Volume 1 The Decline of the Sect Chapter 25 Protecting the Dao
Elder Taishang's empty old eyes stared at the blue-clothed man in front of him, and the shock in his heart was incomparable, he never dreamed that he would be able to meet Li Yunxiao, the founder of the Ancient Sword Sect and the big head!
Everyone present may not be able to know the identity of the young man in front of them, because they have not yet reached that realm, that is the Emperor Realm!
However, as long as the people who are directly related to the ancient sword sect are promoted to the emperor realm, a golden pattern will appear on it, called "Dao Pattern", and this Dao pattern witnesses the avenue taken by a monk.
There are countless avenues, such as sword path, martial arts, Dan Dao, etc., countless of them, as long as you can have an epiphany of them, you can be promoted to the emperor realm, and the emperor realm is just a trace of comprehending the avenue.
All the elder disciples of the Ancient Sword Sect practiced Qi Kendo, using Qi to control the sword, integrating Kendo and Qi Practice, and the two complemented each other, and finally evolved into today's Qi Kendo.
Elder Taishang cultivated the Qi Sword Dao to the extreme, and then had an epiphany of the mysteries, and then promoted to the Emperor Realm, and at the same time, Dao patterns also appeared on his body.
At the beginning, Elder Taishang consulted the ancient books, and only then did he know that the Dao pattern was closely related to the Great Dao that he cultivated, and different Dao patterns would give birth to different Dao patterns, and the Dao patterns contained the Dao Zhizhi, the mysteries of the world, once the Dao was enlightened, the strength would grow by leaps and bounds, reaching an amazing height.
The power contained in the Dao pattern depends on the founding ancestor of this avenue, the higher the realm of the founding ancestor, the stronger the strength of the descendants who inherit his Dao pattern, even if it is in the same realm, the strength of the powerful emperor realm of the Dao pattern is superior to the emperor realm of the ordinary Dao pattern.
The founding ancestor of Qi Sword Dao is undoubtedly the original founder of the Ancient Sword Sect, the big head Li Yunxiao.
After the Great Master soared to a higher realm, there was a time when the Ancient Sword Sect had a time when one Emperor Realm powerhouse could fight against three other Emperor Realm powerhouses with the powerful Dao Patterns of the Qi Sword Dao.
Now that the Ancient Sword Gate is declining, the power of the Dao Pattern has also weakened, and compared with the Dao Pattern of other Great Dao, the Dao Pattern of the Qi Sword Dao is at most on par with it.
When he was first promoted to the Emperor Realm, a majestic figure appeared in the cloudy eyes of Elder Taishang, that person was like a peak, he finally climbed to the top, but found that there was an insurmountable peak in front of him, separated by a chasm that went straight to the sky, compared with this peak, the peak he knew was just a drop in the ocean.
And the insurmountable peak witnessed by Elder Taishang is the founding ancestor of the Ancient Sword Sect and Qi Sword Dao, the great head Li Yunxiao!
Even if Elder Taishang only saw the back of the big boss Li Yunxiao, that kind of incomparable strength had already been deeply imprinted in his mind.
Now that Elder Taishang saw the blue-clothed man in front of him again, the shock he felt when he was promoted to the Emperor Realm struck again, and it was a chasm that he could not cross in his life.
Elder Taishang's whole body was full of divine light, and the originally silent Dao pattern resurfaced at this moment, and the thin body straightened up again, and his face was flushed, as if it had returned to the light.
"Big boss...... Are you finally back?" Elder Taishang looked at the blue-clothed man in front of him in disbelief, and asked in a trembling voice, he used a secret method, and the people around him couldn't hear what he and Li Xiuyun said.
"Hmm. Li Xiuyun nodded, he didn't expect that after so many years, there were still people in the Ancient Sword Sect who could recognize his identity.
"Great...... That's great...... I didn't expect that your old man would return to the Ancient Sword Gate in person, the junior has been guarding the Ancient Sword Gate for so long, and he can finally rest......" Elder Taishang's eyes were full of indescribable excitement, and after a while, his eyes burst into tears.
"Elder Taishang, what's wrong with you?" Li Yiying, who was on the side, noticed Elder Taishang's abnormality, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked.
Elder Taishang couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and cried with joy: "Ancient Sword Sect...... It's saved......"
Now he has lived for nearly 1,500 years, witnessing the successive changes of more than a dozen heads of the Gujian Sect, and also witnessing the transformation of the Gujian Sect from a super-first-class sect to a first-class sect, and even witnessing the glory and decline of the Gujian Sect.
Only he understands the bitterness of this, for more than 1,500 years, there has never been an Emperor Realm powerhouse in the Ancient Sword Sect, and his wife, that is, another Supreme Elder, because he is a second-class life wheel, has a lifespan of only more than a thousand years, and he has left him five hundred years ago.
That woman, who was willing to betray her sect for him, stayed with him with all her heart, and finally the two of them were promoted to the emperor realm at the same time, but the two had different life wheels, and she was destined to take the first step.
So the two of them swore at the same time that they would not be born on the same day and month of the same year, but that they would die on the same day and month of the same year, and if they could not fly to a higher realm and get rid of the shackles of the wheel of life, they would die together at that time.
Later, her life wheel reached the limit and transformed into a Dao in the secret territory of the Ancient Sword Gate, but he couldn't go with that stupid woman, because if he also left, the Ancient Sword Gate would no longer have an emperor realm!
For hundreds of years, with endless guilt for her, he has survived to this day, just to protect the path of the ancient sword gate, and until another emperor realm emerges, he can turn into a way and leave.
"I'm going to rest for a while...... "Elder Taishang looked up and muttered, the torment in his heart could finally be put aside.
Li Yiying, as the head of the Ancient Sword Sect, naturally knew the meaning of Elder Taishang's words, Elder Taishang's life wheel had actually reached its limit a long time ago, but he relied on a secret method to forcibly extend his life by burning his accumulated cultivation and continue to protect the ancient sword sect.
However, this secret method will cause a great load on the user's body, and it can only last for a hundred years, and then it will turn away.
"Elder Taishang, I have worked hard for you all these years, but the Ancient Sword Sect, there is still no Emperor Realm. Li Yiying's eyes were full of guilt, and he sighed.
Looking at the thin old man in front of him, who had long since ceased to be human, how could he not want to let Elder Taishang rest for a while, but since the decline of the Ancient Sword Gate, he has not been out of the Emperor Realm for more than 1,500 years......
The surrounding elders also lowered their heads, and they couldn't help but be in awe of this old man in their hearts, because he had protected the ancient sword sect for a full fifteen hundred years!
Li Xiuyun looked at the old man in front of him, and with his eyesight, he naturally saw that the old man's life wheel was exhausted, but he used a secret method to continue the flame of the life wheel by burning his cultivation.
But the consequence of this is that the user will have to endure endless suffering, and the cultivation that has been obtained with great difficulty will be lost, and there will be no possibility of enlightenment.
Elder Taishang is a holy body qualification, with his qualifications and the Qi Sword Dao Dao pattern, he actually has the opportunity to enlighten the Dao and advance to a higher level, but it is a pity that because of his fall as the master of the Qi Dao, all branches of the Qi Dao, including the Qi Sword Dao, have been completely sealed.
But he didn't choose to enlighten, but willingly protected the Dao for the ancient sword sect for a lifetime!
Now that his wheel of life is exhausted, even Li Xiuyun can't help it, every avenue is equivalent to a rule, the wheel of life is a rule that overrides everything, and the Taoist master in charge of the wheel of life is the lord of the underworld.
However, if someone breaks through the Divine Realm by practicing Qi Dao, then the Dao patterns in this person's body will increase their Dao power, and the Dao Lord's Dao power depends on the number of Dao patterns of each cultivator in the entire Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
And the Lord of the Underworld is the Dao Lord who is in charge of the wheel of life, as long as someone turns into the Dao and leaves, his Dao power will be increased by one point, Li Xiuyun does not know when the Lord of the Underworld appeared in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, before he became the Lord of Reincarnation, the Lord of the Underworld already existed.
It has been said that Hades is a life born in a time of chaos, and since then, the concept of death has been born.
He didn't know what strength the Hades Lord had, but he knew very well that if there was someone in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands who transformed into Dao, his Dao power would increase by one point, and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, just the Ten Lands contained countless star fields and countless lives, and the Dao power of the Hades Lord could be said to be unlimited!
And in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, there is still a Dao Lord who can compete with the Lord of the Underworld, and that is the Pan Master!
The Lord of the Plate and the Lord of the Underworld are said to be the life of a black and white double lotus, the Lord of the Underworld symbolizes destruction, and the Lord of the Plate symbolizes new life.
If the Supreme Elder had a shortened lifespan due to some special reason, then he had countless ways to save it, but if the Wheel of Life reached its limit, even if it was the Dao Master, he would not be able to disobey the rules of the Wheel of Life.
Unless he breaks through to the demigod realm and ascends to the god realm before the wheel of life disappears, he can get rid of the shackles of the wheel of life.
But it was too late, and he had turned his cultivation into fuel for the wheel of life through secret methods, and there was no possibility of enlightenment.
"Let them all disperse, Yiying, I have something to say to you. Elder Taishang looked at Li Yiying and said in a deep voice.
Li Yiying nodded and let everyone disperse, Li Xiuyun and Feng Lin temporarily lived in the outer courtyard of the Ancient Sword Gate, and Feng Lin could take over the position of young master tomorrow.
When leaving, Li Yiying proposed to Li Xiuyun the conditions of Elder Keqing, hoping that Li Xiuyun could stay in the Ancient Sword Gate, and the Ancient Sword Gate would also provide him with generous conditions.
However, Li Xiuyun refused, he was not interested in the identity of Elder Keqing, but he said casually, if it was the highest status of the Ancient Sword Sect, he might be interested, and then left the inner courtyard with the red-clothed girl.
At this time, one old and one strong, the two figures disappeared in the inner courtyard of the Ancient Sword Gate.
Deep in the inner courtyard of the Ancient Sword Gate, in a mysterious space.
This mysterious space was opened up by the Supreme Elder, and it can isolate everything from the outside world, and it can only be done when it reaches the Emperor Realm.
"Yiying, now I want to explain some things to you, you have to do it, understand?" Elder Taishang said to Li Yiying with a serious face.
Li Yiying nodded, judging from the tone of the Supreme Elder, it seemed that he was about to explain some extremely important things.
"You give this piece of Taishang token to Li Xiuyun, and he will take over my position from now on. Elder Taishang got straight to the point and directly handed over his Elder Taishang token to Li Yiying.