The Legend of the Great Saint: Start from the Sign-in at Mount Tai

Chapter 437: First sight, lifelong regret
At dusk, the setting sun is setting in the west, and the sunset glow is like colorful ink painting the horizon, depicting a scene of parting.

There are peaks and ridges, green pines and cypresses. On Mirror Lake, as three figures in the painting gradually approach, startled egrets and they start to flap their wings and sing.

There was a hint of sad conversation, carried by the wind from the three slowly walking figures.

"It's been seven years. You're ready to leave Eternity, aren't you?"

Fanxian was not the only one who noticed that Lu Zhou was about to leave Eternity.

Qi Meng and Daoyi both noticed it from some of Lu Zhou's recent remarks.

Lu Zhou nodded and said.

"It's almost time. There's one last stop. I'll go check out one more place and then I'll be leaving!"

Seeing that Lu Zhou really said that he was ready to leave Yongheng, Fanxian and Qi Meng's expressions froze, and more sorrow surged in their hearts.

Has the day finally arrived?
They looked at each other, and for once they showed no disdain for each other, and then they followed Lu Zhou silently, chasing his shadow cast by the setting sun.

They headed west.

Three days later, the three of them arrived at a city in the Eternal West.

The city is not big and is close to the sea. The sound of the tides came rhythmically into the ears of Lu Zhou and the other two. They could also smell the light salty smell of the sea water at the tip of their noses.

In the city, various skyscrapers, flashing neon lights, and magnificent ancient buildings are located in a row, and they complement each other brilliantly. Under the reflection of the moonlight, it is not wrong to describe it as a work of art that surpasses nature.

In the Eternal Star Domain, most cities are of this style. To use Lu Zhou's culture, it exudes a combination of Chinese and Western flavors.

Qi Meng once asked Lu Zhou.

"A combination of Chinese and Western cultures? Where does this come from?"

Lu Zhou said: "That's a saying in my hometown!"

"You mean Earth?"

"Correct!"

They had all heard Lu Zhou say that his real hometown was on Earth.

Beidou's Emperor Burial Star is just a stop for him and the starting point of his practice.

Of course, it can now be considered his second home.

Because there are many people he cares about on the Emperor Burial Star.

"Are they your fellow Taoists?"

A word came out of Fanxian's mouth smoothly.

"Yes, it's them!"

Lu Zhou told the truth.

Arriving outside this small coastal town, Fanxian and Qi Meng turned to look at Lu Zhou, with a hint of doubt in their eyes.

They didn't understand why Lu Zhou suddenly came to this seemingly ordinary seaside town?
He also said that this was his last stop in the Eternal Star Domain. If that is the case, then it must have some special significance.

But they could sense that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth here was not that strong, and a sweep of their divine sense was enough to cover the entire town.

And the strongest person in the city seems to be only at the fourth level.

They couldn't see what was so attractive about this small coastal city that was worth attracting Lu Zhou.

"Over the years, I have read a lot of information collected by the major forces in Eternity about the time when the Great Emperor Wu Shi stayed in Eternity."

"Not long ago, I read in a scroll I got from Luolan Ancient Land that a great saint from Luolan Ancient Land said before he passed away that when he was young, he happened to see a person who looked a bit like the legendary Emperor Wu Shi. He stayed nearby for a while and walked a distance with a woman!"

"Later I looked it up and found out that the city we see today was slowly built up a hundred years ago."

“In the era when Wu Shi stayed in eternity, this should have been the home of a small family.”

"I just don't know why, that small family seems to have moved away from here, or perhaps, that family has been lost in the long river of history."

"Later, for a long time, this place was a dilapidated ruin. A hundred years ago, some people gradually gathered here and built a small city here."

After hearing what Lu Zhou said, Qi Meng and Fan Xian understood immediately.

Qi Meng spoke up.

"Do you want to try your luck and see if you can find any traces of the Wu Shi Great Emperor here?"

"To verify whether the person that the ancient great saint in Luolan Ancient Land saw when he was a child was the Great Emperor Wu Shi?"

"Could it be that after he attained enlightenment and became an emperor, he had also come to Eternity?"

Lu Zhou looked at them and smiled.

“There is a reason for this!”

“But it’s not the most important thing!”

Fanxian's fiery red hair danced lightly. She was wearing a T-shirt and hot pants. Under the moonlight, her skin was glowing white. Her overall look was like a heroine from the second dimension.

She asked Lu Zhou.

"Oh? If it's not the main reason, then what's the other reason? Could it be because of the woman that the Great Sage Luolangu mentioned who once accompanied the Great Emperor Wu Shi?"

She had also assumed that the person whom the Great Sage Luolangu had seen briefly in his childhood and whose appearance was somewhat similar to the legendary Emperor Wu Shi was the Emperor Wu Shi.

They have learned from Lu Zhou that Emperor Wu Shi lived for a very long time, far more than ten thousand years.

Qi Meng, who was also wearing a hot outfit that showed off her perfect figure, was also aroused by Lu Zhou's words. She blinked her beautiful eyes, shining like the evening stars in the sky, waiting for Lu Zhou's answer.

"Not bad!"

Lu Zhou nodded.

Then he continued.

"In fact, I have been searching for traces of the Great Emperor Wu Shi in the Eternal Star Domain over the years because I want to confirm a guess I have always had!"

"What guess?"

"Speculations about where this peerless goddess came from!"

"Peerless goddess?"

"You mean the woman who accompanied the Emperor Wu Shi for a while?"

Lu Zhou looked down at the neon-lit city below him and whispered.

"is her!"

"That peerless goddess is one of the few women I know of who can stir the heart of the Great Emperor Wu Shi!"

"There must be a story between her and the Wu Shi Emperor that no one else knows about!"

"I don't know the details, I only know that goddess was stunning in the world back then, and later she met the Wu Shi Emperor, and it seemed like she would fall in love with him for the rest of her life!"

"She admired Wu Shi very much. Wu Shi had accompanied her for a while and even taught her some Taoist secrets."

"Later, it is said that the Wu Shi Emperor returned to Beidou, and after the peerless goddess became a saint, she could no longer suppress her longing for the Wu Shi Emperor, and resolutely stepped into the starry sky, wanting to follow the footsteps of the Wu Shi Emperor." Lu Zhou's voice was a little vague, but very contagious, as if it came from ancient times, crossing the barriers of time and space, making Qi Meng and Fan Xian have the illusion of empathy at this moment.

As Lu Zhou spoke, they seemed to see through time and space, and saw a goddess who was once peerless and beautiful, and was once surrounded by various divine rings. She was filled with sorrow and longing, and she looked up under the starry sky, searching for a figure she had been thinking about.

She practiced very hard, and finally, when she had enough ability, she was able to step into the starry sky.

She could no longer suppress her longing for that man, and she gave up everything without hesitation, left the hometown where she was born and raised, and rushed into the lonely and deep starry sky alone.

Just to follow the footsteps of the person in my heart, look up at the road he walked, chase his figure, look for bits and pieces about him, and hope that one day, I can see him again.
Even if it's just to look up at his back from afar!
The long years are like the dark starry sky with no end in sight, like the silent road where one walks alone, and like the longing wrapped in memories of the past day and night, every moment.

Suddenly, Qi Meng and Fan Xian both felt their hearts were blocked, as if a huge rock was pressing down on them, making it hard for them to breathe and their eyes gradually became blurry.

They were lost in thought, their thoughts flying somewhere unknown.

In a trance, they seemed to feel that the blurry figure they saw before their eyes would suddenly overlap with them one day in the future.

There is an indescribable loneliness, desolation and other complex emotions that envelope them tightly.

"and after?"

Qi Meng sniffed her nose, raised her head, looked at the starry sky, and asked Lu Zhou what to do next in a trembling voice.

"Later. Later, the beauty's hair turned white, her rosy cheeks turned into a skeleton, she was alone and old, sitting in the starry sky, and she never saw Wu Shi again until her death."

"Why do you suddenly give such a sad ending?"

Before Lu Zhou finished speaking, Qi Meng started to denounce Lu Zhou.

"I don't believe this will be the ending!"

"You once said that even among all the great emperors in history, Emperor Wu Shi is one of the best!"

"You just said that the female saint who followed the footsteps of the Great Emperor Wu Shi is one of the few women you know who can stir the heart of the Great Emperor!"

"If that's the case, I think that female saint must have left some deep marks in the heart of the Wu Shi Great Emperor!"

"I don't believe that such a powerful Emperor Wu Shi would not be able to sense that the female saint was following his footsteps. I don't believe that he would let the female saint sit alone and die in the desolate universe."

"I don't believe their story ended with such a sad ending."

Qi Meng did not accept this result.

The same is true for Brahma.

The somewhat arrogant Qi Meng even started to act like a spoiled brat, strongly demanding that Lu Zhou change the ending of the story to a happy one.

"But this is the truth!"

"The Emperor is not omnipotent!"

"It is impossible for the Great Emperor to be omniscient and omnipotent, to be able to see through everything in this starry sky, and to sense everything in this starry sky!"

"Perhaps that female saint, in the process of pursuing the Wu Shi Emperor, accidentally entered a mysterious place that even the Emperor could not sense. When her remains reappeared, the era of Wu Shi had already passed."

"Perhaps, at that time, the Wu Shi Emperor had been held back by something, or even no longer existed in this world."

Lu Zhou felt that this might be one of the most likely answers.

If not, it would be impossible to explain the questions Qi Meng asked in return.

Judging from some descriptions in the original work when Ye Fan entered Zishan again before the dark turmoil came, Dilisi definitely has a certain position in Wu Shi's heart.

With Wu Shi's power, if he was still in this world at that time, he should be able to sense that Dilisi had stepped into the starry sky, looking for his footprints.

And he would not watch Dilis grow old and lonely in the starry sky, and finally turn into a skeleton.

Then the most likely possibility is that it was at that time that Wu Shi and the Immortal Emperor were fighting on the road to immortality on Mars.

The first impression Lu Zhou got from the name Dilisi was that she was probably from the Eternal Star Domain.

This feeling came from nowhere, and Lu Zhou couldn't explain it.

Anyway, he felt that this style of name matched his understanding of the Eternal Star Domain very well.

Lu Zhou's purpose in searching for the traces of the Beginningless in the Eternal Star Domain, besides wanting to sign in, was also to satisfy his former curiosity.

That is to see if it is possible to verify whether Dilis, the only person mentioned in the original work who may have some emotional entanglement with Emperor Wu Shi, really came from Eternity.

Fortunately, when he was about to leave Eternity, he accidentally learned this clue that might be related to it from the ancient land of Loran.

Under the gazes of Qi Meng and Fan Xian, divine light flickered between Lu Zhou's palms.

Then, an urn carved from divine sources appeared.

Lu Zhou opened the lid of the box, and Qi Meng and Fan Xian saw that in the urn, there was a snow-white and crystal skull quietly placed.

It was as perfect as a piece of art created by God with great effort, with Taoist fluctuations and soft light emanating from the skull.

Next to the skull, there is a crescent-shaped pendant.

This was what Lu Zhou asked Ye Fan to retrieve from the starry sky many years ago.

Because he has not set foot near Zishan Mountain in these years, Lu Zhou has always carried the skull and crescent pendant with him.

As the lid of the box was opened, faint spiritual imprints were immediately transmitted from the skull, and were clearly sensed by Lu Zhou, Qi Meng and Fan Xian.

"I just want to follow in your footsteps, even if I can only look up at you from behind for my whole life."

These words revealed in the spiritual imprint made their hearts tremble.

What kind of perseverance is this?

"Could this be the skull of that female saint?"

No need to ask anymore.

After sensing those traces of spiritual imprints, Fanxian and Qi Meng had already thought of it.

The skull that appeared before their eyes must be the female saint that Lu Zhou mentioned earlier, the one who gave up everything and resolutely stepped into the starry sky to pursue Wu Shi’s footsteps!
As soon as Fanxian finished speaking, for some unknown reason, the Taoist aura emanating from the skull suddenly became much stronger and resonated with this area.

Moreover, the spiritual imprint transmitted from the skull also began to change at this moment.

The skull and the crescent pendant flew out of the urn in Lu Zhou's hand on their own and hovered in the void.

The bright moon in the sky seemed to be attracted by something, and suddenly dropped its moonlight like a waterfall, which even carried wisps of the holy power of the moon, shining in harmony with the crescent moon pendant!
Upon seeing this situation, Lu Zhou was shocked.

"It seems that I guessed right!"

"Dilisi is most likely from Eternity, and has a lot of entanglements with this area!"

"The two people that the Great Saint Luolangu saw when he was young should be Wu Shi and Dilisi."

'Buzz~'

Lu Zhou's words were interrupted by a sudden buzzing sound between heaven and earth.

Soon, an ancient road in the void, unknown to the world, appeared in front of the three of them.

At the end of the ancient road, there seems to be a small world covered by dust.

(End of this chapter)