Chapter 47: Fu Xi and Nü Wa, Discussing the Tao for a Thousand Years

  Li Yi collected the twelve Dinghai Divine Pearls and gave up his mind to continue searching for treasure, preparing to climb to the top of Buzhou Mountain to try the feeling of standing at the highest peak of Hongyuan, and also to check if the Tian Ting Small World on the top of Buzhou Mountain has appeared.

  He walked and stopped, on the way Li Yi also encountered several great masters' closed places, but they carefully avoided them to avoid misunderstandings. Although Li Yi was not afraid, there was no need to provoke unnecessary trouble.

  After decades, Li Yi finally stood on the top of Mount Buzhou, looking at the endless sea of clouds under his feet. His heart was surging and his chest was filled with heroic emotions. "My life should be like this, standing at the pinnacle of all living things." Thinking of this, Li Yi involuntarily recited a poem from later generations:

  Not afraid of floating clouds blocking the view, just because I am at the highest level!

  "Good moral character!" A Taoist with an ancient zither in his arms and a dignified expression appeared before Li Yi. Behind him was a elegant and beautiful woman with a gentle smile, and the two were walking towards Li Yi with big smiles on their faces.

  "What later generations said, Fuxi and Nüwa once lived in seclusion on Mount Buzhou, could it be that they were really them!" Li Yi had a faint guess in his heart.

  Thinking of this, Li Yi also didn't dare to slack off. "Fellow Daoists, please forgive me, I am Li Yi, and I have met the two fellow Daoists," after finishing speaking, Li Yi carefully observed them and found that these two people were also at the Golden Immortal peak realm.

  "The humble one is Fuxi, and this is my younger sister Nüwa!" Fuxi replied.

  "Long time no see, fellow Taoist!" Nüwa smiled slightly.

  "Sure enough, it's them," Li Yi also didn't expect to meet the two great gods who would be famous in later generations here.

  "It's a fate that we meet, let's discuss the mysteries of Taoism together," Fuxi said to Li Yi.

  After Fuxi and Nüwa transformed, they deeply felt the danger of the desolate wilderness, with many powerful beings around, and didn't dare to easily come down from the mountain. Most of the time, they stayed on Mount Buzhou, bitterly cultivating, and rarely interacted with people.

  The two of them are indeed the famous great gods of later generations, with exceptional talent and ability. Relying solely on some crude inherited information, they summarized their own skills and cultivated themselves to the peak of Golden Immortality.

  It's not easy to meet Li Yi now, and everyone is on an equal footing, so it's inevitable that they will communicate with each other. Now, I'll invite Li Yi in person.

  It just so happens that Li Yi also found a few Taoist friends to communicate with, so he didn't delay. "What you said is absolutely right, we should exchange more ideas. As the saying goes, 'the sea accepts all rivers and has great capacity'!"

  Then Li Yi followed Fu Xi and Nüwa back to their quiet retreat cave.

  Fuxi and Nüwa were indeed true practitioners of the Tao. They lived in a simple cave with only two meditation mats, nothing else. This shows that their determination to seek the Tao was unwavering.

  Fuxi sat down cross-legged and smiled at Li Yi, saying: "As the host, I'll start!"

  "My way lies in calculation, in the array," Fuxi paused slightly, "calculate heaven, calculate earth, calculate oneself, calculate all things, heaven is an array, earth is an array, you are an array, I am also an array, nothing is not formed into an array..."

  "One gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things. One is the origin, two is the harmony, three is the trinity, four is the quadrature, five is the elements, six is the union, seven is the stars, eight is the trigrams, nine is the palaces..."

  As he spoke, Fuxi pointed to the air and conjured up a scene: "A gray, misty aura of chaos gradually divided into two opposing forces of yin and yang. The yin and yang energies then transformed into earth, wind, fire, and water, which in turn gave rise to land, mountains, living creatures, sun, moon, and stars..."

  "It's indeed the creator of the innate Bagua, and the profoundness of the formation is unmatched," Li Yi couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

  Fuxi finished speaking, and Nüwa continued, "My Tao is in creation and transformation. All living things have great creation and transformation, heaven and earth have great creation and transformation. The way of creation and transformation is profound and mysterious, with intricate connections, the operation of qi, and the attainment of everything...".

  Nüwa also transformed into a scene, "A desolate land, gradually growing out small grasses, gradually rising countless tall trees, birds began to play in the forest, tigers, eagles, snakes, deer... Countless creatures began to appear, the desolate land thoroughly became a paradise for all living things..."

  After listening to Fuxi and Nüwa's swordsmanship, Li Yi felt deeply moved. "The two of you are indeed profound in your Taoist skills, I have also made a humble contribution!"

  "My way lies in the mind, in the sword," said Li Yi, his expression slightly solemn. "The sword is the mind, the mind is the law, the law is the way... with the mind controlling the sword, with the sword demonstrating the law, with the law proving the way..."

  Li Yi's hand gently pressed the Qinglian ancient sword, and the sword light flashed slightly. A lotus stem gradually grew up, one zhang, two zhang, three zhang, all the way to ten zhang. Gradually, two flower buds appeared on the lotus stem, one black and one green, swaying slightly. The two flower buds slowly bloomed, and a quiet, noble double-headed lotus appeared before his eyes.

  "Birth, death, extinction, reincarnation,... Breaking extinction with the sword way, performing reincarnation with the sword way..."

  Li Yi spoke while demonstrating with his sword energy.

  Gradually, the lotus flowers bloomed, and a grayish Tai Chi diagram appeared in the void, emitting an aura of life, death, extinction, and eternity, profound and mysterious.

  ……

  "The Taoist friends' Tao Fa is indeed profound and unfathomable," Fuxi admired the way, Nüwa on the side also praised it repeatedly.

  This time, the three of them all gained some insight. Among them, Li Yi and Nüwa had the greatest harvest. Li Yi's way of annihilation involved life and death, which made Nüwa's understanding of the way of creation more profound. And Nüwa's emphasis on creation was also on evolution, which made Li Yi's cognition of the cycle of life and death deeper.

  "Each other, each other, the two Taoist friends are also profound and unpredictable," received praise from both of them, Li Yi's heart couldn't help but feel a thrill of joy.

  "Hehe, alright, let's stop flattering each other," Nüwa said with a slight smile.

  At that moment, Li Yi's face turned slightly red with embarrassment. "Have the two Taoist friends been cultivating on Mount Zhou all along?" Li Yi asked knowingly, quickly changing the subject.

  "Hmm, with our current cultivation level, it's still quite dangerous outside," Nuwa furrowed her brow and said gloomily.

  "Ah, it's a bit better now, the chaos has subsided a lot!" Thinking of the miserable scene during the Great Calamity of All Living Things, Fu Xi felt a pang in his heart. Even though his two siblings had hidden in Mount Buzhou, they had still encountered several crises, not to mention the chaos that was even more intense elsewhere.

  "Two fellow Taoists may be too focused on upgrading their realm, if they pay a little attention to the means of fighting, it should be enough to protect themselves in the vast wilderness," Li Yi suggested, finding that the two seemed to lack attacking means.

  "Hehe, indeed overlooked this point," Fuxi also humbly accepted. After all, they both liked quiet cultivation and didn't really value these fighting techniques, unlike Li Yi, who killed people like flies.

  Afterwards, the three of them started discussing the major events that had occurred in the vast wilderness over the years. In fact, Li Yi was mainly the one speaking, while Fu Xi and Nü Wa listened, as they rarely went down the mountain and didn't know much about the outside world.

  A thousand years passed unnoticed in the midst of three people discussing and talking about the Tao.