Chapter 168 Who Are You?

"Who, who are you?"

Christ couldn't make out the appearance of the person speaking from within the Light Realm, and his mind began to turn numb from the continuous tremors. He had thought that Mister Gu was the most extreme person in the past world, but after the old era was extinguished, existences even more powerful than Mister Gu appeared before his eyes one after another.

These people were inextricably linked to the old era, but were not recorded in history. They were each in a strange place, perhaps beyond even the control of the Ninefold Hell-Plucking Heavenly Venerable.

And he had originally thought that this Light Realm was a unique place he had proven, a private domain that belonged only to him.

He never expected that someone else already existed here.

"I am someone who never existed in the void myths."

"Once, a great door was opened, and ten directions of Void Heavenly Venerables were released from behind it. However, saying 'ten directions' is just a figurative term. The true number of Void Heavenly Venerables released is unknown. I am one of them."

That person spoke of an ancient story, clarifying his identity, but Christ still couldn't understand. The person shook his head and sighed:

"There was originally only one path in the world. Later, upon reaching the other shore, it was discovered that there were many places on the other shore. Thus, the path was divided into many paths, and things that never existed in the past flourished. Even if it's a false delusion, it's the correct thing for the beings within that delusion."

"You shouldn't exist either; you were born from reflection... I'm talking about one old era after another."

Christ also shook his head: "I know that the old era was evolved by a Heavenly Venerable. He is the origin of Yuqing, the source of us all, and the source of all things. We originally came from nothingness, so what does reflection matter?"

"Being assimilated or separated by others, or being a toy shaped at will by others, but no matter what, I exist in reality, and I survived the destruction of the era. I successfully proved my own Dao and arrived at the Light Realm. I have lived out all aspects of my own existence and am no longer anyone's appendage."

Upon hearing this, the person laughed:

"Good, the fact that you can have such thoughts shows that your image has surpassed the Lord of Great Images! You are a new image, with infinite possibilities! And now, your departure has collapsed all the shackles of the First Yuqing, even yourself. You are no longer bound by the old Primordial Beginning."

"In fact, that's how it should be. If you don't leave the First Yuqing, all of you are under the shackles of the old Primordial Beginning. You still retain the Holy Title of the Primordial Beginning Heavenly Venerable, which is proof that you haven't broken free from his Primordial Beginning Image."

He praised Christ and extended a helping hand to him:

"Let me send you to an other shore, where there are broader roads for you to soar endlessly. Your path is no longer suitable here. Vows and thoughts gather living beings. You don't have to imitate those Five Emperors and similar things. In the beyond of the beyond, the Dharma is endless, and vows and thoughts are not just the thoughts of living beings, but also the thoughts of non-living beings."

"The other shores we can observe are not enough."

Christ thought that he was the last Yuqing cultivator, the first to betray the Primordial Beginning teachings. From that moment on, he was no longer a Yuqing cultivator in the strict sense.

He cultivated to the extreme in the East, then went to the West to cultivate, replacing the gods of their past myths and becoming one of the most powerful people in the Heavenly Heart Realm. Now that the Heavenly Heart Path has finally broken, he doesn't have to enter the Heavenly Dao True Realm like the Jiajing Emperor.

There are other paths!

Boom!

The light in the Light Realm gathered, and that person reached out, pressing all the light onto Christ's brow, igniting a flame.

In that instant, all the past realms were completely shattered, and a new path began to open up, standing at the same position as the Heavenly Dao True Realm from the very beginning, and even more powerful in some respects.

No need for the Heavenly Dao to act as a blessing, no need to borrow a great life from the outside.

Spirituality was developed, completely ignited, divine fire boiled, burning the whole body, becoming the original person.

"Every phenomenon has an original prototype. Finding this prototype and uniting with it is the true achievement of self-sublimation. All phenomena are 'self-existent and all-encompassing', which is why they can manifest in the world and become phenomena. Finding the prototype of phenomena is another path similar to the Primordial Beginning Path... Now, I will turn you into the original prototype. How far you can go depends on your future efforts."

"Go."

With a wave of his hand, that person sent Christ to another other shore. The Light Realm was completely closed, and this Void Heavenly Venerable also disappeared, declining with the decline of those rays of light. ......

Christ left the Light Realm and went to an unknown other shore. From then on, all the Yuqing cultivators in the old era evolved by the Ninefold Hell Heavenly Venerable ceased to exist. The Dao of the First Yuqing was completely cut off at this moment. When this Dao was cut off, Ji Xiang also sensed it.

Then, the light of the Second Yuqing began to erupt from the depths of his mind. After the remaining part of the Dao of the First Yuqing completely disappeared, the Second Yuqing completely replaced the position of the First Yuqing, and a huge new era entrance instantly evolved behind Ji Xiang.

A Great Image crashed down, lifting up the dark and mysterious image from before, directly confronting the blazing Immortal Undying Flower in the Divine Anomaly World.

The thoughts in the Immortal Undying Flower began to become active. Under the burning of the immortal fire of the thoughts of all living beings, it seemed to have regained some clarity, but it still exuded a sighing mood, feeling sorry for not having assimilated a Lord of Great Images.

"If you have experienced many old eras, then you should have seen many Lords of Great Images. You haven't assimilated them, and you want to assimilate me because the power of the eras and the immortal fire of all beings' vows and thoughts accumulated over countless old eras make you think you can compete with the Lord of Great Images?"

Ji Xiang's tone was filled with majesty. The new era of the Second Yuqing appeared, compressing the Divine Anomaly World into a small point. The flame of the Immortal Undying Flower enveloped the outside of the Divine Anomaly World, looking like a complete golden pill.

And now, Ji Xiang, as the Without Beginning Without End Heavenly Venerable, has used the power of this flower to raise his own realm to an incredible level.

The era mists on the Immortal Undying Flower began to twist, and the fire of all beings' vows and thoughts completely burned the flower, turning the complete flower into ashes. A remnant shadow was projected from the era mist.

As soon as this remnant shadow appeared, everything around it became his, merging with him. Outside this old era, outside this new era, was the endless Realm of Karma, but at this moment, all Karma converged towards that remnant shadow, becoming his.

This scene made Ji Xiang think that it was Qing Luo resurrected. Among the characters he had encountered in the past, only Qing Luo's Karma could assimilate other Karma and then summon Mister Gu.

But now, those Karmas, even the phenomena of Karma formation, were transformed into one place by that remnant shadow, becoming one with him. After gaining the dominance of the Realm of Karma, he, like Mister Gu, rushed towards the Mysterious Image as if devouring everything.

"Mysterious Image! Mysterious Image of the other shore! If I obtain you, a certain 'me' can be resurrected and return, obtaining new life from the image here!"

"The phenomena here are born from the First Void Thought; they are truly 'children whose father is unknown'! No one will spit out a mouthful of essence to transform him, and there is no one who will come to stop me."

The voice of the remnant shadow was full of desire. Ji Xiang, seeing the Mysterious Image again, that dark and distant ancient abyss, for the first time, had a thought about this strange existence that seemed to have some similar characteristics to it.

This was the second Void Thought since the appearance of the Mysterious Image!

And this Void Thought was completely transmitted to Ji Xiang. Ji Xiang's spirituality was instantly emptied, and all the phenomena he could perceive disappeared, replaced by a distant and dark scene. In this scene, that thought descended, mingling in the dust.

Dust was what appeared after the first Void Thought arose, symbolizing all phenomena in the world.

The Mysterious Image had no concept of "you," "I," or "he," so it wouldn't look at everything with such a concept. When a Void Thought descended, all things in the era arose, with the other shore and this shore coexisting. The myriad ancient starry skies, the heavens and the Dharma realms, and the countless phenomena appeared and disappeared simultaneously, rising and falling, like these dust particles.

"Second Void Thought."

"To nurture without dominating is called Mysterious Virtue."

Selflessness, maintaining weakness, not contending, profound, distant, and contrary to things, and then to the greatest harmony. He is the lord of all things without arbitrarily dominating all phenomena; this is Mysterious Virtue.

Mysterious Virtue is profound, returning to simplicity with all things.

That is completeness, but it is a completely different path from the remnant shadow that appeared from completeness. In the artistic conception of the Second Void Thought, within that profound darkness, what erupted was a repulsive force.

Towards this remnant shadow, it was exceptionally repulsed, and it could not be compatible with it at all, existing on the opposite path.

And the Second Void Thought also pointed out the next new realm for Ji Xiang, without having to follow the change from Great Image to Without Image, nor having to carry out Ascension to Mystery.

As the Void Heavenly Venerable within the Light Realm said, the world has endless other shores, all with thoroughfares. Once the shackles of the Primordial Beginning are broken, the sea is wide and the sky is high! Not restricted by the image of the Primordial Beginning descending from the Mysterious Image, but directly connecting with the Mysterious Image!