Chapter 414: The Peak of Technique, Fangxian Dao

The Great Heat had just passed, the autumn wind blew gently, and the midday heat in the green mountains and emerald ridges had already dissipated.

Walking in the mountain forest, it was already much cooler.

Xie An walked slowly on the small mountain path holding a bamboo staff. He did not use magic power, but wore wooden clogs, walking leisurely step by step. Xie Lingyun, with wide sleeves and his hair simply tied up with a single hairpin, followed behind him. The grandfather and grandson were in a state of ease.

"Three years ago, Li Er appeared briefly in Jiankang and was actually able to control the Four Symbols Zhou Tian Array. At the Dragon-Locking Well of the Three Mao Temple, the whereabouts of the Azure Dragon's seven mansions were found, transforming into an Azure Dragon to protect Li Er, and even the Vermilion Bird Bridge was transformed into an ancient Copper Sparrow and taken away by him. Of the Four Symbols Zhou Tian, only the White Tiger did not move. Afterward, there was much discussion in Jiankang City, and all sorts of things were said."

"Li Er is a famous clan descendant from Northern Wei. Even if it is rumored that he is a descendant of the Louguan Sect, how could he manipulate the town-protecting array of our Jiankang?"

"Grandfather, what do you say is the reason for this?"

Xie Lingyun looked at the palace temple in the mountains from afar and said to Xie Anshi beside him.

"The Four Symbols Zhou Tian Array of Jiankang actually has some relationship with the Jin Ling cave heaven. And although it was established by Heavenly Master Zhang under the order of Emperor Wu Sima Yan, before Heavenly Master Zhang pierced the Xuanwu Lake with his sword and pierced out the Jin Ling kingly Qi, someone had already laid the foundation. First, the ancient Qin Emperor ordered people to comb through the mountain and water situation of Jin Ling. Second, when the Martial Marquis passed through this place years ago, he established the Eight Formations Map here, locking the dragon veins of the Wu Kingdom. Third, the Sun family of the Wu Kingdom established their foundation here years ago, and generations set up array seals. Only then did Heavenly Master Zhang preside over the construction of the city-protecting array, establishing the foundation of the Southern Jin."

"So this place has the backhands of the Immortal Qin and Immortal Han, the Dao Sect Three Mountains, the Wu aristocratic families, and even the ancestors of our expatriate surnames, the royal Sima family, all have arrangements! Even the ancient King of Chu burying gold, and the struggle between the Divine Dao Wu Sect and the Immortal Dao Xuan Sect during the Heavenly Zhou period, all involved this place."

"You ask which side Li Er belongs to... Haha, it's mostly the Dao Sect's handiwork!" Xie Anshi laughed heartily.

"The Heavenly Zhou Divine Dynasty was established under the Dharma decree of the Primordial Dao Ancestor. The Divine Dao source outside the Xuan Sect gathered in the south, relying on the Chu State to resist stubbornly. During the three wars of conferring gods, in the great calamity of immortals and gods, I don't know how many Primordial Spirit True Immortals and Earthly Righteous Gods fell. Do you know why this Jin Ling cave heaven became a ruin?"

"Wasn't it destroyed by the struggle between the Dao and Demon during the great calamity at the end of the Han Dynasty?" Xie Lingyun asked.

Xie An shook his head slightly: "The Jin Ling cave heaven has gone through several calamities, and the earliest can be traced back to the ancient Divine Dao. There are countless relics in the cave heaven, and I don't know how many secrets are buried. The deepest relics can even be traced back to before the Taishang Dao Ancestor founded the Xuan Sect Immortal Dao. It is by no means a simple cave heaven! What is manifested now is only the shallow layer of the cave heaven, a portion of the cave heaven relics left by the Fangxian Dao years ago. But even so, one must be extremely careful."

"I suspect that the reason why the Fangxian Dao suffered a calamity at the end of the Han Dynasty is related to its main theme of the unity of gods and immortals, and a portion of the ancient Divine Dao relics excavated years ago."

"Fangxian Dao?" Xie Lingyun asked suspiciously: "Those side-door left-paths are only minor paths overseas now. What is there to fear?"

"Although Fangxian Dao is a side-door, it mixes many cultivation external paths such as puppetry, mechanisms, astrology, puppets, tool refining, alchemy, arrays, and external alchemy, claiming to reach the sky through techniques. At its peak, it was the immortal sect most trusted and relied upon by the Immortal Qin First Emperor and the Immortal Han Wu Di. Its power was not below that of the Dao Sect. If the Dao Sect is the root of the Great Dao, so everyone in the sect is a seeker of the Dao, then Fangxian Dao is a more primitive Xuan Sect. They do not seek the Dao, do not cultivate the Dharma, only seek techniques! They are a group of people who have reached the peak in the way of Dharma techniques."

"It is also the peak of side-door left-paths!"

"Years ago, the Cao Wei's war magic treasure Copper Sparrow Terrace, the White Bone Demon Sect's demon city, the Immortal Qin's Zhou Tian Star Ship, Kunlun's Ruins Under the Emperor, and the Three Immortal Islands overseas all have traces of Fangshi behind them. Today's overseas sects like Chongxuan, Jin Wu, Luban, Mohist, Fengwen, etc., have only touched a fur of the Fangxian Dao."

"At the most glorious moment of Fangxian Dao, just in the way of puppetry, the Immortal Qin war puppets years ago could rival Primordial Spirit figures. In terms of the way of building arrays, the Qin Straight Road with stars as the hub connected the heavens. Every time a great world was conquered, they moved the sun and moon, dropped stars to establish huge movement arrays relying on star operation as power, connected to the Immortal Qin ancestral land, and then established counties on the spot."

"During the Immortal Qin period, even mortals could go to other worlds through the star straight road."

"The nine continents of the Earth Immortal Realm have three continents that were great worlds outside the territory conquered by the Immortal Qin years ago, pulled back by Zhou Tian Star Ships and merged into the Earth Immortal Realm!"

"Being able to create such wonders, Fangshi were also a group of people who made the heavens and worlds tremble. They once invaded the Nine Heavens, built magnificent mechanism underworlds; they also established heavenly tracks between the Heavenly Realm and the heavens, allowing Zhou Tian Star Ships to run on the heavenly tracks, directly connecting to the Immortal Realm, making ascension as easy as sitting on a boat, communicating between immortals and mortals; they drew down the Heavenly River, wanting to build waterways to connect the Heavenly Realm, Earth Immortal Realm, heavens and worlds, and the Nine Heavens; they even once had the delusion of refining an entire world into a mechanism magic treasure, claiming to be the Luo Tian Immortal Tool... They were a group of lunatics!"

"They created countless miracles and also caused countless disasters."

"At the end of the Han Dynasty, Fangxian Dao was already on the verge of extinction! This Jin Ling cave heaven is the last Fangxian Dao lineage in the Earth Immortal Realm, and once possessed the last three Fangshi of the Earth Immortal Realm. This last group of Fangxian Dao disciples huddled in the Jin Ling cave heaven, studying certain ancient Divine Dao inheritances of the Divine Chu Wu Sect. Later, I don't know what they brought out, and they extinguished their last roots!"

Xie An sighed: "To some extent, Fangshi are more terrifying existences than demons, letting people know how terrifying a truth it is to study cultivation external paths and Dharma techniques to the extreme. The Immortal Dao pursues eternity, while these Fangxian Dao only seek a certain extreme. Its glory and decline have their own reasons! During the Immortal Han period, Fangxian Dao could be listed with the Dao Sect, and during the Immortal Qin period, Fangxian Dao could still suppress the Dao Sect tightly!"

Xie Lingyun's face was strange, and he asked suspiciously: "Does such a side-door left-path really exist?"

"Without achieving the Great Dao, can one also master such great power?"

Xie An smiled and shook his head: "At its peak, the Primordial Spirit Dao fruit we seek was nothing but ants in their eyes. Even the Dao Lords of the Immortal Realm, they wanted to challenge. The Immortal Qin attempted to challenge the Heavenly Court. Without such power, how could they have such ambition? Of course, tens of thousands of years have passed, and the Dao Lords they challenged are still at ease, while the Fangxian Dao lineage has already gone extinct!"

Xie An sighed: "Entering the Jin Ling cave heaven this time, one must not be confused by the external power within it and forget the righteous path of cultivation."

At this time, the Three Mao Temple was already close at hand, and Xie An stepped up the steps at the mountain gate... ===== CHAPTER 415 =====