Chapter 80
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Upstairs in Xieguang Tower, there was a formation laid down by Ling Buyan in his previous life, and countless treasures were kept inside. Just the ones left behind by Li Fenglan in his previous life were enough to withstand the thunder tribulation of the ascension stage.
But now, it was actually shattered by a golden thunder.
No one present had ever seen such a scene before.
But even without experience, the appearance of Xieguang Tower made them aware that if this golden thunder fell on their own heads, there would only be one outcome: their souls scattering.
After leaving Guanzhi Mountain Secret Realm, many well-known cultivators in the cultivation world were now in Tianmian Palace. If all these golden thunderbolts fell from the sky, the cultivation world would be devastated by more than half.
At this moment, someone finally remembered Ling Buyan’s identity. A cultivator unknown to Li Fenglan suddenly knelt down and kept kowtowing to Ling Buyan.
“Xuanchu Immortal Ancestor… Great Immortal Ancestor, please save us! Only you, only you can save us!” The man’s tone was extremely agitated, and his emotions spread to everyone around him.
Even though the situation was urgent, there were still some people who were not accustomed to Ling Buyan being the Xuanchu Immortal Ancestor and could not lower themselves to beg him so quickly. But most people had already regarded Ling Buyan as their savior.
Their eyes now, Li Fenglan was really too familiar with…
In his previous life, he had been looked at like this by people. At that time, Li Fenglan thought that such looks represented trust and the responsibility on his shoulders, but later he realized that he didn’t necessarily have to take on such “responsibility”.
Unlike Li Fuyue who had a soft heart in his previous life, Ling Buyan ignored these people.
He continued to say to Mo Shenyu, “According to your fate, you didn’t have any spiritual roots to begin with, and you wouldn’t have been able to set foot on the path of immortality anyway. So, if you really want to be a mortal, you don’t need to borrow opportunities from Heaven’s Dao.”
Borrow opportunities from Heaven’s Dao!
When Ling Buyan said this, his tone was calm and relaxed, but everyone under the ruins of Xieguang Tower was shocked to hear him say that.
Borrow opportunities from Heaven’s Dao? What does that mean?
Most of the people present were seasoned cultivators, but before Ling Buyan spoke these words, no one had ever heard of “seizing an opportunity.”
And who exactly can borrow from the heavenly dao?
But upon hearing this, Li Fenglan also understood Ling Buyan’s meaning.
While Mo Shenyu claimed to only want to be an ordinary person, he could actually choose not to become a cultivator. Li Fenglan liked to call this behavior “being hypocritical after getting an advantage.”
At this point, golden thunderbolts were falling one after another, and Ling Buyan’s voice was a little hard to hear.
“We’ve borrowed so much, and now it’s time to pay it back, isn’t it?” he said to Mo Shenyu.
Ling Buyan’s tone and expression were very calm, as if he were talking about something insignificant. In fact, today’s scene was already within his expectations.
However, Mo Shenyu’s expression was unusually vivid.
He gritted his teeth without making a sound, and as Mo Shenyu remained silent, the thunder behind him became more and more intense.
At this moment, Ling Buyan’s expression finally became serious. He frowned slowly and looked at Mo Shenyu, saying each word distinctly, “You have borrowed too much, and you have to pay it back. You understand this, don’t you?”
Mo Shenyu: “…”
Most of the people present didn’t quite understand Ling Buyan’s words, but because of his status, no one dared to ask.
But there was one person who was different—Meng Linzhou.
People used to say that Li Fuyue was a cultivator on par with Xuanchu Immortal Ancestor. Meng Linzhou rebelled under Li Fuyue’s guidance, so when he encountered Ling Buyan, he was surprised at first, but he didn’t feel too much afterwards.
So at this point, he asked again, “So who exactly is Mo Shenyu?”
This time, Ling Buyan didn’t keep people in suspense.
Amidst the rumbling thunder, Ling Buyan directly revealed the answer.
“He is the Heavenly Dao.”
Heavenly Dao?!
Li Fenglan doubted whether he had misheard.
How could that be?
Every cultivator in the world has been pursuing the Heavenly Dao since the beginning of their cultivation journey, from refining Qi to foundation establishment. They admire the Heavenly Dao and even fear it. Now Ling Buyan tells everyone that Mo Shenyu is the Heavenly Dao… This answer is simply incomprehensible.
Especially for Li Fenglan.
Everything from his previous life suddenly reappeared in front of him. And the fate of himself and Ling Buyan seemed to become clear at this moment.
So now, the person who couldn’t help but speak up finally became Li Fenglan.
He clenched the white jade long sword in his hand and asked hoarsely, “Master, why do you say that?” Feeling his master’s emotions, Cheng Huang lightly rubbed against Li Fenglan.
The golden thunder in the sky continued to fall, dense like raindrops. As the thunder fell, Mo Shenyu’s condition improved little by little.
At the same time, if someone paid a little attention, they could see that although the thunder was dense in the sky, none of it fell on the heads of the cultivators.
It was like they were being directed to avoid them.
Ling Buyan walked to Li Fenglan’s side and lowered his head slightly.
After spending so much time together, Li Fenglan already knew Ling Buyan quite well. He knew that Ling Buyan’s moment of silence was hesitation.
He wasn’t hesitating about where to start this long story, but rather whether or not he should tell it to Li Fenglan and the world.
In fact, Ling Buyan didn’t stay silent for too long. It’s just that, in Li Fenglan’s eyes at this moment, everything in the world seemed to have slowed down.
In the distance, the golden thunder was still falling, and the golden runes on Ling Buyan’s black robe also glowed with a faint golden light, following the thunder behind him.
With a buzzing sound, the black and mysterious Split Karma suddenly slipped out of Ling Buyan’s hand and hung in front of Mo Shenyu. The ink lotus descended from the sky and trapped Mo Shenyu in place in the next moment.
“How is this possible! Why…why are you…” Mo Shenyu’s thoughts were in chaos, and after being trapped by the ink lotus, he instinctively wanted to say something, but couldn’t organize his words for a long time.
Ling Buyan ignored Mo Shenyu’s words and finally answered Li Fenglan’s question.
“I didn’t say it wrong, and you didn’t hear it wrong.”
Li Fenglan’s hands, hidden in his wide white robe, slowly clenched into fists.
And the others, who were also shocked by this answer and doubted it just now, also showed an expression of disbelief at this moment.
“How can the Heavenly Dao…how can the Heavenly Dao be a person? And why did it hurt us?” Another immortal from another sect murmured to himself.
Unlike Li Fenglan and Ling Buyan, who were young geniuses, this cultivator barely reached the ascension stage after thousands of years of hard work. He was the most standard ascetic in the cultivation world, and in his eyes, the Heavenly Dao should be selfless and compassionate towards the world. But everything that Mo Shenyu had done went against this.
Although he was the only one who spoke out this sentence now, Li Fenglan knew that everyone else thought the same…even he himself used to think that way.
Ling Buyan slowly closed his eyes, and the golden thunder in the sky dyed his hair into a golden color like jade. Together with the runes beside him, Ling Buyan at this moment seemed like he was about to ascend to immortality.
He said, “The so-called ‘Heavenly Dao’ in this world was originally just the manifestation of countless consciousnesses and is not a person. However, over time, the Heavenly Dao silently observed the changes in the world, and eventually, one consciousness was tempted by the desires of the mortal world and developed its own private desires.”
This consciousness that gave birth to desires was the original Mo Shenyu.
After who knows how many years, this consciousness of the Heavenly Dao finally found a way to become a “person.”
It needed enough power to replace itself.
As a consciousness, the thing Mo Shenyu feared the least at that time was loneliness, and the thing he had the most of was time.
At first, this consciousness was not active. It quietly observed the mortal world and searched for suitable power. Even the fierce beasts in the world became its experimental subjects.
The ancient fierce beasts in particular, after death, would enter endless purgatory. The consciousness that wanted to become a person and gain freedom began to try to absorb the power of the fierce beasts in the endless purgatory outside the Heavenly Dao’s jurisdiction.
But the effect was still not satisfactory.
Although those fierce beasts were powerful when alive, they were far inferior to humans, who were the spirits of all things, in the eyes of the Heavenly Dao.
It wasn’t until it discovered Ling Buyan.
At that time, although Ling Buyan had not yet undergone the tribulation of ascension, he was already called “the Xuanchu Immortal Ancestor.” Not only was his cultivation profound, but his divine soul was also the strongest that it had ever seen.
So the Heavenly Dao chose Ling Buyan.
When Ling Buyan spoke up to this point, all the surrounding cultivators had their mouths wide open. Li Fenglan, who was holding Finished Karma, had even whitened his knuckles.
Li Fenglan saw that Ling Buyan smiled and looked towards Mo Shenyu.
He said, “After I ascended, I did not go to the so-called Upper Realm, as everyone imagined. Instead, I had all my power stolen by Heavenly Dao… or, to be exact, this consciousness named ‘Mo Shenyu.’ In the end, I went to a place…”
When Ling Buyan got to this point, Sect Leader Jiang Yichang, who had been stunned and unable to speak, finally couldn’t help but ask Ling Buyan, “Xuanchu Immortal Ancestor, where did you go during those years?”
This answer was actually already known to Li Fenglan.
Sure enough, Ling Buyan smiled and said the words he was familiar with, “Endless Purgatory.”
“It was actually there…” Jiang Yichang’s expression was very complicated.
“Unfortunately, my power alone was still no match for Heavenly Dao’s will, so after a while, this consciousness found another suitable candidate…”
That person was Li Fuyue.
Suddenly, Ling Buyan looked at Li Fenglan, and everyone’s gaze turned to him.
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