Chapter 2256 The Great Dao is Boundless

Three months passed.

During this period, Ao Xingtang and Zhao Yuanji had been waiting quietly, but in fact they were actually a little nervous.

After all, Lin Xun was their last hope. If even Lin Xun couldn't do it, then they were doomed to never be able to rescue the True Dragon Progenitor Ancestor from being suppressed.

When they heard Lin Xun's declaration, they were both astonished and excited.

"Is it feasible?" Ao Xingtang couldn't help but ask.

Lin Xun nodded with a smile, "Now we can break the restriction on the first stele, but I plan to deduce and crack all the mysteries of the other forty-eight Sea Stabilizing Steles before taking action."

Zhao Yuanji immediately understood, "Yes, that's it. If we act in a hurry now, it will alert the True Dragon Clan and cause trouble."

Ao Xingtang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief as she said with a smile, "As long as this problem can be resolved. Come, follow me."

As she spoke, she led the way.

This time, she took Lin Xun on a journey that lasted for ten days and required traveling countless miles.

The reason was that the forty-nine Sea Stabilizing Steles were scattered in different areas and were extremely far apart from each other.

Otherwise, the power of the entire supreme forbidden formation would never be able to affect the space below nine thousand feet of the entire East Sea, which was regarded as the Forbidden Zone of Life by the people.

After identifying the location of each Sea Stabilizing Stele, Lin Xun immediately started to deduce and crack the next one.

With the rich experience he had accumulated during his first attempt, when deciphering the second Sea Stabilizing Stele, Lin Xun was quite familiar with the process. This time, it only took two months for him to understand all of its secrets and mysteries.

Following that, when deducing the secret of the rune patterns on the third Sea Stabilizing Stele, Lin Xun had shortened the time he needed to one and a half months.

When cracking the fourth one, it was shortened to one month...

Not only did his speed increase by leaps and bounds, but Lin Xun's attainments in the art of runes also rose steadily during the process, producing significant transformation and progress.

Nine months later, he had finished deciphering nine of them.

In the following time, Lin Xun's cracking speed continued to increase, but the difference between the time needed began to decrease. Later on, he had reached a steady-state point where he could decipher a Sea Stabilizing Stele within ten days.

This was already amazing!

After one year of this, Lin Xun had finished deducing twelve Sea Stabilizing Steles.

Unfortunately, there were forty-nine Sea Stabilizing Steles in total. If this continued, it would take him at least two years to finish cracking all of them.

Lin Xun was a little worried by this.

A year had already passed. If this was delayed by another two years, who knew what changes would have happened in the world of the Dragon Palace?

Would the trapped Zhao Jingxuan encounter any misfortune?

These were all things that Lin Xun could not predict, but he had to worry about.

"If you can break through in your cultivation, the speed can be improved a little more. In addition, you also could save a lot of time you spend in recovering your physical and mental strength."

From within the Dao Endless Pagoda, Xi gave Lin Xun some advice.

For the past year, Xi and Big Yellow had been cultivating in the pagoda. There was no shortage of divine medicines and rare treasures for healing. By now, their injuries were mostly healed.

In addition, Xi had paid attention to Lin Xun while in there and realized that every seven days or so, he would have to spend about two days recovering because of his great consumption of physical and mental strength while figuring out the steles.

If Lin Xun could break through, his control over the dao would transform. Furthermore, he would have more physical and mental strength to work on deducing, thus saving a lot of unnecessary time.

Sure enough, after listening to Xi's advice, Lin Xun's eyes lit up and he immediately made a decision: It was time to break through!

Although he had simply been deducing and cracking the dao rune patterns on the steles for a whole year, his attainments in the dao had been tempered again and again while he recovered. As early as half a year ago, he actually had the foundation to shoot for reaching the third realm of the Emperor Stage.

Therefore, for Lin Xun, choosing to break through now was not a difficult prospect.

The only thing that could be considered hard was perhaps that obstacle he would have to traverse for attempting to reach the third realm. It could be incredibly strange and unpredictable.

The road at the Emperor Stage was staggered through nine levels. In addition, there was an obstacle at the third realm, a trial at the sixth realm, and a tribulation at the ninth realm.

At present, Lin Xun was about to break through the threshold of the third realm of the Emperor Stage, so what he had to face was the Emperor Mind Obstacle!

After breaking through this obstacle, the body and mind could all be transformed.

For experts at the third realm, if their bodies were not completely destroyed at death, then their flesh and bones would turn into a world and continue to exist.

Lin Xun now knew that the first realm of the Emperor Stage was Free From Obsessions and the second realm was Formless.

As for the third realm, it was called Boundless!

The dao is boundless!

Upon reaching this level, a cultivator’s Emperor World would also present a sense of vastness resembling ‘boundless,’ which would result in a brand new transformation.

However, the only thing Lin Xun had to consider now was how to break through the Emperor Mind Obstacle!

This test was related to a cultivator’s state of mind, which was among the most bizarre and dangerous trials to encounter. If a cultivator made a mistake, they would lose everything. It was definitely not something that can be broken by brute force alone.

Lin Xun remained silent for three days, doing nothing and thinking nothing.

He adjusted his state of mind to the point where it was calm, untainted, steadfast, and as seemingly perfect as a shining full moon in the sky. Then, he stood up, his dark eyes neither sad nor happy.

Only a long and leisurely voice sounded in his heart,

"My heart has no barriers, and this obstacle is nothing to worry about."

Boom!

Above the East Sea, deep in the infinitely high dome, outside the void that was beyond the notice of all living beings in the world, a strange and unpredictable calamitous aura suddenly gathered.

There were no tribulation clouds, lightning, or earth-shattering terrifying visions, and not even a single living being was alarmed.

Even Zhao Yuanji and Ao Xingtang, who had been waiting under the East Sea, were completely unaware of what was happening.

However, at this moment, endless waves suddenly arose in Lin Xun's mind!

A strange calamitous aura turned into a great karmic hindrance, coming suddenly like lightning. As soon as it appeared, it produced a terrifying power of destruction.

Lin Xun felt his consciousness suddenly blur, and countless bizarre images emerged in his mind. When he was young, he had cried in his cradle, and Mister Lu in front of him had roared with anger and held him tightly in his arms...

During his youth, he was in the mine prison, in the dark, practicing the art of runes all day long, and was repeatedly scolded by Mister Lu...

In Feiyun Village, he had met Xia Zhi by chance...

The scenes of the past were like the scenes he had encountered in reincarnation. They were replayed one by one, incredibly clear and incredibly hard to forget.

Lin Xun's mood also changed with these experiences, whether happy, sad, disappointed, or bitter... Emotions rolled and stirred like a landslide and tsunami.

Later on, all these scenes turned into illusory fragments and dissipated. Those relatives, those friends, those good brothers who had fought side by side, those old friends met on the road, those senior brothers and sisters...

They all disappeared.

It was as if all the emotions and interwoven fetters of the past had already flown away without a trace left behind.

Zhao Jingxuan, Xia Zhi, Xi, Little Silver, Toady, A’lu... those familiar faces all disappeared in his past memories.

In the end, only a vast expanse of darkness remained.

He was alone, standing in the darkness, and was unable to distinguish the way forward. Nor did he know where to retreat.

At the end of the great dao, there was only one person.

Looking around, everything was empty!

Lin Xun couldn't help but have a thought in his mind, was this the dao that he had been looking for?

If so, was all his efforts in the past...worth it?

Worth it?

Not worth it?

Within the depths of his heart, waves were surging and raging, resembling a question he had to answer himself. It was as if the great dao itself was interrogating him.

The darkness was like a silent cage.

In the cage, Lin Xun, who was alone, was silent for a moment, then smiled silently, and murmured with emotion, "Thank you for letting me look back on the ups and downs of my past, recall those familiar people and things... These have all been imprinted with traces of my dao path..."

The past could not be pursued, but all the ups and downs experienced in the past, those people and things known, the love and hate formed by various causes and effects, the worldly affairs and human feelings caused by the fetters... All those bits and pieces had long been a part of his dao path!

𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

If there was no past, how could there be a future?

If one felt regret and sadness and came to a decision to abandon their own dao...what was the difference?

What was transcendence?

What was freedom?

What was eternity?

If everything in the past was regarded as a fetter and cut off, if the past was regarded as a cage and broken completely open, then what was the person’s goal in pursuing the dao?

How could a person measure the worthiness of one’s dao path?

Lin Xun knew very well that the current situation was a result of his Emperor Mind Obstacle. A single thought might mean the difference between life and death.

However, from the very beginning, Lin Xun had made a choice, so even if his mood was turbulent and his mind was like a wild horse running wild...

He had only one thought: stick to his heart and protect himself!

All I wish for is for it to be worth it.

All I ask for is to have no regrets.

All I remember is my heart.

All I hold is my path.

Even if the sky collapses and the earth breaks, and the world becomes empty, nothing can be changed!

Boom!

In Lin Xun's heart, a little "heart light" emerged from a cage-like darkness. At this moment everything suddenly collapsed, the cage broke, and the darkness retreated.

The sky was full of light, illuminating the road!

Lin Xun put his hands behind his back, and his whole body was boiling with energy. Like smoke rising into the sky, he felt his energy rise step by step, shaking the universe!

On this day, Lin Xun broke through his Emperor Mind Obstacle. A little light in his heart had illuminated the darkness of heaven and earth, breaking through to the third realm of the Emperor Stage and entering the realm of ‘the great dao is boundless.’

Free from outside obsessions, formless in the body, and boundless in the heart!

The natural barrier at the third realm Emperor Stage refined a heart free from impurities!

By reaching this state, it also allowed his body, mind, and dao to undergo a completely new transformation.

Nine thousand feet below the surface of the East Sea, Lin Xun sat casually, with billions of rays of auspicious light flowing around him like mystical rain. Ribbons of dao flowed and floated around him, making him resemble a supreme god.

At this moment, he keenly felt the difference within him after undergoing this transformation. Compared with his breakthrough to the second realm, after conquering the Emperor Mind Obstacle, it was as if his long-accumulated foundation and treasures were all used to improve his dao unprecedentedly!