Looking at the [Heavenly Dao] before him, Lu Yang's gaze was solemn.
'This is the main body of the seal.'
'If it were merely the false history, Sisui might have been able to fight his way out. However, the [Heavenly Dao] has locked down his retreat, leaving him with no way out.'
"Rumble!"
At this moment, violent rumbling sounds echoed again from the depths of the passage. The sound of thunder reverberated within the pitch-black passage as boundless mighty power clashed at its deepest end.
Seeing this, Lu Yang furrowed his brows even deeper. 'Under the surveillance of the [Heavenly Dao] and the mighty power of the Dao Lords, trying to slip past with my current cultivation is basically a pipe dream. But to contact Sisui, let alone rescue him, this [Heavenly Dao] is the only path.'
A single path, blocked at both ends.
What should he do?
After pondering for a long time, Lu Yang suddenly contacted his main body in the [Heavenly Palace]. Soon, he received a response, and a streak of light descended through the void.
It was a sliver of divine sense.
Under normal circumstances, one actually couldn't do such a thing; it would be very easily detected by the Dao Lords. However, Lu Yang's current situation was rather special.
Because the location of the [Heavenly Palace] outside the sea of light was different from that of [Paramita].
If the Dao Lords standing on [Paramita] were looking down from above, overlooking the false history and observing its changes, then the [Heavenly Palace] was looking from the side.
Things moving from top to bottom couldn't possibly be hidden from the Dao Lords.
But moving from left to right was a different story.
If not for this, Lu Yang wouldn't have gone to such great lengths to send the [Heavenly Palace] out of the sea of light... Of course, even so, there was originally a bit of risk.
After all, a divine sense capable of thought inevitably carried karma that would stir up variables when falling into the false history. Just like throwing a stone into a lake, it would similarly attract the attention of the Dao Lords... Unless this sliver of divine sense itself was completely clean, free of cause and effect, only then could it completely escape their line of sight.
[Sisui's remnant thought]
The heavenly light tore through the void and quickly landed in Lu Yang's palm. He then infused it with spiritual power, shaping and solidifying it into a tall and imposing figure.
Unlike other Dharma Body Dao cultivators.
Sisui's build wasn't burly; at most, he could only be considered a robust young man. Draped in a yin and yang Daoist robe, he actually looked more like a gentle and refined scholar.
But that was as far as it went.
The figure manifested by Sisui's remnant thought only had the clothing and build, but the most crucial part—the face—was completely blank. This caused Lu Yang to gradually furrow his brows.
After a moment, he sighed:
'It really won't work.'
He had wanted to amplify this remnant thought of Sisui to see if he could use it to sense Sisui's main body within the [Heavenly Dao]. However, the result was a complete lack of response.
But thinking about it carefully, it wasn't incomprehensible.
After all, he had known the origins of Sisui's remnant thought for a long time.
It wasn't a true remnant thought of Sisui; it was merely an angry roar Sisui let out right before his death. The lingering echo didn't dissipate, gained sentience, and birthed a new life form.
And even that was struck down by the World Honored One's heavy punch.
So accurately speaking, it was actually the remnant thought of "Sisui's lingering echo". The fact that it knew of a [Precious Life Perfect Form Scripture] was entirely due to Sisui shouting loudly enough.
"...Let's try another method."
Lu Yang pondered for a moment, then suddenly changed his hand seal. He directly severed an incarnation and merged it with the figure manifested by Sisui's remnant thought.
In an instant, facial features astonishingly emerged on the originally blank face of the figure formed by Sisui's remnant thought. Soon, a face that wasn't heroic, but rather somewhat ordinary-looking, appeared. This was the appearance Lu Yang had recreated based on Pan Huang's verbal description.
Unfortunately, it only had the features, not the divine charm.
Using this method, it was still impossible to sense Sisui within the blockade of the [Heavenly Dao]. But if the opportunity was seized well... perhaps he could get closer.
"Boom."
Once again, a muffled thunderous sound exploded from the depths of the [Heavenly Dao], echoing continuously. At the exact same time, Lu Yang controlled Sisui's remnant thought and abruptly moved!
Charging into the [Heavenly Dao]!
Instantly, a strong sense of crisis appeared in Lu Yang's perception. Yet, he didn't feel afraid; instead, he grinned excitedly.
'It worked!'
Only a sense of crisis, no actual crisis!
'The remnant thought of Sisui's lingering echo, to put it plainly, is still Sisui's voice. Its essence is actually no different from the voices echoing within the [Heavenly Dao] right now!'
He had used another lingering echo to blend into the thunderous sounds of the present moment!
Thanks to this, Lu Yang was finally able to glimpse the true appearance of the [Heavenly Dao], to see exactly how it encompassed the sea of light and how its profound mysteries operated.
Standing at the edge of the [Heavenly Dao] entrance, he opened his true eye.
In his line of sight were densely packed Great Dao characters, Dragon Script and Phoenix Seal. They seemed to record all the supreme principles of the sea of light, making his scalp tingle just looking at them.
After these characters combined, they formed brand new concepts.
Like two heaven-reaching pillars, they jointly constructed a gateway that landed at the end of the [Heavenly Dao], while simultaneously propping up the entire [Heavenly Dao].
'[Destiny] and [Fortune]...'
Lu Yang's gaze suddenly focused, a genuine surprise surfacing in the depths of his eyes.
It wasn't because of these two Great Daos; he had long anticipated this. What truly surprised him was a dazzling light situated dead center between the two Great Daos.
The light split into five colors, scattering into five ribbons of light that converged at one point. Astonishingly, they transformed into a towering, tooth-and-claw-baring dragon-shaped phantom. Head and tail met, the mouth biting the tail, the tail circling to the head. It curled up into a ball right in the center of the gateway constructed by the two Great Daos, looking like a five-colored precious seal.
On one side of the seal was a soaring True Dragon.
On the other side, however, were four large, sharply carved characters:
[The Heart of Heaven is Within Me.]
'This is...'
In an instant, Lu Yang's eyes widened. The name [Heavenly Heart Seal] naturally surfaced in his mind, and he simultaneously understood the origin of this object.
'The Ancestral Dragon's Supreme Treasure!'
'No, this can't even be called a Supreme Treasure anymore; it should be a Dao Artifact! That the Ancestral Dragon was able to forcibly seize the concepts of the Five Great Heavenly Destinies back then was partly thanks to the contribution of this Dao Artifact!'
This wasn't something Lu Yang comprehended or deduced.
This was information inherent to the five-colored precious seal. Right within those four characters, [The Heart of Heaven is Within Me], the Ancestral Dragon didn't shy away from it, viewing it as his own grand achievement.
Thinking of this, Lu Yang even felt a bit of pity for the Ancestral Dragon.
His physical body was suppressed in the Immortal Nexus, his Great Daos supported [Paramita], his sea of consciousness, soul, and will were enslaved by the Primordial Saint, and now even his treasure had been snatched away.
But compared to all that, Lu Yang cared more about its shape.
It was a seal!
'Without a doubt, one of the reasons Sisui can't get out is this seal. Besides that, could the blockade on the secret of the Primordial Spirit also be related to it?'
However, just as Lu Yang was preparing to move a bit closer to get a better look, the already intense sense of crisis suddenly escalated, bringing a realization to his mind:
'...I can't go any further.'
'I was able to slip through using Sisui's remnant thought because this is the outermost periphery of the [Heavenly Dao], where Sisui's mighty power is nearly non-existent.'
'It exactly matches my level.'
'If I go further, even if I go all out, I won't be able to make Sisui's remnant thought meet Sisui's standard. I won't be able to perfectly blend into Sisui's voice anymore.'
This wasn't a gap in mighty power.
In fact, being sealed by the [Heavenly Dao] to this extent, Sisui simply couldn't burst out with much mighty power. What was contained more within this voice was actually his will.
'Sisui's Dao Heart will is the true reason why these sounds within the [Heavenly Dao] can persist like this. This is a characteristic only a Primordial Spirit possesses. My Dao Heart cultivation is insufficient, which is why I can't slip past. If it were a cultivator who had forged a Primordial Spirit here, it might be possible to continue deeper.'
Then the question arose.
He definitely couldn't forge a Primordial Spirit in a short period of time. Since that was the case, where could he find a cultivator who had forged a Primordial Spirit?