Chapter 1313: Sword Finger at the Primordial Spirit’s First Star!
Chapter 1313: Chapter 1313: Sword Finger at the Primordial Spirit’s First Star!
The poem reads:
Purple Qi blooms the roots of Heaven and Earth, one thought gives birth to all stars and methods.
Desiring to prove the Taoist Fruit, how to lose the Red Valley God.
Yuan Tong is truly not the Reversal Road, all Infinite are fake Saints.
In this Spirit Platform encountering the devil, should laugh for losing a true self throughout the year.
The story continues with the Ziwei Demon Monarch, who has been cultivating the dao until now, experiencing crushing defeat by an equal for the first time. At this moment, he is being pressed into the dirt by his opponent, yet this has caused him to merge with the earth’s momentum, triggering his innate Great Transformation Freedom Immortal Spirit Talent, which operates independently in Free Will, allowing the Hongling Nine Secrets to sweep through his mind, clearing all thoughts and evils, and returning to an extreme calmness.
This Hongling Nine Secrets were learned from Saint Baopu, consisting of nine-character True Words. Constantly cultivating them allows one to see the simple and embrace the pure, free from selfishness and desire. The words are: Lining, Bing, Dou, Zhe, Jie, Zhen, Lie, Qian, Xing.
Upon activating the Nine Secrets, the Ziwei Demon Monarch belatedly realizes that he has, at some unknown juncture, been entrapped by Ning Fan’s methods.
Even when facing numerous Epoch Saints, he never lost his composure in such a way; even amidst the clashes between the Immortal Ancestor Kingdom, Immortal Whale, and Enlightenment Realm, he found a way to navigate the chaos. He couldn’t possibly be weak, yet now being heavily trampled by an Immortal King, certainly for a reason.
The opponent’s power isn’t false, but the real issue lies in the complete unraveling and suppression of his Ziwei Daoism.
The opponent understands his dao methods thoroughly, and even possesses ways to counter them, which is why his dao methods were suppressed.
Furthermore, at some unknown point, the opponent used the Five Aggregates Treasure Light and the inconceivable to secretly attack him, resulting in his unstable mental state.
It was due to the interference of the Five Aggregates Treasure Light, affecting the five aggregates, coupled with the influence of the inconceivable on memories, that lead him to only perceive this now.
If not for the self-operating Immortal Spirit Talent and the suppression of the Five Aggregates Treasure Light and the inconceivable by the Nine Secret True Words, he might not have been aware of this until the very end.
"So that’s how it is. On your person, there isn’t only the karma of Northern Dipper, Yue Kun, and Hongjun, but also the karma of Chiwei... The Dou Shu and Thunder Skill that you just used, are both taught by Chiwei... The one who sabotaged my plans in the Enlightenment Realm must also have been you..."
Boom!
Recognizing the exposure of the Chiwei Daoism, Ning Fan left nothing in reserve, instantly switching the Merit Umbrella in his hand to the Chiwei Spear, intending to pin the Ziwei Demon Monarch to the ground with one strike.
However, the Ziwei Demon Monarch’s body responded by directly phasing through the strike in Free Will, transitioning from birth to extinction, where the extinction was of the fixed form held by myriad phenomena.
Ning Fan knew the Ziwei Demon Monarch practiced the Country Holding Invincible Skill, swiftly reversing the Chiwei Spear’s birth and death attributes, necessary to successfully lock down Ziwei on either the side of birth or death.
Yet Ziwei Demon Monarch’s Free Will also converted the birth and death equivalently, rapidly switching thousands of times, managing not to be struck by the Chiwei Spear.
Ziwei Demon Monarch: "Don’t you understand, to an Immortal Spirit with Great Transformation Freedom, the same attack cannot work twice, and that is your greatest defeat when facing me. Your Chiwei Spear can no longer hit me..."
Though currently in the Taiyi Dream, the Ziwei Demon Monarch was still able to use the Country Holding Invincible Skill, precisely because the land he protected was never a specific world, but his own dao.
He was a pure seeker, existing solely to unravel the secrets of the starry sky and to become the Lord of the Stars.
If he could stand and walk the dao, the worldly deeds of good and evil karma are for him merely fleeting clouds; even the True Self, named Chiwei, he could easily sever without hesitation!
He could kill even himself, who in the world could he not kill!
Thus, under Free Will, his body transformed into billions of starlight, instantly flying high in the sky, reversing the course and standing against the sky with white hair turning to black, wildly dancing. At that moment, countless purple meteors fell from the sky, but from Ziwei’s perspective, the stars below were reversing worldly paths, colliding with the sky, aiming to replace heaven and earth with stars!
Also at this time, the Wushan Illusion Realm born from the Taiyi Dream was forcefully reversed by him, replacing all worldly scenes with his own Great Transformation Freedom Immortal Spirit Domain!
The eight-wind pattern of Wushan was favorable to Ning Fan, so he changed the battlefield directly!
If he couldn’t take advantage of becoming a Saint to defeat his opponent, then he would drain the Life Lantern to hold his ground! Then he would put himself fully into the calculation, fully activating his Immortal Spirit! A full force battle it is!
He approached sanctification, he should be fully preserving the Life Lantern, avoiding falling into the traps of Immortal Spirit as much as possible, but now there’s no other choice!
Facing such a dangerous opponent, there is no room for considering gains and losses!
Of course, if the opponent chooses to retreat in the face of difficulty, he could possibly transform swords into silk...
Not everyone is worthy of his concession, the person before him made him feel danger, with qualifications to make him somewhat compromise.
"Beiji Yuan Magnetic Spirit Suppressing Technique! Return!"
North Pole Mountain could do nothing to Ning Fan, but risked being lost, so it was retrieved by the Ziwei Demon Monarch into One Realm, not allowing the loss. This mountain was refined into his protector of the dao, if he intended to draw it into One Realm, no one could stop it at this time, unless the opponent could shatter his One Realm.
As a result, the Seventh Dao Skill cannot be used, and the remaining six are all suppressed, unsuitable for usage now.
"Though you are merely a Big Dipper Descendant, I recognized your qualifications, you are indeed an existence of my level, with the potential to charge into the Reversal Road. And your Chiwei Daoism is indeed superior to my practiced Chiwei Technique, further calculated against my unpreparedness, thoroughly suppressing my Ziwei Dao. In this matter you indeed have the upper hand, but if I utilize others’ dao methods, how will you respond?"
"You desire to steal my Primordial Spirit, then know as a holder of Primordial Spirit, I can use far more means than those I’ve cultivated. If you retreat now, I can let bygones be bygones..."
Boom!
A reply to the Ziwei Demon Lord comes in the form of another Crimson Wei Spear, directly piercing through the billion starlight of the Immortal Spirit Domain, striking the Ziwei Demon Lord.
Yet, it is countered by the Ziwei Demon Lord with his one-handed hand seal from the Unbeatable National Defender and fully open Immortal Spirits, blocking the attack.
"Negotiations have failed, then there’s nothing more to say..." Ziwei’s gaze shifted from extreme calm to extreme murder intent.
The Great Transformation Freedom could indeed dodge this strike, but if he were to evade, the strike would hit his Immortal Spirit Domain, damaging his Immortal Spirit Path, ruining his strategy of harmonizing with light and dust.
This is a visible scheme, unavoidable.
Then, he shall neither dodge nor evade!
He will take the strike but will no longer use his Taoist Arts to resist! He has the Nine Secret True Words protecting his divine sense; neither the Five Aggregates Treasure Light nor the inconceivable can harm him. His mind is clear: if he were to block with the Hundred Flowers Gathering Peak and the Ziwei Astrological System, he certainly could not stop the Crimson Wei Spear, because all his cultivated Ziwei Dao is restrained by this spear, easily penetrated.
If the Great Emperor Blade is meant for hunting Reverse Saint aliases, then this Crimson Wei Spear is born to stab Ziwei...
So he used the Primordial Spirit Dao Skill of Great Transformation Freedom, mimicking another’s technique, to block this strike.
The technique used was... the Big Dipper Three Thousand Seals!
This is the method of Big Dipper Immortal Cultivator, created by the Big Dipper Immortal Emperor, naturally able to withstand the Crimson Wei Spear, which has become Against Sacred Taoist Arts!
Seeing this scene, Ning Fan frowned momentarily, but then understood the reason behind it.
Amongst the Ten Spirit Dao Skills in the world, all have supreme power. Among them, the Dao Skill named Primordial Spirit can apply all divine skills, magical treasures, and creations seen; its application is endless.
Those who possess the Primordial Spirit Dao Skill can directly mimic and use any known divine skills or magical treasures they have seen, provided they understand their basic principles and structures!
For those below their realm, tenfold power can be used; at the same realm, only a few proportions can be mimicked; and exceeding ones are uncertain, depending on the holder’s aptitude and the quantity and quality of their Primordial Spirit.
If it were the legendary Ancestor Primordial Spirit, it could evolve the divine skills obtained infinitely to the greatest extent of understanding...
Ziwei Demon Lord’s Great Transformation Freedom undoubtedly belongs to the Primordial Spirit Dao Skill.
As Ning Fan understood this instantly, he unexpectedly gained insight into the Primordial Spirit term, because someone had used a kind of Primordial Spirit Dao Skill directly before him.
He witnessed it...
Primordial Spirit...
The old monster named Han Yuanji, does he also have Primordial Spirit Dao Skill amongst his cultivated methods...
The Chaotic Ancient Master’s Dual Cultivation Technique, Stele of Sun and Moon can all take up other’s divine skills, also encompassing the mystical reasoning of Primordial Spirit Dao Skill...
Is my Founding Primordial Spirit Body also a kind of Primordial Spirit Dao Skill...
Why has she been schemed repeatedly by Saints and Rebels, is it because she’s carrying a thread of Primordial Spirit...
Soul Stealing, heh...
Wushan no longer exists; this place is now the Immortal Spirit Domain of Ziwei Demon Lord, wherein all celestial manifestations, geographical variations, and auspicious or ominous positions should be under Ziwei Demon Lord’s control; yet now there are stormy downpours, changing structures!
This makes Ziwei Demon Lord somewhat caught off guard; simply using Palatial Void or Dao Origin Void does not interfere with his Immortal Spirit Domain.
Unless the adversary possesses a Five Spirits and Ten Ancestors level domain!
Sure enough.
Under Ziwei Demon Lord’s grave gaze, Ning Fan also expanded his Divine Spirit Domain!
With the spirit, battle against the Immortal Spirit!
With the Greatest Useless Tree, battle against the Great Transformation Self-free Immortal!
The divine are great but useless; because of its uselessness, it dwells in a place with nothing, thus obtaining the Vast Wilderness!
The Guangmo Wind arose, clouds desired to rain, hence all winds arose, structures changed, amidst the whistling wind and rain, the golden Divine Spirit Domain begins to contend with the purple Immortal Spirit Domain for world dominance, temporarily a stalemate.
What a pity...
If Ning Fan still had the devil spirits, even a trace of devil spirits could turn his domain into dual spirits, directly crushing Ziwei’s domain.
He is not unable to recall the departed devil spirits; he just cannot do so because that departed thread of devil spirit is the hope to rewrite everything, hidden in the Unknown amidst Reverse Moonlight...
The vanishing devil spirits were his ultimate move to save her, not to be wasted on Zi Wei.
Only using the Divine Spirit Domain to engage the opponent is enough.
"Just with the Heavenly Divine Spirit Domain, he can usurp the position of Ancestor God, evenly matched with my Innate Great Transformation Freedom... No, that’s wrong. This person’s body also had a second spirit, but it’s missing. He, like me, has severed the devil spirit, destroyed the True Self... I have shortcomings, and he also has shortcomings. If neither he nor I had any, who knows who would be stronger or weaker..."
Ziwei Demon Monarch’s thoughts raced, but his hands did not stop. With his ten fingers forming seals, he pushed the nine-character True Words to the extreme, strengthening the various aspects of the Immortal Spirit Domain, causing it to manifest endless ancient star maps and ancient killing arrays.
Ning Fan also retaliated.
The ground beneath his feet transformed into a vast wilderness, seven thousand giant golden trees, dead and eerie, broke out from the earth, forming a formidable and ominous feng shui pattern in the wind and rain, constructing a corner of the Primordial Inversion Dust Formation...
This small corner of the array map was Ning Fan’s limit, achievable only with the use of the Divine Spirit Domain to form a prototype; more of the array map remained incomprehensible.
But behold! Zi Wei evolved infinite star maps and array maps, whereas Ning Fan only evolved a corner of a remnant formation.
Yet just this corner of a remnant formation instantly shattered Zi Wei’s endless star maps and array maps, truly strange and terrifying.
In an instant, the originally balanced five-five Divine and Immortal domain situation turned into a seven-to-three!
Zi Wei was actually at a disadvantage!
"What formation is this, so vicious that it chills my spine..."
Within this corner of the formation pattern, Ziwei Demon Monarch felt unimaginable ferocity and ominousness. More so, when his gaze touched the seven thousand golden god-trees, he had the illusion of meeting the eyes of seven thousand ancient saints, causing his eyes to smart, forcing him to retract his gaze, with his heart turning tumultuous.
Seven thousand saints, seven thousand...
Who exactly is this person, who cultivated such a terrifying Divine Spirit Domain! If one day this person’s domain is perfected, even a Reverse Saint trapped within might also meet defeat...
The collision of the domains corresponded precisely to Zi Wei’s odds of victory against Ning Fan.
He only had a thirty percent chance of victory, and only by going all out could he achieve thirty percent; if he held back at all, he would undoubtedly lose today...
"Dao Star Return to Position!"
Ziwei Demon Monarch’s eyes flickered with starlight, summoning his Daoist Skill Stars, and in this world of starry Immortal Spirit Domain, 108 main stars appeared!
These were precisely the number of Daoist Skill Stars he possessed when he became a saint, capable of greatly boosting the Daoist Skills of the Immortal Spirit Domain!
With the blessing of the Daoist Skill Stars, the struggle between Immortal and Divine shifted from seven-to-three to six-to-four.
But as Ning Fan simultaneously summoned 43 Daoist Skill Stars, the situation once again reversed!
The arrangement of Divine and Immortal reached eight to two!
"This child’s Dao Enlightenment is above mine!"
The chance of victory in Zi Wei’s heart diminished further.
In terms of numbers, he had more Daoist Skill Stars, but it was not just about quantity; quality mattered too.
Each Daoist Skill Star corresponds to a great dao, and once a great dao is obtained, there is a chance to tread the Holy Road.
Daoist Skill Stars can be comprehended by oneself, given as gifts, or seized.
But only self-comprehended Daoist Skill Stars have the opportunity to help one cultivate a Taoist Lineage; such Daoist Skill Stars are also called [True Stars of Dao] by the Three World Masters. If one is fortunate enough to comprehend a true star, there will be a high likelihood of becoming a Taoist Lineage Saint in their lifetime!
This is the first significance of the Daoist Skill Stars; the number of true stars symbolizes a person’s current potential to cultivate multiple Taoist Lineages!
Therefore, the enlightenment of a Daoist True Star often aligns with the phenomena of a constellation, corresponding to its Taoist Lineage potential.
The second significance is a direct reflection of a person’s level of Dao Enlightenment.
So, the cultivation of severing the corpse also often brings down stellar phenomena, but doesn’t correspond to true stars or Taoist Lineage, they can’t be generalized.
If one’s own Dao Enlightenment is 1, being bestowed a star increases it by +1, but self-enlightening a true star increases it by +10.
When Zi Wei became a saint, he had 108 Daoist Skill Stars, but only 12 were true stars, the rest were fake stars obtained through various means.
In terms of numbers, his 108 Daoist Skill Stars were equivalent to only 21.6.
Ning Fan, however, was 43! Almost double his!
Especially because, in the cultivation of Primordial Spirit, what’s most valued is the quality of Dao Enlightenment; just comparing the qualifications for cultivating Primordial Spirit, Zi Wei, who possessed the Rebel qualification, was far inferior to Ning Fan!
Thus, once the Daoist Skill Stars were utilized, Ziwei’s disadvantage only grew larger, and this struggle over the Primordial Spirit increasingly leaned towards defeat.
The prospect of victory dimmed further, but Zi Wei, who had come all this way, had encountered even more perilous situations: he was once hunted by the Desolate Saint, but he survived; he was schemed against by many rebels, yet he dissolved the death trap with Harmonizing with Light and Dust. So, he naturally understood the closer to life and death, the more one must dare to fight with life to carve out a sliver of hope!
So he instead advanced, once again utilizing the Big Dipper Three Thousand Seals, stepping onto the Immortal Spirit Domain, going straight for Ning Fan.
Ning Fan also stopped using the Chiwei Dao and instead used the Big Dipper Three Thousand Seals.
This was the Reverse Saint Dao Skill of the Big Dipper Immortal Emperor, and ordinary Big Dipper Immortal Cultivators couldn’t learn it all; even someone as powerful as the First-Generation Slaughter Emperor of the Slaughter Hall only learned seven seals.
However, Zi Wei used twenty-two seals!
He had once slain a Sixth Epoch Primordial Saint of the Big Dipper Immortal Domain, and these twenty-two seals were obtained by killing and borrowing their path.
If it were just from observation, given the trivial Primordial Spirit he possessed, it would barely be enough to utilize the Reverse Saint Dao Skill, so he achieved it through murder and theft of the path.
The twenty-two seals he used now were of the same power as that Sixth Epoch Primordial Saint!
But Ning Fan responded with forty-three seals, and once executed, it was akin to a strike from a Twelve Epoch Saint!
A millennium of bloody battles, a millennium of Dao Enlightenment! Ning Fan studied the Big Dipper Taoist Skill meticulously and had long understood why the Big Dipper hand seals numbered three thousand.
It corresponded distinctly with the three thousand great daos of the end of Dharma era!
The number of hand seals actually represented the number of Daoist True Stars!
The First Slaughter Emperor hand seals he learned were only seven, but he used those seven seals, integrating with his Daoist Skill Stars, to self-create forty-three hand seals!
What he was using now was not the original hand seals, but improved ones!
The reason it’s not the original is that the forty-three seals he comprehended, though still based on the principles of the Big Dipper Three Thousand Seals, were without a single seal overlapping with those three thousand seals.
Because the number of great daos is not three thousand but ten thousand!
The Big Dipper’s three thousand seals were all Birth Seals.
What Ning Fan used was a Destruction Seal, realized after witnessing a strike from seven thousand saints, an insight into the nonexistent path!
Ziwei Demon Monarch’s free will could counterattack against all attacks within the three thousand great daos and produce autonomous defense upon second receiving attacks.
But if Ning Fan used something outside of his database, then even Great Transformation Freedom couldn’t neutralize his attack!
So, forty-three seals shattered twenty-two seals.
Ziwei Demon Monarch’s defense of Great Transformation Freedom was broken; he coughed blood and was sent flying!
Ning Fan continued the offense, launching another forty-three seals, one after another, each seal following the next, like gods subduing immortals, like demons devouring immortals, like monstrous reversals against immortals, breaking all of Ziwei Demon Monarch’s Immortal Bones!
The golden Divine Spirit Domain increasingly shattered the purple Immortal Spirit Domain!
But it’s not enough, still not enough!
If Ziwei’s One Realm isn’t destroyed, then he cannot return!
Thus, Reverse Luck Beidou was activated, and the originally fleeing Ziwei Demon Monarch, who intended to space shift with ten billion starlights, was instantly reversed by Ning Fan, and absorbed back.
This is the true essence of the Star Absorption Technique!
"No! He actually plans to break my One Realm!"
Ziwei Demon Monarch was greatly shocked and consequently paid the price of exhausting his Primordial Spirit, using Great Transformation Freedom Technique to forcibly transform One Qi Three Pure.
Suddenly, three indistinct figures of saints appeared before Ning Fan, blocking all his attacks on various methods, allowing Ziwei to finally catch his breath slightly.
"I am the Qingdu Great Mage!" Thus spoke the Fifteenth Epoch Primordial Saint.
"I am the Jun Tian Great Mage!" Thus spoke the Nineteenth Epoch Primordial Saint.
"I am the Guangle Great Mage!" Thus spoke the Twenty-second Epoch Primordial Saint.
"This is the Taiyi Soul Stealing Dream, does the Daoist really intend to break someone’s One Realm, don’t you think that’s a bit much! In the Daoist’s eyes, is there no Heavenly Decrees left!"
As the three spoke of excess, they surrounded and attacked Ning Fan, not finding it inappropriate for three Primordial Saints to gang up on one Immortal King...