Zhou Qing took a step forward and walked into the void. The vast power of the void submerged him, but it could not cause any harm to him.
The void is boundless, and no boundaries can be found whether observed with the naked eye or perceived. Darkness and loneliness are the eternal tone here.
In the void of nothingness, there is not only the power of the void, but also various other extremely violent energies with diverse and complex properties. Their only characteristic is that they are difficult to be directly utilized by people. They are everywhere, filling every corner, and washing over like waves.
Behind Zhou Qing, a film of light emitted eternal light, becoming the only bright spot in this void of nothingness.
This film of light is the boundary wall of the Xuanhuang Realm. It wraps around the entire Xuanhuang Realm and plays a significant role.
The boundary wall can protect the Xuanhuang Realm from the erosion of the power of nothingness and the power of the void, and it can also act as a converter.
The power in the void will wash over the boundary wall, be swallowed by the boundary wall, and then be transformed into various energies of heaven and earth that can be absorbed by living beings and used for evolution, and then dispersed throughout the Xuanhuang Realm.
At the same time, it also ensures that the energy within the world will not dissipate into nothingness.
Every world has internal and external cycles. Living beings absorb energy from heaven and earth to practice and evolve. After death, their cultivation will dissipate between heaven and earth. Such a process belongs to the internal cycle.
The boundary wall absorbs the energy of the void and converts it into the energy of heaven and earth, and then discharges some harmful substances into the void through the boundary wall. This is the external circulation.
As long as there are no problems with these two cycles, the world can develop normally.
The void is infinite and boundless, and the power contained within is naturally endless. Even if more and more worlds are swallowed up, there will never be a day when it dries up.
From this we can also see the importance of the boundary wall. Once the boundary wall is damaged, all kinds of violent energies in the void that can at least corrode immortals will flow into the world unhindered, causing huge damage.
At the same time, problems will arise in the world's external circulation, and the energy within the world will begin to dissipate outward, becoming a leaky balloon.
If the damaged parts of the boundary wall cannot be repaired in time, the entire world will gradually come to an end.
Of course, generally speaking, the boundary wall has a strong self-repair ability. Unless it encounters a major accident, if it is only occasionally damaged, it can heal itself.
Zhou Qing observed the Xuanhuang Realm. This was the first time he looked at this world from an outsider's perspective.
The boundary wall was a crystal white. Even though Zhou Qing was already the Creator, he could only vaguely see through the boundary wall and see the general appearance of part of the universe and starry sky in the Xuanhuang Realm. As for which specific star or what was happening in which world, he could not observe it.
The Xuanhuang Realm is very large, and Zhou Qing cannot see the entire Xuanhuang Realm at this time. He stands outside the boundary wall, just like a millet grain. No matter which direction he looks, he cannot see the end of the boundary wall.
However, he discovered that outside the Xuanhuang main universe, there were layers of infinite dimensions and endless worlds, which were attached to the main universe.
Those dimensions and worlds were dim, but gradually they became brighter and seemed to be recovering.
After observing this world for a while, Zhou Qing took out the seal given to him by Wensheng and injected the colorful Haoran Qi into it.
The letter seal trembled slightly, responded, and floated in one direction.
Seeing this, Zhou Qing's heart moved, it seemed there was hope.
The Seal of Faith was condensed from the power of Wen Sheng. He was already a Pure Yang God at that time, so the various forces in the void could not destroy the Seal of Faith.
The speed of the letter seal was extremely fast, and Zhou Qing followed behind and kept moving forward.
The space and time in the nothingness is not a simple layer, it is very complicated.
As Zhou Qing moved forward, he felt countless layers of void. You might be walking on the surface of the void layer in the last second, and have fallen into the eighteenth void layer in the next second.
In addition to countless layers of void, there are also various void anomalies that may appear at any time.
For example, the infinite void corridor, the void jump node, and so on.
You think you are moving forward, but in fact you may have turned a corner and are moving backwards.
But the surrounding scenery will not change at all, and ordinary people will not be able to notice it at all.
The world is a safe haven for all living things, and living in it is relatively safe.
Those who are not at a high enough level will only get lost in the endless layers and anomalies of the void when walking in the void.
But whether it is Xin Yin or Zhou Qing who is at the creator level, they can see through the truth of the void and will not be disturbed by the endless void layer.
The seal of trust had been moving along the Xuanhuang boundary wall. According to Zhou Qing's judgment, it should have been five days before the seal of trust stopped.
The Xuanhuang boundary wall still exists and has not reached its end. This is normal. The boundary wall covers not only the universe where Zhou Qing lives, but also other affiliated worlds.
A fairyland whose size is unimaginable.
After coming to a stop, the light of the seal became brighter and brighter, as if it was sensing something.
Zhou Qing also explored this place carefully, but he did not find any traces of Wensheng Cave Heaven. This was within Zhou Qing's expectations.
If the cave left by Wensheng was so easy to find, it would definitely not be his turn to open it.
Finally, the seal disappeared from Zhou Qing's sight, but Zhou Qing could sense its existence.
"The hidden void layer?"
Zhou Qing became interested and followed the guidance of the seal, crossing the endless void layer.
Then a bean-sized stone appeared in front of him. The stone blended into the surrounding environment and was illuminated by the light emitted by the seal.
Without this light, the stone would not be visible.
This is a layer of void deep in the void of nothingness, which was hidden by the great magical power of the literary sage in the past. Zhou Qing didn't know how the literary sage had managed to preserve this place successfully until now.
He could sense that this stone was a treasure, of extremely high quality.
The seal fell on the stone, forming a tiny entrance that was probably only big enough for mosquitoes to fly in.
But for a Creator, this is naturally not a problem.
Zhou Qing passed through the entrance smoothly, and suddenly the sky became clear and the light reappeared.
In the stone, there is a small cave with a diameter of about 100 miles. There is a luminous object hanging in the sky, acting as the "sun".
There was only a piece of land here, with stone statues standing on the land. Zhou Qing took a casual look and saw many familiar faces among the stone statues.
These are the statues of the saints. The literary saints, Taoist saints, etc. who had communicated with Zhou Qing are all among them, and there are a lot of them.
When he was still in the Age of Saints, Zhou Qing knew all the saints of that era, but now there were some strangers among the statues of saints in the cave.
Zhou Qing suspected that it should be a new saint who was born after he left the Age of Saints and before the Saint of Literature left the cave.
In addition to the statues of the saints, there are also continuous mountain ranges in the cave, covered by forbidden magic arrays.
This is the entire scene inside the cave.
Zhou Qing came to the stone statue of Wensheng. The statue was as tall as a normal person and lifelike.
"Senior, what did you leave for me?"
Zhou Qing muttered to himself, took out the seal again, injected Haoran Qi into it, and then something strange happened.
The seal flew towards the stone statue of Wensheng and finally merged into the heart of the statue.
Colorful light suddenly emerged from the stone statue and kept flowing, as if something was activated.
Then the shadow of Wensheng appeared and looked at Zhou Qing. Zhou Qing was startled at first, then relaxed.
This phantom of the Sage of Literature is not even a spirit or a remnant. It is just a residual image. Once activated, it will say the words that the Sage of Literature had set up long ago.
This kind of photography cannot communicate and has no power, it can only convey information.
"Zhou Qing."
The shadow of Wensheng said: "I am very glad that this place was not destroyed in history and has successfully waited for your arrival."
"Do you remember the prophecy about the future I mentioned when I first met you?"
"In the last moments of my life, I once again glimpsed the future, and I once again confirmed that the result of the outer demons causing chaos and the Xuanhuang Realm falling into a long night cannot be changed."
"But fortunately, your appearance has also brought changes to that dark future. I can see that there is a crack in the eternal darkness covering the Hundred Schools of Thought. The teachings of the Hundred Schools of Thought will be inherited again in the new era and will be revitalized with new vitality. You have fulfilled your promise."
"Thank you, Zhou Qing."
Zhou Qing remained silent and just listened quietly.
"After you left, my cultivation gradually improved, and finally I successfully cultivated to the Yuan Realm."
Among the three realms of life, the Lord of Life is divided into the initial realm, one to four leaves, a total of five small realms.
The Creator is the Creator of the sky, all things, and nature, with a total of three small realms.
The Pure Yang God/True Martial Saint realm has only two small levels, namely the first level extreme realm that has just been broken through, and the second level Yuan realm that is even further away.
When one reaches the Yuan Realm, one has reached the highest level in Taoism and is at the pinnacle of the cultivation system. There is no room for improvement. If one wants to continue to improve, the only way is to break through the barriers and become a Taoist master/god.
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"In addition to me, the Heart Saint has also reached this realm. He and I are the only two saints who have reached this level. Like me, the Heart Saint has also foreseen some future scenes, and they are the same as what I saw."
"Because the Heart Saint and I have foreseen the same future, this prophecy has also been recognized by all the saints."
The two sages in the Pure Yang Yuan Realm have predicted the same future, and even other sages may have had the same feeling. This result cannot be underestimated.
As long as you are not crazy, you will choose to believe it.
This is a mysterious world of cultivation, not an ordinary world of sorcery.
"I didn't tell them about the deal with you. We are also trying to find other ways to save ourselves, but I know that except for you, all our other attempts may fail in the end."
Wensheng's voice had been very calm the whole time, but then, there was a very obvious fluctuation.
"Because our era and the existence of the saints are all mistakes. They should not appear in the long river of time. They are mistakes that need to be corrected, either by the heaven and earth themselves, or... by humans."
"The correction I'm talking about doesn't refer to the appearance of the foreign demons in my prophecy. That will happen after the end of the Age of Saints. It's about clearing away the traces of our age. The real correction is to stop this age."
Hearing this, Zhou Qing's pupils shrank suddenly. Stopping that era is the real correction? However, Zhou Qing could understand that the heaven and earth corrected this "mistake" by themselves, but what did it mean for humans to correct it? Could someone jump out and artificially end the Age of Saints? But how could this be possible!
"There's one thing I didn't tell you the last time we met."
Wensheng continued, "The manifestation of the Chinese Dao in the Heavenly Mandate actually only occurred in the Xuanhuang Realm. Other worlds were not included."
"I have been to many worlds, but they are still in the era of hidden destiny. Nothing has changed."
"This flourishing age of literature and art is unique to the Xuanhuang Realm."
Zhou Qing was shocked. Wensheng had indeed never told him this before.
And recalling carefully, when Zhou Qing went to the Three Pure Realms and communicated with those immortals before, he had indeed never heard any information about the Three Pure Realms version of the Age of Saints from them.
The sage of literature once said that in his premonition, even if the teachings of the saints were placed in other worlds, they would not be spared.
Now that I think about it, if the Tianming Daoist tradition like the Sanqing Daoist Temple also experienced an "Era of the Saints", then given the integrity of the Sanqing Daoist Temple's heritage, how could there be no news circulating, and how could the teachings of the Saints be completely cut off?
In the Xuanhuang Realm, it was the Ancient Demon Lord who completely wiped out the inheritance of all the saints, causing a break in the cultivation civilization. But in the Sanqing Realm, how could a strong man at the level of the Ancient Demon Lord do such a thing?
If such a major event really happened in history, how could there be no record of it in the Three Pure Ones Realm?
This was actually a "mistake" that had only appeared in the Xuanhuang Realm! Zhou Qing immediately saw the true source of the so-called "mistake".
Tianming Sect! It’s not that the Age of Saints was a mistake, but that the Age of Saints that emerged because of the destruction of Tianming Sect was a mistake. This prerequisite is indispensable.
According to Hua Ling, there have been cases in history where destiny was not fully manifested, but those special times all had a good beginning and a good end, and were not limited to one world.
All the problems were caused by the Tianming Sect, which was the source.
And Wensheng's next words also verified Zhou Qing's guess.
"Everything is related to the Tianming Sect."
"The destruction of the Tianming Sect contains a huge and terrifying secret. The Tianming Sect has been destroyed, but the impact of that incident has continued. We are one of the affected people."
"There is a will that wants to reverse all deviations and put the Xuanhuang Realm back on track. The saints are the ones who need to be reversed."
Zhou Qing had a solemn expression. The saints were about to be diverted from their tracks. Then what about him, who was promoted to the Lord of Life during the Era of Saints?
Strictly speaking, there are still remnants of the Age of Saints, and it has not all ended in the past.
The remnant was Zhou Qing.
He is a stowaway of time and an accident of history.
"I don't know what realm you have reached at this moment, but remember, don't try to find out the truth behind the demise of the Tianming Sect, even if you have reached my realm at this moment."
"I'm dying. In fact, I'm still far from my theoretical lifespan limit. But I... discovered something, something I can't tell you. Once I tell you, as long as you know it, you will be in danger."
"It was precisely because of what I saw that I was about to die, and it also gave me a certain degree of confidence to keep this cave paradise alive until you appeared."
"As long as you know, you will be in danger..."
Zhou Qing was very surprised. He didn't understand what Wen Sheng had discovered that not only caused him, a Pure Yang Yuan Realm master, to "die young", but he couldn't even talk about it.
But it is obvious that what Wensheng saw was not only a disaster, but also brought him gains, which is an important reason why this cave can be preserved until now.
"In the cave, I left behind the inheritance of the saints, hidden in these stone statues. If these stone statues still exist when you come here, it means that the inheritance has been successfully preserved, and it also means that I have found a way to continue, even though it costs my life."
"If the stone statue is damaged, then you don't have to be depressed. Among those mountains, there are some treasures that I specially collected and placed here. I am confident that those treasures will be intact until your arrival. I hope they can be of some help to you."
"And the stone that carries the cave heaven is actually the most precious of all the treasures I left behind. It is called the World Embryo Stone. If you allow it to be nourished in the void, it will have the potential to grow into a real world. Once it is integrated into your inner world, it will have infinite uses."
Zhou Qing nodded slightly, his judgment was indeed correct.
Wensheng then said a few more words, describing in detail the layout of this cave and what treasures he had left behind.
"Whether you want to allow the inheritance of the saints to reappear in the world is up to you to decide."
Wen Sheng continued, "Based on my findings, when you reappear, the inheritance of the saints should not cause any problems, but... it is unfathomable, and many things are beyond my imagination. I am not sure whether my deduction is accurate."
"So, what to do next is up to you to judge."
"Remember, stay away from the Tianming Sect, put aside all your curiosity, don't go to Tianxu, and don't pursue it."
After the final warning, the shadow of the Sage of Literature disappeared and the seal of faith reappeared.
The treasures hidden by Wensheng among the mountains are all covered by forbidden magic arrays. Only with this seal can they be easily opened and the treasures obtained.
Looking at the statue of the Sage of Literature, Zhou Qing was silent, with a myriad of thoughts in his mind.
Mr. Wensheng was indeed very kind to him and took great care of him. He is a respectable sage.
Unfortunately, what is gone can never come back, and the Sage of Literature who encountered an accident didn’t even have the chance to fall into deep sleep.
After a long time, he went to the center of the cave, refined this cave, and brought it under his control.
Then Zhou Qing left the cave and re-entered the Xuanhuang Realm with the World Embryo Stone.
Just pack it up and take it away.
(End of this chapter)