Chapter 219: No Two Suns in the Sky?
Although Lie Dangkong was very proud of the Great Sun Dharma Image he had condensed, it had reached the pinnacle in every aspect except for the Great Sun True Intent, and it was the lifeblood of his existence.
Therefore, even though he was stuck below the Dharma Aspect stage due to the Great Sun Path and could not make an inch of progress, he still did not believe he had chosen the wrong path, and he still felt proud to be cultivating the Great Sun Path.
This was a magnificent Righteous Dao!
Since the brat before him refused to walk the Righteous Dao and did not focus on one path, but instead straddled two boats and cultivated other paths, he would come to teach him a lesson and let him know the power of the Great Sun Path!
But at this moment, as Li Heng's Great Sun Dharma Image erupted.
The radiance of his Dharma Aspect was instantly suppressed.
Under Li Heng's brilliant Great Sun Radiance, Lie Dangkong could not help but form an illusion: could the light of a firefly dare to compete with the bright moon?
And he was the firefly.
This is impossible!
Lie Dangkong came back to his senses, incomparably shocked.
"Brat, don't think that just because your radiance is high, you are something special!"
He still did not believe that Li Heng could surpass him on this path, and with a roar, he wanted his Dharma Aspect to erupt with its full power to suppress Li Heng in return.
This Dharma Aspect was indeed very strong.
It sublimated to the extreme, erupting with intense radiance, interfering with the surrounding Heaven and Earth Principles. Under this range, all Evil Demon and Weird things had nowhere to hide, and it completely became his home field.
Within the range, he could manipulate the Heaven and Earth Principles at will.
However, it was still suppressed by Li Heng's Great Sun Dharma Image.
Even as Li Heng's Great Sun Dharma Image shone.
The range of his own Dharma Aspect's illumination constantly shrank, and in the end, no matter how he erupted with strength, the radiance was already retracted into the Dharma Aspect itself, unable to shine out at all.
Since ancient times, there have been no two suns in the sky.
Lie Dangkong's Great Sun Dharma Image might be the condensation of his life's work and a product of the pinnacle. But in the end, it lacked the Great Sun True Intent and the Great Sun essence; it was actually a false product.
It was an approximate product that forced the name of a Great Sun Dharma Image.
The false met Li Heng's relatively True Reality Great Sun Dharma Image.
That naturally collapsed at a single touch.
Nowadays, for Lie Dangkong to ensure his Dharma Aspect did not collapse could already be considered extremely remarkable, a new discovery.
"Senior, you have done your best."
Li Heng said calmly.
It must be said that this Lie Dangkong's understanding of the Great Sun was very strong, and the structure of his Dharma Aspect was even more complex than his own. It was just that without the Great Sun True Intent and without the True Reality essence, everything became Emptiness.
Regarding this situation, Lie Dangkong could not believe it; seeing that his own Dharma Aspect was inferior to Li Heng's and that his life's work was so easily suppressed, a great sense of frustration rose in his heart.
But he also understood what this situation meant.
Endless anticipation immediately rose in his heart.
"You..."
He was silent for a long time, said the first word, then stiffened again, his expression hesitant. He wanted to ask, but dared not ask. He was afraid that the answer he received was not the one he wanted.
Had the thing he had chased for most of his life really been solved?
The current Lie Dangkong was like a child holding a gift box in his hands. The thing he wanted most might be inside the box, but it could also be the cruelest prank, making him want to escape.
"Just as Senior has seen."
"The Great Sun Path being broken does not exist for me at all."
However, Li Heng was not a sentimental person.
He calmly spoke the answer Lie Dangkong wanted.
Instantly, Lie Dangkong was stunned.
And Xuan Dao, who was beside him, had a stormy sea churning in his heart. When he first saw Li Heng's Great Sun Dharma Image strike and crazily crush his Thunder Pool Dharma Form, such a guess had already arisen in his heart.
Perhaps Li Heng had truly comprehended the Great Sun True Intent.
But he lacked evidence and was only guessing and doubting.
Furthermore, throughout history, no peerless genius or heaven-defying monster had ever successfully cultivated the Great Sun Path. When he had this thought, he felt he was delusional.
He felt he was challenging his own common sense.
It was like someone saying one plus one equals three.
But now, Li Heng had admitted it.
It only meant that the Great Sun Path could be cultivated.
It was not as everyone speculated, that the path was broken. Or perhaps there was no such thing as the path being broken or not, but rather that there was no possibility of cultivation at all.
He did not understand what it meant that the Great Sun Path could be cultivated.
But he knew.
Li Heng's talent might surpass all geniuses throughout history!
Xuan Dao's expression was complex; he thought his assessment of Li Heng was still too low, even though he had already raised it several times...
At this time, Lie Dangkong, who had been silent for a long time, spoke tremblingly.
"Are you... are you really... sure?"
He was not afraid, but joyful, trembling with excitement.
"Senior has already seen it just now."
Li Heng still answered calmly.
"Then how did you do it?"
Lie Dangkong stepped forward, hurriedly asking.
Immediately, he suddenly shook his head and took a step back.
"No, no, no. Since ancient times, there have never been two suns in the sky."
"Since you were able to reconnect the Broken Road of the Great Sun Path, it proves you are stronger. You are more qualified than I am to cultivate the Great Sun Path and save this World; there is no meaning in me cultivating it any longer."
Before him, a Dharma Aspect emerged.
He immediately stretched out his palm, wanting to shatter his own ridiculous Great Sun Dharma Aspect. He was already old, yet the Great Sun was unique. Why should an old fellow like him obstruct a young person's path?
It would be better to just shatter it.
He could even turn it into Dharma Aspect fragments to gift to this young man.
"Why must you do this, Senior?"
Li Heng shook his head, and his Great Sun Dharma Aspect gave a jolt, suppressing and scattering Lie Dangkong's Dharma Aspect, causing him to strike at nothing.
Lie Dangkong was slightly stunned; he raised his head to look at Li Heng and spoke.
"You don't have to be like this; I have already thought this decision through thoroughly. Some paths are unique and can only be achieved by one person. The Great Sun itself has the saying that there are never two suns in the sky."
Upon hearing this, Li Heng still shook his head.
"Rest assured, Senior, my Great Sun Dharma Aspect is quite ordinary."
Since ancient times, there have never been two suns in the sky?
What a joke.
There are plenty of versions of the sun.
There is the stellar Sun of the Physical Universe from his past life, the many conceptual fantasy Great Suns of this Heaven and Earth, the Weird source, the Abyss black sun that spreads Terror, or perhaps the Supreme Great Sun that is the source of all light, hanging high at the peak of ten thousand worlds, situated at the apex of everything.
Are these not all suns?
The so-called "never two suns in the sky" is merely because this sky is too small.
Not to mention that he is not walking the path of the pure Great Sun, but rather leaning toward the path of replacing Heaven with Yang to achieve the supreme, ultimate Heaven. What does the so-called "never two suns in the sky" have to do with him?
This kind of uniqueness restriction can only limit those deeply trapped within a certain concept. For a powerhouse who truly transcends concepts and takes themselves as the master, it has no effect at all.
For example, the Three Pure Ones represent the three stages of Heaven and Earth. Origin is the beginning, Morality is existence, and Spirit Treasure is the end.
If you remove the three concepts and three stages of beginning, existence, and end, would they no longer be the Three Pure Ones?
For true powerhouses.
It is not that they represent concepts.
It is that the concepts need them to represent them!
"Not ordinary?"
Lie Dangkong was stunned for a moment, looking up at the Great Sun Dharma Aspect that Li Heng was still manifesting, which illuminated the surroundings as bright as day.
Instantly, with his understanding of the Great Sun Path and his seasoned eyes, he discovered many differences. The differences here did not just refer to his Dharma Aspect, but to the Great Sun in the sky.
Yet he could only see that they were different; as for where the differences lay, he could not tell at all. In the end, he could only blurt out in a daze, "I don't understand."
Lie Dangkong was somewhat dumbfounded.
Because he discovered that Li Heng's Great Sun Dharma Aspect not only contained the many concepts of the Great Sun in the sky, capable of breaking demons and punishing evil, and cleansing the Evil Demons in all directions. There was also something incomparably lofty that made one feel awe-struck just by looking at it; the Heaven and Earth Principles in the vicinity had to give way before this thing.
At the same time, he also felt that this Dharma Aspect seemed unusually heavy, pressing the surrounding space until it slightly curved. Inside the Dharma Aspect, it seemed that countless reactions were occurring at every moment.
Although he could not figure out what exactly those reactions were.
He could feel that the energy within was extremely terrifying.
If one were hit by it, a cultivator in the Dharma Aspect Realm would either die or be crippled!
And with so many things combined, he felt that while this Dharma Aspect was indeed very strong, why did he feel it had deviated so far from the Great Sun in the sky? It felt like only the exterior resembled it.
Seeing this, Li Heng smiled and took out that Great Sun Visualization Diagram.
"Senior, thank you for what you left behind. If not for this Visualization Diagram, I might not have embarked on the Great Sun Path."
Upon hearing this, Lie Dangkong looked at the Visualization Diagram and was stunned for a moment. Wasn't this a diagram from the Bei'an Fortress when he left Great Li back then? So the one in Bei'an City was also this kid?
However, he looked at this Visualization Diagram, then looked at the Great Sun Dharma Aspect Li Heng manifested, his expression becoming increasingly strange.
"This... these aren't the same thing, are they?"
What was depicted in this Visualization Diagram was his previous understanding of the Great Sun's structure. But after comparing them, there were many differences between the Great Sun structure in the Visualization Diagram and Li Heng's Great Sun Dharma Aspect.
He couldn't even tell they came from the same source.
Li Heng smiled upon hearing this.
It would be strange if you could tell.
Having seen the Great Sun in the sky with his own eyes, he had corrected many errors in the Visualization Diagram, some of which were very fundamental. Once the foundation was changed, it naturally no longer resembled it.
He thought for a moment and explained.
"Those who resemble me die, those who learn from me live; this is a supreme truth that has never changed throughout the ages. I only use the Great Sun in the Visualization Diagram for reference, not to learn entirely according to it."
"That is why I still haven't fully comprehended it to this day."
Of course, he was referring to the Great Sun structure depicted in the Great Sun Visualization Diagram. His progress in the Great Sun Visualization was only at eighty percent at this moment.
Only by reaching one hundred percent could one fully learn the structure within.
Lie Dangkong was even more surprised upon hearing this.
"You started walking your own path so early?"
"No wonder, no wonder." He sighed.
"Perhaps this is what is truly necessary to walk the Great Sun Path."
No, you're overthinking it; I just have a cheat.
Li Heng originally wanted to answer like that, but he considered that this Senior Lie Dangkong was quite old, so he decided not to say such things to provoke him.
"I am truly old; the student has surpassed the master."
Lie Dangkong continued to lament.
He could also see that the structure of Li Heng's Great Sun Dharma Aspect was clearly superior to the Great Sun structure depicted in his own Great Sun Visualization Diagram. One had to know, this Visualization Diagram was at the Dharma Aspect level.
Yet this kid is actually able to modify a Dharma Aspect-level Visualization Diagram.
The result of optimizing his own Great Sun Dharma Image.
This kid is absolutely a peerless prodigy.
No, he is simply a monster!
"Walking out on one's own path ahead of time, thereby not being affected by the Great Sun Broken Road, then this is one's own Great Sun, and naturally it will not be affected by the 'no two suns in the sky' influence..."
Lie Dangkong murmured to himself, his eyes growing brighter and brighter, as if he understood everything. But then he immediately spoke with a bitter smile. "Could it be that I really walked the wrong path? Must I cripple my cultivation and start over?"
Hearing this, the crowd was somewhat puzzled.
What is this old man thinking?
He just wants to cripple his own martial arts at the drop of a hat, right?
"Senior, there is no need for that."
"I have benefited greatly from this Visualization Diagram. Now, this junior will repay the Causality and offer you a fortuitous encounter to help you cross the so-called Great Sun Broken Road and achieve the Dharma Aspect. How about it?"
Li Heng smiled slightly.
End of Chapter
