I have a relic of heaven

Chapter 158 Yuanshi’s guidance: This life comes first

After much anticipation, he finally came out.

"Little guy, what's the matter again?"

Zhou Mu's thoughts, who were observing the Taoist Palace, the Heavenly Lord, the Heavenly Gods and the Big Meat Bone from the perspective of the little Roaring Sky Dog, were forcibly pulled into this period of ancient times.

There are no strange sights, no bizarre things, no stirring of the long river of time, no vicissitudes of time flowing,

He just crossed billions of years like this, from the end of the era to the beginning of the era.

The middle-aged Taoist stood outside the Yuding Taoist Palace, in front of the large bluestone slab. There were myriads of flowing clouds above his head, seventy-two colors of light behind him, and a dark color all around him, making it difficult to see clearly.

He held Zhou Mu's ignorant thoughts in one hand, and slowly reached into the void with the other.
Zhou Mu looked and saw a coffin in the void.

The coffin was opened, and the young Taoist lying inside, whose body was made of wood and stone, jumped out so cleanly and neatly.

The thought merged and the Taoist opened his eyes.

"Senior Yuanshi." Zhou Mu hurriedly bowed to the middle-aged Taoist priest, and without waiting for the Taoist priest to ask any questions, he told him everything that had happened.

From meeting Li Jing, the Heavenly King of the Pagoda, to what happened before and after Luquan, to the bronze ship and the forest of corpses he saw when he was peeking into Mu Yu's future,

Not a single word of the conversation with Lingbao Daojun was missed.

The faint smile on the middle-aged Taoist's face disappeared.

He pondered for a moment, then raised his head and looked towards the sky, towards the vast thirty-six layers of heaven. The infinite universe was all within his sight.
And the majestic heaven that stretches across the boundless Milky Way can also be seen clearly.

He gazed indifferently at an emperor sitting in the highest sky. The other party seemed to be aware of something and stared at him, but could see nothing.

The middle-aged Taoist said calmly:
"Fellow Daoist Yuhuang, you are indeed restless."

In the Taoist's hand, a jade ruyi stained with black blood appeared. He gently stroked the blood stains on it that could not be wiped off and contained the vast [Black Tide].
Talk to yourself:

"No wonder."

"I see."

Zhou Mu was confused and couldn't help asking:

"Senior, what's so strange?"

The Taoist shook his head, tapped Zhou Mu's head gently, and said with a smile:
"Knowing too much is not good for you. For some things, the more you understand, the more likely the Supreme Beings concerned will understand you."

"If you don't have enough cultivation, it's better to be an unknown person."

Zhou Mu seemed to be thinking about something. The Supreme Senior had also said this to him. The more he knew, the more likely it was that some creatures would know him.

Then, what exactly am I?
Seeing that the Taoist didn't seem depressed by these things, he plucked up the courage to ask his puzzled question:

"Senior Yuanshi."

After they had a formal ceremony, Zhou Mu asked:
"Who am I?"

The middle-aged Taoist looked at him in surprise:

"Why do you ask that?"

Zhou Mu swallowed his saliva:
"Am I the reincarnation of some divine being?"

After asking this question, he felt a chill in his heart, and his thoughts turned complicated. He thought of the three remaining shackles deep in his mind.
I remembered the foggy memories that seemed to be sealed in the shackles - if I were really the reincarnation of some ancient god,
If, under those shackles, are the memories and past of that ancient god.

When the shackles are removed, will he be Zhou Mu or the great ancient god?

Are you still yourself?
When Zhou Mu thought about it, he felt a little suffocated.

Taoist Yuanshi stared at this reckless, unmannered, almost unrestrained little fellow and laughed:
"And innately sacred? That's a nice thought."

Zhou Mu just breathed a sigh of relief, but the Taoist's tone changed again:
"But you do have some minor problems. You are you, but you are not just you."

Zhou Mu's heart was completely chilled.

He didn't think that this great senior couldn't see the shackles deep in his mind. He hesitated for a moment before asking:
"Senior, is it related to the shackles in my mind?"

"Indeed." The Taoist nodded quietly.

Zhou Mu pursed his lips and continued to ask:
"There are three questions left on the shackles, which are who the Three Emperors are. I answered [Fuxi], [Shennong], and [Xuanyuan], but I didn't get it right, or not all of it right."

The Taoist seemed to be able to see through Zhou Mu's past and said with a smile:

"Fuxi is not just Fuxi, Shennong is not just Shennong, and as for Xuanyuan, as you know before, Emperor Ku, one of the Five Emperors of the Human Race, is also Emperor Jun of the First Epoch."

"They were all other living beings first, and then Fuxi and Shennong."

"But as to who exactly it is, it's a mystery as it involves the Supreme Being."

The speech is over.

Zhou Mu was silent for a long time, took a deep breath, and clenched his fist:
"Senior, then who am I?"

The middle-aged Taoist lowered his eyes and thought.

for a long time.

"I didn't expect you to be so eager to get to the bottom of it."

The Taoist priest sat cross-legged on the large bluestone slab without any dignity, and spoke in a calm and distant tone:

"Little guy, are you worried that when the other you wakes up, you won't be yourself anymore?"

"Yes." Zhou Mu nodded frankly.

The Taoist seemed a little puzzled:

"But in fact, you are him, and he is you."

"Senior, this is different." Zhou Mu lowered his eyes. He didn't know who he was in his previous life, or in the previous life before that, or even more lives before that.

But in this life, I can touch the ruins of heaven, which is inseparable from them.

The ruins of heaven should have been a blessing for 'him'.

He is him, and I am myself.

Zhou Mu doesn't want to be anyone's reincarnation, he just wants to be himself.

Taoist Yuanshi stared at Zhou Mu for a long time.

Then he laughed and said:
"It is not impossible not to take advantage of the ready-made benefits."

Zhou Mu, who was looking depressed, suddenly perked up and said respectfully and carefully:

"Senior, can you help me?"

"No."

The Taoist shook his head at first, then smiled and said:

"Now that you know that I am suppressing fellow Taoist Jade Emperor - in fact, there is also the majestic Buddha, how can I spare a hand to help you?"

After a pause, His smile faded:
"Besides, have you ever thought about why I, or the Three Pure Ones, would help you?"

Zhou Mu was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a long time, he spoke:
"I do not know."

"But I know that there is no help without reason in this world. Maybe it's because I had good relations with my predecessors in my previous life, or..."

"Senior Yuanshi, or even Senior Taishang, have a request for me, or are of use to me." Zhou Mu looked calm.

The middle-aged Taoist laughed:

"You are quite outspoken?"

He was not angry, but said: "It is too early for you to talk about your past and present lives now."

"Although I can't spare any effort, if you have enough cultivation in the future, I will consider our affinity and go with the flow. It's not impossible."

Zhou Mu was stunned and swallowed his saliva:
"What do you mean, senior?"

The Taoist stared at him:
"You don't want to be just a reincarnation."

"Then wait until you have gained enough cultivation."

"Is it inconvenient to ask your past life to become your future life?"

This was a very confusing sentence, and Zhou Mu didn't react for a long time, and then he suddenly realized it.

He said softly:

"You mean"

"Confusing the cause with the effect?"

The middle-aged Taoist nodded approvingly:
"Of course."

Zhou Mu suddenly realized.

indeed.

Judging from the current situation, I was indeed a remarkable person in one of my past lives - and I am his reincarnation.

Normally, there is a past life before there is this life.

But if we can reverse the cause and effect
If in the future, I become powerful enough, why can't this life come first and then the previous life?

All he had to do was cross the years and go to the past - isn't that what he is doing now?
Cause and effect, it is not impossible for the original [effect] to become the original [cause].

Just like the tomb of Yuanshi.

It was clearly a location that he chose at random, but the tomb really appeared many years ago.

So, was the tomb there first, or did you choose the location first?

The order of cause and effect, and the sequence of things, are never irreversible.

Zhou Mu bowed deeply to the middle-aged Taoist priest with great solemnity.

The middle-aged Taoist waved his hand:

"Don't be in a hurry to thank me. That day is still a long way off. And even if that day comes, I won't help you either."

"After all, whether you are the cause or the result, you are all one person."

Zhou Mu still maintained his polite posture:
"Junior understands."

"That's enough." The middle-aged Taoist smiled and said, "You have solved my doubts. As for who you are and your three questions..."

"You'd better go and explore it yourself."

"I will not interfere in this matter. No matter how shameless you ask, I will not help you."

"And even I don't know everything. I know who Fuxi is and who Xuanyuan is, but I don't know which Taoist friend transformed Shennong."

Zhou Mu listened quietly and could roughly understand it - after all, in the eyes of Senior Yuanshi, the past life and the present life are the same person.

But for me, it's completely different.

At this moment, there is a past life before there is this life.

One day, it may be possible that this life comes before the previous life.

"Not necessarily. It couldn't be that I, Zhou Mu, came first, and then the great master from the ancient times."

Zhou Mu muttered to himself, his mind suddenly became firm, and all the previous confusion, worry, and bewilderment disappeared.

Just as Senior Yuanshi said, if it succeeded, it was because Zhou Mu was there first, and it was because of one’s own efforts that all the causes and consequences were created.

Failed.
At worst, you can become another living being, ascend to an unknown level in one step.

Maybe sacred, maybe Daluo, or maybe even higher.

Taking a deep breath, Zhou Mu calmed himself down, and at this moment.

The middle-aged Taoist smiled and said:
"Do you have anything else to do?"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Zhou Mu did not forget the fundamental purpose of his coming. He had tried many times just now, but was unable to communicate with the Xuanjin Bronze Order.

What came to this period of time was just a thought of mine.

Naturally, the Qitian plaque could not be summoned.

He bowed:
"Senior, I want to take out my true body from here, but I don't know."

"This."

The Taoist nodded slightly:

"Why not?"

He stretched out his hand and pointed in the distance, and a thought was completed. What was placed on the wood and stone became Zhou Mu's complete spiritual will and soul.

And the objects that were floating in his spiritual world and the sea of his soul naturally emerged as well.

Zhou Mu opened his hand and communicated with the black gold bronze order. The next moment, the Qi Tian plaque stored in it emerged out of thin air.

Drops of blood, secret thoughts, a phantom light shone out and turned into a portal.

Zhou Mu asked:

"Senior, can I take my elder sister to meet her mother?"

"Sister."

Except for matters involving other supreme beings, everything about Zhou Mu was extremely clear to the Taoist, so he naturally understood what he was referring to.

ponder for a moment.

The middle-aged Taoist shook his head:

"If you do this, something unexpected might happen. The Phoenix Ancestral will know who you are - and then, some fellow Taoists might also know who you are, such as fellow Taoist Jade Emperor."

"This is a disaster for you."

After a pause, He changed the subject:
"However, I haven't seen the little girl for a long time."

Zhou Mu nodded, then his expression became strange:
"My master is also in there, he is always startled."

After a pause, he rubbed his hands:
"Will you come in with me? Or shall I bring them out?"

The Taoist laughed:

"You little kid, do you have such a bad taste?"

"Master's psychological endurance is too weak. When I talk to him about many things, I am always interrupted. It is naturally good if he can improve a little bit."

Zhou Mu smiled with the utmost innocence and walked towards the illusory portal.

A certain remnant soul shuddered for no reason and had a very bad premonition.

"Who is plotting against me?"

(End of this chapter)