It must be known that only when a Great Dao perishes does the Great Dao's Essence Flow appear.
Although Gu Qingfeng wasn't entirely certain, he faintly sensed that that Lonely Star's Tear was likely a Great Dao Seed.
As for what kind of Great Dao's seed it was, that remained unknown.
That wasn't important. What was important was that, to this day, he still couldn't understand why that Great Dao Seed had inexplicably fallen from the sky, and why it had struck him with such unerring accuracy. What baffled him even more was that the Great Dao Seed felt strangely familiar, as if it had been part of him since birth. Before Gu Qingfeng could even react, the Great Dao Seed had already merged with his being.
Was all this merely a coincidence?
No!
It absolutely was not a coincidence.
The Great Nature wouldn't arbitrarily force a Life Seed upon him.
The heavens wouldn't arbitrarily drop a Great Dao Seed upon him.
And they, together with his Nine Nethers Ancestral Flame, wouldn't arbitrarily gestate such a bizarre Golden Core.
If they hadn't gestated that strange Golden Core possessing both infinite vitality and infinite transformations, Gu Qingfeng couldn't have gestated his body's endless multitude of Taiji Golden Cores. Without these Taiji Golden Cores, he couldn't have gestated the karmic phenomenon of All Beings Pay Homage to the Floating Pagoda.
If one said all this was just coincidence...
Then this coincidence was far too coincidental, coincidental to the point of seeming pre-arranged.
But if it wasn't coincidence, then what was it?
The arrangement of Fate?
The workings of Karma?
Or were there other reasons?
He did not know.
Gu Qingfeng truly couldn't figure it out. He didn't even know what exactly this All Beings Pay Homage to the Floating Pagoda he had gestated was.
The only thing he knew was that this thing should be related to the Human Dao.
But exactly how it was related, Gu Qingfeng couldn't say.
What gave him some comfort was that, although he didn't know what All Beings Pay Homage to the Floating Pagoda was, at least it was still under his control. In other words, this thing posed no threat to him; he could command and dominate it.
Above his Sea of Consciousness, in the gray, misty sky, there existed two black-hole-like presences. They looked like a pair of black eyes, half-open and half-closed, giving the feeling of a colossal creature dozing. And indeed it was so—this colossal creature was so vast it seemed the entire void was its body.
This was precisely the monster that had inexplicably gestated nine years ago in the Great Northwest, after Gu Qingfeng had gestated All Beings Pay Homage to the Floating Pagoda.
It was a monster that used the void as its body, the sun and moon as its eyes, possessing the might to devour heaven and earth.
What this monster was, Gu Qingfeng also did not know. He only knew this thing should be an ancient Taboo.
It should be so.
Although Gu Qingfeng had never seen so-called ancient Taboos, this monster gave him precisely that feeling.
And it was the very fierce, very fierce kind.
How exactly had this thing gestated?
Gu Qingfeng himself didn't know.
He even suspected this ancient Taboo wasn't something he had gestated at all, but rather that after he gestated All Beings Pay Homage to the Floating Pagoda, it had caused this ancient monster to awaken...
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Between Heaven and Earth, there existed too many mysteries and too many unknowns.
So-called ancient Taboos.
Most refer to those existences intolerable to Heaven and Earth.
These ancient existences are all undying and indestructible. Not to mention the Great Dao, even Heaven and Earth cannot completely obliterate them, only expel them from Heaven and Earth, banishing them to the legendary Outer Heaven Guixu Forbidden Land.
Legends say that evil overlords like Chi You, Xing Tian, and Jiang Chen were almost without exception cast into the Outer Heaven Guixu Forbidden Land.
During the ancient cataclysm, when the Primordial Essence of Heaven and Earth underwent rebirth and re-evolution, it was also the time Heaven and Earth were at their weakest. Who knew if those evil overlords cast into forbidden lands like Outer Heaven Guixu might have taken the opportunity to lie dormant within Heaven and Earth.
Gu Qingfeng tried to communicate with this ancient Taboo.
Alas.
The other party paid him no heed.
Seeming too lazy to bother with him.
Shaking his head.
Gu Qingfeng did not continue, instead looking downward.
Below the Sea of Consciousness was a boundless sea of blood.
Vast, infinitely vast, as if the Sea of Consciousness was as large as the sea of blood was large.
The sea of blood was calm.
So calm it had not a single ripple, looking like a mirror of bloody water, also devoid of any vitality.
This sea of blood was none other than the drop of Blood of Original Sin Gu Qingfeng had fused with nine years ago.
Although after the fusion, Gu Qingfeng had forcibly sealed this drop of Blood of Original Sin in his left arm, within the Sea of Consciousness, the Blood of Original Sin had transformed into a Sea of Original Sin, and by the looks of it, it had occupied almost half of the Sea of Consciousness.
Listening to Jun Xuanji, the drop of Blood of Original Sin he had fused with not only possessed life, it might also contain the spiritual will, even the consciousness, of that Lord Wu Dao, and might even contain more terrifying existences.
Gu Qingfeng tried to sense it.
Yet.
It was useless.
It wasn't that he couldn't sense the Blood of Original Sin, but that he couldn't sense anything from it. The feeling it gave him was like that ancient Taboo—as if it were slumbering.
He tried once more, still useless.
He could sense nothing.
In the end, Gu Qingfeng could only give up.
He glanced at the ancient Taboo above, looked at the Blood of Original Sin below, gazed at the infinitely transforming All Beings Pay Homage to the Floating Pagoda in the middle, and suddenly felt an urge to both laugh and cry.
The urge to cry was because this was his Sea of Consciousness, the 'home' of his self-awareness. And now? An ancient Taboo of unknown origin occupied the upper part of his home; the Blood of Original Sin from that Lord Wu Dao occupied the lower part; and the infinitely transforming All Beings Pay Homage to the Floating Pagoda occupied the middle.
In other words, this was his own home, yet now it was occupied by three uninvited guests. And these three uninvited guests seemed, one after another, more arrogant, more like lords. Not only had they occupied his home, they had simply fallen asleep there.
Fortunately, among the three uninvited guests, the guest All Beings Pay Homage to the Floating Pagoda was relatively polite and relatively obedient. If told to leave, it could leave. As for the other two lords, Gu Qingfeng had not a shred of a way to deal with them.
However, a silver lining in the misfortune was that, fortunately, there were these three uninvited guests, and they could suppress each other. If only one uninvited guest had come, then Gu Qingfeng would have been in danger. Once the Sea of Consciousness was completely occupied, his self-awareness would have no place to settle and would vanish.
Of course.
Perhaps the reason Gu Qingfeng felt this urge to laugh and cry was because these three uninvited guests gave him a headache, but also because of an even more important reason: this 'home' looked like it belonged to him, but that was only in appearance. In truth, the true master dominating this home wasn't him, but his Avici-Wicked Asura Soul.
The Avici-Wicked Asura Soul was his soul.
That was correct.
But this soul was a bit disobedient.
When it usually slumbered, it was fine. Once it awakened, the Avici-Wicked Asura Soul would immediately dominate the Sea of Consciousness, declaring its hegemony. Gu Qingfeng's self-awareness would also be affected and assimilated by it, and his physical body would transform into the Avici-Wicked Asura.
Every time he remembered this, Gu Qingfeng felt helpless.
But.
It was only helplessness.
Fortunately.
He was used to it.
And numb to it.
Because ever since the day he began cultivating, for five hundred years, his Sea of Consciousness had always been occupied by various karmic fortunes. At its peak, over forty karmic fortunes occupied his Sea of Consciousness. Back then, his Sea of Consciousness was very lively, with fights breaking out every few days.