Legend of the Great Sage Chapter 1677 - The Mystery of the Stars

The sky gradually lit up. A smear of dark-blue appeared in the endless darkness.

Li Qingshan adjusted his posture and stood up properly again, gazing at the sky—he could vaguely see a few stars light up, giving off a dim glow.

These stars all varied in coloured. Who knew how far away they were. However, Li Qingshan found them to be extremely similar, feeling some kind of strange connection that ignored the distance between them.

The Elder of Heavenly Tomes stood up straight as well, raising his hand and pointing at the stars in the sky. “If you’ve never come to the heavens, then you’ve probably never seen these stars either, little bro.”

Li Qingshan said, “Please elaborate.”

The Elder of Heavenly Tomes pointed at them one by one and explained, “These stars are called the Hell star, the Human star, the Hungry Ghost star, the Asura star, ah, and the Heaven star and the Daemonic Beast star, but they’ve been blocked by the Primordial World. Together, they’re commonly known as the ‘six realms of saṃsāra’.”

Li Qingshan could not help but sigh. He had always thought the six realms of saṃsāra were extremely special existences. As it turned out, they were no different from the World of the Nine Provinces.

With this trip to the Nine Heavens, the “sun” and “moon” he originally believed to be nothing special had now become extremely wondrous, while the six realms of saṃsāra he originally believed to be extremely wondrous had instead become ordinary.

However, they brought new questions. Just how could six unrelated worlds be merged into the six realms of saṃsāra? Why did regular worlds not bear that special characteristic? As a result, he voiced these questions to the Elder of Heavenly Tomes.

The Elder of Heavenly Tomes replied with a question, “Do you know what the difference between the six realms of saṃsāra and the trichiliocosm are?”

Li Qingshan furrowed his brows slightly, struggling to come up with an answer. There were countless differences between the six realms of saṃsāra and the trichiliocosm.

For example,

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