I will teach you how to cultivate immortality

Chapter 500 Entering the Dao through Arrows, Achieving Sainthood in the Physical Body

"A tree that stands out in the forest will be felled by the wind. A person who excels above others will be criticized by the masses."

"They don't know how to temper their brilliance and maintain a moderate approach..."

"I seem to be able to foresee what will happen to Da Yi next."

Standing in a field that had been trampled and destroyed, Li Xuandu, despite knowing he was still in a dream, couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Unlike the era of the Heavenly Emperor Haojun, which had no written history.

Since the first Witch King of the Great Xia Dynasty gave up immortality, the retelling of past history and myths has no longer been passed down orally.

After Li Boyang was born, the systematic and orderly transmission of civilization became a mainstream practice.

In the first sixteen years of Li Xuandu's life, the only thing he had to do was learn knowledge, skills, history, morality, and ways of understanding the world.

Compared to the events of the more than one hundred years after Li Xuandu.

Those sixteen years of his life were not long, but they undoubtedly laid the foundation for the core ideas of his life.

Take Da Yi for example. If nothing unexpected happens, Li Xuandu can even fully imagine the trajectory of his life in the second half of his life.

Possessing power without matching thoughts and understanding will inevitably make one a weapon in the hands of others.

Moreover, Yi never concealed his "weakness"—his identification with and concern for his fellow human beings.

Putting himself in their shoes, Li Xuandu believed that whether it was the Heavenly Emperor or the gods, they would have a thousand ways to easily control this human hero.

As Li Xuandu had predicted, he then witnessed the remaining two great achievements of Da Yi's first half of life in this dream.

— He captured the boar in the mulberry forest and beheaded the serpent in Dongting Lake.

Fengxi is not a ferocious god, but a kind of wild boar with a huge body, a real ferocious beast.

Guided by the gods, it broke into the largest settlement of mankind at that time—the Mulberry Grove.

Sanglin was located in the heart of the Central Plains, and its main industry was sericulture, producing almost half of the food crops of the human race at that time.

When the piranhas appeared in this place, trampling crops and destroying mulberry groves.

The result was predictable; it almost wiped out the human race at that time.

So Yi once again took to the field, using a spear and halberd for close combat instead of a bow and arrow, and killed Feng Xi in the mulberry forest, thus enabling the people of the Central Plains to resume farming.

But that was far from enough, because even Yi knew that Fengxi was not the culprit behind this disaster.

So Da Yi continued his investigation and eventually found the celestial being, Xiu She.

The serpent was thousands of miles long and coiled above Dongting Lake. Every move it made was as terrifying as a mountain range.

Most importantly, Xiu She's identity is not simple.

He is an ancient relic who survived from the previous era, and was a subject who fought alongside Haojun to conquer the world.

As long as the Serpent does not openly rebel against the Heavenly Emperor, even if it swallows an elephant by day or eclipses a village by moonlight, it will be with the Heavenly Emperor's permission.

In other words, Xiu She is an ancient god who can openly eat people and perform human sacrifices.

From any perspective, Xiu She had no reason to instigate Feng Xi to destroy the mulberry forest, and Da Yi had no right to judge Xiu She.

Unfortunately, Da Yi, who was blinded by anger at the time, couldn't think of all that.

Enraged, Yi first shot an arrow through the head of the serpent, and then pursued it for several years.

That was the toughest battle that Yi had ever fought.

The battle between the two sides affected a large part of the land, and wherever it passed, gods and demons were terrified, and all living beings perished.

In the end, Yi was more skillful. While the snake was asleep and taking a breath, he used his giant axe to cut it in two, and then used the snake bones to build the famous Baling.

"That was a brilliant move of using someone else to do his dirty work..." "How did he escape this predicament afterward?"

He gripped the sun-shooting arrow tightly in his hand.

Li Xuandu stood atop a mountain made of snake bones, his words revealing no trace of curiosity or inquiry.

They killed the Heavenly Emperor's subject, an ancient deity who possessed extremely high privileges.

Li Xuan didn't even need to think to know that Da Yi had definitely committed a grave offense, and even the Heavenly Emperor might not be able to protect him.

With the wisdom of later generations, Li Xuandu could reconstruct this scheme specifically targeting Xiu She and Da Yi through some minor details.

First is Xiu She, a trusted minister of the Heavenly Emperor, a powerful being who is infinitely close to a Great God.

His death undoubtedly weakened the power of the Heavenly Emperor's side.

This effectively strengthened the gods' influence over the Heavenly Emperor.

Secondly, there is Da Yi, who was personally appointed by the Heavenly Emperor as the God of Judgment. The Heavenly Emperor's favor towards him is obvious to all.

Now that he has made such a grave mistake, even if the Heavenly Emperor favors him greatly, he will surely punish him as a warning to others.

At that time, the Heavenly Emperor would have essentially cut off another arm of his own, and it would be an extremely powerful one at that.

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Li Xuandu ultimately failed to foresee how the story would unfold.

The dream ended after Yi killed the Xiu Serpent.

Then, just like in his previous dreams, the Sun-Shooting Arrow reappeared quietly in Li Xuandu's hands at some unknown time.

"Do you really want me to learn Da Yi's abilities?"

Looking down at the Sun-Shooting Arrow in his hand, Li Xuandu's mind flashed back to the methods and abilities of Yi the Great in slaying the Five Fiends.

Li Xuandu knew, of course, that the reason the Sun-Shooting Arrow repeatedly pulled him into his dreams was definitely not simply to let him witness the life of Yi the Archer.

The true purpose of the Sun-Shooting Arrow's continued entry into my dreams was that it used the methods of fighting gods with human form to defeat Yi. It hoped to inherit Yi's abilities.

To be honest, even Li Xuandu from the future couldn't hide his shock when he saw Da Yi's methods.

It is neither a divine innate ability nor a celestial being's profound Taoist magic...

Da Yi was not even a wizard; he used pure strength and physique to intimidate and hunt down the evil gods.

In his hands, even a simple wooden stick can unleash incredible power.

Spears pierced and killed Feng Xi, giant axes slew and killed Xiu She...

These undeniable achievements are the ultimate manifestation of Da Yi's abilities.

It's important to know that there was no such thing as magical artifacts in the era of Yi the Archer.

He used only the most ordinary tools, some of which may actually be made of wood.

However, putting all that aside, Yi's greatest strength was his archery skills.

That was an archery skill that was almost akin to the Dao.

It almost has a causal effect of "hitting the target every time it's shot".

When shooting down the wind, Yi was even able to use his archery skills to forcibly pull the opponent down from the air and then slash and kill him with his halberd.

It is no exaggeration to say that Li Xuandu saw in Da Yi a concept that his master had once mentioned—entering the Dao through skill and achieving sainthood through the physical body.

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