Chapter 455: Aura of the Great Dao [Two-in-one, additional update, seeking monthly votes!!]

"The Great Dao of Water?"

Li Rui looked at the magnificent phenomena around the Dao fetus infant, which contained the rivers and lakes of the world, and even the vast four seas, and thought to himself.

Indeed.

What he had comprehended was precisely the Great Dao of Water.

Water nourishes all things; those who comprehend the Great Dao of Water have a temperament that is upright, peaceful, and inclusive of all things.

Although the Great Dao does not distinguish between high and low, the miraculous uses of the Great Dao of Water are infinite; it is both offensive and defensive, making it an extremely excellent Great Dao.

Regarding this.

Li Rui had actually long since had a guess.

All along.

His qi form was dragon-shaped, and later, when he first came into contact with immortal arts, he also started cultivating from water arts.

The choice of the Great Dao has always had traces to follow.

Dragons are naturally close to water, and he himself was the same.

Therefore, comprehending the Great Dao of Water was almost an inevitable outcome.

Li Rui sensed it carefully.

His heart felt a burst of heat.

He still remembered the methods of the Heavenly Ox Zhu Ha; they were truly profound.

Now that he had also comprehended the Great Dao of Water, it meant that he would also be able to employ those methods in the future.

But soon.

Li Rui discovered something unusual.

He saw that whether it was the rivers or the vast seas, there was actually a divine tree standing upon them, unmoving, with leaves fluttering, adding a touch of vitality to the boundless water.

Li Rui narrowed his eyes slightly:

"Is it the Union of Water and Wood?"

Although the union of Daos is rare, it is not non-existent.

In fact.

It is rumored that Gu Changsheng is a practitioner of the Union of Daos.

He searched for a long time among the Great Daos he understood and finally determined that what he had comprehended was the Dao of Azure Profundity.

In the cultivation world.

There is also the saying of the Great Dao of the Azure Emperor.

It is precisely because of this that there once existed an entity who reached the supreme level and self-styled as the Azure Emperor, who walked the same Great Dao that Li Rui now walked.

That Azure Emperor suppressed an era with the Great Dao of Azure Profundity, which is why the Great Dao of Azure Profundity has a great reputation in the cultivation world.

Disciples who comprehend the Great Dao of Azure Profundity are treasures of the Immortal Sects.

Water nourishes all things, and withered wood meets spring.

With the two combined, the effect is naturally extraordinary.

Water produces wood, and wood retains water; it is a cycle that repeats, never ending, making it an excellent harmonious Great Dao.

Li Rui had heard.

Some Unions of Daos are naturally conflicting and cancel each other out.

To succeed in cultivation, the effort required would be more than several times that of an ordinary Great Dao.

Li Rui naturally had no such worries with this Dao of Azure Profundity.

Because water and wood generate each other, it is even easier to walk than the single Great Dao of Water.

Moreover, with that Azure Emperor as a predecessor, the future naturally goes without saying.

Having comprehended the Great Dao of Azure Profundity meant that Li Rui already had half a foot stepped into the Heavenly Phenomenon realm; with just a little time to stabilize, the Heavenly Phenomenon realm was a certainty.

He thought it must be the Everlasting Green Art he cultivated, which, through the accumulation of time, had silently changed his comprehension of the Great Dao.

That was why, by a stroke of luck, it created the Dao of Azure Profundity.

Thinking of this, even Li Rui's temperament could not help but fluctuate.

Heavenly Phenomenon...

These two words were too heavy.

There are only a little over a hundred Heavenly Phenomena in the world, and they are first-class existences.

Li Rui had been cultivating for less than thirty years, yet he was about to step into this extremely high realm.

How could he not be dazed?

This speed was even faster than Yuan Dingting, who had the fastest breakthrough speed in the world.

Li Rui quickly gathered his thoughts.

Breaking through quickly is not necessarily a good thing; obtaining the Dao fruit is difficult, but guarding the Dao fruit is even harder.

Don't look at those great figures in their glory.

But if one is not careful, one will still fall into a place of eternal damnation.

Si Feng was strong enough, right?

Yet was he not imprisoned in the Black Prison of the capital?

As long as there are still enemies in the world, being careful is never wrong.

Those who advance bravely and sweep across the four directions without dying are mostly just lucky.

And Li Rui... he never liked to gamble.

His thoughts converged.

Li Rui slowly stood up, preparing to return to Qinghe.

But just as he stood up, a look of doubt appeared on his face.

Because he discovered that he seemed to have forgotten one thing.

This Great Dao seemed to be the Dao of the Dao fetus, not his own Dao.

Indeed.

Although the Dao fetus and he were one, they were ultimately different.

Ordinary Heavenly Phenomenon realms nurture a spiritual fetus, but the spiritual fetus cannot bear the Dao, so almost all experts in the world can only comprehend one Great Dao.

But Li Rui was different.

Dao fetus, Dao fetus, the name itself contains the word "Dao," so it is naturally born for the Great Dao.

Naturally, it can bear the Great Dao.

But the Dao borne by the Dao fetus is only one; Li Rui had not yet comprehended his own Dao.

"In other words... I can comprehend two Great Daos?!"

Thinking of this.

Li Rui's heart thumped wildly.

Two Great Daos!

He knew all too well what this represented.

Li Rui felt his throat go dry, and he swallowed hard.

"I've found a treasure!"

He felt a burst of wild joy in his heart.

The gold content of the Dao fetus was still rising!

As for whether all Dao fetuses could comprehend two Great Daos, or if it was because his Dao fetus had been upgraded to an Innate Immortal Martial Dao Fetus that he had such fortune, that was unknown.

After all, there were too few records about Dao fetuses, and most of the time, they were only mentioned in a few strokes.

Such top-secret information as comprehending several Great Daos was even less likely to be easily known.

Li Rui calmed down.

There was still about a year until he truly broke through to the Heavenly Phenomenon realm; he still had time to think.

Because once one steps into the Heavenly Phenomenon realm, the Great Dao is fixed.

It cannot be changed again.

This was also the reason why the Heavenly Ox Zhu Ha and the spirit of the Longevity Daoist had both said that one must be cautious when choosing a Great Dao during the Profound Heaven stage.

Li Rui put away his thoughts.

Then he withdrew the great array.

When he walked out of the cave, the sky was completely dark; it was already late at night.

He felt as if a lifetime had passed.

Li Rui naturally understood that he could not have only spent one day.

Just as he was preparing to leave.

He sensed the movement of a battle fifty miles away.

If it were before.

Li Rui certainly would not have had this ability.

But now, because he had comprehended the Dao of Azure Profundity and was in the mountains, with plenty of water and wood, his perception ability had increased several times over.

"Is it a disciple of an Immortal Sect?"

Li Rui frowned slightly.

He did not expect that he would encounter people from an Immortal Sect in the place he had randomly chosen for seclusion.

But why would a disciple of an Immortal Sect appear in these deep mountains where there was no sign of human life?

With doubt in his heart.

Li Rui employed the Earth Escape Technique and rushed toward that side.

"I have no grudge against you, why do you want to hunt me down?"

"Who exactly are you?"

A small Daoist was running in front.

Three men in black were chasing behind.

A man in black, quite large, said coldly: "Who told you to worship the wrong sect? You just had to go to the Nanhua Sect, so you deserve to die!"

The small Daoist in front was suffering endlessly in his heart.

He already had a guess.

That man in black should be a remnant of the Purple Chai Jingong.

"Am I also going to follow in my senior brother's footsteps?"

He had originally gone down the mountain to train with a group of fellow disciples, never expecting to encounter a robbery.

His senior brother was killed.

The rest of his fellow disciples fled in all directions.

These men in black seemed to have locked onto him specifically, completely ignoring the others.

He fled in a panic.

He escaped into the deep mountains.

The small Daoist was extremely depressed.

He had long heard that the remnants of the Yu Kingdom's Purple Chai Jingong were rampant, never expecting to encounter them himself.

Finally.

The small Daoist's magic power was exhausted, and his personal magic treasures were smashed one by one.

He no longer had any means to save his life.

Seeing this, the men in black behind him employed a rope-like magic treasure; the rope flashed with golden light and then flew on its own to the small Daoist's ankles.

With a tightening.

The small Daoist, already at the end of his rope, had his feet bound and fell forward onto the ground with a thud.

"Run!"

"Let's see how you run!"

The man in black walked up, cursing and swearing.

Then he used a secret technique to seal the small Daoist and carried him away.

The group had not gone far.

Li Rui appeared on the spot, looking in the direction of the men in black.

He was lost in thought.

"Not people from the Purple Chai Jingong."

He narrowed his eyes slightly.

He had dealt with the Purple Chai Jingong too many times, so he could determine from the foundation of the techniques of those men in black just now that they were definitely not from the Purple Chai Jingong.

Moreover, there were hardly any people left in the Purple Chai Jingong now; they were hiding, so how could they be so blatant?

But since they were not from the Purple Chai Jingong, why pretend?

Li Rui recognized.

The youth sealed by the man in black had quite a reputation in the Yu Kingdom's cultivation world; he was a genius of the Nanhua Sect.

It was heard that although his realm was not high and he had not entered the inner sect.

His talent had already been revealed, and he was a spiritual body that was rare to encounter in a hundred years; although not as good as a Dao body, it was also extremely extraordinary.

The Nanhua Sect had always placed high hopes on him.

Never expecting that he would also meet a tragic end like Chang Xuan before.

Li Rui had no intention of saving him.

He was not a member of the Nanhua Sect, so there was naturally no need to meddle in this business.

After a moment of thought.

Li Rui sacrificed a talisman from his sleeve, which turned into golden light and swept toward the direction of the men in black.

Spirit mine, deep underground.

In a dim secret room.

Wei Wang Zhu Gan sat cross-legged in the center, and in front of him, a Nanhua Sect disciple had his hands and feet bound, his entire person in a state of unconsciousness.

"Mr. Zhou, do you think this will succeed this time?"

Zhu Gan looked at the Nanhua Sect disciple in front of him with a gloomy face.

If Li Rui were here, he would definitely recognize that this person was precisely the Nanhua Sect disciple who had been abducted in the mountains.

Zhou Tong, who was to the side, said faintly:

"Your Highness, if you want to be foolproof, this matter cannot be rushed; otherwise, at most, it will just be a fake Heavenly Phenomenon, and it will definitely be detected by others."

"Gu Changsheng is not easy to fool."

Hearing this.

Zhu Gan sighed softly: "I trust you, sir."

Indeed.

He was precisely trying to use the Soul-Shifting and Bone-Changing method passed down by the Imperial Preceptor to re-enhance his root bones and charge at the Heavenly Phenomenon realm.

Ever since the last breakthrough failed.

Zhu Gan had sent Zhou Tong to find his uncle, the Imperial Preceptor, to seek a method for breakthrough.

And afterward, he obtained this method of Soul-Shifting and Bone-Connecting.

Just as Zhou Tong had said just now, it was not difficult to create a fake Heavenly Phenomenon.

But what Zhu Gan wanted was to ascend the throne.

That would inevitably attract the attention of countless eyes, including figures of the level of Gu Changsheng and Yuan Dingting.

A fake Heavenly Phenomenon obtained through Soul-Shifting and Bone-Changing could not escape the eyes of those people.

Therefore, the path Zhu Gan had to walk was far more difficult than that of the Blood Shadow Xueying Laozu.

He could not pick up what was ready-made.

He needed to find young cultivators with excellent talent and root bones, only stripping their root bones and killing their spirits.

The benefit was that Zhu Gan was still Zhu Gan, and no one could pick out any faults.

The disadvantage was that because he only changed bones and did not shift souls.

The improvement obtained each time was limited; Zhu Gan had already changed the bones of two people, but it was still not enough.

One must know.

The candidates for bone-changing were not ordinary people; they had to be people with special constitutions.

These people were all treasures of the various Immortal Sects and families; even Zhu Gan could not say he could easily capture them.

And the aftermath was extremely great.

Even Zhu Gan was somewhat worried.

Yes.

The previous Chang Xuan was certainly not killed by the Blood Shadow Xueying Laozu, but was forcibly soul-destroyed and bone-stolen by him, and then framed on the Blood Shadow Xueying Laozu.

This matter was handled very beautifully.

The Qingwei Sect believed it.

It was heard that the Blood Shadow Xueying Laozu had already been beaten to a semi-crippled state by the Qingwei Sect and the experts of the Yu Kingdom.

This time, it was considered repeating the same old trick.

Zhu Gan took a deep breath: "Then I will trouble you, Mr. Zhou."

Zhou Tong nodded:

"Your Highness, this is my duty; this person possesses a spiritual body, and after the bone-changing, the effect will definitely be quite good."

After saying this.

A large hand firmly grabbed the head of the Nanhua Sect disciple.

Instantly.

Dazzling green light flickered.

The Nanhua Sect disciple's body shook and convulsed; it was also at this time that the seal on his body was lifted, and his consciousness returned.

He looked in terror at the unfamiliar environment around him, and the two people in front of him.

"You..."

Before he could finish speaking.

A phantom similar to him was forcibly dragged out by Zhou Tong.

It was precisely the spirit of that Nanhua Sect disciple!

As the spirit was extracted, the movement of the body gradually subsided, and finally, it went completely limp.

Soul scattered!

What was even more despairing was that throughout the entire process, the Nanhua Sect disciple was conscious, watching his own spirit being stripped away, with unimaginable fear and despair.

Zhou Tong's hand movements did not slow down.

He saw him change the Dharma seal in his hand again.

Soon.

The physical body of that Nanhua Sect disciple was refined into a pool of blood, within which golden radiance could be faintly seen.

Zhu Gan, who was to the side, had also long since prepared.

He immediately operated the refining method obtained from his uncle, the Imperial Preceptor, and carefully refined that pool of blood.

He was now accumulating blood qi.

After enough genius blood qi was absorbed, his uncle, the Imperial Preceptor, would personally take action to perform the Soul-Shifting and Bone-Changing for him; at that time, his talent would make even the so-called chief disciples of those Immortal Sects pale in comparison.

Not just the Heavenly Phenomenon, even the First-Rank was not entirely impossible to touch.

First-Rank...

Thinking of this, Zhu Gan's eyes became even more determined.

As long as one does things in the world, one has to take risks.

If it were before, when he had not yet failed his breakthrough, he might have thought it was a crooked path.

But now... he would rather take the risk than waste time waiting for death.

Thinking of those brothers of his father, each of them being raised in the deep palace as if they were auspicious omens, he was willing to use any means necessary.

Yes.

Any means necessary.

Above Changqing Peak.

Li Rui sat cross-legged in his room.

A look of contemplation appeared on his face.

That day, he had used a tracking talisman to quietly follow the whereabouts of that group of men in black, but what he did not expect was that those men in black had actually arrived near the spirit mine.

And it was precisely the spirit mine where the Yu Kingdom was located.

Clearly.

There was some secret hidden within that he did not know.

And the source of the secret was highly likely to be that Fifth Imperial Prince of the Yu Kingdom, the Prince of Wei, Zhu Gan.

This matter was not hard to guess.

There were only five people in the spirit mine with the energy to take action against that Nanhua Sect disciple.

Excluding himself.

That left only four people.

Whether it was Ke Chuan, Yuan Xiong, or Ben Shi, it was almost impossible for them to hide from his eyes and ears; the only one with such energy was Zhu Gan.

"But why would Zhu Gan want to capture a Nanhua Sect disciple alive?"

Li Rui frowned slightly, a flash of confusion in his eyes.

Zhu Gan was the Fifth Imperial Prince of the Yu Kingdom.

What did he not have?

The only possibility was that the Nanhua Sect disciple had a grudge against Zhu Gan, or Zhu Gan had some special hobby like a fondness for the same sex.

However, Li Rui faintly felt that this matter was not that simple.

After all, the Qingwei Sect had just lost a Chang Xuan, and now another Immortal Sect genius had gone missing.

It would definitely explode.

If the Nanhua Sect found out, even if Zhu Gan was the Fifth Imperial Prince, he would not get any good out of it.

After all, he was in the wrong first.

Even if he didn't have to pay with blood, his status in the eyes of the Holy Emperor would definitely plummet.

Completely losing any chance at the position of Crown Prince.

Although Zhu Gan was arrogant and domineering, Li Rui knew that Zhu Gan was not as reckless as he appeared; in fact, he was very shrewd.

There must be some ulterior motive behind it.

Li Rui thought about it for a while.

But he was not too entangled.

If he couldn't think of it, he might as well wait until he had more clues before speaking; moreover, he was originally an official of the Yu Kingdom, and as long as Zhu Gan was not insane, he shouldn't take action against him.

He put away his thoughts.

Only then did he begin to observe the Dao fetus infant within his body.

At this moment.

The phantom of the Azure Profundity Great Dao manifested around the Dao fetus infant, and a magnificent life force filled the entire Immortal Court.

Originally, there was only one peach tree in the Immortal Court.

Now, there were a few more touches of green.

Li Rui was very happy.

The Great Dao of Azure Profundity actually had an unexpected promoting effect on opening up a small world.

And the Dao fetus could comprehend the Great Dao of Azure Profundity on its own; he almost didn't need to worry about it.

The more his cultivation progressed, the more he could feel the extraordinariness of the Dao fetus.

Li Rui began to think about his own Great Dao again.

Compared to the Great Dao of Azure Profundity comprehended by the Dao fetus, he had absolutely no clue about the Great Dao he himself should comprehend.

He cultivated until late at night.

Only then did Li Rui crawl into his quilt and sleep.

Opening his eyes again.

He had already arrived at the Grand Void Dojo.

He crossed the white jade steps in two or three strides and soon arrived at the Longevity Daoist's small hut.

Just as he entered the door.

He saw the spirit of the small old man appear.

"Why did it take you so long to come?"

The spirit of the small old man asked.

Li Rui: "Senior, I have had some realizations recently and have been in seclusion, so I haven't been able to come."

After he returned to Qinghe, he realized that he had actually been in seclusion for seven days and seven nights this time.

Naturally, it was impossible to sleep while comprehending the Great Dao.

So he hadn't come to find the spirit of the small old man for advice for seven or eight days.

Hearing this.

The pouting small old man's expression improved quite a bit.

"You brat, you really are in a blessing and don't know it; back in the day, who knows how many outstanding people wanted to ask for my guidance and couldn't..."

The spirit of the small old man boasted for a while.

Li Rui just listened.

Until he had had his fill, he seized the opportunity to speak: "Senior, I have reached the Profound Upper Realm, this comprehending the Great Dao..."

Before he could finish speaking.

The spirit of the small old man widened his eyes: "You broke through?"

Afterward, he floated around Li Rui several times, his eyes filled with even more surprise, followed by wild joy: "Never expected that the True Lord actually picked up a treasure; you brat broke through so quickly, not bad, not bad."

"This is also among the outstanding ones among those little guys back in the day."

"Comprehending the Great Dao, right?"

Li Rui nodded: "Exactly."

"I didn't tell you before because the time wasn't right; since you have now reached the juncture of choosing a Great Dao, I will tell you."

"There are thousands of Great Daos, and choosing the Dao is of utmost importance."

"If the Dao is chosen wrongly, everything is over."

"You brat are lucky; if you found someone else, they would definitely tell you to follow your heart, but the Great Dao is illusory, how can it be so easy to follow your heart? My Daoist Lord has great talent and created the 'Great Dao Induction Chapter,' which can help in choosing a suitable Great Dao."

"I will pass it to you now; listen carefully."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 456 =====