Chapter 797: All Living Beings are the Supreme, I am the Only One!

Amidst the Creation Heavenly Fire, the Nascent Soul of the Profound Heaven Sect drifted and sank.

Yet that Creation Heavenly Fire was wondrous beyond compare; it clearly contained nine types of innate fire seeds, its firepower nearly boundless. The Great Fangshi of the Immortal Qin had created this fire to refine material essence, exhausting the very limits of creation.

Consequently, as this fire scorched the Nascent Soul, it manifested the characteristics of the Myriad Thoughts Heart Fire.

The Myriad Thoughts Heart Fire was a fire of the Divine Path.

As the saying goes: The thoughts of the myriad people are like fire, scorching the souls of the gods; it is inherently the most effective true fire for refining divine souls...

The Dream Fish cast down by True Person Nanhua suddenly began to circle the Myriad Thoughts Heart Fire. It opened its mouth, and within appeared an eye—it was the point of demonic nature filled with wisdom amidst the Dream Fish.

"Let me see, what exactly did the Great Fangshi of the Immortal Qin realize from the Nascent Soul?"

Qian Chen's gaze stirred with anticipation.

His wisdom was entrusted to the dream left behind by Dao Venerable Nanhua; no matter how great Xu Fu's power was, or how formidable his manipulation of creation, he could not peer through it.

Amidst the golden fire of the myriad people's thoughts, the Primordial Spirit of the Shenxiao Sect was suddenly polished and interrogated by those infinite distracting thoughts.

In the golden thought fire, countless thoughts drifted and sank, like infinite golden light spots boiling like fire.

Xu Fu pinched a Dharma seal and suddenly struck it out; instantly, the Nascent Soul, condensed into one, was pointed out into countless afterimages amidst the extreme activation of the Myriad Thoughts Heart Fire.

Countless overlapping shadows split off from the Nascent Soul.

Qian Chen saw that Nascent Soul in the golden flames, as if countless overlapping shadows were spreading out, stretching toward all directions, toward the closed universe of the Creation Furnace, pulling out infinite shadows.

And every shadow was infected by the complex, sturdy thoughts within the Myriad Thoughts Heart Fire.

For a time, the shadows split from the Nascent Soul were either laughing wildly, grieving, wise, or dejected.

At this moment, the Immortal Qin Dharma Spirit of the Zhou Tian Starship, the virtual divine human, suddenly poured the essence of infinite information, countless Dao techniques, wisdom, insights, and stories from the Great Luo Dharma Realm down into the Creation Furnace.

The infinite shadows split from the Nascent Soul instantly became stained with this external information, beginning an endless cycle of splitting and merging.

"So it was using the Myriad Thoughts Heart Fire—no, it's not just the Myriad Thoughts Heart Fire!"

"Mixed within are the Seven Emotions Demon Fire and Six Desires Turbid Fire of the Demonic Path, the Zen Wisdom Fire and Prajna Wisdom Fire of the Fomen, and even the Rootless Fire and Ignorance Fire of the Daoist Sect. It is a grand collection of heart-thought fires!"

"Then, using some great divine ability to split the spirit and crack the thoughts, it beats the Nascent Soul into countless divided spirits, splitting it into innumerable divided souls."

"Refine it further with infinite information, distracting thoughts, heavenly secrets, and the Great Dao."

"Hiss... Xu Fu himself split his heart into two, and now, in refining the Undying Demon Medicine, he is applying this set to others. This is to forcibly split one Nascent Soul into countless individuals!"

"Using one heart to divide into ten thousand hearts, using one person to create ten thousand people! The Great Fangshi is truly a bit wicked!"

Qian Chen slightly applied his own demonic wisdom and instantly understood.

"The Nascent Soul must have a supreme origin point; that is where its essence lies!"

"Projected down from this point, it transforms into the various manifestations of the Nascent Soul. The Fangshi splits its spirit to cultivate ten thousand hearts, wanting to split one Nascent Soul into ten thousand individuals, and then, from these ten thousand individuals, trace back toward that origin point!"

The essence of the Nascent Soul is like an origin point above time, matter, and the world.

A beam of light shines down from the origin point, projecting a shadow onto the canvas, thus achieving the Nascent Soul seen by the world.

This canvas is the world, time, and matter; that origin point is the essence of the Primordial Spirit—the True Self.

And that ray of light is the Primordial Spirit Great Dao opened up by the Supreme...

Now, the Fangshi shakes the canvas. In an instant, that shadow splits into countless afterimages, and then, based on these afterimages, he traces back to the origin point, finally seeking that ray of light!

"The Primordial Spirit traces back to the True Self, so that point must be where the cultivator's True Self resides; therefore, one must use the fire of myriad thoughts to divide its divergent hearts."

"The Primordial Spirit is immortal, so that point, and even that ray of light, must exist above time! It is precisely because the Primordial Spirit's True Self stands above time that the Primordial Spirit has endless lifespan!"

"Because the True Self stands above time, then based on time, deducing the myriad shadows of the Primordial Spirit and tracing them back to that point of the Primordial Spirit's True Self is impossible!"

"How then should the Great Fangshi trace the Primordial Spirit?"

Qian Chen grew increasingly curious. The Immortal Qin Fangshi truly had a trick up their sleeves. Then again, no matter how astonishing Qian Chen's wisdom was, or how demonic his nature, he had never attained the Primordial Spirit from beginning to end.

Yet those seven Great Fangshi had all come from the Primordial Spirit.

Regarding how to trace the Primordial Spirit's True Self, crack the secret of immortality, and refine a trace of the Primordial Spirit's Dao fruit into an elixir of immortality, they naturally had their own ideas.

What Qian Chen needed was precisely the experience of this group of Great Fangshi in assaulting the Primordial Spirit, as well as their reflections on the essence of the Primordial Spirit.

Amidst the fire of myriad thoughts, facing the endless, stubborn-to-the-extreme impact of distracting thoughts.

The countless afterimages split from the Primordial Spirit had no choice but to absorb what the Immortal Qin Dharma Spirits cast over—the various loves, hates, grievances, thoughts, wisdom, rationality, and sensibility produced by the countless people of Immortal Qin within the virtual world opened up by the Luo Tian magic treasure.

Everything that constitutes the information needed by a person, and most importantly, absorbing concepts, ideas, and thoughts from the stories created by people, then achieving consciousness.

Ignorance conditions volitional formations, volitional formations condition consciousness, consciousness conditions name and form, name and form condition the six sense bases, the six sense bases condition contact.

Contact conditions feeling, feeling conditions craving, craving conditions grasping, grasping conditions becoming, becoming conditions birth, birth conditions aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, and distress...

Therefore, within the Immortal Qin virtual world, the six contacts are all present; the five senses of eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body evolve various 'contacts', and finally, they combine to produce the 'contact' of consciousness—that is, the various things perceived by the five senses are connected to derive 'thoughts'.

'Thoughts' aggregate to produce concepts.

Concepts change consciousness, consciousness changes personality, personality changes the original heart.

Step by step, divergent hearts are born.

And under the impact of endless stubborn information, the originally interconnected divergent hearts each closed themselves off, resisting various obsessions and impurities.

Subsequently, one barrier of the heart after another unfolded upon these spirits that originally came from the same source.

Finally, this Primordial Spirit was split into tens of thousands of independent consciousnesses and souls.

This contained the profound mysteries of the Buddhist five senses and nine consciousnesses.

The profound mechanism of the Daoist creation of the soul and the splitting of the Primordial Spirit.

The demonic method of polishing obsessions and shaping various consciousnesses of Yin demons and heart demons to control demons.

Although these were cultivation principles, in Xu Fu's hands, they also transformed into a part of the Dao of Creation...

Following this, he completed an almost impossible achievement: splitting a single Primordial Spirit into tens of thousands of independent selves.

"Transforming thoughts, dividing hearts, divergent views, planting consciousness, gathering souls... if one were to regenerate the physical soul and evolve flesh and blood, one would have completely created tens of thousands of people!"

Qian Chen praised: "The Immortal Qin Fangshi truly dare to think and dare to act. Having summarized these mature methods, I fear they have already tortured I don't know how many Primordial Spirits! I suspect they even have long-term, complete observational experience of splitting a Primordial Spirit into tens of thousands of people..."

"There might even be cases where tens of thousands of people form a clan, with men, women, old, and young, their karmas intersecting, enacting loves, hates, and grievances."

"There are also those scattered across various worlds, tempering themselves in the most complex red dust."

"Finally, they would use various methods, including nurturing one among these people to attain the Primordial Spirit, or finding ways to refine their souls and reunite them into a Primordial Spirit. I don't know how many ways of 'one into ten thousand, ten thousand into one' they experimented with before summarizing such mature techniques!"

"Next, it is time to reunite the Primordial Spirit!"

Qian Chen asked curiously: "Let me see exactly what method they used to achieve this?"

Sure enough, using a gentle fire to nurture them, manipulating the Creation Furnace to accelerate time by about a thousand years, until the countless souls split from that Primordial Spirit gradually matured and the outer shell of the souls stabilized.

Xu Fu then switched to a fierce fire!

The fire of myriad thoughts, mixed with the most stubborn and obstinate concepts of countless human hearts, transformed into the most explosive demonic soul-refining fire that burns and wears away all spirits, beginning to erase and refine those souls bit by bit, using the most ruthless method that even the demonic path would call torture.

For a time, those overlapping souls, drowning in the illusions they created themselves.

The scholar who topped the imperial examination and shared the bridal chamber with his lover...

The general who fought in a hundred battles and bathed in the blood of his enemies...

The student who studied until his hair turned white but achieved nothing in middle age...

The peddler and fisherman who sold fish and killed fish, haggling over every penny...

The courtesan who performed in the brothel, pitying and loving herself...

These souls, each with their own self, under the most explosive and cruel coercion, instantly faced the most naked distinction between life and death; everything was put to the test before life and death.

At this moment, deep within these different selves and endless illusory souls, the same persistent longing erupted.

To survive!

Any soul that did not erupt with this intense longing was instantly refined and dissipated by the demonic soul-refining fire; only those souls whose spirits erupted with this most formidable power were preserved.

The barriers of the heart collapsed...

At this moment, all the split selves suddenly collapsed toward one point.

Qian Chen knew this was what Xu Fu had painstakingly refined and what he himself had been calculating and seeking—the Primordial Spirit's True Self.

The souls split from that Primordial Spirit, each with their own self, each with their own obsessions, countless divergent views, and countless different consciousnesses and illusions, erupted with the same intense struggle and fluctuation when facing the barrier of life and death.

This was the essence of the point where the Primordial Spirit gathers, which the Fangshi had sought.

As countless split souls collapsed toward that point, gathering toward that point in the dark, Qian Chen's wisdom suddenly sank.

The wisdom entrusted within the countless split souls also crashed toward that point; he saw a great door slowly open, leading directly to an unimaginable world.

The Gate of the Primordial Spirit, suddenly swung wide open!

"Are you willing to lend me your power?"

A weary figure stood before Qian Chen, calmly asking the 'me' who had knocked open the Gate of the Primordial Spirit.

His hair had already turned white, his figure was hunched, just like an ordinary and plain old man, but a pair of bright eyes, like those of an infant, were full of exhaustion, and even covered in scars.

He whispered: "I traced the long river of time upstream, wishing to change everything from the source, but I failed! The Heavenly Emperor stood at the source and beheaded my past self... no matter how I struggled in later generations, as long as he moved at the source, the shadows under time would change."

"I have already lost nine times, my relatives and friends have all left me, and now I have ventured into the Nine Heavens and finally found it!"

The old man pointed to the chaotic and indescribable existence in front of him, a Dao fruit in which it seemed all possibilities and all existences were reflected.

"It is the shadow of the myriad realms of the cosmos!"

"In the world of my memory, there is a saying that life is the greatest thing in the universe, because the instinct of the universe develops from order to chaos, while life comes from chaos and moves toward order. But if life has a heart, it is an even greater power! Because things without a heart, although they also change, are just like the sunrise and sunset, the movement of stars, and the opening of the universe."

"This kind of change is fixed, following a certain Dao!"

"A person's thought can sometimes change the entire universe, causing the long river of time to split into two streams when it reaches that thought."

"Being able to create the universe and change the world, this great power is entrusted to a small thought."

"How is this not a miracle?"

"Above the great power of the universe and time, the exploration of the Great Dao, and all wisdom, I have already lost! Now, I only seek this miracle, this power of change!"

"I call it 'Yi'!"

"The Heavenly Emperor stands at the beginning of time, gathering everything downward; the only thing he cannot change is me. He stands at the beginning, writing the ending. And I am but a stubborn character in his story, a person who is unwilling to accept his own fate!"

"But I know, I am not the only one who is unwilling to accept his own fate!"

"There are also you!"

"I will give the power of 'Yi' to you! I have stolen the countless possibilities that the Heavenly Emperor hid away from the Nine Heavens..."

The old man straightened his spine, and he lifted the indescribable Dao fruit in front of him.

Toward the upper and lower reaches of the long river of time, toward all living beings in the myriad realms of the cosmos—that is all the time flows of the Three Realms and the myriad realms of the cosmos thereafter—he lifted the Dao fruit! Those are all other worlds cropped by the Heavenly Emperor!"

"The countless possibilities created by all living beings are contained within it!"

"Useless?"

An unimaginable figure stood above time, the existence in imperial robes and jade crown stood with hands behind his back at the origin, calmly saying: "When I opened the universe, I already removed these parallel spaces from matter, turning them into an illusory shadow. The changes within are like the distortion when light is projected; they can only twist in the shadow and can no longer interfere with reality!"

The old man was pierced through the chest by the Heavenly Emperor and nailed to the step of the long river of time near the source.

"I am Fuxi!"

"This is my first life!" the old man's shadow said slowly: "Leave 'Yi' to all living beings..."

The old man with white hair and white beard, riding a green ox, smiled and watched Fuxi's death.

From then on, the complete 'Self' that attained the Great Luo was beheaded of the 'Yang' half, leaving only a goddess with a snake tail and human body weeping.

"Xi!"

"Fuxi!"

She swallowed the immortal divine medicine and raised her head to face the Heavenly Emperor.

The Heavenly Emperor looked at her calmly and said:

"I cannot violate the laws I have set, so I will not kill you! Nuwa, by my command, create all living beings and your human race!"

The old man with white hair and white beard, riding a green ox, arrived before the huge Dao fruit that Fuxi had stolen.

"I still believe in the infinite power of all living beings!"

The old man said slowly: "The Heavenly Emperor sealed the possibilities you created in this shadow. He refuses to believe in the miracles you create, establishing a heart for heaven and earth, making all living beings heartless. Relying on his own strength to decide the future for all living beings... this is... what kind of ambition and arrogance?"

"God is responsible for bearing the future for all living beings."

The Heavenly Emperor said slowly: "As the Emperor of all gods, I naturally must lead and choose the best future for all living beings!"

"Taiyi, you slaughtered all living beings, trampled on all living beings, and refused to repent; how dare you say you believe in the infinite power of all living beings?"

Taishang slowly got off the green ox and stepped into the illusory Dao fruit.

Looking back for the last time: "I believe that everyone is a 'God'! Everyone has the wisdom and power of a God, and everyone has the possibility of becoming a God. This is the 'Primordial Spirit'!"

He left behind a sentence: "Walk into the illusion you have beheaded, and pursue the more possibilities that all living beings have left for me... Heavenly Emperor, standing above the Primordial Origin does not mean you can decide everything! Even if you modify the source countless times, even if all living beings despise me, they will eventually follow me to create more possibilities! Until I transcend the Primordial Origin and transcend reality, this is my Dao of Taiyi!"

"All living beings are Tai, I am the only one!"

"One day, I will exhaust all futures in the illusory shadow you abandoned and open up the Boundless for all living beings! From those Nine Heavens, my Taiyi Dao fruit will rise!"

"At that time, my Dao fruit will encompass all possibilities and respect the choices of all living beings!"

"I will behead the dust and leave only a sincere heart to open the path of the Primordial Spirit for all living beings. At that time, this Taiyi Dao fruit will entrust the most real self of all living beings and evolve the infinite possibilities they create. As long as they are firm enough, all paths will be opened for them, and all possibilities will be created by them!"

Is this the secret of the Primordial Spirit?

Qian Chen was already incomparably shocked in his heart. He saw a force erasing everything from the source of the long river of time. This scene seen by his consciousness was constantly erased by this great force, yet constantly reshaped.

The essence of the Dao Dust Pearl was too high; even the power of the Primordial Origin could hardly erase his memory...

"There is a Taiyi Dao fruit outside heaven and earth, encompassing all futures!"

"All living beings possess the power called 'Yi', which can create infinite possibilities from the heart. And most possibilities have no 'persistence'; only the True Self, only the things that are consistently persisted in among countless possibilities, can allow the infinite possibilities within the Taiyi Dao fruit to gather in one direction, allowing that powerful force to descend into reality, or even directly confront the karma of countless people and modify reality?"

"No, there is no need to confront countless karmas at all; he only needs a heart, a heart that can move Taishang!"

Qian Chen suddenly understood what Taishang's merging with the Dao was for.

That was his promise when he attained the Taiyi Dao fruit, and it was also the reason why Taishang's beheading of emotion was so resolute despite his reluctance.

He saw the downfall of all living beings and the destruction of the universe after he defeated the Heavenly Emperor, so he picked up everything and beheaded his reluctance.

Taishang merged with the Dao, leaving only reluctance, yet it was for all living beings!

When Taishang observes all possibilities and the future evolved by everyone's 'heart', as long as someone constantly persists in that infinite possibility with their True Self to pursue the future they desperately want.

As long as their heart moves Taishang, everything will be realized.

Just like the Foolish Old Man moving the mountains, like the Taihang and Wangwu mountains moved by the Heavenly Emperor, the source of all supernatural powers, magic power, and Dao practice is the heart.

Only when the heart moves can there be heaven-turning and earth-shaking changes, and can everything be changed.

And now the Great Dao has a heart, named Taishang.

Using the heart to connect with the heart, one can have infinite power, and the Great Dao follows.

The so-called Primordial Spirit is to persist in the True Self, using a sincere heart to gather the infinite scattered possibilities in the Taiyi Dao fruit. Let countless 'other selves' become the self, and open up the future they want within the Taiyi Dao fruit.

Then these various futures, along the path of the Primordial Spirit opened by Taishang within the Taiyi Dao fruit, bless reality!

Qian Chen saw the point of that Primordial Spirit of the Shenxiao Sect within the Taiyi Dao fruit.

At this moment, it had already differentiated into countless 'selves'. These selves opened up infinite possibilities on the timeline, working hard in one direction, exhausting all changes, and never giving up.

That is—"Living!"

At this moment, the countless selves in the Taiyi Dao fruit overlapped with the True Self in the Creation Furnace, and the magic power soared as if it had no source and no end!

At that moment, the infinite futures he created in the Taiyi Dao fruit, the timelines opened in the direction of living, all descended silently around him along with the Taiyi Dao fruit.

That point of the Primordial Spirit exhausted all changes, and amidst Xu Fu's crazy strangulation and wear—it lived.

Even if it was erased by the absolute power and absolute Dao of the Dao fruit, that Primordial Spirit was still alive.

The countless selves he split made the future he created on the timeline more complex. This was originally a ruthless method to wear away the Primordial Spirit's True Self, making the infinite futures in the Taiyi Dao fruit 'other-transformed', where the 'I' in each future no longer thinks that I am 'I'.

But in the moment of life and death struggle, all 'other selves' pursued the same result—'Living'.

Then at this moment, countless 'other selves' once again achieved 'self', and under the command of the True Self, worked hard toward that future.

This is the last barrier of the Daoist Primordial Spirit, the reason why it is called the barrier of life and death.

Only life and death can integrate other selves to the greatest extent and behead those choices in the Taiyi Dao fruit that do not come from the 'True Self'—illusions!

Beheading illusions makes ghosts cry!

As long as one grasps the True Self, everyone is a Primordial Spirit!

Qian Chen suddenly understood...

"The Primordial Spirit is the True Self entrusted in the Taiyi Dao fruit, it is the persistence among infinite possibilities."

"Every moment, the 'I' in the Taiyi Dao fruit is differentiating into infinite possibilities, choosing infinite futures, but scattered, infinite futures have no meaning. Only persistence, only having the same starting point, only the future where that heart and that thought are consistent, can they connect with each other and open up the power called Boundless!"

"Taishang seeks the infinite possibilities left to him by all living beings and attains the Taiyi Dao. He also transformed himself into the heart of the Great Dao, giving the hearts of all living beings infinite power."

"Therefore, the Primordial Spirit has three powers. One is called the Taiyi Dao fruit, inscribed at the end of time, so the Primordial Spirit has endless lifespan!"

"The second is called the Dao of the Primordial Spirit. Everyone is a Primordial Spirit. As long as one grasps the original heart and gathers the self among infinite possibilities, the power of the infinite selves in the Taiyi Dao fruit will bless you."

"It is equivalent to countless selves working together!"

"The third is called the Dao Heart!"

"Taishang establishes a heart for heaven and earth, so Taishang can also perceive your heart, can understand your heart, and naturally can give you infinite power, making the Great Dao of heaven and earth move before the heart."

Qian Chen finally understood everything.

At this moment, he grasped his original heart.

Within the Taiyi Dao fruit, the self that only occupied an insignificant part of the body 'Dao Dust Pearl', a small part of the long time, suddenly erupted violently, instantly spreading to countless possibilities.

Some Qian Chens suddenly devoured all the immortal demonic medicine in the furnace, some Qian Chens manifested on the dream molting, and the existence of the dead Qian Chen suddenly contracted, erupting at this moment.

Most of the Qian Chens just coldly and silently stared at the top of their heads.

But there were countless Qian Chens of possibilities who suddenly looked up together and asked the sky:

"Taishang?"

The sky answered:

"I have always been here!"