Chapter 434 "Heavenly Way" and "Eternity"
It is a fact that skills have different strengths.
Even skills of the same level can have huge differences in strength. Some skills can become the core of a system, and even their strength can be extremely astonishing when taken alone - the most typical example is the life and death battle.
But Xia Lin felt that since Equation of Heaven and Advent of the Old Ones were both core skills of the Six Pillars, there shouldn't be a difference in strength in theory - otherwise there would be no way to explain why the Creator of Heaven was the leader of the Six Pillars.
However, in Xia Lin's hands, the Old Ones' Advent is more useful than the Equation of Heaven.
Xia Lin previously thought this might be a compatibility issue.
The Coming of the Old Ones is more in line with one's own ability system and even personality traits than the Equation of Heaven.
However, at this moment, when Meng Hao finished speaking, Xia Lin realized such a problem.
Can it be? The Heavenly Dao Equation is relatively weak in my hands, not just because of the adaptability problem.
Is it because I haven't studied this skill in depth and haven't grasped the essence of this skill at all?
——There is such a possibility.
But what is the essence of this skill and how should we study it?
Xia Lin didn't understand this.
He just looked at Meng Hao with interest, and then listened to Meng Hao speak again.
"As a core skill of the Six Pillars, the Heavenly Dao Equation has the ability to disassemble and piece together skills. However, during my discussion with fellow Taoists, a question arose."
"Why is this skill prefixed with 'Heavenly Dao'? After all, simply looking at its effect, it has nothing to do with Heavenly Dao... It would be more reasonable to call it a skill equation or a universal skill formula."
Xia Lin nodded in agreement and said, "That makes sense."
Xia Lin hadn't actually thought about this question before.
He just thought that the Heavenly Dao Equation was very powerful and awesome, and he really wanted to break the uniqueness rule and keep the Heavenly Dao Equation as a skill.
But I really didn't care about this skill, why it was given the prefix "Heavenly Dao" by the Creator of Heavenly Dao.
Meng Hao continued: "I have two guesses about this."
"First, the Heavenly Dao in the Immortal Dao means complete. It means omniscience and omnipotence. This skill is prefixed with the Heavenly Dao, indicating that its core purpose is to achieve completeness."
This speculation, based on the perspective of skill conception, gives Xia Lin a mysterious feeling of immortal chivalry.
To put it simply, I don’t quite understand.
"Secondly, this skill is named the Heavenly Dao Equation because its correct use isn't to disassemble or piece together skills. Instead, it's to create the Heavenly Dao, control it, and transcend it. Controlling, modifying, and even creating the Heavenly Dao is the most powerful aspect of this skill! It also perfectly aligns with the core purpose of the Immortal Cultivator profession."
Xia Lin nodded in understanding: "Two sounds more reasonable."
Meng Hao gave a wry smile, "Sir, this is all just my random guesses when I'm bored. After all, we don't have the Heavenly Dao Equation skill, so how can we claim to have a deep understanding of it?"
Therefore, what Meng Hao said was roughly equivalent to a group of farmers chatting after dinner about how the emperor farmed.
It is mixed with a desire for higher power and a yearning for a higher class.
Meng Hao himself felt that what he said was just for fun.
Little did he know that Xia Lin had indeed figured out something from these words.
After all, he really does have the Heavenly Equation...
Xia Lin: "What is the Way of Heaven?"
Meng Hao's spirits perked up. This was his specialty: "The so-called Heavenly Dao is the sum of fate and destiny. It is the true spirit that controls all things. It is the operating laws and underlying logic of all things."
Xia Lin could understand these terms. After thinking for a while, he asked, "How do you cultivators comprehend the Way of Heaven?"
Meng Hao rattled off a long list of terms, such as "entering the Dao in a dream" and "the connection between heaven and man"...
This is too mysterious.
As Xia Lin listened, he began to look troubled.
Because he was not a cultivator, he really could not understand the professional explanations of these immortal ways. Even if he understood them, he could not do it as he was not a cultivator.
——Facts have proved that Xia Lin’s inability to unleash the full power of the Heavenly Dao Equation is indeed related to his incompatibility with the professional system.
"In short, if you want to comprehend the Way of Heaven, the best way is to achieve Immortal Venerable status and enter the He Dao. This is generally recognized as the strongest and fastest way to sense the Way of Heaven."
Xia Lin: Huh... If I want to comprehend the Way of Heaven, I have to become an Immortal Cultivator first? Ordinary isn't enough, I have to be a 12th-level Immortal Venerable?
How could Xia Lin have the time, energy and qualifications to pursue a third career?
"Besides that?"
Meng Hao shook his head: "Then I don't know."
Everyone has their own expertise. As a celestial immortal, Meng Hao has a relatively good understanding of the way of immortality, but he knows nothing about other methods of comprehending the way of heaven.
Xia Lin sat cross-legged and thought for a moment, and suddenly his eyes swept over the man-made way of heaven.
In a flash of inspiration, Xia Lin clapped his hands, stood up, turned to look at Yang Changyu and Meng Hao, and quickly said, "You two go out first, let me walk around here alone."
…
Only after all the strangers had left did Xia Lin rub his hands together and come to the man-made Heavenly Dao.
In front of him, a giant gaseous dragon condensed into a ball, and the dragon energy and immortal power blended seamlessly into one.
Xia Lin slowly stretched out his hand and touched the object, but found that his hand seemed to have touched a phantom, passing through it and unable to touch the entity of the object.
In other words, this thing probably has no entity...
Things like the Way of Heaven, the will of the world, and the will of the universe are actually non-entity existences.
They do exist, but they only have will and no body. They are more like the embodiment of intelligent underlying rules.
However, this artificial Heavenly Dao created by Wang Laoqi is inferior to the real Heavenly Dao - Xia Lin sensed that this artificial Heavenly Dao only has form but no will.
I don’t know if it’s because the technology is not up to standard or for some other reason.
In short, it's just a dead object.
Standing in place, Xia Lin was not in a hurry to activate the Heavenly Dao Equation and make a second contact.
He was just thinking back to the conversation he had just had with Meng Hao, trying to better understand the principles and purpose of the Heavenly Dao Equation's skills.
"This skill represents everything. This is probably correct. I feel the same way when I use it myself."
Comprehensive and powerful is Xia Lin's evaluation of the Tiandao Equation.
This skill can be called a universal skill. Whether used as a core or as an auxiliary, the effect is extremely explosive.
"And according to Meng Hao's speculation, the application of this skill is not limited to the disassembly and assembly of skills. The control of the Way of Heaven is the key to this skill."
"This does make sense. This is because it completely fits the professional purpose of a cultivator."
"Well, let's not discuss the purpose for now. That's too complex and will be left for future exploration. The key right now is actually how I can develop other uses for the Heavenly Dao Equation."
After Meng Hao's guidance and Xia Lin's own thinking, Xia Lin now has an idea and is ready to start from two aspects.
On the one hand, there is the man-made heaven in front of us.
If you want to develop deeper uses of the Heavenly Dao Equation, the deeper your understanding of the Heavenly Dao, the better.
But due to his professional limitations, Xia Lin was destined to not have a deep understanding of the Way of Heaven.
So just now Xia Lin thought of this man-made way of heaven.
I can't comprehend the true way of heaven, but if I try to comprehend the man-made way of heaven, maybe I can gain something?
On the other hand, Xia Lin just thought of a possibility.
"Since this skill represents omniscience and omnipotence. It can dismantle and reconstruct skills, and it seems to be able to dismantle the Way of Heaven and create the Way of Heaven... Does that mean that the essence of this skill is a skill that dismantles everything and reconstructs everything?"
This conjecture is not groundless.
Because the so-called omnipotence must be able to do such a thing!
And the extraordinary is greater than the ordinary, that is certain.
Since the Heavenly Dao Equation can even dismantle skills that represent the extraordinary, why can't it dismantle mundane things?
Everything, skills, and the way of heaven.
These three are not related, but they do have a progressive relationship from small to large. The Tiandao Equation can handle the latter two, which are more advanced, so there is no reason why it cannot handle the former.
“But I can’t do that right now.”
His mind recalled the first time he entered the dark world and witnessed the fierce battle between the two emperors of immortals and demons.
In that fight, the Immortal and Demon Emperors used their skills not in a turn-based manner: that is, the skill light flashed and the skill was activated.
They disassembled and crushed all the skills they possessed, including the Heavenly Equation and Absolute Balance, and gathered them into a torrent of energy to clash with each other!
This is obviously a higher level of using and expressing power.
Xia Lin later tried to perform similar operations, but to no avail - due to the limitations of the professional system.
Under the professional system, everything is very strict.
After level 12, you have to take a half step away from the professional system to break through many restrictions.
Xia Lin felt that he might have to wait until he reached level 12 before he could conduct further research in this area, and this might also be one of the ways to strengthen himself after reaching level 12.
In short, there is only one thing to say right now: Xia Lin is not capable of such delicate work.
This made Xia Lin sigh softly, and then looked at the man who created the Heavenly Dao.
"So, maybe we have to pin our hopes on this thing."
Thinking this way, he stretched out his hand for the second time and touched the man-made Heavenly Dao.
But this time, Xia Lin activated the Heavenly Dao Equation.
It is not about combining ready-made skill atoms into new skills.
Xia Lin actually used the direct function one of the Heavenly Dao Equation: reverse decomposition!
It looked like he wanted to directly dismantle this artificial Heavenly Dao. Of course, this was impossible, after all, reverse disassembly could only dismantle skills in theory, but not other things.
So this was just an attempt made by Xia Lin.
The moment Xia Lin's hand successfully touched the artificial sky, the light flickered slightly and Xia Lin felt dizzy.
In the dark, he only felt that his will had merged with the man-made way of heaven.
The next second, Xia Lin's perspective rose rapidly, and the entire dimension appeared under Xia Lin's eyes!
This is a true God’s perspective!
…
Wang Yanqing's plan to create an artificial heaven in this world has actually been completed.
The plan is on track, and the follow-up is nothing more than observation and maintenance.
When Xia Lin swallowed this plane before, he felt a lot of resistance. This was actually because this world already had an artificial heaven.
To put it another way, this man-made heavenly way has long been integrated with this world.
In the main world of the military lord, there should be no heavenly law.
Because the Military Lord is the sky, the Military Lord is the absolute protagonist of the main world.
Of course, under the interference of the external force Wang Laoqi, Yang Zhe's main world does not follow this law. There is the way of heaven in his main world.
Xia Lin couldn't figure out for a moment whether Yang Zhe had the final say in this world, or this man-made Heavenly Dao...
But one thing is certain - now, Xia Lin has the final say in this place.
Because the difficulty of controlling this artificial Heavenly Dao with the Heavenly Dao Equation was much lower than Xia Lin had imagined.
As soon as he touched the light of the Heavenly Dao Equation, this man-made Heavenly Dao instinctively dropped all his defenses, as if a servant was welcoming his master home.
Somehow, the skill description of the Heavenly Dao Equation emerged in Xia Lin's mind.
The Way of Heaven is a program, and programs have formulas! Use the formula to unlock the secrets of the Way of Heaven, then control the Way of Heaven, replace the Way of Heaven, transcend the Way of Heaven, and create the Way of Heaven. This is the universal solution to the universe, the equation of the Way of Heaven!
There is no need to discuss subsequent functions, just talk about this sentence.
This sentence is the preface to the Tiandao Equation skill, which is equivalent to the outline of a secret book, and has explained the correct usage of the Tiandao Equation!
——This skill is best used in conjunction with Tiandao!
Looking down at the dimensional plane in front of him, Xia Lin suddenly had a clearer and deeper understanding of everything he saw.
From the microscopic particles to the macroscopic laws governing the operation of the universe.
Every blade of grass, every grain of sand, every soil, every person and every thing, in Xia Lin's eyes, there is no secret at all!
This is omniscience!
As soon as the thought came to his mind, Xia Lin's perspective widened and he saw the chaos happening in Lanyang City.
The burning, killing, and looting were still going on. Xia Lin frowned and said, "This place is already my territory, and you are destroying my resources!"
There is no need for Xia Lin to take the initiative to do anything.
In a state of harmony with the Way of Heaven, Xia Lin only had a thought, and those criminals who were doing evil froze instantly, and then disappeared into thin air like pencil drawings erased by an eraser.
"stop!"
What you think in your heart will become reality with the help of the power of heaven.
In an instant, the rules of the dimension were overturned, all evil thoughts were swept away, everyone's mind was clear, they put down their butcher knives, and everyone became holy and pure!
This is omnipotence!
Omniscience and omnipotence.
This is the true equation of heaven!
Xia Lin sighed.
Because he suddenly felt lucky.
Fortunately, the current universe has six pillars, rather than the Lord of Heaven dominating alone.
Otherwise, the Creator of Heaven who possesses the Heavenly Equation can really do whatever he wants!
His thoughts wandered, and Xia Lin thought of the cosmic tone of the Six Pillars' struggle.
Why is there no natural law in the main world of the military lord?
Why doesn’t every planet with life have world will?
Why is the presence of the cosmic consciousness of the main universe suppressed so low by the six pillars that it can only bestow blessings briefly when professionals are promoted to level 12?
Why is it that the state of harmony of the immortals cannot be in harmony with the Heavenly Dao of the entire universe, but can only be in harmony with the Heavenly Dao of a certain region, making it seem as if different regions have different Heavenly Daos?
Now, all of this has an answer.
This is the suppression of the Lord of Heaven by the other five pillars!
Heaven creates the Lord and controls fate and destiny.
There is nothing wrong with this statement.
Because in the territory where the Heavenly Dao exists, He can do all this, which is too easy for the Heavenly Dao equation.
The reason for repeated failures is simply because the confrontations of the same level cancel each other out.
For a moment, Xia Lin was filled with emotion.
The Original Master unleashed the Old Ones' Coming, which affected the entire universe, revealing the strangeness of the Six Pillars.
At this moment, Xia Lin only glimpsed a small part of the power of the Heavenly Dao Equation, which made him see the absolute dominance of the Six Pillars.
This made Xia Lin even more jealous of the position of Six Pillars.
But when the excitement faded, Xia Lin had to face an embarrassing problem.
"It's useless."
"I know another way to use the Heavenly Dao Equation, but it's useless. I can't use it!"
To unleash the maximum power of the Heavenly Dao Equation, a prerequisite is required: Heavenly Dao.
But the Way of Heaven does not exist everywhere.
This limits the application scenarios of the Tiandao equation.
Of course, Xia Lin felt that the Heavenly Dao Equation of the Heavenly Dao Creator definitely had the ability to create the Heavenly Dao - and it would probably only take a few breaths.
This allowed the Creator of Heaven to break the self-limitations of the Heavenly Equation.
But Xia Lin just couldn't do it...
He is not a cultivator, he does not understand the way of heaven, let alone being able to create the way of heaven at will?
Right now in Yang Zhe's main world, Xia Lin was just taking advantage of the man-made heaven.
And this thing cannot be moved... Even if it can be moved, Xia Lin will not use it, because it is Wang Laoqi's thing, and who knows if there is any trick of Wang Laoqi in it.
The general outline of the Heavenly Dao Equation says: control the Heavenly Dao, replace the Heavenly Dao, override the Heavenly Dao, and create the Heavenly Dao.
Xia Lin only controlled the way of heaven, he couldn't even replace and surpass the creator.
If he wanted to move forward, he would need the corresponding knowledge of immortality, but Xia Lin did not have the time, nor did he have much interest in the profession of immortal cultivator.
"So I ask, what's my gain? Isn't this just free?"
Knowledge is not power.
Knowledge that cannot be transformed into power is at best just a topic of conversation after dinner.
Xia Lin was a little disappointed for a moment and was not satisfied with his gains this time.
Until, a system prompt sound suddenly rang in his ears.
[Because you have witnessed the microcosm and the macrocosm, and gained insight into the dimensional planes and the nature of the heavens, your profession, the Pillar of Eternity, has been upgraded!]
[Current Pillar of Eternity career level: Level 10! ]
Xia Lin is a dual-professional.
And Uncertain Shadow has always been Xia Lin’s main profession.
Leaving the Ashes Zone achieved level ten, and witnessing the battle between the six pillars achieved level eleven, both of which improved the professional level of the Uncertain Shadow.
The Pillar of Eternity's class level had always been level 9, but now it had inexplicably been upgraded...
As if it had dawned on him, Xia Lin realized something instantly!
The skill of Equation of Heaven is quite compatible with his Pillar of Eternity profession.
…
The Pillars of Eternity represent certainty and the known.
The Heavenly Equation represents omniscience and omnipotence.
Some of the properties of the two overlap - known and omniscient, they must be able to complement each other!
This is just like the profession of Lord of Heavenly Armies, which is a fusion of the Lord of Ten Thousand Armies and the immortal cultivator, with control and omniscience complementing each other.
This logic is equally applicable to the Pillars of Eternity and the Equation of Heaven!
In an instant, Xia Lin seemed to have entered a state of enlightenment.
He talked to himself.
"Actually, I don't need to unleash the full power of the Heavenly Dao Equation. I don't need to become the second Heavenly Dao Creator."
If someone can perfectly unleash the power of the Heavenly Dao Equation, he can indeed be called the second-generation Heavenly Dao Creator.
As I said just now, it's not impossible for Xia Lin to go on this road, but it's not easy either.
The forerunner is not necessarily stronger, but the forerunner is not necessarily weaker either.
Follow the path of the Lord of Heaven and leave the Lord of Heaven with no way to go?
Xia Lin felt that the probability of this happening was not very high, and the greater probability would be that the food would be delivered to the door.
"So, I don't need to be too obsessed with the Heavenly Dao Equation and think about how to unleash the full power of this skill."
"I can completely use the Heavenly Dao Equation as an aid and walk my own path."
Just as Xia Lin thought about it, the Pillar of Eternity professional talent 2, witness, the full power is unleashed!
By witnessing the combination of the Heavenly Dao Equation and the artificial Heavenly Dao, everything in this plane immediately became clearer and more intuitive in Xia Lin's eyes.
Xia Lin took in endless information and it seeped into his mind.
In just a moment, the prompt sound rang in Xia Lin's ears again.
[You have realized the Pillar of Eternity professional skill: Reforging All Things (Racial Heritage Level).]
[Skill 3, Reforge All Things (Racial Heritage Level): Active skill, exclusive to the Pillar of Eternity. Consumes a certain amount of mental energy to change the properties of any substance, shaping it into anything you know! The deeper your understanding of the object, the less energy this skill consumes, and the longer the reforged object lasts, and the more powerful it becomes! This skill has no cooldown!]
For Xia Lin, this is the correct way to solve the Heavenly Equation!
——Don’t take it as the core, but use it as an auxiliary, extract its essence, and gradually transform the skill of the Heavenly Dao Equation into your own ability!
And right now, this idea is absolutely feasible!
But it is not enough, far from enough.
Xia Lin seemed to be assisted by God and completely entered the state.
The acquisition of just one skill is not enough to satisfy Xia Lin's ambition.
The "Gaze of Heaven" withdrew from everything in this dimension.
And during this process, the system prompt sounded again.
[You have realized the Pillar of Eternity's professional skill: Transcendence (Racial Heritage Level)!]
Before Xia Lin could hear the detailed attributes of the Transcendence skill, the prompt tone suddenly changed.
【Unstable mutation takes effect! 】
[Your professional skill: Transcendence, mutated into, not in the Five Elements! ]
[Due to the influence of the causal entanglement of skills, your skills, beyond the Three Realms, can achieve a chain and fusion with skills not in the Five Elements.]
[Note: This fusion may cause conflicts between the two professions, please choose carefully.]
Xia Lin is not afraid of anything.
He can use the Twin Doomsday talent to compensate for the conflict between the two professions!
“Fusion!”
【Fusion completed! 】
[Your skills, "Beyond the Three Realms" and "Not in the Five Elements," have disappeared.]
[You have acquired a new skill: I am above all things in the universe!]
Pillars of Eternity Skill 4:
[I Am Above All Heavens and All Laws (Racial Heritage Level): Active Skill. This skill can be toggled on and off at any time! When activated, your memes and pheromones will completely vanish from the current plane, leaving no one to detect or even acknowledge your existence, or to investigate your causal relationship! This effect will temporarily expire when you initiate a move, and the expiration period will last for 1 minute. Also, while this skill is active, you will be completely immune to all debuffs and negative effects at the Heritage level and below, both from a causal and underlying logic perspective! Completely immune to all targeted skills!]
Xia Lin took a deep breath.
This skill is a bit scary...
It's not about hiding.
Xia Lin didn't believe that this skill could help him deceive Liuzhu's eyes, and it was even hard to say whether it could deceive the top level 12.
The horror lies in the last entry.
Anyone who understands the power of skills like pseudo-random replacement will understand.
In the end, Tiandao's gaze retracted to Xia Lin, but did not disappear. Instead, it penetrated Xia Lin's cortex and penetrated into Xia Lin's body and soul!
The prompt sounded again.
You have gained insight into your physical nature.
[You have gained a slight insight into the essence of your soul and the underlying logic of the professional system.]
[You have realized the Pillar of Eternity professional skill: Eternal Mark (Racial Heritage Level).]
[Eternal Mark (Racial Heritage Level): Active skill, exclusive to the Pillar of Eternity. Consumes 1000 points of mental power to hit the target with this single-target skill, marking the target's current state! This mark persists permanently and cannot be erased by normal means except by you. This skill has no cooldown.]
[You have realized the Pillar of Eternity's professional skill: Eternal Tracing (Racial Heritage Level).]
[Eternal Tracing (Racial Heritage Level): Active skill, exclusive to the Pillar of Eternity, and a skill that takes place after the Eternal Mark. You can manipulate the Eternal Mark at any time, retracing the target's state to the moment it was marked. This skill has no cost and a cooldown of 3 minutes.]
[You have realized the Pillar of Eternity's professional talent: Eternal Immortality (Racial Heritage Level)!]
[Professional Talent 3: Eternal Immortality (Racial Heritage Level): Time is the measure of all things, but eternity transcends time.
You have become a part of the known universe, and your pheromones will be remembered forever by the known universe!
You don't need any resurrection methods to achieve resurrection at a price: after each resurrection, your racial value and all attributes will be permanently reduced by 30%.
If you are killed by a fatal attack, as long as there is still a trace of you in the current universe, you can still be resurrected! After resurrection, you will lose all your extraordinary powers (including professional talents, skills and props).
(End of this chapter)
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