Chapter 770: Fa Fa Jie, Yuanshi Mountain

When the mind moves, heaven and earth move.

Within the divine realm, myriad colors arose, centered on the Five Extremes Divine Mountain, interlinking and weaving into a stretch of dense immortal mist.

The immortal mist flowed, as if to fill the entire divine realm.

Li Yuan watched calmly. As his mind shifted, within that immortal mist a howl of an ape exploded, and amid the weaving of light and shadow, one could see a white ape wielding a hammer in dance.

"White Ape Cloak Hammer."

Li Yuan stared at that white ape — what the light and shadow within the immortal mist reflected was precisely what was in his heart.

"Roar!"

After the white ape came the cries of wild beasts, as if a herd were charging together.

Some were green serpents, some were white tigers, some were ancient elephants, some were long flood-dragons… in the end, all forms wove together into a thunder dragon that wielded thunder and lightning.

But in less than an instant, that thunder dragon had already collapsed; the myriad lights and shadows wove once more, transforming into a colossal creature like a dragon yet like a kun.

Hundred-Beast Dragon-Kun!

How swift was the shifting of Li Yuan's mind?

In the blink of an eye, within that immortal mist ten thousand lights and shadows had risen and faded, evolving the subtle marvels of all the martial arts he had learned in his life.

After martial arts came the various spells.

After spells came the various true forms — Kun Peng, Nine Infants, Sun-Nest Candle Dragon… in the end, the myriad lights and shadows wove together, transforming into five colossal divine peaks that seemed to pierce heaven from the earth.

Upon the divine peaks stood ancient temples and ruined cities — and these were precisely the Five Extremes Divine Mountain!

"Fa Fa Jie…"

Li Yuan's thoughts settled here.

The Five Extremes Great Scripture was precisely the fundamental method he cultivated, and the foundation of his Fa Fa Jie — but it was only the foundation.

As early as several decades ago, Li Yuan had already been contemplating constructing the embryonic form of his own Fa Fa Jie. The Five Extremes Great Scripture was certainly superb, but the wild ambition in his heart was not limited to the Five Extremes alone.

"Hum~"

After several breaths, the lights and shadows within the immortal mist shifted again; it seemed a Pure Yang Tree of Primordial Shadow rose from the earth, like an inverted image hidden within the shadow of the divine mountain.

Upon the divine mountain, a sword lotus bloomed with radiance, its dense sword-light like a tide.

Within the sword-light, faintly visible, was the shadow of the Xuanhuang World Tree.

"Five Extremes Great Scripture, Primordial Shadow Pure Yang, Xuanhuang World Tree, Forms of Yin and Yang, Chaotic Divine Body, Origin Divine City…"

All that he had learned circulated in his heart. With the greatest patience, Li Yuan combed through every detail of constructing his Fa Fa Jie again and again, filling it entirely with what he had learned.

A moment later, as his mind moved, that stretch of immortal mist boiled and burst apart, drowning the entire divine realm within it.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Li Yuan split his attention in two. While he steered the advancement of his Fa Fa Jie here, three thousand li away upon a desolate mountain, the commotion of the Sword Lotus Body's "breakthrough" was many times greater.

The tremendous roar drew the gaze of every cultivator within ten thousand li, even several tens of thousands of li, who was watching this place — and not only cultivators of this place.

As one favored by Xuanhuang, and now one of the famed "Nine Sons of Xuanhuang," the cultivators watching the Sword Lotus Body were far more numerous than imagined.

But at this moment, whether cultivators of the Lingmiao Realm or cultivators of other realms peering in through the Fa Net, upon seeing such terrifying breakthrough phenomena, none were not horrified in their hearts.

Fa Fa Jie is the first step from man to god; the commotion of breakthrough is far greater than before. Yet at this moment, with ten thousand li of mountains and rivers all stirring and the aura spreading who knows how many tens of thousands of li further, it was truly too terrifying.

"Is this the weight of one favored by Xuanhuang?!"

The cultivators of the Three Saints Sect guarding below the desolate mountain all trembled; Yang Yang Zhengsi, after his shock, grew ever more stirred.

"Crack!"

Li Yuan heard the sound of tearing silk and saw a stretch of mountains and rivers split open within the divine realm; then, world-spirit qi, magnificent and powerful, came rolling in.

The divine realm is formed by the convergence of a cultivator's three primes; its essence is void.

Fa Fa Jie, however, is the transformation from void to solid. This step requires not only the cultivator's true form to guard it and divine patterns to bear it, but also world-spirit qi to fill it.

The amount of world-spirit qi required depends upon the cultivator's foundation.

Li Yuan was well aware that with his foundation of a super-grade Longhu Longhu Dadan and Chaotic Divine Body, the world-spirit qi required would inevitably be vast, and the commotion inevitably tremendous.

But at this moment, with the Sword Lotus Body outside, he naturally had no need to worry.

And indeed it was so — even now, with Heishan City as the center, world-spirit qi within ten thousand li rolled like rivers in flood, yet everyone's gaze still fell upon the Sword Lotus Body three thousand li away.

"Huu!"

"Haa!"

Li Yuan heard a tremendous sound of breathing.

This was his divine realm inhaling and exhaling spiritual energy to accumulate strength; at the same time, that sword lotus was also stretching its branches and leaves, exhaling incomparably pure world-spirit qi to nourish the divine realm.

"Given my divine realm's foundation, this process of accumulation will require at least seven days!"

Beneath the Shan Xuan Vine Tree, Li Yuan calculated on his fingers, and was quite satisfied in his heart.

The amount of spiritual energy accumulated depends upon the divine realm's foundation and likewise determines the grade of the Fa Fa Jie.

And according to the cultivation manuals within Mount Mount Dongxuan, a Yi Pin Fa Fa Jie required by a true-disciple needs three days and nights of inhaling and exhaling spiritual energy — he naturally far exceeded this.

"The Sword Lotus Body's step was the right one to take."

Glancing at the Three Saints Sect cultivators beneath the desolate mountain where the Sword Lotus Body was, Li Yuan nodded inwardly.

In the past, disciples of the Daoist Sect who broke through during martial displays would seek out a place rarely visited by men and lay down all manner of formations — but this approach would not work in the Xuanhuang Great World.

Beneath the Fa Net, a change of such vast world-spirit qi as a breakthrough absolutely could not be hidden from the Three Saints Sect cultivators.

But now, the cultivators of the Three Saints Sect were, in effect, guarding the law for him.

"Huu!"

Li Yuan suppressed the stray thoughts in his heart and waited calmly.

Seven days passed in a snap of the fingers. With the Three Saints Sect cultivators guarding the law, this breakthrough process went smoothly beyond belief.

"Boom—!"

In an instant, Li Yuan's spirit trembled as he heard a thunderous roar that shook his very soul.

Just that single sound—within his perception, his divine realm shattered with a crash, every color and every light extinguished, and an indescribable darkness instantly swallowed him whole.

"This is You Jing!"