Chapter 448 Heaven and Earth as One (1/2)

Just when the flood dragon was still disoriented, Shen Lian's ancestral cavity opened, and manifested a large hand with flowing colorful light, extending out to the sea, straight up to the sky; it waved, and the air immediately cleared. There were no clouds, but what could be seen were bright stars, its brightness infinite; and a crescent moon, curved like an eyebrow. Hung far away from where the ocean and the sky meet.

The flood dragon was secretly scared, Master Shen's supernatural power certainly an incredible thing to behold, a thunderous tide this scale was calmed with a wave of a hand.

Unbelievably, it blinked once to confirm that ahead of them, where the ocean and the sky meet, appeared a tall mountain, right below the crescent moon.

The flood dragon was not blind, a mountain this tall should have been discovered earlier. However, there was a lack of awareness on its part.

Blessing it's heart and soul, it opened its dragon mouth, and spoke in human language: ”Master Shen, could this be Mount Lingtai Fangcun?”

Shen Lian opened his eyes, his ancestral cavity closed long ago, his gaze set upon the tall mountain ahead of him. He chuckled and said: ”If you can see it, it is not.”

The flood dragon seemed to understand, yet seemingly not. It moved its dragon body, and reached the foot of the mountain in an instant. It whipped its tail, attempting to leap above, but what followed was a shock. Upon contact with the mountain, it seems as if it had leaped into a mixture of nothing. Resulting in its fall onto the surface of the water, creating a huge spindrift akin to a slight sea rain.

It turned and looked back, there was no tall mountain. It was only the surface of a calm sea. But when it turned to look ahead, there the mountain was, the same as before. The crescent moon still positioned above the top of the mountain.

The dragon was shocked and said: ”Master Shen, what illusion was used to create this tall mountain? Why is it that I can't see that it is fake at all?”

Shen Leng laughed and said: ”That was painted by others, only you think it is true.”

The flood dragon could not believe that such a tall and lofty mountain was actually painted. It touched the mountain with its divine thoughts. The mountain felt real, not just some conjured product of imagination. But since Master Shen said it was a painting, it feared it will be a joke again and continued swimming forward.

The flood dragon thought that if the mountain that felt so real turned out to be a painting, and what was painted were dragons and phoenixes, it will surely turn tail and run in fear.

While its thoughts ran wild, the tall mountain disappeared in the moonlight. Heaven and earth filled with vital forces of peace and tranquility. Thereafter, a brush appeared. The tip of the brush was painted towards the sky, and above it, someone dressed in green was floating. It seemed like there was a brilliant aura woven around the person, capable of taking away the brilliance of the sun and the moon.

Shen Lian did not look at the person, he only looked at the brush, and said: ”Qingyi, I felt the Deficiency and Excess from the brush, so it seems that he has 'become one with the heaven and earth'. No wonder you are holding his divine brush, to be able to mix the spurious with the genuine with a stroke of a brush.”

The person who came was Song Qingyi, Lu Jiuyuan's closest direct disciple. What was called 'become one with Heaven and Earth' is similar to Daoism's 'Unity of Universe and Human', but it is more profound and thorough. Reaching this state, there will no longer exist a difference between Heaven, earth and oneself, one is another as one is each other.

Shen Lian understood how Lu Jiuyuan actually broke through, because he did not cut off the connection between Heaven and earth, in search of a wider Dao path; but firmly integrated with the Heaven and earth, growing together without distinction.

Or could it be said that this world has been deeply imprinted with the mark of Lu Jiuyuan. Lu Jiuyuan has an unseverable bond between Heaven and earth. Therefore, even if he were to travel through the Galaxy, he would not lose the way of Dao and would be guided back. Even if he were to lose his life, he would be able to lend the origin of Heaven and earth, and be rebirthed.

So this is the true meaning of the 'Enlightenment Scripture'. Using the Dao of Heaven and earth to mend oneself.

The attainment of immortality could not even compare to the longevity of Heaven and earth.

At the same time, he also understood as to the Grandmaster's refusal to remain in this world. Perhaps the Grandmaster has already realized this, and to remain here would be no different from parasitizing. Therefore, she left without any hesitation.