Chapter 435: A Century of Seclusion, Zuo Zuo Qiyu's Test

The 157th year since entering the Origin Realm.

In the Huailiu Courtyard, inside the dueling arena.

"Boom~ Boom~"

The Yin-Yang Dao Domain Realm martial artist, Bagel, was extending four arms, holding blades, and fighting three bronze-colored giants.

The giants were empty-handed, bare-chested, and only wore grass clothes woven from green leaves.

Bagel held three types of weapons, dodging constantly under the giants' attacks. He was very agile, and the giants could hardly touch Bagel, but Bagel was also very cautious and had not gone all out.

Because he knew that facing three Giant Yang Grass Men, and Giant Yang Grass Men who knew the Great Divine Ability Five-Finger Mountain and could cast the Treasure Mountain Divine Ability, he only had one chance to strike.

After sparring for thousands of moves, Bagel finally couldn't help it. His physical body surged, and he grew four more arms, like a beast transforming, instantly rushing toward the Giant Yang Grass Men.

And just at this moment... the three Giant Yang Grass Men disappeared, turning into the size of rice grains.

"What? Void Ancestor Divine Ability, Rice Grain Mixing Heaven Art?" Bagel was stunned, suddenly feeling tiny stinging sensations coming from his abdomen, the back of his knees, and his palms.

"Bang!"

Although he was still instantly defeated by the Eight-Arm Divine Ability, Bagel's body staggered, and a bloodstain appeared on his body.

The battle ended, and the Giant Yang Grass Men exploded and turned into ashes.

"My Lord, when did you learn the Rice Grain Mixing Heaven Art? Isn't this something only martial artists can learn?" Bagel asked.

"I just learned it." A wisp of consciousness gathered from the grass man's ashes, like a swirling wind, drifting into the distance: "Bagel, you've worked hard. Let's stop the sparring for today."

"Yes, My Lord." Bagel could only stop asking.

"It's truly exaggerated." Xin Da, who was on the side, greeted Bagel who had stepped off the ring: "My Lord only sent out three clones and forced out your 'Eight-Arm Divine Ability'."

The Eight-Arm Divine Ability is a physical divine ability of martial artists. Each additional arm adds a type of divine ability, and the power is additive.

The first two layers of the Eight-Arm Divine Ability are at the level of small divine abilities; only when all eight arms are gathered can it be considered a great divine ability.

Usually, martial artists can only excavate the fourth arm of their physical body and cannot go further. However, after reaching the Yin-Yang Dao Domain Realm, Bagel had excavated his physical body's treasure to the eighth arm.

It was precisely by relying on this divine ability that Bagel could enter the Origin Realm as a sparring partner.

Although he defeated Zhao Xing's Giant Yang clone, Bagel was a proper martial artist, while Zhao Xing was a Si Nong.

And his grass men could actually use the martial artist's great divine abilities. This was simply shocking.

"Xin Da, I have cultivated for so many years, yet I didn't know that the Si Nong's grass man method could actually use a martial artist's great divine ability. Then what does that make me?" Bagel was somewhat doubting life.

Xin Da hesitated: "Uhh, a waste?"

"Thanks, you didn't have to answer."

"Uh."

In the hundred-fathom void, Zhao Xing retracted the grass man's soul thought, while also absorbing the "combat experience" of the day.

"Bagel and Xin Da's cognition is still limited. They have seen grass man methods, but they have never seen my kind of Void Ancestor grass man method."

The Giant Yang Grass Man Method is part of the Void Ancestor grass man method series.

Ordinary grass man methods usually can only be compatible with spells and cannot be compatible with the secret divine abilities of the martial artist path.

However, the Void Ancestor series of grass man methods are different; they are inclusive.

After the Great Zhou suffered a heavy blow, Zhao Xing began to enter a state of crazy cultivation. Nearly a hundred years had passed by now.

The biggest achievement was that the Giant Yang Grass Man Method had reached the perfection of small divine abilities, and he had begun to fuse spells and divine abilities.

"The Giant Yang Grass Man Method is ultimately a spell. Using materials from the Void Ancestor star system, it is compatible with two great divine abilities. Excluding the mountain method great divine ability, the other is the Rice Grain Mixing Heaven Art."

The mountain method great divine ability was because Zhao Xing himself was very familiar with it and had practiced it for a long time.

And the Rice Grain Mixing Heaven Art itself belonged to one of the Void Ancestor divine abilities. When exploring the scholars' Dao Treasury, You Yitian, a Qi Sect martial artist at the Great Divine Ability Realm under Du Yun, had once cast it.

"The Giant Yang Grass Man Method has reached the perfection of divine abilities and can be integrated. However, integrating two great divine abilities is already the limit."

"This is not because my talent and comprehension are insufficient, but because the Giant Yang Grass Man Method itself is no longer suitable as a foundation for integration," Zhao Xing thought to himself.

If you treat the Giant Yang Grass Man Method as a foundation and integration as building a house, the first floor is the mountain method great divine ability, and the second floor is the Rice Grain Mixing Heaven Art.

The weight of the two great divine abilities has already reached the limit of what the Giant Yang Grass Man Method can bear. Integrating more? It will definitely crush the foundation.

The Giant Yang Grass Man Method itself will no longer hold.

"This series of grass man methods must be replaced, and only Zuo Zuo Qiyu can teach this series."

"Origin Envoy Zuo Zuo Qiyu, how should I find him to learn the method?" Zhao Xing pondered. "Personal unique skills, this didn't appear on the treasure exchange list."

The Emperor Chi Xiao Empire will not force others to contribute their secret methods selflessly. Those who are willing to do so naturally have benefits; those who are unwilling are not forced.

Many unique skills require chance to learn, such as Wu Tian's divine ability. He sold the Treasure Mountain Divine Ability but never sold the "Five-Finger Mountain."

Zuo Zuo Qiyu's Primordial Grass Man Method belongs to the category of non-transferable unique skills.

Perhaps he will only consider teaching it when he reaches the limit of his true spirit.

"Zuo Zuo Qiyu's clone method, the Primordial Clone, I don't count on it for now. Even if I learn it, there are no Primordial series materials for me. Those are non-renewable resources, and their rarity is comparable to top-tier Samsara Dao soldiers."

"But the high-level advanced Primordial, Origin, and Extinction series of grass man methods, I must find a way to pry one out of him."

"Otherwise, my Giant Yang clone will have no way to advance and will forever be at the small divine ability realm."

"Attacking Zuo Zuo Qiyu is difficult," Zhao Xing sighed. "It's been almost a hundred years, and I haven't even seen the person."

In Zhao Xing's past life memories, Zuo Zuo Qiyu did not take disciples.

That he suddenly appeared this time to take him as a disciple was an accident. And after Gu Luohe intervened, Zuo Zuo Qiyu ultimately did not take disciples, while the Five Poisons Emperor took two.

"The reason Zuo Zuo Qiyu doesn't take disciples is because he was betrayed by a disciple. I'll take a step back and not seek to be a disciple, just to learn the art. Will that work?"

In the Three Thousand Dao Seed area, another of Zhao Xing's clones was contemplating the "Sun Treasure Tree."

"The Stem Fighting Divine Ability has reached the perfection of divine abilities. Now, this four-series variant method is just missing the 'Big Tree' type of primary life structure diagram that I haven't fully comprehended."

Mushroom, Vine, Tree, and Bamboo—the four-series variant methods each have three "primary life structure diagrams."

Although named primary, once fully comprehended, one can master the "embryonic form of the Life Great Dao" and cultivate the Stem Fighting Divine Ability into the Stem Fighting Great Divine Ability Realm.

"The clone's contemplation has entered a bottleneck. It depends on whether the main body can transmit some new insights."

The clone closed his eyes again.

Different clones cultivate and contemplate in different locations, and their insights will be transmitted at a certain point in time.

In Gu Luohe's internal world, Zhao Xing sat quietly in front of that Emperor-level vine.

Zhao Xing also had two tough vines beside him, but they were only of ordinary level seedlings.

One grew vigorously, crawling all over the grass, completely dependent on the earth.

The other was much weaker, but it was striving to extend and standing stubbornly.

The surrounding grass, the left side was withered, and the right side was prosperous.

Then, at a certain moment, the states of the two sides suddenly reversed.

It became the right side withered, and the left side prosperous.

Zhao Xing turned a blind eye to this scene, only staring at that Emperor-level vine.

"For 100 years, I have stayed here every day, watching this Emperor-level tough vine."

"Gu Luohe prepared twelve cultivation grounds for me, all based on the Life Great Dao. The first cultivation ground is to contemplate this tough vine."

"In fact, it is to let me see the operation and flow of the Life Great Dao on the tough vine."

Zhao Xing stared at the Emperor-level vine. The gray-black roots disappeared, and the leaves seemed to become transparent.

"The Life Great Dao is full of infinite possibilities. The growth limit of the tough vine doesn't even reach the Origin Realm. Which cosmic rule is hindering its growth?"

"Gu Luohe made this tough vine break the growth rule limit. How did he do it?"

Gradually, in Zhao Xing's eyes, the entire Emperor-level vine disappeared—leaves, branches, roots, all gone!

Only the presentation of the rules of Gu Luohe's internal world remained.

Countless rules were entangled together, seemingly chaotic, yet vaguely following a certain mysterious vein.

Gradually, these chaotic rule veins converged into a perfect carving knife.

A carving knife formed on the basis of the Life Great Dao.

It was precisely this carving knife that changed the life essence of the tough vine and broke the original growth rule limit.

Zhao Xing had some enlightenment in his heart. The surrounding grassland stopped changing, and he began to take action on the Emperor-level tough vine.

Gu Luohe was contemplating in the Dao Ancient Layer of the hundred-fathom void and felt a slight abnormality in his internal world, so he couldn't help but open his eyes.

"His Life Great Dao has taken the first step."

There are many kinds of Great Daos in the universe, Five Elements Great Dao, Yin-Yang Great Dao... and the one most revered by the Benwo Sect is, of course, the Life Great Dao.

Zhao Xing had not yet shown the potential to make Gu Luohe take a second look in other aspects, but his comprehension of the Life Great Dao made Gu Luohe take a second look after 157 years of entering the Origin Realm.

Because on this day, Zhao Xing used a spell to shake the internal vitality of the tough vine for the first time.

Although it was only chiseling a grain of sand from a big mountain, it had indeed shaken it.

Thus, Gu Luohe appeared in person for the first time and appeared before Zhao Xing.

"Teacher."

Zhao Xing stood up.

Gu Luohe did not acknowledge him as a student, but he always respectfully called him Teacher, although Gu Luohe had not responded even once. However, Master Zhao just didn't lack this kind of tenacity.

Just keep calling him; maybe one day Gu Luohe will respond?

"Your clone cultivates techniques, your main body contemplates the Dao, cultivating in a near-masochistic way like an ascetic. This is not a good thing." Gu Luohe brought up the problem as soon as he appeared.

"The grass man method is used too much, without matching soul spells. Relying solely on willpower to suppress it will eventually lead to problems."

Zhao Xing listened quietly.

Gu Luohe was worthy of being a demigod; he saw the hidden dangers in his cultivation at a glance.

Just like in the Xuanhuang Realm period, the grass man method had drawbacks, and in the universe version, such a situation still existed.

The grass man method always needs a powerful soul method and willpower divine ability to match it.

And this small divine ability method of the Three Gods Life Palace was no longer enough to satisfy Zhao Xing's needs.

After all, just one Giant Yang Grass Man Method is at the perfection of divine abilities, and Zhao Xing is constantly digging into his own potential, even using the grass man method to cultivate great divine abilities.

Being able to persist like this is purely because Zhao Xing himself has a solid foundation, and his comprehension and potential are amazing.

"Teacher is right," Zhao Xing said respectfully: "I would like to ask for Teacher's guidance."

Gu Luohe shook his head: "In terms of attainments in the grass man method, no one can compare to Zuo Zuo Qiyu. You should ask him."

Zhao Xing was about to climb up the pole, but was interrupted by Gu Luohe: "Since the treasure list didn't include Zuo Zuo Qiyu's many grass man methods, it proves that this method is not something that can be easily obtained. For public or private reasons, I will not let him come out to teach you."

Gu Luohe stated his position again that he would not use his favor to let Zuo Zuo Qiyu teach him.

It was expected, and Zhao Xing was not too disappointed.

But then Gu Luohe added:

"You can try to break into his Primordial City. Zuo Zuo Qiyu left a checkpoint in Primordial City to refuse the harassment of many seekers, declaring that those who can pass can choose one grass man method to learn."

"Yes, student will go and try."

Zhao Xing bowed, asked a few more questions about cultivation, and then left the internal world.

Those who don't understand Zuo Zuo Qiyu rarely remember this rule.

One is that it is too harsh, and no one can pass the test at all. At most, they learn some spells that are of similar grade in the treasure house, which can be exchanged with points, so there is no need to suffer this torture.

Two is that it is too long ago and gradually forgotten.

Over time, it was forgotten.

Every time the Origin Assembly is held, this rule is briefly remembered and then forgotten again.

However, this time, the situation became different.

Due to the many Samsara reincarnations, there are also many peerless geniuses, all of whom think they are the one in a billion.

Thus, this rule of Zuo Zuo Qiyu was quickly dug out.

When Zhao Xing arrived at Primordial City via the Thousand Star Vine, quite a few people were already stopping in front of the city gate.

"The Mushroom King is here."

"Gu's student?"

"Right, Zhao Xing from the Beihe star system."

Due to Gu Luohe's existence, Zhao Xing's reputation was very high, and almost no one in this session of Si Nong didn't know him.

However, Zhao Xing was a cultivation maniac and almost never socialized, so the geniuses only watched from afar and rarely took the initiative to greet him.

"Brother Zhao, over here." Han Chuchen waved from a pavilion outside the city.

"Whoosh~" Zhao Xing immediately descended.

"Brother Han."

Entering the pavilion, he found four other people inside, namely Fairy Youling, Yuan Qiusheng, Miaosong Daoist, and Han Qiye.

"Greetings, fellow Daoists."

Unlike Zhao Xing who buried his head in bitter cultivation, Han Chuchen was a social butterfly in his past life, and this life was his 【Calamity Life】, so naturally, he made friends everywhere.

The four people sitting in the pavilion included Yuan Qiusheng, who ranked first among auxiliary Si Nong, and three people in the top ten of combat Si Nong.

This social ability was not weak.

"Brother Zhao." The other four also returned the salute politely.

Fairy Youling joked: "Mushroom King, you have been in seclusion for more than a hundred years. I don't know if you have any new gains? When will you fight me again?"

Zhao Xing smiled slightly: "My strength is insufficient, and I dare not challenge the Fairy for the time being. I will cultivate for a few hundred more years before coming to ask for the Fairy's guidance."

He was not being polite. In terms of Dao grounds, Zhao Xing was still at the Taiyin Dao ground.

Fairy Youling, however, was already at the Sun Fifth-Order Dao ground.

In other aspects, Zhao Xing felt the difference was not big, but for Benwo Sect sparring, if the Dao ground difference is large, it is a clear judgment of high and low, because it involves world methods.

He sparred with Fairy Youling not to win or lose, but for progress. Using other sect spells would lose the original intention.

"A few hundred more years is enough." Fairy Youling's eyes lit up, and she raised her eyebrows: "Then I'll wait."

Seeing the two finish talking, Han Chuchen immediately invited Zhao Xing and the others to sit down and opened the topic: "Brother Zhao, you are also here to break into Primordial City, right?"

"Not bad, I just came out of seclusion and came to see it as soon as I heard." Zhao Xing said. "I don't know what the rules are here?"

"Brother Zhao doesn't know, Origin Envoy Zuo Zuo Qiyu actually possesses the legendary Void Ancestor grass man method," Han Chuchen sighed: "And he possesses the Primordial Clone."

"The Primordial Golden Body was originally a top secret of the martial artist path. Using the grass man method to spy on the mysteries of the Void Ancestor is even more rare. This is also the first time I've heard that there is a Void Ancestor grass man method."

"As for the tests in Primordial City, I don't know much, because I didn't even enter the city gate."

"Qiusheng and Qiye have entered the city gate. If you want to know, you have to ask the two of them."

Han Chuchen blew up Yuan Qiusheng and Han Qiye while speaking.

Zhao Xing was somewhat surprised. Han Qiye was fine; he was in the top ten of combat Si Nong, and it was normal to pass the first level.

Yuan Qiusheng was just an auxiliary Si Nong, and he could also enter the first level?

"The two fellow Daoists have profound spells. I wonder if you can give me some pointers?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 436 =====