422 The Ancient Path (2/2)
Wild animals were hunted and killed during the barbarous age; people were dragged out their feeble existence during troubled times; the human tribe could only survive by themselves with the existence of bloodsucking wild beasts, the tyrannical demonic cults, the vindictive evil spirit and the offish god; they overcame all obstacles, made every effort to pave roads, ended turmoil, built cities and repaired roads...
These scenes were as heavy as the real deal, pressing on Meng Qi and making him tremble, keeping him from moving ahead.
Meng Qi suddenly understood that how far one could go along the Human Emperor's Ancient Path was up to his strength... With the emergence of his unyielding spirit and the pale gold glow, he used almost all of his power to keep his body steady and increase his strength. He took a step forward.
Due to the heavier scenes, Meng Qi could not help stooping down as if he were carrying huge rocks. There seemed to be copper and iron walls in front of him, making it hard for him to penetrate them.
With the high-speed flow of his genuine Qi and the bulging muscles that made his clothes tighten, Meng Qi grit his teeth and took another step with a fierce countenance.
”Squeak, cluck!” He seemed to hear the sound of his bones and muscles, as if heavy mountain peaks from all directions were pressing down on him. He was not even able to sweat.
Meng Qi strived to move even a half step. He slowly bent both legs because his knees were unable to withstand the pressure anymore.
”Great. You can take three and half steps before opening the Hidden Latch...” As Meng Qi heard Gao Lan's voice, with a little surprise, the heavy pressure disappeared.
Meng Qi's whole body was sweating now as if it was inundated. Meng Qi tilted his head and only saw that Gao Lan seemed to be holding the True Emperor Seal effortlessly.
”How strong!” He heard Gao Lan's laugh and voice even before exclaiming out loud. ”One can walk on the Human Emperor's Ancient Path relying only on his strength if he doesn't cultivate the Human Sovereign Martial Arts or carry powerful treasure. Besides, no one can reach the end of it unless Demonic Buddha appears in the world, Human Sovereign comes back to life, Heaven Sovereign emerges again or Saint Buddha returns to the world.”
”Nine Primogenitors of Taoism also can't pass it, right?” Meng Qi asked subconsciously.
”There are no real achievements in the world by Heavenly Primogenitor, Lingbao Primogenitor and Primogenitor Daode at present, and most of the stories about them were mythologies made up by later generations, leaving everything to speculation. Devil-Rinsing Primogenitor and Guang Cheng Primogenitor were not strong enough. They could reach the end, but couldn't take the final step.” Gao Lan inferred based on the ancient books and records, frowning slightly. ”However, I can't make a correct judgement since I never personally saw their strength in their heydays.”
Meng Qi's extreme exhaustion disappeared slowly as the firelight on both sides sprinkled on him. Gao Lan stopped for a while to change his momentum again.
With the interaction of Qi movement, Meng Qi looked at him only to feel that Gao Lan became dim, deep and serene, full of the taste of loneliness and emptiness, as if they had returned to the beginning of the universe when the heaven was separated from the earth, with the sun, the moon and stars, but it was dead everywhere.
After a while, vitality rose all of a sudden, with the emergence of the wisdom. A little bit of human sovereign firelight from the different stars in the different world lit up and connected together to ”illuminate” the dark universe, contending against the deathly stillness.
A single spark could start a prairie fire!
The strength of human sovereign could conquer heaven!
”This kind of momentum and this kind of feeling...” Meng Qi marveled at it.
Gao Lan stepped forward with the Print Seal on his hand and Meng Qi did not feel pressured anymore as he closely followed Gao Lan.
After walking for a while, they only saw that there was a breeding breath of green wood on the left side of the ancient path and the brightness of the sun left over, which connected with each other inextricably.
”Dongyang God could only get up to here.” Gao Lan smiled with an introduction, pointing at the residual trail. ”This course way is very special, because it can keep the last breath for a million years.”
”Dongyang God?” Meng Qi squinted at it. ”Is he the one who left the words 'Who am I, who is me'? Did he come to the Dragon Platform? His strength did not seem to be outstanding at the Dharmakaya level...”
Meng Qi tried to find out the clue of the note, but there was only a little breath left on the antient path, without any clues to realization, so he had to keep on moving following Gao Lan.
”Mystic Fairy, the lover of Overlord, died as she destroyed her own Vital Spirit after bringing the Extinctive Blade of Overlord back to Method of Mistress Su.” With a meloncholy tone as if he had had such a confidence before, Gao Lan said, ”To my surprise, she was able to get here, so her strength was out of the ordinary.”
There were lots of breaths left along the way. Gao Lan introduced the parts he could recognize to Meng Qi. The people mentioned were all famous big shots during medieval times, most of whom were recorded in the ancient books and records.
”She died by destroying her own Vital Spirit?” Meng Qi was very shocked looking at the unworldly and elegant breath different from that of people in the mortal world. When hearing the about Overlord told by Gu Xiaosang, he had thought that Mystic Fairy had harmed Overlord, because she had cooperated with an aristocratic family sect. Who knew that she finally died for love by self-destruction?
Gao Lan silently went ahead, looking a little lonely. He recovered after continuously passing several breaths and pointed at two breaths on both sides, saying, ”They belong to two of the many sages in medieval times.”
The stone door at the end was not far from here. People who could get here had such great magic power that it was hard to make a speculation.
Meng Qi was very familiar with one breath that was great, firm and upright, with Noble Spirit; he didn't have any feeling about the other one without seeing it, but it slowly bloomed like a flower in the heart when noticed.
”That belongs to Benevolent Saint who had left impartation of Noble Spirit and Nine Saint Swordplays. Haha, the Wang family from Zhou County was the one who had gotten his Confucian orthodoxy.” Gao Lan said while looking at the great upright breath.
Meng Qi gently nodded since he could recognize it.
”The other one belongs to Heart Saint who stuck to the standpoints of 'Nothing exists beyond the mind' and 'Knowledge and action should go hand in hand'. His Confucian orthodox was in the Changle Confucian Temple where there were many members who just indulged in empty talk about the nature of the mind, less than Wang family.” Gao Lan said with a sneer.