High-Level Martial Era - Chapter 928

Chapter 928: Chapter 473: Why Seek, Thus Can Be Without Regrets Until Death (Seeking Monthly Votes at the Beginning of the Month)_2
 

“But what next?”

“After returning to Seven Stars, the civilization crisis will be resolved… And I will have even more capability to solve the numerous calamities that the Dongfang Alliance Leader failed to resolve in the past.”

“What about myself?” Li Yuan silently reflected on himself, honing the heart of his willpower.

“Where is the root of my will?”

“My heart is not strong enough!”

…

Hum~ An invisible force converged, and a woman in white appeared, silently observing Li Yuan.

With her ability to observe, she could detect the changes in Li Yuan’s spiritual aura.

After a long time.

Whoosh! Li Yuan finally opened his eyes, which seemed much sharper than before.

“Hmm?”

“Senior Xing?” Li Yuan only then noticed the woman in white beside him and quickly bowed in salute.

“It seems that these stone murals have greatly affected you. Your willpower must have undergone another transformation,” the woman in white said with a smile.

“Indeed, I have gained some insights,” Li Yuan solemnly said, “The heart must seek something! One must have something to protect in one’s heart.”

The woman in white nodded slightly.

She did not judge whether Li Yuan’s words were right or wrong.

“Come with me. Let’s go see some other murals,” the woman in white said, “After seeing them, you will naturally understand.”

The woman in white walked ahead.

Li Yuan immediately followed.

Soon, the two bypassed a row of walls and arrived at another Red Stone Corridor.

On the walls here, there were still murals carved in stone, but there were far fewer of them.

“These?” Li Yuan was taken aback.

“Go and see,” the woman in white said softly, “After looking, you will naturally understand.”

Li Yuan silently looked on.

The first mural: “After all, it is all in vain, ha ha, the Great Dao turns to emptiness. It turns out I was on the wrong path, wrong indeed!”

…

“How sad and lamentable, the play of destiny, what was pursued for millions of years, turned out to be but a dream.”

…

“It was wrong from the start, the Emperor’s Path is so rugged and full of hardships, eternal as a flower in the mirror and the moon on the water.”

…

“Where exactly is the path?”

…

“Well, having wandered freely for millions of years, being able to wander for a long while longer is also not a wasted life.”

…

The inscriptions on each stone mural, each one exuding strong and pessimistic willpower, and even the seemingly carefree words carry a sense of helplessness…like a tide, these thoughts continuously assaulted Li Yuan.

Almost completely obliterating his spiritual consciousness.

It was too intense!

These twenty-some murals, although much fewer in number than the previous corridor… each one contained willpower that was much more formidable. Invisibly, Li Yuan seemed to see peerless powerhouses, carrying endless unwillingness, walking towards their ends.

After quite some time, Li Yuan finally regained his senses and fell into deep contemplation.

“Senior Xing.”

“All these inscriptions on the murals, were they left by Divine Kings?” Li Yuan asked softly.

“Correct! You guessed it right,” the woman in white nodded, “They were all direct disciples and Inner Sect disciples under the Master, each a Divine King who once reigned supreme… These were left after their failures to break through to the Divine Emperor Realm.”

“To strike for Divine Emperor, and fail?” Li Yuan fell silent.

He thought of the two Red Stone Corridors, the drastically different conceptions inscribed on the walls.

The former, each will weaker, yet mostly full of fighting spirit, vibrancy, with determination and endless longing.

The latter, clearly stronger willed, yet filled with pessimism and a sense of despair.

“Willpower, success and failure…” Li Yuan pondered quietly.

The two rows of stone murals had greatly touched Li Yuan’s soul.

“Come, let me take you to see the last mural left by the Master,” the woman in white said.

“The one left by the Master?” Li Yuan’s eyes lit up.

Whoosh!

After passing through an area Li Yuan had never set foot in, amidst a sea of blooming flowers, Li Yuan saw another unassuming stone mural.

The inscriptions on it radiated a very weak aura, probably even weaker than Li Yuan’s.

The content of the writing was also very simple.

“Only by knowing what to seek can one live without regrets until death!”

…

The woman in white quietly waited on the side, because Li Yuan had once again closed his eyes in meditation.

This time, Li Yuan pondered for even longer.

After a full ten days, he once again opened his eyes, which had become clearer and more lucid.

“How is it? Have you thought it through?” the woman in white asked with a smile.

“No,” Li Yuan shook his head decidedly.

The lady in white was taken aback.

“I once watched one of my teachers die right before my eyes. At that moment, I desperately wished I could bring him back!” Li Yuan spoke in a low voice: “Back then, I feared not death.”

“I have also, alongside a senior, ventured through perils, sparing no effort to save them.”

“I have strived for my family.”

“I have fought for civilization!”

“But I know that the fleeting touch of emotion in life cannot become the eternal drive of my spirit,” Li Yuan said somberly: “Therefore, I have yet to fully comprehend Master’s words.”

“I still don’t know what to seek, what can make me have no regrets until death, and never waver in my heart,” Li Yuan said.

Instead, the lady in white revealed a smile.

“But I am still very young.”

“I think, on the path of cultivation ahead, I will eventually figure it out,” Li Yuan said softly.

These Heavenly Gods, Divine Kings, they all endured hundreds of thousands, even millions of years to forge such strong willpower.

The Divine Emperor is even more so.

And Li Yuan, he is still very young.

“Hmm, I hope to see the day when you have figured it out,” the lady in white said with a smile: “Continue your wanderings.”

Whoosh!

Her phantom gracefully dissipated.

“What to seek?” Li Yuan pondered in his heart: “At least for now, I hope to return to my homeland’s civilization and make it more powerful.”

Li Yuan glanced at the Divine Palace panel:

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[Life Level: 49.9 (Fourth Rank)]

Soul: Level 59

Willpower: Level 65

Spiritual Awakening Level: 95% (Current ceiling 95%)

…

Although he had not thought everything through, this deep contemplation and spiritual cleansing inadvertently made Li Yuan’s spiritual will even stronger, having unknowingly transformed to Level 65.

“Continue the stroll,” Li Yuan went on to other areas of Divine Emperor Island.

Before long,

Li Yuan found another area; it was a vast square.

With one step into this place, he immediately felt the difference.

“Can I feel the Origins of the Seven Fundamental Laws again? Has my Divine Sense recovered? Can I even mobilize a trace of Origin Power?” Li Yuan was astonished.

This place was clearly special.

Li Yuan looked around, and on the edges of the square, there were stone walls.

“A Secret Technique area?” Li Yuan’s eyes lit up as he carefully observed each stone wall.

On different stone walls, there were various inscriptions.

Some seemed like scribbled text, some simple human figures, and some patterns appeared to be constellations of stars… but these were all just appearances.

With Li Yuan’s current realm, he could easily feel the deep Mysteries of the Laws contained in each stone wall.

“These stone walls, they contain the absolute skills and mysteries left behind by the Heavenly Gods,” he noted.

“Most are incomplete, as though created in passing.”

“But it’s enough,” a smile formed on Li Yuan’s face, remembering what Senior Xing had said.

Treat the heavens and earth as one’s teacher, guided by the Law Origin and the Great Dao.

“Try not to rely on tools like the Mirror of Laws, the True River of Laws, which are marks left by the spiritual souls of the Heavenly Gods,” Li Yuan thought to himself: “Still, some moves left by the Heavenly Gods can be referenced.”

Do not blindly trust books.

Yet, one cannot be without books!

The moves and Absolute Skills left on these stone walls certainly did not contain the Methods and Secret Techniques from ‘Mixed Studies’, but they represented two different directions.

One is a complete inheritance, relatively rigid, like an outline.

The other shows detailed moves and applications.

…

Time passed.

After touring the entire Divine Emperor Island, not finding anything else, Li Yuan returned to the Secret Technique stone wall area.

This place was most suitable for cultivation.

This period of cultivation made him realize the distinctiveness of the ‘Secret Technique stone wall area’.

“So comfortable.”

“Being here, it seems the operation speed of my spiritual consciousness has greatly increased,” Li Yuan was inwardly surprised: “My soul feels even more at ease, as if an invisible force is permeating through, aiding my cultivation, making my comprehension of the Seven Basic Laws even clearer.”

Li Yuan did not know that this Secret Technique stone wall area was a cultivation Holy Land on Divine Emperor Island, specially built by the Jue Xing Divine Emperor.

Once upon a time.

When Jue Xing Divine Emperor was still around, this place gathered a vast number of Heavenly Gods for cultivation… now, only Li Yuan was here alone.

As time flows like water,

Li Yuan, alone on Divine Emperor Island, two years swiftly passed by during his solitary cultivation.