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Chapter 1061 This humble Daoist is Yuanshi (Please refresh)

The heavens and earth were dark and gloomy, all the earthly fire and wind and water had vanished, leaving only chaos and no existence of anything.

This is a vision reflected by Meng Qi's own spiritual light.

Even today, with some mental preparation and knowing that cause and effect and future events have undergone earth-shattering changes, one cannot help but feel distressed.

For those on the other side of the real world, the actions of the chess piece have far-reaching consequences. Even though there is still less than a thousand years until the end of the era, because of Ananda, the cause and effect and attention they bear are too great.

Demon Buddha, Azure Emperor, Seven Killings Taoist, Golden Emperor, Demon Emperor, True Martial. A group of pseudo-Otherworld beings in special states had long planned out their own game, waiting for them to walk into it.

If it weren't for the certainty that the Three Pure Ones had transcended worldly limitations, I probably would have ended up in the Tushita Palace being studied by Taishang the moment I returned after initially joining the chat group and traveling through the world.
So aside from initially keeping things under wraps and making some minor changes, once they confront and sever ties with the Demon Buddha, it makes no difference whether they have the script or not.

"Everyone says that rebirth and precognition stories are 'feel-good' novels, but this isn't very 'feel-good' either?" Meng Qi scratched his head and smiled bitterly.

To struggle with Heaven is a joy; to struggle with Earth is a joy; to struggle with Man is a joy.

But fighting against "oneself" feels somewhat like being stuck in a limbo.

Initially, it was in the fairyland—no, it should be the seal of the Azure Jade Void Sword—where I was just beginning to learn the Primordial Golden Chapter but had not yet attained the Undying Primordial Dharma Body. The causes and effects of my cultivation had not yet reached the profound chapters. Yet, under such conditions, I was able to absorb the sealing power of another 'Primordial' and improve myself.

'I should have noticed something unusual from then on, but I was so caught up in the joy of having cheat codes and a cheat code that I didn't have a clear understanding of the big shots on the other side.'
Later, no matter which world they went to, all the Three Pure Ones ran away as fast as the bastard boss of the Jiangnan Leather Factory.

Often, before anyone even sees them, all sorts of fairylands, great heavens, and palaces automatically transfer their origins and historical records to them.

The only two exceptions are Li Xiao, the Supreme Lord Laozi in Feng Xiaoxiao's world, and Qing Wanglai, the Three Pure Ones of Da Nuo.

The eccentric Laozi who ran an adult products store and used a furnace to refine blue pills didn't react at all when he met me.

At first, Meng Qi thought that the other party's reincarnated body and remnant soul had not yet recovered, but after thinking about it for a while, he realized that the other party was still recovering.

The Three Pure Ones in their world are a true patchwork of mythological stories. Yuanshi Tianzun is actually Pangu Zhenren. Yuanshi and Taishang Laojun are not really related. Laojun is a celestial being who became a deity in the Heavenly Court through cultivation.

Perhaps because of the difference between innate deities and acquired humans, there was no causal connection between him and Li Xiao. Otherwise, the Supreme Supplies Shop would have a decent monthly turnover, and he could have made a fortune by having Xiao Yan mass-produce the inherited formula.
As for Qing Wanglai, Meng Qi found the theory of projection he was talking about very difficult to understand. It was probably because the Grand Master of Fate and the Master of Fate were considered as one. Therefore, this Master of Fate of the Three Pure Ones only became his distant cousin during the time he dreamed of entering the mortal world.

But looking at the results alone, the cause and effect, the Heavenly Way, and the name of the Three Pure Ones have actually been transferred to themselves.

Next comes the Journey to the West world, where it can be confirmed that the three saints are the three who actually died among the saints of Journey to the West. However, when they perished, the Qi of the Three Pure Ones was absorbed by them along with the cause and effect of all the results.

There's also the Great Luo Heavenly Primordial Celestial Venerable from the Marvel universe. I thought this dimensional demon god would be different, but when I went to him, the transfer was already completed.

After Su Lin successfully ran for president, he asked the other party to find the Eternal Source, only to find that all the directions of the omnipotent universe involving the Primordial Celestial Venerable were converging towards himself.

The Primordial Celestial Lord of the past and future is only a mark; unless he stays in the omnipotent universe, this dimensional demon will not appear in future events.

It didn't matter to Meng Qi. After all, in that crappy Marvel place, anyone who appeared was considered extraordinary, and only the background characters could maintain their prestige.

However, this state and technique can basically confirm that it is a method of subtracting to obtain emptiness.

Leaving aside how the Three Pure Ones of these worlds learned about the practice of subtraction and emptiness, and how they transformed it into a product of subtraction and emptiness, the most crucial point is...
"During the time of the Type-Moon, I first glimpsed the Dharma Body. Even though my cultivation improved and my state became special, I was still only at the level of a Celestial Immortal."

If I don't reach the other shore, how can they complete the final step?!

Those who cultivate themselves day and night seek to attain the omnipresence of the eight directions and six realms, past and future, which is the way of addition. But those who have reached the other shore and are currently at the same level need to reduce.

Just as Yuanshi Tianzun cut off the cause of all results, Lingbao Tianzun cut off the result of the end.

All of this is predicated on Meng Qi reaching the other shore as soon as possible, so that at the end of the era, he can use the power of the era cycle to send them to that true transcendent realm.

When you truly reach that level, it becomes unfathomable, indescribable, and undiscussable; to speak of it is to err, and to think of it is to fall into error.

The creation of heaven and earth can be speculated upon, the destruction of countless universes can be imagined, and the reversal of time and the reversal of cause and effect can be fantasized about, but not for those who have attained the Dao.

If this is the attraction, it is tempting enough. However, not every character in the myriad worlds who share the same mythological origin has the life level of the other shore. Unlike the real world, those worlds cannot send the oldest beings to a higher level through the power of the cycle of eras at the end of an era.

Even if all these conditions are met, we still have to go back to the original problem.

Meng Qi's current condition.

How did I, a being of such a level as Human Immortal, Earth Immortal, and Celestial Immortal, become a product of subtraction and emptiness, and how could I perfectly inherit these imprints?
Admittedly, Meng Qi initially found it all very confusing, but now that he has returned to the real world, through his own observations and the information he has gathered, as well as what Gu Xiaosang said, he has been able to see some clues.

Gradually, he began to grasp something.

there is only one truth

—I am the Yuan Emperor.

This is neither that ape nor the original.

After talking with Gu Xiaosang, Meng Qi was basically certain that he was Yuanhuang Su Meng, who had long since become an ancient being.

Only in this way can the requirement of subtraction and emptiness be directly fulfilled, and only then can the essential self directly receive the Qi of the Three Pure Ones and the imprints of the past from all the heavens and myriad realms.

Of course, this involves many issues mentioned earlier, but these are not things that Meng Qi should delve into now.

The reason for sorting out one's own essence is to find the most crucial innate nature that leads to breaking through the legendary realm.

Maintain your existing self-awareness to experience the "self" in different bodies, different senses, different experiences, different possibilities, and different states.

By cutting through the self, one can see one's own innate nature.

If one doubts oneself and is confused about one's own nature, the true spirit may become lost in this chaos.

Meng Qi explored the various aspects of his journey, the changes in his mindset, and the shifts in his understanding, gradually venturing into the deepest darkness.

If we trace back through time the innate nature of every living being, through the replacement of the three souls, and return to the beginning, we can naturally see the origin of all things, and thus witness the "Primordial Beginning".

As the saying goes, "The mind sees the Tathagata, and all people are the origin of all things."

When the path reaches its end, one sees the origin, and only then does one realize who I am.
The more he knew that he was to meet the Primordial Self, the more difficult it became to find him, even though his own accumulation far exceeded his predetermined destiny.

Within this chaos, where did the Primordial Daoist come from?
Meng Qi paused to think. Beyond the chaos, there seemed to be music, Buddhist chants, and other things, appearing before his eyes through prominent causal connections.

Su Lin was also provoked to the point of losing his temper; his berserk mode hadn't even reached its cooldown yet.
What is Feng Xiaoxiao doing? Didn't I tell her to keep an eye on her older brother?
The Heavenly Dao monster has completely set its sights on Huai Shi. What courage this young man possesses! The bold get rich, the timid starve.
However, judging from this commotion, it seems that the other side has been dragged into the fray.

Hey guys, don't destroy the real world before the apocalypse even arrives.
It's true that Meng Qi is having a headache over how things have turned out, but compared to him, those big shots from the other side are probably in complete chaos.

Under normal circumstances, even with the help of the Demon Buddha sending 'Ananda Tawo', and the Luo Sect uniting with the provoked demon race, Meng Qi would at most only be able to reveal the 'Primordial Heavenly Demon'.

The realm of creation, the perfection of creation, or at most the pseudo-other shore, can make the other party hesitate to act rashly.

The back-and-forth banter ended there.

After all, there was an information gap on their side: the Demon Saint was actually still alive, but had become a product of the Demon Emperor's subtraction and emptiness.

Feng Xi has hunted down the Demon Buddha for many lifetimes and knows that things are not so simple. She will definitely investigate personally. The appearance of a Phoenix Saint with little lifespan is nothing more than an act.

As it turned out, some clever person brought in the Nine Netherworld, and dragged Su Lin, who was just about to run away after being stimulated, into the ditch.

Ultimately, if the "Heavenly Buddha Without Form" was indeed arranged by the Buddha at the half-step Dao Fruit stage, and Su Lin had nowhere to turn, he would most likely have to accept it reluctantly.

You won't see this guy go out for quite a while.

These guys just had to push the Nine Netherworld right into his face, causing the 'Haotian God,' who was defined as dead in the real world, to be reborn in the Nine Netherworld.

The reputation of the Demon Buddha in the real world for his deeds is comparable to that of Senior Brother Daidai and Junior Brother Daidai of Huai Shi's family; he is truly the root of all evil.

The noodles are long and wide, and the pot is big and round.
"I'm a little distracted," Meng Qi shook his head.

His divine sense bypassed those causal connections, and holding the ancient glass cup with its ever-flowing black and white light, he continued walking towards the boundless chaos.

Given this situation, the birth of a new legend cannot change anything.

But Meng Qi always felt that some causal secrets could be revealed once he connected with the projections of all worlds, instead of being completely in the dark and guessing like he was now.

For example, why can the causes of various effects after a version update amplify causal signals?

For those in the legendary realm, space has lost its distance; it is merely an overlapping point. No matter how far away a place is, it is close at hand and within reach.

Even the distance between different groups can be bridged in one step.

When the legend is fulfilled, it will allow the projection of himself to appear along with the universe and naturally arise. In other words, he who possesses the legend of the Three Pure Ones can also radiate to all worlds, so that every world has the existence of "Yuanhuang Kaitian" since the birth of the universe. This is the information derivation brought about by the qualitative change in the level of life.
Wait.

This seems to overlap with the projection theory mentioned by Qingwanglai.
The causes and effects I now understand are no longer limited to the heavens within and outside the real world, but can also connect to the void beyond the abyss.
The causes of all effects are derived from myths and legends, and naturally.
Meng Qi stopped searching for the Primordial Daoist and stood there, stunned. His mind seemed to be filled with a thick fog, yet he could still see some hazy outlines.

By now, he has come to realize that eight or nine out of ten things are unreliable, and premonitions are untrustworthy. He will no longer make judgments simply based on past experience, cognition, and instinct.

But all causes and effects seem to have reached a cycle on an indescribable level.

The Yuan Emperor is the other shore, the oldest being, possessing the rudimentary form of the Dao Fruit. He is the joint product of the Three Pure Ones' pursuit of emptiness in the old era, and also the Three Pure Ones themselves who created the world in the new era.

The legendary perfection of the characteristics would surely allow for even more terrifying effects at the level of the Yuan Emperor.

Whenever I step into a world, if I start from the beginning of the universe and work backwards from cause to effect, why should I follow the established order and inherit the imprint?

No.
No, that's not the point.

Meng Qi's numerous experiences, memories, and cognitive fragments spun rapidly, forming one thought pattern after another, constantly deducing and sparking flashes of wisdom. Cause and effect connections flew in from beyond the chaos and converged into the ancient lamp in his hand.

Under normal circumstances, the maximum number of projections in the legend is 999.

Meng Qi didn't stop there. Starting from Longhu Mountain, the vast world, the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, the dimensional universe of Da Luo Tian, ​​Gensokyo, Journey to the West, and Baiyujing, all the statues of gods related to the Three Pure Ones trembled.

This includes 'Ananda the Self' constantly changing its original form, transforming into a projection of 'Self', which merges into it one after another.

But Meng Qi no longer pursued the feeling of quantitative change leading to qualitative change. Instead, he focused on "what I am" and tried to look through the legends of the world where these projections and beliefs reside.

These are either imprints or incarnations of faith without spiritual intelligence, not my own self.

All of these are projections.

Meng Qi and Gu Xiaosang were worried about their own existence, fearing that they were special selves projected from the Yuan Emperor. No matter how close the connection was, this life was ultimately different from their true selves.

In the end, even if they merged, it's unclear whether the Yuan Emperor dreamed of another Meng Qi, or Meng Qi dreamed of becoming the Yuan Emperor.

Just like a brain in a vat.

Back then, who was he, and who was I?
Even though I am now enlightened, looking at these projections that have spread throughout the world brings a completely different feeling.

At that moment, he seemed to see scenes from different worlds before his eyes, witnessing everything from the very beginning of these projections.

There are many believers worshipping before us, but there is only one scene that is different.

The white desk was made of a material that was neither wood nor jade, but rather resin, though its color was quite deep. Meng Qi then looked at the desk and noticed a scroll of jade notes on it.

He picked up the scroll as usual, untied the ribbon, and the first line that caught his eye read—【Who is the Primordial One?】

This is a wonderland in the Type-Moon world.

These were the words left by the Primordial Celestial Venerable when I first arrived at the Jade Void Palace in the Immortal Realm. Seeing them again brought a different, deeper meaning.

Who is the originator?

Suddenly, lightning flashed and thunder roared in Meng Qi's mind. He completely gave up on searching for the 'Primordial Daoist' who resided in his true nature and spirit. Instead, he slowly raised his hand and looked down at himself sitting in the chaos.

"This humble Taoist is Yuanshi."

"This humble Taoist priest possesses moral virtues."

"This humble Taoist is Lingbao."

In the beginning of the One, the Great Dao was born, and heaven and earth were created, giving rise to all things.

Why should we see the Primordial Beginning?
This humble Taoist priest is Yuanshi.

(End of this chapter)