Chapter 643: The Origin of Luo Fu

The Zhe Tian Method, in its pursuit of extreme combat, completely sacrifices the enhancement of lifespan—a fate dictated by the Huangtiandi ’s own circumstances.

After the Huangtiandi severed the contamination from above the heavens, turning the former Nine Heavens and Ten Lands into today’s Zhe Tian Universe of the End Dharma Era, the once-perfect methods could no longer prevail.

For the perfect methods had become a tainted system.

Under the conditions and circumstances of that time, the Huangtiandi had no time to revise the “Body as Seed” method he had developed.

To prevent its influence on future generations, he directly deleted the final two layers of “Body as Seed,” and the Zhe Tian Method derived from it became widespread throughout the End Dharma Era—even his former friend, the Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign Cao Yusheng, abandoned the perfect method and switched to cultivating the Zhe Tian Method, then, building upon its foundation, imitated the Huangtiandi ’s repeated deaths and resurrections to develop the Tribulation Heavenly Art, a technique with a success rate so abysmal it was horrifying.

With Cao Yusheng’s talent, he was certainly capable of developing a more refined method system.

But as before, the moment Cao Yusheng stood in was the critical transition point between the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands era and the End Dharma Era—the moment the Huangtiandi severed past and future.

At this juncture, even the Huangtiandi could only leave behind “Body as Seed” as a seed for the future—how could there have been time for Cao Yusheng to slowly perfect a complete Immortal Path?

In intent, the Zhe Tian Method was a combat technique, hastily propagated as the origin of all cultivation systems in the End Dharma Era, untouched by contamination from above the heavens.

In contrast, Luo Fu’s Luo Tian Method integrates the Dao and principles of twelve celestial worlds, grounded in the primordial qi symbolizing life itself.

Primordial qi is not merely life essence or pure vitality.

In the world of the Yiren , an Yirende cultivation consists of two components: nature and destiny.

Only when both advance together can one truly solidify the foundation and continue growing.

This point is fully embodied in Luo Fu’s Luo Tian Method system.

According to Luo Fu’s Luo Tian Method, before the Immortal Path, the essence of “Refining Essence into Qi” is transforming the innate driving force of life into true qi that cultivates both nature and destiny, thereby continuously strengthening life and elevating its essence—a simple framework.

Simplicity does not mean weakness; on the contrary, the simpler the framework, the more room it allows for individual expression.

One can believe that in the future Luo Tian Method system, as more cultivators join, it will eventually develop into a lineage rivaling the perfect method, the Zhe Tian Method, and the future Holy Ruins Method.

But for now, Luo Fu’s urgent priority is to hide himself.

When he revealed the existence of the Emperor Zun , it was certain the entire universe would descend into chaos.

At first glance, this seems to disrupt Ye Hei’s future growth, erasing Luo Fu’s advantage of knowing the plot.

But for Luo Fu now, knowing the plot is no longer an advantage at all.

Only by muddying the waters can he fish in them.

In this entire era, no one is more suitable than the Emperor Zun for Luo Fu to use as a stone to stir the waters and test the depths.

When news of the Emperor Zun ’s survival leaks, whether the Forbidden Zone Sovereigns, the Undying Heavenly Emperor trapped by the Wu Shi Great Emperor in a strange space, or even Wu Shi himself, will all turn their attention to the Emperor Zun .

Thus, Luo Fu’s presence will no longer be so conspicuous.

Although some will still persistently watch Luo Fu, after the Emperor Zun draws away the vast majority of attention, the remaining scrutiny becomes mere refinement for Luo Fu.

Even, conversely, it becomes a driving force for expanding his Luo Tian Method system.

After Luo Fu fled, the Zhe Tian Method cultivators originally ordered by the Forbidden Zone Sovereigns to deal with him, unable to find his trail, quickly scattered like birds and beasts.

It seemed that without Luo Fu as the troublemaker, everything in the Zhe Tian Universe began to calm down.

But in truth, beneath this calm surface, turbulent undercurrents were intensifying.

All sects, clans, and sacred lands that knew of the Emperor Zun ’s existence were now awakening their hidden reserves to prepare for the unpredictable crisis ahead.

And Luo Fu, at this moment, began to enter everyone’s field of vision.

As more people paid attention to Luo Fu and the number of strong cultivators grew, some Zhe Tian Method cultivators who once viewed Luo Fu as an evil heretic began to change their perceptions.

They no longer simply regarded Luo Fu as an evil heretic, but gradually became more objective.

After all, the Forbidden Zone Sovereigns targeted Luo Fu not due to any righteous-evil conflict, but merely suspected he held secrets of immortality and transcendence.

The stronger the Zhe Tian Method cultivator, the less they were affected by that kind of “uncanny valley” effect.

Because cultivation and realm advancement allowed Zhe Tian Method elites to clearly perceive and judge that Luo Fu had merely taken a path similar to that of the Buddha Amitabha.

Yet, compared to Amitabha’s Buddhist path—which, at its core, still belonged to the periphery of the Zhe Tian Method system—Luo Fu had strayed far further, even in intent, completely forging a path utterly distinct from the Zhe Tian Method.

Since the moment the Huangtiandi severed past and future, there had indeed been those who tried, through their own talent, to develop a system different from the Zhe Tian Method, one not rigidly bound by lifespan limits.

But how naive was such a thought?

Understand this clearly: the reason the Zhe Tian Method prevailed in the End Dharma Era was not merely because it derived from the Huangtiandi ’s “Body as Seed” combat method.

One must be clear: from the moment the Huangtiandi severed past and future until the arrival of the future spiritual energy revival era, the entire universe remained in the End Dharma Era.

In the End Dharma Era, the external environment could not provide any conditions for cultivation.

This meant that, aside from the Zhe Tian Method’s approach of endlessly excavating one’s potential and opening one’s inner potential gates, no matter how great one’s talent or ambition, no new cultivation system independent of the Zhe Tian Method could be established.

Even technology-based methods could only produce energy liquids and similar tools, imitating the Zhe Tian Method system to enhance themselves.

Only Luo Fu, through the shared Dao and methods of twelve celestial worlds, escaped the limitations of the End Dharma Era at the source.

This is the key reason why the Luo Tian Method succeeded in being established.

To some extent, Luo Fu’s Luo Tian Method and the Zhe Tian Method derived from the Huangtiandi ’s “Body as Seed” are entirely of the same lineage.

“Body as Seed” originated from the perfect method, but after contamination from above the heavens and the Huangtiandi ’s severing of past and future, the possibility of walking this path in the End Dharma Era was cut off.

The Zhe Tian Method became nearly the only option.

But change never alters the root: whether the perfect method of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, the Zhe Tian Method of the End Dharma Era, Luo Fu’s Luo Tian Method, or even the future Holy Ruins Method of the spiritual energy revival era, all fundamentally aim to elevate one’s nature and destiny.

The higher a Zhe Tian Method cultivator’s realm and cultivation, the more they understand how unimaginably difficult it is to break beyond what predecessors never conceived and forge an entirely new system.

Lower-level cultivators do not deeply comprehend the inherent Kunjing of the Zhe Tian Method.

But once one reaches a certain level of cultivation and realm, they realize how tragic it is to possess immense power, even achieve the Emperor Dao, capable of suppressing all other Dao paths, yet still being rigidly limited to a lifespan of ten thousand years.

Although Amitabha’s Buddhist path was excluded by the mainstream Zhe Tian Method system and nearly confined to the Western Desert, countless Emperor Dao achievers and those nearing the Zhe Tian Method’s limit had, upon sensing its ceiling, pondered the Western Desert Buddhism.

Lower-level Zhe Tian Method cultivators might still harbor prejudice and orthodox bias, but only Emperor Dao achievers and those nearing that level truly understood that such dogmatism was utterly meaningless.

The inability to achieve immortality or transcendence is the greatest flaw of the Zhe Tian Method system.

Even the Western Desert Buddhism once had a long period of active exchange with Zhe Tian Method cultivators.

Even the younger brother of the Battle Saint Emperor, the Battle Victory King, chose to join the Buddhist path and became the renowned Battle Victory Buddha of today’s Western Desert Buddhism.

The true turning point that caused Zhe Tian Method elites to lose interest in the Buddhist system was the doctrinal debate conducted by Sakyamuni in the Western Desert thousands of years ago.

Sakyamuni’s debate with the Western Desert Buddhism not only branded him as heretical by Sakyamuni’s direct disciples within the sect, but also left Zhe Tian Method elites deeply disappointed in the Buddhist system.

Over thousands of years, this ultimately led to Buddhism being confined to the Western Desert.

Yet, Buddhism’s plight does not mean Zhe Tian Method elites truly lacked interest in innovation.

If they had, there would not have been so many Emperor Dao achievers who chose to sever themselves and retreat into the Forbidden Zones to become Sovereigns.

Luo Fu’s plan to muddle the waters not only successfully freed him from being the target of all, diverting the attention of most elites to the hidden Emperor Zun , but also caused countless Zhe Tian Method cultivators trapped in their system to begin paying attention to Luo Fu’s newly developed system.

What Luo Fu did not expect was that the first to seek him out was Duan De—the very man Luo Fu had tricked severely, and who had even co-founded the Northern Region Demon Dao Duo with him.

Although Duan De had been heavily deceived by Luo Fu before, this fat man was ultimately cunning.

Before Luo Fu truly established the Zhe Tian Method, he had quietly slipped away.

Now, when he came calling, it was not to pledge allegiance to Luo Fu.

Duan De in this life is merely one of the nine reincarnations of the Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign Cao Yusheng’s Tribulation Heavenly Art.

Even if Duan De had no memories of past lives and no understanding of what the Tribulation Heavenly Art truly was, Mingmingzhong he would never change his cultivated method.

This time, Duan De came merely as a go-between.

And the person he brought was Luo Fu’s old acquaintance—the very first cultivator Luo Fu had truly interacted with after arriving in Beidou.

Qin Yao.

Previously in the Northern Region, after Luo Fu and Yan Ruyu, Qin Yao’s mistress, turned enemies into allies, their misunderstandings were resolved, and they could even be considered in a cooperative relationship.

But this time, Qin Yao did not come merely representing herself and Yan Ruyu—she represented a faction of the demon race.

Although Yan Ruyu was a descendant of the Green Emperor and a pivotal figure among the demon race, this prominence was merely superficial.

In terms of actual power, Yan Ruyu, as a Green Emperor descendant, still held little weight even within the demon race.

This time, Qin Yao’s arrival was clearly to request the Dao from Luo Fu on behalf of the demon faction supporting Yan Ruyu.

Seeing Qin Yao come straight to the point, respectfully requesting the Dao from Luo Fu,

Even Luo Fu, who had always intended to spread the Luo Tian Method, was momentarily stunned.

“Itachi mean the demon race wishes to seek the Dao from me?” Luo Fu looked at Qin Yao with a strange expression, then, before she could answer, turned his gaze to Duan De, “Fat bastard, is this your idea? Are Itachi planning to switch to my Luo Tian Method?”

At these words, Duan De immediately waved his hands, eager to distance himself at once.

It wasn’t that Duan De lacked the courage to even approach the Luo Tian Method.

Quite the opposite—he avoided it entirely due to the deep imprint of the Tribulation Heavenly Art in his consciousness since he first gained memory.

Do not mistakenly assume that each reincarnation of the Tribulation Heavenly Art remains unchanged.

Understand that achieving Red Dust Immortality through nine reincarnations in the Zhe Tian system requires entirely different processes for each.

Except for one reincarnation that can transform into a second life through the Immortality Herb, the other eight reincarnations each follow eight distinct paths to Emperor Dao.

The most unique aspect of the Tribulation Heavenly Art lies in its emulation of the Huangtiandi ’s process of death and resurrection, awakening the spirit of the Emperor corpse to complete the nine-reincarnation transcendence plan.

This intent carries both advantages and disadvantages.

The greatest disadvantage is its extreme uncertainty: in each of the nine reincarnations, one is essentially awakening an Emperor corpse, and any one of them might go awry—but the advantages are equally great.

Not every reincarnation can smoothly achieve Emperor Dao; if even one fails, the consequences are catastrophic.

Yet the Tribulation Heavenly Art’s characteristic of seeking life through death circumvents this to some extent.

In each reincarnation, the Tribulation Heavenly Art cultivation merely needs slight variation from previous lives to complete the Emperor Dao process.

If one believed the Tribulation Heavenly Art relied solely on Emperor corpse awakening and success depended entirely on luck, one would greatly underestimate the Tribulation Heavenly Sovereign Cao Yusheng of that era.

(End of Chapter)