Chapter 215: Nine Turns Primal Art, Giant Spirit Secret Treasury

Blood waves surged.

The remnants of the tide rolled back and forth, endlessly churning with foul, boiling filth.

Looking closely, within the blood-red color, there was a faint, dark heaviness, curling and continuous.

Fang Longye stood upon the blood waves, standing tall and motionless, staring blankly at the lotus silk thread in his hand.

Having exhausted all his efforts and gone all out, he had only managed a six-to-four split against someone else's avatar.

What face did he have to claim he had won? Especially since it was under the premise of relying on the advantage of a Spirit Treasure.

Not to mention Nezha's equipment.

He hadn't noticed it before; it was only after Nezha dispersed the avatar himself that he suddenly realized that the Fire-Tipped Spear, the Universe Ring, and the Wind Fire Wheels were not real objects.

They were merely projections that Nezha had forcibly manifested using his Dharma power through a wisp of a Spirit Treasure's Aura.

In other words, he, Fang Longye, had relied on a Spirit Treasure to barely win a six-to-four victory against an empty-handed avatar of Nezha.

What kind of battle record was this? Was it worth being proud of? "Brother Fang, no need to be like this~ Actually, you are already very strong!" Yang Chan walked over with graceful steps, dancing like a large Caidie, and patted his shoulder to comfort him.

She blinked her eyes at Fang Longye and said, "That little brat Nezha reached the peak of Taiyi Golden Immortal long ago and has been meditating in seclusion, trying to push open the gate to the Daluo realm."

"You were able to narrowly win against his avatar. It has already made my jaw drop!"

"Taiyi Golden Immortal?" Fang Longye's heart skipped a beat.

Influenced by the original Journey to the West from his past life, he had always thought that even if this Nezha Third Prince had entered the Taiyi realm, he should only be at the level of a Taiyi Loose Immortal.

After all, when Sun Wukong caused Havoc in Heaven, Nezha, who descended to the lower realm to suppress him, was defeated by Sun Wukong.

Yet he never expected that Nezha had already reached the stage of attaining the Dao.

After reaching the perfection of Golden Immortal.

Further up is the Taiyi Realm.

And this realm of Taiyi, due to the intricacies of cultivation, has been artificially divided into three levels.

Taiyi Loose Immortal, Taiyi True Immortal, Taiyi Golden Immortal.

These correspond to the three thresholds of seeking the Dao, understanding the Dao, and attaining the Dao.

Before Taiyi, although cultivators have begun to cultivate their own Great Dao, they are basically doing things haphazardly, without truly understanding what their own Great Dao is.

For example, Fang Longye; his learning is quite miscellaneous, including Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, the so-called discarding the dross and selecting the essence, and so on and so forth.

But these are only parts of his own Great Dao, not his own Great Dao itself.

Only upon ascending to the Taiyi realm can one truly be considered to have begun pursuing one's own path and understanding one's own Great Dao.

Seeking the Dao is attempting to summarize and sublimate the many Great Daos one has cultivated, in order to figure out the prototype of one's own Great Dao.

Understanding the Dao is having a clear cognition of the refinement of one's own Great Dao, and knowing clearly in one's heart how one should proceed in the future.

As for attaining the Dao, as the name suggests, it means one has truly carved out one's own path from the vast and boundless Great Dao.

And achieving Daluo means the Great Dao one has realized has withstood layers of trials.

Although there are differences in size and depth, in terms of essence, it is already no different from the Great Dao.

At this point, it can be called attaining the Dao.

Once that step is reached.

The Great Dao that a cultivator has realized has no essential difference from innate Great Daos like the Five Elements or Yin and Yang.

All living beings can perceive and cultivate them from the Great Dao. It can be said that, to a certain extent, a Daluo is already the existence of a master of a Dao.

"If this world continues to develop according to the original plot, it seems that when Sun Wukong caused Havoc in Heaven, Nezha must have gone easy on him!"

He did not believe that the fledgling Sun Wukong could have the strength to surpass a Taiyi Golden Immortal.

However, Fang Longye associated this with his own Divine Golden Body and thought of another possibility.

"Could it be that the Nezha serving in the Heavenly Court is also just an avatar!"

Very likely~

Fang Longye pondered as he followed Yang Chan back to the high platform. Soon, he received a clear answer from Yang Chan and the Giant Spirit God, which confirmed his conjecture.

However, he would rather his conjecture be wrong.

Simply because.

This clear answer, while confirming his conjecture, brought him a "surprise" critical hit.

"Third Mother, you just said the Third Prince is in seclusion? No way~ I remember that since the Conferring of the Gods Tribulation, the Third Prince hasn't been in seclusion since he started serving in Heaven, right?"

The Giant Spirit God reached out and scratched his head, his face full of confusion.

This trip to the Rakshasa Sea Market was originally proposed by the Third Prince, who wanted to bring him here to see the world.

It was only because he had temporary business and had to go to Xiniu Hezhou that he had to split off an avatar to take him around.

Could it be that the Third Prince ran to Xiniu Hezhou to go into seclusion? Hearing the Giant Spirit God's question, Yang Chan rolled her eyes, held her forehead, and sighed: "Are you from the Giant Spirit Clan or the Witch Clan? Did you really grow your brain into muscles? People say your judgment is poor, and you still don't accept it?"

"Don't tell me that you've worked with Nezha for nearly a hundred epochs and you haven't even noticed that he is an avatar in the Heavenly Court?"

Giant Spirit God:?!

She shook her head upon seeing this.

Hopeless! This person~

You must know that although Nezha has been in seclusion most of the time since the Conferring of the Gods Tribulation, it's not as if he hasn't walked in the Heavenly Court with his true body.

As long as they were colleagues, even if they were only Golden Immortals, they would have noticed. Only this silly, honest Giant Spirit God, who has followed his superior Nezha for over dozens of epochs, hasn't even noticed this much.

Too lazy to bother with the Giant Spirit God anymore, Yang Chan turned to look at the gloomy-faced Fang Longye and said in surprise: "No need to be like this!"

"Although what you fought was only a wisp of an avatar of Nezha's Divine Dao avatar, it still possesses the strength to be invincible among Golden Immortals. You are still very—"

"Fairy!" Fang Longye interrupted Yang Chan, managed to squeeze out a smile, and said: "Let's change the subject!"

Damn it~

After all that, he almost couldn't even beat an avatar of someone else's avatar.

What else is there to talk about?

Seeing that Yang Chan still had the posture of wanting to speak, Fang Longye hurriedly released that ruler-shaped phantom of light.

The Inheritance Mark of the Giant Spirit Clan.

The fuse for the fight between Fang Longye and Nezha.

Sure enough, Yang Chan finally ended this topic and looked at this mark with great interest.

It was shaped like a jade ruler, dense with five colors, and as bright as brilliant radiance.

Without looking closely, one would truly think it was a substantial jade ruler.

Only by observing carefully and penetrating the subtleties could one see its inner essence.

That five-colored halo was merely a product of interaction with the void. Beneath the five colors, wisps of purple-blue precious light swirled and intertwined, condensing into an illusory jade ruler image.

This purple-blue precious light was pure, vast, and permeated with an essence identical to that of a Great Luo.

"No wonder he holds onto this Inheritance Mark so tightly!" Yang Chan turned her head to glance at Fang Longye, thinking to herself.

"Brother Fang, let me give you a heads-up first, so you won't be disappointed later," Yang Chan transmitted via her primordial spirit. "I suppose you must be aiming for the Giant Spirit Clan's town-clan supreme treasure—the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler."

"But you must understand that the treasures in this Sea Gathering Secret Realm are all leftovers picked over by that founding ancestor."

The implication was that wanting to pick up such a big bargain was too unrealistic!

"Many thanks for the reminder, Fairy! Fang understands~" Fang Longye also transmitted via his primordial spirit.

How could he not understand the logic that Yang Chan could figure out?

However, even an expert has times when they play dumb; Fang Longye was just holding onto hope and taking a gamble.

In any case, he hadn't paid any price.

"Let's head out first! We'll find a place to each tally our gains~"

Watching the situation where people were exiting the Secret Realm one after another, Fang Longye suggested.

"Brother Giant Spirit, rest assured, the content in the Inheritance Mark will not be short of your share."

Giant Spirit God naturally nodded in agreement.

Yang Chan, on the other hand, revealed a sense of reluctance.

She looked at the immortals, demons, gods, and Buddhist practitioners in the distance and licked her lips, saying: "I was actually thinking of plundering some more! This second half is where the fun of gathering the sea here truly lies~"

"Oh well! Since we are already full to the brim, I'll listen to you~"

The smoke-like trees were dark green, with drooping shadows winding around the steps.

The three of them exited the Sea Gathering Secret Realm and naturally found a place to stay in the Rakshasa Sea Market, each dealing with their gains.

Fang Longye sat upright beneath a green parasol tree. Spiritual energy swirled, lingering around him, light and dark merging, as if a graceful crane were dancing under the moon.

With a flip of his palm, the Giant Spirit Clan's Inheritance Mark appeared in his hand, and the auspicious clouds above his head rolled, pulling it into his sea of consciousness.

The light hung down like a net, the radiance circling like a necklace.

The power of his primordial spirit sank bit by bit into the deepest part of the Inheritance Mark. It was as if something profound had been touched, and then information emerged, from blurry to clear.

"The inheritance of the Giant Spirit Clan!" Fang Longye looked at the information emerging like silk being drawn from a cocoon, the expression between his brows betraying his mood.

It was truly a mix of surprise, joy, and disappointment.

"So, the physical body cultivation of the Giant Spirit Clan is like this~ Extraordinary!"

The original Giant Spirit Clan was transformed from the primordial energy of Pangu. Therefore, although the Giant Spirit Clan, like the Witch Clan, focused mainly on physical body cultivation, they did not put effort into their Bloodline.

Instead, they focused on primordial energy cultivation. During this, the various applications of heaven and earth primordial energy made Fang Longye applaud in admiration.

"Nine-Turn Primordial Art?"

Looking at the information emerging in his sea of consciousness, Fang Longye couldn't help but speak out loud.

Fang Longye's eyes were clear, his mind reflecting inward, reading the Giant Spirit Clan inheritance appearing in his sea of consciousness.

"What a Nine-Turn Primordial Art!"

This Nine-Turn Primordial Art started with primordial energy to conduct physical body cultivation.

Every time a bottleneck was reached, one would shed a layer of old shell and give birth to a new, more powerful body.

It sounded like nothing, but this kind of cultivation had no end; one could continuously transform in this way.

Fang Longye couldn't help but think of the legendary unique technique of the Witch Clan, the Nine Turns Profound Technique, and the Xuan Gate protective technique compiled by the Three Pure Saints—the Eight-Nine Profound Technique.

Compared to them, although all three led to a powerful physical body and peerless defense in the end,

they undoubtedly each focused on a different direction.

The Nine Turns Profound Technique, without a doubt, as the exclusive divine art of the Witch Clan, naturally focused on the cultivation of essence and blood, often resulting in vast Qi and blood.

As for the Eight-Nine Profound Technique, it is said that once cultivated, as long as the primordial spirit within the Mud Pill Palace does not perish, the physical body will not die. If the primordial spirit escapes, one is safe, and the physical body can be infinitely regenerated; coupled with the ability to change with the wind, it can be called immortal and indestructible.

Without a doubt, the Eight-Nine Profound Technique focuses on the cultivation of the primordial spirit.

As for this Nine-Turn Primordial Art, as the town-clan divine art of the Giant Spirit Clan, it naturally focuses on the cultivation of the path of primordial energy.

"Pity~ This Nine-Turn Primordial Art is incomplete."

This was also the reason for Fang Longye's disappointment.

This Inheritance Mark was only left behind by a Great Luo of the Giant Spirit Clan. It was not the Inheritance Mark of a Great Divine Ability user above the Great Luo.

The content was inevitably lacking.

"Fortunately, it does not affect cultivation, and it is extremely valuable for reference."

"Let me look at the other divine abilities and combat techniques!"

However, as he looked further down, Fang Longye couldn't help but frown. It wasn't because these divine abilities and combat techniques were also incomplete.

In fact~ the incompleteness of the Nine-Turn Primordial Art was because, as the town-clan divine art of the Giant Spirit Clan, it was extremely strict in terms of inheritance.

Even among the Great Luo of the Giant Spirit Clan, one could not pass it on completely.

These divine abilities and combat techniques, as the main content of the Inheritance Mark, were naturally very complete.

It is just that—

Limited by the difference in race, as a member of the Dragon Clan, he found it fundamentally difficult to cultivate them.

"I can only draw inferences about other cases from this!"

Fang Longye sighed.

Skipping over these, Fang Longye continued to look downward, and what he saw were nothing but intermittent images, extremely ancient.

It was actually the primordial Honghuang era when the world was first opened.

However, such a scroll was fragmented, blurred, changing, and difficult to grasp.

There was even an indescribable power descending from the dark, forcibly erasing a portion of it.

Erased, leaving no trace.

As if it had completely ceased to exist.

"That's it!"

"These parts that were erased probably involve content concerning great beings!"

Fang Longye thought to himself.

It is said that some great divine ability users who transcend the Daluo can interfere with time and space, and Inverting Yin and Yang to create life.

All things of the past, if one wishes to hide them, can be erased without leaving a trace.

Others would be completely unable to know—

"However, these images alone have already given me a great harvest!"

Fang Longye skipped over the figures and only looked at the various scenes after the opening of the world, all of which gave him a sense of extraordinary baptism.

At the time when the world was first opened, the Great Dao had not yet escaped, it was ancient and primitive, the sky was closer, and the earth was also closer, allowing one to see many mysteries that cannot be seen now.

Carefully contemplating such images is of great benefit.

"Eh—"

As Fang Longye watched, he could not help but sit up straight and let out a soft sound of surprise.

Because in some of the images, besides the heaven, earth, mountains, rivers, sun, moon, and stars, etc., there were also some treasure locations marked out by this Daluo of the Giant Spirit Clan.

There were his own Cave Abode, innate treasure lands whose protective Restrictions he could not break, and also the location of the secret treasury of the Giant Spirit Clan.

These good things might have long since vanished in the passage of time, might have already been snatched by others, or might have been scattered to who knows where along with the great changes of the world and the shifting of the seas into mulberry fields.

But being able to know them is a kind of accumulation; if one is lucky, who is to say one might not find the surviving ruins.

"The most important thing is—"

Fang Longye saw the end, his eyes burning as if they were about to ignite.

He muttered to himself: "Perhaps, in the secret treasury of the Giant Spirit Clan, there are clues regarding the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler?"

The Inheritance Mark stated it clearly: this secret treasury of the Giant Spirit Clan was not the kind of treasury on the surface.

Rather, it was a contingency plan specially set up by the high-level members of the entire Giant Spirit Clan before participating in the Lich War to guard against the unexpected.

The idea was to let the defeated Giant Spirit Clan make a comeback and create brilliance once again.

Even that Daluo only knew a rough direction. There is a high possibility that it has not been discovered by anyone.

Moreover, the things inside are definitely extraordinary.

The content in the Inheritance Mark was as vast as the sea, dazzling one's eyes. But he never forgot the real reason he was so concerned about this Inheritance Mark.

The acquired Merit Supreme Treasure, the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler! Thinking of this, Fang Longye felt somewhat inexplicably excited.

Regardless, this was also a clue.

"However, having digested the Inheritance Mark, it is time to fulfill the previous promise first!"

Fang Longye had not forgotten the message left by Nezha before his incarnation dissipated. The earnest concern for the Giant Spirit God between the lines was evident.

Some debts are better cleared first.

Otherwise, doing anything else would not feel solid.

Rakshasa Sea Market.

Outside the city gate.

All around were heavy waves, shimmering with a deep red.

Not far away, strange rocks floated out of the water.

Some were as large as mountains, others as small as lions or tigers, and they were covered with strange vegetation, colorful and of every hue.

Whether in the water or on the large strange rocks, there were weird things lurking, which did not look like benevolent creatures.

After all, this is a place dominated by the Asura.

A fierce and baleful color could be seen from every blade of grass, every tree, every bird, and every beast.

Fang Longye looked at the back of the Giant Spirit God, who was swaying in the distant sky and left only as a black dot, and breathed a sigh of relief.

This Giant Spirit God was indeed a man of his word; he had thought he would haggle a bit!

Unexpectedly, after obtaining the copy of the Giant Spirit Clan's Inheritance Mark (only the Dharma, divine abilities, and combat techniques), the other party said goodbye without a second word.

It was truly moving.

It would be a pity not to be friends with such a good, honest person! "It seems that if I find the secret treasury of the Giant Spirit Clan in the future, I must bring this brother along. I am not a stingy person, so what is the harm in giving him a share?"

Fang Longye looked at the barely visible back of the Giant Spirit God in the distance and thought to himself.

Alright!

He admitted that it was because the secret treasury of the Giant Spirit Clan could only be opened by the Giant Spirit Clan.

Otherwise, even a Daluo would not be able to break it open.

But no matter what, he was still prepared to share the benefits with the Giant Spirit God.

Could it be that he was not generous enough?

(End of chapter)