Chapter 448: Fire Virtue Divine Path

These disciples were one thing, but a sword immortal at the Earth Immortal level from the Shushan Sword Sect, looking at this projection, bravely questioned: "Dutian Liehuo Zushi ascended long ago. If he had thoughts to leave behind instructions, how could the Huashan Sect have scattered and fallen into decline?"

"Where did you come from, you Outer Path heavenly demon, to dare blaspheme the Ancestor! And bewilder us?"

Others heard him speak this way, but neither echoed him nor mocked him; they just silently stepped back a few paces, secretly thinking: This kid is getting carried away; could it be just because he is a genius disciple of the Shushan Sect?

This person was originally a disciple of the Sword Pavilion who could not get ahead. After the Sword Pavilion was incorporated as a lower branch of Shushan, he was instead promoted and obtained profound transmissions. He took the name "Yuan Renjie," and together with another named "Qi Renying," formed a Shushan male duo called "Shushan Heroic Swords." Of course, in a few years, all sorts of idol groups debuting from Shushan would emerge one after another.

Nowadays, he is not the only one.

"Oh? You have an opinion?"

Yuan Renjie saw that the others from the Wutai Sect, Jiuhua Shan, and Hengshan Sect had all retreated, so the words he had just wanted to say—"He is only a projection, let's all attack together"—could only be stifled.

He felt somewhat uneasy, but he could not show it on his face, so he braced himself and said: "Dutian Liehuo Zushi ascended over three hundred years ago; how could you possibly be Dutian Liehuo Zushi? When the ancestors of various sects descend to the altar, they can only borrow Incense Fire to leave a message. Only Outer Path heavenly demons are skilled at various transformations to bewilder others."

"My Shushan Sword Sect has always taken the maintenance of the human world's Great Dao as its own duty; all demons and Outer Path practitioners should be executed."

"Good, good, good!"

Xu Jia sneered. The last time someone called him a demon or Outer Path practitioner, it was when he was establishing his sect on Sanqing Mountain, and three little female immortals from the Lishan Sect had rushed over.

In the end, he turned them into a hen, a sheep, and a toad.

Xu Jia did not waste words; he simply extended a finger and pointed at him.

That Yuan Renjie looked solemn, preparing to deploy his own immortal sword.

However, that finger grew larger and larger in his eyes, first like an arm, then like a giant tree, and later it became a heaven-piercing colossus.

He felt as if he had turned into an ant, about to be crushed to death by a single finger.

For a moment, his legs trembled, and he did not even have the courage to draw his sword.

Yet in the eyes of others, Yuan Renjie's body was getting smaller and smaller, shrinking further and further away from Dutian Liehuo Zushi, until his body finally shrank to the size of a finger, and his appearance also deformed, actually turning into a hamster.

"This is..."

Where had the others ever seen such a method? They had seen people skilled in "transformation arts," but they had never seen a method that could turn others into beasts, let alone an outstanding Shushan sword immortal turning into a mouse!

Yuan Renjie came to his senses and tried to operate his immortal sword again, but the immortal sword also shrank along with him, looking like a toothpick.

Xu Jia said coldly: "Is there anyone else who questions whether this Daoist is Liehuo Zushi?"

"We pay our respects to the Ancestor!"

Except for the disciples of the major sects, everyone else knelt and kowtowed in worship.

It made these orthodox disciples look awkward standing there. They also felt their scalps tingle, knowing in their hearts that this was definitely not Dutian Liehuo Zushi; when Dutian Liehuo Zushi encountered those who provoked him, he would always refine them into Fire Crows or feed them to the Nine Fire Divine Dragons as bait.

Xu Jia said lightly: "You who are standing, presumably you are not descendants of my Huashan Sect. Since you are not descendants of my Huashan Sect, why do you covet my Huashan Sect's inheritance?"

These people were so scared that cold sweat poured down.

It was not until the monk from Jiuhua Shan said: "Amitabha, we have come to return the Huashan Sect's inheritance!" "Yes, yes, we have come to return the Huashan Sect's inheritance! Much of the Huashan inheritance was lost; we obtained a portion back then, and today, as the Ancestor reorganizes the Huashan sect, we have come to offer gifts in celebration!"

Immediately, one after another, they took out things that originally belonged to the Huashan Sect. They were not precious, just some tokens used to increase the Karmic Connection with disciples, in hopes of fishing for some good things...

Xu Jia barely accepted their excuse and gave them a way out: "Next, this Daoist intends to transmit the true Huashan Sect Great Dao to them; do you wish to listen as well?"

"We dare not, we dare not!"

Immediately, the group went out, not daring to provoke Xu Jia, only moving a bit faster one by one.

Only the hamster that Yuan Renjie had turned into was scurrying about.

"Ancestor, the Shushan Sect has the momentum of being the number one major sect of the righteous path in the world; we cannot easily offend them!"

The speakers were two Earth Immortals of Huashan origin, and the parts of the inheritance they practiced were also Huashan techniques.

Xu Jia said: "No matter! Let us compare swords; ignore the rest!"

He waved his hand, and after waiting for that group to leave, he directly sealed the Cave Heaven portal.

After the Cave Heaven portal was sealed, those remaining in the Cave Heaven also felt a jolt in their hearts.

Then Xu Jia's true body appeared, shocking everyone.

Xu Jia withdrew the thoughts attached to the Nine Purple Li Fire Immortal Robe and also put away the Qian Heaven Yang Fire Bead, then spoke: "This Daoist is indeed not Dutian Liehuo Zushi, but all the inheritance of Dutian Liehuo Zushi has been obtained by this Daoist. Furthermore, this Daoist intends to establish a sect at Huashan, still called the Huashan Sect, and can still accept you as disciples. Give me an answer now: are you willing or not?"

How could the Outer Path practitioners have a choice? One by one, they said: "The disciples are willing!"

Which ancestor is not an ancestor? It does not necessarily have to be Dutian Liehuo Zushi, right? Xu Jia looked again at the five True Transmission seeds. They looked at Yuan Renjie, who had turned into a hamster and was looking agitated, hesitated for a moment, and immediately said: "We disciples are willing!"

Xu Jia nodded: "Good, good, good! Operate your swords, practice your arts, and spar with each other; let this Ancestor see what your foundations are like."

This group immediately began a chaotic dance of demons.

Among the Outer Path practitioners, most had practiced some Fire Methods; their sword formulas were fragmented, and their Daoist foundations were unstable, blindly seeking power and speed.

As for the five True Transmission disciples, each had their own focus. Some had obtained the basic Foundation Establishment techniques of Huashan, so their True Qi was dense and pure—after all, it was the orthodox Daoist technique passed down by Ancestor Chen Tuan. Others had obtained the introductory sword formulas of the Huashan Sect and had practiced them to a decent level.

Xu Jia watched for a while, then let them stop.

He revealed the four pages of the Golden Chapter. As for the Dutian Liehuo Dazhen, what remained on the formation flags was the "Fire Department Red Book," an inheritance left by the True Gods of the Heavenly Court's Fire Department. It recorded the Fire Department's orthodoxy, including the Ten Thousand Crow Pot, the Dutian Liehuo Dazhen, the Fierce Fire Dao Soldiers, the Fire Wheels, the Fire-Tipped Spear, the Qian Heaven Yang Fire Bead, and so on.

But this orthodoxy was the orthodoxy of the "Fire Virtue True God," not the orthodoxy of a Fire Heavenly Immortal.

The Divine Path and the Immortal Path are often mixed into the two words "God Immortal," but they are actually different.

Dutian Liehuo Zushi likely obtained this inheritance later and did not have time to change his foundation.

Therefore, this Fire Department divine orthodoxy was truly a different matter from the Huashan Sect's immortal orthodoxy. He had not kept it private, and he had indeed left behind a technique pointing directly to the Heavenly Immortal Great Dao.

(End of chapter)