Playing mind games with me, huh?
Lu Yang clearly understood in his heart that the main reason Tianhun offered a Dao heart cultivation method like the [Heart-Cleansing Chapter] was to use it to make him stay.
The Dark Aspect of the Light Sea is the best Dao heart cultivation ground.
If I go in and cultivate, using the twelve former Dharma Body Dao Great Perfected Lords for practice, and if I truly manage to cultivate successfully, I imagine I would also be able to awaken their consciousnesses.
From this perspective, Tianhun was actually supporting him.
He had definitely wanted to leave for a long time as well, but simply suffered from never finding an opportunity. And the last person he encountered was a demonic figure like the First-generation Master of Heaven-Mending Peak...
Thinking of this, Lu Yang's expression suddenly turned somewhat strange: Thinking about it carefully, artifact spirits shouldn't have a distinction between male and female, right? This guy... perhaps he wasn't forced upon by Bu Tianque back then, but rather it was mutual affection, and he was deceived by Bu Tianque's sweet talk...
This possibility was even higher!
Otherwise, as a supreme treasure left behind by a Dao Lord, how could he sit by and watch the First-generation Master of Heaven-Mending Peak take away the crucial Dao of Yin? There must be a hidden story.
A scene rapidly surfaced in Lu Yang's mind:
After Bu Tianque coaxed Tianhun into Dual Cultivation, she immediately used all her skills to make his soul fly beyond the heavens, and then ran off with the goods before he woke up...
This was much more reasonable.
On the other side, Tianhun also felt Lu Yang's ambiguous gaze. Suddenly feeling inexplicably guilty, he took a step back with an unnatural expression:
"...What are you doing?"
"Nothing."
Lu Yang decisively changed the subject: "Many thanks to Fellow Daoist for bestowing the method. Without further ado, I plan to immediately enter the Dark Aspect of the Light Sea and experience the effects of the cultivation technique."
Tianhun was naturally happy to see Lu Yang so motivated, immediately smiling: "If Fellow Daoist wishes to head to the Dark Aspect of the Light Sea, simply choose any portrait painting and touch it with your divine sense. To leave, you only need to withdraw your divine sense. However, there is one thing I must remind Fellow Daoist of."
Speaking up to here, Tianhun's expression turned serious:
"Although a perfect Dao heart can endure for a period of time in the Dark Aspect of the Light Sea, there is still the risk of being polluted. I implore Fellow Daoist to be sure to act within your capabilities."
"Many thanks for the reminder."
Lu Yang nodded. Out of habit, he scanned the area with the [Immortal Nexus Survival Guide]. After confirming there were no problems, he then separated a strand of divine sense and landed it on a painting.
…
Can a person realize they are dreaming?
This was a very subtle feeling. It was as if a thin film covered his thoughts. He was clearly thinking, yet his thoughts were wild, chaotic, and without order.
Lu Yang looked around.
What met his eyes was a vast sea of clouds, like a chessboard. In the sea were countless floating mountain peaks, scattered like chess pieces arrayed across the cloudy sky.
Jiangbei, Primordial Saint Sect.
Lu Yang furrowed his brows and walked slowly forward. However, right at this moment, a figure suddenly stood up within the sea of clouds, looking at him from afar.
It was a giant.
The surrounding floating mountain peaks were merely stones at his feet. His towering muscles were like continuous mountain ranges, and spiritual tides surged with every breath he took.
Those eyes, as large as mountains, were filled with violent bloodshot lines.
The moment their gazes met, an indescribable anger also suddenly rose in Lu Yang's heart. It was as if a marks had surfaced in his mind:
[Anger]
Lu Yang felt the resonance and immediately understood: This is the residual emotion of one of the Dharma Body Dao Great Perfected Lords: anger. What did he experience before he died?
In the next second, the giant let out a furious roar:
"Heaven-Mending!!!"
—Lu Yang knew what he had experienced.
Lu Yang circulated his Dao heart, rapidly suppressing that nameless fire. Meanwhile, the giant roared madly while ruthlessly smashing a fist down toward him.
"Boom!"
The sea of clouds churned. Lu Yang's expression didn't change, and the giant also pulled back his fist. Neither side was injured—simply because this wasn't a collision of spiritual power and profound concepts.
It was a clash of Dao hearts.
After taking this punch head-on, the nameless anger in my heart suddenly skyrocketed. Although I can still control it now, if I take a few more punches, that might not be the case.
Thinking of this, Lu Yang stroked his chin thoughtfully: This feeling of the Dao heart being affected is quite familiar... It's the same as the World Honored One's pollution.
That damn [One Mind] is, to some extent, the same thing as the giant before me. It's just that the giant is purely anger, while [One Mind] symbolizes the World Honored One's will; it's much more complex and its methods are superior. Could the World Honored One have also visited this Dark Aspect of the Light Sea back then?
Lu Yang pondered as he retreated.
He had no intention of fighting that crazed giant of anger. It was completely meaningless. Setting aside whether he could win, even if he did, it would be a loss.
Because I am rational, while the other party is an aggregate of crazed emotions.
I need to maintain my rationality, but the other party isn't worried about becoming even crazier.
How was he supposed to fight this?
Unless my Dao heart can possess an overwhelming advantage over theirs, making their madness unable to affect me, or even allowing me to reverse the situation and affect them...
With this thought, understanding dawned in Lu Yang's heart: That's right! The so-called awakening is actually using my rationality to pollute these crazed emotions!
Once they gained rationality, they would naturally become clear-headed.
That was why Tianhun called it beating them awake.
Interesting.
While sighing with emotion in his heart, Lu Yang rapidly shook off the giant. At the same time, he curiously observed this Dark Aspect of the Light Sea, the so-called ocean of consciousness.
The power of the Dao heart.
As he observed, he thought:
If this Dark Aspect of the Light Sea can allow people to resurrect from the dead, doesn't that mean Sisui actually also has hope of relying on this place to return from death?
Thinking of this, Lu Yang suddenly raised his head.
All the scenery was fading at this moment. These were originally false things, manifestations of his subconscious. What different people saw varied.
In a daze, his perspective was elevating.
Any entity, as long as it possessed intelligence and knew how to think, would inevitably cast its own shadow in the Dark Aspect of the Light Sea, becoming a part of the Dark Aspect.
The more resolute a person was, the broader their shadow.
Everything depended on the Dao heart.
In the next second, Lu Yang saw it—within the vast Dark Aspect of the Light Sea, six immense shadows had already taken shape, towering between heaven and earth, so colossal that they nearly stretched beyond the limits of sight.
The six Dao Lords.
In the present world, the shadows of the six Dao Lords had already encroached upon the vast majority of the Dark Aspect's territory. And the remaining territory was largely occupied by two other shadows.
One was shattered into pieces, yet still faintly connected by continuous threads.
The other was the area Lu Yang was currently in. It was even more tragic to look at, having completely split apart.
"The Ancestral Dragon and Sisui."
Lu Yang understood in his heart, but suddenly a bold idea arose: "Even the state of the Dao Lords can be manifested out of thin air in the Dark Aspect of the Light Sea."
"Then what about the reverse?"
If the life and death of a Dao Lord in reality would destroy their projection in the Dark Aspect of the Light Sea, then would destroying their projection in the Dark Aspect of the Light Sea also affect the Dao Lord in reality?
Thinking of this, Lu Yang only felt a sense of terror.
Dao heart, Dao heart!
No wonder Dao heart cultivation methods had to be eradicated!
No wonder Sisui had to die!
(End of Chapter)