Chapter 1094: Chapter 601: What If the Young Master Is the Heavenly Dao (Double Chapter)

Hmm, my beloved.

Pah.

Be more serious.

Ah Qing patted her flushed cheeks and looked towards the stage.

To be able to accomplish such feats, could the young master truly be the Heavenly Dao Incarnation? 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Ah Qing suddenly blinked her eyes.

If that’s the case—

Shouldn’t my attitude towards the Heavenly Dao be better in the future?

In the past, whether it was a sudden Celestial Tribulation descending or an unshieldable Lingyu falling from the sky, it would always catch Ah Qing’s attention. For such things she had never seen and couldn’t understand, she had to uncover their core, no matter the cost or means.

But now, none of these matter to her anymore.

So what if her cultivation reached its peak?

Can she truly control her destiny then?

How is that possible?

Even though she had reached a point where beyond collecting Dao Rhyme or Harmonization, there was no road, she couldn’t ensure her own life, let alone fate, and almost inexplicably perished at the hands of the Heavenly Dao.

That truly was a great crisis. If Xu Chang’an hadn’t appeared by her side back then, she would have had her soul erased by the Dao Rhyme Cage, through a mere incarnation.

From that moment, Ah Qing’s mindset began to change.

Hence, she abandoned cultivation.

Indeed, she abandoned cultivation.

At this point, even if the chance to instantly ascend presented itself, she would still choose to dance in the Flower Moon Building. After all, while opportunities there might be scarce, there was still a chance to meet Xu Chang’an and Yun Qian.

"Shi Qingjun."

"Yes."

"You say..." Ah Qing raised her hand, tucking the long hair behind her ear, revealing a flushed earlobe adorned with a small accessory mark: "What would happen if people like us were to abandon cultivation entirely, losing our pursuit of the Great Dao?"

After a moment of thought, Shi Qingjun shook her head: "This should not be your concern."

Heavenly Dao is destiny.

"...Is that so?" Ah Qing shook her head.

For someone like Li Zhibai or Zhu Tongjun, abandoning cultivation wouldn’t mean much, at most staying in their cultivation realm without any further progress before a change in mindset.

But the Qiankun Realm is different. They all vaguely understand the consequences of abandoning cultivation—it’s an absolute path of no return.

The Qiankun Realm cannot afford to stop moving forward.

It’s under this sort of implication that Shi Qingjun was so eager to collect Dao Rhyme. Even though she was already in the Frosty Heaven, she still kept moving forward. It’s essential to know that... even if the Qingzhou Barrier shattered, one-on-one, Immortal Chaoyun would still be unmatched in the contemporary world.

After regaining her emotions, Shi Qingjun occasionally understood Li Zhibai’s fear of her and the juniors’ respect for her.

Looking back, she had indeed come on too strong at various points.

Li Zhibai and the others weren’t wrong. The gap between the realm below Qiankun and the Qiankun Realm surpasses species limits—being in front of them, even Li Zhibai would not stand a chance; it’s a suppression of the life level.

In a sense, when you take that step, you’re no longer ’human’; you’re more akin to a part of the ’Dao’—it’s understandable, after all, whether Ah Qing or Shi Qingjun, their cultivation’s Spiritual Qi was drawn from absorbing this world, so when their magnitude reaches a certain realm, saying they’re a part of this world is reasonable.

The Qiankun Realm is residing in the Qiankun, or let’s say... each Qiankun Realm is a ’World Fragment.’

Shi Qingjun realized that when she couldn’t find the path to ascension, she started collecting Dao Rhyme to make her fragment more perfect, drawing closer to the essence of the ’Dao.’ This is a Unification with the Dao way, the only potential method for ’promotion’ Shi Qingjun found.

The facts proved that this method was also incorrect.

Moreover, as Shi Qingjun mentioned, they never should, and absolutely can’t have the thought of ’abandoning cultivation,’ because the moment they stepped into the Qiankun Realm, transforming into world fragments, they lost the right to choose. Ah Qing and Shi Qingjun both knew they could only move forward.

Previously, Shi Qingjun didn’t understand why.

But as she gradually regained human emotions, recalling the scenes she saw on the brink, her comprehension of the world’s essence deepened.

No matter the world’s purpose in cultivating them, after they spent such time and effort, how could their cultivation return to the heavens and the earth before achieving the objective?

So...

The ultimate goal might indeed be to integrate world fragments like them into the Dao, to replenish the world.

Ah Qing later thought carefully about why she encountered the Dao Rhyme Cage; it might have been because she ’slacked off’ at the Flower Moon Building, hence a lesson from the Heavenly Dao? After all, the Qiankun Realm must not stagnate?

Yet these were just guesses, as her main body was still cultivating. It wouldn’t make sense to end up on the Heavenly Dao’s ’blacklist’ just for that reason—In the end, the existence of the Heavenly Dao is something you only know exists but never manifests, merely informing them of what can and cannot be done in a mysterious way.

"Shi Qingjun, is there any path above?" Ah Qing suddenly asked.

"No more," Shi Qingjun said.

Ah Qing looked at Shi Qingjun with some surprise, "I thought you would say there is a path, we just haven’t found it."