Chapter 929: The Legacy Immortal Arts of Xuantian
Chapter 929: The Legacy Immortal Arts of Xuantian
In a secret chamber within the Spirit Wood Realm, it took Li Fan's true self and his clone over a month just to read through the texts once.
Among them, several techniques like the *Heaven and Earth Mutual Arising Ode* and the *Eternal Sole Dominance Art* were almost identical to what Li Fan had understood from the illusion.
In fact, the descriptions from the illusion were somewhat crude by comparison.
Take the *Heaven and Earth Mutual Arising Ode*, for example. In the illusion, it was merely a dual cultivation technique. When the great calamity of Incompatible Laws arrived, its ability to rapidly advance one's cultivation was nullified.
In reality, however, the technique possessed another, far more significant and mystical application beyond dual cultivation.
It allowed the user to lock onto a target and forcibly share their fortune, cultivation speed, and even innate comprehension—all of their personal traits.
This was the essence of "Heaven and Earth Same Longevity."
For a true, peerless prodigy, such a technique would be utterly useless. But for someone like Li Fan, it was an undeniably profound art.
Upon reaching higher levels of mastery, just as its name suggested, the user could lock onto not just people, but even Heaven and Earth themselves.
“To wield the authority of Heaven and Earth with a mortal body...”
“A true immortal legacy, indeed.”
The potential of the *Heaven and Earth Mutual Arising Ode* was exceptionally high; it was even hinted that it could still be used after ascending to the Immortal Realm.
Its only fatal flaw was...
The locked target would become aware of the technique's user.
This, then, was the meaning behind "mutual arising."
This single drawback drastically diminished the technique's value in Li Fan's eyes.
For someone like Li Fan, who meticulously planned his every move and preferred to operate from the shadows, constantly exposing himself to another was hardly a wise course of action.
The only viable application he could currently imagine was to capture a peerless prodigy and keep them in captivity.
He could then forcibly equalize their traits to enhance his own comprehension, aptitude, and fortune.
After finishing his review of the *Heaven and Earth Mutual Arising Ode*, Li Fan briefly skimmed through the *Eternal Sole Dominance Art*.
“I can't believe Senior Sister Zhao was comfortable entrusting me with a technique capable of achieving Dao...”
After a moment's reflection, realization dawned on Li Fan.
It was safe to say that among all these techniques, the *Eternal Sole Dominance Art* was the most worthless.
The path of "All as One" had already been claimed by Zhao Ruoxi.
Not only was the path forward blocked, but there was also a high chance that Senior Sister Zhao could perceive his every move throughout the entire cultivation process.
Li Fan decisively sealed it and set it aside.
After briefly reviewing the familiar techniques, Li Fan focused his attention on two he had never seen before.
The *Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion* and the *Three Perils of Ghosts and Spirits*.
“The previous techniques came from the giant among the twelve Law Kings, a man named Sikong Lin.”
“But these techniques...”
The faces of the twelve distinctive cultivators from the Xuantian Sect flashed through Li Fan's mind.
Based on the style of the arts, he quickly pinpointed their likely source.
“Sun Xingwang.”
The aura exuded by these two techniques was simply too distinctive.
Take the *Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion*. This technique bore some resemblance to the abilities of the Xuantian King.
Both possessed a divine power akin to making one's words reality.
The difference was that the Xuantian King, Xuanyuan Hong, directed his "words" upon himself.
For example, he could grant himself "immense strength" or command himself to "walk the Heavenly Dao."
The *Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion*, however, acted upon the external world.
Cultivated to its deepest levels, one could use its incantations to reshape the entire world according to their will.
The text provided an example.
The mark of initial mastery was the ability to conjure a non-existent person from thin air simply by speaking of them.
As the description of this person grew more detailed and elaborate, they would truly come into existence.
Furthermore, they would act according to the rules laid out for them.
And they would have no awareness of their creator.
The sheer wonder of the *Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion* left Li Fan repeatedly amazed.
However, much like the *Heaven and Earth Mutual Arising Ode*, the *Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion* also came with a severe side effect.
Every hundred years, the practitioner would lose all memories except for the contents of the technique itself.
They would also instinctively ignore any written records or hints they had previously left behind.
This meant that even if a practitioner reached the highest level of mastery, and the entire world became their creation...
...they themselves would remain completely oblivious.
They were destined to begin a new life every hundred years, forever.
...
“Whoever invented this *Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion* was an absolute, world-shaking genius,” Li Fan mused.
He sighed in admiration, then turned his attention to the final technique.
The *Three Perils of Ghosts and Spirits*.
This art was the most peculiar of them all.
It was a summoning art.
But it didn't summon otherworldly entities; instead, it summoned the [ghosts] and [gods] from within one's own body.
According to the description, every person is born with an endless stream of thoughts.
These thoughts are like waves upon the sea.
Most are fleeting, vanishing as quickly as they appear.
Yet it is these very waves that compose the vast ocean of a [person].
If one were to preserve every single thought, nurturing it and strengthening it day and night...
...then hundreds of millions of thought-essences would manifest within their sea of consciousness.
Each would take the form of a [ghost] or a [god], shaped by the nature and content of the original thought.
These three—the person, the ghosts, and the gods—were the "Three Perils."
Because these ghosts and gods all originated from the self, the three were inextricably linked.
Moreover, as the [person's] strength grew, the power of the [ghosts] and [gods] would swell by hundreds, even thousands of times.
Unleashed with a single thought, it would be as if the underworld itself had descended upon the mortal realm.
Darkness would fall, and spirits would wreak havoc.
If deliberately unleashed, it would not be difficult to destroy an entire world with a single thought, transforming all other living beings into one's own personal pantheon of ghosts and gods.
The *Three Perils of Ghosts and Spirits* didn't have any particularly severe side effects.
If one had to point to a downside, it would be the ceaseless, discordant whispers of hundreds of millions of ghosts and gods echoing within the practitioner's body at all times.
An unsteady mind could easily be driven to madness.
And no matter how resilient one's will, there would inevitably come a day when even the strongest mind would break under the ceaseless, day-and-night chatter of millions of spirits.
When that happened, the practitioner would go berserk.
They would unleash their legion of spirits to annihilate the world.
However, when paired with the *Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion*, the *Three Perils of Ghosts and Spirits* produced an unexpected synergy.
The memory wipe every hundred years would completely erase the accumulated negative emotions generated by the legion of spirits.
The spirits themselves, however, would not disappear.
Even if the practitioner forgot the technique, the act of cultivating these thought-spirits would have already become a physical instinct.
Thus, as time went on, their power would continue to grow.
“However, I recall Sun Xingwang mentioning that cultivating these two techniques together had other, unexpected points of conflict.”
“It's not as perfect a combination as it sounds.”
(End of Chapter)
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