Becoming a Deity from Planting the Bodhi Tree-Chapter 1213 - 430: Ego, One True Dharma Realm (Part 2)

Ji Jingqiu nodded, this fellow still has some strategy, all setting bait for him.

He changed the subject, "I heard that the Yin Spirit Realm is all dead people?"

"What is death, what is life?" Qi Tian countered, "Ji, have you ever dreamed, is it possible that you and I are just... something in another's dream?"

In Ji Jingqiu's eyes, Qi Tian seemed to have triggered some passive, suddenly becoming profound, not only in tone but also in demeanor, deep and inscrutable.

His expression was somber, yet incredibly solemn, as if facing a perplexing question that had troubled him since he began cultivation.

Qi Tian extended a finger, and the Void ahead rippled like water, spreading in all directions.

The images within transitioned from vague to clear, from sketch to painting, to scroll, eventually lifelike, playing out a certain period of experiences like a movie.

"Ji, I once dreamed for three thousand years, experiencing a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation, with the dream as the foundation, evolving into a world, everyone I met in the dream, nearly real people, they had their own joys and sorrows, their own..."

"Lives."

Qi Tian's expression remained calm, pointing out, using a small technique he had researched, turning past experiences into a scene of "water curtain" before them.

"A dream of three thousand years, experiencing a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation..." Ji Jingqiu murmured, seemingly greatly shocked.

Qi Tian's smile remained unchanged, thinking Taoist Friend Ji, finally broke through your unmoving Dao heart, he continued speaking, his tone still indifferent:

"It was also this step that helped me lay the foundation of the future Supreme Dao Fruit and incidentally break through the threshold of the Heavenly Monarch."

"Counting like this, only thirty years per lifetime?" Ji Jingqiu wondered, "Taoist Friend Qi Tian, was every life so short-lived?"

Qi Tian: "?"

I said I dreamed for three thousand years, experienced a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation, broke through the Heavenly Monarch threshold, and you are there calculating my lifespan per lifetime, worrying that I was short-lived in every life?

"Virtual pointer." Qi Tian took a deep breath, "Three thousand years of time is external flowing time, but in the dream, it was far more than three thousand years."

Ji Jingqiu only then was relieved.

Qi Tian continued to breathe deeply, then said: "Since then, a question arose in my heart, am I also just a butterfly in someone else's dream?"

"Why a butterfly? Not a bug..."

"Shut up."

"Oh."

Qi Tian no longer looked at Ji Jingqiu, seeming to be talking to himself:

"Among common folks, some say the Great Sun in the sky is the eye of a God, opening for day, closing for night, I searched all heavens of the Yin Spirit Realm, truly found some similar exotic beast, then does a similar supreme being exist somewhere else—"

"The Endless Boundary Sea is just a wisp of his thought while sleeping, a dream. When he opens his eyes, as the dream ends, everything between Heaven and Earth falls into chaos."

"The endlessly cyclical universe, the endless birth and death of all spirits, all just a corner of his dream..."

"A world like clouds and smoke, as real as illusion, how should one distinguish between them?"

"What is the meaning of all dharma and tao existing in the world?"

"Falsification, correction."

Speaking to the end, he had fully immersed in self-questioning and answering mode, completely forgetting that Ji Jingqiu was still beside him.

Ji Jingqiu was surprised in his heart, are all people in the Yin Spirit Realm like this? Thinking about whether they are a butterfly in someone else's dream, thereby doubting themselves, doubting the reality of the entire Heaven and Earth?

This is really...

Romance.

If Wuzhou entered this realm, wouldn't it be like a tiger in a sheepfold, deceiving at will?

Federation Martial Arts values the True Self, if you doubt even your own existence, let alone reaching the end, even the Mental Realm of theoretically never falling after Spiritual Cultivation would collapse.

Yet this Yin Spirit Realm seems to be obsessed with reversing dreams.

Ji Jingqiu suddenly connected with Lady La in his heart, "Have you been to the Yin Spirit Realm before?"

"Since it is the realm covering the Nether Sea, I naturally visited it," Hel responded disapprovingly.

Wuzhou suddenly 'returned the favor,' revealing, "Not only that, this realm's real name is [Dream Butterfly], it's Hel's blessed land, it was in that realm Hel completed the overhaul of the Lifebound Technique "Big Dream of Thousands of Autumns", completely discarding the past dharma and tao."

Hel's expression changed, cursing, "Mind your own business!"

Wuzhou remained unmoved, smilingly suggested, "Since you cultivated "Big Dream of Thousands of Autumns", you could indeed interact with this realm and see if they've found new directions on this path."

Ji Jingqiu was momentarily stunned, wasn't he cultivating the "Art of the Big Dream"?

"Ji Jingqiu, this journey to Chaohua Realm illuminated the road ahead for you, but the [One True Dharma Realm] you left in the Federation fell far behind, nowhere near perfect."

"You can guide this person to come, make him work for you, help you perfect the [One True Dharma Realm]. Others wouldn't work, but this person from the Yin Spirit Realm, inheriting Hel's former Lifebound Technique—"

Wuzhou left Ji Jingqiu with a meaningful smile.

Ji Jingqiu was thoughtful.

Beside him, Qi Tian was still talking to himself, his words disconnected, like arguing with himself.

"Ji, does your Federation Martial Arts in Spiritual Cultivation also have similar troubles, suspecting everything besides one's own spirit as illusory?" Qi Tian suddenly asked.

Ji Jingqiu did not respond, extended his hand in the Void to write out the character "觉" (awareness).

"This is our Federation's '觉' character, with two pronunciations, don't know if your noble realm is the same—"

"A single thought of awareness (jiao), is your Taoist friend's persistent 'A spring and autumn big dream, all in vain,' waking is reversing dreams, troubling oneself without reason."

"The second pronunciation, read as awareness (觉), in our lineage, this pronunciation matches a character of great significance, it's about 'seeing the true nature, all dharma empty, instant sudden enlightenment of ten thousand skills' self-awareness and awakening."