Chapter 739: Some Secrets

While the outside world buzzed with upheaval, the third layer of the sky curtain fell silent.

Aside from Xiao Xuan, everyone chose a suitable Spirit Scripture to begin channeling and transforming Spiritual Energy.

Though this transformation was excruciatingly painful, all present were supreme experts of the Dou Qi Continent, and this pain meant nothing to them.

Only Xiao Yan sat alone, lost in thought, not immediately beginning Spiritual Energy transformation.

Xiao Yan stared at the Divine-Class Low-Rank Spirit Scripture before him—Mo Yan Huo Jue—and frowned; he wasn't unable to understand its operation or secrets—on the contrary, one glance revealed its essence, and he instantly comprehended how to cultivate it.

The reason was that Xiao Yan cultivated the Burning Art, and transforming Spiritual Energy was both simple and difficult for him.

The simplicity lay in that he didn't need to convert Dou Qi into Spiritual Energy like ordinary cultivators—he only needed to evolve the Burning Art again, letting it devour Heavenly Flames of the Great Thousand World, thereby evolving into a Great Thousand World cultivation method.

Once the Burning Art evolved into a method capable of absorbing Great Thousand World Spiritual Energy, the Dou Qi within Xiao Yan's body would naturally evolve into Spiritual Energy.

After all, the Burning Art was an extremely Mysterious cultivation method; originally, it was as blank as empty paper, merely Yellow Grade Low, yet it could evolve by devouring Heavenly Flames, and this evolution had no limits.

Depending on which Heavenly Flames you devoured, the evolved cultivation path of the Burning Art would differ—even the order of devouring Heavenly Flames would alter its evolution, resulting in two completely different cultivation methods, so the evolved Burning Art could not be recorded onto Scrolls for transmission.

The difficulty lay in that Xiao Yan had no Heavenly Flames, not even any information about them—he had returned to those days of aimlessly searching for Heavenly Flames, and now he didn't even have the Bone Spirit Cold Fire handed to him at the start.

If Xiao Yan wished to evolve the Burning Art, he needed to find a Heavenly Flame. But Heavenly Flames weren't something you could simply find; back then, Xiao Yan still had Bone Spirit Cold Fire as a fallback and could seek intelligence from the Soul Sect. Even his damned elder brother Han Feng, after fleeing for over a decade, had only found one Sea Heart Flame.

"Forget it—if all else fails, I'll return to the Dou Qi Continent and have Xiao Yixian and the others help me find a Heavenly Flame. Being able to rely on others is also a skill." Xiao Yan smiled bitterly and shook his head, comforting himself.

Meow~~ Space twisted, and a black cat, listless, leapt onto Xiao Yan's shoulder—it was naturally Mao Wu.

Seeing the listless Mao Wu, Xiao Yan gently stroked its warm Black Flame fur; Mao Wu rubbed its head vigorously against Xiao Yan's palm.

Aside from Mao Wu, all of Xiao Yan's other Heavenly Flames were having problems—they had gone from favored children of the Dou Qi Continent's heavens to abandoned children of heaven. Heavenly Flames were born and nurtured by heaven and earth, favored children with powerful special abilities, but upon arriving in the Great Thousand World, they became someone else's child.

Thus, Xiao Yan had no other choice—if he didn't wish to abandon his Heavenly Flames, he must evolve the Burning Art, and specifically using Great Thousand World Heavenly Flames to do so.

This would not only evolve the Burning Art but also allow the Heavenly Flames within his Nai Ling to fuse with Great Thousand World Heavenly Flames, becoming a new Heavenly Flame adapted to the Great Thousand World's environment.

Although Mao Wu had devoured the seed of Tuoshe Ancient Emperor, it was merely a seed carrying a Flame Core—not the complete Heavenly Flame origin—hence its current listless state.

"Can you sense the location of the Heavenly Flame origin?" Xiao Yan gently stroked Mao Wu's tiny paw and asked.

Meow meow~ Mao Wu shook its head, indicating it could not sense Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's presence.

"Then it seems I must find a new Heavenly Flame. I hope this continent has at least one." Xiao Yan could only place his hopes on Ning Tian Continent—such a vast land couldn't possibly lack Heavenly Flames.

"Sigh, it seems Ancestor had planned this all along—no wonder the first step of the Dou Zhi Fa Shen is this." Xiao Yan no longer hesitated; he sat cross-legged on the ground and began activating the Fa Jue of Po Cangqiong.

Xiao Yan hadn't been sleeping inside the coffin—he had been continuously contemplating the so-called Dou Zhi Fa Shen left behind by Ancestor.

After Qiao Shihong's explanation, Xiao Yan now understood that the Dou Zhi Fa Shen was the so-called Supreme Fa Shen—a unique skill of the Great Thousand World, attainable only upon reaching the Supreme Realm.

Each Fa Shen had different cultivation requirements, and the first step to mastering the Dou Zhi Fa Shen was to merge all Dou Qi and the Qi Vortex into the Fa Shen.

At first, Xiao Yan had been astonished—wasn't this equivalent to dissolving one's cultivation? Ancestor was tricking people!

But now, Xiao Yan understood Ancestor's deeper intent: this wasn't dissolving cultivation at all—it was preserving Dou Qi in an alternative way. After arriving in the Great Thousand World, Dou Qi would be assimilated by higher-grade Spiritual Energy; once assimilated, Dou Qi would vanish entirely, making it impossible to return to the Dou Qi Continent, since the Dou Qi Continent contained only Dou Qi, no Spiritual Energy.

That was why, in ancient times, Dou Di left and never returned—they were rejected by the Dou Qi Continent!

The Dou Zhi Fa Shen wasn't merely about preserving Dou Qi—it was about reversing assimilation, transforming Spiritual Energy back into Dou Qi!

Spiritual Energy was indeed purer in quality, but Dou Qi was merely constrained by the size of the Dou Qi Continent—who said Dou Qi must be inferior to Spiritual Energy!

【In the endless Space, ignite the fire of Dou Qi, ride the boundless Dou Qi, and with the power of Dou Qi, shatter all obstacles.】

Undoubtedly, Xiao Potian, the Founder of the Xiao Clan, was indeed an extraordinary genius of his age; upon arriving in the Great Thousand World and facing assimilation by Spiritual Energy, others obediently submitted to heaven's will and assimilated Spiritual Energy—but this first Dou Di of the Dou Qi Continent defiantly defied heaven, refusing assimilation outright, forcibly reversing the process and assimilating Spiritual Energy back into Dou Qi!

And he created this entirely new Supreme Fa Shen!

Zzzzzz!! Terrifying, unmatched Dou Qi spiraled like galactic vortices, relentlessly compressing and spinning wildly within Xiao Yan's Nai Ling, as if grinding everything to dust.

At the center of this vortex, a figure resembling an embryo emerged, frantically absorbing Xiao Yan's Dou Qi. This was the Dou Qi of a Dou Di! And Xiao Yan cultivated the highest-grade method—the pinnacle of Emperor Grade—his Dou Qi quality was unimaginable.

Xiao Yan gritted his teeth, his muscles bulging with veins, roaring inwardly: "Use Dou to exert force, use technique to liberate, use heart to form the body!"

Zzzz! A blinding light erupted from within Xiao Yan; boundless Dou Qi, like primordial chaos, flooded entirely into that figure.

"Become!"

Boom! Inside Xiao Yan's body, it was as if a cosmic explosion had occurred—a terrifying roar echoed; at this moment, all of Xiao Yan's Dou Qi, including the vortex, vanished—in a certain sense, Xiao Yan was no longer a Dou Di; he had lost all his Dou Qi.

At the center of the Dou Qi explosion, a figure of cosmic black-and-yellow hue appeared—its features obscured, wrapped in boundless Dou Qi—but Xiao Yan knew: this was his Supreme Fa Shen!

"Not yet—this is merely the embryo of the Supreme Fa Shen. According to Ancestor's note, it requires a special Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure to nourish it into a true Supreme Fa Shen, to reverse-absorb Spiritual Energy and grow Dou Qi. Ancestor, you truly dared to imagine and dare to do this."

Xiao Yan slowly opened his eyes; a deep gaze shot forth from his pupils.

He exhaled slowly, stood up, and tightened his body—this sensation of having no Dou Qi was naturally unfamiliar.

"Even my Dou Qi nearly failed to condense the Dou Zhi Fa Shen—ordinary people couldn't even conceive of it." Xiao Yan wasn't being self-deprecating; after evolving to its limit, his Dou Qi was absolutely peerless in its tier—but even so, it nearly got drained dry!

This alone revealed the domineering nature of this Supreme God.

"Cycle Six Leaf Grass—only by consuming this Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure can the Dou Zhi Fa Shen truly be forged. Then, even if I haven't found a Heavenly Flame, I should still be able to unleash the power of a Dou Di through this Fa Shen—no, I should say Earth Supreme."

"And this is merely the first layer of the Fa Shen."

"Infinite Doubi Will, shatter the sky—Po Cangqiong Fa Shen? Ancestor really knew how to name things."

The incantation left by Xiao Potian wasn't called Dou Zhi Fa Shen—it was called Po Cangqiong. Dou Zhi Fa Shen was merely the foundation, merely preserving the Dou Di's original combat power, offering no enhancement.

Strictly speaking, the first layer of Dou Zhi Fa Shen was a form of alternative transformation; true cultivation began only at the second layer—the Po Fa Shen—which was truly powerful, and the Po Fa Shen possessed an extremely potent Divine Technique.

As for the third layer—the Cangqiong Fa Shen—even Xiao Yan struggled to imagine its power.

Though Xiao Yan's expression carried gloom, deep within his heart he couldn't help but feel excited—the harder it was to cultivate, the higher its ceiling. Though reaching the ceiling wasn't guaranteed, once achieved, it would be a being that shook the universe.

"Heaven Supreme? No—the Po Fa Shen should already reach the level of Heaven Supreme." Xiao Yan's eyes flickered with a faint light; he recalled Qiao Shihong's sketchbook—the original Fa Shen had originally been ten, but now only five remained, preserved by five Great Spirit Stone Clans guarding the Great Thousand World.

"So that's why the other five original Fa Shen were lost—not only their cultivation methods, but even their names vanished." Xiao Yan offered a knowing smile; this had happened on the Dou Qi Continent too.

The five surviving original Fa Shen, along with their cultivation methods, remained in the Great Thousand World, held by the five Great Spirit Stone Clans—proving that their Founders were at least partially connected to these five clans, perhaps even their Ancestors.

Thus, during the final battle against the Domain Beyond demons, foreseeing certain doom, they left the cultivation methods of the original Fa Shen within the Great Spirit Stone Clans.

Then, reverse-engineering this logic.

The five existing original Fa Shen are all tied to the Great Thousand World—so conversely, the lost five original Fa Shen must have no connection to the Great Thousand World!

(End of Chapter)