The Dao of Great Luo? The people below the stage felt somewhat speechless upon hearing this. We came all this way, just to listen to you lecture on the Dao of Great Luo?
However, no one dared to act up. Holding the mindset of listening for the time being, they quietly waited.
Hongjun did not say much either and began his lecture.
In an instant, the sound of Hongjun's lecture spread throughout the entire Zixiao Palace. His voice was ethereal, seeming to expound the ultimate principles of heaven and earth.
At the very beginning, everyone still felt somewhat dismissive, but gradually, they were slowly attracted and immersed in it, unable to extricate themselves.
This was because the Dao of Great Luo lectured by Hongjun was much more comprehensive and systematic compared to the Dao of Great Luo that everyone had explored on their own.
Meanwhile, inside Zixiao Palace, various miraculous visions also emerged one after another.
Swarms of celestial music played, heavenly sounds echoed, celestial maidens scattered flowers, golden lotuses surged from the ground, and wisps of spiritual Qi erupted and surged, incomparably pure and easily refined into magic power.
The many mighty figures present entered a state of comprehension one after another, each enchanted and entranced. They no longer harbored any doubts about Hongjun and began listening attentively.
However, there was an exception among them, and this exception was Ancestor Witch Houtu of Earth, who had also entered Zixiao Palace.
Houtu was an ancestor witch transformed from Pangu's Essence Blood, cultivating only the physical body and not the primordial spirit. At this moment, listening to the Dao of Great Luo lectured by Hongjun, the content was entirely related to the cultivation of the primordial spirit.
Therefore, Houtu could not understand what Hongjun was talking about at all. Houtu felt helpless, and a thought secretly arose in her mind: Fortunately, I came alone this time; otherwise, given the tempers of those brothers of mine, wouldn't they have turned this saint's dao field upside down?
Although she could not comprehend the Dao lectured by Hongjun, fortunately the spiritual Qi in this Zixiao Palace was abundant. Houtu absorbed this spiritual Qi to temper her physical body, so she did not have to sit there completely foolishly.
Just like that, time flashed by, and three thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.
In Zixiao Palace, as Hongjun stopped his lecture, the many mighty figures below the stage also woke up one after another.
Each of their faces wore expressions of unfulfillment, and their eyes were fixed dead on Hongjun.
That gaze was so full of anticipation for Hongjun to continue lecturing!
What a pity, Hongjun had too much bottom line and too many rules. Since he said three thousand years, it was three thousand years, not exceeding it by a single minute or second.
Everyone could only withdraw their gazes in disappointment. However, they all considered this lecture a massive harvest.
In these three thousand years, everyone had experienced breakthroughs to varying degrees, gaining a clearer understanding of the Dao of Great Luo, and even obtaining some vague insights into how to cultivate above Great Luo.
"The next lecture will be in three thousand years, on the Dao of the Quasi-Saint," Hongjun said once again.
He then intended to send everyone out.
However, as soon as they heard Hongjun's words, the crowd hurriedly clamored, asking Hongjun what a quasi-saint was.
Could the quasi-saint be the realm above Great Luo?
Hearing everyone's questions, Hongjun seemed to hesitate for a moment, and did not immediately make everyone leave.
With a press of his hand, everyone felt an invisible pressure and involuntarily quieted down.
Hongjun then explained, "That's right, the quasi-saint is indeed a realm above Great Luo."
"However, while this realm is called a realm, it is not strictly a realm. The realm of the quasi-saint was created by me."
"Under the Heavenly Dao, the ultimate peak of realms is the saint, also known as the Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal."
"It's just that the gap between Great Luo and a saint is far too vast, so I created a method named Severing the Three Corpses."
"The three corpses are formed from the benevolent thoughts, evil thoughts, and egoistic thoughts within the heart. Severing each of these thoughts to transform them into a corpse can cause one's own cultivation attainment to advance by leaps and bounds."
"And through this method of Severing the Three Corpses, one can break through the Great Luo Golden Immortal. Yet even so, it remains far from achieving sagehood. Therefore, I have established another realm in between, named the quasi-saint."
"One who severs one corpse is an early-stage quasi-saint, one who severs two corpses is a mid-stage quasi-saint, one who severs three corpses is a late-stage quasi-saint. If one can advance further and merge the three corpses back into their original source, they can instantly attain sagehood on the spot."
The crowd below the stage listened in utter fascination, their hearts soaring with yearning.
After all, what Hongjun said was simply too rousing—how this realm didn't exist before, and how he had created this realm himself.
Even more outrageous was that by cultivating this method of Severing the Three Corpses to its extreme, one could actually attain sagehood on the spot?
Thump!
Suddenly, the distinct sound of someone kneeling heavily on the ground rang out. As the bewildered crowd looked over, they saw Zhunti already kneeling on the ground, kowtowing fiercely toward Hongjun on the stage.
With another loud bang, Zhunti cried out, "I earnestly beseech the Teacher to take pity on the poverty of the West and impart to me the method of Severing the Three Corpses!"
Holy crap!
Only then did everyone react. This scoundrel was utterly shameless!
The next moment, thump, thump... one mighty figure after another knelt down, shouting in unison, "I earnestly beseech the Teacher to impart the method of Severing the Three Corpses to us as well."
Good grief. Looking around, there were hardly any people left maintaining their integrity.
Even if there were, seeing that everyone else around them was kneeling on the ground, the remaining ones quickly followed the crowd and knelt down as well.
Since everyone else was kneeling anyway, they might as well kneel too.
In an instant, the only person left sitting in her original spot across the entire hall was Houtu.
After all, Houtu couldn't even understand the Dao Hongjun lectured just moments ago, and she was very clear that this method of Severingthe Three Corpses...
It would likely be useless to the Witch Clan as well, which was why Houtu refused to kneel.
At this moment, Hongjun on the stage seemed caught off guard by everyone's actions, appearing somewhat stunned.
"So be it!"
After a moment, Hongjun sighed, as if moved by everyone's sincerity, and said, "Since you all ask this of me, I shall pass down this method of Severing the Three Corpses to you."
With that, Hongjun pointed a finger, and a mental cultivation method appeared within the minds of everyone present.
This cultivation method was precisely the method of Severing the Three Corpses.
Just as Hongjun had stated, this method of Severing the Three Corpses truly pointed directly to proving the Dao of Hunyuan.
As long as one severed the three obsessions of benevolent thought, evil thought, and self, and then entrusted them onto innate spiritual treasures, one could greatly advance their own cultivation.
The more powerful the innate spiritual treasure, the more powerful the severed obsession avatar would be.
Moreover, the avatars obtained from this Severing the Three Corpses were remarkably mystical. Each one was equivalent to a completely new self without the slightest difference, capable of both existing independently and remaining mutually connected.
Compared to any conventional avatar or clone techniques known to everyone in the past, it was countless times more profound.
Upon acquiring this method of Severing the Three Corpses, everyone was extremely excited. After all, wouldn't this mean they could also prove the Dao and become saints like Hongjun in the future?
They might even surpass Hongjun later on after starting out behind.
One could only say this was the fearlessness of the ignorant. Everyone thought they were taking advantage, unaware that they had just tumbled into a genuine trap and were doomed to suffer hardships for the rest of their lives.
Even if someone harbored vigilance toward Hongjun, feeling that there was no such selfless person in this world who would not only become a saint themselves but also lift up juniors and allow others to become saints...
As others advanced their cultivation by leaps and bounds after severing their corpses, how many could continue to maintain their rationality and vigilance?
Sometimes, schemes and plots are not to be feared; what is truly terrifying is this kind of open and aboveboard stratagem.
The method of Severing the Three Corpses given by Hongjun could not be called fake, but when nine parts were true and one part was false, no one could possibly see through it.
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