I Can See Through Everything - Chapter 883

Chapter 881 Unparalleled Shock

“Ah Qing, you’ve entered the Dao Integration Realm?!”

The old Azure Dragon’s voice trembled uncontrollably, its enormous dragon eyes filled with disbelief.

It had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, witnessing countless extraordinary talents and hearing countless unbelievable tales.

But it had never imagined that one day it would be so shocked by someone’s cultivation speed that it would lose its composure.

The black bull and the phoenix also reacted, quickly sensing Lu Qing’s aura.

This sensing left them stunned.   That aura, that Daoist rhythm that merged with heaven and earth, that faint yet chilling pressure—it was undoubtedly the Dao Integration Realm!   Moreover, not just any ordinary Dao Integration Realm cultivator!   More importantly, they discovered that Lu Qing was not in his true form, but rather a divine sense clone.

A   divine sense clone!   What did this mean?   It meant that Lu Qing’s true body was far more powerful than this clone before him.   Lu Qing’s true strength was even more terrifying than they had sensed.   A divine sense clone usually possesses only a fraction of the original’s strength. Generally speaking, without the suppression of the world’s will, a clone capable of unleashing its full power, even possessing 30% of the original’s strength, is already considered extremely powerful.   Most cultivators’ divine sense clones don’t even reach 10% of the original’s strength.   Yet, this clone before them already made their hearts tremble.   Just how powerful must the original be?   What alarmed them even more was that although Lu Qing’s divine sense clone stood there without making any movement or displaying any aura, it still gave them an immense sense of oppression.   It was an instinctive feeling, as if they were facing some extremely dangerous being.   Keep in mind, they were all veteran Dao Integration Realm cultivators who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years!   The old Azure Dragon goes without saying; it had followed Guixu Daoist the longest, always by his side since Guixu Daoist was only at the Nascent Soul Realm.   Later, when Guixu Daoist entered the Transformation Realm, it rose with him, cultivating in the Guixu Secret Realm for countless millennia, its cultivation unfathomable.   Its mastery of the Dao of Space was unparalleled throughout the entire starry sky.   It can fold, compress, and distort space, unleashing all sorts of incredible supernatural powers.   The strength of Mingfeng and the Black Bull is equally extraordinary.   Mingfeng, not to mention, possesses ice-based supernatural powers capable of freezing heaven and earth.   If unleashed at full power, it could even freeze an entire world.   While the Black Bull isn’t particularly bright, its strength is the most formidable.   It doesn’t cultivate laws, only its physical body, refining its skin to be harder than a Dao artifact.   Its skin, tempered over hundreds of thousands of years, has reached an unbelievable level.   Ordinary attacks from Dao Integration Realm cultivators leave not even a white mark on it.   When it goes berserk, even the Old Azure Dragon and Mingfeng have to avoid it.   Its pair of horns are its natal magic weapons, capable of piercing through any obstacle.   Back then, even Mo Cangtian couldn’t withstand a single attack from the Black Bull, being kicked hundreds of thousands of miles away.   Any one of these three, if placed outside, would be a force to be reckoned with.   Yet now, facing a single divine thought clone of Lu Qing, they actually felt pressure.   How could this be?   Even if Lu Qing had achieved the Dao Integration Realm, he had only recently broken through.   Logically speaking, a newly awakened Dao Integration Realm cultivator, no matter how strong, shouldn’t be putting so much pressure on these veteran Dao Integration Realm cultivators.   Moreover, this was just a divine sense clone!   The difference between a Dao Integration Realm cultivator in their early stages and a seasoned Dao Integration Realm cultivator, between a divine sense clone and the main body, was immeasurable.   Yet, that pressure was real, pressing down on their hearts with unmistakable clarity.   For a moment, the old Azure Dragon, the black bull, and the Phoenix were all shaken, staring blankly at Lu Qing, speechless for a long time.   The old Azure Dragon’s whiskers trembled slightly, the Phoenix’s feathers stood on end involuntarily, and even the usually fearless black bull stared wide-eyed, not daring to breathe.   Lu Qing met their astonished gazes with a slight smile.   The smile was faint, yet it carried a hint of gentleness and composure.   ”Not long ago, I managed to break through in the Tianyuan Great World and entered the Dao Integration Realm,” Lu Qing said with a smile.   Hearing Lu Qing’s admission, even though the old Azure Dragon and the others were somewhat prepared, they couldn’t help but be greatly shocked.   A lucky breakthrough?   It sounded easy, but everyone knew the immense gap between the Nascent Soul Realm and the Dao Integration Realm.   Nascent Soul Realm cultivators comprehend the rules of heaven and earth, understanding various Daos.   When their comprehension reaches a certain level, they can attempt to fuse their divine sense with a particular Dao, thus entering the Dao Integration Realm.   This process is extremely dangerous.   Because fusing divine sense with the Great Dao is inherently defying the heavens.   A slight misstep can result in a backlash from the Great Dao; at best, it damages the divine sense and causes a regression in cultivation; at worst, it leads to complete annihilation of body and soul.   Countless exceptionally talented individuals have been stuck at the Nine Tribulations of the Nascent Soul Realm for countless years, unable to take that final step.   Countless gifted individuals have prepared for thousands or even tens of thousands of years to break through to the Dao Integration Realm, only to end up dying and their Dao fading away.   The difficulty of achieving Dao Integration is greater than ascending to heaven.   This is no empty phrase.   Mingfeng recalled its own attempt to break through to the Dao Integration realm.   It had prepared for three thousand years, comprehending its ice-elemental Dao to its fullest extent.   Under the guidance of Daoist Guixu, it repeatedly honed its divine sense, yet still narrowly escaped death.   When that heavenly tribulation descended, it thought it was going to die; it was Daoist Guixu’s intervention that allowed it to barely survive.   The black bull also recalled its own experience.   It didn’t cultivate the laws, only its physical body, following a unique path.   It didn’t need to merge with the Great Dao; it only needed to temper its physical body to its limit, reaching the level of proving the Dao through force.   Although that path was different, its danger was no less than that of a normal Dao Integration.   When tempering its physical body, it had countless times suffered torn flesh and blood, nearly succumbing to the pain several times.

Although the old Azure Dragon fared slightly better, without experiencing such a tumultuous journey, its breakthrough was still no easy feat.

Moreover, having followed Daoist Guixu for many years, it had witnessed firsthand the fates of countless cultivators who failed to reach the Dao Integration realm.

Some of those who failed exploded on the spot, some suffered mental breakdowns and became idiots, and some were consumed by the backlash of the Great Dao and reduced to ashes.

Each one was a living lesson.

Therefore, they understood better than anyone how difficult it was to progress from the Nascent Soul stage to the Dao Integration realm.

And Lu Qing?

When he left the Guixu Secret Realm, he was only at the sixth tribulation of the Nascent Soul stage.

How many years had passed? At most, less than a hundred years!

To progress from the sixth tribulation of the Nascent Soul stage to the Dao Integration realm in less than a hundred years—what did that mean?

This couldn’t be described as “genius.”

This was simply monstrous!

The black bull stared with wide eyes, opened its mouth as if to say something, but found itself speechless.

Its mind, already not very sharp, was now completely blank.

The Phoenix also lost its usual elegance; its phoenix eyes were filled with shock, and its wings unconsciously tightened.

Its noble air vanished, replaced by a stunned expression.

The old dragon took a deep breath, suppressing its shock, and slowly spoke, “Ah Qing, you… how did you do that? In less than a hundred years, from the sixth tribulation of the Nascent Soul Realm to the Dao Integration Realm, this…”

It paused, seemingly choosing its words carefully, before finally managing to say, “This is completely beyond our comprehension.”

It had lived for hundreds of thousands of years and seen countless geniuses.

Some achieved the Golden Core stage in a hundred years, some the Nascent Soul stage in a thousand, and some the Dao Integration Realm in ten thousand.

Each one was enough to amaze the world.

But it had never seen anyone like Lu Qing.

From the sixth tribulation of the Nascent Soul Realm to the Dao Integration Realm in less than a hundred years.

What did this mean? It

meant that Lu Qing’s cultivation speed was a hundred times, a thousand times faster than that of a normal cultivator!

It meant that Lu Qing had completed in just a few decades the path that others would take thousands or even tens of thousands of years to traverse!

This was completely beyond reason, beyond imagination.

Lu Qing shook his head, offering no further explanation.

He couldn’t very well tell them that he had broken through the limit of the Nine Tribulations of the Primordial Spirit and reached the unprecedented, unknown Twelfth Tribulation of the Primordial Spirit, could he?

He didn’t want anyone to know this secret for the time being.

If the old Azure Dragon and the others knew that he had not only achieved the Dao Integration Realm but had also reached the Twelfth Tribulation of the Primordial Spirit before his breakthrough, they would probably be even more shocked, utterly astonished.

The Nine Tribulations of the Primordial Spirit was already the universally acknowledged limit in the cultivation world.

Nine was the ultimate number, a rule of the Heavenly Dao.

No one had ever been able to break through this limit and reach the Twelfth Tribulation.

But Lu Qing did it.

Through his own comprehension and fortuitous encounters, he forcefully broke through the limitations of the Great Dao, taking three steps beyond the Nascent Soul Realm.

Each of these three steps was unprecedented.

Such extraordinary feats, if spoken of, would only cause trouble, let alone be accepted by the old Azure Dragon and the others.

Therefore, Lu Qing simply smiled and remained silent.

Just then, the black bull suddenly asked, “Ah Qing, which Great Dao did you merge with?”

Its bull eyes were full of curiosity, tinged with anticipation.

In the black bull’s view, Lu Qing’s aura was so terrifying, capable of exerting such immense pressure on them; the divine sense he fused with during his breakthrough must have been a Great Dao, and an extremely powerful one at that, not an ordinary “Dao.”

After all, merging with the Dao meant merging with the Dao itself.

When cultivators reach the Nascent Soul Realm, they comprehend the rules of heaven and earth, understanding various Daos.

These Daos vary in strength and depth.

Some Daos point directly to the origin, vast and boundless, while others are merely superficial and shallow.

When a cultivator reaches the breakthrough point, they must choose a path and merge their divine sense with it to enter the Dao Integration Realm.

The stronger the Dao they merge with, the stronger their strength will be after the breakthrough.

This is basic common sense in the cultivation world.

If they merge with an ordinary minor path, they will only reach the Dao Integration Realm after the breakthrough, with limited strength.

If they merge with a major Dao, they will become a true powerhouse after the breakthrough, capable of crushing their peers.

And if they merge with a supreme Dao that points directly to the origin…

then their achievements are simply limitless.

Therefore, the black bull was very curious to know what Dao Lu Qing had merged with to give him such power immediately after the breakthrough.

Hearing this, the old Azure Dragon and the Phoenix also stared intently at Lu Qing, their eyes full of anticipation and curiosity.

They also wanted to know the answer.

Lu Qing looked at their expressions and found it somewhat amusing.

Their eyes were like those of a group of children waiting to hear a story, their faces full of anticipation and curiosity.

Even an old monster like the old Azure Dragon, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, showed this expression.

He didn’t keep them in suspense and his thoughts stirred slightly.

The next moment, a strange aura emanated from him.

This aura was incredibly profound, seemingly containing the most primal mysteries of heaven and earth.

It was deep, vast, and timeless, inspiring awe in all who beheld it.

Even more astonishing was that multiple different meanings simultaneously flowed within that aura.

The first was the boundless expanse of space.

It was the feeling of endless void, seemingly capable of encompassing everything, yet also capable of tearing everything apart.

At this moment, Lu Qing seemed to have transformed into the entire universe, omnipresent and all-encompassing.

Then came the second, the third, the fourth…

A series of meanings surged from him, each crystal clear, each utterly pure.

They intertwined, yet without any conflict; instead, they complemented each other, forming an indescribable harmony.

The power and mystery of that aura left the old Azure Dragon and the others instantly stunned.

The old Azure Dragon was the first to react. Its voice trembled as it counted, “One, two, three, four…”

The black bull stared wide-eyed, counting each hoof individually, its heart pounding with increasing alarm, “Five, six, seven, eight…”

The phoenix’s voice also trembled, its eyes filled with growing shock, “Nine…nine kinds!”

After counting several times and confirming that Lu Qing indeed possessed nine different Dao intents, they all stared blankly at him, speechless.

Nine Dao intents!

Nine kinds!

What did this mean?

It meant that when Lu Qing broke through to the Dao Integration stage, he simultaneously fused and entrusted nine Daos!

How could this be?

The old Azure Dragon’s mind went blank.

Having lived for hundreds of thousands of years, it considered itself knowledgeable and experienced, and nothing could have made it so disoriented. But now, it realized it was wrong.

It had never seen, nor heard of, anyone who could simultaneously fuse and entrust multiple Daos to achieve Dao Integration.

Let alone nine.

Nine was the ultimate number, a rule of Heaven.

For a cultivator, comprehending even one Dao in their lifetime was already an immense stroke of luck.

Those who comprehend two Great Daos are one in ten thousand.

Those who comprehend three Great Daos are legendary figures.

Even these legendary figures only achieved this after reaching the Dao Integration Realm, through unparalleled perseverance and comprehension, slowly comprehending and refining their understanding to fuse their divine sense with other Great Daos. To

fuse and entrust nine Great Daos immediately after achieving Dao Integration…

this is simply a fantasy.

The black bull was also dumbfounded.

Its not-so-bright mind couldn’t process it at all; it just stared blankly at Lu Qing, muttering, “Nine… nine… how is this possible… how is this possible…”

Although it didn’t understand grand principles, it knew one thing.

Its master, Guixu Daoren, that astonishingly talented and awe-inspiring Dao Transformation Immortal, when he achieved Dao Integration, only fused and entrusted one Great Dao.

One!

Even an existence like Guixu Daoren could only fuse one Great Dao.

And Lu Qing?

Nine!

What kind of concept is this?

The black bull couldn’t imagine it.

It only knew that this was beyond its comprehension.

Mingfeng was even more shocked and speechless.

Its phoenix eyes were filled with disbelief, and its feathers stood on end.

It recalled the words its master had taught it years ago.

Its master had said that every step on the path of cultivation must be taken firmly.

Especially the step of breaking through to the Dao Integration stage, which was of paramount importance.

One must never be greedy, never aim too high.

Honestly choose the path you are best at, and devote your entire mind to it; that is the right way.

Its master also said that someone had once attempted to merge two great paths simultaneously to break through to the Dao Integration stage, and as a result, their divine sense collapsed on the spot, and they were annihilated, body and soul.

The horrific scene remained vivid in his memory.

This was a truth proven by countless cultivators with their blood and lives, and it must never be violated.

Mingfeng had always kept these words in mind, regarding them as golden rules.

But now, Lu Qing had shown it with facts that this “truth” could be broken.

Looking at the nine harmoniously coexisting Dao intents on Lu Qing’s body, an indescribable emotion welled up within it.

There was shock, confusion, awe, and a sliver of expectation.

The old Azure Dragon finally came to its senses. It took a deep breath, trying to calm itself down.

But the shock in its dragon eyes could not be concealed.

It opened its mouth, its voice hoarse: “Ah Qing, this… what’s going on? Why do you have so many Dao intents? Nine Dao… this… this is impossible!”

The black bull and Mingfeng also stared intently at Lu Qing, awaiting his answer.

Lu Qing looked at their expressions, feeling somewhat helpless.

He knew he had to give an explanation, otherwise they would probably remain in shock forever.

So he simply explained, “By chance, I comprehended multiple Great Daos, and fortunately, simultaneously channeled my divine sense into nine Great Daos to successfully break through, which is why I possess so many Dao auras.”

He spoke casually, as if it were just a trivial matter.

But to the old Azure Dragon and the others, it was like a thunderclap.

(End of Chapter)