No wonder He used the number of the Great Expansion to divine so many times, and the result always showed peace and prosperity under the heavens, unsuitable to clash head-on with this person.
As long as nothing collapses disastrously, then play until one's limit.
Duncan's expression remained calm, and he said faintly, "Since I aim to contend for the throne of the Heavenly Emperor, I naturally want to protect Huaxia's eternal prosperity, and ensure the lands of Divine State never fall under foreign iron hooves."
"If I fail to achieve this."
"Then I shall repay the destiny of heaven and earth with my body and my life."
What does it matter if I perish and my Dao disappears?
You wish to vie for the Heavenly Emperor's throne and yet want to keep a retreat? Holding onto all benefits, what kind of dream are you dreaming?
Duncan's expression showed a hint of contempt, quietly gazing at the Jade Emperor's apparition before him, and slowly said, "To accomplish great things, how can one cherish one's life?"
"Do you still not understand why you lost?"
Only wanting benefits, unwilling to bear Karma.
Heaven wouldn't deal with you?
Who else then?
Duncan wishes to set a precedent in this world, proving there is no retreat in vying for the Heavenly Emperor's position!
Hesitating forward and backward, timid and indecisive.
Only leads to one road: death!
Duncan's current form is deeply bound with human Wish Power, coupled with his comprehension of Dao Law's union state, which means this human form, half belongs to humanity, half to Heavenly Dao. Human Wish Power is usury, and Heavenly Dao Law is likewise usury.
It is only when the usurious debt is sufficiently large that Duncan has space for maneuvering.
If he truly ran off with debts unpaid.
Then the headache wouldn't be his anymore.
For the Lord of Great Freedom Demon, if not acting like a debtor, he must repay debts honestly, anyway, he can entrust this human form, and it's just wasting a few hundred years. But if the Lord of Great Freedom Demon truly acts like a debtor, who can really do anything about it, as the Heavenly Dao of this world can't even chase this dimension-above original self.
In a word, success and failure are debated for heroes.
Dao sects promoted the Jade Emperor Daoist Monarch correctly, and elevating the Jade Emperor Daoist Monarch to compete with the Buddhist sect is also correct, even using dynastic destiny to confer the Jade Emperor is no issue.
As long as Dao sects can assist the Song Dynasty resembling Han and Tang, making Huaxia remain at the world's peak, regardless if it's Witchcraft, Dao sects, or Buddhist sect, all are great contributors. But during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Song Dynasty period, what exactly did Dao sects do? By then, Northern Song was in such a ghostly state, yet they still granted a plethora of Dao sect Divine Spirits, deluding the emperor as the reincarnation of the Great Long-Lived Emperor, even desecrating Mount Tai's canonical destiny of Central Plains, since starting from Five Dynasties, Dao sects have been continuously stealing Central Plains destiny.
These stolen destinies, then accomplished the Jade Emperor present before us!
Even Duncan suspects that the Jade Emperor's original Divine Soul is substituted by some high figure of Dao sect, for historically there never was a Jade Emperor's position, suddenly emerging during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
After the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China, came Southern and Northern Dynasties, which was also the era when Dao sect Divine Spirits emerged excessively.
On that golden throne, the Jade Emperor's shadow remained silent.
Though He first stole the heavenly secret destiny, Duncan's stakes were too heavy, like a seesaw, directly flipping Him away, comparatively, His stakes for stealing Heavenly Dao authority were pitifully small, not even enough to provide the great unity of Central Plains dynasty destiny.
He is guaranteed to be satiated, yet the common creatures under heaven aren't necessarily so.
Comparing both, Heavenly Dao's preference needs no contemplation.
If He dares to swear a Heavenly Oath, proving Jade Emperor using Central Plains destiny today, should Huaxia face catastrophic upheaval, He too will immediately perish with His Dao disappearing and Divine Soul extinguished.
Heaven might just endure, and wouldn't summon Lord of Great Freedom Demon to respond to calamity.
To sit in the Heavenly Emperor's position, one must bear the Heavenly Emperor's Karma.
For the Jade Emperor before him, Duncan's move is equivalent to mutual destruction, as the Central Plains' dynasty destiny has cycles, unless he can resolve the cycles of history while protecting himself with world-creating-like merits, otherwise at most after two-three hundred years, once dynasty changes, he'd be doomed.
But regardless of the future.
At this moment, Duncan is terrifyingly strong!
The Jade Emperor's shadow also seemingly understands that today, only one can survive, it's either His Divine Soul's extinction or the Lord of Great Freedom Demon's perishing.
As He slowly stood up, the moment He raised his hand, everything before him seemed to shatter reality, space overlapped, time surged backward, drifting immortal gas clouds flowed from all around, this golden palace also transformed, becoming grander and majestic, as if the distance between the two was like a fathomless sky's horizon, between Duncan and Jade Emperor's figures, Divine Spirit shadows began to gradually appear.
——Lingxiao Palace!
Buzz.
Above the dimension.
A densely packed blood-red prompt emerged.
"Alert! Alert!"
"Detected extraordinary divine power altering space!"
"Alert! Alert!"
"You have entered the special divine country plane 'Lingxiao Palace'!"
Crack.
The human form in the projected image suddenly split in two, and at the moment the blood light burst forth, Duncan's head was immediately chopped off.
"For offending divine majesty, you shall be decapitated!"
The figure of the Jade Emperor wielded the Three Treasure Jade Scepter, his mouth decreeing heavenly constitution, his words commanding laws, the surrounding space suddenly shifted, Lingxiao Palace was still there, but Duncan's figure now appeared on an execution platform, and as the word 'decapitate' fell, a dazzling stream of light severed his head.