379: Chapter 97: The Second Regicide 379: Chapter 97: The Second Regicide Body in Great Yue, soul in the North Sea.
Xie Xuanyi sat cross-legged, suspended in the air, silently feeling the “warmth” that surged from all directions.
His limbs and bones were all enveloped by the warm current.
Above his Heart Lake, suddenly there appeared fragmented, broken fleeting shadows…
“Are these the lost souls of the Great Yue Kingdom?”
With just a glance, Xie Xuanyi realized what had happened outside.
He took out “Chronic Illness” and placed it horizontally before his knees.
The flying sword made a clanging sound, sending out thousands of strands of Sword Qi, which were originally of extreme yang and rigidity, but at this moment, they didn’t burst forth with killing intent against the ghostly soul thoughts…
These souls turned into fireflies, swept into Xie Xuanyi’s brow, and also into the body of the flying sword.
“I am now condensing a second Tao Rule…”
Xie Xuanyi looked down at his Heart Lake, staring at his reflection on the lake’s surface.
The reflection of himself in the water seemed to return to past years.
His black robe fluttered, and killing intent was cold and severe.
But as the glow poured in, the young face in the reflection was much less indifferent, eyes and brows as in the beginning, but upon close inspection, one could feel the warmth as if bathed in the spring breeze.
This was the change brought about by the “Principle of Life.”
Cultivators who practice different principles of the Dao have different temperaments, constitutions, and corresponding “influences.”
The so-called complete transformation is exactly this.
The Rule of Destruction represented the extreme of annihilation; Xie Xuanyi, who had grasped this principle years ago, was naturally inclined to kill, and from afar, his appearance could make one shiver without feeling cold.
But the Principle of Life was completely the opposite.
If there were no “Rule of Destruction,” then the person comprehending the “Principle of Life” would appear to have a special temperament of pity for the world, making people feel close and gentle.
Both principles appeared simultaneously in Xie Xuanyi.
A contradictory quality thus naturally emerged.
“Birth, destruction, they are a ‘reincarnation’…”
“Vegetation withers and thrives, the four seasons cycle, all things must live before they can be destroyed…”
Xie Xuanyi gathered the fragmented insights in his heart together, he stretched out his palm, and as the lost souls of the Great Yue Kingdom flowed into his Heart Lake, the comprehension of the Principle of Life became clearer, more condensed, until finally, a faint halo of light appeared in the palm, this was a fragment of the “Principle of Life.”
“The first fragment of the Tao Rule has been successfully comprehended.”
Xie Xuanyi knew that the hardest part of the Tao Rules was the first step!
Take Taoist Chi Hun as an example.
The reason he was stuck in the Tenth Realm of Grotto Heaven for so many years was that the step of apprehending the Tao Rule was too difficult.
To know as to know, not to know as not to know.
This step is mysterious beyond mystery.
Some may be stuck for ten years, twenty years, possibly for their entire lives, unable to comprehend their own “way.”
But if the first step is taken…
Then condensing the Tao Rule, integrating into the great Dao, is just a matter of time.
Xie Xuanyi looked toward the far side of his Heart Lake, where he arrived at a place where fireflies flickered, releasing his “Principle of Life”…
this was a gathering place for the lost souls of Great Yue.
These souls, once they entered his Heart Lake, ought to have quickly embraced Silent Annihilation, but under the nurturing of the “Principle of Life,” the diffusion speed of these dying souls significantly slowed down.
“The grand Dao of the world, without left or right.
The myriad laws of life, without high or low.”
Xie Xuanyi murmured softly to himself.
It was only at this moment that he truly understood the teachings of Zhao Chunyang.
He pursued the power of slaughter, cultivated the “Path of Destruction,” unrivaled in the same realm, a contest between Sword Cultivators decided in an instant.
But now, the condensation of the Principle of Life allowed Xie Xuanyi to see another path.
The practice of Daoist Skills is not necessarily for “killing.”
These souls, originally supposed to die after a few dozen breaths, were granted a moment’s respite due to the descent of the Principle of Life.
They couldn’t defy the iron rule of life and death, and after a moment, they would ultimately disperse, but being able to slightly resist the grand Heaven and Earth Dao was already enough to glimpse the extraordinariness of the Principle of Life.
Xie Xuanyi also felt the warmth of these “fireflies.”
His Principle of Life, when it fell upon these lost souls, astonishingly read their “memories” before death.
Before the Great Yue Kingdom was destroyed.
Some were just ordinary peasant women, working hard to cultivate the land, adding to the family income, on their own raising children to grow up; because Emperor Qi conscripted soldiers, causing their husbands to die early on the battlefield, by the time they were refined to death, they did not understand what had happened to this country; they only knew their husbands had died in battle, and the children they had struggled to bring up also died in the long and cruel war.
Others were private tutors, originally teaching against their conscience to stay alive; under pressure from Emperor Qi, they doctored history, but ultimately one day could not bear it, choosing to “reveal the truth,” only to be tragically shot dead by the Iron Cavalry…
His sacrifice didn’t awaken many.
What Emperor Qi doctored was not only Ascending.
He launched a war and also wanted to alter the truth of this war, letting everyone believe that the wrongdoer of this war was not him, but “Qing Li”!
If he had won, perhaps history really would have been changed.
The souls that died in this dark war turned into fireflies.
Their struggles, their resistance, for a long time before had been silent and powerless.
Xie Xuanyi illuminated the anger and unwillingness of these souls with the “Principle of Life.”
If he hadn’t comprehended this principle…
He might never have seen these minute truths.
History is a vast river; if one observes with meticulous care, they will discover that each drop of water in this long river, stripping away the muddy surface, possesses a “Linglong Heart.”