Lu Xuan Seeking His Own Beating

Lu Xuan held the jade slip containing the Pangu Art in his palm. As he poured his mana into it, the jade slip turned to dust. The complete Pangu Art then appeared in Lu Xuan's memories.

Even the Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches could not cultivate the Pangu Art, so naturally Lu Xuan could not cultivate it either. But that was only true for now, not for the future.

For Lu Xuan had already clearly realized that to cultivate the Pangu Art, one first had to grasp the powers of various different laws.

As long as one mastered the corresponding laws, cultivating the Pangu Art would be as natural as water flowing into a channel.

This was also why the Pangu Art had not reached the level of Pangu's own cultivation method. Pangu's technique had been founded upon the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws.

Yet the current Pangu Art, let alone being founded upon the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws, had only barely gathered a few dozen laws.

Even that was only because the laws in which the Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches each excelled required other laws as support for fusion. Otherwise, there definitely would not have been more than fifteen.

But what concerned Lu Xuan now was not any of that, because within the Pangu Art, he had found the cultivation method most suited for battle.

In the original trajectory of the Primordial World, after the War of Witches and Monsters, the Three Pure Ones had created the Eight-Nine Mystical Technique, also known as the Nine-Turn Origin Technique, with the Witch Art as its foundation.

In the end, the Eight-Nine Mystical Technique had even become the sect-protecting cultivation method of both the Daoist School and the Buddhist School. It could be called the Mysterious Sect's supreme body-tempering art.

Yet what Lu Xuan had derived from the Pangu Art was not the Eight-Nine Mystical Technique, but the Heaven and Earth Mystical Technique, which completed the number of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.

The Eight-Nine Mystical Technique was divided into nine turns, with each turn corresponding to a major realm of cultivation. Cultivating to the ninth turn made one's cultivation comparable to a Primordial Limitless Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal.

Unfortunately, the Eight-Nine Mystical Technique had one greatest flaw: the eighth and ninth turns simply could not be attained. At most, one could cultivate to the seventh turn, the realm of a Primordial Golden Immortal.

The Heaven and Earth Mystical Technique, however, was divided into twelve turns. Upon reaching great completion, it was comparable to the Primordial Supreme Realm. But every turn required twice the accumulation of the previous one.

Moreover, every breakthrough required one's physical body to be reassembled. Just imagining how agonizing that process was made it clear enough.

Thus, even Lu Xuan could not help clicking his tongue repeatedly as he looked at the Heaven and Earth Mystical Technique he had obtained. For a time, he did not even know whether he should cultivate it.

"I'm a transmigrator. Even if I cultivate Law-Proven Dao, it might not be impossible. There's probably no need for me to torture myself, right?"

Even as Lu Xuan tried to persuade himself, he did not forget to study the cultivation method of the Heaven and Earth Mystical Technique. In the end, he still could not resist the temptation and slowly sat down beside the Pool of Three Lights Divine Water.

Lu Xuan's cultivation was now at the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm, and not merely in terms of his Primordial Spirit. After all, during the time he had sparred with the Twelve Ancestral Witches in the Ancestral Witch Hall, he had long since raised his physical body's strength to the Zenith Heaven Realm.

Therefore, cultivating the Heaven and Earth Mystical Technique now yielded twice the result with half the effort. In only a hundred years, he had already reached the completion of the First Transformation.

This made Lu Xuan open his eyes and begin a fresh round of inner struggle. What occupied his mind was whether or not to break through to the Second Transformation.

After all, breaking through to the Second Transformation required his physical body to be reassembled. Lu Xuan barely dared imagine how painful that process would be.

In the end, he did not know what made Lu Xuan steel his resolve. With a leap, he jumped straight into the Pool of Three Lights Divine Water. Then he began breaking through to the second layer of the Heaven and Earth Mystical Technique.

For a time, law and Dao essence circulated throughout Lu Xuan's body. Yet these circulating law and Dao essences were not nourishing his physical body. Rather, they were like sharp knives, grinding away at his flesh and blood.

Lu Xuan gritted his teeth and endured the pain, only to discover that he had made a fatal mistake. He immediately sprang from the Pool of Three Lights Divine Water, while the Twelfth-Grade Pure World White Lotus appeared upon the water's surface.

Lu Xuan sat cross-legged atop the Twelfth-Grade Pure World White Lotus and finally let out a long breath. "Am I an idiot? The Three Lights Divine Water is the Primordial World's foremost sacred healing medicine, yet I tried to reassemble my body inside the Pool of Three Lights Divine Water. Isn't that basically asking to be abused?"

That was right. Lu Xuan had discovered that the flesh and blood just ground away from his body was being healed again by the Three Lights Divine Water. In other words, if he broke through the Second Transformation in the pool, it would take several times longer than a normal breakthrough.

No one knew how much time passed before Lu Xuan's body finally turned into a cloud of blood mist, floating above the Twelfth-Grade Pure World White Lotus.

But no matter how hard Lu Xuan tried, he simply could not reassemble his physical body. His heart instantly leaped into his throat.

"Damn it, could something have gone wrong? Don't tell me I can no longer reassemble my body and will have to appear as blood mist forever?"

Even as worry filled his heart, Lu Xuan kept thinking about where the problem lay, or what crucial factor he had overlooked.

Every time the blood mist atop the Twelfth-Grade Pure World White Lotus drifted, Lu Xuan felt a pain that tore at his heart and split his lungs. It left him utterly unable to calm himself and think.

Just then, Tongtian arrived on Abbot Island. He happened to see the blood mist above the Purifying World White Lotus and sensed Lu Xuan's aura from within it.

After a moment's thought, he understood the crux of the matter and immediately said to Lu Xuan, "Brother, are you cultivating the Heaven and Earth Mystical Technique?"

"If so, you cannot complete the reassembly of your physical body on Abbot Island. Because Abbot Island lies outside the Heavenly Dao, you cannot obtain enough law power."

It turned out Tongtian had also comprehended the Heaven and Earth Mystical Technique from the Pangu Art. He had come to see Lu Xuan at once because he felt that the Heaven and Earth Mystical Technique was absolutely the most suitable cultivation method for Lu Xuan.

Unexpectedly, by the time Tongtian arrived, Lu Xuan had already begun his breakthrough to the Second Transformation. Tongtian therefore directly pointed out the heart of the problem.

Hearing Tongtian's reminder, Lu Xuan finally understood. Though the Three Overseas Immortal Islands had evolved from fragments of chaos, they were a minor world independent of the Heavenly Dao.

Precisely because they stood independent of the Heavenly Dao, the Three Overseas Immortal Islands could not commune with the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws. One could even say that the Three Overseas Immortal Islands formed their own Dao body, one fundamentally insufficient to support Lu Xuan's breakthrough to the Second Transformation.

After understanding the crux of the matter, Lu Xuan vanished from Abbot Island at once. But he did not go to the Primordial World. Instead, he entered the Pangu World-Opening Map directly.

The Pangu World-Opening Map now not only possessed the ability to nurture laws, but had also begun nurturing Innate Spirit Treasures.

Thus, if Lu Xuan broke through the Second Transformation within the Pangu World-Opening Map, he would definitely receive sufficient law power to support him. It would even surpass breaking through in the Primordial World.

After all, within the Primordial World, only the laws of the Heavenly Dao could support him. But within the Pangu World-Opening Map, it was the laws of the Great Dao.

And with the assistance of Great Dao law power, Lu Xuan could clearly feel a complete Space Law slowly taking shape within his bloodline.