Longevity by Grinding Skills

Chapter 427: Chapter 427: Boundary Gate

As she watched Breaking the Barrier’s departing figure, a strange glint flashed in Miaodi Bodhisattva’s eyes, and she finally let out a sigh.

Regarding the matter of the Xuankong Mountain Blessed Land, if True Monarch Qing Yuan hadn’t been present, she could have handled it with ease.

The Puchen Pure Land still had a long way to go if it was to flourish.

She had made a grand vow to attain the state of a Great Buddha, but only if the Puchen Pure Land thrived would she have even a sliver of a chance to glimpse a Buddha Position.

At this thought, Miaodi Bodhisattva’s Golden Body began to radiate a glazed halo, and her Twelfth-Grade Lotus Platform slowly rotated in the void.

She gazed at the sun setting in the west as the Brahma Flower in her palm bloomed and withered, over and over.

This was her three-thousandth inference, yet the Puchen Pure Land’s line of prosperity and decline remained obscure.

The Wansheng Sword Sect and the Primordial Demon Sect were two great mountains that were difficult to move.

Should the Pure Land try to spread the Buddhist Dharma eastward, it would surely be intercepted by the Wansheng Sword Sect and thwarted by the Primordial Demon Sect.

’The Eight Celestial Dragons plan is still missing a crucial link...’

The Bodhisattva picked up a wisp of dissipating Incense Fire Wish Power with her fingertips. The scroll of the *Lengyan Spell* hanging from the beam moved without any wind, revealing a gatha on the title page that had been covered in gold lacquer: "If the Pure Land does not flourish, I vow never to become a Buddha."

This was the grand vow she had made under the Sarva Tree back then in her pursuit of the Great Buddha position. Now, however, it had become her heaviest shackle. Unless she could convert that newly ascended "True Martial" and make him one of the Eight Celestial Dragons, she would be unable to advance any further.

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「Three months later.」

On True Martial Peak, the Hidden Star Concealing Moon Array had been running for over three months. The once-thin mist had now condensed as if it were solid, preventing even the slightest wisp of Divine Sense from penetrating.

Xu Yunfan stood at the heart of the array with his hands clasped behind his back, watching the Spiritual Light of the entire peak shimmer in harmony with the thirty-six Array Banners.

The Low-tier Magical Artifacts he had scavenged from Xu Tian and the others were now shimmering with a jade-like luster, having been nurtured by the Earth Vein.

’Unfortunately, the materials are too low-grade. If I could find some superior-quality Array Banners to nurture in their place, it might be possible to create a set of Magical Treasures after a few hundred or even a thousand years.’

’Anything nurtured by the heavens and the earth would naturally possess superior power.’

"All set!"

Xu Yunfan gazed at the smoothly operating Array before him, feeling extremely satisfied.

He glanced at a message that had appeared in his vision.

’Your *Initial Understanding of Array Dao* has reached Minor Achievement.’

After reaching Minor Achievement, a wealth of foundational applications for arrays flooded his mind, allowing him to operate with great proficiency. The previous Hidden Star Concealing Moon Array he had set up now seemed riddled with flaws he could no longer ignore, which was why he had taken the time to rearrange it.

It seemed that because of the improvement in his own cultivation, his comprehension of the *Initial Understanding of Array Dao* was extremely fast. In just three short months, he had already pushed it to the Minor Achievement Realm.

The progress was gratifying.

"You two will stay here and look after the peak. Cultivate diligently."

"As you command, Peak Master!"

Xu Yunfan glanced at the two Daoist Children—one male, one female—before him. After giving his casual instruction, he paid them no more mind.

As a Peak Master, it would look rather pathetic to be all alone. He had naturally selected two of the most talented newcomers to the Primordial Sect to fill the ranks and liven the place up a bit.

"It’s time to go."

After leaving True Martial Peak, Xu Yunfan headed straight for the southeastern corner of the Primordial Sect.

The Boundary Gate forged by the Primordial Sect was surrounded by nine bronze pillars etched with a map of the Taihua Spirit Ruins Realm. The Star Sand paving the ground rippled with his every step.

He took out the Realm Talisman he had obtained from Daoist Master Bai Yue—a Red Jade Token inscribed with the two words "Divine Martial"—and embedded it into the eye of the central array.

As the Token settled into place, the map’s patterns on the bronze pillars lit up one by one with an ethereal blue light.

Xu Yunfan activated the Turtle Breath Concealing God Technique from the *True Martial Demon Suppressing Scripture*. The pores all over his body closed like a hibernating Profound Turtle, and the spiritual node on his Spirit Platform shrank to the size of a mustard seed, perfectly suppressing the fluctuations of his Foundation Establishment Stage True Essence to the level of the Peak of Qi Cultivation.

’Unfortunately, my Turtle Breath Concealing God Technique has yet to reach Great Success. If I could bring it to the Perfection Realm, this technique alone would be enough to obscure the celestial secrets, making it impossible for any Inference Skill to find a trace of me.’

’Although it can still block inferences now, if the other party uses a Celestial Secret Treasure to perform calculations, they could easily pick up on my trail.’

’Celestial Secret Treasures are rare and hard to come by, but I must still be on my guard.’

He had now stepped into the Early-Stage Foundation Establishment, and his *True Martial Demon Suppressing Scripture* had also reached the Realm of Great Achievement. However, to reach Perfection, Xu Yunfan estimated he would probably need to reach Foundation Establishment Perfection before he could cultivate this True Scripture to its absolute limit.

’That’s still a long way off.’

Xu Yunfan sighed. He reined in his aura, letting his Magical Power fall dormant in his Dantian Qi Sea. He became perfectly still, the turtle and snake of his cultivation intertwining, like a creature hibernating beneath winter ice.

When several prying wisps of Divine Sense from outside the array swept over him, they only detected the impure aura of an ordinary Primordial Sect disciple. After a few casual scans, they moved on.

When the ninth bronze pillar fully lit up, the Realm Talisman suddenly erupted with a dark light, tearing a rift in the air. The edges of the rift roiled with a grayish-white mist.

Xu Yunfan immediately sensed the aura of the Divine Martial Realm coming from the other side of the rift.

It was a fluctuation of Spiritual Qi far thinner and more impure than that of the Taihua Spirit Ruins Realm—so much so that he felt a little reluctant to step into it.

’Damn it,’ he thought. ’I’ve spent too long in a good environment. It’s a bit jarring to go back to this mud pit.’

He gave the True Martial Sword hidden in his sleeve one last check, confirming that all thirty-six Magical Power nodes were properly sealed with the Black Tortoise Demon Suppression Seal. Only then did he transform into a stream of light and plunge into the Boundary Gate.

The instant Xu Yunfan transformed into a stream of light and vanished into the Boundary Gate, strange ripples appeared in the void about a hundred feet away.

Two blurry figures emerged from the shadows of the bronze pillars. One of them, a pale-faced cultivator, held a Heaven-Peeping Mirror.

Just as the rift of the Boundary Gate was about to close, a purple-robed elder suddenly severed a Cause and Effect Line and chuckled coldly. "He’s in?"

The figure beside him nodded slightly. "The True Monarch only managed to buy us this small window... If he has anyone to blame, it’s himself for practicing this particular True Scripture. It’s currently the only way to obtain a tangible, verifiable Innate Golden Nature."

As he spoke, his eyes were filled with greed.

The purple-robed elder saw this and snorted coldly. "What, thinking of reincarnating to cultivate it yourself?"

Hearing this, the tall, thin, dark figure couldn’t help but sigh. He shook his head and said no more.

He didn’t have the guts. The *True Martial Demon Suppressing Scripture* was a hot potato.

Whoever practiced it was doomed.

The mirror in the nearby cultivator’s hand reflected the fluctuations of Xu Yunfan’s suppressed cultivation. The man spoke in a raspy voice, "...He lowered his cultivation to the Peak of Qi Cultivation."

He flipped his hand over to reveal three blood-red Talismans. "The perfect time to pick the fruit."

He looked at the others and tilted his head. "Shall we go in together?"

"Let’s be clear, I want his body. As for that condensed Divine Martial Dao Foundation, any of you can have it for all I care."

"The True Monarch wants that! Whoever takes it won’t even be able to enter Reincarnation!"

"..."

Following this exchange, three powerful auras of the Foundation Establishment Stage abruptly retracted, as if forcibly suppressed by an invisible hand.

The purple-robed elder formed a hand seal and chanted a spell. Blood-red patterns appeared around the three of them, and their Cultivation Realms dropped level by level, visible to the naked eye, finally stabilizing at the standard of the Peak of Qi Cultivation.

The instant before the Boundary Gate’s rift closed, the three figures transformed into streams of light and entered in single file, disappearing into the grayish-white mist.

As Xu Yunfan traveled through the Boundary Gate, his heart suddenly skipped a beat. His Martial Dao intuition flared with a warning, and he subconsciously opened the Martial Arts Celestial Eye on his brow to receive the surrounding flow of information.

Xu Yunfan raised an eyebrow, a flash of surprise in his eyes that was quickly replaced by a hint of a smile.

’This is getting interesting...’

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