"Last night, I was really muddle-headed. I actually made such a big mistake. I only found out about it when I got the call this morning, and I was completely dumbfounded …. Fine, I'm a fool. Don't scold me. I know you won't blame a poor fatty who stayed up all night writing and uploading a new chapter …. I've already subscribed, so there's no need to spend any more money.
All I have to do is refresh, and I'll be able to see the new chapter. I apologize again …. As soon as his foot landed, the rage in Wang Lin's heart erupted. His right foot caused rumbling sounds to fill Heaven and Earth. In the blink of an eye, he had reached an unimaginable realm.
The entire world seemed to be beneath his feet. All living things were beneath his feet. Natural laws, magical laws, everything was transformed into ash with that single step.
Massive fissures spread out across the sky, and then it collapsed. Countless fragments tumbled out in all directions, causing the sky to no longer exist!
The sky collapsed!
When Wang Lin's right foot landed on the ground, and he looked up, the ground cracked!
The sun and moon vanished, the rivers and seas dispersed. The land and the sky, the world formed by the ancient Heaven and Earth, were destroyed.
Gu Dao's body trembled, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
He staggered backward three hundred meters before he finally came to a stop. For the first time, his face was pale.
"Heaven Trampling stage!!
That's the complete Heaven Trampling stage!! "
His expression was one of shock as he watched Wang Lin take that step. He could sense a terrifying power awakening within him.
Wang Lin hovered there. Everything that had just happened seemed like an illusion. His eyes were closed, and after a long moment, they slowly opened. His eyes were filled with grief as he looked up at the sky, which had returned to normal. A very, very long time passed.
After enough time passed for an incense stick to burn, Gu Dao looked at Wang Lin, a complicated expression on his face. "You passed the seventh Pill Bridge!"
Wang Lin closed his eyes. "I failed on the eighth Pill Bridge," said Gu Dao, closing his eyes. It was as if he wanted to prevent the grief from fading away.
"Seventh pepper …." Gu Dao smiled bitterly. He looked deeply at Wang Lin. Just now, he had clearly sensed the will of Heaven Trampling contained within that step. Such a will was a manifestation of extreme faith.
With his current cultivation, he could not take that step.
"Perhaps I really can't keep you here …" Gu Dao took a deep breath, and his gaze turned from complicated to determined. He continued to speak word by word, "But I can't just give up like this. I used my entire life to come up with the Heavenly Dao!
I named this technique Heavenly Dao because of this technique. It is the manifestation of my, Gu Dao's, faith. I might not be as powerful as the Ancient Ancestor, but my faith is different from his!
"His belief is to turn into the world, and it is precisely because of the existence of his will that I cannot stray too far away from the land of the Ancients. Perhaps in the Ancient Ancestor's thoughts, the territory of the Immortals was not formed by him, but a place he hated.
"And my belief is that the sky can no longer block my eyes, the earth can no longer block my body, the sun, the moon, and the Immortal Astral Continent can no longer confuse my heart!
"Heavenly Dao, with my heart as the dao, step on the heavens with the dao, step on the heavens with the heavens as the steps!" As Gu Dao spoke, he waved his hand at the sky.
The sky rumbled and a giant vortex appeared. This vortex shrouded the entire basin, and it was as if the end of the world was about to arrive. Gu Dao waved his right hand and pointed at Wang Lin.
"You are the heavens!"
Gu Dao's voice rumbled like Thunder, and it was filled with great faith. As he pointed, a large amount of ripples appeared around Wang Lin. He seemed to feel something and suddenly looked up. He saw a giant foot appear in the vortex and mercilessly stomp down on him!
During these 200 years, Wang Lin once again felt a powerful sense of life and death crisis. Every Heaven Trampling cultivator had supreme power. Wang Lin could comprehend the Heaven Trampling Step from that familiar figure, and Gu Dao could also use his amazing wisdom and countless years of faith to comprehend the Heaven Trampling Dao that belonged to Gu Dao!
"All living beings want to trample the heavens, but those who cannot do so have no faith, no fear …" This was a sentence engraved on the eighth Heaven Trampling Bridge. Wang Lin had seen it the second time he went there.
At this moment, as he stared at Gu Dao, this sentence involuntarily appeared in his mind. He suddenly understood something. In this world, be it humans, beasts, or even spirits, all of them had the intention to trample the heavens.
"Just like how he answered Li Qianmei's three questions in the cave world back then, the world was a circle, and outside that circle, there was another circle …" Very few people are born without a heart … Because all living beings in this world want to be different. They want a kind of freedom, a kind of thinking that is not bound by anything. "The laws of the mortal world are circles. Poverty, wealth, and mediocrity are circles. The law of the cultivation world is also circles. The law of the jungle in the cultivation world is also circles. The entire world is also a circle like a cage … The sky and the stars are also circles!
"Walk out of this circle, walk out of even more circles, until you step into the sky, step into the heavens and the stars, and take that final step out of all living things. From then on, you will no longer be able to blind your eyes, and you will no longer be able to deceive your heart. This … is the true meaning of the Daoist scripture, the true meaning of cultivation!!"
Wang Lin murmured as he looked at the giant foot descending from the sky. He vaguely understood and had an epiphany!
"Life and death, karma, truth …" Life and death are the rope, and countless lives and deaths are connected to form countless circles, forming a net. This net is called karma, and this karma net is used to fish out one's true self from the river of reincarnation. The river of reincarnation contains illusion and truth, and one needs a pair of eyes that can see through truth and falsehood to throw out the net and fish out one's true self.
"After my ethereal essence reached completion in true and false, I comprehended reincarnation as the fourth ethereal essence in the Dong Lin Sect. However, after hundreds of years, I still couldn't understand what reincarnation was … What was reincarnation? I thought it was a law that controlled this life and death.
"Until the Ancient Dao Imperial Teacher appeared. No matter what the reason was, his words revealed that the true resurrection of Wan Er requires the use of the reincarnation power in the Immemorial God Realm … At that time, I didn't understand what the reincarnation power was. I still thought it was a law of the heavens … But now I finally understand … Reincarnation is the heavens!
"I threw the karma net in my hand into the sky to try to fish out my true self, to fish out my true self!!
"Like … Is this what it means …" Wang Lin's mind rumbled. All of these thoughts appeared in an instant and occupied the peak of his mind.
At this moment, he understood!
Within his body, there was an additional strand of Ethereal Essences. That strand of Essence was the Reincarnation Essence that he had comprehended!
"So it's like this …" Wang Lin silently pondered as the giant foot descended. It was less than 1,000 feet tall, but at this moment, a strange sound squeezed in and echoed across the world.
It was the sound of the wind!
It was the Ancient Race Heavenly Song!
That was the first of the nine tunes. After that came the second, the third, and the ninth. It was the Wind and Thunder of Heaven and Earth, the Viscera Body, and the final Bloodline Tune!
It echoed from the world, from Wang Lin's body, and from the heavens.
The descending foot seemed to slow down due to the nine songs. The beauty of this song was indescribable. It surrounded the world and spread in all directions.
At the instant the nine songs appeared, an image appeared in the sky!
Golden sky, black earth!
The golden sky and black earth seemed illusory and unreal, but they clearly appeared before Wang Lin. Gu Dao's mind trembled as he saw it.
After the first sign appeared, Wang Lin's eyes revealed a silver light. This light was endless, it was the second sign!
Nine songs and three signs, the first time Wang Lin appeared on Gu Dao, but it was incomplete. One song and one sign were missing!
In the Ancient Dao palace, the second time the nine songs appeared, but one sign was still missing!
Now, at the center of the vast basin, on the side of the sea storm, when Grand Empyrean Gu Dao's One Dao of the Heavens descended, the nine songs and three signs appeared for the third time!
However, this third time, although the nine songs were still complete, the third sign still couldn't appear. It was as if there was still something missing, that crucial point!
Wang Lin raised his head. He wasn't looking at the giant foot that seemed to have stopped 1,000 feet away, but at the void beyond the sky through the spell.
His mind was now clear, and he also had a feeling of enlightenment. He knew what he was missing.
"Void, avatar, descend completely and fuse with me!!" What he lacked was the recognition and method of being born from the void like the Ancient Ancestor and Celestial Ancestor.
The moment his words echoed, there was a giant round stone in the void filled with law on the Immortal Astral Continent. There was a figure sitting inside. He had been sitting here for hundreds of years.
At this moment, he seemed to hear a call and suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes shined brightly. He looked exactly the same as Wang Lin. He was Wang Lin's avatar in the void!
The moment he opened his eyes, the rock he was on exploded with a bang. As it shattered, a large amount of crushed stones scattered in all directions like eggshells. The figure stood up, took a step forward, and disappeared without a trace.
Immortal Astral Continent, vast basin, on the side of the sea storm. As Wang Lin's voice echoed, a person walked out from the vortex of the foot.
This person took the third step. Under Gu Dao's shocked gaze, he saw this person walk before Wang Lin and overlap with Wang Lin's body.
The moment they fused, Wang Lin let out a roar at the sky. This roar was heaven-shaking, and as it echoed, a strange change occurred. It was like the cry of a baby!
The cry of the infant echoed out, filling the entire Vast Basin. When it reached the lands of the Ancients, cracks appeared on the three statues of the Ancient Ancestors in the three Imperial Cities of the Ancients.
When it reached the celestial clan, cracks also appeared on the Celestial Ancestor statues in the ancestral city.
Endless earth energy erupted in the Ancient clan and condensed into a giant figure. It was the Ancient Ancestor!
Earth energy filled the celestial clan and formed a second figure. It was the Celestial Ancestor.
Ordinary people couldn't see these two figures; only Grand Empyreans could feel them.
At this moment, a third figure appeared in the vast basin. This figure surpassed the Celestial Ancient and charged into the sky!
Gu Dao muttered, "Nine songs, three signs … The third sign is the cry of a baby …"