From a Zhengyi Taoist Child to a Master of All Laws

Chapter 623 The Unity of Three Elements, The Origin of Sword Immortals

The upheaval in the imperial court has stirred up a storm in the Great Li Dynasty, but the aftershocks have not yet reached Li Yang in the northern courtyard of the city.

After another day of closing up shop, Li Yang strolled leisurely back, his figure stretched endlessly by the setting sun.

[Experience points for interpreting divination slips +1]

Li Yang muttered to himself, but the once noisy and dense system prompts never appeared in his mind.

"You've had my account blocked for so long, are you still not going to unblock it?"

Li Yang looked melancholy as he gazed for the setting sun in solitude.

This is Li Yang's first month in the capital of Dali. During this month, he has been consuming and devouring a large amount of cultivation resources, spirit stones and materials every day, and his cultivation speed has advanced by leaps and bounds.

This is simply a paradise for the Sun and Moon Eating Qi Method, with abundant spiritual energy and a vast amount of spiritual materials. In addition, Li Yang had already broken through to the Earth Immortal realm once and had experience, so his cultivation progress was at a speed that was like being cheated.

However, Li Yang was still not satisfied and looked forward to the system's reawakening. Relying on the system, he could at least increase his cultivation speed by another three levels!

Even without the system, Li Yang estimated that under such circumstances, it would only take him about ten years to re-condense his Dao Fruit and attain the status of an Earth Immortal.

Ten years is but a blink of an eye for a human immortal, but for Li Yang at present, it has far exceeded his expectations!
Returning to the Earth Immortal realm after ten years of cultivation is unheard of even in the Xuanhuang Palace of the Ultimate Realm. It requires at least hundreds or thousands of years of accumulation and comprehension. If this were known to others, he would be regarded as a freak, and a terrifying supreme being might capture Li Yang for research.

Even with this speed, Li Yang was still not satisfied. The Xuanhuang Palace would attack the ancestral star again within three years. He had to grow to a level where he could change the situation and occupy the territory, so that he would no longer have to hide from the Xuanhuang Palace and the Nine Upper Sect.

Therefore, Li Yang chose to spend a certain amount of time each day drawing talismans and setting up a fortune-telling stall in Jianruo City. One reason was to hide from Zhang Hengming, the Grand Preceptor of Dali Kingdom, and the other was to hope that he could activate the dormant system through these actions.

More than a month has passed, and the system still hasn't made any move. If it weren't for the fact that he could summon the system panel, Li Yang himself would have doubted the existence of the system.

The system panel is still displaying a jumble of characters.

"I can only hope that my efforts over the past month have not been in vain, and that when the system awakens again, it will count all of my experience points back to me."

Standing under the setting sun, Li Yang sighed softly, pushed open the wooden gate of the courtyard, and began his evening meditation with practiced ease.

Today, the [Supreme Dao Treasure Mirror] within Li Yang's body has long since formed muscle memory and can circulate its energy on its own. Only during the special periods of morning and evening when the sun and moon are in the same sky is the [Supreme Dao Treasure Mirror] particularly active, which is the most suitable time for practicing the Sun and Moon Eating Qi Method. Therefore, Li Yang is needed to assist in its circulation.

The Qi-Eating Method, also known as the Root Method and the Ultimate Method, naturally possesses superior qualities that surpass other cultivation methods. When actively channeling one's energy, two vast and majestic auras of bright yellow and yin blue descend from the heavens like the Milky Way, nourishing Li Yang's ancestral aperture between his eyebrows, making him feel as if he were floating on air.

At such times, Li Yang would close all the pores of his body and tightly shut his seven orifices. If he relaxed even slightly, a large amount of spiritual energy from the sun and moon would dissipate, resonating with heaven and earth to create a vast image.

However, that would truly be courting death. Therefore, Li Yang had to concentrate and be cautious every day when practicing his cultivation. There were countless cultivation methods in the Realm of Ultimate Truth that combined the imagery of the sun and moon. Therefore, unless a top-tier Celestial Immortal descended to observe closely, it was extremely difficult to detect the extraordinary nature of Li Yang's cultivation methods.

He inhaled and exhaled, two wisps of white mist swirling around Li Yang's mouth and nose, rising and falling with his chest. As the sun set and the sky began to lighten, Li Yang finally exhaled and slowly opened his eyes.

"Given my current state, it will be difficult for me to obtain cultivation resources that surpass those of Dali in the short term, and it will be difficult for my cultivation speed to improve further in the short term."

"Therefore, if I want to quickly improve my combat strength, there are only other ways."

Li Yang stroked his chin and whispered, looking at the Southern Sea Sword in his sea of ​​consciousness and the three swirling wisps of lightning mist in his dantian.

"The Sword Control Technique and the Five Thunder Technique are top-tier killing techniques, even among the Nine Supreme Sects of the Ultimate Realm. If I can improve upon them, it will undoubtedly be the most significant boost to my combat power!"

Li Yang muttered to himself, the system still hadn't awakened, and he himself only had a vague understanding of the next level and method for upgrading the [Sword Control Technique].

Then there's the [Five Thunder Technique]. The path to advancement for this technique is quite clear: it simply requires the five elements of thunder energy! Li Yang has already captured the three elements of metal, earth, and wood thunder energy on the ancestral star, and he's still missing the two elements of water and fire thunder energy!

Using the information channels of the Great Li Dynasty, Li Yang has identified several locations that might generate Five Elements Thunder Qi. However, these locations are either too far away to be certain of their authenticity, or too dangerous and controlled by the Nine Upper Sect, where it is rumored that Earth Immortals and Heavenly Immortals are present.

In this world, ordinary cultivation resources such as spirit stones and spirit plants are fine, but the top-tier cultivation resources at a deeper level are monopolized by the nine major sects. Li Yang believes that he can only barely try to snatch food from their mouths if he cultivates to the level of an Earth Immortal.

“A month ago, I sensed unusual activity in the Five Elements Thunder Qi at the Great Li Palace, but I was unable to pinpoint its exact location. It seemed to be concealed by a terrifying array!”

Li Yang frowned in thought. He had no doubt about his senses; with his cultivation level, a sudden surge of spiritual energy was definitely not unfounded! He was just troubled by the lack of any information or clues.

Since both paths, which should have been easy to follow, were impassable, Li Yang gradually turned his attention to the Clear Mind and the Southern Sea Sword.

"When my primordial spirit reflects on my physical body, achieving a unity of spirit and flesh, it can dramatically amplify my combat power! What would happen if I used my primordial spirit to reflect on the Southern Sea Sword and cultivated a 'unity of spirit and sword'?"

Li Yang asked himself, and his idea was extremely bold.

One of the supernatural abilities in the Sword Control Technique is called "Man and Sword as One," which combines the physical body and the magical sword into one, creating a brilliant, pure, and yang sword light. It was once Li Yang's strongest killing move!
"If I use my physical body as a bridge to simultaneously bear the reflection of my primordial spirit and the Southern Sea Sword, thus uniting the spirit, the person, and the sword into one, would this be the strongest state of sword control?"

Li Yang was excited, and almost the instant the thought arose, his physical body began to try it out.

The idea was simple, but when Li Yang actually tried it, he realized how naive and unrealistic his idea was.

Ultimately, the primordial spirit, the physical body, and the magic sword are three completely different powers. Li Yang knew that the real reason he was able to achieve "unity of spirit and body" and "unity of man and sword" was because both the primordial spirit and the magic sword were nurtured from the physical body.

However, the primordial spirit and the magic sword are completely different things, one is spiritual power and the other is physical power!
Li Yang sat cross-legged in the courtyard. The next moment, a series of crackling and explosive sounds arose from within his body, as if something was exploding inside him. This caused Li Yang to lose his composure for a moment, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. This was the clash between the power of his primordial spirit and the power of the magic sword within his body, almost tearing Li Yang's physical body apart.

The terrifying power generated by this explosion once caused Li Yang's clear primordial spirit in his sea of ​​consciousness to shake, almost revealing the Purgatory Crimson Serpent Erosion Seal that was contained and suppressed within it.

Li Yang coughed up a mouthful of blood, frowned slightly, and muttered to himself.

"This doesn't make sense. Both the primordial spirit and the magic sword are nurtured from the physical body; their roots are in the physical body. Since they are from the same source, there's no reason for them to react so violently, almost like water and fire being incompatible!"

Thinking of the Xuanhuang Palace's invasion of Blue Star less than three years later, thinking of the comatose Chi Yanhong, and thinking of the scattered Zhu Ling, Li Yang gritted his teeth and closed his eyes once again.

This time, the strange phenomenon within his body was even more terrifying. If one were to get close to Li Yang's heart, one could hear a surging sound like two ocean tides colliding.

At this moment, above the Great Li Dynasty, two Taoist priests dressed in magnificent robes suddenly stopped, as if frozen in the clouds.

"Xiao Rui, what did you sense?" The fat Taoist priest with a face full of scars asked, his expression showing some shock and disbelief.

Behind him, Xiao Rui was trembling. Faced with the fat Taoist's cold gaze, his legs went weak and he immediately knelt on one knee: "Reporting to Master, it seems to be a sword intent soaring up from below!"

"Sword intent, didn't you tell your master that you've never seen this rogue cultivator use a sword?"

“Reporting to Master, we really didn’t see him… Based on my observation over the past month, this person doesn’t meditate for more than two hours a day. The rest of the time he’s either drawing talismans or setting up a fortune-telling stall!”

Xiao Rui forced himself to speak, his eyes already bloodshot.

The magistrate Xiao, who had been so powerful and influential in the Dali court that morning, now looked like a pig or a dog begging for mercy in front of Zhang Heng.

"Hmph, you idiot!!"

Zhang Hengming shouted angrily, then looked down at the north of Jianruo City again, and hesitated for a moment.

He dislikes situations where he can't control the situation at crucial moments.

Meanwhile, below, the fusion of the three phases within Li Yang's body has reached a critical moment.

Li Yang's figure began to appear and disappear on the futon, sometimes shining with thousands of rays of light like the golden body of Buddha, and sometimes transforming into a brilliant ancient sword interwoven with blue and gold. His aura became increasingly terrifying, like a pile of highly explosive powder that had been ignited.

Li Yang's idea was simple: he planned to first achieve "man and sword as one," and in this state, he would use the golden light of his primordial spirit to illuminate the magic sword, thus achieving the unity of the three elements!

What should have been a simple matter in Li Yang's mind turned out to be incredibly difficult, even triggering serious backlash.
Just as Li Yang was struggling to integrate the power of the three elements, a wisp of thunderous energy was released from his dantian, then soared into the sky, reaching tens of thousands of meters above Jianruo City in Dali. In the blink of an eye, it caused the entire sky above Jianruo City to be covered with thick clouds, like accumulated ink, and the whole world instantly became oppressively silent.

In the clouds a little below, Zhang Hengming and Xiao Rui practically popped their eyes out. Zhang Hengming couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Could this be the legendary lightning magic used by the natives of our ancestral planet?"

Although there are many sects in the Realm of Ultimate Truth, those who specialize in thunder magic are extremely rare. Almost none of the nine great sects are famous for their thunder magic.

Currently, the strongest practitioners of thunder magic in the entire Realm of Ultimate Truth are not those within the Realm of Ultimate Truth, but rather the natives of the Ancestral Star.

"Legend has it that thousands of years ago, the Xuanhuang Palace once tried to capture a native of the ancestral star named Sa Shoujian. This guy surnamed Sa used a technique called 'Divine Firmament Thunder Technique' that was never seen before in the entire Extreme True Realm. He once seriously injured several Immortal Lords of the Xuanhuang Palace and fled to the Dead Zone. He only started to resurface a few years ago!"

This battle also elevated the previously unknown Thunder Technique in the Realm of Ultimate Truth to a level of deadly prowess comparable to swordsmanship!
Zhang Hengming hid in the clouds, looking down at Jianruo City with some suspicion and uncertainty, sensing the turbulent energy of heaven and earth in the surrounding clouds, his thoughts racing.

With his strength, it wouldn't be difficult for him to create such a phenomenon, but the terrifying pure energy of the surrounding phenomena made Zhang Hengming hesitant to act rashly for the time being.

"This pure and magnificent thunder magic is almost identical to the [Divine Firmament Thunder Magic] of yesteryear. This cultivator must have cultivated pure thunder magic from the ancestral star!"

"And that aura that just flashed by was very much like the most authentic sword immortal's killing technique, pure, bright, and unyielding, capable of harnessing the opportunities of creation and wielding the power of authority!"

In his memory, only a handful of sects, such as the Xuanhuang Palace, the Sword Tomb, and the Yaochi Immortal Fortress, possessed this kind of pure sword immortal technique!
Zhang Hengming spoke incredibly fast, his eyes darting around in his narrowed slits. The next moment, realizing something, he exclaimed in surprise, "I know who they are!!"

"This cultivator must be from one of the nine great sects! This sword technique was taught by the sect! And this lightning technique was obtained by a master from the ancestral star captured by a master within the sect!"

"This guy's set a trap, luring me into it! There's definitely a more powerful master waiting for us behind the scenes!!"

Realizing this, without calling out to Xiao Rui, Zhang Hengming immediately lit a fire and fled into the distance, fearing that a giant finger would fall from the sky and crush him to death at any moment!
As a rogue cultivator who has survived for thousands of years and cultivated to the level of Earth Immortal, Zhang Hengming has his own set of survival principles, which is to never offend the people of the Nine Upper Sect!

Xiao Rui's face turned pale. Although he didn't understand what was going on, he immediately followed the flames and fled in terror.

It's no wonder the two were astonished, because what Li Yang had just revealed in that fleeting glimpse was something that only the Nine Upper Sect possessed in this world.

Li Yang had no idea that the two wisps of energy he had unintentionally released would directly prevent him from a fierce battle. He only sensed that two powerful auras, one strong and one weak, suddenly appeared and disappeared in the sky.

But he had no time to care about these things. Sensing the departure of the two auras in the sky, Li Yang's mind sank completely into his physical body, comprehending the changes between his primordial spirit, physical body, and magic sword.

During this process, Li Yang was repeatedly shaken out of his state of oneness with the sword by the powerful tremors, leaving his body cracked and covered in wounds.

However, Li Yang seemed to feel no pain whatsoever; instead, he became even more excited and continued to try, using his spiritual essence to illuminate the unity of man and sword.

He had a premonition that this might be the next level of sword control!
(End of this chapter)