Ning Cheng took out the fist-sized grey stone for the second time, and as the grey stone was in the palm of Ning Cheng’s hand, a majestic and vast Chaos aura radiated out. This majestic chaotic aura blended with the heaven and earth aura of the Xuanhuang Pearl, and did not seem abrupt in the slightest.
A mysterious and mysterious aura of the Great Dao was caught by Ning Cheng, who secretly marvelled at the fact that he did not intend to sense the Great Dao within this Chaos Stone. He had his own Dao, and his Dao was just as much a Dao of Origin, and would not be half as weak as the Chaos Dao in this stone.
What Ning Cheng was thinking in his heart was, what else did this Chaos Stone contain besides the Chaos Origin Dao? Why did so many guys in the Bright Sky want this stone?
Ning Cheng’s divine sense slowly penetrated into this Chaos Stone, and the Chaos aura became thicker and thicker. Without knowing when it was, Ning Cheng completely lost his wakefulness to explore this Chaos Stone, he had already plunged deeper and deeper into this Chaos Stone.
Amidst a blinding white light, Ning Cheng could not see anything, there was nothing but white light in front of him. Yet he could feel the vastness of heaven and earth, could feel the grandeur of the universe.
Rolling roars rang out around him, as if a chaotic universe was slowly cracking open.
The whiteness of nothing visible in front of his eyes suddenly turns into pitch black. From white to black, just as invisible as anything else.
But the pitch black was more vivid than white, and had a more life-like aura. In the midst of this blackness, Ning Cheng vaguely felt that rule aura. A natural feeling came to Ning Cheng’s mind that the origin of the darkness rule was not darkness, but that blinding white.
There was only a line separating black and white, and this was the origin of the rule.
That sensation that excited Ning Cheng had not yet taken full shape, as the chaotic aura radiated out from this slowly cracking chaotic universe, and the vast aura of the Heaven and Earth rules slowly coalesced. Black and white alternated, and the colours before Ning Cheng’s eyes were enriched.
He saw the rules of heaven and earth coalescing, he saw the universe slowly taking shape, he saw everything sprouting and growing just like the first spring.
After the rules of heaven and earth coalesced, life slowly took shape as well. Vegetation, living beings …… gradually appeared, and the chaotic universe had more sounds, breaths, spirits, in addition to life ……
More emotions, joy, sorrow ……
Watching the formation of the world with his own eyes, feeling the rules of heaven and earth take shape with his own eyes, seeing all things coalesce with his own eyes, Ning Cheng was like everything in this heaven and earth, gradually merging into it. At this moment, he was a statue, no longer having half a breath.
Or perhaps it was that all his mind and breath had fused with the Chaos Stone in his hand.
There are no years in cultivation, and there are no years in this sense as well!
One year, two years, ten years ……
A hundred years, a thousand years ……
In the twinkling of an eye, five thousand years have passed.
The vast cosmic world in front of Ning Cheng’s eyes gradually took shape, he witnessed the formation of this cosmic world, he saw with his own eyes a plant, a living being struggling to survive in the universe, from birth to death and then to extinction ……
He saw a small plant struggling to push away the rocks that were pressing on it, he saw an elfin elk trying to escape the huge beast that was chasing it ……
After pushing the stone away, the grass struggled to grow up, but was again pushed down by the wind. Perhaps having lost its initial spirit of life and desire to live, it eventually rotted beneath the stone, and centuries later, another small plant grew beneath it.
The moose escaped the giant beast, only to fall into the claws of another hungry wolf, stripped of life in despair ……
A touch of life and uncertainty about survival rose up in his heart, a touch and uncertainty that brought a sourness to his nostrils and a sense of pity.
How vast the universe is, how hard it is to live!
How majestic is the universe, how small is life!
I can’t let these humble beings disappear in such a humble way, I can’t let these struggling beings stash away like this ……
Ning Cheng’s heart began to struggle as he heard a deep call, a call that seemed to come from beyond the heavens and the earth, and from countless billions of years ago.
As if ice water had been poured down on his head, Ning Cheng awoke with a start.
The grey stone was still in his hand, and the stone still emitted a thick chaotic aura. He was still sitting within the Xuanhuang Pearl without any change.
The corners of his eyes were a little moist, and his heart was still fluctuating.
Only after a long time did he take a long breath, knowing that it was not for him to intervene in these. All things in the universe have life and death, origin and destruction, the heavenly dao is natural, and it is difficult for all things to transcend.
Even he himself would eventually be hidden and destroyed in this vast universe.
An inexplicable sadness rushed to his heart, and he missed his family at this moment.
“In the past, the willows were still there. Now I come to think about it, but the rain and snow are falling. I am late in my journey, I am thirsty and hungry. My heart is sad, no one knows my sorrow!”
I have pursued the Way, but in the end, I still cannot escape from the nature of Heaven, and I am lost in all things. How is my family doing these days when I am out ……
Those who know me, call me sad; those who do not know me, call me what I want. The sky is long! What kind of person is this?
Who caused me to become like this? This is the result of my pursuit of the Way. Go back and never waste your life here again.
After so many years of pursuit, is this really the way to give up? A sense of unwillingness surged in Ning Cheng’s heart as his gaze suddenly shifted from the grey Chaos Stone in his hand and looked into the distance of the Xuanhuang Pearl.
The concealment and extinction of all things in the universe were created by the natural Heavenly Dao. If the Heavenly Dao was in his hands, if the universe was created by him, if everything in heaven and earth was condensed by him ……
Then who dares to make him extinguish? Who would dare to let him hide and destroy? Who would dare to let Ning Cheng die out?
The vague things that he had exchanged with Nong Xiewei about the third step before, at this moment, became clearer and clearer before Ning Cheng’s eyes. He wanted to gather the rules of heaven and earth that belonged to him, and he wanted these rules of heaven and earth that belonged to him to form a vast universe that belonged to him.
I am cultivating the great dao of the rules of heaven and earth, I am cultivating the five elemental origin dao of the Xuanhuang Pearl, it is the Xuanhuang Pearl’s all things return to one.
These are things that I have perceived, yet they are not my own. I have perceived the great dao between heaven and earth in order to obtain these things.
I want to condense my own world, condense my own rules, no longer be bound by the original rules of heaven and earth, no longer be affected by the Xuanhuang Wufang, and that is only one way!
Cut off the Dao! Cut away all the dao he now has, cut away all the rules he has perceived.
After I, Ning Cheng, cut off the Dao, I can still condense my own Dao, I can still condense my own rules.
In this moment, Ning Cheng saw a dao that belonged to him. He had experienced the opening up of the universe, the survival and concealment of all things. He had experienced elation and sorrow, he had experienced excitement and blandness.
At this moment, he had finally found the direction of the Dao that belonged to him as he gathered his third step. He would cut the Dao, cut the rules of the five elemental attributes, cut the rules of the ice, wind and thunder attributes, and cut the rules of the darkness attributes.
“Chasing Ox, let’s not go to the Heart of Light and Darkness, let’s go where we should go ……” Ning Cheng gripped the Stone of Chaos tightly, and an aura of looking out over the world blasted out.
Chasing Ox did not reply, and Ning Cheng awoke with a start. He was still in the Xuanhuang Pearl, and Chasing Ox had controlled the Starry Sky Wheel to the Heart of Light and Darkness five thousand years ago. He had been feeling the Chaos Stone all these years and had unexpectedly overlooked this for a while.
Ning Cheng hurriedly left the Xuanhuang Pearl, only to find that the place he was in was an okay cave.
As soon as he came out, Chasing Ox came running out with a faint heart, “Master, you’ve come out!”
Only then did Ning Cheng see that this cave mansion had been built by Chasing Ox, and Chasing Ox’s strength was not only at the Dao-shaping realm, but had also improved. It looked like Chasing Ox had worked very hard on his cultivation these years.
“Where is this?” Ning Cheng asked in confusion.
Chasing Ox hastily said curtly, “Master, Little Ox has been rushing around without sleep all these years and has finally arrived at the outskirts of the Heart of Light and Darkness. When Little Bull saw that Master had not come out of seclusion, he did not dare to disturb Master’s cultivation, so he simply opened up a cave here, and his cultivation has improved greatly over the years.”
“Not bad, worthy of praise.” Ning Cheng patted Chasing Ox’s head.
Chasing Ox’s whole body was turning into sugar crisp, all this time, Master had always chided it, and this kind of praise was rare. It looked like it had grown up recently and had actually received praise from the old master.
“The calf has listened to Master’s instructions and resolutely carried out Master’s orders, one step at a time ……”
“Alright, now let’s go to this place.” Ning Cheng interrupted Chasing Ox’s long speech and said as he opened his hand with the grey chaos stone block in his palm.
Even though Ning Cheng sensed the opening of the universe on this chaotic grey stone in his hand, he likewise felt a calling in this stone. He vaguely felt that the place where this stone gave him the call was the place where he was going to the third step of the Dao of Evidence.
There was no reason for this feeling, only an intuition.
“Master, please command, Little Bull promises to bring Master to …… quickly and steadily.”
While Chasing Ox was still boasting about his level of rush with his mouth, Ning Cheng gave a light eek. The place that echoed with the Chaos Grey Stone in his hand was not far from here.
Ning Cheng pointed directly to the west and asked, “Chasing Ox, is the Heart of Light and Darkness right where it is?”
Chasing Ox was busy nodding, “Yes, Master, this place of mine is the best place to build a cave outside the Heart of Light and Darkness. The place where your master’s finger is pointing, that is the Heart of Light and Darkness. However, I have secretly listened to many people who have come here over the years talk about how the Heart of Light and Darkness can only be on the outside, and once you enter, it is basically the same as entering the Sacred River and never being able to come out again.”
“Good, we will go to the depths of the Heart of Light and Darkness.” Ning Cheng said without hesitation, the direction the Chaos Stone in his hand guided the call was exactly where the Heart of Light and Darkness was located.
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First Sacred Domain of Light, Sacred Lord Domain.
Apart from the bustle of activity when the Vault of Light opened thousands of years ago, the last few thousand years have seemed extremely calm and uneventful.
The fact that Iwin Mao, who had never missed a shot, had not chased after Ning Cheng was a rare thing in the Light Saint Domain. However, no one in the Brightness Sacred Domain would believe Iwin Mao’s words, all people believed that Iwin Mao had long since chased after Ning Cheng, only that he was unwilling to admit it.
And after I Wen Mao had only expressed his apologies to Saint Lord Ju Gui and Tong Shi and the others, he had been in seclusion. He never bothered to explain what was said about him outside.
This day, however, Yi Wenmao suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes shining with an incomparable light of excitement as he muttered, “After all these years, you’ve finally come out.”
With that, his entire body turned into a faint light and rushed out from the Holy Lord Domain.