Chapter 2097: Original text: Chapter 1596 Establishing Human Dao, Confronting Heavenly Dao_2 Modified:

“No, it’s just that this page is complex because its contents are not simple,” the old man said to Jiang Hao, “Aren’t you curious about what’s on it?”

“What is it?” Jiang Hao asked.

“Daily Appraisal.” The old man answered with a hint of profundity.

His gaze remained fixed on Jiang Hao.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Hao’s pupils contracted.

Daily Appraisal?

“Is it on you?” the old man asked.

Jiang Hao nodded, “Yes, so this spell was originally from the pages of an ancient book?”

“Yes, but also no,” the old man said calmly, “The original Daily Appraisal involved the profound cause and effect of the Tao. Using it would entangle one in cause and effect, making it easy to get caught up in it.

The cost was significant.

Later, Cheng Yun’s power got involved, and the things it involved began to change.

Then it mutated again, with another power getting involved.

In the end, it became the spell you possess today.

Even I am unsure what the current Daily Appraisal has turned into.

Additionally, Cheng Yun’s power has naturally undergone changes.

But one thing is certain.

The original Daily Appraisal did not choose you. Instead, Cheng Yun chose you.

As it turns out, whether it’s the old Heavenly Dao or the new Heavenly Dao, neither had the foresight that Cheng Yun had.

However, it’s good that though Daily Appraisal didn’t choose you, you chose Daily Appraisal.”

Jiang Hao lowered his head. Though surprised, he was mentally prepared.

When Mr. Tao mentioned the opportunity for the child, he knew he might also be a chosen child of Cheng Yun.

However, this power he possesses does not only come from Cheng Yun.

It also contains the power of the Game Player who resists Cheng Yun, and the power of the Nine Revolutions Death Substitution.

That’s how he achieved what he is today.

Otherwise, even if his path thereafter were smooth, the early stages would still have been full of obstacles.

In the end, it was these powers that accomplished him.

Even if it’s only before becoming an immortal.

However, the original Daily Appraisal seemed to bear enormous cause and effect, whereas now it almost has no consumption.

It’s probably due to the mutations.

Jiang Hao sighed and, with some regret, said, “I can’t bear the cause and effect of Daily Appraisal.”

“I understand. After all, your achievements today are likely more guided by Cheng Yun than by Daily Appraisal,” the old man said without much concern.

Of course, the most important thing is that Cheng Yun is already on the opposite side of Jiang Hao.

Whether to accept it or not doesn’t matter anymore.

Otherwise, one would still have to fight for a chance.

The old man handed the pages of the ancient book back to Jiang Hao and said, “What ‘The heavens reward those who work hard’ means, I’m not sure, but it should be related to what you possess.

It might have an effect on you.”

Jiang Hao accepted the pages of the ancient book and asked with some curiosity, “Were all these pages given out by you, senior?”

The old man placed the book on the table and said, “Yes, I tore them out from this book.”

Jiang Hao looked at the intact book and asked, “Why does it not seem any less?”

“Take a look,” the old man said, pushing the book towards Jiang Hao.

Looking at the book on the table, Jiang Hao opened it and glanced through it.

In an instant, Jiang Hao saw countless scenes. He saw the passage of time, the shifting of stars, and the myriad worlds.

Each segment of time and each scene became a page of the book.

There were records of spells, divine abilities, magical treasures, human culture, geography, architecture, culinary arts, and so on.

In an instant, Jiang Hao came back to his senses.

He looked at the closed book and fell silent for a moment.

So the pages that senior tore were not pages but the…

Old world.

Picking up a cup of tea, the old man said, “Our world had a lot of heritage. If it disappeared along with it, it would have been too great a loss.

I extracted it out little by little and sent it into the flow. Eventually, some would appear in the new world.

Gradually, this can accelerate the development of the new world.

At least, they won’t repeat our mistakes.”

“Senior, are you a Saint from that world?” Jiang Hao asked.

Hearing this, the old man laughed twice and said, “A Saint? Perhaps, but not entirely.

If I were just a Saint, I wouldn’t have waited for your arrival.

Nor could I have escaped Cheng Yun’s accounting.”

As he said this, the old man looked at Jiang Hao and continued, “In those days, Cheng Yun called me Heavenly Dao. Of course, I wasn’t really the Heavenly Dao.”

The old man seemed to recall something, “The Saints lost, and the Heavenly Dao could no longer struggle.

The Saints died, and the Heavenly Dao gradually dissipated under the Ancient Yin-Yang Millstone.

In order to leave something behind, the remnants of Saints and Heavenly Dao merged.

That’s how I came to be.

I’ve been hiding here, waiting for someone who could enter.”

Jiang Hao was silent for a moment, considering the old man’s words.

The Saints and the Heavenly Dao united, yet they couldn’t escape Cheng Yun.

This puzzled him.

What kind of cultivation level does Cheng Yun have?

He asked.

The old man rose and went to the bow of the ship.

Jiang Hao followed him.

Waiting for an explanation.

The old man looked at the dark surface of the water, “Let me tell you a story.”

Jiang Hao understood what the old man wanted to say and waited quietly.

The old man waved his hand, causing images to appear on the sea’s surface.

In the images, there was chaos, and the world had yet to open.

“Our world was somewhat unique. At that time, there was no Tao, just endless chaos.

And in the chaos, chaotic beings were born.

The first to be born was a tree, intertwined with black and white.

As the chaos changed, the tree bore two fruits.

One black, one white.

One day, the white fruit matured first, turning into an innate thought that merged into the chaos.

Afterwards, the chaos was covered by order, laws were established, and the stars shined upon the universe.

This thought was called the Tao.

The Heavenly Dao, or the Great Way.

The Tao’s appearance gave order to the chaos, and order turned into heaven and earth, promoting the Tao.

Space, cause and effect, time, came into being.

Due to the early appearance of the Tao, order was established.

The immature black fruit fell prematurely and became part of the world.

Thereafter, Innate beings appeared, and the creations of the absolute beginning flourished.

Strong beings were everywhere.

People from the Heavenly Joy Pavilion appeared countless years later.

In that era of Innate beings, the people from the Heavenly Joy Pavilion were miserable, their cultivation progressed slowly.

They endured endless oppression.

Even if their numbers were many, it changed nothing.

Innate beings were born with cultivation methods.

Aligned with the Tao.

The people from the Heavenly Joy Pavilion had nothing and could only explore on their own.

They would seek power from the Innate beings. Even a green lotus was a great help to them.

They could observe and extract, and make it their own.

The people from the Heavenly Joy Pavilion gradually accumulated strength.

One day, Innate beings saw them and enslaved them.

They resisted, with one in ten surviving, yet they could not escape slavery.

Their numbers were many. But when they reached a certain limit, they would be cleansed.

Countless members of the Heavenly Joy Pavilion were killed, considered impurities, unlike the pristine bodies of Innate beings.

But they still struggled to live.

One day, an ordinary baby was born.

His birth attracted no attention. He was indoctrinated with the mindset of a slave and believed it.

Until one day, he watched his beloved family be cleansed, and a seed of hatred was planted.

He observed, etching innate patterns in his body.

His talents were remarkable, and he found his path.

By a hundred years old, he was the strongest among the people from the Heavenly Joy Pavilion, but he knew he couldn’t match the Innate beings.

He disguised himself and endured.

Waiting for his chance for revenge.

At two hundred, he killed an Innate being and acquired a black fruit.

At the moment he saw it, he knew it was his greatest opportunity. It was an unfathomable presence.

A thousand years later, a new reckoning came.

Innate beings thought it would be as usual.

But this time, the people from the Heavenly Joy Pavilion struck first, a youth killed an Innate being.

It marked the first grand rebellion in their history of enslavement.

War erupted. Led by the youth, they fought fiercely, advancing unstoppably.

They eventually forced out the earliest Innate beings.

The people then halted, retreating.

But the war continued for ten thousand years, and they never truly lost, rising all the while, their champions emerging.

Innate beings were shocked, realizing delay meant doom.

They united.

To eradicate the people from the Heavenly Joy Pavilion utterly.

One day, while the youth contemplated the black fruit, he saw its divine sense.

It told him, it was of the same origin as the Tao. Fuse with it, and he would be recognized by the Tao, coexist with it, transcending humanity to stand atop the world.

But the youth did not hesitate, immediately rejecting the black fruit.

He declared, the Tao was merciless, treating the people like straw dogs, he would establish the Human Dao, to defy the Tao.

The proclamation spread.

The Tao is unkind, the Human Dao shall stand.

For all eternity, the people will open a new heaven.

Bearing the destiny of the new heaven, forging an eternal Tao.

He called himself Cheng Yun.

Proclaiming the title of Lord Cheng Yun.

The eternal Human Dao as the core.

Beginning the path of defying the heavens.”