A mixed Yuan powerhouse discussing the Dao, Ning Cheng wouldn’t go unless he was a fool, he didn’t even need Carole to say it a second time before he eagerly said, “This kind of Dao discussion, I naturally want to go over and see it, I wonder how many divine crystals it costs to get a Dao listening token?”
What Ning Cheng was worried about was the divine crystals, he still had around seventeen million divine crystals on him. In the Land of Broken Rules, a little bit of this divine crystal was a little bit less when used.
“The Dao listening token is one million divine crystals to listen to once, if you handle a five million divine crystal dao listening token, then you will be able to listen to the dao five times.” Karol replied in a hurry.
So cheap? Ning Cheng was dumbfounded. If he had been in the Tai Su Domain, I was afraid that he would not be able to listen to a sermon by a mixed element powerhouse even if he listened to one sermon for many billions of divine crystals, right? But here, one million divine crystals was enough to listen to a sermon?
Seeing Ning Cheng dumbfounded, Karol thought that Ning Cheng thought that the price was too high and hurriedly explained, “Senior Brother Ning Cheng, this price is already considered very low. The Valley Master and some seniors are not there to earn divine crystals, but they want to spread their dao through the dao discussion. Only the Dao that one pays divine crystals to hear will be cherished. I’ve been there a few times before and benefited greatly.”
Ning Cheng understood and asked, “Senior Sister Carol, are you going along in three days?”
Carole shook her head grimly, “I’m not going, I’ve used up my Dao Listening token.”
Ning Cheng nodded, in the Land of Broken Rules, there was no place to earn divine crystals, and when they ran out, one could only sit and wait for death, just like Karol. Because of this place, there was no way to get out.
“Senior Ran, help me with the two three million divine crystals for the Dao Listening Plaque.” Ning Cheng did not hesitate to offer another six million divine crystals.
The white-haired old man collected Ning Cheng’s divine crystals and raised his hand before throwing out two black tokens, each with three silver auras on them. The three silver awnings still had some faint fluctuations, and Ning Cheng knew that this should mean that he could hear the dao three times.
Ning Cheng handed one of the dao listening tokens to Calo’er, “Senior Sister Calo’er, this is for you. Thank you for helping me so much.”
Three million divine crystals, Ning Cheng didn’t care about it at all. Now that the Barbarian Society Mountain had sworn that they didn’t dare to find him in trouble, he could even leave the valley right away. He had a route out. It wouldn’t be like being trapped in the Peaceful Valley with Carole.
“This ……” Karoel did not expect Ning Cheng to give her a three times hearing dao listening token, and she was tempted to accept it. Yet, she knew that it was too valuable.
“Senior Brother Ning Cheng, I can’t accept this item. You have just entered the valley and do not yet know how valuable divine crystals are. When you stay in here for a few thousand years, you will know how precious the divine crystal is.” Calo’er pushed the Dao Listening Tablet back to Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng once again shoved the Dao Listening Tablet into Calo’er’s hand and said with a heated smile, “There is wine today, but tomorrow’s sorrows will come tomorrow. What happens in the future. Let’s talk about it later when we arrive, don’t think too much.”
The white-haired old man who had not been expressing any emotion suddenly raised his head and stared at Ning Cheng, his mouth murmuring, “There is wine this day and drunk this day, tomorrow’s sorrow comes tomorrow’s sorrow …… Good Dao, good Daoist thoughts, follow your heart and soul, without a trace of inscription… …”
Ning Cheng was a bit speechless, he had just casually borrowed a Chinese poem, what the hell did this have to do with Daoist thoughts?
He said it had nothing to do with Daoist thoughts. And the white-haired old man was already immersed in this casual remark of Ning Cheng’s. Even Barbarian Huishan had not heard the words of Ning Cheng when he wanted to handle a Daoist listening card like him.
Hearing Ning Cheng’s casual words, Carole’s eyes also lit up. She did not push Ning Cheng’s Dao Listening Card any further. Cultivators who possessed such daoist thoughts as ‘Wine today is drunk today, tomorrow’s sorrows will come tomorrow’ would definitely not care about these three million divine crystals.
Thanks to the gift of a Dao Listening Tablet to Karol, Karol helped Ning Cheng find the best place to stay that did not cost divine crystals. Although it didn’t have much divine aura, it was good in that it was spacious.
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After returning to his dwelling, Ning Cheng immediately began to heal his injuries. He had been injured quite badly by the Barbarian Society Mountain, and he had to go to the Dao hearing in three days, so he had to go there in the best condition possible.
Without Savage Huishan as a threat, Ning Cheng was much more relaxed. It was only two days. He had completely recovered from his injuries. After all, this was not some kind of burning of longevity, nor was it any kind of damage to the foundation.
Three days passed. Calo’er then took the initiative to come over, she had come to invite Ning Cheng to listen to the Valley Master’s dao discussion.
When Ning Cheng and Karoel arrived at the Dao Discourse venue. The place had already been filled with cultivators. Having entered the Peaceful Valley for a few days, Ning Cheng did not know exactly how many people were in the Peaceful Valley. Now that he had arrived here, he realised that there were really quite a lot of people in the Peaceful Valley.
It was the people listening to the dao here that added up to hundreds. Those who did not have the divine crystals to listen to the dao, there was no telling how many more there were.
The place where the sermon was heard was just a flat-topped mountain with no barrier around it, nothing more than a flat piece of ground and grey-black earth and stones.
After instructing Ning Cheng not to speak casually, Carole sat down. Here, Ning Cheng did not know a single person, so naturally he would not speak casually. He also saw Barbarian Huishan, who was instead full of gloom and sat in the front row. It looked like this fellow also cared a lot about the discussion on the Dao of the Mixed Yuan powerhouse.
Another incense stick later, a tall man dressed in grey robes landed on the huge flat stone in front of the Dao Discourse Arena.
It was impossible to tell how old this man was, and this tall man had an extremely broad forehead, and he looked wise.
“This is Lord Sikou Valley, everyone in the Peaceful Valley who can survive cannot forget the great kindness of the Valley Lord.” Carole whispered in Ning Cheng’s ear.
After the Sikou Valley Master sat down, a few more figures landed not far from this tall man and sat down. None of these people could feel Ning Cheng’s breath, so it was evident that they were all powerful fellows.
Only after Si Kou Zhiyuan waited for all of them to sit down did he open his mouth and say, “This is my last Discourse, and after this Discourse, I will close down to participate in the performance. There are many daoists in the Peaceful Valley who, like me, have purposely come here to enlighten themselves about the Ruleless Divine Aptitude and the Law Suppressing Divine Aptitude ……”
After just hearing the beginning, Ning Cheng had an impulse in his heart that he couldn’t even tell himself. He also finally understood why someone would deliberately come to the Land of Broken Rules. He did not understand before because his realm was not enough, but now, after listening to the words of the Valley Master, he understood completely.
The Land of Broken Rules was rule-free, and if one could comprehend the existence and disappearance of the rules and perform divine abilities that were not affected by the rules of heaven and earth. Or when he fought against his opponent, he could directly make his opponent fall into a space without rules, while his own Law divine ability could still be inspired, so that he would naturally stand undefeated.
These powerful people who came to the Land of Broken Rules did so to comprehend this divine ability and control the rules of heaven and earth. Even the valley master, Si Kou Zhiyuan, had the same idea. What they wanted to do was, like the Wishes, suppress the rules of space so that their opponents could not exercise their Law divine ability.
As expected, the Sikou Valley Master continued, “Because we are under the rules of heaven and earth, we can derive our own law divine abilities under such rules. In the Land of Broken Rules, where the rules are broken, or even where there are no rules, we cannot exercise our own law divine abilities. Years ago, I had been thinking that if I could cast a rule-free divine ability in a place where there were no rules, would this divine ability be unrestricted by rules in a place where there were rules?
Or if I were to restrict the rules of heaven and earth where there are rules, then to the other side, I would be the Heavenly Dao and the other side would be an ant under the Heavenly Dao? Next, I will discuss my comprehension of the Dao of Rules ……”
In just ten minutes’ time, Ning Cheng was listening like a man possessed. What Lord Sikou Valley said was clear and easy to understand from the shallow to the deep. He fully understood the meaning, controlling the rules of heaven and earth, or even coalescing into them himself.
Just because his strength was low now, did not mean that he would be low in the future. He could not do it now, but he might be able to do it in the future. Some of the rule worlds that Lord Si Kou had set up in the valley were actually guided by this kind of thinking. For example, when he had previously set up a short-distance teleportation array to teleport to the Wish Clan, he had likewise simulated part of the spatial rules himself.
Once you understand this, however, it is still difficult and hard to do so. Originally, Ning Cheng wanted to leave the Peaceful Valley after listening to a few discourses, but now he just wanted to stay here for a while longer to thoroughly deduce the ruleless divine ability.
“Formed in chaos, first came the rules, then came heaven and earth. Silent and lonesome, independent and unchanging, circumscribed and unchanging, it can be the mother of the world ……
The rules of the world are not in place, but there are forms and things. I think, no rule is also one of the universe. The son is not a fish, how can he know the smoothness of the fish? Anyone who closes his breath at the bottom of the water is also like the ground of broken rules ……”
The meaning is that something like rules existed along with the universe at the beginning of chaos. Only with rules did heaven and earth form, and only then did something else form. There is such a thing as a rule that we cannot hear its sound, nor can we see its form. It is silent and empty, existing independently without relying on any external force and never ceasing to exist. Because it does not cease, it can be the root of all things ……
There are no rules in the Land of Broken Rules, but there are all things, and all things have forms. So I think that the absence of rules is actually a rule of the rules of the universe. It is as if we are not fish, but we do not know that fish are very comfortable in water. The feeling of a mortal under water with no air is as hard as if we, the astral cultivators, were in the land of broken rules.
The more Ning Cheng listened, the clearer it became in his mind that the bottom of the water was the land of broken rules for mortals, and the fish could swim freely under the water because they had mastered the rules or had integrated into them.
The Land of Broken Rules has no rules, but is a rule of heaven and earth all the same, just not a common one. If a cultivator can comprehend such rules, even in the Land of Broken Rules, he is as strong as outside where there are rules.
Ning Cheng clenched his fist, if he could really control the rules of heaven and earth in the Land of Broken Rules, just like what Lord Si Kou had said, then even if Savage Huishan chased him in, he would still be able to easily kill Dao Yuan powerhouses with an eternal strength.
When he thought of comprehending the Ruleless Avatar of the Land of Broken Rules, Ning Cheng thought of the Aghan Ruleless Fruit. It was a Dao fruit that had absorbed the rules of heaven and earth and instead became ruleless. What if he used this Dao fruit to comprehend the Ruleless divine Aptitude?
Ning Cheng had just thought of this when he heard Master Si Kou continue, “I have heard that there is a Dao fruit in Heaven and Earth, named A-Han No Rule, which absorbs the rules of Heaven and Earth, but does not contain rules. If you obtain this fruit, you may get twice the result with half the effort ……”