Chapter 1028: The Path of Martial Dao

Bai Qi's Law of Slaughter, combined with Martial Dao, complemented each other, making him extremely powerful. In fact, his cultivation and strength had always been an unknown.

However, many people believed that Wu'an Lord had at least the combat power of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, making him the undisputed number one in the Great Qin military.

And he was not just an ordinary Great Luo Golden Immortal; in terms of slaughter, Wu'an Lord Bai Qi was number one.

Compared to him, Wang Jian was indeed a bit inferior.

Although Wang Jian's intent of slaughter was not small, compared to what Su Fan perceived outside Xianyang City, there was still a certain gap.

This was not because Wang Jian was inferior, but a matter of choice.

Wu'an Lord Bai Qi entered the Dao through slaughter, walking the path of slaughter. This path was not smooth; although the more one slaughtered during cultivation, the faster one's cultivation improved.

But the more one slaughtered, the more strongly it eroded the soul. Those with weak will and spirit, once embarking on this path, would often be controlled by slaughter, becoming a demon who only knew how to kill.

In the end, they would suffer from cultivation deviation, and some would directly transform into demons—true demons.

Even so, few could truly succeed.

Among the generals and commanders of the Great Qin military, few truly chose this path; after all, the path of Martial Dao was already sufficient.

The path of Martial Dao had been opened in ancient times. The path of the Great Luo Golden Immortal Martial Dao was extremely impossible for many martial generals.

In fact, the Martial Dao Golden Body was the lifelong pursuit for many martial generals.

Martial Dao had many branches, including the more cruel ancient path of Soul Refining, which involved killing demons and melting their blood and souls.

There was also the path of purely tempering the body, using all things to melt the body.

The latter path of Martial Dao was actually more suitable for the Human Race today. The ancient Martial Dao was a path the ancient humans had to take because of the crises they faced.

This was a shortcut, melting the bloodlines of the Demon tribe and even the myriad races to increase cultivation and enhance divine abilities, which could quickly improve the overall strength of the Human Race.

However, this path was extremely dangerous. The Demon tribe was violent; if one was not careful and failed to melt them, one would explode and die.

Or the souls of the demons within the blood essence could not be extinguished, leading to a struggle with one's own spirit. Ending up with a mental breakdown was fortunate; the most terrifying thing was being dominated by the demon soul and becoming a monster that was neither human nor demon—that was the most terrifying.

However, if one could persist, this path could indeed improve one quickly.

Wang Jian used the power of Great Qin to kill a Great Demon of the ancient Golden Immortal level, after which his Martial Dao broke through to the level of the Martial Dao Golden Body, and his combat power became comparable to the peak of the Golden Immortal level.

That Great Demon's bloodline was extraordinary, and Wang Jian inherited part of its power.

His physical body was also tempered as a result.

Of course, compared to the latter path of purely cultivating the Martial Dao of the body, it was naturally much inferior.

The most famous path of the body was the ancient Witch tribe, though in reality, the Witch tribe was a tribe of Laws.

But what they were famous for was their powerful bodies, using their bodies to resist various Innate Spiritual Treasures.

Of course, whether in the primordial or ancient periods, the bodies of those great supernatural beings and Innate Divine beings were not bad.

Even the Immortal Dao did not ignore this; the focus was just different.

The three sects also had methods for the body, the most famous being the Eight-Nine Divine Art. The Daoist Eight-Nine Divine Art was the supreme method for the body. Once cultivated to perfection, it was said to be comparable to the peak of the Quasi-Sage level, and because it was a path of the body, it likely held more advantages during combat.

It is said that this Eight-Nine Divine Art was a method for the body created by the Sage using the Witch tribe's body-tempering techniques.

The Witch tribe's body-tempering techniques were said to be passed down from the Great God Pangu. The Three Pure Ones obtained the Primordial Spirit Dao of the Great God Pangu, while the Ancestral Witches obtained the physical inheritance of the Great God Pangu.

The Ancestral Witches' ability to roam the ancient times was indeed inseparable from their bodies.

When Gong Gong crashed into Buzhoushan, besides the calculations of others, wasn't it also because his own body was powerful?

If it were another peak Quasi-Sage, even if they crashed their body until it collapsed, they likely wouldn't have caused much damage to Buzhoushan.

This shows the terror of the Witch tribe's body tempering.

The Human Race's Martial Dao body-tempering technique was actually inherited from the ancient Witch-Humans, who were naturally the descendants of the combination of the Witch tribe and the Human Race.

After the Witch-Demon War, the Witches and Demons declined, but the Witch-Humans did not disappear.

Some followed the Witches into the Underworld, some went elsewhere, and of course, some chose to integrate into the Human Race.

In ancient times, the Human Race rose after the decline of the Witches and Demons and did not turn the Witch-Human tribes away.

After all, at that time, the Witch-Human tribe, because they contained part of the Witch bloodline, was actually much more powerful in talent than the later Acquired humans.

The Witch-Human tribe was also a relatively powerful force among the ancient human tribes.

And the ancient Nine Nether tribe was actually just a part of the Witch-Human tribe.

The Nine Nether tribe participated in the struggle for the Human Sovereign but failed.

Later, because of bloodline and reproductive issues, the Witch-Humans gradually declined, but they brought back part of the body-tempering techniques.

Through the melting of the ancient human predecessors, a body-tempering technique suitable for humans was created. From then on, Martial Dao had another branch.

Slowly, this Martial Dao gradually became the mainstream.

However, the Golden Elixir Great Dao of the Immortal Dao had always been the mainstream of the Human Race, and Martial Dao could only circulate within the dynasties.

Of course, both were for improving strength, and the high-level humans never prohibited the spread of the Golden Elixir Great Dao just because it was from the immortals.

In fact, many immortals preached, and the Human Race never refused. Even now, it is still the same.

What the Human Race feared was those immortals controlling Human Luck.

As for the luck they enjoyed, the Human Race had never paid attention to it.

For example, the Taiqing Saint had always been offered nearly twenty percent of Human Luck, more than even the Nuwa.

The Human Race never thought of cutting this off. In the dynasty's offering halls, the Taiqing Saint always occupied the main position.

It was not because of the Taiqing Saint's strength.

If we talk about strength, wasn't the Dao Ancestor the strongest, or was the Sage Tongtian with the Four Swords of Zhu Xian more powerful?

Yet in the offering halls, the position of the Sage Tongtian was far inferior to the Taiqing Saint and Nuwa; he didn't even rank in the top three.

The Taiqing Saint had such status because he had incarnated back then to preach the Golden Elixir Great Dao to the Human Race.

Only then did the strength of the Human Race make rapid progress.

Although Martial Dao was strong, its sequelae were too great, and lifespans were often too short. Many ancient Martial Dao powerhouses did not die of old age but often died suddenly during the cultivation process.

The Golden Elixir Great Dao did not have this problem.

Among the human predecessors, there were quite a few Immortal Dao powerhouses. The integration of the Immortal Dao indeed greatly improved the overall strength of the Human Race.

Therefore, the Human Race had always been very grateful to the Taiqing Saint.

Naturally, they would not have any opinions about him. ===== CHAPTER 1029 =====