Long ago, while studying the scriptures far and wide, Emperor Zun compiled the Nine Secrets: Jie, which he had created in his first life and which could instantly multiply its user's combat strength tenfold, together with the eight supreme secret techniques created by the other eight Heavenly Venerables, including the Nine Secrets: Dou, into a single volume. Together, they were called the Nine Secrets!
It was a supreme immortal canon that rivaled any Great Emperor's ancient scripture.
Every secret technique within the Nine Secrets possessed unimaginable power.
It was said that when all nine united, their divine might could shake heaven and earth and make ghosts and gods weep.
Sadly, the Nine Secrets had been scattered throughout the world for countless years. Several had vanished without a trace and were believed to have disappeared entirely into the river of time.
Some ancient sages believed the Nine Secrets were so powerful that even heaven would not permit their union, which was why they had been separated and lost across the world.
He had never expected this ancient stele to bear the Nine Secrets: Dou, one of the Nine Secrets.
It could manifest all manner of divine offensive arts, changing in countless ways-a truly supreme saint art.
"To think I'd obtain one of the Nine Secrets here!"
Taiyi's eyes blazed.
Looking at the ancient stele before him, covered in fine cracks, he felt both astonishment and delight.
But before he could put the stele away.
As though it had already fulfilled its mission.
The ancient stele, which had helped him comprehend the Nine Secrets: Dou and lost all its divinity.
Crumbled directly into dust within moments.
"This..."
Taiyi looked over the ruins he had blasted apart.
Without hesitation, he resumed digging deeper, hoping to see whether anything else remained to be found.
Time hurried past.
He excavated for another ten days and nights.
But ultimately, having found nothing more, Taiyi could only give up in resignation and continue into the distance.
As he traveled, he cultivated the Sage Scripture while also practicing the unfathomably profound Nine Secrets: Dou he had just obtained.
Step by step, he wandered without a destination, tempering himself amid the mortal world's dust.
"Rustle..."
That day.
Inside a mountain cave.
Taiyi sat cross-legged.
Large quantities of source lay piled around him.
This time, there was ten times as much as before-over a thousand jin.
A dazzling array filled his sight, and vast amounts of source energy rose in curling wisps like mist and clouds.
Only the plentiful collection left behind by Danyangzi, a supreme elder of the Yaoguang Holy Land, could sustain such expenditure.
As the supreme mysteries of the Sun True Scripture began to circulate, great quantities of essence flowed ceaselessly into his body.
Flames surged from his body. They were innate essence, surrounded by acquired essence fire and burning fiercely. Taiyi seemed to be reborn through fire, his entire body glittering translucently and brimming with mysterious power.
Had the Treasure Garment he wore not been a rare Spirit-Communicating Magical Artifact impervious to water and fire.
It would probably have turned to ash at once.
Only after a long time did the essence fire disappear, sinking back into his body.
Within his inner world, mist filled the air. He entered the next Divine Treasure as though ascending a heavenly road. Successfully crossing that step was like crossing the divide between immortal and mortal.
The strength of the dao palace second realm.
Was countless times greater than that of the first, with an unbridgeable gulf between them.
Soon, Taiyi sensed an incomparably sharp aura. He had found the lung of divine treasures, which belonged to metal among the five elements!
The lung of divine treasures connected to the divine path of spiritual energy. Covering the internal organs and occupying the highest position, it was known as the canopy and called the chief of the five viscera. Heaven and earth essence was supremely pure, and the inhalation and exhalation of the world's divine source centered upon it. It was truly the most crucial of the five Divine Treasures.
He felt vigorous vitality!
This Divine Treasure transported essence, energy, and spirit, dispersing them throughout the body and extending outward to skin and hair. It warmed and nourished the internal organs, limbs, bones, flesh, skin, and hair. Its importance surpassed imagination!
Large quantities of source still lay before Taiyi.
He sat motionless, continuously refining it, drawing the endless source energy into his body and channeling it into the canopy Divine Treasure.
All energies belonged to the lungs!
Each breath connected him with the energy of heaven!
This was a fundamental principle recorded in all manner of ancient scriptures.
After successfully entering this realm, Taiyi felt every pore in his body open, as though he had become connected to heaven and earth. The speed at which he could draw upon heaven and earth essence had increased manyfold.
"This... each realm truly is a world of its own!"
Taiyi could not help marveling. With such changes, even his cultivation speed would increase dramatically. By commanding vast quantities of heaven and earth essence, his strength would undergo a qualitative leap.
On the eighteenth day, essence surged throughout Taiyi's body.
Streams of dragon-shaped essence formed around him and burst out of his body.
"Hiss! Hiss!"
His eyes opened.
Two terrifying, piercing beams of light shot from them.
They pierced straight through the mountain cave, tearing apart the formation patterns he had laid down earlier.
"Boom..." Without losing momentum, they blasted toward a distant mountain peak.
They blew it apart, making it collapse in an instant.
It was a staggering sight.
"Still not enough. Keep going..."
But Taiyi did not stop cultivating.
Instead, he laid down the formation patterns again.
With a sweep of his wide sleeve, large quantities of source stones flew out.
They piled into a small mountain, wreathed in mist.
He took out another ten thousand jin of source, preparing to break into the dao palace third heaven in one sustained push.
The sun sacred body was precisely such a special constitution. As long as he had sufficient resources, there were no bottlenecks for him in the two secret realms of the sea of bitterness and dao palace.
Moreover, his accumulation over these past days was already sufficiently deep.
He did not need to spend too long tempering himself at this stage.
"Boom..."
Two months later.
Scorching holy light surged like a sea, like a tide.
It submerged every inch of space, like raging flames that could never be extinguished.
An entire mountain was mercilessly vaporized, leaving nothing behind.
"Whoosh..."
Taiyi officially emerged from seclusion.
His radiant figure soared into the sky.
The handsome, ethereal young man stood poised in the air.
His blood and vital energy blazed like a furnace, flourishing to the utmost and far surpassing a flood dragon's.
Over these days, he had not only pressed onward and broken directly into the dao palace third heaven.
A full hundred and eight rays of holy light had also transformed into dazzling divine rings, surrounding and guarding him.
They made him seem like an immortal king descending upon the mortal world, his majesty inviolable.
With his strength rising once again, he had already achieved minor mastery of the Holy Light Technique.
"Hiss-"
Without any warning.
A chilling killing intent enveloped him.
A blood-red Killing Sword suddenly hurtled toward him.
"What?"
In an instant.
Every hair on Taiyi's body stood on end.
His gaze sharpened, and radiant holy light flooded heaven and earth, surging outward.
"Boom..." In the flash of a spark.
The terrifying Killing Sword was blocked by the holy light.
It was blasted away, but it was not destroyed outright.
"Heh heh, what luck. To think we'd have the privilege of seeing a prodigy nurtured by the Yaoguang Holy Land..."
A chilling laugh rang out, thick with murderous intent. "To achieve minor mastery of the Primordial Origin Holy Light Technique at this age-which old fellow from the Yaoguang Holy Land painstakingly trained this disciple?"
"Indeed. They say that among the younger generation, only one or two are even qualified to practice the Primordial Origin Holy Light Technique..."
"Does heaven favor the Yaoguang Holy Land so much? They already have that monstrous Yaoguang Holy Son, and now another astonishingly gifted youth has appeared..."
Chapter 23: The Yin-Yang Sect? Defying the Four Extremes
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