Chapter 856

It must be said that Ye Fan is a man of great fortune; though a lone cultivator, he laid a solid foundation in the Sea of Dao chapter using the Dao Scripture, and in the Palace Secret Realm, he even established a firm foundation with the Western Emperor Scripture.

But Fang Yu was curious how Ye Fan had obtained the Western Emperor Scripture—after all, without the help of the Wushui Great Emperor's dog, it was nearly impossible to acquire it.

But now the Western Emperor Scripture lay right before him.

Fang Yu sat cross-legged and began to comprehend the Western Emperor Scripture.

Palace, palace—what is meant by palace refers to the five viscera of the human body; within these five viscera seem to dwell eternal palaces, each brimming with boundless Daoic power.

As long as one excavates the palaces within these five divine treasuries, the Daoic power within will continuously arise.

The human palace secret realm is divided into five divine treasuries: the Heart's Divine Treasury, the Liver's Divine Treasury, the Spleen's Divine Treasury, the Lung's Divine Treasury, and the Kidney's Divine Treasury.

These five divine treasuries were dim and hazy; behind them, five ancient temples flickered in and out of view, towering and distant, mysterious and indistinct.

When the mind was empty of all things, one could even hear the sounds of the Great Dao—like chanting sutras, or ancient sacrificial chants—crossing time and space, drifting gently from a distant past.

"The Palace Secret Realm is profound beyond profundity. Cultivating this secret realm sometimes feels incredible, giving rise to all manner of inexplicable phenomena. The world calls them 'the Lost Self'—the Lost Self endures, existing in the past, in past lives, transforming into the Five Qi, chanting scriptures for oneself, communicating with Heaven and Earth, ensuring the immortality of the present 'Self.' Others say it is the 'Dao Self'—the human body is like Heaven and Earth; within the palace dwells the 'Dao Self,' the aspect of Dao-nature, perceivable only when the mind is utterly pure."

Ye Fan, seeing Fang Yu seemed to be comprehending, spoke up.

He himself found a spot and sat cross-legged.

The source he had gathered these past days was sufficient; now he was ready to enter the realm of Palace Secret Realm, Fifth Level.

In the void, Ye Fan sat cross-legged; within his palace, the Five Qi surged like dragons, coiling and dancing, listening to the Heavenly Sounds of the Dao, and his body began to transform.

In the coming days, he would directly cultivate to the Fifth Level of the Palace Secret Realm, drawing closer to the rumored Four Extremities Secret Realm.

Fang Yu also began to savor the profundities of the Western Emperor Scripture.

It must be said that the Palace chapter of the Western Emperor Scripture was indeed extraordinarily profound, differing somewhat from the Great Five Elements Art.

If the ten divine figures formed by the Great Five Elements Art grant a cultivator peerless combat power and absolute dominance within the Palace Secret Realm, the Western Emperor Scripture concerns the deeper potential of the human body.

This was a way of fundamentally understanding the palace.

The five viscera—if one cultivates the Great Five Elements Art, one can cultivate five arrays within the viscera, with ten divine figures suppressing them, rendering the viscera unbreakable; but the Western Emperor Scripture emphasizes excavating the "divine temples" within each divine treasury, where divine power flows.

The larger and more numerous the divine temples excavated, the more abundant the divine power becomes.

In past years, Fang Yu had naturally chosen the Great Five Elements Art, but now he realized the process of excavating the five palace secret realms bore some relation to the Threefold Cave Heaven Realm of Longevity.

If one could truly excavate within the five viscera an inexhaustible "divine temple," it would be akin to opening a cave heaven, a blessed land.

"Cultivating a single secret realm can indeed make one an ancient sage—whether one begins with the Sea of Dao chapter or the Palace chapter."

The more Fang Yu pondered the Palace chapter of the Western Emperor Scripture, the deeper his insight grew: in ancient times, some in this world cultivated only a single secret realm—not necessarily the Sea of Dao, but also the Palace Secret Realm alone. If one mastered the secret arts of the Palace Realm, one could indeed become an ancient sage through the Palace Secret Realm alone.

All methods have points of connection.

This was Fang Yu's insight.

Unfortunately, the Western Emperor Scripture Ye Fan obtained contained only the Palace Secret Realm chapter; if he could obtain the complete Western Emperor Scripture—from the Sea of Dao chapter, to the Palace chapter, to the Four Extremities chapter, to the Transformation into Dragon chapter, to the Immortal Platform chapter—that would be ideal.

Ye Fan, raised on the charity of many, made Fang Yu wonder whether he would have to seek ancient scriptures again to break through the Four Extremities Secret Realm.

This place seemed not far from the Ancient Ruin Jiang Clan.

Fang Yu cultivated for a while; the Western Emperor Scripture now offered him some benefit, but not having cultivated the secret art for a single Palace Realm was a pity.

He rose to his feet, gazed into the distance, and took a step forward, entering Zishan.