Chapter 778
I Can See Through Everything – Chapter 778
Chapter 778: Secrets of the Worlds, Return to the Great World of Tianyuan!
At dawn, in the Half-Mountain Courtyard.
“Master.”
Lu Qing arrived outside the courtyard with Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, and the others.
“Planning to leave?” the old doctor asked as he came out of the house. One look was enough for him to understand.
“Yes. Everything I needed to handle is finished. It’s time to go,” Lu Qing said with a smile.
“Once you’re out there, be careful in everything. I know you’re extraordinary now, but there’s always someone stronger—there’s always a higher sky beyond the sky. In this world, there will always be seniors and experts more formidable than us,” the old doctor reminded him.
“Disciple understands,” Lu Qing answered seriously.
The old doctor nodded slightly. He knew his disciple had always acted with measure and didn’t really need watching over.
Those words of warning were simply habit.
Then he reached out and patted Xiao Yan’s head. “Xiao Yan, once you’re out there, remember to listen to your brother. Don’t fool around.”
“I know, Grandpa Chen. I will,” Xiao Yan replied obediently.
“Right—where is Miss Han?” the old doctor asked.
“Palace Master Han has returned to Cold Water Palace.”
The old doctor froze. “She isn’t going out with you?”
“Palace Master Han said her realm is still shallow. She wants to go back and enter secluded cultivation for a while. After her cultivation rises in the future, she’ll go and see the wonders beyond the starry sky.”
The old doctor fell silent for a moment, then looked at Lu Qing and sighed. “You…”
But he didn’t say more.
He knew his disciple’s heart in seeking the Dao was firm; he likely gave very little thought to matters between men and women.
That sort of thing had to be left for the young to settle themselves.
“Master, I don’t know when I’ll return from this trip. Please take this Jade Communication Token. If you’re going to undergo the Heavenly Tribulation and achieve Primordial spirit, just send a message—this disciple will rush back at once.”
Lu Qing took out a golden jade token carved with intricate runes and handed it to his master.
“Master, the starry sky is vast. Ordinary Communication Talismans can’t transmit messages that far, but this Spiritual Artifact–level Jade Communication Token can cross the endless starry sky and contact me. If anything urgent happens, Master can use it to reach me.”
The Jade Communication Token Lu Qing gave was one of his gains from the Gui Xu Secret Realm.
A Spiritual Artifact–level Jade Communication Token could usually only be refined by top-tier powers, and it was extremely valuable.
Even Lu Qing had never obtained one before.
This one had been taken from Mo Tushan, and it formed a matched pair with the one Lu Qing kept.
Each use consumed a large amount of mana; an ordinary Golden Core Realm cultivator might not even be able to activate it.
But with Master’s cultivation, there was no need to worry.
“Alright. I understand,” the old doctor said, putting it away.
“Then, Master, this disciple departs.”
Lu Qing summoned the Void Flying Boat, letting it hover to the side.
Yet the Void Flying Boat’s appearance had changed quite a bit, and its color had turned black.
At a glance, it looked markedly different from before.
Lu Qing had done this deliberately.
After all, outside the Gui Xu Secret Realm, many experts had seen what the Void Flying Boat looked like.
To avoid unnecessary trouble, it needed a disguise.
And for a top-grade Spiritual Artifact, changing its outward form was naturally not difficult.
“Grandpa Chen, we’re leaving,” Xiao Yan said reluctantly.
Xiao Li, Wuxing, and the others also said their goodbyes one by one.
When everyone had entered the Void Flying Boat, Lu Qing finally activated it.
In the next instant, a spatial vortex appeared. The Void Flying Boat plunged into it and vanished.
Only the old doctor remained, standing quietly where he was. After a while, he sighed, returned to the house, and continued secluded cultivation.
Down the mountain, Hu Zezhi stood in her small courtyard. Sensing Xiao Yan and the others’ auras disappear, she knew Lu Qing and his group had already left.
She stared blankly in the direction of the Half-Mountain Courtyard for a long time without moving.
At Cold Water Palace, at the highest point of Cold Water City, Han Lingshuang in white stood silently, gazing toward the direction of Jiuli Village.
“Xiao Yan and the Supreme Being should have already left this realm, right?” Han Lingshuang murmured in her heart.
Lu Qing had asked her before whether she wanted to head into the starry sky together, but after thinking for a while, she still declined.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to travel with Lu Qing—she understood her cultivation was still too weak.
The starry sky was dazzling, but it was also filled with danger.
And she knew Lu Qing had powerful enemies out there.
She didn’t want, when danger arrived, to become a burden because of her insufficient strength.
So she forced down her emotions and chose to stay behind and cultivate in earnest.
Perhaps, in the future—when her strength was great enough, even enough that she had hope of achieving the Nascent Soul Realm—she would ask Lu Qing to take her along, to roam the starry sky together.
…
“So this is our homeland world?” Xiao Yan stood at the edge of the Void Flying Boat, staring at the homeland world below, stunned into silence.
She had heard her brother and Xiao Li talk many times about what their homeland world truly looked like.
But nothing compared to seeing it with her own eyes.
Xiao Yan had never imagined that the world where she’d grown up since childhood could be so beautiful when viewed from the starry sky.
“That’s right. This is the homeland world we’ve lived on for so many years,” Lu Qing said, nodding.
“It’s really beautiful…”
Only after watching for a long time did Xiao Yan’s mind settle.
As for Xiao Li and the others, they had long since grown used to such a sight and remained perfectly calm.
“Brother, let’s go.”
“You won’t look anymore? After we leave this time, it might be a long time before we can come back.”
“I won’t look anymore. I can remember what our homeland world looks like now,” Xiao Yan said earnestly.
Lu Qing smiled. “Then let’s go.”
With a thought, the Void Flying Boat turned into a streak of light and shot toward the depths of the starry sky.
This time, Lu Qing didn’t choose to have the Void Flying Boat traverse the void immediately, skipping across the boundless starry sky.
Instead, he planned—just like the very first time he went out—to travel for a while first, letting Xiao Yan properly experience the scenery of the starry sky and broaden her horizons.
Of course, even without using Spatial Traversal, the Void Flying Boat—restored to the might of a top-grade Spiritual Artifact—was still terrifyingly fast.
Before long, they arrived before the vast Chaotic Spatial Currents.
“So this is the Chaotic Spatial Currents you all ran into back then?” Xiao Yan looked at the endless expanse ahead, her face full of awe.
“Yes. In the ancient era of cultivation, this was also the natural barrier that stopped many Nascent Soul Realm cultivators from exploring the starry sky,” Lu Qing said, also looking ahead.
With his current strength, this Chaotic Spatial Currents could no longer threaten him.
But for the homeland world’s Nascent Soul Realm cultivators—most of whom were at best at the Nascent Soul First Tribulation—this was a natural barrier they could hardly cross.
That was why the Ancient Dragon Tortoise had said that the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators who went out to explore in the previous cultivation era either never returned and vanished without a trace, or came back empty-handed with no gains at all.
After watching the Chaotic Spatial Currents for a while, Lu Qing finally activated the Void Flying Boat and used Spatial Traversal to cross it.
In the time that followed, Lu Qing led Xiao Yan roaming the starry sky, showing her many magnificent sights she had never seen before.
He let her relive what he and Xiao Li had experienced when they first went out.
They even visited certain small worlds along the way, traveling within them and seeing the splendor of other worlds.
And so, with stops and departures along the way, about half a year passed.
Lu Qing once again saw that vast great world, with several small worlds orbiting around it.
“Brother, that’s the Great World of Tianyuan?” Xiao Yan stared at the immense world ahead, her mouth slightly open.
The Great World of Tianyuan was simply too vast. Compared to it, their homeland world was like a tiny pebble at the foot of a mountain—utterly insignificant.
“That’s right. This is the Great World of Tianyuan, and also Xiaobai’s homeland.”
Lu Qing gazed ahead. In his mind, he recalled the words Old Canglong had once told him before he left the Gui Xu Secret Realm.
“Ah Qing, do you know why, in the starry sky, many powerful cultivators above the Dao-Integration realm choose to establish their forces outside great worlds?” Old Canglong had asked at the time.
Lu Qing replied, “This junior does not know. Please enlighten me, Senior.”
In fact, at that time, Lu Qing didn’t even know clearly what powerful forces existed in the starry sky.
“This actually involves certain secrets of experts above the Dao-Integration realm,” Old Canglong said. “Do you know that, in truth, once a living being reaches the Dao-Integration realm, they will be ‘rejected’ by the many large and small worlds in the starry sky?”
“Rejected?” Lu Qing was puzzled.
“Yes—rejected,” Old Canglong nodded. “The many worlds that nurture countless living beings are among the most inconceivable miracles of the starry sky.
“Each world can be called a miracle of the Dao’s evolution.
“Within these living worlds, there is a self-contained system of laws operating to maintain them.
“And the combination of that system of laws is called the Heavenly Dao.”
“The Heavenly Dao?” Lu Qing had been quite surprised hearing Old Canglong’s explanation.
“Mm. The Heavenly Dao—or you can call it world rules,” Old Canglong continued. “The Heavenly Dao is jointly nurtured by many great Daos. It has no will, but it has its own operational rules.
“If someone violates those rules, they will receive warnings from the Heavenly Dao, be repelled, and may even be punished.”
Lu Qing had thought of how, in his homeland world, when he drove the Void Flying Boat to accelerate continuously and neared a certain limit, he received some kind of warning from the rules.
That must have been the Heavenly Dao warning him.
“Back to the question I raised: why do many experts above the Dao-Integration realm choose to build forces in the starry sky? This involves a Heavenly Dao rule.
“Because all living worlds, in fact, do not allow experts above the Dao-Integration realm to enter.”
“Experts above the Dao-Integration realm aren’t allowed to enter living worlds?” Lu Qing was shocked.
“That’s right. To be precise, it’s that living worlds don’t allow power above the Dao-Integration realm to appear within them.
“Because the power of the Dao-Integration realm is too great. With god and Dao unified, one can draw upon the power of the great Dao.
“Such experts would bring enormous destruction to a living world.
“So the Heavenly Dao of nearly all living worlds will instinctively reject experts above the Dao-Integration realm from entering. And if power above the Dao-Integration realm appears, it will immediately draw the Heavenly Dao’s attention and be punished—or directly expelled.
“Because of this restriction, experts of the Dao-Integration realm basically do not linger within living worlds.
“Even if they have business for a short time, they will only send a Soul Avatar inside, suppressing their own power below the Dao-Integration realm to avoid being expelled.
“So now you understand why those Dao-Integration experts all establish their forces in the starry sky, right?”
“So that’s how it is. Many thanks for Senior’s guidance,” Lu Qing said, finally understanding. But he soon formed another doubt. “Senior Canglong, if someone offends an expert of the Dao-Integration realm and then simply hides inside any living world, wouldn’t they become safe?”
“If only it were that simple,” Old Canglong laughed. “Although nearly all living worlds reject experts above the Dao-Integration realm, rejection also requires strength.
“For small worlds whose world origin isn’t strong enough, they also reject Dao-Integration experts. But if a Dao-Integration expert truly becomes ruthless and is willing to spend time, they can destroy the entire small world from the outside.
“Even a medium world can hardly withstand a Dao-Integration expert’s deliberate destruction.
“Only great worlds, with vast and boundless origin, have the power to resist and need not fear a Dao-Integration expert’s strength.
“But then again, even if a Dao-Integration expert cannot destroy a great world, they can still descend a Soul Avatar into it.
“With a Dao-Integration expert’s realm and insight, even if they use only the power of Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations, they can still crush everything.
“So for ordinary cultivators who offend a Dao-Integration expert, the best method is to hide—hide so well that they can never be found.”
“Senior is right. This junior was being foolish,” Lu Qing said with some embarrassment.
“Of course, the reason I’m telling you this is because you, Ah Qing, are different.”
Old Canglong’s expression turned serious.
“Your foundation is too deep. At only six-tribulation Nascent Soul, you can already slay Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations.
“I expect that once your cultivation deepens further, you will surely be unrivaled within the Nascent Soul Realm.
“Even a Soul Avatar of a Dao-Integration expert might not be able to do anything to you.
“So, Ah Qing, once you go out—whether you are collecting cultivation resources or entering secluded cultivation—stay in great worlds as much as possible.
“As long as you are within a great world, even Dao-Integration experts will have no way to deal with you.
“But if you appear in the starry sky, or in other medium or small worlds, it’s very likely you will be captured by a Dao-Integration expert.
“This point—you must remember it, remember it well…”
“Within a great world, it’s safer instead…” Lu Qing recalled Old Canglong’s earnest warning as he looked at the mighty Great World of Tianyuan ahead, a smile forming on his face.
Back then, the scene of the Holy Assembly and the demon race’s eight five-tribulation Nascent Soul experts forcing him into the Tower of the Witch’s Trials flashed before his eyes.
When he left the Great World of Tianyuan, he had already decided: one day, he would return.
Now, that day had finally arrived.
And according to Old Canglong, Dao-Integration experts could not enter living worlds with their true bodies—this was unquestionably advantageous for him.
Because it meant that this time, when he returned, he could act without restraint.
He would no longer need to hide and sneak around everywhere like last time, constantly concealing his identity.
Xiaobai also stared at the Great World of Tianyuan, a complex emotion in its eyes.
When it left back then, it thought it would have little chance to return again. Yet only a few decades had passed, and it was seeing its homeland once more.
“Ah Qing, how are we going in? Are we still forcing our way in?” Xiao Li asked.
“No need.”
When Lu Qing and the others had entered the Great World of Tianyuan before, they had used a teleportation formation from the Xiao Cang Realm.
When they left, they had relied on the Void Flying Boat’s might to forcibly tear open a gap in the World Membrane and rush out.
The first method clearly wasn’t suitable now. Taking a cross-domain teleportation formation would leave them unable to hide their traces and would easily arouse suspicion.
As for forcing their way in, that might draw the attention of certain experts within.
Though Lu Qing did not fear it now, he still didn’t want to startle the grass too early.
“This time we don’t need to force entry. The Void Flying Boat’s power now can ignore the World Membrane’s separation and directly teleport inside.”
As a treasure with the essence of a Dao Artifact and now restored to the level of a top-grade Spiritual Artifact, the Void Flying Boat’s current power had reached an inconceivable degree.
And since it was a spatial-type treasure, its Spatial Traversal ability had become so strong that even a great world’s World Membrane could no longer block it.
“Really? That’s great—are we going in now?” Xiao Li asked happily.
“Yes. Let’s go in now.”
Lu Qing immersed his mind into the Void Flying Boat while flicking a high-grade spirit stone into its core.
With a thought, as the formations and restrictions turned, an intense spiritual resonance erupted from the core.
To break through a great world’s World Membrane, even the Void Flying Boat could not do it easily—it required enormous energy, and a high-grade spirit stone was perfect to replenish that expenditure.
As truly terrifying might burst forth, a spatial vortex appeared. The Void Flying Boat plunged into it and vanished.
When it appeared again, it was already above a vast primeval forest.
Lu Qing brought Xiao Yan and the others out of the Void Flying Boat, then casually put it away.
“We’re finally back,” Xiao Li cheered, immediately beginning to inhale the surrounding spiritual energy in huge gulps.
It liked the Great World of Tianyuan very much.
Because the spiritual energy in this great world was rich enough to bring it enormous benefits in cultivation.
Unlike in the homeland world—where, as a seventh-transformation Golden Core, its cultivation had seen almost no growth during those days.
Wuxing and Xiaobai were also delighted, soaring through the air.
As for Xiao Yan, she was completely stunned.
“The spiritual energy in the Great World of Tianyuan is actually this rich?”
Feeling spiritual energy that was nearly condensing into substance, Xiao Yan’s heart was filled with disbelief.
No wonder her brother and Xiao Li had improved so quickly—so the spiritual energy here was actually this dense.
Compared to it, the homeland world truly was a small pond next to a boundless ocean.
“Eh, Ah Qing, why do I feel like this place is a bit familiar?” Xiao Li suddenly made a sound of surprise.
It looked around, as if remembering something, and blurted out, “I remember now—this is the forest near Gale Plains, where we once went into secluded cultivation for a while!”
“Roar!”
As if confirming Xiao Li’s words, at that moment, from the far distance ahead, a faint roar suddenly echoed.
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