Chapter 321 I am a sinful immortal, the picture of the emperor's enlightenment
Kong Xuan walked up into the moonlight, and soon he reached the bright moon.
There is a courtyard in the bright moon. The moonlight refracts and falls on the ground. The shadow is very long, giving a feeling of being out in the sky.
There is a pavilion in the yard, with a few sparse laurel trees blooming outside the pavilion.
A woman was lying on a cloud bed, with a half-foot-high cloud light on the top of her head, like a lamp, crystal clear as orchid snow, with a head held up inside.
When she heard Kong Xuan's footsteps, she lifted the pearl curtain in front of the cloud bed, and a fresh air blew in her face. Then she saw Kong Xuan, dressed in a bright red Taoist robe, walking towards her with a calm demeanor.
"I've met senior."
Kong Xuan came to the cloud bed and stood still. He looked at the woman in front of him carefully and bowed.
"No need to be polite, sit down!"
In Chang'e's eyes, the moonlight was three feet deep and bright. Without any further ado, she directly put down the jade table.
This platform looks like jade and stone, but it also has wood grain, which is quite strange. Carved on it is an image of the bright moon shining on the river, rising high in the sky and illuminating all around.
After Kong Xuan thanked him, he did not refuse and sat down directly.
He felt something different as soon as he sat down. There was smoke rising from the jade platform, condensing without dispersing, and accumulating to be three feet thick. It then moved in an inexplicable trajectory, making the world in front of him completely different.
At this moment, he seemed to have jumped out of the Three Realms and was not in the Five Elements. He was high above the long river of fate, overlooking all living beings in the Three Realms.
Everything in the three realms turned into a picture.
The scroll unfolds, revealing the Nine Heavens, the divine land on earth, the eighteen hells, the natural rhythm of Taoism, and all living things competing to exist.
In a trance, he found that his real body had come here without him knowing when, and the incarnation of his supernatural powers fell into his body, and the two became one.
Lu Chengfeng was completely stunned, "What is this?"
When he looked back again, there was no courtyard anymore. There were only broken walls and overgrown weeds all around. Under a rotten laurel tree lay a head that had rolled down. He had no idea how many years had passed and the head was extremely rotten.
He looked around in a daze, and saw that everything around him was in chaos. It was deep and dark. An endless chaotic storm was raging, forming a terrifying whirlpool that swallowed up everything and drowned everything. It made people feel chilly, as if it came from the bones.
How similar is this scene to the Chaos Abyss?
At this time, a strange light rose from the rotten head, crescent like a moon, bright and dazzling, with the appearance of a woman, and seal characters appeared and disappeared.
The woman in the bright light said in a deep voice: "Just as you see, the world is nothing more than a painting, and the fate of all living beings is nothing more than a period of abandoned time."
Lu Chengfeng was stunned, as if a thunderbolt had exploded in his mind, but he was also filled with doubt and disbelief, "You mean, the entire Three Realms are in this scroll."
Chang'e paused and said with a sigh: "To be precise, this painting carries a period of time in the past."
He couldn't help but frowned, "Please speak frankly, senior."
Chang'e's cold and jade-like face showed a hint of seriousness. She raised her eyebrows and said, "You should have seen the scenes of the Three Realms 100,000 years in the future, and you have practiced the way of time. You should understand that there is no time in the Three Realms at this moment."
Lu Chengfeng frowned and said in a deep voice: "Yes, this is what I have always wondered. With my current level of Taoism and cultivation, it is impossible for me to reverse time."
"Time is the river of destiny for countless living beings. The direction of this river can be predicted in advance, but it is not the real future. The more powerful the creature, the more it can influence the direction of the river."
"So the future is uncertain, the emperor has no future, and their fate is only in their own hands."
“But I happened to see the future 100,000 years of the two emperors when I was still in the mortal world.”
"Moreover, time does not exist in the entire Three Realms. I am the only one who has comprehended time. However, through various clues, I can confirm that in ancient times, many immortals, Buddhas and sacred beings could comprehend time."
"Please enlighten me, Senior, why is all this happening?"
Chang'e's expression was calm, and every word was as clear as gold and stone. She said, "It's very simple, because the so-called Three Realms is just a picture scroll. A great man used supreme magic power and supreme magical powers to cut off 100,000 years of time in the past space and time and imprinted it on the picture scroll."
"This scroll has its own space-time, which looks no different from the real Three Realms, except that it has no roots or sources. It has become the wheel of space-time. Every 100,000 years, everything will cycle again."
"The memory of the next 100,000 years that you saw back then is the fate of how this painting will evolve."
"After a hundred thousand years, everything will repeat itself according to the script of the past time and space. After the Emperor of Heaven ascends the throne, the Three Realms will end, all living things will return to the abyss, and chaos will repeat. Then a new heaven will be created, and another hundred thousand years of the Divine Sky Calendar will pass."
"Reincarnation after reincarnation, from the 100,000 years of Shenxiao to the ascension of the Emperor of Heaven, endless reincarnation, without end."
"So, there are no living beings in this world of paintings who can comprehend time. They are just marks in the cycle of time."
Lu Chengfeng was confused. He had many guesses, but he never expected such a result.
"You mean, the Three Realms are fake, everyone is fake, everything is fake?"
He felt his heart was about to collapse. Everything Chang'e said was too sensational, as if everything he had experienced in the past was just an illusion.
"This is impossible!" Lu Chengfeng said firmly, "Are you trying to tell me that I have been living in a dream?"
"Yes and no." Chang'e shook her head gently, and suddenly clouds and moonlight surrounded her body, making it even more ethereal.
"The Three Realms are real, and the ancient times and pre-ancient times really happened."
“But after 100,000 years of the Divine Sky Calendar, the most turbulent period in the Three Realms when the Emperor attained enlightenment was imprinted in this painting with supreme magical powers. This painting is named the Picture of the Emperor’s Enlightenment.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the picture in front of Lu Chengfeng changed suddenly. The Nine Heavens, the human world, and the eighteen underworlds turned into thirty-three heavens.
Thirty-three heavens are stacked one upon another, suppressing the chaos, like a throne, holding up a sacred, majestic, and noble being. His entire body is shrouded in golden light, he holds a jade ruler in his left hand and a golden lamp in his right hand, emitting infinite light, infinite wisdom, and infinite magical powers.
Lu Chengfeng had seen the image of this Heavenly Emperor in future scenes before, but there had never been a moment when he felt that the heaven and earth were so majestic and inviolable.
Just a picture scroll made people feel awe and fear, as if as long as there was a disrespectful thought in their hearts, they would encounter great terror. "Put away your thoughts, don't think too much, don't think too much, don't look too much..." Chang'e's cold voice suddenly came from his ears, waking Lu Chengfeng up suddenly.
He couldn't help but shiver and felt creepy.
"The Emperor of Heaven has already achieved enlightenment, and swept across eight hundred worlds in the chaos, becoming the master of the eight hundred worlds. His strength and realm have been raised to an incredible level." Chang'e slowly explained: "Although this place is located in the abandoned land, the chaos abyss isolates everything, cause and effect do not exist, and all laws disappear."
"But that person is too terrifying. If you stare at this picture for a long time, it is very likely that he will sense you."
"This person cannot be seen, spoken, or thought about. Otherwise, a single thought could cause this person's spirit to descend here."
Lu Chengfeng's scalp tingled when he heard this, and he couldn't help but ask, "Since that person is so terrifying, isn't this painting even more taboo?!"
Chang'e sighed quietly, "This painting is the most mysterious legend in the original Three Realms. It was created by the Empress of the Divine Sky after she lost the battle for the throne with the Emperor of Heaven. She used her life and practice to intercept a period of time in the past."
"It is said that due to the existence of this map, the Great Dao of the Heavenly Emperor is incomplete. Otherwise, he would have already swept across the three thousand worlds and reached another level."
"There are also some rumors that this map contains the secret of the Heavenly Emperor's enlightenment. Whoever can unlock the secret in the map will be able to walk the path of the Heavenly Emperor's enlightenment again."
When she opened her mouth to speak, the bright light surrounding her body turned into laurel, and spring water flowed out from the moonlight, splashing onto the ground, filling the ground with jade and lingering.
But Lu Chengfeng could see that this scene was a sign of the loss of magic power, the loss of spirituality, and the impending complete fall and disappearance.
"Senior, are you okay? How can I help you?"
Chang'e smiled and shook her head, she pinched the magic formula to guide the inspiration of people around her, and an extremely mysterious mark rose from the Heavenly Emperor's Enlightenment Diagram, like thunder, like the bright moon, like chaos, and it was difficult to see clearly.
"I am a sinful immortal who was banished from the Three Realms to this abandoned land. In this chaotic abyss, nothing exists. After countless years, I have already perished."
"There is only a wisp of remnant, barely surviving with the help of this Heavenly Emperor's Enlightenment Diagram, but now it has been reduced to ashes."
Lu Chengfeng's heart tightened, and he quickly asked: "Senior, you said this is an abandoned place, what does that mean? And I think this place is indeed very similar to the Chaos Abyss in the Chaos Heaven. Senior, you also call this place the Chaos Abyss?"
A wisp of Chang'e's divine thought floats quietly in the sky like a bright moon, with layers of clouds surging, circling back and forth, condensing without dispersing.
She was forcing her mind to concentrate, but it wouldn't be long before her mind and spirit collapsed and disappeared into the world.
"Hurry up."
Lu Chengfeng felt a sense of urgency. He had to find out all the secrets of this place as soon as possible. Once Chang'e's regret completely dissipated, he might never know these secrets that had been buried in the ancient times.
The moonlight reflected between Chang'e's eyebrows, as if she could see his thoughts, and smiled, "Don't be anxious, I've been waiting for you to come here, and we still have enough time to solve all your doubts."
"The so-called abandoned land is the real Three Realms. It is a vast and boundless ancient continent. After the Emperor of Heaven attained enlightenment, he extracted the essence of the Three Realms and established the Thirty-Three Heavens. After that, the Three Realms gradually declined and were completely swallowed up by the Chaos Abyss 3.7 million years ago."
"The Emperor of Heaven lifted up the thirty-three heavens, traveled far to other worlds in the chaos, swept across the invincible world, established the Heavenly Palace, and conquered eight hundred worlds."
“And the area where the Three Realms once existed is called the Abandoned Land. It has now been completely swallowed up by the Primal Chaos Abyss and has become an extremely terrifying Primal Chaos Forbidden Land.”
"The Heavenly Court later used this place as a prison to suppress immortals, Buddhas, demons and monsters. Everything in this chaotic abyss was wiped out. Even beings at the level of Heavenly Venerable would be gradually worn away and die."
Lu Chengfeng sat on the jade platform, stroking the patterns engraved on it with his hands. The delicate and strange, cold touch came over him. He said, "So that's why the senior said that he was a sinful immortal who was banished to an abandoned place?"
"That's right." Chang'e nodded and said, "I didn't expect that after being imprisoned in this chaotic abyss, I would come across this scroll of the Heavenly Emperor's Enlightenment Map by chance."
"I was ecstatic after getting this picture. After all... Alas..." She paused for a moment and sighed, "It is said that this item was left by the Divine Sky Empress and contains the secret of the Heavenly Emperor's enlightenment. If I can get a chance from this picture, maybe I can escape from the Primal Chaos Abyss."
"It's even possible that she could become another female emperor... or even a Heavenly Emperor!"
"But the final result..."
Chang'e showed bitterness on her face, "I entered the picture with my divine consciousness and transformed into Qingming Tianzun, wanting to find the secret of the Emperor of Heaven."
"But no matter how hard I try, the final result is that the Empress falls and the Emperor ascends to the throne. No matter how many times I reincarnate, the result is the same, as if it cannot be changed at all."
"After I got this map, I had a mysterious feeling that as long as I could break the cycle of time and space in the map, I might be able to find the treasure left by the empress and the secret of the emperor's enlightenment."
“But you saw the final result!”
She pointed at the skull that had fallen under the laurel tree and said, "I was in the Primal Chaos Abyss for only a few thousand years before my cultivation was completely wasted and my body disintegrated."
“If there hadn’t been a wisp of divine thought that entered the Heavenly Emperor’s Enlightenment Diagram, I’m afraid I would have completely perished long ago, and not even this wisp of thought would have remained.”
Lu Chengfeng suddenly realized, "So Qingming Tianzun is the incarnation of your divine consciousness. The reason why I can see the next 100,000 years is also because of your action?"
"But why didn't Qing Ming Tianzun tell me the truth directly before he passed away?"
Chang'e said: "After my divine consciousness enters the picture, I will forget all my past and present lives. I can only influence her actions subconsciously until the end of reincarnation, and then I can completely withdraw my divine consciousness."
"So Qingming really didn't know that there were so many secrets behind the Three Realms. She even thought she had reversed time."
"In fact, everything is the spiritual imprint I left on her. With the help of the Heavenly Emperor's Enlightenment Diagram, I made the Empress and this divine consciousness incarnation have a causal connection and become mother and daughter."
"But in reality, in the real time, the Empress never had a mother named Qing Ming Tian Zun."
Lu Chengfeng suddenly realized that he now had answers to everything he had experienced in the past and all his doubts.
A thought even flashed through his mind that Luo Suyi was the reincarnation of Qingming Tianzun, that is, the incarnation of Chang'e's remnant thought in the Heavenly Emperor's Enlightenment Diagram.
"No matter what, among all the women, at least there is one who is real..."
He smiled bitterly in his heart, and as he looked at Chang'e, his mentality couldn't help but change slightly.
"This person, in a way, can also be considered his wife? I just don't know if she recognizes him or not?" (End of this chapter)