Chapter 1815: Chapter 1462: Immortal Guardian of the Sea and Hill
Accompanying the sudden appearance of these five virtual shadows were words as calm as could be.
It seed that they were not directed toward the intruder Li Buren, but were rather a pre-recorded ssage.
“Immortal Guardian of the Hill Sheng De, I dare to pay respects to the wise ones.”
“Once bearing the naless, originally for transcendence. Yet the Dao’s obliteration lurks, we cannot lose the burden upon our shoulders.”
“By chance, I obtained this excellent thod, to use shadow in place of form, capable of resisting the overwhelming tribulations.”
“To share it with you…”
The five shadows spoke in unison.
What followed was not an ordinary sound. It was akin to a carving blade, directly imprinting this thod upon the body of Li Buren, surrounded by the shadows.
He felt no pain, nor the slightest abnormality. It was as if mories originally belonging to him, yet sealed and forgotten, were once again revealed. It was not imparted, but “recalled” anew.
The entire process of pondering, learning, and mastering was entirely skipped.
Once known, it was already at the grand completion!
However, Li Buren felt sowhat regretful that the reason the five shadows actively transmitted the thod was because it was equivalent to all the chess pieces of an entire Immortal Domain being present. In terms of rank, it was almost equivalent to a Naless True Immortal. Therefore, the Guardian of the Hill considered all the chess pieces as a whole.
The engraving and imprinting were also conducted upon this whole.
What Li Buren received was only a small portion of it.
But this secret technique, which could only be cultivated at the True Immortal Realm, was enough to widen his horizons!
“This thod is nad [Rambles from the Guarded Hill].”
“By the edge of the Great Ocean, there was a tiny naless hill.”
“Sheng De guarded the hill for a hundred and twenty-three cycles. Witnessing the tides rise and fall, life erging and fading. Each ti inspiration struck, he would jot it down. As ti passed, the rambles beca…”
Li Buren sorted through the “mories” in his spirit consciousness. The simple words seed to paint a solitary figure, steadfast by the vast Great Ocean for a hundred and twenty-three cycles. Standing on the naless hill, gazing at the endless ocean. A scene shared with the tides.
“This Guardian of the Hill, capable of resisting the Dao-obliterating calamity with five shadows, his strength and realm are definitely not as humble as depicted in the rambles.”
Li Buren exhaled deeply, seemingly trying to break free from the weight of the ages contained in those few lines of text.
“In the earlier transmission from Sun Piaomiao, there was a description related to the cycle of the Heavenly Net. A cycle should be a unit of the Immortal World’s calendar. I just don’t know how many years in the Xuanhuang World correspond to one cycle in the Immortal World.”
“But regardless, a hundred and twenty-three cycles must certainly be an extrely long ti.”
“And to demand such span of ti to forever guard the sea and hill, these must definitely not be ordinary seas and hills.”
Li Buren suddenly rembered the allegory about mountains and seas in what seed to be a book left by Sun Piaomiao.
“If the sea represents the Infinite Sea, then what does the mountain represent…”
The rambles left by the Guardian of the Hill, Sheng De, not only simply imparted the thod of leaving behind virtual shadows. Rather, it ticulously recorded the entire thought process of the Guardian of the Hill’s insight into this thod.
This thod was not created from a sudden enlightennt.
Instead, it was refined over ti, amidst boundless contemplation.
Li Buren obtaining this thod was as if he “traveled” back to the Guardian of the Hill’s past, reliving the vicissitudes of a hundred and twenty-three cycles with his body, divine soul, and thoughts.
Even if he faced only mountains and seas all day long.
The seemingly endless data almost overwheld Li Buren completely.
Fortunately, he shared this burden with other Immortal Domain chess pieces. Only with his divine sense as a Dao Network projection and his body as fragnts of Immortal Domain laws, could he barely sustain it.
“No wonder the Guardian of the Hill’s shadow only appears before a Naless True Immortal. It’s not that he is stingy and unwilling to impart this thod to other immortals, but because those below the Naless cannot bear it at all!”
Engulfed by the surging thoughts of the Guardian of the Hill, Li Buren seed to return to the Infinite Sea. Every droplet around him contained billions of years of ti.
“According to the Guardian of the Hill, the sea’s invasion of the mountain has existed since ti immorial. But like the tides in the Mortal World, it is unpredictable, sotis strong and sotis weak.”
“Since he began guarding the hill and watching the sea, its montum has continuously fluctuated, but overall it remains on an upward trend in scale. Even… it has not yet reached what was estimated as the [extre point].”
“In the twentieth cycle, the Guardian of the Hill noticed this tendency. The following hundred cycles confird this viewpoint.”
“Even long ago, he warned the world, but alas, his voice was too small to be heard?”
“This…”
Li Buren was imdiately baffled upon hearing this.
However, the subsequent self-description by Sheng De, the Guardian of the Hill, provided the answer. It turned out that at that ti, the Guardian of the Hill was still a “common” True Immortal. He had not yet attained the Naless Realm. His words were naturally ignored.
But in the eighty-eighth cycle, the Guardian of the Hill built up strength over ti and finally entered the Naless Realm.
Yet he did not make a fuss, rely continued to quietly guard the hill and watch the sea.
At that ti, it happened that the Immortal World seemingly underwent a change. All immortals in the Immortal World were too busy to take notice of the hill guard official by the distant sea.
The entire Immortal World seed to have forgotten about him.
Until one day, the sea waves surged to the sky, overturning the hills as they ca.
…
Erging from the seemingly ordinary yet grand life of the Immortal of the Guarded Hill, Li Buren began to focus on the thod of “Shadow Bearing the Dao”.
“According to the Immortal of the Guarded Hill, he sits on the hill and watches the sea, as the waves rise and fall, seemingly facing countless Great Daos of the world directly.”
“The blossoming waves move in rhythm with the Great Dao, essentially two sides of the sa coin.”
“A person stands atop the mountain like a great stone. Every day, as the waves crash upon it, the stone endures wear. Yet at the sa ti, it leaves a mark unique to itself between the mountain and sea.”
“…”
The rambles from the Guarded Hill are extrely obscure and difficult to understand. Even though Li Fan has undergone reincarnation a hundred tis and experienced countless trials, he found it hard to comprehend imdiately.
“If it wasn’t for possessing Hai Zhen and having personally entered the Infinite Sea, perhaps even if I acquired these thods, I would still be utterly bewildered, completely unaware of the reasoning behind it. I might even dismiss it as a joke!”
“Because this thod is vastly different from the world’s cultivation systems,” Li Fan realized in his heart.
However, the mystical quality of the rambles from the Guarded Hill lies here. Even if those who are taught cannot grasp its intricacies, due to the automatic engraving of the five shadows, the taught ones can nevertheless effortlessly perform this wonderful technique of “Shadow Bearing the Dao”.
“It entirely requires no consumption of oneself. It rely refines the traces left in the history and the Great Dao into virtual shadows. To bear the weight of the Path-obliterating Calamity…”
“This divine technique is indeed sowhat beyond imagination!”
Moreover, Li Fan also felt that this wonderful technique of “Shadow Bearing the Dao” served more purposes than just resisting the Path-obliterating Calamity.
Or rather, bearing the Dao is just one of the many effects this divine technique possesses.
“Impervious to a hundred tribulations, repelling all laws, obtaining immortality…”
“Beyond all these, the most crucial is ‘Transcendence’!”
“It is the fundantal thod to leap out of this Heaven and Earth’s Great Dao.”
As one refines all the traces left between the mountain and sea, it is also the process of severing all ties with the world.
Then, with a solitary self, one would not be constrained by the Dao Network…
Li Fan was deeply moved, with a longing sprouting within his heart.
At this mont, the journey of imparting the Dao from the Immortal of the Guarded Hill had reached its conclusion.
All the “Rambles from the Guarded Hill” had been completely engraved.
The five shadows left by the Immortal of the Guarded Hill and Sheng De slightly bowed toward Li Buren in the center, paying their respects.
Afterward, their forms wavered and slowly dissipated.
They returned to their previous state of silently bearing the Dao.
Li Buren solemnly returned the gesture with a bow.
He knew this was the Immortal of the Guarded Hill’s hope for future sages to also leave shadows bearing the Dao.
Thus, the other had made this gesture of respect.
“The shadows left by the Immortal of the Guarded Hill might not only be confined to this one location within the high wall.”
“After leaving these shadows bearing the Dao, where is he now? Has he already left the current possibilities?”
Thinking of the Lower Realm Star Sea, still vibrant despite the rampant Path-obliterating Calamity, Li Buren suddenly gained an insight.
And regarding this Immortal Guardian of the Sea and Hill, there was no doubt in Li Buren’s mind about his potential to transcend possibility.
“In any case, the ability to leave behind so shadows bearing the Dao and provide future generations with a miraculous thod to save the world certainly ans the Immortal of the Guarded Hill has lived up to his responsibilities.”
“No wonder he bears the na ‘Sheng De’.”
After a long ti lost in thought, Li Buren finally returned from his contemplations and looked around at the Immortal Domain Chess Pieces.
After being engraved by the Immortal of the Guarded Hill, these chess pieces seed sohow different than before.
Originally, these Immortal Domain Fragnts rely floated silently, exuding an overwhelming sense. But now, they returned to simplicity, becoming inconspicuous. If one were not paying attention, they might easily overlook them.
“Or maybe, describing them as gradually detaching from this world would be more appropriate.”
A sense of vigilance suddenly arose in Li Buren’s heart.
He did not forget that previously, during the ti of Hai Zhen, the leg bone of the Naless True Immortal in the Immortal Domain seed to resonate and follow toward him.
“The Naless Realm can no longer be simply asured by life and death.”
“Though just a leg bone, still in a state of separation. But who knows what changes will occur after receiving the ‘Rambles from the Guarded Hill’.”
Li Buren experintally moved to capture the white chess piece ford from the dicine King True Cauldron.
Afterward, he disregarded everything else, manifested his original body from the state of the Dao Network Chess Piece.
A repulsive force struck, causing Li Buren and the dicine King True Cauldron to fall from the peak of the circular hall.
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