Chapter 775
I Can See Through Everything – Chapter 775
Chapter 775: World Origin, Mysterious Jade Fragment
“Brother, Xiao Li…”
When she reached the courtyard gate and saw those two familiar figures, Xiao Yan’s eyes instantly reddened.
But quickly, she reined in her emotions, put on a cold face, and stared straight at Lu Qing.
At that moment, Han Lingshuang appeared in the doorway as well. The instant she saw Lu Qing, delight flashed across her face.
Yet when she noticed Xiao Yan’s stubborn back, she paused and said nothing.
Seeing this, Lu Qing’s body stiffened.
“Xiao Yan!” Xiao Li, on the other hand, pounced forward at once. “I missed you so much!”
Xiao Yan caught Xiao Li and rubbed its fur until the little fellow wore an expression of bliss. Only then did she look at Lu Qing.
“So? What’s the excuse this time? Why did you disappear again without a word?”
Thinking of all the worry these past years, the grievance surged back up inside her.
But she bit her lip and forced it down.
“It’s complicated,” Lu Qing sighed. “Let’s go inside first.”
After they entered the room, under Xiao Yan’s aggrieved gaze, Lu Qing pondered a moment before speaking.
“Back then, Xiao Li and I had no choice but to leave. All these years, we’ve been trapped in a dangerous secret realm…”
Lu Qing once again recounted how the Void Flying Boat had undergone a strange mutation and carried him and Xiao Li across the endless void to the far end of the starry sky—into the Gui Xu Secret Realm.
He explained how he had to tread carefully every step of the way, hiding from those powerful beings while cultivating in the secret realm as best he could.
As he spoke, Xiao Li occasionally chimed in to add details.
Xiao Yan and Han Lingshuang never imagined that Lu Qing and Xiao Li had been swept away by the Void Flying Boat, crossing boundless space to the Gui Xu Secret Realm on the other side of the stars.
When they heard Lu Qing say that within the secret realm, the weakest cultivators were at least Five-Tribulation Nascent Soul, while the strongest were even Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations supreme experts—
Even now, seeing Lu Qing and Xiao Li safely back, Xiao Yan and Han Lingshuang still couldn’t help clenching their hands in tension.
Especially Xiao Yan. The last bit of anger in her heart had long since vanished without a trace.
Only now did she realize that all these years, her brother and Xiao Li had been living amid terrifying danger.
“In the end, I became a disciple under Daoist Guixu. After the secret realm closed early, I only managed to return to our home world with the help of Old Canglong, Senior.”
Lu Qing slowly told them what he had experienced in the Gui Xu Secret Realm over these years—though he still omitted some things.
For instance, certain secrets about the Immortal Palace: even as Daoist Guixu’s disciple, it wasn’t something he could reveal casually.
And his battles with Mo Tushan and the others—he didn’t describe them in too much detail.
Even so, Xiao Yan and Han Lingshuang listened in shock, their hearts pounding.
“So you and Xiao Li were taken into the secret realm of that Daoist of Transcendence… No wonder we couldn’t find you no matter what we tried. Even the transmission talismans had no response. Thank goodness you’ve both returned safely.”
Han Lingshuang looked as though she was still shaken.
Her realm was low, and she didn’t truly grasp what existences beyond Nascent Soul meant.
But from Lu Qing’s simple description alone, she could already feel how perilous his situation had been back then.
After all, by Lu Qing’s account, among the factions that entered the secret realm to explore, even the weakest were Five-Tribulation Nascent Soul—realms far beyond his at the time.
If not for his caution and for finding a chance within that danger, he likely would never have returned.
Xiao Yan’s face was pale as well.
Only now did she understand that her brother and Xiao Li had spent these years passing through danger again and again.
Thinking that she had just thrown a tantrum and gotten angry at her brother, regret flooded her heart.
Just as Xiao Yan was thinking about how to apologize to her brother and Xiao Li—
A hand landed on her head, gently ruffling her hair.
“This time, it’s my fault,” Lu Qing said softly. “I couldn’t notify you in time, and I made you worry.”
Hearing her brother’s warm voice, Xiao Yan couldn’t hold it in any longer.
She pressed her forehead against his chest, emotions spilling over as she sobbed, “Brother, I’m sorry. I didn’t know you…”
“Silly girl. You were just worried about your brother, that’s all.” Lu Qing rubbed her hair with tender pity. “Anyway, I promise you—after this, I won’t leave for no reason again.”
After soothing her for a while, Xiao Yan’s emotions slowly settled.
“Then, Upper Venerable, now that you’re back… will you go out again later?” Han Lingshuang asked.
“Of course I will,” Lu Qing said with a smile.
At that, Xiao Yan immediately lifted her head.
Lu Qing tapped her forehead. “Relax. This time, I won’t sneak off. I’ll take you with me when I go.”
“Really?” Xiao Yan’s eyes immediately lit up.
“Of course. But not right now—we’ll wait a while first.”
Lu Qing couldn’t stay home for too long. This home world simply didn’t have enough resources to support his cultivation.
Even now, he had to restrain his own aura and avoid letting it leak out as much as possible.
Otherwise, with a casual tremor from him, he could crack space and shake the earth.
It couldn’t be helped. His current strength was simply too great.
This home world was only a small world; its spatial stability couldn’t withstand his power at all.
If he wanted to keep raising his realm, he could only go to those bountiful, powerful vast great worlds in the starry sky, or to certain legendary sacred lands and forbidden domains.
That meant he was destined not to remain here long.
Still, even so, Lu Qing wasn’t in a hurry to leave immediately.
He planned to rest at home for a period, make thorough preparations, and then head into the stars once more.
“By the way—where are Wuxing and Xiaobai?” he asked.
Only then did Lu Qing remember the other two little ones. They didn’t seem to be at home.
He could sense through the divine soul brand that Wuxing was to the east.
But what was that fellow doing over there?
“They went to the Eastern Sea,” Xiao Yan replied. “Oh, and I haven’t told you yet—Senior Dragon Tortoise recovered his cultivation a few years ago and underwent tribulation again, returning to the Nascent Soul Realm.
“When he underwent tribulation, he even invited me and Grandpa Chen to watch.
“Now Wuxing and Xiaobai go over there from time to time to play and receive Senior Dragon Tortoise’s guidance.”
“Senior Dragon Tortoise recovered to the Nascent Soul Realm? That’s good news.” Lu Qing was a little surprised.
He hadn’t expected that old dragon tortoise to recover so quickly.
If Lu Qing remembered correctly, then aside from himself, this should be the second Nascent Soul Realm cultivator in the home world.
The old dragon tortoise carried a trace of Ancestral Dragon bloodline within it, and both Wuxing and Xiao Li had refined the true blood it had given them.
So it was only natural that Wuxing and Xiaobai felt close to it.
“I’ll send a message to Xiaobai right now and have them come back,” Xiao Yan said.
“No need. I already notified Wuxing. They should be back soon,” Lu Qing said with a smile.
Wuxing was his enslaved spirit beast. As long as the distance wasn’t too far, Lu Qing could communicate with it through the divine soul.
And with Lu Qing’s current cultivation—while still within this home world—that distance didn’t count as far.
Next, while waiting for Wuxing and Xiaobai to return, Lu Qing even cooked a meal.
By the time the food was ready, Wuxing and Xiaobai arrived as well.
After inviting Master down, everyone finally ate a lively meal together—something they hadn’t had in a long time.
That night, Lu Qing sat cross-legged in his room.
His divine soul leapt out from the brow acupoint between his eyebrows, merged into the ground, and rapidly tunneled deep into the earth.
Before long, it arrived in the World Origin Space.
Staring at the World Origin ahead, even though Lu Qing’s strength had surged and he had already reached the realm of sixth-tribulation Nascent Soul—
Before the vast World Origin of an entire world, his divine soul still seemed somewhat tiny.
After all, this was the origin that had nurtured billions upon billions of living beings, containing innumerable profound mysteries within.
Even the origin of Dao-Integration realm experts was still nothing in comparison.
In the starry sky, each world that birthed countless living beings—large or small—was still the most inconceivable kind of miracle.
But compared to the first time he came here, Lu Qing felt far more at ease.
The first time he entered the origin space, he had to be extremely careful, afraid that the immense World Origin might injure his foundation.
Now, he could face the origin directly without worrying about harming his roots.
Of course, Lu Qing hadn’t come here to test how sturdy his divine soul had become. He had another purpose.
His gaze fell toward a certain place within the World Origin.
There, the Divine Soul Imprint he had planted back then using Ephemeral Life Anchored to Heaven and Earth was rooted deep inside the World Origin.
It had grown much larger—at least a hundred times its original size.
Of course, that bit of volume was still like a speck of dust compared to the entire World Origin.
And the day it would completely take over the origin and replace it was still unimaginably far away.
Lu Qing wasn’t anxious. Ephemeral Life Anchored to Heaven and Earth was, in the end, merely a life-saving trump card he had left himself.
Even if it never reached true completion, he wouldn’t really lose anything.
He had come down this time because the moment he returned to this home world, he had felt something.
It was as if the Divine Soul Imprint had sensed something within the World Origin, and that was why he came down to investigate.
Lu Qing sat cross-legged in the origin space and began to communicate with the Divine Soul Imprint through his mind.
Because they shared the same source, the communication posed no problem at all.
His consciousness quickly entered the Divine Soul Imprint—and did so without triggering any reaction from the World Origin.
Boom!
The instant his consciousness entered the Divine Soul Imprint, he sensed something different.
It felt as though he were bathing in a certain Great Dao. All he could perceive around him was endless vitality.
“It’s the aura of the Dao of Life. Right—World Origin nurtures all things. Naturally, it is the best manifestation of the Dao of Life.”
A certain realization rose in Lu Qing’s heart.
When he first cultivated Ephemeral Life Anchored to Heaven and Earth, his realm had been shallow. After successfully anchoring it, he hadn’t dared let his consciousness enter the Divine Soul Imprint at all.
He feared his consciousness would be assimilated by the vast aura of the World Origin and become completely lost.
Now his realm had risen greatly. He had endured multiple Nascent Soul tribulations, and he had spent years in the Sea of Laws comprehending the Great Dao.
Only then could he resist the aura of the World Origin, avoid being assimilated and lost, and even comprehend some of the mysteries within.
And through that comprehension, Lu Qing sensed that the World Origin contained incomparably immense vitality.
It was almost as if it were the embodiment of the Dao of Life itself.
But beyond the Dao of Life, Lu Qing also sensed traces of other Daos.
For example, the Dao he understood most deeply—the Five Elements Dao—was also contained within it.
“So that’s how it is. In the starry sky, all the worlds large and small that nurture life are themselves inconceivable miracles of living existence—the result of many Daos acting together.
“In their World Origin, it’s only natural that the profundities of those Daos are contained.
“And compared to the obscure, difficult Dao within the Sea of Laws, these Dao profundities within World Origin… seem a bit easier to comprehend.”
Lu Qing’s realm was already quite high, and with excellent talent, an extraordinary ability, and terrifyingly sharp comprehension—
With only this much contemplation, he discovered many mysteries within the World Origin.
And because of that, he felt even more strongly how wondrous Ephemeral Life Anchored to Heaven and Earth truly was.
“The expert who created Ephemeral Life Anchored to Heaven and Earth was truly a peerless genius. This is probably the true way to use the technique. That old fellow back then was simply wasting heaven’s gifts.”
But Lu Qing also knew that with the cold old man’s realm, even if he had known these uses, he still wouldn’t have been able to apply them.
Even Lu Qing himself had thought he already understood Ephemeral Life Anchored to Heaven and Earth well enough.
Yet as his realm rose, he realized the profundity of this secret technique was far deeper than he had imagined.
Using the Divine Soul Imprint to sense the operation of World Origin, thereby comprehending the Dao profundities within—
Without sufficient realm, it was simply impossible to accomplish.
Still, these discoveries could only be counted as unexpected gains. They weren’t Lu Qing’s real purpose this time.
Over these past decades, the Divine Soul Imprint had clung to the World Origin like a mayfly.
It looked tiny, but its root system had already grown quite vast, with many tendrils even piercing deep into the deeper layers of the World Origin.
Lu Qing’s consciousness followed those tendrils forward.
Very quickly, it entered the deeper layers of the World Origin.
“Wait… what is that?”
Just as Lu Qing’s consciousness reached the far end of those “roots,” he looked ahead.
The movement the Divine Soul Imprint had sensed earlier came from the direction before him.
Yet that single glance made his consciousness quake violently.
In the distant depths ahead—seemingly within the very core of the World Origin—
A broken object, like a fragment of jade, lay there in silence, emitting a faint glow.
The entire center of the World Origin seemed to be slowly rotating around that jade fragment.
What’s more, Lu Qing faintly saw an inconspicuous flash of characters flicker across the surface of the jade.
At the very center of his home world’s World Origin… there was a jade fragment that was clearly not a natural object!
Faced with a sight beyond imagination, how could Lu Qing’s mind not tremble?
Yet the distance was too great. No matter how he tried, he could not see through the jade fragment’s true appearance, nor could he make out the characters upon it.
Even when he used his extraordinary ability to observe, there was no reaction at all.
After trying again and again, Lu Qing even felt a wave of exhaustion. Left with no choice, he withdrew his consciousness and returned to his divine soul.
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