After murmuring the first verse of the Sinful Blood Emperor Sutra, Gu Qingyang did not choose to continue speaking naturally, but paused.
At that moment, a clear color appeared in the depths of his eyes. All the memories of his past practice welled up in his mind.
He started a game.
What he wants to deduce is his spiritual path in two lives. At this moment, what he wants to find is the ultimate of his spiritual path.
He wanted to witness the ultimate state and then surpass that extreme that was his own. He felt that only this was the perfection of this seventh realm.
However--
What is the ultimate?
What is perfect?
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Many questions emerged in his mind, and it only took him an instant to feel extremely troubled. But when the moment passed, he would feel that the answer was revealed.
He experienced this process over and over again countless times. Until finally, the feeling of constant questions disappeared completely.
What is the ultimate?
The end of the road is the ultimate.
What is perfect?
Taking every step well is perfection.
What is spiritual practice?
The process of walking is practice.
What is "Tao"?
Everything he chooses is the Word.
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Time kept passing by, and in the passing time, Gu Qingyang just stood still in place, motionless.
He silently stared at all the scenes in front of him, enduring the destruction brought to him by this eighth realm of heavenly tribulation, and enduring everything he should bear.
Nine angers and one ignorance, endless greed.
In just a moment, he remembered his cultivation insights over the years. It was an explanation of his own sin, of himself in his own eyes.
After that moment, he thought of his own ideal. In fact, his own ideal is really simple, but it also reveals his greed everywhere.
His most authentic ideal is to have absolute freedom, to be free from any shackles and to say "no" to everything he doesn't want to do.
If this ideal evolves in a more concrete direction, it can also be understood that he wants to make all the people he cares about free.
In short, it is to protect the people you care about.
Of course he himself understands that nine out of ten things in life will be unsatisfactory, so he is right to say that he is extremely greedy.
As the saying goes, you can't have your cake and eat it too. For example, compare the cultivation of the Great Way with things like love and family affection.
Some people can give up all their feelings for the sake of Taoist cultivation, whether it is the love of their heart or their blood relatives... they can give up all of them.
There are also people who are willing to give up everything, including their own lives and their Taoist cultivation, for the love of their hearts and their blood relatives.
Throughout the ages, there have been countless people of these two types.
But no one has ever mentioned that these two things can be achieved at the same time. Therefore, it is actually correct to compare them to the fish and the bear's paws.
However... Gu Qingyang just wants to be so greedy. Tao and love, he wants them all. If this is his shamelessness, he would rather be shameless.
His sin——
Nine anger and one idiot.
The Nine Angers may seem scary and frightening, but in the final analysis, they are Gu Qingyang's anger towards reality, not against ideals.
Besides, his obsession, from his own point of view, is gentleness. From the perspective of the Great Law, it is eternity.
Nine Angers are his feelings about reality.
One obsession is his pursuit of ideals.
The two seem to be completely different, but in fact they are integrated. They are things that cannot be separated.
Because both of them were born due to Gu Qingyang's desire for beauty, and both grew because of the greed deep in Gu Qingyang's heart.
This was his sin, and he confessed it.
But just cultivating this realm to this point is not enough. Gu Qingyang could sense that this was not all of his Taoist intentions.
In a sense, these Dao intentions can be regarded as ninety percent of all his Dao intentions. So he still lacks 10% of Taoism.
So... what is the meaning of enlightenment?
At the moment when such thoughts came to his mind, Gu Qingyang felt as if he had suddenly forgotten something important.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't recall the incident. Until he once again realized his own sinfulness.
Suddenly, a thought occurred to him:
"Why can't I be more greedy?"
The moment he thought about his idea clearly, Gu Qingyang was dumbfounded. He froze on the spot and completely forgot all the pain.
Why can't you be more greedy? Listen, listen. Is it possible for people to say this? Isn't he greedy enough?
Even thousands of Buddhist cultivators in this world have said something like, "In this world, we can have both the Dharma and the Dharma, and we will live up to the Tathagata and live up to you."
He didn't know what the original meaning of those words was.
But he knew that such words were often used to describe the world's choices between practice and emotion, and were intended to express the regret of not being able to have both.
But now, he has cultivated the kind of greed that vows to get both. Isn't he greedy enough?
This was the reason why Gu Qingyang was in a daze.
When he realized this, he felt a little shameless. But that’s not just why, he actually thinks this is right.
"Anger."
"Crazy thoughts."
"greedy."
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Gu Qingyang carefully recalled all his perceptions of his two lives, and carefully polished the true meaning of his sin deep in his heart.
He knew that his Taoism was already a very perfect Taoism, but his intuition told him that this level was far from enough.
So, how about being more greedy?
The world is still passing by, and the endless lightning in the real world is constantly raging, shrouding him, and frantically destroying his life.
All the cultivators present had been injured from the previous battle. At this point, even under the control of God, they could no longer do anything to him.
Of course those bone cultivators wanted to kill Gu Qingyang.
However...their own injuries were extremely serious to begin with, and now the eighth level of heavenly calamity is coming.
With their ordinary people's strength, they really had no right to disturb Gu Qingyang. Therefore, the Supreme Heaven also gave up on these people invisibly.
What's more... the Supreme Heaven just gave up on these people. This does not mean that Gu Qingyang is willing to let these people go.
From the moment these people were completely reduced to the pawns of Heaven, in Gu Qingyang's eyes, they were truly dead.
Therefore, even if he wanted to achieve enlightenment, Gu Qingyang would start refining the sealing circle in advance to suppress them before officially attaining enlightenment.
As time goes by, Gu Qingyang's Daohuo Other Side will refine all the formation patterns, and then follow the new techniques to evolve the killing moves.
Ever since the Dao Bingwen Qingtian came into being, Gu Qingyang was accustomed to using it to suppress groups of enemies.
Therefore, the moment the magic circle was transformed, the three forms of the Great Kurong Sword, the Blood Pagoda of All Living Beings, and the Great Ten Thousand Dao Fan Cage had already formed a killing situation.
Starting from the perfect field control in the form of Taiko Thunder, the current situation is that people from outside are trying to come in, but they can't.
The people inside wanted to get out, but they couldn't get out no matter how hard they tried. These people, they are completely unable to protect themselves now.
Therefore, Gu Qingyang can face the catastrophe in his current state of complete Taoism.
In this way, the impact that the outside world can have on him is naturally minimal.
The only person who can really affect him is his opponent, Supreme Heaven. Besides, it can only be Gu Qingyang himself.
Just like now... Even if he is as powerful as the Supreme Heaven, he can only control the thunder tribulation by following the laws of heaven evolved from the laws of the great road.
Don't look at the terror of those tribulation thunders, don't look at those tribulation thunders that really seem to be able to destroy everything.
But in fact, the most they could do was bring a crisis of destruction to Gu Qingyang's body.
Now, Gu Qingyang, who is only one step away from the eighth realm, has become extremely powerful.
It is an ironclad fact that Gu Qingyang is different from any other bone cultivator. If you want to kill Gu Qingyang, you can't use ordinary killing moves to deal with Gu Qingyang.
Of course, Zhigao Tian himself knows this truth very well, but... he is really exhausted when facing Gu Qingyang now.
Zhi Gao Tian actually wanted to use some other means to kill Gu Qingyang, such as trying a black hand from the soul path and the love path.
But now... Gu Qingyang has established a connection with the Dao through his own soul, and even the Dao of Heaven cannot easily cut off that connection.
Therefore, Gu Qingyang's soul can be regarded as the true emperor soul. The emperor soul is immortal.
Talking about love, logically speaking, Su Yue should have been the biggest love disaster on Gu Qingyang's cultivation path.
However, Gu Qingyang's personality charm is really too strong, and he and Zhi Gao Tian were actually more sincere when they planned it.
After waiting for a long time, Su Yue and Gu Qingyang, two people who were born the same, met like lonely wandering creatures who finally found their kind.
That love, even if it is the will of heaven, it will still feel helpless.
In the end, Su Yue even became a big help to Gu Qingyang's growth.
Although Gu Qingyang really didn't want to eat this "soft rice", Su Yue was determined to wait until the end.
Since that incident, whether it was his Supreme Heaven or Zi Zi Tian, the two of them had never caused any love disaster to Gu Qingyang.
They really didn't dare to make any further arrangements.
After just arranging it once, an excellent quality trump card was handed over abruptly. Again? Isn't this world really over?
What's more, wasn't Gu Qingyang himself idle after that? Even if Gu Qingyang himself had no such thoughts at all.
But along the way, Gu Qingyang was led by Luo Shuixian, the eldest daughter of the Luo family, then Fan Linlang, the future Lord of All Living Beings, and Liu Xinyu.
These women... which one of them is not really devoted to Gu Qingyang?
Even if they knew that they liked Gu Qingyang, it was just a matter of moths flying into the flame, didn't they still make the choice to follow their hearts?
All in all, the Supreme Heaven and the Zi Zai Tian were not willing to let Gu Qingyang get involved in such things as "love calamity" at all.
Their original intention was obviously to make Gu Qingyang more miserable.
But after making arrangements again and again, there are more and more people around Gu Qingyang.
From their point of view, whether it is a woman, a man, or any other living being... these are all chess pieces.
Before these creatures have any interaction with Gu Qingyang, they may become Gu Qingyang's mortal enemies.
In other words,... these creatures are all pawns in their hands and part of their strength.
If there are more people around Gu Qingyang, then there will be more chess pieces that Gu Qingyang can use. If this continues, they may really fail.
No matter whether it is Zizitian or Supreme Heaven, they will not be willing to accept such a result!
Therefore, the current situation is that Gu Qingyang is practicing step by step, preparing to completely break the shackles of the realm in a matter of time.
As the leader behind the scenes, Supreme Heaven was deep in thought and trying every possible means to completely kill Gu Qingyang.
In contrast...the creatures who were affected by this incident were the direct cause of the world becoming increasingly chaotic.
You must know that during the period when Gu Qingyang was going through the tribulation, both those who wanted Gu Qingyang to live and those who wanted him to die.
Neither of them was idle.
The major sects that obey God's will are working hard and are always on guard against enemy surprise attacks.
As for the beast tribe headed by Fan Linlang, and the bone cultivators headed by Su Yue, these forces are constantly brewing strength in silence.
It is conceivable that if Gu Qingyang still cannot regain his peace and freedom in the future...
So what exactly will happen, anyone who can understand the general trend can basically guess it.
All smart creatures know that if things continue like this, war will be inevitable.
However, the general trend is like this. In the face of the general trend, who can create a real miracle? They can't do it anyway, God, it seems like they can't do it either.
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Just when the extremely terrifying thunder beam tightly enveloped Gu Qingyang, it had already destroyed Gu Qingyang's flesh and blood and was beginning to destroy his life bones.
The Supreme Sky, the ruler who has always been aloof, is standing in the deepest part of the sky, staring coldly at Gu Qingyang.
At this moment, he can only think about one thing.
"How to kill this guy?"
If possible, Supreme Heaven really hopes to completely kill Gu Qingyang here. In this way, it is definitely settled.
But the problem is here, even he can't easily obliterate Gu Qingyang.
He also needs to constantly arrange killing situations to be able to complete this matter.
However, when Gu Qingyang came here, he arranged the killing situation here. Gu Qingyang came all the way, but he still couldn't kill it.
Even though Supreme Heaven knew from the beginning that this matter would not be easy to accomplish, he still could not imagine that it would be so difficult to do it.
At first, he thought everything very well and perfectly. He also knew it would be difficult to accomplish.
But now that he has started doing it, and after doing it for a while, it is absolutely impossible to say that he is not upset at all.
"How to choose?"
I have been upset and meditated for a long time.
At the last moment, Supreme Heaven still only saw two options. The first option is to do everything he can to maximize the power of Thunder Tribulation.
In this way, if Gu Qingyang really couldn't bear it and fell like this, it would definitely be a great thing worthy of his happy celebration.
Of course...if Gu Qingyang can really withstand all his attacks, then Gu Qingyang's strength will inevitably rise to the next level.
If this is the case, if he wants to obliterate Gu Qingyang again, he will probably have to go through all the troubles and expend more effort.
The second option goes without saying.
The second option is nothing more than the same as in the past, just accept it as soon as possible, that is, not give Gu Qingyang the best post-tribulation reward.
In this way, Gu Qingyang's strength has not improved much, and it will naturally be much easier to suppress Gu Qingyang in the next killing disaster.
The disadvantage of this is that it will leave Gu Qingyang more time to grow. Given time, Gu Qingyang may still rise.
The advantage of doing this is that it is easy for Gu Qingyang to become invisible to everyone, and slowly become more and more ordinary as he grows up.
And those killing tactics used against Gu Qingyang in the future will definitely become more and more terrifying as time goes by.
Therefore, it would be easier to kill Gu Qingyang.
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What should he choose?
This is the choice he faces. If he chooses the first option, he feels that it is not stable enough, and if he chooses the second option, he feels that it is not radical enough, which may lead to letting the tiger go back to the mountain.
So he was hesitating, he was hesitating whether to take things to the extreme. It's a painful trade-off.
"Tao and emotion are like fish and bear's paws. Everyone in the world says that you can only get one of the two. I can clearly understand the taste of it."
"Now I am determined to have both. For me, both are indispensable. Then... can I have a more greedy ideal?"
"I really don't like this world."
"But if one day I realize my current ideal and the people I care about can stay with me day and night, will they be happy?"
"The sun, moon and stars, the flowing wind and snow, the mountains and rivers, the ice floes on the sea... There are countless beauties in this world, and they should still like them."
"What if I can make this world a better place? I have given fire to all living beings, why not let them awaken quickly?"
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Voices echoed deep in Gu Qingyang's heart. These voices were all Gu Qingyang's true thoughts about cultivation.
This is what Gu Qingyang can think of, which is even greater greed. Yes, if he could, he would even want to change the whole world!
They say the human heart is terrible.
If he gave every creature a chance to rise, if he set the upper limit of all creatures to the same level, what would happen to the world?
If he lets those creatures know the truth, if he lets those creatures understand what should be the best pursuit, what will happen to those creatures?
This is the greater greed in his heart.
Thinking of this, Gu Qingyang couldn't help but look up to the deepest part of the sky. He smiled coldly, lightning flashed in the deepest part of the sky, and thunder descended instantly.
This is the response of the Supreme Heaven, extremely angry!
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