Chapter 771: Yuan Shi City, All Laws as an Army

The earth shook and the mountains trembled; thunder roared like a tide.

High above the sky, Li Yuan looked down upon the newly formed Fa Fa Jie.

Wang Yang stretched vast and boundless, its horizon unseen; Yang Island and Shan Xuan Teng Island expanded simultaneously by dozens or even hundreds of times, merging at their borders to form a continent.

At the continent's center, the Divine Mountain, formed by the union of five Great Mountains, rose from the ground like a heavenly pillar piercing the clouds; above the clouds lay a chaotic mist, within which cloud-veils and gale winds seemed to swirl.

It was the Ninefold Gale Heaven, yet still unformed.

"It is done!"

Gazing at the faint outline of the Great City atop the colossal peak where the five Ultimate Divine Mountains had merged, Li Yuan felt overwhelming joy in his heart.

This mountain, rooted in the five Ultimate Great Mountains, fleshed out with the myriad laws and scriptures he had studied and cultivated, was truly the culmination of his lifelong practice.

"Voom~"

Li Yuan closed his eyes slightly; invisible ripples surged from the depths of his sea of consciousness.

In that instant, the faintest boundary between essence, energy, and spirit vanished; he could no longer feel the location of his physical body or his soul.

The only thing he could perceive was the Fa Fa Jie.

Unlike the inner observation of the Divine Realm, his perception was clear and minute; without deliberate concentration, whether it was the newly formed Yuan Shi Mountain or the colossal city atop its peak.

Even a single drop of water within the waves of Wang Yang appeared in perfect detail, as if observing the lines of a palm.

"Man is the Fa Fa Jie; the Fa Fa Jie is man!"

Li Yuan focused slightly, and the newly formed Fa Fa Jie manifested clearly in his mind.

The Fa Fa Jie contains the essence of a cultivator's lifelong practice and serves as the foundation for becoming a Venerable or an Ancestor.

For a cultivator, once the Fa Fa Jie is formed, all laws are unified under its command; relying on the Fa Fa Jie, every gesture and movement is accompanied by its power, greatly amplifying the might of all techniques.

"Heart and soul return entirely to the Fa Fa Jie..."

Li Yuan recalled the Spirit Silence Monk.

In years past, he had launched a surprise attack with the accumulated Profound Yin Divine Thunder, catching the monk off guard.

Yet even though the Profound Yin Divine Thunder pierced and destroyed his physical body, as long as the Fa Fa Jie remained unbroken, his spirit would not perish; to destroy his origin, one must first obliterate his Fa Fa Jie.

"Reflecting now, the Profound Yin Divine Thunder was indeed sinister, but what inflicts the greatest damage upon the Fa Fa Jie is the Water of the Shadow Demon; the gathering of Yin Evil can harm all laws."

Li Yuan's mind cycled through these thoughts, yet he was already atop Yuan Shi Mountain.

Looking up, the outline of a Great City had taken shape; the city walls, bricks, streets, and dwellings were all visible, though far inferior to the Origin Divine City of the Five Dragon Immortals, it nonetheless bore a faint resemblance.

Every brick of this city, every inch of its streets, condensed myriad divine patterns and divine prohibitions; it was a 'Law City' in the truest sense.

"The Origin Divine City is indeed profound and vast."

Feeling the vital energy of the mountain and the city, Li Yuan sighed in his heart.

The complexity and subtlety of the True Form Diagram of the Origin Divine City far exceeded any True Form Diagram he had ever learned; with his talent of today, years of effort had yielded only meager results.

Moreover, in the end, it was only through the union of the five Ultimate Great Mountains that this city was initially forged.

Yet he was already quite satisfied.

Walking within this Great City, though the dwellings were scattered and the streets incomplete, Li Yuan could clearly perceive the profound mysteries of the city.

If Yuan Shi Mountain is the core of the Fa Fa Jie, then this 'Yuan Shi City' is the core of Yuan Shi Mountain.

"One mountain and one city jointly guard the Fa Fa Jie; to kill me, one must sever the mountain and break the city."

Li Yuan walked slowly through the city, various thoughts arising in his mind.

The Divine Realm is illusory; the Fa Fa Jie is real. The former exists only within a cultivator's Niwan, while the latter actually resides between the illusory and the real, existing both within the Niwan and within the You Jing Gui Xu.

Therefore, the battles and slaughter between cultivators above the Fifth Realm differ greatly from those before.

"To kill a cultivator above the Fifth Realm, one must first break their Fa Fa Jie, their Fa Tian, their Dojo..."

Li Yuan simulated a battle with a Fifth Realm cultivator within his sea of consciousness: "Unless one possesses a Divine Ability that shocks the world and shatters the Fa Fa Jie in a single strike, the fight will inevitably be a stalemate..."

"It is very hard to kill."

If the battles of cultivators below the Fifth Realm are bare-handed brawls, then cultivators above the Fifth Realm are like emperors ruling the world; to kill them, one must break their city and destroy their nation.

And Divine Abilities, spells, magical treasures, spiritual plants, True Forms, spiritual beasts, Dao Soldiers... and other means, are like armies.