Cultivation: Fortune by Lots

At this moment, Morning Sun Dry’s entire body is blazing with blood qi, resembling a Great Sun soaring through the sky, truly befitting of the Body-Refining Martial Artist’s Eighth Heavenly Layer realm named Scorching Sun.

In the Martial Tao Body Refining lineage, the Lower Three Heavens are termed Blood Qi, Bone Tempering, and Blood Exchange.

The Middle Three Heavens are called Embracing Elixir, Blood Fuel, Furnace of Roaring Flames, also known as Embrace the Blood to Form Elixir, Gather the Fuel to Ignite Blood, Body like a Furnace of Roaring Flames.

Upon reaching the Upper Three Heavens, the three realms become Raise Yang, Scorching Sun, and Martial Saint.

At the Seventh Heavenly Layer, Raise Yang is like the morning sun rising in the east, the power of blood qi becomes even more concentrated, the strength of the flesh is such that a wave of the hand or foot can almost break through short distances in space.

Corresponding to the Weapon Strike martial artist’s Seventh Heavenly Layer Seeing the Divine, both have similarities, Seeing the Divine involves breaking the void to behold the true god.

The divine, signifies divine intent.

Weapon Strike martial artists refine Sword Intent, Axe Intent, Blade Intent, and other Martial Tao True Meanings.

Body-Refining martial artists similarly refine their own Martial Tao True Meaning, but it is not manifested externally, instead it is completely concentrated within their body, like the blazing sun in the sky, like midday, the strength of the flesh continues to elevate comprehensively.

Though the Spiritual Soul’s will is not externally manifested, it is similarly tempered and extremely resilient.

Yue Xiling at present cannot rely on his Divine Soul Secret Skill to defeat his foes.

His Divine Soul Secret Skill, against the likes of martial masters at Morning Sun Dry’s level, is essentially ineffective.

However, conversely, Yue Xiling is proficient in the Taoist Sect magic martial arts transmitted by the Pure Yang Palace.

He does not engage in direct confrontations with martial masters like Morning Sun Dry, opting for the Absolute Techniques of the Azure Dragon and Black Tortoise lineages, pursuing either heavy defense or cunning changes, at critical moments even utilizing the Nascent Soul Transformation Great Elixir for full defense, remaining steadfast and patient in maneuvering.

Though Morning Sun Dry’s fists and feet have the power to shatter the earth and crush mountains, they cannot do much against Yue Xiling.

Making use of the advantage in movement technique speed, Morning Sun Dry and Xiao Xueting alike, decide to ignore this Alchemy Cauldron Sect Taoist in front of them, turning instead to target other Great Tang cultivators.

Then, Yue Xiling transforms into the Vermilion Bird and pursues Morning Sun Dry.

In terms of realm, he does not have the advantage, making it difficult to chase down a Body Refining Martial Artist master with close cultivation.

But at such times, it reveals the greatest distinction between the lineage of Three Springs Palace and the orthodox tradition of Pure Yang Palace.

Three Springs Palace does not have a School of Dharma for cultivating Pure Yang True Fire.

Although they have created their own arcane method named Yin Stream Frozen Cloud, it is ultimately inferior to Pure Yang True Fire.

At this moment, Yue Xiling’s Pure Yang True Fire transforms into Vermilion Bird Wings, soaring in pursuit of Morning Sun Dry while a large shower of fiery rain falls, also attacking other foreign martial artists opportunistically.

Morning Sun Dry cannot entirely ignore Yue Xiling behind him.

With a sudden counterattack, Yue Xiling’s fundamental skills are solid, his moves are fluid and natural, quickly switching the Vermilion Bird back to the Black Tortoise.

Their positions constantly change, keeping a close watch on each other while being vigilant against the occasional cold arrows flying from other directions.

Yue Xiling remains calm and patient, first securing himself, striving to remain undefeated.

In the distance, Prince Changshan Zhang Junhai has a substantial advantage against his opponent.

This Prince Changshan, with sword in hand, is a Weapon Strike Martial Tao master at the Eighth Heavenly Layer like Xiao Xueting.

The way he wields his sword is neither like the Confucian Scriptures Studies swordsman, with sword qi surging and sweeping across the four directions, nor like the Daoist Artifact Refining Sect master, commanding flying swords with ease.

With sword in hand, Zhang Junhai does not have sword light, nor sword qi.

Only the tip of the sword has a seemingly inconspicuous subtle sharpness rolling along the blade.

But just this point of sharpness at the sword tip can make other cultivators of the same realm evade in fear.

Weapon Strike Martial Tao masters at the Seventh Heavenly Layer break the void to behold the true divine, while at the Eighth Heavenly Layer, they condense their martial divine intent.

Zhang Junhai condenses sword intent, yet the sword intent is not ostentatiously shown, continuing to concentrate on the sword tip.

Only this point makes his attacks exceedingly formidable.

And his opponent is a woman.

A woman clad in monk garb covered with a thin veil.

Yang Jinming, the Consort from the Lotus Division of the Sumeru Lotus Sect.

Among the Five Vajra Sects, the Lotus Division, along with the Vajra Division, interprets the inherent pure Bodhi Heart and Clear Purity of sentient beings’ hearts, akin to the lotus flower emerging from the mud of the Six Paths of Samsara, unstained and pure, hence named Lotus.

The greatest advantage of Buddhist Hand Seal Lineage cultivators is versatility, able to adapt to various environments and enemies without obvious shortcomings, emphasizing both spiritual cultivation and body refinement.

Such characteristics are beneficial against opponents who tread extreme paths, as long as they are not close contacted, but when they are approached, Consort Yang Jinming inevitably suffers.

Especially within the Five Vajra Sects, although all inherit the Buddhist Hand Seal Lineage, Consort Yang Jinming from the Lotus Division focuses more on spiritual cultivation and perceptive insight, lacking the sharp offense and defense of monks from the Vajra Division in the same realm.

Unfortunately, Zhang Junhai across, almost immune to the spiritual influence of same-realm opponents, making it even harder for Consort Yang Jinming.

Observing through the Great Celestial Mirror, Lei Jun sees Consort Yang Jinming’s posture remaining graceful.

With her movements, Buddha light flickers, surrounding an illusory Buddha Stupa Field.

From a certain perspective, it bears slight resemblance to the Taoist Talisman Scriptures cultivation.

Yet the Taoist Talisman Scriptures emphasizes connecting with heaven and earth, while the Buddhist Hand Seal emphasizes issuing from one’s heart.

Consort Yang Jinming is of the Buddhist Hand Seal Lineage, with the Eighth Heavenly Layer’s three-layer realm cultivation.

This realm, customarily called the Body Seal, internally includes Wheel Round Body Seal, Manifest Body Seal, Aggregate Body Seal, and Emblem Body Seal perfected as Complete Body Seal.

Lei Jun had previously interacted personally with Buddhist Elders of this grand realm, such as Yushu the Eminent Monk and Master Zongcuo.

At this realm, Buddhist experts of the Hand Seal Lineage embody secrecy, even without specifically forming hand seals, they possess various mystical skills.

And like Master Zongcuo and others, if they specifically crafted Dharma Seals, the mystic nature of the corresponding Dharma Seals would be even more manifest.