Chapter 628: Chapter 628
That is the starry sky.
The vast starry sky deduced by the Heavenly Mechanism Stargazing Technique, countless suns signify endless Star Domains, with no end in sight. In front of them, everything seems minute, carelessness could lead one to get lost, sinking into this boundless, vast expanse of All Phenomena.
Ji Jingqiu could feel that this entity was squeezing his potential, continuously pressing, yet without any reservations.
As a world collapses into a point, the heavens darken, quickly condensing into an indescribable "point," with no before and after, no above and below, it is the starting point as well as the endpoint, as if containing all sorts of possibilities, hiding the past, and also hiding the future...
In this point, even existence itself seems illusory.
Ji Jingqiu's heart trembles with fear, yet he feels like he has obtained a treasure.
It is the point to which All Phenomena return, one could say All Phenomena return to One, or it could be interpreted as the beginning of everything.
And the beginning of everything, is none other than Primordial!
Heavenly Mechanism Daoist muttered to himself:
"At the Dragon Tiger Dojo, Bai Lu and the old man Long Qingyang, I wonder how they teach their disciples. Clearly from my Dao Venerable lineage, yet they somehow produced a Qilin Son leaning towards the World Venerable Lineage, still it required this old man to intervene and set things right."
"Hmm... the Mu Family values him so much, could there be this significant reason for it? Not good, the old man needs to calculate again—"
Heavenly Mechanism Daoist suddenly opened his eyes.
He had calculated a few times for Ji Jingqiu before, but the distance was too great and there was no reliance, nothing significant came out of it, so he let it be.
But now, Ji Jingqiu is right in front of him, his spirit still in confrontation with a thread of his mental thought, how could he still calculate nothing?
At this moment, the Ji Jingqiu in his eyes is like that "One" in Ji Jingqiu's eyes, with no before and after, no above and below, untouched by time, also unmarked by fate—
How is this possible?!
Could he truly be a divine motley?
Ji Jingqiu vaguely guessed what the preceding Heavenly Mechanism elder wanted him to see.
Yet, his contemplation was still on his own path; he was not swayed by the stunning scenery shown by the other party, only pondering whether it could be integrated.
"To harness All Phenomena with the True Self... what is the True Self? Can it also be considered as 'One'? If it is One, it may also be Primordial."
"Should one harness All Phenomena with the Primordial True Self to attain the Formless, or should All Phenomena unify to break through all phenomena as non-phenomena, and behold the True Self of Tathagata?"
Ji Jingqiu slowly sank into the subtleties of enlightenment.
During this moment, his spirit under the influence of the Heavenly Gang Star Formation, seemed infinitely elevated; between the shifts of his thoughts, two paths unfolded right here.
These two paths seemed contradictory, yet seemed to complement each other, Ji Jingqiu unconsciously fell into deep enlightenment.
Even those outside like Duan Xuanji and others felt a hint of profound Dao charm.
Heavenly Mechanism Daoist even commanded the two foolish disciples to draw near and rub off some of the Dao's influence, seeing if they could be influenced similarly.
As Ji Jingqiu thought more and more, and became more confused as if caught in an endless repetitive cycle—
Sky Opening Heaven and Earth Creation.
The blade's light shocked the world, splitting Heaven and Earth, segregating past, future, and present, dividing Yin and Yang, organizing the Four Symbols, educating the Five Virtues... Finally transforming into All Phenomena, evolving into Primordial Limitless!
In the moment of Ji Jingqiu's astonishment, another blade light fell!
This blade, mixed with a sense of destruction in its vast expanse, caused Heaven and Earth to emit a sound of unbearable burden, the river of time also changing from stretching to coiling, as if this blade wounded its foundation.
Eventually, time ceases, fate does not exist anymore, the Five Virtues are no more, the Four Symbols are extinct, Yin and Yang are confused, all laws are Formless...
All dharmas are illusory, only by breaking through all phenomena as non-phenomena, can one behold Tathagata!
These two blades clearly and domineeringly informed Ji Jingqiu—
First behold Primordial, then behold Tathagata.
All is empty, can prove Bodhi.
Ji Jingqiu sighed deeply.
My Dao, has made progress!
This journey is not in vain.
Inside the Inner World.
Lady La unusually lost composure, her hands tightly grasping Fatty Hu, causing the little guy to cry out in pain.
But Lady La was unmoved, her eyes wide open like facing a great enemy, staring intently at the two Ten Thousand Ancient Blades stuck into the Inner World.
She gritted her teeth and muttered, "You cur..."
In those years, it was these two blades combined that, across a realm, forcefully dropped her from the Divine Throne!
After Ji Jingqiu detached from his spiritual world, he had not yet had the chance to contemplate the understanding during this period, when he suddenly realized.
I... have broken free from the Fourth Chain?
He introspected inside his body, only to see the Divine Embryo floating, autonomously swallowing Star Power.
Now that the four chains were broken, Divine Light contained within, he felt like he could expand Heaven and Earth...
This naturally was an illusion produced after a surge in Life Force.
The Divine Embryo absorbed the Star Power into the body, corresponding to five points, the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, pouring into them, like filling five wells, only when the five organs are full will the day come to break the Fifth Chain.
Unfortunately, the surrounding starlight was already extremely faint.
However, Ji Jingqiu was not surprised by this, rather...
He pondered; does my Divine Embryo autonomously cultivate?
Lady La didn't mention this.
"Ji, you just broke the Fourth Chain?"
Duan Xuanji suddenly appeared in front of him, looking at him as if he were a monster, his junior Zhuang Yanxing also by his side.
Ji Jingqiu smiled and said, "A minor breakthrough, I must thank the elder Heavenly Mechanism for his facilitation!"
Heavenly Mechanism Daoist stood not far away, exuding an immortal-like presence, merely nodding with a smile, as if everything was within his calculations.
Actually, his beard-tugging hand was somewhat stiff.
When Ji Jingqiu previously broke the Fourth Chain, his Spirit God was still in another world, absolutely having no time to care about the external world, resulting in the Fourth Chain breaking as if it was originally broken, utterly without any resistance...