Volume 4: The Other Shore Chapter 969: Twelve Types of Living Beings
In the cave heaven, in a small universe, there exists a cultivation civilization. It has blossomed the most brilliant flower among the many cultivation civilizations in the new era of the wasteland!
In this civilization, there was a young man named Diao Changtao!
He overcame numerous obstacles along the way, went through countless battles, and although his talent was not the best, he relied on his own means and various opportunities to achieve supreme hegemony and become the master of this civilization!
In the end, he exhausted all he had and took a step that no one had been able to take in countless years, and obtained what everyone had coveted since the emergence of the cultivation civilization, but no one had truly possessed... immortality!
He became the first...Lord of Life and Death in the history of the new era of Huang Fuchen!
"When you first start on the path, you fear the sky is high; when you start on the path, you fear the distance."
"The heavens and the earth are boundless, and the ups and downs of life and death are endless!"
The boy is no longer a boy, but he still looks like a boy. He looks up at the sky and stands with his hands behind his back.
"From now on, my last name is Dao instead of Diao!"
"So far , there are three buckets of time in the world, one bucket for the eternal sky, one bucket for the eternal earth, and one bucket for the eternal me!"
The young man looked down on everyone and spoke proudly!
But suddenly, he felt that day was a bit annoying. Since he had lived forever and lived as long as the heaven and earth, he and the heaven and earth should be on the same level, and he shouldn't be the one looking up at the sky! !
"Today, I, Taoist Master Tao, want to see this scenery from the sky!"
So the young man took a step forward and ascended to the sky!
Then, he flew out of the small universe where he was originally, and what appeared in his eyes was the boundless starry sky!
The young man was completely shocked, because he saw countless small universes in the starry universe, and he could not see the end of the entire starry universe!
At this moment, the young man suddenly felt a chill down his spine and looked up suddenly!
But all he saw was the endless universe!
The endless starry universe in the eyes of the young man is actually just a small area in the cave universe, one of the thirty-six heavenly universes and seventy-two earthly universes!
Although he couldn't see through it, the young man could feel that there was a pair of eyes looking at him, and it brought him an infinite terror that he had never experienced before!
The young man had only one thought at this moment, that the source of this gaze could not be traced back, explored, or touched!
Then, a strange voice emerged in the boy's heart!
"It's time to end. This era is my...seventh step of freedom!"
"The catastrophe of origin appears!"
As the voice in his heart faded, the stars in the boy's eyes began to rise and fall, and between the rise and fall, he seemed to see the tide!
This tide is hard to describe, but in a flash, it became everything in the boy's eyes!
It was not until he was swallowed by the tide that the next thought came to the boy's mind!
"There is a way beyond the way, and there is a sky beyond the sky!"
This tide washed away every corner of the wasteland. Wherever it passed, everything became empty. The universe returned to the abyss, and time and space became chaos!
In the center of the desolate dust, a lonely little star watches silently, observing everything that comes and goes, and watching the beginning and end of the era.
This tide is different from the tide of the previous era. It is caused by the thoughts of a solitary little star and cannot affect the entire river of time and space in the universe!
It only belongs to the range covered by the boundless sea of Taoism of Gu Xiaoxing, the Taoist realm that will be transformed by Huang Fuchen in the future. It represents the end of this era and the end of all living beings and things within this era!
It is not that Gu Xiaoxing is ruthless and intends to wipe out all living beings. Just like at the beginning, Gu Xiaoxing did not create all living beings, but created an era!
All living things are just following the great principles, evolving and coming into being in the era! !
The world is orderly, all living beings are born and die, all things have a beginning and an end, this itself is the truth of the universe!
Since Gu Xiaoxing created this era, he should give it birth and death, and give it a beginning and an end!
Even the so-called immortality is actually the same. Immortality is also within life, and to transcend birth and death is what Gu Xiaoxing is doing at this moment!
But Seven Steps of Freedom is far from enough !
Therefore, Gu Xiaoxing closed his eyes again!
The end of one era is also the beginning of another. The will of the lonely little star once again turned into a catalyst, driving the evolution of all things. Countless universes took shape, and life gradually emerged like a glimmer of light!
But unlike the previous era, the rules of this era seem to be more perfect, and more different kinds of life have appeared!
Like innate creatures, they suddenly appear from nothing, conceived by heaven and earth, with no father or mother. In the previous era, such creatures did not exist!
Similarly, Sky-gazing Demons still appear from time to time. Their fates are different, but most of them end miserably. A very few of them become successful, but they still find it difficult to reach the peak due to their lack of talent!
The pinnacle of this era is still the Lord of Life and Death, but their number is far greater than that of the previous era!
However, when the tide came again, no one could successfully enter the realm of great freedom, and eventually all things became silent, reaching the end of this era!
Only the lonely little star in the center of the wasteland remains unchanged.
The end of this era also means that he has successfully taken the eighth step of freedom!
Gu Xiaoxing didn't know how many years he had been sitting there in seclusion, but he was very clear that compared to the outside world, even though he had covered the boundless Dao Sea, the time in the Dao Realm had increased countless times!
But the first two eras he created were still far less than a year!
In comparison, tens of millions of years should have passed in the outside world!
"Returning to the 'present' is only one step away!"
“That’s enough…!!”
Afterwards, Gu Xiaoxing began to create the third era in the Dao Realm. This era will be more perfect than ever before!
"Born from eggs, born from the womb, born from moisture, born from transformation, with form, without form, with thought, without thought, neither with form, neither without form, neither with thought, neither without thought. There are twelve categories of living beings!"
Gu Xiaoxing's thought spread throughout the entire desolate world, like countless seeds, sowing the seeds of countless causes and effects of life!
In this more perfect era, all living beings have blossomed into more splendid flowers, and the master of birth and death is finally no longer the limit for all living beings!
Finally, some living beings reached the pinnacle of life and death, completed varying numbers of life and death transformations, and finally realized their true self and entered the fifth ancient realm!
Different from Gu Xiaoxing’s previous path of cultivation, in this era, if the Lord of Life and Death wants to enter the realm of great freedom, he must complete the transformation of life and death!
Just as Yang Shang once told Gu Xiaoxing about the Nine Realms of the Human World, if one wants to enter the Great Free and Easy Realm from the Human Realm, one must complete self-salvation!
But Gu Xiaoxing had misunderstood before. A cultivator in the human realm did not have to complete nine times of self-salvation!
Just like the Lord of Birth and Death, he also does not need to complete nine birth and death transformations. Once or twice will do. However, the number of birth and death transformations undoubtedly represents the degree of strength of each one!
And nine is just a legendary limit. It is even hard to say whether this limit is exactly nine!
At least in the third era created by Gu Xiaoxing, among the many powerful people in the fifth ancient realm, most of them could only barely achieve the third reincarnation!
This is even after Gu Xiaoxing perfected the path of cultivation for them!
Like the six ancient times, Fuchentian, and the first era of Huangfuchen, all the cultivators who stepped into the fifth ancient realm should only be reborn and die because their cultivation path was incomplete!
As far as possibility is concerned, being able to successfully enter the Great Free and Easy Realm after one reincarnation is already the limit, and it is basically impossible to make further progress!
But people like Huang Gu, Fu Chen Tian and others can reach the realm equivalent to the Three Steps of Freedom through one reincarnation, which is enough to show how amazing their own talents are!
It’s a pity that incomplete is incomplete!
