Chapter 737 Your Turn

"Boom!" Tonight, in the Starfire Domain, dark clouds loomed over the city, and a torrential downpour raged, obscuring the moonlight and starlight from the pedestrians.Li An sat in a private room on the second floor of a brightly lit restaurant, waiting for the arrival of Frost and Snow.He gazed out the window at the crowds coming and going in the pouring rain, his thoughts racing.This rainstorm was naturally formed, and as a child from a traditional family, even though he had become a Heavenly Dao, he still felt it was an ominous sign.The case concerning the Luck Lotus Tree had been approved.This matter would inevitably change the entire face of the human world.No matter how much Yu Shan feared this tree, no matter what the Demon Realm and the Asura Realm thought, they could not affect this outcome.Because this was the only solution for the human world to break the current impasse.After the meeting ended, Li An watched the powerful figures from various realms leave one by one. His gaze fell on Yu Shan, then on Mr. Tianming, but no one lingered. In the end, only Li An remained in the empty conference room.The dim, yellow light blurred, and the surroundings were utterly silent, so quiet that Li An could only hear his own breathing.He was utterly alone in this world.An unprecedented pressure weighed on Li An's shoulders. At this moment, all he could think of was Shuang Xue.The sudden sound of the door opening snapped Li An back to reality. Turning around, he saw that familiar face appear before him. She smiled gently, wearing a blue dress, just as she had on the day they first met, sitting beside him.Then, the dishes were served, all of which were Li An's and her favorites.But Li An seemed to have no appetite.Shuang Xue watched him silently, then put down her chopsticks.The two sat facing each other in silence.Suddenly, an extremely negative, even painful thought surged into Li An's mind.Now.Even Shuang Xue couldn't help him anymore.No one could stand beside him.Li An felt an overwhelming, profound loneliness.The loneliness of being the Heavenly Dao.Even those beautiful hopes for the future became blurred.A boxing gym in a coastal city, he was the top coach, Shuangxue was the beautiful proprietress, and the two lived a happy, ordinary life.All of this became blurred.He didn't know if that day would ever come, and even more so, he didn't know if he would still be the same person when that day truly became within reach."Boom!" An untimely clap of thunder exploded!The world outside the window flashed!Shuangxue turned her head, her beautiful eyes seeing pedestrians on the street."Look, people aren't afraid of the rain anymore.""Elementalists use their laws to isolate themselves, martial artists use their martial intent to isolate themselves from the rain.""Heavy rain can no longer affect everyone's normal life."These words made Li An pause, and he looked back.Yes.There were no mortals in the Starfire Domain; even in torrential rain, the roads were bustling with traffic.No one in this city feared natural disasters.This wasn't even something that needed to be deliberately discussed; it was all taken for granted. Creatures in ancient times didn't live like this.Everything was getting better, yet he was filled with anxiety about the future."The pessimist is always right.""The optimist always succeeds." Shuangxue hugged Li An, offering encouragement.There weren't so many fancy, messy emotions.The inner turmoil seemed turbulent and chaotic, but it was actually just the turmoil caused by a certain volcano.That volcano was called the fear of the unknown.He never had these feelings before, because he would ask questions when he didn't understand, and someone would help him when he couldn't win.Now he stood at the forefront, all alone, with no one to ask, no one to turn to.Everything seemed to have happened too fast, too suddenly.It was as if overnight, Li An had grown into an adult.He remembered his father saying that eighteen was just a legal adult, not a true adult."Only when there's no one left in front of you will you become a true adult." Back then, his parents were gone, but Li An still had his teachers and his brothers and sisters from the military region.Now, Li An has no one left.He is the adult standing before all living beings.Finally, you've become the adult you've always dreamed of, so why aren't you happy at all?After dinner.Li An, accompanied by Shuangxue, went to a famous lake in the human realm to admire the fish leaping from the water after the raindrops splashed on its surface.This lake is said to have a very ancient history, even dating back to the first era, and is called Taiping Lake.The first generation led their primitive tribes across the sea, and later generations moved seawater here to commemorate them. At the end of this lake lies the largest ocean in the human realm, called Taiping Sea.Countless humans perished while crossing this sea; their blood has been diluted by time, but legend says that when later generations stand here, they can still hear the ancient battle cries.Li An recalled the history he had studied two years prior at the Temple of Reconstruction. Those powerful figures had created a space-time identical to ancient times, allowing them, the modern generation, to see how the first, second, third, and fourth generations had arrived at their current state.The blood shed by the first generation as they traversed mountains and valleys.The second generation, driven to near madness by their efforts to modify bloodlines and improve the overall quality of humanity, brought about a period of peace under the third generation's rule.The fourth generation, Zhang Bufan, took humanity's first step towards the heavens.He was the revered "Fire of Humanity," said to have fallen during a celestial war, though he might still be alive. Before his departure, he passed the throne to the fifth generation, the Lin family.Because Zhang Bufan was so extraordinary, humanity became the target of all races, leading to years of resistance and war in the fifth generation.The fifth generation, Lin Zimin, and the sixth generation, Gu Qiping, both died on the battlefield. Their era was known as the Glorious Age, and finally, by the seventh generation, humanity had secured a place among the heavens!Li An stood by the lake.He closed his eyes, and suddenly a fierce battle roar echoed in his ears—the resounding voice of humanity's heroes.The sound grew ever more turbulent, like a surging river of blood, ceaseless and ever-flowing.They were telling Li An that the path forward was always paved with blood!The first generation, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, including the seventh generation who ascended to heaven with the tyrant.Every generation advanced, and every generation shed blood!What you are doing now is without fault!You are on the right path!Do not fear, do not retreat, do not let the blood of past heroes be forgotten!It's your turn!It's your turn!It's your turn!The baton that determines the fate of humanity is now in your hands!Li An's blood began to flow, surging with heat!He raised his right hand and clenched it tightly in the void before him.What did he grasp?It seemed he grasped nothing at all! Suddenly, Shuangxue turned around and looked into the woods behind them. It seemed a short, hunched old man was secretly watching them, but his gaze wasn't lewd; instead, it was full of admiration.Suddenly.The old man vanished.Shuangxue turned back, and Li An's eyes snapped open, his gaze now devoid of any confusion, only extreme resolve!No turning back.No regrets.He would simply follow the path of forging destiny with blood!Success or death!Li An clenched his fists tightly, his palms warm, a comforting warmth spreading through him.