Chapter 482 Lecture (1/2)
”That's right. I have experienced a fragment of the Heaven Courtyard but I know nothing about the Emperor.” Shen Lian looked at the stars above the school. Those were not real stars but a projection of the stars.
Guan Longzi noticed Shen Lian's micro-actions. He smiled and said, ”The Emperor was the strongest in the universe. I have looked into numerous records but only found a few words that mentioned his deeds. He was born as a God and had the ultimate power of the universe. One of the records claimed that he was the strongest among the three realms.”
Shen Lian could not resist but move, ”The strongest among the three realms?”
Guan Longzi nodded, ”Yes, exactly. But the three realms here does not refer to the Three Realms of heaven, earth and human. It was the realms of past, current and future. Of all the Three Realms and Five Elements, he was the strongest in all time of this tiny universe.”
Being the strongest in one realm was already considered a terrifying feat, what is more being the greatest of all time. It was an accomplishment beyond words, beyond imagination and beyond legend.
Shen Lian was moved, ”But from what I understand, no one can be stronger beyond Daoist master and Buddha. Could it be that the Emperor was actually stronger than them?”
Guan Longzi answered, ”That's right, this involved the mysteries of life and death. Judging from your abilities, I believed you have detached from life and death.”
Shen Lian answered with a light voice, ”That is true.”
Guan Longzi was amazed and said, ”You have probably accomplished enough to carve a deep mark in the River of Time. I believe it would be hard to find another person who could top your accomplishments.”
He paused for a second and continued, ”Please forgive me for my frankness, you have detached from life and death but it was not a complete process. You did not have the closure and some trials are yet to be overcome. Such detachments would only bind you up.”
”That is right. Although I have attained immortality, there were still constraints. I fit the bill for detachment but I did not achieve the real detachment,” Shen Lian answered.
”The real detachment from life and death was to jump out from the Three Realms and not within the Five Elements and be free from the constraints of time and space. It should transcend beyond the past, future and current, which was also the levels of a Daoist master and Buddha. Thus, the Emperor was indeed below them. But if a Daoist master and Buddha were to manifest in the Three Realms, they may not be above the Emperor,” Guan Longzi said.
Shen Lian understood Guan Longzi's point. If it was a test with a hundred as the full marks, the Emperor would score a hundred points so does the Daoist Master and Buddha. It would be hard to tell who did better than the other but the reason why the Daoist Master and Buddha would score a hundred was because the full marks is a hundred.
He replied, ”Now I understand. A Daoist master and Buddha were beyond imagination but the Emperor was also beyond the reach of many. Why would someone like that disappear?”
”Just because the Emperor was unbeatable does not mean that he had no rivals. His rivals were the ancestors of Emperor Xia and the other eleven aristocratic families. Their million-year-long battle affected the entire universe and the ripple effect was magnificent. I could feel it from the text and my heart was racing with excitement while I was reading it. This part of the universe was founded by the ancestors of Emperor Xia and the other aristocratic families to take in the lost souls of the war that had no place to return to. This place was eventually known as the Netherworld,” Guan Longzi explained.