Chapter 378 Plotting to Assassinate the Lord of the Divine Seal 2
"The correct alignment of heaven and earth is indeed an ability that can be acquired through training, but..."
Shenzhao glanced at me twice, then shook his head: "Do you want to achieve the goal of using magic power in the void by mastering the correct position of the heaven and earth? If so, I advise you to give up as soon as possible."
My hopes had just begun to rise when he extinguished them with his own hands, leaving me only able to ask, "Why?"
"Not everyone can master the correct alignment of the heavens and earth through training, especially the Great Impermanence."
This time it was Yuchi who answered, and he continued: "Strength does not necessarily mean omnipotence. Sometimes, it is precisely because of strength that certain things cannot be accomplished."
"Ants can lift objects more than a hundred times their own weight and drag objects more than a thousand times their own weight, but if you scale them up to the same size and weight as a human, they can no longer do the same thing. Some miracles can only be achieved by the weak, and the proper alignment of heaven and earth is one of them."
"This is a miracle that can only be displayed by humbly emulating heaven and imitating earth. The Great Impermanence does not have the conditions to learn the proper way of heaven and earth."
"Even if it could be learned, the True Position of Heaven and Earth is a skill so difficult that it is practically impossible to learn. Although the Great Impermanence can unleash the ultimate mystery that countless demon hunters cannot reach in their entire lives simply by relying on instinct, the True Position of Heaven and Earth is not among them. In the history of Luoshan, far fewer people have learned the True Position of Heaven and Earth through acquired means than those who possessed it innately."
I asked, puzzled, "Then how does Shenzhao grasp the correct positions of the heavens and earth?"
"Before becoming the Great Impermanence, I was the Son of Divinity," Divine Illumination provided the answer.
The Son of God is a descendant of the Great Impermanence. In other words, the Divine Illumination wields the correct position of the celestial phenomena through its special origin.
Upon closer reflection, it makes perfect sense. Most of the Great Impermanence beings have extraordinary origins. For example, Xuanming's origins can be traced back to the story of "the Black Bird giving birth to Shang." Dongche once told me that the reason the Great Impermanence beings can become Great Impermanence beings is because they inherently possess the qualifications to become deities; some can even be described as deities walking on earth in human form. These people might be born walking upright, speaking human language, or even experiencing extraordinary phenomena while still in the womb.
As for someone like Zhu Shi, who was born able to communicate with all things in heaven and earth, looking back, she actually feels a lot like a figure from a mythological era. But the feeling she gives off, how should I put it... is too approachable? So I generally find it hard to associate her with that aspect.
However, there are always exceptions to everything, and it is said that the Old Fist God did not have a special background.
According to the information, the Old Fist God was once just an old martial arts master teaching people in a martial arts school. He was almost fifty years old when he first entered the supernatural world, an age when his energy and spirit were declining. At that time, no one expected that he would later become the Great Impermanence.
However, in Luoshan, some people seem to firmly believe that the Old Fist God also has a mysterious and unknown background, but his life was just very difficult in the first fifty years, or he may have been a late bloomer.
“After I became the Great Impermanence, I actually lost the ability to properly align with the laws of heaven and earth,” Shenzhao said calmly. “However, I have the power to manipulate light, and light is time. Therefore, I can reverse my own time and temporarily recreate the power of properly aligning with the laws of heaven and earth that I once possessed.”
"Light is time"—which worldview setting is that from?
Although I was internally complaining, this wasn't the first time I'd seen this phenomenon of power changing due to different worldviews. Silvermoon was able to elevate her ordinary "illusion" ability to the level of "turning illusion into reality" because she firmly believed that reality was an illusion.
"Furthermore, I want you to give up learning the Correct Alignment of Heaven and Earth as soon as possible, not just because you are the Great Impermanence," Shenzhao continued. "The world we live in is gradually becoming disordered and increasingly incomprehensible. It is very unrealistic to try to gain new power by imitating such an abnormal world. The ability to Correct Alignment of Heaven and Earth may not be able to be generated in the future world."
"Hmm?" Yu Chi seemed to sense something was wrong. "According to you, Number Two should also have mastered the proper position of Heaven and Earth, right? But isn't she someone who lives in the future?"
"Who knows why? Maybe she just looks young but has actually lived for countless years; or maybe she lied and isn't actually in the so-called 'apocalyptic era'; or perhaps she had some other experience that we can't even imagine..."
As Shenzhao spoke, he kept glancing at me. He probably assumed I knew something because of my close relationship with Number Two. I didn't react, instead mentally organizing the clues I had gathered.
Since the power of the True Position Law of Heaven and Earth cannot be born in the future—especially not in the chaotic apocalyptic era—then Xiao Wan is indeed not Zhu Shi's daughter, but Zhu Shi himself.
Now all that's left is to enter the virtual realm again to meet Xiaowan and bring her the name "Zhu Shi." That should allow for complete confirmation.
Unfortunately, the power of the True Position of Heaven and Earth, and the power of the fragments of the Divine Seal… I can think of a way to deal with the latter, but the former is truly beyond my comprehension. Am I really destined to be unable to use my power within the Void Realm?
"Speaking of which... why did you find Shenzhao?" I asked Yuchi.
"What do you mean?" Yuchi asked.
"Shenzhao's real identity was revealed by himself in the virtual realm. Then, based on the fact that I am the unconfirmed Great Impermanence of Luoshan, he deduced that I am Number Three. In this way, we established a relationship of mutual identity confirmation. So how did you confirm each other's identities?" I said, "It shouldn't be that he discovered you, but rather that you took the initiative to approach him, right?"
"You've already exchanged the Divine Seal Fragments for the knowledge you wanted from the Lord of the Divine Seals. Is there other knowledge you need to exchange, which is why you want to obtain new Divine Seal Fragments from Divine Illumination?"
“No… I have no other knowledge I want to exchange.” Yu Chi shook his head. “What I need now are real resources.”
"Although I have already acquired the knowledge to make myself strong enough to fight the old Fist God, the specific steps to becoming stronger still require countless hours and resources, the latter of which I cannot obtain on my own. Therefore, I must find Divine Illumination and provide him with some support in exchange for what I want."
"...As for what specific resources I need, please allow me to keep that a secret."
The idea that Yuchi, a master of the Great Completion stage, would provide support to the Great Impermanence Divine Illumination sounds quite incredible, but given that Yuchi's understanding of formations is said to rival that of the historically renowned Great Impermanence, it's somewhat more acceptable.
"So...why did you want to kill the old boxing god?" I asked curiously. "What grudge did you two have?"
Upon hearing this, Shenzhao laughed: "Oh? You haven't heard of him? Let me tell you. Don't let this kid's pathetic appearance fool you, actually..."
Yu Chi's expression was one of having his wounds reopened, and he said with barely suppressed anger, "Wait a minute! I'll talk to Zhuang Cheng myself later."
"Alright, let's get back to business." Shenzhao turned to look at me. "Zhuang Cheng, I hope you can tell me how you managed to sneak into the Void Realm without the eyes of the Lord of the Divine Seal?"
"Although I heard that the Lord of the Divine Seal was in a state of complete slumber at the time, the Void Realm should not be a place that anyone can invade. If you provide me with this method, perhaps I can gain some insights from it and become more confident in killing the Lord of the Divine Seal."
"I believe you can also sense that the Lord of the Divine Seal is a rather terrible character. Although I don't like Xuanming, I must admit that most of the judgments he makes are for the good of this world. Even he has taken a hostile stance towards the Lord of the Divine Seal and is spreading rumors about him outside, which shows how dangerous that guy who calls himself the Master of the Divine Seal is."
Unexpectedly, Shenzhao also had a very high opinion of Xuanming, the traitor from Luoshan.
“I can tell you,” I said, “but I also need to tell you beforehand. There are still many unknowns about the Divine Seal fragments. Although I successfully infiltrated the Void Realm, I am not entirely sure whether this method can be repeated, or whether my conclusions are correct. You can only take it as a reference.”
Shenzhao nodded solemnly: "I understand."
“First of all…” I summoned the divine seal fragment that was bound to me, “This divine seal fragment was originally meant to be bound to someone other than me.”
I repeatedly went over in my mind how I acquired this fragment of the divine seal.
This fragment of the divine seal did not originally appear in my home, but in my rented room in Chang'an.
If it weren't for Ma Zao's existence, which removed the barrier between me and the strange world, Chang'an probably wouldn't have knocked on my door that day, and I wouldn't have had the chance to go to Chang'an's rented apartment and find this fragment of the divine seal in the basement on the fifteenth floor.
Although I initially suspected that Chang'an discovered the 15th-floor basement in his rented apartment because he was my friend and indirectly affected by Ma Zao's jinx constitution, I later realized that Chang'an himself was someone with an inexplicable connection to the supernatural world, and his entry into it might have been a preordained destiny. This initial suspicion was merely a conjecture lacking evidence; it's entirely possible that Chang'an encountered this strange event on his own.
Assuming he can overcome his fear of the fifteenth-floor basement and bravely choose to enter, he is very likely to find the fragments of the divine seal there and come into contact with them.
After that, as long as he has the ability and the mindset to solve the puzzle in the fifteenth-floor basement like I do, he can escape and return in triumph with the fragments of the divine seal. Although there is also the possibility that he will not be able to solve the puzzle and will be trapped and die inside, this development is obviously much more natural than the development in which I intervened.
Ma Zao, who traveled from the apocalyptic era to the modern era, changed my destiny; and my actions changed the destiny of Chang'an.
(End of this chapter)
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