CHAPTER 1203: CHAPTER 50: PREACHING (3/3)

This is not mere luck.

Those who failed before mostly tried to externalize the power of their Inner Array Realm, forming a Law Domain to suppress the Great Void. But because of this, their Law Domains simultaneously contacted multiple Heavenly Sea areas with differing Time Flows, where some places were fast, some were slow, and their own power tore them apart.

However, Yu Feng transformed the Law Domain into an ark of adaptable size—every time he entered an area with a different Time Flow, he would reduce it to exist only in that region. In this way, he wouldn’t need to simultaneously control the domain to accelerate or decelerate in over ten different areas, just one place at a time.

Though it was a trick, it proved Yu Feng’s control and observational skills regarding his Law Domain.

"Still revealed a bit of my hand."

Having crossed the Heavenly Sea and standing before the Dragon Gate, Yu Feng felt both joy and a hint of regret: "The Breaking Void Ark wasn’t just for crossing the Heavenly Sea; it can also break open entrances to many formation secret realms. I originally intended it as a Dark Hand, but used it right from the start."

Despite the regret, Yu Feng wasn’t too concerned—holding back was inadvisable, and he couldn’t wait another millennium for the next grand gathering.

Even after Yu Feng, many still failed to cross the sea, but there were some martial artists with amazing techniques who succeeded.

A martial artist from the Sword Court simply cleaved down with a sword regardless, and remarkably cut open a path through the sea, sauntering across.

A martial artist from the Heavenly Walking Divine Sect could directly use the Great Void Techniques to shield against the interference of the Heavenly Sea, bypassing this obstacle and reaching the Dragon Gate. This feat was even harder than crossing.

An unknown loose cultivator martial artist, though showing no techniques, forcibly crossed the Heavenly Sea, his body and soul heavily damaged, yet he still brute-forced his way through, his flesh and Law Domain rapidly restoring within a few breaths.

And by this time, Yu Feng was already stepping into the inner side of the Ancestral Dragon Hall.

A path.

From the Dragon Gate inward, there lay a path leading deep into the Ancestral Dragon Hall. It was made of coral, growing from the Cloud Vortex Spring Water, exuding endless life force and vitality, various corals spliced and layered together forming a solid rainbow bridge.

On both sides of the rainbow bridge, is the ’sea’ suspended mid-air.

As a royal family member, Yu Feng had seen the Great Wilderness Realm devouring another world, where some worlds weren’t a Heavenly Circle and Earth Square, but spheres like Stars floating amidst the endless Great Void. These Stars crashed into the Great Wilderness Realm, becoming islands, continent lands, magnificently grand.

In such a world, there exists exceptionally peculiar planets composed of dense atmosphere known as ’Gas Sea Stars,’ mostly devoid of signs of life, but some Gas Sea Stars harbor vast cosmic giant beasts inside.

The ’Gas Sea’ surrounding the Ancestral Dragon Hall is similar yet more vibrant with life.

Countless Exotic Beasts inherently capable of wielding the Power of Great Void are densely, orderly wandering in the Gas Sea on both sides of the rainbow bridge, among them the imposing dragon whales are the largest, stirring ocean currents like cosmic giant beasts from Gas Sea Stars. Surrounding them, many shrimp, crab, swordfish, and jellyfish with apparent dragon blood components swim along the giant whale’s path, utterly carefree.

"How could the Ancestral Dragon Hall raise so many Dragon Blooded Exotic Beasts... no, these aren’t Exotic Beasts!"

Initially, Yu Feng was somewhat puzzled, thinking these beings were Heaven and Sea Scenic Beasts kept by the Ancestral Dragon Hall for aesthetics— but soon he was stunned to realize these Dragon Blooded Beings possessed individual intelligence, they were definitely not merely kept pets, on the contrary, more like... members of the Ancestral Dragon Hall?

A group, within the Ancestral Dragon Hall, learning how to become ’Dragons’ as trainees?!

"Even dragons struggle to join the Ancestral Dragon Hall, yet there are so many non-dragon beings!"

Not only that, Yu Feng noticed the bizarre mannerisms and moves of these Dragon Blood trainees...

They were uniformly, quietly and swiftly heading towards a corner of the Ancestral Dragon Hall, seemingly drawn by an unspoken call.

Yu Feng felt a great curiosity; the Ancestral Dragon Hall indeed is the Ancestor Court of True Spirits of Myriad Tribes, having numerous non-dragon beings could be considered normal, but what are these beings attracted by?

He raised his head, focused his mind, looking in that direction.

He faintly heard a voice.

"...Searching for food when hungry, finding springs when thirsty, mating when emotions stir, sleeping when tired. This is the nature of life."

A young voice declared such an ordinary fact, leaving Yu Feng perplexed, yet soon the voice shifted: "Because you need energy, your blood needs continuity, your flesh requires Spirit Qi to convert energy, to fuel the burn of minuscule origins within."

"This embodies a struggle, life draws power from heaven and earth, basks in sunlight, and feels joy, but it’s irrelevant to ’self,’ those are external things, life feels joy from external things solely because they benefit the flesh."

"Recall, when you were still mundane, chased food, fresh water, and companions, the joy you felt, was it truly ’self’ joy from the heart, or peace from temporarily satiating the flesh’s instincts?"

Yu Feng was slightly taken aback; he couldn’t say he hadn’t considered this question, but that was back in the Great Wilderness Realm—when he first started Cultivation with the Furnace Drying Skill, devouring many Spirit Foods nourishing the blood qi and apertures in his body, he felt his flesh immensely rejoice, prompting joy within himself.

At that time, the household instructor brutally awakened him, cautioned him, he must never succumb to the body’s euphoric control, if let this greed spread to the Soul and Spirit or even the Self, then every cultivator would degrade into a beast named ’Taotie.’

Hence, what differentiates my shell and ’I’?

This question briefly existed within Yu Feng then, but never delved deeper, and upon arriving at Embracing the Void, a world where Fate Patterns could convert Spiritual Fiend, body and soul have always been unified, just adhering to Fate Pattern naturally brings joy to the heart.

Unconsciously, he left the rainbow bridge, like the Dragon Blood trainees, heading towards a corner of the Ancestral Dragon Hall.

A multitude of beings converged into a river of Spiritual Light, moving forward, the river swirling, transforming into a vortex, flowing around a small island.

And on that island, a young silhouette sat, lecturing.

Like solidified thunder or frozen lava, an indescribable divine aura condensed on this silhouette, merely seeing the instant, Yu Feng felt an instinctive chilling threat creep down his spine, his long hair fluttered in the flowing water-like wind, as black as the deep dark of the ocean.

Human, yet like the heavens and earth. Yu Feng sensed no overwhelming pressure to astound hearts; only an indescribable ’quiet,’ akin to facing a towering mountain, it never speaks, merely exists and invokes subconscious awe and silence.

Hum...

A deep sword hum, almost a hallucination, sharply resonated from the depth of Yu Feng’s Heart Soul, a quiet sword heart that slumbered for endless ages finally awakened.

That silhouette, feeling something, turned his head.

Deep as ink, like the abyss of deep space, within the eyes nestled a trace of crimson blaze like blood, one sweep of the gaze emptied Yu Feng’s Soul and Spirit, completely ceasing thought.

No, not ceased thought.

But halted thought.

Time appeared frozen, the flow of Chrono-Light infinitely stretched, extended, for some reason, Yu Feng suddenly recalled every detail from when he journeyed from the Great Wilderness to Embracing the Void... in this vacuum-like silence beneath that gaze akin to a cataclysmic blaze, he vaguely saw, vaguely heard...

A sword hum, and the light stream of Sword Light!

—It is precisely because of it, that he could traverse the endless Great Void to reach here!

But it was just a glimpse.

In the next instant, the young silhouette diverted his gaze, calmly continuing to lecture the Dragon Blood trainees around him on the Teaching of Principles.

And Yu Feng once again breathed, drenched in sweat.