Chapter 883 - 611: Quantitative Change Brings Qualitative Change!

The torrent of time flows silently, a hundred Primordial Assemblies pass in the blink of an eye.

Panwuworld, Xiangu Continent.

The Immortal Sect, suspended alone atop the Cloud Sea Peak, its mountain gate dilapidated, Spiritual Qi withered.

At the highest point of the sect, on the Immortal Platform, a long-brow Daoist stands with hands behind his back.

His long brows hang down to his waist, his Daoist robe stained with faint red blood marks, his gaze murky yet hiding ruthlessness, looking at the gray sky.

He murmurs in his heart:

"The wicked reigns supreme, the Immortal Dao is difficult!"

Behind him, atop the Immortal Platform, piles of White Bones accumulate like mountains.

The fragments of Daoist robes and broken Flying Swords are scattered among them, the scent of blood mixed with faint Dao Rhyme, pervasive and lingering.

These are all disciples of the Immortal Sect.

Boom——

At the same time, the sky suddenly cracks open a fissure, countless strange phenomena pouring down from the fissure.

Finally condensing into rows of golden ancient text, suspended in the sky, covering tens of thousands of miles.

[The Divinity Transformation Cultivator, Daoist Pudu, cultivated for two thousand eight hundred thirty-seven years, ... due to the heavenly transformation and Dao struggle, ultimately perished at the hands of ’senior brother’ Long-brow Daoist, now dead, Dao dissipated, returning Dao to heaven!]

[The Nascent Soul Cultivator, Daoist Huamei, cultivated for eight hundred thirty-three years... due to the heavenly transformation and Dao struggle, ultimately perished at the hands of ’senior uncle’ Long-brow Daoist, now dead, Dao dissipated, returning Dao to heaven!]

[The Nascent Soul Cultivator, Daoist Nandeng, cultivated for six hundred seventeen years... due to the heavenly transformation and Dao struggle, ultimately perished at the hands of ’master’ Long-brow Daoist, now dead, Dao dissipated, returning Dao to heaven!]

...

Rows of text, all True Disciples and sect leaders of the Immortal Sect.

They all died at the hands of Long-brow Daoist.

And the root of all this was merely the sudden change of the Heavenly Dao, issuing an iron law.

[Cultivation Techniques cannot be practiced together, Dao should be widely spread]

The practice of different Techniques, cultivation speed, enlightenment efficiency will plummet, also triggering the Heavenly Dao’s calamity, leading to death and Dao dissipation.

Only practicing a single Technique can align with the Heavenly Dao, progressing steadily.

Long-brow Daoist exhaled slowly, dispersing into the wind, he raised his hand over his long brow, his tone icy:

"Do not blame me, the Great Dao is solitary!"

Buzz——

Just as his words fell, his brow center suddenly lights up with a Spirit Light, an intuitive reaction born between his heart spirit, a line of pale golden text appears out of thin air:

["Jiuxiao Ethereal Record", Nascent Transformation Realm Cultivation Technique, current practitioners: 4.]

Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Divinity Transformation, Nascent Transformation, ascending the Immortal.

The "Jiuxiao Ethereal Record" is already a top-notch Technique!

Simultaneously, three distinctly different golden lights clearly imprint in his mind, precisely marking the positions of the other three practitioners of this Technique.

Long-brow Daoist’s eyes suddenly flash a touch of hostility, his brow furrows deeply, his voice cold and piercing:

"I remember, only two True Disciples are cultivating outside!"

"The other one, such audacity! Dare to steal my sect’s inheritance!"

Swish——

Before the words fall, his figure transforms into a radiant golden light, breaking through the void.

His sword-like brows furrow deeply, murderous intent soaring, heading straight for the direction marked by those three golden lights, killing intent sweeping across the cloud sea along the way.

...

Deep within the Xiangu Continent, beside an obscure pool.

The pool water is black as ink, chilling, beneath a small black Flood Dragon swims with its tail, its scales gleaming with a cold glow, stirring slight ripples in the water.

Puff——

The black Flood Dragon suddenly breaks from the water, transforming into a black-robed youth, with handsome features, a rebellious and aloof bearing between the brows, surrounded by a faint water aura, unlike the ordinary.

He lifts his eyes to the sky, sensing the iron law of the Heavenly Dao, the corner of his mouth curves into a cold snort, his tone proud:

"Why learn others’ Techniques, I have heaven and earth as my teacher, I can create my own Technique and ascend to Immortality!"

"Golden Scale, deduce for me!"

Buzz——

At the youth’s Mud Ball Palace, a golden scale suddenly lights up, radiant, countless Heaven and Earth Dao Principles, enlightenment inspirations like tides flooding into his mind, humming.

In an instant, a brand new cultivation technique prototype condenses within his heart spirit, Dao Rhyme circulates, infinitely profound.

["Observing the Profound Pool Book", Nascent Soul Level Cultivation Technique, current practitioners: 0 (Note: the Technique creator enjoys double enlightenment boosts)]

The youth bows his head, his eyes instantly bloom with brilliant laughter.

...

Time quietly slips away.

Drip—drip—

The river of time flows silently, countless millennia fly by in a blink.

Since the iron laws of the Heavenly Dao descended, the entire Cultivation Realm changed completely.

More and more new Techniques emerged like bamboo shoots after the rain!

Cultivators finally discovered the benefits of creating their own Techniques—Cultivating one’s self-created Technique incurs no Heavenly Dao backlash and is further supported by Enlightenment.

Those immortals who have ascended to the pinnacle of the Immortal Dao not only transcend the traditional immortal Qi Refining system but also create entirely new "cultivation systems" based on their insights and spread them widely.

This is precisely to align with the iron law of the Heavenly Dao—[The Dao should be widely spread].

Only by gradually perfecting the cultivation systems they created during dissemination can they break through shackles and go even further.

...

Time revolves, years pass by.

Finally arrives the end of the era.

BOOM—

The heavenly light burst forth, the calamity Qi was boundless, sweeping over boundless worlds, causing heaven and earth to shatter, stars to fall, and the Great Dao to wail.

Countless Immortals and supreme Emperors appeared one after another to resist the infinite calamity, yet in the end, they were no match for the cycles of the Heavenly Dao, each falling in the calamity Qi, their bodies and Daos perishing, their Daos returning to heaven.

In the end, a world-encircling, heaven-covering Flood Dragon coiled atop the peak of the Shi Fang world, its scales shattered and blood-stained:

"Damn heavens!"

"I refuse to accept this!"

However, the Heavenly Dao drifts on, the Power of Destruction rippling forth.

He exerted all his means, performing his Innate Divine Techniques, yet still could not resist the erosion of the calamity Qi, finally perishing with the collapse of the era.

Pft—

At the moment of the Flood Dragon’s demise, a golden scale shot out of the calamity Qi, twirling around and suspending in the void.

At this moment, from above time and space, a profound hand slowly descended, gently brushing with its fingertips, capturing the golden scale within.

Chen Sheng stood atop time and space, his Profound Robe hanging down, holding the golden scale in hand, gazing upon the collapsing era below, he let out a long sigh, his voice faint and desolate:

"Yet another Primordial Assembly!"

This golden scale was clearly the Lifebound Spiritual Treasure left behind by his second disciple, Lei Lin Mason.

The other ended up treading the old path of his senior disciple, Qin Zhaoyu, stuck at the checkpoint of impacting the Daoist Monarch, ultimately perishing in the calamity of the era, his body and Dao perishing.

Chen Sheng looked at the golden scale in his palm, his tone tinged with regret and helplessness:

"It is difficult to become a Daoist Monarch!"

He withdrew his gaze, his Heart Spirit delving within himself, beginning to sum up the gains and losses of this era, his brows furrowed in deep thought:

"Techniques cannot be cultivated simultaneously!"

"The Dao must be widely spread!"

"These two iron laws almost maximized the initiative of cultivators, the talents of those enlightened prodigies were pushed to the extreme, each showcasing their strengths, countless Techniques were created."

"The general path of this era, no problems!"

...

During these one hundred Primordial Assemblies.

The first decay tribulation suddenly arrived, and Chen Sheng officially passed through the decay of the physical body, advancing to a one-decay Daoist Monarch!

However, his subsequent cultivation path was not smooth.

One hundred Primordial Assemblies, nearly a hundred times of era restarts.

Chen Sheng, relying on his uniqueness, on several occasions succeeded in acquiring Techniques, deducing several entirely new cultivation systems.

Yet in the process of subsequently perfecting the systems, feeding back to his Dao, he encountered insurmountable difficulties.

All the systems he deduced had limits that were not high enough.

The best of them were only on par with the Profound Yin Sequence, unable to further elucidate the path beyond three decays, to aid him in breaking through!

Chen Sheng furrowed his brows slightly:

"Still not enough talent."

"Other Daoist Monarchs only need the Technique, deduce one system, grasp by analogy, gradually perfect it, enough to nourish many times."

"While I can easily get started with the Technique, wanting to deduce these systems deeper, to reach higher, is beyond my capability!"

In this, he had no shortcuts to take, having to abandon the pursuit of system depth.

"If I cannot win by quality, then I shall win by quantity!"

"Although the upper limits of the systems I subsequently deduced are not sufficient, they can also bring some benefits, which counts as grasping by analogy."

"Quantitative changes can eventually bring qualitative change!"

It was precisely because of this that Chen Sheng in the deduced era designed the path of "Techniques cannot be cultivated simultaneously, widely spread one’s Dao."

Just thinking of deducing more cultivation systems, thereby further aiding his Dao path!