Ruins of the past

"If you want to see the way of heaven, you have to ask for his permission."

"He?" The Supreme Heavenly Lord was moved when he heard the words: "Besides you and me, is there anyone else here?"

Dongming said: "Of course."

"Both we and Ji Wufan are both latecomers and outsiders to this place."

"And 'he' has been here since the creation of Heavenly Dao."

Hearing this, Taishang Tianzun was even more shocked, and then asked: "He is here now? Where is he?"

Taishang Tianzun's body was flashing with wisps of purple fairy light. He tried his best to look around, but he never found any life or consciousness.

Everything here is so clean and empty that even the cultivation of the Ethereal Heavenly Lord cannot sense the slightest bit of information or intelligence.

A suspicion suddenly arose in Taishang Tianzun's heart, and then he felt a strong change in his emotions.

It was a mixture of surprise, expectation, nervousness, excitement... Various extremely complex emotions flashed back and forth in his sea of ​​consciousness, making his mood slightly agitated.

Taishang Tianzun asked slowly: "What exactly is he?"

"What else could it be?" Dongming said matter-of-factly: "Those who have stayed here since the creation of Heaven are of course members of a great civilization."

Taishang Tianzun suddenly laughed when he heard this. He looked at the world in front of him and said, "Members of the great civilization... are here? Have you seen Ji Wufan?"

Dongming said: "If he hadn't really had a conversation with a great civilization, how could he be so determined to roll back the time of the universe to the golden age?"

Taishang Tianzun said: "Did Ji Wufan have face-to-face communication with the great civilization?"

"What did Ji Wufan say to 'them'?"

Dongming said: "I don't know."

Taishang Tianzun looked around and asked: "Is 'he' looking at us now?"

Dongming said: "The word 'see' is not quite accurate. Individuals of great civilizations do not have organs like eyes, so how can they see?"

Taishang Tianzun said: "Then how do they observe the world?"

Dongming pointed to the center of his eyebrows and said, "Why do you want to observe the world?"

"We observe the world in order to collect intelligence about the world, and then the intelligence is processed and processed by consciousness, and then we can make correct feedback to the world."

"But for individuals of great civilizations, as long as they 'want' to know information about this world, they can know it immediately."

"So they don't need to observe the world, and there is no organ or medium for observing the world. Even before the birth of Heaven, the concept of 'observation' did not exist at all."

Taishang Tianzun frowned when he heard the words. He had also made many speculations and guesses about the great civilization. At this moment, after listening to Dongming's words, he gradually gained a clear understanding in his heart.

He tried to understand 'his' existence, and then said slowly: "Then how do they communicate... No, do they not have the ability to communicate?"

Dongming said: "The so-called communication is the process of information exchange between different individuals through media. It is also a process of collecting external intelligence."

"Individuals of great civilizations don't need the ability to communicate. They can know if they want to know."

This time, Taishang Tianzun did not continue to ask immediately, but after thinking for a moment, he stared at Dongming and said slowly: "Then why does 'he' want to communicate with me through you."

Dongming smiled and said, "Because you haven't realized it yet."

He pointed to his head and said, "If you are enlightened, you won't need to communicate."

"Satoru, do you understand?"

Dongming closed his eyes and said in a dazed voice: "The moment you realize it, you will understand everything."

"It doesn't matter whether it's outside or inside, it's the same everywhere."

"No matter what you want to know, or what you want to ask 'him', as long as you understand it, you will know it."

Listening to Dongming's words, Taishang Tianzun frowned and asked with some confusion: "How to enlighten?"

Dongming shook his head and sighed: "When I saw this place for the first time, I immediately realized it and understood it all immediately."

"But you..." Dongming looked deeply at Taishang Tianzun, shook his head and said, "You can't understand."

Taishang Tianzun asked again: "Why?"

He said in disbelief: "Am I not as talented as you?"

Dongming replied: "You are very talented, but it is not a matter of talent."

"The realization of enlightenment is the realization of enlightenment."

“If you don’t realize it, you just can’t realize it.”

Taishang Tianzun fell silent, and then he spent a lot of time behind the Gate of Heaven to understand the mysteries, but he still couldn't figure it out.

In desperation, he could only spend part of his time outside the Gate of Heaven, observing the past and future of the heavens and worlds, and constantly accumulating knowledge.

He even created the Ring of Foolishness to give to geniuses in various worlds, turning all the knowledge they acquired into his own resources.

The training in front of the Gate of Heaven allowed his realm to continue to skyrocket.

But the mystery behind the Gate of Heaven was like a dark cloud, always shrouding his mind, making it difficult for him to let go.

"I understand..."

"Ji Wufan also realized..."

"If I still can't get it right, I will definitely not be able to defeat Ji Wufan even if I go out."

"But what exactly is enlightenment?"

"How can I become enlightened?"

"And where is 'him'?"

Taishang Tianzun still couldn't figure it out and decided to find another way.

He came to Dongming again and asked a question:

"If great civilizations can know what we are thinking without communicating, then they also know Ji Wufan's plan to roll back time."

"In that case, why didn't they stop Ji Wufan?"

"They even let Ji Wufan leave here?"

Dongming said casually: "Great civilizations don't care about these things."

"Whether it's Ji Wufan or the rollback plan, they don't care."

"Do you really not care?" Taishang Tianzun sneered: "If you really don't care, then why does the so-called 'him' stay here?"

"I have been meditating on it for a long time during these days, and millions of thoughts are running through my mind all the time."

"I even had some very radical ideas, such as completely liberating the distortion of heaven and turning the future of the universe into a wasteland."

"But time and time again, the so-called 'he' never reacted to any of this."

Upon hearing this, Dongming just said lightly: "He doesn't care."

Taishang Tianzun said coldly: "Even if it is a desolate future, you can still sit back and ignore it?"

"Is this 'him' real? And does he not care?"

"Even if a great civilization really regards the future of the universe as its hunting ground, it can't just watch the hunting ground turn into a white field, right?"

As he spoke, he saw celestial lights shining behind Taishang Tianzun, and various scenes in the heavens and worlds emerged.

"Over the years, I have spread the Ring of Foolishness to all walks of life, collected knowledge here, and obtained the cultivation materials."

"But as long as the Taoism is reversed, the secret of the heavenly way here can also be transmitted to all the heavens and all the worlds."

"At that time, the entire universe will immediately turn into a demonic realm, and the void disaster will be so intense that even aberrations will find it difficult to survive."

"And as long as I keep doing this, the entire universe will be doomed forever."

"Now...either respond to me or accept a future of eternal doom."

I saw the purple light behind Taishang Tianzun turned into bursts of magic light in the blink of an eye.

On planet after planet in the universe, the holders of the Ring of Foolishness suddenly felt a burning sensation in their chests.

Then, in a dimension that could not be seen by billions of living beings, a huge ring of foolishness shrouded it.

Endless heavenly mysteries emerge from it, and various demon-tainted incidents continue to break out.

The strong men who were originally at the top of the world fell first, followed by more people and the general public.

Some planets were completely engulfed by demon dye and turned into a dead zone.

Seeing the demon dye disasters breaking out one after another in various places, Dongming's expression finally changed: "Are you crazy?"

Taishang Tianzun said calmly: "The survival of all living things in the universe is just to maintain a huge number, so that in the end, existences like you and me can be born."

"If they can help me again and clear up some of my doubts, they will have a worthy death and have fulfilled the meaning of this life."

Dongming sighed after hearing this, and his whole body's aura suddenly changed in the next moment.

As he raised his palms to form a sword, a sharp aura rose into the sky, and with one sword cut the connection between the bursts of magic light behind the Supreme Heavenly Lord and all the heavens and worlds.

Taishang Tianzun looked at Dongming, whose temperament had changed drastically, frowned and said: "You..."

Dongming said slowly: "Oh, Your Majesty, it's been so long, it seems like you can't realize it after all..."

Taishang Tianzun took a deep look at the hole in front of him and suddenly laughed: "I see, you have deceived everyone..."

"Even I almost fell into your trap."

Dongming frowned and said, "What are you talking about? I didn't lie to you. It's because you didn't realize it."

The Supreme Heavenly Lord no longer looked at him, but sighed: "Idiot, you yourself have been deceived."

"No, you were not deceived by him, you were deceived by yourself."

Dongming's brows furrowed more and more tightly: "What on earth are you talking about?"

Taishang Tianzun said calmly: "If you understand, you understand. If you don't understand, you don't understand."

"It's useless no matter how you ask."

A huge battle broke out between the two, and no one knew how long the battle lasted.

When everything calmed down, Taishang Tianzun walked out alone.

"Hmph, it's okay if you don't realize it."

He glanced at the Gate of Heaven behind him and sat down cross-legged.

"I have my own way, and the future may not be inferior to this way of heaven."

He raised his hand, and all the knowledge Dongming possessed turned into a ball of light and shadow flickering back and forth.

Next, Taishang Tianzun will completely absorb and digest it.

His own realm also skyrocketed again, and he gained all the knowledge of the sixty-four hexagrams and the immutable stone of the past, the instant stone of the present, and the infinite stone of the future.

So he began to try to decipher the mysteries, especially the present moment stone.

As the current owner of the Instant Stone for a long time, Taishang Tianzun is very aware of how terrifying the power of this artifact is.

It can be said that even when he faced this artifact, he was almost at the mercy of others, with little power to fight back.

Knowing that Ji Wufan and Demon Saint were in control of the instant stone, he had to master the method to crack it before he could really take action against them.

As early as when Taishang Tianzun was sealed at the Gate of Heaven by Ji Wufan's design, he had reached an unprecedented level through years of planning.

At that time, he thought that his realm was no weaker than that of the Taoist ancestors of the Xu Dao Palace.

If you hold the present moment stone, your combat power will be unprecedented and unprecedented.

After arriving at the Gate of Heaven, even though he was sealed here, the Supreme Being also received more and richer resources.

With constant accumulation and enlightenment, he gradually felt that he was gradually reaching a limit.

This sense of limit becomes even more obvious after the accumulation of insights.

It wasn't until he started trying to crack the instant stone that this limit felt loose.

Now the instant stone... is forcibly stopping the movement of the entire universe by operating the way of heaven.

Therefore, in the process of trying to crack the current instant stone, Taishang felt more and more constrained by the immortal system.

He began to constantly try to use methods other than the immortal system to replace it.

He began to try to bypass the way of heaven.

Even try to replace the movement of heaven on a small scale.

He began to look for experimenters in all the worlds, used them to create some crude and incomplete sixty-four hexagrams for experiments, and tried his own breakthrough on them.

He reproduced hexagrams one after another in his own way, and finally created the new sixty-four hexagrams.

At that moment, he finally felt that the originally solid limit had become extremely loose at this moment.

When he came to his senses, he had created hexagram sixty-six.

He overcame the way of heaven, surpassed the way of heaven, and created the sixty-sixth hexagram that could not exist in this universe.

Because of the splendor of the Xu Dao Palace, and because of the history of the Taoist ancestors once standing at the fixed point of the universe.

Throughout the ages, many people have called the strongest people in the universe the Tao Ancestors.

But on this day, Taishang Tianzun understood that he had crossed this level.

To make a distinction, he called his realm Kaitian.

…

At this moment, before the third cycle.

With the arrival of the Supreme Heavenly Lord, the spirits and consciousness of the trillions of creatures in the universe began to move again.

The phenomenon of the Demon Saint activating the Present Moment Stone and stagnating the entire universe is like a miracle.

Even if the Supreme Heavenly Lord breaks this stillness, causing all living beings in the world to have stagnant physical foundations such as flesh and blood, networks, electronics, etc., the phenomenon of spirit and will running is enough to be called a miracle among miracles.

And under the gaze of billions of creatures.

In the violent collision between the Demon Saint and the Supreme Being.

There seemed to be a bang-bang-bang bang in the minds of countless people.

"Demon Saint..."

The fairy light around the demon saint shattered into pieces.

"The civil war in Xu Dao Palace is a battle between the past and the future. I can't use even three points of my skills..."

boom!

The palm of the Supreme Heavenly Lord pressed hard on the demon saint's head.

"But do you really think that now..."

A huge roar spread throughout the world, and countless sentient beings watching the battle collapsed and died in the roar.

"Are you still my opponent?"

The demon saint's head suddenly exploded with the roar and turned into powder in the palm of the Supreme Master.

Taishang Tianzun took the present moment stone from the opponent's hand without expression.

"Old friend, long time no see."

Looking at the instant stone being gradually swallowed up in his palm, Taishang Tianzun showed a satisfied smile on his face.

But right now, the Instant Stone is about to be swallowed up entirely.

A hand suddenly stretched out from the third cycle and held Taishang Tianzun's wrist.

Looking at the humanoid shapes emerging from the third spiral, Taishang Tianzun raised his eyebrows.

"Chu Qiguang?"

Sorry everyone, my health is not very good during this period, and the updates are not stable.