Chapter 815: One Move
At first, not many believed it, because every God Transformation Grandmaster in Southern Cliff Continent was a well-known, celebrated figure throughout the entire region. For a new God Transformation cultivator to suddenly appear, without any known background or previous mention, was truly bizarre in the extreme.
However, it wasn't long before the Yang Huo Palace, one of Southern Cliff Continent's hegemons with two God Transformation cultivators presiding over it, issued an announcement stating that they would participate in the Grand Dao Exposition at Surging Spring Peak three years hence.
The other three major God Transformation sects also successively announced they would send representatives to attend.
With the endorsement of these four major sects, no one doubted the veracity of the Yin-Yang Sect's news ever again.
The Yin-Yang Sect's intelligence, as a result, was thoroughly scrutinized.
Almost everyone was curious: how could the mere Yin-Yang Sect, just one among the thousands of ordinary Golden Core stage sects in Southern Cliff Continent, possibly possess the virtue or ability to attract such a powerful God Transformation expert?
This world, having been affected by an ancient Immortal Venerable's great war, suffered damage to its world origin, thus cultivators could at most only cultivate to the God Transformation stage.
God Transformation, therefore, represented the highest level of combat power the world could accommodate.
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Inside the Yang Huo Palace, Grand Elder Ji Xuan De was discussing his recent excursion with another Grand Elder, Wei Wu Ya.
The matter of a God Transformation cultivator was of immense importance. The day after receiving the news, Wei Wu Ya personally emerged from seclusion and ventured alone to the Yin-Yang Sect to investigate.
"Seven days ago, I exchanged blows with this Daoist Bai."
"What was the outcome?"
"A regrettable loss by one move."
"......"
Upon hearing this, Ji Xuan De understood the opponent's true strength.
From his many years of understanding this face-saving Junior Brother, only when the gap in strength was truly vast would he relax his tone.
If it were an even fight, he would describe it as the enemy barely managing to resist.
If he were thoroughly suppressed, he would describe it as neither side gaining an advantage, with neither able to harm the other.
As for a regrettable loss by one move...
"Could it be that Junior Brother Wu Ya couldn't even block a single one of his moves?" Ji Xuan De, relying on his Junior Brother's veiled language, couldn't help but speculate.
"To be instantly defeated by one move, that too counts as a regrettable loss by one move..."
To save his Junior Brother's face, Ji Xuan De still didn't voice his inner thoughts. After all, they had known each other for nearly a millennium; their personalities were as familiar as could be.
"The profound principles of the Great Dao contained within that Daoist's techniques far surpass any God Transformation cultivator I have ever encountered; they are absolutely beyond what a cultivator of this realm can achieve."
"The Upper Realm... if he truly hails from the Upper Realm... then he might possess the passage to the Upper Realm!"
The Yuan Yang Realm, composed of the five continents of Eastern Extreme Continent, Southern Cliff Continent, Western He Continent, Northern Xuan Continent, and Central Divine Continent, had lost its path to ascension to higher realms ever since the ancient great war.
Generation after generation of God Transformation cultivators found themselves without a path forward, destined either to live out their days here or to venture beyond the heavens, seeking fragile spatial nodes on pure luck.
Ascension forever remained the greatest shadow hanging over their heads.
"Let's hope so." Ji Xuan De didn't hold much hope, as a similar event had occurred thirteen hundred years ago.
They had discovered a powerful cultivator's avatar that had drifted down from the Upper Realm. The God Transformation cultivators of Yuan Yang Realm collectively erupted in fervor, launching a life-and-death struggle for the potential opportunity to ascend.
But in the end, they discovered that the other party's main body had been slain, and their avatar had barely escaped with its life to reach the Yuan Yang Realm.
All traces had been destroyed even before their departure; they themselves couldn't return.
That battle saw seven or eight God Transformation cultivators perish and over ten severely wounded. Both the human and demon races were gravely weakened, taking several centuries to recover.
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"This third training session is finally coming to an end..." Mo Feng Wu wiped the sweat from her brow, sighing deeply with emotion.
Ever since the spread of the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art began, the training sessions, one after another, had been ceaseless.
She and her Second Mother, along with a few others, were students of the first training session. By the time the second session began, they had transformed into assistant instructors.
When the third session commenced, their status changed directly to that of independent, official instructors, each leading their own Yin-Yang Five Elements Art training class.
One would teach fifty, those fifty would then teach fifty, and the top students from the previous session would immediately become instructors for the next.
After three training sessions, thousands had already received training in the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art, far exceeding the Yin-Yang Sect's total number of disciples.
The Yin-Yang Sect, established for nearly a millennium, including its Qi Refinement disciples, only numbered a little over three hundred in total. Its servants and "food" supply, however, numbered several thousand.
Now, most of these people were mobilized to learn the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art, causing the Yin-Yang Sect's lower ranks to almost completely paralyze. They had to urgently conscript more people from the surrounding mortal nations to maintain the sect's operations.
But no one complained, or rather, no one had the leisure to complain.
Their minds were all captivated by the Dao Stele that had risen overnight outside the Yin-Yang Sect's mountain gate, towering over ten stories high.
Anyone who approached the Dao Stele and meditated upon it could receive inherited information left by a God Transformation cultivator.
Although all the inheritances were only related to the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art, and the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art's combat ability was pathetically weak, it was still an inheritance from a God Transformation cultivator!
The Yin-Yang Qi of the Yin-Yang Sect could at best reach the Golden Core stage, yet the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art was theoretically a supreme method capable of leading directly to God Transformation, even if only one God Transformation cultivator might emerge from ten thousand practitioners.
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However, the Yin-Yang Sect simply couldn't support the cultivation consumption of thousands of people.
Mu Zi Qing set a rule: everyone who chose to cultivate the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art would only receive ten low-grade Spirit Stones once, along with a basic cultivation world knowledge guide, and then they were on their own.
Thus, many quickly chose to leave.
Mortals who forcibly activated a pseudo-spirit root through blood sacrifice had truly abysmal cultivation aptitudes, and ten Spirit Stones were merely a drop in the bucket.
To reach higher levels, they needed to find more resources.
Wealth, companion, technique, and dwelling – they were so poor they only had the technique.
Numerous individuals who successfully entered the path banded together, carrying copies of the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art and the few low-grade Spirit Stones they had left, and collectively departed.
Before leaving, they prostrated themselves, kowtowing three times heavily in the direction of the Yin-Yang Sect's Dao Stele.
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Over two years passed, and the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art crash course, held every three months, reached the end of its ninth session.
One hundred thousand students graduated from here, transforming into the lowest-tier rogue cultivators of the cultivation world, mingling throughout the entire Southern Cliff Continent.
Among them were well-informed nobles and aristocrats from surrounding nations, keen on seeking immortality but rejected by immortal sects due to their lack of spirit roots. There were also ordinary mortals who had stumbled upon the sect while fleeing disaster, and rogue cultivators who had arrived after hearing the news, drifting like rootless duckweed.
Of course, cultivators with proper sect inheritances looked down upon the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art.
Its combat power was dismal, its cultivation speed offered no advantage, and it presented just as many bottlenecks as any other method.
Only those with utterly terrible aptitude, who had nowhere else to turn, would choose this method...
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