Chapter 890 Zhang Yu Without a Dao Seed? A Fragile World
Tai Yuebai, who had at some unknown time appeared behind Zhang Yu, looked like a young man with long white hair.
But Zhang Yu did not pay attention to the other party’s appearance, instead first sweeping his gaze toward the information data hovering above the man’s head.
The first thing Zhang Yu observed was his rank.
“Rank 7 Sect Staff. This guy already has a Tribulation Certificate too, right?”
Zhang Yu also secretly thought of Di Xuan, the representative of the Innate Dao Lineage, who had likewise reached Rank 7.
There was also the Rank 8… Lie Jinghong, who was representing the Dharma Realm Dao Lineage this time.
He thought to himself, “These veteran Void Refinement experts, even though they have Tribulation Certificates, all refrained from establishing Law Edicts in advance in order to participate in the Third-Generation Legislation. They remained in the Void Refinement Realm… just for this opportunity?”
Zhang Yu then looked at Tai Yuebai’s Merit Points record.
“Tai Yuebai also has one Extraordinary Merit, three Superior Merits, and 15 Subordinate Merits.”
Zhang Yu sighed inwardly, “Whether it’s Tai Yuebai or the others… these guys prepared much earlier and for much longer than me. No wonder Fa Liuyuan and the rest don’t think highly of me.”
Right after Zhang Yu finished scanning the basic information Tai Yuebai displayed publicly, he quickly glanced at the other party’s chest area.
“No… Dao Seed?
“Not even one?”
Just now, after a series of observations of the representatives from various factions, except for the representative of the Dharma Drug Dao Lineage who descended as a projection… which made it impossible to observe a Dao Seed, Zhang Yu had observed a fleeting trace of a Dao Seed on every cultivator who had descended with their true body.
Even Di Xuan of the Innate Dao Lineage had two Dao Seeds, and Lie Jinghong of the Dharma Realm Dao Lineage had three, breaking Zhang Yu’s past understanding that a person could only have one Dao Seed.
All of this made Zhang Yu realize… that the cultivators who had been heavily nurtured by the major factions for years to participate in this third-generation Law Establishment were all elites among elites, Heavenly Chosen among Heavenly Chosen.
This also made Zhang Yu realize… that this was an excellent opportunity.
After all, in the past, even those big shots almost always descended as projections, never giving Zhang Yu the opportunity to observe their Dao Seeds.
Now, however, so many Heavenly Chosen had descended before him with their true bodies. He would also be able to observe them over a long period during the upcoming training, gradually sensing what their Dao Seeds truly were and what conditions were required to copy them.
But the appearance of Tai Yuebai before him caught Zhang Yu by surprise.
“How could there be no Dao Seed?” Zhang Yu thought to himself. “Could it be that the Reformist Faction is so weak that the people they cultivate also lack innate talent?”
Zhang Yu shook his head in his mind, quickly suppressing this guess.
Immortal Slayer even said, “Tai Yuebai is absolutely not someone lacking innate talent. As far as I know… there is nothing this person cannot learn, and nothing he is not proficient in.”
“Whether it’s martial arts, daoist arts, artifact refinement, or pill concocting, as well as Civil Engineering, medicine, Spirit Realm Techniques… he is proficient in every single type of Immortal Dao Technology.”
Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Perhaps Tai Yuebai is the kind of formidable character whose Dao Seed I couldn’t see. Or perhaps even the currently upgraded ‘Feather Book’ requires more time in contact to clearly see whether Tai Yuebai has a Dao Seed or not.”
The thoughts in Zhang Yu’s mind spun rapidly. In the blink of an eye, he temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart and answered Tai Yuebai’s question.
Tai Yuebai asked what he was looking at, and Zhang Yu replied, “It’s my first time seeing so many Heavenly Chosen, so I couldn’t help but take a few extra glances.”
Tai Yuebai, however, smiled faintly and said, “Indeed. The people you are looking at right now should be the group with the highest innate talent and brilliance within the Void Refinement stage in our Myriad Laws Sect. The people who can ascend and become an Immortal in the future should be among this group.”
“Hmm?” Hearing Tai Yuebai’s words, Bu Yingshu, who was at the side, turned her head and looked coldly at him, thinking to herself, “What is this guy hinting at? Is he targeting me? Has the Reformist Faction also seen through my ambitions?”
In Bu Yingshu’s eyes, there was no shortage of talents, Heavenly Chosen, and various people possessing peerless talent at the scene.
“But ultimately… I am the one with the most innate talent, yet my path to ascension has been restricted by my Immortal Clan identity.”
Looking at Tai Yuebai, Bu Yingshu asked probingly, “You know… a lot about these people?”
Tai Yuebai nodded and said, “Before coming here, I did my best to gather intelligence on everyone present.”
Hearing this, Zhang Yu’s heart stirred, and he remembered the incident where Tai Chenggong had infiltrated his Immortal Grotto-Heaven.
Zhang Yu thought to himself, “This guy Tai Yuebai hasn’t just investigated me, but all the contestants?”
Just as Zhang Yu was pondering, Bu Yingshu had already fixed her gaze on Tai Yuebai and asked, “Oh? Is that so? Then who do you think has the best innate talent among so many people here?”
Tai Yuebai looked at the representative of the Dharma Realm Dao Lineage… Lie Jinghong.
“Naturally, it’s this Lie Jinghong. His innate talent in the Spirit Realm is unprecedented. He has received multiple consecutive nominations for the Celestial Evolution Award. After integrating with the Dharma Realm, he has independently completed numerous technical innovations, possessing over a hundred Dharma Realm patents. He once used his sect’s resources to defeat a Tribulation Transcendence Cultivator against the odds within the Dharma Realm…”
Hearing Tai Yuebai’s words, Bu Yingshu thought to herself, “I thought he had actually seen through something, but it turns out he’s just another blind fool. The one with the strongest innate talent among this group… is me.”
Zhang Yu thought to himself, “Apart from me… the one with the strongest innate talent here might really be Lie Jinghong.”
The traces of Lie Jinghong’s three Dao Seeds flashed through Zhang Yu’s mind, and he thought, “After all, he possesses three Dao Seeds.”
“But was intelligence gathering the only reason Tai Yuebai could figure this out?”
For some reason, Zhang Yu remembered the words Tai Yuebai had just asked him: “Little Zhang, what are you looking at?”
On the other side, Tai Yuebai thought to himself, “Excluding myself, Lie Jinghong is indeed number one in innate talent among everyone present. After all, three great Dao Seeds are probably no longer something one can simply possess from birth.”
Tai Yuebai stared at Lie Jinghong ahead of him, pondering, “But apart from [Spiritual Pivot Heavenly Knowledge], what kind of earth-shattering things are those other two Dao Seeds of yours that you’ve kept hidden for so long?”
Then he glanced at Zhang Yu beside him. “Does this kid really not have a single Dao Seed on him? But I heard Fa Liuyuan say that Zhang Yu has at least six world-shaking talents… Is his innate talent unrelated to Dao Seeds?”
Right at that moment, a notification appeared in front of everyone.
“Law Establishment training officially begins. Now announcing the first rule of the Law-Knowing Abode: Please strictly abide by every rule of the Law-Knowing Abode. Violators will bear the consequences.”
“Rule number two: Please arrive at the classroom before class time begins.”
The next moment, Zhang Yu saw a navigation projection appear directly, pointing all the way to a distant classroom.
At the same time, Tai Yuebai sent Zhang Yu a message, reminding him: “Pay attention, the entire Law-Knowing Abode has been enveloped by the beta version of the third-generation Law Edict. Violating the rules operating here will inevitably come with a price.”
Just as Zhang Yu was pondering the meaning of Tai Yuebai’s words, the group had already followed the navigation into a classroom. A moment later, a flurry of light and shadow emerged in the room, marking the beginning of the first lesson of the Law Establishment training.
In the projection appeared an elderly man. Just as Zhang Yu was curious about his identity, Immortal Slayer in his mind had already spoken: “This is the winner of the Celestial Evolution Award, the Heavenly Fortune Immortal Venerable.”
Regarding this traditional elderly aesthetic, having seen all kinds of aesthetic inclinations in Kunxu, Zhang Yu didn’t find it strange. Instead, after the other party’s title flashed through his mind, his heart stirred: “Is he the founder of the Gambling Dao Lineage introduced during the sect entrance training?”
“That’s right,” Immortal Slayer said. “The Gambling Dao Lineage, officially known as the Destiny Dao Lineage, was established by this Heavenly Fortune Immortal Venerable. At the same time, he is also one of the top scholars in the field of Law Edict technology, and has been exploring Immortal Dao Technology in this area. I’m afraid his influence is involved in the current third-generation Law Edict update.”
Looking at the old man in the projection, Zhang Yu said, “But this seems to be just a recording.”
Fu Ji said, “How could a grand Immortal Venerable waste time teaching you? Producing a recording is giving you enough face. Besides, for the many heavenly chosen here, they only need to be provided with the knowledge, and they will naturally be able to learn it. They don’t need a teacher to hold their hands and teach them.”
The communication in Zhang Yu’s mind was completed in a flash, and at the same time, Heavenly Fortune Immortal Venerable in the recording had already begun speaking rapidly about the course content.
But Zhang Yu only listened for a moment before feeling extremely strained.
“Too fast.”
“How many times is this accelerated?”
Zhang Yu had to immediately circulate the thought acceleration function of the Supreme Clarity Talisman and activate the Void Refinement Computing Pool in the Immortal Grotto-Heaven to barely keep up with the course content.
Meanwhile, the third rule of the Law-Knowing Abode had already appeared before Zhang Yu: no audio or video recording is allowed, nor is the disclosure of any knowledge learned during the law establishment training to the outside world.
Zhang Yu was not surprised by this at all.
After all, long before participating in the training, Zhang Yu had already been informed and had signed a contract, the specific clauses of which already stipulated such prohibitions.
Zhang Yu knew in his heart that the content to be taught in the upcoming law establishment training was knowledge prepared by the Myriad Laws Sect for Void Refinement cultivators who had passed their applications — for those beings who would truly become members of Kunxu’s ruling class.
Naturally, such knowledge could not be privately disseminated without permission.
Zhang Yu was only surprised by the so-called rules of the Law-Knowing Abode: “Besides the contract signed earlier, there are also the rules of this Law-Knowing Abode to restrict the trainees?”
Temporarily suppressing the distracting thoughts in his mind, Zhang Yu continued to focus on studying the knowledge taught in the video before him.
And the content taught in the first lesson Zhang Yu studied today was: What is immortal aura?
“Immortal aura has existed since ancient times, only appearing and disappearing from time to time, mysterious and unpredictable. For a very long time, whether it was cultivators or Immortals, none were able to thoroughly investigate and understand the true nature of immortal aura.”
In the video, Heavenly Fortune Immortal Venerable spoke eloquently, “In ancient times, because the might of the immortal aura was vast and could only be stimulated by Immortals, it was considered a sublimation of energy, an advanced version of magic power and spiritual energy.”
“Later, with the advancement of Immortal Dao Technology, some Immortals gradually discovered… that the immortal aura is everywhere.”
“Just like the air, or the various particles that make up all things in the world, the immortal aura has actually always existed around us. It was just that ancient Immortals lacked the technology to discover, extract, and utilize it…”
Studying the content of the course, a thought quickly surfaced in Zhang Yu’s mind, “So that’s how it is… The so-called immortal aura is just like molecules, atoms, and electrons. Although it is everywhere, it requires sufficiently powerful Immortal Dao Technology to be observed, and even utilized.”
“And with the continuous progress of Immortal Dao Technology, the cultivation realm requirements needed to observe and utilize the immortal aura became lower and lower, dropping from the top-tier Immortals to Ascension Realm cultivators, then to Tribulation Transcendence Cultivators, and finally in modern times… even Void Refinement Cultivators can use immortal aura.”
Of course, the buffs that Zhang Yu and the others received under the influence of the immortal aura after entering the sect previously was not truly utilizing the immortal aura, but merely being affected by it.
The cultivators above could extract immortal aura, subsequently influencing the environment and cultivators below like them. Only this could be considered the utilization of immortal aura.
While Zhang Yu pondered, Heavenly Fortune Immortal Venerable in the video continued his explanation: “And in the end, we discovered that immortal aura… originates from a Dao Lineage.”
“According to our research and some archaeological discoveries, I personally guess… the existence who initially created this Dao Lineage must have originally intended to benefit the world, hoping to provide humanity with an inexhaustible and limitless energy source, and furthermore, to nourish all living beings with immortal aura, making everyone in the world like an Immortal.”
“But the result was that everyone possessed the aptitude to achieve immortality and could use immortal aura to interfere with the world. This subsequently triggered intense conflicts, ultimately plunging all living beings in the world into utter misery.”
“Thus, another ancient Immortal created a different Dao Lineage, concealing the immortal aura within all things, making it difficult to be discovered, and allowing the originally chaotic world to return to peace.”
Speaking of this, Heavenly Fortune Immortal Venerable already had a face full of emotion. “This also proves one point again, and that is… our world is extremely fragile. Any Immortal, any Dao Lineage, could potentially trigger chaos. If a vicious chain reaction occurs between Dao Lineages, it would bring the danger of destroying the world.”
“In history, such crises, or great tribulations, have appeared time and time again. This constantly reminds us of what the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor said so well: whether it is the common people of the world, Immortal Dao Technology, or Law Edicts and Dao Lineages… absolutely everything needs to be strictly managed to avoid the collapse of this fragile world.”
“Regarding the Immortal Emperor’s world control theory, it is worth reading by generations of cultivators…”
Zhang Yu listened to Heavenly Fortune Immortal Venerable flatter Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor for tens of thousands of words, thinking in his heart, “Is this… kissing Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor’s ass?”
At the same time, the Sect Examination Clone in Zhang Yu’s mind said excitedly, “Did you hear that? Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor controls the world, vowing to control everything, just to ensure the safety of the world.”
Immortal Slayer sneered and said, “Heavenly Fortune is kissing up to the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor, and he’s also secretly pushing his own agenda. His Gambling Dao Lineage, or rather the Destiny Dao Lineage, ultimately aims to make everyone roll a die before taking action, and then act according to the result of the die. In the end… isn’t that just acting according to his will as the controller of the Dao Lineage?”
“So he is a staunch supporter of this theory of controlling all things. He says so much here hoping to inject this kind of thinking into the minds of the law establishment trainees.”
Zhang Yu asked curiously, “This approach of controlling all living beings sounds very much in line with the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor’s desires. Was it not supported by the Immortal Emperor?”
Immortal Slayer said, “Controlling the masses like this does indeed greatly increase control, but extreme control will hinder innovation, reduce unexpected occurrences, and trigger all sorts of unforeseen new problems. When that time comes, would they really still be able to compete with the other nine great sects?”
Fu Ji also chimed in to analyze, “Moreover, if people’s choices are all controlled by Heavenly Fortune, can the Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor really trust him?”
Just as everyone was analyzing this, Heavenly Fortune Immortal Venerable in the video had finished his praises for Myriad Laws Immortal Emperor, and continued, “Therefore, after excavating the Immortal Qi Dao Lineage, in order to prevent it from being maliciously used and causing a major world-destroying danger, our Myriad Laws Sect took the lead in re-excavating and controlling the Immortal Qi Dao Lineage.”
“Since then, the Immortal Qi Dao Lineage is no longer a threat to the world, but a guarantee of safety…”
Listening to Heavenly Fortune Immortal Venerable’s explanation of the essence and history of immortal aura, Zhang Yu felt a magnificent epic unfold before him.
It was about countless people exploring immortal aura and the various conflicts that erupted from studying it.
Furthermore, throughout the course of this research, it constantly triggered massive changes in cultivation techniques across major cultivation realms.
Ultimately, spanning from ancient times to the present, it became a controlled Dao Lineage, continuously influencing the modern era. Meanwhile, the scene of him being awarded the Extraordinary Merit last time surfaced in Zhang Yu’s mind.
He still remembered that Immortal Venerable Profound Wisdom, who had bestowed him with the Extraordinary Merit, was the legendary controller of the Immortal Qi Dao Lineage.
Zhang Yu thought to himself, “So the Immortal Qi Dao Lineage… wasn’t created by Immortal Venerable Profound Wisdom? She actually acquired it later under the leadership of the Myriad Laws Sect?”
Immortal Slayer let out a cold snort and said, “That’s putting it nicely. It is nothing more than bringing the immortal aura under their control, adding to their leverage to flog the world and oppress the common people.”
Zhang Yu, however, voiced another doubt in his mind, “Why is the Immortal Qi Dao Lineage controlled by the Myriad Laws Sect? Didn’t the other sects object?”
Immortal Slayer explained, “It was merely a division of spoils among the ten great sects. With the Immortal Qi Dao Lineage here, the Magic Power Dao Lineage and the Spiritual Energy Dao Lineage were distributed to other sects.”
“Nowadays, each Sect among the ten great sects controls those Dao Lineages that are capable of overturning the world and have already become the cornerstones of the world.”