In a private chamber of the Qi Yun Zen Temple.
The glow from the Cyan Jade Lotus Lamp was a little dimmer than usual, making Qi Yun’s face appear unusually pale.
He sat cross-legged on a Meditation Mat, the hem of his Deep Blue Daoist Robe stirring without a breeze. His aura was slightly fainter than normal, and a trace of lingering fatigue clung to his brow.
He opened his palm, revealing a seemingly ordinary gray cloth pouch resting within it.
The mouth of the pouch was slightly open, faintly revealing over a hundred specks of fine, solidified golden light. Their auras connected, forming a heavy, heart-pounding Buddha’s Charm Field.
"These are the last of the relics."
Qi Yun’s voice was low as he handed the cloth pouch to his Fa Hai avatar, who was waiting quietly by his side.
For days on end, he had been acting in secret, right under the nose of the awakened behemoth that was the Spirit Mountain Sacred Realm. He had precisely hunted, extracted, and performed Refinement on Arhats who had grown increasingly vigilant and wary of one another...
Even with his profound methods, the toll on his Heart and Spirit and Magical Power had been immense.
Furthermore, he had to constantly divert his attention to use the mysteries of Daluo Heaven and the Primordial True Body to distort and conceal the heavenly secrets, evading the omnipresent scans of the Bodhisattvas’ will.
Now, the upper echelons of the Sacred Realm had clearly noticed something was amiss. Although they hadn’t found the "culprit," they had distributed so-called "Dharma Guardian Talismans" to every Foundation Establishment Arhat.
If they met with disaster, crushing the Treasure Sticker would immediately draw a wisp of attention from a Bodhisattva Level being.
The risk of Qi Yun’s "relic plan" had suddenly skyrocketed to an unbearable level.
He had no choice but to put a temporary stop to it.
The Fa Hai avatar’s expression was gentle and serene. He accepted the pouch with both hands, feeling the surging, pure Buddhist Dao Origin within it. He pressed his palms together in a gesture of respect.
"I have troubled you, my original self. Combined with what we’ve previously accumulated, the essence from these hundred-plus relics should be enough to advance the Great Brightness Shizhi Dharma Body to the next level."
"Mm."
Qi Yun nodded slightly and closed his eyes to regulate his breathing, not forgetting to add a word of caution.
"Perform the Refinement within Daluo Heaven.
The commotion from this breakthrough might be different from before. It’s safest to do it in there."
"I will follow my original self’s command."
Fa Hai agreed. With a single Heart Thought, his form turned from tangible to illusory. He and the pouch of relics vanished into the Ancestral Acupoint between Qi Yun’s brows, returning to the land of origin that belonged only to them—Daluo Heaven.
In the depths of Daluo Heaven, chaos reigned as always.
The Fa Hai avatar manifested, seating himself in the void. A lotus throne naturally appeared beneath him. He directly untied the pouch’s drawstring and gently tipped his palm downward.
"SHHHHH—"
Over a hundred relics—perfectly round, brilliantly radiant, varying in size and color, but all containing pure Arhat Merit Fruit—flowed out like golden star-sand. They levitated in the void around him, rotating slowly.
They bathed the gray chaos in a sacred golden fringe.
Fa Hai slowly brought his hands together before his chest, forming the Great Brightness Root Seal.
"OMMM!"
A low Brahma Chanting emanated from within him. Behind his head, the Great Light Appearance—which had already reached solid Perfection and contained the faint image of a Bodhisattva—expanded explosively.
Pure, blazing Bright Buddha Power surged out like a tide, transforming into billions of light threads as fine as hair yet incredibly tough. They precisely pierced into every single one of the Arhat Relics!
[Magic Technique Auto-Update Complete. This is a minor version update. The magic’s effects are adjusted as follows:]
[Great Brightness Shizhi Dharma Body 3.0: New Mechanic...]
The text appeared up to this point, and then suddenly—it stuttered!
The words that followed flickered in and out of existence, blurry and indistinct.
In the unseen world, it was as if some force was preventing the Magic Technique Panel’s evolution.
’This is...?’
Qi Yun’s slightly closed eyes snapped open. A chaotic divine light shot from their depths. He involuntarily sat up straight, his Heart and Spirit more focused than ever before.
’This has never happened before!’
The Magic Technique Panel’s updates had always been domineering and direct.
When had it ever shown signs of being "obstructed"?
Perhaps it was an instant, or perhaps a long time passed. Finally, the intensely flickering, ephemeral light of the panel gradually stabilized.
The formless, obstructive force slowly receded like a tide.
On the panel, the line of text representing the core new mechanic of version 3.0 finally appeared, bit by bit:
[...Primordial Spirit!]
"BOOM—!!!!!"
The instant the two words appeared,
the entirety of Daluo Heaven trembled violently!
Myriad streams of chaotic qi roiled backward, seethed, and roared as if struck by a colossal, invisible hammer!
The qi of purity and turbidity clashed madly. Illusory suns, moons, and stars flickered in and out of existence. The four great origins of Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water manifested directly as near-berserk physical phenomena, illuminating the chaotic void with a bizarre and phantasmagorical light, as if threatening to revert to the state before Heaven and Earth were parted!
And at the very center of the storm and its phenomena, above the void where the Fa Hai avatar sat in meditation,
the pinpoint of wisdom light between his brows erupted at the exact same moment the panel’s text fully materialized!
It transformed into a speck of essence light so brilliant it seemed to illuminate eternity!
"OMMM—!!!"
The Fa Hai avatar’s tightly shut eyes snapped open!
He rose to his full height. His hands blurred through a series of seals before his chest, forming an unprecedentedly complex and ancient seal, a Great Brightness Supreme Seal Technique that pointed directly to the origin of the Buddha—the Great Brightness Illuminating All Directions Seal!
Once the seal was formed, Fa Hai raised his arms and slowly pushed upward!
The motion seemed slow, yet it contained a supreme power capable of prying open the heavens and pushing open the gates of eternity!
"Open—!"
The Daoist cry, like the very voice of the Great Dao, resounded throughout Daluo Heaven!
"RUMMMMMBLE—!!!"
In the unseen world, deep within the void, an indescribable gate was brazenly forced open a crack!
From behind the gate, an endless, mysterious torrent of qi, like the Silver River of the Nine Heavens bursting its banks, surged downward!
This stream of qi was colorless and formless, yet seemed to contain all the colors of the world. It was silent, yet seemed to echo with the celestial music of the Great Dao.
’Now is the time!’
The essence light between the Fa Hai avatar’s brows merged with the bright yellow flame of his spiritual nature, and his Heart Thought activated his Purple Mansion!
"WHOOSH—!"
An incredibly condensed Divine Soul Origin—identical in appearance to the Fa Hai avatar and radiating pure Buddha Light and an aura of wisdom—leapt boldly from his Ancestral Acupoint. It transformed into a Flowing Light and plunged without hesitation into the raging torrent!
"TSSSSSS—!"
It was like the hottest branding iron being plunged into ice water, or a rough, uncut stone being cast into a rushing current to be scoured.
The moment Fa Hai’s Divine Soul entered the torrent, it emitted a strange sound of "refinement"!
That vast, majestic stream of qi, filled with an immortal intent, began to subject his Divine Soul to the most brutal, most fundamental tempering and sublimation, like the world’s most precise sieve and forge hammer!
First, the Buddha Light on the surface of his Divine Soul was stripped away and purified, becoming a more refined origin of brightness.
The thoughts, memories, and enlightenments that constituted the Divine Soul were scoured and cleansed again and again, leaving behind only the purest Dao Rhyme and spiritual nature, all impurities removed.
The very structure of the Divine Soul began to undergo a fundamental change, shifting from an ethereal Spiritual Body toward a kind of [Immortal State]...
Wisps of a faint, purple, misty vapor appeared, and the entire Divine Soul began to bloom with a resplendent, vast, and mysterious purple radiance.
But this purple did not last long. As the mysterious qi stream infused and merged with it more deeply, the purple radiance slowly began to transform. Its color grew brighter and purer, until finally—
it became a noble, bright yellow!
This was not the color of an emperor, but a phenomenon that naturally appeared when the essence of a Divine Soul was elevated to an extremely high level and touched the threshold of "immortality"!
At this moment, Fa Hai’s Divine Soul was like a sculpture carved from the purest, bright yellow Divine Jade. It shimmered with Treasure Light, its Dao Rhyme was innate, and it exuded a vast, majestic aura that transcended ordinary forms of life!
Only when the very last trace of the Divine Soul had completely transformed into this noble, bright yellow did the gate in the unseen world, which had been forced open, emit a low hum and slowly close, fading away.
The surging Immortal Qi was cut off and dissipated along with it.
In the void, the body of the Fa Hai avatar remained seated in meditation.
But the Ancestral Acupoint between its brows was now completely empty.
Above and in front of it, however, stood a silent figure. It was identical in appearance to Fa Hai, but its entire body flowed with a noble, bright yellow Treasure Light. Its aura was even vaster and more profound than the physical body below it.
As its eyes opened and closed, its gaze was gentle yet saw through all illusion.
A Bright Buddha’s Rhyme flowed naturally around it. Though it had no Light Appearance behind its head, it was as if the figure itself was the source of all light.
It slowly lowered its head to look down at Qi Yun seated below. The corners of its mouth curved into a gentle, peaceful smile, identical to the Fa Hai avatar’s, yet possessing an additional, transcendent Divine Rhyme.
Qi Yun looked up, gazing at this figure standing in the air, a divine light flashing in his eyes:
’This is... the Primordial Spirit?’
...
「Meanwhile, just as Fa Hai successfully condensed his Primordial Spirit.」
The Spirit Mountain Sacred Realm—no... the entire Profound Yellow Origin Realm was suddenly thrown into turmoil.
From the unseen world, a vast, boundless, and majestic gaze appeared, sweeping over every inch of land and sea at an incredible speed, searching for something unknown.
At the same time, nearly all beings at the True Monarch Bodhisattva Level felt this gaze sweep over them.
Pairs of mighty, majestic eyes containing the transformations of the Great Dao slowly opened.
’Has the Heavenly Will... gone mad?’
...
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