Chapter 172: Dao Foundation, Twelve

Dao Foundation, Twelve

Looking from Ruan Ci's eyes, at this time in the universe, the void was infinite, and the lotus seat above the infinite jade staircase could not block anything. But when the Tai Yi Monarch led her behind the lotus seat, Ruan Ci suddenly felt a flash before her eyes. Clearly, there was no feeling of shifting, but the scenery before her was completely different. Flowers and willows were scattered, and bamboo and trees were rustling. It was clearly a perfect Grotto-Heaven blessed land with rich spiritual energy. She wanted to look back at the path she came from, but it was already hard to distinguish the past. She had to fix her eyes on this world, only feeling that the Dao rhyme was ancient and mysterious, and the layers of Great Dao laws were stirring. It was actually not this universe, but like Hengze Heaven, she had returned to the old universe, arriving before the Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Ancestor had attained the Dao.

Even with the experience of Hengze Heaven, Ruan Ci was still amazed and secretly thought, "Could it be that the Tai Yi Monarch is also a cultivator who followed from the old universe? If he was already a Dao Ancestor in the old universe, how could he follow the Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Ancestor to the new universe? If he attained the Dao in this universe, could he return to the old universe under his divine powers? Doesn't this mean that there is a possibility of communication between the two great universes?"

The Tai Yi Monarch seemed to have guessed her thoughts and smiled, "It is not universe communication; that is a divine power only possessed by the Eternal Dao Lord. It is just that I am a disciple of the Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Ancestor in the old universe, and my memories of the old universe are still deep. For our Dao Ancestors, what is thought in the heart is reality."

He also said, "You are about to form the core, and your inner landscape has its own causality. Wanting to read your thoughts is no longer simple. You should be more frank in the future. Ask whatever you want to ask, no need to be embarrassed."

Any Dao Ancestor, despite their divine power reaching the sky and being omnipotent, once they have the opportunity to meet face-to-face, they are all approachable. Ruan Ci was also a lively character, and upon hearing this, she immediately said, "Why did the Monarch bring me to this time and place? At this time, shouldn't the Green Lord still be a sword, not yet having given birth to spiritual consciousness?"

Without waiting for the Tai Yi Monarch to answer, she asked again, "Does the Monarch also know the Nirvana Dao Ancestor? The Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Ancestor cut off the Nirvana Dao Ancestor to attain the Dao and could have left directly. Why did he bring the Nirvana Dao Ancestor to the new universe? How does the Monarch view this?"

"Did the Grotto-Yang Dao Ancestor seal the Langhuan Zhou Tian just for the Donghua Sword? Does he also want to seal the remnants of the Nirvana Dao Ancestor's Dao body? Why did the Green Lord fall in ancient times? Is she going to be reborn on me?"

"Does the Monarch have a Dao lineage passed down in the Langhuan Zhou Tian?"

"What is the Monarch's name? Speaking of which, is the Green Lord's name just the two words Green Lord? What is the Nirvana Dao Ancestor's name? Does the Monarch still remember?"

In her thoughts, there were thousands of questions. At this moment, she asked wherever she thought of, which made the Tai Yi Monarch smile bitterly, shake his head, and say, "Your teacher is really not easy. I know I was wrong. You should still hold back a little."

As the two talked, they walked through the flowers and willows into the depths of the mountains. Ruan Ci felt quite fresh about this old universe, looking around, and asked again, "Is it because the Monarch is still alive? In Hengze Heaven, I was incompatible with the Dao rhyme of the old universe, and everything around me seemed to be gray and black. At this time, although I also feel that the Dao rhyme cannot be fused, the scenery is still vivid—if I want to take something away from here, I think I might be able to take it?"

The Tai Yi Monarch smiled, "You have taken away my causality, so this place has a connection with you, which is why it looks different. If you return to the Hengze illusion at this time, having that person's fortune, naturally there is no need for Dao rhyme fusion, and you can still talk to the people around you."

Ruan Ci was an extremely intelligent person, and upon hearing this, she said, "I understand. This twelfth layer is to condense Dao rhyme into a tier, right? Did the Monarch bring me back here to help me take away the Green Lord's Dao rhyme? But... why at this point in time? Dao rhyme, what exactly is Dao rhyme?"

The Tai Yi Monarch just smiled and did not speak. Ruan Ci also knew in her heart that everything at this moment was both true and illusory. Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, her aura was always sitting in the Purple Void Heaven, not moving at all. Everything was Ruan Ci's own hallucination, and everything the Tai Yi Monarch answered was words she had thought of in her heart. Perhaps from a broader perspective, even he was fake. It was also possible that he was indeed real, but at this time limited by some Great Dao constraints, unable to tell her the principles she had not known or guessed. Everything could only be realized by herself. Just like the previous two tiers, Ruan Ci needed to understand what Dao rhyme exactly was, why it was so important, and have her own cognition of it, and it must be somewhat consistent with reality, not completely nonsense, to break through this barrier.

Thinking about it this way, Dao rhyme was indeed enough to be the head of these twelve layers of Dao Foundation. Ruan Ci's life encounters were all related to Dao rhyme. She was afraid that it was because she did not have Grotto-Yang Dao rhyme that she was chosen by Xie Xie Yan Huan, and Xie Xie Yan Huan was so painstaking, also to break through the Grotto-Yang Dao Ancestor's Dao rhyme barrier. Furthermore, the biggest difference between the old universe and this universe seemed to be this layer of base Dao rhyme. In this universe, all things possessed this layer of Dao rhyme, so she didn't notice it at all usually. It was also necessary to encounter different Dao rhymes to feel the original Dao rhyme from the disharmony.

The Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Ancestor created this universe, and there was nothing in this universe that did not have Yin-Yang Dao rhyme. Whether it was the Nirvana Dao Ancestor's Dao city or the Grotto-Yang Dao Ancestor's Dao domain, these Dao Ancestors who failed to become Eternal Dao Lords could also superimpose their own Dao rhyme on the base Dao rhyme. Where Dao rhyme existed, there were all kinds of incredible changes, and the density and weight were also different. For example, Langhuan Zhou Tian was the Grotto-Yang Dao Ancestor's Dao domain. I think the Dao rhyme was dominated by the Grotto-Yang Dao domain, but it was impossible to completely isolate the Dao rhyme of other Dao Ancestors. Otherwise, the Green Lord, the Tai Yi Monarch, etc., would have no way to exert their means in the Langhuan Zhou Tian. For another example, in Cold Rain Marsh, the power of freezing was very strong, which was the presentation of the freezing Great Dao laws. If there was a Dao Ancestor in charge of the freezing Great Dao, then the freezing power would be presented as freezing Dao rhyme.

The so-called Dao rhyme is a special origin power produced by the combination of Dao Ancestor consciousness and Great Dao laws, which can be used to replace the originally ownerless Great Dao laws and henceforth become the rules for this Great Dao to operate in the universe?

As soon as Ruan Ci's heart moved, the scenery before her twisted for a while. Only the Tai Yi Monarch remained in human form, releasing scorching light from his whole body. Countless raindrops burst out from his body, falling into the universe, like dust in the universe. It only lit up for a moment before there was no trace to speak of. This was the Dao rhyme of Time, widely distributed in all parts of the universe. Any Zhou Tian with time sequence flow could not do without the Dao rhyme of Time. If the Tai Yi Monarch withdrew the Dao rhyme of Time, the Zhou Tian would inevitably fall into stagnation, and it was not impossible for it to collapse and disintegrate from the inside.

Looking deeper into this Great Heaven, she could see a long sword, shining on heaven and earth, emitting the light of many Great Dao laws. Ruan Ci's heart moved, knowing that this was the Donghua Precious Sword before attaining the Dao. This sword had not yet attained the Dao, so there were other Great Dao laws besides the Great Dao of Life on its body. After attaining the Dao, the Dao Ancestor's Dharma body only had its own Great Dao laws, which was its own Dao rhyme. Even if it had studied other Great Daos, it mostly used avatars to undertake them, and the Dharma bodies were all pure and unique. Inside the Donghua Sword, there was only a thick and pure breath of life.

As the Donghua Sword Envoy, Ruan Ci had spent hundreds of years, and she was most familiar with that breath of life. Looking at it intently at this time, she was also slightly surprised—it turned out that the law of life did not occupy an advantage around the Donghua Sword. Among the laws surrounding this sword at this time, there were many Great Daos such as ending, life, death, breaking, and destruction. The law of life was just one of the Great Daos. Ruan Ci could choose a Great Dao from it as the source of condensation for her twelfth-tier Dao Foundation.

Was this the intention of the Tai Yi Monarch bringing her to this point in time? To give her room to choose? Or was this also a reflection of Ruan Ci's own heart, hoping that she would have room to choose?

Ruan Ci looked toward the Tai Yi Monarch, but could no longer see his face, only seeing the light cluster formed by the lingering fortune, causality, and Dao rhyme, constantly spilling Dao rhyme outward, as if only going out and not coming in. But Ruan Ci knew in her heart that there must be Great Dao feedback, only in the dark. She calmed her heart and did not ask for enlightenment, but stepped forward, walking through the world scenery that twisted and curled like paper, toward the long sword. Many Great Daos flashed in her heart, and she was also hesitant, not knowing which one to choose to absorb. She could not help but think in her heart: So, is Dao rhyme just like this?

Fortune is the integration of all necessity and contingency in the universe, causality is the integration of all connections of all things in the universe, and Dao rhyme is just something born from the encounter of consciousness and the three thousand Dao law rules?

If so, how to explain the base Dao rhyme of this universe? If it is said this way, it seems that Dao rhyme is not indispensable. If there is a universe, except for the Eternal Dao Lord, all Dao Ancestors no longer exist, or there is a universe, even without a creator ancestor like the Eternal Dao Lord, it just exists, without any Dao rhyme, only three thousand Great Dao laws, then the Great Dao can also operate on its own, and all things in it seem to be able to continue to move forward forever. If this is said, then Dao rhyme is dispensable. After all, there are only seventy-two Dao Ancestors in this universe now, but there are three thousand Great Daos, and there are many Great Daos without Dao Ancestors operating on their own. For example, the Dao of Freezing has never had a Dao Ancestor, but the freezing power in Cold Rain Marsh erupted, and it did not weaken in the slightest.

I fear that what I just realized is only one layer of Dao rhyme, but it has not yet approached its essence. Ruan Ci could not help but stop her steps for a while, frowned and thought, "If it is dispensable to the universe itself, then, then to whom is Dao rhyme meaningful?"

Thinking back to the train of thought derived all the way, she secretly thought, "Dao rhyme is meaningful to consciousness. It is the collision of consciousness and matter... It is the proof that the consciousness of all living beings in the universe can influence the laws of the universe. If Dao rhyme does not exist, then no matter how rich the thoughts of living beings are, they cannot cause the slightest influence on the world, then consciousness and matter have no connection, and this world will be extremely cold and silent, and the universe will lose its value. If living beings cannot cause influence on surrounding things, then whether they exist or not makes no difference, then they are equal to not existing, and matter without consciousness sensing is equal to falling into eternal silence. Just like if there is something at this time that even a Dao Ancestor cannot sense and cannot influence, then it is equal to not being in this world, having no interaction, just like not existing..."

"Dao rhyme is actually the basis for the existence of all things, the proof of consciousness's influence on matter. Even if there is not a single Dao Ancestor, there is a creator Dao Ancestor in this universe. The omnipresent Yin-Yang Dao rhyme is the smallest and most indispensable thing in the universe, the basis for the existence of all matter such as all Great Heavens, precious materials, Heavenly Demons, demon beasts, mountains, forests, cultivators, etc. Every thing must be guaranteed by this Yin-Yang Dao rhyme to know that it can be perceived by the universe, and only then does it exist..."

"Fortune is the integration of all necessity and contingency in the universe, causality is the integration of all connections of all things in the universe, and Dao rhyme is the proof of the intersection of void and reality! It is the tier for all things to transcend! It is the source of all cultivation, the existence of all changes, the source of all living beings, and the foundation on which the universe itself stands!"

As her thoughts turned, the painting that was shaking and curling before her eyes suddenly shone brightly, and even the light cluster of the Tai Yi Monarch beside her was illuminated and melted by the light of Dao rhyme. Ruan Ci could not help but stretch out her arms to cover the aggressive light. After a long while, she barely adapted to the scorching light and walked forward, but still could not look directly ahead. Relying on sensing, she arrived before the long sword, reached out into the light, and grasped the hilt.

The white light quietly dissipated. When she opened her eyes, it seemed as if there was nothing before her, and it seemed as if she saw all things. From the moment this sword was born to the end, all time points seemed to overlap at this moment. The light of the Great Dao laws emitted from it was even more colorful, with colorful light bursting out, dazzling and unparalleled. Ruan Ci had a feeling in her heart, as if as soon as her heart moved, she could jump to any time point in the trajectory of this sword and browse through its experiences one by one. But at this time, she was focused, and she was indifferent to everything outside her own Dao path. After thinking for a moment, she pondered, "The moment when this sword stimulated the most complete Great Dao was the moment of creation, when all three thousand Great Dao seeds burst and transformed. I am only at the Foundation Establishment stage at this time, and I don't understand the three thousand Great Daos, so I cannot choose from interest and ambition. I don't want to choose the Great Dao of Life, or the Great Dao of Nirvana, Time, and the Great Daos integrated and governed by these Dao laws. I will return to that moment, rely on my own opportunity, and whatever I grasp is what it is. If I also grasp those Great Daos I don't want to choose, I will accept them calmly."

Her heart moved, the scenery before her changed again, and she returned to that gorgeous and unparalleled, familiar moment of creation. If it were someone else, they would still be confused by the gorgeous scene of the long sword opening heaven and earth and the Great Heaven brightening and extinguishing. But Ruan Ci did not know how many times she had been immersed in it, and there was no ripple in her heart. She sat cross-legged, dispelled the distracting thoughts in her spiritual platform, and silently recited, "The Dao seed that is most compatible with me and has the deepest karmic connection, throw it into my inner landscape."

The tip of the long sword was handed out, but it did not send forward, as if it condensed at this moment. Only the shining Great Dao light floated up and down, each color different, like a newborn naughty child, swimming at the tip of the sword. I don't know how long it had been, when a piece of light tried to jump forward a little, leaving the range covered by the light of the sword tip, and suddenly shone brightly in the next moment, as if enlightened, like a tornado pouring backward, rushing into Ruan Ci's fontanelle. Ruan Ci did not make a sound, fell backward, and fainted immediately. Her small body fell into the endless void, and in the next instant, it was drowned by the bright and gorgeous light of the long sword's creation, and she didn't know where she went.

"Hmm?"

A sword was handed out and returned behind her. In the void, the white-clothed person's brows suddenly lifted slightly, and his eyes hung down. In an instant, he seemed to see through all the future of the universe. His thin lips could not help but lift slightly, and he flicked the long sword in his hand, as if with a sense of punishment, turned around and walked out one step, his body became the void, and he suddenly merged into the newly created universe.

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Updated, sorry for the wait, everyone. I will send a red envelope to everyone in this chapter.

To put it bluntly, Dao rhyme is the result and proof of consciousness's interference with matter. Because Dao rhyme exists, it proves that consciousness can interfere with matter, and this universe can operate.

I went out to eat hot pot yesterday and read an article "Gong Men". The prototype should be Li Er and Changsun. It is written quite well. The fu of the wife-chasing crematorium is quite good. The emperor's mentality is also rendered quite well in the early stage. The later stage is a bit hard-twisted for modern tastes, but as long as it can be self-consistent, I think it is okay!

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Thank you all very much for your support, I will continue to work hard! ===== CHAPTER 173 =====