155: Chapter 155 Follow Your Heart and Act According to Your Nature
Dome Martial Arts Academy.
At this moment, Ji Yebai was tucking a book back onto a bookshelf.
When that wisp of Divine Will within Shadow erupted, Ji Yebai paused, lost in thought.
"The distance seems a bit far; I only have a vague sense left."
Ji Yebai continued to slide the book into the shelf.
He hadn't left anything like a Law on Shadow's person.
For one, Laws were too unique.
Ji Yebai couldn't guarantee whether Laws and spatial power would conflict; after all, space was far too mysterious.
If they did conflict, Shadow would likely have been crushed by the spatial layers during the space jump.
Therefore, he had only left a wisp of Divine Thought.
Partly to experience the sensation of a space jump, and partly to serve as a warning to the faction behind Shadow.
Setting down the books returned by the students,
Ji Yebai picked up a rag and began to wipe down the bookshelf.
Having sent Shadow away, he retracted his vast Divine Sense.
Now, he lived every day like an ordinary person.
Going to work normally, performing his duties normally.
Ji Yebai was silently forgetting his own formidable martial power.
He faced life with an ordinary heart.
Immersing himself, he focused wholeheartedly on the work before him.
One is one, and two is two.
With every step and every movement, Ji Yebai was constantly severing his stray thoughts.
The human spirit is active, and because of that, new thoughts sprout at every moment.
Similarly, new thoughts would scatter one's focus.
This was not good.
Ji Yebai's gaze focused, he gave a slight smile, and then continued wiping the shelf.
The days that followed were peaceful.
The students of the academy also began to strive for self-improvement.
In such an environment, Ji Yebai simply went about his commute as usual.
This left Asma, who was observing him, somewhat confused.
He truly couldn't understand this lord.
But Asma wasn't overly surprised either.
After all, many great experts were eccentric.
Even within the Draiden Star Civilization, such people existed.
There had once been a Peak Legendary who actually retired to live in seclusion in the mountains.
The steady days passed quickly.
The transformation within Ji Yebai's body began to slowly decelerate along with his focus.
The intensity decreased.
As the intensity dropped, the next level of the Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path was put on the agenda.
...
Time flowed by.
In the blink of an eye, three years had passed.
During these three years, Ji Yebai went to work dutifully.
He honestly organized books; the entire world was quiet, without a single ripple.
Of course, this was only from Ji Yebai's perspective.
For the Security Bureau, two more strange incidents had occurred.
Once, a crystalline Glazed Mountain appeared, as if the entire mountain had been melted by high temperatures.
Another time, a bottomless rift appeared in the heart of the desert.
The comrades of the Security Bureau were busy for a while because of this.
In the very end, it merely resulted in two more sealed secrets.
However, because of this,
Tian Lin, the Director of the Security Bureau, suspected even more that this was related to Ji Yebai.
But there was no evidence.
Yet even a sliver of suspicion was enough for him to seal this information away.
He even found ways to suppress the news of those two anomalous regions, just like the previous time.
Thus, Ji Yebai remained quiet and undisturbed.
Those two anomalies were the final two turns of Ji Yebai's cultivation of the Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path.
The Eighth Turn and the Ninth Turn.
Now, he had completed the cultivation of the Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path.
It could be said that on this path, he had already surpassed the creator, Bai Zhu.
The Ninth Turn of the Soul Refining Path had almost caused Ji Yebai to lose control completely.
The massive rift in the desert was caused by an energy rampage.
That burst of energy had immediately caused the global energy monitoring System to trigger a violent alarm.
Were it not for that, Ji Yebai wouldn't have left immediately after finishing his cultivation every time.
Now, Ji Yebai could clearly feel that his Physical Body and consciousness were fully activated.
The power of Laws vibrated within his flesh and blood.
The degree of this vibration was unprecedented.
It was no exaggeration to say that if Ji Yebai lost control for even a second,
even if the Laws in just a single cell went out of control, it could turn this library into fly ash in an instant.
Fortunately, Ji Yebai maintained control.
The current Ji Yebai—
every move was focused and luminous; his spiritual thoughts no longer flickered with various births and deaths.
The so-called 'monkey mind' had been subdued by him.
His state of mind had become like the clouds on the horizon, arriving leisurely and drifting away elusively.
Without beginning or end!
It could be said that Ji Yebai's state of mind had completely transcended his own Realm.
He had reached the state of 'seeing mountains as mountains.'
If a martial arts expert were to observe Ji Yebai continuously, they would find that although his movements were slow and deliberate, every gesture was filled with a certain charm.
This charm was very strange; at a glance, it was just the daily behavior of an ordinary person, but upon deeper scrutiny, one would find a strange rhythm, or rather, a special cadence hidden beneath.
Like the pulse of the earth, the gurgling of a stream, or the birdsong and fragrance of flowers in a mountain forest.
A year ago, a student had happened to stare at Ji Yebai in a daze.
Perhaps his mental frequency had glitched, but he suddenly fell into it, staring blankly at Ji Yebai's every move, even forgetting himself.
When he woke up, he remembered nothing, but his own cultivation and his understanding of martial arts skyrocketed.
Everyone said he had fallen into an Epiphany.
The sky on the horizon cleared up.
Ji Yebai was looking up at the sky.
Today was a day off.
At this time, Ji Yebai could already see the traces of Laws with his naked eye.
In fact, he could now let his Divine Sense immerse itself in the rules of heaven and earth at all times—a state of constant realization.
He could feel his understanding of the Laws growing deeper by the day.
Each day far surpassed the last.
He knew this was the final transformation before his ascension.
Now, the transformation of his body was nearing its end.
Once things settled, Ji Yebai planned to make his Breakthrough.
Merging into the rules, merging into heaven and earth.
This was Ji Yebai's state at this very moment.
This feeling was truly beyond words.
Far beyond any previous ascension.
The leap in life stage, especially this time, brought a level of pleasure that far exceeded any other sensation.
Even matters between men and women were far from comparable.
After all, those matters only last a few dozen seconds, while the current Ji Yebai felt this way every moment.
Watching the clouds on the horizon, Ji Yebai smiled leisurely.
He suddenly felt an impulse to go up there.
He gave a self-deprecating laugh.
With a shift of his body, Ji Yebai appeared directly high in the sky.
Stepping on the clouds, it was as if he were riding the mist and driving the clouds.
This scene was like the immortals traveling in the TV shows of the past.
But it wasn't just that.
Ji Yebai paused for a moment, and then continued to lift his feet upward.
As if climbing stairs, Ji Yebai slowly and leisurely walked upward.
He suddenly wanted to go to space to take a look.
To look at the outside and look at what was beneath his feet with his mortal eyes.
Step by step, he climbed higher.
In the high altitude, there seemed to be some ethereal steps, allowing Ji Yebai to rise slowly like this.
One step, one stair; one step, higher still.
Ji Yebai's spirit was devoid of thought as he stared upward with a gentle gaze.
His thoughts were concentrated.
A faint colored glow emerged on his skin, and the astral winds of the heavens were suddenly ignored.
Ji Yebai continued to rise continuously.
The tactile sensation on his skin constantly felt the wind striking him, then gradually the wind could no longer be felt, leaving only bitter cold.
When Ji Yebai suddenly came to a halt, he looked out.
Dazzling gold and red covered the sky and earth; particles like flowing light constantly collided, until his skin became hot from the impact, and then began to burn.
Burning heat and stinging pain surged into his heart.
Ji Yebai blinked and came back to his senses.
He looked up and saw the massive golden-red star, eternal and unmoving, its light and flames filling the entire star System.
He turned around.
Beneath his feet, the massive planet rotated leisurely, a repulsive force keeping the cosmic light at bay.
It was the planet's gravity.
The True Qi in his body was depleting extremely rapidly.
Even the power suppressing the Laws began to be affected.
Ji Yebai gave a slight smile.
He turned and headed down.
Arriving as the heart wills, acting as nature dictates.
He still couldn't survive away from the planet, but once his transformation was complete and he ascended to the so-called Saint Realm, he would surely roam the starry sky with his Physical Body.
Presumably, that would be an incredibly miraculous experience.