Two days had passed since the grand event at the Primordial Battle Platform, but discussion of that battle continued in the Primordial Hall.
It had even grown more heated.
It meant that their Primordial Hall had produced someone invincible among his contemporaries. Xiang Yun, who had stirred up the commotion, was in secluded cultivation deep within Primordial Peak.
Indeed, he had defeated Xiang Huang, but he had also discovered a problem with himself: his many powers were too disparate.
The Kun Peng Precious Technique and the Great Devouring Technique were connected, as were the Innate Tyrant Body Dao Embryo, formed by combining the Heavenly Tyrant Body and the Innate Dao Embryo, and the Heavenly Horned Ant Precious Technique.
But there were also the World Tree Sapling and the many martial arts within him: the Qiankun Battle Body, the Primordial Battle Body, the Three Heaven-Breaking Forms, and the Supreme Induction Art he had comprehended.
Though he had merged them using the Heavenly Tyrant Fist, he had forced them together, relying purely on overwhelming strength to make it work.
He needed to unify all his powers into a single system.
For instance, the Heaven and Earth Furnace of the Qiankun Battle Body could be combined with the Great Devouring Technique and the Kun Peng Precious Technique.
The Qiankun Boundless Body could be combined with the Primordial Battle Body and the Heavenly Horned Ant Precious Technique, and even with the Heavenly Tyrant Body Dao Embryo.
But at present, when he activated the Qiankun Boundless Body, he had to activate the Primordial Battle Body separately, and the boost from the Qiankun Boundless Body could not even enhance the Heavenly Tyrant Body Dao Embryo.
How could that do?
Working it out would take a great deal of time, so he did not waste any. He would use this period to try devouring Xuan Origin Pills for cultivation.
The Innate Dao Embryo's innate closeness to the Dao soon drew him into working through these questions...
Time slowly passed.
Word of Xiang Yun's fierce battle with an Advanced Life Profound expert, and his victory over him, finally reached the other super sects. The first reaction of many sects was disbelief.
Within the Yuan Sect.
At the very heart of the Yuan Sect stood three boundless mountains. Countless rays of rosy light bloomed above them, illuminating the entire Yuan Sect territory.
Every disciple who passed by looked at the three mountains with reverence in their eyes.
This was where the Yuan Sect's three sect masters resided. In the hearts of its many disciples, it was nothing less than sacred ground.
In the central hall.
Heaven, Earth, and Human Yuanzi sat together on prayer mats arranged in the order of heaven, earth, and man.
Tian Yuanzi, seated at their head, wore a white robe and had fair skin. He looked quite ordinary.
Only his eyes were black and white, as though yin and yang met within them, suffused with mystery.
He said calmly, "Have you heard the news from the Primordial Hall?"
Di Yuanzi, dressed in a black robe with long black hair hanging loose, nodded slightly. "No definite news has come in yet. We still need to see whether it's true."
"It's probably false. Could those barbarians from the Primordial Hall raise someone like that? Whether in terms of foundation or martial arts..." Ren Yuanzi said. He wore purple-and-gold robes and had a head of silver hair.
Tian Yuanzi glanced at Ren Yuanzi, and Ren Yuanzi's questioning fell silent.
Tian Yuanzi said calmly, "Whether it's true or not, we must act first."
"Should we send someone to test him?" Di Yuanzi asked.
"Yes. Have those super sects in the Great Desolate Region make a move and probe the situation under the pretext of an exchange."
"But that could very well expose the arrangements we have there. It's too far away, after all."
Ren Yuanzi hesitated, then added, "Do we need to go this far over news we don't even know is true?"
"Since that incident, the Dao Sect has uprooted nearly eighty percent of our arrangements there... if we make another move, we might lose what's left."
Tian Yuanzi said calmly, "If it's true, it would be worth abandoning all our arrangements there. Suppressing an Advanced Life Profound expert at Five Yuan Nirvana-even Zhou Tong couldn't do that back then!"
Di Yuanzi and Ren Yuanzi fell silent when Tian Yuanzi mentioned Zhou Tong. Although they had ultimately suppressed him back then, it had indeed been a humiliation for the Yuan Sect.
"I don't want any accidents on our path to supremacy."
Hearing Tian Yuanzi's vague words, Ren Yuanzi nodded. "I'll make the arrangements at once."
"Good. Junior Brother Earth Yuan."
"Senior Brother."
"Prepare well for the sect competition. Since we've already crushed the Dao Sect once, I don't want them rising again."
"Rest assured, Senior Brother."
Heaven, Earth, and Human Yuanzi discussed some more strategies for the sect's future development, then each departed.
The Dao Sect.
On Dao Peak.
Ying Xuanzi and the grand elder sat opposite each other, drinking tea, when Ying Xuanzi suddenly asked, "Do you think the news from Primordial Peak is true? Is that brat really so strong now?"
"Stronger than Zhou Tong?"
Ying Xuanzi felt somewhat indignant. Though Zhou Tong had come to a bad end, he had been Ying Xuanzi's most prized disciple, after all.
All this time,
Although everyone in the Eastern Xuan Region knew how Zhou Tong had ended up, whenever anyone mentioned him, they called him a prodigy capable of suppressing his entire generation.
Now, however, there was Xiang Yun to be mentioned in the same breath, and his reported feat was even more astonishing than Zhou Tong's.
"Could Xiang Huang have spread that news to promote his own son?"
Ying Xuanzi's first reaction, naturally, had also been disbelief. Or rather, the feat was so incredible that he could not believe it without seeing it for himself.
Seeing Ying Xuanzi react so strongly, the grand elder sighed inwardly and suddenly said, "Isn't it nearly time for the sect exchange? We can see what he's made of at this three-sect exchange."
"It's just..."
Ying Xuanzi poured the grand elder a cup of tea. "Just what?"
"He's already suppressed an Advanced Life Profound expert at Nirvana. If he has that kind of strength, this exchange will probably be child's play to him. If we want him to make a move, I'm afraid we'll have to agree to his request."
The request the grand elder spoke of was naturally the one Xiang Yun had once made: to let him comprehend the Great Desolation Scripture.
Ying Xuanzi fell silent. He lifted his teacup to his lips, then finally sighed. "Go ask the people from the Desolate Hall. The Great Desolation Scripture belongs to the Dao Sect, but the Desolate Hall still has the primary say over it, after all."
"Besides, if someone brings the Great Desolation Tablet back into the light of day, we'll have done right by our predecessors. What's more..."
Ying Xuanzi drained his tea and said, "If he truly is such a prodigy, and he masters the Great Desolation Scripture, he'll count as half a disciple of our Dao Sect."
"The Primordial Hall already has some ties to the Desolate Hall." Ying Xuanzi tapped the table. "I could have a talk with that barbarian Hong Wuji."
"You can make the decision."
The grand elder nodded slightly.
Undercurrents began to surge throughout the Eastern Xuan Region because of the rumors from the Primordial Hall, and figures entered the Great Desolate Region through various channels.
An ordinary genius was not frightening, but if another genius like Zhou Tong appeared,
The impact on the major sects would be considerable.
Whether their intentions were hostile or friendly, they had to get to the bottom of the situation before taking their next step.
Time passed.
At that moment, deep within the Pill River on Battle Heaven Peak,
Purple light suffused Xiang Yun's body as the Tyrant Body Nine Forms flickered constantly across his skin. At the same time, the power of heaven and earth from the Qiankun Battle Body was attempting to merge with the Tyrant Body's origin.
The Heavenly Tyrant Body isn't like the Sacred Body, which can accommodate everything. Its very nature is to dominate. My previous thinking was wrong. I should use the Heavenly Tyrant Body to subdue the Qiankun Battle Body and turn it into an enhancement.
Rather than seeking to merge the two. The same goes for the Primordial Battle Body. All body-refining martial arts are nourishment for the Heavenly Tyrant Body, even the Innate Dao Embryo...
Xiang Yun slowly opened his eyes, vast purple light filling them. He had understood.
The Qiankun Battle Body, the Primordial Battle Body.
All of them should merely become power for the Heavenly Tyrant Body, rather than advancing alongside it.
In the end, I've returned to the path of tempering the Heavenly Tyrant Body. It's just that this is the body-refining martial art best suited to me.