Chapter 754: Milking the Law Net

Within the gray stone platform, various sounds of listening intertwined, with all sorts of noise rising and falling in waves.

"It is said that in the ancient beginning, the myriad races stood like forests in the Xuanhuang World, giving rise to various Laws and the Dao... Later, Sages emerged, and the various Dao gradually unified..."

"... After the Ninth War of Creation, the Daoist Yuan Ming Heavenly Lord sought to transmit the Law to Xuanhuang and seize this Dimensional Heaven. The Dao Sects either watched coldly from the sidelines, plotted in the shadows, or secretly aided... and the same was true for the various realms of Gui Xu."

"... On that day, Gui Xu trembled, and the Xuanhuang World Tree fell silent... Afterwards, the Hongmeng Sage, who had fled to the Chaos Sea, returned at the right moment... Xuanhuang was sealed, and the Hongmeng, Calamity, and Fate Sages joined hands to cast the 'Law Net', suppressing all cultivators who refused to submit..."

Li Yuan was sorting through the sounds of listening.

Relying on the massive amount of incense offerings and the Level 15 Sound-Listening Talisman, these months of high-intensity listening had yielded him no small harvest.

He had roughly summarized the changes in the Great Xuanhuang World and the origin of the Law Net.

The birth of the Law Net was directly caused by the Daoist Yuan Ming Heavenly Lord, but the deeper reason lay in the Xuanhuang World Tree!

"Since its birth, the Xuanhuang World Tree has been nurturing the Dimensional Heaven, drawing in, and even devouring other dimensions within Gui Xu,

this likely concerns the growth of this Primordial Spirit Root..."

On the Human Calamity Platform, Li Yuan held a rod and fished, while various thoughts churned in his mind.

The Xuanhuang World Tree is the foundation of this top-tier Dimensional Heaven, or rather, this Dimensional Heaven itself is a means used by this Primordial Spirit Root to strengthen itself.

This point had been mentioned in the intelligence he had gathered before.

In fact, although the Three Sages, Five Emperors, and Twelve Immortals certainly dominated the peak of Xuanhuang, before the sealing of Xuanhuang and the birth of the Law Net, there were great conflicts between their respective lineages.

But after the birth of the Law Net, among the three thousand Great Worlds of Xuanhuang, only the Three Sages Sects remained!

The various sects and lineages born over a hundred epochs, or even more distant years, either submitted to the Three Sages Sects or fled this realm.

Or, they retreated into the shadows.

"The Daoist Yuan Ming Heavenly Lord transmitting the Law to Xuanhuang facilitated the birth of the Law Net, but this is absolutely not the main reason!"

Li Yuan carefully analyzed the various sounds of listening; he suspected that the Three Sages, or rather the Hongmeng Sage, likely had plans to cast the Law Net long ago.

He even felt that the Daoist Yuan Ming Heavenly Lord transmitting the Law to Xuanhuang was related to him.

Otherwise, why would he, having fled to the Chaos Sea for dozens of epochs and rarely participated even in the Wars of Creation, suddenly return after the Daoist Yuan Ming Heavenly Lord transmitted the Law and quickly cast the Law Net?

Thoughts surged in Li Yuan's heart, and he vaguely reached a conclusion.

"The Xuanhuang World Tree may not like the Law Net!"

Although it was just a guess, Li Yuan felt it was very likely, because the timing of the Xuanhuang sealing and the forging of the Law Net coincided exactly with the moment this Primordial Spirit Root fell silent.

And by the time the World Tree revived again, the Law Net had already radiated across the three thousand worlds of Xuanhuang; even this Mother of All Things could not stop it.

"World Tree, Three Sages, Five Emperors, Twelve Jin Xian..."

The more Li Yuan pondered, the deeper he felt the waters of this realm were.

"Vroom~"

At this moment, he felt something in his heart and focused his spirit to perceive the message originating from the location of the Sword Lotus Body.

When the Three Sages bestowed the Talismans, he had actively severed the connection with the Sword Lotus Body, but relying on the Sword Lotus itself, re-establishing contact was very simple.

"Vroom~"

A slight ripple arose in the Sea of Consciousness; in an instant, Li Yuan had already received the various messages transmitted by the Sword Lotus Body.

Law Net, Merit, Empowerment, Proxy Cultivation...

"Empowerment Cultivation, Ancient Five Punishments Sword..."

After digesting the various messages, Li Yuan was quite shaken; he felt somewhat enlightened, realizing that Qin Qian had probably seen the Empowerment Cultivation before and was thus so terrified.

"Empowerment Cultivation, Proxy Cultivation..."

Quickly, Li Yuan calmed his emotions and turned his mind to pondering whether the idea of milking the Law Net was feasible.

"The Sword Lotus Body and I are two sides of the same coin; theoretically, the various spells and Gu Gu Shentong he cultivates via Empowerment can be transmitted back to the Main Body!"

Spells are unique and cannot be shared.

The various spells forged by the Ying Mo Shen also had to be routed through the Divine Realm before they could be carried and refined by the Main Body.

The Sword Lotus Body is the same.

"The Law Net can erase the memories of Xuanhuang cultivators; can it also deprive the Gu Gu Shentong and spells refined by my Main Body?"

Li Yuan pondered this in his heart, while the Proxy Cultivation was a trial.

Normally, for a cultivator who accepts a 'Proxy Cultivation' task, the spells and Gu Gu Shentong they cultivate will, upon task completion, be empowered via the Law Net into the body of the task issuer.

At the same time, if corresponding Shan Gong is not paid, the memories related to the cultivation of the Xiu Gong Fa involved in the Proxy Cultivation will also be erased.

"Let's try to see if the Law Net can erase the memories of my Main Body..."

Li Yuan felt this was somewhat risky, but it was worth a try.

First, the Daluo Record had disrupted the Heavenly Secrets, isolating the Law Net's surveillance over external cultivators; second, the Law Net was sufficient to allow him to take some risks.

Finally, and most importantly, he had not performed Xing Gong to refine the Law for nearly half a year!

Although he was also contemplating the True Forms and pondering the True Form Map of the Origin God City and the True Form Map of the Xuanhuang World Tree, it still made him very uncomfortable.

"If the Law Net detects me, I will directly halt the martial display with my Main Body and leave the Sword Lotus Body here to fight!"

Li Yuan made his decision in his heart.

Who knows how many years this Xuanhuang Martial Display will last; if it's ten or eight years, it's fine, but if it's several decades or even a hundred years without cultivation, he simply cannot accept it.

"Let's give it a try!"

Having made his decision, Li Yuan began to synchronize the ten spells from the Sword Lotus Body's memories, as well as the 'Ancient Five Punishments Sword' obtained through Empowerment.

"It is indeed a top-tier Gong Fa!"

Naturally, Li Yuan contemplated the Ancient Five Punishments Sword first.

His insight was excellent; even with only one layer of scripture meaning, compared to the Five Ultimate Great Scriptures, he felt that each one individually was inferior to this sword path of killing.

He even felt that the Tai Shan Xuan Sword Scripture was slightly inferior.

"Sufficient to rival the Hunyuan Five Poles Dao—no wonder it is the foundational Gong Fa cultivated by the Five Emperors of Shan Xuan Huang!"

Li Yuan silently praised, committing this Gong Fa to memory, then turned to examine the spells acquired from the ten tasks completed by the Sword Lotus.