Chapter 180: Immortals Are the World
Bu Jing came to the main hall and shared everything he had comprehended overnight with the three great cultivators, Abu, the Bu Clan Leader, and Bu Tian, also passing around the Shangqing Yellow Court Outer Realm Scripture.
Abu, the Bu Clan Leader, and Bu Tian were all dumbfounded. Bu Jing’s “Outer Realm” realm was nothing short of fantastical to them, but when they thought about it carefully, it actually seemed quite feasible to cultivate.
After reading the Shangqing Yellow Court Outer Realm Scripture, they were even more astonished—as if enlightened by heaven. Even Abu hadn’t imagined that his brother was so incredibly talented that he could write such a world-upending masterpiece.
“Martial artists do not seek from the heavens, yet can learn from the heavens. Seven hundred and twenty acupoints correspond to the 720 stars of the Zhoutian and intersect with heaven and earth—not bad, this is a good concept.” Jiang Li nodded.
“So you’re saying this path is the right one?” Bu Jing asked excitedly, the wrinkles on his face bunching together.
Jiang Li neither confirmed nor denied.
“We’ve never truly cultivated the Martial Dao. Whether it’s right or not, you’ll have to try it yourself. You may succeed, or you may fail. Nothing is certain. Anything is possible.”
Jiang Li’s view had not changed—he would not directly interfere with the progress of the Martial Dao. They were merely providing Bu Jing with a direction.
“Tch, so vague and cryptic. Been Human Sovereign for too long and you’ve forgotten how to talk like a normal person.” Bai Hongtu transmitted a message to Yu Yin. What do you mean, never cultivated the Martial Dao? For someone at the Tribulation Stage or Mahayana Stage, would that even be a problem? After listening to Bu Jing, they had already simulated it with their Spiritual Platform.
Feasible.
The Outer Realm realm is feasible.
Bu Jing only had a rough idea of the Outer Realm realm, but Jiang Li and the other two could see it clearly—not just the realm itself, they had even deduced roughly how to break through space with martial strength and achieve Martial Immortality.
Bu Jing’s concept was correct—treat the human body as a universe, use the Dantian as the root, expand it to the extreme, and ultimately reach a level where the body itself is a world. That is a Martial Immortal.
In a broad sense, the Martial Dao is also a path to immortality—one can become immortal through martial cultivation.
Fusion Stage cultivators can travel through the universe. Tribulation Stage cultivators can manipulate stars at will and be indestructible across myriad calamities. Then, above the Tribulation Stage, true immortals would naturally be even stronger.
In the world, only two beings are unafraid of the void: one is a world, the other is an immortal.
An immortal, in a certain sense, is a world.
Therefore, according to Bu Jing’s idea, a martial artist’s body equates to a world—that is the correct path to Martial Immortality.
“Don’t think I didn’t hear just because you were secretly using voice transmission.” Jiang Li cut into the sound transmission channel between Bai Hongtu and Yu Yin, his voice ghostly, giving Bai Hongtu a fright.
“You dare say Bu Jing’s idea is definitely right, when none of us are immortals?”
Bai Hongtu truly didn’t dare say that.
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After a few days of brewing, people in the black market were getting increasingly anxious. They wanted more martial arts manuals, but the vendor selling virility pills never showed up again.
The Bu Clan had only released two widely applicable martial arts manuals. Anyone could begin cultivating them with no threshold, but mastering them was another story entirely.
“Stop waiting. Look what I’ve got here!” Someone secretly called a few close friends over and pulled out a book, showing off.
“Is that… an erotic novel?! Where did you get that gem?”
“What are you thinking? Is your brain filled with dirty thoughts? Look carefully—this book contains a new martial arts manual!”
“Seriously?!” A friend leaned in for a closer look. “This one says it won’t harm your Yuan Yang and allows you to cultivate ten times faster than normal. It’s called… ‘Pure Boy Art’?!”
Everyone had conflicted expressions. Writing a guide for the Pure Boy Art inside this kind of book… how suffocating.
“Where did you get this?” a friend asked curiously. “Did that black market vendor switch from selling virility pills to writing erotic novels?”
“It wasn’t the black market. I found it tucked in the corner of a bookstore. And not just one copy. I asked the shopkeeper where the books came from—he said they were stocked by the Bu Clan from Wubu City!”
“The same Bu Clan that rose to power a century ago?”
“The very same. The bookstore owner didn’t realize these books contained martial arts manuals. Thought they were just indecent books and bought them anyway.”
“Do you remember when you bought the pills, the vendor said something about their ancestor living to three hundred?”
“I didn’t buy any pills, but I did hear that.”
“I heard it too when buying for a friend. Are you saying that person might be from the Bu Clan?”
“Hard to say, hard to say. Right now, it’s impossible to tell what’s real or fake.”
“You said there’s more than one book?”
Everyone got their hands on one and finally breathed a sigh of relief after reading.
“So it’s not just the Pure Boy Art. Mine’s called Primordial Chaos Genesis Technique.”
“Mine is Samsara World-Destroying Art.”
“D*mn—that’s a fierce name.”
“Putting the martial content aside, the writing is actually pretty good.”
“No joke, it really is.”
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“I wonder who this Passionate Desire Teacher is, to write something so touching.” A noble lady secretly wiped her tears after finishing a book. “And it even describes in detail how Lord Break Illusion trains. It’s a truly unique path, so different from the Heavenly Kings’ martial manuals.”
“I heard this book came from the Bu Clan. Could Passionate Desire Teacher be one of them?”
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Scenes like this played out all across the Huan Yu World. People naturally trusted the Twelve Heavenly Kings, but still—just one look, just one peek. We know martial arts manuals are harmful, of course we won’t cultivate them.
It was as if overnight, every bookstore began selling works by some author from the Bu Clan.
With this world’s logistics, that would’ve been impossible—unless Jiang Li had secretly lent a hand.
And the Qi Kingdom’s authorities had better things to do than patrol bookstores looking for romance novels.
“You see, my idea was correct. To get people to accept it, you have to start from this angle. The results speak for themselves—huge success.”
Yu Yin and Bai Hongtu both stared at Jiang Li with strange expressions, as if seeing him for the first time.
We know it was successful, but we didn’t know you, Jiang Li, were a bestselling author.
An author of this kind of book, no less.
Respect, respect.
Jiang Li acted like he hadn’t seen their looks and turned to Bu Jing. “The news that the books came from the Bu Clan has spread across the world. Are you ready for it to go public?”
Bu Jing nodded steadily.
The Qi Kingdom authorities finally realized that far too many martial arts manuals were circulating among the people. Any manuals not issued by the Heavenly Kings were considered forbidden texts.
Not many people were practicing them, but a lot were holding onto them.
The Huan Yu World lacked books about physiology. Jiang Li plagiarized a few, which filled the market demand. Even people uninterested in martial arts manuals wanted to buy a copy to read.
The imperial court ordered citizens to turn in the books, but the results were underwhelming. Nobody did.
Turning in a book meant you’d bought virility pills or owned an indecent novel. People thought it was embarrassing.
So the court changed tactics, claiming the manuals were evil arts, that cultivating them would lead to madness and bloodlust, and must be destroyed.
Only then did people start secretly destroying them, though some still refused. If it causes madness, just don’t practice it. Why destroy it?
And this was just an imperial decree—not a message from the Heavenly Kings in a dream.
Compared to the Qi Kingdom court, people preferred to believe the Heavenly Kings who lived in the Upper Realm.
Half a month later, a thunderous announcement from the Bu Clan shook the entire world.
The Bu Clan had an old monster who had lived for three hundred years.