Chapter 276: Whale Fall (4)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Therefore, did this snowfall only occur in the Celestial Court Academy, or did it also happen outside in the world?” Li Qingshan asked.
If it only snowed in the Celestial Court Academy, wouldn’t it confirm the sign of great calamity within the academy?
Taoist Dragon’s expression became even more serious. “Not only in the
Celestial Court Academy, but it’s also snowing outside.”
Li Qingshan frowned. “In that case, it seems like something big is about to happen.”
“I will continue to keep an eye on this matter. If the snow continues unabated, the experts of the Immortal Plane will not sit idly by,” Taoist Dragon said, no longer in the mood to drink tea. He got up, said goodbye to Li Qingshan, and left the mountain peak.
Li Qingshan watched Taoist Dragon leave and whispered on the mountaintop, “I’ll continue to cultivate silently. If the world collapses, with taller people holding it up, only by becoming stronger can I cope with unknown calamities.”
After spending a few leisure days, Li Qingshan once again immersed himself in cultivation.
In his own courtyard, he stretched out the flow of time, where one day outside equaled three years inside.
The Great Paths comprehended from the Starry Sky Battlefield by one hundred Era Immortals were sufficient for Li Qingshan to contemplate for a long time.
While snow fell heavily outside, Li Qingshan continued his cultivation inside the courtyard.
The Great Paths comprehended by the Era Immortals were much more profound than those Inherited Immortals from the Immortal Plane. Li Qingshan silently absorbed and comprehended them, one by one, with ample time on his hands.
Years passed, and time in the courtyard flowed away, cheap and fleeting.
Various Great Paths emerged on Li Qingshan’s body one after another.
He silently comprehended them, steadily climbing towards the peak of cultivation, albeit slowly but firmly.
Furthermore, he didn’t stop at all and maintained a constant speed.
Li Qingshan’s seclusion this time lasted for a year in the outside world.
In the outside world, a year was 365 days.
Translated into elongated time, it was over a thousand years.
For Li Qingshan, these thousand years were of great help, as he thoroughly understood the fundamentals of the Era Immortals’ realm and comprehended all the Great Paths seen from the one hundred Era Immortals.
Li Qingshan’s realm did not improve, nor was he in a hurry to advance. As his cultivation level increased, he required more and more Great Paths.
One hundred Era Immortals couldn’t help him leap from an Inherited Immortal to an Era Immortal.
However, they made the foundation of Li Qingshan’s Great Paths even more solid.
He still needed to continue comprehending.
A year later, at dawn, Li Qingshan opened his eyes. A millennium had quietly passed on him, while only a year had elapsed in the outside world.
“Sometimes, a moment of turning around and focusing is like a past life and a present life, ” Li Qingshan murmured. He had never stopped cultivating the Six Paths of Samsara and the Trikaya Buddhist Scriptures in the past thousand years. While he was constantly comprehending the Great Paths, he also continued to cultivate these two mysterious skills.
The more Li Qingshan cultivated, the more he felt that the Six Paths of
Samsara and the Trikaya Buddhist Scriptures were similar to some extent.
They both explored the cycles of reincarnation, past lives, and present lives, or the past, present, and future.
The difference lies in the two different paths they follow.
Sometimes, Li Qingshan wondered if, before endless time, there were sages who, nearing the end of their lives, attempted to break through the shackles of the fate of reincarnation.
That’s right, it was fate.
The core mystery of both the Six Paths of Samsara and the Trikaya Buddhist Scriptures was fate.
The one thing Li Qingshan’s 3,000 Great Paths had yet to comprehend was fate.
Fate was mysterious and unpredictable, intimately related to everyone, yet no one could see or capture it.
This was also why Li Qingshan needed to comprehend enough about the Great Paths to understand a little about the core issues of the Six Paths of Samsara and the Trikaya Buddhist Scriptures.
“Never mind, I’ve only scratched the surface for now. I can’t understand it fundamentally. Fate, the most mysterious of the 3,000 Great Paths, is embodied in the Six Paths of Samsara and the Trikaya Buddhist Scriptures. If I want to comprehend fate in the future, I have three directions.” Li Qingshan stood up and stopped himself from making wild guesses. Without enough knowledge and insight, wild guesses were just the fantasies of frogs at the bottom of a well.
Previously, Li Qingshan intended to wait for Little Nine and the little fox to ascend and examine the little fox’s inherited memories to find traces of fate.
This was originally the only way he thought he could comprehend fate.
However, now, with his core understanding of the Six Paths of Samsara and the Trikaya Buddhist Scriptures, he could also make progress in this regard.
Three paths lay before Li Qingshan, each filled with thorns. Nevertheless, he was very pleased.
“Cultivation itself is advancing on a road full of thorns, picking up flowers covered in wounds and blood. Only those who persevere to the end can see clearly in this world,” Li Qingshan advised himself. The next moment, he looked at the world one year later.
Li Qingshan was stunned.
It was still snowing in this world.
“Has it been snowing for a whole year, or does it snow every June?” Li Qingshan was full of doubts.
He pushed open the door of the courtyard and saw a white world outside.
The air temperature was very low, and goose feather-like snowflakes continued to drift down from the sky. The distant mountains and valleys had already collapsed halfway under the heavy snow.
“This is… It’s been snowing for an entire year?” Li Qingshan said in disbelief.
Before he went into seclusion, it had already snowed heavily for a few days.
Now, after he had been in seclusion for over a thousand years, a year had passed in the outside world, and the heavy snow was still falling..