Heavenly Heart

Heavenly Heart

Eight Star Dou Zhe!

He had shot from Three Star to Eight Star in one go. Xiao Bai knew this was because of the Yi Wood Positive Thunder inside him, and his physical body had also grown much stronger than before, though he still did not know exactly how strong it had become.

It was also because of this experience that Xiao Bai finally understood why the Divine Edict had suppressed him for five years.

If he had not spent these five years continuously absorbing Five Elements Energy to nourish his five viscera and strengthen his body, Xiao Bai would absolutely have died today.

As for the Divine Edict in his Sea of Consciousness, Xiao Bai now both loved and hated it.

He loved it because it had given him such an enormous opportunity. From what he had sensed earlier, every time he broke through a realm in the future, the Divine Edict would grant him a Thunder Seed.

He hated it because the Divine Edict never gave him any warning before doing anything, making it impossible to guard against.

Every time he was feeling refreshed and clear-headed, it would smash him over the head, making him bounce back and forth between life and death, never knowing what it wanted to do or when it would do it. It was truly unbearably thrilling.

He looked at the sky outside. It was almost dark.

By his calculations, this breakthrough had taken nearly five hours. Xiao Bai prepared to head back. Twice today, he had almost thought he was going to die, leaving him mentally exhausted.

Stepping out of the cave, he was hit by the cool wind outside and immediately felt much more awake. Sensing the feeling of power within him, so much stronger than when he had come, the corners of Xiao Bai's mouth lifted into a smile, and the smile gradually widened.

Suddenly, as if he had remembered something, Xiao Bai's expression stiffened. He had nearly forgotten something very important.

This time, he had broken through from Nine Stage Dou Zhi Qi to Eight Star Dou Zhe all at once. Would that draw certain people's attention, such as Wo Long Feng Chu?

"No, I have to think of a way to conceal my cultivation. Otherwise, such a huge leap in cultivation will inevitably arouse suspicion!"

If the Dou Qi inside Xiao Bai had been unstable, it would not have been a big deal. The Dou Qi Continent was so vast that there would always be some heavenly treasures capable of letting someone leap several realms at once.

But Xiao Bai's realm was not unstable. On the contrary, it was extremely solid. The first three stars after breaking through to Dou Zhe were the result of five years of accumulated foundation. As for the five stars afterward, Xiao Bai had earned them with his life.

When refining the Yi Wood Positive Thunder, Xiao Bai had endured the pain and ruthlessly compressed the growing Dou Qi in his body again and again. Otherwise, his cultivation would have long since rushed toward Dou Shi.

Xiao Bai did not know whether the Dou Qi Continent had strange treasures and the like, but he could not let people think there was anything special about him and arouse their suspicion and covetousness, because he really did have a strange treasure!

Although he did not know what rank the Divine Edict was, Xiao Bai guessed that even a Dou Saint would not be able to help being tempted by it.

In the entire Xiao Clan, the only person Xiao Bai could trust was that girl Xun Er, but he only trusted her, not her bodyguard. If that guy Ling Ying found out, he would absolutely run off and tattle to Gu Yuan.

At that point, the best treatment Xiao Bai could expect would probably be losing his freedom. As for the worst? He did not dare think about it. Thinking too much would affect his relationship with Xun Er.

There was also that old man who absorbed people's essence energy. In the original work, his character had been decent, but that was only from Xiao Yan's perspective.

On the Dou Qi Continent, killing people for treasures happened everywhere. Even Xiao Yan had done it before. Xiao Bai had no relationship with that old man, so who knew what would happen then?

He could not gamble his own life on someone else's moral standards. Once the Divine Edict was exposed, it would be no different from a child carrying gold through a busy market.

Xiao Bai turned and returned to the cave. Sitting on the boulder, he propped his chin up with one hand, his brows tightly furrowed as he pondered how to solve this problem.

After thinking it over and going through what he had on hand, it seemed that only the soul-refining method in the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Scripture, the one he had considered unreliable, had any hope of solving it.

Heavenly Heart Induction Chapter.

"Comprehend the Heavenly Dao through the human path, reflect the Heavenly Heart with one's own heart. Follow heaven and respond to man, and one may see heaven and earth, may see all living beings. This is the beginning of spirit."

This was the opening general outline of the Heavenly Heart Induction Chapter, and it was exactly why Xiao Bai thought it was unreliable. Where on the Dou Qi Continent would there be any Heavenly Dao or Heavenly Heart? This was not Cover the Heavens. There was no Heaven's Will Saber, nor was there a Heavenly Heart Imprint.

Moreover, seeing heaven and earth, seeing all living beings, the beginning of spirit—an emperor's soul was strong enough, right? But even that could not possibly see heaven and earth or see all living beings.

"Forget it, I'll give it a try!" In any case, the cultivation method he cultivated, the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Scripture, was a castrated version. Now he was just cultivating another castrated version. No, it should be called localization of the cultivation method.

Sitting cross-legged, Xiao Bai cleared the distracting thoughts from his heart and, according to the method, focused his soul to sense the illusory, ethereal heaven and earth.

"Heaven and earth contain true Qi; spirit, essence, soul, and intent. In utmost stillness, one sees the Heavenly Heart; naturally, divine clarity arrives."

Xiao Bai's heart was calm and without ripples. Perhaps it was the time it took an incense stick to burn, perhaps it was an hour.

In a daze, his soul entered a strange void. There was nothing in this void, only the occasional wisp of white airflow drifting by.

Suddenly, a wisp of white airflow struck Xiao Bai's soul. His soul absorbed that wisp of white airflow and grew by a trace.

There was no concept of time or space in the void. Xiao Bai seemed to have no awareness at all, as if he had no mind. His soul drifted aimlessly through this void, occasionally struck by a wisp of white airflow that was absorbed into him, causing his soul to grow bit by bit.

Finally, as though it had reached some kind of limit, Xiao Bai's soul was rejected by the void, and along with it came a silver imprint.

The imprint followed Xiao Bai's soul into his Sea of Consciousness and drifted toward its center. Suddenly, above the center of the Sea of Consciousness, a flash of Purple Electric Light flickered over the Divine Edict and struck the silver imprint, directly knocking it out of the Sea of Consciousness and onto Xiao Bai's brow.

A strange silver pattern immediately appeared on Xiao Bai's forehead, between his brows, like a closed vertical eye.

After regaining consciousness, a trace of confusion flashed through Xiao Bai's eyes, as if he had no memory of the void just now. He raised his eyes and looked toward the cave entrance. Outside, the sky was already bright.

"This cultivation method really is a scam. I feel like I just got still, got still, and then fell asleep!"

Xiao Bai grumbled.

Xiao Bai tried sensing his soul.

"Holy shit!"

Xiao Bai was startled. He had lived two lives, and with the Divine Edict in his Sea of Consciousness, his innate soul was quite good.

Before cultivating, he had sensed his own Soul Realm. According to the method, he was at the Mortal Realm Middle Stage, which had already made him very delighted. But now, his soul had directly reached the Mortal Realm Late Stage.

"Could I be a one-in-ten-thousand soul-cultivation genius, able to increase my Soul Realm even while sleeping through this cultivation method? Or was Heavenly Heart Induction Chapter just given the wrong name, and should actually be called the Great Dream Heart Sutra!"

Xiao Bai rubbed his chin and said suspiciously.

"Should I try it again? At this cultivation speed, it shouldn't take me long to cultivate straight to an Emperor Realm Soul, right? If I can cultivate to an Emperor Realm Soul before leaving the mountain, let's see who dares raise their voice at me. Jie jie jie!"

Once the decision was made, Xiao Bai acted on it. Right now, he was filled with hope for a bright future, instantly brimming with energy, his eyes shining and his motivation through the roof.

The first time—failure!

The second time—failure!

The third time—failure!

The tenth time—failure!

The light in Xiao Bai's eyes gradually dimmed. Sure enough, the three great illusions of life.

"I'm the protagonist!"

"She likes me!"

"There's no one in the bushes!"

Modern people truly did not deceive him. In the end, Xiao Bai accepted the fact that he was not the protagonist and did not have a protagonist's halo.

"Ah! I can only be an ordinary, unremarkable cheat user!"

He stood up, clasped his hands behind his back, lifted his head to the sky, and let out a long sigh, nearly bursting into tears.

After sighing for a while, Xiao Bai finally remembered the problem he had wanted to solve at the very beginning. But now, it was not a big problem.

After getting started with the Heavenly Heart Induction Chapter, he could use one of the Soul Seal methods recorded within it, using soul power to seal an enemy's soul. After adding lightning to it, its power became even stronger.

Xiao Bai planned to use this characteristic to seal the Dou Qi fluctuations inside his Dantian.

According to the original work, when Xiao Yan had first entered the Dou Zong realm, his soul had only been at the Completion of Mortal Realm, and that was because his soul had been naturally powerful. From this, it could be inferred that the Soul Realm of other early-stage Dou Zong experts was most likely the same as his: Mortal Realm Late Stage.

With a seal applied at this Soul Realm, a remnant-soul old man and a blind Dou Emperor probably would not be able to see through it. At the very least, when they tried to forcibly pry into him, Xiao Bai would sense it, rather than being completely unaware.

After dealing with it, Xiao Bai straightened his clothes and touched the bloodstained tear tracks on his face, preparing to wash them off when he passed by Small Lake on the back mountain. It did not matter if other people saw them; he did not care what those people thought.

But if Xun Er discovered them, things would get troublesome. That girl would not blame him, and if he did not say the reason, she would not press him either. She would just look at him with an aggrieved expression, enough to make him feel guilty and ache with distress.

Unless one was a scumbag, who could withstand that? In any case, Xiao Bai could not. He was not a scumbag; he was just a little more loving than most.

"Is there anything wrong with a man being a little more loving? I only want to give these good girls a warm home!"