Swallowed Star: Hunyuan Tianlong

Chapter 89 Asking Laozi
Another 3000 years passed, and the secret realm was completely closed, and the powerful people from the original universe left one after another.

Yan Yong still hadn't found a way to break through the bottleneck. His smooth sailing for more than ten thousand years had finally hit a real hurdle.

During these 6000 years, he has already created two ultimate secret techniques for being the true overlord of the universe, but his halberd technique has been stuck at 1401, making no progress.

"Using softness to overcome hardness, combining hardness and softness, I have already reached this state, why can't I break through this opponent?"

Tianlong's clone was annoyed. He also came out to look for a way to break through. His comprehension of the fusion law had reached its limit.

He replaced Zhou Heng's clone back to continue comprehending the law of time.

Tianlong's clone was flying aimlessly in the universe, sometimes flying in Liuyun Palace, sometimes teleporting, with no specific direction, no specific way of moving and no specific distance.

Before he knew it, Tianlong's clone arrived at a water-blue planet, which looked inexplicably familiar.

Tianlong's clone flew out from Liuyun Palace. Its huge body made the planet look extremely small.

Like grains of sand under the feet of a dragon.

Even the star, the sun, is as small as a marble in front of Tianlong's clone.

"Earth? I'm back here again."

……

"What is that in the sky?" Just as Tianlong's clone flew out of the palace, its huge body blocked the sun, plunging the whole world into darkness.

At this time, the Zhou Emperor and the princes of various countries, who were offering sacrifices to the sky, looked up at the sky in panic.

It was too terrifying. An unknown giant blocked out the sun, which was the basis for survival, and the thing seemed to be moving.

"Could it be a monster?" the carnivores said worriedly.

Tianlong's clone quickly shrank in size, revealing the sun.

After shrinking, it finally disappeared from the ancients' sight.

However, this did not completely dispel these people's worries. Instead, they ordered to look for relevant information to verify what it was.

"Maybe my 'Tao' is on Earth." Tianlong's clone hid his body and came to Earth.

“I didn’t expect time to pass so quickly.”

Rushing back to Mount Huashan where he had attained enlightenment last time, Yan Yong arrived at the territory of Shaanxi Province in the future. From afar, he saw an old man riding a green ox about to pass through a city gate.

The city gate was built in a deep and dangerous valley, and it was so powerful that one man could block the passage of ten thousand men.

The general guarding the pass was stopping the old man and begging him earnestly to write a book.

Afterwards, Yan Yong witnessed the old man uttering some deafening "heavenly sound".

"The Tao that can be spoken of is not the eternal Tao..."

The old man is just an ordinary person, not even at the apprentice level. Any first-level apprentice can easily kill a hundred such old men.

But the old man's explanation of "Tao" moved even top universe overlords like Yan Yong.

He had also read the Tao Te Ching, and with his current memory he could even write it out backwards, imprinted in his mind like a photo album.

But the Tao Te Ching spoken by the old man is different from any later version. The difference in punctuation alone makes a huge difference in the ancients' profound words and meanings.

The Tao Te Ching mentioned by the old man is the true explanation of how to practice the "Tao".

Although the old man could not even break through the apprentice level until his death, and the "secret book" he passed down could not even reach the apprentice level, it had a huge impact on Yan Yong who was pursuing the "Jian Dao".

He waited quietly until the old Taoist finished outlining the magnificent masterpiece of 5,000 words and continued on his way, and then Yan Yong continued to follow him.

Wait until the other party completely leaves Hangu Pass and walks to a deserted place.

"Old man, wait a minute." The figure of Tianlong's clone slowly emerged.

Even after shrinking, it still has a volume of hundreds of meters.

Although Yan Yong had completely restrained his aura, that terrifying figure still carried a terrifying oppressive force.

Moo~
The green ox under the old man's seat was immediately frightened and tried to escape from Yan Yong in panic.

"Don't panic, cow." The old man stroked the cow's head gently, trying to calm the blue cow.

But the blue ox was just an ordinary livestock. Even though it followed the old man and was influenced by him, it could also learn some of the old man's mentality.

Apart from his state of mind, the old man was just an ordinary person who was not even at the apprentice level. How could he calm down the frightened blue bull?

It seemed that the green bull was about to lose control and throw the old man on its back and run away.

"Be quiet." Under the will of Yan Yong, the blue bull quickly calmed down. "May I ask why you stopped me?" Laozi straightened his clothes that were messed up after the blue bull was frightened, and said to Tianlong Yan Yong calmly.

If other people saw a giant dragon hundreds of meters long, they would probably have lost control of their bowels and bladder, or been frightened to death, just like Ye Gong who loved dragons.

Lao Tzu's temperament of being indifferent is, as he said, inaction.

“I heard the sound of the great Dao outside Hangu Pass before, and I came here to ask for advice.” The dragon clone slowly descended and coiled beside the green ox.

The green bull was almost frightened again, but with just a look from Yan Yong, the green bull became quiet and obedient again.

"It's just one person's opinion. How can it be regarded as the great truth of heaven?" Laozi twirled his beard.

It is impossible to tell whether the old man is worried or happy.

"Old man, don't be modest. What I just said lingered in Yan Yong's ears for a long time, like a long drought and a sweet rain, which made him extremely happy."

The dragon head circled the green ox and came to Laozi.

From a side glance, one can see that Laozi is indeed very calm, with his hands hanging naturally on the green ox's back, without any sense of tension.

"I didn't expect that my vulgar words would pollute your ears." Laozi still didn't respond, but just said modestly.

"Don't worry, old man. I am sincerely asking for your advice." The dragon head stepped back a distance, leaving me with a comfortable space.

"This problem has troubled me for tens of millions of years. Today, after listening to Laozi's teachings, I finally have a clue. I hope you can give me some advice." The dragon head paused and bowed.

"Since you trust me, and I am not the kind of person who pretends to be powerful, please speak and I will try to explain it to you." Laozi sat upright on the back of the green ox and bowed in return with both hands.

"May I ask, what is 'Tao'?" Yan Yong looked at the other party nervously, hoping to get an answer from him, but he was also worried whether this person who was not even at the apprentice level could really explain the 'Tao' he wanted.

"The Tao that can be spoken of is not the constant Tao. The Tao is there, the Tao is the Tao. How can one talk about the Tao?" Lao Tzu said calmly.

"Tao is Tao, Tao is Tao?" Yan Yong chewed on this sentence again and again. This sentence was exactly the same as what he said in his first answer to Emperor Wei, but it felt fundamentally different when it came from Lao Tzu's mouth.

What is this difference? The day when this difference becomes the same is the day when Yan Yong completely masters the artistic conception of the halberd and enters the realm of Tao.

Laozi chuckled and twirled his beard, looking at the dragon who was lost in thought.

"Niu'er, let's go, haha~"

"Moo~"

The green ox seemed to have a spirit. It shook its tail and continued to carry Laozi westward.

Tianlong's clone fell into deep thought. At the same time, the other clones also stopped practicing and pondered this sentence together.

At the moment, any practice is useless. His perception is like a piece of paper. As long as he can pierce this layer of paper, he will be able to move towards the road to heaven. On the contrary, if he cannot pierce this layer of paper, all his efforts will be in vain.

"The Tao is the Tao. The Tao is right there. What is the Tao? The Tao can be spoken of, but it is not the eternal Tao..." Yan Yong pondered, "You need to see clearly what path you want to take? What is in your hand?"

"Yes, the Tao is the Tao. Any explanation in words is just one's own understanding of the Tao, not the real Tao." Yan Yong said to himself, "The Tao is right there. It does not appear in any external form, nor does it change in any form. The Tao is the Tao."

Yan Yong himself lowered his head and glanced at the halberd in his hand.

"What is a halberd?"

"Isn't the halberd in my hand? A halberd is a halberd. What does it mean to use softness to overcome hardness? What does it mean to combine hardness and softness? I can break all laws with my halberd."

Yan Yong, who was inside the divine tower, exuded a strange aura.

"Fight, fight, fight"

That ancient war sound has rarely appeared since Yan Yong's halberd artistic conception gradually took shape. It may disappear after the halberd artistic conception is completely formed, and will only appear under the urging of the Great and Mighty Heavenly Dragon.

At this moment, Yan Yong did not activate the Great Heavenly Dragon, nor did he mobilize any power in his body, but the ancient war sound emerged on its own.

"Is it going to work?" The originally indifferent expression on the shadow of Emperor Wei's consciousness was replaced by shock.

He really didn't expect that in less than ten thousand years, someone would be able to enter the realm of Tao. This is the power of the Eternal True God.

The other party was just an immortal, and even with the time acceleration, it was amazing enough. As he said, with the blessing of time acceleration, as long as one could step into the 'Tao' realm within a hundred epochs, he could unconditionally recognize the Lord of the God Tower, and the other party only spent less than one percent of the time.

Venerable Qing Ming was even more excited. It was almost the end of the ten thousand years. The five continents in the outside world had been divided into small islands by the torrent of space. The indigenous life forms of Wei's world lived in fear on the islands, kneeling down to pray to the "gods".

The two top cosmic overlords outside the tower had already left, constantly rescuing the natives on the islands that were about to shatter and sending them to their own kingdom of God.

Now, the space torrent flowing between the islands has made it difficult for ordinary immortals to resist. Ordinary immortals have already hidden in their own kingdoms of God to survive.

　Chapter 2 for today.

　
(End of this chapter)