Yellow Court Daoist

"Luo Fuzi's avatar currently lacks some strength. If it could devour heavenly materials and earthly treasures that enhance mana, its power would indeed advance by leaps and bounds."

But such treasures are extremely difficult to find.

Strength and opportunity are both indispensable.

The avatar's strength is barely sufficient, but it lacks a bit of luck. The biggest opportunity it has gained in the past five hundred years is the Golden Lotus in hand.

"Three scattered characters."

"If a Nourishing God Realm Cultivator wishes to ascend to the Divinity Transformation Realm, the Second Stage of Primordial Spirit, he only needs to grasp one Innate scattered character. This Golden Lotus, although it is a Postnatal scattered character, should be able to be exchanged for quite a few spiritual objects that enhance mana, or for scattered characters that align with the Sword Dao, facilitating the comprehension of this avatar."

Lu Qingfeng mused.

Heavenly Book Jade Characters, forged in fire.

Between heaven and earth.

The Great Dao Heavenly Mechanism is omnipresent and yet elusive everywhere.

It is said that during the Ancient Chaos epoch, when heaven and earth first opened, the Great Dao Heavenly Mechanism was abundant between the world, visible everywhere. Ancient Practitioners and Ancient Creatures breathed in sync with it, sensing the heavenly secrets with every move.

That was a rare golden age for cultivation, an era where Great Powers emerged in droves.

Later, Fu Xi created the Eight Diagrams, conveying the Great Dao Heavenly Mechanism into text.

The so-called 'Heavenly Book Jade Characters, forged in fire' refers to such text.

This text naturally generated by the Great Dao Heavenly Mechanism of heaven and earth, each character containing immense power, each representing the expression of the Great Dao Heavenly Mechanism.

In the beginning.

Such text was also ubiquitous throughout the world.

To comprehend and master it was to enjoy the Dao and achieve Great Divine Power. But as time passed, heaven and earth gradually stabilized, the Great Dao Heavenly Mechanism hid among all things, no longer visible to the world.

And thus, the Heavenly Book Jade Characters became even harder to find.

Only by reaching for the sky and understanding the earth, expending more Heart Power, and possessing an exceptional comprehension could one understand such text containing the Great Dao Heavenly Mechanism from the depths of the world.

Great perseverance and great wisdom are both essential.

If one has a significant opportunity and obtains heavenly materials and earthly treasures that contain the Heavenly Book Jade Characters, the process could be much easier. But such treasures are already rare, particularly those containing the Heavenly Book Jade Characters, which are exceedingly hard to find.

Later generation texts like the Erosion Text and the Cloud Seal, complicated and difficult to understand, were still a hundred or a thousand times more precise in expressing the true intent of cultivation than ordinary texts. They evolved from the Heavenly Book Jade Characters.

And the Heavenly Book Jade Characters.

One character is one Magic Gate!

One character is one Divine Skill!

Containing endless mysteries, incomparable to Erosion Text or Cloud Seal.

Cultivation flourished in later generations.

With the exploration of the universe, Immortal Experts discovered that although the Great Dao Heavenly Mechanism was hidden from the world and the Heavenly Book Jade Characters were difficult to see, these Jade Characters were also graded.

Heavenly Book Jade Characters were the highest grade, not easily found.

But below them, there were the Earth Book Jade Characters, Mysterious Book Jade Characters, Yellow Book Jade Characters...

Heaven, Earth, Vast Universe, Primordial Chaos.

Divided into eight grades.

The mystery diminishes, the heavenly secrets gradually hide.

From 'Desert Book Jade Character' to 'Heavenly Book Jade Characters' represents a process from the shallow to the deep.

And below the eight-level Jade Characters, there is another level, which is the non-influential scattered characters.

"Scattered characters are divided into Innate and Postnatal."

"Although the Golden Lotus is a marvelous object, the scattered characters inside are Postnatal scattered characters derived from the comprehensions of a Mahayana True Immortal from Innate scattered characters or eight-level Jade Characters, and then written and nurtured."

"Missing a layer of mystery."

"It can serve as a reference, be transformed into Cultivation Techniques and Divine Skills, but it falls far short of the Innate scattered characters and cannot embodY the Great Dao Heavenly Mechanism. Cultivating with it has no hope of ascending to the realm of the Mahayana True Immortal."

"It is not of the True Sect lineage."

What is called Innate, although far away from the true Great Dao Heavenly Mechanism, still allows glimpses of rare insights into the heavenly secrets.

And Postnatal is what the Mahayana True Immortals and Immortal Experts have comprehended from the eight-level Jade Characters or Innate scattered characters, articulated through writing.

But it lacks a hint of the true intent of the Great Dao secrets compared to the Innate.

Yet it is still much more mystical than talismans and Erosion Text.

"Many cultivators of the Immortal Sects, with their illustrious heritage, start to comprehend the Postnatal scattered characters at the Third Realm, and then master them. Later, as they advance to the Primordial Spirit Stage, they grasp several or even dozens of Postnatal scattered characters, seeking patterns and understanding principles from them. If they then go to comprehend Innate scattered characters, it's more than just twice as effective."

Such is the advantage of an Immortal Sect's inheritance.

It is also the essence of a particular Immortal Sect's heritage.

Take Min River.

The Min River Dragon Lord, hailing from the East Sea and entering Shang River for just a thousand years, had to strive mostly by himself. Even Mirror Stones were rare in the Dragon Palace, not to mention the much more precious Postnatal and Innate scattered characters.

Thus.

Ao Feng, Ao Yu, and including Lu Qingfeng, although at the Third Realm, and able to comprehend Postnatal scattered characters, were not endowed with any.

Such was the embarrassment of the Min River Dragon Lord's purse.

If it were Wujiang or Tuojiang, although there wouldn't be many, at least offspring and intimates would not go without.

"If one grasps enough Postnatal scattered characters, not only can it pave the way for the cultivation of the Primordial Spirit Stage, but the progress in the Third Realm can also far exceed peers."

Even the Soul Slaying old man, a Primordial Spirit Practitioner, had to fight fiercely over a mere three Postnatal scattered characters, which shows their value.

No need to think much.

Surely this Soul Slaying old man couldn't comprehend the Innate scattered characters and wanted to decrease the difficulty of comprehension by mastering more Postnatal scattered characters.

Or maybe.

He didn't have any Innate scattered characters at all.

…

"Primordial Spirit Practitioners must go through the states of Nourishing God, Divinity Transformation, Soul Emergence, and Union of the Four Realms."

"During the process of forming a Primordial Spirit, strengthening it, and finally uniting it with the physical body to achieve the realm of the Mahayana True Immortal, is also the process of sensing the Great Dao Heavenly Mechanism. The Primordial Spirit Level still lacks a bit of Fire Control to perceive heaven and earth. One needs to start with the most superficial and unstructured Innate scattered characters."

"To comprehend and master scattered characters, ultimately mastering sixty-four scattered characters, can form one 'Desert Book Jade Character,' which is also the most superficial insight into the Great Dao Heavenly Mechanism."

"From here."

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"True Immortal Path accomplished."

Lu Qingfeng pondered deeply.

With mastery over four top-notch Cultivation Techniques, his strength and foundation were not only stronger than those of his peers, but his path forward was also much clearer and more definite than that of cultivators who practiced skills from Side Doors or True Sects.

If one were to cultivate Refined Level skills, without the guidance of a Primordial Spirit Practitioner or other channels of insight, one could only grope their way forward, not knowing how many detours they might take or how many opportunities they might miss.

Lu Qingfeng did not need to worry about this.

"Avatars come with many limitations; even Postnatal Scattered Characters are difficult to comprehend."

"The body cultivates Techniques, and in deciphering and understanding Scattered Characters, one has methods to follow and traces to seek, making it much easier."

After some thought,

Lu Qingfeng simply put away the Golden Lotus, unwilling to waste time on comprehension.

His body was still only at the Gathering Law Realm, and to ascend to the Primordial Spirit Realm, he required at least a thousand years of arduous cultivation. Meanwhile, he could take advantage of this time to have his avatar wander the world, gathering both Postnatal and Innate Scattered Characters while comprehending the Postnatal ones to facilitate future Cultivation.

He had just put away the Golden Lotus.

When suddenly, Lu Qingfeng's heart stirred, his eyebrows shot up in anger, and rage and killing intent soared to the skies in an instant.

"Two scoundrels!"

Without any hesitation, he stood up abruptly, took a step out, and arrived outside the cave dwelling. His figure shook, transforming into a beam of sword light, and he soared into the sky in an instant.

...

Jade House Mountain.

Ao Yin and Ao Pi hid within their cave dwelling, their aura sometimes strong, sometimes weak, actually cultivating.

Suddenly,

A beam of sword light arrived from beyond the skies.

It fell directly into the cave dwelling.

"Boom!"

The cave dwelling exploded, and even the hundred-zhang tall Jade House Mountain was split in two. The mountain crumbled, chaos reigned, and dust obscured the view, making it impossible to see any detail of the mountain.

But Lu Qingfeng could see.

In the instant the cave dwelling burst open, two figures leaped into the air, and with a loud bang, shot off in two different directions.

"Fourth Realm!"

"It must be a Fourth Realm Expert!"

Ao Pi's cultivation was disrupted by the sudden attack, and the sword qi strikes had already inflicted serious injuries.

His face was pale, blood at the corners of his mouth, but that wasn't his immediate concern.

He was utterly shocked, but at the same time, he pushed his mana to the extreme, flying away as fast as he could while sending a message to Ao Yin, "Split up and run!"

Without needing Ao Pi's message, Ao Yin, who was also heavily injured, had already fled in the other direction.

Facing such a formidable enemy, if they fled together, they would both likely meet their doom. Only by splitting up did they have a sliver of a chance to survive.

"Damn it!"

"Both of us were hidden in Jade House Mountain, without the slightest trace exposed; how did this person find us?!"

As Ao Pi fled, his heart was filled with doubts.

But no matter how much he thought, he couldn't anticipate that the Lu Qingfeng they were conspiring against actually mastered the art of avatars. Moreover, his avatar had arrived at the Chunshen Realm five hundred years ago and had reached the region where they had arrived years earlier.

The brothers used a Secret Technique to summon Lu Qingfeng.

The avatar hastened.

In just half an hour, he arrived.

With one strike of his sword, he almost killed them both.

"Flee, flee, flee!"

Too panicked to think of the cause, Ao Pi only spurred his speed to the limit, even burning his essence and Divine Soul to accelerate. With a Fourth Realm Cultivator attacking without uttering a word, Ao Pi dared not hold back anything.

However—

"Where do you think you're running to!"

A thunderous shout came from the sky, as sword light flickered, splitting into ninety-nine beams, which thundered down and immediately engulfed Ao Pi, and with a thought, the Sword Array merged violently!

Boom!

In just an instant.

"Roar!"

Ao Pi manifested his true body, trying to resist the sword formation. He was covered by a thin veil, which was a powerful Sixth Rank Magic Artifact. But with a flash of sword light, the veil artifact instantly shattered.

"No!"

Extreme terror on his face, Ao Pi shouted from the air, "Senior, please spare my life! Your junior has great secrets to reveal!"

Boom!

The Sword Array ignored his pleas and violently converged. Ao Pi's dragon eyes bulged, and his dragon body instantly exploded, turning into a sky full of flesh and blood, then into ashes and dispersing.

"Have mercy!"

"Have mercy!"

A Golden Core containing a dragon-shaped Divine Soul was fleeing, all the while begging for mercy. But within the Sword Array confines, where could it possibly escape?

"Sinner!"

Lu Qingfeng's ears were still echoing with the words Ao Pi spoke half an hour ago, calling for him. His heart was filled with furious rage and abundant killing intent. Even slaughtering Ao Pi, obliterate his Divine Soul, was not enough to quell his anger.

"I will cast your Divine Soul into the Luofu Heart Lamp, where it will be scorched by the lampfire day and night, tormented by Sword Qi, toyed with by Demon Gods."

"For a thousand years, ten thousand years."

"Only then will my anger subside!"

His thunderous words resounded.

Hearing this, Ao Pi's terror intensified. Killing someone is one thing, but if your Divine Soul is completely destroyed, there's still the True Spirit that can reincarnate. In the future, with the right opportunity, it might be possible to reunite the Divine Soul and recover memories of a former life.

Although extremely slim.

But it was far better than having the Divine Soul captured and tortured endlessly.

Ao Pi no longer begged for mercy, and with a thought, mana surged within his Golden Core, preparing to self-destruct.