Chapter 1349: Weeping for the Dao (Second Update)

Qin Mu cried his heart out, weeping until the sky darkened and the earth dimmed.

Ngọc Thần Tử grew anxious and quickly slipped away to fetch Ngụy Tùy Phong, Dư Sơ Độ, and the others. He thought to himself, "Has Mục Tôn Chủ ever cried before? I certainly have never heard of it! A Tôn Chủ weeping is no small matter, and I am not the one who can console him..."

He found Ngụy Tùy Phong, Dư Sơ Độ, and the others and told them of the matter. Ngụy Tùy Phong said in surprise, "My junior brother is crying? Strange. He fears nothing under heaven—what could possibly make him shed tears? Let me go take a look."

Dư Sơ Độ also hastily rose to his feet. Vân Tiệm Ly's eyes flickered as he said, "Mục Tôn Chủ has cried before. I have heard that during the Diên Khang Calamity, when Mục Tôn Chủ opposed the Heavenly Court, he called to heaven but heaven did not answer—Thiên Công did not help him. He called to earth but earth did not respond—Thổ Bá did not help him either. Besieged on all sides, feeling powerless to resist the Heavenly Court and unable to save Diên Khang from the fire and flood, he gouged out his own eyes and wept bitterly."

Ngụy Tùy Phong felt great pity for this junior brother of his. He rose and said, "Let us go see."

When they arrived, they saw Hoa Tuyên Tú patting Qin Mu's back and murmuring words of comfort. Dư Sơ Độ's heart warmed—during the years of fleeing, when he had been utterly exhausted, Hoa Tuyên Tú had comforted him in exactly this way.

Though he always felt that Hoa Tuyên Tú looked like she was comforting a wounded, oversized dog.

Ngụy Tùy Phong burst into loud laughter: "Mighty Mục Tôn Chủ, stalwart nine-foot magnificent man, why are you weeping like a child?"

Qin Mu stopped his grief, raised his head, and sneered coldly: "I weep because you are mediocre and incompetent, burning great timber as if it were firewood. I weep for how many heroes and talents in this world sink into mediocrity. I weep for the gifted who are never put to proper use!"

Ngụy Tùy Phong was angered by his words and sneered in return: "Spare me your nonsense! You simply feel that Vân Tiệm Ly and I did not stay in the Peach Grove to help you. You think we owe you, so you put on a show of grievance to extort us. There was a battle of Tôn Chủs in that Peach Grove—even if we had stayed, we would have been useless!"

Qin Mu shook his head and stood up, his gaze falling upon Hoa Tuyên Tú: "I am not speaking of that matter. I am speaking of her. If Tuyên Tú had truly listened to your words and not delved into the three realms of Minh Đức, Đan Phượng, and Thừa Thiên, then in the future Diên Khang would surely lack a Great Tôn Chủ who could have opened up new realms."

He sighed: "She nearly destroyed herself because of a single word from you. I thought of how, had I not asked that question, she would inevitably have amounted to nothing, at best merely keeping company with the likes of you, contending with you for supremacy—and grief welled up in my heart. Then I thought of how many such prodigies in history have likewise been ruined by a single careless remark, and I could not help but shed tears. 'You are wrong, stop doing this'—those words are the most wounding of all."

Unconsciously, he thought of Thái Dịch.

Thái Dịch had said that when Qin Mu abandoned his own path and took up the Heavenly Palace and Heavenly Court system, he had transformed into a single tear at the corner of Qin Mu's eye.

Now, he understood how Thái Dịch had felt back then.

Ngụy Tùy Phong, Vân Tiệm Ly, and the others were momentarily stunned, and they all looked toward Hoa Tuyên Tú.

Vân Tiệm Ly tested the waters: "Does Tôn Chủ mean that these three realms exist?"

Qin Mu nodded.

Ngụy Tùy Phong shook his head: "We have all tested them. Those three realms do not exist. However, the realms of Đông Thiên Môn, Tây Thiên Môn, and Bắc Thiên Môn do exist. But these four great heavenly gate realms each have their own strengths, and their subtleties require continuous in-depth research."

"Minh Đức, Đan Phượng, Thừa Thiên—these three realms do exist."

Qin Mu said: "The Heavenly Palace and Heavenly Court cultivation system was established by Ngự Tôn Chủ, but Ngự Tôn Chủ only began it, creating its outline. It was gradually perfected through the Long Hán Era, slowly filling in the Heavenly Palace. Only in this present age has the Heavenly Court been gradually completed, but to this day there is still not a single being who has truly cultivated the Heavenly Court to completion."

Ngụy Tùy Phong and Vân Tiệm Ly nodded in agreement. Ngụy Tùy Phong said, "Then on what basis do you conclude that these three realms exist?"

"Because of the Đạo Cảnh cultivation system."

The several of them were all taken aback. Dư Sơ Độ felt somewhat dizzy, unable to keep up with Qin Mu's line of thought.

"The Heavenly Palace system emphasizes cultivation, magical power, and strength, with no enlightenment regarding the Dao. You have all noticed this, have you not?"

Qin Mu said unhurriedly: "The Đạo Cảnh system, by contrast, emphasizes enlightenment of the Dao—one realm, one layer of heaven. So does the Heavenly Palace truly have no enlightenment of the Dao? I believe that the four great heavenly gates are the gates to entering the Dao. Passing through the four great heavenly gates allows one to enter the Dao. This is the true essence of the Heavenly Palace system. But because Ngự Tôn Chủ died, this true essence was never discovered, and thus it developed into a deformed cultivation path that purely emphasizes power."

Ngụy Tùy Phong frowned, pondering: "When I experimented with my primordial spirit passing through the other three heavenly gates, I did indeed sense something unusual—a feeling of enlightenment... However, with the three gates of Minh Đức, Đan Phượng, and Thừa Thiên, I had no sensation of enlightenment."

"That is because those three gates of the Long Hán Heavenly Court are all false—they have the appearance but not the substance."

Qin Mu roused himself and said: "Not only are those three gates false, even the four great gates such as Nam Thiên Môn do not contain the true Dao rules of the four great heavenly gates. The true heavenly gates are in Tổ Đình, and the true Dao Trì, Trảm Thần Đài, and Ngọc Kinh Thành are also all within Tổ Đình!"

Vân Quyển Thư and Ngụy Tùy Phong fell into thought.

"If there were one person who could perfectly fuse the Đạo Cảnh system with the Heavenly Palace system, would such an existence not be a Tôn Chủ? Then who would be worthy of the title Tôn Chủ?"

Qin Mu flicked his sleeve and said coldly: "As for the so-called Ten Tôn Chủs of the Heavenly Court, aside from Hạo Thiên Tôn and Hỏa Thiên Tôn, the rest merely possess great power in emptiness, having contributed nothing to the perfection and innovation of the cultivation system!"

"The Tôn Chủs I speak of are existences like the Seven Tôn Chủs of Long Hán, like Khai Hoàng who opened up the Đạo Cảnh, like Hư Sinh Hoa who created the Thiên Hà Thần Tạng, and like me, who opened up the Tổ Đình realm!"

"And such an existence—there is one within Văn Đạo Viện!"

His gaze fell upon Hoa Tuyên Tú.

Everyone's gaze also turned in unison toward Hoa Tuyên Tú. Hoa Tuyên Tú was startled and took a step back, nearly tripping over the thigh bone she had thrown on the ground.

"Heaven have mercy—her thoughts and way of thinking have not yet been completely shackled by your rigid modes of thought."

Qin Mu said unhurriedly: "Had I come a few years later, she would have become just another ordinary person, no different from the rest of you."

Ngụy Tùy Phong, Vân Tiệm Ly, and Ngọc Thần Tử all felt quite displeased, but they had to admit that they had indeed nearly strangled Hoa Tuyên Tú's creativity.

Dư Sơ Độ, on the other hand, was very happy. He was Hoa Tuyên Tú's teacher and had always cared deeply about this young girl's growth.

"Aside from Hoa Tuyên Tú, there is half a Tôn Chủ in Văn Đạo Viện. Who was the deity who opened up the other three heavenly gates?"

Qin Mu's curiosity was piqued: "This person created half a realm, and can be called half a Tôn Chủ."

"It was U Minh Thái Tử and Văn Nguyên who created them while studying divine powers and Dao techniques under Tư Bà Bà."

Ngọc Thần Tử said: "Tư Bà Bà has a very deep understanding of the Đạo Cảnh system. Văn Nguyên and U Minh Thái Tử studied the Dao realm of divine powers under her, comprehending the Bắc Đế divine power and Dao technique system. Văn Nguyên always found it difficult to bring the Bắc Đế divine powers to their fullest expression. U Minh Thái Tử taught him, but strangely, U Minh Thái Tử also could not bring the Bắc Đế divine powers to their fullest expression. Tư Bà Bà originally thought it was a matter of bloodline, and even drew some of U Minh Thái Tử's blood to research it. In the end, she concluded that the root was neither in bloodline nor in the cultivation method. The three of them pondered for a long time and felt that the Heavenly Palace system was missing something."

Qin Mu listened, then asked: "Văn Nguyên? Which Văn Nguyên?"

Ngọc Thần Tử said in surprise: "He is the Young Giáo Chủ of your Thiên Thánh Giáo. You are the Old Giáo Chủ—how can you not know this?"

"I have become the Old Giáo Chủ?"

Qin Mu stood as if struck dumb, then slowly turned his head to look at Ngụy Tùy Phong: "Đại sư huynh, when was I usurped? Why is it that even I do not know about this matter?"

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