Destiny is ashes

Chapter 1045 The Path of Infinity (25)

unlimited.

A strange word.

The Heavenly Ruler can comprehend infinity.

When martial arts cultivation reaches the 'Pure Yang' level, the array within the body merges with heaven and earth, and then fuses into the 'Dao Image'. Heavenly Lords can then understand the boundless expanse of the Huai Xu Realm, and with the help of this boundless expanse, unleash a power powerful enough to shake an entire continent, causing the starry sky to tremble and all things to shudder.

The Celestial Venerable can reach the infinite.

When martial arts cultivation reaches the 'Soaring Heaven' level, the 'Dao Image' that merges with heaven and earth becomes above the nine heavens, surpassing all 'natural laws', then the Celestial Venerables can attempt to activate and master the boundless power of the Huai Xu Realm.

If the Celestial Venerable so desires, he can unleash a divine power that will never cease. This divine power will never be diminished and can continue indefinitely, just like the Great Abyss of the Western Netherworld Continent. Beneath it, the Celestial Venerable's great divine power, which nearly destroyed an entire continent, continues without end.

This is the 'boundless power' that the Celestial Venerables derive from from the Dao.

This power, when applied to 'nature,' is 'unhindered and unobstructed'; when applied to 'destiny,' it is 'undamaged and unregressed'; when applied to 'spirit,' it is 'unwavering and unblemished'; and when applied to the law, it is 'untainted and unfallen'.

If one delves deeper and completely masters this boundless power, one will reach the pinnacle of power, the ultimate limit of martial arts in the Void Realm.

【Refining the Dao to the Nine Heavens】

Even at the peak of Lingxiao, the level of the Nine Heavens of Refining Dao, this 'Boundless Power' is merely a potential power that cannot be fully realized.

The Celestial Venerable is like someone who controls the port of an eternal reservoir. He can guide, stimulate, and shape the power of this reservoir to impact, destroy, create, and distort everything. The water in this reservoir is inexhaustible. If given infinite time, it could indeed fill an infinitely large world.

But even such a permanent, eternal, and indestructible force, in a sense, is nothing more than a 'one'.

A single sword strike can cleave the heavens and seas, can split a divine mountain, endless and without end, yet it is still nothing more than a 'sing strike'.

A single method can burn the heavens and boil the seas, it can destroy all things, it never dies out, it never stops, it is still nothing more than a 'ball of flame'.

Even with such boundless power, the Heavenly Venerable who has cultivated the Dao to the Nine Heavens is, in essence, nothing more than a single 'one'.

A process that never ends.

In the parlance of the immortals, they took the first step toward the 'Return to Emptiness and Oneness'.

But it ended there forever.

Because, after 'Refining the Dao to the Nine Heavens' and 'The First Step of Returning to the Void,' what should actually be done is 'To unite with Heaven and Earth.'

They want to use their perfectly harmonious and complete "One" to spread to other laws in the world, and truly transform their "One" into infinity.

They must start from the point where the waterfall water is released, and flow their own "ink" back into the reservoir. Then, with their own "ink," they will soak more water and eventually control the entire reservoir in order to reach the true "Supreme One Who Harmonizes with the Dao," the position of the Supreme One of the Dao.

However, the second step after this first step is not allowed by the Huai Xu Realm.

The Realm of Emptiness rejects martial artists' understanding of themselves.

That is, to refuse anyone from aligning with the Dao.

The reservoir is infinite, allowing water to be released from its ports at most, but refusing to allow the Celestial Venerable's soul to flow back into the reservoir from the ports.

In a sense, the Huai Xu Realm never allowed the 'Celestial Venerable' to create a port or use his power. It was the 'Martial Dao Soaring Heavenly Venerable' who, with his own divine soul and original thoughts, condensed ice, solidified the laws of heaven and earth, formed a Dao image, and then used the Dao image as a blade to tear open the Heavenly Dao, freezing this wound so that the wound of heaven and earth could continuously release infinite power.

This is the essence of martial arts, and the difference between it and the path of immortality.

The immortal path is like ink, constantly merging, proving, learning, and mastering within a system and framework, eventually becoming completely integrated into the water. Even if it is rejected, it is merely diluted and then expelled, but what it has mastered already belongs to it.

But martial arts are like ice, forcibly adding a kind of 'unique law' to the world. Using this law as a blade to cut open a wound, it will be washed away by water like ice, and eventually melt into the water.

The path of cultivating the Dao to the Nine Heavens is one that is almost impossible to continue.

unless……

The Way of Devouring Heaven and Earth.

The leader of the Divine One Sect was gazing intently at the Radiant Realm.

She knew that the dragon gods were right.

No matter how one accumulates the Dao through the Nine Heavens, one can never reach the highest heavens.

Therefore, the [Path to Transcending Limits] is required.

Devouring the heavens and earth is one of the [Paths to Transcend the Limits].

To put it bluntly, it's nothing more than a kind of cutting. It constantly devours the heavens and earth, turning itself into a small reservoir, accumulating and adding until it reaches a 'point,' just like a massive amount of matter piled up to a point, which collapses and forms a pitch-black end star, possessing a strangeness.

When the amount of heaven and earth absorbed reaches a certain limit, and one has completely become an infinite world, 'Refining the Dao to the Nine Heavens' can transcend the Lingxiao realm, complete a complete leap, and then become... above Lingxiao.

Comparable to the Daoist Master of Returning to Emptiness, and the Dao Venerable, above the Heavenly Palace!
But, it's too slow.

The leader of the God One cult is not stupid.

The moment He tried it, He knew that devouring the heavens and the earth was indeed a viable path, and that He could indeed ascend to the highest heavens—but the amount required was simply too enormous.

To swallow a continent, to swallow the entire Heavenly Sea, to swallow the Heavenly Sea beyond the Heavenly Sea... Just how many heavens and earths must be swallowed, and how long must it take to accumulate enough laws and principles to successfully leap forward?

What is theoretically possible is practically impossible. Even if half of the Ten Heavenly Sects supported him, they would not allow him to truly devour an entire continent. They would take action, reclaim everything he owned, analyze the principles, and dissect the essence, making him their resource.

They are merely... fattened pigs, serving as provisions for their 'Transcendental Path,' which is also the 'Path of Returning to Oneness.'

Wuji Returns to Oneness...

The vast majority of martial artists in this world, and almost all Heavenly Venerables, choose the 'Path of Transcending the Ultimate Realm'.

Based on 'merit' and with 'cause and effect' as the thread, the combined power of the moon and the sun connects infinite parallel universes. Starting with 'one', it connects 'all the ones in infinite parallel universes' and then reaches 'above the heavens'!
Even if the Lingxiao Celestial Venerables who cultivate on this path do not understand more of the laws of heaven and earth, nor do they draw more water from the reservoirs, they can still draw water from an infinite number of reservoirs and bring it together!

The endless, inexhaustible streams converge to form an unprecedented, mighty tide. The total volume and essence of this tide are no longer an endless process, but a complete and flawless infinite reservoir.

Through the principle of "returning to oneness," all selves in infinite parallel universes are gathered, allowing "one" to be equivalent to "heaven and earth."

(End of this chapter)