Free Web NovelChapter 2604: Chapter 534: [Heaven] and Heavenly Dao
I believe that the paintings of this realm have already surpassed the surface of everything in our world and have reached the level of spirit and soul.
By witnessing the transformation of a painting, one can truly sense the deeper meaning and emotions conveyed by the artwork.
This level of work is not merely a showcase of technique, but a profound experience and expression of life, emotions, and thoughts.
Artistic value alone is not enough; the transformation should also guide people to ponder and comprehend the meaning of life! And this is what your transformation lacks!"
As Cao Zhen’s words fell, the surrounding crowd instantly understood why they could distinguish between two seemingly identical paintings at a glance—it was due to this deeper level of contemplation.
Indeed, after seeing Sect Leader Cao’s painting, they couldn’t help but ponder.
The crowd understood, not to mention the Immortal Painting Master.
Even though neither the Immortal Painting Master nor Mad Grass Immortal Lord achieved enlightenment, Cao Zhen had pointed out the path for them.
Following Cao Zhen’s guidance for the two, the remaining half-step Golden Immortal Realm crowd eagerly spoke up: "Sect Leader Cao, can you guide me?"
"Sect Leader Cao, my path still seems a bit unclear..."
Beyond the Great Thousand World of the Human Clan, at the edge of the River of Time.
Suddenly, one figure after another appeared.
Phantom images of the Insect Clan, Demon Clan, Beast Clan, Prison clan, and the Evil Clan Emperor appeared in succession, followed by an unfamiliar phantom image.
Although this phantom looked just like theirs in size, it gave them an illusion of enveloping the whole space, like a towering mountain, filled with oppression and awe.
Its form was elusive, seemingly composed of countless tiny lines of light, each emitting intense energy and power. And within this phantom, there seemed to be a mysterious force flowing, causing the air to vibrate and generating peculiar visual illusions.
Even the momentum emitted by the phantom felt capable of destroying everything!
The brightest part was his eyes, deep and insightful, as if they could perceive all secrets in the world.
Suddenly, the Emperor of the Demon Clan spoke: "You are the new Emperor of the Sky Clan? Unexpectedly, your Sky Clan has hidden so deeply. If it were not for that Human Clan, we might not have known until now that what we saw was only half the strength of the Sky Clan.
It seems you truly intend to unify this world!"
The expressions of the surrounding kings from the alien races, including the Evil Clan and Prison clan Emperors, turned exceedingly strange.
Although they helped the Sky Clan, it was for their own clan’s interests, really only to maintain the status quo or see if there was an opportunity to replace a clan.
However, they absolutely didn’t want to see the Sky Clan dominate alone, because then, in the end, the Sky Clan would inevitably wipe out all their clans.
Now they were also considering how to respond to the Sky Clan in the future!
The Heavenly Clan Emperor shook his head slightly, then said in a deep voice: "That was the intention of the previous emperor you saw; I do not hold such intentions.
Moreover, we weren’t purposely hiding; our Sky Clan has two branches, one of which you have seen, while the other is responsible for guarding our ancestral land.
Because our ancestral land is also subject to attacks."
Pausing slightly, the Heavenly Clan Emperor then looked at the kings of various races and said: "Your clans should all have a ’Heaven’; you all shouldn’t deny it, even if your ’Heaven’ might be somewhat damaged or in slumber, all your ’Heaven’ truly exist.
Perhaps the only exception is the Human Clan; I have yet to discover the Human Clan’s ’Heaven’."
The surrounding emperors of the other clans did not deny it, as this indeed was not much of a secret.
Among the many emperors, the impatient Emperor of the Beast Clan spoke up: "Don’t digress so far; what exactly are you trying to say?"
"I wish to tell you all that each of you aims for your clan’s ’Heaven’ to become the Heavenly Dao of our world! None of our clans are exceptions.
After all, if your clan’s ’Heaven’ becomes the Heavenly Dao, then your race will become this world’s favored, and all this world’s resources would naturally channel toward you, and the Heavenly Dao would punish other clans killing cultivators of your race.
Yet now, our world is in a state of ’no Heaven’, theoretically allowing any of our clans’ ’Heaven’ to become the Heavenly Dao of our world!
But have you considered, what about outside our world?
’Heaven’ is not singular, so why can’t the Heavenly Dao also be multiple? Our world has one Heavenly Dao, other worlds also have their own Heavenly Dao!
Our Sky Clan’s ancestral land is incredibly close to another world! Sometimes, beings from that world frequently enter our ancestral land, and there we are responsible for subduing them!"
Around them, the faces of all emperors changed dramatically.
The Heavenly Clan Emperor continued: "’Heaven’ will compete, and similarly, so will the Heavenly Dao! The Heavenly Dao won’t fight directly; they battle through us, through battles among all races within their world.
Eventually, the winning side’s Heavenly Dao will directly annex the opposing Heavenly Dao, annexing that world, and everything in that world will disappear.
My predecessor had been trying ways to weaken you all, then sending out one branch of our ancestral land to join with them to destroy you.
Then our ’Heaven’ would naturally become the Heavenly Dao! Our race would acquire all resources of this world and then defeat the competing Heavenly Dao!
But he had never succeeded, and his plan will not succeed; our Sky Clan is not yet strong enough to destroy all your clans, still far from it.
And you won’t comply with his wish to slaughter each other. Besides, time is running out. Based on what I’ve observed, perhaps in about ten thousand years, our world will contact another world!
At that time, it will be the battle between our two worlds!"
