Chapter 1443 - 46: Fighting Technique Demonstration
The wind and snow howled.
The light inside the ancient temple was dim.
The towering Heavenly King Buddha Statue wrapped in a red dragon, its eyes glaring fiercely, was unfortunately shrouded in darkness, leaving its majestic appearance unseen and unheard.
Ao Ying extinguished the light and went outside to set up the array patterns.
At this moment, the dim ancient temple was extremely tranquil, with only the sound of slow breathing.
Xie Xuanyi adjusted his posture, and the blooming blood flower on his chest contracted significantly, subtly "reverting" into a bud. The flesh began to gather, but the trend of the Karmic Fire burning did not abate at all. As the wound contracted and diminished, the Karmic Fire instead became like the "stamen" in the bud, growing even more concentrated and intense.
The time left for himself was not much.
The peaceful days in the Lushui Cave Heaven would last only for a few days.
What Xie Xuanyi urgently needed was to recover some strength, at least enough to move "freely." As long as he could recover some strength, dealing with a Demon Venerable at the Yin God Realm wouldn’t be a problem.
"Hoo..."
At this moment, Xie Xuanyi gathered all his spirit around the Heart Lake.
The Longevity Lamp and the Undying Spring were about to "burn out"...
The flesh was healing at the fastest speed.
But the burning of the Karmic Fire was affecting this process.
To fight against the pain of the Karmic Fire, Xie Xuanyi began to visualize the [Primordial Holy Map] obtained from the ruins.
He focused his Divine Thought inside the Grotto Heaven.
All forty-nine pillars of Bronze Immortal Gold were stored here.
Once he concentrated his mind, the murals on those pillars of Immortal Gold started to wriggle, coming to life from their deathly silence bit by bit.
Hong Da did not misjudge him.
Although Xie Xuanyi was a Human Race Sword Cultivator, he indeed had a fateful connection with the [Primordial Holy Map].
Within an hour, Xie Xuanyi entered a state of "meditation"... He comprehended this Holy Diagram with astounding speed. The golden lines on the murals danced and bounced, regaining life and beginning to sketch a different picture.
This second visualization map was located in the primordial chaos.
Thick fog roiled and surged.
As the visualization deepened...
Xie Xuanyi gradually pierced through the fog, seeing a towering Great Ape with its head against the sky in the depths of this chaos.
This Great Ape’s Divine Body was exceedingly gigantic.
Even the Primordial Saint, who could only appear in his demon body after signing a Life Oath, seemed extremely insignificant before it.
Under the Great Ape’s feet.
Were ranges of mountains.
These mountains lay prostrate like snakes or insects.
Even the clouds that reached the sky could only hang around the Great Ape’s waist.
"Is this... the Lifebound Demon Body of the Ancestor Saint Emperor?"
Even Xie Xuanyi felt deeply shocked.
How enormous could this demon body be...
Could this be the True Dharma Body at the Peak of Heavenly Human?
In Xie Xuanyi’s perception, the only thing comparable in size to this Great Ape would be the "Immortal Tree." The Immortal Tree in the Ancient Tree Cave Heaven should be even more majestic and towering than this Great Ape Demon Body, yet the scene before him was already astonishing enough, allowing him to feel an extremely domineering kingly aura that looked down upon the world, even in the visualization map!
Rumble, rumble, rumble.
The clouds in the sky shattered, like seawater being stirred.
The Great Ape began to evolve the Fighting Saint Technique, an unparalleled divine skill inscribed by the Holy Emperor in the [Primordial Holy Map].
In the world today.
In terms of martial arts cultivation, the one who reached the absolute peak should be the deceased "Qin Ancestor."
But even Qin Ancestor’s understanding of the "Fighting Technique" was still inferior to the Ancestor Saint Emperor’s, which was a top-tier divine skill before the collapse of the Heavenly Dao. Every move and style evolved the essence of fighting, Xie Xuanyi stared hard at the Great Ape, watching the clouds crash and chaos shatter, engrossed and lost in self-forgetfulness, afraid of missing any detail.
He didn’t know how much time had passed.
The Great Ape stopped its display of the Fighting Technique...
The clouds in the sky returned to place, the chaos restored peace, yet Xie Xuanyi lingered in the performance of the Fighting Technique, only returning to his senses after a long while.
"Is it over?"
Xie Xuanyi’s Heart Lake was intensely agitated.
During the visualization of the [Primordial Holy Map], the demonstration of this Fighting Technique was so captivating that he forgot the pain of the [Karmic Fire] burning. Only after ending the visualization did he realize that this second Primordial Holy Map had been successfully comprehended.
"..."
This was a pre-imprinted Imagination World, so naturally, there would be no response.
The world was silent.
The Great Ape once again turned its back to All Living Beings, silent.
Xie Xuanyi, however, frowned, realizing something peculiar. Although he had successfully comprehended the second [Primordial Holy Map], witnessing an extraordinarily splendid display of the Fighting Technique, he could remember nothing when he tried recalling it.
"How exactly was this Fighting Technique executed?"
Xie Xuanyi tried hard to recall.
The Fighting Technique, which had pierced through the Sky Vault before, was now beyond recollection.
Never mind recreating it.
He couldn’t even recall the "opening move"!
Xie Xuanyi immediately shifted his Divine Thought to the third pillar of Bronze Immortal Gold... The same thing happened, the visualization proceeded smoothly, and he once again saw that Great Ape in the chaos, watched it perform the Fighting Technique, deeply engrossed.
Until everything settled down.
Xie Xuanyi’s mind was blank again.
"How come this Fighting Technique is instantly forgotten after seeing?"
He immediately realized something was off.
He had consecutively comprehended two [Primordial Holy Maps], but the only thing he could remember was the image of the Great Ape standing at the center of all heavens and the commanding, sole-dominant aura. Besides that, he remembered nothing.
"This Primordial Holy Map... is different from other Observation Skills!"
Xie Xuanyi shifted his Divine Thought back to the second pillar of Bronze Immortal Gold.
Unexpectedly, something strange happened.
This time, the mural on the second pillar of Bronze Immortal Gold seemed truly "dead," and no matter how much Xie Xuanyi focused his spirit, he could not awaken it.
Each pillar of Bronze Immortal Gold could only be comprehended once.
The subsequent comprehensions were bound to be increasingly difficult.
Yet, the cultivation of the [Primordial Holy Map] apparently involved more than just mere comprehension. Xie Xuanyi had already forgotten the previous two performances of the Ancestor Saint Emperor’s Fighting Technique; he could only vaguely remember that in the two performances, the divine skills and moves the Great Ape exhibited were different.
"To perfect the cultivation of this [Primordial Holy Map]..."
"Not only should one comprehend all forty-nine pillars of Bronze Immortal Gold, but also engrave the Holy Emperor’s divine skill into the Heart Lake."
Xie Xuanyi muttered.
He initially thought this matter involved merely spending some time.
But now, it seemed that’s not the case.
The heritage left by the Holy Emperor proved to be extremely challenging in cultivation; all comprehenders would forget the specific images they had seen before, and this [Primordial Holy Skill] could only be restored through one’s own deduction!
According to Hong Er’s words.
The seven [Primordial Holy Maps] signified a level of steps.
So then...
Trying to step from the first level to the second undoubtedly involved a major hurdle.
If not mistaken.
The comprehension of the first seven [Primordial Holy Maps] was exceedingly easy.
But starting from the eighth, the comprehender would need to evolve the "Fighting Technique" inside the Heart Lake.