Xuan Yuan Dharma King

The young man floated thousands of feet in the air without any external aid. White clouds drifted beneath his feet, and he made no attempt to conceal himself with invisibility spells. He was truly audacious.

Rumble!! A giant aircraft passed by not far away, causing the young man to pause and marvel. "Human ingenuity truly reaches the heavens. They can ascend to the skies and dive into the earth with external forces. I've heard they've even been to the moon. Even this Old Ancestor wouldn't dare attempt such a thing. Those Nine Heavens Astral Winds could kill even immortals! Tsk tsk!! No wonder our Yao race is in decline. If half our race possessed human intelligence, we wouldn't have..." He muttered to himself, completely unaware of the commotion he was causing.

The space around him distorted, and the young man landed in a forest on the ground. This method was clearly far superior to Kunlun's Earth Shrinking technique. He held a command flag in his hand and searched the surroundings, but Zhou Qing had blended seamlessly with the mountains and forests, not a trace of his aura leaking out.

The young man shook his head. "Could he be hiding? Impossible! How can anyone hide from this Old Ancestor's sight? Hmm? Since he's a successor of the Heavenly Gods and Demons Array, he must have some skill. It's a pity my power hasn't recovered to even half of what it was. It's best not to be too arrogant. Otherwise, I could destroy this area for ten miles around and kill everyone, wouldn't that be fun? Hmph, according to Number One, those so-called Grandmasters are all late-stage Spirit Transmutation? Although my cultivation has greatly diminished, and I'm only in the early Return to Emptiness stage now, I can still handle three of them. But if they have magical treasures... that miscellaneous dog Zhang Daoling of Dragon Tiger Mountain left behind the Tianshi Sword, the Dragon Tiger Treasure Seal, the Yu Su Ruler, and Shu Mountain's Purple and Azure Twin Swords... I'd be at a significant disadvantage. It's not worth it!"

Speaking of Shu Mountain, a hint of killing intent flashed in the young man's eyes. "Do you think that's enough to stop this Old Ancestor's search? You underestimate Xuan Yuan Dharma King from back then." He mentioned his former title with a touch of pride.

"Demonic Search Heaven and Earth, Heavenly Vision and Earthly Hearing Great Art!" With a crackling sound, an incredibly powerful, almost tangible divine sense emanated from Xuan Yuan Dharma King's blood-red eyes in all directions. The trees and rocks within three feet of Xuan Yuan Dharma King were instantly disintegrated and exploded by this all-pervasive divine sense.

Without moving a single bit of True Essence, his divine sense alone possessed such might. If any cultivator from China's Daoist Sect were to witness this, their eyeballs would surely pop out. Cultivators spend day after day meditating and circulating True Essence, opening meridians, and refining their bodies – this is all external cultivation. As long as one has perseverance and is willing to endure hardship, they can reach high realms. However, this method of divine sense cultivation is not so easy; talent, comprehension, and hard work are all indispensable. Among essence, energy, and spirit, the divine sense aspect is the most mysterious, ethereal, and traceless. The purpose of cultivation is to seek longevity and eternal indestructibility. Unfortunately, physical bodies are tangible things, and in the river of time, all tangible things will eventually turn to dust. Thus, the great sages of the past proposed the method of divine sense cultivation to escape the physical body and exist eternally between heaven and earth.

Becoming a saint through the physical body, seeking eternity through divine sense – two completely different concepts that do not conflict. These two cultivation methods have been passed down. Physical body cultivation has a traceable path and is easier to cultivate, while the path of divine sense cultivation is extremely difficult, and achievements are rare. Those with poor talent and comprehension may never even get started in their entire lives. Therefore, there are far more people cultivating the physical body than divine sense.

Later, some individuals cultivated both, gradually discovering that a powerful divine sense greatly benefited their True Essence circulation, mobilization, and communication with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The dual cultivation method gradually became mainstream. However, the path of cultivation is inherently a path of celestial balance; there is gain, and there is loss. Although the dual cultivation method is good, progress is extremely slow, and balancing divine sense and True Essence is difficult, making breakthroughs in realms hard to achieve. Different people have different views. In ancient times, there were far more cultivation techniques than in modern times. After the Battle of the Investiture of the Gods, a large number of cultivation techniques were lost, and this dual cultivation path became orthodox and was passed down. Few people understood the method of divine sense cultivation.

Xuan Yuan Dharma King was formed from a wisp of vital blood essence from an ancient cultivator. That ancient cultivator used his own vital blood essence as a medicinal guide and refined a pill in a furnace for decades. Finally, as the pill was completed, enemies found him, killed him, and stole the pill. However, the enemy failed to notice that a wisp of vital blood essence remained unrefined in the furnace. The vital blood essence absorbed the spiritual energy from the completed pill and, over tens of thousands of years, gradually developed consciousness, took human form, and obtained the divine sense cultivation technique of that ancient cultivator. He instantly became a top expert in the cultivation world at the time, calling himself Xuan Yuan Dharma King. Within a few years, he gathered half the Yao race under his banner and proclaimed that the Yao race should rule the human world. For a time, his power was immense, rarely seen in a thousand years.

Alas, the Yao race was ultimately in decline. How could Xuan Yuan Dharma King alone turn the tide? In the end, the foremost expert of the Daoist Sect at the time, Changmei Ancestor, invited fellow cultivators from all over the world to fight Xuan Yuan Dharma King three times at Shu Mountain. Finally, he set up the Daoist killing formation, the Two Elements Dust Formation, to trap Xuan Yuan Dharma King and slew him with the Purple and Azure Twin Swords. From then on, the Yao race declined, no longer able to contend with humans, and could only roam the mountains and forests, away from people, truly becoming monsters.

However, Xuan Yuan Dharma King was formed from vital blood essence, an incorporeal body. He used the Blood Condensation Pearl, refined with his own life, to form a true body and directly withstood an attack from the Purple and Azure Twin Swords. His divine sense escaped and fled overseas, where he found an island and cultivated in seclusion for a thousand years before regaining his true form. The hatred in his heart was so deep that it could not be washed away even by all the waters of the five lakes and four seas.

The Heavenly Vision and Earthly Hearing Great Art was an ancient supreme technique, even superior to the Buddhist Six Divine Powers' Heavenly Eye. Only those with exceptionally powerful divine sense could wield it; any Daoist expert would be unable to use it. Even Old Daoist Ganji of Kunlun would be helpless. Once activated, within a hundred-mile radius, it could discern the number of hairs on a fly's leg. It was truly a monstrously effective search technique.

Zhou Qing had hidden his form and aura using talismans, and he was aware of what was happening outside. He had initially thought it was just a false alarm, that he was scaring himself. He never imagined that such a monstrous individual had actually arrived. Seeing the young cultivator in golden-yellow Daoist robes, he was greatly alarmed. When did I provoke such a terrifying person? His divine sense can condense into substance. This is too horrifying! Even late-stage Spirit Transmutation cultivators might not be able to do this! Who is this person?

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