Chapter 442: The Bright Venerable of the Demon God

Xu Jia stayed in this Cave Heaven Blessed Land for a while, sparring with the white ape daily, comprehending profound Sword Formulas, and occasionally sipping a cup of wine, though he dared not drink too much; a little of this immortal brew could invigorate the Primordial Spirit and enhance enlightenment, but drinking too much would lead to a long, drunken slumber, a great dream lasting a thousand years.

Aside from the white ape, Xu Jia also taught Daoism to the other small apes; they ate spirit peaches and drank immortal dew, and their natural aptitude was actually quite good, only that the "heart-ape is hard to tame," they were extremely restless and loved to imitate.

After the white ape sparred with Xu Jia, they also often took wooden sticks to spar with each other.

As they sparred, they leaped and shifted, their muscles and bones supple and long, able to jump from one tree to another.

Although they could not take flight from level ground, they could be considered capable of vaulting over eaves and scaling walls, and could even leap and shift in mid-air for over ten zhang before landing; this was already the peak of martial arts, almost stepping onto the path of Immortal Martial Arts.

Xu Jia then passed on the "Spirit Treasure Immortal Martial Register"; this Register, as mentioned before, was for learning martial arts to enter the Dao, a method of combat for a Walker, taking its meaning from "Walker Sun."

Although Sun Houzi played with a staff and this group of Kunlun apes played with swords, they could not be mentioned in the same breath, but they did indeed quickly transform from martial spirit apes into immortal-cultivating ape spirits one by one.

The apes breathed out Sword Qi, no longer needing wooden sticks as swords; it was as if they had practiced the "Six Meridians Divine Sword," and it was one thing to emit swords from their fingertips, but some even emitted them from their nostrils.

Sword Qi injures people invisibly, and the monkeys soon had injuries from their roughhousing.

Fortunately, they were quite experienced; as long as they weren't dead, they would take a sip of the wine or apply it to the wound, and they would be fine.

Monkeys who drank the wine would pass out, and monkeys who applied the alcohol to disinfect would also pass out, only they were passing out from the pain.

Xu Jia taught these apes and felt it was even less effort and work than teaching humans; although they were always fickle, every move they made conformed to nature and the true essence of an ape.

Not only was there the Heavenly Escape Sword Technique and the white ape's Wine Sword Formula, but there was also the "White Ape Sword Formula" that the monkey troop had evolved through their own constant fighting.

"Not bad, not bad." After emptying the Ape Duke Sword Formula, Xu Jia was still unsatisfied; except for not finding an Immortal Martial version of the "Nine Yang Divine Classic," he was very satisfied with everything else.

Having already gathered enough Precious Medicine in this Kunlun Cave Heaven Blessed Land to return and refine pills, to reconnect the meridians and cervical spine of the Sacred Fire Sect Leader Muni Dinguang and save him from his state of Qi deviation, it was not convenient to stay here for long.

He took one pot of wine from each of the eight vats of immortal brew, and placed the two ice silkworms in a suitable place in this Blessed Land to breed, using his Taming Animals and Controlling Beasts skills to stimulate them.

These creatures would not turn into moths; they only existed in their ice silkworm form, and after spiraling in mating, they laid many ice silkworm seeds, then fell into a deep sleep due to the loss of their origin.

They ate special things; even if fed with immortal peaches, they would not eat them, consuming only the poisonous insects within the Kunlun Blessed Land and the cold Qi of the snow-capped mountains.

Xu Jia had no intention of using the "Gu Technique" to refine ice silkworm Gu; he only told the white ape to be careful with these ice silkworms, lest he be frozen into a lump, and then he left this Kunlun Blessed Land.

The white ape was vaguely reluctant, but Xu Jia said: "I feel like we are old friends at first sight, so I will take you as an Outer Disciple. Your original name was Xiaobai, which I find a bit simple; how about taking the surname Yuan and being called Yuan Hong?"

"Good!" Yuan Hong was still reluctant to part with Xu Jia: "Stay with Xiaobai a little longer."

Xu Jia tapped slightly, carving his own understanding and improved Earthly Fiend Seventy-Two Arts onto the stone wall of the Blessed Land in Talisman tadpole script for the apes to contemplate, thinking to himself: "Yuan Hong practiced the Eight-Nine Profound Art; if you can comprehend the Seventy-Two Arts, it won't be a waste of me giving you this name."

However, on the surface, he refused to let Yuan Hong accompany him; the more he liked him, the more he had to protect him, and he could not let him do the dirty work. Thus, he said: "This Blessed Land is full of fruits, just right for you to live in. There are many bad people outside now; what if you followed me out and the little monkeys in the troop were attacked by villains? Besides, you have a promise to keep; perhaps when the eight vats of wine are full, the person you are waiting for will return."

"If there is a Karmic Connection in the future, we will surely meet again."

Yuan Hong was helpless and had to stay, while thinking in his heart: "If the other little monkeys have the power to protect themselves and can also brew wine, will I be able to go out and play?"

After Xu Jia left this place, he leaped and circled Kunlun a few times, but did not see any bronze doors, nor did he encounter any dragons, phoenixes, or qilin.

There were only a few lamas who had sat in meditation and passed away in snow caves, already frozen into snow zombies.

As for any Kunlun Mountain wild men, that was even more of a tall tale.

Returning to the Guangming Ding of the Sacred Fire Sect, Muni Dinguang's Primordial Spirit Embryo was still cultivating, so Xu Jia gathered the Kunlun Snow Lotus, snow ginseng, immortal peaches, and spirit flowers he had picked, refined them with fire for several turns, and added the cold poison of the ice silkworms; the cold poison could freeze people, but it was just right to deal with his state of Qi deviation.

"I will use my immortal sword to break open the outer Five Elements Heavenly Gang of your Primordial Spirit Embryo. Your embryo will retreat into your physical body; borrow this life-extending Golden Core to break and reconnect your meridians and bones in one breath. Don't waste this Five Elements Heavenly Gang either; it counts as superior Clear Spirit Qi. Although it is not good for repairing vitality, it can be used for Inner Landscape cultivation, paved into a palace, and used as a Wuzang Miao."

Muni was Persian; although he had obtained some Yellow Heaven Dao inheritance, it was translated by lamas from the Western Regions. His basic theory of cultivation leaned towards the chakra system, and he was not very clear about the Taoist Yellow Court Inner Landscape method, nor did he understand the interaction between the Outer Heaven and Earth.

However, he was also intelligent and understood things at a hint; he was willing to ponder the parts that were not very reasonable.

At this moment, Xu Jia was here, more capable of answering his questions and resolving his doubts than any teacher or wise man he had ever known.

So, while being treated for his Qi deviation, he also integrated the "Universe Manipulation Great Method" and re-cultivated it.

Seven days later, Muni Dinguang's whole body glowed with red light, only his face emitted green light, and a wheel of golden light appeared behind his head.

The auspicious clouds above his head grew from one mu to five mu, changing into five colors; this was the construction of the Wuzang Miao, the completion of the Five Elements Body Gods, and the exhaling of the "Five Qi in the chest," which dyed the auspicious clouds.

On the auspicious clouds, the "Essence, Qi, and Spirit" Three Flowers also grew; in one flower sat the "Earthly Evil Treasure Tree," and another flower was a golden light bead, which was the "Universal Salvation" formed by the assimilation of the Child-Mother Golden Light Nature by Baiyun Chanshi's evil thoughts. Xu Jia simply gave it to him to use as a "Muni Bead," using "Sacred Fire to burn away impurities."

The third flower was the Heavenly Fire Crystal from the Sacred Fire Sect.

This was exactly "Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, Five Qi Toward Origin."

Amidst the Three Flowers and Five Qi, a Primordial Spirit Embryo breathed in and out, swallowing the innate mysterious Qi, repairing his physical body and consuming the life-extending Golden Core Precious Medicine.

"Om!"

With a boom, all practitioners in the entire Kunlun land could not help but look up.

They saw ten thousand rays of rosy light on Guangming Ding, and vaguely, a Daoist face appeared in the Cloud Void; this was the "Yang Spirit Projection."

"Which high expert is this, cultivating profound arts and emerging into the world?"

"Wahahahahaha!"

Dinguang Muni laughed loudly; he had cultivated the first two levels of "Universe Manipulation" in one breath, his cultivation had advanced a large step, and he had achieved the "Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, Five Qi Toward Origin," and even his Primordial Spirit Embryo had changed from three years old to seven or eight years old.

But seeing the calm Xu Jia in front of him, he still tucked his tail to behave.

He said respectfully: "Thank you, Master, for reshaping my physical Dao body and protecting my cultivation; this disciple is deeply grateful and is willing to be a beast of burden for you."

Xu Jia nodded: "That is as it should be."

He was not humble or polite; it wasn't that you were useful, why would I save you? Originally, he was going to kill him with one sword and return his Qi to Heaven and Earth, which would have counted as eliminating his own status as an unregistered person and adding Merit to Heaven and Earth.

Dinguang Muni was not annoyed; he was in a very good mood now. Besides, although he was a disciple now, he had gained a backer; nothing in this world could be free.

If it were himself, relying on a few seeds of the Earthly Fiend Seventy-Two Arts, he could control the forty-seven great thieves and the four envoys of Wind, Cloud, Moon, and Star to pull together such a Sacred Fire Sect; the kindness owed to the sect members could never be repaid.

Not to mention Xu Jia; let alone this life's kindness, the next life's kindness would certainly never be repaid either.

As long as it wasn't particularly excessive, he had no rebellious thoughts; he just wanted to follow Xu Jia, preferably with Xu Jia becoming an Immortal first and then leading him to become an Immortal later, crossing the river by touching Xu Jia—that would be wonderful.

"Your Sacred Fire Sect's doctrine is too shallow and selfish; it is basically all preparation for you to ascend to the throne and become a god, but it is not mature."

"This Muni Bead is a treasure of greed; it can use the greed of all living beings to strengthen itself. The golden light it shoots can turn earth and stone into gold, sheep dung into pearls, quartz into jade, glass into gemstones..."

"This happens to be related to my method of transforming great desires into great vows; it requires cutting off the Three Corpses, luring out external demons, and condensing all the faith and Divine Nature absorbed by your Sacred Fire Sect into this golden nature. Then, with the intent of Universal Salvation, you can transform into the supreme deity of the Sacred Fire Sect, the Bright Venerable, who is both god and demon, and you will be the incarnation of the Bright Venerable."

Xu Jia said: "You must bring warmth to all living beings, let people have land to farm, food to eat, clothes to wear, and make the people of the world love each other as one family, brothers and sisters, parents and children to one another, with the elderly cared for and the young educated, opening the people's wisdom, nurturing the people's livelihood, and cultivating democracy."

Xu Jia said bit by bit: "You must do all of these things."

"It's too difficult." Muni's eyes flickered; he saw there was a huge trap inside, and it was impossible to run into it.

But the next moment, a sense of death emerged.

It was not Xu Jia who had stirred up murderous intent, but the Weiji Immortal Sword that had stirred up murderous intent.

A cold voice said: "If I want you to do it, you do it; if you don't do it, then go die."

"Fine, I'll do it."

Muni felt helpless.

"Make a great vow to me!" the Weiji Immortal Sword said: "Make a great desire to that Mani Bead, respond to the great vows of all living beings, and I will teach you how to do it."

Muni could not help but want to strike, but there was still a Lingbao Register Method in his mind; although this was also a good thing, there was no guarantee whether it had any drawbacks.

If it were him, this thing would definitely be a "Life-Death Talisman," with life and death grasped within one's own single thought.

"I make my vow!"

Muni sighed, and in the end, he still opened his mouth to make his vow.

(End of this chapter)