The first thing Yan Liqiang did after successfully advancing to a warrior was not to celebrate, but to wait until the advancement phenomenon around him completely disappeared. Then he took a deep breath, sat cross-legged on the bed in the room, closed his eyes, and began to reflect inward.
Yan Liqiang has been waiting for this day for a long time. He has countless questions in his mind, and he must figure them out.
What is the unpredictable stone in his head? What happened to his previous experience that seemed like a dream? Also, what was going on with the so-called heavenly realm and all the incredible things he dreamed of
After becoming an advanced warrior, all of this will have a final answer. This is Yan Liqiang's premonition.
When Yan Liqiang focused all his energy and attention on his sea of consciousness, the fog in his sea of consciousness gradually dissipated.
There was indeed a change in the sea of consciousness. The mysterious stone that Yan Liqiang had previously remembered with its ever-changing appearance had indeed disappeared, and in its place was an entrance.
It was a diamond-shaped entrance and portal, emitting a mysterious glow as unpredictable as a rainbow, extremely gorgeous, as if waiting for Yan Liqiang to enter.
After hesitating for less than a second, Yan Liqiang made up his mind and focused all his attention and vision on the diamond-shaped portal.
According to his "previous" experience, Yan Liqiang thought that he would have to concentrate for at least three hours before he could possibly enter the portal. But this time, he didn't expect that the speed at which he entered the portal was dozens or even hundreds of times faster than before.
In less than two minutes, Yan Liqiang felt a bang and his entire consciousness and mind entered the portal.
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"Young man, welcome to the Temple of Heaven..." A voice suddenly sounded in Yan Liqiang's ears the moment he entered.
When Yan Liqiang saw the environment around him, he couldn't help but open his mouth wide, his astonishment and shock were indescribable.
He was in a hall that was so magnificent and huge that it was difficult to describe. All around him, as far as the eye could see, there were giant black pillars that were hundreds of meters high. Inside those black pillars, there were spots of light. Looking closely, each point of starlight was a swirling galaxy. Under his feet, the floor was flashing with a silver-like luster, and countless runes were flowing under the floor like water.
Between the two huge pillars in front of him, there was a circular portal. The circular portal radiated white light and looked extremely holy, like the entrance to heaven. Behind him was the diamond-shaped entrance of the hall, which was as bright as a rainbow. The entrance of the hall was opposite to the portal radiating white light. He was standing between the two portals. In front of him, in the middle of the hall, there was a pool. A huge and strange diamond-shaped crystal that was dozens of meters high and familiar to him was floating on the pool. On the strange diamond-shaped crystal, the light and shadows of various animals and birds and beasts were constantly manifested...
In this magnificent hall, Yan Liqiang was as small as an ant.
The one who was talking to Yan Liqiang was a strange being standing in front of the pool.
That strange creature was almost three meters tall. The upper body was human, and the lower body from the waist down was a snake. The person was wearing clothes, had silver hair, and a weathered and clumsy face. Every wrinkle on his face seemed to flow with unfathomable wisdom and experience.
Yan Liqiang was startled when he saw the strange creature, but fortunately he remained calm and did not turn around and run. Because in Yan Liqiang's memory, he had seen the same strange creature before, but only in paintings and on paper. In Chinese mythology, Nuwa and Fuxi looked like this.
The strange being that was hard to tell apart from a human and a snake glanced at Yan Liqiang. The moment he looked into the eyes of that strange being, a thought naturally emerged in Yan Liqiang's mind: this strange being knew everything, and nothing could be hidden from him.
"Hello, my name is Yan Liqiang. What's your name?" After a few seconds of nervousness, Yan Liqiang plucked up the courage, opened his mouth and asked a question.
"You can call me Fu Guang!" A smile appeared on the face of the strange being, which Yan Liqiang could see. "I know you have many questions in your heart right now, and you have been holding them back for a long time. I know everything about your past, and I also know everything here. So, you can ask me any questions you have, and I will try my best to answer them in a way and language that you can understand."
“What… are you?” Yan Liqiang originally wanted to ask what “thing” you are, but when the words came to his lips, he felt that the words were grammatically incorrect and not very polite. He also didn’t know whether this would anger this person named Fu Guang, so he changed “thing” to “person”.
"I am the spirit of this Heavenly Dao Temple, a special life without a body that is close to immortality!"
"Weapon spirit?"
"To put it in terms you can understand, you can think of me as your advisor, housekeeper, or artificial intelligence here. I will answer all your questions and help anyone who can enter here to control everything here. Now it's you who's entering here, so I will also help you control the Heavenly Dao Temple!"
"Are you alive?"
"That depends on your definition of life. The existence of life in different universes and dimensions may exceed the limits of your cognition. Different lives also pursue different things. Fish want the sea, birds want the sky, some people pursue wealth, and some people pursue power. For me, becoming a spirit here, being immortal, and being able to freely roam in different heavenly realms is my favorite way of existence."
"Where do these two doors lead to?" Yan Liqiang pointed to the door in front of him and the entrance to the hall behind him.
"The portal in front of you that is emitting white light is your entrance into the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm, and the entrance to the hall behind you is your passage back to the real world!"
"I remember... there seemed to be a mysterious stone in my previous sea of consciousness that could change. Was that mysterious stone the meteor that hit me in my previous life?"
"Yes, that stone is the meteor that hit you in your previous life. Its name is the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone!"
"Heavenly Dao Divine Stone..." Yan Liqiang muttered to himself, repeating the name, and then looked at the hall around him, "I remember the scene I saw when I entered the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone before seemed to be different from this hall, what's going on?" Yan Liqiang glanced at the giant pillars around him. Everything here was similar to the scenes he had experienced before in some places, but different in some places. However, the swirling universe and galaxies in those giant pillars gave him a sense of déjà vu, and it was not completely unfamiliar.
“What you saw and felt before was the state of the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone before it created the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm. That state was chaotic and elementary, and was the perception of your consciousness under special circumstances. At this moment, everything you see here is the final state of the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone after it created the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm! You can think of everything you saw and felt before as an unfinished construction site, and everything you see now is what the construction site will look like after it is completely completed.”
"Has the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone disappeared?" Yan Liqiang remembered a dream he had before. He dreamed that the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone disappeared from his sea of consciousness after creating the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm, leaving only an entrance for him.
Fu Guang smiled and pointed at the huge diamond-shaped crystal floating in the void in the hall, "This is the true body of the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone. It has not disappeared, but has only changed its way of existence. It created the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm and the Heavenly Dao Temple, and is the core of the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm and the Heavenly Dao Temple!"
Yan Liqiang frowned tightly, "The Heavenly Dao Divine Realm you mentioned, is it the world where my other reborn body experienced everything in the Sword Body Sect?"
"Yes!"
"Is everything in that Heavenly Dao Divine Realm true or false?" Yan Liqiang asked with difficulty.
“The Heavenly Dao Divine Realm is a world created by the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone because of you. From this perspective, it is fake, but from the perspective of life experience, it is real. Everything in the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm is no different from the real world. Moreover, you only have one chance to be in the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm. If you die in the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm, then you will never be able to enter again!”
Yan Liqiang thought about it and nodded, "I understand. What you mean is that I can treat the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm as a simulated real game that can only be played once. If I die in that game, I will never be able to recharge again and will never be able to play the same game again?"
"That's what I mean!"
Yan Liqiang laughed loudly, "Yes, yes. As the saying goes, knowing something three days in advance will bring you wealth and prosperity for a thousand years. Since God has given me another chance, I can already know major events that happen in the world several years in advance in the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm. This is enough. Then I wonder how the time of these two worlds is coordinated? I can't be in two worlds at the same time."
"When you are in one world, the time in the other world is relatively still. If you are in the Heavenly Dao Temple, the time in both worlds is still at the same time. At the same time, starting from today, the time difference between the two worlds will begin to synchronize. The maximum time elasticity error between the two worlds is seven days. If you spend one day in the real world, then you must also spend one day in the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm. No matter what the reason, if you accumulate more than seven days in the real world without entering the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm, or accumulate more than seven days in the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm without returning to the real world, then the effect is equivalent to your death in the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm."
Hearing this, Yan Liqiang was shocked. He thought about it for a moment, looked at the magnificent Tiandao Temple and the floating Tiandao Stone, licked his lips, and asked another question, "What else do you think I should know about the Tiandao Temple and the Tiandao Stone?"
"Your question is very clever!" Fu Guang looked at Yan Liqiang with appreciation, "Creating the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm is only one of the two major functions of the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone. In fact, the Heavenly Dao Divine Stone has another, even greater function, which is why the Heavenly Dao Temple exists!"
"What is it?"
"Create life and control reincarnation!"
The eight words uttered by Fu Guang resounded in the Heavenly Dao Temple...
(End of this chapter)