The fourth level was a world in a painting. If one wanted to leave, it was akin to ascending from a two-dimensional world to a three-dimensional world. This was quite difficult.
The golden armor led Wei Huo forward. They walked on the mirror-like, hard water surface.
The water creaked with every step he took, as if he was really stepping on a piece of paper. Everything in this world was made of paper. He could feel the paper just by touching it.
The golden armor floated in the air and said, “This is a piece of paper made of Kunlun Immortal Wood. It was made by using Immortal Ink as paint and a divine brush. That’s how this painting was drawn. It’s said that one is not qualified to look at this painting unless one is at the Rule rank. This is because anyone below the Rule rank will be sucked into the painting before they even see it.”
Wei Huo sighed. “The Rule rank is indeed powerful!”
After moving forward for a short while, Wei Huo saw a black wall in the distance. It extended into the sky indefinitely. There was no end to it.
Wei Huo asked, “What is this?”
The golden armor looked at the black wall in the distance. It did not have eyes, so it could only ‘look’. It was very human-like. “This is actually a word!” it said emotionally.
Wei Huo was shocked at first, but he soon understood that there was a word on the painting. The word on the painting was flat, but it was like a pillar that held up the sky for the world in the painting. It was also a stairway for the person in the painting!
The golden armor explained, “If the person in the painting wants to leave the painting, they can only do so through this word. This word may seem like a word outside the painting, but it’s a pillar that can hold up the sky in the painting. It goes from the Nine Heavens to the Yellow Springs. Any creature in the painting can follow this word to the world outside the painting.”
After listening to the golden armor’s explanation, Wei Huo came to a realization. This was a secret skill that connected the virtual world and reality for communication purposes and formed a spirit. It was just a painting on the surface, but its true core was inside the painting. Only through the duo’s communication could one refine Qi into spirit and strengthen the mind.
Wei Huo sighed. “Did the person who wrote the Dao Scripture draw this?”
The golden armor did not speak.
Wei Huo circled the word. It was too big. From his point of view, Wei Huo could only see tall walls.
The golden armor sighed. “Although I know it’s a word, I don’t know what it is.”
Wei Huo was a lot more professional than it was. “I’ve already built a three-dimensional geometric diagram in my heart. According to the principles of this three-dimensional diagram, besides knowing the situation from the front and left side view, I also need to get the bird’s eye view. Let me think. Hmm… This is the character ‘Dao’!”
The golden armor was confused.
Can you not speak the human language?
Wei Huo was a little emotional. “Nine years of compulsory education is indeed not insignificant. The person who compiled the primary, secondary, and high school teaching material is even more unfathomable.”
Many people said that the teaching materials of the past had no practical value. They only studied them to deal with the college entrance examination, but they were of no help to their future lives. However, they neglected the fact that these teaching materials were not meant for ordinary people.
Physics, chemistry, and biology might appear to be unconnected to life, but if someone transmigrated to the cultivation world, they would have to study an extremely powerful cultivation technique. If one cultivated it well, one would be invincible in this world. History and politics might seem useless, but if someone transmigrated back to ancient times, it would definitely fill a world-shaking divine book. One could rule over the world with it. Language, mathematics, and English were a basic foundation that could be used for transmigration or rebirth.
Wei Huo walked in front of the ‘Dao’ character. There was a long wall in front of him. The wall pierced the clouds, and there was no end to it.
Wei Huo touched it. He felt that the wall was extremely cold, but it was also extremely hard. There was a word outside the painting, and the wall was extremely heavy.
The golden armor said, “If you want to leave this place, you have to fuse with this word. Otherwise, no matter how high you fly, you will not be able to fly out of the world in the painting.”
Wei Huo stroked the wall carefully. It was not a black wall, but a wall harder than steel. There was a rule flowing on it that could not be destroyed by brute force.
“How can I integrate into the Dao?” Wei Huo asked. However, as soon as he finished his sentence, he understood how he could do it. This was not a problem for Legendary creatures.
Wei Huo’s body gradually emitted an aura of nirvanic extermination. At that moment, a sutra suddenly appeared in Wei Huo’s heart. “One looks at emptiness itself and finds it empty as well, as there is nothing to empty it of; if there is no emptiness, then there is also no non-emptiness; if there is no non-emptiness, then there is everlasting quiet. That is true quiet.”
As the sutra rang, Wei Huo entered an ethereal state. There was nothing in his heart except loneliness. All his thoughts had disappeared. At that moment, his heart was calm. He entered a mysterious realm and a state of nirvanic extermination.
Wei Huo’s previous massacre was the Dao of Extermination. Now that his heart was calm, everything combined to form the Dao of Nirvana.
Although he had entered the Legendary stage, he had only walked this path and had yet to start comprehending the Dao. He only started to truly comprehend the Dao now.
As soon as he entered this realm, Wei Huo completely integrated himself into the Dao-character wall. The golden armor sighed when it saw this scene. “On the ninth level of Kunlun Mountain, each floor is actually a layer of the Dao Scripture’s mental cultivation method. Together, they are the complete Dao Scripture. Unfortunately, I know the inside story. I tried to understand it, but I could not.”
Although the golden armor looked mischievous, it didn’t have a bad personality. It had not told Wei Huo the truth so that he could comprehend it on his own terms.
Wei Huo did not know how long he had been stuck in this realm. He only knew that he did not know how much time had passed in this realm. Perhaps it had been a second, or maybe it had been hundreds of years. When Wei Huo woke up, he was already on the fifth level.
However, he did not open his eyes immediately. He carefully recalled everything that had happened from the first level to the fourth level. The ocean and sky at the beginning represented a person’s dantian and mind. The process of killing the soaring mantis was the process of connecting one’s dantian and mind. That was the early stage of Qi Refinement.
The Peach Blossom Array on the second level implied that one had to break through the maze before Refining Qi Into God. One had to tear through the confusion, walk out of the maze, and understand one’s true self.
On the third level, the Golden Eagle demon had been high in the air, radiating light. This was the divine light shining on one’s heart. One had to cleanse one’s heart before refining one’s soul. One could not use water to cleanse one’s heart; they had to use divine light.
The fourth level was connected to the body and heart through the ‘Dao’ character. It was connected to Qi and God. It was a way to build a bridge for refining Qi into God.
At that thought, Wei Huo opened his eyes and said in admiration, “The author of the Dao Scripture must be an outstanding educator, thinker, and artist. This method of teaching and entertaining is hundreds of years ahead of this world!”
The golden armor was confused.
What are you talking about? Don’t you know that I’m not human? Can you say something that a non-human can understand?
Wei Huo was curious. “Is the author of the Dao Scripture the owner of Kunlun Mountain? It’s too creative and imaginative to pass down Daoism in such a way.”
The golden armor did not know what Wei Huo was talking about. It just looked around and said, “Is this the fifth level? I can’t help you anymore. I’ve already decided to follow you. Don’t die on this journey.”
Wei Huo looked around and realized that he was in a pitch-black cave. The sound of water dripping could be heard in the cave. Meanwhile, a clay jar was floating in front of Wei Huo.