The sound of the piano is lingering, and the refreshing fragrance lingers at the tip of the nose, making people feel calm and at ease.
Zhu Changyang slowly opened his eyes and found himself sitting cross-legged in a pavilion by the lake.
The waterside pavilion is built with sacred wood, simple and elegant.
In front of him was a low table with a copper incense burner on it. Sandalwood was burning in the burner and white smoke was rising. The faint fragrance came from that.
A deep voice sounded: "Masters, are you awake?"
Zhu Changyang looked up and found a man in a black robe with gold thread sitting opposite the low table.
This man had black hair like a waterfall and a face as handsome as jade. He looked very young, but his eyes were deep and transparent, which was inconsistent with his appearance. It was difficult to tell his age.
Zhu Changyang immediately understood what was going on and nodded in return, "Hello, Lord Six Seals."
Liu Yin handed over a cup of tea and said, "Master, you just slept for an hour. What did you dream about?"
Zhu Changyang's mind suddenly flashed back to everything he had just experienced in Yongze City -
The grand bronze gate, the singing child, the raging flood, the sky full of black thunder and... the figure standing on the top of the endless waves, using the sword to block the water.
His heart began to beat wildly again, but his face remained expressionless. He only asked in confusion, "Was it just a dream?"
"It's a dream, but it's not a dream." Liu Yin glanced at him and said meaningfully, "That's the delusion that people can't let go of."
It is said that the One Leaf Heaven was created by Zhiqiuzi, the founder of Jingtian Palace, using a leaf of Bodhi, and the entrance to the heaven is Zhiqiuzi's legacy, the Heart Mirror.
When outsiders enter the kingdom of heaven, they will first pass through the heart mirror. If they disturb the legacy of the ancestors at this time, they will fall into the heart mirror.
As the name suggests, the heart mirror reflects the inner heart.
In other words, once you enter the mirror of your heart, what you see and feel are actually reflections of the hidden side of your heart.
Maybe it’s a memory, maybe it’s an obsession, or maybe it’s something else that is unknown to others or even unknown to oneself.
This is what people often call false thoughts.
Zhu Changyang suddenly understood after hearing this. No wonder so many cultivators were searching and traveling across the oceans to come to Yiye Kingdom, trying to get guidance from Jingtian Palace.
It turns out that the so-called opportunity to unravel the confusion in one's heart is precisely this mirror of the heart.
But Zhu Changyang's doubts were not answered. Instead, he became more confused. After thinking for a while, he asked, "What if the person I see in the mirror is not myself?"
This was obviously not the first time Liu Yin had heard this question, so he was not surprised and said with a smile, "What the heart mirror reflects must be the heart of the person in the mirror. If you peeked into someone else, then maybe it was just..."
Having said this, he deliberately paused.
Zhu Changyang asked: "Just what?"
Liu Yin smiled slightly and said slowly: "It's just that you have forgotten the past."
Zhu Changyang had already sensed it, but when he heard the answer, his heart still trembled, but he did not show any expression on his face. He just picked up the teacup in front of him and took a sip.
The tea had been sitting for a quarter of an hour, but it was still warm. When I took a sip, I could smell the refreshing fragrance on my lips and teeth, and my heart palpitations were also relieved a little.
He then chuckled and said, "I have forgotten it for too long."
"People in this world tend to forget things easily, so don't worry too much about it." Liu Yin poured him some more tea. "Since you have obtained this fate, it means that you have not yet resolved your past. When the time comes, you will be able to understand it."
"Thank you for your guidance, Lord God." Zhu Changyang nodded, pondered for a moment, and asked again, "Is it possible for others to enter my mind mirror?"
"this… "
This question was really unexpected. Liu Yin hesitated for a moment. After thinking for a while, he replied, "I think it's unlikely, unless..."
Zhu Changyang: "Unless what?"
"Unless that person happens to enter the mirror with you." Liu Yin said, but this alone is not enough, because everyone's thoughts are isolated. Even Jingtian Palace, who controls the heart mirror, cannot peek into the depths of other people's hearts, so another condition is needed.
"And what that person is thinking just happens to mirror the delusion in your mind."
Zhu Changyang smiled and said, "I understand."
This topic comes to an end.
"By the way," Zhu Changyang changed the subject and asked, "I still don't know why the Lord God summoned us to the One Leaf Kingdom?"
When Liu Yin mentioned this, his expression became more serious, and he let out a sigh: "To be honest, I don't understand this either..."
One day about two years ago, he was meditating as usual, when he suddenly felt that there seemed to be some strange changes in the Nine Realms world outside Ye, so he took out six strange stones for divination.
Those six strange stones fell from the sky when he achieved great success in his realm. They have the power to explore beyond the realm.
After some deduction, he found that it was the changes in the Canopus in the southwest that caused the Yongze shock located below the Canopus.
However, the turbulence was so subtle that even the people of Buchen and Changping, who lived near Yongze, did not notice it.
Liu Yin wasn't too worried at the time.
However, as time went by, the power turbulence of Canopus became more and more obvious.
“Everyone thinks that stars are something outside the world and have nothing to do with our world. Little do they know that the power of stars can shake the world.” Liu Yin looked worried.
"I know." Zhu Changyang nodded. Master Newton had explained this, which is the law of universal gravitation.
Although the world of cultivation is a magical world, it cannot escape the basic laws of physics.
Liu Yin didn't expect that he actually had quite a lot of insights into the power of the stars. He was a little surprised, so he skipped the explanation and continued, "I'm worried that if the power of the stars continues to grow stronger, there might be a disaster in the world, so I keep deducing ways to crack it..."
Finally, more than half a year ago, he glimpsed from the Six Seal Stone that the power of the stars seemed to be pointing faintly to the Unnamed Domain.
But this made him even more confused.
The Unnamed Domain is full of mysteries. No creature of any race has ever been able to set foot in it for thousands of years. What could be in there that could attract the power of the star Canopus
Liu Yin thought about it again and again, and finally decided to inform the leaders of all major sects and start the sect competition ahead of schedule.
If the star Cangxing changes again and really causes disasters on earth, more immortal forces will be needed to resist together, and the sect competition is the fastest way to identify and gather new forces.
This is also the reason why the preliminary round of the competition was set in Weiming District.
But the truth was more complicated than he expected.
"Originally, I asked everyone to enter the Unknown Domain just to see if there are any clues that can confirm the changes in the Cangxing..." Liu Yin looked at the person sitting opposite him, and his tone became a little more subtle, "I didn't expect that the sect leaders would actually break into the Wusheng Forbidden Land."
Once the forbidden area was broken, the chaotic barrier that had enveloped the Unnamed Domain for thousands of years also dissipated.
The Nine Realms were in an uproar, but Liu Yin noticed something unusual and secretly deduced Zhu Changyang's fate.
But the deduction results were beyond his expectations.
At this point, Liu Yin paused, his eyes darkened, "I'm very curious, where did the various sect leaders come from, and why are there traces of the outside world in their fates?"
Zhu Changyang was slightly surprised.
I've heard that Jingtian Palace has the ability to peek into the outside world, but I didn't expect it could even calculate this.
The world of cultivation is still amazing!
However, he did not answer, but only asked: "Does the Lord of God think that I am from outside the realm?"
"No." Liu Yin flatly denied, "Your Excellency's fate is known to the mainland, so you are definitely not an outsider, and you should be born in the southwest."
Although he had expected it, when he really heard it, Zhu Changyang was still stunned, and then laughed: "It seems so."
Liu Yin became more and more confused.
There are so many strange things happening to Zhu Changyang.
In addition to the traces of the outside world in his fate, the time when he came to prominence in the Nine Realms was shortly after the first mutation of the Canopus.
It originates from the southwest, which is the Yongze water area, which coincides with the position of the star Canopus.
All these coincidences make one think more.
It happened that a few days ago, Liu Yin was observing the stars at night and found that the star Canopus had changed again, and the power of the stars became more and more evident.
This discovery made him uneasy, so he discussed with all the factions to suspend the competition and invite all the top eight contestants to Yiye Kingdom.
But the real purpose is actually to have a conversation with Zhu Changyang.
Liu Yin guessed that the method to crack the changes in the star Canopus might lie in Zhu Changyang's strange fate.
But Zhu Changyang just shook his head: "Sorry, I'm not sure yet."
This is the truth. No matter how many guesses he has in his mind, they have never been truly confirmed, and Jun Shu is involved in it.
Before the truth was completely clear, he was unwilling to easily reveal Jun Shu's identity.
As for the changes in the star Canopus, he had no idea at all.
Seeing that he didn't seem to be lying, Liu Yin had no choice but to sigh and say, "Forget it, all the sect leaders, go and have a rest first. If you remember anything, tell me..."
Zhu Changyang's heart moved: "Speaking of which, I have something else I want to ask the Lord of God."
Liuyin: "What?"
Zhu Changyang took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it over: "Have you ever seen this sentence, Lord God?"
On the paper was the prophecy that he had copied from the city records of Changping.
It is also a song that keeps repeating in dreams.
"There is blood at the city gate, and the city has collapsed into a lake." Liu Yin recognized it immediately, "Isn't this an ancient prophecy left in the Changping area?"
Zhu Changyang nodded: "Yes."
"You're missing a sentence." Liu Yin said, and with a flick of his finger, a jade pen dipped in gold ink appeared in his hand.
He waved his ink pen and quickly added a sentence at the back of the paper, then pushed it back, "Masters, please read this."
Zhu Changyang lowered his eyes, and the moment he saw the words, his head began to hurt again, and the scene of Yongze City appeared again.
The little boy clapped his hands, skipped and sang the old ballad in the rain, but this time it was no longer two incomplete sentences, but the complete version -
There was blood at the city gate and the city became a lake.
The citizens of the city were transformed into fish.
Liu Yin was a little surprised: "This is an ancient saying from ten thousand years ago, why are the sect leaders asking about it?"
Zhu Changyang quickly picked up the teacup and drank it all in one gulp. The unique tranquilizing tea of Jingtian Palace finally suppressed the severe pain. He let out a breath, but did not answer Liu Yin's words. He only continued to ask, "Does God know what this sentence means?"
"That's not very clear." Liu Yin said. Ten thousand years is too far away after all. Even with the power of Jingtian Palace, it is difficult to deduce. "However, I have heard snow horseshoe crabs singing this saying by the Pengxue River. It is vaguely in harmony with the power of the saints on the Changping land. I think it should be related to the saints of that year."
“Saint…” Zhu Changyang hesitated. This was the third time he heard this title. However, he didn’t know who the “saint” was before. But now he had a concrete guess.
New moon.
But he didn't understand, if what he saw in his heart mirror were all things that had happened in the past, and "Shuohui" failed to save the city of Nagase, then why could he still be called a "sage".
Zhu Changyang asked the question that was in his mind.
"This is the misunderstanding of later generations." Liu Yin sighed.
The people of Changping regard the "saint" as a saint because they are protected by him.
The world of cultivation regards "saints" as saints because of their supreme cultivation.
But in fact, they all got the cause and effect relationship wrong. A saint must first become a saint before he can obtain the heavenly cultivation and leave behind his influence after his death.
"I once saw a record in our sect's library. In ancient times, in addition to the cultivation techniques we are familiar with now, there was another way to attain enlightenment—
Only those who are the object of all people's hearts and who become gods through faith can be called saints."
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