227: Heaven's Eye! Absorbing the Power of the Celestial Immortal Dao

Su Yan Yan personally escorted Hua Zhenyu and the others out of the Daoist territory, leaving only Chen Dengming behind.

Chen Dengming keenly sensed that when Hua Zhenyu and the others were sent out, a trace of what appeared to be Dao power appeared on Su Yan Yan's body, causing fluctuations in the Human Immortal Way Power within him as well.

Then, Su Yan Yan manipulated the mist that was floating around the Heavenly Immortal Hall, and traces of time flowed through it, merging into the bodies of Hua Zhenyu and the others.

"Did this extend their lifespan, or restore it?"

Chen Dengming's heart skipped a beat.

Before long, Third Ancestor returned, his Immortal Qi fluttering, and landed gracefully in front of the hall, his bright eyes sweeping over him.

"You've already noticed your lifespan is slipping away?"

Chen Dengming was taken aback, then readily admitted, "Yes, I can vaguely sense it."

Su Yan Yan gazed intently at Chen Dengming for a moment, then said calmly.

"You have already come into contact with and mastered a portion of the Human Immortal Orthodox Lineage, possessing Human Immortal Way Power, and naturally you can also sense the existence of Immortal Celestial Dao Power. However, your ability to perceive the traces of the passage of time is not simple."

Before Chen Dengming could respond, she continued, "But it is precisely this extraordinary quality that proves you are indeed destined to be connected with my sect's Immortal Celestial Lineage. Even I myself could not have detected the passage of time back then."

Chen Dengming understood that Third Ancestor did not want to pursue his secret, and that his words were a way of showing his approval of him.

This made him feel ashamed.

In fact, he was quite poor in terms of natural talent.

The reason I can sense the passage of time is simply because I've practiced it to perfection.

Having sacrificed his life so many times, and with the Heavenly Immortal Hall secretly stealing his lifespan, if he still couldn't detect it, then he wouldn't be Chen Baimao.

However, he still had many questions.

"I just noticed that you, Third Grandmaster, seemed to be using your Dao power to help Senior Brother Hua and the others extend their lifespan. That was...?"

A rare, beautiful smile appeared on Su Yan Yan's lips, which bore a beautiful mole. She shook her head and smiled faintly.

"You're too naive. How could I possibly grant someone extra years of life?"

Even the First Ancestor only possessed the power to deprive, not the power to bestow. That already involved the most profound and supreme principle of the Immortal Celestial Lineage, namely, "[The Way of Heaven, which takes from the surplus and gives to the deficiency]."

She paused, glanced at the puzzled Chen Dengming with her beautiful eyes, and said calmly, "I was just returning their lost lifespan to them. It was just a test. We can't let them lose their lifespan within the Daoist Land without realizing it."

Upon hearing this, Chen Dengming suddenly realized, but then asked doubtfully, "Third Grandmaster, we were just standing at the entrance for a while, and we hadn't even entered the Heavenly Immortal Hall yet, but you judged that we had completed the test."

Is this test really just to see who can sense the passage of time?

"No, that's not it."

Su Yan Yan turned her gaze to the Heavenly Immortal Hall, concealing the surprise in her eyes, and said, "I have said before that when I first came here, I could not even perceive the passage of time, so how could I use that as a standard of judgment?"

In fact, the various images that arose in your minds when you first saw the Heavenly Immortal Hall already indicate that you have come into contact with the Immortal Celestial Lineage.

Only you, your mind did not generate any images, but instead saw through illusions and pointed directly to the essence, yet you truly came into contact with the Immortal Celestial Lineage.

It can only be said that your understanding of the orthodox tradition is more profound.

"Third Grandmaster, you flatter me."

Chen Dengming said modestly.

In fact, according to the views of certain schools of thought from his previous life, he was in a state of idealism just now, investigating things to gain knowledge, believing that nothing exists outside of his mind.

Heaven's will is my will, and my will is Heaven's will.

While the Immortal Celestial Lineage is indeed powerful and lofty, even if one understands it, one cannot yet access, control, or bewitch its true nature.

What do you mean by the collapse of the heavens and the cracking of the earth, or the drying up of the seas and the crumbling of rocks?

Whether it's brilliant sunshine or gentle spring rain, it's all part of the Heavenly Dao cycle.

It's impossible to say which side is right or wrong.

All of these have the potential to occur simply because they exist.

But Chen Dengming remained calm and indifferent, observing the dawn when he opened his eyes and the dusk when he closed them.

Even with eyes closed, it's dawn; with eyes open, it's dusk.

The world can be turned upside down in the blink of an eye; my heart is the heart of heaven.

This embodies the spiritual inheritance of the Human Immortal Orthodox Lineage, yet it also reflects the ultimate truth that leads to the same goal through different paths. It is connected to the impartial philosophy of the Immortal Celestial Lineage, which holds that "Heaven and Earth are ruthless, treating all things as straw dogs."

Therefore, his potential in the Immortal Celestial Lineage was able to stand out from the crowd, because he had truly come close to the supreme principles of the Celestial Immortal Dao.

Others, whether they have visions of divine punishment or boundless divine grace in their minds, only have a partial and incomplete understanding.

Su Yan Yan added, "You don't need to be modest; your performance has indeed exceeded my expectations."

Actually, the other people's qualifications are not bad either. For example, Hua Zhenyu and Tan Siyan, if they were in the same cohorts hundreds of years ago, they could also have been selected as Longevity Seed.

Hua Zhenyu's qualifications and potential are no less than those of your Uncle Xing.

Unfortunately, resources are limited, and only one Longevity Seed can be selected each time.

Chen Dengming was surprised, but then he understood.

Geniuses with exceptional talent are not like cabbages; they don't just appear out of nowhere.

It may take hundreds of years to cultivate just one.

Therefore, many of the seventeen Longevity Seed selected by the Longevity Sect were not necessarily much better than Hua Zhenyu in terms of aptitude, and some were even worse.

Among these Longevity Seed, those who can ultimately break through to the Nascent Soul and become an Ancestor are extremely rare.

After all, even Longevity Seed have cultivation bottlenecks.

Su Yan Yan pointed to the Heavenly Immortal Hall, "Alright, you can go into the Heavenly Immortal Hall now."

If you can successfully grasp even a Longevity Seed of Immortal Celestial Dao Power, you will truly become a long-lived being, able to regenerate your lost lifespan on its own. The wonders of this are for you to comprehend yourself."

Chen Dengming was slightly taken aback.

Is it really that easy to enter the Heavenly Immortal Hall and obtain Dao power?

This felt much easier than when he had gone through countless hardships and life-or-death battles to obtain the Human Immortal Orthodox Lineage.

However, considering the various difficulties and hardships involved in selecting Longevity Seed...

From accumulating experience and achieving the merit of obtaining the Golden Elixir to competing and vying for it, the difficulty of obtaining it is already very high.

People like Hua Zhenyu, despite decades of painstaking effort and exceptional talent, still failed.

In the blink of an eye, more than a decade has passed, and he has gone from a lowly Rogue Cultivator who had to fawn over the disciples of the Longevity Sect on Turtle Snake Peak to a high-ranking member of the Longevity Sect.

The naive thoughts of the old ancestor who once endured hardship to the Longevity Sect.

It seems that we are now gradually moving towards success.

"Third Grandmaster, I would like to ask another question: Now that I have obtained the Human Immortal Orthodox Lineage, can I also obtain the Immortal Celestial Lineage?"

Before entering the Heavenly Immortal Hall, Chen Dengming paused and asked another question.

Su Yan Yan smiled.

Perhaps because Chen Dengming had been selected Longevity Seed and his status was completely different, her attitude seemed to become more amiable, and she smiled.

"You're quite cautious. Don't worry, while it's rare in the Cultivation World to have obtained two different lineages, it's not unheard of."

After all, we are still far from achieving the Dao, and whether it is appropriate or necessary to give it up is still up in the air.

Even among the senior Dao-cultivators, there were many who practiced both the Dao and the Ghost Dao in the past. The most famous of them all was Ksitigarbha Your Majesty, who practiced both the Earth and Ghost Dao.

"Ksitigarbha Your Majesty... the one who created the eighty-one Yin Springs?"

"You know quite a lot. It was him, but now, he's a legend."

Watched by Su Yan Yan, Chen Dengming entered the spacious and magnificent Heavenly Immortal Hall.

It felt like entering a land of giants, making me realize how insignificant I was.

The extremely high and wide dome of the Heavenly Immortal Hall seems to truly rival the heavens.

At the center of the dome, there is a circular crystal, shrouded in wisps of blue mist, radiating surging power and emitting rays of azure light, as if it were the Heavenly Dao Power, bathing the entire palace in myriad blue rays.

As Chen Dengming felt the blue Dao power emanating from above, he felt his lifespan draining away even faster. His lifespan flowed out, turning into a thin mist that surged into the crystal above.

Unlike the Human Immortal Orthodox Lineage, their Dao power is manifested in Silver Dao Script.

Heavenly Immortal Hall, there were no Daoist inscriptions; the Daoist power existed only in the crystal above, which resembled the blue sky.

Chen Dengming recalled his experience of obtaining the Human Immortal Orthodox Lineage. It was through years of martial arts accumulation that he was able to unlock the code of the Human Immortal Orthodox Lineage in a state of Unity of Heaven and Man, and only then was he able to come into contact with and inherit the power of the Dao.

The Immortal Celestial Lineage clearly doesn't rely on martial arts or fighting, but rather on a spiritual realm, which coincides with the Heart Inheritance in the Human Immortal Orthodox Lineage.

However, the realm of the mind also comes in many forms, and there are many different State of Mind.

There are those who are detached from emotions, those who are indifferent, those who are self-centered, those who are idealistic, those who are materialistic, and so on.

The Heart Inheritance of the Human Immortal Orthodox Lineage can help him simulate and approximate various State of Mind states.

The power of the mind is limitless!

Chen Dengming understood immediately.

He sat cross-legged in the center of the hall, imagining himself as the heavens, and the heavens as himself.

My heart is the heart of Heaven!

In an instant.

He State of Mind to have entered a state of boundless vastness, coldness, and immensity.

Incomparably indifferent and calm, vast enough to contain all things, it both looks down from above and treats all things equally.

He is already in a state of 'heavenly heart'.

At this moment, the blue light containing Dao power hanging down from the dome was no longer flowing on its own, but gradually separated into parts.

Like a tributary, it surged towards Chen Dengming, and extraordinary, surging Dao power flowed into his body.

The moment Chen Dengming opened his eyes.

What burst forth from his eyes was no longer the silvery radiance of Human Immortal Way Power, but rather, like a vortex, drawing in blue Immortal Celestial Dao Power into his eyes.

With the blessing of the Dao, his gaze seemed to see the traces of time passing through the air, and to see his own Life Force dissipating.

His gaze, almost tangible, pierced through the Heavenly Immortal Hall, rising higher and higher until it looked down upon Su Yan Yan Heavenly Immortal Hall.

Heavenly Eye!

The other person noticed his 'gaze' almost simultaneously.

The moment she looked up at him, a blue light appeared in her beautiful eyes.

One looked down, the other looked up.

Their eyes met, as if space itself had shifted.

They weren't at different levels, but rather seemed to be looking at each other as completely equals.

Absolute equality.

Just as Heaven treats all things on Earth equally.

As a result, Chen Dengming felt no pressure from the Nascent Soul Cultivator at all.

Instead, they can treat each other with indifference and observe each other with an equal mindset.

In that instant, a series of insights and images suddenly appeared in his mind.

The scene depicted Su Yan Yan refining and absorbing the Immortal Celestial Dao Power.

The information in this image was clearly the message he had inadvertently stolen from the other person's mind in the Longevity Hall.

He couldn't understand it at the time.

But now, in his Tianxin state, he can easily analyze messages into various images, which are then transmitted in his mind for him to understand.

Heavenly Immortal Hall, Chen Dengming followed Su Yan Yan and began refining and absorbing the power of the Immortal Celestial Lineage.

As wisps of blue Immortal Celestial Dao Power descended from the dome, he quickly absorbed them, and his previously depleted lifespan was restored.

But soon, this separated force of Dao, like a tributary, gradually thinned out.

Chen Dengming also gradually felt a sense of wanting to do something but being unable to.

He had reached that State of Mind.

However, his Strength Realm seem to be quite lacking, and he can no longer absorb more Immortal Celestial Dao Power.

However, during this process, he also gained a clear understanding of the Immortal Celestial Lineage of the Longevity Sect, and knew exactly in which aspects the power of this Immortal Celestial Lineage was strong.

Unlike the Immortal Celestial Lineage of the Tiandao Sect, it is mainly reflected in its ability to borrow the power of Heavenly Might and Heavenly Punishment to unleash the destructive aspect of the Heavenly Dao Power.

The Immortal Celestial Lineage of the Longevity Sect helps people cultivate their character and mind. By using their Dao power, they can perceive the passage of time, adjust and balance the relationship between humans and the universe, and slow down the passage of their own lifespan. As their understanding deepens and their Dao power increases, they can even gradually live as long as the heavens.

In short, the Immortal Celestial Lineage of the Longevity Sect cannot directly help people increase their lifespan, but it can regulate and prolong life through the 'monitoring' of the passing of lifespan using Dao power.

For example, if a person suffers a severe injury, their vital energy is greatly depleted, and their lifespan will naturally be reduced accordingly.

This reduction is something that ordinary people cannot perceive or precisely compensate for.

However, Longevity Seed can quickly replenish this loss and restore their damaged lifespan by relying on their Dao power.

"This is considered the main function of the Longevity Sect 'Immortal Celestial Lineage. A person's lifespan, which normally depletes over time, cannot be compensated for by Dao power."

However, lifespan lost through abnormal means, such as injuries in combat or deviations in cultivation, can be compensated for by Dao power, thus gradually extending one's lifespan. This is probably why the Longevity Sect advocates a life of non-contention and avoidance of violence.

After pondering this for a while, Chen Dengming felt somewhat bored.

Admittedly, compared to others who cannot prolong their lives through other practices, having such a method for achieving longevity is already a divine gift, something everyone dreams of.

Even the ability to observe the passage of time can help people discover patterns and find the most suitable Dharma Gate for health and longevity in all aspects of life, such as clothing, food, housing, and transportation. It is intuitive and effective.

But for Chen Dengming, these were all useless.

Observing the traces of time only has a slight effect on the subtle aspects.

In terms of intuitiveness, it still can't compare to the clarity and directness of his panel.

However, the Dao power bestowed by this Immortal Celestial Lineage is not entirely without other auxiliary abilities.

The abilities such as the Heavenly Eye, Heavenly Heart Realm, and those that Su Yan Yan demonstrated in her mind, which can enhance the control of the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, are all very powerful auxiliary skills.

"Leaving aside lifespan, the Heavenly Eye can help me ignore the obstacles of certain Formation or things, directly see through illusions, and understand the essence."

Or it can be used to secretly observe the enemy from a great distance, making it even more covert and undetectable to those without Daoist power.

"The Heavenly Heart Realm allows me to ignore the spiritual power of cultivators at higher realms, making it difficult for enemies to invade my mind and find weaknesses. Furthermore, I can use the Heavenly Heart Realm to strike my enemies; under the Heavenly Heart Realm, the mortal mind is hard to resist."

"As for the final step of being able to manipulate the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi on a larger scale and in a better way, that still needs further research."

After summarizing his findings, Chen Dengming's previous feeling of boredom disappeared.

I feel that I have actually benefited a great deal from the Immortal Celestial Lineage of the Longevity Sect.

That's already the case, what more could you ask for? You should be satisfied.

Moreover, he was already Longevity Seed, having obtained the Immortal Celestial Lineage. His lifespan would only increase over the years, and he would never die, which could explain and conceal his own secret of being able to prolong his life through cultivation.

Chen Dengming stood up and walked out of the Heavenly Immortal Hall.

Outside the hall, Su Yan Yan looked over with a strange expression, then calmly said with his hands behind his back.

"You are indeed extraordinary, able to absorb a stream of Dao power so quickly. When you reach the Golden Core and Nascent Soul in the future, your achievements will likely surpass ours, and you may even have the chance to obtain the complete Dao lineage."

Chen Dengming asked in surprise, "A complete lineage of Daoist teachings?"

Is this just empty talk, or a sudden burst of ambition?

Given the Longevity Sect's aloof and non-competitive attitude, how could they possibly annex the Tiandao Sect and obtain the complete Immortal Celestial Lineage?

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