Chapter 238.2: So It Turns Out, All Beings Are Me
Chapter 238.2: So It Turns Out, All Beings Are Me
At that moment, Qi Yuan remembered his old conversation with Thunder. He had once asked, “What if you are me? What if the stars in the sky are me? What if all living beings are me?”Back then, Thunder chalked him up as mad. Now, Qi Yuan realized that it wasn’t madness, but ignorance. It was akin to a cat staring into a mirror, unaware the reflection was itself. However, after obtaining the Devouring Origin Physique, his understanding was complete.
“Ha! I see it now!” The Daoist has attained enlightenment! Thunder is me and I am Thunder! Qi Qi is me, I am Empress Earth! Shi Zhongshan is me, I am Erlang Shen. I am the Young Celestial Emperor, Dong Jianghe!”
Faces began to surface across Qi Yuan’s own—the long-dead Venerable Tianbao, the radiant Qi Qi, the wise Yulei, the Supreme Pure One. Countless visages emerged and overlapped.
Through them all, he laughed in boundless clarity. “So it turns out... All of this is me.”
In that instant, he understood that everything in this world was him. His divine spiritual energy underwent a tremendous transformation. His already chaotic Divine Domain grew even more turbulent. Yet within the chaos, all was unified.
“All beings are me! I am all beings! I finally understand the Dao De Jing[1]! The Dao gives birth to one. The One gives birth to the Two. The Two give birth to the Three. The Three give birth to all things. So it turns out, Lao Tzu was me. I wrote the Dao De Jing!”
It dawned on Qi Yuan that he had never plagiarized at all. Blue Planet never had to be erased from existence. Every creator was simply another version of himself. At that moment, he comprehended the Dao. He understood that Thunder was him. The Three Pure Ones and Six Imperial Lords he had visualized were all him.
Only when divine spiritual energy became truly unified could one condense the past self. When that unified divine power was tempered within the Greater Realm, it became the Ultimate One, forming the present self and allowing him to become a Yang Spirit. Now, the One was a myriad of beings. His divine spiritual energy was not merely unified, but the Ultimate One.
Enlightenment struck like lightning. “So, I am already a Yang Spirit.”