Chapter 883: Comprehending the Laws

Yan Buji sat cross-legged in the cave dwelling, his golden pupils shining in the darkness. He slowly raised his right hand; strands of golden essence power flowed at his fingertips, sometimes turning into sharp sword qi, sometimes condensing into gentle ripples.

"So that's how it is..." he murmured, "The path of cultivation ultimately returns to the source."

With a thought, the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual qi began to flow in an unprecedented way.

No longer simple absorption and exhalation, but direct resonance with his essence power. Yan Buji could clearly sense that each strand of spiritual qi contained subtle law fragments.

"Since his essence has changed, his cultivation method must naturally change as well."

He closed his eyes and began trying to directly communicate with the laws of heaven and earth.

Unlike before, when he needed indirect perception via Dao Marks, now he seemed to have opened a brand‑new door. The Five Elements law, spacetime law, fortune law... all kinds of great dao appeared in vivid detail before his eyes.

Suddenly, Yan Buji frowned slightly. He realized that cultivating laws at the essence level was far harder than imagined—like trying to carve an entire mountain with a fine needle, progress so slow it was hair‑raising.

"This won't do..." he opened his eyes, a hint of thought flashing in his golden pupils, "I need to find a more efficient method."

Yan Buji recalled the Dao Ancestor mentioned by the Tianling Daoist. That existence, which had walked the Martial Dao before the Martial Ancestor, must have faced the same predicament.

Then, how did the Dao Ancestor solve it?

"Perhaps... I should change my approach."

He closed his eyes again, no longer obsessing over directly training the laws, but began examining his essence structure. Around that origin essence, he tightened his power further.

Yan Buji tried to inject a strand of law power into one of his ordinary essences.

"Hum!"

A faint tremor echoed within his body. That ordinary essence actually absorbed a trace of law power; though minuscule, it indeed produced a change.

"There's hope!"

Yan Buji's spirits lifted, although he didn't know whether the law power absorbed by the origin essence would manifest concretely like Dao Marks, but

He began systematic attempts: first using the origin essence to communicate with heavenly laws, then scattering the sensed law power into the ordinary essences.

This actually boosted his cultivation efficiency by dozens of times!

Moreover, as the law power accumulated in the ordinary essences increased, they began to spontaneously resonate with the origin essence.

Yan Buji felt that his essence power was undergoing a certain qualitative change.

"This is the correct way of cultivation!"

He was overjoyed. At this rate, given time, he could possibly bring all his essences up to the level of the origin essence; then his strength would grow exponentially!

What Yan Buji did not know was that, while he was immersed in cultivation, far away a million li from him in an ancient Daoist temple, a disheveled Daoist was gazing in his direction, his eyes flashing with complex light.

"Another one walking this path..." the Daoist sighed softly, "I just don't know how far he'll go this time."

The child beside him looked up and asked, "Master, will that person be as formidable as you?"

The disheveled Daoist rubbed the child's head, smiling without speaking. His gaze pierced the endless void, as if he saw the essence power within Yan Buji undergoing transformation.

"The path of cultivation has always been lonely." the Daoist said softly, "No one has gone farther than He."

At the same time, Yan Buji's cultivation had reached a critical moment. Over a thousand of his ordinary essences inside had completed the initial infusion of law.

These essences resonated with each other, forming a small law network within his body.

"Still not enough..."

Yan Buji could feel that this network was still too weak. He needed more law comprehension and deeper essence transformation. And all of this required time.

But time was precisely what he lacked most at present.

After cultivating for a while, Yan Buji gained another insight.

Rather than saying he was infusing the law power he had comprehended into his essence, it was more like......

"Bearer! The law power gained from comprehension is not much, even less than the heavenly law guided by Dao Marks. But the Dao Marks obtained through traditional cultivation seem to require stacking to a certain level to trigger a qualitative change, equivalent to stepping from law into great dao."

"But now I can truly absorb the law power I gain, not just mobilize it...." Yan Buji frowned, feeling that the law power around him had diminished considerably due to his cultivation, unlike other cultivators who, even after accumulating Dao Marks, do not cause increase or decrease in the heavenly laws.

So it means that essence law is not merely mobilizing law power, but even containing it!

And his essence is the vessel that carries law!

"In that case, as the law power changes, his realm can steadily rise." Yan Buji thought of this.

By absorbing external law power to drive his realm upward, essence law holds even more potential than he imagined.

But for some reason, Yan Buji always felt essence law wasn't that simple; however, his cultivation time so far has been short, and he hasn't yet discovered anything different.

Time flew.

Yan Buji cultivated in the cave dwelling for nearly twenty years, pondered for a long time, consumed vast resources, and finally figured out one thing!

"The power cultivated via essence law can be converted using heavenly and earthly spiritual qi! But this conversion ratio is ridiculously low, even scarier than the Nine Turns Skill." Yan Buji's face changed.

Although Yan Buji can now use essence law power to activate the Blood Heaven Ascension Degree and Heaven Gate Five Elements Law, he cannot boost his own strength through them. Realizing he needed to drive his realm advancement by cultivating law power, he tried using spiritual stones, formations, etc., to aid his cultivation.

Although the idea sounded wonderful, reality still left Yan Buji scratching his head.

He urgently needs a way to quickly strengthen essence law, whether by absorbing spiritual qi or other means, but Yan Buji currently cannot comprehend more law power!

He didn't know whether this was a problem of comprehension or something else.....

"Can mutant force be used?" Yan Buji frowned, speaking bluntly—after all, his essence law also came from mutant force, yet he also felt some dread toward mutant force, whose power seemed stronger than his essence law!

"Spiritual qi, law, essence....."

Yan Buji pondered left and right, seemingly falling into another cycle.

Spiritual qi can be converted into essence power, essence can carry law—what is the relation between law and spiritual qi?

Yan Buji's pupils contracted; he realized where the problem lay!

"If we can grasp this key, perhaps we can link these three together!" Yan Buji smiled.