Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor novel Chapter 493

Chapter 493 Innocence

'As expected,' thought as he felt the poison inside his body; he planned to use this moment of intangibility to remove it from his body. But, Zhen Chao expected this and also blessed the Dragon Binding Grass with intangibility to prevent him from removing it.

Wang Wei had to admit it was very unpleasant when his own power acted against him. So, if he survived this ordeal, he decided to create countermeasures for this possibility.

Wang Wei then contemplated how to buy himself more time. Zhen Chao's ability to copy his strength significantly delayed the time he needed for his plan to work, so time was not on his side.

'I could try to reach the Void Stage of Nothingness?'

He previously divided the Path of Nothingness into four stages: Intangible, Void, Emptiness, and True Nothingness. Although all these stages' names were essentially synonyms of each other, this was intentional to describe certain levels of the concept of 'nothingness". It is a way for his mind to understand or define such a vast, complex, and unexplainable concept or existence.

Nevertheless, Wang Wei had to admit he had great fears about the power of Nothingness. Every time he tried to cultivate to a higher level, he could hear a very tempting voice calling him to fuse and become one with nothingness.

If it were now for his terrifying Willpower and probably unique soul, he would have long succumbed to that voice and forever disappeared from the world. So, he stopped cultivating the Power of Nothingness.

Anyway, he discovered long ago the more powerful his body became, the longer he could stay in the intangible state. As for the second stage, he decided to wait until after proving the Dao to take another look.

So, his mind calculated another plan. He divided his mind into two: one part accessed the [Future Buddha Self] to cultivate, and the second part focused on Zhen Chao, who appeared to be waiting for his time in the state to finish before executing him.

'Based on his behavior, there should be no time limit to how long he can have my power, or the time limit is long enough that he does not need to worry.'

He stood up from the ground, still with both hands missing. In his state, the Duyi Realm no longer affected him, so he could regenerate them. But, he concluded it would waste too much energy even if he used the Life and Death Wheel Innate Talent, energy he will need for the next step of the plan.

"I'm curious about how you became so powerful?" asked Wang Wei. "The Cultivation System you used is obviously not the Origin System. So, how did you acquire it and reach another World Community?"

"I found the Martial Ancestor's inheritance," replied Zhen Chao calmly.

"Martial Ancestor? You mean the guy who invented Martial Arts in the Warring State World?"

Wang Wei remembered the martial artists that existed in that world. Some of them could even compete and defeat Divine Sea realm cultivators, and there were rumors of Grandmaster who could defeat Divine Altar cultivators.

And the source of Martial Art in that world was the Martial Ancestor. Wang Wei did not care about the Martial Art path of that world since it seemed very flawed and required extreme harsh conditions to cultivate: most likely because it was a prototype of a new cultivation system.

Nevertheless, he found their spiritual cultivation innovative and helpful to people to reach the Divine Altar Realm, so he took it back home.

"The Martial Ancestor was a person born with a [Leakless Body] like me and could not cultivate the Origin System. So, he developed his own cultivation system. Eventually, he traveled to another World Community, proved the Dao, and made his system the main one.

"Luckily for me, he returned to his home world and left his inheritance."

Wang Wei could guess the rest of the story. Zhen Chao left home out of fear of being killed and not having anything left in life, full of hatred and pain. Then, he accidentally discovered the inheritance and met the requirement of the Martial Ancestor.

He used the resources he left to travel to another World Community to increase his strength to get his revenge.

"I bet your life from then on was a cliche story of a mediocre protagonist story. Whenever you go, you would find these very rare and uncommon fortunate encounters perfectly suited to help in your revenge."

"Are you trying to belittle my accomplishment? You have no idea how hard I work, how much I suffered trying to keep up with a monster like you."

"I'm sure you've had to do some horrendous things for strength besides selling your soul."

"What are you implying?"

"Honestly, I don't like how I'm portrayed as the bad guy in the story when you have probably committed as many atrocities as me, if not more."

Zhen Chao looked him deep in the eyes.

"You're right. But the main difference between us is that I regret every single one of these decisions. When I close my eyes, I can still hear their screams, and instead of accepting and moving on with my life, I carry the burden of my actions.

"Every waking moment of my life, I remind myself that I did what I did for revenge, and after accomplishing my goal, I will die to atone for my actions."

"Do you think death is enough to atone for your sins?"

"Maybe not, but it is better than a cruel monster like you."

"Cruel monster? Maybe," said Wang Wei calmly as he looked at the bright blue sky. "When I decided to walk on the Emperor Path to become free and unfettered one day, I knew my hands would one day stain with the blood of innocent lives.