Chapter 258 : Spreading the Dao
Chapter 258: Spreading the Dao
“What is going on? This is...”
“He is clearly at the Nascent Soul Realm, so why is he so different?”
“What exactly happened? Your power has changed. How did you achieve such a perfect connection with Spiritual Energy without using a Spiritual Root to drive it?”
“How did you do it?”
Looking at the changes in Li Tianwei, everyone stared at him in shock, their faces filled with disbelief.
“This path is the path of cultivation. It no longer takes the Spiritual Root as its foundation.”
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“Instead, it takes perception as its foundation, discards the false and preserves the true. What it cultivates is this.”
Li Tianwei raised a finger and pointed at his own heart as he spoke.
“The True Self. Cultivate your True Self, and transform into a carefree immortal.”
“Perceive the truths of the world, seek out your True Self, and no longer be influenced by the illusions of the world.”
“There is no distinction in aptitude, no distinction in Spiritual Roots. As long as your understanding of your True Self becomes clearer, your control and guidance over Spiritual Energy will become stronger.”
“If your understanding of your True Self and the cyclical laws of the world becomes sufficiently profound, then Ascending in broad daylight will be no difficult matter.”
Li Tianwei explained the Great Dao of cultivation in its entirety without uttering a single false word.
Even his statement about Ascending in broad daylight came from his own personal experience. He truly had almost Ascended himself.
Ascending while still at the Nascent Soul Realm—who would believe such a thing if it were told to them?
After hearing Li Tianwei's explanation, everyone from the Sacred Land of Lingxu pondered over it for a moment. They found it mysterious, yet the aura emanating from Li Tianwei did not deceive them. It was an entirely new kind of power.
“This Great Dao of cultivation seems rather unbelievable.”
“It says to cultivate the True Self, but who can be certain that it is truly one's own self? Could it not also be an extension, derivation, or guidance born from someone else's consciousness?”
At that moment, one of the elders slowly spoke, his words carrying an unmistakable implication.
Hearing the elder's remarks, everyone around him looked at him differently.
Because what he meant was whether this so-called Great Dao of cultivation and its True Self was actually something Li Tianwei had shaped using his own consciousness.
Yet upon hearing this, Li Tianwei did not display the slightest emotional fluctuation. To his ears, there was no hidden implication at all.
“You're saying that a Dao which enables you to understand yourself, understand the world, dispel confusion, and ultimately comprehend the Great Dao of the True Self... could merely be an extension of another person's consciousness?”
“The True Self belongs to every individual. I merely created this path. As for what comes afterward, once you have cultivated your True Self, isn't this very path the one you must ultimately discard?”
Li Tianwei calmly gave his answer.
After all, in Li Tianwei's eyes, the Great Dao of cultivation he had created was precisely this. Once one had cultivated the True Self, the final step was to completely abandon even the Great Dao of cultivation itself. Only then could one truly complete this path.
Among all things in the world, every person's True Self was unique.
Li Tianwei's answer was rather vague and profound, leaving the listeners only half understanding it.
However, when the people of the Sacred Land of Lingxu interpreted it using the principles of the original path of immortal cultivation, then judging by Li Tianwei's current intentions—
His desire to let everyone cultivate immortality and allow everyone to become like dragons—
None of those present had the right to question it.
Their cultivation and strength were all inferior to Li Tianwei's. Even if there truly were problems with this Great Dao of the True Self, they had no ability to stop what he intended to do.
“We shall do everything in our power to assist whatever First Seat Li wishes to accomplish.”
The Sacred Lord of Lingxu also did not fully understand the path of cultivation Li Tianwei had described, but he trusted Li Tianwei as a person.
Very soon, with the Sacred Lord of Lingxu expressing his support, everyone else also nodded.
“We shall assist with all our strength.”
Seeing everyone nod, Li Tianwei replied in satisfaction.
“Good.”
——
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble...
The sea of clouds churned as countless streams of Spiritual Energy continuously flashed.
Following Li Tianwei's grand undertaking, the Sacred Land of Lingxu had now completely taken control of the entire Northern Spirit Domain.
There was practically nothing capable of going against the will of the Sacred Land of Lingxu. After all, the cultivation world had always been one where the strong devoured the weak. Now that the Sacred Land of Lingxu was the only Sacred Land in the Northern Spirit Domain, it was only natural that it ruled over everything.
At least, that was how the other sects and factions of the Northern Spirit Domain saw it.
However, no one had expected that the brand-new decree recently issued by the Sacred Land of Lingxu would leave every cultivator throughout the Northern Spirit Domain completely dumbfounded.
“The Great Dao of Cultivation—everyone can cultivate immortality.”
Countless cultivators stared at the decree issued by the Sacred Land of Lingxu. Along with it came various cultivation methods regarding the path of cultivation, methods of tempering the heart, and ways to recognize one's True Self, leaving them utterly bewildered.
“How is that possible? Even without a Spiritual Root, people can cultivate immortality? This has to be a scam!”
“Doesn't that mean ordinary mortals will become just like us?”
“How can that be allowed? We cultivators are favored by Heaven itself. We possess Spiritual Roots. Why should those mortals become equal to us?”
After seeing this decree proclaiming that everyone could cultivate immortality, the Sacred Land of Lingxu also began freely distributing cultivation manuals throughout every region of the Northern Spirit Domain.
They even established schools everywhere, teaching all mortals how to read and write.
For a time, these successive actions nearly drove both the cultivators and the secular nobility insane.
Any intelligent person knew that what the Sacred Land of Lingxu was doing amounted to digging out the very foundations of the nobility and cultivators alike.
If everyone became literate and enlightened,
and then all began cultivating immortality,
how would they continue enjoying their privileged lives?
Where would their servants and slaves come from?
Furthermore, if so many people cultivated immortality, would they have to compete with all of them for cultivation resources in the future?
Would everything have to be redistributed?
“What recognizing the True Self? What Great Dao of cultivation? It's all a lie!”
“They're trying to steal what belongs to us!”
The cultivation clans were the first to lose their minds.
After all, they represented the most typical existence within the current cultivation world.
They relied upon their Spiritual Roots to cultivate and enjoyed the protection of cultivators.
As a result, their entire clans acted with complete impunity throughout both the mortal world and the cultivation world.
Through the faint traces of Spiritual Root bloodline flowing within them, they passed down all worldly authority and privilege.
But now, the Great Dao of cultivation spread by the Sacred Land of Lingxu proclaimed that everyone could cultivate immortality.
Wouldn't that completely destroy their uniqueness?
Would they still possess authority in the future?
Some cultivation clans secretly began taking action. They refused to carry out the assignments issued by the Sacred Land of Lingxu, while others went even further, spreading rumors that the Great Dao of cultivation was actually an evil art created by a demonic cultivator to harvest the masses.
At this moment, the original system and structure of the cultivation world also began to reveal their influence.
The people were ignorant and unenlightened, unable to realize that they had long since surrendered their own strength.
For example, they revered scholars, respected knowledge, and worshipped those so-called nobles as though they were gods.
These people represented the local authorities and powerful forces. Relying on the cohesion they had gathered, they took the lead in claiming that cultivation harmed people and that its practitioners sought to devour human souls.
With these fabrications spreading one after another, people had already begun resisting.
Some even resorted to outright coercion.
Didn't they want people to become literate?
Some noble clans simply kidnapped people and forced them to study, beating and torturing them if they refused, or forcing them to learn things they were incapable of understanding.