The Heaven-shattering: I and Wu Shi compete for the throne

Chapter 424 The Secret of the Divine Character: Severing the Dao and Returning to the Origin

Moreover, if they fail to achieve Nirvana, even if they are saved, their lifespan will likely be nearing its end.

Unless they use the elixir of immortality to live a second life, or he intervenes to reverse them into holy spirits, even sealing them in the source of immortality won't last long.

Because they all cultivated the Chaos Divine Embryo Technique, they developed the Great Emperor Body ahead of time.

However, ordinary cultivators who are about to attain enlightenment are not qualified to obtain the Immortal Elixir Fruit; at least, it's not their turn right now.

Moreover, they were not qualified for Li Daoming to reverse them into Holy Spirits and place them in the Divine Ruins for gestation. The Divine Ruins could not nurture many Holy Spirits, and there was simply no place for them.

Therefore, up to this day, only the Li family patriarch, his grandparents, and parents used the True Phoenix Nirvana Method to undergo Nirvana when their lifespans were nearing their end.

Although they all chose to take the shortcut of bathing in the emperor's blood for rebirth, they all failed.

After being rescued by him, the Li family patriarch took the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, which extended his lifespan by two thousand years. He planned to try again when his lifespan was nearing its end. If it still didn't work, he would reverse the transformation into a Holy Spirit.

As for his grandparents and parents, they consumed the immortality elixir and lived a second life, and they plan to try again when their lifespan is nearing its end.

He continued to mentally deduce the method by which the one who was about to attain enlightenment would break through the alternative path to enlightenment.

After an unknown amount of time, suddenly, as if struck by a flash of inspiration, two ideas surged into Li Daoming's mind:
It is extremely difficult to increase the aptitude, potential, and comprehension of a quasi-emperor at the ninth level several times. However, if we cut off their cultivation, laws, and Dao, and let them start over, and improve their aptitude, potential, and comprehension when their cultivation level is low, allowing them to accumulate more foundation, could they cultivate back to the quasi-emperor at the ninth level with aptitude, potential, and comprehension far exceeding their current level?

Could he create a divine technique that would allow a being to increase their comprehension several times over, or even more, after using it?

These two thoughts came to mind, and Li Daoming's eyes brightened, sparkling like a galaxy.

He felt that these two ideas might not be impossible!

The first method, which is to sever a person's cultivation, laws, and spiritual power, is actually not difficult. If they want to, it can be done easily.

The real challenge lies in rejuvenating them after they have severed their cultivation, laws, or even Dao levels, imbuing them with a powerful and pure origin, and giving them stronger aptitude and comprehension.

Instead of severely damaging one's vitality and lifespan after severing one's cultivation, laws, and Dao levels.

If that's the case, then apart from a few individuals, they might die directly. Even if they don't die, it's impossible for them to cultivate back to the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor, let alone achieve enlightenment through other means.

However, with his comprehension and the help of the broken jade, he might be able to deduce such a divine technique after several more trials.

As for creating a divine technique that could enhance a being's comprehension several times over, or even more, it might not be impossible.

He might be able to simulate the state after his mind and spirit merge with the broken jade, as well as the qualitative change that occurs when yin and yang are combined and spiritual consciousness is intertwined during yin-yang dual cultivation, and deduce a divine technique that would allow a person to also achieve a qualitative change in spiritual consciousness. In this way, he might be able to achieve his goal.

With an idea in mind, Li Daoming stopped diverting most of his attention to comprehend the Dao and instead focused all his attention on the broken jade, beginning to deduce and evolve its effects.

At this moment, all the related scriptures and secret techniques he had read appeared one by one. In the depths of his mind, thousands of phantoms appeared. These phantoms were performing magic, learning from each other's strengths and weaknesses. As the various magic techniques evolved, one phantom after another disappeared. However, the magic techniques they evolved became more and more perfect and more and more terrifying.

After an unknown amount of time, the many phantoms dissipated, leaving only two phantoms in Li Daoming's mind, each evolving a supreme divine technique.

Li Daoming named these two divine arts "Severing the Dao and Returning to the Origin" and "The Secret of the Divine Character"! "Severing the Dao and Returning to the Origin" is not only a terrifying killing divine art, but also a heaven-defying divine art that can allow a person to live a second life.

If one wants to kill, one can cut off a living being's cultivation, laws, or even Daoist attainment. Without cultivation, laws, and Daoist attainment, one can only be slaughtered at will.

As for allowing someone to live a second life, it involves severing a being's cultivation, laws, and spiritual attainment, transforming them into pure origin, and allowing the being to return to their original state.

This initial state is not that of an infant, but rather an embryo before birth. This embryo is nurtured with pure essence, allowing it to be reborn. After birth, its aptitude, potential, and understanding will far surpass those of before.

However, this divine technique only exists in his deductions and has not yet been put into practice, so he doesn't know if it's feasible.

Moreover, this divine technique has extremely high requirements for cultivation level; it is estimated that only experts above the Great Emperor level could comprehend and use it.

Others would likely find it difficult to grasp its essence, let alone perform this divine art to grant someone a second life.

As for the Divine Secret, it is a divine technique with extremely strong universality that he created by combining the qualitative change brought about by the fusion of Yin and Yang during the dual cultivation of Yin and Yang.

The cultivation method is extremely simple: divide your soul and mind into two parts, and then use the divine secret to evolve the Yin-Yang Taiji diagram to achieve the fusion and sublimation of Yin and Yang.

According to his estimation, ordinary cultivators of the Four Extremes level could comprehend and use it.

Once comprehended and applied, one's consciousness and mind are elevated, and one's thinking and comprehension abilities are enhanced by one to two times.

Whether the enhancement is doubled or tripled depends on the level of understanding of the divine secrets and the principles of Yin and Yang.

However, the secret of the character "神" is not just this; this is only the first level. The secret of the character "神" has three levels in total.

The second level of the Divine Secret involves dividing the merged and sublimated divine consciousness and mind into two again, and then using the second level of the Divine Secret to evolve a double Taiji diagram for further fusion and sublimation.

Don't assume that the second level of the Divine Secret is simple just because the principle is the same.

On the contrary, this level is very difficult. Unless one's realm and cultivation level are far higher than one's cultivation level, or one has a very deep understanding of the Yin-Yang Dao and the Divine Secret, it is simply impossible to achieve.

Because the first level of the Divine Secret had been used, the divine consciousness and mind were already in a state of yin and yang fusion. To split it in two and continue the yin and yang fusion without affecting the previous state was not so easy.

Moreover, the dual Yin-Yang Tai Chi diagrams cannot conflict with each other; on the contrary, they must be interlocked, containing a mystery more than ten times deeper.

Although it is difficult to achieve, if one can, one's consciousness and mind will be elevated once again, and one's thinking and comprehension will be enhanced by one to two times on the basis of the previous level, which is equivalent to six to nine times the original level.

The principle of the third level of the Divine Secret is the same, but it is even more complex and mysterious, containing infinite Yin-Yang Dao principles, and is the highest manifestation of his Yin-Yang Dao.

This level is not meant for others to cultivate; probably no one but him could achieve it.

Even he himself, though he could cultivate it, could not achieve perfect fusion, and therefore could not enhance it by two times on the basis of the second level. He tried once, and at most he could enhance it by one time, which was equivalent to eighteen times the original.

(End of this chapter)