Chapter 629: Three Great Martial Arts

Chen Mobai's Divine Control Art had long since reached its peak. Although it could still enhance the strength of his divine sense, it was becoming insufficient for his current cultivation level.

The three divine sense cultivation methods most suitable for cultivators of the Pure Yang Scroll were the Great Sun Golden Crow Method, the Candle Dragon Light-Holding Art, and the Vermillion Phoenix Facing the Sun Diagram. Chen Mobai had long since downloaded all of them from the Immortal Sect's library using his accumulated points and had read through them multiple times.

During the Nascent Soul formation, divine sense and spiritual energy would merge to form a pristine Nascent Soul. Therefore, when choosing a divine sense cultivation method, one needed to consider whether it could aid or even promote the formation of the Nascent Soul. Once the Nascent Soul was formed, there would be no possibility of changing it, except through a complete disembodiment, thus this step also determined the cultivator's future path.

Among these, the combination of the Great Sun Golden Crow Method and the Pure Yang Scroll was considered the most powerful. In the past, Patriarch Yuanyang used this method to form his Nascent Soul, eventually cultivating the Nine Heavens Pure Yang Violet Polarity Aspect. He could command all the yang harmony of heaven and earth, burning mountains and boiling seas with a single thought, and even had the terrifying feat of incinerating a star.

However, when Patriarch Yuanyang cultivated this path, his essence, vitality, and spirit became excessively masculine and overbearing, preventing him from achieving the "Pill Breaking Nascent Soul Emergence" state. He also frankly admitted that if he hadn't possessed an Innate Pure Yang Body, he would have been utterly unable to withstand such overbearing Yang Fire energy. The Pure Yang Dharma Body was the foundation cultivated in advance for this very reason. Several individuals in the Immortal Sect had successfully traversed the path from an acquired Pure Yang Body to Nascent Soul formation. However, whether they could advance to the Soul Transformation stage remained an unknown!

Chen Mobai believed that with his background, if he could cultivate to a critical juncture, the Immortal Sect should grant him the same treatment as Patriarch Yangjuan, sending him through a realm gate to cultivate on the Lunar Star. The representatives of the two factions were not simply the Martial Arts Academy and the Pure Yang Academy. Nevertheless, the Martial Arts Academy was quite pragmatic; since they couldn't win the debate, they decided to join. However, with Patriarch Yunya's authoritative pronouncements, it could be confirmed that the content of the final layer was not problematic.

"If you form your Nascent Soul, as long as you have Patriarch Baiguang's support, you can transplant this Azure Jade Parasol Tree into your own domain grotto-heaven." But now that the Immortal Sect had offered him this condition, he felt that pursuing this path was also feasible.

However, Patriarch Yangjuan was able to take that step because he was a true prodigious genius, indisputably the most talented individual in the Immortal Sect's history! The knowledge of the Immortal Sect was shared, so after Patriarch Yangjuan's passing, content related to that aspect was unlocked and made available to the general public. Although the Pure Yang Academy had the support of the Heaven-Mending Daoist Academy, on this particular point, even the Heaven-Mending Daoist Academy had no counter-argument. It was simply that due to a moment of carelessness, he encountered a demonic giant from the Ascension Sect, had a Soul Devouring Art implanted, and his reputation was ruined.

The Candle Dragon Light-Holding Art, whose theory was completed by Patriarch Yunlong in his later years, offered an opportunity to break through to a path beyond the Primordial stage. The master of the Evergreen Art was guaranteed to reach the Primordial stage, and even had a high probability of achieving the Vermillion Phoenix stage! In any case, from their origin, they were not the orthodox Pure Yang lineage! Would the upper echelons of the Immortal Sect not know that I cultivate the Pure Yang method? The Nascent Soul Facing the Sun Diagram only has a single layer of cultivation!

The Great Sun Golden Crow Method was the grand dao that Patriarch Yangjuan had successfully traversed. Golden Crow, however, sensed a faint sense of loss in Cong Yuanbin's words and asked with some surprise, "What's wrong?"

However, the feud between the Martial Arts Academy and the Pure Yang Academy was thus established! Golden Crow feared that if he were sent to the Lunar Star by the Immortal Sect, he might still fail to comprehend the "Pill Breaking Nascent Soul Emergence" stage, returning in disgrace with his reputation ruined. Although no one in the Immortal Sect had ever reached the highest realm using this method, Patriarch Yunya said that in a distant corner of the universe, in the ancient Daoist temple he originated from, someone had cultivated the Eight Azure Bird Dharma Aspect with it, becoming invincible across all heavens!

Nangong Xuanyu, the only one who could contend with Golden Crow, had also already cultivated the Great Sun Golden Crow Method. Golden Crow stated that Wenren Danxia was barely on par with him, completely failing to grasp the hidden meaning in Patriarch Yang's words.

"The original celestial book for the Nascent Soul Facing the Sun Diagram was also brought to the Immortal Sect by Patriarch Yunya and is stored in the Celestial Book Academy. It is said that the cultivation methods for the initial layers can be comprehended within it. If you can truly achieve the Vermillion Phoenix stage in the future, with your unparalleled talent, you might directly comprehend more and better insights from the celestial book than from the Eight Imperial Scriptures."

The reason Yu Tianguang came here after forming his Golden Core was precisely to see if he could cultivate the Nascent Soul Facing the Sun Diagram with the aid of this Tier 7 low-grade Azure Jade Parasol Tree. After all, the other two cultivation methods were by no means inferior to the Nascent Soul Facing the Sun Diagram; in fact, they were even superior.

"As for you, I think you should choose the Candle Dragon Light-Holding Art, which has the greatest future potential. When Patriarch Yunya came to the Immortal Sect, he brought many young phoenix tree saplings, instructing his disciples to find suitable spiritual veins throughout the Immortal Sect to plant them. I think the upper echelons probably considered it that way, but they are all riddlers; they never speak directly or clearly. However, giving you this Azure Jade Parasol Tree so easily likely means they want you to feel that not cultivating the Primordial Facing the Sun Diagram would be a great waste."

They represent the early, middle, and late stages of Golden Core to Primordial, and the final layer's exposition on the Vermillion Phoenix, a realm that no one in the Immortal Sect has ever reached. And the final method, the Nascent Soul Facing the Sun Diagram, was passed down jointly by Patriarch Yunya of the Martial Arts Academy and Pure Primordial, originating from an otherworldly celestial book technique! A thousand years ago, during a certain period, there was also a fervent debate within the Immortal Sect regarding the old and new methods of Pure Yang.

Although he ultimately did not succeed, he believed that he had yet to complete all the theories from Pure Yang to the Eight Imperial Scriptures. He thought that if he had chosen the Candle Dragon Light-Holding Art from the very beginning to lay the foundation for his primordial spirit, he might truly have been able to turn theory into practice and take that step beyond the Vermillion Phoenix stage! Therefore, Patriarch Yang's address to you as the future master of the Immortal Sect was not wrong! That was truly a bit too arrogant!

After listening to Golden Crow, Wenren Danxia expressed full confidence in his talent, stating that since he possessed the potential for the Vermillion Phoenix stage that surpassed their generation, it was indeed very likely he could achieve it. After Patriarch Yangjuan's cultivation entered a bottleneck in his later years, he desired to explore the realm beyond the Vermillion Phoenix stage, and thus chose the Eight Imperial Scriptures. After all, no one could say for sure what the cultivation progress of the Primordial Facing the Sun Diagram would be with the Azure Jade Parasol Tree.

"Nothing," she replied, "I just felt a bit emotional seeing a genius whose bearing is no less impressive than his for the first time!" But Golden Crow was accustomed to caution. Even now that he possessed the Azure Jade Parasol Tree, he still felt somewhat uneasy about the Nascent Soul Facing the Sun Diagram. The Immortal Sect's resources were not abundant, but they were always utilized to their fullest potential. However, if he had enough Enlightenment Tea, he felt he could consider Patriarch Yangjuan's path.

Cong Yuanbin thanked Wenren Danxia, who gracefully performed an ancient bow, then executed a Great Void Teleportation and vanished from the summit of Congyuan Mountain! He now only wanted to use Enlightenment Tea to check the compatibility of the eight great cultivation methods with himself. This was because cultivating that divine sense method required a parasol spirit wood as a resting place for one's divine sense. Upon hearing this, Wenren Danxia couldn't help but raise her sleeve, narrowing her eyes and smiling faintly, her previous words having been somewhat of a joke.

After Patriarch Yangjuan's passing, another option, the Candle Dragon Light-Holding Art, became available! Instead of letting that Tier 7 low-grade spirit plant go to waste in Congyuan City, it was better to give it to Golden Crow. Perhaps within a hundred years, the Immortal Sect could gain another Nangong Xuanyu. Compared to the Great Sun Golden Crow Method and the Candle Dragon Light-Holding Art, the Nascent Soul Facing the Sun Diagram had another drawback: its slow cultivation speed.

However, after Patriarch Yangjuan, a local, achieved the Vermillion Phoenix stage, most cultivators in the Immortal Sect who practiced Pure Yang abandoned the Primordial Facing the Sun Diagram and instead chose the Great Sun Golden Crow Method. And the seventh, the "Candle Dragon Light-Holding Art," was one of the divine sense methods that complemented the Eight Imperial Scriptures. With it, one could lay the foundation for primordial yang. If one reached the Primordial stage in the future, they could expand from a single point to an entire surface, using the Pure Yang primordial spirit to evolve the Immortal Sect's most formidable Candle Dragon Dharma Aspect, riding the rectitude of heaven and earth and commanding the debates of the eight qi! Since he could achieve the Vermillion Phoenix stage, he naturally had to consider realms beyond it!

"It's acceptable, I suppose. After all, during our online sparring matches back then, only you could hold your own against me thanks to your Evergreen Art." That was also a conjecture proposed by Patriarch Congyuan after he reached the Primordial stage, because the "Yang Chapter" and "Bright Chapter" within the Eight Imperial Scriptures shared the same essence as Pure Yang, though the Eight Imperial Scriptures' elucidation of the cosmic great dao was broader than that of Pure Yang. To avoid regretting his demise in his later years, like Patriarch Yangjuan!

Golden Crow now resided in Soul Transformation City, essentially enjoying the Azure Jade Parasol Tree all to himself. Since he had this condition, he felt it would be a great disservice to the Immortal Sect's preferential treatment if he didn't make full use of it. At least among all the current True Primordial Immortals in the Immortal Sect, none had a higher probability of achieving the Vermillion Phoenix stage than Wenren Danxia! Golden Crow deeply resonated with Wenren Danxia's words; it was something he had only recently come to understand. And the one that ultimately grew best was the Azure Jade Parasol Tree in Soul Transformation City.

Patriarch Yang, who had remained silent all this time, finally spoke a single sentence after Wenren Danxia left. During that time, he also understood that the Immortal Sect had gone to such lengths to give him that precious Tier 7 low-grade spirit plant for his cultivation, likely intending to use it to support his Vermillion Phoenix potential and help him raise his cultivation realm as quickly as possible. Although Golden Crow's persona in the Immortal Sect was one of looking down on everything, he couldn't, as a mere Golden Core cultivator, start considering the supreme realm beyond the Vermillion Phoenix stage, a realm no one in the Immortal Sect had ever reached. Besides wanting to curry favor, it was also because no one in the Immortal Sect was more suitable for that Azure Jade Parasol Tree than Golden Crow.

Because it concerned the foundation for his future Nascent Soul formation, Golden Crow still wanted to use Enlightenment Tea to truly comprehend those eight cultivation methods. They indeed knew the effect of the Azure Jade Parasol Tree on the Nascent Soul Facing the Sun Diagram. Lan Haitian came to recruit Golden Crow on behalf of the True Dharma Hall Master, and despite his failure, he still reminded him of that matter. But her movements were very subtle, unnoticed by the two people opposite her, who were captivated by her continuing words.

Before Patriarch Yangjuan, cultivators in the Immortal Sect who practiced the ancient Pure Yang method all used this as their divine sense cultivation method. The Martial Arts Academy, representing the conservatives, naturally suffered a great defeat in that debate. After the jest, she began to offer her true opinions, with the perspective and insight of the future head of the Jumang Daoist Academy.

"Is that the future master of the Immortal Sect?" The higher the grade of the parasol spirit wood, the faster the cultivation speed. The "Pill" (Dan) in the name of the Pill Cauldron Sect, where Patriarch Yunya originated, referred to this. Golden Crow, cultivating Pure Yang, was also exceptionally tempted by this! Before acquiring the Azure Jade Parasol Tree, the Nascent Soul Facing the Sun Diagram was ranked lowest in Cong Yuanbin's mind. However, this drawback was, for Golden Crow, an advantage instead. When she spoke the words "neutralize" or "balance," Wenren Danxia seemed to suddenly realize something, and her beautiful willow-like eyebrows subtly glanced at Cong Yuanbin, who had remained silent by her side.

However, that cultivation method also had issues. Firstly, it belonged to the ancient methods, and combining it with Patriarch Yangjuan's revised new Pure Yang method required cultivators to spend some time on integration. Furthermore, its realm divisions were relatively brief, not as detailed as the Immortal Sect's current system of four layers per realm.

"After speaking with you, I feel enlightened. Thank you."