Chapter 701: Chapter 700 The Life of an Ordinary Person
 

Qin Changqing looked toward the distant statue.

Though the distance was vast, for an Immortal, it was only ten steps away and could be seen clearly.

But now, it was indistinct.

Therefore, Qin Changqing closed his eyes.

After closing his eyes, he began with the stars around him.

The purpose of this Great Array was to preserve the last bit of Zi Wei Fairy’s spiritual essence within this world.

Otherwise, she would be completely assimilated by the Dao.

So now, the key was to find that last hint of her spiritual essence.

If it couldn’t be found… then it meant there was no fate.

For a Semi-Saint, surveying so many stars actually wouldn’t require too much time.

Once, Zi Wei’s father, in order to save her, had rallied the Semi-Saints from both the Immortal World and the Monster Immortal Realm, but it was all in vain.

Not even the faintest trace of her last spiritual essence could be found.

Qin Changqing’s Immortal Thoughts entered one star after another.

Within each star, there seemed to be a separate world, and each appeared like a passage through which one could enter into a state of Dao comprehension.

Qin Changqing thus gained a clearer understanding of the Great Array’s function.

This Great Array acted as a partitioning of the Dao.

The methods of a Saint were indeed formidable.

With Qin Changqing’s expertise in Array Formations, achieving this was not easy.

It was not a matter of proficiency in Array Formations, but a matter of cultivation level.

The Sun, Moon and Stars Great Formation required a Saint to set up.

A Quasi-Saint who attempted to set it up would suffer backlash.

And they simply could not withstand such backlash.

Qin Changqing quietly continued his search within.

It was unclear how much time had passed.

Suddenly, Qin Changqing sensed something.

It seemed like a consciousness, yet it was different from a pure consciousness.

His sense slowly approached, and then, he entered into a special space.

This place appeared to be a chaos.

Boundless and desolate, empty of everything.

Inside, a woman in a light purple dress was sitting there, lost in thought.

“It’s her!”

Qin Changqing had not expected to find her so quickly.

Was this destiny?

The woman was the daughter of the Saintess, Zi Wei Fairy.

She must be that last fragment of spiritual essence.

Qin Changqing materialized his consciousness and walked over to her.

Zi Wei Fairy continued to sit there, lost in thought.

Soon, Qin Changqing had reached her and looked at Zi Wei Fairy.

Zi Wei Fairy remained lost in thought, oblivious to his arrival.

Qin Changqing was patient, waiting by her side.

He was probably the first in countless years to find this last bit of her spiritual essence.

Whether one could find it or not really depended on destiny.

But it wasn’t only about destiny.

If she herself was unwilling.. perhaps no one could find her.

Even the Saint who helped preserve her last bit of spiritual essence might be powerless to do so.

However, finding her was one thing.

Qin Changqing had been waiting here for many years, but Zi Wei Fairy showed no reaction whatsoever.

She remained there, lost in her thoughts.

“This must have been several hundred years now,” Qin Changqing thought.

Since he was already here, he might as well wait a little longer.

Qin Changqing was not here solely for her; he also wanted to witness the methods of a Saint and, through Zi Wei Fairy, comprehend the perils of Dao Integration and becoming a Saint.

Zi Wei Fairy, being the daughter of a Saint, truly was a genius among geniuses.

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It took her less than a million years to become a Semi-Saint.

However, such a dazzling talent had an accident during her Dao Integration, turning into a sculpture.

This is what is known as transformation through Dao.

After transforming through Dao, the Divine Soul merges with the heavens and the earth, assimilating with them.

The body will also petrify.

Although an accident occurred, her cultivation speed was already incomparable to that of other Immortals.

It should be known that she was not the reincarnation of a great power.

For the Ancient Emperor, for instance, it might have taken only three to four hundred thousand years to reach Semi-Saint, but there is no comparison.

The Ancient Emperor was once an Immortal Emperor, after all.

And naturally, there was no comparison with Qin Changqing either.

Qin Changqing was exceptional.

Mediocre people fear geniuses, geniuses fear freaks of nature, but even freaks of nature fear the exceptional.

Seeing that after several hundred years the Zi Wei Fairy still had no reaction, Qin Changqing was not in a hurry. It was a good opportunity to use this place for his own Dao Integration.

Dao Integration for a Semi-Saint is still quite dangerous.

But here, it was relatively safe because the Sun, Moon and Stars Great Formation isolated this place.

Thus, Qin Changqing silently underwent his Dao Integration here.

After all, there wasn’t much else happening lately.

Such Dao Integration could also save Qin Changqing a great deal of Dao-comprehension Energy.

Quickly, a thousand years passed.

The Zi Wei Fairy still had no reaction.

But Qin Changqing was immersed in the process of Dao Integration.

This Sun, Moon and Stars Great Formation was indeed safe; undergoing Dao Integration here, although not integrating the Dao of the entire world, he could do so without any worries.

Qin Changqing did not need to consume Dao-comprehension Energy when faced with danger.

Moreover, during the process of Dao Integration, the passage of time felt exceptionally swift.

You wouldn’t even sense time passing.

Sometimes, what seems like a brief moment in your perception during the Dao Integration process,

is just long enough to witness the sea recede from a coastal area, the land rise to become a High Mountain, and the resurgence of countless living creatures upon it.

In your perception, it’s just a simple process of the evolution of heaven and earth.

But in fact, countless tens of thousands of years may have passed.

This is the difference between “humans” and “heaven.”

From “heaven’s” perspective, the transformation of seas into mulberry fields is merely the simplest of changes, just a simple process. In the blink of an eye, seas can become mulberry fields and the sun and moon can complete their renewal.

Yet this process is the lifespan of countless generations of ordinary people.

The life of an individual is far too insignificant in this context.

The clear and supreme heavens don’t even spare a glance for several hundred generations of lives.

At most, they observe a region becoming prosperous, with living creatures multiplying by the billions.

During the process of Dao Integration, the realization of “the heavens are ruthless, treating all beings as straw dogs” becomes profoundly deep.

It isn’t that the heavens are heartless.

Rather, on the scale of the heavens, what ordinary people consider the splendor and grandeur of their existence doesn’t even qualify to be noticed.

On the long river of history, one billion, ten billion, or even hundreds of billions of people are but passersby, like guests crossing the sea.

This is why, after reaching Great Luo, beings often seem more and more indifferent and heartless.

If we were to use some theories from before Qin Changqing’s transmigration, we could roughly equate this concept.

Whether it’s humans or Immortals, both can be seen as carbon-based life forms.

But “heaven” can be regarded as a form of carbon-based life too.

Any carbon-based life form, even reaching the level of “Immortal”, according to the theory of entropy, cannot be immortal.

But carbon-based life can.

Just any piece of underground rock has been in existence for who knows how many billions of years. And Dao-comprehension is carbon-based life binding itself to “heaven” as a form of carbon-based life.

In order to achieve a lifespan coequal with heaven and earth.

When it comes to carbon-based life, another point comes into play.

Qin Changqing once read a short story before his transmigration.

A couple in the desert saw a sculpture.

The wife accidentally broke the finger off the sculpture.

Twenty years later, when they returned to the site, they discovered the head of the sculpture had turned, gazing at its broken finger, with the other hand pointing there, and pain etched on its face.

Only then did they realize that the sculpture was once alive; only that twenty years had passed for it to change its gesture.

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