Chapter 297: Six-Like Burning Karma

The Twin Rice Sect has been exploring the underground Immortal Mansion for a thousand years, so naturally, they have collected some fragments of the Spirit Platform Yan Star Stone.

But internally, in order to cultivate top-tier Spirit Intent Master powerhouses and Departed Spirit Soul Seeds, and externally to recruit people, using both soft and hard tactics, it can be said that they consume as many Spirit Platform Yan Star Stone fragments as they find.

Moreover, most of them are sent to the Heavenly Principle Hall.

The Spirit Valley Hall has very few.

The Spirit Platform Yan Star Stone is expensive; a small piece costs 150,000 Gushing Spring coins.

"Don't complain that it's expensive; this is the number one supreme treasure for assisting Spirit Intent Masters in condensing intent stars. This price is only available in the Divine Sect's main altar; if you want to buy it outside, you might not even be able to get it, and it might even be doubled by others."

"The top forces in the world all establish cultivation barriers and consolidate their ten-million-level status by raising the prices of a few key cultivation resources."

The cold Elder Xu added: "If you use this Dao Lotus to exchange, I can give you another five thousand drops of spring liquid."

Li Youyi was at the critical stage of impacting the three-star Spirit Intent Master; only by breaking through would he have the strength to challenge the Fourth Divine Son, Wang Shu. After all, Wang Shu was not only strong himself, but also had many true disciple helpers.

Thus, he gritted his teeth and agreed.

Li Youyi took the Spirit Platform Yan Star Stone fragments and 23,000 drops of spring liquid, and together with the gentle Elder Xu, left the resource vault.

On his body, there were still a few hundred-character artifacts he had seized, which could be sold for quite a few Gushing Spring coins.

But he dared not buy more spring liquid.

Buying more would be too exaggerated.

23,000 drops of spring liquid were definitely not enough to cultivate the ancestral field to perfection, so he could only find a way in the future.

Subsequently.

Li Youyi and Elder Xu came to the Art Pavilion.

The Art Pavilion is a key area of the Spirit Valley Hall, shrouded in arrays; even with a true disciple's Life Tablet, one must report first.

The array can only be opened from the inside.

The one guarding the Art Pavilion was An Xianjing's eldest disciple, unfathomable. The array was opened by one of his intents, but he did not appear, and it was unknown where in the pavilion he was.

Li Youyi had no interest in dharma canons.

After all, Master Coffin and Master Jar had already taught him the Dao Seed Realm chapters of the "Heavenly Demon Record" and the "Night Emperor Record" for him to choose from. During this time, he had been pondering, actively preparing for condensing the Dao Seed.

He came to the Art Pavilion because he was interested in the four major arts of the Spirit Valley Hall.

A behemoth like the Twin Rice Sect had things that were rare, yet now he could read them at will. With such an opportunity, how could he not grasp it well?

Elder Xu took Li Youyi to the third floor of the pavilion, saying as they walked: "The Divine Sect has a total of ten major arts, and the Spirit Valley Hall has the most, occupying four of them."

"These are things cultivated by Longevity Realm giants! In the Dao Seed Realm, normally, only Divine Sons and Divine Maidens with successor talent are allowed to cultivate them."

"Does Li True Disciple know why this is?"

Li Youyi naturally knew the reason, chatting with him: "The Dao is the foundation, and the art is the means."

"Only successors have the greatest possibility of stepping into the Longevity Realm in the future. In this way, the major arts cultivated can accompany one for a lifetime, constantly polishing and refining."

"Art and Dao complement each other, advancing side by side."

"Dao Seed Realm martial cultivators without successor talent should put their time into martial arts cultivation, with breaking into longevity as the first goal. If one is obsessed with major art cultivation and delays longevity, after a hundred years, it will surely be too late to regret."

Elder Xu laughed and nodded: "There are indeed some anomalies! Like that Fourth Divine Son Wang Shu, when he was in the Five Seas Realm, he came into contact with the major art 'Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art.' After reaching the Dao Seed Realm, he actually cultivated it successfully. This comprehension is simply invincible. From a mortal, he changed his fate to become a Divine Son."

Li Youyi suddenly stopped and looked at a bookshelf over two meters high on the right.

On the bookshelf, the five characters "Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art" were clearly written.

"Does cultivating the 'Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art' require reading so many books?"

Li Youyi was astonished, feeling that the books on the shelf numbered in the hundreds, covering every aspect: basic categories, danger levels, resource types, the combination of techniques and Dao, moves, and power generation...

A great art simply requires a lifetime of study; it is a discipline that demands countless hours of research.

Elder Xu retreated to the side of the bookshelf and smiled, "Over here, there are also many insights from those who have practiced this art through the generations! After all, everyone's constitution is different, so the methods of cultivating this art naturally differ, and the cultivation resources used vary as well."

Elder Xu broke the seal, took down the general outline of the "Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art," and handed it to Li Youyi.

Li Youyi was quite interested in the Dao techniques cultivated by Wang Shu, so he began to flip through it.

The Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art is the cultivation technique for the numerous Golden Armor Warriors, the guardians of the ancient Pogaluo Sect.

"First Layer of the 'Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art': Golden Armor Body Protection."

"A Dao Seed Realm martial cultivator can enter the threshold in one year, achieve minor success in three years, and has hope for great success in ten years."

"Second Layer: Mountain-Moving Giant Strength."

"A Dao Seed Realm martial cultivator who practices diligently for twenty years has hope for great success and can forge the Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Dao Lotus."

"Third Layer: True Form of the Mountain."

"A Dao Seed Realm martial cultivator who practices diligently for forty years has hope for great success and can forge the Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Dao Fruit."

The more Li Youyi read, the tighter his brows furrowed.

This takes up too much time, seriously affecting the cultivation of the martial Dao of longevity.

Unless, like Wang Shu, one cultivates the first layer to great success in three years, deploying Golden Armor Body Protection, where the skin is like wearing a magic robe and physical strength increases threefold in a short time, forcing even inheritors of the same realm to avoid its edge.

"I wonder if the Chan Sect's Twelve Scattered Hands will undergo a transformation after reaching the Dao Seed Realm, and whether their power can compare to a great art?"

Li Youyi had no certainty in his heart.

Because the cultivation of great arts often requires the assistance of precious resources.

For example, cultivating the first layer of the "Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art" requires Golden Buddha Sand, Earth Vein Profound Qi, and high-grade blood crystals; depending on one's constitution, special hundred-year precious medicines and thousand-year essence medicines must also be added.

Li Youyi only knew how to habitually practice the Chan Sect's Twelve Scattered Hands, constantly searching for his own shortcomings and sensing deeper mysteries and the traces of laws.

This relies entirely on comprehension!

There is no concrete or systematic method to pursue stronger power and higher levels.

There are no manuals, insights, or chants, only the moves taught by his master and the divine essence he must capture.

If he continues to cultivate this way, it is very likely that the Chan Sect's Twelve Scattered Hands will have long since changed, becoming an attack technique that only fits him and belongs solely to him.

He felt that the Twelve Scattered Hands were like copying, sensing, and connecting to the divine essence and attack methods of twelve extraordinary beings.

The second great art of the Spirit Valley Hall is the "Buried Snow Cold Prison."

First Layer: Buried Snow Sword Qi.

Second Layer: Ice Soul Divine Sword.

Third Layer: Cold Prison Descent.

Fourth Layer: Nether White Bone.

In Li Youyi's mind, he thought of Yao Yin.

If the threat of cold could be resolved first, her Jade Shattered Ice Soul body would likely be very suitable for cultivating this great art. Cultivating it before the resolution is a life-shortening technique.

Closing the general outline of the "Buried Snow Cold Prison"...

Li Youyi's heart stirred, recalling that his fourth uncle, Li Songlin, had once said that Yao Qian's sword qi was Buried Snow Sword Qi; once it enters the body, it freezes tendons and bones, coagulates blood, and causes the flesh to necrotize, with terrifying destructive power.

It can be said that as long as one is struck by his sword, even a Dao Seed Realm body could be destroyed in an instant.

Is the Buried Snow Sword Qi he cultivates related to the "Buried Snow Cold Prison"?

Yang Qingxi and Yang Yun were sent to the main altar for advanced training, which shows that the Sui Sect and the Twin Rice Sect must have a very deep entanglement. It is very likely that this is the key reason for the Sui Sect's rapid rise in the last thousand years.

Li Youyi did not believe that Yao Qian, as the First Armor of the Sui Sect, had no involvement with the Twin Rice Sect.

How deep that involvement is, is hard to say!

The third great art of the Spirit Valley Hall, the "Six Suchness Burning Karma Art," piqued Li Youyi's interest.

This is a Buddhist great art left behind by the ancient Pogaluo Sect.

An Xianjing once said that Li Youyi's mental power flame was comparable to the power of a first-layer Dao technique.

What she was referring to at the time should have been the first layer of a minor art.

In Li Youyi's view, since one must cultivate Dao techniques, one should maximize one's own advantages. Since mental power has a flame attribute, the martial Dao technique should naturally also choose the flame attribute, allowing the two to overlap and exert the strongest destructive power.

"First Layer: Ash-Extinguishing Finger Technique, great success in ten years. A flick of the fingertip melts gold and turns iron to liquid."

"Second Layer: Burning Karma Grindstone."

"Condense a flame grindstone around the body! The body is the axis, the flame is the grindstone, crushing living beings and purifying departed spirits."

"Third Layer: Karma Fire Transformation, directly breaking through to the Dao Fruit."

"Can condense flames into luan birds, golden crows, phoenixes, rock rivers... transforming into thousands of forms."

"Fourth Layer: Vajra Angry Eyes, Great Dao Longevity."

"Fifth Layer: Glazed Pure Fire, prairie fire spanning a hundred miles."

"Sixth Layer: Six Suchness Mahayana, burning the heavens and boiling the seas."

The cultivation time for each layer is almost the same as the "Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art"; wanting to refine the first three layers requires at least one sixty-year cycle.

Elder Xu saw Li Youyi lingering for a long time under the bookshelf for this art: "True Disciple Li has a unique eye, but this art is difficult to cultivate and extremely dangerous; a slight carelessness will result in death by karma fire burning the body."

"In the thousand years of the Divine Sect, fewer than ten people have been able to cultivate this to the fourth layer. Only two have been able to cultivate it to the fifth layer. Only one has cultivated it to the sixth layer, and that is the current Hall Master of our Spirit Valley Hall."

In Li Youyi's mind, the ordinary and calm appearance of An Xianjing emerged, and he was very surprised: "The Hall Master cultivates such a domineering great art with such destructive power?"

Elder Xu showed a look of pride, his eyes full of reverence and worship: "The Hall Master spent three hundred years of hard cultivation to reach the Six Suchness Mahayana, mastering the combat power to burn the heavens and boil the seas. Looking across the world, she is also one of the few powerhouses below the transcendent level."

"After the Hall Master cultivated to the sixth layer of great success, she felt that the power and charm of the technique were not exhausted. She once said that this art might be more than just a great art; it is possible that it is the first six chapters of an Imperial Art. But for some reason, the first six chapters only have the power of a great art."

Elder Xu took out the "Insights on the Six Suchness Burning Karma Art" written by An Xianjing and handed it to Li Youyi.

Li Youyi read it carefully.

With the mental power intensity of a mental power master, his reading and comprehension speed were extremely fast. In the state of mental power attachment, he only needed to look once to remember it, then flip to the next page.

A moment later, he had finished reading it all.

Li Youyi closed it, closed his eyes to contemplate and understand, and let out a long breath: "A great art is already so profound, what then is an Imperial Art like? Elder Xu, does the Divine Sect have an Imperial Art?"

Li Youyi knew that the Imperial Arts of the entire Lingxiao Life Realm, like supreme magic artifacts, were rare in number, and each one had a huge reputation.

The six major million-strong forces each have only one.

(End of chapter)