Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter-Chapter 208 - 109: Three Qi Transform into Three Diagrams—Righteous Path, Demon Path, Path of Freedom

Chapter 208: Chapter 109: Three Qi Transform into Three Diagrams—Righteous Path, Demon Path, Path of Freedom

Morning light, small courtyard, golden sunshine.

The March wind stirred the green willows by the lake and the apricot blossoms on the walls. Li Yuan pondered as he looked at the image before him.

On the image, the knight traveled a thousand miles to take a head, his righteous spirit vast, detesting evil as a mortal enemy, traveling thousands of miles without a care, one man bearing a sword amidst the clouds and moon.

He had originally discovered the trajectory and only needed to overlap the mental realm with it. At this moment, he found the opportunity and followed the trajectory to draw a Visualization Image.

This was a heroic image.

It was the Thousand-Mile Heroic Vision.

Yet, Li Yuan himself was puzzled. He was clearly not a hero, so why could he draw this?

On second thought, the "hero" might occupy part of his heart’s mental realm, but it was certainly not all of it.

Therefore...

Though he had already completed the image, he felt a sense of incompletion.

His intention was not fulfilled because the meaning he drew was not all his intention.

He had drawn the Thousand-Mile Heroic Vision, and the heroic qi in his heart ebbed away quietly with the tip of the brush, returning to tranquility after release. So, other intentions surged out, increasingly clear and intense before his eyes.

"Then draw again."

Li Yuan took up paper and pen.

Outside the door, the maid Xiaolan wanted to bring food to Master Li, as he hadn’t left the house for a day and a night. But Lady Yan had somehow arrived earlier and stopped Xiaolan, saying, "Don’t disturb him."

"But Master Li hasn’t eaten for a long time..." Li Yuan usually treated people well, so even Xiaolan was worried about him.

Lady Yan said nothing else and replied, "Then just wait for Master Li to come out on his own, whether it’s day or night. Be ready with a meal for him anytime so he can eat a warm bite whenever."

Xiaolan quickly agreed and withdrew.

The beautiful woman in white stood outside the elegant full moon arch, back to the courtyard where Li Yuan was, looking into the distance, lost in thought. Her previous rustic demeanor had faded, and her gaze was deep yet pure as ever.

In the courtyard, with the departure of the "heroic qi" in Li Yuan’s heart, the result was the extreme contradiction, birthing a "death qi and evil qi," as if when potent, uplifting power within a person depletes, what remains might very well be negativity and decline.

He picked up the pen, the ink flowed like dragon and snake across the paper, and he wrote a few lines of poetry.

"How sorrowful the South Mountain, ghostly rain sows the empty grass."

"Chang’an at midnight in autumn, how many people grow old before the wind."

"I do not know the height of the blue sky, nor the depth of the yellow earth, only see the cold moon and warm sun, wearing away human life."

"Eating bear makes one fat, eating frog makes one thin. Where is the Divine Monarch, and has Taiyi any place here?"

These were the verses of a poetic ghost named Changji, from before his crossing, filled with sorrow, depression, and grotesqueness...

Seemingly drawn from these verses, the intention merged with Li Yuan’s own, spurring him to lift his pen instantly, the tip drenched in ink, touching on new paper.

Li Yuan seemed to plunge into an absolute pessimism and sense of loss, as he drew stroke by stroke, yet constantly contemplating the Life Atlas, trying to integrate it within.

A day passed...

Two days passed...

The young man despondently set down his pen, raising his head to look at the painting before him.

In the painting, barren mountains and withered grass, tombs like a city, raindrops falling, each drop resembling a wandering evil ghost...

This image was the South Mountain Ghost Rain Visualization.

It was also a Map of the Demon Path.

After finishing the painting, the "depressive and negative" feelings in Li Yuan’s heart also dissipated.

He carefully scrutinized this painting, earnestly examining it once and found it happened to align with the Life Atlas.

However, the focus was different from the Thousand-Mile Heroic Vision.

In other words, both images contained the trajectory of the Life Atlas, but the trajectory itself was originally several paths overlapping, and the focus of the South Mountain Ghost Rain Visualization was starkly different from that of the Thousand-Mile Heroic Vision.

In that fleeting moment, a flash of insight came to Li Yuan’s mind.

Through personal practice, various pieces of information linked together, and many questions were answered.

He suddenly recalled the Sixth Grade knowledge that Zhao Xiantong and the Ancient Elephant had taught him.

"So, the Life Atlas is a choice, and different people will see different trajectories within it.

Upon perceiving these different trajectories and understanding them, they will see different images."

"But in fact, it’s not the trajectory that lets them see the images.

Rather, the images themselves already exist, and they only glimpse a corner of the image creator’s mental realm through the trajectory..."

"So that’s how it is, I see..."

Li Yuan felt relieved.

In that instant, he grasped the secret of the Life Atlas.

All those who ascended from Seventh Grade to Sixth Grade relying on the Life Atlas chose a path within it, visualizing a scene, which might be Visualization Image 1, or maybe Visualization Image 2, 3.

But as long as they could visualize to this step, they had already mastered the essence, even if this essence was only a small part of the complete Life Atlas, it was enough.

However, different people would only perceive different intentions from the image.

This is the fundamental reason why the Yanyue Sect’s legacy was severed.

Master Li might not have inherently lacked talent, but rather his disposition didn’t align with his master’s.

His master drew a Life Atlas with "spirit and form," which was actually just an incomplete part without Visualization Images.

But this small part perhaps did not match Master Li’s disposition; even if he put his life into it, he couldn’t draw it.

Yet, someone like Li Yuan, a self-creator, saw clearly but had an even more demanding path to tread.

He needed to create Visualization Images 1, 2, 3, and then strip the "focus trajectories" from these images, recombining them into a true Life Atlas, one that endowed with divine essence.