of Reincarnation!" Qin Fan declared with wild laughter.
"You—!"
The blind old man had only uttered a single word.
In the next instant, Qin Fan’s Heavenly Venerate aura erupted without reservation, unleashed in a torrent of arrogance.
Struck by this overwhelming and terrifyingly majestic pressure, the old man’s eyes shot wide open, his face a mask of unprecedented, incredulous shock. He trembled violently from head to toe.
Under the assault of this majestic pressure, he almost lost control and collapsed to his knees.
In his life of nearly two hundred years, he had never experienced such a boundless, supreme aura. He had never even heard of it.
"Are you... Are you a Divine Envoy?" his voice trembled violently, breaking as he spoke. The blind old man stumbled backward, trying to escape the oppressive presence that compelled him to prostrate himself, and shouted in disbelief.
"Divine Envoy? What Divine Envoy?"
Hearing that term again for the first time since Medicine Valley, Qin Fan couldn’t help but frown. The last time, at Medicine Valley, he had been too focused on posturing to care about the meaning of the words. But now, he felt he should probably find out.
"A Divine Envoy is a title in the Vast World!" the blind old man explained in a rush, not pausing for a breath. "It’s just like in the Martial Arts World, where those below the Transformation Realm are called Masters, and those in the Transformation Realm are Grandmasters. According to legend, the experts of the Vast World are called Divine Envoys! Are you truly a Divine Envoy from the Vast World?"
The shock on his face grew deeper and more intense. His trembling body was now quivering with a palpable sense of excitement.
To witness a Divine Envoy from the Vast World... What an utterly mind-boggling event this is!