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Vegetation, plains, valleys, streams, the earth, the sky... and the red lightning that crisscrosses the firmament, terrifying to the extreme.
Su Jie withdrew his 'gaze', landing on the babbling stream in front of him, drifting past several strange-looking fish.
"There are people beyond people, and heavens beyond heavens! There really are other worlds..."
Su Jie couldn't hide the shock in his heart.
The first thing he did after developing the 'chip template' was to gather all the information from Xuan Xing, past and present.
Therefore, he was very certain that the 'fish' in this stream and the grass on the bank were not any kind of vegetation or fish in his memory.
"It's a pity I don't have a body, my five senses are missing, so I can't study the environment and creatures of this world..."
Su Jie sighed.
At this time, he was not only not a human, but not even a living being, merely a large blue stone on the bank of the stream.
Compared to the pebbles all over the riverbed, the only difference was that it was large enough.
But other than that, there was no difference.
He could vaguely perceive the outside world, feeling the light and color replay everything outside in his mind, but apart from images, there was no way to know anything else.
And if he wanted to judge the environment of a world, even he couldn't judge it solely from blurry light and shadow.
'An unfamiliar world, but one that seems to have 'gods'...'
'Without the medium of a body, my perception of the outside world is distorted... and without the nourishment of a body, it will be difficult for me to survive for long...'
'This is the predicament I face...'
In absolute darkness, Su Jie slowly and carefully chewed over his various thoughts, gradually returning to calm.
As a research-oriented martial artist, Su Jie had always been able to endure loneliness, even in an environment where he had lost his five senses and was close to absolute darkness.
Loneliness had no effect on him at all.
Buzz~
Su Jie touched his heart, and from the deep and empty depths of his mind, he visualized a quiet courtyard.
Old trees, stone tables, bluestone floors, green grass, light...
Su Jie's mental cultivation was close to that of the ancient sages, and he also had the experience of observing 'Wang Quan's Dream Realm' to outline a talismanic dream realm.
He easily visualized a small courtyard in his heart, as well as himself.
Da da da~
Lightly tapping the stone table, Su Jie pondered the various aspects of the situation, gradually catching a hint of disharmony.
That alien spirit that intended to seize his body had come too coincidentally. In fact, Su Jie was very certain that if it hadn't been for the sudden arrival of this spirit.
It would not have been easy for him to cross that space channel.
It was as if there was a large hand manipulating everything from behind...
"Could it be you?"
Su Jie muttered to himself, his thoughts unconsciously conjuring a young man in a black and white Daoist robe on the other side of the stone table:
"Mr. An..."
Under the old tree, the figure materialized from nothing, like the legendary means of creating something from nothing.
This was just Su Jie's subconscious mental action. He didn't think his doubts would be answered.
However, the next moment, Su Jie's body stiffened.
A familiar yet unfamiliar voice rang in his ears: "What do you think?"
"Hmm?"
Su Jie raised an eyebrow, looking at the young man who sat down unhurriedly under the old tree, looking at him with a smile that was not a smile: "How could it be?"
Shocked in his heart, Su Jie subconsciously got up and bowed: "Mr. An, is it really you? You..."
Su Jie was greatly surprised.
Visualization was just visualization. Even with his current state of mind, it was impossible to visualize a real living being.
It was even more impossible to answer him and talk to him.
"Your progress is very fast, that's good."
Looking at the surprised Su Jie, An Qi Sheng smiled slightly, expressing his approval.
There were many reasons for him to open up a path, but there was no reason to make future generations retrace the detours he had taken.
The spiritual Qi permeating Xuan Xing already contained his Dao and principles, and all 'Qi Refiners' could theoretically capture his laws.
Either follow his path, or take another path based on his foundation.
"Mr. An's progress is truly amazing, to manifest with thought, this is almost a 'meme'..."
Su Jie calmed down, but still had amazement in his heart.
With his spiritual wisdom, he naturally guessed that the reason why An Qi Sheng could appear in front of him was because he subconsciously visualized him.
But this was only his psychological activity, and to be able to cross worlds and descend in this way still shocked him.
Even for him at this time, this was a legendary supernatural power.
"To manifest with thought, I am still a little short of that, perhaps I can achieve it by taking that step, or perhaps, I still can't..."
An Qi Sheng's eyes flickered, and he spoke slowly.
The reason he could cross time and space and descend into Su Jie's heart in Nirvana was certainly not because his supernatural powers had reached this point.
It was because Su Jie himself was imbued with his Qi seed, and his mental cultivation had reached the minimum level to resonate with him.
In fact, he had been waiting for this day for forty years.
It was not that he had not returned, but that he was in Nirvana and could not cross over, and no one on Xuan Xing could perceive him.
"That step..."
Su Jie chewed on An Qi Sheng's words, and his heart suddenly moved: "Mr., you have something to say, is there something you want me to do?"
"That's right."
An Qi Sheng nodded, his eyes slightly complicated: "Perhaps for a very long time in the future, I will not be able to appear in front of people."
Su Jie's heart trembled: "Have you encountered a powerful enemy?"
"Sort of."
An Qi Sheng nodded, then shook his head: "Some things cannot be said too clearly, otherwise it will bring you great trouble instead..."
The realm of Nirvana was far more complex than An Qi Sheng had previously imagined, or rather, more difficult to cross.
Even he was not sure whether he could cross this realm.
"I want to take a risky gamble, and, I can't have any worries."
An Qi Sheng stared at Su Jie, as if to see through him completely.
In the decades after his return, he was neither alive nor dead, both alive and dead. Although he could not interfere with the real world, he saw things in the infinite chaos that he could never see before.
The Spiritless Universe was not a newly born universe.
From Nirvana, he meditated on the Spiritless Great Universe and saw many incredible things, including ancient stars with traces of life.
However, the only ancient star with life that was truly nurtured by the Spiritless Universe was Xuan Xing.
This may be natural, or it may be manipulated by someone. It seems incredible, but it is the truth he sees at this time.
Xuan Xing was the only native life star in the Spiritless Universe in the true sense.
Su Jie was the only one on this star who was favored by the two Qi fortunes, and he was also the only one he could entrust at this time.
"An Qi Sheng..."
Su Jie only felt that An Qi Sheng's eyes contained endless pressure, so he was silent for a moment before saying:
"You are a pioneer, I want to ask you, what is the reason for this time-space displacement, or rather, the displacement of worlds?"
Traveling through time and space and crossing realms, Su Jie was pleasantly surprised, but even more puzzled.
In fact, the movement of planets was already extremely difficult, and he knew very well that the crossing of universes would be a billion times more difficult.
The arrival of these foreign guests could not be just a coincidence.
He had long had these doubts, but there was no one on Xuan Xing he could ask. Now, he finally asked.
An Qi Sheng was silent. He recalled Qin Yu from the Human Realm, the Myriad Sun Realm, the Three Hearts Realm, and even the Dragon Eclipse Realm, and finally sighed:
"Humans have three thousand calamities of birth, old age, sickness, and death, and the heavens and earth may also have calamities! But I don't know what it is like..."
Recalling the past, An Qi Sheng had guesses in his heart, but for a moment, he could not say it.
This guess was too heavy, and he was still hesitant. How could the current Su Jie bear it?
"I understand."
Looking at An Qi Sheng's silence, Su Jie nodded, as if he had guessed something, but did not continue to ask, and instead said:
"Mr. An, what do you want me to do?"
"You have not truly traveled through time and space, but your will is indeed no longer on Xuan Xing. I will use my supernatural powers to put you in a dream here. You have ten thousand years to verify your path."
An Qi Sheng restrained his thoughts and said lightly:
"If you go further, those who enter the dream from Xuan Xing may be able to use you as an anchor to enter this place."
The universe was vast, almost boundless, and the difficulty of crossing the sea of stars was already immense, let alone crossing two realms?
With An Qi Sheng's current cultivation, he could try it, but being in Nirvana would not allow others to cross the world.
The only reason he could do it was that he had completely mastered the supernatural power of 'Entering the Dream of the Great Thousand'.
Just like Gu Changfeng in the past completely mastered the supernatural power of 'Reincarnation'.
Apart from him, even if others obtained this fragment of the Dao Yi Diagram, they would not be able to cultivate this supernatural power.
"Entering the dream..."
Su Jie's eyes narrowed, and his mind was greatly shaken: "This is actually entering the dream, without any trace..."
This shock was not small.
In the past few decades, Su Jie had asked himself that he had thoroughly studied Wang Quan's Dream Realm, and even used it to construct his own talismanic world.
But he could not see that he was actually in a dream.
"This is not my dream, but, the dream of this universe called 'World Tree'..."
Under the old tree, An Qi Sheng slowly got up, and his figure also became erratic.
With Su Jie's spiritual cultivation, he naturally could not communicate with him for a long time. In fact, if he had not restrained himself.
Ordinary practitioners would have their spirits and minds distorted and turned towards him, completely losing themselves, at the moment of his arrival.
Su Jie's mind was still in a trance, and he was still a little dazed when he heard the words. He saw a purple light pouring in from the endless chaos in the dimness.
It crashed into his eyebrows and penetrated into his sea of consciousness.
Rumble!
The visualized courtyard could no longer be maintained and completely collapsed.
Su Jie only felt himself falling endlessly, and the vast amount of information was as deep as an abyss, completely drowning him.
He tried his best to concentrate, and only in a trance, he saw a ripple rising in the endless sea of information.
The light and shadow intertwined in it, as if thousands of gods and demons were dancing wildly in it, jointly deducing endless Taoist magic and the mysteries of heaven and earth.