Chapter 626: The Way of Immortality
He was running like this not because he was crazy, but because he was trying his luck. Yes, he was trying his luck. The Endless Void was a very strange dimension, or it could be said to be the opposite of the World Void. It was the foundation of the existence of the World Void. Fights between cultivators would often shatter the void and cause void cracks to appear. Behind the void cracks was the Endless Void.
If Zhang Qian is lucky enough and encounters a fight between cultivators in the endless void, creating a void crack, then Zhang Qian can take advantage of the few moments before the void crack closes and instantly drill in and return to the Xihuang world. This is the only way Zhang Qian can think of.
Just searching for those fleeting void cracks in the endless void is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack, and is even worse than looking for a needle in a haystack.
Because the cracks in the void created by the cultivators will disappear and heal in a very short time, it is too difficult for Zhang Qian to find a crack in the boundless dark void in such a short time.
Even if a crack appears, it will disappear within a very short period of time. It can be said that he is really relying on luck to find a void crack here.
However, Zhang Qian believed that his luck would not be too bad. After all, he now had the Linglong Pagoda of the Mysterious Heaven and Earth. The pagoda was condensed from the luck of the Yin-Yang Sect. With such a huge luck on him, Zhang Qian did not believe that his luck was bad.
Think about the White Crane Boy. His cultivation was extremely low, but because of the luck of Mangcang Mountain, he was able to gain many opportunities in the extremely dangerous Ni Tomb, and walked out of the Ni Tomb unscathed. This is the effect of luck.
The power of luck in Zhang Qian now is countless times greater than that of the White Crane Boy. It may not be comparable to those chosen ones, but it should not be underestimated.
The power of luck may seem ridiculous, but it really exists.
With no way to leave here, Zhang Qian could only pin his hopes of escaping on luck.
And he deeply believed that the more determined a person's mind was, the better his luck would be. This was not without reason.
He was running around in the endless void like a mouse caught in a trap, with no fixed direction at all, appearing and disappearing from time to time. He didn't know how long it had been, maybe just a moment, maybe many years. As time went by, Zhang Qian's concept of time had gradually become blurred.
He wandered in the endless void, and when he was tired, he entered the Mountain, River, and State Map. The boundless darkness of the endless void made Zhang Qian's heart extremely depressed, and only the world of the Mountain, River, and State Map with green mountains and clear waters could make him relax. Moreover, with the company of the women, Zhang Qian did not go crazy after all.
If someone else were to be alone in this endless darkness, with no concept of time and direction, he would go crazy sooner or later. Even if he was an immortal god, it would be the same. After all, immortal gods could not resist the power of the universe. In front of the power of the universe, immortal gods are just ants.
When Zhang Qian walked out of the Mountain, River, and State Map for the hundred and first time, his eyes had become extremely indifferent, as if he was in absolute rationality, but also as if he had no rationality at all. He no longer looked like a human being, but like a god or Buddha enshrined in a temple.
He had forgotten how long he had stayed in the dark void. Time was worthless here and he had no idea of it. He had traveled through the dark void countless times but had never encountered a void crack that opened by chance. This made him begin to doubt his luck.
If he hadn't been for the company of everyone in the Mountain, River, and State Map, he would have gone crazy long ago.
Even now he is a little abnormal, indeed not normal, a normal person would not look at him with such an indifferent look.
After walking out of the Mountain and River State Map, Zhang Qian waved his hand to put away the treasure map, but did not move on. Instead, he sat cross-legged and stopped in the dark void. A long time passed. At first, Zhang Qian wanted to get away, but after seeing no hope, Zhang Qian did not sit idle. He began to think and summarize what he had learned, whether it was his own practice method "Taiyi Refining Demon Gold Chapter", or a group of innate spiritual treasures and magical powers, and even the memories and practice experience of the Hundong Patriarch obtained from the prehistoric world, he studied them all thoroughly without any doubts.
"As a prehistoric golden immortal, Hundong Patriarch is also an innate creature. The way he comprehended is the way of calamity. Unfortunately, he met Luohou and died early. Otherwise, as the prehistoric world encountered calamities again and again, Hundong Patriarch, who comprehended the way of calamity, would become stronger and stronger. Under the impetus of endless calamities, he would eventually achieve the position of the Supreme."
Sitting cross-legged, Zhang Qian began to ponder the Tao of Patriarch Hundong. As a golden immortal in the ancient times, Patriarch Hundong naturally also realized the existence of his own Tao.
The path he comprehended was the path of calamity, which was almost identical to the path of the Demon Emperor of Catastrophe in the Great World of All Stars. However, the Demon Emperor of Catastrophe brought about the calamity himself, and he needed to bear great cause and effect. Once the cause and effect backfired, he would immediately die.
However, the way of disaster for Patriarch Hundong is different. His way is that as long as a disaster occurs in the world, he will gain some strength, and eventually he will achieve transcendence under the impetus of endless disasters.
In comparison, the Tao of the Hundong Patriarch is much more profound than that of the Haojie Demon Emperor. At least, the Hundong Patriarch does not have to bear the cause and effect of the catastrophe. Unfortunately, he met Luohou, who caused the Hundong Patriarch to die prematurely.
If Zhang Qian had continued to practice according to the "Taiyi Golden Chapter of Demon Refining", and added the memories and practice experience of the Hundong Patriarch, it would not have been difficult for him to comprehend the way of calamity, but Zhang Qian did not do so in the end.
After staying in the endless void for so long, Zhang Qian had no concept of time and didn't even know how much time had passed. However, his cultivation had broken through from the early stage of Yuanshen to the great perfection stage of Yuanshen. The next step was to break through to the Yandao realm.
As long as you understand your own way, you will reach the realm of derived way.
In comparison, it is easier for Zhang Qian to break through the Yandao realm than most cultivators. He now has several choices, whether it is the Yin-Yang Dao contained in the Tai Chi diagram, the disaster path of the Hundong ancestor, the time path contained in the Kunlun Mirror, the killing path contained in the Four Swords of Zhu Xian, and so on. All the innate spiritual treasures and magical powers have their own rules and ways. As long as Zhang Qian is willing, he can instantly choose one of them and break through the Yandao realm.
Think again about the countless soul cultivators who were about to die outside the Eternal Fairyland. Those soul cultivators had been meditating outside the Eternal Fairyland for countless years just to achieve the realm of Yan Dao, thereby prolonging their lifespans and continuing to live, but they failed to achieve their goal.
Zhang Qian is much happier because he has many choices.
However, Zhang Qian did not choose any of these options. It was not because he was arrogant or because he was dazzled. Rather, no matter the rules and principles contained in the innate spiritual treasure's magical powers or the experience of the Hundong Ancestor, he felt that they were not suitable for him.
“No matter how strong the path of calamity is, there are always saints who are indestructible. No matter how mysterious the path of yin and yang is, there is always Hongjun Dao above it. The path of time can be called the emperor of all paths, but there are also immortals who transcend time and ignore the influence of time.
The path I pursue is not calamity, not yin and yang, not time, not killing, but immortality! Thousands of calamities cannot erase it, Tai Chi yin and yang cannot shake it, the passage of time cannot affect it, and thousands of killings cannot harm it. That is the path to immortality!"
(End of this chapter)