If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1069 Full of Confidence, Easy Victory

Inside the Great Qin Treasury, there are also research archives on the Five Immortals, representing Heaven, Earth, Man, Ghosts, and Gods.

However, Xiaoyu could clearly see that compared to Ying Zheng's other experimental research, the research on the Celestial Immortal Path and the Great Luo Path was significantly more superficial.

Immortals qualified to delve into the Heavenly Immortal Path and the Great Luo Path must be Heavenly Immortals, or even Golden Immortals.

They certainly wouldn't want to reveal the fundamental secrets of celestial immortals and golden immortals to Ying Zheng.

Nor dare.

The Celestial Immortal Path and the Great Luo Path are the core technologies and top secrets of the Three Pure Ones Daoist Sect.

However, while there were no core secrets, the analysis of the basic power of Golden Immortals was quite comprehensive.

Moreover, Xiaoyu also has a father who destroys everything.

The method of brute force has not yet been deduced, and Xiaoyu's understanding of the "Great Luo Path" is not deep enough.

Based solely on the results already deduced, combined with the secrets she gleaned from the secret chamber, Xiaoyu identified two key factors that determine the combat strength of a "quasi-Great Luo".

First, Golden Immortals use pure Yang Immortal Power, which gives them a higher "energy level" of magical power.

Secondly, the supernatural powers of ordinary immortals are called "techniques," while the supernatural powers of celestial immortals (mysterious immortals) are called "laws." However, the four people, including Fuqiu Gong, were manipulating the "Dao."

Xiao Yu himself has also mastered several "Pro-level Divine Powers" involving the laws of the Great Dao.

For example, her self-created "Three Pure Ones Exorcising Evil Slash" directly draws upon the power of the Great Dao.

In terms of exorcising evil spirits and slaying demons, this sword technique is as powerful as a great supernatural power.

Even Marshal Tianpeng was amazed and was willing to exchange Taoist techniques with her.

Ordinary Qi cultivators must have extremely good luck and exceptional talent to indirectly draw upon the power of the Great Dao Laws through the "Pro Great Divine Power".

Ordinary supernatural powers cannot touch the laws of the Great Dao.

If one lacks sufficient good fortune, one cannot learn great supernatural powers.

Those lacking in innate talent and comprehension will not be able to learn great supernatural powers.

Xiao Yu has been in the industry for many years and is now the Grand Tutor of the Qin Dynasty, but he has never obtained even a single secret manual that records great supernatural powers.

Her supernatural powers mainly come from the demonic script within her demon core.

You may have enough good fortune, but not enough talent. Even if you receive nine years of compulsory education, can you get into a top-tier high school in the city? Even if you get into a top-tier high school in the city, can you get into Tsinghua or Peking University?

The secret manuals of supernatural powers are like textbooks; how far one can learn them depends heavily on one's personal aptitude.

Therefore, most Qi cultivators, as long as they master a great supernatural power, can become famous throughout the land and stand out in their time.

During the Investiture of the Gods period, each of the Qi cultivators who were destined to face tribulations possessed a unique skill.

One trick is all you need until you encounter another supernatural power or magical artifact that can counter your own.

Those like Fuqiu Gong, who are close to becoming Great Luo Immortals, are on another level; they are almost at the Dao Integration stage.

Before aligning with the Tao, one must at least "stick to the Tao".

By delving into the rules of the Great Dao and becoming intimately connected with it, every action and every move can draw upon the power of the Great Dao.

Every move and every style is like the great supernatural power of an ordinary immortal.

While other immortals were still using their "immortal arts," the Golden Immortal casually unleashed a barrage of powerful divine abilities. How could they possibly fight back?
The "protective divine power" that can be specially cultivated by Golden Immortals is incredibly powerful.

It can not only unleash the power of the Great Dao, but also unleash "rare-grade power of the Great Dao".

Yes, even though they are all fundamental principles, there are differences between them.

There are three thousand great paths, with the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth) being the most common.

For example, Xiaoyu's Three Pure Ones Exorcising Evil Slash originates from the Three Pure Ones Exorcising Evil Incantation, which is a basic course in Taoism. The phrase "commonplace" is an understatement to describe its widespread use.

Common does not equal weak, but common is certainly easy to be restrained.

Having seen and studied many other immortals, they will eventually find a way to counter supernatural powers.

Rare-grade Great Dao Laws are those that ordinary immortals cannot touch, or even have heard of. They possess greater power and are more difficult to restrain.

Above the "Rare" level, there is the "Exclusive" level, which can only be used by the Golden Immortal himself, because it is the Great Dao he created himself.

Fuqiu Gong and the others are almost at the point of attaining enlightenment; they should have created their own path.

Xiaoyu floated ahead, with Mengqi and the four friends of Qionglin following behind.

Meng Qi and Xiao Yu were whispering to each other. Even if the Four Friends of Qionglin couldn't hear clearly, they knew what they were doing.

Knowing they're whispering, you can guess what they're talking about.

They pretended not to know, but Meng Qi didn't just say a few words; he kept talking, his expressions varied, sometimes worried, sometimes solemn.

Guo Qiong couldn't hold back any longer and said, "Zhenyangzi (Meng Qi's Taoist name), why don't you find a place to have a proper talk?"
You explained to her in detail all the Taoist techniques and magical treasures of the four of us.

Meng Qi blushed and said, "I did not reveal your Dao techniques, but only let this ignorant barbarian understand the difference between a Golden Immortal and an ordinary immortal."

"So what if you know? True skill is true skill, and it won't change because of a few words from you," Li Futu said.

"If you are afraid, you can leave now and go back to the West," Fuqiu Gong said calmly.

"Sigh, I just advised her to be cautious and not to be careless," Meng Qi sighed.

Xiao Yu glanced at the Four Friends of Qionglin and said indifferently, "Old Meng, you don't need to waste your breath."

It's just that I'm a bit too young.

If we wait another two or three years, today will no longer be a battle of magic and 'escape techniques'.

I will directly challenge the legendary "Four Friends of Qionglin".

They didn't go one by one, they went all four at once!

"If we wait another ten or eight years, Lao Meng, you'll be placing the same worries you have for me today on your four old friends."

"What an arrogant and ignorant barbarian!" Dong Ye was furious.

Guo Qiong glanced at Xiao Yu and sneered, "I have lived for hundreds of thousands of years. I have seen countless true cultivators of the Xuanmen, Buddhist disciples of Lingshan, demonic children of the Demonic Sect, and monsters and ghosts."

"I've never seen anyone as arrogant as you before, and I reckon you're the first in the entire Pangu world!"

“Talk is cheap! We’ll see who’s ignorant and who’s arrogant right away,” Xiaoyu said.

They were all immortals, and their speed was very fast.

After exchanging a few words, Xiaoyu arrived at the Sui River outside Fuli City.

Fuqiu Gong surveyed the vast river, which stretched for over twenty miles, and asked, "Do you want to compete with us in water escape?"
"Hehe, Meng Qi really should have a good talk with you, so you can understand our supernatural powers and cultivation."

Xiao Yu smiled faintly and said, "I came to the Sui River not to choose the best location for myself."

I want to tell you that here there are abundant rivers, vast lands, and a boundless sky.

The environment here meets the requirements for several common escape techniques used by cultivators, including water escape, earth escape, and flight escape.

You can choose whichever is most advantageous to you; I don't care.

The way Meng Qi looked at her was as if she were the biggest idiot in the world, the strangest oddball.

The four friends of Qionglin were also dumbfounded.

After the initial shock, Fuqiu Gong quickly regained his composure and asked with a grim expression, "Are you sure?"

Meng Qi hurriedly advised, "Yu Fengxian, you know nothing of the power of a Golden Immortal! Fuqiu can grasp the vast Sui River, stretching ten thousand miles, in the palm of his hand with a single thought. Fu Tu can stomp his foot and turn the earth and sky upside down, with the earth above and the sky below."

No matter what magical powers you've mastered, you're no match for a Golden Immortal.

Xiao Yu waved his hand boldly and said, "Today I will make the four immortals submit to my authority."

I will also use this battle to make everyone in the world understand my truth—the Ancestral Dragon is definitely not a dragon vein!

—The key is to prevent the world from making wild guesses. The reason I can come and go freely in front of the Four Friends of Qionglin is not because I have mastered unknown mysterious means, but simply because I practice the principle that "the First Emperor is the stepmother" and have mastered the mysterious power of heaven and earth.

Well, she was indeed showing off, but while doing so, she was also releasing smokescreens beforehand.

There was no way around it; she was destined to win this bet. But to others, it seemed impossible for her to win at all.

Xiaoyu hoped that after she won the bet, they would be shocked and show respect, but not speculate wildly that she had some unknown and mysterious "golden touch".

"The Ancestral Dragon is not a dragon vein?" Meng Qi paused, seemingly understanding something, yet unable to grasp the key point.

"What do you mean?"

He's already taken the bait.

Xiao Yu was secretly pleased, but said expressionlessly, "You'll understand what I mean in a moment. Master Fuqiu, make your choice!"

Fuqiu Gong gave her a deep look and said, "Since you said 'the Ancestral Dragon is not a dragon vein,' you probably control the land of Sishui County. Earth Escape is most advantageous to you, so let's have a contest of Earth Escape!"

She let them choose so that they would be convinced: Don't say I'm cheating, I can come and go as I please, that's my ability, and it has nothing to do with the environment.

He chose the escape method most advantageous to her for the same purpose: even if you have all the advantages of timing, location, and people, and exert 200% of your strength, you still can't make a big splash in front of us.

Both sides are full of confidence.

Xiaoyu frowned and said, "My advantage is too great; I'm afraid it wouldn't be an honorable victory!"

Meng Qi remained silent.

Dong Ye coldly said, "Fellow Daoists, please don't make a move later. Let me handle it."

This junior is too arrogant and too annoying. I have severed his three corpses, yet my nameless anger still flares up.

Xiao Yu smiled faintly and said, "The Great Immortal's skill in cultivating his inner energy is not as good as mine, a junior."

"Is it confirmed that the severing of the three corpses was successful, and not due to demonic thoughts arising or hallucinations causing one to believe they have been severed?"

Dong Ye said, "I have been able to tolerate such an arrogant and ignorant person as you until now without cursing you or slapping you. Your self-control is second to none in the Three Realms."

Meng Qi also rebuked him, saying, "If you're ignorant, don't make a fool of yourself here."

Severing the three corpses is not the same as the 'path of heartlessness', which means cutting off all emotions and becoming heartless, desireless, angry, and loveless.

Severing the three corpses cuts away the obsessions of the ignorant and true mind, leading to a carefree state of mind characterized by non-action and naturalness.

Although he was scolding her, he took the opportunity to explain the spiritual realm of severing the three corpses to her.

After severing the three corpses, the Great Luo Golden Immortal did not become an emotionless wooden figure.

On the contrary, after severing the three corpses, the immortal's emotions become purer and more sincere. He is angry when he should be angry and happy when he should be happy. He is not affected by external things and only follows his own heart.

For example, during the Journey to the West period, Zhen Yuanzi and Wukong became sworn brothers.

Some say that Wukong has an extraordinary background, and Zhen Yuanzi wants to become sworn brothers with him in order to connect with Mount Ling and the bigwigs behind Wukong.

That's pure nonsense.

Putting aside whether Zhen Yuanzi the Great Immortal needs to curry favor with anyone, even if he is truly unworthy of his reputation and so low as to need to curry favor with others, just based on his supernatural powers that allowed him to defeat Wukong in one move, and based on his network of connections that enabled him to go to the Great Luo Heaven to discuss the "Hun Yuan Dao Guo" with Yuanshi Tianzun, would he need someone with far less ability and connections than himself to help him make connections?
Zhen Yuanzi had simply achieved the carefree state of mind of the Daoist school; when he met someone he liked, he would not hesitate to show his joy.

As for the issue of seniority after becoming sworn brothers with Wukong, such worldly rules and prejudices are nothing but the root of delusion and folly that bind one's true nature!
Only those who have severed the three corpses or attained Bodhicitta are considered "true people".

Everyone else is a "dummy" manipulated by the world.

Although Xiaoyu did not sever the three corpses, he is about to complete the "Seven Places to Prove the Heart". The methods are different, but the purpose is similar: to find the true nature.

Doesn't she understand that the state of mind of non-action in severing the three corpses is not the same as "a heartless state of mind"?
She deliberately teased Master Dong.

Meng Qi is not as carefree as her.

She was the person involved, yet she still had the leisure to joke and tease the immortal.

He was so nervous that he didn't even understand her teasing remark.

Xiaoyu looked up at the sun and said, "The sun is about to set, all you great immortals, hurry up!"

Unlike you who are encountering bottlenecks in your cultivation, my progress is rapid every day and every moment. I will be better tomorrow than I am today.

My time is precious and I can't afford to waste it.

Dong Ye started to get angry again.

Meng Qi started to worry about her again.

The other three immortals were also starting to lose their temper.

"Stop talking nonsense. Use your escape technique first. If I can't defeat you in one move, I'll admit defeat!" Dong Ye said coldly.

"Whoosh!" Without saying a word, Xiaoyu transformed into a beam of golden light, disappeared into the earth, and vanished in an instant.

Dong Ye was stunned for a moment, his eyes flashing with shock and panic. He quickly raised his right hand, spread his five fingers, and pressed it down on the ground.

"Om~~"

Centered on him, across a thousand miles of the land, a divine light seemed to flash and disappear, and the ground trembled slightly.

It was not at the level of an earthquake, but it was enough to be detected by martial artists who cultivated martial arts and had keen senses.

They looked around, up at the sky and down at the earth, but found nothing.

In the Middle Realm and the Heavenly Realm above the human world, there are also gods and immortals who sense the tremors of the land below.

Standing on the clouds, looking down at the human world from the Middle Realm or the Heavenly Realm, they saw a gigantic, boundless hand that covered the sky and the sun, with its five fingers pointing downwards, grasping the earth within a thousand miles in its palm.

Like an ordinary child, he bent down and picked up a clod of dirt from the ground.

"Which great immortal is using his supernatural powers? He has actually captured several counties in the southeastern part of the Divine Land." They exclaimed in amazement.

Dong Ye, standing by the Sui River in the human realm, exclaimed in surprise, "How is this possible? How could Yu Fengxian have used the Earth Escape Technique to travel thousands of miles away in such a short time?"

Could it be that my Taoist magic has failed me?!

Fuqiu Gong looked down at the earthen-yellow light in his palm and asked, "You've already captured a thousand miles around, yet Yu Fengxian still managed to escape?"

Dong Ye's expression changed several times. He sensed the "Thousand Mile Earth" in his hand again and indeed found no trace of Yu Fengxian.

"Earth escape is slow and cannot travel a thousand miles in an instant. My Taoist magic probably had no effect on her."

She remains within a thousand miles of the earth, but my supernatural powers are insufficient to pull her from the ground.

As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Fengxian's voice emerged from all directions, "Master Dong, remember this, you have already attacked me once."

Although it was a contest of magic agreed upon, it was also a matter of cause and effect.

If there's any retribution in the future, go ahead and complain about fate and blame others; don't blame me.

The four friends of Qionglin all looked grim.

As expected, Yu Fengxian did not rely on her speed to travel; she instantly traveled a thousand miles away.

She remained in the earth, yet she broke Dong Ye's supernatural power of "turning one's hand to create heaven".

(End of this chapter)