My Dreams Connect to Ancient Times-Chapter 173 - 24: Prayers of All Beings, Meeting a Familiar Face at School
After returning home and greeting Xiaoyan, Lu Xuan hurried into his room and slammed the door shut.
He took a deep breath and quickly focused on the changes occurring within him, inwardly alarmed.
’Just now... what was that?’
Lu Xuan could sense that when he accepted Zhuge Ke and Chong Shanhu as Registered Disciples, a faint connection had formed between him and the two of them.
Not only that, his own power had even been slightly enhanced...
’Is it because I took on disciples?’
’No, that doesn’t seem to be the reason.’
’Then is it because...?’
A thousand thoughts raced through Lu Xuan’s mind. After a long moment of contemplation, his eyes suddenly lit up.
’Could it be... because of those three bronze statues?’
’The three bronze statues represent me, and those two were worshiping the statues...’ The thought cut off abruptly.
He let out a muffled grunt, feeling wisps of power from the void settling upon him—more and more of it...
The terrifying, formless power converged into a vast and mighty torrent!
A hundred threads, a thousand, ten thousand...
A din even began to rise in his ears, like the overlapping shouts of ten thousand people calling his name!
"Profound Clarity Daoist Ancestor, please bless my son that he may become a Cultivator..."
"Profound Yellow Daoist Ancestor, please let my brother recover from his illness..."
"Fusheng Dao Ancestor, please help me find my lost puppy..."
Thousands upon thousands of such prayers, a vast and boundless ocean of them.
Feeling the terrifying, unknown power infusing his body and hearing the thousands upon thousands of calls, Lu Xuan stumbled back a few steps and collapsed onto his bed, sweat trickling down his forehead.
He took a deep breath, trying to channel his Spiritual Will and circulate [Dao Generating One]. Profound, starlit threads appeared in his eyes, allowing him to perceive the Cause and Effect surrounding him.
’So that’s how it is...’
Understanding dawned on Lu Xuan.
Just a moment ago, when the three bronze statues were established in the Current World, the three titles—[Supreme Profound Clarity], [Fusheng Lu Xuan], and [Supreme Emperor Profound Yellow]—had truly come to represent him.
As a result, he could hear the voices of those who piously chanted these three titles, and disparate, faint streams of power were even converging to empower him!
’But why are there so many?’
Lu Xuan continued to circulate [Dao Generating One], trying to understand the reason, and eventually found his answer.
It was because of the recently unearthed Daoist Collection. It stated that the Sanqing Daiost corresponded to Profound Clarity, Profound Yellow, and Fusheng. The discovery had caused a massive stir in the archaeological community, and the news had even spread among the general populace. Many people had now heard of it, and some had begun to try chanting these three revered titles.
But because it was, after all, only a partial, ethereal volume of the Daoist Collection with no other corroborating evidence, truly devout believers were few and far between.
The starlight in Lu Xuan’s eyes faded as he came to an understanding. Following the intuition of his Divine Sense, he uttered a term he had never heard before. "This is... the Incense Fire Divine Dao?"
"Strange, very strange..."
"Before the great shift in the Years, Dragon Tiger Mountain was already chanting Supreme Profound Clarity and Fusheng Lu Xuan. After the shift, they also chanted Supreme Emperor Profound Yellow. Why didn’t I receive any feedback or empowerment before?"
"Was it because I hadn’t yet erected the three bronze statues, and thus hadn’t directed these three titles to myself?"
Lu Xuan’s eyes narrowed slightly as he muttered to himself again,
"Then I have one more thing to do: promote the Sanqing Temple and make it known to more people. But if I do that..."
He flinched, recalling the terrifying wave of Cause and Effect—as vast as all the Celestial Realms combined—that had come crashing down on him. He couldn’t help but swallow nervously.
Lu Xuan was certain that if that immense wave of Cause and Effect hadn’t suddenly dissipated, he absolutely would have been crushed to death.
’If, in the future, I really manage to promote the Sanqing Temple, getting the people of this age to worship it, and they even come to believe that I am the Sanqing Daiost...’
’What would happen then?’ 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
’Would my teacher beat me to a pulp?’
Shaking his head, Lu Xuan cast aside the absurd thought. By his estimation, the Immortal Gods would likely be returning soon. The broken thread of history would naturally be reconnected, and the people of the world would sooner or later understand who the Sanqing Daiost truly was.
After pondering for a while longer, Lu Xuan stopped wasting time and instead tried to channel and organize that profoundly mysterious power.
Guided by his Divine Sense, he named the majestic and Grand power the "Thoughts of All Living Beings" and used it to temper his Divine Soul, True Spirit, and Physique.
This initial influx of power was so vast and torrential that in just a few hours, it had condensed the Third-Layer Supreme Jade Steps for Lu Xuan!
Correspondingly, the subsequent flow of the Thoughts of All Living Beings became much thinner, but it did not vanish. Though diminished, the stream was constant and Unending.
With the construction of the Third-Layer Supreme Jade Steps, Lu Xuan could feel his power surge, roughly doubling.
Disregarding his Primordial Qi and Spiritual Will, his physical strength alone was now enough to easily overwhelm a Celestial Human of the Third and Fourth Heaven Levels.
’As I am now, I should be able to crush an ordinary High-ranking Celestial Human of the Sixth Celestial Realm. Without using Mediation of Creation or Dao Generating One, my true combat strength should be on par with the Seventh Celestial Realm, right?’
As Lu Xuan murmured to himself, his aura grew increasingly ancient and profound. Outside the window, a bright moon hung high in the sky, its light spilling into the room and landing squarely upon him.
’Thoughts of All Living Beings... Did my teacher have me establish a Daoist Lineage for the sake of these Thoughts of All Living Beings? It doesn’t feel like that’s the reason.’
After pondering for a long while to no avail, he shook his head and thought no more of it. He immersed himself in his cultivation once more, his aura beginning to fluctuate, cycling between prosperity and decline—withering and flourishing, flourishing and withering, over and over again.
He sank most of his Divine Thought into the Great Divine Technique [Dao Generating One], attempting to accelerate his analysis of its Great Dao Texts.
Though this Divine Technique was comprised of only eight hundred Great Dao Texts, in terms of profundity, it surpassed even Mediation of Creation. Its marvelous applications were endless, involving the Cause and Effect of The Beginning itself!
