Chapter 72 Yu’s Foresight (1)
Yu Linghe looked at the first mural, but first asked Luo Xuanyi an unrelated question.
"Do you know how the realms of monks are divided?"
This is simple, Luo Xuanyi can do it easily.
"Practicing Qi, building the foundation, golden elixir, Nascent Soul, refining emptiness, transforming into spirit, breaking through the Dao and then ascending."
"When you reach the Great Perfection of Refining Void, if you want to break through and become a Transformed God, you need to go through the Dao Seed Heart Tribulation. The path to godhood is determined here, and then you enter the realm of godhood. Generally speaking, this should be the case, right?"
Yu Linghe's face was filled with pride and a hint of complexity. "But Daozu wasn't like that. When she reached the Great Perfection of Lianxu, she killed the divine beast Jinglai, the god of the 'afterlife', and replaced Jinglai as the earthly deity in charge of the 'afterlife' in the Three Great Reincarnations."
Kill the gods and seize the Tao!
Luo Xuanyi thought of what Yu Linghe said when he learned about her fake name. She suddenly had a vague understanding and immediately listened to Yu Linghe's words with full concentration.
Yu Linghe was completely immersed in his memories.
"The mirror comes, headless, with six eyes on its neck and a three-legged horse body. Its eyes can see through endless afterlife. Those who see its nails will fall into madness, confused between the afterlife and this world. Those who hear its cry will see death, no matter how long in the future, come to life before them."
"Compared to the Divine Beast Jinglai, the Yu family was originally just an ordinary sword cultivation family. In the ancient times when the Innate Dao was rampant, it was completely insignificant."
"But after the Xiantian spirit slowly dissipated, the human race gradually rose to prominence. Now, even the three-legged Golden Crow, representing the sun, is hard to be seen, with only its corpse remaining as the sun. But this does not mean that the human race can contend with the Xiantian. Several Dao Breaking Stage masters attempted to snatch the Golden Crow's corpse before ascending to heaven to obtain the divine essence and aid their ascension, but in the end, they were reduced to ashes."
"The realm of God is an absolutely forbidden area that humans like us cannot enter."
"But when Daozu was born, everything changed."
Luo Xuanyi listened silently, hearing about how talented the Taoist Patriarch of the Yu family was, and how he even created a complete set of exercises for the entire clan to learn while in the Jindan stage. She also heard about how she climbed up to the Lianxu stage step by step without any help.
She originally just wanted to confirm the purpose of the Taoist tradition called "afterlife", but she couldn't help but sigh at her legendary story.
"Daozu reached the Refining Void Stage. When she first attempted to break through to the Transformation God Stage, she finally understood why the human race had never been able to surpass the Xiantian Stage and become a true god. This was because the Dao Seed Heart, a mere wisp of Dao Qi separated from the Xiantian Spirit, could only lead people down the path of false gods."
"So, she decided to give up the Dao Seed and ask her conscience, and instead directly kill the god and seize the throne."
In these few simple words, the image of a powerful and domineering being slowly emerged in Luo Xuanyi's eyes.
"No one witnessed that battle. All we know is that at the end, the heaven and earth suddenly shook and flickered for sixteen days, returning to normal on the seventeenth. Daozu dragged Jinglai's corpse back to the clan and sat on it to achieve Divine Transformation. The Heavenly Thunder Tribulation reached Daozu's head, but no lightning bolt struck. Daozu immediately entered the Divine Transformation stage."
If it were Luo Xuanyi, the next thing she would think about is continuing on the path of Taoism and becoming the first cultivator in history to achieve immortality. However, looking at the seventeen-year-old Taoist master in front of her, she knew that the next step was the key point.
Yu Linghe's tone was filled with admiration.
"Daozu has reached the Spiritual Transformation Stage, but having mastered the path of reincarnation and rebirth, she can easily stand at the starting point and look a thousand years into the future. She can assert that even after another thousand years, no one will succeed in ascending. However, after that, there will be a great disaster, and the Yu family will lose its protection and will inevitably be overthrown."
"When she confirmed her future, which would be destroyed if she insisted on ascending, she chose to control herself to the perfection of the Spiritual Transformation Stage for the sake of her family's continuation, and then lived out her lifespan, leaving behind a complete body of a powerful Spiritual Transformation Stage expert."
"Of course, if this is possible, it's because Daozu has created two more spells. One is used to preserve true essence from being absorbed by the heavens. Since Daozu is already a part of the heavens, even the heavens can't stop her. The other is the descent technique [Nine-Path Dust Sweeping and Summoning Spirits Technique]. The method used for this descent technique is extremely demanding. First, the one must inherit Daozu's bloodline, second, possess the Dao lineage of reincarnation, and third, the soul and flesh of a baby that has been carried in the womb for six months must be met before it can be used."
"To this end, Daozu cut off his blood and flesh, and also injected blood from the mirror into the bodies of his clan members, thus giving birth to the first generation of the clan. They could foresee the next hundred years through a faint light. However, Daozu soon discovered that as the bloodline weakened, the Yu clan's Taoist lineage declined again and again. From the second generation onwards, they could only see the foresight of different time periods through a mirror-like reflection."
Thinking of the few sword cultivators who had knelt by the path to greet the Jade Spirit Crane, and the mirror cultivators whose strength was inferior to that of the sword cultivators, Luo Xuanyi suddenly realized something. But with the weakening of their bloodline, wouldn't there eventually be a time when they could no longer be protected? Even now, with the Daoist lineage weakened, most disciples have already practiced mirror cultivation, presumably relying on the Dao Ancestor's strength.
"The Dao Ancestor feared that future generations would become weak, unable to even use the art of advent. Therefore, he gathered the strength of his entire clan and performed a great sacrifice. This sacrifice also pushed us away from the righteous path and into the evil path. However, this great sacrifice was completely different from the evil path. It gathered all volunteers from our clan for the sacrifice, and no one held a single grudge before throwing themselves into the furnace."
"A single moment of hesitation would have resulted in the entire sacrifice failing. However, all 13,000 of our clan members died with a smile on their faces. For the prosperity of future generations, they sacrificed the power of reincarnation, forever imprisoning their souls and bodies within the ancestral temple. With such powerful and pure spiritual protection, every twenty years, our clan will produce a person suitable for wielding the Advent Formation, known as the Advent One."
"Even if Daozu passes away a thousand years later, we will always be at the top of the righteous, evil, and demonic paths! Those ordinary people in the Spiritualization Stage or even the Dao Breaking Stage are simply unable to compete with the protection of Daozu's spirit body!"
Yu Linghe's fingers slid into the flames, and the red mineral powder seemed to burn into her eyes.
"The Adventers' life is to protect their clan. We can only live for eighteen years, and from the moment we descend, our bodies will gradually devour us, and we will gradually lose our true selves. But since our ancestors did this, how can I escape from this?"
What if it were me? Luo Xuanyi found that although she greatly admired the spirit of the Yu family, she couldn't do it. It was precisely because she would choose self-interest without hesitation that she admired such pure dedication.
"Then what about your previous statement that you already knew my name? And I heard from those in the tribe that subsequent arrivals are always unpredictable, right?"
Yu Linghe paused, a shadow crossing her face. But Luo Xuanyi had already figured out her personality. Yu Linghe wasn't irritated by her question, but rather worried about the future of the clan.
"To prevent anyone from foreseeing the right one, the Dao Ancestor listed all the adventers that appeared over the past thousand years, describing the specific characteristics of the person they would appear within in that year. She also wrote a congratulatory message for each one."
"Because our foresight can change the development of future generations based on our foresight, the foresight of future generations changes constantly with each individual's choices. But with the Dao Ancestor's divine words as the final word, the future of those who descend will not be annihilated."
"I am the one foreseen by the last Dao Ancestor. Her message to you is: 'You will no longer be alone. The one who comes in the future will entrust all your worries to her. Her name is Yi Sanmei.'"
"The Dao Ancestor has already foreseen your arrival."
Sorry, I had a bad stomach during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The ancient story will continue for a while, and the main plot is only now slowly coming out (so late!
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