To this day, Gu Qingfeng still clearly remembered the last time he met Jun Xuanji was at the Tai Xuan Monument.
She said she had fallen into the bitter sea.
She said she was already lost.
What exactly was the bitter sea, Gu Qingfeng did not know.
What it meant to be lost, Gu Qingfeng could not comprehend either.
"Don't go...
Don't go...
Alright?"
Jun Xuanji floated quietly in the void, her stunningly beautiful face was deathly pale, appearing incomparably tragic and beautiful. Especially her eyes, as if they contained far, far too many complex emotions. Gazing at Gu Qingfeng, she murmured, "They...
will...
will spare no effort to erase you..." Although Jun Xuanji did not say exactly who wanted to erase him, Gu Qingfeng could more or less guess.
The Three Thousand Great Daos were certainly among them.
And also those people who belonged to the Wu Dao Age, like the ancestor of Canyang Mountain.
The Three Thousand Great Daos wanted to kill him, simply because his existence was a great threat.
As for why those who belonged to the Wu Dao Age wanted to kill him, it was probably for the same reason.
He was even certain that the mysterious killing intent enveloping him at this moment was mostly for this reason as well.
Why exactly did his existence threaten those who belonged to the Wu Dao Age?
Gu Qingfeng did not know.
Nor did he care to ponder this question.
It simply wasn't important.
What if he knew?
Would these people then not erase him?
Probably not.
Just like with the Three Thousand Great Daos, Gu Qingfeng had never felt he was a threat to them, yet the Three Thousand Great Daos insisted on thinking so. What could he do?
He could do nothing. Since the Three Thousand Great Daos considered him a threat, he might as well obediently be a threat.
Similarly.
Whether it was those who belonged to the Wu Dao Age, or the figures behind this mysterious killing intent, since they all considered him a threat, he might as well thoroughly and completely be a threat.
"Are you here to kill me too?"
Gu Qingfeng asked.
"I don't know, I don't know..." Jun Xuanji shook her head slightly, bewildered and confused, murmuring, "I only know it's wrong, the Karma is wrong, it's Canyang, it's her...
She was wrong...
She mistook cause for effect, and effect for cause..." "She holds the Blood Spirit, that person's Blood Spirit...
She thought...
If that person reincarnated, the Blood Spirit would surely sense it...
So...
so...
She...
hid that person's Blood Spirit within the Life Vein, and killed...
killed all those Life Vein individuals who triggered the Blood Spirit's resonance...
She thought killing that person would end everything..." "She was wrong...
Terribly wrong..." "It was her...
who merged the Blood Spirit with the Life Vein...
that...
led to the emergence of so many Life Vein individuals..." "If...
she hadn't done this...
it wouldn't...
it wouldn't have appeared..." "She was wrong...
Mistaking cause for effect, and effect for cause. That person's Blood Spirit is the cause, not the effect..." "She was wrong...
She thought that person would reincarnate, but that was only her assumption...
Whether that person would reincarnate, no one knows...
But...
but...
Using that person's Blood Spirit, she nurtured many Life Vein individuals who are not that person, yet are that person..." "You are one of them. You belong to the Blood Spirit, but the Blood Spirit does not belong to you...
You are also not...
that person..." "Heh heh..." Jun Xuanji laughed, a laugh filled with complexity, saying, "She was wrong, we were all wrong...
Everyone was wrong...
And terribly wrong at that...
Heh heh...
We all mistook cause for effect, and effect for cause...
Heh heh...
Wrong...
All wrong...
This is the curse...
The curse of Karma...
Heh heh..." Gu Qingfeng seemed to understand, yet also seemed not to, asking, "Who is that person you speak of?"
"Wu Dao."
"Wu Dao?"
Gu Qingfeng raised an eyebrow, asking, "Which Wu Dao do you mean?"
"The one from the Wu Dao Age...
That Venerable Wu Dao."
Although he had vaguely sensed it before, hearing Jun Xuanji mention Venerable Wu Dao of the Wu Dao Age now still made Gu Qingfeng's heart tremble uncontrollably.
Regarding the Wu Dao Age.
Gu Qingfeng knew very little, only that it was a distant and unknown era, an era that came after the Primordial Era. It was brief, so brief that shortly after the Primordial Era ended and a new era had just begun, a great calamity occurred, and that new era was thus terminated...
The reason for that new era's termination remained the greatest mystery between Heaven and Earth, unknown to anyone to this day. Everything about that era was also unknown, as if it had never existed. No one knew anything about that mysterious era or anyone from it, so everyone called it the Mysterious Era.
But many preferred to call it the Wu Dao Age.
It was said that during that era, a peerless genius was born. He slew immortals and slaughtered demons, defied the heavens and dominated the earth, finally ascending to become a True God, the first person to achieve divinity after the Primordial Era.
With his extraordinary comprehension, this person opened up a new Great Dao outside the Three Thousand Great Daos, named Wu Dao. It was said the mysteries of the Wu Dao Law encompassed all things, containing the profound truths of Heaven, Earth, and the myriad beings.
Relying on his own power alone, he altered his own Karma, severed all his Karma, becoming the first person in history to cut off his own Karma and grasp his own fate in his hands.
There were also rumors that when the great calamity occurred, this person, in a fit of rage, personally buried the origin of Heaven and Earth, burying both Heaven and Earth and an entire era.
Another rumor said that this extraordinary person discovered the true mysteries of Heaven and Earth, only to be erased by the gods. The gods then launched the great calamity to terminate the Mysterious Era, concealing all truths belonging to that era.
It was said that after this extraordinary person was erased by the gods, using some unknown divine ability, he transformed into a Karmic Black Hole. This Karmic Black Hole was eternal, not subject to any Great Dao restrictions, not bound by any Great Dao, nor was it within Heaven and Earth. It kept rotating, appearing in almost every era...
Since no one knew this extraordinary person's name, later generations used the Wu Dao he created to honor him as 'Venerable Wu Dao', meaning the one and only, the supreme sovereign between Heaven and Earth.
However, legends were after all just legends.
No one knew their truth.
Even after passing through the Ancient Era, the Remote Antiquity, the Upper Antiquity, and up to the Present-Ancient Era, the Mysterious Era and everything about Venerable Wu Dao remained an unknown mystery that no one understood.
For five hundred years of cultivation, Gu Qingfeng had always harbored doubts about his own Karma.
Because over the years, many who belonged to the Wu Dao Age had asked him if he was that person and said many inexplicable things. There were Yun Nichang, Feng Zhuyue, even including Jun Xuanji before him, and some others whose identities he didn't know. Probably the mysterious killing intent enveloping him now was also related to this.
He had long vaguely sensed that his Karma might be connected to the legendary Venerable Wu Dao. Otherwise, he wouldn't have attracted so many people from the Wu Dao Age over the years.
Yes.
He had felt it long ago.
But.
Gu Qingfeng never imagined that the connection between him and Venerable Wu Dao was this kind of Karma.
Was it his Blood Spirit that created him?