Chapter 47 The beginning of everything.
Tai Shang came from outside the sky.
This world is just newborn, yet it has given birth to powerful beings.
Creatures that are too powerful will tear apart the eggshell that has wrapped them since birth. This is the fate of all things, but the world is extremely obsessed with the idea of living.
Persistence is what is right, Tai Shang understands, and this is also the reason for her coming: to teach living beings what restraint and order are, so that the world and living beings can live in peace.
So she awakened Chongming and met Yinglong again. She guided them to restrain their strength and subtly calmed down all the turmoil that was supposed to occur.
Chongming is a well-behaved child, Xiaolong is so cute that it makes people smile. Everything seems to be very good at this moment, but Tai Shang keenly smells the atmosphere of disharmony between heaven and earth.
——The Tao no longer responded to her as before.
Together with Chongming and the God Lord, she used the heaven and earth as a furnace to forge the Heavenly Steps, trying to ask the heavens for a reason.
The two people who were born and raised here were excluded by the highest will, and only Tai Shang heard the last echo of the world.
The Dao of this world, the Dao that was obsessed with survival and summoned Tai Shang, suddenly died for some unknown reason.
Tai Shang can leave, but the world will die, Chongming will die, and the God will die.
Tai Shang can stay, the world may die, or it may continue to function, Chongming and the God Lord may die, or they may live.
Originally, even if the world collapsed, Chongming and the God Lord, who did not understand human nature, were able to leave here and find a destination suitable for their survival in the vast sea of stars.
But the Supreme One gave them "humanity" and a heart. Chongming and the God Lord, now with weaknesses and concerns, could no longer leave their birthplace without scruples.
It was she who trapped these two creatures.
After realizing this, Tai Shang chose to stay. She was the elder sister, and she wanted to make the world work again, to restore peace to everything, just as she had said to Chu Sheng.
——I want everyone to survive and live happily together.
In other words, she hopes that Chongming and Shenzhu can live the life they want without constraints and troubles.
Tai Shang began to seek ways to restore the world to normal operation. From the moment she chose to stay, the original Tai Shang died completely. She lost her name and became a goddess in everyone's eyes.
The creation of the Heavenly Stage robbed the world of its own fortune and spiritual energy. After Dao's death, restoring the earth to its original appearance became much more difficult, but the emergence of the Heavenly Stage also exposed the defects and shortcomings facing this world.
The goddess started from the root, believing that the loss of the power of creation was the fundamental reason for the decline, so she chose the way of creation, wanting to nourish it to grow again and support the world to return to normal.
But she forgot one thing.
Tai Shang, who has the world as his backing, is a powerful creature with the same abilities as Chongming and Yinglong, but the goddess who has lost her support is not.
Even if the goddess has some special features, she is only a slightly unique creature compared to the rest of the world, and can no longer be compared with Chongming and Yinglong. What is needed in the growth process of the Offering Dao is far beyond the goddess's original expectations.
She chose to start, but she didn't have the ability to pause.
Chongming and Yinglong can help her, but the already broken world cannot withstand further trauma.
If the two are forcibly separated, the tiny hope that the goddess has been holding on to will completely disappear.
This is a dead end for the goddess... No, for the goddess, what would make her fear and regret is probably an even more cruel ending.
Chu Sheng pulled herself out of the vast sea of memories, but the aftermath of pain was still attacking her senses.
Fortunately, the bond of solidarity that Ye Ziqing formed at the critical moment successfully shared a large part of the pressure with her, which allowed Chu Sheng to not only retain her self, but also still have the ability to think deeply at this moment.
"Xiao Sheng, are you okay?" Ye Ziqing looked at her without any movement for a long time and asked worriedly.
Chu Sheng came back to his senses.
The girl did not ask him why he chose to form a covenant with her as Ye Ziqing had expected, but instead gave him a calm but slightly tired smile.
"I'm fine, Brother... Is there any new news from Brother Yuan Qi and Brother Qi An?"
"Not yet... Xiao Sheng, don't you have anything to say to me?" Ye Ziqing asked.
"I'm sorry, I've dragged you down, brother." Chu Sheng said softly.
"The Heart Contract is a spell that can only be used once with another person. Brother, you should have used it in a more appropriate place, but now you have wasted such a great opportunity to save me..."
The similarity between the names of the Heart-to-Heart Contract and the Heart-to-Heart Art of the Hehuan Sect stems from the fact that they are both inherited from the same lineage. A former leader of the Hehuan Sect, determined to ensure his fellow Taoist felt a sense of commitment, created the Heart-to-Heart Contract based on his inner mind technique.
The essence of the Heart-to-Heart Contract is the same as that of the Heart-to-Heart Art, which is a spell for sharing senses, sharing pain and joy, expanding the scope of perception through empathy, and improving the efficiency of dual cultivation.
Unlike the Heart-to-Heart Sutra, after the heart-to-heart contract is signed, the contractor can no longer be entangled with the soul of other people. This contract is often used by the disciples of the Hehuan Sect as proof of true love.
It is an unwritten rule that disciples of the Hehuan Sect are not allowed to form a covenant among themselves. This is because if disciples of the Hehuan Sect who rely on practicing dual cultivation with others to improve their cultivation form a covenant, the risks they take and the benefits they gain are almost inversely proportional. To do this is no different from the destruction of the Taoist tradition.
As a ruthless person, Chu Sheng does not rely on practicing with others to improve his cultivation, but Ye Ziqing is not like that.
But if Ye Ziqing had not done so at that time, Chu Sheng's consciousness would probably have been completely overwhelmed by the huge memory, and the will of "Chu Sheng" himself would have disappeared completely.
Ye Ziqing did this entirely to save himself, and Chu Sheng knew this.
She had no personal feelings for Ye Ziqing, and Chu Sheng never had any special emotions towards this senior brother who could sometimes be a little off-key.
At this moment, facing this senior brother who disregarded his own safety and helped without hesitation in the crisis, the girl had only respect and gratitude in her heart.
Chu Sheng's own path was difficult, so when she was involved in the obstacles to others' cultivation, she felt even more empathy. When she thought about how she had affected the cultivation of her fellow disciples in the sect, Chu Sheng felt sincerely sorry.
"Cultivation is so important. When I return to the sect, I will ask Uncle Si Chun if there is any other way to help my brother recover."
Ye Ziqing was a little speechless. He had imagined that Chu Sheng would be angry, confused, and accusing, but he didn't expect to get calm acceptance and an understanding answer.
Ye Ziqing originally wanted to say that in the world of cultivation, signing such a contract was equivalent to becoming a Taoist couple, but for some reason, Ye Ziqing couldn't say such words no matter what.
...that's all.
He thought that his junior sister would never care about these rumors, not to mention that Xiao Sheng's life was more important than anything else.
"As long as Xiaosheng is okay," he said.
"You don't have to worry about other things. I know what's going on. Let me figure it out."
On the other side, Yuan Qi and Qi An, who had lost contact, witnessed an unhappy ending even though they didn't know Chu Sheng's experience.
The God Lord carved an umbrella out of the Emperor Liujiang's sunken jade and gave it to the goddess. Then Yinglong quickly left Kunlun Ruins, but what Yuan Qi and Qi An had never expected was that they were also dragged away from there.
"I can't let you disturb her. I want to do something secretly from her." said the God.
Yinglong flew to the abyss of the East China Sea. She looked at the demons surging in the sea water, her tone full of loss.
"It still doesn't work. It seems much worse."
"What do you want to do?" Qi An asked. Unexpectedly, the Divine Master answered him. "I want to fill this hole."
She flicked her tail, signaling Qi An and Yuan Qi to look down at the turbulent undercurrent surging beneath the calm sea surface.
"There's a hole in this world, and something bad seems to be trying to get in. I originally planned to solve it myself, but now I see that the abilities of a race formed using only my blood are still somewhat unsatisfactory."
Yuan Qi and Qi An followed the trail and saw a dark black hole that seemed to be able to swallow everything. There seemed to be some sticky and terrifying malice rolling and flowing in the black hole, trying to break free from the last layer of invisible restraints.
What was that? No one knew, not even the Divine Lord. But the Divine Lord knew that if the contents were allowed to escape, this already fragile world would soon crumble.
"What a hassle... these fragile things."
The God Lord lowered his head and looked at Yuan Qi and Qi An, and an incomprehensible emotion was revealed in his huge dragon eyes.
"I don't want to see the other person's disappointed and sad expression. Is this the feeling you call heartache?"
"I'm not sure, maybe." Yuan Qi responded cautiously.
"She is unhappy." said the Almighty.
“Since the time I forgot about something, she has become weaker and Chongming can no longer smile.
This is not good, I don't like it. I feel terribly uncomfortable, and I want to die in her place, but she doesn't want to... But I can't just ignore it."
Yinglong said.
"I think I know how to control this strange thing, but you have to swear not to tell her what I did."
Although the scope of what happened was completely beyond the scope of historical inertia, facing Yinglong's gaze, Yuan Qi and Qi An couldn't help but swear an oath according to her ideas.
The God Lord instructed with satisfaction.
"Remember to curse Chongming for me! You dead-faced guy, can't you even make her laugh?
Don't force me to take time out to slap him and tell him that dragons are very busy and have no time. If he has time, he should become an immortal and solve the problem!"
Yinglong, which covered the sky and the sun, flew towards the terrifying black hole under the incredulous gaze of Qi An and Yuan Qi.
Thunder roared, the sea roared, and Yinglong's presence powerfully suppressed all restless things. Then came a dragon roar that shocked all living beings.
Having lost their owner, Kunlun Ruins and the high-rise palace began to collapse from the inside out, and the pavilions and towers were turned into gravel in the weightlessness and disorder.
Chu Sheng and Ye Ziqing began to fall uncontrollably from mid-air. Somewhere in her consciousness, the girl looked towards the east, and her heart skipped a beat: "The Divine Master..."
The huge mythical beast that used its body to suppress the devil gradually transformed and changed shape in the battle with the black hole, until finally, it turned into towering mountains and rivers in the shocked eyes of Yuan Qi and Qi An.
That was the starting point of this Tianjiao Ranking, the division that caused the riots of the demons and monsters, and it was located in the center of the cultivation world and was like the lifeline.
——Canglang Mountains!
In a cloud of dust, the black-haired young man suddenly opened his golden eyes that were free of any emotion.
Chongming, who tried to transform himself into Tao, only had time to take the first step into the unknown before he was pulled back to consciousness by the rapidly changing reality.
Guixuan, who was regarded as the seed of heaven, disappeared, but Chongming did not care about his stay or departure, but opened his hands in confusion.
The albizzia trees that bloomed year-round between my fingers turned into ashes and drifted away between heaven and earth with the wind.
The towering and unfamiliar mountains stood silently before him, but could no longer offer a single word in response.
"...Senior Sister, Divine Lord?"
Amidst the silence of heaven and earth, Chongming's eyes revealed a confused look.
He walked through the desert, the mountains, the ice and snow that never melted, and every corner of the continent. He asked the sky, the earth, the flowers, and the water. He did not get any response, but still stubbornly asked again and again.
"Where are you... Senior Sister, Divine Master?"
"I found a way—where are you?"
Finally, when the mountains were covered with snow, he reached the top of the mountain.
There, a golden lotus that had taken root there at some unknown time nodded to Chongming in the wind.
A light slowly bloomed in the young man's eyes.
His black hair was covered by the white snow, and his body was frail, but his hand still held up the blooming flower steadily, and his tone was like a dream. "Is it you, Senior Sister?"
Chongming didn't get a response, but he laughed.
"It's okay, Senior Sister, I understand."
He said, his clear golden eyes filled with anticipation.
"Anything you wish for, I will bring them back."
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