Mystery: Higher-Dimensional Overlookers

Chapter 521 Shao Siming

No, it's not the wilderness.

——It was just a piece of debris in the wilderness. After the debris fell from the sky to the earth, the mountain peaks were pushed aside like waves. This place suddenly became a plain, a plain without any grass, a "wilderness" with everything desolate!
The Tianyun Sect believes in the three Si Ming in the field of "fate". The Heavenly Dao they preside over - which is also the name of the source essence in the mouths of the people of the Western Continent - represents the three aspects of "fate" respectively.

Although Ouroboros is not yet the old one of the "Destiny" path, and has no way to use the source essence to influence those who have been blessed by the source essence, in addition to the "Ring of Fate", another Outer God has such ability.

She is called the "Goddess of Destiny". She has the instinct and authority to weave and tailor the fate of mankind and the world, allowing fate to go in the direction she weaves. She covets the authority of the destiny signpost, and also desires the uniqueness of the "dreamer".

As a powerful Outer God in a similar field to the "Fate Ring", the more mysterious "Fate Weaver" obviously chose a similar method to the "Fate Ring", using some medium to weaken the control of other Outer Gods on his missing essence. The only difference is that he also does not want the "Fate Ring" to get new power earlier.

The Ring of Fate chose to send its own angel Thermipolos, and the Weaver of Fate did the same. However, the timing of sending the angel was a little later than that of the Ring of Fate, just before Thermipolos was ready to harvest the sacrifice.

……

"…This is what I have been going through recently. It is hard to imagine whether I would still be sitting here alive if that mysterious Sima had not chosen to stop the Sima of Fate from acting on my behalf."

Tong Cheng, an old Taoist priest with injuries on his face, held the white porcelain teacup in front of him. His old hands were trembling slightly due to the injuries on his body.

He had been seriously injured in the process of challenging that cultivator. If it weren't for the protection of Heavenly Dao and the intervention of another Sima Ming who helped the cultivator in the Fusion Stage at a critical moment, he would have been buried forever in the sea of ​​fire along with the Tianyun Sect.

Now that the sky has broken, the news of the destruction of the Tianyun Sect has gradually spread to the secular world with rumors, and people are now in a state of panic. The old Taoist looked at the moonlight outside the window with a melancholy look. In the darkness, the bright moonlight was sprinkled on the earth, and outside was still noisy with traffic.

"Fortunately, the Heavenly Supervisory Division is still here, and the cultivators there have not fallen into the devil's way because of the madness of the Heavenly Dao..."

The curl of white mist slowly rose from the white porcelain teacup in front of him. As he thought this, he unconsciously exerted a little force with his fingers, and the white teacup shattered in his hands with a "snap", turning into fine powder. Seeing this scene, the young knight sitting opposite him chuckled:
"Master, if you do this, you will have to pay for the tea bowls."

Tong Cheng rubbed his hands awkwardly. He called over to the clerk who was hiding behind the counter in the distance, and slapped a piece of silver on the table under the clerk's frightened gaze:

"This is teacup money."

After paying the bill with silver, he picked up the peach wood sword beside him and said to the young knight:
"My dear friend, you haven't told me yet how you plan to find the source of the Heavenly Dao. I don't even know your name."

After hearing what Tong Cheng said, the young knight drank the tea in the cup and placed the cup steadily on the wooden table. Then, the young knight picked up his sword, put on his bag, and walked outside with Tong Cheng.

The two of them walked against the flow of people, heading outside:

"You also didn't tell me why you wanted to go down the mountain in person to slay demons and monsters in this chaotic world. Isn't it a good thing to be a leisurely Taoist in the mountains?"

He began to speak to Tong Cheng as if he was chatting:

"Don't even mention you, a Divine Transformation cultivator. Even a cultivator with higher levels of proficiency may not be able to protect themselves in this chaotic world. And you... I am not talented. I just happen to cultivate 'knowledge'. I can tell from you where you stand."

"You should be Chaoxing, huh, the agent of 'Ziwei Star Lord'. A few days ago, you successively encountered the agent of Siming who is in charge of the Fate of Heaven and another Siming who is weaving. You have encountered so many dangers in the past few days since you came down the mountain, but you can still maintain such a firm belief."

The young knight shook his head slightly: "For someone of your age, it is indeed quite rare."

Tong Cheng did not feel unhappy because of the instructions and offense in the young knight's tone - a few days ago he called himself a Taoist master, but after being beaten up several times by several powerful monks, he gradually recognized the facts.

He knew that there were always people better than him, especially when he was beaten up by the young knight with his bare hands. Magic had no effect on him.

——Then he changed his habit of calling someone “Daoye”.

He didn't even use the long sword at his waist... The old Taoist Tong Cheng laughed self-deprecatingly: "Haha, maybe the past few decades have suppressed me too much. I have learned skills for half a lifetime but none of them are useful."

"I have already passed on the Taoist temple to my eldest disciple. All the senior brothers and sisters who were close to me are gone now. So what else do I have to worry about?"

"At least, if I can slay demons and protect a few people from the mouths of demons in this chaotic world, haha, even if it's just one or two, then I can rest assured."

At this point, the old Taoist shook his head, as if he remembered something:
"Thirty-eight people. At that time, the Heavenly Dao that our sect practiced disappeared. The master went crazy first, and then the brothers and sisters went down the mountain to fight the demons one by one without learning any magic."

"Occasionally, they were able to bring back the corpses of one or two demons, but more often it was the brothers and sisters who went with them who brought back their corpses. And more often, they didn't even come back."

The old Taoist took a sip of tea:

"So, no matter what, I have to help them kill all the monsters they failed to kill. Otherwise, I, an old guy who has finally mastered magic, will not be able to face them after I die."

"What about you, my friend? Your identity is not ordinary, right?"

"Yes." Facing the old Taoist's doubts, the young knight just stretched lazily: "I am the agent of the God of Knowledge. I am the God of Knowledge. He is a rare God of Knowledge who is not crazy in your eyes."

"Besides Fushengtian, is there any other great god of destiny in this world?"

Tong Cheng was a little confused and asked the young knight. The young knight's mouth curled up slightly, and he said to the old Taoist priest in front of him:
"of course."

"Perhaps you have heard of His honorable name. In ancient texts, His name is Himvi, and in recent texts, He is the 'Angler.' And now you call Him 'Taiwanishi-Vaiśravaṇa,' the great god of destiny from the outside world."

After going through his sect's classics in his mind, Tong Cheng's eyes suddenly widened. He looked at the young knight in front of him and said to him with a somewhat panicked look:
"Isn't that the sky where the extraterritorial demons live?"

"Yes, I didn't deny it." The young knight shrugged his shoulders, showed the clearance document in his hand to the tired guard beside him, and strode out of the city:

"However, when most of the Sima in this world are going crazy, doesn't 'Heaven of Transmutation' become the most normal one?"

The old Taoist thought for a moment and found that what the young knight beside him said made a lot of sense. The knight in front of him was much stronger than himself, and spoke clearly and logically. He was obviously not like the evil demons he had killed in recent days.

The most important thing is that, unlike the previous times when he encountered fate, he has been with this young knight for half a day, but the god of destiny he believes in has not sent him any warning.

He could only speak with a little helplessness: "Indeed, but what should you call me, young friend? I can't keep calling you young friend."

"Moreover, we will go to where all of you fellow Taoists are soon after we come out of retreat to discuss recent events with them. By then, I will have to introduce you to them as well."

"Oh, I would have forgotten if you hadn't mentioned it." The young knight raised his lips and said, "My last name is Gao, you can call me whatever you want. By the way, I should be much older than you."

"Brother Gao." Are they really those monks who have regained their youth? The old Taoist priest immediately changed his words: "Then what exactly are you doing here? As the Great Sima who has become one with the Heavenly Dao, you should not need to interfere in the affairs of the common people."

The shadows of the trees were cast on Gao Wei. Gao Wei turned his head slightly and looked at the old Taoist priest with a normal expression. He said to him, "Do you think that the war between the Sima for the Way of Heaven broke out in the 'Immortal Realm'?"

The old Taoist thought for a moment and said, "This is indeed what the ancient books I read before described. 'Don't dare to speak loudly, for fear of disturbing the gods in heaven'. I think this is also the description of the immortal world and the awe of the gods of destiny by our ancestors."

"But now I always feel that there are deeper secrets buried in some things."

"This is true for the universe, that is, the 'Si Ming' outside the sky that you know." Gao Wei whispered:

"You were once protected by a barrier, but now that barrier is broken. Theoretically, the moment the barrier is broken, there will be no living creatures in the entire world. Even the land you depend on will no longer exist."

"But this is an extremely special place created by the three great deities. The Way of Heaven has become tangible in your eyes, allowing you to feel the Way of Heaven that outsiders cannot feel. You can cultivate the Way of Heaven and become a part of it, which is the so-called unity of heaven and man."

"Outsiders..."

The old Taoist was stunned for a moment: "Brother Gao, if outsiders cannot perceive the way of heaven by themselves, then how can they cultivate to become immortals?"

“Just like the unorthodox sects here, they take elixirs and potions, and eventually gradually separate themselves from the category of humans—” Gao Wei glanced at the old Taoist priest: “In the outside world, people like you at the God Transformation Stage (Sequence Four) are also very rare. Even though the world is much larger than yours, there are still only a few hundred God Transformations.”

“Outside world…” The old Taoist priest of Sequence Four “Heavy One” whose strength was equivalent to that of a Super Star Overlord was silent for a long time, and walked forward silently.

The so-called path to immortality is extremely difficult and dangerous. The old Taoist priest can often hear the roar of the way of heaven in his ears.

What Gao Wei did not say is that the reason why the Outer Gods now cannot directly use their own power to interfere in the affairs of the earth is because the many Outer Gods and the many source substances, as well as the fragments of the source substances, have formed a kind of mystical balance here.

To put it in simpler terms, although Klein, the Lord of Mysteries, is now fighting against the will of the Heavenly Venerable Fu Sheng Xuan Huang, for the real Creator who now holds most of God's authority, he and other outer gods who are either neutral, friendly, or hostile to them have formed a tug-of-war in the shallow layer of the spiritual world, that is, the part where the spiritual world and the real world blend and blur.

Therefore, for the outer gods on Earth, they are now integrating their own will into their own source as the real creator and the higher-dimensional overseers had expected, controlling their own angels or incarnating themselves to participate in this brutal battle.

Once the mystical balance in the essence of any Outer God is broken, they will not be able to maintain themselves in the melee of the gods, and will ultimately be able to watch others take away their essence and share it.

The former is like an angel sent by the "Ring of Fate", while the latter is like the "Fate Weaver" who chooses to manipulate fate himself to weaken the power of the "Ring of Fate" on the adjacent path.

……

"Let's talk about the 'Young Sima Ming' you mentioned to me before. You said her name is Zhinu?"

Gao Wei stopped under a tree. He snapped his fingers and a stone chair appeared under the tree. He sat on it calmly, as if waiting for someone to come.

"Yes, after the fall of the Tianyun Sect, I also looked up their scriptures and found that there was indeed such a Siming. She is also the only female Siming that the Tianyun Sect believes in."

"He is also called 'Shao Siming', but even though He intervened in the execution of the Fate of Heaven, He did not seem to protect other things or take more countermeasures. I don't understand why."

The old Taoist Tong Cheng frowned as he pondered this question. He had obviously been thinking about it for a long time on the road. He wanted to know whether this Shao Siming had also fallen into madness.

After waiting for a long time without any reply, he raised his head and looked at Gao Wei in front of him.

"Brother Gao, who are you waiting for?"

"Three outsiders." Gao Wei said, "They are here."

Under the cover of night, three people whose appearances were very different from those of the people from the Western Continent walked towards them from a distance.

(End of this chapter)