Chapter 36: Gazing at Nature Technique, the Divine Foundation of Longevity

White snow fluttered like cranes, the chill wind swooshed into his sleeves.

In Listening Rain Lane, he had never heard rain; only the sound of falling snow, soft and drifting.

Li Che's eyes blazed, his heart pounded like a drum.

He raised his hand; the divinity gathered by the 【Immaculate Heart】 welled up in his palm as a hazy white glow, vague and misty, twisting the wind and snow.

"Joy, anger, worry, thought, sorrow, fear, shock — these are the seven emotions' divinity; the divinity method is born from these seven emotions, branching out from the greater category, and then forging a divine foundation."

"Then, with the flawless divinity I condense from the 【Immaculate Heart】... how do I forge a divine foundation?"

"Flawless and spotless, like a blank sheet of paper — could one, as if drawing on paper, evolve any divine foundation? And could one... forge not a single-emotion divine foundation, but a multi-emotion divine foundation?"

As the idea arose, his ambition blazed like a prairie fire, instantly raging!

But all this...

It was merely Li Che's speculation.

As for how to actually do it, Li Che, who only half-understood divinity, simply couldn't figure it out.

After failing to comprehend it, Li Che stopped thinking about it.

After all, he had not yet formally encountered the divinity method; when he later gets a chance to encounter it, he will slowly analyze it, or try to devise a method capable of forging an immaculate divine foundation.

Of course, this is difficult; no matter how hard, it's still better than having no way to forge a divine foundation.

Upon thinking this, Li Che's mood instantly lightened.

"Nurturing nature with the Immaculate Heart... that is what I now need to devote my effort to."

Li Che rose to his feet, his qi and blood surging like an angry dragon's roar; snowflakes melted, rising as scorching vapor.

His eyes shone bright, his thoughts turning.

"Right... the Dragon Elephant Vajra can absorb divinity to boost progress; then can the divinity I gather with the 【Immaculate Heart】 be used to supply the Dragon Elephant Vajra?"

Mutual aid between Dao fruits?

The idea is good, but if we consume the divinity nurtured by the 【Immaculate Heart】 to enhance the 【Dragon Elephant Vajra】, it will surely slow the nurturing of divinity, resulting in more loss than gain...

"Therefore, lending a hand during a breakthrough is fine; in daily life, just slowly temper using the martial talent granted by the Dragon Elephant Vajra."

"If one could forge a divine foundation, looking over the whole Flying Thunder City, inside and out, they would surely be top-tier experts!"

Forging a divine foundation is extremely important...

Because Xu You once said something to him, Li Che kept it in mind.

The divine foundation is the beginning of longevity.

He stretched, bones creaking, Li Che felt great.

After leaving the courtyard, he strolled down the long street, intending to pick up some old yellow wine, slice some braised meat, for a good drink tonight.

Old Chen and Xu You came every day to mooch meals and drinks; Li Che naturally prepared some side dishes.

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In the ten-thousand-zhang high sky, clouds and snow drifted.

Flying Thunder Wai Cheng.

A simple carriage jolted along, breaking through wind and snow, entering the city.

"Old man, we've arrived at Flying Thunder City."

The coachman pulled the carriage to the side, rubbed his hands, and shouted into the carriage.

The curtain lifted, and two figures stepped out.

An old man, his face full of withered wrinkles like centuries-old tree bark, wore a thick coat, with two long eyebrows drooping.

Beside the old man was a five- or six-year-old child, clever and lively, with two Nezha braids.

The old man shook out a few Dàjǐng cast copper coins from his sleeve and handed them to the coachman; the coachman weighed them, glanced at the child beside the old man, and reminded: "Old man, you must take good care of this child; in Flying Thunder City... it's easy to lose a child."

The old man heard this, smiled, and clasped his fists in salute.

The coachman said no more, and drove the carriage away.

"Master, we came to Flying Thunder City a year early; will we break the rules?"

The child looked up at the old man, asking doubtfully.

The old man stroked his beard, slightly shook his head: "Rules? Dàjǐng is in decline; what rules are there now? Moreover, along this journey I've seen the divinity of the strange temples outside Flying Thunder City grow ever stronger, monsters rampant; I fear that if we come back a year later, we might not even be able to enter the city."

The child jumped in fright: "Ah? Is it really that exaggerated?"

"Although Flying Thunder City is small, it houses many great clans and plenty of divine foundation cultivators... to fall in a year seems a bit exaggerated, doesn't it?"

The old man glanced at the child: "Little Lü Chi, do you think I would deceive you?"

"The strange temple outside the city, judged by our sect's 'Gazing at Nature Technique,' should be a 'Ten Metropolises Strange Temple'; in another year it could advance to the 'Nine Luminaries'..."

"Given the strength of divine foundation cultivators in Flying Thunder City, the present Ten Metropolises-level strange temple can still be dealt with; but once it advances to the Nine Luminaries level, those who have forged divine foundations and innate meridian martial artists might escape, yet those below divine foundation cannot."

Child Lü Chi sucked in a breath: "Flying Thunder City... divinity is thin, population small; how could the strange temple advance to the Nine Luminaries?"

The old man stroked his beard: "Temples are only for sacrifice and worship."

"When someone offers life, nature, or divinity as sacrifice, the strange temple will naturally rise."

"We came early to find a spirit child, bring him back to the sect, and avoid causing trouble."

The old man instructed the child.

"Master... are we supposed to see death and not save?" Lü Chi tilted his head, asking: "At least we should go warn the city's strong ones?"

The old man affectionately rubbed Lü Chi's head: "This matter isn't that simple..."

"Besides, my descent this time, though ordered, was to evade the gaze of the Dàjǐng Temple Office; I left most of my divinity on the mountain and sneaked down... the Ten Metropolises strange temple's outbreak could still be handled, but once the temple god of the Nine Luminaries takes shape, this old bone of mine won't be enough to fight it."

"Then, if contaminated by the temple god's divinity... it would ruin one's own divinity path."

"If even Dàjǐng doesn't care, what are we to manage?"

Generally, before disaster strikes, announcing one's identity and leading innocent civilians out of the city to escape is the way.

The old man patted the head of the child Lǚ Chì.

Well, settle down, let me use the Observing Nature Technique to see… how many divine-natured children remain in Fēiléichéng?

The old man held Lǚ Chì's hand.

He raised his hand, pinched a flake of snow, and lightly drew a line before his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, there seemed to be a golden wheel in his pupils, rings stacked one within another.

He looked toward the firmament and saw four enormous divine-natured millstones suspended high, hazy between heaven and earth.

【Angry Wail Ghost-Subduing】, 【Fear-Intimidating Light Trace】, 【Suspended Thought Flowing Sword】, 【Furious Amitabha】……Little Fēiléichéng still has quite a few cultivators who have forged divine foundations, and the varieties of divine foundations are also quite many.

The old man gave a faint smile and examined carefully.

These are all ordinary divine foundations, but those who can forge them already possess considerable bearing.

After all, many divine-natured cultivators nurture a pond-like divine nature, yet they cannot take a single step forward, or their minds are ravaged by divine nature, driving them utterly mad, and they fall victim to a backlash of divine nature.

Divine foundation cultivators are no longer weak; do not think that divinity is just a hair's breadth away—sometimes that hair's breadth is a chasm!

The golden wheel in the old man's eyes turned, circle after circle.

He glanced toward the inner city and slightly nodded: "The great clans have still accumulated quite a few spirit-children, unfortunately it seems they don't have much divine nature."

Then the golden wheel rolled, his gaze fell on the outer city, looking toward Xu Ji Woodcarving Shop, and a hint of unusual color appeared in his eyes.

Under his Observing Nature Technique, it seemed as if firelight shot up to the heavens, blazing and burning, dyeing half the sky red.

What a tyrannical wrathful divine nature…

A spirit-child possessing such divine nature, and the great clans haven't even recruited him? How strange…

The old man was astonished, he stroked his beard, did a quick calculation: "Oh, only two years old… no wonder."

It seems… this descent from the mountain will bring a great harvest.

The old man stroked his beard and smiled.

Just as he was about to disperse the golden wheels in his pupils and dispel the Observing Nature Technique,

He froze.

Looking ahead along the street, there was a carefree youth carrying braised meat and a jug of wine, humming a little tune.

And…

The youth's whole body emanated a spotless, brilliant, pure and flawless divine radiance!

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