Narration System for the Journey of Martial Arts

"No, we can't let the immortal scripture fall into their hands. I refuse to believe that this formation has no flaws!"

As they spoke, the group exchanged glances and unleashed their divine weapons to attack the great formation.

With a 'hum', the great formation rippled, and streams of pure energy transformed into sword light that instantly counterattacked, killing several people in a flash. The remaining people dared not stay in place and transformed into rainbow light to scatter and flee.

The mountain peak where they had landed had turned into a pile of fine sand after everyone fled, and the vast and boundless mountain had disappeared.

The remaining people looked at each other in bewilderment. After a moment of hesitation, more than ten streaks of light flashed and disappeared into the distance. Those who were still unwilling to give up simply lingered in the distance.

Chapter 602 The Divine Power Vajra Bracelet

Ye Fan and his companions rushed into the great formation, but the expected attack did not come. They breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the master of this place had discovered that they had entered the formation.

"Junior Ye Fan requests an audience with Senior. Please allow us to pay our respects," Ye Fan said, bowing to the great formation.

The next second, a purple light emanated from the great formation, and the group's eyes lit up. They felt themselves being instantly teleported through the void. When they opened their eyes again, they had already left the great formation and arrived in front of a series of palaces.

Before them, purple energy swirled around the ancient palace, with long purple dragons hanging upside down from the palace gates. Dragon energy churned on the ground, and yellow dragon energy transformed into dragon shapes, playfully entwining around the immortal peaks and ancient trees.

"Hachigami Palace!"

The group saw that the ancient hall possessed an aura that suppressed heaven and earth, and an inexplicable Dao essence flowed within it. Unfortunately, the more eager they were, the less they could grasp that Dao essence.

In a daze, they seemed to hear the sound of scriptures in their ears. The scriptures seemed to expound the principles of the Great Way and lead people to a state of enlightenment. However, when they really listened carefully, they could not hear anything clearly. Instead, it made them feel restless.

"What kind of scripture is this? How can it be so strange!" The people beside Ye Fan frowned.

“It’s the Tao Te Ching,” Ye Fan said.

Feeling the scriptures that were both familiar and unfamiliar, Ye Fan felt a sense of loss that was hard to describe. They seemed important, yet they didn't seem to belong to him.

"Back on Earth, I also read the Tao Te Ching. It was just an ordinary text. Why does it seem so extraordinary now? Could it be related to Lao Tzu?" Ye Fan wondered.

Just as Ye Fan was feeling lost and was about to take out the Bodhi Seed to study it, the gate in front of the palace opened silently, and the sound of the scriptures stopped abruptly.

Silently, before the ancient hall, Su Yuchen stood tall and straight, his black and white Taoist robe shimmering with light, his beautiful hair held back only by a single glass and jade hairpin, making him stand out from the crowd.

When their eyes met, the group felt that Su Yuchen's eyes were like stars, deep and unfathomable, yet penetrating to the core of people's hearts.

Apart from Ye Fan, the others felt a chill run down their spines. There was no doubt that Yin Tiande, who had originally occupied this place, had died silently, and this person had become the new master of this place.

"Greetings, senior. Congratulations on acquiring your new cave dwelling," Ye Fan said.

Su Yuchen shook his head and said, "This place already has an owner. I am only staying here temporarily. Occupying this place would have great consequences, so I dare not be greedy."

Ye Fan was taken aback upon hearing this, then asked urgently, "Senior, are you referring to me? Is he still alive? What is your connection to Earth? Are you also an Earthling?"

Su Yuchen smiled and said, "I'm not from this world. As for Laozi, of course he's still alive. Alright, what do you guys want?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Fan asked, "Senior, do you know how to return to Earth? Is there any ancient star road leading to Earth from here?"

After a moment, seeing that Su Yuchen did not answer, Ye Fan smiled bitterly and said, "We were being chased and had no choice but to come in to hide. Please forgive us, senior."

He took out the page of the ancient scripture and said, "This is a page of the ancient scripture of the gods that I obtained by chance. I would like to offer it to you, senior. Please allow us to take refuge here temporarily."

Behind him, Li Tian glanced around and muttered to himself, feeling that Ye Fan and this senior didn't seem as close as he claimed!

Su Yuchen glanced at the group and said:

"This place belongs to Laozi. It's fate that you all were able to enter, and I won't drive you away without reason. As for the scriptures, they're of no use to me; you can keep them yourself."

"I will stay here for a while longer, so please do as you please."

With a flicker of his figure, Su Yuchen disappeared, leaving the group looking at each other in bewilderment.

After a long while, Li Tian looked at the wide-open gate of the ancient palace, swallowed hard, and said, "Since that senior said we are free to do as we please, then we should not be prohibited from exploring, right?"

The woman standing nearby was somewhat tempted by what she heard, but she was unsure of what to do. The group looked at each other, and then all of them looked at Ye Fan.

Ye Fan thought for a moment, then said in a nonchalant tone, "Since that senior said this place is destined for us, then let's explore it. Whatever we can obtain must be a result of our destiny."

After saying that, the group couldn't wait to walk into the main hall. As soon as they entered, they were drawn to the scriptures on the stone walls on both sides.

………………

Inside the stone chamber deep within the Eight Views Palace, Su Yuchen summoned the Vajra Bracelet and then extended his divine sense into it. After a moment, he waved his right hand, and a strand of true essence transformed into a thread, displaying an array pattern in mid-air.

You have grasped the crafting method of the Vajra Bracelet in this world.

You have comprehended the array patterns of the Eight Views Palace in this realm.

[You have comprehended the methods of cultivation of the Supreme Elixir Scripture and the Supreme Virtue Scripture of this world.]

You have gained insights into the principles of formations and a new understanding of alchemy.

[You have gained insight into the Supreme Dao Ancestor's fusion of Yin and Yang, and the Nine Revolutions to Form the Elixir]

[You comprehend the innate Taiji diagram of supernatural powers]

In the blink of an eye, Su Yuchen combined what he had learned in this world and gained a new understanding of the Supreme Alchemy Dao. When he looked at the Vajra Bracelet again, Su Yuchen inexplicably realized the Supreme Daoist's ideas on forming pills from the void.

"Rather than calling this a Vajra Bracelet, it's more accurate to describe it as a great elixir, representing the Supreme Dao Ancestor's understanding of the Dao of Space."

"The reason why the Vajra Bracelet has the ability to collect divine weapons is because it contains the Dao Ancestor's understanding of space. The true Vajra Bracelet definitely contains a vast space inside, which is why it has the power to crush the heavens and the earth."

In an instant, a variety of insights flooded his mind, and various thoughts about the Dao of Time and Space and the Nine Revolutions Refining of Divine Weapons arose one after another. Su Yuchen fell into a state of enlightenment.

As Su Yuchen's fingertips slid, the array patterns that made up the Vajra Bracelet began to move according to his will, with new array patterns being added and old array patterns being removed.

As the fingertips changed, countless true essence transformed into array patterns containing many principles of time and space, yin and yang, five elements, and destiny. They were densely connected and intertwined to form a ring, as if a space was confined within it.

As the array patterns intertwined and formed a mysterious ring, it was none other than the divine power 'Vajra Bracelet'.

Within the Qi weapon ring, the five elements form their own space, with Yin and Yang suppressing and fate pulling cause and effect. A strike will inevitably hit, and there is no way to avoid it. It can suppress and gather the divine weapon.

You have mastered the divine power of the Vajra Bracelet.

Looking at the Vajra Bracelet, a divine power condensed from his own various Dao principles, floating beside it, Su Yuchen's mind stirred. The Yin-Yang divine light behind him reversed its original state, transforming into a purple-gold divine dragon and a silver ice phoenix.

A dragon's roar and a phoenix's cry echoed throughout the stone chamber. The divine dragon and ice phoenix opened their mouths and spat out a bit of purple-gold flame and silver ice flame, which landed on the Vajra Bracelet and gradually melted it into a ball of white jade liquid.

The white jade liquid churned continuously, as if a white fragment was embedded inside, eventually melting into liquid together.

Su Yuchen pointed his finger, and the Vajra Bracelet, condensed with his supernatural powers, fell into the silvery-white jade liquid. The jade liquid transformed into wisps and strands, spreading along the Vajra Bracelet and transforming into a brand new Vajra Bracelet.

Behind Su Yuchen, the Yin-Yang divine light rotated and transformed into innate divine light. From his mouth and nose spewed out innate Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light, one creating and the other destroying, re-refining the new Vajra Bracelet.

"The Supreme Dao of Alchemy is indeed inexhaustible. It can be used here to refine a divine weapon through nine cycles of refinement, creating a Vajra Bracelet. The Supreme Dao Ancestor has clearly explained his own Dao."

As the five-colored divine light descended, the Vajra Bracelet gradually became ethereal, and then was recreated as the black and white divine light flowed; as time passed, the Vajra Bracelet gradually completed the first transformation of the Golden Elixir, transforming from ethereal to real.

Chapter 603 Unrelated to the Dao

Looking at the Vajra Bracelet being refined before him, Su Yuchen's mind stirred, and a small bronze bell materialized from the void, floating in the divine light.

As the five-colored divine light flowed, the weapon instantly vanished, only to be reshaped again in the blink of an eye by Su Yuchen.

"The Dao Heart Bright Sword is based on my own essence, energy and spirit. Later, it was integrated into the sword world, which is how it completed the Nine Revolutions and Nine Refinements."

"It is impossible for the Vajra Bracelet and the Soul-Sweeping Bell to transform from supernatural powers into divine weapons without the support of a treasure of heaven and earth."

"The Vajra Bracelet is alright, it's a masterpiece that represents the pinnacle of the Void Dao; but the Soul-Sweeping Bell is an embodiment of the Primordial Spirit Dao. I can't refine all races with it, but the supreme beings in those forbidden zones are the best materials."

"It is fitting that these people are destined for this calamity, and it is fitting that this world is connected to me!"

As Su Yuchen's primordial spirit stirred, the innate Yin-Yang divine light and the Five Elements divine light burst forth invisibly, cutting the space between the Taiqing Sacred Realm and the Ziwei Star Domain, and cutting the Taiqing Sacred Realm from the Eight Views Palace.

With a thought, the Vajra Bracelet transformed into an infinitely large and infinitely small ring, firmly encasing the Taiqing Sacred Realm within it. As the Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light circulated, everything transformed into nourishment for the Vajra Bracelet, and under the refinement of the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Light, it became part of the Vajra Bracelet.

Ye Fan and his companions, who were exploring the Eight Views Palace, were completely unaware of all this; it was all unrelated to them.

………………

Inside the Eight Views Palace, Ye Fan and the others explored carefully, but apart from the scriptures on the walls at the beginning, it was empty and they found nothing of value.

"Could it be that that senior has looted everything?" Li Tian muttered to himself.

“I think we shouldn’t bother! That kid Yin Tiande has probably already ransacked this place, and with that senior ahead of us, we probably won’t find anything,” another man said.

The woman who had just opened a stone chamber peered inside, then shook her head and said dejectedly, "There's nothing there."

Upon hearing this, Ye Fan thought for a moment and said, "Why don't we go directly to the senior? We can forget about everything else, but if we can borrow Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching cultivation method, then this trip will not have been in vain."

Another man shook his head and said, "According to what you said earlier, Brother Ye, that senior called Laozi has such a high level of cultivation. Even if his cultivation method is not an Emperor Scripture, it is still a Quasi-Emperor Scripture. Why would he lend it to outsiders to see?"

The woman looked around and said, "This palace doesn't look very big, but it contains countless spaces. Where are we going to find that senior?"

Ye Fan stepped on the Xingzi Secret, his eyes gleaming as he looked at the hidden array patterns on the ground and said, "That senior must be in a stone chamber that can control the array patterns of the entire great array. I may be able to find it, but I may not be able to gain anything."

The other three exchanged a glance.

The man named Li Tian said, "If there really is a Quasi-Emperor scripture, I can exchange it for the scriptures of the Human Desire Sect. Anyway, the Human Desire Sect is on the verge of collapse, and the founder will not blame us."

"I can add a secret technique for the Moon Palace."

“I also have secret scriptures.”

"I also know the whereabouts of a divine weapon."

"I also know a secret of the Golden Crow Clan."

Seeing that the group was raising their stakes, Ye Fan waved his hand and said, "Then let's go find that senior first. As for whether he'll agree or not, I don't know. Are you sure you still want to try?"

Upon hearing this, the others understood his meaning: he feared that they might end up throwing good money after bad, losing everything and not only failing to obtain the Quasi-Emperor's Scripture but also potentially losing their own secrets.

The three men exchanged glances and nodded vigorously at each other. Li Tian said directly, "Let's do it!"

Seeing that they had made their decision, Ye Fan nodded and immediately led the three of them along the array patterns toward the central stone chamber.

………………

Inside the stone chamber where Su Yuchen was refining the Vajra Bracelet.

As soon as Ye Fan and his companions entered, they saw the Vajra Bracelet floating in mid-air. They were completely stunned by what they saw at the entrance of the stone chamber.

A transparent ring floated in mid-air, and at its center was a miniature 'Taiqing Sacred Realm'. Streams of five-colored and black-and-white divine light enveloped the ring, and the miniature 'Taiqing Sacred Realm' in the center continuously collapsed and was absorbed by the ring, turning into streams of pure energy that flowed through the runes and array patterns inside the ring.

"This is at……"

"Refine a divine weapon?"

"Is it the Taiqing Sacred Realm? They've refined a small world into it?"

"And what about us? We're still in the Taiqing Sacred Realm, aren't we?"

"Diamond Bracelet!"

Listening to the four of them talking amongst themselves, Su Yuchen glanced at them and asked, "Why aren't you studying the scriptures up ahead? What are you doing here?"

Upon hearing this, Li Tian chuckled and said, "Reporting to Senior, that 'The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao' is unclear. It doesn't mention any cultivation methods at all, so it doesn't seem like the main text of the scriptures."

Ye Fan nodded and said:

"I have read the Tao Te Ching many times. Senior, do you know why the Tao Te Ching only contains quotations and not the key methods of cultivation?"

"If you, senior, have any cultivation methods from the Tao Te Ching, would you allow us to see them? We are willing to exchange other scriptures of the same level for them."

Su Yuchen shook his head, smiled, and said:

"The Tao Te Ching is the general outline of the Tao as expounded by the Taoist patriarch. It is the essence of the Tao. Your cultivation is insufficient, so you do not know its value."

"It's one thing if the three of them can't see through your strength, Ye Fan, you've cultivated the strongest of many imperial scriptures and pieced together your current level, but the Tao Te Ching is the most beneficial to you."

"But since you've already missed it, it means you're not destined for the Tao Te Ching, so why force yourself to pursue supernatural powers like the One Qi Transforms into the Three Pure Ones?"

As he spoke, Su Yuchen flicked his sleeve, and the stone scripture on the stone platform flew straight toward Ye Fan.

Ye Fan was slightly taken aback. He had thought that after Su Yuchen had said so much, they would have no chance left. Unexpectedly, what he wanted had fallen into his hands again. He immediately reached out and caught the stone scripture.

Li Tian and the other two were also slightly taken aback, then excitedly approached Ye Fan and looked at the stone scripture in Ye Fan's hand.

Ye Fan cupped his hands in greeting to Su Yuchen, and then, under the eager gazes of the three, he turned to flip through the stone scripture. Unexpectedly, with a wave of his right hand, he passed directly through the stone scripture, and the scripture in his hands seemed to be nothing more than a phantom!

The group paused for a moment, then Li Tian said, "I'll do it!"

As he spoke, he reached out to grab Ye Fan's hand, but unexpectedly, his hands passed right through the stone scripture and grasped nothing.

Seeing this, the other two, not believing in such superstitions, also reached out to grab it, but it was like the moon in the water or a flower in a mirror; they couldn't touch the stone scripture at all.

"Senior, what is the reasoning behind this?" Ye Fan asked, looking at the scripture in his hand.

Su Yuchen shook his head, his eyes filled with pity, and said:

“You people only value methods and techniques in your cultivation, but never the Way.”