Chapter 1025: Untitled

"Senior Emperor Yu! When did you arrive?"

The sudden arrival of Dayu caught Su Fan by surprise. It had been about two hundred years since they last parted ways.

Two hundred years, in the main world of the Yuanyang Realm, would be the entire lifespan of a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Yet for Su Fan and his peers, these two hundred years had passed in the blink of an eye; many immortals spent longer than that in seclusion.

Furthermore, Su Fan was deeply puzzled by Dayu's sudden appearance. He hadn't done anything recently that would warrant the attention of this Human Sovereign.

As for the Dao of Runes, Su Fan did not believe it was enough to alarm the Human Race. After all, it was at most a form of technique; while useful for cultivators to enhance their defensive means, that was all it was.

It offered no significant advancement for the Human Race as a whole.

At most, the concepts of runic artifacts Su Fan had introduced could bring a certain increase in strength to the Human Race. But since humans could learn them, so could other beings—the myriad races could all learn them. In the end, the Human Race would have no advantage.

As for keeping it a secret, that was even more impossible. Although Su Fan had brought the Dao of Runes, those powerful immortal cultivators could deduce it after seeing it just once, and they could even optimize it into a more formidable version.

Moreover, the runes in the main world of the Yuanyang Realm were only at the sixth rank. Even with Su Fan's deductions and extensions, they would likely only reach the peak of the seventh rank, roughly equivalent to a Heavenly Immortal.

Of course, with the help of the Universe Mirror and the knowledge of spiritual treasure restrictions from the Mythical World, Su Fan could continue to deduce further levels.

But since it was merely a technique, it wasn't worth Su Fan's effort. Even if he deduced and optimized it to the Golden Immortal level, what would it matter?

It wouldn't actually improve his strength much. After all, if he could truly reach the Golden Immortal level, his cultivation would likely have already reached that stage by then.

Once he reached the Golden Immortal level, he could directly employ divine abilities using the Laws; wouldn't that be far more powerful than this Dao of Runes?

In this Mythical World, those powerhouses rarely studied techniques, and they didn't even study divine abilities too deeply, because powerhouses directly used origin Laws to face their enemies.

The deeper one's comprehension of the Laws, the more one could mobilize the power of heaven and earth with every movement; it was more useful than any technique.

One force overcomes ten thousand techniques; one law breaks ten thousand laws.

It was that simple.

The Great God Pangu attained the Dao through the Law of Strength and became the supreme powerhouse of Chaos—simple, yet invincible.

Only weak cultivators would obsess over these things. In the eyes of the orthodox Daoist immortals, all of this was merely heterodox paths.

Those people pursued the Great Dao of Immortality. As long as one's cultivation was high enough, any technique or divine ability could be shattered with a single punch.

Of course, in this Mythical World, spiritual treasures were the best and most direct means of enhancing combat power.

Possessing a good Innate Spiritual Treasure or Acquired Spiritual Treasure made all other divine abilities and techniques secondary.

During the Investiture of the Gods, many disciples of the Jie Sect possessed endless divine abilities, techniques, and various array formations; they were indeed very powerful.

In particular, the Ten Absolute Arrays of the Ten Heavenly Lords of the Jie Sect were formidable. Yet, in the end, weren't they broken by the Chan Sect, leading to their deaths and their souls being placed on the Investiture List?

The Ten Absolute Arrays were powerful, and those Ten Heavenly Lords were all at the Golden Immortal level. However, they placed too much importance on the arrays, believing them to be invincible, only to be easily resolved by the Chan Sect in the end.

Although they had also sacrificed several disciples, so what? Compared to their peers, the Chan Sect suffered no losses at all.

Instead, those Ten Heavenly Lords, who were fine Golden Immortal experts and seeds of the Great Luo, all became gods on the Investiture List.

It sounded nice to be a god in the Heavenly Court, but once on the Investiture List, one lost their freedom forever. More importantly, because of the restrictions of the Investiture List, their cultivation could never improve—that was the most serious part.

It was also the most painful.

I wonder if they ever felt regret. If they hadn't spent their time studying the Ten Absolutes Array back then, and had instead sat quietly in their cave dwellings, diligently cultivating, perhaps the Ten Heavenly Lords would all have reached the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, or even the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

Of course, reaching the Great Luo Golden Immortal level might have been very difficult; even at the height of the Jie Sect, there were only so many Great Luo Golden Immortals.

But reaching the Taiyi Golden Immortal level was very possible.

But it was too late to say anything now.

The lesson from predecessors is that cultivation is what matters most.

However, some secret techniques cannot be called inferior. Even the Ten Absolute Arrays of the Ten Heavenly Lords were extremely fierce, but obsessing over them while neglecting one's own cultivation foundation meant losing the root.

If they were treated merely as a means of self-protection, they would be fine.

Many secret techniques are also quite terrifying.

For example, during the Investiture of the Gods, the Nail-Head Seven-Arrow Book brought out by the Daoist Lu Ya killed Zhao Gongming outright.

And that was a Great Luo Golden Immortal, someone who had sent the second-generation disciples of the Chan Sect fleeing in all directions; even the Vice Cult Leader of the Chan Sect could do nothing against him.

Of course, it is also possible that at the time, Randeng simply didn't want to exert himself. Otherwise, with his cultivation at the time, which was stronger than Zhao Gongming's, why would he have kept fleeing?

He was likely resentful.

After all, the Calamity of the Investiture had nothing to do with him personally. The baleful energy stained the disciples of the three sects, yet the Chan Sect had him preside over it—wasn't that pushing him into a fire pit?

Perhaps this is why he later defected from the Chan Sect and became the Ancient Buddha Randeng of the Buddhist Sect.

Indeed, compared to the two Sages of the West, the Primordial Saint was truly not very good in this regard. Otherwise, nearly half of the second-generation disciples of the Chan Sect would not have defected.

Even the Jie Sect couldn't compare.

Although the Jie Sect also had defectors, that was only when things reached their most dangerous point.

Most of the disciples remained steadfast. Even now that the Jie Sect is gone, countless disciples still yearn for it in their hearts.

Clearly, this is the charisma of the Sage Tongtian.

However, compared to the disciples of the Jie Sect, the disciples of the Chan Sect indeed placed more importance on their own cultivation foundation, which was related to the teachings of the Primordial Saint.

The Primordial Saint valued one's background and naturally valued the foundation.

As for the Sage Tongtian, he was like the Dao Ancestor, not caring about backgrounds. Except for a few core disciples, he never forced anyone to listen to his lectures; in this regard, he was quite like the Eldest Senior Brother, the Taiqing Saint, in his governance through non-action.

It was precisely because of this that many disciples of the Jie Sect valued techniques more, so during the Investiture of the Gods, these disciples indeed caused the Chan Sect a lot of trouble.

But the outcome often ended with the victory of the Chan Sect.

It was not that the Chan Sect was too shameless—though they were—but rather that their cultivation was higher, so naturally, they had more means to win.

With the same technical means, the higher the cultivation, the more likely one is to gain the upper hand.

If your cultivation is low, no matter how strong your secret technique is, flaws will still be found, and you will be defeated in one stroke. ===== CHAPTER 1026 =====