Chapter 1514 — Transmitting the Dao in the Tree's Shade
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The moment these words left his mouth, both Consort Yan and Heavenly Lord Langxuan were overcome by a tangle of emotions, and for a time neither could speak.
Only Shi Qiluo was jubilant, clapping her hands in delight, so moved that tears seemed to glisten in her eyes: "That's right, we are one family! A family should stand together, whole and complete, and face the hardships of the age as one!
" Lady Yuanmu had been the Ancient God of Destruction to begin with, so it did not surprise Heavenly Lord Xiao that Shi Qiluo, the reincarnation of Lady Yuanmu, should say such a thing. "Was our Daoist brother not exiled by Heavenly Lord Yue?
" Empress Taiyin asked.
"You vanished for six years.
In those six years, you have missed many great events. " Heavenly Lord Xiao could not help but sigh with deep feeling. In merely six years, he had missed several great events that had shaped the world's order.
The world changed too quickly. In former times, a single casual seclusion of his would last more than six years, and when he awoke the world would still be as it had been. Yet now, in these brief six years, so many great events had come to pass: the confrontation among the Heavenly Lords of the Yuan Realm, the Ancestral Court thrown fully open, the Heavenly Alliance Council, the opening of the Ancestral Court's reverse side, the founding of the Beast Realm, Long Xiao becoming its lord, the emergence of the Ancient God of Taiji, the death of the Heavenly Duke, the dissolution of Heavenly Lord Hong's Dao, the carving up of Xuandu among the great powers, and the emergence of the Jade Capital of the Ancestral Court! In ages past, not one of these great events might have occurred in ten thousand years; now they had all happened within a mere six years, too many for the eye to take in.
So swift was the tempo of this age that a few years of seclusion might leave one far behind the times! "I encountered many inconceivable things in the Chaotic Space, and had strange experiences of my own.
Thus my cultivation advanced greatly, and my cultivation of the Dao heart advanced greatly as well.
" Recalling the experiences of these past years, Heavenly Lord Xiao could not help but sigh. "If someone were to write a book and compose a biography of my experiences these past few years, would it not make a monumental work?
So mysterious and bizarre have my experiences been that even now, when I recall them, I find them unbelievable. " He was protected by the Primeval Wood, and so was able to preserve himself within the Chaotic Space and explore its secrets. There he saw the ruins of past universes, ruin after ruin, fragment after fragment of Great Luo Heavens, and magnificent, wondrous Dao trees, and different rules of the great Dao.
More crucially, he encountered a wondrous phenomenon there: within that Chaotic Space, one tiny universe after another was born, grew, waxed strong, and then withered and perished.
The speed of this birth and destruction was beyond the imagination of those outside. When Heavenly Lord Xiao witnessed this scene, the shock in his heart was beyond compare.
He saw that those tiny universes even contained life, ancient gods, beings like himself, with their grudges and passions, their loves and hates and entanglements—only their lifespans were far too brief. In the span of a moment's inattention from Heavenly Lord Xiao, they had lived out their short lives.
Even more terrifying, Heavenly Lord Xiao saw that within these tiny universes there were beings who had attained the Dao; yet when their universes perished, even those who had attained the Dao were of no avail, and could only die in the destruction of these tiny universes.
All was like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow—when it burst, it ceased to exist.