Divine Brilliance
chapter-506

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

When the scenes entered his eyes, Zong Shou felt like his mind was about to explode.

However, he also instinctively wanted to remember what was happening and tried to imprint it into the depths of his soul.

…The Core of the Absolute Beginning. It really was the Core of the Absolute Beginning!

While he was personally witnessing it, the light swiftly expanded. Numerous rays of light and heat were produced. A complete world was swiftly being birthed in front of him. In just an instant, it was billions of times larger. Numerous matter and elements were being formed.

The place where Zong Shou stood at was also being struck. It caused the 81-layers of light to be broken piece by piece.

When the 7th layer was broken, Zong Shou closed his eyes.

Even if he knew that the world was forming the many various kinds of laws, in retrospect, he could even use this knowledge to search for the origins of the path, however, he didn’t dare to look.

If he did, then in just a moment, his consciousness would explode.

Even now, his head had a piercing pain throbbing within.

…Positive energy and negative energy, black and white holes, the positive universe and anti counterpart of it, swiftly spreading lines, face, body, the three dimensions and… Time.

Numerous thoughts were forming in his head. Some knowledge from his last life came to mind, numerous Taoist and Buddhist classics were popping up.

A few detailed scenes of when the light exploded also flashed in his head.

As expected… all worlds were born from one…

What a waste, he saw too little, far too little…

He could only feel regret about the fact that his cultivation was too low. If he reached the God-realm or Saint-realm when he was given the chance to see this scene, he could’ve really searched for the origin of the path.

Despite all that was happening, he was shocked at one thing. Who was the one who created this instrument?

The World Viewing Instrument… one could really witness the birth of a world through it!

The explosion was the Core of the Absolute Beginning, where the life of all worlds had begun. No matter what, one should have been unable to witness such a momentous event.

If one wasn’t on the space dimension, then one wouldn’t be able to use their eyes to ‘see’ it.

Even if he merged into the dimension, the piercing light would have been enough to burn his eyes blind. The crazy expansion of the world would have also smashed his body into pieces.

However, just now, not only did he really witness it. His body was also left unscathed!

To call this instrument a God Artifact was truly correct!

Who was the person who created this marvelous machine? A person who managed to witness the birth of a world? Was it one of the only few End Realm experts of their Cloud World?

Even after a moment, the pain in his head still hadn’t subsided, there was still a clear throbbing wreck inside his head.

However, this was just a sign of him thinking too much. Despite the pain, the random thoughts that were popping out didn’t stop, in fact, one after another were still filling his mind.

He couldn’t help but mock himself. The Absolute Beginning! Such a shame… He had only witnessed it for a millionth of a second.

Numerous questions continued to rise up in his brain. At the same time, many of these questions were slowly being solved. Due to that, his soul ocean started to become unstable.

First, there were the 18 True Spiritual talismans starting to change. Some of the True Spiritual charms started to change by themselves.

Especially the Heaven and Earth talismans that changed quite exceptionally intensely. They seemed to be have been about to merge into one… Into a universal word.

As for the Eon talisman, it wasn’t opposite and against the changes. It had also started to merge together with the Heaven and Earth talismans. It actually spread out, encapsulating the 15 True Spiritual talismans and the black and white hole Dharmas and the stars in his soul ocean, everything within.

The black and white holes also had some slight changes, simply small changes. The black hole was so dark it couldn’t be seen and the white hole was extremely hot.

The entire process was out of Zong Shou’s control. The moment he thought about something, that change would occur in his soul.

Many thoughts rose up and inspiration was birthed. Numerous theories that would take even a decade to comprehend was understood in just a moment.

If not because he had not enough soul power, he could have even directly formed a portion of the Heaven talismans.

“This isn’t right! Even if all my potential would be ignited, there is still no way it should be this quick! This spell altar is a little weird…”

After sensing the area around, there were numerous runes on the altar that wrapped and rotated around his body.

It was forming a spiritual formation and forcefully extracting something from his body. This caused the gears in his head to work out to the extreme.

However, when he observed his body, his essence energy and vital energy were still filled up with no signs of weakening. His life potential was still hidden in the depths of his body.

“…Is it lifespan?”

The moment this guess rose up, Zong Shou finally understood. Apart from that, there was no other possibility.

Although he didn’t feel anything, he knew that around one to two hundred years were consumed, even three to five hundred was possible.

However, he didn’t regret that this was happening. His soul power was grade-7, at this moment he had a thousand years left in his lifespan. After entering grade-8 he would instantly have two hundred more years. He didn’t need to worry that he would die from using it up.

To have such a fortuitous encounter was actually a joyous matter.

The changes in his soul only stopped 4 hours later before it finally started to stabilize.

The numerous random thoughts in his mind also slowly calmed down.

It wasn’t because he was stopping his thoughts, but it was actually because there was nothing more for him to comprehend.

Most of what he saw during the Absolute Beginning was already grasped and understood by him.

The remaining portion was something he couldn’t comprehend with his current cultivation. He couldn’t even begin to touch it, so there was nowhere for him to start.

Luckily, the spiritual formation light around him was slowly becoming darker. Once it had already stopped, he should be able to keep his remaining lifespan.

He opened his eyes once more and looked at the spiritual pillars. Out of the 81 layers, only 9 were left. They had already stabilized after resisting the impact and not breaking.

The expansion of the universe was also slowing down.

The effects of some laws were becoming apparent.

Zong Shou’s eyes shone brightly as he looked forward carefully. As compared to the Absolute Beginning, the explosive style collision caught him off guard. However, these gentle changes were something that Zong Shou could accept.

In just 15 minutes, his brain felt an intense pain once more. He had no choice but to close his eyes and look away.

To remember the scenes that were happening right now took up exceptional amounts of strength. If the spiritual formation didn’t use his lifespan, then Zong Shou felt like he couldn’t support it.

He could feel that if he continued watching, he would die from old age here.

To be able to view such scenes at grade-7, even if just a portion of the initial laws, such a chance was unprecedented and unheard of. However, it was also his own limit.

Although he wasn’t willing to give up, why force it?

The Buddhists were smart. People had 6 evils: Greed, Anger, Foolishness, Slowness, Doubt, and Evil Views. These were the roots of human nature with greed at its head.

The heart of searching for the path was also a type of greed.

After making his mind up, Zong Shou didn’t dare open his eyes anymore. He started to use the formation to activate the Great Sky Changing Meditation technique to create the heaven portion of his World Shocking Art.

At this moment, he was shocked to realize that his understanding of the Heaven and Earth laws towards the path were two to three levels higher than before.

The back portion of the technique was also being perfected at a shocking rate. It was even going backwards to improve the weaknesses of the foundations.

However, when Zong Shou went from the Heaven Stage to the Spirit Stage, he was startled.

He was unable to continue, it was because the path ahead was cut off…

Without hesitating, Zong Shou immediately started from the basics. Bit by bit, even the smallest weaknesses and mistakes were being fixed. The Body Realm, Earth Realm, and then entering the Celestial Path.

However, it still didn’t work. He reached the middle of the Celestial Realm and was unable to continue further.

“How is this possible?”

Zong Shou was stunned, crazily deducing the happenings from time to time. However, no matter what, he was still unable to continue after the middle of the Spirit Realm.

Before this, he thought that it was due to his bloodline. However, even if he added in a water element God Beast Bloodline which could restrict the Sky Burning Blood, it could only cause his Spirit Art to move half a step forward to the later stages of the Spirit Realm.

“Are my foundations not enough to create this technique? Or was the Ice and Fire Spiral idea wrong?”

After thinking about it, Zong Shou shook his head. Even after several failures, he was still really confident that he could create a grade-9 Martial Path technique at the very least.

The basic portion of the World Shocking Spiritual Art also didn’t need a high and deep Martial Path cultivation.

The Ice and Fire whirlpool, it would curb one another while giving rise to each another, this couldn’t be wrong.

The secret technique should be perfectly smooth on his body. However, there were a few unknown factors that were causing problems.

After looking at his soul, at the black and white hole Dharma, Zong Shou comprehended something. If ice and fire couldn’t work… Then what about Yin and Yang?

With his eyes lighting up, Zong Shou directly rebuilt the World Shocking Spiritual Art that he had deduced.

This time, it was smooth with no restrictions. However, when he reached the Celestial Path Gates, it got stuck once more, unable to proceed. But the outcome was much weaker than the past few times.

It still feels like there is something lacking…

“The Taoists said that just one aspect wasn’t enough to let something grow or appear. Is this what’s happening right now? But this is a little too much…”

Zong Shou broke out into a laugh, however, he still tried. Following after, his expression froze.

He actually succeeded, he was going forward with no obstacles at all. The hurdles ahead of the Spirit Realm were smoothed out. He headed right to the middle of the Celestial Realm.

Zong Shou’s brows furrowed, his thoughts started to calm down once more.

His deduction was unable to continue any further. The spell altar below shook slightly.

“Did it end?”

When Zong Shou opened his eyes, he saw that the void in front of him was torn up once more. The spell altar was being pulled towards a certain direction.

Zong Shou quickly came back to his senses, only to see that this spell altar had returned to its original position. It was still on the stone platform, the World Viewing Instrument turned silent once more. It was ice cold, with no signs of activity like it hadn’t moved at all.