Chapter 226: The Myriad Heavens: A Person in Zhe Tian, Refining Treasures to Become an Emperor Chapter 226 Tathagata God Palm

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Protagonist:

Jiang Xuan

Jiang Xuan left Taishang Laojun Palace feeling satisfied. Although the Moral Heavenly Venerable had only spoken a few words, Jiang Xuan understood the meaning of this most ancient one.

"I point the way for you, assist us Three Pure Ones in transcending, and you yourself can obtain benefits in this world!"

How the Three Pure Ones transcend: they take the object of reduction seeking emptiness as the one who proves the Dao through Source Master, and the Three Pure Ones can then transcend.

For this transaction, Jiang Xuan had no reason to refuse, especially for a transaction with a known outcome.

Jiang Xuan descended from the High Sky.

Meng Qi looked at the man descending from above Gao Tian Zhi Shang. His bearing was unworldly, like an Exiled Immortal descending from the High Sky to the mortal realm. Around him intertwined a clear, cold, and noble aura—transcendent and unworldly. One glance made it feel as if one stood in a misty fairyland, the vulgar smoke and fire of the mundane world entirely unrelated to him, carrying a unique flavor of standing alone apart from the world.

Damn it!

This was exactly the image he had long dreamed of. Meng Qi touched his bald head, feeling the future was dim.

"Greetings, Senior!"

Meng Qi performed a salute. In this "martial arts" world, seeing a senior required respectful salutation. After years of transmigration, Meng Qi had grown accustomed to some customs of this world.

Jiang Xuan looked at this bald head and casually cast a barrier, enveloping both of them.

"Not bad, little baldy!"

"But there's one thing you told that little baldy wrong: Ye Fan has not yet become a Red Dust Immortal, so naturally he hasn't led the various emperors charging into the Immortal Realm!"

Meng Qi was stunned! Red Dust Immortal!

He was sure he hadn't yet told his junior brother the part about Red Dust Immortals!

The man before him? Read his memories?

Meng Qi broke out in a cold sweat. Was it too late to beg for mercy now?

"No need to guess!"

"A person in Zhe Tian, Daoist name Hongmeng, a fifth-life Red Dust Immortal!"

Zhe Tian! He knew Zhe Tian!

"Great Emperor, save me!"

Meng Qi lunged forward, snot and tears streaming.

"My family forced me to become a monk and shaved off all my hair. I was also forced into a space, and if I don't complete the mission, I'll die!"

Ignoring Meng Qi's antics, Jiang Xuan pointed a finger at Meng Qi's brow. It was a technique he had deduced from observing a lifetime of martial arts through Luohan Fist.

With Jiang Xuan's cultivation realm, as long as he had even a small part of a technique, he could deduce the subsequent parts.

However, from just a mere Luohan Fist, he could only deduce up to the Outer Scene level.

But it was enough for the current Meng Qi to cultivate.

One step! Jiang Xuan disappeared.

Several months later, Jiang Xuan arrived at Yu Hai. This time, he had a clear target—the general outline of the Tathagata God Palm.

Jiang Xuan's Divine Sense penetrated Tian Di. Now with the Moral Heavenly Venerable's support as his backing, when dealing with things considered "ownerless," he acted without the slightest hesitation.

While Jiang Xuan searched with full power for the general outline, on the other side, Meng Qi and the others officially began this round of the Reincarnation Mission, becoming the start of his step-by-step approach toward the great existence of Source Master Tianzun.

In this world, both the Tathagata God Palm and the Seven Severing Heaven Swords were things Jiang Xuan was determined to obtain.

The Tathagata God Palm was a peerless martial art created by the half-transcendent Buddha Ancestor. Its exquisite profundity was beyond what mortals could reach.

The Seven Severing Heaven Swords directly originated from the Dao Venerable of a transcendent being. In this entire lifetime, these two could be called the most top-tier peerless divine arts.

"If I can learn a few moves of the Seven Severing Heaven Swords and the Tathagata God Palm, and combine them with the various functions of the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror, I will surely grow at an astonishing speed..." Jiang Xuan silently pondered various matters, strolling leisurely by the side of Yu Hai.

"Hmm?"

Jiang Xuan let out a soft exclamation, as if sensing something. He then took a step, and in an instant crossed endless space, appearing at a hidden location.

In the center of this secret place stood a Bodhi Tree. Its trunk was half-withered, half-flourishing, presenting a strange state of half-dead, half-alive.

The trunk was indented inward. In a trance, one could see a monk sitting cross-legged within it. His figure was faint and indistinct, real and illusory hard to distinguish, as if existing in the mortal world, yet also as if transcendent beyond the Three Realms and Five Elements. A strong aura of Nirvana transcendence emanated from the monk's entire body!

The withering and flourishing of the Bodhi Tree reflected the cycle of life and death. The monk sitting beneath the tree was like the scene of the Buddha Ancestor attaining enlightenment!

Jiang Xuan could not hide his joy, heading toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

At the same time, in Taishang Laojun Palace beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, a voice of slight surprise faintly sounded within the palace.

"Sir, this... this sir is truly somewhat..." Jin Jiao Shen had a strange expression. The three of them had seen this entire scene.

"Hmm, he indeed deserves the title of one bearing great fortune."

Unexpectedly, the Moral Heavenly Venerable actually considered Jiang Xuan to possess great fortune.

With such powerful backing from the Moral Heavenly Venerable, even if he originally had no great fortune, at this moment it was equivalent to having great fortune by his side!

Jiang Xuan walked straight to the Bodhi Tree. In an instant, a Buddha shadow appeared before his eyes. That Buddha shadow sat cross-legged in peace, surrounded by various Pure Lands and ten thousand Buddha Realms. Buddha sounds lingered, ceaseless in the ears.

"Thus have I heard!"

Jiang Xuan understood in his heart, knowing that this wondrous sight before him was the manifestation of the general outline of the Tathagata God Palm.

He reached out and grasped the Bodhi Buddha Tree. In an instant, Tian Di changed color, and portents came one after another!

A majestic and vast Buddha Sound suddenly rang out, echoing between Tian Di. Above Yu Hai, clear springs gurgled up from underground, golden lotuses bloomed in competition, and in midair, one golden body Buddha statue shadow after another rose up. They surrounded the place where the Bodhi Buddha Tree stood, each chanting their own Original Vow True Scripture.

The image of ten thousand Buddhas paying homage to the ancestor!

For a while, all Buddhist sects under Tianxia felt the induction of this powerful force.

At the other end of the Vast Sea, within Shura Temple, one of the Nine Paths of Evil Demons, the Great Asura Meng Nan, who ranked seventh on the Heaven Ranking and had already attained the Great Asura Body, suddenly awoke from closed-door cultivation.

His gaze was like torches, looking toward the place where the general outline appeared. His face was full of both surprise and joy.

Although separated by a great distance, with his Dharma Body's transcendent strength he could still clearly sense the continuous streams of Buddha Sound and that supreme Buddha Intent emanating from there.

"Is the Tathagata God Palm manifesting in the present world? Or is it a Buddhist-Taoist divine weapon descending into the world?"

Meng Nan pondered silently in his heart, while simultaneously employing all his abilities, controlling laws and governing principles, transforming into a single thread of flowing light, and rushing toward the Fish Sea at extreme speed.

Not only that, the Ananda Blade — the divine weapon far away in Shaolin — as well as other Buddhist sect divine weapons and experts, all sensed something one after another, each perceiving that a Buddhist supreme treasure had descended into the world!

In the blink of an eye, an intensely dense killing intent, nearly materialized, surged toward Jiang Xuan like raging evil waves; the violent aura contained within that killing intent seemed intent on slaughtering every living being in this heaven and earth.

Immediately afterward, the tall and oppressive figure of the Great Asura Meng Nan appeared in Jiang Xuan's field of vision without any warning.

"Hmph! Hand over the Tathagata God Palm!"

Meng Nan's eyes widened, staring fixedly at Jiang Xuan, that roar squeezed from the depths of his throat.

At this moment, Meng Nan's Great Asura Dharma Body rose up, like a towering Tai Gu Shen Shan standing erect, piercing straight into the clouds.

The heaven-and-earth laws within a radius of ten thousand li seemed to be drawn by some powerful force, gradually twisting and changing, growing ever more attuned to his own aura; this vast heaven and earth all became the domain in which he exerted his power.

"So this is a Dharma Body?"

A flash of brilliant light crossed Jiang Xuan's eyes as he examined with great interest the Dharma Body of the man before him. He could discern from it some crucial insights that ordinary people would find difficult to perceive.

"As expected, in the True Realm, the power contained within a Dharma Body is restricted."

Thoughts raced through Jiang Xuan's mind; he swiftly combined all the knowledge and experience he had accumulated in the past, and at the same time he calmed his mind, carefully experiencing his own present condition. Although he too was restricted to a certain degree, due to the wondrous characteristic of the "Refining Treasures to Cultivate the Body" method he practiced, the suppression he suffered was not nearly as severe compared to others.

"Hmph! Since you know this seat is a Dharma Body, why not obediently present the Divine Palm! Could it be you want to taste the flavor of soul flying and spirit scattering?"

Meng Nan's voice grew increasingly violent and unfathomable; practitioners of their lineage have always been known for their irritable and easily angered dispositions. Now, personally witnessing that Bodhi Tree emitting a mysterious aura, he was already certain in his heart that this must be the legendary Tathagata God Palm, and that it had actually been obtained by a nameless brat who looked completely unknown — how could this not set his heart's rage blazing?

In his subconscious, the number of powerhouses in the world who could possess a Dharma Body was only a mere few; since the person before him was not among them, he must simply be some nameless nobody who stumbled out of luck from some remote, utterly insignificant corner.

Jiang Xuan quietly watched this Human Immortal-level Dharma Body of Meng Nan, a strange expression tinged with mockery appearing on his face, and he spoke leisurely: "You're fucking awesome, does your mother know?"

Jiang Xuan's words poured a bucket of hot oil onto Meng Nan's rage, instantly igniting his fury completely; flames curled and rose around the Great Asura Dharma Body — the fire of wrath burning blazingly.

"Courting death!"

Meng Nan roared in anger, the fury in his heart having reached its peak. This brat not only refused to obediently hand over the Divine Palm, but now even dared to openly mock him — how could he endure this?

"So much nonsense."

Jiang Xuan glanced at Meng Nan with disdain, then without the slightest hesitation extended a hand, reaching toward Meng Nan.

Seeing this, Meng Nan's face changed drastically; he watched with wide eyes as that hand grew larger and larger in his field of vision, like a patch of dark clouds covering the sky and blocking out the sun. In an instant, a sense of despair with nowhere to escape — neither up to heaven nor down to earth — surged in his heart.

"This... how is this possible!"

Meng Nan's face was written full with shock; in his understanding, how could such a powerful figure exist in the current heaven and earth?

This completely exceeded his imagination.

In his panic, Meng Nan no longer dared to linger for even half a moment; he immediately employed all his abilities, various divine skills and peerless arts deploying simultaneously, his Dharma Body instantly swelling, radiant light shining, towering straight into the clouds, fusing into one with his true self.

Alas, all his struggles before Jiang Xuan were like a mantis trying to stop a chariot — utterly useless.

In the end, Meng Nan was still effortlessly captured by Jiang Xuan; immediately afterward, Jiang Xuan waved his hand casually and directly threw him into the Hongmeng Realm.

"Not bad, this is a prime research specimen."

Jiang Xuan looked at Meng Nan trapped immobile in the Hongmeng Realm, a fairly satisfied expression appearing on his face; he mused silently: since he wholeheartedly wanted to deeply research the mysteries of the Laws of this life, at this current time period, what could have more research value than a living, breathing Dharma Body?

And down below on the great earth, those people who had hurriedly fled this place earlier now all stopped far away; they stared dumbfounded at this "battlefield," every face written full with shock and incredulity.

"This... this Great Asura... was just killed like that?"

One of them stared with eyes wide open, voice trembling as he spoke: just now they only saw the Great Asura and this mysterious figure exchange a few simple words, and immediately afterward the mysterious person merely casually slapped a palm forward, and that unrivaled Great Asura instantly vanished without a trace.

"No! This is impossible! The Great Asura is a True God on the ground, how could he..."

A disciple of the Shura Temple, face full of terror, kept muttering to himself, his gaze filled with confusion and helplessness. In his heart, the Great Asura had always been their supreme god, their unshakable faith; now personally witnessing this scene, his entire world seemed to have collapsed.

"It's over, it's over, the heavens are going to change! A Heaven Ranking god, killed just like slaughtering a chicken."

Another person was so frightened his legs trembled uncontrollably, his voice turning quavery, his body involuntarily shaking.

Seeing that Jiang Xuan made no further moves after killing Meng Nan,

their hearts settled slightly; many quietly turned and left — they only wanted to get as far away as possible from this extremely dangerous figure, and at the same time they were eager to spread this shocking news: that such a powerful and mysterious existence had appeared in this heaven and earth.

The Great Asura Meng Nan, ranked seventh on the Heaven Ranking, fell just like that!

Jiang Xuan's mood was excellent at this moment; he thought to himself: "The Tathagata God Palm is already in hand; next is the Seven Severing Heaven Swords."

In truth, if he acted cautiously, obtaining the Tathagata God Palm's general outline and then withdrawing would be the steady course. But Jiang Xuan was unwilling to repeat the mistake of the Lightning Saber Mad Monk; his goal was to obtain both the Tathagata God Palm and the Seven Severing Heaven Swords, and he valued the Seven Severing Heaven Swords even more — after all, that is a Transcendent's ultimate art!

"Haha, this Fish Sea treasure hunt journey can be considered concluded; as for what's next..." Jiang Xuan's lips curled up, about to set off to visit a Pure Land, when his expression suddenly turned grave, as if he had sensed something. He abruptly turned his head, gazing toward the boundless Void, his gaze seemingly able to penetrate the barriers of countless worlds.

In his field of vision, the figures of Meng Qi and the others gradually emerged. This life's world is mysterious and profound, situated within the True Realm, possessing the great power to influence the myriad other worlds and infinite universes; its essence is Transcendent Sage.

Of course, to achieve this kind of spontaneous sensing, the primary prerequisite is that one is sufficiently strong — at the very least one must reach the Dharma Body realm. And Jiang Xuan's strength far surpasses the Dharma Body, and this world holds no rejection toward him, which is why he can display such a miraculous method.

Initially, the task Meng Qi and the others undertook, on the surface, merely required dealing with a few unknown minor Demon Heads. Among these minor Demon Heads, even the strongest had only reached the half-step Outer Scene realm, not yet touching the more profound levels of Martial Arts.

With the various methods Jiang Xuan imparted, to kill these half-step Outer Scene types who had no formidable ultimate arts to rely on was truly effortless — like a sharp knife cutting through tangled hemp, practically one slash per person, easily resolving the battles.

As for the subsequent struggle for the Tathagata God Palm, the situation at the time was that the two major organizations, Immortal Traces and Mythology, formed a mutually restraining stance. They each focused their attention on the other, each trying to gain the upper hand in this contest, and thus had no leisure to attend to Meng Qi and the others.

As a result, the degree of danger Meng Qi faced in this fierce struggle for the Tathagata God Palm was relatively not that great, and he therefore had more opportunities to maneuver and seize chances.

(Chapter End)