Entering the Dao through archery, attaining sagehood in the flesh

"A tree that stands out in the forest will be felled by the wind; a person who excels above others will be criticized by the masses."

"Not knowing how to temper one's sharpness and maintain moderation—"

"I seem to be able to foresee what will happen to Dayi next."

Standing in a field that had been trampled and destroyed, Li Xuandu, despite knowing he was still in a dream, couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Unlike the era of the Heavenly Emperor Hao Jun, which had no written history.

Since the first Witch King of the Great Xia Dynasty gave up immortality, the retelling of past history and myths has no longer been passed down orally.

After Li Boyang was born, the systematic and orderly transmission of civilization became a mainstream practice.

In the first sixteen years of Li Xuandu's life, the only thing he had to do was learn knowledge, skills, history, morality, and ways of understanding the world.

Compared to the events of the more than one hundred years after Li Xuandu.

Those sixteen years of his life were not long, but they undoubtedly laid the foundation for the core of his life's thought.

Take Dayi for example. If nothing unexpected happens, Li Xuandu could even fully imagine the trajectory of his later life.

Possessing power without corresponding thoughts and understanding will only make one a weapon in the hands of others.

Moreover, Dayi never concealed his "weakness"—his identification with and concern for his fellow human beings.

Putting himself in the other person's shoes, Li Xuandu believed that whether it was the Heavenly Emperor or the gods, they would have a thousand ways to easily subdue this human hero.

As Li Xuandu had predicted, he then witnessed the remaining two great achievements of Dayi's first half of life in this dream.

He captured Fengxi in the Mulberry Grove and slew the Xiu Snake in Dongting.

Fengxi is not Ominous Deity, but a giant wild boar, a true ferocious beast.

Guided by the gods, it broke into the largest settlement of mankind at that time—the Mulberry Grove.

Mulberry Grove was located in the heart of the Central Plains, and its main industry was sericulture, producing almost half of the food crops of the human race at that time.

When Fengxi appeared in this place, trampling crops and destroying Mulberry Grove.

The result was predictable; it almost wiped out the human race at that time.

So Dayi once again took to the field, using a spear and halberd for close combat instead of a bow and arrow, and killed Feng in the Mulberry Grove, thus enabling the people of the Central Plains to resume farming.

But that's far from enough, because even Dayi knew that Feng was not the culprit behind this disaster.

So Dayi continued his investigation and eventually found the Heavenly Deity, Xiu Snake.

The Xiu Snake was thousands of miles long and coiled above Dongting. Every move it made was as terrifying as a mountain range.

Most importantly, Xiu Snake's identity is not simple.

He is an old relic who survived from the previous era, and was a subordinate who fought alongside Hao Jun to conquer the world.

As long as the Xiu Snake does not openly rebel against the Heavenly Emperor, even if it swallows an elephant in the sun or eclipses a village in the moon, it is with the Heavenly Emperor's permission.

In other words, Xiu Snake is Ancient God who can openly eat people and perform human sacrifices.

From any perspective, Xiu Snake had no reason to drive Feng to destroy the Mulberry Grove, and Dayi had no right to judge Xiu Snake.

Unfortunately, Dayi, who was blinded by anger at the time, couldn't think of all that.

Enraged, Dayi first shot an arrow through the head of the Xiu Snake, and then pursued it for several years.

That was the toughest battle that Dayi had ever fought.

The battle between the two sides affected a large part of the land, and wherever it passed, Gods and Devils and demons were terrified, and all living beings perished.

In the end, Dayi skillful. Taking advantage of the Xiu Snake's slumber and breathing time, he used his giant axe to cut it in two, and then used the Snake Bone to build the famous Baling.

"That was a brilliant use of a borrowed knife to kill someone."

How did he escape this predicament?

He gripped the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow tightly in his hand.

Li Xuandu stood atop a mountain made of Snake Bone, his words revealing no trace of curiosity or inquiry.

They killed the Heavenly Emperor's subordinate, an ancient deity who possessed extremely high privileges.

Li Xuandu need to think to know that Dayi had definitely committed a grave taboo, and even the Heavenly Emperor might not be able to protect him.

With the added benefit of seeing the wisdom of the future, Li Xuandu could completely reconstruct this scheme specifically targeting Xiu Snake and Dayi from some minor details.

First is Xiu Snake She, a trusted minister of the Heavenly Emperor, a powerful being who is almost on par with Great Heavenly Deity.

His death undoubtedly weakened the power of the Heavenly Emperor's side.

This effectively strengthened the gods' influence over the Heavenly Emperor.

Secondly, there is Dayi, who was personally appointed by the Heavenly Emperor as the God of Judgment. The Heavenly Emperor's favor towards him is obvious to all.

Now that he has committed such a grave mistake, even if the Heavenly Emperor favors him greatly, he will surely punish him as a warning to others.

By then, the Heavenly Emperor would have essentially cut off another arm of his own, and a very powerful one at that.

Li Xuandu ultimately failed to foresee how the story would unfold.

The dream ended after Dayi killed the Xiu Snake.

Then, just like in his previous dreams, the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow reappeared quietly in Li Xuandu's hands sometime during the night.

"Do you really want me to learn Dayi's abilities?"

Looking down at the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow in his hand, Li Xuandu's mind flashed back to the methods and abilities of Dayi in slaying the Five Fiends.

Li Xuandu knew, of course, that the reason the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow repeatedly pulled him into his dreams was definitely not simply to let him witness the life of Dayi.

The true purpose behind Dayi's methods of fighting gods while in human form was to keep the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow in his dreams.

It hoped to inherit the abilities of Dayi.

To be honest, even Li Xuandu from the future couldn't hide his shock when he saw Dayi's methods.

It is neither a divine Innate Divine Ability nor a Celestial Person mystery.

Dayi was not even a wizard; he hunted down Ominous Deity with pure strength and physique.

In his hands, even a simple wooden stick can unleash incredible power.

Spear pierced and killed Feng; giant axe slashed and killed Xiu Snake.

These undeniable achievements are the ultimate testament to Dayi's abilities.

It's important to know that in the era of Dayi, there was no such thing as Law Treasure.

He used only the most ordinary tools, some of which may actually have been made of wood.

However, putting all that aside, Dayi's greatest strength was his archery skills.

That was an archery skill that bordered on the Dao.

It almost has a causal effect of "hitting the target every time it's shot".

When shooting Great Wind, Dayi was even able to use his archery skills to forcibly pull the opponent down from the air, and then slay it with his halberd.

It is no exaggeration to say that Li Xuandu saw in Dayi a concept that his master had once mentioned—entering the Dao through skill and Physical Sanctification.

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