Chapter 316: Twelve-character Dao Seed
Because they could find the “Flower of Meditation” and “Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone,” the Nether Flower Black Swamp was an important training and treasure-hunting place, with extremely many Divine Cult disciples coming and going on the road.
They gathered in groups of three or five, mostly traveling together.
Li Weiyi and the other two did not want to expose their whereabouts, so they put on masks.
Li Weiyi asked returning disciples if he could buy Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone fragments on credit from them.
All ended in failure.
These Rice Cult disciples were very cautious, guarding against him like a thief, either keeping far away or claiming they had found nothing.
If not for the strong enemy pursuers, Li Weiyi really wanted to use his Divine Son identity to stop them one by one and check their boundary bags.
Five hundred li of road was rugged and difficult, with many forks, and occasionally special areas that needed to be bypassed. Actually walking it meant trekking nearly a thousand li.
The black mud swamp ahead emitted a pungent stench, with soft soil and water everywhere.
The air was filled with miasma that had lingered for tens of thousands of years, severely affecting vision.
In the swamp, there grew a large number of glowing plants, and glowing fierce insects occasionally flew by; it was not completely dark.
“Nether Flower Black Swamp, as recorded in the booklet, spans a thousand li and was a major battlefield from the Ancient Bhakara Sect period. It was once extremely glorious but was beaten into this state in battle.”
“Under the mud swamp are buried countless buildings and corpses. There are many dangers and strangeness; even after a thousand years, it could not be completely cleared out.”
“Within a hundred li is considered a relatively safe area. Beyond three hundred li is a place that absolutely cannot be stepped into.”
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Li Weiyi told the two the information from the booklet: “We will search separately; if we encounter danger, notify each other with whistles. I personally drew Divine Movement Talismans, one for each.”
“Sikong Jingyuan and Yi Zhouxue might have other enemies; it won’t be long before they realize they were tricked and will eventually come here, so we must be careful.”
“Old Qi, your cultivation is a bit weaker; take this fourth rank Hundred Character Artifact invisibility cloak and wear it first.”
This invisibility cloak was given by An Xianjing.
The three dispersed and rushed into the Nether Flower Black Swamp.
Tuoba Butuo and Qi Xiao had strong strength, and having survived the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, they were not lacking in mind and survival ability, fully capable of handling things alone. So Li Weiyi was not very worried about their safety.
After rushing into the swamp, Li Weiyi restrained his aura, changed direction, and headed toward remote and edge areas. After going ashore, a mountain range over a thousand meters high appeared before him.
The mountain range was pitch black, without vegetation, with peaks standing like giant dragons lying on the east side of the Nether Flower Swamp.
Li Weiyi walked for half a day and found a cave in the mountains. Confirming no one had been there for years, he entered.
On the stone walls of the cave were carved Buddha statues, covered in dense ice silk spiderwebs.
After slaying the husband-and-wife pair of spiders entrenched in the cave, Li Weiyi occupied the spider nest and used a giant stone to seal the cave entrance tightly.
Still not reassured, he took out the Yellow Dragon Sword and dug a hundred meters underground.
Standing in the pitch-black deep underground, he could hear no sounds from the ground.
Li Weiyi finally relaxed, sat cross-legged in meditation.
“Hua!”
His brow lit up.
Spiritual light particles, like a swarm of fireflies, flew and shifted underground, illuminating the dark passage.
These glowing particles surged toward the two fish eyes of the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish.
One represented the Shaoyang Star, the other contained the power of time. Li Weiyi wanted to know what would happen if both were activated together?
Would it directly return him to Earth?
“Kaka!”
The Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish slowly rotated.
After rotating three circles, distant chanting of scriptures and Daoist chants rang in Li Weiyi’s ears, growing clearer and louder, as if another world was approaching.
The space around him became distorted.
The underground scene gradually blurred.
“Hua!”
Countless Dao scripts and Buddhist scriptures flew out from the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish, circling his body in flight, densely packed everywhere.
These Dao scripts and Buddhist scriptures were extremely profound, forming two oceans of text, suspended respectively above his head and below his body, rotating like a Tai Chi diagram.
Everything disappeared; Li Weiyi felt as if he were sitting in the void of the universe, roaming between the endless Great Dao.
Too shocking!
His heart surged, unable to calm down; he stood up and walked in the scripture ocean. With every step, the scriptures underfoot trembled.
Li Weiyi reached out to grab a Dao script, but it slipped through his fingers.
Could not keep it.
He pondered for a moment, then performed the Jade Void Breathing Technique. His mind gradually calmed, becoming clear and bright; he slowly raised both arms and struck out the first form of the Chan Sect Twelve Loose Hands, “Heaven-Overturning Palm Seal.”
Then the second form, the third…
Practicing again and again.
Twelve towering battle intent divine shadows appeared in twelve positions in the text ocean.
Their bodies were as large as mountains, sacred and majestic, with transcendent demeanor, eyes full of spirituality and wisdom, like living beings rather than mere shadows.
Li Weiyi opened his eyes and looked around, feeling minuscule as dust before them.
“Could those twelve people in the Chan Sect legend really have existed?”
“Their auras were more terrifying than even Transcendent. If they had appeared on Earth, where did they go afterward?”
“Why did legends of them remain on Earth?”
At this moment, Li Weiyi felt no prior shock or palpitation; he faced the gazes of the twelve divine shadows with a calm mentality that even he found eerie.
“Is this still my battle intent?”
Li Weiyi extended his right hand, fingers spread, reaching toward one of the crane-haired and childlike divine shadows riding an immortal beast, wanting to take it into his Divine Threshold.
“Haha!”
A vast, ear-shaking laugh rang out, shaking heaven and earth.
That divine shadow actually “came alive,” stroking his beard and laughing long: “Jade Void waves hand to break myriad arts, one Heaven-Overturning Seal suppresses mountains and rivers.”
He struck with a palm, and instantly a divine seal countless times larger than Li Weiyi’s body manifested, descending from the sky amid thunder and lightning, space collapsing.
Li Weiyi’s face changed drastically, but from somewhere came courage; he was not scared to the ground. Instead, with hands in a heaven-supporting posture, he steadily held up the divine seal.
Held up with great difficulty, but he endured.
Extremely strange!
From the divine seal flew countless Great Dao symbols, condensing into scriptures.
Li Weiyi looked at the scripture floating before his eyes; though he had never seen it before, it was as familiar as text learned from childhood, yet he could not understand it—too frustrating!
“They should be the Dao I touched when cultivating this move Heaven-Overturning Palm Seal. I must understand them to make them my own and condense them into a Dao seed.”
“Boom!”
The divine seal above Li Weiyi’s head was cleaved away by a familiar sword.
It was the Yellow Dragon Sword!
The divine shadow holding the Yellow Dragon Sword called out: “Crane shadow flies alone beyond battle clouds, Dao heart non-action laughs at the red dust. Since you cannot understand his Dao, use my Dao to forge the Dao seed.”
The Yellow Dragon Sword slashed down, myriad dragons flying together.
“Ao!”
Li Weiyi fought the myriad dragons but could not beat them, so he used Yellow Dragon Ascends to Heaven to flee toward the sky dome.
“Grand Unity divine sword severs karma, subdues demons and monsters to show mercy.”
A divine shadow above his head swung its sword downward, opening the sea as it came.
Li Weiyi had already understood that everything before him was not real. He was not fighting those twelve people but contending with their Dao.
He had cultivated the Chan Sect Twelve Loose Hands for years, possessing the ability to communicate with the twelve kinds of Dao.
“Cannot dodge; whatever move they strike, I will use the same move.”
“Must observe! This is a rare learning opportunity; their moves are wondrous beyond measure, perhaps even more powerful than Imperial Techniques.”
Li Weiyi’s mind was resolute, fearless and undaunted; he drew the Yellow Dragon Sword and used Grand Unity Opens the Sea, striking straight toward the firmament.
One sword strike cleaved apart the sword coming from above to open the sea.
A golden scripture fell into his body, suspending in his Divine Threshold.
Li Weiyi inwardly viewed his Divine Threshold and found he could actually understand this scripture; it was like the trace of a sword move, like a qi circulation path, and also a mysterious feeling he could not describe.
“My sword move was stronger than his, so I obtained the Great Dao symbol, condensed into scripture, which can directly seed Dao.”
Li Weiyi’s mind was crystal clear, knowing the reason was that he had put the most effort into the move “Grand Unity Opens the Sea,” using it many times in dire straits, comprehending it most deeply, so he could easily pluck the Dao seed.
“Since that’s the case, then come on! I will take all your Dao.”
Li Weiyi rapidly charged toward the next divine shadow, his momentum rising steadily, both mind active and battle intent boiling.
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Time passed in repeated contemplation and battles.
Li Weiyi stepped on a jade cauldron light shadow, crushing the oncoming jade cauldron opposite, harvesting the twelfth scripture.
The entire world quieted down.
In Li Weiyi’s Divine Threshold, the twelve scriptures rapidly rotated in flight, turning the liquid magic energy into a vortex. The vortex spread throughout his body, pulling all the magic energy from his seven seas of qi into the Divine Threshold.
The magic energy condensed, like continuous fine rain, turning liquid.
Gradually.
In the liquid magic energy, the twelve scriptures condensed together, wrapped into a mass, forming a crystalline radiant Dao seed that instantly illuminated the pitch-black empty Divine Threshold even farther.
Wherever the light reached, there was magic energy mist.
What surprised Li Weiyi was that this Twelve Character Dao Seed, in rotating, actually faintly showed a Tai Chi pattern and swastika light shadow, with countless Dao marks.
Divine Threshold Dao seeding succeeded; the spring eye below was covered by liquid magic energy.
“Condensing the Dao seed absorbed all seven of my seas of qi empty. Not sure if directly mobilizing the liquid magic energy in the Divine Threshold to use martial way moves and Daoist arts would make the power stronger?”
Li Weiyi withdrew his mind power, and immediately the Dao script and Buddhist scripture ocean flew back into the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish.
The surrounding distorted space recovered to normal; he reappeared in the underground cave.
The emptiness from his seven seas of qi made Li Weiyi extremely uncomfortable, more painful than starving for ten days. Thus, he separately activated the Buddha’s Sarira fish eye and entered the Blood Mud Space, going to the Tanggu Sea.
On the sea surface, he performed the Jade Void Breathing Technique, absorbing the magic energy between heaven and earth.
In breathing and exhaling, magic energy entered from outside, circulating and refining around the Divine Threshold Twelve Character Dao Seed.
Li Weiyi clearly felt that the tier of magic energy condensed in his seas of qi had risen much higher, and his physical body also underwent further subtle metamorphosis.
Zu Tian and Feng Fu both expanded again.
