freenovelworld Chapter 297 Past Events (Part 1)
Chapter 297 Past Events (Part 1)
Chapter 297 Past Events (Part 1)
Feng Yu rubbed his fingers together and sighed deeply.
"Entering the Realm of Returning to Emptiness requires proving the Dao, whether through laws or other beliefs, but it cannot be separated from the self-verification of the Dao heart."
"Some people seek the Dao through emotion, some through the sword, but Feng Qiong seeks the Dao through killing. Only by severing all ties of emotion and righteousness can one attain a perfect Dao heart and step onto the Great Dao."
Bai Ke thought for a moment and asked, "Is that woman...?"
“He’s dead. He killed him himself.” Feng Yu took out the unknown longsword, stroked it lightly, and said coldly:
"After killing that woman, he also slaughtered her entire family. Afterwards, he led the Wind and Rain Tower to turn the Central Killing Domain upside down."
"He entered the Dao through killing and proved it through ruthlessness. His cultivation soared to the heavens. While I was still undergoing the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations in the Returning Void stage, he had already entered the Mahayana stage."
"If it weren't for the protection of the Tian Ce Palace, I would probably have been forcibly killed by him across the domain long ago."
"Over the years, I have cultivated desperately, using formations to enter the Dao and swords to prove the Dao, but I still cannot catch up with his pace. It has been more than a thousand years since I last entered the early stage of Mahayana."
"Killing Feng Qiong is to end the regret of our familial ties, which is my lifelong wish. But how difficult that is!"
“You told me you could help me, and I believe you. Although it will certainly take a long time, I still think you have the ability!”
Feng Yu suddenly pointed his longsword at the sky, and Bai Ke immediately felt an unparalleled aura emanating from him, as if it could cleave the heavens.
"Do you know what surprises me the most about you?" Feng Yu asked softly.
"This junior is unaware; please enlighten me, Senior Feng," Bai Ke said.
"It's your unwavering determination to reach the top, and your understanding of formations. I think, apart from the Tide Emperor, you are probably the person with the highest mastery of formations in the Mountain and Sea Realm today," Feng Yu praised.
Upon hearing this, Bai Ke chuckled to himself: This is all thanks to the education system of my great Celestial Empire!
Feng Yu mentioned the Tide Emperor, and Bai Ke had always been very curious about the identity of that shifty-eyed old man.
Whether in the previous Heavenly Palace or from Ning Fengyi's words, the name of the Tide Emperor appeared very frequently.
Bai Ke was also completely baffled by what Ning Fengyi said about Nangong Que.
This involves many secrets, and he felt that Feng Yu must know something, so he asked:
"Senior Feng, could you please introduce me to the Tide Emperor?"
"There's not much to say about him, he's just an exceptionally talented prodigy." Feng Yu seemed somewhat uninterested when the Tide Emperor was mentioned.
"Does he have some connection with my Tian Ce Palace?" Bai Ke pressed.
"Yes, he spent some time in my Tian Ce Palace when he was young."
Feng Yu scratched his thigh, thought for a moment, and then said, "Let me tell you about him. He is indeed a legendary figure in the world of mountains and seas, and he has a very good relationship with your father's master, Yue Nansheng."
Bai Ke looked like he was listening attentively. He really enjoyed listening to this kind of thing; it wasn't just stories, but also important information.
"Ahem." Feng Yu rose to a certain pose and began to recount the story of the Tide Emperor...
The title "Tide Emperor" is actually the title of the current leader of the Tide Sect. His original name was Zhao Wudi, a very common name.
Because the Tide Gate was secluded, Zhao Wudi's public identity during his travels and adventures was that of a rogue cultivator who had received the inheritance of an ancient cultivator.
At the age of sixteen, he ascended to the primordial spirit realm and distinguished himself during a secret exploration of the sea. He and the two brothers, Feng Yu and Feng Qiong, were known as the Three Heroes of the Sea.
The Feng brothers, Feng Yu and Feng Qiong, actually knew Zhao Wudi when they were young.
According to Feng Yu, Zhao Wudi has always been a mischievous and playful person since childhood, a true troublemaker.
Therefore, the free-spirited Feng Yu got along very well with Zhao Wudi, but the rather aloof Feng Qiong did not have a good relationship with Zhao Wudi.
That said, after that sea exploration, Zhao Wudi's strength and talent were also recognized by the elders of the Tide Sect at that time, and he was selected as the Tide Emperor of that generation.
The nature of the Tide Emperor's Son is similar to that of the Heavenly Strategy Saint Son of the Heavenly Strategy Palace, representing the successor of the sect.
Because of the nature of the Tide Gate, each generation of Tide Emperors is sent to major sects in the Three Domains for a period of time for exchange, which is actually a disguised form of further study.
When he was seventeen, he was assigned by the Tide Sect to Tian Ce Palace. At that time, Feng Yu's family had not yet suffered a great calamity, so Feng Yu even saw Zhao Wudi off.
Because he was a member of the Alliance's major sect, Zhao Wudi received the highest level of treatment upon arriving at Tian Ce Palace.
He had the best cultivation resources, the most complete cultivation facilities, and was personally guided in his cultivation by Venerable Tianxu.
At that time, only three people were able to enjoy the same treatment: Bai Yan and Ning Fengyi's master Yue Nansheng, Liu Ping (Grandmaster Liu), and Nangong Que.
These four people formed a four-person team because they all received teachings from Venerable Tianxu at the same time.
They cultivated together, explored together, and completed tasks assigned by their sect together. They exchanged ideas on cultivation and gradually became very good friends.
Zhao Wudi was extremely talented, reaching the Nascent Soul stage at the age of twenty-two and the Returning to Emptiness stage at the age of thirty. The other three were far inferior to him.
At the age of forty, Zhao Wudi survived the three calamities and nine tribulations of the Void Returning stage, and then chose to return to the Tide Gate.
It is worth mentioning that Zhao Wudi and Liu Ping both fell in love with the same girl, and this girl eventually chose Zhao Wudi as her Daoist partner, and then followed him to the sea.
It was precisely because of this incident that Liu Ping would always cause a ruckus whenever Zhao Wudi came to Tian Ce Palace, but the two actually had a very good relationship.
The year Zhao Wudi left, Feng Yu was rescued by Venerable Tianxu and joined the Tian Ce Palace, while Bai Yan and Ning Fengyi also became disciples of Yue Nansheng.
Of the three, Yue Nansheng had the highest talent, followed by Nangong Que, while Liu Ping had the lowest aptitude.
Thirty years later, Yue Nansheng also entered the Void Returning stage. At that time, Ning Fengyi was elected as the Holy Son of Heavenly Strategy, and Bai Yan became the Deputy Head of the Law Enforcement Hall.
In the following fifty years, Nangong Que and Liu Ping successively entered the Void Returning stage. At this time, Yue Nansheng was already in the middle stage of Void Returning and had survived one calamity and three tribulations.
It was at this time that the Divine Ruins Secret Realm, which appears only once every hundred years in the Heavenly Domain, opened, and the Heavenly Strategy Palace dispatched a team led by Yue Nansheng to explore it.
Nangong Que and Liu Ping were also in the group. The group entered the Divine Ruins Secret Realm, and things went quite smoothly at first.
However, Nangong Que later inadvertently triggered an extremely powerful ancient killing formation in the secret realm.
Once the killing formation was activated, it instantly summoned hundreds of puppets to surround and kill everyone.
With no way to avoid it, everyone was forced to fight...