Chapter 1158 - Recreating Innate (1/2)

Zhong Yue looked at the Gui Tree beside him. It had many branches with million types of leaves, each distinct from the other. It was a saint herb, emanating a refreshing fragrance as if their souls’ were bathed in the Daos and their Yuan Shen secret realms were blessed by the Daos. It couldn’t be described just how comfortable it was to be beside it.

It seemed like the Gui Tree was effective in helping the cultivators in studying the Daos. Furthermore, it had an abundant life force that let Zhong Yue have the feeling of being soaked inside an ocean of life force.

King Xiang was probably worried about Zhong Yue’s condition and that’s why he planted the Gui Tree beside it so it would prevent him from killing himself in the experiments.

“Do you know?” Zhong Yue asked.

Gui Tree didn’t answer and waved its branches vibrantly.

“Do you know why are you a saint herb?” Zhong Yue asked again.

It was as if the Gui Tree could understand him. Its branches waved vigorously again like hands, telling him that it didn’t know.

“Saint herbs are also Daos, the heaven, the earth, the living beings, the turtles, the toads.” Zhong Yue was agitated, he said, “Dao cannot be spoken, it can only be understood. I’ll talk and you listen, if you can’t understand it, I won’t say as well. Follow me as I study it, maybe, you’ll get it too.”

Gui Tree was driven nuts by his madness, its branches swung violently, indicating that it doesn’t understand a single word he said.

Zhong Yue was planted in its roots, he slowly cast the [Innate Eight Trigrams] and the [Innate Eight Trigrams] covered the saint herb in it, he said, “I will now converge the Daos into one Dao, into Dao Yi, and merge it with Pan Gu; I will also assimilate my spirit with the Daos, and my cultivation base, and my Daos. You’ll join me as I cultivate, I’ll grant you one rare opportunity to transcend to a whole new level!”

The Gui Tree’s branches waved crazily, it tried to unroot itself and leave as far away as it could from the madman.

Although it wasn’t a saint herb cultivator like Monarch Chang Sheng, it was still, after all, King Xiang’s symbiotically-born saint herb. It had followed King Xiang for a very long time and could understand what Zhong Yue was trying to do.

If only it could speak, it would’ve screamed at how crazy Zhong Yue was acting now.

Converging the Daos into one?

Assimilating the spirit, cultivation base, and Daos with the Daos?

This wasn’t cultivating, this was willingly converting oneself into the Daos of heaven and earth and returning to being part of nature—this was a suicide!

His plan was no different from willingly sacrificing himself to nature!

And if Zhong Yue was assimilated into Daos, it would also be dragged down together by him. It would also be sacrificed to the heaven and earth and leave nothing behind, not even a speck of dust!

However, it was planted by King Xiang whose overwhelming arcane energy stopped it from leaving. Hence, it could only be left helplessly on the spot as Zhong Yue executed his mad plan.

“Don’t worry, I know what I am doing.” The madman beside it assured.

Zhong Yue was planted straight beside Gui Tree, although his body was unable to move, his Yuan Shen could still move, his arcane energy could still be cast, and his thoughts were never clearer and quicker than now.

Zhong Yue’s madness shook the Gui Tree’s greatly. As of now, Zhong Yue’s spirit was already incinerating, even the fire spirits fled out of his Yuan Shen and maintained a safe distance from him.

Xin Huo also flew out of his body and avoided the Dao Assimilating Zhong Yue.

Zhong Yue’s body shuddered, the fourteen innate Daos, Tai Yang, Tai Yin, Shao Yang, Shao Yin, Celestial, Demon, Earth, Lightning, Mountain, Lake, Water, Wind, and Yi, they were all assimilating into the Daos of heaven and earth!

Weng—

The seventh secret realm opened in his body and another innate Dao emerged, it was the Space Dao; then, the eighth secret realm opened and the Time Dao flew out. His Space and Time Dao were also going through the Dao Assimilations!

“This is madness!” Xin Huo saw the two Daos and couldn’t keep his calm anymore, he shouted, “No, no, not the Space Dao and Time Dao! The Space Dao can help you reincarnate even after your body died; the Time Dao can still grant you a chance to start all over again! If you assimilate the Space Dao, there’ll be no place for you in this cosmos anymore; assimilate the Time Dao, and the past, present, and future you will be wiped from existence!”

Gui Tree heard it and it quickly buffeted Zhong Yue with its branches, trying to awaken Zhong Yue from his madness so that he would stop.

“Xin Huo, although you are created by Great Sui, you don’t understand why Great Sui has named the first secret realm Dao Yi.” Rays flashed in Zhong Yue’s eyes, he smiled, “Dao Yi, Dao Yi. Great Sui has named it in accordance with the truth of the Dao Yi Secret Realm. He wanted us, the Qi Practitioners, to converge the countless types of totem patterns into one!”

Xin Huo grew extremely anxious, he shouted in anger, “Even so, there’s no need for you to assimilate even your spirit! If your spirit is assimilated into the Daos of heaven and earth, you’d be dead for sure! The spirit is the very foundation of your life. Your Yin Yang Secret Realm, Shen Cai Secret Realm, Wan Xiang Secret Realm, and Wu Xing Secret Realm were all opened inside of your atman! Once you destroy your spirit, you’d have destroyed the four secret realms too. By then, your foundation will collapse like a house of cards and you’ll be dead in no time!”

Then, Zhong Yue’s Yuan Shen emerged behind him. The Bloodline Secret Realm had linked his mortal body and Yuan Shen together. In his left eye was his Great Sun Golden Crow Sun Spirit and in his right eye was the Six-eyed Star Toad Moon Spirit.

Zhong Yue shook, he laughed and corrected, “No, Xin Huo, you are wrong. Great Sui’s intention was never to cultivate the spirits. The spirits are only imitations of the ancient Deity Kings and the innate gods. The spirits are not ours, they are outsiders, only the souls are ours! Death is like an extinguished candle. When the soul dies, leaving only the spirit behind, can the spirit still have the thoughts of the soul? Cultivating the spirits was a mistake since the beginning. It’s workable when we were weak, but once we get strong enough, we’ll have to abandon the spirits and start all over again!”

His Daos were starting to crumble, turning into countless totem patterns that danced with the Daos of heaven and earth.

“Opening the Yuan Shen secret realms in the atman does no good. After death, nothing will be left behind. It’s because of the spirit that the soul and mortal body cannot be wholly merged together as one!”

Madness filled Zhong Yue’s eyes, he said, “King Xiang is right. It is the innate sacred grounds that gave birth to the ancient Deity Kings. But the cosmos is a huge innate sacred ground itself. The innate gods are considered as innates, and we postnate living beings are also considered as innates! But we are too weak, far too weak to show it. But being weak is also our forte, the weaker we are, the greater our potential!”