Chapter 1171: 461: Embrace the new way of Unity of Heaven and Man!
Nine Stars Eight Gates!
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Laodeng contemplates Sky Net.
Chapter 1171: 461: Embrace the new way of Unity of Heaven and Man!
Nine Stars Eight Gates!
Laodeng contemplates Sky Net.
Legend has it that in the ancient times, ancient Qi Cultivators could move mountains and chase after the sun, catch stars and fill the seas.
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To Chen Dengming, these ancient legends seemed somewhat similar to the myths and tales from the world he had transmigrated from.
Stories such as the foolish old man who moved mountains, Kuafu chasing after the sun, Jingwei trying to fill the sea, and the invention of fire by Suiren, all reflected the ancient people’s wisdom and their arduous struggle to survive in a harsh universe.
But why did the ancients compete with heaven and earth?
At its core, it was also due to the severe living conditions of the time, which they fought against out of necessity.
Often at these times, heaven also possesses the virtue of nurturing life, leaving a sliver of chance for survival; this is nothing if not a harmonious relationship between man and heaven.
Just like the ancient practices of praying to heaven for rain, worshipping the sun and the moon, and planting trees to create forests, these too are exemplars of ancient people’s harmonious coexistence with nature and the cosmos.
Shouldering the weight of two temples as heavy as mountains, the Tian Shou and Heavenly Destiny, Chen Dengming walked within the Heavenly Prison, and under immense pressure, he began to conceive various insights.
Accompanying the birth of these insights, he felt himself gradually finding that elusive connection to the Unity of Heaven and Man.
Memories of the martial arts and Divine Skills he learned from the Human Immortal Martial Path, along with the methods of the Heavenly Immortal and the fundamental Daoist intentions recorded within the Heavenly Immortal Skill, flooded his mind like a vast ocean of thoughts, appearing one by one with the insights of the moment, like points of Spiritual Light unraveling a cocoon.
In that instant, Chen Dengming felt as if ‘eight gates’ had emerged within his body: the Rest Gate, Life Gate, Injury Gate, Block Gate, Scenery Gate, Death Gate, Shock Gate, and Open Gate, all opened one after another, forming an illusion of the Eight Trigrams.
A great amount of the Human Immortal Dao Force within the Sea of Consciousness, suppressed by the Heavenly Immortal Dao Power, surged toward the eight gates.
A portion of the qi generated from the Life and Death Rhyme toward the Two Doors of Life and Death also surged.
At the same time, the Heavenly Immortal Dao Power in the Sea of Consciousness took the shape of the Heavenly Dish Nine Stars, like a Nine Palace Landscape, corresponding to and illuminating the Eight Trigrams formed by the gates within the body, making the connection to the Unity of Heaven and Man all the clearer.
At this moment, the two heavy temples Chen Dengming shouldered seemed to become much lighter, and even his entire being felt buoyant, his thoughts flying between the Nine Stars and Eight Trigrams, accompanied by the power of his Soul.
At this moment, he seemed to transform his Spirit into a little being, sitting cross-legged within the Nine Stars Eight Trigrams landscape formed by the relationship between heaven and man, instantly strengthening that connection.
Heaven’s nature, humans too.
The human heart, a mechanism.
Establish the Dao of Heaven, to define man.
In the art of geomantic divination, heaven and man are separated: the Heavenly Dish Nine Stars represent heaven, the Human Disc Eight Gates represent man.
“Heaven’s nature, humans too” signifies that the attributes of the Heavenly Dish Nine Stars are identical to those of the Human Disc Eight Gates.
This is the connection between heaven and man, and the human heart is the pivot for this connection.
The so-called ‘heart as a mechanism’ means that the human heart is the pivot of the relationship between heaven and man, playing the dominant role.
It is by one’s heart that the unity is established between heaven and man; this is the key to the Unity of Heaven and Man.
If the human heart goes against heaven, with impure thoughts, then it is naturally difficult to enter the realm of Unity of Heaven and Man.
If the human heart coexists harmoniously with heaven, then heaven will also aid man.
The power of the Nine Stars of Heaven can correspond with the Eight Gates of Man through the human heart, unleashing an unimaginable strength between heaven and man.
At the moment of this enlightenment, Chen Dengming felt that the temples of Heavenly Destiny and Tian Shou on his shoulders completely lost their mountainous pressure and even began to resonate distantly with the Sea of Consciousness Heart Spirit within him.
He abruptly stopped, lifting the Tian Shou and Heavenly Destiny from his shoulders, staring at them, his eyes sparkling like stars, the very moment they trembled.
Both temples shrank and flew into his pupils, gradually taking residence within his Sea of Consciousness Heart Spirit.
The Heavenly Immortal Dao Power in the Sea of Consciousness suddenly became exuberant, revolving around the two temples in the shape of the Heavenly Dish Nine Stars.
At this moment, Chen Dengming made a strange discovery—within the state of the Ancient Human Immortal Body, he was no longer attacked by the Insane Heavenly Dao Will within the Heavenly Prison.
It was as though, at that time, he himself had reached a subtle equilibrium with heaven—Unity of Heaven and Man!
This was an even more pure and direct state of Unity of Heaven and Man than he had ever experienced through Martial Arts.
It was a genuine balance and harmonious relationship achieved between the powers of man and heaven.
The Heavenly Dish Nine Stars and the Human Disc Eight Gates corresponded distantly.
“This is Unity of Heaven and Man…
Who would have thought that I could genuinely comprehend such a profound realm?”
Chen Dengming was joyous in his expression.
Yet after the surprise, he felt that all that had happened seemed expected.
Originally, he had already touched upon the most basic realm of Unity of Heaven and Man while practicing Martial Arts as a mortal.
Subsequently, he had inherited both the Human Immortal Dao System and Heavenly Immortal Dao Unification, and had never strayed from wanting to abandon one path for the other, always harboring an unrealistic hope of finding a way for both paths of Unity of Heaven and Man to coexist.
This had been his habit for many years.
When practicing martial arts, he had been relentlessly pursuing the profound state of ‘further deepening at the edge of a high cliff’, and this had not changed to this day.
It could be said that, over the years, he had already accumulated a substantial amount of theoretical foundation and knowledge.
Plus, now, based on the Daoist Stone of the Heavenly Immortal and dominated by the Soul Power of the Human Immortal, were theory, foundation, and Spirit—everything was in place.
This time, the insights were like a flame that ignited, achieving the long-desired state of Unity of Heaven and Man.
This was no coincidence, nor was it purely luck, but strength and accumulation.
Had it been anyone else, it would have been difficult to reach this realm, to harmoniously coexist both paths, and ultimately one would have needed to choose one of the paths and abandon the other.