Chapter 779: The Ultimate Foundation: The Nine-Form Refinement Art

Gazing at the layered images upon the mural, and the countless Zuo Fa Fa Jie behind those images, Li Yuan could hardly contain the pounding of his heart.

A Zuo Fa Fa Jie is where a Xiu Shi spends his life in Xiu Chi Fa, and is also the foundation of the great Dao to come.

Therefore, whether it be the Weitian Bianshidao Sect, the myriad domains of the heavens, or the Xiu Shi of the Opening Gui Xu realms, after cultivating to Zhi Wu Jing, all must spend long years constructing their Zuo Fa Fa Jie.

And this time is often measured in centuries, or even millennia.

"Harvesting Gui Lands and the remnants of Zuo Fa Fa Jie can greatly accelerate the construction of a Zuo Fa Fa Jie…"

Li Yuan's eyes lit up.

Harvesting Gui Lands and the remnants of Zuo Fa Fa Jie is one of several shortcuts to speeding up the construction of a Zuo Fa Fa Jie.

But this shortcut is not one ordinary folk can walk; the reason is simple — the construction of a Zuo Fa Fa Jie requires taking the Xiu Gen Ben Fa as its core, fusing together one's own Benming Gu Gu Shentong and Benming Lingbao.

To walk this shortcut, one does not know how much Gui Land essence must be harvested; even true disciples of the Sect, geniuses like Yu Yu Wangxian, do not possess such wealth.

Previously, Li Yuan's plan had been for his true self to enter closed-door cultivation, dispatching Ying Mo Shen and the Sword Lotus Body through the Xing Xing Tongyou Corridor to seek out the hidden and probe the Gui; thus, he was confident he could construct the most perfect Zuo Fa Fa Jie within three hundred years.

But now…

"So many Zuo Fa Fa Jie — even nibbling just a bite or two from each would surely be enough for me to construct Yuanshi Fa Jie to an utterly perfect state!"

Li Yuan's heart leaped with joy, yet he did not act rashly; instead, he calmed himself and carefully observed the enormous mural before him.

This was no easy task.

The suppression of the shackles and manacles was extremely strong; with his current foundation of Xiu Chi, without the augmentation of the Zhang Bing Lu, his visibility would also be very limited.

After a long while, Ying Mo Shen closed his eyes and concentrated, seemingly cultivating magic power, but in truth his mind had already returned to Yuanshi Fa Jie.

"Hum~"

At the peak of Yuanshi Mountain, Li Yuan sat cross-legged at the edge of a cliff; before his eyes, an enormous scroll slowly unfurled, nearly covering half the sky.

It was precisely the mural within the ding-shaped cell.

Relying on the tremendous augmentation the Zhang Bing Lu granted his perception, he reproduced bit by bit what he had seen within Yuanshi Fa Jie.

"The Human Race, the Prison Race, demonic cultivators… tsk, the most numerous are still Xuanhuang Xiu Shi…"

"The Zuo Fa Fa Jie upon the mural correspond closely to the numbers inscribed on the cell's stone stele — in other words, the Zuo Fa Fa Jie of the vast majority of the imprisoned Xiu Shi De Fa have all fallen within…"

"Calling them Zuo Fa Fa Jie isn't even accurate; the extinguished portions have already become Gui Lands, and those not yet extinguished likely remain so only because the incense within the Zuo Fa Fa Jie has not yet died out…"

Li Yuan concentrated his perception, missing no detail.

The images within this enormous scroll flickered in and out; the most brilliantly radiant numbered only two or three out of ten, the dim ones three or four out of ten, and the rest were a thoroughly extinguished blackish-grey.

"Among these Zuo Fa Fa Jie, the most valuable are naturally those not yet extinguished, but the masters of those Zuo Fa Fa Jie may not necessarily be dead; for safety's sake, it's better to begin exploring from the Gui Lands…"

After a long while, the scroll in the heavens dissipated, and Li Yuan had formed a plan in his heart, yet he did not drive Ying Mo Shen to act; instead, he entered the Zhang Bing space.

"The suppression of that Heavenly Sin cell is overly domineering; to enter the mural, I need further augmentation of my mind and will…"

As Li Yuan's thoughts turned within, the 'Divine Fire Combined Soldiers Furnace' upon Dingxin Dingxin Shitai had already begun to tremble violently.

Streams of incense-wrapped Bing Ren Fa treasures were fed into it, and before long, three Bing Ren of the eleventh tier that augmented mind and will had been fused together.

"That should be about enough."

Tossing those three Bing Ren into the Zhang Bing Lu, Li Yuan's mind returned to Yuanshi Fa Jie.

"Boom!"

A muffled sound rang out.

Li Yuan traced the sound with his gaze and saw a blue dragon soaring through the sea of clouds; having absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth it had inhaled and exhaled during its recent advancement, it opened its mouth and spat forth a waterfall of jade-green water.

That waterfall cascaded down three thousand zhang, landing at the northwestern corner of Yuanshi Mountain; with a great trembling of the earth, it transformed into a lake spanning eight hundred li.

"Jade Water Art."

Li Yuan smiled faintly — this was a spell the blue dragon had newly cultivated; though its grade was not high, it was nonetheless another cornerstone in the construction of the Zuo Fa Fa Jie.