Chapter 6645 Achieve the Dao through Subtraction

One day later, the Heavenly Constellation Ancestor left.

Long Chen remained beneath the Heavenly Maple Tree, his hands clasped in a seal. He was in a state of enlightenment.

Xue Ying stood in the distance. She saw Long Chen’s figure flicker faintly, as though turning illusory. Although he was clearly not activating his essence runes, profound fluctuations of law power radiated steadily from his body.

Long Chen let out a long sigh and opened his eyes. Under the Heavenly Constellation Ancestor’s guidance, his understanding of the laws of heaven and earth had increased another level.

In the past, Long Chen had found it puzzling that Divine Sovereigns—beings who wielded law power—could be so weak.

Now, he finally understood the reason.

According to the Heavenly Constellation Ancestor, the vast majority of cultivators’ essence runes were not truly theirs. Rather, they were gifts left behind by their ancestors.

These essence runes appeared to awaken naturally, but in truth, they were seeds embedded within bloodlines, passed down from generation to generation.

Over ninety percent of all essence runes originated this way.

The advantage was obvious—it allowed their descendants to awaken essence runes far more easily.

The drawback was that the descendants would be influenced by the essence runes of their ancestors, unconsciously following the same path their forebears had once walked. In plain terms, it limited their future path.

If they could not promptly correct this flaw in the Sovereign Lord realm, it would become a big problem once they reached the Divine Sovereign realm.

At that point, even if one relied on ancestral power to advance, their strength would never match that of those who reached the Divine Sovereign realm through their own comprehension of the laws.

The Heaven Constellation Ancestor had naturally managed to comprehend his essence rune on his own, with absolute clarity regarding his path.

That was why he dared to rebuild his heaven-earth law manifestation. He had the confidence to do it again.

On the contrary, the Divine Sovereigns who had attacked Heavenly Maple Valley had long since locked themselves into dead ends. Their essence runes were awakened through ancestral inheritance, and they lacked the courage to break them down and forge their own path.

The Heavenly Constellation Ancestor warned Long Chen that the Sovereign Lord realm was the foundation of the Sovereign realm. If the foundation was unstable, there would be no possibility of climbing higher in the future.

Long Chen had condensed his essence runes through his own comprehension. However, his violet blood, Supreme Blood, and dragon blood each carried their own unique law imprints.

Long Chen had yet to advance to the Divine Sovereign realm. After all, he didn’t have his own heaven-earth law manifestation. Before taking that step, he had to find a way to erase these bloodline imprints. Otherwise, they would become shackles on his future path.

In truth, Long Chen had sensed this issue earlier. When examining his essence runes, he had always felt that something was amiss.

With the Heavenly Constellation Ancestor’s warning, Long Chen finally realized the truth.

It was not that he lacked something.

He simply had too much.

“To learn is to constantly add,” Long Chen murmured. “To achieve the Dao is to subtract—until all that remains is the Dao.”

At last, Long Chen grasped the crux of the problem.

Cultivation required accumulation. But walking the Dao required cutting away everything that was not the Dao itself. One addition, one subtraction—only by having both could one align with the Heavenly Daos.

Long Chen was extremely grateful to the Heavenly Constellation Ancestor. He was a true master of the Dao.

After Long Chen was done with this moment of enlightenment, he cut off a branch of the Heavenly Maple Tree and planted it in the primal chaos space.

However, he found that the usually omnipotent primal chaos space couldn’t make the branch grow into a new tree. It merely preserved its vitality.

Long Chen went to find his mother.

He said, “Mom, can you help me out? I need a piece of the Heavenly Maple Tree’s tree-heart.”

“Don’t tell me you intend to...” Luo Ningshuang’s expression changed as she guessed his plan.

To extract the tree-heart, Luo Ningshuang had to use up her own core essence blood. Otherwise, the tree-heart would have instantly died upon its extraction.

When she handed over a palm-sized tree-heart to Long Chen, her face was as pale as a piece of paper. Long Chen’s heart ached, but there was no way around it. For the sake of the violet blood race, he had to attempt it.

He carefully planted the tree-heart within the primal chaos space. Only then did he finally relax.

The tree-heart quickly took root, sprouting and growing several meters tall in a short time.

However, this Heavenly Maple Tree was different. Its leaves were emerald green rather than violet.

Long Chen knew that this was the result of there being no violet blood energy to nourish it inside the primal chaos space.

However, Long Chen was not planning on nourishing it with his violet blood. He just wanted it to grow large enough that he could give it to Sovereign Mountain. As for what Sovereign Mountain did with it, that would be up to the Heavenly Constellation Ancestor.

From the Heavenly Constellation Ancestor, Long Chen had seen what it meant to be a true noble gentleman. He genuinely admired his character.

By comparison, the Jiuli race’s conduct was detestable. Long Chen had already made his decision. If they continued to pursue him for vengeance, then they couldn’t blame him when he ruthlessly crushed them into the ground.

Once the Heavenly Maple Tree reached a suitable size, Long Chen gave his mother medicinal pills to aid her recovery and bade her farewell.

Although Luo Ningshuang was reluctant to part with her son, she held herself back from saying anything. She simply urged him to be cautious and told him to seek out his father after entering the Primal Chaos World.

After that, Long Chen silently left with Xue Ying.

He first visited a branch of the Huayun Trading Company and handed over the corpses of the Heaven-Devouring Black Tiger, the Scarlet-Pupil Nine-Tailed Fox, the Heavenly Demon Golden Monkey, the Divine Blood Violent Ape, and the shadow devil.

He instructed them to deliver the corpses to the Blood Barbarian race.

Long Chen worried about that foolish brother of his. Naturally, he had to leave such fine meat for him.

Zhi Zhi wanted those corpses as well. For it, beings of that level were great nourishment.

Because of this, Long Chen had to patiently soothe it, promising that there would be no shortage of powerful enemies in the Primal Chaos World. Only then did Zhi Zhi finally stop grumbling.

Wilde had absorbed an enormous amount of energy during Long Chen’s tribulation, but if he wished to advance further, he would need even more. The corpses of five Divine Sovereigns should be perfect for him.

Although the Huayun Trading Company had long known that Long Chen had slain multiple Divine Sovereigns, witnessing the corpses firsthand still left them deeply shaken.

Long Chen also gave them a letter to pass to Yue Zifeng. It contained insights and guidance he had gained from the Heavenly Constellation Ancestor. These would undoubtedly benefit the Dragonblood Legion’s cultivation. At the very least, it should save them time going down the wrong paths.

After arranging these things, Long Chen and Xue Ying took a transportation formation to the northwest part of the Sovereign Emperor Heaven.

Three days later, they arrived at their destination.

Xue Ying’s expression changed. “Not good. The spatial channel I used before has been severed by the chaotic flow of space.”

This was the location where she had first entered the nine heavens through a spatial channel constructed by the nine star line.

This spatial channel was extremely well hidden. Furthermore, since Xue Ying had come alone, it should not have caused much of a spatial disturbance.

However, in just these few days, the spatial channel had broken down.

Xue Ying suspected that someone had intentionally disrupted the flow of space around it to sever her path back.

“Lord Long Chen... I’m truly useless,” she said softly, overcome with shame.

“It’s fine. I know another path to enter the Primal Chaos World. Come with me,” Long Chen replied.

Long Chen suddenly thought of the whale necropolis. It seemed that the mark he had left behind would serve its purpose at last.

After saying that, Long Chen and Xue Ying vanished once more.

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