Chapter 268: The Profound Mysteries of the Dharma Body, Opportunity Lies in the Sea

Heaven-Connecting Cloud Sea, Sacred Fire Cliff.

Accompanied by a flash of dazzling brilliant light, as soon as Lu Yang walked out of the [Heaven-Reaching Hall], he immediately felt several divine senses land on him.

“Yuan Tu, where is Miaoyin?”

A Perfected One asked. Lu Yang immediately put on a look of sorrow: “We encountered an accident. The World Realm was dangerous, Madam died suddenly, and this disciple was too late to rescue her…”

“Oh!”

Several divine senses quickly dispersed. These should all be connections Miaoyin had accumulated in the past. However, now there was no intention to pursue Miaoyin’s death at all.

Lu Yang was not surprised by this. No one would care about a dead person, especially since Miaoyin was clearly dead, yet he came out safe and sound without any sign of heavenly punishment descending. This indicated that his harvest this time was huge. At this point, he was no longer someone ordinary Perfected Ones could provoke.

When a person leaves, the tea cools. It’s truly like this…

Lu Yang shook his head. The Saint Sect Perfected Ones were still too cold-hearted, not at all like him who cherished old relationships. Many things from several past lives were still fresh in his memory.

Speaking of which, the Contribution Points Senior Brother Zhao owed me from a few lives ago haven’t been paid back yet.

Pity the man was already dead.

Find him in the next life then.

Thinking while activating his escape light, Lu Yang returned to Nether Capital Mountain and arrived at the quiet room where his main body was in seclusion. Then he withdrew his consciousness from the Immortal Fetus Incarnation.

The incarnation, losing Lu Yang’s control, immediately stagnated in place, eyes losing focus and spirit. Lu Yang’s main body stretched lazily and happily. This was the benefit of not splitting his divine sense. The incarnation and the main body were essentially himself; there wouldn’t be any drama of the incarnation rebelling.

“In the end, it wasn’t a wasted trip.”

With a thought, Lu Yang immediately extracted a majestic illusory form with three heads, six arms, green face, and fangs from the Immortal Fetus Incarnation, then incorporated it into his own body.

[Qian Heaven All-Governing Myriad Phenomena Dharma Body].

With the Rank 2 True Art reaching great accomplishment, this Dharma Body was considered preliminarily achieved. It was both a Divine Ability and a Spirit Treasure, very similar in nature to the [Nine-Child Mother Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword Technique].

“This Dharma Body has four layers of profound mysteries!”

“It wasn’t in vain that I put in so much effort. Under the boost of the four layers of profound mysteries, it’s almost no less than an Innate Divine Ability. The improvement for a Foundation Establishment Perfected One can already be called a qualitative change!”

Ye Guyue in the past was like this.

Just one [Nine-Child Mother Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword Technique], and even when Chong Guang drained her merit and fate, and calamity Qi clouded her heart, he still had a hard time winning even after setting up a great formation.

If she had been in her peak state at that time, with the Perfection of the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment plus the [Nine-Child Mother Heavenly Demon Immortal-Slaying Sword Technique], he definitely wouldn’t have been her match.

“But in that case, I wouldn’t have fought her.”

“If I can’t beat her, can’t I run?”

“After all, I’ve always only fought the old, weak, sick, and disabled. This is the essence of cultivating immortality. What’s the point of being evenly matched? It’s still more fun to play a crushing game…”

Thinking of this, Lu Yang circulated his divine sense to look at the Dharma Body again.

“[Qian Heaven All-Governing Myriad Phenomena Dharma Body]. As the name implies, the four layers of profound mysteries are [Qian Heaven], [All-Governing], [Myriad Phenomena], and [Dharma Body]!”

[Qian Heaven] had the highest stature. It could reverse “Heaven’s Will” within a certain range, making it favor oneself. Under the boost of the Dharma Body, the cultivator would have the luck of heaven and earth with every move. Their own spiritual power and Divine Abilities would operate smoothly as wished, while the opponent might accidentally suffer Qi Deviation.

“Sounds domineering, but actually not very useful.”

Lu Yang shook his head. Was Heaven’s Will so easily reversed? This profound mystery worked unfailingly on Qi Refining cultivators, but it wouldn’t work on Foundation Establishment.

“At most, it affects the Early Stage.”

“But for the Middle Stage, under the same stature, the effect of [Qian Heaven] will be greatly reduced… But it matches one of my Lifebound Divine Abilities very well.”

[Distinguishing Right from Wrong]!

Among Lu Yang’s four great profound mysteries of his Lifebound Divine Abilities, the usage frequency of [Distinguishing Right from Wrong] was the lowest. It belonged to the category of “noob-stomping artifacts” but couldn’t be used against the same realm.

However, it was different now.

“Under the boost of the Dharma Body’s [Qian Heaven], perhaps it can greatly enhance the effectiveness of [Distinguishing Right from Wrong], making it truly effective against the same realm!”

“Matching the two together actually creates a qualitative change…”

Despite saying this, Lu Yang didn’t show joy on his face; instead, he gradually became solemn, continuing to examine the other three Dharma Body profound mysteries.

“[All-Governing], as the name suggests, can capture souls and take thoughts from a distance. It is exceptionally useful against those cultivators with sturdy Dharma Bodies. It can avoid their physical advantage and extract their souls out of thin air… Good guy, it’s just short of directly saying the names of the Pure Land Buddhist cultivators! It’s clearly targeting them deliberately!”

“[Myriad Phenomena] is the same as before. It can smelt external objects to temper the Dharma Body.”

“The final [Dharma Body] is a boosting profound mystery. The strength of the boost is divided according to the degree of damage. The more severe the damage, the greater the boost.”

“At maximum, it can double!”

“In other words, as long as there is this Dharma Body’s boost, the more injuries I suffer, the stronger my Divine Abilities and spiritual power will be. The moment of near-death is when I am strongest!”

After a moment of silence, Lu Yang put away the Dharma Body.

“I have to admit, this Rank 2 True Art is simply a perfect match for [City Rampart Earth]… Was this cultivation method deliberately sent into my hands?”

Lu Yang couldn’t help but suspect.

After all, this was too coincidental. Having lived nine lives in this broken place called the Saint Sect, he had long understood— whenever there’s an opportunity in the Saint Sect, there’s definitely someone fishing behind it!

“Chong Guang definitely knew, after all, he personally delivered the cultivation method… But he’s already dead, I can’t ask him. Could it be the descendants of the Zou Yu in the Saint Sect?”

After all, having obtained this Dharma Body, if he could successfully harvest Qi in the future and pull the Dao Fruit of the [Myriad Martial World Realm] into the main world to attest to [City Rampart Earth], and then let [City Rampart Earth] annex it, with greatly increased power, it might not necessarily be constrained by the Pure Land anymore. If there was the Saint Sect restraining from the side…

“Maybe there’s hope?”

Thinking of this, Lu Yang felt that perhaps this really was the work of the Zou Yu descendants behind the scenes. After all, snatching back [City Rampart Earth] had always been their long-cherished wish.

However, although he had taken the benefits, the task didn’t necessarily have to be done!

This matter still needed careful consideration.

Immediately after, Lu Yang took out a sachet.

This was Miaoyin’s storage bag, given to him before she died. He had already searched it once, and only one thing barely caught his eye.

It was a glowing pill.

Ordinary Perfected Ones with poor eyesight might mistake this object for a real pill. Only Lu Yang, with considerable attainments in formations, could see the clues within.

“What a formation!”

“Mustard Seed Sumeringu… what is locked inside?”

Lu Yang’s divine sense probed in and instantly saw a lake with surging giant waves, and a majestic True Dragon with a face full of despair, seemingly having given up.

Lu Yang was instantly stunned: “…Sui Ying?”

Almost simultaneously, Sui Ying also sensed it and immediately roared in anger: “Suo Huan! Kill me if you want! Trapping me here to die, what exactly do you want?”

“This True Dragon King was captured by Suo Huan?”

Lu Yang looked strange. A True Dragon… Dragon horns, dragon claws, dragon scales—the whole body was a treasure. It was simply perfect for refining the [Qian Heaven All-Governing Myriad Phenomena Dharma Body]!

Just then, Lu Yang’s heart suddenly moved slightly.

Since he brought back a large amount of essence from the [Myriad Martial World Realm] this time, he not only filled the deficit of Perfected One Miaoyin and the earth vein qi but even made a profit.

Therefore, heaven and earth truly rewarded him with a large sum of erit and fate, making up for the one-third drained by Perfected One Chong Guang previously, and even overflowing quite a bit. It was considered reaching the critical point for seeking Heavenly Spirit and Earthly Fiend. At this moment, under the prompt of luck, he gained an enlightenment:

“My opportunity has arrived!”

“The second Heavenly Spirit and Earthly Fiend needed to break through to the Perfection of the Middle Stage… is related to this Dragon King, and is also overseas?”

(End of this chapter)

*[Mustard Seed Sumeringu] – A technique/concept of fitting something huge (Mt. Sumeru) into something tiny (a mustard seed), used here for the spatial trap.

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