Dao Integration

To those Fifth Rank Heaven-Piercing Realm cultivator outside, the Sword Lord Cai Mo is most proud of his swordsmanship. As Heaven-Piercing Realm specializing in combat, his swordsmanship and Sword Intent are the foundation of his existence. He can kill more than 95% of cultivators of the same rank with just three unsheathed swords.

To onlookers, his swordsmanship was 'perfect'.

Without any flaws, and merely strolling leisurely, he was still able to achieve a battle ratio of one to two thousand Law Power consumption against this suddenly appearing visitor from Outer Heaven, which is truly terrifying.

This near-perfect technique, wielding a sword and combining it with Martial Way Divine Intent, allows one to find the weaknesses of all Technique Method and then break them with swordsmanship. It is clearly just the movement of a rectangle in three-dimensional space, yet it is unbelievably cunning.

Swordsmanship, in the eyes of the world, is actually just a low-level skill, but in his hands, it feels different. It is not closer to the Great Dao, it is still just a minor skill, but its profundity far exceeds the limits that the world can master.

These are the cultivators of the Immortal Realm.

Does it matter whether it's Daoist or not?

It doesn't matter. As long as you can kill the opponent, no technique matters. So even with swordsmanship, they can pursue these 'minor arts' to an extremely profound level. Just by maneuvering and changing a rectangular weapon, supplemented by Martial Way Divine Intent, and adding some application of qi, they can shatter countless Technique Method.

It's like... a scalpel, precisely cutting through all the Divine Ability, like a butcher carving up an ox, dividing all the Divine Ability, separating the components of the Divine Ability and Technique Method from the smallest details, and finally breaking them apart, without revealing the slightest flaw, and even being able to make defensive moves with ease.

Incredible skill.

But--

Everything has its flaws, and the essence of swordsmanship is flaws. The movement of a regular rectangle in three-dimensional space is inherently limited.

No matter how much you try to compensate or how many ways you use swordsmanship, you can't cover up this weakness.

Ordinary people cannot find this flaw because the opponent is too fast and too accurate.

But Li Qi can.

Based on his observations over the past few days, Li Qi True Knowledge Dao Charm Ke hadn't been idle. He had clearly seen through the surrounding onlookers and the swordsman in front of him.

True Knowledge Dao Charm had seen through all their movements, cultivation levels, weaknesses, strengths and weaknesses, and even their underwear. It could even be said that Li Qi knew their weaknesses better than they knew themselves.

They were completely unprepared, or even conscious of being prepared.

However, through True Knowledge Dao Charm's scanning of the outside world, Li Qi had already learned of their conversation, and he was now very clear about his position in the Immortal Heaven—

It should be noted that these fifth-rank individuals are at the Heaven-Piercing Realm.

The Dao Rhyme is called "Minor Dao Integration" by them, because it is a fragment of a true Great Dao, which is very important to those in the Heaven-Piercing Realm who pursue "harmony with the Heavenly Dao" and the unity of Celestial Person.

This thing is like a 'system', it's like having a cheat code, but the Celestial Realm doesn't have such a cheat code.

If even the Minor Dao Integration is like this, then what about the True Dao Integration?

So, the next moment, the Heaven-Piercing Realm watching outside witnessed an unbelievable scene.

The Sword Lord Cai Mo Frowns, preparing for battle.

The whole world came to life.

The world is alive...

No, the world is inherently alive.

Sword Master had no idea what Li Qi was up to, so he chose to draw his sword at this moment.

With a single, sharp strike, Li Qi was cleaved in two.

Li Qi's body completely dissipated, his physical form dissolved and merged into the Dharma Image. Subsequently, the Dharma Image also dissolved and merged into the Star Official.

And that Star Official simply dispersed.

Yes, they've dispersed.

At this moment, Li Qi's inner world seemed to merge with the external celestial realm.

His inner world was embedded in the celestial realm.

If the previous "changing the world" involved using the inner world to influence the immortal realm, shielding the original laws of the Dao, and using one's own Great Dao to suppress the opponent, then... at this moment, the situation has become completely extreme.

On the battlefield, there is no longer any talk of 'celestial beings'.

At this moment, there is no Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Realm, only Li Qi's inner world.

Those who had reached the Heaven-Piercing Realm and were watching from all around were shocked to discover a terrifying truth.

What does it mean to be in harmony with the Dao?

For them, it means merging with the Heavenly Dao to achieve complete immortality. This Heavenly Dao, of course, refers to the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Realm, since the Immortal Realm is their only world.

But for Li Qi, the world is never just one.

According to their definition, Li Qi is the standard "in harmony with the Dao", Li Qi has completely mastered the Heavenly Dao of his inner world.

Now, Li Qi took advantage of this to expand his inner world, blocking the Immortal Heaven, and forcefully swallowed the swordsman and everyone watching into his inner world!

The whole world started to move!

This is the malice of the world!

In a world of five grades, all the mountains, waters, sun, moon, wind, clouds, land, wilderness, passes, and hills were mobilized.

This is a grand ceremony.

A grand ceremony that these people could not refuse, offering their own divine Heavenly Dao to all those before them.

As mentioned earlier, Li Qi understands their weaknesses better than they do themselves.

At this moment, Li Qi opened up his inner world, revealing the Heavenly Dao.

Bring it on.

What lies before you is the opportunity to 'align with the Way'.

Can you resist?

Li Qi gave them a chance to merge with the Dao, and... can you tell whether the Heavenly Dao that is descending at this moment belongs to the Immortal Heaven or to Li Qi?

They couldn't tell the difference because they had no idea what the Way of Heavenly Dao was or how it worked.

For these cultivators at the Heaven-Piercing Realm, there was only one thing they saw—

The enemy suddenly disappeared, Li Qi was nowhere to be found. It seemed that he had been killed by the Sword Lord Cai Mo?

A distinct aura of the Heavenly Dao descended, and the Principle of the world were laid bare before them, within reach.

This is a mosquito-killing lamp.

Mosquitoes and moths cannot resist that tiny spark of light.

Some of the onlookers at the Heaven-Piercing Realm couldn't resist and joined the Heavenly Dao.

And so, he 'attained the Dao'.

He truly succeeded in merging with the Dao, becoming one with the Heavenly Dao. As long as the world exists, he will not perish; he is truly "equal to the heavens in life." Unless this world is destroyed, he will absolutely not die.

After he successfully 'merged with the Dao', the others rushed forward in a frenzy.

They are not without reason, but reason is probably too weak to resist such temptation.

Of course, some remained rational, observing the reactions of others.

Soon, he became almost like an ordinary person and succeeded in 'harmonizing with the Dao'.

Those who are still observing can even sense the joy of those who have successfully achieved harmony with the Tao!

Without hesitation, these people quickly 'merged with the Dao' and became part of the Heavenly Dao.

As for the Sword Lord Cai Mo, he did not attempt to merge with the Dao because he knew he had not killed his opponent.

Furthermore, he felt a compulsive force!

The causal threads that he had previously severed were not actually severed!

Unbeknownst to him, the remnants of all the Technique Method he had previously shattered were now floating around him. At this moment, the Great Dao of the Immortal Realm was completely sealed by the Inner World, and the Buddhist Heavens had dissipated, leaving only Li Qi's Inner World.

It was only then that he suddenly realized something...

This is a spider web.

He had been constantly severing Technique Method, and the remnants of these Technique Method and Divine Ability had quietly been arranged into an altar. This was set up by the Sword Lord himself, so... he couldn't refuse.

This is Li Qi's most proficient battle tactic.

A meticulous plan.

Li Qi is not good at skirmishes. His combat talent does not support him to make the optimal solution based on instinct. However, given some time, his calculation ability, his manipulation of Heaven's Will, and his ability to control probability and choose reality will come together to create a scene that will leave his opponents in despair.

Just like it is now.

The ritual of the Sword Lord Cai Mo had already begun without his knowledge; he was like an insect caught in a spider web, unable to escape.

However, in the eyes of others, even the Sword Lord Cai Mo had merged with the Dao along with the others.

So they were convinced that this was a windfall!

One after another, they attained the Dao.

Finally, Li Qi let out a full burp.

Harmony with the Dao?

It's nothing more than surrendering oneself to the Heavenly Dao and being devoured by Heavenly Dao.

It seems like one with the Heavenly Dao, but that only applies to the Heavenly Dao that is 'unknowing and without consciousness'. Only the Heavenly Dao of those worlds that have not awakened their consciousness will accept this.

If you're lucky, you might even be able to possess the body of the Heavenly Dao.

But for Li Qi, they were just rushing to commit suicide.

The three-day plan was executed with ease, silently, and extremely strangely; all the Heaven-Piercing Realm, including the Sword Lord Cai Mo, had vanished.

To others, this was a bizarre and terrifying event, like a ghost story.

Unbeknownst to them, more than twenty people at the Heaven-Piercing Realm broke through to the Dao Integration Realm and then disappeared without a trace, vanishing into thin air.

But isn't that exactly the impression that Shaman give people?

Shaman are like that: mysterious and cunning, with insidious methods, always doing things that are unknown to others, and always doing things that seem incomprehensible to outsiders.

If it were a martial arts battle, this would be a thrilling head-on confrontation, a fight that would last until the seas dry up and the rocks crumble, leaving not a single intact stone within a radius of billions of miles. Such a magnificent battle might even be sung about by future generations for thousands of years.

If it were a Daoist priest, this battle would be a beautiful duel of Technique Method. The Daoist priests would take out their Law Artifact, talismans, and Divine Ability to teach the fifth-rank immortals a good lesson. It wouldn't be as thrilling, but it would be very elegant, in line with the dashing spirit of an 'immortal'.

If Human Path were to intervene, it would be a brutal suppression. Human Path would use absolute power and strict rules to completely replace the Great Dao of the Immortal Realm. Before humanity, there is no Heaven, and there is no such thing as 'harmonizing with the Dao'.

However, Li Qi was Shaman.

When Shaman engage in this kind of fight, the final result is often chaotic and mindless. The battle seems to end in an instant, without any dramatic display of power or grandeur. Even the onlookers, including those at the seventh and sixth ranks, are often unaware of what has happened.

This is an unsolved case. If it weren't for the Fourth Rank official investigating, it would probably remain an unsolved case forever, becoming a legend in CD City, or some kind of terrifying nursery rhyme.

This eerie story will continue to circulate, telling those at the Heaven-Piercing Realm that they cannot casually merge with the Dao, or they might encounter unclean things...

Terrifying, mysterious, elusive, and chilling, shamans also perform rituals in all sorts of inexplicable ways, creating nonsensical sacrificial scenes—that's the style of Shaman.

Of course, this didn't matter to Li Qi.

These fifth-grade Dao Integration cultivators had integrated their cultivation into Li Qi's inner world, which was why Li Qi chose to fight his way up.

The level of those at the grassroots level is too low; it's pointless.

Now, he needs to find a place to hide and study the cultivation paths of these twenty-odd fifth-rank cultivators.

He wanted to thoroughly understand the cultivation system of the Immortal Heaven in order to prepare for entering the true 'Immortal Heaven'.

While the sixth and seventh graders were still wondering, Li Qi had already quietly disappeared and fled far away.

This escape lasted for five years.

For five years, Li Qi meticulously erased his traces, cleaning up his surroundings as he went, until he finally found a relatively secluded mine and crawled inside.

In the Immortal True World, there are an absurd number of these mines, and no one knows where they come from.

It should be the foundation of First Rank World, like the Earth Oil of the Earth Oil Realm or the Holy Flame of the Sacred Flame Realm.

Although the items inside the mine varied in quality, they were all the same thing: energy crystals similar to Spirit Stone, but far purer.

If he could, Li Qi really didn't want to call this thing an Immortal Stone.

Unfortunately, that's what the people of the Celestial Realm call them.

Immortal Stone are divided into three grades: superior, middle, and inferior, based on their quality. There is also a separate type of mineral vein core. The purity of superior-grade Immortal Stone is so high that if you insert a fuse into one and then smash it on the ground, it will explode. The power is quite considerable, more than enough to destroy an eighth-grade world. It can only be said that it is something that can be produced in First Rank World...

These produced Immortal Stone are also divided according to size and standardized to ensure that each piece is the same size. A single high-grade Immortal Stone processed in this way is enough to support a cultivator from the lowest rank to the seventh rank.

The energy density is astonishing, and the fact that it can maintain stability at that level is truly remarkable.

All the seventh-rank mine owners toiled every day to dig out these Immortal Stones. The products they dug out were naturally sent outside for processing, becoming the cultivation resources for the sixth-rank mine owners.

The sixth-rank mine owners would be responsible for managing their own mining area and would regularly hand over most of their harvest to the fifth-rank officials who protected them.

The fifth-rank cultivators then used these resources to have their alchemists reproduce them, producing Law Treasure and pills. The lower-quality pills were sold to the miners at extremely high prices, while the higher-quality ones were sold to the sixth-rank mine owners.

It can be said that mining is the largest productive labor activity in the entire Immortal True World.

Moreover, the quantity of Immortal Stone was truly indescribable. Li Qi traveled for five years, mining Immortal Stone in every place, and everyone was consuming Immortal Stone. Over the years, the Immortal Stone veins continued to produce them, seemingly endless.

This production system, which is supported by the mining of Immortal Stone, can only leave Li Qi sighing in disbelief...

As expected of First Rank World, its foundation is truly solid. It's purely about mining the world and hasn't run into any trouble yet. This level of skill is impressive. It probably didn't just develop to become First Rank World; it was born First Rank World.

With that in mind, Li Qi crawled into the mine shaft, avoiding the miners, and began his research.

Having consumed so many Heaven-Piercing Realm, he intends to completely decipher the cultivation system of the Immortal Heaven.