Heaven Slaying Blade

Chu Mo listened on the side, truly feeling his heart race. What they were discussing was precisely the answer that all the top beings in this world have been relentlessly pursuing.

The path to the Eternal Land!

It turns out, the Eternal Land truly exists, and indeed, one can achieve immortality there.

By all accounts, such a place should be the ultimate treasure land that all beings dream of, but why do they still come here? What do they want? Isn't immortality enough?

The woman in the yellow dress was adamant and had a bad temper. She roared repeatedly, intending to subdue the old Taoist. But no matter how she exerted her power, she was still no match for him.

Their battle lasted a very short time, at most half an hour, and the woman in the yellow dress could no longer hold on.

At this moment, she coldly declared, "I'm leaving!"

The old Taoist sighed, "It's too late."

As he spoke, an incredibly mysterious force suddenly burst out from his body, seemingly forming a sword, slashing towards the woman in the yellow dress.

It seemed so because Chu Mo could only vaguely sense the existence of "that sword," but couldn't see it at all, nor could his divine sense capture it.

The woman in the yellow dress finally showed a look of horror on her face, realizing that the opponent was serious, not just trying to scare her.

A terrifying force suddenly erupted from her as well, showing her intention to fight to the death with the old Taoist.

The old monk waved his hand, and a gentle force protected Chu Mo's body.

Boom!

A muffled sound exploded between the old Taoist and the woman in the yellow dress.

Then, the old Taoist took a few steps back. The woman in the yellow dress suddenly vanished.

Chu Mo widened his eyes; at his level, he couldn't see what had happened at all.

In any case, the woman in the yellow dress disappeared, and even her aura vanished without a trace, completely gone.

"Is she dead? Or did she run away?" Chu Mo murmured.

"She's neither dead nor fled," the old monk said softly. "It's just that this illusory body was annihilated."

"This was just an illusory body?" Chu Mo's mouth twitched, looking incredulously at the old monk.

At this time, the old Taoist walked over, speaking as he moved, "I'm old, can't fight anymore. When one gets old, these old arms and legs just aren't useful. Old monk, you like ordering people around, why didn't you fight just now?"

The old monk said, "Just now I saw you rushing up without hesitation..."

"..." Chu Mo looked at the two of them speechlessly, thinking to himself, why does this scene seem so bizarre? Are they really the Supreme Wuji and the Immeasurable Buddha?

At this point, the old Taoist glanced at Chu Mo and said, "The old monk and I are just two illusory bodies; don't keep guessing. The old monk likes to speak in riddles, but I don't."

"Amitabha, you're talking about me again," the old monk glanced at the old Taoist.

The old Taoist looked at Chu Mo and said, "You've caused quite a stir, unexpectedly attracting those from the other side."

The old monk sighed lightly beside him.

Chu Mo looked confused.

The old Taoist casually waved his hand, and a quaint palace appeared directly at the top of the sky dome. He then said, "Let's go inside and talk. At this point, there are some things that need to be told to you."

Chu Mo followed behind the old monk and the old Taoist into this palace.

The interior was simple but very clean, spotless.

After the three sat down, the old Taoist looked at Chu Mo, sighing lightly, "After all the twists and turns, we have finally returned to today."

The old monk softly chanted a Buddhist phrase, "Amitabha, the great secret of reincarnation, ruling the creatures of the world."

Chu Mo looked at the two, frowning slightly, "Was my past life as Young Master Chu from a million years ago?"

The old monk smiled silently.

The old Taoist said flatly, "Reincarnation is something that no one can explain clearly. Don't think those Supreme Realm cultivators can plan their own reincarnation, waking at certain times. In fact, they don't understand the secrets within. Repeated cycles of reincarnation just mean no true liberation."

Chu Mo looked at the old Taoist, "I don't understand."

"It's right if you don't understand." The old Taoist priest said, "If you did understand, you would have completely transcended."

"Have you transcended?" Chu Mo asked.

The old Taoist priest shook his head, "Living in the red dust, who dares to say they've transcended?"

The old Taoist priest continued, looking at Chu Mo, "Don't ask about past lives, don't seek the next life, just speak of this life."

"Good." The old monk nodded beside him.

Chu Mo laughed. To not ask about past lives, to not seek the next life, is precisely the philosophy he has always adhered to.

The old Taoist priest said, "The Tunnel world is actually just an organ. The so-called eternal land is nothing more than a brain. The whole body has been dead for endless ages. But because this body is divine, the organs inside are still alive. Then, the brain there is the most miraculous place, being called the eternal land..."

"Wait... wait!" Chu Mo looked at the old Taoist priest in shock, the amount of information was too much, Chu Mo was so stunned he couldn't speak, quickly interrupting the old Taoist priest, "Please speak slowly..."

The old Taoist priest smiled, "Is this difficult to understand? The Tunnel world we live in is really just an organ in a divine body, and this organ is now nearing exhaustion. Therefore, the Tunnel world is always in danger of collapsing. Why does someone come to destroy the beings of the Tunnel world after a long span of years? Because if they aren't destroyed, allowing those beings to desperately draw the nutrients of the Tunnel world, it would accelerate the collapse! And if the Tunnel world collapses, it would trigger a chain reaction, causing the whole divine body to collapse. If the divine body collapses, the brain as the eternal land would naturally cease to exist."

The old monk's eyes revealed an extremely profound light, softly saying, "Here it is the mustard seed containing Mount Sumeru, Mount Sumeru hidden in a mustard seed. In our bodies, actually, there are countless such worlds. It's just that you can't perceive their existence, but this doesn't mean they don't exist."

Chu Mo stood there, a large "confused" character written on his face.

This kind of reasoning, how to put it, it's not that he hasn't thought about it. What the eyes can't see doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The things ordinary people in the mundane world can see are vastly different from what someone like him in cultivation can witness!

Therefore, there are many things that secular people think don't exist, which Chu Mo can see with his own eyes and personally verify.

Chu Mo understood this principle, but he couldn't imagine that he was actually living inside an "organ" of a god!

"Doesn't that mean that our continuous cultivation, our hard efforts, desperately strengthening ourselves... this process is actually a huge burden on the world we live in? The stronger we become, the weaker this world... which is to say, the organ of this god... becomes?" Chu Mo thought about the sickly mortals he'd seen in the Mortal Realm. Some had gigantic tumors in their bodies, and when the tumor reached a certain size, the person would be beyond medical help, left only to await death.

He stared blankly at the old monk and old Taoist priest, wondering if we are all, in another sense, tumors? A kind of virus?

The old Taoist priest nodded, "Where we are is the heart of this god. That means, aside from the brain, this is the most important place. Because no one can truly transcend, we are all trapped inside the god's body. We can't get out, can't leave. So, beings who truly cultivate to the Supreme Realm, upon seeing this secret, will start desperately trying to eliminate all other beings besides themselves. Because the fewer beings there are, the longer the world inside the divine body will survive."

"So, those observers overturn our Tunnel world every few years?" Chu Mo asked.

The old monk and old Taoist priest both nodded.

The old Taoist priest said, "In the entire world of the divine body, only a very few beings know this truth. They dominate and rule this world of the divine body, not permitting too many beings to know this secret."

"Even if someone knows, they will do their best to conceal the truth." The old monk said.

"But what's the point of concealing it?" Chu Mo sighed, "Even if they know, what can they do?"

"Knowing would lead to resistance, would prompt efforts to desperately cultivate, trying to escape here." The old Taoist priest said flatly, "That would only accelerate this world's collapse."

"After those beings fall, dust returns to dust, soil to soil, the Great Dao returns to Heaven and Earth, it's a complete cycle?" Chu Mo asked.

The old Taoist priest nodded, "Yes, this cycle can make the world seem a bit more normal. But once a being cultivates to the ancestral realm, they will start resisting this cycle. Upon reaching the Supreme Realm, they will spare no means to establish their own reincarnation."

Chu Mo smiled bitterly, "I understand, every reincarnation of a being at the Supreme Realm causes tremendous harm to this world."

The old Taoist priest said, "The greater harm is the emergence of divinity, dust no longer returns to dust, soil no longer to soil, the Great Dao no longer returns to Heaven and Earth... that is a truly man-made law. It absolutely accelerates the collapse of the entire Tunnel world."

"..." Chu Mo wanted to say that this matter had nothing to do with him.

The old Taoist priest said, "So that time, the observers descended, and they killed your ancestor."

Chu Mo was silent.

From a higher perspective, it was naturally his ancestor who did wrong. But from his ancestor's viewpoint, it was not wrong.

Therefore, it's difficult to judge worldly matters with simple right and wrong.

"Originally, this world is just like this, even if we see through it, we don't want to change anything, and can't change anything. Even going to the eternal land, what then? Be an emissary like them?" The old Taoist priest said flatly, "Later, you appeared, and we saw hope."

"Me? I gave you hope?" Chu Mo frowned, looking at the old Taoist priest and old monk, full of disbelief.

"Yes, you are the hope." The old Taoist priest said.

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The third night watch has been delivered.