Chapter 195: Reunion After Ten Thousand Years, the Secrets of Heaven and Earth!

"Long, long years, ten thousand years of time have actually passed in the blink of an eye!"

In this dim and mysterious peculiar realm, a sliver of Gu Jiangming's True Spirit slowly awakened from that strange state.

In this Heaven and Earth, there was no such thing as the so-called Dao Integration, or rather, the Heavenly Human Realm was already the body merging with the Dao.

But in the past ten thousand years, Gu Jiangming could be considered to have truly merged with Heaven and Earth!

In that strange state, Gu Jiangming had no emotions, and for the most part, was trapped in an indescribable state; waking up now was merely the final sliver of Gu Jiangming's True Spirit about to dissipate.

But he had to do one last thing before he dissipated!

He had to reach out from the void, following that faint, tenuous connection, to guide the True Spirits of Jiu Jiu, Liu Moxuan, Wang Qinghe, and Long Xi back to Heaven and Earth.

At the same time, he also needed to guide the Taiyi Stone back to Heaven and Earth!

"Ten thousand years of time, yet the changes in Heaven and Earth are greater than those of the past several million years."

"Especially after I shattered the firmament, it ushered in an era where the Divine Path prevails in the world!"

"In the end, I discovered that everything was actually all my..."

This sliver of Gu Jiangming's True Spirit manifested into a human form, his brow carrying a hint of emotion and sighing.

After the God Era began, Gu Jiangming inevitably thought of the previous era he had experienced; in that era, he had created the Four Thousand Bureau, but these Four Thousand Bureau had turned into a part of the Heavenly Net in this era, even giving birth to Heavenly Will.

It was strange to say; although Gu Jiangming was currently inside the Heavenly Net, the Heavenly Net had no intention of erasing Gu Jiangming at all.

Without a doubt, this was naturally because the Heavenly Net had already regarded this sliver of Gu Jiangming's True Spirit as an inseparable part of itself.

With the Four Thousand Bureau turning into a part of the Heavenly Net, and with the birth of Heavenly Will, it is no exaggeration to say that at this moment, forty-nine parts of the authority of Heaven are held by the Heavenly Net, and one part is held by Heavenly Will!

"It is a pity that although it was born from me, it must conform to the laws of Heaven and Earth, and cannot excessively assist me in the future."

"Especially since I am using Heavenly Will this time to break through the void and guide Jiu Jiu and the others back, it can even be considered a collision between Heavenly Will and the Heavenly Net!"

"With the dissipation of this sliver of my True Spirit, from now on, unless one uses the Four Thousand Bureau, no one will be able to wield Heavenly Will..."

Gu Jiangming looked at a faint, ethereal thought beside him; this thought was, without a doubt, the manifestation of Heavenly Will.

Unlike the fixed-program Heavenly Net, Heavenly Will was born from Gu Jiangming, the gods, and the various causes of the Four Thousand Bureau; although this Heavenly Will also needed to follow the fixed laws of Heaven and Earth, wielding Heavenly Will provided the power to pry into the Dao Principles of the fixed laws of Heaven and Earth.

And at this moment, Gu Jiangming was already in a very special state, and was able to perfectly control the location of Heavenly Will.

With the assistance of Heavenly Will, Gu Jiangming's gaze reached almost every corner of Heaven and Earth.

Under Gu Jiangming's gaze, he could clearly see Gu Nianmo still exploring the limits of Heaven and Earth.

He could see that Gu Mingyue, for some reason, had separated from her two brothers; at this time, Gu Mingyue was building a palace above the clouds, and in the palace, Gu Mingyue would occasionally gaze at the location of the Taiyin Star, with only conflict visible on her face.

As for Gu Shengxi, in Gu Jiangming's gaze, he had actually turned into a slovenly Daoist, mingling only among the many cities of the Human Race.

Clearly, ten thousand years ago, Gu Shengxi was the Human Emperor Supreme, but ten thousand years later, the Human Emperor Supreme was in a slovenly state; whoever saw him would likely not recognize that the person before them was the Human Emperor Supreme of the Human Race! Watching the different situations of his three children, Gu Jiangming did not do much.

He could see that compared to ten thousand years ago, Gu Nianmo and the others had still made great progress.

Although Gu Mingyue had never stepped onto the Taiyin Star, she resided in the Cloud Palace, constantly comprehending the Taiyin Dao Principle, and even acting on behalf of the Taiyin duties; Gu Mingyue's mastery of the Taiyin Dao Principle was already nearly ninety percent.

Having achieved this level, Gu Mingyue could already call herself one of those Pseudo-Heavenly Humans.

Gu Nianmo was still pursuing the limits of Heaven and Earth; in ten thousand years, Gu Jiangming saw Gu Nianmo walk to the edge of the sea, saw him sitting on a Return to Ruins Sea, watching the endless seawater falling straight into the invisible Return to Ruins, and subsequently further perfecting his own Great Dao.

Even Gu Shengxi, his incarnation as a slovenly Daoist, was also a unique method of cultivation.

He was witnessing the prosperity of the Human Race, witnessing the Human Dao spiritual light of dynasties, cities, families, and commoners; after ten thousand years of cultivation, Gu Shengxi had already taken nine steps on the Human Dao, which could also be considered stepping into the Pseudo-Heavenly Human Realm.

And as Gu Jiangming reviewed everything the three had done over the ten thousand years, he knew that his three children had never forgotten for ten thousand years that they wanted to guide their mother, aunt, and others back from the void.

Even though all three of them knew that the probability of Jiu Jiu and the others still being alive was nearly zero, this had already become their obsession...

"Come to Wanglin Mountain!"

"Ten thousand years, everything should truly come to an end!"

Gu Jiangming looked at his children scattered in three directions of Heaven and Earth, and could not help but feel a touch of pity in his heart.

Especially after reviewing everything the three had experienced over the ten thousand years, Gu Jiangming inevitably felt a few points of guilt toward his three children.

Following a soft sigh from Gu Jiangming in this indescribable zone, whether it was Gu Shengxi in the Human Race territory, Gu Mingyue in the Cloud Palace, or Gu Nianmo running in the Great Wilderness, their faces were all shocked.

Listening to that familiar yet strange voice ringing in their ears, whether it was Gu Nianmo or Gu Shengxi, at this moment, they could not help but have two lines of clear tears slide down from the corners of their eyes.

A moment later, the mad Daoist seen on the side of the road in the human city seemed even madder; he cried and laughed loudly, stepping forward step by step toward the distance.

Only the sounds of crying and laughter were mixed together, circulating indefinitely in this human city.

In the Great Wilderness, Gu Nianmo took a step, shaking the earth until it trembled incessantly; all that could be seen on his face was a bit of impatience, and with one step he took, millions of miles of mountains and rivers were already behind him.

So, so Gu Nianmo had always been exploring Heaven and Earth by manifesting as an incredible giant; after all, Heaven and Earth were too vast, and manifesting as a giant, a few steps covered a million miles of mountains and rivers, which helped Gu Nianmo better explore Heaven and Earth.

As for Gu Mingyue in the Cloud Palace, at this moment she just let her two lines of clear tears slide down.

A moment later, Gu Mingyue actually turned into a streak of gelatinous white moonlight, landing just like that near the former ruins of Wanglin Mountain.

This Moon Escape Technique of Gu Mingyue, combined with Gu Mingyue's Cloud Palace standing high above the firmament, truly allowed her to land anywhere in the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations at any time.

And with just one glance, Gu Mingyue saw it, saw an illusory figure on the ruins of Wanglin Mountain that was like a Dream Bubble. At the moment of seeing that figure, Gu Mingyue only felt ten thousand grievances and a thousand words in her heart.

But at this very moment, Gu Mingyue just looked at that figure, and then silently shed tears.

This phantom was naturally Gu Jiangming, who had walked out from the Heavenly Net; wielding Heavenly Will, plus the fact that this last sliver of Gu Jiangming's True Spirit was about to dissipate, it seemed the Heavenly Net was unwilling to have a major conflict with Gu Jiangming, so he walked out with almost no effort.

"Father..."

Gu Mingyue looked at the figure in front of her, looked at this figure she had not seen for ten thousand years; in her eyes, there was only joy, and after the joy, there was a bit of resentment.

"You have suffered all these years!"

Looking at his daughter close at hand, Gu Jiangming could not help but let out a sigh.

Gu Mingyue had always been the most pampered in the family; for these ten thousand years, Gu Jiangming could almost imagine that there was probably not a day that Gu Mingyue did not miss them.

"To be able to see Father again, ten thousand years, it is not suffering..."

Gu Mingyue looked at Gu Jiangming, who was like a Dream Bubble in front of her; she could actually see it, see that Gu Jiangming only had this last sliver of True Spirit left that had not dissipated.

But no matter what, being able to see her father again after ten thousand years, everything was still worth it, wasn't it? "Wait a little longer for your two brothers!"

"My time is short; I need to bring your mother and the others back from the void, and at the same time, there are some words I need to instruct you all."

Gu Jiangming raised his hand to wipe away his youngest daughter's tears, then turned his gaze toward two other directions; within Gu Jiangming's sight, two streaks of light were returning to the Wanglin Mountain ruins at an incredible speed.

After about three to five days, Gu Shengxi was the second to return to Wanglin Mountain.

Upon seeing the familiar yet strange father before him, Gu Shengxi at this moment lacked even a shred of the demeanor of a Human Emperor Supreme, simply wailing aloud like a young child.

This was not because something had gone wrong with Gu Shengxi, but because Gu Shengxi's cultivation of state of mind had reached the threshold of the Heavenly Human, and at this time, possessing only a heart of innocence, such a display followed.

Gu Shengxi was not considered the most outstanding among the three siblings; Gu Nianmo was the first in Gu Jiangming's era to be born with an auspicious sign, Gu Mingyue's destination was the Taiyin Star deity, while Gu Shengxi was born bearing the destiny of the Human Race.

But after ten thousand years, Gu Shengxi's cultivation might be the strongest among the three siblings.

His state of mind had reached the edge of the Heavenly Human; as Gu Jiangming brought Wang Qinghe and the others back from the void, Gu Shengxi's state of mind should be able to reach the Heavenly Human state of mind.

Cultivation of state of mind seems useless, but by wielding the Pseudo-Heavenly Human Realm with a Heavenly Human state of mind, even if Gu Shengxi encountered Zhou Kai at his peak, he would likely be able to battle him for thousands of years, only falling slightly behind.

When seeing Gu Shengxi wailing at this moment, there was only gratification in Gu Jiangming's eyes.

Among his three offspring, if there were an Opportunity, Gu Shengxi might be the first to achieve the Heavenly Human Realm! Three months later, Gu Nianmo also returned to the Wanglin Mountain ruins; when Gu Nianmo looked at the Niankong Villa that had been re-established not far from Wanglin Mountain, he felt dazed for a moment.

In his daze, he felt as if everything were the same as ten thousand years ago, his father had not sacrificed himself to the Dao, and his mother and aunts were all waiting for him at Niankong Villa.

At this moment, even Gu Nianmo, as the elder brother, could not help but shed tears.

Ten thousand years, even for a Supreme, ten thousand years is an extremely long time, not to mention that during these ten thousand years, those scenes from ten thousand years ago swirled in his heart like a nightmare!

When the three Gu siblings gathered together again at Niankong Villa, in the villa that carried countless stories of their family, the three siblings seemed to have returned to ten thousand years ago, with the eldest brother telling them about the Return to Ruins at the edge of Donghai, and about those indescribable wonders of Heaven and Earth.

The second brother still had that heart of innocence, but perhaps because he saw Gu Jiangming, Gu Shengxi's state of mind advanced further.

He kept telling Gu Mingyue about all the fun things in the Human Race territories and about the various changes in the Human Race territories.

And the youngest sister, Gu Mingyue, seemed to have returned to those carefree days of ten thousand years ago; she was still as joyful, still smiling as gently as ever.

As for Gu Jiangming, he just quietly watched the current appearance of his three children.

Most of the time, Gu Jiangming just smiled and listened quietly.

But every afternoon, Gu Jiangming would pour all his insights from these ten thousand years into Gu Nianmo and the three siblings almost all at once.

They all knew that Gu Jiangming did not have much time left.

They listened quietly as Gu Jiangming spoke of the many mysteries of Heaven and Earth, of the nodes of the Heavenly Net, of the Four Thousand Bureau, and of the gods.

"The Four Wilds and Eight Desolations are the cradle of life."

"Although beyond the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations is a forbidden zone for life, I have a premonition in my heart that perhaps beyond the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations, there still exist some true Old Monsters left over from ancient times."

"I do not know what method they used to survive, but I can feel that it is not that the Heavenly Net is unwilling to expand beyond the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations, but that the Heavenly Net is powerless to do so."

"I even have a guess in my heart that in an even more ancient era, someone artificially created the Heavenly Net!"

"And his purpose, perhaps, was to use the Heavenly Net to gestate an Immortal Dao Principle, and subsequently, to truly ascend to immortality!"

On this day, after Gu Jiangming finished speaking of his various insights, he faced his three children and slowly articulated his many understandings of the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations and of Heaven and Earth.

Gu Jiangming's guess was not unfounded; it was in the past ten thousand years that he discovered the territory where the Supreme Changyu was hiding.

And as for the kind of territory where the Supreme Changyu was hiding, Gu Jiangming had come and gone, noticing more than a hundred such places; what this meant, no one knew better than Gu Jiangming!

This was information that could definitely be considered top-secret for the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations, but at this moment, there was not much shock on the faces of Gu Nianmo and the three siblings; in the depths of their eyes was sorrow that could not be concealed.

Not for any other reason, but because Gu Nianmo and the three siblings knew that Gu Jiangming's last bit of True Spirit was likely about to dissipate...

And besides that, they, too, should follow their father to do one last thing, and then, once again, bid farewell to their father, their aunts, and their mothers...

(End of this chapter)