Chapter 977: Untitled

In the Chaos World, even a common chaotic stone has been baptized by endless chaotic air currents. Ordinary people might be unable to refine these Primordial stones, but a Great Luo Golden Immortal or a Quasi-Sage can still refine them into Acquired Spiritual Treasures.

Therefore, major powers like the Buddhist Sect do not lack Acquired Spiritual Treasures; in the Southern Continent, only the top-tier sects possess them.

That is why they appear precious, but to the Buddhist Sect...

It is not to say that everyone has one, but at the True Immortal realm, wanting to obtain an Acquired Spiritual Treasure is not too difficult a matter.

This Buddhist bead of Monk Zhi Zhen was clearly refined by a Buddhist expert; while not a mass-produced item, it can only be considered mid-grade.

However, the array inscribed within it is indeed extraordinary.

Within this array space, the gravity suddenly intensified, causing Zhang Liang to feel the pressure on his entire body increase.

Yet his Haoran Qi divine ability actually failed to break through this array space.

"An Acquired Spiritual Treasure."

At this moment, Zhang Liang also reacted, knowing he had encountered an opponent.

A late-stage True Immortal Buddhist expert possessing an Acquired Spiritual Treasure—relying solely on himself, he was indeed no match.

Thus, he cast his gaze toward Su Fan and Gai Nie.

"I can't break this thing; I'll leave it to you two."

Zhang Liang did not try to act tough; he was not the type to be stubborn, but rather very flexible.

Seeing that he could not break it, he simply sought out others.

The capable should do more work; he was one who used his brain.

Watching Zhang Liang's expression, Su Fan was speechless.

However, he did not make a move either. Although he could break this Buddhist bead space—using his own Acquired top-tier Spiritual Treasure, the Mountain-Suppressing Stele, he could shatter it in one blow—he felt it was unnecessary.

The Mountain-Suppressing Stele is an Acquired top-tier Spiritual Treasure, an Earth Dao spiritual treasure refined by the Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi.

He used it more for his own insights into the Earth Law; using it for combat felt like a waste.

Over these years, his realm had improved rapidly, and it was inseparable from this Mountain-Suppressing Stele.

The restrictions within this thing were all imitated by Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi using the Earth Book, naturally possessing the other's insights into the Earth Dao and the Earth Law.

By using this to contemplate, how could his realm not improve?

Once the law itself is mastered, one is qualified to contemplate it.

Of course, if it were someone else at the Heavenly Immortal cultivation level, or even a Golden Immortal, they might not necessarily be able to contemplate the Dao within this Mountain-Suppressing Stele.

But Su Fan could.

Thus, his realm improved rapidly; this Mountain-Suppressing Stele was almost equivalent to a Quasi-Sage constantly lecturing on the Dao to him.

Such treatment was something no one else could achieve.

Even back in the day, when the three Saints of the Three Teachings had not yet become Saints, the disciples they took in, although they would lecture on the Dao, did not do so every single day.

It was just that they would lecture on the Dao once when there was time.

Perhaps it would be years, decades, or even hundreds, thousands, or ten thousand years.

After all, for people like the Three Pure Ones, a casual seclusion could last thousands or ten thousand years.

But even so, those disciples of theirs were not weak.

Not to mention people like Duobao, whose foundations were extraordinary; perhaps even without the Saint's teaching, their futures would not have been bad.

As for some other second-generation outer sect disciples who were able to cultivate to the Golden Immortal or Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, wasn't it because they had the Saint lecturing on the Dao and listening to the Saint's Great Dao that allowed their realms to improve?

The Monkey was able to cultivate to the Golden Immortal realm in a short time because he had the teachings of Patriarch Bodhi.

If not for the careful guidance of that Quasi-Sage Patriarch, could the Monkey have reached the Demon King realm so quickly, reaching this realm in just a few decades or a few hundred years?

Although his foundation provided him with great help, without Bodhi, he would probably have had to grind slowly like those other Demon Kings to cultivate to the Golden Immortal realm.

In the ancient and primordial times, there were many among the Myriad Races with foundations better than the Monkey's, but they all relied on the grinding of time to cultivate to the Golden Immortal realm.

Perhaps they had inheritances left by their own clan's bloodlines, but without a teacher to guide them, their cultivation remained very slow.

Su Fan's Mountain-Suppressing Stele contained the insights left behind by Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi.

This was also compensation for Su Fan; those things of Su Fan's were of great help to Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi.

They were a great supplement to his Earth Dao, and for the Earth Book, they provided a fatal improvement.

Once the Earth Book could be upgraded to the level of an Innate Supreme Treasure, then it was highly likely that Zhenyuanzi would have the possibility of a breakthrough using this opportunity.

Perhaps he could be the first Saint or Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal after the six Saints of the Primordial World.

Of course, wanting to break through was also extremely difficult.

But there was a glimmer of light on the path ahead; compared to other Great Supernatural Beings, he at least saw a path.

For the sake of compensation, he took out the Mountain-Suppressing Stele; one must know that once this thing was discovered by other Great Supernatural Beings, they could use it to spy on his, Zhenyuanzi's, foundation.

After all, Zhenyuanzi's Earth Dao was just like that.

If it were an enemy, they could use this to deduce the means to defeat him.

Under normal circumstances, these Great Supernatural Beings would not easily evolve their Dao Fruits; only when familiar Daoist friends were discussing the Dao would they perhaps unfold their Three Flowers Dao Fruits, colliding with each other, but even then, they would each leave behind a bit of core content.

Zhenyuanzi, in order to compensate Su Fan, took out this Mountain-Suppressing Stele, almost treating the other as his own closed-door disciple.

Of course, Zhenyuanzi had never taken on a disciple; Su Fan being his first disciple was not a problem.

He could inherit his Earth Immortal Dao mantle.

It was just that outsiders did not know, and even Su Fan himself was ignorant of it; only that Great Yu had guessed a little.

But this Mountain-Suppressing Stele was indeed of great help to Su Fan's improvement, and for this point, Su Fan was very grateful to Zhenyuanzi.

Because of this Mountain-Suppressing Stele, Su Fan's current realm had already improved to the Golden Immortal realm, and even compared to Gai Nie, his realm was slightly stronger.

Of course, in terms of combat power, no matter how conceited Su Fan was, he knew he was no match for Gai Nie.

Even with the help of the Mountain-Suppressing Stele, he could at most be considered a draw.

Wanting to defeat Gai Nie was still very difficult.

After all, he had not fully refined and controlled this Mountain-Suppressing Stele; his cultivation was too low to exert its full power.

He was not like those shameless disciples of the Chan Sect during the Investiture of the Gods, who borrowed the Innate Spiritual Treasures of their elders, which still contained the elders' magic power.

Take the Investiture of the Gods war, for example; when the Taiji Diagram appeared, given the cultivation level of Grand Master Xuandu at the time, he was fundamentally incapable of refining it.

That was an Innate Supreme Treasure; how much of its power could a Great Luo Golden Immortal possibly unleash?

Even the Central Yellow Apricot Flag in Jiang Ziya's hands—that was something he could use, yet he was a mere cultivator who had just become an immortal, or perhaps hadn't even become one yet.

To be able to use that thing—it was a top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasure; even if he poured all his magic power into it, I'm afraid it would be difficult to even get the Central Yellow Apricot Flag to move.

If it were a True Immortal, it would be extremely difficult to even activate this Central Yellow Apricot Flag.