Chapter 1024: Chapter 1021: God’s Perspective
The entire cave was filled with a golden glow, as a screen as large as a cinema screen appeared.
Just like an AI-generated animation, the figure of a child appeared on the big screen.
This child was born in the distant Pre-Qin period, and during his youth, he accidentally obtained a fragment of a Daoist scripture, allowing him to step into the cultivation world.
The boy’s name was Li Er, who was the legendary Taoist riding a blue ox from Han Valley, a historical legend left by the Pre-Qin civilization of the Divine Continent.
The images on the screen flickered continuously, depicting Li Er obtaining the Daoist scripture fragment and stepping into the cultivation world, constantly growing, and eventually becoming one of the top powerhouses of that era. To find the ancient Shanhai civilization, he rode the blue ox out of Han Valley, wandering through the Nine Provinces and Four Seas.
On this big screen, the process of Li Er searching for the ancient Shanhai relics was reenacted from Li Er’s perspective for Yang Fei. From this, Yang Fei understood why Gonggong was angered into crashing into Buzhou Mountain and why Emperor Zhuanxu severed the connection between high-level cultivation civilization and Earth’s secular civilization.
He also learned that the three small worlds of the Hidden Sect, Heaven, and the Penglai Realm were actually the creations of Li Er and his disciples and successors.
Through these three small worlds, Li Er completely concealed the aura of Earth’s space, making it impossible for the cultivation civilization to detect Earth’s existence.
Not only that, but after establishing these three mini-world planes, Li Er used a powerful array to seal the source of Earth’s spiritual energy, ’White Jade City,’ in the Arctic Deep Sea, thereby completely cutting off earthly secular cultivation.
As for so-called immortality, Yang Fei was not particularly interested at the moment.
So he didn’t think Li Er was wrong for severing the path of cultivation for humanity on Earth.
Just as the Tao Te Ching, which Li Er left to be spread among the secular world, said:
Heaven and Earth are ruthless, treating all things as straw dogs.
A saint is ruthless, treating the people as straw dogs.
Powerful cultivators pursue immortality, shedding human emotions and desires, forsaking human nature, eventually breaking emotions and righteousness, losing all humanity, which Li Er believed was not the path humanity should take.
Humanity is beautiful, and the world is wonderful because people have emotions, righteousness, love, and the atmosphere of smoke and fire.
The divine skills controlled by powerful cultivators are too against the natural order for ordinary people. Once many powerful cultivators fall into demonic paths, it would lead to widespread devastation among worldly beings, which in Li Er’s view, goes against the Tao and harms harmony.
Yang Fei completely understood this.
Just like the major nuclear-armed nations around the world signing a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons before the catastrophe.
The existence of nuclear weapons is already against harmony.
Once released for use, human civilization could be wholly annihilated at any time.
For ordinary people, powerful cultivators are no different from nuclear weapons once they lose control.
Therefore, Li Er severed the connection between the cultivation world and Earth, sealing Earth’s cultivation civilization while preserving some cultivators in the ’Hidden Sect,’ ’Heaven,’ and ’Penglai Realm.’
His sole purpose was to let humanity develop and thrive in a world without cultivators to see what they could achieve.
After a long period, if a human world without cultivation civilization develops well, then cultivation civilization would not be needed.
If it develops poorly, even worse than when there were cultivators, then let the Earth restart its cultivation civilization.
However, doing so would mean that after the restart of cultivation civilization, the seal on Earth would completely disappear, and more advanced cultivation civilizations could sense Earth’s existence, potentially reestablishing spatial connections with Earth.
At that time, human beings on Earth would face an unprecedented racial crisis.
Li Er, therefore, left his life’s legacy at the source of Earth’s spirit vein.
The ’Tao Longevity Scripture’ that Yang Fei obtained while staying here was exactly the insight and comprehension from Li Er’s lifelong cultivation.
Then, the big screen suddenly flickered, as if cut, revealing a nine-box grid.
Yang Fei was directly dumbfounded.
The nine-box grid unexpectedly displayed nine different images.
Just like surveillance footage, the scenes showing Qin Yanyang, Li Yue, Sun Lei, and six other Lingxiao Sect disciples trapped in different caves were clearly projected into his line of sight.
After a brief moment of horror, Yang Fei’s gaze immediately locked onto the image of Qin Yanyang.
Qin Yanyang was at this moment in a bright cave, and particular characters also appeared on one of the cave walls.
However, these characters were not gold but silver-white.
It was also an outline about the fundamentals of understanding cultivation. Comprehending these characters could significantly help cultivators perceive the Heaven and Earth Power Law, which would be greatly beneficial for future cultivation.
Yang Fei only looked for a while before feeling a jolt in his heart.
He realized that there were still many inadequacies in the cultivation insights Qin Yanyang was looking at.
At least according to his current understanding of cultivation, he felt that the cultivation insight he was seeing could be improved a lot.
However, he was shocked to find that Qin Yanyang could thoroughly comprehend this piece of cultivation insight, and he could clearly feel Qin Yanyang’s understanding of cultivation, and her grasp of the Heaven and Earth Power Law was improving at a remarkable speed.
It could be said that the insights she was reading were incredibly useful to her, as if it opened a new door to cultivation for her.
According to Yang Fei’s understanding, those silver shimmering characters should have been difficult and hard to understand for Qin Yanyang, as she could not recognize a few Pre-Qin characters, but at this moment, those characters seemed to manifest themselves, and their meanings completely integrated into Qin Yanyang’s comprehension, allowing her to master them naturally.
What exactly is going on?
Yang Fei was uncertain and curious, but suddenly felt a jolt in his heart, and a large amount of information about Qin Yanyang surged into his mind.
Among them, many things Qin Yanyang had told him, which he knew, but some things Yang Fei did not know.
What shocked Yang Fei was that he could even clearly perceive Qin Yanyang’s goals and aspirations.
This feeling was even clearer and more intuitive than when the two of them were in sync.
Yang Fei took a deep breath, feeling shocked and uncertain, when suddenly a terrifying premonition arose in his heart, and he sensed a strong killing intent.
As if sensing something, Yang Fei’s eyes directly locked onto another ’surveillance’ image.
The person in that image was Sun Lei.
Sun Lei had not obtained any secret books or manuals in that cave, but he had obtained one treasure.
Yang Fei was aghast to find that he could also sense Sun Lei’s thoughts at this moment.
At this moment, Sun Lei was thinking about killing him.
After entering this cave, Sun Lei found a treasure, a top-grade treasure named ’Soul Binding Rope,’ capable of forcibly extracting others’ primordial spirit souls.
It could either directly obliterate the enemy’s divine soul with this technique or imprison and torture them within the Soul Binding Rope, making it an invisible innate treasure for killing.
At this moment, Sun Lei had just learned to use this treasured artifact, and the first person he thought to kill was Yang Fei.
This ability to directly perceive Sun Lei’s inner thoughts left Yang Fei both shocked and delighted, as well as furious.
He had long suspected that Sun Lei was not a good person, and indeed, this guy intended to kill him.
Moreover, the reason the other party wanted to kill him was to obtain Qin Yanyang.
"No wonder Yanyang has such high talent; when I dual cultivated with her, both our cultivation speeds were accelerated several times. It turns out she possesses a top-grade Earth Spirit Root."
By reading Sun Lei’s memories and awareness, Yang Fei learned of Qin Yanyang’s special circumstances and murmured to himself.
Soon, Yang Fei set his gaze on the ’surveillance’ image showing Li Yue.
He was pleasantly surprised to find that he could also read Li Yue’s memory and consciousness.
Here, it seemed he had unlocked a god’s perspective on others, allowing him to access all the information about those in the surveillance images.