Chapter 1349: Weeping for the Dao (Second Update)

Qin Mu cried his heart out, weeping so hard the world turned dark and dim.

Yuchenzi grew anxious and quickly slipped away to fetch Wei Suifeng, Yu Chudu, and the others, thinking to himself, "When has Mu Tianzun ever cried? I've certainly never heard of it! A Tianzun weeping is no small matter. I can't console him..."

He found Wei Suifeng, Yu Chudu, and the others and told them about it. Wei Suifeng said in surprise, "My junior brother cried? Strange. He's afraid of nothing. What could make him shed tears? Let me go see."

Yu Chudu also hurriedly stood up. Yun Jianli's eyes flickered as he said, "Mu Tianzun has cried before. I heard that during the Yan'kang Tribulation, when Mu Tianzun resisted the Heavenly Court, he called to the heavens but they didn't answer, the Heavenly Lord of the Heavens didn't help him. He called to the earth but it didn't respond, and the Earth Lord didn't help him either. Besieged on all sides, feeling powerless to resist the Heavenly Court or save Yan'kang from disaster, he gouged out his own eyes and wept bitterly."

Wei Suifeng felt a pang of sympathy for this junior brother. He stood up and said, "Let's go see."

When they arrived, they saw Hua Xuanxiu patting Qin Mu's back and whispering words of comfort. Yu Chudu's heart warmed. Back in the days of their escape, when he was utterly exhausted, Hua Xuanxiu had comforted him just like this.

Though he always felt she looked like she was comforting a wounded, oversized dog.

Wei Suifeng laughed heartily. "Oh, mighty Mu Tianzun, stalwart and magnificent man of nine feet, why are you crying like a child?"

Qin Mu stopped his grief, looked up, and sneered coldly, "I weep because you mediocrities burn great timber as firewood! I weep for how many brilliant talents in this world are reduced to mediocrity! I weep for the gifted who are never put to proper use!"

Wei Suifeng was angered by his words and sneered back, "Spare me your nonsense! You're just upset that Yun Jianli and I didn't stay in the Peach Grove to help you. You think we owe you, so you put on this show of grievance to extort us. That battle among Tianzuns in the Peach Grove—even if we stayed, we'd have been useless!"

Qin Mu shook his head and stood up, his gaze falling on Hua Xuanxiu. "I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about her. If Xuanxiu had truly listened to you and stopped researching the three realms of Mingde, Danfeng, and Chengtian, then in the future, Yan'kang would surely have lost a Great Tianzun who could have opened up new realms."

He sighed. "She nearly had her potential destroyed by a single word from you. When I thought that if I hadn't asked that question, she would have been doomed to mediocrity, at most keeping company with the likes of you and competing with you, grief welled up in my heart. Then I thought of how many such geniuses throughout history have been ruined by a single careless remark, and I couldn't help but cry. 'You're wrong, don't do it'—those words are the most hurtful."

He couldn't help but think of Taiyi.

Taiyi had said that back then, when Qin Mu abandoned his own path and took up the Heavenly Court and Heavenly Palace system, he had turned into a single teardrop at the corner of Qin Mu's eye.

Now, he understood what Taiyi had felt back then.

Wei Suifeng, Yun Jianli, and the others were taken aback and looked at Hua Xuanxiu.

Yun Jianli probed, "Does Tianzun mean that these three realms actually exist?"

Qin Mu nodded.

Wei Suifeng shook his head. "We've already tested them. Those three realms don't exist. However, the realms of the East Heavenly Gate, West Heavenly Gate, and North Heavenly Gate do exist. But these four Heavenly Gate realms each have their own strengths, and their subtleties still require deep research."

"Mingde, Danfeng, and Chengtian—these three realms do exist."

Qin Mu said, "The Heavenly Court and Heavenly Palace cultivation system was pioneered by Yu Tianzun. But Yu Tianzun only started it, giving it a rough outline. It was gradually perfected through the Longhan Era, slowly filling in the Heavenly Palace. Up to the present day, the Heavenly Court has been slowly completed, but there has yet to be a single being who has truly cultivated the Heavenly Court to completion."

Wei Suifeng and Yun Jianli nodded in agreement. Wei Suifeng said, "Then what makes you so certain these three realms exist?"

"Because of the Dao Realm cultivation system."

The few of them were stunned. Yu Chudu felt a bit dizzy, struggling to keep up with Qin Mu's train of thought.

"The Heavenly Palace system focuses on cultivation base, divine power, and strength, with no insight into the Dao. You've all noticed this, haven't you?"

Qin Mu said unhurriedly, "The Dao Realm system, on the other hand, focuses on insight into the Dao—one realm, one level of heaven. So, does the Heavenly Palace truly have no insight into the Dao? I believe that the Four Heavenly Gates are the gates to entering the Dao. Passing through the Four Heavenly Gates allows one to enter the Dao. This is the true essence of the Heavenly Palace system. But because Yu Tianzun died, no one unearthed this essence, and thus it deviated into a purely strength-focused, deformed path of cultivation."

Wei Suifeng frowned, pondering. "When I experimented with my primordial spirit passing through the other three Heavenly Gates, I did feel something unusual—a sensation of comprehending the Dao... However, with the three gates of Mingde, Danfeng, and Chengtian, I felt no such insight."

"That's because the three gates of the Longhan Heavenly Court are all fake—mere facades without substance."

Qin Mu perked up and said, "Not only are these three gates fake, but even the Four Heavenly Gates like the Southern Heavenly Gate don't fully contain the true Dao laws of the Four Heavenly Gates. The real Heavenly Gates are in the Ancestral Court, and the real Jasper Lake, Execution Platform, and Jade Capital City are also in the Ancestral Court!"

Yun Juanshu and Wei Suifeng fell into thought.

"If there were someone who could perfectly merge the Dao Realm system with the Heavenly Palace system, wouldn't such a being be a Tianzun? Then who is a Tianzun?"

Qin Mu flicked his sleeve and said coldly, "The so-called Ten Tianzuns of the Heavenly Court—aside from Hao Tianzun and Huo Tianzun—the rest are merely people with immense power who have contributed nothing to the perfection and creation of the cultivation system!"

"The Tianzuns I speak of are beings like the Seven Tianzuns of Longhan, beings like Kaihuang who opened up the Dao Realms, beings like Xu Shenghua who opened up the Heavenly River Divine Treasury, beings like myself who opened up the Ancestral Court realm!"

"And such a being exists right here in the Dao Academy!"

His gaze fell on Hua Xuanxiu.

Everyone's eyes also turned to Hua Xuanxiu. She was startled and took a step back, nearly tripping over the thigh bone she had thrown on the ground.

"Heaven have mercy—her thoughts and mindset haven't been completely shackled by your rigid ways of thinking."

Qin Mu said unhurriedly, "If I had come a few years later, she would have become just another ordinary person, no different from you."

Wei Suifeng, Yun Jianli, and Yuchenzi were all quite displeased, but they had to admit that they had indeed nearly stifled Hua Xuanxiu's creativity.

Yu Chudu, however, was very happy. He was Hua Xuanxiu's teacher and had always cared deeply about her growth.

"Besides Hua Xuanxiu, there is also a half-Tianzun in the Dao Academy. Who was the deity who opened up the other three Heavenly Gates?"

Qin Mu grew curious and asked, "That person opened up half a realm and can be called a half-Tianzun."

"It was Prince Youming and Wen Yuan, when they were studying divine arts and Dao methods under Granny Si."

Yuchenzi said, "Granny Si has a deep understanding of the Dao Realm system. Wen Yuan and Prince Youming studied the Dao Realm of divine arts under her, comprehending the Northern Emperor's divine arts and Dao method system. Wen Yuan always had trouble fully unleashing the Northern Emperor's divine arts and Dao methods. Prince Youming taught him, but strangely, Prince Youming couldn't fully unleash the Northern Emperor's divine arts either. Granny Si initially thought it was due to bloodline, so she even drew Prince Youming's blood to study it. In the end, she concluded that the root wasn't in bloodline or techniques. The three of them pondered for a long time and felt that the Heavenly Palace system was missing something."

Qin Mu listened and asked, "Wen Yuan? Which Wen Yuan?"

Yuchenzi said in surprise, "He's the young leader of your Heavenly Saint Sect. You're the old leader. Don't you know that?"

"I became the old leader?"

Qin Mu stood dumbfounded, then turned his head with difficulty to look at Wei Suifeng. "Senior Brother, when was I usurped? Why don't I even know about it?"

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