Novel Full Chapter 635 - Chapter 635: Chapter 394: Spread
Chapter 635: Chapter 394: Spread
Although the materials for the Ground-Departing Flame Light Banner were all ready, due to his cultivation level, Xu Yang was still unable to start forging it.
Superior Immortal Implements, ranked at the seventh tier, correspond to the Integration realm, but the success rate of Integration cultivators in forging Superior Immortal Implements was indeed very low. A single mistake could lead to a failure in the forging process, resulting in the complete destruction of the materials without any chance of getting them back.
This was not the Earth Immortal Realm, where materials were plentiful for Xu Yang to squander, so it was best to wait until his cultivation reached the Mahayana stage before embarking on forging the Ground-Departing Flame Light Banner.
As such, the next step in the plan became very clear, to still focus on secluded cultivation and strengthen his power.
The higher the cultivation, the stronger the power, the easier it was to handle anything.
But for Xu Yang, secluded cultivation and being active did not conflict because he could split off a Solar Avatar, send out Mech Armor, let the avatars do the work while his true self focused on quiet and deep cultivation.
Having lost the foundation of Lingbao Island’s Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion, his overt production income and sales channels were cut off. Although there was still the Mirage Dragon Abyss and White Jade Capital, self-production and self-sale were clearly not conducive to the development of his power.
Therefore, Xu Yang decided to deploy his Solar Avatar, heading to the Siye Frontier and even to the heartland of the Northern Domain’s Central Plains, to act as a teacher spreading teachings and a child bestowing treasures, to spread the Taoist Martial Two Scriptures far and wide, enhancing his own cultivation speed.
Besides, he could also make some extra illicit earnings through “black eating black” methods, aiding the development of White Jade Capital and hastening the forging of billion magical components needed for the Top-Grade Immortal Spirit Mech Armor.
These matters, in fact, could have been undertaken earlier, but due to weak power, there was significant risk involved, which is why they had been postponed thus far.
But times had changed. With the Five Elements Escape Method and various other measures, even a Mahayana cultivator could at most defeat him, but it would be challenging to ensure his death.
Thus, without the previous concerns, the plan for spreading the Taoist Martial Two Scriptures officially started, targeting the borders of the Northern Domain and even the heartland of the Central Plains.
As long as the spreading plan was successful, he would gain an additional batch of Cultivation Accessories, greatly improving the cultivation speed of his present self. Not to say catching up to his dream avatar, but at least not lagging too far behind.
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Time flies, years pass like a shuttle, and in the blink of an eye, thirty years have passed.
Thirty years later, in the Northern Domain’s Central Plains, on Yun Luo Mountain, lies Purity Temple.
Among the ten sacred places of the Northern Domain, where the Tao Veins hold great power, there are six Sects, and the remaining Buddhist and Confucian schools, each divided into two branches.
The Buddhist Sect’s two branches are the Bodhi Enlightenment Temple and the Immeasurable Light Buddha Sect.
Purity Temple belongs to Bodhi and is a branch of the Enlightenment Temple, following the Tao Lineage of the Manjusri Extensive Dharma.
This temple is located in the land of Bodhi, but not within the Enlightenment Temple. Instead, it stands alone, having established its own gate on the mountain.
As such, upon Yun Luo Mountain, within Purity Temple,
a person in plain green clothes stood under the Bodhi Tree, eyes seemingly vacant and distant, silent for a long time.
“Junior sister!”
A woman in white approached, and upon seeing her state, sighed, “Are you thinking about him again?”
Meng Fanying turned her head, her eyes chaotic at first, then returned to calm, “The past is chaotic, hard to sever, hard to break.”
“Is that so?”
The woman in white smiled gently, softly asking, “Then do you remember anything about him?”
“No.”
Meng Fanying shook her head, her voice low and distant, “Besides the name, everything else. I know nothing.”
“You must not be too hasty.”
Upon hearing this, the woman in white did not press further, simply consoling, “Our master once said that as long as you unlock the Manjusri Sword Imprint with your own power and regain the wisdom of your past life, achieving transcendence and severing various emotional tribulations, you will be able to comprehend your true self, inherit the Manjusri Wisdom Sword, and you may even have the potential to become a Bodhisattva.”
“A Bodhisattva?”
Meng Fanying muttered to herself, her gaze inexplicable, then returned to calmness, looking at the woman in white, “Let’s not talk about me. Senior sister, have you been busy running around outside recently?”
“Of course, it has been tiring.”
The woman in white replied with a wry smile, her tone low, “Nowadays, the Northern Domain is indeed in tumultuous times. The chaos that began with the Ten Thousand Star Sea and the Five Elements Immortal Mansion, which ensnared the six Tao Veins, resulted in chaos. After a struggle to cease hostilities, we had barely a hundred years of peace before various disturbances arose again.”
“What disturbances?”
Meng Fanying was also curious.
The woman in white said with a bitter smile, “First, the Nine Heavens Sword Disciple met his demise in the Southern Sea, causing outrage from the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion. As a result, the Great Sun Immortal Sect seized the opportunity to press the advantage and took a strategic location, reigniting the war between the two Sects and even dragging in the other Tao Veins.”
“Moreover, in recent years, someone has been spreading two mysterious scriptures throughout the four corners of the Northern Domain, and even into the Central Plains— one being ‘Martial Arts Scripture’ and the other ‘Taoist Scriptures’. These have stirred up storms across the Northern Domain.”
“Martial Arts Scripture and Taoist Scriptures?”
Meng Fanying frowned in curiosity, asking, “What kind of teachings are these that they can cause such an uproar?”
“You may not be aware, junior sister.”
The woman in white shook her head, “These Taoist Martial Two Scriptures have an organized lineage and a complete system, rivaling the pure orthodox methods directly passed down from the sacred immortal sects.”
“Such teachings, once widely spread, could change the world’s power dynamics and impact all existing forces, even causing significant disruption.”
“After all, those with divine arts require resources for cultivation!”
“The person behind this only spreads the teachings but does not provide the resources for cultivation. Adding to that, with orthodox cultivation consuming a grand amount of resources, those who have obtained his teachings can only strive to compete for the necessary materials.”
“As a result, winds of change blow, and competition rages throughout the world, with predictable consequences!”
“Now in the edges of the Northern Domain and the Central Plains heartland, many Loose Cultivators have emerged, swarming everywhere like locusts in search of resources.”
“If left unchecked, not only will it lead to countless killings, but it will also nurture a major threat. Once these Loose Cultivators attain power through these teachings, the balance between the Siye Frontier and the central Northern Domain will surely be disrupted, and who knows what kind of bloodshed it will lead to.”
“So,” the Sects of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism from the Ten Sacred Places of the Northern Domain unanimously decided to ban the spread of the Taoist Martial Two Scriptures and to capture the person behind it all to see what his true intentions are.”
“However…”
The woman in white let out a bitter smile, “The mastermind behind the scenes is incredibly cunning. Despite the combined efforts of the Ten Sacred Places, they still couldn’t capture him, and they even failed to stop him from distributing the Taoist Martial Two Scriptures.”
“How… is that possible?”
Meng Fanying was also somewhat shocked upon hearing this.
As a successor of the Purity Temple, she was well aware of the power of the Ten Sacred Places in the Central Plains of the Northern Domain, which could be said to have absolute authority. As long as they didn’t cross each other, there was almost nothing they couldn’t accomplish.
But now…
The person spreading the Taoist Martial Two Scriptures was able to withstand the high pressure from the Ten Sacred Places and continue to propagate the Scriptures everywhere?
How did he manage that?
Meng Fanying’s eyes were filled with confusion.
The woman in white just gave a wry smile, “That person has vast divine powers and extraordinary methods, plus an unsurpassed intelligence.”
“Initially, he spread the Taoist Martial Two Scriptures by using various forces through auctions and trade. It didn’t attract much attention at first, just some trouble from evil cultivators and unscrupulous rogues who all ended up being killed by him—hundreds at the Return to Void stage, over a dozen at the Integration stage, as well as several trade associations…”
“As the issue gradually escalated, it eventually caught the attention of various powers, until it even alarmed a Mahayana behind one of the forces.”
“That Mahayana set up a plan and personally tried to capture him, but the culprit managed to escape using his escape method.”
“After escaping, he started retaliating by wiping out all the outposts and disciples of that power.”
“While not as powerful as a Mahayana, among those at the Integration Realm, almost no one could match him. Equipped with his escape method, he could come and go without a trace, and it was impossible to stop him.”
“The Mahayana who set the trap was exhausted by his hit-and-run tactics, and in the end, even the sect was infiltrated during a moment of vulnerability, and everything from disciples to rare treasures was swept clean.”
“By the time the Mahayana rushed back and saw his sect stripped bare, not even a blade of grass left, he almost coughed up three liters of blood.”
The woman in white shook her head, then told Meng Fanying with a wry smile, “That force was a branch of the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion. After being ravaged, the Mahayana went to the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion to ask for reinforcement.”
“The Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion also took this matter very seriously and even summoned the treasure that suppresses the void, the Qiankun Sword Gourd, and dispatched two Mahayanas to capture this person.”
“But the man had already fled, and no matter how the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion strategized, he never showed himself.”
“With no other choice, the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion had to turn to the Haoyu Heavenly Sect to divine the Heavenly Secrets.”
“However, even with three Heavenly Mechanism Grandmasters from the Haoyu Heavenly Sect, they could not find any trace of this person.”
“Obviously, this person was also versed in the ways of the Heavenly Secrets, and his expertise was exceptional, possessing the abilities to seek auspiciousness, avoid calamities, and even have foreknowledge.”
“Unable to do anything, the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion had no choice but to forcefully suppress the spread of the Taoist Martial Two Scriptures and to deploy Mahayanas to patrol in all directions.”
“Thus…”
The woman in white let out another bitter smile, “Indeed, that person left the area controlled by the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion and moved to other places to continue spreading the Taoist Martial Two Scriptures, causing the same problem to repeat over and over again.”
“In this way, the Ten Sacred Places were thoroughly angered, and they put him on a wanted list and banned the Taoist Martial Two Scriptures altogether. Even the Taixuan Tao Mountain and the Haoyu Heavenly Sect held a grand Taoist sacrificial ceremony to fully divine the Heavenly Secrets and investigate his background.”
“Still, they came up with nothing!”
“This…”
Listening to the woman in white’s narration, Meng Fanying’s eyes widened further in amazement, “Haoyu Heavenly Sect, Taixuan Tao Mountain, the two great Taoist sects, both unable to determine his origins… could he be a Tribulation Realm Immortal in hiding?”
“A Tribulation Realm Immortal would avoid the world to cross the Tribulation, untouched by cause and effect. Why would he cause such a disturbance?”
The woman in white shook her head, “Regardless, this person is indeed troublesome. The Ten Sacred Places can only join forces to ban the spread of his methods further while also mobilizing a group of Mahayana cultivators to patrol in all directions and hunt for this person.”
“After such measures by the Ten Sacred Places, the person eventually stopped spreading the Taoist Martial Two Scriptures through auctions and trades, but…”
The woman in white showed helplessness, “Now, secret realms, even common places, started to witness the emergence of various so-called Ancestral Caves with chances and secret treasures.”
“…”
Meng Fanying fell silent for a while before speaking, “All of these actions… they were his doing?”
“Correct!”
The woman in white nodded, “After the Ten Sacred Places banned the auction and trade of the scriptures, he began to create various Ancestral Caves throughout the Northern Domain, planting the teachings of the Taoist Martial Two Scriptures within them. It’s no longer just Loose Cultivators; now, even ordinary people might obtain the scriptures by simply entering a mountain or river.”
“With no alternative, the Ten Sacred Places had to completely ban these Taoist Martial Two Scriptures, even branding them as evil demon sorcery. Anyone who practices them is considered an Evil Cultivator and is sentenced to death without mercy.”
“But can you stop the will of the people with strict orders?”
The woman in white heaved a sigh, “To this day, these Taoist Martial Two Scriptures have spread throughout the four borders of the Northern Domain and even to the heartland of the Central Plains, and they simply cannot be eradicated.”
Hearing this, Meng Fanying’s brow furrowed tightly, “What exactly is this person trying to achieve?”
“No one knows.”
The woman in white shook her head, “But he must have a plan, whether to throw the world into chaos or to hide something more significant. The Ten Sacred Places all see him as a great menace, and they are currently devising ways to dig him out and eliminate him.”
“Him!?”
Meng Fanying muttered to herself, feeling an inexplicable sense of familiarity stirring inside her.
Could it be…