Da Xuan Martial Saint - Chapter 1489 - 715: Wuxiang City Lord (2)

Chapter 1489: Chapter 715: Wuxiang City Lord (2)

Just as Chen Mu stood with his hands behind his back atop the Heavens Vault, overlooking the entire Wuxiang City and scanning familiar sights below, a gaze suddenly cast out from the very center of the City Lord’s Mansion, reflecting towards him in the skies above.

At this moment, Chen Mu also happened to look down.

He saw,

A figure clad in a noble robe stood tall at the jade steps in front of the hall within the majestic City Lord’s Mansion, gazing distantly in Chen Mu’s direction, their eyes meeting across the void.

“Greetings, Daoist Chen.”

After a brief eye contact with Chen Mu, the City Lord of Wuxiang City clasped his hands in a salute towards Chen Mu from afar.

“Wuxiang City Lord.”

Chen Mu nodded slightly towards the City Lord of Wuxiang City, returning the salute.

Upon seeing this, the City Lord of Wuxiang City couldn’t help but smile gently, and took the initiative to invite, “A guest from afar is welcome. I apologize for not having greeted you sooner, but since you have once traveled through Wuxiang City, you aren’t exactly an outsider.”

Chen Mu smiled and said, “Had it not been for unforeseen events, perhaps Wuxiang City would have been my place of Enlightenment. Though some changes occurred, all that I gained in the final stretch was obtained within Wuxiang City.”

With that said,

Chen Mu then turned to Chen Yue and Chen Yao beside him, saying, “Let’s go. The City Lord of Wuxiang City has invited us, you two come with me.”

Chen Yue and Chen Yao exchanged a glance and both nodded silently, following behind Chen Mu. Although they were visiting Wuxiang City for the first time, they had previously heard Chen Mu speak about the city and knew that its City Lord possessed power comparable to a Dao Venerable.

Of course,

All this was merely a facade.

Some believed that the City Lord of Wuxiang City was an embodiment of the rule’s will, capable of wielding a fraction of the Power of Dao, hence akin to a Dao Venerable. But for Chen Mu, who had already achieved the level of Venerable, he could clearly see through the depths of this City Lord.

The other was not an embodiment of the Source Realm’s rule will, but a true living being, who, in a long and ancient past, may have been an ordinary being within Wuxiang City but eventually comprehended and merged with the will of the Source Realm, becoming the master of Wuxiang City.

To say he’s akin to a Venerable isn’t wrong.

But more accurately, the City Lord of Wuxiang City should be described as a ’pseudo-Venerable.’

He is constrained by the rules of the Source Realm, unable to leave this place or Wuxiang City itself. He can only be the master of Wuxiang City, and only within Wuxiang City does he possess power comparable to a Dao Venerable.

“These two must be Daoist Chen’s family, born in the current era, Enlightened in the current era, with family accompanying you, the Path of the Dao is not walked in solitude, which is truly enviable.”

Inside the City Lord Mansion, the City Lord of Wuxiang City welcomed Chen Mu and his party of three into the mansion, while directing his gaze towards Chen Yue and Chen Yao who had come with Chen Mu, and remarked with a hint of lament in his tone.

Chen Mu nodded and said, “The Dao path is inherently solitary, but I pursue the Dao, first to leave no regrets, second to safeguard what I cherish in my heart, and third for all things in the world to follow my heart’s will. The journey is filled with countless landscapes and countless trials, ultimately yielding fruit.”

“Hahaha.”

The City Lord of Wuxiang City laughed heartily a few times and then sighed, “Alas, I do not know who I was in past lives, nor what I shall return to; born to rule this city, I have also strived to transcend but ultimately cannot cross that threshold.”

As an existence comparable to a Dao Venerable, the City Lord of Wuxiang City knows everything worldly, aware that he must once have been a part of the multitudinous living beings, a Divine Monarch fallen within the Source Realm. But he doesn’t know how ancient those times are, or even trace the causality to retrieve his past life.

Every time the Universe Silence occurs,

He perishes with the Source Realm.

But each time the universe is reborn, he also reappears with the Source Realm.

However, after reappearing, he no longer retains any memories or past from before. Although he is born as the City Lord of Wuxiang, wielding supreme power akin to a Venerable, he is restricted at every turn.

The City Lord of Wuxiang City led Chen Mu further into the courtyard and ordered servants to serve Spiritual Tea.

Chen Mu gently picked up a teacup, took a sip, and then scrutinized the City Lord of Wuxiang City carefully, shaking his head and saying, “Though the City Lord has attained the Dao, you are too heavily influenced by the Source Realm. The Path of Creation you’ve realized is mingled with the rules of the Source Realm, hence you cannot attain true freedom and will perish and reappear with the Source Realm.”

“If you want to completely break free from the constraints of the Source Realm, the City Lord must, like other living beings, detach from the interference of the Source Realm rules and reestablish the Great Dao of Creation with your own ability to gain true freedom.”

To the now Venerable Chen Mu, he could effortlessly see through the helpless essence of the City Lord of Wuxiang City.

Like the numerous living beings in Wuxiang City, they too have the potential to realize the Dao. If they can realize the complete Great Dao of Creation, they would be capable of escaping the sea of suffering, retrieve their former selves and memories from the Dao, and return to the world.

Only achieving such a feat is likened to ascending to heaven, even far more challenging than what the millions of Ninth Layer Heavenly Divine Monarchs outside have achieved, having taken an unknowably long time to finally see a figure like the City Lord of Wuxiang City.

Yet the Dao realized by the City Lord of Wuxiang City is somewhat entangled with the rule will of the Source Realm, or it can be said that the realization of the Dao back then relied on the power of the Source Realm, thus not a complete Dao Venerable, constrained by the Source Realm.

Each time Universe Silence occurs, they fall back into Reincarnation again.

“What Daoist says, I too understand, but within the Source Realm, all living beings are bound by the Source Realm. Born as shapes crafted by the Source Realm’s rules, how difficult is it to break free from the will of the Source Realm?” the City Lord of Wuxiang City sighed.

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