Reunited with the Heart of Tao (First Update)

Chapter 1378 Reunion with Dao Heart (First Update)

Although Qin Mu heard his words, he was unable to concentrate his spiritual consciousness, let alone regain his Tao heart.

Just as Tai Shi said, the Nine Prisons Platform was not a place he could reach now. This natural heavenly prison should have been ranked after the God-Slaying Platform.

However, in the early years of Longhan, when the gods built the Heavenly Palace, they did not refine the Heavenly Prison according to the Nine Prison Platforms.

The Heavenly Prison in Heaven is different from the Nine Prisons Platform. There is no avenue that contains the Nine Prisons Platform, so everyone knows nothing about this realm.

For millions of years, no one has ever conducted research on the Nine Prisons Platform.

Qin Mu's current realm has not yet reached the Yao Chi realm. Facing the test of the Jiuyutai realm, he has no experience of anyone to learn from.

He could only fight against the Nine Prison Platform alone, and with his Taoist heart sealed, he was like a baby in a basket drifting on the Yongjiang River.

It was dark all around him, and the only thing that was visible in the basket was the jade pendant on his chest that was still emitting a faint light.

The darkness around Yongjiang River was filled with ghosts and demons. The monsters were galloping on the river, appearing and disappearing mysteriously, and spying on him.

"You didn't have a heart for the Tao before! You cultivate a heart for the Tao step by step!"

The voice of Tai Shi came from the egg, as if it was extremely far away: "You need to use your own will to overcome it and rebuild your Tao heart! You can survive..."

His voice became increasingly distant and fainter until it could no longer be heard.

Severe pain surrounded Qin Mu and fear overwhelmed him.

He was like a lonely baby floating on the Yongjiang River, with only darkness as far as his eyes could see.

What if, what if Granny Si didn’t hear his cries in the basket, didn’t walk into the darkness, and didn’t pick him up from the basket?

Will he still be who he is now?

Is he still Mu Tianzun?

The Nine Prison Platforms of the Heavenly Prison crushed his Dao heart, causing it to return to its most primitive state, crushed his fighting spirit, and turned him into a weak baby.

The darkness would eventually come and consume him completely.

Qin Mu's eyes gradually dimmed, and finally, everything was swallowed up by the darkness.

The Tai Shi Egg, which had been trying to call out to Qin Mu, also calmed down.

It's over. Qin Mu's Dao heart is locked and his fighting spirit is gone. It is impossible for him to awaken his Dao heart and become Mu Tianzun again.

There was silence in the Nine Prisons.

In fact, there is no wailing of billions of people here as Qin Mu heard, nor is there any blockade of the Avenue, spiritual consciousness, vital energy, and soul.

Ever since he set foot in this place, his heart of Tao has been locked.

Locking the avenue, locking the body, locking the vital energy, locking the spiritual consciousness are actually all superficial.

It is precisely because the heart of Tao believes that it is locked that one will see that one's physical body, vital energy, soul, great Dao and spiritual consciousness are all locked.

The legend of the village chief's dominance makes people believe that they can do anything!

The Nine Prisons Platform locks one's mind and makes one think that he is incapable and can achieve nothing.

Qin Mu was lying in the center of the Nine Prisons Platform. He hadn't moved for a long time, and at most he would twitch and twist from time to time.

"The being with the most powerful Dao heart in this world is actually unable to fight against the Nine Prison Platform. I will probably be trapped in his body until the day he dies."

Tai Shi thought silently in his heart: "Perhaps I can only escape after his body rots. Mu Tianzun, are you really unable to break through the prison-locked Dao Heart?"

…

Qin Mu curled up weakly. There was complete darkness all around him, without any light.

"Listen, there's a child crying outside!"

"I think Mu'er should have another physique, a domineering physique that combines the best of the four major physiques!"

"As long as you have faith, your ordinary body can become a dominant body!"

"It is difficult to destroy the god in a temple, but it is even more difficult to destroy the god in one's heart!"

"The way of the sage is no different from the way of the common people in their daily lives. Anything different is a heresy!"

"To act according to one's nature, and to let nature take its course, is called the Way."

"I and the National Master are pushing for reform in order to change the situation where the sects control the lifeline of the people and the country. I not only want reform, but also revolution, to overthrow the lives of these sects and my own life!"

"The Kaihuang Reforms were in accordance with Heaven and in response to the will of the people."

"What use do I have for this sword? What use is it? This sword can't be sharpened!"

"There is no Worry-Free Township in this world!"

"If we become corrupt in the future, our descendants will come to overthrow us. There is no need to think so much."

"Take care! I'm counting on you for the future!"

"Master, you are right."

…

After a long time, Qin Mu opened his eyes. His Tao heart was still locked and he still looked like a mortal, but he had ignited the hope of life.

"Taiyi is right. I never had a heart for Tao before. A heart for Tao is honed through practice. I was not a person with magical powers before, let alone a god. I cultivated myself into this."

"In the past, I was not the Qin Sect Leader, not the Qin Emperor, not the Mu Tianzun. I fought for it step by step!"

"Before, I didn't have my own soul, I didn't have my own body, but I had my own consciousness!"

"In the past, I didn't have any fellow Taoists of my own, but I had many friends of my own!"

"Before, I was an orphan without any relatives, but I have the Disabled Village and Yankang!"

"Before, I had no path of my own! But now—"

He gritted his teeth to resist the piercing pain, stood up shakily, and tried his best to control his consciousness and keep himself awake.

“But now, I have my own way!”

The pain distorted his consciousness, but he still desperately mobilized his spiritual sense and forced the Three Dan Techniques of the Tyrant Body to activate.

As he walked, he felt as if he had returned to the village of disabled old men, back to the hard days of running and practicing martial arts at the same time.

Only this time, his steps were extremely weak, his body twisted and swayed, and he walked with difficulty in the tiny space at the bottom of the Nine Prisons Platform of the Heavenly Prison.

His spiritual consciousness mobilized the already rigid vital energy and made it flow along with his spiritual consciousness. He tried his best to activate his skills, only to feel pain as if his bones were being scraped wherever his spiritual consciousness and vital energy passed.

He was trembling, and every step he took was excruciatingly painful.

The Taishi Egg still didn't speak. He was observing this scene, observing how a humble creature who had fallen into a desperate situation got out of the desperate situation and what supported him to keep going.

He has always been full of prejudice against acquired creatures, and has a bad impression of ancient gods. It was the creator among the acquired creatures who dug him out of the Taishi mine, and it was the ancient god Taichu Tiandi who imprisoned him.

However, now he saw from Qin Mu the unimaginable vitality possessed by the life forms in this world!

He admired Qin Mu's extremely strong and even stubborn will.

It takes him half an hour to walk around the two-meter square space.

Long Qilin and Long Xi stood at a very high place and looked down. They could only see a square inch of space and a tiny figure moving very slowly.

"Can the leader come out from inside?" Long Qilin couldn't help but feel a little worried and looked at Long Xi.

There were giant beasts that came from outside to collect elixirs, but before they even got here, their bodies were already twisted in pain and they had difficulty moving.

Long Qilin hurried forward to take the elixir. His Taoism was much more advanced than those giant beasts.

“If Mu Tianzun really walks out of the Nine Prisons, should I really join forces with him?” Long Hu said in a low voice, looking at that small space.

Long Qilin was slightly startled, and couldn't help but asked happily: "Can the leader come out from there?"

Long Hu stared at the ninth platform and whispered, "His speed is gradually increasing. I have never seen anyone who can move around in the ninth level of the Nine Prisons Platform, and I have never seen anyone who can regain his Dao Heart after his Dao Heart is locked. But he did it."

————Happy birthday to my book friend Lonely as Smoke!