Chapter 2695 - 316: The Heavenly Will Has Always Been Difficult to Fathom (3)

But it wasn’t that easy, it wasn’t that easy at all...

Even though the plan seemed so feasible.

Jiang Wang was now fully aware of the real issue.

Although he was in the demon clan’s territory, the demons weren’t the biggest problem. Even though he had fallen to this point due to an ambush by an enemy from the human race, that enemy wasn’t the biggest problem either.

Now, both the human and demon clans believed he was dead; he had turned from light to dark, and any hostility against him had nowhere to land.

What was the real issue?

Back when he was in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, faced with the terror of that broken knife coin, he found the reason—it wasn’t entirely due to Quan Yingyang’s gaze, the True Demon.

After sorting through all the rumors circulated by the demon clan, comparing them with his own experiences, and retracing the entire escape process, he discovered the problem.

Looking at the whole process, up until the fight with Xi Yanbing, he had managed to grasp some control over his fate—the ambush by that mysterious person was another cause and effect altogether.

During the first killing in Frost Wind Valley, Xi Yanbing was as courageous and bold as ever, daring to fight to the death.

When he turned back after killing Shi Shanwen, Xi Yanbing, who had been abandoned by Shi Shanwen, was already feeling apprehensive.

By their third confrontation, amidst a sea of fire and demon clan corpses, Xi Yanbing had lost all courage. Under his pressure, Xi Yanbing made the wrong choice, eventually succumbing to the freezing wind.

In the battle process, in controlling both sides’ fighting wills, Jiang Wang asked himself and felt he had reached the limits.

But the problem began right at this moment.

After he killed Xi Yanbing and erased all traces, he fled Frost Wind Valley deep into the night.

When the Long Night passed, and the sky brightened, Jiang Mengxiong personally descended upon the Monster Realm, leveling the entire Frost Wind Valley.

This was the first missed opportunity.

As he hid in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, concealing his tracks and actions, afraid to show himself, Jiang Mengxiong was engaged in a great battle with Yuan Xianting. Meanwhile, he tread carefully, unable to maintain any observation of the situation outside the mountains.

This was the second missed opportunity.

When he detected the commotion among the little demons entering the mountain and realized Frost Wind Valley had changed, sensing that a great battle was imminent, he ventured into The Sky Sloth Wilderness at great risk... only for Yuan Xianting to move to South Celestial City, blocking his way! He had no choice but to return the same way he came, at similar risk.

This was the third missed opportunity.

But when he cautiously and meticulously escaped back to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, Zuo Xiao and Jiang Mengxiong just happened to storm South Celestial City, setting off a grand battle in South Heaven!

This was the fourth missed opportunity.

He hid in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, unaware of the battle’s progress in South Celestial City, nor did he dare inquire.

He managed to evade the sights of those demon clan warriors, casually joining a bounty hunting party in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains... but within this very group, there was a demon clan genius with an unshown, innate divine skill for sensing danger!

This encounter once again pushed him to the brink of despair.

That dog demon came with over a hundred subordinates into the mountains, already on guard against sabotage by other demons, having a True Demon level grandfather, who had left behind certain measures and would come immediately...

If not for the knife coin he acquired from Yu Beidou at that time, by this point, he might have been finished.

Jiang Wang at the time was terrified because he felt "Heavenly Will"!

The immense hostility he felt was this demon clan world rejecting him, the outsider!

From beginning to end, what did Jiang Wang do wrong? At what step was he not careful enough, not meticulous enough? The adventures he should or shouldn’t have taken, he had waded through. Every opportunity he could seize, he had seized, every effort he could make, he had made. How then was there so many, such deadly missed opportunities?

Everything was too coincidental!

And this kind of "coincidence," he was familiar with...

How similar it was to the repeated failures of the Bone Respecting God with the Taoist Child, how similar it was to the futile struggles of Zhang Linchuan?