Chapter 1829 — Five Paragons of the Dao Academy
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Zhu Santong had already selected his next life, and the crone, the matron, and the young maid each stepped forward in turn to choose their own future incarnations. Shen Fengqing was exceedingly good to them, letting them choose their race and family station as they pleased, without ever growing impatient.
Old Dong Yang watched carefully and, finding no sign that Shen Mu was up to any mischief, finally set his mind at ease and stepped forward to choose the family circumstances of his next life. Once the five had made their choices, they began to dissolve away their cultivation and their Dao attainment.
When Dao Ascenders dissolve their Dao, the matter is naturally not a small one — and all the more so for these five, who were no ordinary Dao Ascenders; every one of them could be called a colossus of the prehistoric cosmos!
As their Dao fruits burst open, their Dao trees shattered, their flesh dissolved, and their primordial spirits dispersed, transforming into the great Dao of heaven and earth, into spiritual energy and spiritual qi, the sky over the Yuan Realm suddenly turned dense with spiritual qi and spiritual force. It gathered into clouds, the clouds congealed into seas, and the cloud-seas swelled and climbed ever higher.
Soon dazzling stars appeared in the sky, one after another, radiant beyond measure; the stars rose higher, and their numbers grew greater and greater. By nightfall, several rivers of stars had been added to the sky of the Yuan Realm, spanning it from north to south and east to west, so that every corner of the Yuan Realm's nights shone as though beneath a full moon. There even fell a torrential downpour formed of spiritual force and spiritual energy that lasted for years upon years — yet what people found strange was that the rain never touched the ground, dissolving away in midair!
Every corner of the Yuan Realm was now like a grotto-heaven or a blessed land: every divine mountain could be called a holy ground, every tree and flower and blade of grass could count as a spirit herb, and every river brimmed with a suffocating opulence of spiritual qi!
Having weathered the Heavenly Court's war of conquest, the Yuan Realm had suffered a grievous loss of its vital essence and had never yet recovered — but the dissolution of the five Dao Ascenders caused the Yuan Realm to surpass even what it had been before! "Honored Dao brothers.
" Shen Mu looked at the souls of Dong Yang, Zhu Santong, and the others floating before him, and bowed. "I ask you now to enter the cycle of reincarnation and complete your rebirths.
" The five souls returned the courtesy and said, "We thank the Seventh Young Master for granting us a chance to begin anew! " With that, the five souls flew toward the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel.
The Six Paths Heavenly Wheel turned of its own accord, and before long the five souls vanished into the cycle of reincarnation, leaving no trace behind. Shen Fengqing looked up at the river of stars that the gathered spiritual energy had formed in the sky, clicked his tongue in astonishment, and suddenly burst out, "Wicked little brother, the Dao attainments of these five are truly formidable!
If they cannot awaken their past-life memories, what a pity that would be.
And if they are reborn poorly, with mediocre aptitudes, I fear they will sink back into the common herd. " Shen Mu said, "So long as they learn the way of reincarnation, they can still recover the memories of their former lives.
Did Lan Yutian not recover the memories of the Imperial Heavenly Venerable? " "Blue Fatty's intelligence and insight are not granted to just anyone.
" Shen Fengqing shook his head.
"In all the world, how many could achieve what he did? " "The Jingping Reform exists precisely to turn the impossible into the possible. " Shen Mu smiled.
"Three hundred years ago, who in Jingping could cultivate to the Divine Realm? Today the Divine Realm is no longer beyond the reach of divine ability practitioners.