Chapter 297: 【The Avenue of Masks】

Meng Qi eventually obediently walked the path of hard-refining, developing in the direction of physical invincibility. After all, the Desolate Ancient Holy Body was more high-end than the Reckless Vajra.

If the Holy Body were completed, perhaps he could challenge a Legendary Great Expert, or even go a step further and evolve into a Chaos Body; that was not impossible.

For the Chaos Body, which is unreachable for cultivators of the Shrouding the Heavens Great Universe, it is as simple as eating and drinking for the Primordial Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun.

The Chaos Great Dao is the necessary path on the road to becoming the Cause of All Fruits.

"Exchange completed. Choose the items you need to store, then return to your own world and wait for the next reincarnation to open. During this period, you cannot enter or leave this place. If you want to cultivate here, you must exchange for time now."

The grand voice of the Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation sounded.

"You can't even stay? As expected of a pirated Main God; I'm afraid it's fallen into the money pit."

Lin Xian complained fiercely, then bathed in brilliance and returned to the Pure Yang Sect.

Others need to worry that entering the Six Paths of Reincarnation Space will be detected by sect elders, but Lin Xian has no such worry, because the Pure Yang Sect ancestor, Daoist Chong He, is the biggest undercover agent and the leader of Immortal Trace, one of the two major organizations in the Six Paths of Reincarnation Space.

Returning to the Pure Yang Sect is no different from returning to the Six Paths of Reincarnation Space; this place is one of the strongholds of Immortal Trace in the Real World.

Upon his first descent into the Real World, Lin Xian was attracted by the laws of this place—real and not false, close to the Dao, completely different from the illusory and constantly changing laws of the lower realm.

If the lower realm is the Eight Strange Techniques, then the Real World is the source of the Eight Strange Techniques, the shell where the Great Dao resides.

Lin Xian sensed heaven and man, constantly adjusting his inner heaven and earth, evolving toward the posture most suitable for the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, resonating with the Real World.

The "Eight-Nine Arcane Art" is not just a single technique, but a method jointly opened up by a generation of Primordial and Bodhi Ancient Buddha to explore Dao Fruits.

If one enters the Dao, one becomes an Indestructible Dao Body, indestructible through ten thousand calamities, with three heads and six arms, manifesting heaven and earth, ever-changing; if one realizes Buddha, one obtains the Bodhi Golden Body, undefiled and pure, unborn and undying, physically becoming a saint.

The reason why one technique can prove two Dharma Bodies.

Is because back then, Bodhi Ancient Buddha guided the first generation of Primordial Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun to enter Buddhism, incarnating as a Holy Buddha to cultivate the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, proving the Bodhi Golden Body, and achieving a great spectacle of this Great Universe.

It can be seen that the Primordial Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun entering Buddhism to be a monk is not the first time he has opened up the world; he has a criminal record.

Buddha is originally Dao, Dao is originally me. In the Great Universe of One Lifetime, the two families of Buddha and Dao have never been clearly distinguished; instead, there is me in you, and you in me. Various great gods are frantically opening masks, and the relationship is extremely subtle.

Think about how some of the Twelve Golden Immortals went to Buddhism to be exchange students, preparing to experience a new life, only to look up and see that their new mentor was the Holy Buddha. That feeling must be surprise + accident!

And for the Primordial Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun to abandon Dao for Buddha and ascend to the Other Shore, the Eight-Nine Arcane Art is of extraordinary significance. It can be said that this technique contains the hard work of several Other Shore entities. Perhaps it is not the most suitable technique for cultivation, but it is absolutely the most suitable technique for fighting.

Once the Dharma Body is perfected, one can rely on the Eight-Nine Arcane Art to walk into the Immortal World and Gai Jiuyou, disguising oneself as an Innate Divine Spirit or Innate Demon, thereby obtaining the blessing of the power of the Immortal World and Gai Jiuyou, becoming a pseudo-Other Shore.

This is also the most hopeful channel to contend with Other Shore entities besides Other Shore Divine Weapons.

"This step is the beginning of the Great Dao."

"This step is the intersection of dual systems."

"This step is what my generation should call External Scenery!"

Lin Xian seemed to prophesy, and also seemed to declare. Countless visions swarmed out. In an instant, the original daylight turned into a starry sky, shining on the peaks of the Pure Yang Sect.

Elders, deacons, and disciples of the Pure Yang Sect opened their eyes one after another, looking at the sky with surprise, curiosity, worship, or heat.

"My Pure Yang Sect has produced another External Scenery expert; it is a cause for celebration."

"External Scenery is the true starting point of martial arts."

"External Scenery—only by stepping into this level can it be considered the true inheritance of the sect?"

"But I haven't heard of any half-step External Scenery expert in the sect touching this barrier?"

"Could it be that there is a disciple with nine orifices, sensing heaven and man, returning to simplicity, preparing to ascend to heaven in one step!"

"How is that possible? The only one in the Pure Yang Sect with such qualifications is Tiance. He just opened nine orifices not long ago; how can he make another breakthrough."

"Wait... look at the peak where the visions are dancing; that seems to be the dojo where Senior Brother Qingyuan is in seclusion?"

Before the words fell, many yellow-crowned Daoists of the Pure Yang Sect were stunned, and there was no lack of grandmasters who frowned. Qingyuan's qualifications were indeed good, worthy of being called a genius.

If he broke through to half-step External Scenery, even a perfect half-step, it would be within expectations, but ascending to heaven in one step was really unlike him. Could it be that he had some strange encounter? Opportunity?

"Look, Qingyuan is about to condense his Dharma Image." An External Scenery expert said in a deep voice: "What kind of foundation he has will be visible at this moment."

In an instant, countless stars collapsed, as if turning into suns. There were Golden Crows dancing, the void collapsed, and there was a sense of infinite change.

It was precisely the Indestructible Dao Body, the Eight-Nine Dharma Image.

The inner and outer heaven and earth merged, instantly attracting a surging thunder tribulation. Lin Xian let out a long whistle, condensed the External Scenery Dao Fruit, and turned into a rainbow light, rushing into the sea of thunder.

"What the hell, can you cross the tribulation like this?" Some young Daoists were dumbfounded. Even if the physical body is strong, you can't resist like this.

Boom—the heavens seemed to be angered by Lin Xian's repeated actions. One layer of thunder tribulation pressed over another. At this moment, there was no Yin fire, Golden Wind, or Chaos; everything turned into an endless sea of thunder!

The vast sea of thunder covered a hundred miles, and the immeasurable heavenly might made the Daoists of the Pure Yang Sect almost unable to breathe.

Just when the Pure Yang Sect grandmaster was preparing to make a move to prevent the heavenly might from bringing too much mental pressure to the young disciples.

A dragon roar echoed in the sea of thunder, as if a True Dragon of the Nine Heavens had descended from the Grand Void, opened its bloody mouth, swallowed the hundred-mile sea of thunder into its belly, and then burped with satisfaction.

"A guest with no home thirty thousand miles away, a body of clouds and water for twenty years."

"The eight scenes are full, serving as a villa; the Dao is achieved, and the rubble turns to gold."

The thunder dispersed and the light appeared. A Dao song sounded. A Daoist in green clothes stepped from the sea of clouds, dashing and free. The residual heavenly thunder could not hurt him at all; everything turned into auspicious clouds under his feet.

Countless Pure Yang Sect disciples cast admiring gazes, but the real External Scenery experts, and even grandmasters, had dull eyes.

This is the beginning of External Scenery!

"Senior Brother Qingyuan, Ancestor Chong He summons you." A little Dao boy walked out of the Moral Hall of the Pure Yang Sect, calming all the storms.

The experts of the Pure Yang Sect also breathed a sigh of relief. Whether Daoist Qingjing was an immortal or a demon, in front of a Dharma Body expert, he would definitely be seen through.

"Dharma Body, an immortal with the power to destroy the world..."

Lin Xian took a deep breath, without a trace of fear, followed the Dao boy, and stepped onto the Moral Hall step by step.

Inside the hall, the statue of the Moral Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun with white hair and white beard stood tall, holding scriptures, with the Taiji evolving on his back.

Second on the Heaven List, a Dharmakaya powerhouse, the True Immortal of Early Yang, Daoist Chong He, wore a black-and-white yin-yang fish Daoist robe. He sat cross-legged beneath the statue, his brows and beard all white, his skin like an infant's, revealing a detached and ethereal temperament.

The person is like his name, peaceful, harmonious, and humble.

Daoist Chong He's eyes were calm. He had seen too many disciples with qualifications like Qingyuan in his life; he neither valued nor despised them, just treated them as ordinary.

The limit of a genius is often External Scenery, and External Scenery only sees the threshold of the Dharma Body.

It was just that the degree of Qingyuan's genius now exceeded everyone's imagination, making people suspect that he had obtained strange encounters, opportunities, and good fortune.

And as the master of Immortal Trace, one of the most senior reincarnators, Daoist Chong He first suspected the Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

"Everyone has their own secrets."

Daoist Chong He smiled warmly, like an ordinary old man, and said slowly: "When I was young, I also had many strange encounters; otherwise, I wouldn't have reached the step of being listed in the immortal ranks."

"If you have unspeakable difficulties, the sect will not get to the bottom of it. I just hope you are worthy of your heart and do not forget your original intention. Only then can you have a beginning and an end."

There was comfort, pressure, majesty, and kindness. If it were an ordinary External Scenery expert, under such intimate conversation from a Dharma Body expert, they would have already confessed everything like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

"Actually, there is nothing that cannot be said. Ancestor Chong He, the disciple did indeed have a strange encounter and went to another world."

Lin Xian smiled, but his gaze looked at the statue of the Moral Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun behind Chong He, always feeling that it was empty and missing something.

"The theory of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds seems illusory, but after being listed in the immortal ranks, everyone has had more or less contact with it."

Daoist Chong He smiled slightly. While explaining, he also showed his identity and status, making people feel at ease.

He is a dignified Dharma Body Human Immortal, second on the Heaven Ranking, having roamed the martial arts world for countless years; what kind of scene has he not seen.

Those Bodhisattvas, Arhats, and Immortal Great Experts, existences only found in Daoist books—I, the old Daoist, have chatted and laughed with them.

Young man, tell me about your strange encounter.

"Actually, it's no big deal." Lin Xian said indifferently: "Not long ago, the disciple traveled to the Taiqing Realm of the Great Red Heaven and visited the Moral Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun at the Tushita Palace."

"???"

Daoist Chong He had a face full of question marks. He looked at Lin Xian, then looked back at the Yuanshi Yuanshi Tianzun statue. This time it was his turn to be uneasy.

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