Beneath the yellow earth altar was an enormous yellow earth secret chamber!
The chamber was several hundred paces wide, like a flat rectangular warehouse. One, two, three, four … a total of eight paintings of maids lined up on one wall. The reason why Ye Kong had made the secret room so big was because he wanted to view the eight paintings from different angles, both near and far.
The woman in the eight paintings smiled faintly. It was clear that they depicted a woman, a posture, a moment of movement. The only difference was the expression in the eight paintings!
Empress Myrtlestar's painting skills were extraordinary. With just a few strokes, she was able to capture the expression in her eyes. In the first painting, the woman was smiling, but her eyes were emotionless, devoid of love or hate. In the second painting, she was still smiling, but her eyes seemed to be overflowing with love. In the third painting, she was still smiling, but there was deep sorrow hidden in her eyes. These eight paintings depicted a woman's yearning, worry, love, hate, joy, disappointment, and so on. They were all vivid and lifelike.
"Could it be … that these eight paintings really were painted by Empress Myrtlestar for her beloved concubine? There's no mystery in them?
"No! I feel like there's a meaning in those eyes, but I can't put my finger on it. "
… …
"I can't find anything unusual about the paper, materials, or lines of the paintings. The only possibility is that the contents of the paintings are the expressions in their eyes!"
"But what does the expression in a woman's eyes mean?"
… …
He sat in meditation for ten years, immersed in it. In truth, after entering a meditative state, he lost all sense of time. In the last ten years, Ye Kong didn't come out of seclusion. He sat cross-legged, seemingly thinking, but not really thinking. In the depths of his soul, the eight women's eyes spun back and forth!
Gradually, the woman's face became old, then young, and then the woman's face changed into other people's faces … men, women, rich, poor, old, young …
The only thing that didn't change was the expression in their eyes!
Ye Kong was intoxicated. Every day, he saw the eight paintings transform into different faces. Because of the expression in their eyes, these faces were filled with joy, joy, sorrow, and sorrow. Different lives, the same sorrow and joy.
What Ye Kong didn't know was that there were already some lines and ripples on his body. One end of these ripples was connected to Ye Kong's body, while the other end extended out into space … These lines revolved around Ye Kong in an arc, rotating slowly like a windmill.
If Ye Kong saw it, he would definitely discover that the patterns were the same as the patterns on his Nomological Key!
Ye Kong couldn't see it because he was immersed in the painting. He was already walking the path that Empress Myrtlestar had paved for him! As long as they followed this path, they would be able to comprehend the laws that Empress Myrtlestar had left behind for their descendants!
Ten years of immersion, ten years of changes, and seeing through the lives of billions of people. Ye Kong finally understood.
"So I was wrong." Ye Kong said without thinking. He opened his eyes, raised his hand and pointed at the eight paintings on the wall. "The order is wrong!"
As Ye Kong pointed, the first painting Ye Kong had obtained first, the one that his disciple had contributed, flew to the end!
Ye Kong's expression didn't change as he faced the eight paintings that had been rearranged. He stared at them for a long while. The first seven paintings had expressions of joy, sorrow, laughter, and anger. They contained the myriad emotions of the human world.
The last painting, however, was empty and flat, emotionless and devoid of love. It didn't even seem like the eyes of a human. If one looked at it for too long, they would feel a chill in their heart and unwittingly feel a sense of awe!
Finally, Ye Kong's voice came from the quiet and spacious secret chamber. "Joy, anger, sorrow, and joy make it difficult for one to become a god. Emotionless and hateful is the way. What Empress Myrtlestar left behind is the most emotionless eternal law … "
Ye Kong finally understood from the eight paintings that Empress Myrtlestar was telling future generations through these paintings: Why couldn't those billions of people become gods? Because they had emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, love, hate, affection, and hatred. They could feel joy, anger, love, and hate! Just like the first seven paintings, there were billions of faces, but their natures were the same. They all had humanity, so they couldn't become gods!
And the last eye was the divine eye. There were millions of human eyes and immortal eyes, but only one divine eye, and that was the one in the last painting!
Cold, emotionless!
The emotionless here wasn't the usual vicious, merciless, cruel, and heartless. That was not it.
The emotionless here meant no love, no hate, no joy, and no sorrow! There was no kinship, friendship, or love, and nothing would stir the heart. In other words, it was like cultivating oneself into a stone. If a super beauty stripped naked in front of him, he wouldn't react. If you killed his entire family in front of him, he wouldn't be angry …
This was the eternal law. Many immortals in the Primordial Era had cultivated it to godhood. They believed that the difference between gods and immortals was that gods were inhuman. They were emotionless, and they could be eternal!
Like the starry sky of the universe, an eternal existence! Eternal emotionlessness! He wouldn't be happy, nor would he be unhappy. He was eternally there. As long as you didn't provoke him or violate the universal laws, he wouldn't attack you!
This was the eternal law! The most emotionless and closest to the ancient gods!
At this moment, the elders of the Immortal King Palace arrived at Thick Earth Star.
The Immortal King Palace was like the Immortal King's home. Other than the planet where the battle was taking place, the other planets of the Immortal King Palace were not allowed to have immortals.
Why did the Immortal King make such a rule? For example, there was a nest of ants in your house. If the ants didn't come out, you wouldn't care. But the ants came out and could fly. They crawled under your feet and flew in front of you all day … Even if they were harmless, wouldn't you be annoyed by them?
There were a total of eight Immortal King Palace envoys passing by. All of them were at the Immortal Lord stage. Their leader was the Chen family's distant ancestor, Chen Chutao, who had a grudge with Ye Kong! 30 years ago, Chen Chutao didn't go to the Star Pavilion, so he escaped with his life. The core grand elder died in the battle between the Immortal King and the ancient demon. Chen Chutao was now considered a senior among the elders.
"I didn't expect there to be 18 Golden Immortals here!" Chen Chutao flew into Thick Earth Star, released his immortal sense, and found the location of all the Golden Immortals. However, due to the restrictions set up by Ye Kong, he didn't discover Ye Kong's yellow earth altar.
"All of you, go and capture the 18 Golden Immortals." Chen Chutao ordered. He himself flew towards the plaza of Meng Zhong City.
On the plaza of Meng Zhong City, a middle-aged man was still trying to lift the black turtle shell the size of a jade pendant. Chen Chutao had already noticed that this was a good immortal treasure. He flew down and stood beside Xiao Wanlei. He asked, "Mortal man, why are you doing this?"
Xiao Wanlei looked at the immortal and hurriedly knelt down. "Great immortal, as long as I lift this jade pendant, I can marry Miss Yan Yi."
"This is an immortal treasure. How can you lift it?" Chen Chutao snorted. He raised his hand but to no avail. He was furious. He took a few steps forward and grabbed the black turtle shell. He yelled, "Rise!"
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