Chapter 57 Glimpse into the Future
Qingwei and Yuanshi were identical in appearance, tone of voice, demeanor, and even some of their smallest movements.
Chang Hao couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy. No wonder he couldn't recognize Luo Hou disguised as Hong Jun back then. It seemed that Luo Hou at that time was his original form.
Yuanshi withdrew his clone and merged the two back into one. "This is the embodiment of my righteousness. As for you, why don't you sever your corpse? Is there something you're worried about?" Having already severed his corpse, Yuanshi could naturally see that Chang Hao did not show any signs of severing his corpse.
Chang Hao recalled Luo Hou's nonchalant sneer, "That's right, severing the corpse is a shortcut, but I'm not willing. I want to be whole, not to abandon all emotions and become a selfless saint." Without sorrow or joy, without waves or ripples, is that really living? That's just being a walking corpse.
"Brother's Dao is about forgetting emotions and self, while mine is about following the will of Heaven and responding to the people, respecting the Dao and valuing virtue, and elucidating the Dao of Heaven. Yuanshi is not Qingwei, Qingwei is Yuanshi." Yuanshi's severing of the three corpses is different from Hongjun's severing of the three corpses.
"Yuanshi is not Qingwei, Qingwei is Yuanshi..." Chang Hao fell into deep thought. This "severing the three corpses" seemed to be an improved and weakened version. No wonder Hongjun dared to say he was not afraid of trouble. The three corpses had no self-awareness, so naturally nothing would happen.
Yuanshi remembered that he had only taught Chang Hao a cultivation technique without explaining the Dao to him. Seeing that Chang Hao was still practicing the technique he had taught him, he simply conjured two cloud couches on the spot, sat cross-legged, and began to explain the Dao to Chang Hao.
Although they were not formally master and disciple, they were in fact master and disciple, which somewhat soothed Yuanshi's regret.
"The Tao is originally nothingness, nothingness is natural... From oneness comes truth, the essence is clear and pure, understand the mind and see the nature, cultivate one's own mind... neither going nor returning, neither giving up nor taking... neither dying nor being born... all is emptiness... the Tao follows the natural way."
Chang Hao listened intently, a hint of nostalgia flashing in his eyes. He recalled the blind fortune tellers under the overpass, and then thought of Yuanshi's fortune telling. He couldn't help but chuckle. The Taoist methods those people practiced had some ideas that were similar to Yuanshi's.
"Why are you laughing?" Yuanshi finished his sermon and saw Chang Hao smiling, unaware that his eyes were full of indulgence and a faint smile was already on his lips.
"Would Yuanshi be willing to cast a divination for me?" Chang Hao was very curious. In the territory bestowed by Pangu, it was the easiest thing to do to have something divined. This was an opportunity that would not come again.
"What is it? An opportunity?" Yuanshi asked curiously.
"Calculating the future." Chang Hao's eyes were cunning. The one who calculates does not calculate himself. He roams the primordial world and can leave at any time to go to other planes.
Yuanshi, however, was a primordial being, and the divination he could perform only predicted his own future experiences, which was tantamount to precognition and a form of cheating.
“Alright…” Yuanshi picked up a stone from the ground to cast a divination, first predicting good or bad fortune, unhurried and leisurely.
From the bottom of his heart, Yuanshi believed that the hexagram was extremely auspicious. Putting aside everything else, just looking at Chang Hao's profound merits, he knew that everything would go smoothly for him throughout his life.
“Dui above, Xun below…” Yuanshi could not believe what he was seeing. This was the Zhen Palace Wandering Soul Hexagram, the most ominous of all, the Da Guo Hexagram.
"What does it mean, good or bad?" Chang Hao was really looking forward to the future of the Three Pure Ones. He was always curious about the skill of calculating with his fingers. After asking about the fortune, he would have to take a good look at it. Why couldn't he calculate it?
Yuanshi pressed his palm onto the hexagram, causing the eight trigrams on the ground to tremble as if nothing had happened. He then said with a resounding thud, "This is undoubtedly the most auspicious sign."
In reality, he was determined and started calculating on his fingers. So what if Dui Ze represents water and Xun Feng represents wood? Even if the waves rise high, he would stabilize Chang Hao, this driftwood, in the middle of the stream.
Chang Hao smiled knowingly, staring at Yuan Shi's constantly calculating fingers. "The future is extremely auspicious. So, Yuan Shi and the others will have an extremely auspicious future?"
The Three Pure Ones, who are the spiritual pillars of the primordial world, will have the best of luck in the future, which means the primordial world will have the best of luck.
Chang Hao was satisfied with the result.
Yuanshi stared at Chang Hao's face, using the special nature of this place to calculate with all his might. He wanted to see what would happen in the future that would bring great misfortune to Chang Hao.
Chang Hao generously allowed Yuan Shi to look at him. Yuan Shi took a lot of energy from him. In Chang Hao's mind, his future was simple: to cultivate and ensure that he lived a long and healthy life until he saw his former home and fulfilled his regrets.
As the primordial being's eyes gradually sank into chaos, his soul vanished into nothingness, and the future unfolded like a scroll.
He witnessed the three brothers ascending to sainthood amidst auspicious purple clouds rising from the east, and also saw what appeared to be another great calamity befalling the world. He saw Chang Hao seemingly turning against the two golden crows... and saw Tongtian inexplicably move away from Kunlun Mountain... and finally...
Hongjun held a sharp sword and pierced through Chang Hao's body. Then he turned around, raised his sword, and was about to stab him a second time without hesitation.
Hongjun was the first saint in the world, with unfathomable cultivation, while Chang Hao was only a quasi-saint. How could he withstand the second sword?
In his haste, Yuanshi forgot that he was calculating the secrets of heaven and that he was only a quasi-sage at the moment. He reached out to block Hongjun's second sword light...
"Who..." The future Hongjun was enraged; the power of a sage transcends time and space...
"What happened..." Chang Hao was shocked. He saw that Yuan Shi was bleeding from the corner of his mouth and had lost consciousness and collapsed.
Chang Hao quickly put his arm around him, regretting his cleverness. If something happened to Yuanshi, he wouldn't be able to forgive himself, and how could he explain it to Laozi and Tongtian?
"Heal the wounds, yes, heal the wounds first." Chang Hao couldn't help but feel fortunate that his cultivation path was inherited from Yuan Shi's, so it couldn't be better for him to heal Yuan Shi's wounds at this time...
Yuanshi was in a daze, as if he had seen many future scenes, or as if he were covered by a veil, confused and dreamlike, like a bubble.
Until a familiar aura, carrying an irresistible pull, drew Yuan Shi involuntarily towards it...
"Can you hear my voice?" Chang Hao noticed that Yuanshi's eyelashes twitched and breathed a sigh of relief. "Last time you passed on the Jade Purity Heart Sutra to me, a deeper level of cultivation appeared in my inheritance. It seems that the Heavenly Dao has some concerns and therefore does not want them to merge into one."
"By a twist of fate, we have this opportunity. Now I will take this chance to pass it on to you. Do not obstruct me." Chang Hao said this, but he was not sure if his complete Jade Purity Primordial Heart Sutra could be successfully transmitted to the Primordial Divine Soul.
His cultivation level was similar to that of Yuanshi. Yuanshi had already severed one of his corpses and his realm had recently increased greatly. Unlike when they first met, Yuanshi could forcefully nail the cultivation technique into his sea of consciousness. As long as Yuanshi resisted, he could not pass on the Heart Sutra.
Although Yuanshi did not know who was speaking, the intimacy that arose deep in his soul was genuine, and he offered no resistance whatsoever, allowing the person to send the unknown and potentially harmful cultivation technique into his soul.
As soon as the Jade Purity Primordial Heart Sutra entered his soul, it took root and sprouted. Since they were of the same origin, there was naturally no ripple or disturbance. Yuanshi quickly went through the process once, and his aura became even more profound and restrained...
"You're awake," Chang Hao put down the spiritual plant in his hand. He was struggling with which spiritual plant to use if Yuan Shi didn't wake up soon. "Is there anything wrong?"
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