393: Open the door

Everyone felt surprised again.

For them, who had experienced multiple resets in this place, they clearly knew the process after each reset.

Especially regarding the Dao Lord Realm, there would basically be no significant changes.

Even though the Dao Lord Realm was a powerful and special entity in The Primordial Martial Era, he couldn't retain his memories through each reset.

Therefore, after each reset, the Dao Lord Realm would basically say the same things to them.

There were only two situations that would make the Dao Lord Realm's words different.

One was if someone among them had taken control of a Dao; then the Dao Lord Realm would guide them on how to ascend to the Heavenly Dao based on their situation, and others could also learn some information related to the Heavenly Dao from this, as the Dao Lord Realm's guidance was always public and audible to everyone.

The other was if a new person arrived; the Dao Lord Realm would guide and evaluate the new person's situation.

However, the Dao Lord Realm wouldn't feel sudden just because there was one more person.

Because in the Dao Lord Realm's own cognition, he originally had nine disciples.

Even if not all nine disciples were present now, and only six had arrived, the Dao Lord Realm would automatically fill in the blanks.

He would think that the other three disciples hadn't arrived due to certain reasons.

He wouldn't experience cognitive confusion due to the reduced number of people.

Unless the number of people arriving from other eras exceeded nine, perhaps then the Dao Lord Realm might experience some changes.

But such a situation had never occurred.

After all, since The Primordial Martial Era was exiled from Tianwu Continent to another dimension, the number of people who had entered The Primordial Martial Era from other eras had not yet reached nine.

No one knew what would happen when there were more than nine people.

However, it was certain that as long as the number of people was within nine, the Dao Lord Realm's cognition here would not show any abnormalities.

But even so, it had never happened that the Dao Lord Realm, after giving instructions and guidance, asked one of them to stay behind alone.

Especially when recalling the Dao Lord Realm's previous evaluation of Xiao Shi, everyone became even more envious.

All along, they had always wanted to gain greater fortune from the Dao Lord Realm.

After all, the Dao Lord Realm was the creator of the Dao!

If they could obtain some extra guidance or other forms of help from the Dao Lord Realm, it would undoubtedly make it easier for them to take control of a Dao.

They had all tried this.

But each time, the Dao Lord Realm treated them all the same, without any special favoritism.

However, Xiao Shi's arrival this time caused the Dao Lord Realm to treat him differently from before.

This made them feel unwilling and envious.

But no matter how uncomfortable they felt, they were helpless regarding the Dao Lord Realm's arrangements.

They could only leave first.

In an instant, only Xiao Shi and the Dao Lord Realm were left here.

Xiao Shi was also surprised by the Dao Lord Realm's action of specifically keeping him behind.

He knew that the other party keeping him was definitely not because of the previous evaluation, but for a deeper reason.

"Could it be…"

"Is this related to my encounter with him on Tianwu Continent back then?"

Xiao Shi had a guess in his heart.

The Dao Lord Realm gazed at Xiao Shi intently and said, "Seventh Disciple, I sensed my Outer Dao on you."

"Outer Dao?"

Xiao Shi expressed confusion.

Even though he had a detailed understanding of the entire Dao Lord Realm through the records of the upper three realms of martial dao, he had never heard of such a Dao in the records concerning the Dao Lord Realm.

"This Dao is my unique Dao; only I in this world can wield it. Even in the endless years to come, there will not be a second person who can wield this Dao."

"And the function of this Dao…"

"It mainly lies in the fact that in every space-time, there will be an avatar of mine. Everyone who comes into contact with my avatar will have a Dao mark left on them."

"Now, on you, I see the Dao mark left by my Outer Dao!"

The Dao Lord Realm explained to Xiao Shi.

Xiao Shi's mind trembled.

Sure enough!

The mysterious old man he met back then was the Dao Lord Realm!

However, it wasn't the Dao Lord Realm himself, but an avatar formed by his Outer Dao!

This made Xiao Shi's heart tighten.

Now that the Dao Lord Realm had noticed this, would he thereby expose that he wasn't from The Primordial Martial Era?

Xiao Shi knew that they couldn't reveal to the people of The Primordial Martial Era that they came from a future era while they were here.

Nor could they be discovered by the people of The Primordial Martial Era.

Otherwise, it would cause some kind of chaos.

They would also be regarded as heretics and not tolerated by the will of The Primordial Martial Era.

Fortunately, the Dao Lord Realm automatically filled in the blanks regarding this.

"It seems you once had the fortune to enter other space-times. Not bad! I want to know, did the avatar you encountered at that time bring you luck or misfortune?"

The Dao Lord Realm's words made Xiao Shi breathe a sigh of relief.

He realized that once they had an identity within The Primordial Martial Era, it wasn't so easy to be exposed.

Even a powerful being like the Dao Lord Realm, when discovering something strange about them, would automatically fill in the blanks and not directly associate it with a future era.

So, as long as they didn't actively tell the people of The Primordial Martial Era that they came from a future era… even if some illogical behaviors occurred here, as long as they weren't too outrageous, the people of The Primordial Martial Era would automatically rationalize them.

In this way, they wouldn't have to be so cautious in The Primordial Martial Era.

Even if they displayed powers that didn't belong to The Primordial Martial Era, they wouldn't have to worry about being exposed.

"At that time, I became very lucky."

Xiao Shi said truthfully.

The Dao Lord Realm nodded slightly at this.

"My Outer Dao, to some extent, is also a form of karma. Everyone who comes into contact with my avatar may have good luck, or they may be brought misfortune. But no matter what kind of luck, a karma will be formed between me and them."

"And this karma is a karma originating from other space-times, very different from ordinary karma, and it is of great use to me."

"Since you once had good luck from my avatar, then I can use the good luck Dao mark on you to help you open… the other two Dao Gates!"

Xiao Shi's heart stirred.

"The other two Dao Gates?"

"That's right."

The Dao Lord Realm nodded.

"In fact, everyone has three Dao Gates, but two of them are permanently sealed. Therefore, ordinary people can only wield one type of Dao."

"But if these two sealed Dao Gates can be opened, then one can simultaneously wield three different stages of Dao."

"One Heavenly Dao."

"One Upper Mortal Dao."

"One Lower Mortal Dao."

"All along, I have been researching ways to open the other two Dao Gates. As of now, to open the Dao Gates, there must be karma originating from other space-times, as well as the special Dao mark on you."

As soon as the Dao Lord Realm's words came out, an indescribable surge of ecstasy instantly welled up in Xiao Shi's heart.

When he had earlier realized that the silver-haired, silver-eyed Dao Lord was going to ascend to the Heavenly Dao through The Mortal Dao, he knew that for all Dao Lords in the world, no matter which era's Dao Lord, they could only wield one type of Dao.

There would be no situation where they could wield multiple types of Dao.

However, now the Dao Lord Realm stated that he could open the other two sealed Dao Gates for him, thereby allowing him to wield three different stages of Dao, which made Xiao Shi incredibly excited.

"So, when I first encountered the Dao Lord Realm's avatar, it already foreshadowed that I could wield three different stages of Dao!"

"No…"

"If I hadn't been able to enter The Primordial Martial Era, then even if I had the Dao mark left by the other party's avatar, I wouldn't have been able to get the Dao Lord Realm to open the other two sealed Dao Gates for me."

Xiao Shi didn't know if anyone else on Tianwu Continent had encountered the Dao Lord Realm's avatar like himself.

But even if they had, without coming to The Primordial Martial Era, they wouldn't be able to get the Dao Lord Realm to open the sealed Dao Gates for them.

"Don't be happy too soon."

"The opening of the Dao Gates is not necessarily successful."

"In addition to needing karma from different space-times and my avatar's Dao mark, it also requires an extremely important thing, which is… good luck!"

The Dao Lord Realm said in a deep voice.

"If you encountered misfortune when you came into contact with my avatar, then to open the Dao Gates, you would need more misfortune."

"Since you have good luck, you need to give me more good luck now."

"If there isn't enough good luck, it basically won't succeed."

Xiao Shi pondered this.

Luck… this kind of thing is ethereal, invisible and intangible. How could he give it?

However, he thought about it carefully.

Good luck was just one way of putting it.

For him, this good luck was more often referred to as… destiny!

"In other words, if I want to open the other two Dao Gates, I need to provide some destiny to the other party."

Xiao Shi couldn't help but think of an item in his hand—the ring of lucky sacrifice!

Although this item was only of Martial Soul Grade, it could exchange for destiny through three "sacrifices."

After Xiao Shi exchanged his lifespan for destiny back then, he now had two more opportunities to make a sacrifice.

He could continue to sacrifice his lifespan to exchange for destiny.

After all, after he became a Saint, his lifespan had greatly increased again, completely sufficient for sacrifice.

However, Xiao Shi couldn't be sure if the destiny he obtained after sacrificing would be enough.

After all, according to the Dao Lord Realm, a considerable amount of destiny was required this time.

Xiao Shi was a little worried that the destiny obtained after sacrificing might not be enough, and then he would have wasted his lifespan for nothing.

"Actually, besides being able to sacrifice with the ring of lucky sacrifice, I seem to have an even better method."

Xiao Shi's heart stirred.

He suddenly thought that there might be an item on him that was more suitable than the ring of lucky sacrifice.

He just wasn't entirely sure if this item would work.

Thinking of this, Xiao Shi flipped his hand.

A golden eye suddenly appeared in his hand. At the end of the eyeball, there were broken blood vessels, making it seem as if the eye had been gouged out of someone's eye socket, carrying a sense of ferocity and bloodiness.

It was precisely the left eye of the great wu crown prince!

And the moment Xiao Shi took out the eyeball, the Dao Lord Realm's gaze was completely focused on it.

A strange light flashed in his eyes.

"This is…"

What he was concerned about was naturally not the eyeball itself, but the destiny sealed within the eyeball!

Destiny and luck were two completely different things.

Luck could exist on anyone.

But destiny… could only be formed by truly massive forces.

To some extent, luck was just one of the components that made up destiny.

Therefore, in terms of hierarchy and status, destiny was far superior to luck.

When Xiao Shi realized that even if these people from The Primordial Martial Era saw things from this future era, they would self-rationalize them, he no longer had to worry about causing any adverse situations by taking out the destiny of the Great Wu Dynasty.

Since in the other party's cognition, he knew that he had been to other space-times, he could naturally rationalize that he had obtained the destiny of a Martial Dynasty in another space-time.

"If it's destiny, then it's even easier to handle!"

The Dao Lord Realm's eyes brightened.

However, he told Xiao Shi that usually, destiny contained many and varied things.

It didn't just contain luck, but also misfortune.

Therefore, to use destiny to open the Dao Gates for Xiao Shi, a portion of the luck within the destiny needed to be extracted, without being mixed with misfortune.

And this operation could only be performed by the Dao Lord Realm.

After all, Xiao Shi currently didn't have the ability to condense destiny.

Once the destiny sealed within the eyeball was released, it would scatter uncontrollably.

This was also the main reason why he hadn't used the destiny of the Great Wu Dynasty after acquiring it.

Immediately, the Dao Lord Realm raised his hand and pointed at the eyeball.

The numerous destinies sealed within the eyeball immediately surged wildly.

However, the Dao Lord Realm didn't unseal these destinies, but rather, while they were still sealed, extracted a small portion of the luck from within them.

The luck contained within destiny was usually far beyond what personal luck could compare to.

Especially the destiny of a Martial Dynasty.

Only a small portion of luck needed to be extracted, and it would be completely sufficient to open the Dao Gates for Xiao Shi.

At the same time, in order to maintain the balance of the destiny within the eyeball, after extracting a small portion of luck, the Dao Lord Realm also extracted a small portion of misfortune.

He stated that the luck and misfortune within destiny needed to reach a certain balance; if it became imbalanced, it would have a greater impact on the destiny.

The Dao Lord Realm condensed and sealed this extracted misfortune into Xiao Shi's index finger.

Thus, Xiao Shi's right index finger formed a unique Finger of Misfortune.

Then, he began to use the extracted luck to open the sealed Dao Gates for Xiao Shi.

Only to see powerful and profound auras circulating around the Dao Lord Realm.

When he pointed his finger at Xiao Shi's glabella, Xiao Shi immediately felt a series of cracking sounds in his mind, as if invisible shackles were breaking.

And two rays of light shone out from his mind.

The two sealed Dao Gates within his body were successfully opened by the Dao Lord Realm!