Chapter 316: Twelve-Character Dao Seed

Because one can find the "Flower of Meditation" and the "Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone," the Black Swamp of Meditation Flowers is an important place for training and treasure hunting, and there are many disciples of the Divine Sect coming and going on the road.

They travel in groups of three or five, mostly in company.

Li Youyi and his two companions did not want to expose their tracks, so they put on masks.

Li Youyi questioned the returning disciples, wanting to purchase fragments of the Spirit Platform Flame Star Stone from them on credit.

All ended in failure.

These Rice Sect disciples were very cautious, as if guarding against thieves; they either dodged far away or claimed to have gained nothing.

If not for the strong enemy pursuers, Li Youyi would have really liked to use his identity as a Son of God to block the road and check their boundary bags one by one.

The five-hundred-mile road was rugged and difficult to travel, with many forks, and sometimes they would encounter special zones that required detours. By the time they truly finished walking, they had trekked nearly a thousand miles.

The black mud swamp before them emitted a pungent stench, the soil was soft, and water marshes were everywhere.

In the air, miasma that had not dissipated for tens of thousands of years permeated, severely affecting vision.

In the swamp, a large number of glowing plants grew, and glowing fierce insects flew by from time to time, so it was not completely dark.

"The Black Swamp of Meditation Flowers, according to the books, is a full thousand miles wide and was a place of a great battle during the period of the ancient Pogaluo Sect. Once, this place was extremely glorious, and it was beaten into this state during the battle."

"Under the mud swamp, countless buildings and corpses are buried. There are many dangers and weirdness; for a thousand years, it has been impossible to clean it up."

"Within a hundred miles is considered a relatively safe area. Beyond three hundred miles is a place that absolutely cannot be stepped into."

Li Youyi recounted the information from the book to the two: "We will search separately. If we encounter danger, we will notify each other with whistles. I have drawn the God-Travel Talismans myself; one for each person."

"Sikong Jingyuan and Yi Zhou Xue, perhaps there are other enemies; it shouldn't be long before they discover they have been tricked, and sooner or later they will find their way here, so you must be careful and cautious."

"Old Qi, your cultivation base is weaker, take this Grade Four Hundred-Character Invisibility Cloak and wear it."

This invisibility cloak was given by An Xianjing.

The three dispersed and rushed into the Black Swamp of Meditation Flowers.

Tuoba Butuo and Qi Xiao were powerful, and they were able to survive the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, so they did not lack intelligence or life-saving abilities and were fully capable of standing alone. Therefore, Li Youyi was not very worried about their safety.

After Li Youyi rushed into the swamp, he restrained his aura, changed direction, and headed toward the remote and marginal areas. After going ashore, before him was a mountain range over a thousand meters high.

The mountain range is pitch black and devoid of vegetation, with clusters of peaks standing like giant dragons lying on the eastern side of the Nether Flower Swamp.

Li Youyi walked for half a day and found a cave in the mountain, confirming that no one had come for many years, before walking in.

On the stone walls of the cave, Buddha statues were carved, and ice-silk spider webs were dense.

After killing the pair of spiders occupying the cave, Li Youyi occupied the spider nest alone and used giant stones to tightly seal the cave entrance.

Still uneasy, he took out the Yellow Dragon Sword and dug a hundred meters into the ground.

Standing deep in the pitch-black underground, he could not hear any sound from the surface.

Li Youyi finally felt at ease and sat cross-legged to meditate.

"Whoosh!"

The space between his eyebrows lit up.

Spirit light particles, like a swarm of fireflies, flew and drifted underground, illuminating the dark passage.

These glowing particles surged toward the two fish eyes of the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish.

One represented the Lesser Yang Star, and the other contained the power of time. Li Youyi wanted to know, what would happen if both were activated together?

Would he return directly to Earth?

"Click, click!"

The Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish slowly rotated.

After rotating three times, distant chanting and Daoist titles sounded in Li Youyi's ears, becoming clearer and louder, as if another world were approaching.

The space around him became distorted.

The underground scene gradually blurred.

"Whoosh!"

Countless Dao texts and Buddhist scriptures flew out from the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish, flying around his body, dense and everywhere.

These Dao texts and Buddhist scriptures were extremely profound, turning into two oceans of text, floating above his head and below his body respectively, rotating like Taiji.

Everything disappeared, and Li Youyi felt as if he were sitting in the void of the universe, roaming among the endless Great Dao.

It was so shocking!

His heart was agitated and difficult to calm; he stood up and walked in the ocean of scriptures. Every step he took, the scriptures beneath his feet trembled.

Li Youyi reached out, wanting to grab a Dao text, but it slipped through his fingers.

He could not keep it.

He pondered for a moment, then performed the Jade Void Breathing Method; his mood gradually calmed, his spirit became clear and wise, and he slowly raised his arms, performing the first style of the Chan Sect's Twelve Scattered Hands: "Heaven-Turning Palm Seal."

Then came the second style, the third style...

Practicing over and over again.

Twelve tall divine shadows of battle intent appeared in the twelve directions of the ocean of text.

Their bodies were as large as mountains, holy and majestic, with extraordinary bearing, and their eyes were full of spirituality and wisdom, as if they possessed life, unlike just twelve shadows.

Li Youyi opened his eyes and looked around, feeling that standing before them, he was as small as dust.

"Could it be that those twelve people in the Chan Sect legends truly exist?"

"Their aura is even more terrifying than the transcendent ones. If they had appeared on Earth, where did they go later?"

"Why would they leave legends on Earth?"

At this moment, Li Youyi did not have the previous shock and palpitations, and he could face the gazes of the twelve divine shadows with a calm state of mind that even he felt was weird.

"Is this still my battle intent?"

Li Youyi extended his right hand, his five fingers spread, reaching toward one of the divine shadows with crane hair and a child's face riding a fairy beast, wanting to take him into his Divine Palace.

"Haha!"

A vast, ear-shaking laughter sounded, shaking the heavens and the earth.

That divine shadow actually "came alive," twisting his beard and laughing: "The Jade Void waves its hand to break ten thousand laws, one seal turns the heavens to suppress mountains and rivers."

He struck out with his palm, and suddenly, a divine seal countless times larger than Li Youyi's body appeared, descending from the sky, with thunder and lightning, and the space collapsed.

Li Youyi's face changed drastically, and he didn't know where the courage came from; he was not scared to the ground. Instead, his hands were in a posture of supporting the heavens, and he actually steadily propped up the divine seal.

It was very difficult to prop up, but he could hold it.

Very weird!

From within the divine seal, countless Great Dao symbols flew out, condensing into scriptures.

Li Youyi looked at the scriptures floating before his eyes; although he had never seen them before, they were like words he had learned since childhood, very familiar, but he just couldn't understand them; it was too uncomfortable!

"They should be the Dao I touched while practicing the Heaven-Turning Palm Seal move. I must understand them to make them my own and condense them into a Dao seed."

"Boom!"

The divine seal above Li Youyi's head was slashed away by a familiar sword.

It was the Huang Long Sword!

The divine shadow holding the Huang Long Sword said loudly: "The crane shadow flies alone to fight outside the clouds, the Dao heart is inactive and laughs at the red dust. Since you cannot understand his Dao, then use my Dao to cast the Dao seed."

The Huang Long Sword slashed over, and ten thousand dragons flew together.

"Awoo!"

Li Youyi fought with the ten thousand dragons, but he couldn't beat them at all, so he had to perform the Huang Long Ascending to Heaven and flee toward the firmament.

"The Taiyi Divine Sword cuts off cause and effect, subduing demons and monsters to show compassion."

A divine shadow above his head slashed down with a sword, opening the sea.

Li Youyi had already understood that everything before him was not real. He was not fighting those twelve people, but contending with their Dao.

He had practiced the Chan Sect's Twelve Scattered Hands for many years and possessed the ability to communicate with twelve types of Dao.

"Cannot dodge; whatever moves they use, I will use the same moves."

"Must observe! This is a rare learning opportunity; their moves are infinitely miraculous, perhaps even more powerful than Imperial Arts."

Li Youyi's will was firm, fearless, and he drew the Huang Long Sword, performing Taiyi Opening the Sea, heading straight for the firmament.

With one sword strike, he broke the sword that came from above to open the sea.

A golden scripture fell into his body and floated in his Divine Palace.

Li Youyi looked inside his Divine Palace and found that he could actually understand this scripture; it was like the traces of a sword move, like a route for Qi circulation, and there was also a mysterious feeling he couldn't describe.

"My sword move is stronger than his, so I obtained the Great Dao symbol, which condensed into a scripture, and I can directly plant the Dao."

Li Youyi's brain was clear, knowing the reason was that he had spent the most effort on the "Taiyi Opening the Sea" move, having performed it in danger many times, understanding it more thoroughly, so he could easily pick the Dao seed.

"Since that's the case, then come on! I want to take all of your Dao."

Li Youyi rushed toward the next divine shadow, his momentum rising step by step, his thinking active and his battle intent boiling.

Time passed in one observation and battle after another.

Li Youyi stepped on the Jade Cauldron light and shadow, crushed the jade cauldron flying from the opposite side, and harvested the twelfth scripture.

The whole world quieted down.

In Li Youyi's Divine Palace, the twelve scriptures rotated and flew rapidly, turning the liquid magic power into a vortex. The vortex spread to his whole body, pulling all the magic power in the seven Qi seas into the Divine Palace.

The magic power condensed, like continuous fine rain, turning into liquid.

Gradually.

In the liquid magic power, the twelve scriptures condensed together, wrapped into a ball, and formed a crystal-clear Dao seed, instantly illuminating the pitch-black, empty Divine Palace even further.

Where the light shone, there was magic power mist.

What surprised Li Youyi quite a bit was that this twelve-character Dao seed, during the rotation process, actually had Taiji patterns and Swastika light shadows appearing and disappearing, with countless Dao marks.

The Divine Palace Dao planting was successful, and the spring eye below was covered by liquid magic power.

"Condensing the Dao seed absorbed all seven of my Qi seas. I don't know if directly mobilizing the liquid magic power in the Divine Palace to perform martial arts moves and Dao arts will be more powerful?"

Li Youyi put away his thought power, and suddenly, the ocean of Dao texts and Buddhist scriptures flew back to the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish.

The distorted space around him returned to normal, and he reappeared in the underground cave.

The feeling of emptiness coming from the seven Qi seas made Li Youyi extremely uncomfortable, more painful than being hungry for ten days. So, he separately mobilized the Buddha Ancestor Relic fish eye, entered the blood mud space, and went to the Tang Gu Sea.

On the sea surface, he performed the Jade Void Breathing Method to absorb the magic power between heaven and earth.

In the breathing and exhaling, magic power came from outside, circulating and condensing around the twelve-character Dao seed in the Divine Palace.

Li Youyi clearly felt that the level of magic power condensed in the Qi sea had improved a lot, and his physical body had also undergone a further subtle transformation.

The Ancestral Field and Wind Mansion both expanded again.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 317 =====