Chapter 312: Hard Cultivation in the Palace, Stepping into the Dao Seed Realm

Time flew by.

In the blink of an eye, three months passed.

Li Youyi had been staying with An Xianjing, simply feeling like a year for a day; he was worried about Tang Wanzhou being discovered, and didn't dare to go to Tang Gu Sea to cultivate with the help of the Fusang Divine Tree and the Cocoon of Time, so his cultivation progress was extremely slow.

Fortunately, during this period, An Xianjing reattached the severed arms of Qi Xiao and Tuoba Butuo.

An Xianjing would occasionally discuss Buddhist lectures with him; how could Li Youyi understand these?

The Chan Sect is a Daoist sect.

So he could only recite some familiar Buddhist quotes, such as "The body is the Bodhi tree, the heart is like a bright mirror stand," "Form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form"...

Unexpectedly, she listened very seriously, and it seemed she really gained something.

On this day.

An Xianjing finally combined the Six-Like Burning Karma Technique and intent power together; the Six-Like scenes appeared around her body, like dreams and illusions, thunder, lightning, and rain and dew coexisting, constantly annihilating and being reborn, sometimes empty, sometimes colorful.

The entire Southern Clear Palace was filled with ten thousand zhang of fire clouds, but the flames were not purely destructive; under her control, even if they drifted between grass and trees, they didn't hurt anything at all.

The entire main altar fell into a strange scene of dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows.

The sky was on one side fire clouds, on the other side thunder and rain curtains.

An Xianjing put away all her power and stood up from the ridge of the field; her entire person was in a very good mood, and her inner state was reflected in her appearance. Her entire person transformed into a Pure Immortal Body, possessing infinite life aura, her skin and hair emitting divine luster, her features unprecedentedly young and exquisite, possessing a kind of clear, elegant beauty that could steal people's hearts.

Li Youyi sat in meditation on the other side of the ridge, waiting for all the visions to disappear before asking: "Has the Palace Master stepped into the realm of transcendence?"

"Transcendence is not that easy! But I have already opened that door; stepping over it is only a matter of time, but my intent power is still not strong enough."

An Xianjing was in a very good mood, looking at Li Youyi leisurely, her voice pleasant: "You, you have a great affinity with Buddhism; read more classics, don't be addicted to female beauty, and don't fight and kill anymore. Cultivate your body and nature, and you might become a true Buddha in the future."

"Cultivate the Cihang Aperture-Opening more, and rely on its combat method intent to communicate with the Great Dao between heaven and earth, condensing a Buddha-natured Dao Seed."

"You also have great talent for the Six-Like Burning Karma Technique; in just three months, you have already achieved minor success. Spend more time cultivating it, and in a year or two at most, you should be able to achieve perfection."

Li Youyi listened quietly, feeling that this Palace Master An was giving retaliatory guidance.

After all, during the past three months, Li Youyi had pointed out more things to her, and even the Cihang Aperture-Opening had been learned by her through repeated practice.

Although An Xianjing didn't say it on the surface, she must have been a bit tired of it in her heart.

Now that the Six-Like Burning Karma Technique had gone a step further, she finally saw the clouds part and the sun shine, and her entire person was full of triumphant pride.

Taking advantage of her good mood, Li Youyi said: "Palace Master, that identity of the Fourth Divine Son is truly a disaster, not a blessing; can you not give it to me?"

"Afraid of Sikong Jingyuan and Sikong Yanlun?" An Xianjing put away her smile.

Li Youyi said: "That's not it; it's mainly that I'm a person who doesn't like to be in the limelight and wants to be low-key."

"Want to be low-key, yet you killed Wang Shu? The position of Divine Son is something countless people dream of getting, yet you decline it? Why? Do you think the Rice Sect Divine Son is not as good as the Divine Hidden Person of the Jiuli tribe?" An Xianjing questioned, without anger in her tone.

Li Youyi said: "Of course not..."

An Xianjing said: "Divine Sons and Divine Daughters don't have the requirement to execute missions every season. And the Fourth Divine Son can get one hundred thousand merit points every season, which is four hundred thousand a year, enough to exchange for many resources. In the future, you can build your own mansion in the main altar; you can't live at your master's place forever, right?"

"And Divine Sons and Divine Daughters can mobilize large amounts of resources and people when they go outside. In the Divine Sect, the Heavenly Palace's power is larger than the other three palaces combined, with billions of sect members, so there are three Vice Palace Masters."

"In terms of strength, the Divine Sect is not much worse than the imperial court."

"At the same Dao Seed Realm, why did you kill Wang Zhi and the others without any waves? Killing Wang Shu, however, caused a near four-palace trial? That's because the higher your status, the greater the price they have to pay to move you."

An Xianjing threw the Divine Son nameplate engraved with Li Youyi's name to him: "Remember to drip your blood into the nameplate; don't think about drawing a line with the Divine Sect. If you flee, or betray, what will your master do? Your master and I are both guaranteeing you."

"Stay in the Southern Clear Palace and raise rice properly; when your master returns, let her take you to the Heavenly Principle Palace to complete the sacrificial notification ceremony for the Divine Son."

Having said this, An Xianjing walked out of the array light gauze leisurely, one hand fingering Buddhist beads, one hand behind her back, with an unfathomable posture, stepping out toward the outside of the Southern Clear Palace.

"Greetings, Palace Master!"

"Welcome, Palace Master, for coming out of seclusion!"

"Heaven shows visions; congratulations to the Palace Master for her cultivation progress, with transcendence in sight."

Outside the Southern Clear Palace, there was a sea of people.

It was the astonishing vision that had attracted countless disciples and Elders of the main altar, all coming to congratulate, bustling with noise and excitement, everyone celebrating.

An Xianjing was not in the Spirit Valley Palace but in the Southern Clear Palace for seclusion, which invisibly added a layer of prestige to the Great Disciple of the Southern Venerable who sat in the Southern Clear Palace. 【3

This newly promoted Fourth Divine Son held extraordinary weight in the eyes of Palace Master An.

After An Xianjing left, Li Youyi was finally able to sneak into the Blood Mud Space, utilizing the Fusang Divine Tree and the Cocoon of Time to accelerate the cultivation process of his Seventh Sea.

During this period, he naturally also had to guard against Tang Wanzhou discovering his secret.

After becoming a Three-Star Spirit Thought Master, his Cocoon of Time could last for a full ten days.

Yet outside the cocoon, only three days had passed.

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Over the next half year, apart from exchanging for cultivation resources, Li Youyi almost never left the Southern Clear Palace, becoming incredibly well-behaved.

In the eyes of An Xianjing and Yao Qingxuan, he finally stopped longing for the outside world and was contentedly cultivating and tending to the Golden Rice.

Seeing him so diligent and obedient, the two also brought back gifts for him whenever they returned from outside.

During this time, Li Youyi went to the Heavenly Principle Hall with Yao Qingxuan to complete the sacrificial notification ceremony. Being the Fourth Divine Son of a heretical sect wasn't so bad; as long as they didn't make him do anything wicked or harmful, he was happy to cultivate in peace at the main altar.

In any case, he had saved a Northern Region Young Lord; if he were ever backed into a corner in the future, at least he would have a way out.

Blood Mud Space.

Inside the Cocoon of Time.

Li Youyi finally brought his Seventh Sea to perfection. At the moment of completion, his entire body's trace meridians, string meridians, and ten springs erupted with golden radiance, emitting a sound like the simultaneous vibration of zither strings.

This was the process of his foundation becoming further solidified and condensed after reaching the Great Perfection of the Five Seas Realm.

His trace meridians, string meridians, and physical body would all receive an upgrade.

His magic power springs became even more surging.

The inner world barriers of his seven Qi seas were all shimmering. Once reaching the Dao Seed Realm, he would no longer need to rely on spring liquid to expand his Wind Mansion and Ancestral Field.

After continuing for half a day...

"Whoosh!"

Li Youyi's Ancestral Field below his navel erupted with a spatial fluctuation.

Following that, the inside and outside connected, crazily absorbing the five-element energy from heaven and earth.

The five-element energy transformed into clear and turbid Qi; the clear rose upward, turning dark like the sky, while the turbid sank downward, turning yellow like the earth.

"It was so difficult, but finally, it is complete. Thirty-six thousand in the Wind Mansion, seventy-two thousand in the Ancestral Field, secretly corresponding to the numbers of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches."

Li Youyi was filled with deep emotion, as if he had traveled a hundred and eight thousand miles to finally obtain the true scriptures. He had spent too long stagnating and cultivating in the Sixth and Seventh Seas, consuming a massive amount of resources and wealth.

But there was no other way.

Who told his inner world to be so vast? Just his Fourth and Fifth Seas were comparable to other people's Wind Mansion and Ancestral Field.

With his hundred and eight thousand square units of Wind Mansion and Ancestral Field, if it were any other martial cultivator, it would take decades to cultivate to perfection.

"The Ancestral Field is indeed very different from the Wind Mansion; it is like a world with its own heaven and earth, not just simply larger. No wonder planting the Dao in the Wind Mansion cannot break through to the Longevity Realm."

"Eh! How can this be?"

Li Youyi looked inward at his Ancestral Field and discovered an inconceivable sight.

The Ninth Spring Ancestral Field was located below the navel.

The Tenth Spring Divine Gate was located in the navel, above the Ancestral Field.

The Ancestral Field was like a spherical world, while the boundless Divine Gate was like a vast and empty universe, hanging right above the Ancestral Field.

More crucially, inside the Divine Gate, apart from the observable area shrouded in immortal mist, the outside was pitch-black, hollow, and infinite, perfectly matching a vast universe.

Li Youyi could even imagine that in the darkness outside the observable area of the Divine Gate, it might very well be enveloping the Ancestral Field, and perhaps even the Wind Mansion and the Five Seas.

The sight within his body left him in deep shock.

"If the Ancestral Field is a part of the Divine Gate in the future, then I can completely use the Divine Gate to plant the Dao. What grows on a planet might be a towering tree, but what grows in the universe would be a Heavenly Divine Tree, a Star River Ancient Plant, completely breaking free from the shackles of the world."

His emotions gradually calmed down.

Li Youyi prepared to first plant a Dragon Seed in his Wind Mansion to practice.

Studying the ancient Son of Heaven's insights into the Dao would not be a bad thing. After all, Master Can had said that the Dragon Clan's Dao was one of the most magnificent Daos in heaven and earth, a top-grade Dao Seed.

Planting the Dao with a Dragon Seed did not mean completely copying the flying dragon's cultivation path.

It was just a seed!

While absorbing the ancient Son of Heaven's Dao insights, one had to integrate their own cultivation insights; thus, the Dao that everyone planted would be different.

In the Dragon Clan, or other forces possessing ancient Son of Heaven Dao Seeds, this was a common occurrence.

It was like countless seeds growing on a single tree.

"Boom!"

Li Youyi took out a Dragon Seed, injected it into his Wind Mansion, and carefully nurtured it by mobilizing his magic power.

The Dragon Seed was like a dragon pearl, crystalline and brilliant.

Under the nourishment of his magic power, scripture symbols the size of mosquito feet emerged from within the Dragon Seed—mysterious and obscure, in myriad forms: some like talisman lines, some like dragon claws, some like wind and rain, some like thunder and lightning...

The scriptures of this world were all symbols of the Dao.

Talisman scripts, insect scripts, array scripts, elixir scripts, artifact scripts, beast scripts... it was precisely because they were symbols of the Dao that they could absorb energy from heaven and earth and transform it into various different extraordinary powers.

The scriptures in the Dharma Canon were at the very least left behind by transcendent beings and were called "Great Dao Scriptures."

Cultivators could not directly see or touch the Dao; they had to rely on Great Dao Scriptures to perceive and understand it.

The Dao Seed Realm was about constantly contemplating various Dharma Canons; if one could comprehend them, one could communicate with the Great Dao, subsequently condensing corresponding scriptures within the body, constantly growing strong, taking root, sprouting, and bearing fruit.

If Li Youyi wanted to communicate with the mysterious laws of heaven and earth through combat intent to condense a Dao Seed that best suited him, he had to first comprehend his own unique scriptures to complete the planting of the Dao.

The benefit of planting the Dao with a Dragon Seed was that he did not need to take this step.

Countless ancient Son of Heaven scriptures were already inside the Dao Seed.

He only needed to build a soul bridge to connect his soul to the Dragon Seed.

He had to make his soul and combat intent fuse, allowing them to constantly absorb magic power to grow stronger, and ensure his own insights could be continuously branded into the Dragon Seed, using it to walk his own unique martial path.

On the surface of the Dragon Seed, countless scriptures flickered constantly, and his magic power fully permeated them, completing the refinement.

As it slowly rotated, sending out ripples, the level of magic power within Li Youyi's body underwent a earth-shaking change, centered on his Wind Mansion.

This change lasted for a full day.

Li Youyi completed the planting of the Dao and stepped into the Dao Seed Realm!

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