Inside the Vientiane Tower.
Gu Donglai opened his eyes blankly, staring at the boy standing in front of him.
He didn't know who the boy in front of him was, but he felt an instinctive sense of closeness, as if there was a certain aura in the boy that he was once very familiar with.
"Who are you……"
Gu Donglai asked in confusion.
"I see."
Shen Qian was also taken aback, then looked at Gu Donglai, whose temperament had changed completely, and seemed to understand something.
After the fall of King Zhouyi, those whose fates he had stolen seemed to have regained their former selves.
If that's the case, it's a pretty good result.
Shen Qian hadn't expected Zhou Yi Wang to perish so easily. He had thought that even if he severed the opponent's foundation, it would still take some effort to kill him completely.
"Do you remember what happened before?" Shen Qian asked.
"I……"
Gu Donglai hesitated, then shook his head. "The last thing I remember is being expelled from my sect by the Marquis of Jingcheng at the Tower of Babel... Where is this place? What exactly did I go through? Why do I feel like I'm missing a lot of memories?"
Although Gu Donglai was completely unaware, he could still sense, thanks to his keen mental power, that a long time had passed since he last had any memories.
It was as if he had a bizarre dream, but no matter how hard he tried to recall it, he couldn't remember any details.
Shen Qian nodded, not intending to explain anything to Gu Donglai at this moment. The situation in Beidu was critical, and he had no time to waste.
Just as Shen Qian took a step, he suddenly frowned and turned to look at Gu Donglai. "You said your last memory was being expelled from your sect by the Marquis of Jingcheng?"
"Everyone knows this, so I have nothing to hide."
Gu Donglai's lips curled into a bitter smile. "Back then, I disobeyed my master's orders and was eager to break through to the King level. Without asking any questions, my master expelled me from the sect. Disheartened, I banished myself to the forbidden zone, and I have no recollection of what happened after that..."
"etc!"
Sensing something amiss, Shen Qian interrupted, "You mean you have ulterior motives for wanting to break through to the level of a king?"
Although he didn't know why the boy in front of him was so serious, Gu Donglai still nodded subconsciously. "That's right. Originally, I was wholeheartedly following my teacher's instructions and constantly exploring the forbidden area, but later I discovered that the forbidden area was simply a dead end!"
"Dead end? What do you mean?"
"Although I haven't reached the most profound realm, I have broken through the six restrictions in terms of spiritual power, elemental power, and physical body. I don't know if you know that after the six restrictions, each time you break through another restriction, you have to go through a hurdle."
Gu Donglai rubbed his slightly throbbing forehead and explained.
"You mean the Life and Death Barrier, the Form and Intent Barrier, and the Hundred Refinements Barrier, right?" Shen Qian nodded.
"No wonder I couldn't see through you. It seems your strength is even more terrifying than I sensed."
Gu Donglai glanced at Shen Qian with surprise, then said with relief, "Since you know the secret, then it's easy to explain... I've always believed that the secret to the perfection of the human body lies hidden in the forbidden realm, but throughout history, there have been powerful figures who have reached the pinnacle. For example, I myself am a pinnacle expert in the spiritual realm..."
He listened calmly, not surprised to hear that his teacher might have cultivated a soul dharma form. He had already seen some signs in the Martial Arts Department's Sky-Gazing Mirror.
"Therefore, the teacher guessed that perhaps only by cultivating all three forbidden domains to perfection can the ultimate mystery be unlocked."
Gu Donglai shook his head and continued, "But this is fundamentally a paradox... because after passing the final Xingyi barrier, the teacher found that he could no longer make any progress in his physical body or Yuanli domain. Helpless, the teacher could only choose to break through to the King-rank level..."
"What did you say?" Shen Qian was stunned.
"The final hurdle of those three forbidden domains, no matter which one you cross first, the other two domains will be excluded. Therefore, it is simply impossible for the three supreme states to coexist... This is a conclusion that the teacher has drawn from his own experience."
Gu Donglai said slowly, "Therefore, the so-called 'perfection' is fundamentally an illusion."
"No, it's not impossible for the three forbidden domains to be perfected at the same time, but that's just because of the limitations of the human body. However, if one has a body with ten orifices, it can certainly accommodate three perfections at the same time."
Shen Qian frowned and blurted out.
This was the result of his later reflection.
From the moment he cultivated his body with ten apertures, he had already shouldered this mission.
"A body with ten orifices?"
Gu Donglai was taken aback at first, then laughed, “A body with ten orifices is indeed a ‘perfect body’ in theory, but that only means having the foundation to simultaneously accommodate three supreme beings. The limitation I’m talking about is the uniqueness of the forbidden domain itself, which has nothing to do with what kind of physique you have.”
"You may not know this, but although the teacher is not a perfect being, he possesses the closest thing to perfection: the 'Daoist Heavenly Body.' It is the result of his continuous self-cultivation across several eras. It may not be comparable to the Ten Apertures, but it is infinitely close..."
"You think that even if this physique can't accommodate three types of supreme masters, it can at least accommodate two, right?"
Gu Donglai shook his head and said, "But the truth is that after the teacher broke through the ninth restriction in his spiritual power, his physical body and Yuan power could not even break through the sixth restriction... because the excessively strong spiritual power at that time had become an invisible obstacle."
"Can't even break through the sixth restriction?"
As he sank forward, his body trembled, and his unwavering belief began to waver.
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