Wet viviparity

Chapter 867 Strong Wind, Spewing Mysteries
Without any warning, half of a broken bird's head, squeezed out from the crack in the mud, was severed from its neck and fell heavily to the ground, splashing a large pool of blue blood.

Do you know why I've been left here?

The half-broken bird's head, with its hook-like black beak open, showed no anger at being beheaded by Ji Ming. Instead, it calmly said to Ji Ming, "Only here can I turn death into life and remain immortal."

"I suppose you can see that my physical body is not in good condition. Although I am one of the Four Fiends, I am unable to unleash the full power of a demon god. Now, I have been utterly defeated by this divine general, and most of my true essence and blood have been drained by him, serving as nourishment for him instead."

Judging from Da Feng's tone, he sounded like a defeated rooster, utterly dejected.

Ji Ming felt that he was stalling for time, his purpose being to allow Zhao Duluo to recover as soon as possible. Ji Ming did not understand how they could be so sure that the True Lord had not tampered with the divine general, given their knowledge of the True Lord's cunning and shrewdness.

In this short period of time, Ji Ming had already become deeply convinced of the True Lord's profound plans.

Whether it was using a furnace of external elixir to fuel the conflict between the two elders of the hook and sickle and the King of Yin'e, or creating a false mountain under the nose of the Cloud and Rain Temple using the Great Method of Revealing Diagrams and Shifting Forms, or calculating the root of the evil and having Master Xuanying borrow the divine staff from the Western Divine Pillar to defeat the enemy in one move and eliminate the great evil, not to mention using the return of the original Zhao Du Luo as a pretext to invite the Prajna Divine Nun of the Liuli Temple.

These methods are not achieved overnight; they all require extreme strategic thinking and courage.

In an instant, Ji Ming understood why the great calamity was about to begin. Perhaps the seeds of this calamity had already been sown when Lu Zhenjun first emerged on Taiping Mountain. Some people are destined to dominate an era and accomplish incredible things.

Aren't the Three Gods and Four Fiends strong?
Were all the previous Taiping Zhenjun (True Lords of Peace) useless?

Of course not. Among the three gods and four evil spirits, speaking only of the dangerous god that Ji Ming has seen and fought, it is estimated that no one among the elders of Taiping Mountain would dare to say that they could suppress this god.

The Great Divine Power of the Divine Path is already unpredictable and treacherous. In addition, when this god was captured, the God of Perilous Path still had a temple that had not been used. If the God of Perilous Path is already so powerful, not to mention the Four Fiends, it seems that none of them are demon gods of the present era.

Although the previous Taiping Zhenjun was also powerful, his strength was only limited. He was not as powerful as Lu Zhenjun, who possessed infinite potential, and whose strength made the patriarchs willing to gamble the future of their sects with him.

Ji Ming was already considering that after the great calamity, he would go to some unorthodox sects to find a few fifth-level Nascent Soul cultivators to spar with, to test the level that a normal fifth-level Nascent Soul cultivator should have. After all, he had only just become an infant, and he couldn't keep fighting high-level battles among the fifth-level cultivators.

When Ji Ming turned his gaze to Zhao Duluo, Da Feng also noticed this. The body, which was huddled under the two mud roots, struggled and wriggled. First, the broken half of the bird's head was reattached to its neck, and then a wave of wind and thunder surged up from its body.

However, the wind and thunder soon subsided, as he realized that the Taoist in front of him had no intention of attacking, so he quickly withdrew his strong offensive intent.

With Lu Zhenjun's divine general still by his side, he had no chance of winning. This divine general, nourished by his true body—no, by the combined nourishment of the fierce demon and his own two demonic divine bodies—had broken through to another realm.

The nine drums hanging from the ring resemble the nine-linked divine drums of Jiang Leigong in the Five Thunder Palace of the Thunder Department, and the six-winged bird claws seem to have the shadow of the Deqin Divine Scenery Divine Method of the ancient Divine True Wonder Path. In short, this divine general has already broken away from the category of the Taiping Mountain Spiritual Light Divine General.

The most urgent task now is to stabilize this Taoist priest. If we can summon the resurrection of the God General Du Luo, we will still have a chance to turn the tide. At the very least, we should drag it out until the fog on Mount Dayunfu is cleared up. When that happens, we can spread the fog here, which will at least make the people of Taiping Mountain return empty-handed and bring about a stalemate.

“Lingxuzi, judging from the fact that your Three Flowers and Five Qi still show signs of being in a state of flux, do you know that your top priority right now should be to stabilize the Crimson Palace, rather than engaging in a protracted battle here?”

Although you have the assistance of the Primordial Ruyi, the world today is no longer what it was in ancient times. Many immortals and gods have retired from the world. After the Great Xia Dynasty, even we old sinners and ghosts are no longer active. Those born in this era can at most reach the level of Celestial Immortal.

"hehe!"

Ji Ming sat down on the ground, his fingers forming threads of divine energy as he cut through the mud roots, and said with a smile, "What can I learn from you, senior?"

"Divine magic!"

Da Feng stretched his thin neck vigorously and said in a seductive tone, "At your level of cultivation, you should be able to come into contact with this method of perfecting both form and spirit. This kind of method is in the hands of us ancient elders, and only from us can you have the opportunity to obtain it."

However, Heaven itself, and even the immortals of the Heavenly Palace, have sealed away these divine techniques, forbidding their private transmission, and have even given them a different name.

"Forbidden techniques!" "Yes, forbidden techniques, techniques that are not widely known and practiced, but are forbidden."

Da Feng said in a regretful tone.

Under Ji Ming's hands, the mud root remained intact. So Ji Ming used the invisible demon-refining true fire to create a small blade and began to cut back and forth on it, saying, "Do you know any forbidden magic?"

Seeing that Lingxuzi appeared nonchalant, Dafeng realized that the Taoist had already taken the bait, so he decisively revealed more of the truth, saying, "When heaven and earth were first created, the divine methods that constituted the Dao of Gods and True Ones evolved into many wondrous forms of Gods and True Ones."

The Milky Way constellation magic manifests the myriad constellations of the heavens, the Five Sacred Mountains true form map reveals wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, and the deities of all the mountains and peaks, while the wondrous laws of the Virtuous Birds and Divine Landscapes transform the gods, monsters, and spirits between heaven and earth.

My true form possesses some divine and wondrous qualities, but this is not a divine and wondrous form achieved through my cultivation of divine methods. Rather, it is because my mother was an ancient cinnabar bird who cultivated the wondrous methods of the divine realm of virtuous birds. She was exceptionally talented and created the divine and wondrous form of the Great Phoenix of Wood Virtue from it, allowing me to inherit a bit of her legacy.

Although I do not know these divine techniques, all four of us fierce beasts have profound foundations. Among us are the full and empty fierce beasts, and even the fiercest fierce beast has mastered forbidden techniques.

Seeing that the mud root could not be cut by his magical artifact, and that the principles of the five elements' mutual generation and restraint were ineffective, Ji Ming finally stopped what he was doing and took two steps toward General Du Luo, which made Da Feng tense for a moment.

Da Feng was also confused by his concern. The Du Luo Divine General had almost fully recovered. Even if Ling Xu Zi had the Yuan Pi Ru Yi, how could it be so easy to break through? But Da Feng dared not gamble on this one-in-a-million possibility.

"As far as I know, since ancient times, this kind of divine method has always yielded one result per method."

Ji Ming recalled the Great Forbidden Form of the Ancestral God that Jiang Heixiao, the second primordial spirit, was bestowed upon him when he went to the Fire-Casting Mountain and the Heavenly Candle Golden Court. He then said, "Only the River Stars Divine Method, and even the divine method in the 'Fixed Immortal Journey' at the end of the Tianzhou era, can be used to refine multiple things from one method."

"Your words are obviously hearsay."

Da Feng said with great certainty: "The Hehan Liesu Divine Method is indeed famous. The Twenty-Eight Constellations, the Five Directions Dipper Star Lords, the Five Virtues True Lords, etc., were all accomplished through this method. It can be said to be the most universally applicable divine method."

The divine technique used to determine the immortals' ascension at the end of the Tianzhou era was not a purely divine technique, but rather a kind of...
Forget it, there's no point in saying more. As for the matter of Dingxianyou back then, you'll naturally understand when the time is right.

Your claim that one method yields one result is not entirely wrong.

For example, the water spirits and monsters of the Jianghu are born with the nature of water. With a little cultivation, they can use water-based escape techniques to breathe in and out the mist and mountain haze of the Jianghu. If they go further, their water nature can transform into the nature of a dragon, and they can eventually achieve the merits of a true dragon.

This innate and natural spiritual essence possesses incredible creative power, and the same principle applies to divine methods.

My mother was born from the Eastern Mulberry Tree, descending to earth with a celestial branch in her beak. She became a disciple of the Azure Bird Ancestor, one of the three divine birds under the throne of the Azure Heaven. She was once bestowed the title "Old Woman of Mulberry Tree" by the Azure Heaven. She was born with the spirit of the Eastern Wood element.

His cultivation of the *Virtuous Bird and Divine Landscape Wonderful Method* is equivalent to transforming the "dragon" within him, representing the Eastern Wood element, into a "true dragon," thereby attaining the Virtuous Fruit of the Eastern Wood and achieving the Divine True Path. He is only one step away from becoming a Primordial Qi Grand Supreme Golden Immortal.

"Then how did you end up in this state?"

Ji Ming knew that these words were meant to reopen old wounds, but he was also genuinely curious.

Da Feng's tone was filled with undisguised desolation as he said, "During the reign of the Heavenly Emperor, that Qing Tianzi committed a taboo against the Heavenly Family. My mother was his subject and was implicated. She was defeated and died at the end of the Heavenly Emperor's reign. It wasn't until this era that the Divine Lord used mud roots to restore my crippled body and gave birth to a bit of innate spiritual light. Unfortunately, it was ultimately fate that caused me to be incomplete from birth."

"ho"

Beneath the muddy network, the clear light in the eye sockets of the white bull's head of the Zhaodu Luo deity grew stronger, and sounds began to emanate from its nasal cavity.

(End of this chapter)