Destiny is ashes

Chapter 1060 The Five Methods of Harmonizing with the Dao (Part 2) (56)

Of course, the innate Dao also has its advantages.

Because the acquired Dao often involves many sophisticated applications, such as the human way utilizing the beliefs of living beings, it is not as robust as the innate principles of the transformation of matter and spirit.

Just like an iron block can't do many things that a steel computer can, but it can still damage the other one—although the steel computer will still be very hard after being damaged, that's a different matter.

This is how the evil-subduing technique was born.

The voice of the First Emperor pulled An Jing back to reality: "'The Proof of Emptiness' does not require one to possess infinite power from the outset. One only needs to conceive of a complete set of principles, and the heavens and earth will spontaneously fill in the foundation for it."

The original Master of the Subduing Evil Sword used this method to gain the approval of the Heavenly Dao of Huaixu, and with the help of the power of Huaixu and even the surrounding world groups, he elevated the concept of 'Subduing Evil' into a Dao Weapon...

However, this method is usually used by powerful individuals who have reached the Dao Integration Realm to create avatars that also possess the Dao Integration Realm.

Zu Long's tone shifted: "[If one is not in harmony with the Dao, how can one create a new Dao out of thin air? Therefore, I say this is not a method that ordinary people can use.]"

“Ultimately, the problem still lies with Huai Xu.” An Jing sighed. “Is there no way to bypass Huai Xu’s Heavenly Dao and achieve the Dao on one’s own?”

[To be in harmony with the Dao, how do you bypass the Dao to achieve it?]

A hint of helplessness lingered in the voice of the First Emperor: "Returning to the Void, the One—Void is nothingness; One is existence. To unite with the Dao is to initially transcend the realm of existence and non-existence, reaching the state of the 'Source of the Dao.' Theoretically, it is almost impossible for intelligent beings to reach this state on their own."

But... it's not like it's really impossible.

"Because there is one last method that I know of."

At this moment, Fu Xie spoke: "The fifth way to transcend the ultimate realm—'Going against the flow of time, creating something from nothing'!"

"This method requires supreme cosmic light and supernatural power as its foundation."

"First, identify yourself as the 'present self, the origin self.' Then, split yourself into the 'past self' and the 'future self,' projecting your past and future towards opposite ends of the river of time."

"'Past self' is the self that flows upstream. Its mission is to start from the source of time, experience the positive flow of every moment, carry all cause and effect and history, and finally arrive at the agreed end point of 'present'."

"'Future Self' is me flowing against the current. His mission is to start from the end of time, experience every moment of reverse flow, explore all possibilities and the future, and finally arrive at the agreed end point of 'now'."

"Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three..."

"At this moment, in the past, in the future, and now, the three selves return to one, which is the Tao giving birth to the three!"

"Then, all things come into being!"

After a pause, Fu Xie's voice continued: "From the perspective of the past self, he saw a 'future self' who had stepped out from the distance of time and become incredibly powerful over the years. The future self then passed on this power to him. This is the inheritance he deserves, an investment of the future in the past."

"So we accept the past and carry that strength into the future."

"From the perspective of the future self, what he sees is a 'past self' that is slowly moving forward from the beginning of time, full of infinite potential and possibilities. Because time flows backward, what the past self sees as giving is actually 'acceptance' in the eyes of the future self. It is the past self that has given him a power."

He believed that the past had given him this power, which was the starting point for the strength of his future (that is, the past in the normal time flow). "So the future also accepted it, and with this power, went to the past (that is, his own future)."

"In this way, the cause-and-effect cycle is closed."

"From the very beginning, neither the past nor the future had this power; it came into existence out of thin air."

"The power of the past self is a gift from the future self."

"The power of the future self is a gift from the past self."

"Where does power come from? None of us know. It comes neither from the past nor from the future; it exists only in this present state where the past and future converge."

"For the great universe, this power appeared out of thin air. A powerful force, a spiritual object, or something else appeared out of nowhere. And the source of this 'power to create something from nothing' is this 'closed loop of cause and effect' itself."

"This method was known in ancient times as 'severing the three corpses'."

"By severing one's corpse, one can accumulate infinite power in the past, which can be unleashed when needed, granting temporary power that surpasses the limits of ordinary Celestial Venerables."

“By severing the two corpses, one can ‘send back information from the future,’ browse through many histories, choose the one one one wants, and directly know the answer one wants to know.”

"By severing the three corpses, one can 'unite the past and the future,' merging the power of the past and the future into one, obtaining the paradoxical power of a closed causal loop. By interweaving forward and reverse time flows, one can create a closed causal loop, accumulating energy out of thin air, and even obtaining power and creation out of thin air."

"But it still has flaws."

Just as Fu Xie finished explaining, An Jing's voice rang out. He understood immediately: "This is still a finite superposition."

"Just like swallowing the heavens and earth, just like returning to the Oneness of Nothingness, all these methods of merging with the Dao have a common problem."

An Jing's tone was one of understanding: "They all need infinite time, or rather, they need infinite entities from the very beginning, that is, the help of the 'Great Dao of Heaven and Earth' to achieve this!"

【Yes】

At this moment, Zu Long sighed: "[It is true that going against the flow of time can create power out of nothing. Moreover, the 'Boundless Power' of Lingxiao Heavenly Venerable can endlessly drive this process. This is why the existence of 'Heavenly Venerable Realm' beings can still possess Boundless Power even in a universe without spiritual energy, in places devoid of spiritual energy, and in an era where spiritual energy is exhausted.]"

However, compared to the true Dao Integration Realm, this accumulated power is still merely a cumulative process, unable to undergo a qualitative change. No matter how many arithmetic operations are performed to increase the quantity, it cannot reach the true Dao Integration Realm, the truly infinite quantity.

[Following the Current] Although the energy source continuously generates potentially infinite energy, the quality of this energy remains the same from beginning to end.

An Jing can understand.

This cycle can infinitely replicate energy, generating near-infinite power; it is a 'perpetual motion engine,' the first type of perpetual motion machine.

But perpetual motion does not represent 'all'.

The idea of ​​something lasting forever does not represent the 'Tao' itself.

(End of this chapter)