In the Void.
The white pheasant took flight, locking down the Mysterious Branch. Greater Yin radiance mingled with the formless wind as it gradually struggled free of the burning temple.
Xu Xuan hid within this White Feathers Mysterious Chicken, controlling the spirit to seize command of the [Plain Blossoms and Linked Phases Mysterious Branches].
This Mysterious Branch was a testament to the Vast Wood of the Ancient Era, and a supreme treasure bestowed by the Greater Yin Path.
Divine Vastness had relied on this very treasure to evade calamities, restore his Dharma Body, and even assume Jin Qi's appearance!
It was just like the Devil Ancestor Taojue's outrageous declaration of old: [How will any of you prove that I am not Northern Yin?]
Now Divine Vastness could make the same declaration and see how the cultivators could prove he was not Jin Qi.
The White Feathers Mysterious Chicken Xu Xuan occupied was a Divine Mechanism of the [Dawn-Presiding Temple], known as the [Hairy Head Sun Long-Cry Star Official].
This Divine Mechanism had once been a Divine Core cultivator serving under Jiansui, who had committed his entire Nature and Life to the temple. Later, he suffered damage and gradually lost his intelligence, but his underlying foundation remained...
The rightful positions of the Five Virtues all possessed a destructive nature, connected to fortune and misfortune. Thus, they did not reject the authority of "calamity blessing"; indeed, they were compatible with it. To attain rectitude, one had to cultivate the five affairs.
The five affairs cultivated the five forms of rectitude: first, appearance, corresponding to wood; second, speech, corresponding to metal; third, sight, corresponding to fire; fourth, hearing, corresponding to water; fifth, thought, corresponding to earth.
"Origin Wood" was cultivated through reverence in appearance.
When appearance was reverent, the Son of Heaven's reverence