Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 826: Chapter 515: Preaching_2

“I… have understood!?”

A murmur of sudden realization, he then rose and went outside, only to see the sky rumbling with thunder as many cultivators returned from their tribulations, disregarding their disheveled appearances to rush back inside to listen to the lecture.

“Fellow Daoist!”

Seeing this, he immediately stopped someone: “What year and month is it?”

“How would I know?”

The person he stopped shook his head and then slipped inside, showing no desire to entangle further.

…

“One does not know the year inside the observation!”

Seeing this, he chuckled and strode outside, drawing long, ominous clouds with him.

…

“Thirty years have passed, spring and autumn have gone!”

Inside Wuzhuang Temple, Xu Yang chuckled lightly, stopping his lecturing and looking toward the seated cultivators: “Has everyone gained something?”

“Great Immortal’s wonderful teachings, we have benefited endlessly!”

The cultivators rose, bowing deeply in gratitude, their feelings of appreciation indescribable.

This lecture, lasting over thirty years, penetrated deep into the Daoist teachings, breaking many cultivators through their limits, from Deity Transformation to Returning to Void, from Returning to Void to Integration, and among the exceptional ones, even breaking the Heavenly Pass, solidifying immortal power, and entering the Mahayana realm.

As for Pill Origin Gathering, although more than forty years had passed, it all felt like just yesterday, without a hint of feeling the passage of time.

The cultivators, as if awakening from a dream, saw Xu Yang chuckling again, turning towards the cultivators of the Tribulation Realm: “I have newly acquired a method called Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture, it is a transmission of the Taiqing teachings, the Way of Yin Yang Creation. Would you all like to study this with me?”

“Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture?”

“Taiqing teachings?”

“The Way of Yin Yang Creation?”

The immortals’ eyes sharpened, all showing curiosity.

Exploring the Triple Vehicle teachings, refining the essence of myriad methods, and listening to the Dao for over forty years, though they did not benefit endlessly like the low-order cultivators, they still gained a lot.

One must admit, the Venerable Wandao is indeed skilled in creating and studying the ways of Heaven and Earth. The power of the True Immortal is not only from the Heavenly Mechanics Methods and Nine Rites Xuanyuan, but also from his own achievements in the great Dao, equally not to be overlooked.

But now it’s still not over, and he wants to talk about what is the Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture?

What is this Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture?

In the Earth Immortal Realm, does this method exist?

Or the Taiqing teachings, why have I never heard of them?

In the hearts of the immortals, filled with wonder but unable to rebut, they could only go along with it: “If fellow Daoist is willing to share the teachings, how can we not wish to?”

“Ha!”

Xu Yang laughed, not saying much more, and began to expound directly.

“The Dao emerges from formlessness, nameless, soundless, colorless, tasteless, and bland, taking nothingness as its essence and nature as its birth, based on the subtle and profound qi of the Preheaven, achieving the prowess of Wuji, with no outward or inward, neither above nor below, without before or after, quiet as one, born before Heaven and Earth, its profound subtlety far-reaching and unfathomable, cannot be named, hence inscribed as Dao, when unified it becomes Yuan Qi, when dispersed it is Heaven and Earth, a grand gathering every 360 billion years, numbers end in three, five, seven, nine, and when Heaven and Earth’s life ends…”

As the Dao was expounded, it matched the mystery of the great mysteries, immediately causing flowers to fall like rain, the Earth gushing golden lotuses, and many strange phenomena appeared at the Pill Origin Gathering.

The immortals were stunned, then snapped awake and hurriedly turned their gaze, only to see the Taoist Monarch sitting high above, slowly waving his tail feather and emitting pearls and jades, the sound shaking the thunder and moving the Ninth Heaven, every word a true saying, each sentence a profound principle, how could it be simply marvelous?

Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture, Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture, a direct transmission of the essential skills of Taiqing, the fundamental cultivation technique of E’mei, a great Dao method that enters the Heavenly Immortal.

In the Earth Immortal Realm, although there are remnants from Ancient Times, none lack the Heaven Reaching methods, but more or less they are all incomplete.

Like the Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture, with a complete lineage, directly entering the Heavenly Immortal method, not to say there are none, but absolutely rare, hidden within the gates of major Immortal Gods, a secret not passed down by the Dao Lineage.

But now…

A group of Calamity Immortals, faces filled with astonishment, then snapped back to reality, sat properly, and listened intently, even the Great Mercy Bodhisattva, this eight calamities Buddhist honor, was also solemn and dared not be distracted.

She, a Bodhisattva of Buddhism, cultivating through the way of compassion and creation, this Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture, founded on the principle of Yin Yang creation, was not simple as merely using stones from other hills to polish jade for her, it could even fundamentally transform, converting Buddhism to Daoism!

Although she had no such intention, she would never reject such a Heavenly Immortal’s Wonderful Skill.

If even the Great Buddha of the Eight Calamities felt this way, there was no need to mention others, whose hearts of disdain had long since disappeared.

Xu Yang saw this, but he did not expose anything, merely discussed the Taoist True Scriptures.

The Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture, this Heavenly Immortal Taoist method, had been in his possession for over a thousand years.

Over these thousand years, Xu Yang’s several avatars, Divine Martial Xu Qingyang, Daoist Li Liuxian, Earth Immortal Zhen Yuanzi, and his current incarnation, Qianjin of the Blue Star World, had all been studying this method to enhance themselves.

However, it must be said that this Heavenly Immortal Method was excessively profound; he was not a natural prodigy like Ren Baimei. After just a thousand years, the results were limited. It only helped him to raise his Elixir Skills to the eighth order and bring his Talisman and Formation skills close to a breakthrough; the Long-Cherished Desire of One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, the Two Instruments Microcosm Formation, and the Innate One Qi Great Purity Talisman remained elusive.

In fact, even for a prodigy like Ren Baimei, who was renowned through the ages and possessed unparalleled talent, cultivating the Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture and the Tusita Divine Edict took a tremendous effort, decades of hard work, and a vast amount of dedication, only then achieving Instrument-Array Dual Perfection, Unrivaled Sword Dao, Two Instruments Microcosm, and One Qi Great Purity.

Xu Yang did not possess Ren Baimei’s innate talent or his time. The conflict that reached Heaven in the Earth Immortal Realm and the calamity of the Heavenly Demons in the Blue Star World pressed urgently upon him, forcing him to enhance his strength swiftly.

Lacking talent and time, what was to be done?

The only choice was to cheat!

After a thousand years of hard work, Xu Yang integrated what he gained from the Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture and the Tusita Divine Edict into his Taoist Scriptures, transforming them into his own Taoist teachings, and revealed them during the Pill Origin Gathering, passing them on to all cultivators and the Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods.

In this way, by employing the effects of Taoist skills and Master of Taoist Scriptures, along with a series of teacher skills characteristics, he could make these Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods his “Cultivation Accessories,” helping him cultivate the Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture and the Tusita Divine Edict.

At this point, Xu Yang couldn’t help but once again admire the profound mysteries of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture and the Tusita Divine Edict.

Such a Great Dao’s True Law, formless and boundless, adaptable to any style, merged seamlessly with his “Taoist Scriptures.” It didn’t feel like relearning a new Cultivation Technique; rather, it was more like enhancing the quality rank of an existing Cultivation Technique, turning decay into something miraculous.

The reason was that the Dao varies, truths are seen by all beings, it depends merely on comprehension.

With the Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture, Xu Yang could upgrade his “Taoist Scriptures” to “Nine Heavens Dao Mysterious True Scripture.”

By the same logic, the Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture cultivated by Ren Baimei could also be known by other names such as the Nine Heavens Sword Scripture or the Taiqing Taoist Scripture.

This is the profound mystery of this Great Purity Wonderful Method and the Heavenly Immortal inheritance.

In the eyes of ten thousand cultivators, there are ten thousand versions of Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture, each version true, all encompassing the Great Dao, dependent only on whether one has the wisdom to comprehend and cultivate it.

While Xu Yang’s aptitude and insight were somewhat lacking, by transforming the “Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture” into “Nine Heavens Dao Mysterious True Scripture,” the characteristics of the Master of Taoist Scriptures could be utilized, using the power of all beings to aid his own cultivation.

Therefore, regarding this Heavenly Immortal Method, Xu Yang was not stingy at all, openly teaching it at the Pill Origin Gathering.

In this way, with the Taoist Scriptures hanging in the air, all cultivators were intoxicated.

From the Calamity Realm to the Mahayana, all witnessed the profound truths of the Great Dao within the Wonderful Method.

Unfortunately, for those below the Mahayana, it was opaque and difficult to grasp. Seeing the Taoist speaking, with heavenly flowers in turmoil and earth gushing golden lotuses, while all the True Immortals were immersed in it, they themselves were completely baffled, which made them terribly anxious.

However, there were a few blessed individuals with extremely high innate talent and insight who grasped some of the profound mysteries and were momentarily overjoyed.

Years are unknown when the Taoist Method is preached, in the blink of an eye, several decades have passed.

Sixty years later, at Wuzhuang Temple.

“Wonderful!!!”

A voice cheerfully arose, with Immortal Qi swirling around, immediately soaring into the skies and rushing through the high heavens.

It was…

“True Person Ziyang?”

“This…!”

The low-order cultivators, who had been struggling to grasp the profound mysteries and were merely sitting idly in the temple, watching True Person Ziyang ascend into the Ninth Heaven, could not help but cry out in amazement.

True Person Ziyang, a genuine practitioner from South Observance, had been renowned for tens of thousands of years and was among the oldest in the Mahayana of South Observance; whether it was in terms of cultivation or seniority alone, he ranked above many Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods.

However, in the path of cultivation, those who reach it first are foremost. Despite his old age and high seniority, since he was still in the Mahayana, when receiving guests earlier, he could only address the Calamity Realm Immortals and Gods as his juniors.

But now…

“Roar!”

Yang Yun clouds covered the skies, thunder roared, and within the vortex of Heavenly Tribulation, a round of purple sun shone brilliantly, seeking to prove the Immortal Fruit of Eternal Life.