After Canyang Wuyou finished speaking, this wisp of her residual consciousness vanished.
Only Gu Qingfeng was left, feeling rather helpless.
Even now, he couldn't understand why people from the Daoless Age like Canyang Wuyou and Jun Xuanji would all lose their way one by one.
Nor why they all wanted to end everything.
What exactly was this 'everything' they wanted to end?
Karma?
Or something else?
He didn't know.
Gu Qingfeng couldn't figure it out either.
What made him even more helpless was the matter of the Blood of Original Sin.
If what Canyang Wuyou said was true, then was it fate that chose him, or karma that chose him, or the Blood of Original Sin that chose him? Or perhaps, from the very beginning, it was all just a coincidence, an accident?
Gu Qingfeng didn't know, and he couldn't be bothered to ponder such a damnable question.
He never thought about unknown future events. He didn't in the past, he wouldn't now, and he wouldn't in the future.
A human lives one lifetime, grass and trees one autumn. Why trouble oneself over uncertain future matters?
The cycle of life and death for all living beings is a law. In other words, from the moment billions of living beings are born, they are destined to end in death. So what? Knowing one will die one day, does that mean one shouldn't live?
Just wait for death?
As the saying goes, if it's fortune, it's not misfortune; if it's misfortune, you can't avoid it.
If heaven wants rain, or a mother wants to remarry, so be it.
Let it be.
Take one step at a time, live one day at a time.
If you can't live on, then just die.
That's how simple things are. It's just that some people think too complicatedly about things that are inherently simple.
Gu Qingfeng was a simple man, a common man at that. So, his life's dictionary contained only vulgar matters like eating, drinking, shitting, sleeping, and fucking. Anything beyond that, he couldn't be bothered to think about.
As his consciousness gradually cleared, Gu Qingfeng began his Nirvana Silence rebirth.
This was a long process, so long he didn't know in which year or month he would complete his Nirvana Silence rebirth.
As for the Blood of Original Sin,
the Myriad Phenomena Floating Pagoda, the Ancient Taboos, and the current state of the fortunes on his body—he wasn't clear about any of it. Everything could only be known after his Nirvana Silence rebirth.
Gu Qingfeng wasn't anxious. These things couldn't be rushed.
Nirvana Silence rebirth wasn't that simple. It required the right time, place, and harmony with people. Otherwise, all efforts could be wasted. Once it failed, his consciousness might sink back into chaos. When he would awaken again would be another unknown.
While Gu Qingfeng here was waiting for the right moment,
he was unaware that the outside world had already undergone earth-shattering changes.
Since the sky filled with strange colors and the Heavenly Destiny appeared, the entire world had gone mad.
This was a grand event, a grand event belonging to the Heavenly Destiny, a grand event belonging to the Natural Order, and even more so, a grand event belonging to the billions of living beings of this World.
Heavenly Destiny.
For many cultivators, it was a distant, almost unreachable existence, not an exaggeration to call it a legend.
Not to mention ordinary cultivators, even for those old-timers who had cultivated for thousands, even tens of thousands of years, it was very unfamiliar. Many enlightened Immortals who had cultivated for who knows how many years had never seen a Heavenly Destiny in their entire lives.
Although it is said that every time a new era begins, a new Heavenly Destiny descends.
However.
One must know that an era could be very, very short, or very, very long. For example, the Ancient Times lasted for tens of millions of years. Who could live that long?
No matter how high one's cultivation, one couldn't withstand the Measureless Life Tribulation that appears every nine cycles. In the end, one would turn to dust sooner or later.
Of course.
When a new era begins and a new Heavenly Destiny descends, it doesn't all descend at once. It descends intermittently, possibly lasting throughout an entire era. This depends on the will of heaven, the fortune of the Heavenly Dao. When the time comes, the Heavenly Destiny will naturally descend.
The Heavenly Destiny of the Primordial Era was the Imperial Seal.
The Heavenly Destiny of the Ancient Times was the Throne.
Many were curious about what the Heavenly Destiny of the current era would be.
Now, they finally had an answer.
The Heavenly Destiny of the current era was the Stellar Fate.
It is said that those who obtain the Heavenly Destiny are all star-incarnates who descend to the mortal world and can achieve the status of Great Dao Star Lords in the future.
This was a very noble status, so noble that even Immortals would have to bow in reverence upon seeing them.
Rumors said that more than ten Stellar Fates had descended upon this World.
This was an exaggerated number, a mind-boggling number.
Whether in the Ancient Times or the Primordial Era, when Heavenly Destiny descended, even if two Heavenly Destinies descended together, or three, or even four, that was the limit. Never had more than ten descended all at once.
One must know.
Between heaven and earth, it wasn't just this one World, but billions upon billions, endless in number.
Many Worlds, having passed through two eras, for tens of thousands of years, probably had never seen a Heavenly Destiny descend.
And now, this World actually had more than ten descend at once.
Was it just more than ten?
No!
These more than ten were only the known ones, the ones with names.
Many clearly remembered that on the day the sky filled with strange colors, the lights of Heavenly Destiny that appeared in this World numbered more than thirty.
Who obtained the remaining ten or twenty Heavenly Destinies?
To this day, it remained a mystery.
No one knew.
Some said a few of the Heavenly Destinies had mysteriously vanished.
Others said these Heavenly Destinies had been snatched away by some mysterious experts.
Still others said these thirty-plus Heavenly Destinies weren't just Great Dao Stellar Fates.
At the same time, there were also Great Dao Thrones belonging to the Ancient Times. Some even said that the Great Dao Imperial Seals of the Primordial Era had appeared as well.
As for whether it was true or false, no one knew. Opinions varied widely.
The descent of the Heavenly Destiny.
Some were joyful, others worried.
The joyful ones were naturally those who had seized the Heavenly Destiny.
As the saying goes, when one man attains the Dao, even his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.
After all, it was the Great Dao Stellar Fate. No matter who obtained it, or which sect or family obtained it, it would inevitably affect the World's structure.
The recently stabilized structure of the current era would inevitably face a reshuffling again.
However.
For ordinary cultivators, the impact wasn't great.
They never expected the Heavenly Destiny to descend upon them in the first place, so they couldn't be disappointed. Not only were they not disappointed, but the descent of this Heavenly Destiny also filled them with hope for cultivation.
When the Heavenly Destiny descended, the sky was filled with strange colors.
The wind was Spiritual Color wind.
The clouds were Spiritual Color clouds.
The rain was also Spiritual Color rain!
And Spiritual Color was the purest spiritual energy in the Natural Order.
Cultivating in such spiritual energy was ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times faster than usual cultivation.
Most importantly, absorbing such Spiritual Color energy also greatly increased the probability of cultivating fortunes compared to usual.
Therefore.
Since the Heavenly Destiny descended, since the sky filled with Spiritual Color, almost every day saw the birth of various miraculous fortunes, and every day someone attained the Dao and became an Immortal.
Various fortunes emerged endlessly, available in all varieties, dazzling to the eye.
Various ascensions to Immortality continued uninterrupted, astonishing to behold.
Even though the light of the Heavenly Destiny had long since disappeared.
Even though the sky full of Spiritual Color had long since dispersed.
This situation continued. It wasn't until the sixth year after the Heavenly Destiny disappeared that this frenzied situation gradually began to return to normal.