Chapter 882: The Path of Cultivating Essence Law

Yan Buji slowly opened his eyes, golden pupils swirling with a brand-new light. He lowered his gaze to his palm, feeling the unprecedented power flowing within his body.

This was not a simple fusion of Immortal Essence and magical power, but a completely new energy form born after thoroughly breaking down and recombining the two powers.

"Essence Law..." he murmured softly, a strand of golden energy condensing at his fingertip. This strand alternated between the sharpness of sword qi and the flexibility of water waves, shifting form entirely according to his will.

Tianling Daoist's aged face was filled with shock: "You actually... really did it? This power..."

Yan Buji's mouth curled slightly: "Senior, it seems I've won the bet." He lifted his right hand slightly, and the surrounding heaven-and-earth spiritual qi began to flow in an entirely new way, no longer bound by the traditional cultivation system.

"But where does this power come from?" Tianling Daoist couldn't help but ask further.

Yan Buji pointed to his chest: "Here. I shattered and reassembled everything, finding the most primal 'one'." His eyes suddenly grew deep: "Senior, do you know that each of us harbors a most primal essence within our bodies?"

Tianling Daoist shuddered all over, recalling something, but then shook his head: "I've never heard of such a thing."

Just then, Yan Buji suddenly frowned. He sensed several powerful divine senses sweeping over this area from afar; the pressure contained in a few of those divine senses made him instinctively tremble.

"It seems we don't have much time left." Tianling Daoist's expression grew grave: "Those Existence have already noticed you."

Yan Buji, however, broke into a wild grin: "Perfect—I also want to test just how strong this new power is."

But this time, these powers of law no longer needed to be driven by Dao Marks. With a thought, Yan Buji's Five Elements power flowed like an extension of his limbs, intertwining in the air into a splendid lattice of law.

"Unbelievable..." Tianling Daoist murmured, "You actually bypassed the constraints of Dao Marks and directly communicated with the laws of heaven and earth."

Yan Buji clasped his hands: "Senior, I have broken through today and forged my own path—could you please offer me a bit of guidance?"

"Offer guidance?" Tianling Daoist furrowed his brows, then relaxed: "Why not!"

To Tianling Daoist, Yan Buji being sufficiently 'unique' meant that some people's judgment was correct.

Although it's unknown whether they had anticipated such changes in Yan Buji, in Tianling Daoist's eyes, Yan Buji had already completed his own path to sainthood!

However, from now on, if he wishes to reach a higher realm, it will depend on how he continues his cultivation.

In reality, Yan Buji's power level is no more than the Transformation Spirit Stage.

After a period of time.

Yan Buji bade farewell to Tianling Daoist, who seemed to have his own schemes in the Burial Heaven Abyss; although Yan Buji had consulted and discussed many things with Tianling Daoist, he still faced numerous problems regarding his own Essence Law.

After leaving the Burial Heaven Abyss.

Yan Buji found a wilderness and opened a cave abode, then began seated meditation cultivation.

As a large amount of spiritual qi flowed into his body, Yan Buji instinctively activated his cultivation method, driving the Nine Turns Technique as well, but he immediately realized a problem!

"Merely absorbing spiritual qi does nothing for my flesh; it brings no improvement to the refinement of my essence!"

Yan Buji furrowed his brows; he also tried cultivating the Mysterious Technique, but the same problem persisted.

"It seems I can only find a path that both absorbs spiritual qi and strengthens the flesh..."

Yan Buji gave it some thought and clarified the key.

The cultivation of Essence Law lies in the origin essence. Yan Buji inwardly examined himself; in the previous Mutagenic breakthrough at the Burial Heaven Abyss, from the perspective of the mutation he sensed countless essences existing within his body, but he indeed possesses one essence that contains his origin.

Perhaps it is because of the mutation that Yan Buji can now perceive the state of essences within his body, but only that one essence possesses the origin.

"If... I could infuse all the essences in my body into the origin, and then through cultivation channel power into those essences...." Yan Buji widened his eyes, daring not to imagine how powerful he would become if that were true.

Even if his current essence power is only at the Transformation Spirit Stage level, but if the roughly thirty-six trillion essences within his body each had the strength of Transformation Spirit Stage....

Quantitative change leads to qualitative change; even without the support of a realm, the power of thirty-six trillion Transformation Spirit Stage is somewhat terrifying!

However, Yan Buji feels his idea is somewhat fantastical; not to mention how to infuse his origin essence's power into other essences, he hasn't even figured out the cultivation problem yet.

Because this is a visible change, Yan Buji began trying various methods.

Finally, Yan Buji discovered that it was better to train mundane martial arts, combined with daily meditation on some Daoist scriptures, approaching from both the physical and divine-sense levels, and indeed he could gradually increase the power of his origin essence!

"How peculiar! After tempering the flesh through mundane martial arts, absorbing heaven-and-earth spiritual qi via meditation—one actually has to cultivate in this way?"

Yan Buji furrowed his brows; this method is far too slow, isn't it?

Mundane martial arts and meditation are obviously inferior to even the most basic Mysterious Technique or cultivation method—doesn't that mean Essence Law has regressed?

"No, no, no—since I've experimentally found this method viable, it means there must be another way to further optimize it. Body-spirit unity... that is, I need to strengthen my divine sense or the soul of my essence while tempering the flesh; but if I already have body-spirit unity, why can't I simultaneously grow the soul while tempering the flesh?"

Yan Buji felt that his body-spirit unity seemed problematic!

Lacking a crucial means, even though Yan Buji's flesh and spirit are fused as one, cultivating only one side cannot nourish the other.

Thus his Essence Law is merely superficial, lacking any truly practicable method of cultivation!

He merely fused Immortal Essence and magical power into one and injected it into the origin essence, obtaining this power alone, but he has not mastered how to cultivate it.

Yan Buji was at a loss, pondering how to proceed with his cultivation.

Even if he can now deploy divine abilities and Dao martial techniques, bypass the form of Dao Marks to command the laws, and use the Accumulation Device without hindrance, it seems there is still no other method to speak of.

"Is it because I don't understand my own 'origin'?"

Yan Buji pondered for a long time, then suddenly slapped his thigh!

"How could I have forgotten the essence of cultivation?!" Yan Buji's eyes lit up, and he burst into laughter.

"I understand now!"

"Since my power has already merged into essence, I should directly cultivate the laws! Whether it's Cosmic Dao Principles, Fortune Dao Principles, or any other laws, the path of cultivation is not about whose magical power is deeper being stronger; the most important thing is cultivating the laws and the Great Dao!"

Thinking of this, Yan Buji couldn't help but feel overjoyed.

If one could, upon the essence, add rules horizontally, even up to the Great Dao, then with one's own body control the Great Dao!

This, isn't this the path ahead!