Hidden Corners

How to explore the truth, go beyond records and experience it personally.

This is Obensi's sincere advice.

Although he is only a ninth-level mage, his consciousness has already reached an extremely broad level.

Rather than saying that he is the strongest mage, he is the strongest scholar, and his attainments in knowledge are far stronger than magic.

Li Chengyi left the White Tower, followed his friend's advice, and began to measure the earth step by step.

He returned to Black Castle, and from there, using it as a starting point, he moved step by step along a road that few people had traveled.

There is no purpose, just eat and sleep in the open air, feel nature, feel the sky, and feel all things.

Time has lost its meaning here, only the changes of all things are like writing, imprinted in his mirror-like Yuan Shen Sword Palace.

On the floor, ceiling, and four walls of the palace, among the biographical texts about the Human-Faced Yuan Shenjian, densely packed patterns began to appear.

Following the pace, Li Chengyi kept changing his identity and appearance. Sometimes he was a traveler, sometimes he was a mercenary.

Sometimes they are temporary vendors accompanying caravans, and sometimes they are ordinary craftsmen who live in one place.

After living as a scholar in one place for a few years, you might also turn into a clothing maker and open a clothing store to live a peaceful life.

Each industry and each skill quickly merged from simple memorization of knowledge into skills that he completely mastered in practice.

At the same time, the sword furnace flame in Li Chengyi's mind finally took a step further and began to extend to cover more space.

Time passes slowly.

Fifteen years passed in the blink of an eye.

On the ground, there is a towering snow-capped mountain top.

A white-haired old man in ragged clothes quietly let go of his crutches and looked up at the sky above him.

Snowflakes were flying and falling on his face, but the wrinkles on his face and the white hair on his head quickly faded away, transforming into a young and handsome appearance.

"There's still a little missing." Li Chengyi murmured softly.

After experiencing the life of the old man, at this time in his Soul Sword Palace, a large number of rich flames filled almost all the space, but there was only one empty space about the size of a human head, which could not be completely filled or ignited.

"what exactly is it.?"

He recalled everything he had gone through in his mind.

Suddenly, an inexplicable realization came to my mind.

"Yes. It still lacks my complete life as a human being."

The natural changes in life, including birth, old age, illness and death, are also part of the principle of all things.

After understanding this, Li Chengyi no longer hesitated and turned around to return in the direction of the Black Fort.

He jumped down from the top of the snow-capped mountain, his figure was like lightning, and his terrifying qualities that were at least thirty times that of the Milton Knight were fully revealed at this moment.

Feng Xue was knocked out of a vacuum channel at this moment, as if she was afraid of his running.

It took him fifteen years to leave, but only five days to return.

Return to Black Castle.

Li Chengyi became the undefeated Carlos again, but this time, his body was also changing with time and aging.

Following natural emotional development, he married a granddaughter of Obansi and formed a new family.

Two years later, his two sons were born together.

Years go by and time flies.

Thirty years passed in the blink of an eye.

Li Chengyi is no longer as young and handsome as he once was, wrinkles appear on his body, and the changes of time have left deep marks on his skin.

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Black Castle Garden.

Under the moonlight, flowers bloomed on the path between the gardens.

"Nothing is eternal." Obensi and Li Chengyi walked side by side. "All things are interdependent, interconnected and influence each other. If there is influence, there will be changes. Only by abandoning all influences and connections can we achieve eternity. But That would be like an invisible person among all things, no longer able to interact with all things, so what’s the point of living like that?”

In the exchange with Li Chengyi, he also grew rapidly and became wiser.

"Yes. The root of influence lies in contact, whether tangible or invisible. If you want eternity, you can only cut off all contact. But that is not what we are pursuing." Li Chengyi also held a crutch in his hand.

His body was also weakening, but he did not stop this natural change.

Although he can use the strengthening of Yuanshen Sword Palace to maintain his strength with flames, it is meaningless and is not his original intention.

In this world, this world with extremely powerful restrictions, aging is also part of the changes in living beings. It is extremely difficult and costly to prevent it.

"I once thought I had reached the pinnacle of life, but you made me understand that I was far from reaching the final pinnacle." Obensi is already very old.

He stopped still, turned around, and took out a thick brown book from his robe.

It was an unbound and unprinted book, and the cover had traces of handwriting.

It's called "The Book of the White Tower".

"The peak of the White Tower has reached its end. Everything has its own end. This is the case for me, and the same is true for the White Tower and the Empire."

Obensi did not continue, but turned his eyes to a piece of white flowers that were withering in the distance.

"I hope you can help me pass this book on. I have recorded all my insights in it."

"I will." Li Chengyi nodded. "Are you leaving?"

"Yes. Even the strongest mage, a ninth-level master, can only live a few hundred years at most. I don't want to change the nature of my life. The upper limit of all things should be his destiny."

Obensi murmured and walked forward step by step. With his back to this side, he waved to Li Chengyi.

"Hopefully we can meet again."

Watching the other party leave, Li Chengyi nodded lightly.

Today, he is already nearly fifty years old and is no longer young.

Holding the book in his hand, he knew that he might never see the strongest mage in the empire again.

"Father." A calm male voice came from behind.

Li Chengyi turned around and saw his eldest son, Bello, walking quickly towards him wearing a lord's robe.

"As for the elves, the Imperial Army has sent us a request for a federation battle and strangulation. The person who came to lead the team this time is Earl Phillips."

"I have passed on the position of lord to you, and all decisions are yours to make."

Li Chengyi no longer wants to interfere with everything in the territory.

He could already clearly feel his body aging.

His strength was failing and he was weakening, but he didn't stop it. The elves and barbarians who were once frightened by him are now beginning to tentatively try to invade the territory's borders again.

But he no longer cares about these.

Holding the cane, Li Chengyi turned around and left the garden with his son's helplessness.

Time continues to pass.

The elves' invasion was quickly repelled under the pressure of the coalition forces. But the invasion of barbarians is not so easy to solve.

The Sora Empire experienced its first truly great defeat.

A large army of 50,000 people was assembled. In the battle with the barbarian combined army of hundreds of tribes, the strategy failed, resulting in the death of twelve glorious knights of the empire and the death of three eighth-level mages from exhaustion.

Although it also caused more than 50% of the casualties of the barbarians, the lose-lose situation resulted in a significant reduction in the strength of both humans and barbarians.

It also gives opportunities to the elves hiding in the dark.

The years continue to pass, twenty years later.

The Sola Empire is getting weaker and weaker. The once strongest level nine mage has never appeared again. The White Tower has become the strongest level eight, and there is only one new mage.

The imperial army became increasingly corrupt, obsessed with enjoying power, and the royal family no longer had any enterprising spirit.

Li Chengyi was already in his seventies at this time.

His grandchildren were born one after another, and even his grandchildren started to start families.

Carlos, who was once undefeated, now has his physical fitness dropped to one-fifth of what it was at its peak.

Although still powerful, it is no longer as unattainable as before.

At least the Barbarian King could see hope of catching up.

At this time, Li Chengyi had gradually realized that he belonged to people, his own group, and everything about himself changed.

He began to often sit alone on the terrace on the top floor of the Black Castle, staring at the stars in a daze.

No one knew what he was thinking.

Two years later.

Melissa died.

Li Chengyi, who was in his seventies, was beside her, watching her quietly, watching her trembling lips, wanting to say something last, but in the end she said nothing.

Melissa held his hand tightly, staring at him with her cloudy eyes, with the last tenderness and nostalgia, and then she slowly lost strength.

"Mother, this is the fate of all things."

Li Chengyi said softly.

Behind him are his two sons and his wife, as well as a group of descendants of the family.

Carlos the Stag, once the undefeated symbol of the empire, is now old.

Gently letting go of his hand, Li Chengyi stood up, turned around and walked out of the ward.

He seemed to understand something in a daze.

When life comes to an end, the part belonging to consciousness also weakens and disappears.

The only thing left in reality are the traces she left behind.

All things are changing, and life and death are also part of it.

Consciousness and memory also have life and death. What has existed will pass away with the wind, and what does not exist will also come with the wind.

"I seem to understand." Li Chengyi looked at Old Buck who was slowly approaching not far away.

He is also very old, and his back is no longer as straight as it once was, but his eyes are still the same, even more pure and refined than before.

"All things are gathering matter, and so is consciousness."

"Aggregation brings essence, and essence brings purity. Purity can sublimate and transcend new realms that have never been touched before."

At this moment, all the flames in Yuanshen Sword Palace suddenly surged.

The firelight completely filled the last gap and completely filled the entire palace.

At this moment.

The moment the flame completely filled everything.

A bit of new fire appeared inside the core sword furnace.

Countless knowledge, knowledge, and understandings belonging to Li Chengyi turned into a torrent of wisdom and were quickly absorbed by the white-gold flame.

The invisible flow of information even turns into substantial colorful threads here, converging from all directions to one point.

click

Cracks began to appear on the walls of Yuanshen Sword Palace.

Countless cracks spread quickly and fragments fell.

Boom!

Suddenly, the entire palace completely collapsed. It turned into countless white light spots and flew away.

Outside the palace is an infinite dark space.

The light spots scattered like light bulbs, illuminating areas in the darkness.

In the darkness, the earth was illuminated, mountains, rivers, and oceans emerged one after another, and rivers and forests followed one after another.

These are the imagination of Li Chengyi's wisdom and are not entities.

‘When your insights are enough to reconstruct a new world similar to the outside world, that’s when you ignite the divine fire. ’

The words of Senior Brother Tianjuge once again appeared in Li Chengyi's heart at this moment.

In the space of conscious imagination, a world that is very similar to the outside world is rapidly reappearing.

Nature emerged quickly, followed closely by the creatures.

Wild creatures, intelligent creatures, under Li Chengyi's huge consciousness, pieces of creatures continue to appear in this world of conscious imagination like embellishments.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

Maybe a hundred years, maybe a few minutes.

Time loses meaning in consciousness and depends only on the speed of thinking.

Li Chengyi's eyes suddenly flashed with a flash of white gold.

The world in his mind, at this moment, slowly overlapped and superimposed with the outside world, almost becoming the same.

boom! ! ! !

At this moment, a huge vibration surged in his heart.

‘Sacred fire.’ He suddenly understood in his heart.

At this moment, letting nature take its course, he finally stepped into the realm of divine fire.

At the same moment, Carlos Okla, who walked out of the ward, also slowly stopped breathing in the wind and snow.

He maintained his posture of looking up at the sky and did not move for a long time.

When his descendants found out, it was already too late.

Everything that belonged to Carlos ended here, but the consciousness that belonged to Li Chengyi left his body at this moment and flew towards the sky.

Countless new flesh and blood were naturally born in the air and gathered into a brand new body.