103: Chapter 102 Return to Tianfu City

After spending several hours together,

Chu Meng wasn't as afraid anymore. She looked at Ye Xiu beside her

and suddenly spoke up, "Big brother, can you really beat the devils?"

"Devils? Heh, they're just projections of foreign races."

Ye Xiu gave a contemptuous smile.

If he caught that foreign being, he would surely trace its Origin, charge into that Realm, and extract all the life essence of that world.

Using it to ignite the furnace fire within his body.

Hearing Ye Xiu's answer, Chu Meng was still a bit worried. "But they are very powerful."

"It's fine. You don't need to take a detour. If you want to go to the Space Gate, hurry up. It's getting dark."

"Oh."

With Ye Xiu pointing it out,

Chu Meng stopped taking detours and headed straight for a Space Gate.

As the various registrations concluded,

the two of them ran into a problem.

No money!

Teleporting to Tianfu City required ten thousand Great Xia Coins.

Ye Xiu had only just returned, so how could he have money? Chu Meng didn't have a cent to her name either.

He shook his head slightly.

He couldn't be bothered with such trivialities.

Since he knew it was in Tianfu City, things were much simpler.

Carrying the little girl, he went directly above the clouds. After glancing in the direction of Tianfu City, he took a step and instantly arrived in the sky above the city.

"..."

Chu Meng looked dazed, finding it hard to believe.

Before her were two stone statues nearly ten thousand meters tall, reaching the sky. These were the landmarks of Tianfu City, a place she had looked up to countless times.

The Great Xia Martial God and Master Zhang of the Daoist school.

These were legendary figures in Tianfu City.

In all of Great Xia, these two were at the very top.

The manpower and resources spent to build such majestic stone carvings were unimaginable, but the project had been directly approved by the Great Xia Cabinet.

Heh...

"So ugly."

Ye Xiu looked at the stone statues before him, shook his head slightly, and gave a self-deprecating laugh.

"How can you say that? Master Zhang and the Martial God General both did so much for Great Xia..."

Chu Meng's voice grew quieter as she spoke.

Because she saw a familiar old Daoist appear before her eyes.

"General Ye, it has been a hundred years. How about visiting this old Daoist's sect?" Master Zhang was just as he had been a hundred years ago, with white hair and a youthful complexion, not a single change.

"I should indeed have a chat with Senior."

Ye Xiu spoke with a light smile. Back then, he could never see through Master Zhang's strength.

But looking at him now,

it was clear at a glance.

An extremely powerful Supreme Realm, only a step away from the Heavenly Venerable Domain. Perhaps he only needed to go through the motions in the Chaos to succeed in his Breakthrough.

The aura of the Innate Eight Trigrams

almost covered all of Master Zhang's aura.

But with Ye Xiu's current strength, he could ignore the hidden aura and look directly at the Origin of the Great Dao.

"May I ask, are you Master Zhang?"

Chu Meng's small face was full of nervousness. With a bit of trepidation, she asked very politely.

"This old Daoist is the Sect Leader of the Qingcang Sword Sect. Little girl, is something the matter?"

"It really is you, Grandpa Master Zhang! There are devils in Tianfu City. Can I ask you to go and eliminate them?"

"Devils?"

Master Zhang looked at Ye Xiu with some surprise.

"I came for this matter as well. Senior, you didn't know?"

Ye Xiu frowned slightly.

Reasonably speaking, with Master Zhang's strength, he shouldn't be unaware of the unusual movements in Tianfu City.

After all, Tianfu City wasn't that large.

In this area of less than a thousand miles, for an existence infinitely close to a Heavenly Venerable, the appearance of any abnormal aura should not escape his perception.

Seeing that Master Zhang truly seemed unaware,

Ye Xiu fell silent for a few seconds.

Then he recounted everything about meeting Chu Meng and his conjectures.

Three minutes later.

Master Zhang sighed. "It was indeed a lapse on this old Daoist's part."

"Senior shouldn't have been so negligent, right?"

"Sigh... the Ghost Realm is not at peace. The Buddhist Son who was originally guarding the Ghost Realm passage has finally been demonized under the erosion of the weirdness."

"That little monk?"

"Yes. It's a pity that a generation's Buddhist Son has fallen into the Demonic Path."

"Even Senior couldn't handle it?"

"This old Daoist once went deep into the Ghost Realm but was unable to resolve it."

"Heh... then I'd like to go and take a look."

Ye Xiu looked toward the west. Over a hundred miles away, there was a sealed temple. Black mist covered that area, and even in broad daylight, it did not dissipate.

Amidst their casual conversation,

the three of them had already arrived within the Qingcang Daoist Sect.

Inside the main hall.

Ye Xiu and Master Zhang sat as equals, drinking tea while discussing their insights on cultivation.

As heavyweights in the cultivation world,

their discussion on the Dao was naturally an extremely important event within the Qingcang Daoist Sect.

Everyone who had reached the [Saint Realm] was present.

There weren't many;

only five people.

They were the Grand Elder, Second Elder, Third Elder, Sixth Elder, and Seventh Elder.

These five were Personal Disciples of Master Zhang.

After a hundred years, it was not surprising that they could reach the [Saint Realm].

But the person serving them tea slightly surprised Ye Xiu.

Liu Qingyan!

The young girl who had studied alongside him back then.

After a hundred years,

Liu Qingyan's personality had changed. She stood to the side, dutifully holding the tea.

"General Ye, what do you think the Dao is?"

Master Zhang spoke.

As his voice fell, the other six people present all looked at Ye Xiu, listening intently.

Clearly, Master Zhang was asking this question on behalf of his disciples.

After all, with Master Zhang's Realm and cognition, he naturally had his own views on the understanding of the Dao.

"The Dao is the world, the world is the will, and the will is the Dao."

"In this world we inhabit, there exists a world will. This will is the Dao, also known as the Heavenly Dao."

"It has no wisdom, yet it truly exists."

"When the world is damaged, the Heavenly Dao will manifest. Therefore, the Dao is a kind of will."

"The will of the world."

As soon as these words were spoken,

everyone showed a thoughtful expression.

Master Zhang nodded. "This old Daoist observes that the General's Dao is perfectly natural and distinct from all other Daos in the world. Why is that?"

"The Daos of the world are mostly centered on control and evolution; after the Great Dao comes the world. But my Dao is centered on refining oneself, making oneself the Dao, making oneself the world."

Ye Xiu did not hide anything.

Expounding the Dao for successors was actually a new realization for him as well.

This discussion on the Dao lasted for a long time.

It didn't completely end until the next day.

Just as Ye Xiu was preparing to leave,

Liu Qingyan spoke up and called out to him.

"General Ye, can we talk privately for a moment?"