Chapter 286.1: The Will of the Masses Condenses the Martial Dao! Flesh and Blood Transforms, at Last Reaching Seventh Growth! (I)

Lu Changsheng was immersed in devising the Flesh and Blood Martial Dao. It was taking him a very long time, though he could not tell exactly how long. He was so utterly absorbed in the task at hand that he could not even feel time passing.

In the immortal cultivation system, a Deity Transformation cultivator must condense a primal spirit and use it to comprehend the Dao. In the martial cultivation system, an Earthly Saint can condense a Dao Body and use it to contain a terrifying power that can destroy heaven and earth.

What about the Flesh and Blood Martial Dao, then? What would push it up to Seventh Growth? Heavenly materials and earthly treasures alone are no longer enough to push the body up to Seventh Growth.

Lu Changsheng was stuck on that problem for a long time. His Perception was unrivaled and inspiration flared up ceaselessly, but each time he carefully worked though a potential solution, he found that it would not do. Nothing he had considered so far would push the Flesh and Blood Martial Dao to Seventh Growth. If he could not find a way, the Flesh and Blood Martial Dao would forever be limited to Sixth Growth.

In the immortal cultivation system, a Deity Transformation cultivator's primal spirit exists so that they can comprehend the Dao. In truth, the so-called Dao is the very essence of how heaven and earth operate. It's basically the law! Even condensing a Dao Body in the martial cultivation system requires an understanding of the law.

Whether it's the immortal cultivation or the martial cultivation system, they lead to the same destination from different paths. In the end, what both of them need is laws. In that case, if I'm hoping to elevate the Flesh and Blood Martial Dao to Seventh Growth, I probably have to tackle those laws.

Lu Changsheng's eyes lit up. He had zoomed in on something the immortal cultivation and the martial cultivation had in common. When he added the traits of the Flesh and Blood Dao into the equation, a line of thought began to take shape, along with flashes of inspiration. As he followed that line of thought, the way ahead gradually opened up before him.

Indeed, it's the laws!

Lu Changsheng had grasped the key. If his Flesh and Blood Martial Dao was to advance further and rival Deity Transformation and Martial Saints, it would ultimately have to master the laws, or at least make use of them. In any case, there was no getting around the laws. That raised the next question: how was his Flesh and Blood Martial Dao supposed to make use of them?

The Flesh and Blood Martial Dao can create blood descendants. Its power comes purely from flesh and blood so expecting it to comprehend laws is almost a pipe dream.

However, there is still one way. The blood descendants can sense the laws through the Martial Dao condensed from the will of the masses! Once a blood descendant reaches Third Growth and steps into transcendence, they can sense the Martial Dao. A Martial Dao condensed from the will of the masses holds the laws within it, and it is best understood by blood descendants.

When the time comes, I can try drawing the laws within the Martial Dao into my body. If I can withstand the baptism of those laws, I'll most likely break through to Seventh Growth!

Relying on his unrivaled Perception, Lu Changsheng slowly found a sense of direction for his plan. Though it was merely a trajectory that had yet to be tested, at least he had something.

Ultimately, it all came back to the Martial Dao. The precondition was that he had to condense the Martial Dao first. Otherwise, what would he even sense?

Whoosh!

Lu Changsheng opened his eyes. To obtain Martial Dao fragments, I need to condense the Martial Dao. Even for the Flesh and Blood Martial Dao to break through to Seventh Growth, I need to condense the Martial Dao. Everything hinges on that.

He had gone through such a long process of deduction, endlessly going in circles with his theories, only to end up right back where he had started: the Martial Dao. No matter what, he had to condense the Martial Dao first.

Fortunately, condensing the Martial Dao did not require Seventh Growth. As long as someone stepped into the transcendent realm of Third Growth and there were enough blood descendants, the will of the masses could condense the Martial Dao.

Lu Changsheng left the sealed chamber and sent for the Earthly Saints of Divine Sword Manor to ask how the conversion of blood descendants was going.

The Earthly Saints met up with him at once and gave him a thorough report.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, the conversion has been going very smoothly. In just ten months, we've converted nearly all of the several billion people who were under the Supreme Sky Sect's rule into blood descendants. Adding the blood descendants from the Divine Sword Manor earlier, we roughly estimate that the total has already passed ten billion!"

"Moreover, it isn't limited to the territory we currently hold. Blood descendants have been heading out to every corner of Primal World one after another, and they're converting more blood descendants quickly too. After all, being a blood descendant is just too appealing to ordinary people..."

Lu Changsheng nodded in satisfaction. Blood descendants had one particular trait: they spread with tremendous speed, and once they began spreading, stopping them was all but impossible. At that moment, who knew how many people across Primal World were being converted into blood descendants? The number was likely beyond imagination, given just how vast the Primal World was.

Of all the secret worlds Lu Changsheng had entered so far, the Primal World was the largest. By a rough estimate, the whole Primal World held a population of at least several hundred billion. He could not say whether it reached a trillion but there were certainly several hundred billion. Of course, the overwhelming majority of such an enormous number were ordinary people.

Has another ten months gone by?

Sixteen months had passed since he entered the Primal World. During that time, Lu Changsheng had clearly made enormous progress in the Primal World. One could even say he had turned it upside down. It went far beyond the progress that the Divine Sword Manor had made in five years.

What Lu Changsheng had accomplished gave hope of obtaining Martial Dao fragments to the many Earthly Saints of the Divine Sword Manor. However, that still depended on whether they could condense the Martial Dao first. At present, condensing the Martial Dao itself was out of the question as they had not even managed to condense an embryo of it.

Lu Changsheng was about to ask for more details when he seemed to sense something. His head snapped toward the sky.

"Hmm?"

It was not only Lu Changsheng. Almost every Martial Saint had sensed it as well.

Rumble!

Somewhere in the unseen depths of the heavens, an incredibly pure Dao seemed to have appeared, ever so faintly. It was a Martial Dao!

"Has the Martial Dao condensed?"

"No, it's not the Martial Dao. It's an embryo of the Martial Dao!"

"Condensing the Martial Dao right now is still a little out of reach, but condensing an embryo is already quite good! With an embryo in place, condensing the Martial Dao is only a matter of time!"

"Exactly! The birth of this embryo means Fellow Daoist Lu's method is correct. If we keep converting blood descendants and spreading the Flesh and Blood Martial Dao like this, we'll certainly be able to condense the Martial Dao in the Primal World."

"There's hope at last..."

The Earthly Saints of Divine Sword Manor were especially thrilled, as hope was finally within sight. Before, the Divine Sword Manor had labored quietly in the Primal World for five years without any hope at all. Afterwards, Lu Changsheng appeared in the Primal World, and in a little more than a year, an embryo of the Martial Dao had already condensed.

One of the Earthly Saints then brought up a very important piece of news. "Oh, right! Fellow Daoist Lu, our informants reported that after the Supreme Sky Sect's Deity Transformation cultivators fled, nearly all of them went to the Kunyu Immortal Sect. The Kunyu Immortal Sect is a holy land of the Immortal Dao in the Primal World, and it has a spirit relic that was able to overturn its fate.

"Clearly, those Deity Transformation cultivators from the Supreme Sky Sect want to borrow the Kunyu Immortal Sect's strength to deal with the Divine Sword Manor. Lately, the Kunyu Immortal Sect has also been recalling its cultivators back again and again. I'm afraid it truly intends to move against the Divine Sword Manor. We have to be on our guard!"

The Kunyu Immortal Sect, huh? Lu Changsheng had heard of it. It was one of the Primal World's holy lands of the Immortal Dao, standing far higher than the Supreme Sky Sect.

"A spirit relic... You mean the supreme treasures said to be capable of overturning the fate of an entire sect and suppressing Deity Transformation cultivators as well?" asked Lu Changsheng, clearly familiar with spirit relics too.

"Indeed. The Primal World is somewhat miraculous in that it can actually give birth to spirit relics. In the Immortal Martial World, a treasure has to go through the baptism of a lightning tribulation before it has any chance of becoming a spirit relic, so they are extremely rare. Once a spirit relic is born, even Void Refinement cultivators start fighting over it. Naturally, Deity Transformation cultivators can almost never get hold of one.

"In any case, every holy land in the Primal World has a spirit relic. A most terrifying thing, indeed."