Chapter 1887: Forcefully Questioning the Dao
The Heavenly Dao is clear and bright. Just now, he had used the Dao of Life and Death to strike the Questioning Heaven Stele. Upon the stele, life and death resonated with heaven and earth. The intent of death directly assailed his divine soul, nearly causing him to perish. It had directly erased his divine sense and soul power—how overbearing was that.
Questioning the Dao with life and death, using his own Dao to take his own life. If the spirit does not conceive the Dao, how can one question the Dao?
"Entering is easy, but leaving is hard. My Dao of Life and Death is extremely overbearing, so the response from the Questioning Heaven Stele is equally overbearing, demanding my life," Lin Feng mused inwardly. The more overbearing the Dao intent, the more terrifying this backlash would be.
Lin Feng sat cross-legged. Divine light radiated brilliantly from between his brows. The ethereal immortal palace stretched on, questioning the passage of time and the vicissitudes of the ages, as if confirming that voice: *I know not in the celestial palaces above, what year it is tonight.*
"The Divine Mind Palace Art seems to have been severed. From now on, I will likely need to deduce it on my own," Lin Feng murmured to himself. Now that the Divine Mind Palace was complete, his mental defenses were formidable and unshakable. The ethereal immortal palace, with its melodious tones, could even erase the deathly Dao intent when the Dao assailed life and death.
Of course, Lin Feng had also cultivated the Nine Nether Demon Melody. As long as the melody was not extinguished, his intent would not be extinguished. It would not be easy to obliterate his divine soul.
Looking at the Questioning Heaven Stele before him, Lin Feng sat cross-legged. The man with ink-black hair shot a sharp glance at Lin Feng and said coldly, "Before I leave, you are not to strike the Questioning Heaven Stele again."
Lin Feng looked at the other party, raised an eyebrow, and a sharp glint flashed in his eyes.
Then, his gaze shifted forward. In his hand, he held a halo of life and death. Another attack blasted toward the Questioning Heaven Stele. The stele shifted, the wind and clouds changed color. A terrifying wave of deathly Dao intent, like a giant wave, flooded the entire void, sweeping over everyone. Lin Feng bore the brunt of it, and the deathly Dao intent plunged straight into his divine soul.
"Endless Life!" This time, Lin Feng was prepared. The power of life enveloped his body, eternal and undying. However, the humming deathly Dao, like a heavenly sound, directly poured onto his divine soul. A deathly intent that could not be resisted surged forth. Lin Feng felt as if a death brand had been seared into his divine soul. Then, his vision went black, and he fainted once again.
The ethereal immortal palace chimed once more. The death brand was triggered and then collapsed. Lin Feng's eyes opened again. Dying and then living, life and death intertwined.
"You're asking for death," the man with ink-black hair shouted coldly, killing intent surging in his eyes as he lunged at Lin Feng.
Whenever Lin Feng struck the stele to question the Dao, the entire void was affected. A deathly intent seemed to fill the heavens and earth, and everyone here would be affected.
Many people cast cold glances at Lin Feng. However, at that moment, Lin Feng slammed his palm onto the ground. Instantly, the halo of life and death began to evolve wildly. A Taiji Diagram of Life and Death appeared on the ground, and a terrifying intent of life and death suddenly condensed into being.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Lin Feng's palms trembled continuously. Brilliant light burst forth. Halos of life and death emerged around him, enveloping his body.
"Coming here without questioning the Dao—how can one achieve the Dao?" Lin Feng's palms trembled, and two halos of life and death slammed heavily into the Questioning Heaven Stele. With a *hum*, a terrifying force spread out like a tide. It seemed as if a stream of deathly light illuminated the void. The people here suddenly all opened their eyes, their sharpness fully exposed, their intent blazing brightly. The deathly Dao intent swept across heaven and earth like an invisible flood, trying to brand itself into everyone's divine souls.
"Using death to knock on the Dao's gate." Feeling this invisible wave of death, Lin Feng's intent of endless life reached its peak. Just as the death brand was about to be seared into his divine soul, a powerful will to live surged forth, as if trying to dissolve the death brand and turn it into a brand of life.
However, this death brand was too overbearing. It plunged straight into his divine soul. The immortal palace shone brilliantly, and the Nine Nether Demon Melody began to play. A terrifying divine light suddenly burst from Lin Feng's eyes. He desired to be undying and indestructible, to resist this death brand.
Under this overbearing power of death, everyone else's pupils turned icy cold. Their divine sense radiated wildly. The man with ink-black hair roared coldly, "You will die!"
"Kill this brat!" A series of cold voices rolled forth, piercing into Lin Feng's mind. A violent killing intent swept across the void.
"If the spirit does not conceive the Dao, then die with every question." Lin Feng stood up, his eyes icy cold. In his pupils were terrifying halos of life and death. He rose to his feet, the Nine Nether Demon Melody playing, his divine sense blazing brightly. A surging vitality emerged, wrapping around his body. In both his hands were halos of life and death.
"Strike!" A single word emerged from Lin Feng's mouth. Instantly, all those halos slammed into the Questioning Heaven Stele. The crowd was greatly shocked, staring at Lin Feng with dead eyes. This man was a madman.
"Chi..." Heaven and earth resonated. The deathly intent reached its peak, pouring down. Everyone, including Lin Feng, felt a deathly heavenly sound plunge into their divine souls, planting a death brand, seeking to take their lives.
Lin Feng looked up at the sky. The deathly intent triggered a resonance with heaven and earth, causing a deathly thought to arise spontaneously in everyone.
"The two poles of life and death. The extreme of death is life. How could my own Dao destroy me?" Within Lin Feng's divine sense, a surge of life force suddenly seemed to emerge, transforming into endless radiance of life, like celestial music. Lin Feng's pupils flickered, alternating between light and dark, life and death, as if undergoing a cycle of life and death.
"Chi!" A sharp light pierced the void. The halos of life and death on Lin Feng's body transformed wildly. In that moment, all the power of life turned into the power of death. The Taiji Diagram of Life and Death was left with only death qi, terrifying and overwhelming.
"You brat, how dare you!" The man with ink-black hair almost roared. At that moment, an invisible killing intent swept across the void, all directed at Lin Feng. However, their divine senses were trapped by the power of death. They dared not divert their attention, or they would truly die within it. This power of death, resonating with heaven and earth, was far too overbearing.
Lin Feng had no distractions. He ignored everyone. In his eyes, there was only the light of life and death.
With a wave of his hand, the eyes of the surrounding people suddenly changed drastically. They closed their eyes, unleashing their divine soul power with full concentration. With a *hum*, Lin Feng's full power of death struck the Questioning Heaven Stele, using death to knock on the Dao's gate.
"This madman." At this moment, everyone wanted to kill Lin Feng. In the past, when they questioned the Dao, they maintained a balance. No one was allowed to be too ostentatious. But Lin Feng, having just arrived, forcefully knocked on the Dao's gate, disregarding their lives. Was he not afraid that if the Dao was not achieved, they would kill him?
"Chi..." The power of death instantly flooded the entire void. Heaven and earth turned gray, suddenly darkening. Countless invisible heavenly sounds descended from above, like countless death brands, seeking to extinguish people's divine souls.
A powerful cultivator's face instantly turned deathly pale. The Dao intent descended, the lamp went out, and the man died. His body remained seated, motionless, but he no longer had any breath. He was dead.
If they had known that Lin Feng would be so forceful in questioning the Dao, and with the Dao intent of life and death no less, they would have killed him the moment he entered, so as not to bring disaster upon themselves now.
The moment this heavenly sound descended into Lin Feng's mind, his eyes were about to close. However, his incredibly strong vitality gave him a powerful will to live. The extreme of death was life. His life force bloomed wildly.
"The Dao of Life and Death. Life and death exchange positions. Death is life, life is death. Using death to question the Dao, using life to seek the Dao—why fear death?" Lin Feng let out a long roar. The sound waves rolled forth. Suddenly, the death brand that had rushed into his divine soul seemed to transform into a brand of life. The two poles of life and death. If life is not extinguished, then one is undying.
Lin Feng's divine soul experienced a struggle between life and death. His pupils of life and death held a terrifying obsession. He raised his arms. Suddenly, the overwhelming power of death wildly condensed into a vortex, then violently blasted outward. Using death to knock on the Dao's gate—if one does not enter the Dao of death, how can one enter the Dao of life?
"Thump!" The Questioning Heaven Stele let out a rolling tremor. The deathly heavenly flood directly drowned the void. Figures fell one after another. Some people closed their eyes forever. Their cultivation levels were all higher than Lin Feng's, but under this deathly heavenly sound born from the resonance of the Questioning Heaven Stele, a death brand was seared into their divine souls, their life force was extinguished, and they died.
At this moment, an even more terrifying power of death plunged straight into Lin Feng's divine soul, like countless terrifying death brands. However, at this moment, Lin Feng's gaze was clear. He uttered a single word: "Life!"
Suddenly, the death brands in the void transformed into power filled with vitality, bathing Lin Feng's entire body in a radiance of life, dazzling and bright.
"The Dao of Life and Death. I question life and death once more." A brilliant halo of life and death suddenly shot from Lin Feng's eyes, striking the Questioning Heaven Stele. Instantly, the stele shone brightly. The two poles of life and death alternated and reflected each other, as if they had been like this since ancient times.
"The Dao of Life and Death. Its rudimentary form is complete. Now, question the Dao of the Heart." The Questioning Heaven Stele radiated a powerful light, as if it had transformed back into an ancient mirror. Lin Feng looked at the stele before him. He had already knocked on this gate.
Lin Feng turned his gaze, looking at this world. On the ground lay several corpses, but there were still a few people alive, who had not died during his questioning of the Dao.
However, Lin Feng did not see killing intent in their eyes. One person's eyes flickered with divine light, clear and bright, as if suddenly enlightened.
"On the path of questioning the Dao, why fear the Dao's might? Only by achieving the Dao can one break the Dao." That person sighed inwardly, then looked at Lin Feng and actually bowed slightly, saying, "Thank you for your guidance."
Lin Feng was stunned for a moment, then revealed a calm smile. "It was an unintentional act, hardly worth mentioning. But did you not see that they died because of me?"
With that, Lin Feng stepped forward, directly passing through this Questioning Heaven Stele. To question the Dao of the Heart—what reason was there for that?