Chapter 435: True Non-Duality, Illusory Emperor Road

"The light of a Lighthouse?"

Fu Yi was startled and suspicious.

Li Heng nodded and continued to speak.

"I am heading to the Central Great World to find this item mainly because someone entrusted me with this task, and I am also somewhat interested in it, so I simply agreed."

Fu Yi's expression was solemn.

"May I ask, fellow Daoist, who is that person?"

"His name is Xuanyang, if he didn't lie."

Li Heng said calmly.

Xuanyang?!

As soon as this name was mentioned.

Both Fu Yi and the little golden dragon were astonished.

"It seems you know him? But that is not surprising; after all, he is also an Immortal God of the Heavenly Court, though in a sense he is in the same state as you—dead, yet not entirely dead."

Li Heng said calmly.

"More than just knowing him, his name is like thunder to our ears."

Fu Yi sighed with emotion.

"If the person we are both asking about is the same one, then he is one of the top geniuses of our Immortal God Heavenly Court, having already reached half a step beyond the Creation Realm."

"As long as he takes another half-step, he can reach the Sacred Realm!"

Fu Yi said with a solemn expression.

Li Heng was surprised; so Xuanyang had such a glorious history?

But he didn't see that Xuanyang's strength was very high.

It seems likely that Xuanyang's state is truly very poor, neither dead nor alive, just as he said himself—a Dead Remnant, with declining strength and even a ruined foundation.

"I never imagined such a genius would fall to this point."

Fu Yi shook his head, feeling very wistful.

"But this is also a good thing; it is better to live miserably than to die well. As long as one still exists and is still alive, there is hope. Based on my understanding of him, the thing he asked you to find might be one of those hopes."

Fu Yi continued to speculate.

Li Heng nodded.

"He thinks it is hope, but I will not comment."

"A Lighthouse, light—what does he want to illuminate? You must know that although the True Realm is infinite, it is entirely covered and occupied by Calamity. Isn't emitting light out there just asking for death?"

Fu Yi fell into doubt again.

Li Heng spoke.

"Although I also think this is asking for death, he is not currently in the True Realm, but in a World within the vast and boundless Great Void outside the True Realm, and I come from that World."

"What?" Fu Yi was shocked upon hearing this.

But then he revealed a happy smile.

"That is true, he is a genius with a high rank in the Heavenly Court; he certainly has the qualifications to escape the True Realm. This is not bad."

Li Heng shook his head.

"If he didn't lie, he didn't escape the True Realm, but fought his way out of it. On the contrary, he holds those Immortal Gods who fled in great contempt."

"That really fits his personality. However, despising those Immortal Gods who fled early? I think it is unnecessary; everyone has their own path and their own choices."

Fu Yi was stunned, then shook his head and said.

Mentioning the fleeing Immortal Gods, Li Heng thought of his doubts and took out the Golden Page recording the retreat routes of the Immortal Gods, flicking it open in the wind to show it to Fu Yi.

"I obtained this on my journey, regarding the retreat routes of those Immortal Gods, but there is a seal on it that is difficult to remove. Do you have any good strategies?"

This Fu Yi clearly knew many things.

"This aura..."

Fu Yi was surprised, then immediately shook his head.

"This is the seal of the Great Sage Fuhai, a powerhouse of my clan. You should have already learned from this dragon's mouth. The Great Sage Fuhai is a Sacred being beyond the Creation Realm; I cannot undo it either."

Li Heng nodded and put the Golden Page away.

It seems he will still have to rely on the omnipotent Source Power in the future.

"Since that is the case, I still have to make a trip to the Central Great World."

Li Heng said.

"You really intend to head to the Central Great World? Although I do remember there is a divine object in the Heavenly Court that can enhance light, that place is extremely dangerous."

Fu Yi was astonished again.

He thought Li Heng was joking just now.

"I told you, don't underestimate the Honored One."

The little golden dragon said softly, while communicating with Fu Yi via Divine Sense.

"You don't need to worry, fellow. When I first met the Honored One, I was also incomparably shocked, but later I became accustomed to it. The Honored One can always bring surprises to others."

"And let me tell you, I have a guess: perhaps the Honored One is an incomparably ancient Forbidden Existence from before the Immortal God Era, who has now awakened from slumber and appeared in the Present World."

The little golden dragon spoke seriously, and Fu Yi listened seriously as well.

Only then did he realize he couldn't see through Li Heng at all.

Although he felt the little golden dragon might be obsessed.

After pondering for a moment, he spoke again.

"Everyone has their own path. If your determination is set, I will not stop you, and I also feel I cannot stop you. However, if you want to head to the Central Great World, you shouldn't have come to the Emperor Road."

Li Heng was surprised, "Why do you say that?"

"Because the Emperor Road is fake, the Wujian Road is the true one, or rather, the Wujian Road is the real Emperor Road, the former Cave Heaven Road."

Fu Yi said slowly.

"Fake, what do you mean?"

The Little Golden Dragon was also greatly shocked upon hearing this.

"You should know that the Ascension Road closed a long time ago," Fu Yi said slowly, looking at the Little Golden Dragon.

"I know that, but what does that have to do with this Emperor Road being fake?" the Little Golden Dragon asked, puzzled.

"This is why I call you a second-generation; you are insensitive to all kinds of information. In fact, if you had asked your father in the past, you would have learned that the truth behind the closing of the Ascension Road was not some technological advancement."

"But rather, a mutation occurred!"

Fu Yi spoke slowly.

"A mutation?"

The Little Golden Dragon blinked, looking somewhat lost.

"That's right, a mutation."

"And this mutation is Wujian. The appearance of Wujian was the reason the high-level officials of the Heavenly Court closed the Ascension Road. Wujian is a variable that detached itself from the many Immortal Gods of the Heavenly Court."

"Wujian is something formed by the obsession of many geniuses who died on the Emperor Road, mixed with a mysterious power of Calamity, and subsequently sublimated. It is dangerous, yet extremely precious."

"As for why it is precious, you should have guessed it by now."

"Despite containing the power of Calamity, it can communicate rationally, is highly orderly, and acts according to rules. This is a brand-new form of life, and also the hope of Dawn."

"After all, the Heavenly Court's Immortal Gods were defeated all along the front line back then. No one could do anything about the Calamity, and no one could understand it, which caused many to panic, even feeling that the Calamity was invincible."

"Until the appearance of Wujian."

Li Heng nodded.

"In Wujian, the many Immortal Gods saw hope for solving the Calamity?"

"Correct, that is exactly it."

"So they closed the Ascension Road and used it as an experimental field, constantly observing Wujian. However, it is a pity that time was not on the side of the Heavenly Court; until the final outbreak of the Calamity, no one succeeded in researching the secret of Wujian."

Fu Yi shook his head, saying with immense regret.

"And how does this relate to the current state of the Ascension Road?"

The Little Golden Dragon spoke up. He was impatient and did not want to know other trivial details; he only wanted to know the truth.

"Of course it is related."

"Because no Immortal God took action against this Wujian, it grew all the way, eventually growing into a behemoth that occupied the entire Ascension Road."

"And it was at this moment that the final battle broke out."

"Infinite Calamity struck the Central Great World and the Heavenly Court. Even the closed Ascension Road was affected. Under the power of many Calamities, the Cave Heaven Road began to shatter."

"At this time, Wujian stood up. He resisted the power of many Calamities. However, it was too late by then; the Ascension Road was ultimately broken."

"But in the end, I don't know what Wujian's considerations were, but he actually used the broken Ascension Road as a base to re-evolve an Ascension Road, an Emperor Road."

"On this Emperor Road, history repeated itself, allowing the dead geniuses to appear in the Present World to vie for supremacy. And Wujian simply retreated into the broken Ascension Road, which is the Wujian Road."

"Now you should understand, right? The beings on the Emperor Road and the beings on the Wujian Road are all dead people; the difference is just the degree to which they are dead."

"Therefore, so-called resurrection is so easy."

"The Emperor Road and the Wujian Road are not two sides of Life and Death."

"They are True Reality and Illusion."

"The Emperor Road is fake, the Wujian Road is real. Only by advancing along the Wujian Road can one reach the Central Great World."

Fu Yi revealed the final truth.