Buddhist Secret Arts!

"Senior brother, so what I was gleaning from watching that incomplete game of chess was the Formation Great Dao!"

After listening to Zhou Hao explain the distinction between the major and minor paths, Liu Yu's eyes lit up.

No wonder Changsheng Brother Changsheng is so monstrous; he was able to kill a Nascent Soul Yaksha at the Myriad Phenomena Realm. It turns out he had already begun to comprehend the Great Dao.

"Junior brother, your future is limitless; you will surely become a grandmaster of formations," Zhou Hao said with a smile.

"When the time comes, we brothers will join forces and kill any god or Buddha who stands in our way!" Liu Yu exclaimed excitedly.

The two came to the Profound Heaven Realm together, and now they have entered Jade Dragon Peak together. Although Liu Yu said it was for the convenience of his family in the future, only he himself knows how much of his choice of Jade Dragon Peak was actually because of Zhou Hao.

The two brothers chatted and laughed as they arrived in the Dao Treasury Hall.

"Greetings, Martial Uncle," Zhou Hao and Liu Yu both bowed.

"Hmm." Daoist Huang Ting was dozing off, didn't even lift his eyelids.

"Go in yourselves. You've all seen the Daoist scriptures on the first floor last time. The supernatural abilities and secret techniques that inner disciples can choose are on the second floor. Once you've chosen, bring me the simplified version, and I'll give you the original copy."

"Yes." The two looked at each other and smiled.

Becoming an inner disciple is quite different; you no longer have to rely solely on jade slips, and you can now enter the Dao Treasury Hall.

From the outside, the Dao Treasury Hall looked like just a three-story wooden building, but once the two entered, they discovered that it was a hidden paradise.

Rows of enormous bookshelves, with over a million books on the first shelf alone.

"Let's go, senior brother!" Liu Yu said excitedly, "Let's go to the second floor."

"Didn't you want to exchange for that set of <Sumeru Forward-Reverse Four Symbols Immortal Formation>?" Zhou Hao asked with a smile.

"Let's go see what supernatural abilities and secret techniques the inner disciples on the second floor can exchange for. What if there's a more suitable formation?" Liu Yu pulled Zhou Hao along as they walked towards the stairs leading to the second floor.

The second floor of the Dao Treasury Hall is equally spacious. Unlike the first floor, which features rows of huge bookshelves, the second floor is filled with exquisitely carved crystal tables.

On the table, there were anywhere from a few to a dozen books, each shimmering with starlight. Just by their appearance, they seemed more precious than the cultivation manuals on the first floor.

"Three hundred and sixty long tables, doesn't that mean there are thousands of supernatural techniques and secret arts here?" Zhou Hao's divine sense spread and enveloped the entire second-floor space. He saw that the three hundred and sixty exquisite long tables on the second floor were arranged according to the stars in the heavens, forming a mysterious array.

The starlight on the book cover is also due to the power of the array.

"Senior brother, look!" Liu Yu exclaimed, holding a book that occupied a separate table. "This supernatural power, <Eye of the Candle Dragon>, actually requires one million merit points!"

"<The Eye of the Candle Dragon>?" Zhou Hao exclaimed in surprise.

Wasn't that supernatural power possessed by the Yinglong Guard and the royal family of the Xia Clan Great World? Does the Mysterious Heaven Sect's Dao Treasury Hall also have it?

Zhou Hao took the book with the gold cover from Liu Yu and opened it.

"The Eye of the Candle Dragon" is the most powerful divine ability of the great being "Candle Dragon," ranking among the top one hundred of all divine abilities and secret techniques in the Three Realms. To cultivate this ability, one must God-Devil Body Refining to the Void Return level through divine and demonic refinement, collect the aurora borealis from the Nine Heavens into their eyes, and then cultivate their "Innate Candlelight" to be considered to have entered the path...

"It really is this great supernatural power," Zhou Hao thought to himself.

When I read the original work in my previous life, there was an introduction to the supernatural power called "Eye of the Candle Dragon." Because the powerful Candle Dragon perished in the ancient war, it was quite widely known among some powerful beings in the Three Realms.

Since the Mysterious Heaven Sect was founded by Pure Yang True Immortal, Liu Yu and the others did not know the details of the ancestor who killed the Chenyu Heavenly Demon with a single talisman last time, but Zhou Hao had already guessed his strength and believed that he was also a Pure Yang True Immortal.

It's not surprising that such a powerful person could obtain this widely known divine ability.

"It's a pity that only Void Return Divine Demon can cultivate this," Liu Yu sighed.

"Even if you could cultivate now, do you have a million merit points?" Zhou Hao smiled as he placed the simplified version of this supernatural ability back on the table.

He had initially thought that over 20,000 merit points was a huge sum of money, but this cultivation manual brought him back to his senses.

If it were really that easy, those inner disciples wouldn't knowingly go to the Western Xiulu Continent to fight and hone their skills, even though they knew it was more dangerous than the underground Abyss World.

After a quick look around, Liu Yu, clutching a book on formations, said with a wry smile, "The secret techniques on the second floor are indeed excellent, but they're just too expensive."

He received a total of 8,500 merit points as a reward, but there wasn't a single book on the entire second floor that required less than 10,000 merit points to redeem.

Just like the book <Great Sumeru Forward-Reverse Nine Palaces Immortal Array> he is holding at this moment, it is clearly of the same lineage as <Sumeru Forward-Reverse Four Symbols Immortal Formation>, but a more profound immortal-level array.

However, the 15,000 merit points required for the exchange forced Liu Yu to reluctantly return the item to the table.

"Senior brother, I think I'll go back to the first floor." Liu Yu shook his head. "That book, <The Sumeru Forward-Reverse Four Symbols Immortal Formation>, only costs five thousand merit points. I can exchange it for some other Earth-rank arrays to study. You can take your time choosing here."

"Okay. I'll go down to find you in a bit." Zhou Hao nodded.

He actually wanted to find the secret technique of the soul that Liang Han had mentioned earlier, the "Western Heavenly Dragon Zen Chant".

With the guidance of the Immortal Wuchen, Zhou Hao has come to understand his true nature and decided to follow the path of Tai Chi in the future. Although these supernatural powers are good, most of them are not as good as his own Xuanwu Great Divine Ability.

"With the Xuanwu Great Divine Ability, the Three Heads and Six Arms, and the Law of Heaven and Earth Technique to assist me, coupled with the Taiji Fist, it is more than enough for my current level."

After all, a bird in the hand is worth more than a thousand birds in the forest.

Even the Xuanwu Great Divine Ability, which he received the inheritance of, he has not fully mastered. Learning other divine powers would only be a distraction.

"In close combat, my supernatural abilities are already sufficient," Zhou Hao thought to himself. " For Qi Refining Path, the <Great Five Elements Extinction Divine Light> and the <Heaven Escape Needle Art> are both immortal secret techniques that are enough for cultivators to comprehend to the Void Return stage, so there's no need to learn more. Instead, I should learn a soul secret technique, which will not only allow me to leverage the advantage of my powerful soul but also protect it."

The fact that Li Zhan was possessed by the Chenyu Heavenly Demon served as a warning to Zhou Hao.

The soul is the very foundation of all living beings, so one can never be too careful.

"Found it!"

After searching for a long time, Zhou Hao finally found three books with yellow covers on a secluded table.

"There are actually three books on Buddhist supernatural powers?"

Zhou Hao looked at the three books: "The Form-and-Formless Protective Divine Light," "The Western Heavenly Dragon Zen Chant," and "The Separation-Convergence Divine Light."

Among them, the "Form-and-Formless Protective Divine Light" is a secret protective technique that can refine Origin Power into a Buddhist protective divine light. It can appear and disappear at will and can switch freely between form and formlessness. It can be used together with the divine power of God-Devil Body Refining refinement to protect the physical body.

The "Separation-Convergence Divine Light" is an offensive secret technique that combines Yang Gang Qi with the Yuan Fire of the Yuan Shen realm and the Earth Fire planted in the Purple Mansion to refine it into a special Buddhist fire. When refined to a high level, it can even rival true fire.

Both secret techniques were incredibly powerful and quite suitable for Zhou Hao. However, the first volume alone required 50,000 merit points, and one had to reach the Nascent Soul realm in Qi Refining before one could begin cultivating them, which dispelled all of Zhou Hao's thoughts.

"Fortunately, the first volume of ' Western Heavenly Dragon Zen Chant ' only costs 20,000 merit points." Zhou Hao picked up the book with eight heavenly dragon patterns on the cover.

"One needs to have their divine sense cover three thousand miles to reach the basics? No wonder Liang Han said many Primordial Spirit Daoist haven't succeeded. I've already reached three thousand six hundred miles; I can start cultivating."

Zhou Hao carefully flipped through the pages.

The "Western Heavenly Dragon Zen Chant" is one of the secret techniques of the Western Buddhist sect in the Heavenly Realm. After mastering it, one's soul can condense eight guardian heavenly dragons to protect the soul.

During the attack, the eight celestial dragons can chant Buddhist hymns, which can make people weak as a feather and intoxicated. Even those with great evil and sins can be moved to ashes. This is a true direct annihilation of the opponent's soul, a direct battle between the soul and the spirit.

Once this method is encountered, no magical treasures or techniques are useful and can all be broken. Only a method of defending the same spiritual soul can resist it.

"That's it!"

Zhou Hao shook his head.

"The methods of Buddhism are all described in flowery language. If they were truly that powerful, wouldn't one be invincible among those of the same level with just this one secret technique, provided their spiritual soul was strong enough?"

However, although the simplified version of this book may contain some exaggerations, it cannot conceal the immense power of this divine soul technique.

It can protect the soul and directly annihilate the enemy's soul. 20,000 merit points are well worth it!

After deciding to exchange for the <Western Heavenly Dragon Zen Chant>, Zhou Hao no longer looked at the secret techniques and supernatural powers on the second level.

Zhou Hao's eyes lit up as he looked at some Dao Sect secret techniques from works like "The Universe in the Sleeve" and "The Great Five Elements Escape."

However, not to mention that he only had 23,800 merit points in total, those truly powerful secret techniques even required the primordial spirit or the Void Return Realm to cultivate.

Changing it now won't help.

After descending the stairs to the first floor, Zhou Hao saw that Liu Yu had already left. Without further delay, he went to the bookshelf of movement techniques and picked up the simplified version of "Phantom Formless" that he had coveted last time, before leaving the Dao Treasury Hall.

<Phantom Formless> is a skill-based close-combat movement technique. One can follow the path of Tai Chi, Xuanwu Great Divine Ability, Three Heads and Six Arms, and Law of Heaven and Earth are all close-combat techniques. With another close-combat movement technique, close combat will naturally be even more perfect, with no weaknesses.

Dao Treasury Hall, Liu Yu was holding a book and sitting there studying diligently.

Daoist Huang Ting stopped lying down and sat down, leisurely sipping his wine. Seeing Zhou Hao come out, he smiled and said, "Have you chosen? Let me see."

Zhou Hao handed over the two simplified manuals of martial arts techniques he was holding.

"Only two books?" Daoist Huang Ting nodded slightly. "Don't bite off more than you can chew. Even if you know ten supernatural powers, you'll only have a superficial understanding of each. It's better to specialize in one. Not bad, not bad."

But when he saw the <Western Heavenly Dragon Zen Chant>, his brows furrowed. "Didn't you already exchange for a <Soul-Shaking Art> last time? I know you have divine sense, but how many years have you been cultivating? Can your divine sense cover six hundred miles? Although this Heavenly Dragon Chant is an unparalleled secret technique for defending and fighting with the divine soul, its requirements for the divine soul are too high."

"It's a bit too early for you to exchange now. It would be more appropriate to wait until you reach the Nascent Soul stage."

Zhou Hao smiled and said, "I already have enough of my other supernatural abilities and secret techniques. I'll exchange for this one first, so I won't have to run back to the sect from the Xia Clan Great World to find a new cultivation method later."

He has now entered the inner sect and can leave the Profound Heaven Realm.

After exchanging for the cultivation technique, Zhou Hao planned to cultivate it and then return to the Xia Clan Great World to hone his skills and explore the world.

"If that's the case, then so be it." Daoist Huang Ting shook his head, flipped his hand, and handed Zhou Hao two rubbings of the cultivation manuals.

"Thank you, Uncle-Master." Zhou Hao bowed and walked to Liu Yu's side. Seeing that he was completely engrossed in the story, he didn't disturb him but put his hand on Liu Yu's shoulder.

Brush!

A ripple spread through the space, and the two had already teleported away.

"The Heaven and Earth Great Dao?" Daoist Huang Ting's eyes widened in surprise.

When his divine sense, which covered nearly two thousand miles, failed to detect Zhou Hao's teleportation, he was so shocked that he jumped up from his seat.

"This little monster, how many years has he been cultivating? His spiritual sense is stronger than mine!" Daoist Huang Ting murmured.

"How embarrassing, how embarrassing! I was just lecturing him..."

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