The Path of the Martial Arts BOSS-Chapter 1229 - 254: Realization
The Dao Ancestor is gone.
He seemed not to care about the outcome below at all, only wanting to come and see Qing Yu.
"Is it just to recover injuries?"
Qing Yu carefully savored every word the Dao Ancestor said previously, guessing his motive.
If it's just to recover injuries, it shouldn't be worth the Dao Ancestor and the Buddha Ancestor to lay dark plans before their great battle with the Heavenly Dao Embodiment.
The timing of the appearance of White Jade City and Pure Land was almost right after Qing Yu and the Dao Ancestor entered the space rift. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
Therefore, Qing Yu felt that the Dao Ancestor and others had a deeper purpose.
But what this purpose is, he was unclear.
The same disadvantage remained, an information gap. Compared to the Tao Ancestor and the Buddha Ancestor, although Qing Yu's strength had caught up to them, in terms of insight and information, he was not as good as these two Dao Realms who achieved the Dao long ago.
"But today's meeting wasn't without its gains."
Qing Yu recalled once again the form of the Dao Ancestor embodied through Xuan Yuan One Qi, contemplating his current reality and illusion.
He originally had profound skills in Pupil Skills. After achieving the Dao Realm, his eyesight had tremendously improved, and beneath the Candle Dragon's Eye, few could escape his discerning eyes.
Though only encountering the Dao Ancestor's avatar today, from the minor, Qing Yu could infer the major, probing a little into the Dao Ancestor's details.
"The Dao Ancestor's injuries aren't fully recovered. Clearly, he was the main force against the Heavenly Dao Embodiment and was most heavily injured, yet he has recovered a lot now.
Given his strength back then, the Dao Ancestor should be near the peak of three." Qing Yu said.
Tao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Two, Two gives birth to Three, Three gives birth to all things.
Beneath the Dao Realm lies all things. The Dao Realm starts at three, returns to two, harmonizes to one, the Great Dao is Wuji.
The Dao Ancestor once said that the power of the Heavenly Dao Embodiment is three. What he actually meant was the peak of three, not three Dao Realms.
He said the three in the Dao Realm were three that give birth to all things, because the Dao Ancestor, Buddha Ancestor, and Qing Yu's paths complemented yet excelled, together becoming a myriad of everything, enabling the three to give birth to all things.
"The Heavenly Dao itself represents myriad things, even its embodiment is the extreme of three, so the Heavenly Dao itself should be two, it hasn't reached that Taiyi Realm yet."
"The Dao Ancestor's Xuan Yuan One Qi has already closely approached the realm of Three Births of All Things. The Buddha Ancestor transforms the void into reality, slowly turning the imaginary Pure Land into reality, also striving to create myriad things from nothing.
As long as they reach the realm of myriad creations, they will naturally become the implied 'three'.
And I...."
Qing Yu thought of the broad system he cultivated. In a sense, Qing Yu is similar to the Dao Ancestor and Buddha Ancestor; his Mystic Universe seems to also follow the path of myriad creation.
But in reality, Qing Yu knows it's not the same, he and the Dao Ancestor, Buddha Ancestor are not alike.
The Dao Ancestor and Buddha Ancestor passed down their orthodoxies, using various Martial Arts derived from their learnings to indirectly promote the realm of myriad creation.
As for Qing Yu, although he is also a realm of Dao, he founded the Mystical Sect and Demon Sect orthodoxies, but in practice, Qing Yu seeks the broadness of myriad things, transforms many into one, the opposite path of the two Ancestors.
Of course, the Great Dao has three thousand paths, all leading to the same ultimate truth, although paths differ, the end is the same, hard to tell which is superior, only which comes first.
Qing Yu carefully pondered the differences between the three Dao Realms, gradually gaining insight, organizing a few of his own systems.
Behind him, three shadows appeared, depicting forms of Buddha, Dao, and Demon. This is the transformation of his Three Souls, also the division of all his Martial Arts.
Then, creation and destruction split into two; a black and a white figure stood back to back, unfolding black and white Six Wings.
This is his Saint and Demon Dual Body, symbolizing creation and destruction.
"Previously, I might have misunderstood a bit, creation and destruction symbolize the beginning and end of everything. In my current realm, I can emulate the essences of both, but to truly create all and destroy all, I'm still lacking.
The reason being, my realm hasn't reached there yet."
Qing Yu's vision detached from the confines of his body, overseeing the two bodies and three souls from above, muttering to himself.
Sometimes I think, Emperor Qi Tian's Saint and Demon Embryo truly resonates with the Dao's realm, one person, two bodies, three souls, isn't it in line with the realm of One Births Two, Two Births Three, Three Births All Things?
Maybe in another world, the division of the Dao Realm is also like this, all paths lead to the same truth.
"So, if I want to quickly advance, what I need is to seize the heritage of the Daoist and Buddhist sects." Qing Yu realized.
This seizing of heritage doesn't mean taking away the roots of the Dao Ancestor and Buddha Ancestor but incorporating the myriad philosophies and Martial Arts of the Dao and Buddhist sects from over thousands of years into his Martial Arts.
Of course, if Qing Yu is truly able to defeat the two Ancestors and seize their roots, it would naturally be the fastest way. Only if he could defeat the two Ancestors, his realm wouldn't need the heritage of Dao and Buddha.
"It seems, I need to quicken the Dao orthodoxy conquest."
Though Qing Yu is highly accomplished in Daoist Skill and Buddha Skill, surpassing all martial artists in the world except the two Ancestors, compared to the centuries-long heritage of the two sects, it is still shallow.
Therefore, Qing Yu must accelerate the Dao orthodoxy conquest, encompassing all Dao and Buddhist sect literature into his grasp. Moreover, these actions must avoid alerting the two Ancestors to his true intentions.
As for why only Dao and Buddha, not considering the Demon Path?
Naturally, it's because of Qing Yu's various practices over the years, embodying what is the most fundamental Demon Path. Even the Heavenly Dao Embodiment once referred to Qing Yu as the "Six Heavenly Demons", evident of his status in the Demon Path.
[Accelerate the conquest, gather the Daoist and Buddhist sects' literature. Capture all possible enemy warriors for implementation.]
Intangible thought waves transmitted into the minds of various capable warriors under him, making them aware of Qing Yu's orders.
He aimed to gather all the world's texts, facilitating the transformation of his Dao and Buddha.
"Dao Ancestor, and Buddha Ancestor, await."
The avatar merged into the void, disappearing without a trace, leaving not a single clue.
And below, upon receiving Qing Yu's order, Lin Zixiao exploded with a body of purple electric radiance, and a clap of thunder erupted in the sky.
"Boom——"
Purple thunder light flickered, and a magnificent purple lightning bolt struck the ground. The bursting electric radiance forced even Zhang Yuanfeng, the Thunder Skill expert, to retreat.
This shocking thunder struck a deep pit on the ground, with purple currents constantly leaping around, bringing a chilling qi mechanism.
Yet Lin Zixiao stepped into the pit, reaching for the mass of purple plasma at its bottom.
"Zing——"
A knife hum sounded, electric radiance surged into Lin Zixiao's arm, wildly coursing within, shocking both inside and out.
Unaffected by the electric radiance, Lin Zixiao focused his energy, pulling the object he grasped from the ground, revealing its true form.
Purple thunder encircled, the blade sharply fierce, the object descending from the heavens was precisely the Thunder Blade Qing Yu had once used.
"Years ago, the Xuan Venerate defeated the Heavenly Master with this blade. Henceforth, this poor Daoist shall level Dragon Tiger Mountain with it."
Facing Zhang Yuanfeng's rage-filled eyes, Lin Zixiao declared: "You're just the beginning."
