Chapter 1090: Chapter 1088: Rites Collapse and Music Decays 2
Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators
The Dream-Making Expert
“Along the way, I seemed to have weathered countless plots and schemes.”
“But in truth, there were only two irreversible schemes.”
“One was at Kongxiang Temple.”
“Back then, I was merely a small Foundation Establishment cultivator.”
“They used their methods to force me into placing the sublimation and evolution of the Dream Bubble Shadow into the Nine Spirits of the Dream Bubble Shadow, transformed from the nine Innate Spirit-Lights.”
“That was a conspiracy between the Supremes and the Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm, like the inevitable tide of fate, impossible to reverse.”
“Because neither the Supremes nor the Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm would ever permit the Dream Bubble Shadow, destined to be Refined from the False into the True and accommodate the Myriad Realms, achieving the New World, to be tied to a single person—me.”
“So that matter was irreversible.”
“And the second was when I Returned to Void.”
“That one, in theory, could have been reversed, but in reality it was the only choice.”
Lin Qi sighed, holding nothing back, reviewing and analyzing the current situation with Fang Yun and the others.
At this point, there was no longer any meaning in keeping these things secret.
On the contrary, speaking them aloud, even proclaiming them to All Heavens.
Might be the better approach.
It could let those beings who were still confused and wavering, who did not understand what this supreme scheme concerning the entire Myriad Realms and endless sentient beings was really about.
Understand what they were supposed to do next.
So Lin Qi continued, breaking it apart, grinding it fine.
Laying bare his long-standing Dharma contest of schemes against the Supremes for all the world to see.
“So, Master, you actually knew long ago that Martial-Uncle Li would…”
Fang Yun could not help but ask.
“Correct.”
Lin Qi nodded.
“Back then, I personally guided Lao Qi into the Dream Bubble Shadow, personally granted him the position of one of the Nine Spirits of the Dream Bubble Shadow.”
“The spirit-light he held fast to in his heart—others might not know of it, but how could I, his Master, not?”
“He once risked his life to save me. Now I shall simply repay him once.”
“But that’s not right.”
Xiao Ali said, puzzled.
“If Grand-Master knew long ago of Martial-Uncle Li’s obsession, then why not directly guide those Fellow Daoists whom Martial-Uncle Li cherished into the Dream Bubble Shadow back then?”
“That way, wouldn’t today’s events have been avoided?”
Xiao Ali’s retort left Lin Qi silent for a long, long time.
Fang Yun at once scolded, “Shut up. What right do you have to speak here? Just listen quietly.”
After scolding Xiao Ali.
Fang Yun sighed inwardly. He knew that though Lin Qi claimed he had long guessed Li Qizi’s thoughts, the truth was he had probably been gambling.
Gambling that he himself mattered more in Li Qizi’s heart than Wang Huaigu and the others combined.
Otherwise, if Lin Qi truly had flawless calculations.
He would not have watched Wang Huaigu and the others fall back then.
But then again, just as Xiao Ali had asked.
If Master had been willing to lend Wang Huaigu and the others a hand back then, today’s betrayal by Li Qizi could have been completely avoided.
No, wait.
Even if Master had saved Wang Huaigu and the others back then, now it would probably just be a different method, using Wang Huaigu and the others as weaknesses to manipulate Li Qizi.
If that were the case.
Fang Yun’s expression suddenly turned complicated.
He realized the true reason Lin Qi had never been able to truly escape the Supremes’ schemes.
Besides insufficient power.
The greater reason lay in those two words: human nature.
Truly, the spirit-light was both his making and his undoing.
Once the Nine Spirits of the Dream Bubble Shadow were formed from the Innate Spirit-Light surging forth from human nature.
It was destined that the Nine Spirits of the Dream Bubble Shadow would retain the weakness of human nature.
Would inevitably encounter schemes from the Supremes targeting that weakness of human nature.
And Lin Qi was no exception.
If not for Lin Qi still retaining his humanity, leaving behind a weakness, then naturally he would not have been repeatedly manipulated by the Supremes.
But if Lin Qi lost his humanity.
Then it truly was a dead end.
In the end, only at the moment the Dream Bubble Shadow was Refined from the False into the True, achieving the New World.
Would he be left with no choice but to stand alone against the entire world.
If Lin Qi lost the former, he would have nothing.
And the latter—even if Lin Qi won, he would likewise have nothing.
Ah.
Was this the Supremes’ true layout?
Truly terrifying.
Fang Yun’s heart trembled. Merely listening in, he felt his heart pound for Lin Qi.
“Let’s not speak of the past for now.”
“I have walked on thin ice my entire life.”
“Reaching this point, I have finally understood one principle.”
“If you would take, you must first give.”
“I used to not understand this principle, always trying to grip the authority of the Dream Bubble Shadow tightly in my hand.”
“But now, cursed and stripped of all spiritual power.”
“And having read those many historical records Lao Qi brought back.”
“Now, instead, I suddenly feel enlightened.”
“The Supremes scheme against all beings of the Myriad Realms using human nature.”
“The Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm and I both could not escape, trapped within it.”
“Now I too shall scheme using human nature, with the supreme authority as the bait.”
“Let us see how They can remain aloof amid human desire, and withdraw unscathed.”
“So go.”
“All of you, go to the Dream Bubble Shadow.”
“This time, I have truly placed all authority and the path to the New World, to the Supreme, within the Dream Bubble Shadow.”
“If you want it, then fight for it, then seize it.”
“The Myriad Realms, endless sentient beings.”
“An unprecedented Great Golden Era has appeared, one in which you can attain eternal immortality, rise against the Supremes, and achieve the supreme position.”
“Haha!”
Lin Qi suddenly laughed loudly toward the heavens.
Though he was cursed, stripped of all spiritual power.
Merely like an ordinary man.
But now he had personally drawn back the curtain on a truly unbelievable Age of Great Contention.
A Great Golden Era that could truly make the Supremes no longer able to stand high above, aloof from it all.
From now on.
Whether Supremes, Dao-Sacrifice, Dao-Fusion, Heavenly Immortals, Mahayana, or those mortals, those ants.
The greatest existences and the lowliest beings in the Myriad Realms would all stand on the same starting line.
To contend for the supreme authority Lin Qi had left behind.
Faced with such a fated opportunity to lay hands on the supreme authority of the Dream Bubble Shadow, even to achieve Above the Supreme.
All the old order of the former era would utterly collapse.
Just as Lin Qi, amid the Supremes’ schemes using human nature, had inevitably doubted the Nine Spirits of the Dream Bubble Shadow, who were as close as brothers, and trusted no one.
Now the Supremes too would inevitably doubt everything, no longer daring to trust anyone.
The Supremes and the Supreme Forces they once ruled would thoroughly crumble before this unprecedented Great Golden Era.
Because before this Great Golden Era whose curtain had now been drawn.
Apart from oneself, no one could be trusted any longer.
Blood ties, Dao Lineages, coercion and temptation…
Everything that once sustained the bonds between people, before this fated opportunity representing the supreme authority of the Dream Bubble Shadow, meaning the chance to wield the New World.
Seemed utterly fragile.
An era of true moral collapse had descended.
…
“Damn it.”
“How did the world suddenly turn into this mess?”
The Peerless Young Master helplessly halted the sword in his hand that was cleaving the River of Time.
Watching the Reincarnators in the Lord God’s Space suddenly swell at a visibly rapid pace.
A vast number of new Reincarnators, who looked unremarkable, like rookie weaklings.
Yet whose every gesture and movement brimmed with the bearing of powerhouses, poured like hornets into the Lord God’s Space.
The Peerless Young Master suddenly felt this world had become so unfamiliar.
He did not know what had happened to the world while he was in bitter secluded cultivation.
But he could clearly grasp that the situation was spiraling out of control.
Plummeting toward a terrifying abyss that no one could slow or stop.
He could not help but want to leave the Supreme Immortal Realm and go find Lin Qi to ask what was going on.
But before he could set out.
A Reincarnator brought him news of Lin Qi.
It was Fang Yun’s family of three.
At Lin Qi’s urging, they had become Reincarnators of the Lord God’s Space.
And they brought the Peerless Young Master a message from Lin Qi.
“Little Martial-Uncle.”
“Master’s meaning is that everything is under control.”
“This is merely a part of the plan.”
“Little Martial-Uncle need only continue to cultivate his heart diligently, striving to break through to Heavenly Immortal as soon as possible.”
“As for the rest, pay it no mind.”
Faced with the message from Lin Qi that Fang Yun and the others brought.
The Peerless Young Master was half-believing, half-doubting. He reached out and pointed at Li Qizi, who stood like a statue within the River of Time.
“I don’t want to pay any mind to this mess.”
“But Lao Qi is just left there, ignored?”
“Little Martial-Uncle, Master has instructions on this as well.”
Fang Yun hesitated a moment before answering in a low voice.
“Master has decreed: Li Qizi acted perversely, betrayed Master, plotted treachery, his crimes are heinous.”
“He shall be executed with extreme punishment, suffering the torment of the Six Paths of Red Dust day and night.”
“Little Martial-Uncle is requested to immediately command the Lord God to stir the power of the Six Paths of Red Dust within the Seventh Commandment, and carry out the sentence upon Martial-Uncle Li at once.”
Hearing this.
The Peerless Young Master drew a sharp breath. “Isn’t that going too far?”
“This is Master’s will.”
“Master said: his circumstances are pitiable, but his crimes deserve death.”
“If punishment is not meted out, then should others imitate him in the future…”
At this, the Peerless Young Master fell silent.
After a long while, he said irritably.
“I know what to do.”
“So annoying.”
“That’s it, I’m done with this.”
“I will go cultivate on my own.”
With that, the Peerless Young Master gave the Lord God his command and turned to leave.
After watching the Peerless Young Master depart, Fang Yun’s family of three exchanged glances. Fang Yun said.
“With matters here settled, you two go familiarize yourselves with the Reincarnation Space.”
“I will go alone to search for Wang Huaigu and the others.”
With that.
Fang Yun left, seeking the whereabouts of Wang Huaigu and the others.
Very quickly.
Fang Yun found Wang Huaigu and the others, who were looking around helplessly, locked within the River of Time.
After revealing his identity.
Wang Huaigu and the others immediately clutched at him like a drowning man grasping at straw, and at once expressed their wish to see Lin Qi, to plead with him to forgive and pardon Li Qizi’s rash act this time.
Fang Yun did not refuse.
Because bringing Wang Huaigu and the others to see Lin Qi.
Was precisely the reason he had sought them out.
And so, everyone hit it off at once.
Under Fang Yun’s lead, they descended upon the Heaven Demon Macrocosm, landing at the Foot of Mount Xiangji.
And Lin Qi.
Had long been waiting.