Chapter 404: Nirvana! Nirvana!

Chapter 404: Nirvana! Nirvana!

Chapter 404: Nirvana! Nirvana!
Xu Qing shook off the gradually dissipating wreckage of the Nine Skies Thunder Prison behind him. The aura of the core of the Imperial Palace in front of him was like tempting nectar, just within reach.

However, standing in front of this last step is a Bodhi tree that is about ten feet tall and as black as ink.

It stands quietly in the absolute darkness of nothingness, with sparse branches and leaves and a withered shape. Every inky leaf seems to have solidified the sorrow and vicissitudes of billions of kalpas.

There is no earth-shattering pressure, no freezing cold that freezes everything, and no tyranny that destroys everything.

It simply exists, yet exudes a palpitating, bone-deep silence.

This is not the disappearance of sound, but the reduction of the meaning of "existence" itself, and the absolute nothingness after "change" is completely deprived.

As soon as the thin black divine dog stepped into the edge of this area, it felt as if it had been hit hard. It whimpered and was violently bounced back by the invisible barrier. It could only wander anxiously outside the boundary.

"Bodhi Daozu... the great way of nirvana..."

The bronze mirror showed words related to the black Bodhi tree, and each word was of great weight.

Xu Qing's heart sank to the bottom.

This seemingly ordinary black Bodhi is the most unsolvable and profound ultimate killing game in Fengdu Imperial Palace.

Then, his eyes instantly became as sharp as a knife blade, and the sword intent symbolizing the five elements of killing in his body burst out without reservation!

Anyone who stands in my way will be killed!

I saw the five-colored flying sword floating in front of me, humming and vibrating, and the five colors of blue, red, yellow, white and black on the sword were spinning and blending crazily at an unprecedented speed!
On the tip of the sword, a real green lotus condensed from pure murderous aura bloomed instantly. The lotus petals were no longer phantoms, but were composed of countless fine and dense Taoist runes that flashed with cold light. Each rune seemed to contain the cold will to end a world.

The five elements are in conflict, and all things wither! Kill the immortals! Kill the gods! Kill the Tao! Kill all the laws!
The Five Elements Immortal-Destroying Sword—The End of All Things!
Xu Qing put his fingers together like swords, and with all his life's cultivation, he mobilized the chaotic magic power and slashed at the black Bodhi tree with the most powerful sword he could wield at the moment, which embodied the true meaning of the end!
scoff!

The colorful chaotic sword rainbow tore through the darkness! Wherever the sword light passed, the space was silently annihilated, leaving behind a void crack that could not be healed for a long time.

The killing green lotus was spinning rapidly in the core of the sword rainbow. The heart of the lotus contained a gray and hazy true meaning of "destruction", as if it wanted to forcibly drag everything visible and invisible, existing and non-existent along the way into its final destination - nirvana!
This sword was the ultimate manifestation of his use of the five elements to kill and comprehend the great way of ending! It was enough to cut down the stars and destroy the universe!
However, when this devastating sword rainbow touched the black bodhi tree...

There was no earth-shattering crash!
Brilliant rain of light without energy explosion!
There wasn't even the slightest ripple of energy!
The Five Elements Immortal-Destroying Sword Light, which was powerful enough to annihilate the projections of ordinary avenues, just... passed through without any hindrance! Like a blazing beam of light piercing through the purest void, like a sharp blade cutting through the invisible breeze. The sword light passed through the dark tree trunks and sparse branches and leaves, slashing into the darkness behind, and finally the energy was exhausted and slowly dissipated, as if it had never appeared.

The black Bodhi tree did not move at all. Not even the tiniest dry leaf trembled in the slightest.

Absolute silence!
Xu Qing's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of a needle tip!
A chill instantly ran up from the spine to the top of the head!
He clearly "saw" that the moment his sword light touched the Bodhi tree, the five elements of the sword light, the killing seeds, the chaotic energy, and even the true meaning of annihilation, all disappeared like a stone thrown into a bottomless abyss without causing any waves! It was not resisted or destroyed, but... "annihilated"! It was as if the place where the black Bodhi tree was located was the embodiment of "the end". Any "existence" that approached it would automatically return to annihilation and nothingness.

"Ten thousand calamities... unbreakable..."

Xu Qing's throat was dry. He finally understood the despairing absoluteness represented by these four words!
This black Bodhi is neither an energy body nor a material body. It is a projection of the law of Nirvana and the state of "eternal Nirvana" itself!
No matter how powerful the Five Elements Immortal-Destroying Sword is, its edge will ultimately act on "existence". How can it hurt the ultimate that represents "nothingness"?

At the moment when his mind was shaken, the withered branches of the Black Bodhi Tree, which seemed to be condensed from the deepest despair, swayed very lightly and silently.

No light, no sound.

But an invisible, intangible, colorless and tasteless "meaning" that seemed to have been stripped of all the "meaning" in the world, like the first tide of absolute darkness when the universe was first created, spread silently and instantly permeated the space of a hundred feet around Xu Qing - the innate divine light of annihilation!
This divine light is not an energy attack, but the infiltration and assimilation of the laws of the Tao!

The chaotic body-protecting fairy light that automatically rose from Xu Qing's body surface, as soon as it came into contact with the meaning of annihilation, instantly became like solidified grease, thick and sticky, and its operation was delayed a thousand times! The chaotic mana that was originally surging like a river was like being stuck in sticky asphalt in the meridians. Every time it was moved, it became extremely difficult, and the mental energy consumed increased exponentially! The chaotic characteristics that he was proud of and embraced everything seemed to have become a heavy burden at this moment, being penetrated and disintegrated bit by bit by the meaning of annihilation, and forcibly dragged into the abyss of death.

In his sea of ​​​​consciousness, the picture of the Five Elements that was once as bright as the Milky Way - representing the sharp white light of the metal element, the vital green of the wood element, the flexible black of the water element, the fiery red of the fire element, and the thick yellow light of the earth element - is now losing its luster at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming dim and gray!
The Dao Seed Runes that formed the foundation of the Great Dao began to peel and break on the surface like weathered rocks, turning into lifeless gray dust that drifted away in the darkness of extinction.

The balance of the Tai Chi diagram of rotating Yin and Yang was completely broken. The Yang fish representing vitality shrank rapidly, while the dead Yin fish expanded wildly, almost swallowing up the entire sea of ​​​​consciousness of the soul!
With every breath, he felt his "Taoism" slipping away, and his understanding of the laws of heaven and earth becoming vague and unfamiliar.

"Buzz...Woo..." The colorful flying sword floating in front of Xu Qing let out a mournful cry.

The five elements of killing sword intent flowing on the sword were like a frozen flame, quickly dimming and extinguishing.

The Tao seed runes on the petals of the green lotus that was condensed by pure killing were as if erased by an eraser, blurring and dissipating rapidly!
The sword spirit's faint yet tenacious spiritual light, under the illumination of the divine light of annihilation, was like a candle in the wind, swaying violently, and its light quickly dimmed, as if it could be completely extinguished at any time.

Even subtle gray lines began to appear on the sword, like ice cracks in porcelain!
"Ah!" Xu Qing let out a painful groan. From his seven orifices, there was no longer blood. Instead, traces of gray and dead "Dao Qi" slowly overflowed, representing the extraction of the origin of the Great Dao after it was forcibly erased!
His hair began to turn gray from the roots at a speed visible to the naked eye. His elastic skin quickly lost its luster and became dry and loose. His eye sockets became sunken, and the sharp look in his eyes was replaced by a deep fatigue and confusion.

He felt that he was being disintegrated and "erased" from the "root"!
Xu Qing suppressed any ripples in his mind, squeezed out his almost exhausted magic power to the extreme, and activated the Five Elements Immortal-Destroying Sword once again.

The sword light lit up with difficulty, but it was as weak as a firefly. It chopped on the Bodhi tree, but it was like a drop in the ocean, with no reaction at all.

He tried to perform an escape technique, but the annihilation surrounding him was like sticky amber, locking him firmly in place, unable to move. He used the Great Dao of Taiyi to deduce, trying to find a glimmer of hope, but the countless possibilities deduced ultimately led to the same outcome - annihilation!
Absolute nirvana!
The crushing feeling brought by the eternal suffering makes all wisdom, skills and strength seem so pale and ridiculous.

Time seemed to have lost its meaning, yet seemed to be infinitely stretched.

Xu Qing's consciousness began to blur, as if he was sinking into an icy, bottomless quagmire of eternal night.

In the memories of the past: the hardships of practice, the joy of breakthrough, the passion of battle; all have become distant and illusory, as if separated by a thick layer of rough glass.

He felt that the concept of "Xu Qing" was being stripped away and dissolved.

He was no longer the strong man who had bravely entered the Imperial Palace, but a collection of energy and consciousness that was heading towards complete nothingness. Even the emotion of "despair" itself had become numb and indifferent under the erosion of extinction.

The fire of his soul was flickering and about to go out, with only a faint spark left, enveloped in endless annihilation and darkness.

The origin of the Taiyi Dao condensed by Xu Qing himself, which was originally condensed in the core of Xu Qing's sea of ​​consciousness like a chaotic egg, was now suppressed to the limit. The light was so dim that it was almost invisible, and the surface was covered with gray cracks, as if it would completely shatter in the next second.

Xu Qing deeply felt at this moment that the real despair was not destruction, but letting you soberly and slowly perceive in absolute, unshakable silence that all traces of your existence were ruthlessly and irreversibly erased! Watching yourself step by step towards complete and eternal "nothingness".

Just when the fire of the primordial spirit was about to be completely extinguished, the light of the origin of the Taiyi Avenue was compressed to an extreme point smaller than the tip of a needle, and even the concept of "self" was about to be completely swallowed up by annihilation at the last moment.

The origin of the Taiyi Avenue, which was weak to the extreme and almost assimilated to nirvana, seemed to be forced to the absolute critical point between "existence" and "non-existence", and suddenly... collapsed inwards!
It's not an explosion! It's an extreme restraint!

A return to a state more primitive than "nothing" - the absolute origin where chaos has not yet begun, primordial chaos has not yet been determined, everything is nothing, and even the concept of "nothing" itself has not yet been born!
An ancient idea that originated from before the beginning of time and transcends all "existence" and "non-existence", "existence" and "non-existence", is like the only "singularity" in Xu Qing's modern memory that is not frozen at absolute zero. It suddenly awakens at the bottom of the abyss of consciousness where Xu Qing is about to sink completely!
In this absolute annihilation, with all the great ways he cultivated after birth being wiped out to the point of near exhaustion of their origins, that one point of Taiyi truth that symbolizes "before the beginning" and "everything is nothing" has become the only "existence" that cannot be completely wiped out even by annihilation!
Because nirvana is the end of everything and returns to "nothingness".

Taiyi is the starting point of "nothingness", "nothingness" itself, and even... the cradle of "existence"!

The divine light of annihilation can erase all "existence", but it cannot erase the most original "Taiyi" which is the starting point of "nothingness"!
"Nirvana... the end of everything... returning to nothingness..."

"Taiyi... Chaos has not yet begun... It is also nothingness..."

"So Nirvana is not the end, Taiyi is its source, or is it the same destination?"

Unprecedented enlightenment, like the first ray of light at the beginning of the world, tore apart the endless, suffocating darkness in Xu Qing's consciousness!

You must be put to death before you can survive! You must be destroyed before you can stand up!
Roar!
Xu Qing suddenly opened his eyes! From the depths of his originally gray and dead pupils, an unprecedented and absolute darkness erupted, as if it could swallow up all light!

That is not the darkness of destruction, but the primordial darkness before chaos and primordial beginning!

He no longer tried to resist the annihilation divine light! Instead... he actively embraced it!
"It's too easy to transform! All things return to the abyss! Nirvana has the same origin - disperse!"

Xu Qing made a crazy move that even the projection of Bodhi Daozu looked at him sideways!

He no longer maintained his own form, no longer guarded the remaining foundation of Taoism! He actually took the initiative to activate the last trace of the weak but extremely high essence of Taiyi True Meaning in his body, and operated it in reverse!

Click!Click!
The remaining Five Elements Taoist foundation and Yin-Yang balance in his body shattered like fragile glass under the reverse operation of Taiyi's true meaning!

This is not destruction by external force, but self-disintegration from the source!
As his foundation of Taoism collapsed, an unimaginable pain swept through his soul, but his eyes were surprisingly bright!

The shattered fragments of the Tao foundation, the remaining original power, and even the divine light of annihilation that was corroding the body... Under the reverse pull of the Taiyi true meaning of "all things return to the abyss", like hundreds of rivers returning to the sea, they madly rushed towards the collapsed Taiyi singularity deep in the soul!

That singularity seemed to have turned into the original "singularity" of the universe, an ultimate origin that could swallow, embrace, and transform everything and ultimately return to "nothingness"!

hum!
The singularity suddenly expanded! It was not an explosion, but a silent "diffusion"!
Xu Qing's body suddenly became illusory and transparent, as if it was made of the purest darkness.

The innate divine light of annihilation that was omnipresent and corroded everything, when it touched this layer of pure darkness representing "Taiyi Nothingness", was no longer in a relationship of erosion and being eroded, but like a drop of water merging into the sea, it merged into it without any hindrance!

The divine light of annihilation was assimilated by the "Taiyi Nothingness" that Xu Qing transformed into...!

He is no longer an "existence" fighting against Nirvana, but has transformed himself into the "nothingness" itself, which is the same origin as Nirvana and even deeper! How can Nirvana erase nothingness?
Give back what you have given to others! From the same source, nothing can harm you!
For the first time, that indestructible, eternally silent black Bodhi tree began to sway violently!

The law of the Great Way of Nirvana that constituted its projection seemed to have encountered the attraction of a higher-level and more original "nothingness", and began to flow and converge uncontrollably towards the deep darkness that Xu Qing had transformed into!
On the blurry face of the projection of Bodhi Daoist Patriarch, there seemed to be an extremely subtle ripple, as if the eternal "silence" was broken.

(End of this chapter)