Chapter 1153: Parting
Li Qiye teased by playing with her hair, but his tone was very serious: "I'm not belittling your patriarch's grand dao, but you won't be able to walk down this path. He had severed his seven emotions and six desires as well as all ties with the mundane world. Furthermore, he cut off everything about himself to embark on an emotionless and cruel path. Traveling alone in this world — this was his choice."
Li Qiye slowly explained: "Even though he actually became an Immortal Emperor in the end, he had lost too many things in his life. Moreover, he also hurt those close to him, his lovers and those who he loved."
Bai Jianzhen was quiet. She began cultivating the dao of the sword at a young age, so she naturally understood the sword dao back at her sacred ground.
He patiently went on: "Your Mad Sword has broken through and stems from your sacred ground's dao. As for your Buddhist Sword, it is slowly melting the negative emotions from your dao while shaping it into a righteous path of kings!" He gave her a serious glance at this point and solemnly spoke: "But you still haven't done enough. Your heart and sword still haven't opened. They cannot accept something even greater. Only when you open your heart would you understand that there are things other than the sword. It doesn't stop at coldness and violence!"
He reminded her one last time: "Remember that the sword is more than a weapon or a tool for killing. It has emotions, so you have to feel it with your own emotions in order to truly sense its existence."
Bai Jianzhen took a deep breath and bowed respectfully: "I will engrave your advice in my mind and carefully comprehend them."
"I know you can do it or I wouldn't have picked you." Li Qiye chuckled and nodded his head.
She had one more thing to say, but she was hesitant. Li Qiye noticed this and told her: "Go ahead, say what you want. Since you are staying with me, it means that you are one of us, so there's no need to be so reserved."
She eventually asked: "What happened to our patriarch?"
Li Qiye had brought up this topic before and revealed that Immortal Emperor Ye Ti's end was not very good. This problem had been weighing on her mind. After all, he was the Sword God Sacred Ground's patriarch and also their Immortal Emperor.
He smiled while looking at her: "It is not that I don't want to tell you, but the time isn't right. Once you step onto a righteous path befitting a sword king with a dao that belongs to you, I will tell you then. After all, I won't know what kind of effect it will have on your dao heart. Don't worry, when that day comes, I'll tell you even if you don't ask me."
After hearing this, she gently nodded without pursuing the matter any further.
"Going on the wrong path can devastate others, but it will also hurt the user." Li Qiye explained: "You need the dao alone, search with passion and comprehend the sword. With this, you will be able to break through the limit of the sword dao and open an unprecedented path meant for you alone."
She took meticulous care in savoring each of his words. Meanwhile, by gazing at her demeanor, Li Qiye was also secretly approving after knowing that she wouldn't follow the footsteps of her patriarch. As an emperor, Immortal Emperor Ye Ti was a hot topic for debate, but at the same time, no one really wanted to talk about his ultimate fate.
"Boss, wait a bit, this lowly one is here to see you off." At the time of parting, a loud body shouted about and rushed over with extreme speed.
It was Little Autumn. While glittering with a golden light, it rushed through the sky like a golden ray.
In the blink of an eye, it arrived in front of Li Qiye and unhappily shouted: "Boss, you don't care for my feelings at all! If you were going to leave, you should have told me. This really hurts my cute little heart."
Little Autumn's frolicking appearance made the girls laugh. They knew that nothing good would come from its antics.
Li Qiye gave it a quick glance and said: "Don't waste my time, fart if you have to."
Little Autumn laughed happily and said: "Boss, I heard you want to go to the Heaven Spirit World. It is a vast watery world with the Skyvault Bonesea. Then there is the lost Godhalt Continent as well as many gentle and tender beauties—"
"Okay, there's no need to be so poetic. Play nice and stay here, don't even think about going to the Heaven Spirit World." Li Qiye interrupted it before it could continue.
Its expression immediately turned bitter and it spoke as if it had been wronged: "Boss, you can't treat me like this. This lowly one is your loyal dog. I have to follow wherever you go in order to serve you to the best of my abilities…"
Li Qiye glared at it instead: "Stop your blabbering. How is your cultivation of the Space Scripture going?"
"Uhh—" Little Autumn abruptly choked and coughed awkwardly: "Ah, a little bit of harvest, not bad at all. Of course, it is nothing compared to Boss. You are the most brilliant genius. In the nine heavens and ten earths across all the seasons of the eons, no one can…"
The girls chuckled amusingly while watching Little Autumn. The truth was that with regards to space, the worm had an unparalleled advantage. However, this fella was not trustworthy at all. It treated cultivation like playing. If it actually practiced hard, it probably would have evolved already.
"You're thinking about going to that distant place in the future with your meager cultivation?" Li Qiye gave off a glare.
"Well… yes…" It smiled awkwardly.
Li Qiye flatly said: "Then train hard or you won't be qualified to go since you are so weak. What is the Space Scripture? One of the Nine Grand Heavenly Scriptures. Others dream of having just one word or one phrase from the scripture, but now, you have the entire book yet you are not treating it seriously. You are wasting a godsend opportunity."
Little Autumn obediently lowered its head after being scold like this.
"Buzz—" Li Qiye pierced one arm into the void. With a buzz, the space in front of him seemed to melt away. A lake-like mirror emerged before him.
With the channeling of his law, the mirror slowly unraveled and revealed a bottomless dimensional space.
"No way, deep dimensional space!" Little Autumn was horrified and took several steps back. It was a spatial master, so it naturally understood the significance of a deep dimensional space. This belonged to the level of eternal banishment. Once exiled into this type of space, it would be extremely difficult to return.
Although there were many emperor laws with the power of banishment, they were only capable of exiling someone to a shallow dimensional space. Even a Godking could easily make their way back.
However, the deeper dimensions were different. Once banished to these deeper levels, very few could come back alive. They needed to be unimaginably powerful or extremely adept at spatial construction. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to find their way back.
The worm knew that it wasn't looking good at this moment and turned around to flee. However, it was instantly caught by Li Qiye.
Little Autumn cried out: "Boss, you can't treat me like this, this is a deep dimensional space! It is a horrific place! You are playing with my life if you throw me in there!" It didn't want to face a realm of this level.
Li Qiye coldly glanced at it and said: "How can we squeeze out your potential without sufficient pressure? If you can't make your way back, then stay in there forever!"
With that, he threw Little Autumn inside.
"Boss, you are too cruel—" It wailed miserably before disappearing into the deep dimensional space.
"Clang, clang, clank!" The sound of laws came about. Li Qiye didn't only banish him into deep space, he also sealed this dimension.
In this way, it would be even more difficult for Little Autumn to come back unless he could comprehend the mysteries of the Space Scripture.
The girls actually laughed again after seeing the fate of Little Autumn. This guy was done for sure this time. Being trapped in a deep dimensional space was absolutely maddening!
However, they also understood that it would not make any progress without motivation, thus wasting its race's great potential.
"Okay, all of you can return. I have to leave." Li Qiye bade farewell to the girls and pointed forward.
"Buzz!" A formation appeared while the spatial coordinates began to shift. Next, a huge celestial array emerged.
Li Qiye pointed at a particular coordinate. The formation activated and turned into a door with starry lights pulsing everywhere. He entered the door and immediately crossed through space and time.
This was one of the mysticisms of the Space Scripture. It could allow one to teleport across any space and time without needing any refined jades!
In order words, as long as the user was strong enough, they could go to any location with their own virtues.
Chapter 1154: Great Maelstrom
Endless stars in the sky illuminated the world like diamonds. Each of them was beautiful and moving, especially their twinkling starlight that caused one's heart to throb.
Deep in the recesses of the sky was a floating platform. This great platform had withered without any brilliance left. There were no boundaries or visual coordinates.
This was the door of the Mortal Emperor World that led to the paths towards the other worlds. This place used to be quite prosperous with many cultivators coming and going. Back then, intercommunication between the nine worlds was a normal occurrence.
Unfortunately, the battle between the emperor and the dragon king tore the Heaven's Will apart. This closed off the world boundaries and severed the connections of the nine worlds.
From then on, this pathway was abandoned until no one in the Mortal Emperor World came here anymore. Only Godkings would try to come here to recklessly try to open the pathway.
Li Qiye crossed through space and appeared on top of the platform before the desolate door. His eyes peered at the yellow stains.
In order to reach the Heaven Spirit World, he still needed to borrow this door because the current boundaries had all been sealed. He was not strong to the point where he could stabilize a portal and forcefully cross the world boundaries by himself.
Thus, this door was the stabilization factor he needed before going through the world boundary towards his destination.
He placed his palm on the door. With a buzz, the dao portal emerged with the image of the world boundary. Inside were many different coordinates.
He locked onto one of these coordinates and, with a loud blast, he crazily released all of his energy into the sky like a flood breaking through a dam or an awakened monstrosity.
"Whoosh!" The dao portal trembled under his power. He melted the boundary that resembled the surface of a lake and opened another portal.
This was a method of forcefully passing through the wall. It would take him into a chaotic space-time. One misstep in such a situation would leave him stranded forever.
Li Qiye's current strength did not necessarily allow him to world travel. However, it was a different story after cultivating the Space Scripture.
He had absolute confidence about space right now. If he couldn't do it, no one else could.
No one in this world understood space more than this scripture; it contained all the mysteries of space. Even though he did not reach the apex in this study, he had grasped enough of the fundamentals regarding spatial travel.
He wanted to do this by himself instead of getting help from Magu, Bu Lianxiang, or the Realm God. The reason was very simple. His destination was a place full of mysteries and danger.
The truth was that he had one speculation about that place, but he was not completely sure since there was an item there that he had never managed to obtain before.
This was a very bold decision that stemmed from a completely new conjecture that he came up with after finding the Ancient Void Rune and Heavenly Dao's Primal Chapter. It was a completely new idea.
No one could help him in this matter because no one had ever obtained both of these items at one time. But now, Li Qiye had both of them.
At this moment, the boundary wall melted and seemingly pierced through the Mortal Emperor World. The coordinates on the other side slowly emerged. In a split second, he locked onto one of the coordinates. It was so convoluted that no one could figure out its location.
"Buzz—" He didn't hesitate after successfully determining the destination. The two coordinates immediately connected to each other to link the Mortal Emperor and Heaven Spirit Worlds.
He stepped into the dao portal instantly to cross the boundary wall for the Heaven Spirit World. He found himself in a realm where different dimensions were intertwining with continually shifting images. They changed far too quickly, so quickly that it would make others think that this was either a dream or an illusion.
These images varied by quite a bit. Some were shattered palaces and citadels while others were gigantic floating bodies and mountains made out of bones. Sometimes, a peaceful world was found as well…
They were quite bizarre and frightening. In fact, for millions of years, many powerful existences forcing their way through these boundaries would all see similar images.
Different explanations were given for these scenes, but no one was truly certain which was correct. Some assumed that they were only illusions and not real.
Li Qiye saw several images and gently sighed: "Who actually knows how long time has been flowing. Countless ages turned into smoke with nothing left before being destroyed only to be rebuilt again…"
He didn't stop at all after his comment and continued to cross the spatial field.
"Rumble!" Deafening blasts echoed. The entire world seemed incredibly insignificant before the magnitude of these blasts.
Everything was tiny in front of the giant maelstrom in the Heaven Spirit World. Nothing could reach the apex. Even gods would have to stop and Godkings’ expressions would change in here!
The maelstrom resembled an ancient beast opening its jaws, a beast capable of devouring the sky and all other existences. Even time and space would be victims.
This maelstrom was the largest one in the Heaven Spirit World. Its size was beyond imagination; endless miles of oceans were orbiting it. Regardless of how vast this world was, it couldn't escape this maelstrom.
A continent would instantly be ripped into pieces the moment it made contact with this vortex. Only powdery specks would be left behind.
If one could fly to the highest part of the maelstrom, they would find an incredible scene — a power of suction that devoured everything. If the sky wasn't high enough, it would be dragged down and swallowed as well.
People would feel their legs give in if they could see the full picture of this maelstrom. Outside of Immortal Emperors, even the most invincible Godking wouldn't dare to venture deeper.
Endless seas surged wildly in this region. The waters churned at crazy speeds before eventually entering the bottomless black hole. The entire process was astonishing. Nothing could stop more sea water from pouring into the whirlpool.
This was a taboo location in the Heaven Spirit World. Very few people knew what was at the bottom. It could even be an entirely new world.
At the same time, a figure appeared on the distant horizon and was falling with great speed.
The mighty suction of the maelstrom frantically pulled him down towards the terrifying whirlpool.
Even a Godking wouldn't be able to withstand this force, let alone other people.
It was Li Qiye that was falling down. With a casual point of his finger, a door appeared below his speed after a buzz. In a split second, he crossed through space to avoid the absorption force of the maelstrom. He re-emerged on the left only to be met with the same force, but this gave him ample time to prepare.
"Boom!" A Resplendent Break interrupted the power of the maelstrom. It was a blow that could surprise even Immortal Emperors and suppress this world. Its name was the Pentadao Timeless Seal.
It became the most powerful defensive barrier for Li Qiye. He was no longer affected by the suction force. He reached out with one hand again; a new door emerged. He stomped on it and emerged on the opposite side. He repeated this process to appear to his upper right.
Opening new doors and changing his positions… just like this, he continued to escape the suction of the maelstrom. His shifting was completely different from just jumping from one location to another. To be exact, he was shifting from one space to another.
He used the mysteries of the Space Scripture to make tiny changes to his own spatial location. Each step was extremely accurate without the slightest mistake, everything was under his control.