Chapter 1988 – Myth
Lu Yun neither knew what the cultivators had been fighting over, nor could he deduce the answer through formula dao. But after entering this world, he’d determined for himself that he would find great opportunity here. However, even with the area cleared of scuffling cultivators, he didn’t see anything special about it.
“This was once the intersection of all realms in existence. Though it’s been destroyed, abundant hidden treasures certainly still remain,” Jin Huo couldn’t help but speak up when she saw Lu Yun look around puzzledly.
“All realms?” He looked at her, startled.
“Yes,” she nodded. “The past was truly glorious. Our chief worlds, the Infinite Deorc, Grand Spirit Pivot, Select Cosmos, and others were just a few among an infinite number.
“But for some reason, all of them decayed within the span of a night. I’d thought those stories were just legends before this trip, but after arriving here, I understand that all of the myths are true,” she concluded with a complicated expression.
“Myths? Legends?” Lu Yun thought for a bit. “Like this one?”
He raised Heavenfall.
“Yes,” Jin Huo nodded again. “God is a being from the myths, but he has walked out of them to appear in front of us as a living person.”
It reminded Lu Yun of those recovering in the World of Immortals. They were essentially myths and legends to the chief worlds, but they were very much real. Therefore, what he knew as stories might not all be fake.
He nodded, thinking of Mo Yi and the Dao King. They didn’t belong to this era, but nothing they did violated the confines of the times they operated in. Even their conversation and shared knowledge didn’t exceed the current era.
In Lu Yun’s mind, the present always surpassed the past. Those that were dead or had been made obsolete were proof that they’d been destroyed by the times because they’d failed to adapt. But with the transformation of the Tome of Life and Death and the power of life and death morphing into reincarnation, he understood a new theory.
Reincarnation.
It was a concept and a process that limited everything in existence. The six orders of the highest degree were a description of this process—inception, ethos, burgeon, creation, opposition, and nirvana.
It was a process of origination, reaching prosperity, and being silenced.
If there had been such an unbounded era of magnificent splendor in the primordial past, then that might have been when all things flourished the most. The appearance of the order of opposition forcefully set everything against each other and eventually led life to nirvana.
The process was over in the blink of an eye from the viewpoint of a reincarnation cycle, but was an interminable amount of time to living beings. And now, it was firmly grasped in Lu Yun’s hands.
Instead of continuing the conversation, he headed for the small pile of dirt.
This was a nondescript heap that everyone had ignored. It buried a once celebrated Divine Feather member who was both the ancestor of the race and its last representative.
“Does the mistress’ cultivation method of three lives originate from you?” He stooped in front of the pile of dirt.
A strange emotion echoed in the area around him—like someone had choked on a gulp of water and was dealing with a violent coughing fit.
“Who’s there?” Lu Yun frowned and opened the Spectral Eye, carefully scanning his surroundings. There was no one here apart from Jin Huo and the slumbering Chu Xun.
“So even the Spectral Eye can’t see you?” He looked down at the pile of dirt again.
“This is a setup,” Jin Huo suddenly said. “I can see some ties of karma that connected you to the person buried here. Someone cut through all of them at some point.”
She was a peak grand supreme while he wasn’t. Lu Yun possessed the battle strength of a peak grand supreme, but not the cultivation level. Thus, he couldn’t see many things that they could.
“Wei Lie is buried here, so that means… someone wanted him to seize my body and become me.” He suddenly thought through everything in play. There were setups targeting Chu Xun in the tomb of the empyrean supreme, and there were also plots against him. He’d been vaguely aware of this since a long time ago.
Before God sent him Heavenfall, Jin Huo was the key to breaking the layout of the tomb. As a peak grand supreme, she could see through them and act accordingly—such as the one involving the tombstone earlier.
The one in front of them, however, was broken by the owner themselves the moment Lu Yun tried to locate the key to breaking it.
“There’s another one here, one with a greater karmic tie to you.” Jin Huo’s eyes widened and she looked at Chu Xun in her arms. “It’s connected to her too.”
“I see,” Lu Yun nodded.
Normally speaking, the target would sense the breaking of a layout having to do with them. Lu Yun should’ve felt a dissipation of danger after Jin Huo identified broken karmic ties, but that hadn’t been forthcoming since there was yet another plot aimed at him.
Even now, he had no idea who and where the peril came from. He could only turn to Jin Huo, who was already making silent calculations. Sweat beaded her forehead from her effort.
“Stop wasting your time and energy.” The skull that Lu Yun had retrieved from the doors of the burial mound suddenly bounded up and spoke in a language they understood. “The primordial heavenly emperor wanted me to become you, but you turned him into an akasha ghost. With that, I think you should know who’s scheming against you.”
Wei Lie was borrowing the corpse of his future self to meet with Lu Yun.
“Were you the one choking earlier?” Lu Yun critically regarded the skull that was starting to fill out with flesh and blood. In this moment, he finally understood the connection between the dao form and human form.
Jin Hu was a connate human form, but she wasn’t a dao form because dao forms weren’t just limited to external appearances. The internals—flesh and blood, bones, meridians, and the layout of the body—were even more important as they contained the rhythm of order.
Most important were acupoints!
That was something that dao form entities didn’t possess. Jin Huo lacked acupoints. If she wanted them, she had to take human form—real dao form.
Humans were born as dao forms, a fact that encompassed the Divine Feathers before them.
Lu Yun hadn’t realized what was different between him and Jin Huo before he saw Wei Lie. But now that another race’s dao form was demonstrated in front of him, he immediately grasped the cure of the issue.
“The honorable mistress did indeed teach me the cultivation method of the three lives,” Wei Lie said with a stony expression.
“Uh huh.” Lu Yun remained outwardly calm, but waves of emotion rose in his heart. Just who was Mo Yi??
