Forbidden Physique

"Senior, I'd like to know why the Five Branches of the Ling Clan each inherited the legacy of one of the five spirit beasts, rather than that saint's legacy."

After a long while, Ling Yun could not help asking out of curiosity.

As far as he knew, the Spirit King's Manor's highest legacy only reached the limit of the Dao Palace Realm. In the Eastern Desolation, a legacy like that was considered top-tier; even among the five great powers, only the Divine Desolation Sect possessed one.

But the gap between that Dao Palace Realm legacy and a saint's lineage was enormous.

The dragon corpse's eyes turned toward Ling Yun and emitted a sheet of light, which formed a vast map of mountains and rivers before him.

On it, the land was divided into five clearly demarcated parts: east, south, west, north, and center.

"This place is called the Yuan Realm. It is one of the Eastern Region's three hundred realms, and the territory granted to the Ling Clan. Its five divisions belong to the Ling Clan's main branch and four subsidiary branches."

"Each of the five branches is guarded by one of us five half-saints, so the legacies the five branches inherit are derived from those of us five beasts. They are ninth-tier, supreme-grade."

The dragon corpse spoke unhurriedly.

"In a vast saint clan, not everyone can inherit the highest-grade legacy. The Ling Clan is no exception. To obtain a higher-grade legacy, one can only climb through one's own efforts."

"As for the saint's legacy you mentioned..."

The dragon corpse paused there before continuing, "Within the entire Ling Clan, only the clan leader and his successor are qualified to learn it. Do you understand?"

With things spelled out to that extent, what was there left for Ling Yun not to understand? Ultimately, the entire saint-descended Lineage was simply too vast-vast beyond imagination, large enough to occupy an entire realm.

"The Yuan Realm is one of the Eastern Region's three hundred realms. Who knows how many times larger it is than the Eastern Desolation!"

Ling Yun could not help marveling.

In an entire realm, clansmen numbered in the hundreds of millions. It was impossible for everyone to learn high-grade legacies. That would be detrimental to the management of a saint clan, and even more detrimental to its continuation.

But obtaining higher-grade legacies through one's own efforts could keep the clan full of vitality and bring more overlooked geniuses to light.

"Then the seven ancestors of our Ling Kingdom..."

Ling Yun hesitated. There was a question on his mind, but he still did not know whether he should ask it.

The dragon corpse did not avoid the subject with him and spoke plainly. "I know what you want to ask. Your Ling Kingdom's seven ancestors were loyal men selected from the Five Branches of the Ling Clan. All of them were core members of the five branches."

"This world of the Eastern Desolation is far too peculiar. After that great battle, it became even more closed off. Even after paying an enormous price, only a handful of people at the Dao Palace Realm or below could enter."

"If we descended in our true bodies, we would be completely unable to break through this world's blockade. So we could only resort to this last measure: sacrificing all our cultivation to forge the Forbidden Hearts and enter this land of captivity."

Ling Yun stared at the dragon corpse's eyes and fell silent for a moment.

Whether it was the seven ancestors of the Ling Kingdom or the five spirit beasts, their loyalty to Saint Evil Slayer and the Ling Clan deeply moved Ling Yun.

"The Seven Absolutes Evil Saint is truly terrifying. As the Ling Clan's archenemy, he has never been underestimated by the clan. They were even willing to sacrifice five half-saints to wipe out his remaining power in one stroke."

"The Ling Clan no longer has a saint, and now it has lost five half-saints as well. Its strength has already plummeted. But they have no way out. Unless the Evil Saint is completely erased, he may very well return."

"He is far more ruthless than Saint Evil Slayer, younger, and has more methods at his disposal. Even after his body died, he was able to develop countless evil cultivators in the Eastern Desolation to inherit his evil path and prepare for his return!"

Ling Yun felt it deeply: the evil cultivators were a blade hanging over the Ling Clan's head, bound to fall sooner or later. Thus, they could only sacrifice their right and left arms to save their head and their life.

"I can feel it. The time is nearly ripe. Within ten years, that fiend's power will be reborn, and that will be when the Forbidden Hearts emerge."

"This is a risky move the Ling Clan has spent ten thousand years planning and had no choice but to make! By then, the mission you have held fast to for a thousand years will be completely fulfilled, and someone will come to guide you back to the clan..."

The dragon corpse's voice was extraordinarily heavy, carrying the resolve to stake everything on one throw, as well as an intense anticipation.

Ling Yun knew that those who had paved the way were the true great figures of the Ling Clan, while the Ling Kingdom's sole mission was to guard this land until the time was ripe.

When the years passed peacefully, there were always people carrying the burden on their behalf.

"Senior, since you can sacrifice yourselves, we won't shrink back in fear either."

Ling Yun spoke with conviction.

The five spirit beasts' Forbidden Hearts would deal with the Evil Saint's power. But as for the countless evil cultivators under the Evil Saint, he could use the flying sword in his hand to sever their heads!

"As expected of a pure-blooded saint descendant. I can feel it: you have a presence even more terrifying than my master's! If I'm not mistaken, you must possess a Forbidden Physique found only once in hundreds of millions!"

The dragon corpse's voice rang like thunder. Its golden eyes watched Ling Yun, and within them seemed to burn an incomparably scorching flame.

"Forbidden Physique!"

Ling Yun silently repeated the title bestowed by the world.

Naturally, he knew about them. Several Great Emperor legacies contained descriptions of Forbidden Physiques.

In this world, there were a hundred incomparably terrifying physiques that people had dubbed Forbidden Physiques.

Legend had it that possessing even one was enough to make someone a divinely gifted genius who shook the past and present, a supreme prodigy crowned king in the struggle on the path to emperorship!

In the past, several Forbidden Physiques had even been born in some great eras. They had fought for supremacy, leaving an exceptionally bold mark on the epochs of history.

"The Immortal Physique of Myriad Daos is a supreme physique of the immortal path. It can ascend to the pinnacle of immortality and become a supreme immortal emperor, transcending karma and reincarnation, outside the five elements, untouched by karma and unstained by the years!"

"Before reaching the level of the 'Dao,' this physique's most monstrous traits are its exceptional comprehension and extremely rapid cultivation speed. But once it reaches the level of the 'Dao,' the Immortal Physique of Myriad Daos will reveal its truly heaven-defying nature."

"At that point, the Immortal Physique of Myriad Daos can refine the myriad laws of the Dao throughout the universe and hundreds of millions of origins. It can stand alongside such supreme immortal physiques as the Five Primes, Chaos, Primordial, and Extreme Immortal!"

"Among the so-called Forbidden Bodies in this world, however, there is no Immortal Physique of Myriad Daos. In fact, of these hundred Forbidden Bodies, only a scant few can rank among the supreme physiques of the myriad worlds of the heavens and the primordial cosmos."

Ling Yun did not think much of Forbidden Physiques, because he knew that compared with the myriad worlds of the heavens in this universe, these physiques were still far from impressive.

"That's right. I do possess a special physique."

Ling Yun admitted it aloud, without specifying that it was the Immortal Physique of Myriad Daos.

Even if he named it, the dragon corpse would not know it anyway. After all, he was the only person in the myriad worlds of the heavens with this physique, and who knew how far removed those who had heard of the Immortal Physique of Myriad Daos were from the present Ling Yun.

"So it is true!"

The dragon corpse's words were thick with excitement.

"The pure saint blood of Saint Evil Slayer flows in your veins, and you also possess a Forbidden Physique found only once in hundreds of millions. Perhaps you will become another way out for the Ling Clan!"

The dragon corpse spoke excitedly.

In fact, a large part of the reason it had awakened from its slumber was the presence Ling Yun had emitted during his breakthrough.

The Immortal Physique of Myriad Daos, the Myriad Dao Immortal Scripture, the Life Talisman Heavenly Canon, and the Spirit Refining Technique. Any one of the four presences Ling Yun had revealed while cultivating was enough to awaken its dragon soul.

"Now the Ling Clan truly stands on invincible ground! Hahahaha!"

The dragon corpse laughed to its heart's content, and the terrifying waves of sound once again stirred a storm in this small world.