Third, eat and drink as you please, hold grudges for now, and never let go of any benefits.
After several bloody battles and leaps across disciplines, Chen Ping’s nerves were already exhausted.
Now that we’ve arrived in the unrestrained upper realm, we should naturally relax for a few days and have some fun.
He rented the cheapest single room in the southern part of Wandao City.
The house was small and simple, with minimal furnishings, but its advantage lay in its remote location, frequent traffic, and lack of attention, perfectly matching his disguised identity as a low-level rogue cultivator.
On his first day of settling in, Chen Ping completely let loose.
I sleep until the sun is high in the sky, and I will never get up early to engage in grueling involution.
After waking up, I would stroll over to the street food stalls and spend the lowest-level spirit stones to enjoy all the special spiritual dishes from across the heavens.
He tried everything from steamed spirit rice cakes and jade dew soup to roasted meat in flames, eating with gusto and showing no airs of a top-tier expert whatsoever.
In the afternoon, I would squat in the teahouse listening to gossip and gathering information, while cracking melon seeds and sorting through various intelligence sources.
The topics of conversation among the cultivators in the city were no longer the sect rivalries and order management of the Twenty-Sixth Heaven, but rather the Great Dao of the Heavens, the deduction of the origin, breakthroughs in the path of cultivation, and ancient secrets.
Along the way, he heard countless unfamiliar terms: Origin Dao Mark, Heavenly Dao Imprint, Remnant Poison of Order, Unity of All Daos, Shackles of All Heavens
When the words “the lingering poison of order” reached his ears, Chen Ping suddenly paused, his eyes flashing with a sharp light.
He immediately looked in the direction of the sound and saw several white-haired old Taoist priests sitting around a teahouse on the side of the street, talking in a solemn tone, discussing ancient secrets.
“The lower realms are filled with many layers of heavens. Countless ages ago, the Supreme Order planted a poison that altered the origin of the Heavenly Dao, solidified the hierarchical order, and turned the lower heavens into cages, enslaving countless cultivators.”
“Unfortunately, the lower-level cultivators have limited vision and their path is locked. They are trapped in taming the Heavenly Dao for their entire lives, thinking that the Heavenly Dao should be like this, but little do they know that they have already become puppets of others.”
“The most domineering aspect of the poison of order is its targeted suppression of rebellious paths. Whenever a cultivator’s practice deviates from the orthodox path and goes against the will of the order, they will be suppressed by the instinct of the Heavenly Dao. The stronger the suppression, the more severe it becomes, with no solution or way to break it.”
“To break free from these acquired imprints, one must comprehend the ‘true nature of the Heavenly Dao,’ strip away external traces of the Dao, and purify the origin of heaven and earth”
Every word and phrase precisely hits the core problem of the Twenty-Sixth Heaven, and also precisely hits all of Chen Ping’s confusion and frustration.
Chen Ping remained calm and slowly walked into the teahouse. He found a corner to sit quietly, listening intently and memorizing every word.
After a casual conversation, he finally figured out the whole story of the ancient secret.
The so-called suppression of the Heavenly Dao in the Twenty-Sixth Heaven is not inherent to Heaven and Earth, but rather a “poisonous remnant of order” scattered by the Order Keepers. It is an external Dao mark forcibly imprinted on the lower Heavenly Dao after birth.
This lingering poison does not affect the cultivation of normal orthodox cultivators, but it forms an unsolvable exclusive restriction only on transcendent paths such as chaos, devouring, and reversal.
The only way to break through this barrier, from ancient times to the present, is to find a place where the original source of all heavens is preserved, called the “Primordial Dao Ruins,” and use the power of the Dao Ruins’ origin to deduce the true nature of the Heavenly Dao, strip away the imprint of the acquired order, and thoroughly purify the polluted underlying laws of the Heavenly Dao.
“Primordial Dao Ruins”
Chen Ping murmured these four words, his purple eyes blazing with light, and the suspense in his heart was finally resolved.
This is the solution he has been searching for!
Once he steps into the Primordial Dao Ruins, comprehends the true nature of the Heavenly Dao, and removes the lingering poison of order, he can completely break free from the Heavenly Dao’s shackles on the Twenty-Sixth Heaven.
At that time, without the suppression of heaven and earth, without the shackles of rules, he will return to the 26th Heaven, with no constraints on his combat power. He will crush Hengxuan, overthrow the Tian Shu Sect, and save his fellow cultivators. Everything will fall into place naturally!
He immediately focused his attention and listened intently, trying to catch more information about the Primordial Dao Ruins.
Before long, Chen Ping pieced together the complete information from the casual conversation of the group of experienced people.
Indeed, there exists an ancient, primordial Dao Ruins in the Twenty-Seventh Heaven. It is a sacred site that was left behind at the beginning of the creation of the world and has never dried up despite countless vicissitudes.
The Ruins preserve the purest and most authentic Daoist essence, capable of deducing all things, stripping away all traces, and purifying all acquired pollution in the heavens.
However, the Dao Ruins are extremely dangerous, constantly shrouded by spatial turbulence, primordial storms, and Dao pattern killing arrays. Moreover, each opening is accompanied by strange phenomena in the heavens, attracting powerful figures from all directions to compete for supremacy.
More importantly, the Primordial Dao Ruins open once every three hundred years, and the next opening will be in ten days.
Time is of the essence, and this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.