Old Man, You Set Me Up!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The physical bodies of more than a dozen Life Cultivation collapsed, their blood and bones flying everywhere, staining their robes crimson. Flesh and pieces of flesh fell in torrents, mingling with the rain and dripping onto the soil. Life force lingered like mist, and only a wisp of soul remained within the robes, pulled into the whirlwind of the energy column.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Several strange sounds rang out, and illusory flowers bloomed in mid-air, each containing a human figure. These were the Divine Soul of cultivators whose Nature Cultivation had been shattered. Concepts such as fortune, misfortune, wealth, and lifespan within their souls scattered and flew about, disrupting the Karmic Thread and residual Fortune beneath the shattered bedclothes.

The Three Souls remained and coalesced, but before they could say anything, they were pulled by the suction force and fell into the whirlwind of the air column!

In an instant, the situation reversed. The aggressive side was completely suppressed. Blood and soul shadows scattered and flew everywhere, being pulled into the whirlwind one after another. The group of cultivators lost nearly half of their strength in the blink of an eye. This was not just a decline, but a devastating loss. The remaining people suffered a backlash due to the Fortune Canopy, and were severely injured in both mind and body, causing their momentum to plummet.

"This all-out attack, which gathered everyone's strength and contained the very essence of life, was broken so easily?"

Amidst the scattered blood and ghostly shadows, Ding Chunzi's eyes widened suddenly, his entire body trembled, and his strength and vitality drained away like a gushing spring. If it weren't for his mysterious cultivation Cultivation Method that could forcefully lock his essence, vital energy, and Qi and Blood with the Taiyin Qi, he would probably have been captured as well.

Even so, his condition was far from optimistic. His face was pale, his eyes were bloodshot Divine Radiance dim, and he was on the verge of death, as if he were seriously ill and his body was falling.

He led several sects of cultivators around him. After being severely injured, except for those who were sucked into the whirlwind, the rest were all knocked down to the mortal world and landed on the ground.

Boom! Boom!

Amidst the crashing sounds, the cultivators fell like shooting stars, raising clouds of dust.

The sound startled Ran Lian and the others from their daze. Looking up, they saw their "immortal" lying on the ground, their feelings a complex mix. Because they were experiencing enlightenment in the drizzle, strange thoughts began to sprout in their minds—

"Before Human Path prevails, all demons and monsters are ultimately nothing but illusions..."

Boom!

The thought had barely formed when a loud bang rang out in mid-air, and a gourd flew into the air!

"What a fine scholar! A Grandmaster of Human Path! I never imagined that despite my elaborate preparations, I would ultimately be unable to reverse the tide of battle. But don't think that this will allow you to subdue or seal me!"

Ding Chunzi, however, ascended into the air again, releasing his Law Treasure. He appeared quite disheveled; the ribbon binding his hair had broken, his white hair flying wildly in the wind, and his expression was ferocious. His hands formed a hand seal, and after uttering those words, he coldly spat out a single word—

"Untie!"

His voice was like thunder, reverberating through my very bones!

Ding Chunzi's flesh and blood suddenly swelled, and his muscles, bones, and skin all trembled. Power surged forth, combining with Blood Qi, True Qi, and True Essence. His Divine Soul also throbbed, his Golden Core spun rapidly, Heart Fire and Core Fire merged into one.

The power from both ends of life and death combines, drawing the essence from the entire body and surging towards the hands, forming Dao Seal!

Solve! Solve! Solve!

As the sound fell, a character appeared on the surface of the gourd in mid-air, then flew out in the air and twisted. It was the character "Feng" in seal script. The strokes were clear, the twists changed, and it swam and disintegrated like a spiritual snake, and finally collapsed and disappeared.

Then, a scream came from the gourd, "Ha! I'm finally free again! Free!"

Then, the gourd flew up and down, and a gleaming figure emerged from it, a shadow that seemed like Divine Soul, with a smooth surface.

When the spirit roams and gathers, the Yin Spirit arises within!

"This is Yin Spirit!" Ding Chunzi's face was as pale as paper, and his body swayed as if about to collapse, but a confident smile remained on his lips. "The Supreme Yin Gourd is originally High-Tier Magical Treasure, containing spiritual consciousness. It can travel as a spirit, making it a Yin Spirit. In terms of cultivation alone, it is even a notch above the peak of the Fourth Realm, infinitely close to the Fourth Realm!"

The Fifth Realm Nature Cultivation is the Manifest Law level, which allows one to explore the mysteries of the Principle governing the universe.

"Old man, you're smart to let me out... Hmm? What's this aura?" The gourd chuckled shrilly, praising Ding Chunzi. The Yin Spirit figure that extended out became clearer, resembling a chubby boy, laughing heartily. But then his expression changed drastically. He turned his head, his gaze falling on the whirlwind of energy, and then saw the mountains and rivers that spread out and covered most of the sky!

Immediately, his gaze froze for a moment, then his eyes twitched as he noticed the two divine dragons flying in the air, and the hopeful thoughts that had already descended upon them!

"When the Human Dao Canon is complete?" Instantly, all the Yin Spirit and ghosts on the gourd sprang to life. "Old man, you tricked me!" With that, they turned and rode the gourd into the sky, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

"What happened? High-Tier Magical Treasure nearing the Fifth Realm escaped? This gourd... my nephew was worried I wouldn't be able to control it, so he sealed its spiritual consciousness, affecting its power and reducing its combat strength by nearly 70%. How could it be like this after being released..."

The thought flashed through Ding Chunzi's mind, and the pillar of energy changed again. Qiu Yan raised his hand and waved it, throwing out a pool of ink. In a flash, Lin Zhong turned into a jungle, full of swamp gas and poisonous insects, spreading out and reaching the horizon in the blink of an eye.

A series of sparks immediately erupted at the horizon!

"Ugh..." Ding Chunzi felt a tightness in his chest, and his sense of foreboding grew stronger. His cultivation had been completely exhausted during the unsealing process, and he could no longer resist. He was sucked into the air by the whirlwind!

"No, no, no! You can't do this to me! I am an elder of the Burial Bone Dao! If you seal me, the Burial Bone Dao will fight you to the death!" he shouted, finally revealing a look of panic.

Amidst the whirlwind, a cold glint flashed in Qiu Yan's eyes. "The Outer Dao sect dares to threaten an official of the imperial court? When you gathered your men to intercept and kill me, and allied with the Grasslands tribes to resist the imperial army, did you ever consider that this would anger the court? Would it bring disaster upon your sect? Don't act recklessly just because of your status and position. It would have been better if you hadn't reported the sect, but now that you have, the Karma entanglements are entangled, and the lineage of the Burial Bone Dao is likely in danger!"

After saying that, he made a stroke of his pen, and the two characters "seize" flew out from the tip of the pen. The strokes transformed into city walls, forming two cities, namely the Imperial City and the Eastern Capital!

With a loud bang!

The city fell from the sky with a deafening crash, as if it had struck flat ground. Ding Chunzi shuddered, a look of horror on his face. "You actually suppressed the connection between my Fortune and the sect's? Do you truly intend to become an enemy of the Burial Bone Dao?"

"Those who live outside the secular world should simply cultivate a pure and desireless heart. Even if they intend to scheme for Fortune, they should do so uprightly and in accordance with Human Path. Since you've brought up your sect, you're unlikely to give up easily. What else is there to say? Come here."

As soon as she finished speaking, Ding Chunzi was engulfed by the whirlwind of energy and disappeared without a trace.

With Ding Chunzi gone, the remaining cultivators seemed to have lost their leader. Their expressions changed drastically, and they scattered and fled. As a result, their interconnected Fortune were immediately scattered and could no longer hold sway. How could they possibly resist the absorption of Human Path power?

The cyclone expanded, and the wind became extremely strong!

The resistance crumbled instantly. The cultivators howled and flew about, some even fighting to the death, sacrificing their lifespans to break free of the seal. But this desperate resolve was misplaced; instead of fighting, they were trying to escape. How could they possibly succeed?

Within the column of air, Qiu Yan swung his arm. After a few strokes, the ink soared into the sky, transforming into mountains and rivers in Eight Directions, suppressing everything. The shattered Law Treasure treasures and the aura of the Cultivation Method, along with the Prison-Dragon Guest, were ultimately unable to escape and were all pulled into the whirlwind in one breath, condensing into light.

Then, Qiu Yan's mind shifted, his spirit detached from his body, and he flew straight into the sky with the pillar of energy, passing by the two dragons, traversing the lightning, flying over the starry sky, and reaching the depths of the other shore to observe the manifestation of lightning.

In a daze, the thunder was as vast as the ocean, with no end in sight.

Qiu Yan's consciousness floated and sank within the thunder, his thoughts gradually transforming. Within those thoughts, numerous gazes were projected out—the consciousnesses of Heavenly Hound, Ultimate Martial Venerable, Rouluo State Preceptor, Ding Chunzi, Prison-Dragon Guest, and many other cultivators. Guided by Qiu Yan and using their own thoughts as a bridge, they watched the thunderous spectacle!

"The Human Dao Sea of Thunder?" Heavenly Hound was skeptical.

Ding Chunzi then said, "What a presumptuous young man! How dare you let this humble Daoist witness this scene? Aren't you afraid I'll use it to accomplish my own ends?"

"If you succeed, you will gain some understanding of the Human Path Order, and your mind will inevitably change. I, Qiu, will be happy to see it happen!" As he spoke, a surge of thunder came over, entangling Qiu Yan's thoughts and transforming into a Force of Order, belonging to the Military School, within which there were changes in the scenery of mountains, rivers, sand, rain, and snow.

Military School Geographic Order!

As Qiu Yan thought about it, memories flooded out, and information related to landforms and geography quickly manifested. Furthermore, a Second Sage Spirit emerged, namely "Heavenly Timing, Earthly Advantage, and Human Harmony, advantageous location, and harmonious human relations."

Suddenly, waves rose again in the Thunder Sea, and faint thunder pulsed, emanating waves of energy that merged into the Military School Geographic Order, but the thunder itself did not strike.

"He's trying to gain another layer of Human Path Order..." The various consciousnesses that came through this connection immediately reached a consensus.

But one of them suddenly moved, and a strange dragon shadow roared out from it—it was the work of the Prison-Dragon Guest!

Meanwhile, on the Grasslands, in the sand near the column of air, seventy-two bamboo swords that had fallen to the ground suddenly trembled, a cloud of smoke billowed out, and a thought was transmitted...

"Disrupting my chess game will come at a price! You still want to create a classic? When the first part was completed, I saw that you were holding back, and I've been waiting for this opportunity! Since you're so arrogant, thinking you can solidify your insights into reality, then I might as well grant your wish and let you immerse yourself in it forever, endlessly repeating the cycle! As for the body, it will belong to this work. Exchanging the Left Wise King Rouluo for you, the Great Rui, is not a loss!"

The smoke instantly released a power that reversed the Samsara of time and space, spreading rapidly. Even Ran Lian, Fu Yong, Shi Jin, and others could not escape and were covered by the thick smoke. The memories in their hearts resurfaced, the gates of their hearts opened, and the excitement and surprise of the past two months reappeared in their hearts.

On the other side, the column of air was also invaded by the thick smoke, and the figures of Ding Chunzi and the others, who had turned into light, changed again, and their thoughts were also affected.

From this point, the thick fog spread deeper into Qiu Yan's heart...

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