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I Am Loaded with Passive Skills (Web Novel) - Chapter 4228: Pope
Chapter 4228: Pope
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"Inside a completely sealed wooden box, lies a sleeping cat.""It hasn’t made any sound, so you know it’s asleep, but when you open a crack in the box, you find yourself staring at the cat, and the cat is staring back at you."
"So, is the cat asleep, or has it been watching you from the box all along?"
"Or perhaps your ’external force’ disturbed the cat, so when you look at it, it also awakens and looks at you?"
Cloud Sea white apple was sliced, along with a thought-provoking speech from Master Ping, suddenly came together in two halves.
Inside, the scene fluctuated, half coalescing into the Cursed Yin Dharma Form, the other half forming the Dao Ancestor Dharma Form, both unstable, seemingly still in a semi-completed state.
Or one could say, they exist between the ’sleeping cat’ and the ’watchful cat’, in such a delicate dual-phase moment.
"History, too, has two sides."
"When unobserved, history settles as dust."
"However, when an observer attempts to peep into its essence, history presents an ’unreal’ other side."
"This ’unreal’ aspect might stem from external interference, or from an incomplete self-awareness of history, resulting in an outcome both reasonable yet unexpected."
As Master Ping spoke, he gestured to the left half of the apple, gazing at the unstable Cursed Yin Dharma Form within, and slowly continued:
"Cultivators who study the Cursed Dao at its core, respect the Cursed Yin Dao. The inheritance of Cursed Techniques in our Heavenly Realm has lasted countless epochs, truly ancient and long-standing."
"Yet within the river of history, countless epochs are merely a drop in the ocean, quite insignificant."
"When compared to that pinnacle battle of path-robbing on the Shengshen Continent in history, again it is not a matter of epochs against mere months and years of divine battles, not line versus line, but point against point."
"That is to say, the essence of Cursed Technique practitioners corresponds to that divine battle where Cursed Yin won and unified the spiritual techniques, leading to changes over vast periods of time."
A speech fell silent, as if the entire assembly had no words to follow.
In that instant, some understood, some did not, yet all sensed the vastness of history and their own insignificance.
Master Ping pointed to the other half of the apple, with a blurred and unstable Dao Ancestor Dharma Form inside, and said:
"Similarly, practitioners of the Taoist techniques align with the changes following that battle when the Dao Ancestor emerged victorious."
"Just like the cat in the wooden box I mentioned earlier, when the dust settles, only one form of spiritual techniques will remain. We neither have, nor possess the consciousness to discuss what is orthodox—whether Cursed Techniques or Taoist techniques—once the box remains open, the cat only looks outward."
"But now, we cultivators, wanting to discern what is orthodox between Cursed and Taoist techniques, have become observers of history, yet started no observation. hence history floats, naturally shifting point to point into a dual-phase."
"Perhaps one side, a fleeting battle opportunity decides the outcome, corresponding to this era, after thousands of years, we may forget the Cursed Techniques, only practicing Taoist techniques, or forget Taoist techniques, and all cultivators only know Cursed Techniques."
"Or perhaps due to the development of Cursed Techniques, in this contemporary era because of unexpected breaks in legacy, the world only knows techniques. This ’result’ or ’cause’, as part of observational intervention, affected the past ’cause’ or ’result’, leading to Cursed Yin could no longer borrow from Taoist Technique’s power, ultimately ending His cultivation life, cementing the Dao Ancestor’s victory."
"Conversely, likewise."
Cloud Sea understood halfway, perplexed halfway.
Master Ping smiled faintly, wiped with both hands, and the two halves of the apple disappeared into smoke, transforming into a winding river, simulating the breath of time above it.
"Let’s put it another way, time disorder."
With these words, the insight dawned on Tong Sheng as if clouds parted, suddenly awakening, seemingly understanding something.
"We’ve mentioned before, the Time Ancestor got lost, leading to infinite splits in the river of time."
"So the ancestors may be said to have been born successively, or simultaneously."
Master Ping gestured, the river of time split into many.
The first line saw the birth of Saint Xin, the second line saw the birth of Recollection, the third line the birth of Divine Farmer Hundred Grass...
Suddenly, Cloud Sea was stunned, distinctly the Sword Ancestor, one of the latter births, leapt with the river of time to the second position.
Meanwhile, the time rivers led by War Ancestor, Dragon Ancestor, Heavenly Ancestor, and others were progressing step by step through historical process.
"Which came first, Cursed or Dao?"
Master Ping repeated this question, then spoke no more.
The time rivers on the Cloud Sea began to evolve, clearly the Dao Ancestor, ranked second in birth, suddenly with all His existence, vanished from sight.
Thus, history lost the existence of the Dao Ancestor.
The root of Taoist Techniques emerged from the birth of the Ancestor of Sorcery, peaked with the Cursed transformation of the Ancestor of Sorcery, propelling Taoist Techniques to their extreme.
But the Dao Ancestor did not perish, only hidden beneath countless rivers of time, erased from memory.
As Cursed Yin techniques developed, secretly the Dao Ancestor’s Divine Secret, Stars Technique, etc., were also developing.
Yet developed extremely obscurely, whenever approaching a peak value and being discovered, another cut was made, thrown away, power scattered and concealed.
They were absorbed by the Cursed Techniques, absorbed by array diagrams, absorbed by spiritual techniques, both merging and infiltrating each other.
Finally unveiling the hidden mask in the Spiritual Cultivation Era, at the time of explosion, Divine Secret, Stars Technique already equaled Cursed Yin techniques, Life Reincarnation, Spiritual Cultivation Upanishad, each infiltrating the other, only waiting to compete for the source of the Dao.
At this moment, everyone understood:
There were neither precedence nor sequence, but simultaneous!
