The Lord of Heaven asked

Chapter 189: The Way of the Red Dust
I am a master of all trades!

The young man's words made Ye Xiu's expression stiffen. Lingbao Tianzun's state was not right. Judging from his expression, he was not lying and really did not know Ye Xiu.

It can even be said that the current Lingbao Tianzun not only does not recognize Ye Xiu, but does not even know about the mysterious world outside of it.

"Fellow Daoist, you have actually reached that step!" After a long time, Ye Xiu spoke slowly.

The young man in front of him looked exactly like the portrait of Lingbao Tianzun, and it was definitely Lingbao Tianzun himself.

However, from his words and gestures, the young man in front of him seemed to have forgotten a lot of things, and was extremely confused about Ye Xiu’s words. This was not the state that an enlightened person would be in.

Especially considering the opponent's current cultivation level, although the young man was full of vigor and vitality, what he actually displayed was only the cultivation level of the Taoist Palace Secret Realm.

Combining Lingbao Tianzun's past, Ye Xiu quickly thought of one thing, that is, the other party has gone very far on the road of immortality in the mortal world, and is now trying to cultivate the Tao in the mortal world.

At the beginning of the mythological era, there was an extremely mysterious Dharma circulating in the world. It was said that only beings in the supreme realm could touch and practice it.

It is said that after practicing such scriptures, one can reach the realm of immortality.

However, many people scoff at this and look down on it. If one can become an immortal by practicing a scripture, then why aren't there immortals in the world?

The dream lasts forever.

This is a supreme Dharma. While in deep sleep, one will experience an eternity of dream. In the dream, one will experience hundreds and tens of thousands of lifetimes, refine the mind and the Tao in the long river of time, and transcend the mundane world.

In deep sleep, you will have an eternal dream and experience hundreds and tens of thousands of lifetimes. In the long river of time, you will refine your mind and Tao and transcend the mundane world.

This is a path that only exists in theory. It has been deduced by supreme beings in the past. It is extremely dangerous.

Just imagine who dares to stay in a dream all the time. If one fails to distinguish between dreams and reality, he or she may very likely perish.

The Lingbao Tianzun in front of us is just like this. He has returned from the virtual to the real, from the ancient times to the present. Although he is still in a dream, he is walking in the world with his real body.

Today's Lingbao Tianzun has given up his memories and is constantly undergoing trials in the mortal world. He is comprehending the laws of nature and is tempering his own state of mind. He has completely sublimated the mystery of the eternal dream and is experiencing real life.

"Fellow Daoist, do you know me?" Seeing Ye Xiu sigh, the young man spoke, still with confusion in his eyes.

As far as he could remember, he had been in the Divine Realm since he was a child. He was like a person in the Divine Realm. Only a few people knew him. He had never been to the outside world, so he definitely had never seen Ye Xiu.

"Have you forgotten about the past?" Ye Xiu guessed in his heart based on the other party's condition.

"I know your old self!" Ye Xiu said, feeling regretful in his heart. The other party was now refining his mind or cultivating the Tao in the mortal world, sealing the memories of his previous lives.

“Do you know my old self?” The young man’s eyes became even more confused when he heard Ye Xiu’s words.

"Now that you have lost your past memories, naturally you can't remember me. When you recover your memories in the future, you will naturally know me!" Ye Xiu said. Lingbao Tianzun's current appearance was not suitable for talking about becoming an immortal. Ye Xiu did not intend to interfere with the other party's transformation into the mortal world. He left after saying this.

"What a strange person. He recognizes my past self. It's inexplicable!" The young man muttered when he saw Ye Xiu disappear, and then continued to meditate with his eyes closed.

Ye Xiu would naturally not leave. He also had a technique like the Eternal Dream in his hands, but he had not yet reached that stage.

To touch the eternal dream, one must have the body of a mortal immortal to attempt it. Only mortal immortals have a long lifespan and do not have to worry about the invasion of time. They can spend tens of thousands of years walking that path.

Because it is very likely that a dream will last for tens of thousands of years. If the life span is not enough, he will never wake up and end up in the dream. Although Ye Xiu has now lived out his fourth life and is on the road to the Red Dust Country, he has not yet become a Red Dust Immortal. The life span of each life is limited, which does not support him to try to dream forever.

According to his calculations, as long as he successfully achieved Nirvana and lived out his sixth or seventh life, he would be able to become a true immortal in the mortal world, shed his mortal body, and enjoy a long life. Only then could he try it.

The Lingbao Tianzun in front of him has actually gone to this step, so Ye Xiu naturally cannot let him go. He may also have to take this step in the future. He can take this opportunity to carefully observe the path taken by Lingbao Tianzun.

According to Ye Xiu's calculations, the young man in front of him was the life in Lingbao Tianzun's dream. He practiced Taoism, had no contact with the outside world, and silently comprehended the Tao and Dharma of this life.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, more than two thousand years have passed, and the Lingbao Tianzun of this life is about to be fulfilled.

Another two thousand years passed. Lingbao Tianzun had been in a long dream, but he was not old and full of vigor. However, his eyes were confused. He tore through the void and disappeared.

Ye Xiu was surprised and hurriedly chased after him. He found that the young man had landed on an ancient star and turned into an ordinary person. His magic power seemed to have disappeared. After several years, he became a fisherman on the seashore.

Ye Xiu followed behind seriously. In this life, the young man lived to be sixty-three years old, his hair turned white, and he was finally buried in the sea while fishing, dying like an ordinary person.

However, when this short life ended, the body buried in the sea suddenly became young, and finally recovered, ending its identity as a fisherman, tearing apart the universe, and landing on another ancient planet.

In this life, he became a soldier and fought on the battlefield all his life. He eventually died on the battlefield in his fifties, with a pierced chest.

When the old soldier was buried on the battlefield and in the loess, the young man recovered again and started a new life. This time he became a teacher, lived in poverty all his life, and died in depression.

In this way, Lingbao Tianzun experienced life after life for dozens of lives, and then hundreds of lives, and spent more than 20,000 years in this world.

His identity kept changing. He experienced the vicissitudes of life, had been a beggar, had been a king, had been poor and destitute, had been rich and powerful, and had also fought in battles to conquer the world.

After more than 20,000 years, Ye Xiu had reached his old age. Lingbao Tianzun's eternal dream had not yet ended, but he was the first to give up.

Fortunately, this is his fourth life, and he could live for more than 36,000 years, but now he only has 2,000 years left to live.

That does not work!

Ye Xiu thought to himself that if he continued like this, it was very likely that Lingbao Tianzun would pass away before his eternal dream came true.

Moreover, Ye Xiu discovered that during Lingbao Tianzun's dozens of reincarnations, he had been deliberately avoiding one thing, that is, getting married and having children.

This was the subconscious of Lingbao Tianzun at work, limiting the trajectory of his eternal dream.

If it cannot be reversed, even if Lingbao Tianzun lives for the seventh life, he can only continue to cycle endlessly in the dream, and finally perish in the dream.

Perhaps this is the reason why Lingbao Tianzun did not appear in later generations. When he was on his way to the mortal world and had an eternal dream, he deliberately avoided getting married and having children, which resulted in his incomplete path in the mortal world, and thus he died in the dream.

"Let me lend you a helping hand!" Ye Xiu said secretly. If Lingbao Tianzun did not have external intervention to change his previous trajectory in his current state, he would inevitably fail.

Finally, Ye Xiu decided to help Lingbao Tianzun fulfill his eternal dream.

After making the decision, Ye Xiu took action and used his supreme magical powers to influence Lingbao Tianzun's subconscious mind in order to change the trajectory he was deliberately avoiding.

(End of this chapter)