Hidden Corner

 Chapter 611611Truth Three

 How to explore the truth, transcend records, and experience it personally.

 This is Obansi's sincere advice.

Although he is only a ninth-level mage, his ontological consciousness has already reached an extremely broad level.

  Rather than saying that he is the strongest mage, he is the strongest scholar, and his attainments in knowledge are far stronger than those in magic.

Li Chengyi left the White Tower, followed the advice of his friends, and began to measure the earth step by step.

 He returned to Black Castle, and from there, using it as a starting point, he moved step by step along a road that few people had traveled.

 There is no purpose, just eat and sleep in the open air, feel nature, feel the sky, and feel all things.

Time has lost its meaning here, only the changes of all things are like writing, imprinted in his mirror-like Yuan Shen Sword Palace.

On the floor, ceiling, and four walls of the palace, among the biographical texts about the Human-Faced Yuan Shenjian, densely packed patterns began to appear.

Following the pace, Li Chengyi kept changing his identity and appearance. Sometimes he was a traveler and sometimes he was a mercenary.

Although he can use the strengthening of Yuanshen Sword Palace to maintain his strength with flames, it is meaningless and is not his original intention.

Snowflakes were falling on his face, but the wrinkles on his face and the white hair on his head quickly faded away, transforming into a young and handsome appearance.

 He recalled in his mind everything he had experienced.

Thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye.

 Industries and skills, in practice, they quickly merged from simple memorization of knowledge into skills that he thoroughly mastered.

Li Chengyi is no longer as young and handsome as he once was, wrinkles appear on his body, and the changes of time have left deep marks on his skin.

"I once thought I had reached the pinnacle of life, but you made me understand that I was far from reaching the final pinnacle." Obensi is already very old.

 The birth, aging, illness and death of life, natural changes, are also part of the principle of all things.

 “There’s still a little missing.” Li Chengyi murmured softly.

 Two years later, his two sons were born together.

Sometimes he is a temporary hawker accompanying the caravan, sometimes he is an ordinary craftsman living in a different place.

"Nothing is eternal." Obensi and Li Chengyi walked side by side. "All things are interdependent, interconnected and influence each other. If there is influence, there will be changes. Only by abandoning all influences and connections can we achieve eternity. But That would be like an invisible person among all things, no longer able to interact with all things, so what’s the point of living like that?”

 A white-haired old man in ragged clothes quietly let go of his crutches and looked up at the sky above him.

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Black Castle·Garden.

 Fifteen years have passed in the blink of an eye.

 On the earth, there is a towering snow-capped mountain top.

 During the exchange with Li Chengyi, he also grew rapidly and became wiser.

His body was also weakening, but he did not prevent this natural change.

 It is called "The Book of the White Tower".

 Time passes slowly.

It took him fifteen years to leave, but only five days to return.

"what exactly is it.?"

Li Chengyi became the undefeated Carlos again, but this time, his body also changed with time and continued to age.

Obensi did not continue speaking, but turned his eyes to a piece of white flowers that were withering in the distance.

 He stopped still, turned around, and took out a thick brown book from his robe.

“The peak of the White Tower has reached its end. Everything has its own end. This is the case for me, and the same is true for the White Tower and the Empire.”

“That’s right. What’s missing is my complete life as a human being.”

At this moment, Feng Xue was driven out of a vacuum channel, as if she was afraid of his running.

 After understanding this, Li Chengyi no longer hesitated and turned around to return in the direction of Black Fort.

 Return to Black Castle.

 At the same time, the sword furnace flame in Li Chengyi's mind finally took a step further and began to extend to cover more space.

 Suddenly, an inexplicable feeling came to my mind.

 Following natural emotional cultivation, he married a granddaughter of Obensi and formed a new family.

 In this world, a world with extremely powerful restrictions, aging is also a part of the changes in living beings. It is extremely difficult and costly to prevent it.

 As the years go by, time flies.

After experiencing the life of the old man, at this time in his Yuanshen Sword Palace, a large number of rich flames filled almost all the spaces, but there was only one empty space about the size of a human head, which could not be completely filled or ignited.

 After living in a place as a scholar for a few years, you may also become a clothing maker and open a clothing and hat shop to live a peaceful life.

 Under the moonlight, flowers are in full bloom on the path between the gardens.

He leapt down from the top of the snow-capped mountain, his figure was like lightning, and his terrifying qualities that were at least thirty times that of the Milton Knight were fully revealed at this moment.

 It was an unbound and unprinted book, and the cover had traces of handwriting.

"Yes. The root of influence lies in contact, whether tangible or invisible. If you want eternity, you can only cut off all contact. But that is not what we are pursuing." Li Chengyi also held a crutch in his hand.

“I hope you can help me pass this book on. I have recorded all my insights in it.”

 “I will.” Li Chengyi nodded. "Are you leaving?"

"Yes. Even the strongest mage, the ninth-level apex, can only live for a few hundred years at most. I don't want to change the nature of my life. The upper limit of all things should be his destiny."

Obenxi murmured and walked forward step by step. With his back to this side, he waved to Li Chengyi.

 “Hope we can see each other again.”

Watching the other party leave, Li Chengyi nodded lightly.

 Now he is nearly fifty years old and is no longer young.

Hold the book in his hand, he knew that he might never see the most powerful mage in the empire again.

 “Father.” A steady male voice came from behind.

Li Chengyi turned around and saw his eldest son, Bello, walking quickly towards him wearing a lord's robe.

"As for the elves, the Imperial Army has sent us a request for a joint battle and strangulation. The person who came to lead the team this time is Earl Phillips."

 “I have passed on the position of lord to you, and all decisions are yours to make.”

Li Chengyi no longer wants to get involved in everything in the territory.

 He can already clearly feel the aging of his body.

 The strength was retreating and weakening, but he did not stop it. The elves and barbarians who were once frightened by him are now beginning to tentatively try to invade the territory's borders again.

 But he no longer cares about these.

Hands on crutches, Li Chengyi turned around and left the garden with his son's helplessness.

 Time continues to pass.

 The elves' invasion was quickly repulsed under the suppression of the coalition forces. But the invasion of barbarians is not so easy to solve. The Sola Empire experienced its first real defeat.

　　A large legion of 50,000 people was assembled. In the battle with the barbarian combined army of hundreds of tribes, the strategy failed, resulting in the death of twelve glorious knights of the empire and the death of three eighth-level mages from exhaustion.

Although it also caused more than 50% of the casualties of the barbarians, the situation of losing both sides caused the strength of both humans and barbarians to be greatly reduced.

 It also gives opportunities to the elves hiding in the dark.

 The years continue to pass, twenty years later.

 The Sola Empire is getting weaker and weaker. The strongest level nine mage has never appeared again. The White Tower has become the strongest level eight, and there is only one new mage.

 The imperial army became increasingly corrupt, obsessed with enjoying power, and the royal family no longer had any enterprising spirit.

 At this time, Li Chengyi was already over seventy years old.

 His grandsons were born one after another, and even his grandsons started to start families.

The once undefeated Carlos, now his physical fitness has dropped to one-fifth of what it was at its peak.

Although it is still powerful, it is no longer as unattainable as before.

 At least the Barbarian King can see the hope of catching up.

At this time, Li Chengyi has gradually realized that he belongs to people, his own group, and everything about himself.

 He began to often sit alone on the terrace on the top floor of the Black Castle, staring at the stars in a daze.

 No one knows what he is thinking.

 Two years later.

Melissa passed away.

Li Chengyi, who was in his seventies, was beside her, watching her quietly, watching her trembling lips, wanting to say something last, but in the end she said nothing.

Melissa held his hand tightly, staring at him with her cloudy eyes, with the last tenderness and nostalgia, and then she lost her strength slightly.

 “Mother, this is the fate of all things.”

Li Chengyi said softly.

 Behind him are his two sons and his wife, as well as a number of descendants of the family.

 Carlos the Stag, once the undefeated symbol of the empire, is now old.

Gently letting go of his hand, Li Chengyi stood up, turned around and walked out of the ward.

 He seemed to understand something in a daze.

 When life comes to an end, the part belonging to consciousness also weakens and disappears.

The only thing left in reality are the traces she left behind.

 All things are changing, and life and death are also part of it.

 Consciousness and memory also have life and death. What has existed will pass away with the wind, and what does not exist will also come with the wind.

“I seem to understand.” Li Chengyi looked at Old Buck who was approaching slowly not far away.

He is also very old, and his back is no longer as straight as it once was, but his eyes are still the same, even more pure and refined than before.

“All things are gathering matter, and so is consciousness.”

“Aggregation brings essence, essence brings purity. Purity can sublimate and transcend new realms that have never been touched before.”

 At this moment, all the flames in Yuanshen Sword Palace suddenly surged.

The firelight completely filled the last gap and completely filled the entire palace.

 At this moment.

 The moment when the flame completely fills everything.

 A little new fire appeared inside the core sword furnace.

Countless learning, knowledge, and understanding belonging to Li Chengyi turned into a torrent of wisdom and were quickly absorbed by that little bit of white-gold flame.

 The invisible flow of information even turns into substantial colorful threads here, converging from all directions to one point.

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Cracks began to appear on the walls of Yuanshen Sword Palace.

Countless cracks spread rapidly and fragments fell.

 Boom!

 Suddenly, the entire palace collapsed completely. It turned into countless white light spots and flew away.

 Outside the palace is an infinite dark space.

The light spots scatter like light bulbs, illuminating areas in the darkness.

 In the darkness, the earth is illuminated, mountains, rivers, and oceans emerge one after another, and rivers and forests follow one after another.

These are the imagination of Li Chengyi's wisdom and are not entities.

 ‘When your insights are enough to reconstruct a new world similar to the outside world, that’s when you ignite the divine fire. ’

The words of Senior Brother Tianjuge once again appeared in Li Chengyi's heart at this moment.

 In the space of conscious imagination, a world that is very similar to the outside world is rapidly reappearing.

 Nature emerged quickly, followed closely by living beings.

 Wild creatures and intelligent creatures, under Li Chengyi’s huge consciousness, pieces of creatures continue to appear in this world of conscious imagination like embellishments.

　　I don’t know how much time has passed.

 Maybe it’s a hundred years, maybe it’s a few minutes.

  Time loses its meaning in consciousness and depends only on the speed of thinking.

Li Chengyi's eyes suddenly flashed with a flash of white gold.

 The world in his mind, at this moment, slowly overlapped and superimposed with the outside world, almost becoming one.

　　Boom! !

 At this moment, a huge vibration surged in his heart.

 ‘Sacred fire.’ He suddenly understood in his heart.

At this moment, letting nature take its course, he finally entered the realm of divine fire.

At the same moment, Carlos Okla, who walked out of the ward, also slowly stopped breathing in the wind and snow.

 He maintained his posture of looking up at the sky and did not move for a long time.

 By the time his descendants found out, it was already too late.

Everything that belonged to Carlos ended here, but the consciousness that belonged to Li Chengyi left his body at this moment and flew towards the sky.

 Countless new flesh and blood are naturally born in the air, gathering into a brand new body.

 (End of this chapter)