The sky cleared and calm gradually returned, as if nothing had happened.
But the loneliness between heaven and earth lingers no matter what.
On the Golden Light Front, all the disciples also knelt on the ground, until Wang Xiaoyang stood up again, looked up to the sky, let out a long sigh, and wiped away his tears.
"I'm going to the main peak for my master. You can go back later." His voice was a little hoarse, and he instantly turned into a golden light and headed towards the main peak.
After Wang Xiaoyang left, everyone stood up and looked at each other, not knowing what to say. After being silent for a while, they all left one after another.
Dugu Jinjiu signaled Lin Yang with his eyes, and after the two left, they went to Lin Yang's practice cave together.
"Senior Brother, the Supreme Elder did not successfully ascend, right?"
Lin Yang asked the question that he had been holding back in his mind, trying to find some clues from Dugu Jinjiu.
Before the Supreme Elder ascended to the throne, he felt that something was wrong with Wang Xiaoyang's expression, and he was afraid that there was something fishy about this matter.
Now it seems that this is indeed the case.
Dugu Jinjiu looked serious, glanced around cautiously, sealed the place with golden light with a wave of his hand, and then disappeared invisibly.
After the isolation was arranged, he sighed softly.
"That's right, the Supreme Elder has passed away."
After getting the answer from Dugu Jinjiu, even though he had already guessed in his heart, Lin Yang still felt creepy, as if a cold wind had blown through his whole body, and his hair was standing on end.
He has never experienced the great terror between life and death, but judging from everything he has witnessed before, it is definitely great terror.
To be able to reach the level of ascension, the Supreme Elder's cultivation level is equivalent to the pinnacle in this world.
But even so, he died while ascending. Even the sword that could cut through the sky could not help him ascend.
What kind of world is this? What kind of secrets does this world hide?
However, nothing is absolute.
Lin Yang suddenly thought of something again.
If we just talk about the Supreme Elder's ascension, no one saw how he disappeared at that time. He just disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving only a broken sword.
Could it be that he didn't die? He just failed?
Lin Yang looked at Dugu Jinjiu, and just as he was about to ask, Dugu Jinjiu guessed what he wanted to ask.
"It's not just the Supreme Elder..."
Lin Yang looked at him, wondering what he meant and waiting for Dugu Jinjiu's answer.
But what Dugu Jinjiu said next made Lin Yang feel cold all over his body, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.
"In fact, over the past ten thousand years, many monks who have reached the peak have tried to ascend directly, but without exception, they all died in the end. Thousands of years of practice disappeared and turned into nothingness."
"You shouldn't have known about this too early, but now that you've seen it, if I can't help you resolve your confusion, I'm afraid it will have an impact on your Taoist mind."
"After all, this is how my master answered it for me back then."
"..." Lin Yang fell silent. Since Dugu Jinjiu said this, it means that he has experienced the same thing more than once.
The two looked at each other in silence until a long while passed.
"Since ascending is doomed to fail, why would they choose to ascend?" Lin Yang couldn't figure it out, so he asked again.
"Cultivation is all about going against heaven. If you don't advance, you will retreat!" Dugu Jinjiu replied.
"Even though they have reached the pinnacle of this world, they have not reached the pinnacle of cultivation. When your lifespan runs out, would you rather sit back and wait for death, or would you rather try to fight for a glimmer of life?"
Lin Yang mused that if he encountered the same situation, he probably wouldn't choose to give up hope just like this.
"Is there no other way but to ascend by force?"
To Lin Yang's surprise, he originally thought that there would be no answer to this question. Even if there was an answer, Dugu Jinjiu might not know it.
But Dugu Jinjiu's answer made him suddenly open his eyes wide.
"have!"
Dugu Jinjiu nodded slightly, and then slowly said the answer.
"There is a way called dimensionality reduction and ascension!"
"Dimensionality reduction and ascension?" Lin Yang chewed the word repeatedly.
He knew what dimensionality reduction meant, and he also knew what ascension meant, but when the two words were linked together, he didn't understand what it meant.
He waited for Dugu Jinjiu's answer with doubtful eyes, but Dugu Jinjiu spread his hands with a look of helplessness on his face.
"If you ask me, I don't know. I just accidentally discovered this in an ancient book. According to the record, this was a method used by a Mahayana monk who didn't know how many years ago."
"Did he succeed?" Lin Yang asked immediately.
But Dugu Jinjiu shook his head.
"Since it has failed, what is the difference between this and forced ascension?"
"I mean, he didn't succeed, but he didn't fail either. It's just that no one knows where he went, but he is still alive, at least not dead." Dugu Jinjiu explained.
Lin Yang was already so distracted by Dugu Jinjiu that he didn't know how to understand his words, which sounded very contradictory.
But Dugu Jinjiu continued:
"Because the monk's life fire still exists and has not been extinguished!"
The so-called life fire refers to the strange fire ignited by the monks based on their own destiny, which is related to the life span of the monks.
If the life fire does not go out, it means that the monk is still alive.
Lin Yang only felt that his brain had turned into a ball of mush. He had experienced too many things today, which gave him a painful feeling of delayed reaction.
After carefully digesting the information in Dugu Jinjiu's words, he quickly discovered the key points.
"Senior brother, so to speak, have you seen that senior's life fire with your own eyes?"
Dugu Jinjiu nodded and looked at the main peak of Xianwuzong with meaning.
Lin Yang followed his gaze and took a few breaths to react.
"That senior's life is in our Xianwu Sect?!" This answer surprised him again.
"In the Hall of Incense!" Dugu Jinjiu directly told the location, "Because that Mahayana monk is one of the founders of our Xianwu Sect!"
"What about the ancient book?" Lin Yang asked.
"That ancient book is in the Incense Hall. If you can enter the Incense Hall, you will be there under the fire of the Patriarch's life." Dugu Jinjiu replied.
In the Incense Palace?
This answer is unexpected, but also reasonable.
Lin Yang's original excitement quickly calmed down. If even Dugu Jinjiu knew about this method of dimensionality reduction and ascension, then there is no reason why the senior officials of Xianwuzong didn't know about it.
It seems that there are indeed only sporadic records in the ancient books, but there is no specific method.
Lin Yang couldn't figure out for a while whether this so-called method of dimensionality reduction and ascension was true or false. He only felt that this matter revealed something mysterious and strange.
Since the Patriarch successfully survived in this way, regardless of whether he successfully ascended or not, why is the specific method not retained?
He exhaled softly, feeling that his mind was in a mess.
No matter what, at least these are currently beyond his reach.
Even if he desperately wants to know the secrets, he still needs to have enough strength.
"These are not things we need to consider at the moment. When your strength reaches a certain level in the future, it will not be too late to find out more. We still have a lot of time." Dugu Jinjiu also consoled him.
The reason why he stopped Lin Yang was to prevent him from having other thoughts, which would hinder his practice.