What is time?
Lu Yi considered himself a common man, so he was too lazy to pursue the things that only philosophers would consider.
He was in charge of the Haojing Continent, and he used his speed to put all developments in the Haojing Continent on the fast track... and 'fast', extremely fast 'speed', naturally led to changes in 'efficiency', and 'efficiency', naturally, could not be decoupled from 'time'.
Go straight to the 'Avenue of Time' through the 'Avenue of Speed'.
Speed ​​is the ladder to heaven, and time is that day.
Lu Yu sat cross-legged above the Gaojing Continent, with light and shadow flickering around him, and the speed of everything around him was increasing. As his cultivation increased rapidly, and as his mastery of the Avenue of Speed ​​continued to expand, everything around him was moving faster and faster, and the Avenue of Time became clearer and clearer.
Moreover, the Taichu Huntong Pearl was shining brightly in his mind, and the faint light shone on the golden Buddha evolved from his soul. As a result, the Avenue of Speed ​​became clearer and clearer... The 'Avenue of Time', from a rich lady hidden in the boudoir, gradually became hot and passionate. She took the initiative to lift up her door curtain, opened her collar, and exposed her fresh and white body in front of Lu Yi.
So... Lu Yi saw a muddy river.
The river is vast and mighty, running through heaven and earth... In that river, countless illusions are born and die, embracing all things and containing heaven and earth... The breath of the river is mysterious and unpredictable, and ordinary creatures, even ordinary emperors, cannot touch or perceive it, let alone cause any obstruction or influence on the river.
Only Lu Yu had touched the Avenue of Time when he was in the lower world.
When he reached the Supreme Primordial Heaven, he also made some progress in the Great Dao of Time. Coupled with the influence of the condensed speed Dao fruit, he finally saw the river clearly when the speed of the universe around him soared to a certain extreme.
Just a joke - 'If you run fast enough, you can catch up with the passing time'!
This is a bit nonsensical, but for Lu Yu, when his speed Dao fruit was running to the extreme, when his speed Dao fruit was raised to a certain sufficient strength, his soul did reach sublimation because of the soaring speed. His soul "soared into the sky", like a "frightened little carp", jumped out of the river of time, and with a rough glance, saw the "true face" of time!
A great river, countless lives, countless worlds, all flickered in that time, life and death were obscure and illusory.
To some extent, the Avenue of Time is more mysterious, deeper, more unpredictable, and possesses a more unpredictable power than the Avenue of Space. The containment of space always has a limit. For example, how much void can a Supreme Primordial Heaven contain?
But no matter how vast the Supreme Primordial Heaven is, the spatial scale of this heaven and earth has its limits.
At the moment when Lu Yi's soul jumped out of the long river of time and roughly caught a glimpse of the true face of the long river, there were countless worlds of all sizes, coexisting and standing side by side with the Supreme Taichu Heaven in countless spatial dimensions.
Some heavens and earths, some worlds, are more powerful and more wonderful than the energy level and spatial dimension of the Supreme Primordial Heaven... Some worlds are a hundred times, ten thousand times, a trillion times larger than the Supreme Primordial Heaven in terms of spatial scale... Some worlds are just born and suddenly disappear...
And time.
At the same time, there are countless spaces running parallel on this world's scale.
Lu Yi's soul entered a state of confusion. He jumped out of the water of the long river of time and boldly took a deep look at his time scale of "now and now".
Suddenly, at this moment, in a time scale that is even trillions times shorter than a moment, countless worlds, countless spaces, countless large and small heavens and earth containing information, an infinite torrent of data roared in and slammed into Lu Yi's soul!
Time is so dangerous.
Every tiny time scale contains infinite data running simultaneously in billions of worlds. Incalculable information surges and vibrates in the same tiny time scale, emitting data vibrations that ordinary creatures cannot imagine... This is comparable to the most terrifying "soul-attacking supernatural power" in the world. If ordinary people touch it even slightly, their souls will be shattered by the endless data and information, and their heads will be directly shattered.
Lu Yi was so frightened that his soul left his body.
He felt an endless amount of data and information, rushing in along with his casual "deep glance", about to pour into his soul... On the time scale, there is no concept of "vision", and there is no such thing as "you only see what happens within a certain range on this time scale".
Any powerful being who can jump out of the long river of time, when you peek at a certain time scale, all the information on this world's scale, all the worlds, all the universes, all the spaces, all dimensions, all living beings that exist on this world's scale, their every move, every word and deed, and the countless causes and effects caused by all their behaviors, will collapse towards you without reservation and squeeze into your soul!
Because what you 'see' is 'this time scale'!
With cold sweat pouring down his face, Lu Yi was in a hurry, trying his best to retract his gaze from the long river of time... But even though he ran extremely fast, even though he had condensed the speed fruit, at this moment, it was too late for him...
Just as Lu Yi's soul was about to be annihilated by the torrent of data formed by the countless times that occurred in the countless empty universes of the heavens and myriad worlds at this moment, there was a loud roar and the Buddha fruit burst out with brilliant Buddha light, turning into an invisible barrier that isolated the surging data frenzy.
A mouthful of blood gushed out of Lu Yi's throat. He groaned and swallowed the blood that was flowing into his mouth.
The Buddha Fruit protected Lu Yu's soul and blocked the surging causal information. Lu Yu almost instinctively mastered the magical power of "how to correctly peek into the long river of time". He carefully restrained his soul, his energy, and all his own causalities...
The Taichu Huntong Pearl tried its best to emit a faint light, enveloping Lu Yi's "whole" and eliminating his many causal entanglements.
It's just like a person, if he stares at the sun with eyes wide open, his eyeballs will surely be blinded by the sun... But when he closes his eyes as much as possible, leaving only a tiny gap, and peeks at the edge of the sun with the corner of his eye... and puts on thick sunglasses in front of his eyes, then no matter how scorching the sun is, it will not cause too much harm.
Lu Yi took a breath.
He carefully glanced at the long river of time at 'now, now'.
Extremely carefully, he glanced at the long river of time with the "corner of his eye" squinted into a slit... He saw the blood surging all over the sky, the murderous aura rising, and he saw that outside the north gate of the Heavenly Palace, a torrent of starlight condensed in the sky was raging wildly, destroying countless palaces and pavilions in the Heavenly Palace.
He saw Bi Xingxiang wearing a full set of heavy armor, holding two heavy maces, and swinging up crazy starlight whirlpools. He was like a killer god from hell that had broken into the human world and rushed into the army formation composed of countless heavenly soldiers. With just a light blow from the heavy mace, a square formation of tens or hundreds of heavenly soldiers and generals consisting of tens of thousands of people were reduced to ashes!
Behind Bi Xingxiang, hundreds of his guards shouted and roared, together with tens of thousands of heavily armored generals, commanding countless imperial guards guarding the north gate. Accompanied by the four-phase star formation outside the north gate of Heaven, they rolled up countless starlight and followed Bi Xingxiang and charged into Heaven.
At the east gate of the Heavenly Palace, the starlight was shaking, and 120 million stars shot up into the sky, transforming into a three-headed evil dragon with wings on its back, which spewed out countless thunders in the direction of the north gate star field.
At the west gate of the Heavenly Palace, starlight was surging, with 120 million stars shaking with colorful starlight. A sacred beast shaped like a white tiger with two heads and nine tails, and countless sharp sword balls wrapped around its body, roared to the sky, continuously spitting out sword lights and knife lights, pointing directly to the north.
The south gate of the Heavenly Palace?... The phantom of the sacred beast shaped like the Vermillion Bird in the huge star array is also ready to go.
But outside the south gate of the Heavenly Palace, countless descendants of the Green Emperor from other races were densely packed into a large hollow meat ball, guarding Bai Yuan, Linghu Lun and Yin Yuan's sons... These alien races looked at the commotion in the north from afar with indifferent expressions, and they did not move. The phantom of the Vermillion Bird in this star array did not react as violently as the star arrays outside the east and west gates.
Lu Yi had a hunch that most of the power of the star array outside the South Gate was used to guard against these alien races!
However, the two astrologers guarding the east and west gates did not take any action.
They just 'watched' as Bei Xingxiang led countless elite troops to fight in and out of the northern region of the Heavenly Court, leaving corpses everywhere and blood flowing... cough, cough, those who were strangled by Bei Xingxiang using the power of the star array would not even have any residue left, there were no corpses everywhere, no rivers of blood, wherever Bei Xingxiang's army passed, it was clean, leaving only pieces of completely flattened cloud platforms, not even a complete broken tile was left.
Lu Yu took a deep breath.
Heaven, is this a rebellion?
He subconsciously stared at Bi Xingxiang, quietly turned the avenue of time, followed Bi Xingxiang's life trajectory, traced back, and investigated what had just happened to Bi Xingxiang.
Lu Yi's gaze went upstream from this moment in the long river of time, trying to trace back what had happened before.
Then, Lu Yi was stunned.
The vast river of time is vast and boundless.
In this long river of time, there are countless universes , countless heavens and earths, countless worlds, and countless creatures coexisting at the same point in time.
Under the protection of the magical secrets taught by Nalanda Buddha, Lu Yi's " gaze" ignored the countless vast data, offset the impact of the terrifying and endless torrent of information, and followed the river to look towards the source of the long river of time.
Lu Fu's "gaze" passed through Bi Xingxiang.
Compared to this endless, timeless river, Bi Xingxiang is just an insignificant little person. He is just a tadpole that occasionally creates a little ripple in the endless river... He is not even a strong enough big fish!
Lu Yu received the dual protection of the Nalanda Buddha Fruit and the Taichu Huntong Pearl, which isolated him from the endless information flood. At the same time, it also allowed Lu Yu to avoid the attention of certain powerful and terrifying creatures that were floating in the sky above the long river of time, eyeing him covetously and plotting evil.
Lu Yi did not attract the attention of those creatures.
Lu Yu also squinted his eyes and was unable to clearly see the figures of those terrifying beings.
Lu Yi simply judged that there were some extremely terrifying creatures in those places based on the appearance of huge ripples and terrifying waves in the long river of time.
Those creatures may have already died.
However, certain traces they left on the long river of time, like stubborn reefs, still affect the flow of the river... Occasionally, when the river water hits these reefs, some strange phenomena will occur that even Lu Yi in this state cannot ignore.
Compared with these existences, the traces left by Bei Xingxiang on this endless river are not worth mentioning at all.
Even Lu Yi quickly ignored Bi Xingxiang. He was too lazy to check what happened before Bi Xingxiang. His "gaze" was looking directly at the far, far place of this great river...
Lu Yu vaguely saw the true face of the river of time.
It's not the whole picture, but just a tiny, insignificant part.
The endless river of time... At the moment when the Supreme Primordial Heaven was opened up, a surging branch was opened up from the river of time... This branch is the time of the Supreme Primordial Heaven.
Compared to the entire "time", the small branch is insignificant. It is mixed in the long river of time, integrated, yet distinct. Countless such branches are entangled together, like a tangled mess, intertwined, fused, derived, and stimulated each other. In many places, time and space have undergone strange distortions, and terrible changes have occurred that Lu Yi cannot understand at all.
But fortunately, this branch of the Supreme Taichu Heaven is still clear and distinct.
Lu Yi saw that somewhere in the endless river of time, at the birthplace of the branch of the Supreme Taichu Heaven, at the source of the "time" of the Supreme Taichu Heaven, there was a dull white lotus quietly half floating and half submerged in the turbid river of time.
That white lotus occupied the source of the Supreme Taichu Heaven's time, like an iron gate, resisting the impact of other time tributaries... Lu Yi could see clearly that in the short time of one breath, in that long river of time, there were at least 30 million time tributaries, carrying countless illusions and countless shadows, madly attacking the white lotus.
And this white lotus firmly guarded the source of time of the Supreme Taichu Heaven. No matter how many time tributaries impacted it, it did not allow any of the time tributaries, or the power of the heaven and earth carried by any of the time tributaries, to invade the Supreme Taichu Heaven.
Moreover, on the dim lotus petals, which were half alive and half withered, there were constantly wisps of dim white Buddha light and white Buddha rhythm, like sugar cubes melting in hot water, slowly releasing and sinking into the time branch of the Supreme Taichu Heaven bit by bit.
This branch of time contains all the past of the Supreme Taichu Heaven.
Thus, the Buddha's light and rhythm that were constantly leaking out were integrated into the great Dao of heaven and earth of the Supreme Taichu Heaven bit by bit. No matter what great Dao law of the Supreme Taichu Heaven it was, at the core of its great Dao, there was a dim white lotus Buddha seal.
Lu Fei suddenly realized.
He seemed to understand something.
Is this the historical truth of the Supreme Taichu Heaven?
A certain great Buddhist master, with supreme power, opened up this world, and even forcibly imprinted his own Tao, his own Dharma, and his own essence of Buddhism on all the great laws of the Supreme Primordial Heaven with terrifying magical powers and incredible power. The entire world is branded with the imprint of Buddhism. This is a piece of "private land" belonging to Buddhism!
When Lu Yi saw the white lotus, a name suddenly popped up in his mind.
'Maitreya Heaven'!
The Supreme Taichu Heaven is the 'original name' of this world. It is also the title given to this world by great emperors such as Taichu, Taimi, and Taiyu... However, when this world was branded by the great Buddhist master, it was named 'Maitreya Heaven'.
'Maitreya'!
'Maitreya'!
Lu Yi opened and closed his lips subconsciously and uttered this title.
Then, his soul spoke along with his body, softly chanting this honorable title.
Circles of strange ripples emanated from the core of Lu Yi's soul, which was suspended high above the long river of time. It was like a small stone smashing into this endless river of chaos, stirring up a few unnoticeable ripples.
The white lotus that was perched at the beginning of the creation of the world in the Supreme Primeval Heaven seemed to have sensed Lu Yi's call at this moment, in this life, and one by one, the half-fresh, half-withered white lotus petals quietly bloomed, revealing a lotus platform in the middle, on which sat a fat Buddha with a fat head and big ears, a smiling face, a round body and a kind air.
There was a huge transparent hole in the Buddha's chest, and white-gold Buddha's blood kept dripping out from the hole, "one drop, one drop, one drop". The Buddha's blood dripped onto the white lotus and was quietly absorbed by the lotus, maintaining the last bit of life of the white lotus.
When Lu Yi began to recite the title of "Maitreya", the huge Buddha, who had clearly been dead for who knows how many years, suddenly revealed an extremely brilliant smile on his lifeless face. He opened his tightly closed eyes, and looked at Lu Yi deeply across countless years and the long river of time.
"Old monk, this is Maitreya!" The fat Buddha seemed to have seen through Lu Yi's origin and background. He stretched out his right hand, and across endless years, he pointed at Lu Yi casually.
"Swish", that finger, across time, touched Lu Yi's brow.
A small white lotus imprint bloomed between Lu Yi's eyebrows, and the entire Ranta Buddha Fruit quietly dissolved under this finger, completely merging with Lu Yi.
"Mi...Le!" Lu Yi felt the hairs on his body stand on end and cold sweat gushed out like a fountain.
He subconsciously withdrew his gaze and turned to the middle section of the long river of time in the Supreme Taichu Heaven.
Here, he saw countless shackles that appeared out of thin air.
Chains with an iron-blooded color and densely covered with barbs, like knife locks, crisscross the long river of time, turning into a huge dam, tightly blocking the entire river.
Strands of white Buddha's light and white Buddha's rhyme continue to flow down from the source of the long river of time, and continue to flow towards the world of heaven and earth where Lu Yi is located in the present, the present time, and this moment... However, the countless shackles penetrated the avenues and imprisoned the laws, and also turned into a sluice, struggling to resist the "erosion" of the Buddha's light and Buddha's rhyme at the source.
However, it was obvious that there were many gaps on the dam formed by these shackles, where colorful Buddha light was flashing.
There is a trace amount of bright white Buddha light and Buddha rhythm that seeps in little by little through the gaps in the Buddha light that is struggling hard in the shackles, and flows along the surging river of time, firmly influencing the Supreme Taichu Heaven of today.
Lu Fei suddenly realized.
Such a strange vision reminded him of the current situation in the Supreme Taichu Heaven.
That 'Maitreya', with his supreme Buddhist magical powers, forcibly broke open the heaven and earth before the Supreme Taichu Heaven 'matured on its own' and 'spontaneously developed'. He also used his own magical powers to forcibly transform the Supreme Taichu Heaven, turning the entire world into a Buddhist paradise!
Then came the establishment of the Heavenly Palace.
The Taichu, Taimi, Taiyu and other great emperors joined forces to destroy the holy land of Nalanda and overthrow the Buddhist heritage of this world. They also formulated heavenly rules and regulations, refined the shackles of Taoism, and intended to completely destroy the Buddhist imprint of this world.
But the Maitreya at the source possesses supreme power. His imprint has passed through the long river of time and still affects the Supreme Primordial Heaven today.
Of course, there are also Buddhist disciples like Qingsha, Mi Sanqi and Ming Jiudan. They are diligent and unyielding, and they are poaching from the Heavenly Court's system of shackles of heaven and earth... It is them who have caused cracks to appear on the dam of Heavenly Rules, allowing the Buddhist heritage to be tenaciously passed down to this day!
Lu Fu suddenly understood something.
And at the moment he understood all this, the Buddha Fruit of the Pure Land completely merged with his soul, his flesh and blood. Under the catalysis of the finger of the Maitreya Venerable across the immeasurable river of time, with Lu Yi's own cultivation, it would take him who knows how many years of hard work to completely refine the Buddha Fruit of the Pure Land, but now he can use it easily.
The power of his soul soared, and he easily absorbed the infinite mysteries recorded in the Nalanda Buddha Fruit.
Lu Yu looked up at the sky and let out a breath.
When this breath was exhaled, it turned into a long white rainbow that rushed up in the long river of time, and then in an extremely high and indescribable dimension, it exploded like a firework with a "bang".
A tiny white lotus bloomed tremblingly above Lu Yi's head.
It has the same appearance, color, and aura as the white lotus that is lingering at the source of time in the Supreme Primordial Heaven... except that its size is only one trillionth of that white lotus, all other details are exactly the same.
A white lotus, with the help of Lu Yi's hand, traveled through endless years and quietly blossomed in the Supreme Taichu Heaven in this world where the Heavenly Court controls everything.
It is so mysterious and wonderful that it is beyond words.
Lu Yu had no idea what was going on... He only knew that he could no longer feel the constraints and imprisonment of the heavenly shackles in the heavenly palace. His understanding and control of time was soaring, and his attainments in the great way of speed were soaring...
He opened his eyes slightly.
He was actually able to withstand the endless torrent of information in the long river of time and no longer had to worry about his soul being directly annihilated by the torrent of information.
So he opened his eyes wide and looked straight at Bei Xingxiang.
He reversed the time and saw clearly everything that had happened to Bi Xingxiang in the past three months starting from this 'moment'!
This is a powerful emperor whose combat power is ranked among the top five in the heavenly court. Everything that happened in the past three months was seen thoroughly by Lu Yi without any secrets or concealments!
"What a scumbag bastard!"
"My Buddha... is truly compassionate!"