Chapter 177: A Strange Door Appears

“Thus, reverse the derivation of Creation and invert the evolution of Yin and Yang. From this, I have written the Twelvefold Longevity Methods.”

Fang Han's colossal Dharma Idol, towering between heaven and earth, sat cross-legged above the firmament, unmoving as a mountain.

His voice calmly expounded the wondrous method of borrowing lifespan contained within the Twelvefold Longevity Methods.

Although the incantations and principles of this technique were obscure and profound, leaving the vast majority of martial artists in the world utterly bewildered, they could nevertheless instantly understand one thing from the depths of their hearts.

This was an unparalleled Great Dao that could borrow lifespan from Heaven and allow one to regain their youth!

In an instant, countless people became utterly entranced.

The Martial Dao Grandmasters of this world were especially affected.

One had to understand that although Innate Grandmasters possessed formidable strength, almost all of them had long since lost the vitality of youth. Their bodies were old and frail.

They had essentially resigned themselves to sitting in meditation and waiting for death.

Yet today, they suddenly learned that such an unbelievable, heaven-defying method of longevity actually existed in this world...

Amid their shock and wild joy, their instinctive reaction was nevertheless to become suspicious.

If Fang Han truly possessed such an unimaginable method of longevity, why would he casually make it public like this?

If this method really possessed the miraculous ability to restore youth, then without question, the vast majority of Grandmasters on the verge of death would be willing to pay any price for it.

With merely a little manipulation, Fang Han could have easily used it to unify the entire Martial Dao World.

Yet not only had he refused to use it as leverage, he had instead announced it to the entire world without reservation.

Anyone could learn it.

After their brief period of suspicion passed, they immediately began attempting to cultivate it.

Those capable of reaching the Grandmaster realm naturally needed no explanation when it came to their aptitude and comprehension.

In less than half a day, a second person, then a third, successfully borrowed lifespan within this world.

And after that came even more.

Witnessing the miracle with their own eyes, the entire world erupted into an uproar, and all living beings were shaken.

Those Martial Dao Grandmasters who had regained their youth felt the vigorous vitality once more coursing through their young bodies. Many could not help shedding tears of joy.

Right there and then, they knelt before Fang Han's manifested Dharma Idol in the heavens and performed the most solemn grand ritual.

Sensing the waves of strange fluctuations in aura coming from every corner of the Martial Dao World, Fang Han merely smiled faintly.

He understood perfectly well that from this day onward, so long as the Twelvefold Longevity Methods continued to circulate throughout the world, he would be the undisputed Grandmaster revered for generations to come.

There would be no second person like him.

“Through this method, the Emperor subdues the Hundred Schools.”

Suddenly, Fang Han gained an entirely new and profound understanding of these seven words.

“Human lifespan has its ultimate limit. Whoever can break this curse, even if they cannot completely overcome it and can only alleviate it temporarily, will become an existence worshiped by all without dispute. Just like that Bai Ze of the Yao race.”

At the very moment the name “Fang Han” irreversibly became the absolute center of faith in this Martial Dao World, Fang Han himself also faintly sensed wisps of an extremely familiar aura beginning to gather around him.

“It is indeed Xuanhuang Qi of Heaven and Earth!”

Earlier, while borrowing lifespan, Fang Han had briefly communicated with the will of the Heavenly Dao regarding this Xuanhuang Qi.

Yet even the will of the Heavenly Dao itself did not know the exact origin of this wondrous qi.

It was much like an instinctive reaction of the body. When merit existed in the world, Xuanhuang Qi would naturally descend.

Fang Han could sense that the will of the Heavenly Dao itself did not particularly care about Xuanhuang Qi.

This was because Xuanhuang Qi itself neither interfered with nor participated in the evolution of the world's fundamental laws.

The only bottom line of the Heavenly Dao was that outsiders were not permitted to interfere with or steal it.

The moment it sensed a thief crossing the boundary, it would inevitably bring down a tribulation of heavenly lightning as punishment.

As for someone like Fang Han, who had been born and raised within the Martial Dao World and had gradually grown until he became the focal point of the descending Xuanhuang Qi, naturally he would not trigger a heavenly tribulation.

According to the judgment of the laws of Heaven and Earth, this was merely a normal and orderly evolution occurring within the world.

As for where all this Xuanhuang Qi ultimately went...

Even Heaven and Earth could not monitor every individual strand.

After all, Xuanhuang Qi descending and then dispersing into Heaven and Earth was itself nothing more than a perfectly ordinary phenomenon governed by the unseen workings of the world.

At this moment, within the Fangcun space.

Xuanhuang Qi had indeed begun continuously condensing around the puppet Fang Han.

With the foundation of an entire vast world pouring into it, the rate at which it condensed was naturally far beyond what a mere county of Great Qian could ever compare to.

Even at this initial stage of accumulation, the momentum had already far surpassed that of the Three Elders and Fang Xun.

Rolling waves of Xuanhuang Qi were drawn over before slowly rising toward the dome of Fangcun, where they gathered into clouds.

After calculating for more than half a day, Li Shun gradually reached a conclusion.

“Nearly one hundred strands a year.”

“And this is only the beginning. More importantly, this Martial Dao World is a relatively independent, sealed pasture, basically unaffected by external karmic interference.”

“This means that unless something unexpected happens, the production of Xuanhuang Qi here will continue flourishing indefinitely, flowing without end!”

After laboring for an entire year, he was finally seeing the fruits of his efforts.

Li Shun could not help feeling elated.

“Xuanhuang Qi has countless miraculous uses. With sufficient reserves, no matter what I do in the future, I will be able to act with far greater ease.”

“I cultivated in the Kong Family's Grotto Heaven for an entire year and only barely touched the threshold of the Spirit Resonance realm. Yet with merely ten strands of Xuanhuang Qi, I can advance directly.”

“I previously thought that using Xuanhuang Qi was completely a case of losing more than I gained. Now it seems that my method of collecting Xuanhuang Qi was simply wrong.”

“The Great Qian World is far too deep. It is constantly under the supreme pressure of the Qian Emperor. Trying to harvest Xuanhuang Qi on a large scale there is simply too difficult.”

“Only worlds like the Martial Dao World, an undeveloped pasture as blank as a sheet of paper, can serve as my primary battlefield for harvesting the Xuanhuang Qi of Heaven and Earth.”

Merely raising his head and gazing at the increasingly thick clouds of Xuanhuang Qi above the dome of Fangcun was enough to put Li Shun in an exceptionally good mood.

“What should I use the Xuanhuang Qi for first?”

“Should I use it to digest the two Sage stone statues, or should I first expand the space?”

Li Shun could not help indulging in pleasant speculation.

He keenly sensed that perhaps stimulated by the turbulent fluctuations of the Xuanhuang Qi filling the heavens, the mysterious tortoise shell he had previously subdued as a puppet had also quietly undergone an extremely subtle change.

As the increasingly dense Xuanhuang Qi stimulated it, the ancient characters engraved upon the surface of the damaged tortoise shell began changing violently, flickering between existence and disappearance.

Immediately afterward, the tortoise shell seemed to enter an extremely intense internal struggle.

After a moment, those characters strangely began peeling themselves away from the shell.

They intertwined and fused together in midair, transforming into a wisp of lofty and mysterious aura resembling the depths of a starry sky.

It too slowly drifted upward toward the dome of Fangcun.

This wisp of qi was extremely weak, not even enough to be considered a single strand.

Yet despite hanging there all alone beneath the dome, surrounded by the overwhelming pressure of the boundless sea of Xuanhuang Qi, it radiated an aloof indifference.

It showed no fear whatsoever.

Instead, within the sea of Xuanhuang Qi, it forcibly carved out an absolutely exclusive territory for itself.

“Hm? What exactly is this...?”

Li Shun's expression immediately turned solemn as his consciousness focused upon this newly emerged, profound qi.

If the Fangcun space's attitude toward the Xuanhuang Qi of Heaven and Earth could be described as an almost greedy desire, then toward this newly emerged profound qi, it was extremely cautious.

Even wary...

The deep, starlight-like aura continuously circulated, radiating a strange allure, as though it were silently extending some kind of invitation to Li Shun, constantly teasing and tugging at his mind.

Li Shun was by no means reckless.

Faced with such an utterly strange qi of unknown origin, he naturally would not act rashly.

His thoughts raced.

He immediately and forcefully mobilized the boundless Xuanhuang Qi, transforming it into layer upon layer of seals in an attempt to suppress this highly unstable aura.

In the past, the Xuanhuang Qi had never been this easy for him to command.

Yet this time, the moment it became involved in encircling and suppressing this deep aura, it seemed to sense some kind of instinctive threat.

It became extraordinarily active and violent.

Rolling waves of Xuanhuang Qi surged like an enraged sea, completely suppressing and sealing away the deep qi.

However, faced with Li Shun's forceful methods, the heavily sealed deep qi did not dissipate.

Instead, it underwent another strange transformation of its own accord.

Above the dome of Fangcun, it twisted and folded through the void, transforming into a deep and indistinct door.

It stood suspended in the air, astonishingly facing the door that led to the Martial Dao World from across the void.

“This is...?”

Seeing this scene, Li Shun's mind was violently shaken.

His gaze involuntarily passed through that profound door that had appeared from thin air.

Behind the gaps interwoven with starlight, he suddenly caught a faint glimpse of an entirely unknown, brand-new world.

This unknown world...

Filled him with an extreme sense of unease.

It made his instincts scream at him to stay away!