Free Web NovelChapter 2147: Chapter 220: Living as a Duke, Dying atop Xiufeng (Part 3)
And he always had a feeling, considered absurd by others—that he could change it all.
The Tai Clan, inheritors of the ancient Formation Dao.
To follow the will of heaven is to use human will to embody the heavenly will, to express the Heavenly Dao through the Human Dao. Each stroke and line is the reason of the heavens and the earth. Each charm and mark bears the traces of the sun and the moon.
It can be said that what countless array masters have upheld since ancient times is respect for everything born of heaven and nurtured by earth, the natural reason of sunrise and sunset, the flowering of spring and fruition of autumn.
This is certainly the correct path.
Countless powerful array masters have walked upon this correct path.
The person he respects the most, Uncle Tai Hua, also attained the Dao by these means.
He was born in the Tai Clan, raised in the Tai Clan, used by the Tai Clan, and also succeeded because of the Tai Clan.
All glory and all fame, all came from the Tai Clan.
The Tai Clan gave him the best—including cultivation techniques, Dao techniques, cultivation resources, and even the Dao he held.
How to refine the body, what books to read, what Channel-opening Pill to use, when to open meridians, what Small Zhoutian to establish, what Grand Circulation to set up, what cultivation technique to practice, what Dao technique to follow, which path to take...
From childhood to adulthood, his every step was taken on what was called the "absolutely correct" path.
He indeed relished boundless splendor on this path.
But sometimes, waking from a midnight dream, he looked back at this path and saw only the splendor and not that person.
Over long years, how did that person traverse this path?
No, it wasn’t that person who walked it. It was a will united under the name of "Tai Clan Future."
Establishing the Star Tower in the Four Symbols Star Domain.
They said the Azure Dragon should take the character "Faith," the Vermilion should take "Virtue," the Black Tortoise should take "Benevolence," and the White Tiger should take "Kill." This is a righteous and luminous path. It should also be his code of conduct, the Dao he held.
They said that only by establishing such a Star Tower could one cultivate the strongest Reversed Four Symbols Mixed Element Force.
They said...
Everything they said was so correct, so beautiful.
But the further he walked, the more constrained he felt.
The further he went, the further he felt from himself.
He didn’t know from when he started to lose sight of the traces of everything in this world.
He knew he was slowly losing himself.
But he was powerless.
The weight of the family, heavier than mountains? It pressed on his shoulders, bracing his spine.
In an already difficult Dao lineage to sustain, how could Tai Yin bear to shake the foundation with his own hands?
But the defeat at Guanhe Platform, the defeat in the Mountain and Sea Realm, had already scattered that radiance time and again.
Yet today, with rivers and mountains falling and the nation in peril,
he had no choice!
No choice is the best choice.
These four words, "no choice," momentarily opened his mind, giving him a reason to take that step.
What burden of the family, what survival and peril, what expectations from Uncle...
He could momentarily ignore!
He gazed at this world, at the mountains and rivers of this great empire, at She Mountain. Within the endless blood power, he observed the "truth" of this world, those lines, and paths...
In his ears as if hearing the solemn voice of the Family Head—
"If you don’t die, Tai Clan won’t perish, Formation Dao won’t perish."
He erased the traces of this voice.
"The Dao of formations has its own operation, not existing for Tai Yin, not perishing for Tai Yin!"
He declared thus!
"What is called the Formation Dao! The Human Dao performing the Heavenly Dao, that suffices!"
"The Human Dao altering the Heavenly Dao, that suffices!"
Rumble!
The heavens and earth resounded like thunder!
Enveloping him, more than a thousand Tai Family Soldiers who offered all their blood and Soldier Slayer power showed fear!
This contradicted their ingrained knowledge.
These were words of great defiance.
Tai Yin betrayed the Formation Dao, he betrayed the Tai family.
He was shaking the foundation of Tai Clan’s existence!
Some people were angry, others struggled.
But at this moment, Tai Yin was so calm.
"All things have traces, waiting for me to observe! All affairs have marks, waiting for me to act!"
As these words fell, countless intricate lines appeared in Tai Yin’s eyes, interwoven like a spider’s web! frёeωebɳovel.com
In his vision, the world was already different. Everything he saw now was composed of various lines. Including the mountain beneath his feet, including the approaching Ouyang Yong!
He had grasped the truth of his life, he had seen his Dao.
This Dao is named [Trace]!
It is the Dao of Traces, the Trace of the Dao.
At this moment, tears flowed down Tai Yin’s face, because grasping this Tao path, Dongzhen was within reach. He saw his unique future.
He once doubted himself, he doubted himself more than once.
After the Yellow River Gathering, after the journey to the Mountain and Sea Realm.
When he gritted his teeth, pretending not to know Xiang Bei’s predicament, and took that elixir to restore his spirit.
When his path conflicted with the path of the family!
He doubted he was a truly talented person. He doubted that for so many years, he was just wasting resources. He doubted he wasn’t even a genius!
But now he knew.
That child, who once spoke supposed defiant words and was punished to kneel for three days, was right!
There is not only one correctness in the world.
The opposite of correct is sometimes another kind of correct.
In different people, there are different manifestations. On different scales, there are different measurements.
Overcoming difficulties and dangers require courage, overcoming love and responsibility sometimes requires even more courage!
He once lost, now he has found it again.
Boom! Boom!
Thunderous roaring sounds came from Tai Yin’s body.
Golden Radiance flowed over his body, his blood rushing like a great river.
At the first moment of grasping the Tao path, he disregarded everything to begin ascending to God Arrives!
