Chapter 629

The Wu tribe's Sun Sect Sect Master Seal burst out with dazzling blood light.

Translate: Shaman Tribe Sun Sect Sect Master Seal burst out with dazzling Blood Light.

But we need to keep "Blood Light" as term. So: Shaman Tribe Sun Sect Sect Master Seal burst out with dazzling Blood Light.

Check: "burst out with dazzling blood light" = burst out with dazzling Blood Light. Good.

The Wu Gu elders, together with the Wu Jin, Wu Yin, Wu Tong brother clans, and all Wu clan members of Wu Fort, simultaneously knelt toward the direction of the Sect Master Seal.

Translate: Wu Yu and the elders, together with Wu Jin, Wu Yin, Wu Tong and the core brothers, as well as all the Wu family members in Wu Family Fortress, simultaneously knelt toward the direction of the Sect Master Seal.

We will translate the term as 'Sect Master Seal', keeping it generic as it refers to the Sun Sect's Sect Master Seal.

At that moment, in the distant underworld, in the Wu clan's ancestral land Wu Yu, the true forms of the Wu Gu elders, together with their three corpse avatars freshly severed these days, also knelt in the same direction.

Translate: At this moment, in the distant underworld, in the Wu family's core ancestral land, Shaman Territory, the true forms of Wu Yu and the elders, together with their recently severed three corpses avatars, also knelt in the same direction.

We will translate the term as 'three corpses avatars'.

Wu tribe, Sun Sect.

Translate: Shaman Tribe, Sun Sect.

Sun Sect Sect Master Seal.

Translate: Sun Sect Sect Master Seal.

Just like the Linghu clan's Tushan Hall lineage, being of the Linghu clan, it represents the purest bloodline descendants.

Translate: Just like the Linghu Clan Mud Mountain Hall lineage, being also of the Linghu Clan, it represents the purest bloodline.

We will translate the terms as 'lineage', 'bloodline', and 'blood descendants' respectively.

Like the Tushan Hall seal, this seal represents the supreme authority of the Linghu clan's bloodline.

Translate: Just like the Mud Mountain Hall Seal, this seal represents the supreme authority within the Linghu Clan's bloodline.

Therefore, when the Linghu clan faces the Tushan Hall seal, even if the holder is merely the Tushan Lord Linghu Nine, a mere One Fetus Concealment realm, countless top Linghu commanders are still suppressed on the spot, unable to unleash even a tenth of their cultivation on the Three Kingdoms battlefield.

Translate: Therefore, when the Linghu Clan's people face the Mud Mountain Hall Seal, even if the one holding the seal is merely Mud Mountain Lord Linghu Jiu, a mere One Fetus Concealment realm cultivator, countless top generals of the Linghu Clan are still suppressed on the spot, unable to unleash even a tenth of their cultivation on the Three Kingdoms Battlefield.

We will translate the terms as 'One Fetus Concealment realm' and 'cultivation' respectively.

This Sun Sect Sect Master Seal's might is even more overbearing than the Tushan Hall seal.

Translate: This Sun Sect Sect Master Seal's might is even more overbearing than the Mud Mountain Hall Seal.

The Tushan Hall seal merely suppresses blood descendants, greatly inhibiting their power.

Translate: The Mud Mountain Hall Seal merely suppresses the bloodline, greatly restricting its power.

And the Sun Sect Sect Master Seal can directly exterminate clansmen… all Wu tribe members who have left even a drop of essence blood in the Sun Sect Sect Master Seal have their life and death entirely in Wu Tie's hands.

Translate: And the Sun Sect Sect Master Seal can directly exterminate tribespeople……All Shaman Tribe members who have left a drop of essence blood in the Sun Sect Sect Master Seal have their life and death entirely in Wu Tie's grasp.

We need to keep ellipsis? The Chinese has "……". We'll keep as "……". We'll translate as "……". So: "……All Shaman Tribe members who have left a drop of essence blood in the Sun Sect Sect Master Seal have their life and death entirely in Wu Tie's grasp."

Moreover, they seem to constantly maintain the Wu tribe's "Soul Secret Technique", with everyone's soul constantly kept in a highly coordinated, highly resonant state.

Translate: Moreover, they seem to constantly maintain the Shaman Tribe's 'Soul Secret Technique', with everyone's soul constantly kept in a highly coordinated, highly resonant state.

Moreover, they seem to constantly maintain the Wu tribe's "Soul Secret Technique", with everyone's soul constantly kept in a highly coordinated, highly resonant state.

Moreover, they seem to constantly maintain the Wu tribe's "Soul Secret Technique", with everyone's soul constantly kept in a highly coordinated, highly resonant state.

In this state, if someone captures any Wu tribe member who has left essence blood in the Sun Sect Sect Master Seal, unless they completely destroy the souls of all those sealed within the Sect Master Seal, break through the formation of hundreds of thousands of Wu tribe members, which includes dozens of Divine Sovereign Realm experts whose souls form a great array, they cannot obtain any information from the captive's soul.

Translate: In this state, if someone captures any Shaman Tribe member who has left essence blood in the Sun Sect Sect Master Seal, unless they completely destroy the souls of all those sealed within the Sun Sect Sect Master Seal, break through the formation of hundreds of thousands of Shaman Tribe members, which includes the soul resonance of dozens of Divine Sovereign Realm experts, they cannot obtain any information from the souls of the captured Shaman Tribe members.

We will translate the terms as 'Divine Sovereign Realm' and 'formation' respectively.

To the greatest extent possible, guard the secret of Wu Fort.

Translate: To the greatest extent possible, guard the secret of Wu Family Fortress.

Therefore, even Wu Tie's blood brothers Wu Jin, Wu Yin, and Wu Tie himself likewise actively offered essence blood to the Sun Sect Sect Master Seal.

Translate: Therefore, even Wu Tie's blood brothers Wu Jin, Wu Yin, Wu Tie likewise actively offered essence blood to the Sun Sect Sect Master Seal.

Note the duplicate Wu Tie; we keep as given.

The whole clan, united, seeks livelihood for the people, disregarding individual gain or loss, only for the clan's benefit.

Translate: The whole tribe, united, for the people's livelihood, not calculating any individual's life and death gains or losses, only for the tribe's sake.

Wu Tie also spat out a drop of essence blood, injecting it into the Sect Master Seal.

Translate: Wu Tie also spat out a drop of essence blood, injecting it into the Sect Master Seal.

A soul-shaking surge surged upward from the Sect Master Seal, Wu Tie felt his soul suddenly explode, countless points of light flickered before his eyes, as if he were immersed in an ocean of stars, he became the core of that starlight, countless stars swirling around him forming a great vortex that rapidly spun around him.

Translate: A soul fluctuation that could be called earth-shattering surged upward from the Sect Master Seal; Wu Tie only felt his soul suddenly explode, countless points of light flashing before his eyes, as if he were immersed in an ocean of stars, he being the core of that starlight, countless starlight swirling around him, forming a huge vortex that rapidly spun around him.

At that moment, Wu Tie communicated with the hundreds of thousands of Wu tribe members whose names were recorded in the Sect Master Seal.

Translate: At this moment, Wu Tie communicated with the hundreds of thousands of Shaman Tribe members whose names were recorded in the Sect Master Seal.

Including the Wu Gu elders and others.

Translate: Including Wu Yu and the elders.

Including Wu Jin and his brothers.

Translate: Including Wu Jin and the brothers.

Including the two hundred thousand people who had just migrated from Wu Yu within Wu Fort.

Translate: Including the 200,000 people who had just migrated from Shaman Territory out of Wu Family Fortress.

Bloodlines connected, souls merged; all those who left an essence blood imprint in the Sect Master Seal had their spirit and energy perfectly attuned to Wu Tie, wildly surging toward him; in their hearts and deep within their souls, an unknown, tremendous power surged forth.

Translate: Bloodline connected, souls merged; everyone, all Shaman Tribe members who left an essence blood imprint in the Sect Master Seal, their essence, energy, and spirit perfectly matched Wu Tie, frenziedly surging toward him; in the hearts of these people, deep within their souls, an mysterious, vast power surged forth rapidly.

This is, an indestructible belief.

Translate: This is, an indestructible belief.

This is, an ancient faith.

Translate: This is, an ancient faith.

This is reverence and worship for the Miao descendants, for the bloodline, for this realm of heaven and earth, for this universe.

Translate: This is, reverence and worship toward the Miao descendants, the bloodline, this heaven and earth, this universe.

This power, fervent and pure, allows no impurity to arise.

Translate: This power, blazing and pure, allows no impurities to grow.

This power makes Wu Tie's whole body blaze like fire, sweat pouring like rain.

Translate: This power makes Wu Tie's whole body blaze like fire, sweat pouring like rain.

This power immediately awakened the wondrous object that had lain dormant in Wu Tie's divine fetus for years.

Translate: This power immediately awakened the wondrous object that had lain dormant for years in Wu Tie's Divine Fetus.

Back then, in the Three Kingdoms battlefield's blood flag struggle, Wu Tie alone led the trend, gaining the Nine Revolutions Mystic Skill and additionally obtaining a semi-translucent lotus seed.

Translate: Back then, in the Blood Flag Contention War on the Three Kingdoms Battlefield, Wu Tie alone led the trend; besides obtaining the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art, he also received a semi-translucent lotus seed.

This lotus seed, in a short period, frantically siphoned Wu Tie's cultivated mana and the surrounding heavenly-earth essence, causing great hindrance to his cultivation for a time.

Translate: This lotus seed, in a short period, frantically plundered the mana Wu Tie cultivated, frantically plundered the heaven-earth primordial energy around him, causing great obstruction to his cultivation over a period of time.

Eventually, after sprouting several delicate roots, the lotus seed vanished and hid within Wu Tie's soul.

Translate: Finally, after the lotus seed grew a few tender rootlets, it vanished and hid within Wu Tie's soul.

Later, even after Wu Tie broke the life pond and condensed into a divine fetus, the lotus seed would only occasionally peek out, like a lazy dead fatman lounging at home, occasionally snacking, drawing some mana from Wu Tie's body and absorbing a bit of the soul power he cultivated.

Translate: Later, even if Wu Tie opened the Life Pool and condensed into a Divine Fetus, this lotus seed merely occasionally popped up, like a lazy dead fatman lounging at home, occasionally snacking, drawing some mana from Wu Tie's body and absorbing a bit of the soul power he had cultivated.

Besides that, the lotus seed had no further significant movement.

Translate: Besides that, this lotus seed had no further significant movement.

However, through the Sun Sect Sect Master Seal, gathering hundreds of thousands of Wu tribe members, when they devoutly bowed to Wu Tie, when their hearts gave rise to that indestructible belief and ancient faith power, when this power subtly merged with the aura emanating from the spirit tablets of Wu Tie's ancestors behind him, the lotus seed emerged.

Translate: However, through the Sun Sect Sect Master Seal, gathering hundreds of thousands of Shaman Tribe members, when they devoutly paid homage to Wu Tie, when their hearts gave rise to that indestructible belief, that ancient faith power, when this power subtly merged with the aura emanating from the spirit tablets of Wu Tie's ancestors behind him, this lotus seed emerged.

This pure, fervent belief power, only one tenth merged into Wu Tie's divine fetus, causing its surface to suddenly be coated with a layer of supremely sacred purple aura and golden radiance; the remaining nine tenths of the belief power were completely devoured by the lotus seed.

Translate: This pure, blazing belief power, only one tenth merged into Wu Tie's Divine Fetus, causing the surface of his Divine Fetus to suddenly be coated with a layer of supremely sacred purple-golden radiance; moreover, nine tenths of the belief power were completely swallowed by this lotus seed.

"Pa, pa, pa", continual faint sounds of sprouting roots came from within the lotus seed.

Translate: 【Pa—, pa—, pa—】, faint sounds of rootlets sprouting continuously emanated from within the lotus seed.

The lotus seed slowly drifted out from Wu Tie's divine fetus and gently landed at the center of the projection of the vast, tens-of-thousands-zhang pure jade disc behind his divine fetus.

Translate: This lotus seed slowly drifted out from Wu Tie's Divine Fetus, gently falling onto the center of the projection of the myriad-zhang pristine jade disk behind his Divine Fetus.

Dense "pa pa" sounds rang out continuously; the semi-translucent near-nonexistent lotus seed began to sprout, the fine dense semi-translucent roots gradually turned purple-gold, and countless fine translucent roots rapidly extended across the jade disc projection.

Translate: The dense 【Pa—pa—】 sound rang out continuously; this semi-translucent, nearly illusory lotus seed began to sprout, the fine dense semi-translucent rootlets gradually turning purple-gold, thread after thread of fine semi-translucent rootlets rapidly extending in the projection of the jade bi.

With a loud "pa" like thunder, the lotus seed's tough outer shell peeled off and drifted into Wu Tie's divine fetus.

Translate: The 【Pa—】 loud bang like thunder rang out; the lotus seed's tough outer shell peeled off, drifting into Wu Tie's Divine Fetus.

One after another, thunderclaps rang in Wu Tie's mind, making golden stars flash before his eyes; his divine fetus glowed with light, its substance becoming several times heavier and tougher, the flowing glazed light throughout becoming ever clearer and more lustrous.

Translate: One bolt of thunder after another rang out in Wu Tie's mind, shaking him so that golden stars flashed before his eyes, his Divine Fetus shimmering with light throughout, its texture suddenly becoming several times heavier and tougher, the flowing glazed radiance throughout becoming ever clearer and lustrous.

A section of lotus root over three feet long grew from the shelled lotus seed; the lotus root had nine segments, each densely covered with fine roots; the ultra-fine purple-gold translucent roots, thousands of times finer than a hair, numbered in the millions, slowly spreading outward in all directions from the projection of the vast pure jade disc.

Translate: A section of lotus root a little over three feet long grew from the shelled lotus seed; the lotus root had nine sections, each densely covered with fine rootlets, millions of purple-gold semi-translucent rootlets, each finer than a hair by a thousand times, slowly spreading outward in all directions from the projection of the myriad-zhang pristine jade disk.

A more miraculous change continued.

Tender shoots sprouted on the lotus root; although the lotus root had only nine sections, it gave rise to tens of thousands of extremely fine shoots.

Just like the roots, these shoots slowly spread outward in all directions from the jade disc's projection, and their extension speed was much faster than that of the roots.

It seemed like a hundred years, ten thousand years, or even longer.

But it was more likely just a snap of the fingers; in any case, before Wu Tie could react, these shoots had already covered the entire jade disc projection, then pierced its edge and slowly grew out.

Around the jade disc with a diameter of tens of thousands of zhang, three thousand lotus leaves, each about a chi in diameter and cool and fresh, slowly unfurled.

Beneath the three-thousand chi-sized lotus leaves, a total of eighty-four thousand tiny lotus leaves, each the size of a fingernail, also slowly unfolded.

The three thousand larger lotus leaves radiated clear light throughout, with only some faint veins tinged purplish-gold.

Those eighty-four thousand tender small lotus leaves varied in color, brilliantly multicolored, yet on each tiny leaf faint purplish-gold veins could be seen, exuding an intoxicating aura of Dao rhyme.

Wu Tie suddenly understood: the Primordial Scripture had comprehended the three thousand great Dao and eighty-four thousand side paths; this lotus seed of unknown origin had a huge appetite, seeking to swallow all these Dao principles.

"Heh, you're… not picky," Wu Tie thought, and the Divine-Slaying Whip hanging from his cuff silently appeared beside his divine fetus; a few delicate, semi-transparent roots grown from the lotus root lightly wrapped around the whip, causing it to open its vast internal space on its own.

Crystals condensed from mountain-like piles of stellar essence roared forth, being gulped down big mouthfuls by this small segment of lotus root.

Throughout the process, as the master of the Divine-Slaying Whip, Wu Tie had not the slightest control; the lotus root was like a bandit breaking into a good person's home, madly plundering the painstakingly gathered stellar essence without Wu Tie's consent.

Poor Wu Tie, using overbearing methods, had monopolized the stellar essence from over a hundred prefectures around Qingqiu City during the seven nights of stellar illumination, painstakingly refined… Earlier, when Wu Tie broke through to the half-step Divine Sovereign realm, he had already consumed part of it; now, this seemingly insignificant lotus root, at a speed a hundred times more frenzied than when Wu Tie broke through, was plundering and devouring the fruits of his labor.

Watching the stellar essence inside the Divine-Slaying Whip rapidly diminish, Wu Tie couldn't help but feel extreme heartache.

Radiant light flickered on the ten-thousand-zhang divine fetus, and Wu Tie's divine fetus emitted a booming soul-shaking sound: "How much… leave me a bit…"

The lotus root's devouring speed suddenly surged ten thousandfold; in the instant Wu Tie's divine fetus sounded, this creature resembled a greedy taotie beast, and the immeasurable stellar essence inside the Divine-Slaying Whip vanished in an instant.

In the vast space condensed from one-tenth of the world's primordial power by a hundred and eight Canghai Divine Pearls, only a water-tank-sized stellar crystal floated alone in the emptiness.

Wu Tie's divine fetus involuntarily trembled; if it could spit blood, it would have done so.

Names: Wu Tie (Wu Tie). Also maybe "divine fetus" is a term but it's a cultivation term, not a name; we translate meaning: "divine fetus". Not a name.

"Really just... a point?" Wu Tie's divine fetus roared and bellowed.

Names: Wu Tie (Wu Tie). Also "divine fetus" again.

"Crack!" — as if someone had taken a big bite out of this star‑light crystal stone, the crystal shattered, and then many of the shattered pieces vanished.

Within the God‑Slashing Whip, there finally remained a star‑light crystal stone the size of a quail's egg, perfectly round and flawless.

"A dot!"

Really, it's just "a dot!"

This lotus seed, this lotus root, really obedient, left Wu Tie "a bit" of star‑power essence.

Wu Tie wanted to spit blood.

But the next moment, Wu Tie closed his mouth.

He saw that the tiny three‑foot‑long nine‑section lotus root, after devouring so much star‑light essence, had swollen to a length of a hundred zhang, and was no longer the earlier translucent, illusory state but had become solid and substantial.

More importantly, three flower stalks grew on the nine‑section lotus root.

The three flower stalks formed an exquisitely beautiful arc, like carved ornamentation, inlaid at the center of the jade disc projection.

On each stalk sat a flower bud several zhang large, tightly closed; a mysterious aura of creation faintly seeped from the three buds, giving Wu Tie an immense feeling of joy.

Joy springing from the soul.

Immense, delight.

Thereafter, a clear stream of consciousness surged into Wu Tie's divine fetus.

The earlier lotus seed, now this lotus root—he needs more supplements.

Then this fellow, just as in the stronghold of the Three Kingdoms battlefield's blood‑flag contest, showed utter contempt and scorn for the God‑Slashing Whip that Wu Tie had painstakingly forged at great cost.

Immediately after, the jade disc projection flickered.

On the three thousand large lotus leaves and the eighty‑four thousand small lotus leaves, a crystal‑clear dewdrop condensed on each.

The dewdrops swayed, "ding‑dong‑ding‑dong," like countless beads threading down onto a jade plate, pattering into the jade disc projection.

All along merely a projection, occasionally taking on a misty water form, the jade disc projection suddenly flashed with light, then acquired a hint of solid, substantive presence.

Just this tiny change made Wu Tie feel his whole body shudder, as streams of light roared out of the jade disc projection and continually poured into his divine fetus.

Wu Tie's divine fetus began to grow inch by inch.

Given the divine fetus's height of ten thousand zhang, increasing it by just one inch boosted its power to a terrifying degree.

At the edge of the jade disc projection, a lotus leaf about a chi in size flashed with fire, then the leaf burst into flames entirely, turning into a mass of fire exuding a rich Dao resonance.

Wu Tie's flesh also ignited; fine, intricate Dao patterns spread rapidly from his hands across his body, each pore spurting fire, and within a few breaths the complete pre‑ and post‑heaven fire‑Dao markings were etched onto his body.

From marrow to skin, every minuscule cell was branded with the complete fire‑Dao pattern.

Wu Tie opened his eyes; they turned gold‑red, and with his thought streams of fist‑thick flame shot from his eyes—from solar true fire to Golden Crow divine flame, to Samadhi true fire, red lotus karmic fire, and even the legendary Heaven‑burning pure fire, world‑ending demonic flame, and so on—any flame existing in heaven and earth that belongs to the pre‑ and post‑heaven fire Dao could be summoned at will, appearing with his thought.

"Fire‑Dharma Body accomplished?" Wu Yu and the other Wu clan elders gazed at Wu Tie, both astonished and delighted: "Our Wu clan split into the Sun and Moon sects precisely to achieve you, kid, but we never imagined that… the mere sacrificial power of two hundred thousand clansmen would actually let you…"

Before the words faded, a lotus leaf around the jade disc projection shimmered with watery light and turned into a sheet of rippling water.

Following that, fine, soft azure‑blue Dao lines rose from Wu Tie's kidneys and instantly spread throughout his body.

The pre‑ and post‑heaven water Dao united with his flesh, accomplishing the Water Dharma Body.

Next came the Earth Dharma Body, the Metal Dharma Body, the Wood Dharma Body.

Thereafter, five‑element divine light swirled above Wu Tie's head, the five elements merged, and the Five‑Element Dharma Body was instantly perfected.

Throughout the process Wu Tie expended no mental effort; it was entirely the hundred‑zhang‑long lotus root acting at will, while Wu Tie reaped the results, thereby refining the Five‑Element Dharma Body.

Not to mention the harmonious Five‑Element Dharma Body; even Wu Tie's earliest achieved Fire Dharma Body, if transferred to cultivators who break into the Embryo‑Storage realm via a single fire Dao, focusing solely on fire power to reach the half‑step Divine Clarity realm, once they fully integrate the fire Dao markings into their bodies and forge a Fire Dharma Body, they can outright break into the Divine Clarity realm.

Indeed, they need not possess a perfect, fully complete fire‑Dao marking corresponding to a perfect ten‑out‑of‑ten fire Dao.

In the former Divine State of Great Jin, now the Divine State of Qingqiu, aside from the ancient forbidden arts, even the imperial secret transmissions of those top‑level arts cannot grant a complete, perfect ten‑out‑of‑ten Dao marking, no matter which Dao is cultivated.

Many divine kingdoms' royalty, nobles, and top cultivators do not even aspire to perfect a Dao Dharma Body; sometimes they manage to cultivate nine‑tenths, even eight‑tenths, or seven‑tenths of a Dao Dharma Body, and then they attempt to break into the Divine Clarity realm.

But Wu Tie possesses a pre‑ and post‑heaven Five‑Element Dharma Body that is perfect, ten‑out‑of‑ten.

"Dong…" a low, muffled alarm bell rang from afar; an outer guard of the Wu clan returned with the message: "Sect Master, the Grand Preceptor of the Qingqiu Divine State, Gongyang Sanlü, has led people into Ju Prefecture City, requesting that you go see him."