Chapter 323: Blood God Great Method

No wonder.

The Great Ning Dynasty was founded on the principle of "governing the world through the Divine Path," and it is rumored to have had inextricable ties to the Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable.

It is said that the Grand Ancestor Emperor of the Great Ning Dynasty considered himself the "Huangtian Daoist Child," but this Huangtian Daoist Child ascended in public view; after passing the throne to the Crown Prince, successive emperors became obsessed with seeking Longevity, yet paradoxically suppressed the Yellow Heaven Sect, allowing only themselves to seek immortality while forbidding all living beings from doing so.

The quota for becoming an Immortal in one realm is limited, so naturally, they had to keep it under their own control; this is why the Yellow Heaven Sect was suppressed in its later years.

The successive emperors of the Great Ning Dynasty were obsessed with seeking immortality, but apart from the Grand Ancestor, no one was ever seen ascending, until the last emperor, who styled himself Wanshou Emperor... while on a southern tour visiting immortals, the north invaded, the imperial capital was plundered, and the Crown Prince and the Retired Emperor were both captured... He fled in a panic, then Ning rose up in anger, expelled the barbarians, restored the mountains and rivers, and re-established the Great Ning Dynasty, which has now lasted for one hundred and sixty or seventy years.

If this person is truly the former Great Ning Emperor, the Wanshou Emperor, he has lived for at least two hundred and thirty or forty years.

It is difficult for a physical body to remain in the world; the limit for the lifespan of an ordinary Human Immortal is at most one hundred and forty or one hundred and sixty years. For an Earth Immortal to remain in the world, they inevitably must "return to youth"; the Primordial Spirit cultivates in a Blessed Land, while the physical body must undergo "three years" of earth burial to absorb Earth Qi before it can return to youth and live another life—this is the technique of Yin Refining Form.

The only ones who can remain in the world indefinitely are the Immortals currently in the world, but even they have an end; at most nine cycles. If one cannot achieve a pure-yang Primordial Spirit after nine cycles and refine the physical body, but instead pointlessly maintains the body to prevent decay, it is merely a waste, and one may even lose the possibility of becoming a Heavenly Immortal, remaining an "Earth Immortal" for life. They must also face the three calamities.

This Wanshou Emperor must have been cultivating silently until the last twenty or thirty years, when he finally attained the fruits of a God Immortal, which is why the Longevity Sect began to spread like a plague in the coastal regions at that time.

By this calculation, this Wanshou Emperor's talent for cultivation is stronger than my first life, but compared to my current second life, it is far inferior.

Xu Jia secretly thought: "If I do not walk the righteous path, just like in my previous life, and focus solely on the Leftist Path, I fear it will be difficult to achieve anything. Even if I do achieve something, it would be much like this fellow—full of evil arts and demonic aura... This kind of refining method is ten or a hundred times harder to reach pure-yang than mine. If the Great Ning Dynasty truly possessed cultivation methods, they would surely be extremely orthodox. I have also obtained one-eighth of the Yellow Heaven Sect's lineage, which is a path of dual cultivation of the Divine Path and the Immortal Path; how did he end up cultivating this surging blood-evil aura?"

"If you want to take back the empire, I fear you must harvest the flesh, blood, and souls of the people to refine your arts. I have already seen your Longevity Sect's Saintess and Elders, and I have already slain them; they are not good things. As the saying goes, if the upper beam is not straight, the lower ones will be crooked. Your Great Ning has been destroyed for many years, its Heavenly Mandate long lost; wanting to restore the nation here is simply Ignorance and a fool's dream!"

While Xu Jia mocked him to attract his attention, he secretly dealt a lethal blow, his flying sword forming into shears, one illusory and one real, clipping toward him—one clip aimed at his physical body, the other at his Primordial Spirit.

That Wanshou Emperor was incomparably furious: "If not for my ancestors pacifying the world, where would they have gotten their wealth and food? We enfeoffed the City Gods, and the Divine Path is a Taotie, yet these City Gods instead supported the usurpers and betrayed my Great Ning. This Emperor intends to settle the score with them one by one and turn them into dogs that only know how to obey!"

Before he could finish speaking, the sword light flashed, and he let out a strange cry, leaving behind a strand of hair on the spot.

It turned out not to be his true body.

"You are truly a petty person!" The voice came from the firmament, and those cloud-Qi evolved into blood-colored thunder; within the clouds, infinite blood spirits wandered, most of them sea demons of the sea tribes, along with some monks, Daoists... and princes and ministers, seemingly organized into a blood-colored divine thunder.

Xu Jia put away that strand of broken hair and secretly thought: You don't know that I have another skill in the Leftist Path; wait until I curse you to death later! After thinking this, he also manifested his Dharma form, his Primordial Spirit undergoing a Divine Transformation into the Tiangang Great Sage.

That Great Sage is the seventh star of the Big Dipper in the heavens, also known as the Pojun Star, commanding the thirty-six Tiangang forms of the heavens.

This Sage's Dharma form stands over a thousand feet tall, with broad shoulders and a round waist. His face is like a full moon, his brows like sword blades, his star-like eyes piercing and bright, discerning all falsehoods. His nose is straight, and he is imposing without anger. His hair is tied high in a bun on top of his head, adorned with a golden hairpin that glitters and shines in the sun. He holds the Tiangang Sword and Tiangang Knife, thirty-six swords and thirty-six knives, adept at using the Tiangang True Qi to ignite thunder and fire.

A scripture says: Without Tiangang, heaven and earth would not know up from down; without the Dipper Truth, Tiangang cannot convey clear orders; without Tiangang, the ten thousand gods cannot reach the profound mysteries.

The Tiangang Great Sage guards the center of the heavens, taking life as his virtue and movement as his merit, obtaining the True Qi of the four cardinal directions. He is ranked among the Four Sages of the North Pole, standing in the four directions to lead the Tiangang, mastering the phenomena of the four heavens to govern the Twenty-Eight Mansions of the celestial sphere, and guarding the six directions to assist Ziwei in mastering the ten thousand stars.

As soon as Xu Jia's Primordial Spirit Dharma form appeared, stars shone upon the sea and sky; the star rivers flowed in the heavens, and star rivers flowed upon the sea.

The star rivers transformed into ribbons, falling upon the armor worn by the Tiangang Great Sage, making him appear even more majestic. Behind his head was a purple light, within which sat the Ziwei Palace, where Xu Jia's true Primordial Spirit was seated, who could also be called the Ziwei Emperor.

Suddenly, ten thousand manifestations of starlight and dark thunder appeared, with points of starlight like floating fireflies, and the vastness of the heavens and earth drove away most of the blood clouds.

The Tiangang Knife and Tiangang Sword in the Great Sage's hands combined slightly, transforming into a Tiangang Five Thunder Fire Pojun Divine Gun.

Xu Jia fired at the blood clouds, a cannon blast roaring out; the five thunders arrived together, a mushroom cloud exploded, and the Tiangang True Qi and thunder fire shattered the blood clouds into burning clouds.

The fierce souls of whales, sharks, and the like within the clouds were all shattered to death.

The Wanshou Emperor's Dharma form was a Demon God, and he felt infinite suppression, secretly thinking: "Was it not said that the Blood God Great Method could not be suppressed by anyone except the Haotian Mirror and the Thunder Fire Twin Swords?"

He could not see Xu Jia's flaw for a moment, because the second shot had already been fired.

This Five Thunder Gun could fire five shots at once, but by the third shot, the Wanshou Emperor began to make threats: "You shall surely meet with disaster!"

He then transformed into a streak of blood light and escaped into the sea. Ao Jia and Zidian Xian Wu'er wanted to pursue, but were stopped by Xu Jia: "His demonic path Divine Ability is treacherous; if you pursue him and get parasitized, it is hard to say what will happen. Wu'er, you should cultivate here for now and not show yourself easily, lest you be retaliated against by him."

Xu Jia withdrew his Dharma form, carefully put away the strand of broken hair, and instructed Ao Jia: "You must also be careful in the South Sea; this person is sinister and vicious, and he cultivates demonic arts. Although he claims to establish a Dao Kingdom, it will surely be a Demon Kingdom, where the whole country cultivates demonic arts and evil methods. If you are targeted, I fear you will be refined into a second Primordial Spirit."

After Xu Jia finished speaking, he passed the Tiangang Thunder Law to the two of them, ordering them to cultivate it well, before turning his cloud head back.

Just as Xu Jia left, a streak of blood light emerged secretly, transforming into an eight-armed blood-ringed octopus; this octopus had many eyes and was evil and strange.

But not long after it poked its head out, a golden sword suddenly pierced through the air, pinning it to death and turning it into ashes.

(End of chapter)