Chapter 1604: New Law Closes Off All Paths

Angry Squid:

"What exactly is that inky figure?"

Bai Shuyue was drenched in sweat. Even after being reborn for a long time, she still hadn't fully escaped the terrifying remnants of her previous life.

"Could it be that the so-called 'Soul of Heaven and Earth' is just bait to trap and kill cultivators like us? But that makes no sense. With the power of a Dao Harmonizer, a Soul Transformation cultivator is like an ant, dying with a mere wave of the hand. Why would such a trap be necessary?""Furthermore, sacrificing the Soul of Heaven and Earth to harmonize with the Dao is certainly not an empty promise..."

Bai Shuyue struggled to understand, looking at Li Fan, who was still asleep in the room. A pang of guilt flashed through her heart: "I had originally intended to bring my nephew to the Xuanhuang Realm to change his destiny and extend his life. But I hadn't expected that he might live longer as an ordinary mortal in the Great Xuan minor world."

After much contemplation, Bai Shuyue made up her mind.

This life, the plan would change!Her cultivation speed would advance further. Fifteen years to Soul Transformation!After helping Li Fan change his destiny, she would send him directly back to the Great Xuan minor world.She would establish a mortal dynasty solely to serve Li Fan.She would also leave behind thousands of mechanical puppets to ensure Li Fan's safety.

"I have arranged for enough spirit stones to be sent every ten years, for five hundred years."

"Auntie..." Li Fan was deeply grateful, his face showing shame. "Your nephew is useless; I've always been a burden to you."

Seeing Li Fan's appearance, Bai Shuyue felt greatly comforted. She patted Li Fan's head: "Don't worry, this is just a temporary measure. Once I uncover the truth, I will bring you out one day. How could my nephew stay confined to this minor world his whole life!"

The dominance in her words was something the simple woman she once was could never have uttered.

"Becoming an emperor and being served by millions of people. Your nephew is already very content," Li Fan said, expressing his gratitude again.

Bai Shuyue smiled and said no more. She leaped away.

Li Fan knelt down in homage, not rising for a long time.

Only after Bai Shuyue left Great Xuan did Li Fan return to normal.

"The accumulation of spirituality is certainly terrifying. But the Xuanhuang Realm is also extremely treacherous. There are also the shackles of the Dharma Transmission and the Hungry Immortal's guardianship. Breaking out of this situation might not be easy. Not to mention, the path to immortality is already broken. Without 'Returning to Truth,' ascending to Shangfang Mountain is almost impossible."

In a single thought, countless possible outcomes for Bai Shuyue unfolded in Li Fan's mind.Yet, he saw no possibility of her successfully breaking through the high wall, let alone leaving the Origin, reaching the Other Shore, or transcending to become a Saint.

"Unless...""Spirituality accumulates to an extremely terrifying level. Enough to disregard all of these."

"I'll wait. Even though I preside over Great Xuan, everything within the high wall is under my observation!"

Having learned her lesson from the previous life, Bai Shuyue naturally dared not covet the Crimson Flame again.However, the truth about that inky figure genuinely piqued her curiosity.

So, she chose to sit back and watch the tigers fight.She secretly sold information about the imminent appearance of the Crimson Flame, earning a significant amount of contribution points.Afterward, Bai Shuyue waited outside the Congyun Sea, observing from afar.

As she had experienced before, after the Crimson Flame was vanquished, the Ink Slaughter descended, destroying everything between heaven and earth."It's confined only to the Congyun Sea region."

Bai Shuyue watched the fiercely sinister, wriggling shadows, just a stone's throw away. Slowly, she began to understand some things."It seems some secret is buried within the Congyun Sea."

Witnessing billions of lives perish, the current Bai Shuyue could remain unfazed. She quietly withdrew.

In this life, she lived for over eight hundred more years.Until her death, she never found the opportunity to break through to Dao Harmonization.

But she showed no urgency whatsoever: "According to what I've learned, sixteen 'Souls of Heaven and Earth' have descended over the past eight hundred years.""Among them, the most suitable for me, with the least competition, should be the Azure Flame.""It will appear sixty-two years after my rebirth, beneath the Great River in Lingze Province, freezing thousands of miles and transforming wetlands into a snowscape.""Sixty-two years, I have to wait that long..."

Although Bai Shuyue felt unwilling, she couldn't find a faster way to achieve Dao Harmonization at that moment.

The Thirteenth Life!

Before the Congyun Sea was destroyed, Bai Shuyue had been searching within it, trying to find its hidden secrets.Under meticulous searching, she indeed discovered many strange anomalies.

"Could it be that Congyun was forcefully slammed into the Xuanhuang Realm by a powerful palm? It's an external land, not native to Xuanhuang. No wonder the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao is determined to destroy it.""Is the vast Xuanhuang Realm only like this in the Congyun Sea? What exactly happened to cause all this?"

One mystery was solved, but then more questions arose in her mind.It sent a chill down her spine.

"And that Master Yin's New New Method...""Using 'Myself' as the foundation.""During these sixty-plus years of waiting, I might as well ponder it. If I can break free from the shackles of Dharma Transmission..."

However, the difficulty of the New New Method far exceeded Bai Shuyue's imagination.Despite her talent, sixty years passed, and she gained nothing!This made her doubt her own talent for the first time.

"How can there be such a method in the world? Even with ten accumulated lives of myself, I can't advance it in the slightest?"

But Bai Shuyue did not give up.Her sixty-plus years of contemplation made her faintly feel that the New New Method was not a dead end. Instead, it truly held great potential.

In the sixty-second year, Bai Shuyue successfully slew the Azure Flame and became a Dao Harmonizer Immortal Venerable!This shook the Myriad Immortals Alliance.After achieving Dao Harmonization, her status underwent a qualitative leap. She no longer needed to scramble for cultivation resources and even gained the right to know various secrets about the Xuanhuang Realm.

Bai Shuyue also brought Li Fan to the Xuanhuang Realm to help him cultivate.As the Dao Harmonizer's only close relative, even though Li Fan was merely a mortal, the cultivators of the Myriad Immortals Alliance under Bai Shuyue's rule dared not show him the slightest disrespect.

Li Fan indulged in pleasures, enjoying himself to the fullest.With a mortal body, he controlled female cultivators whose cultivation far surpassed his own. He lived a life of carefree enjoyment.As long as her nephew was happy, Bai Shuyue didn't mind.She even actively helped him find suitable partners, hoping to add new bloodlines to the Li family.Unfortunately, perhaps due to the consequences of changing his destiny, despite all efforts, no offspring were born.

After Bai Shuyue let go, she no longer insisted.This life seemed to have been perfect enough.However, all this happiness ended once again with the exhaustion of Li Fan's lifespan.

"Auntie, I don't want to die..."On the verge of death, shedding the youthful appearance forcibly maintained by rare treasures, Li Fan revealed an old face.Yet, he cried like a child.Bai Shuyue's heart ached at the sight. In a daze, she seemed to return to the year she had just been reborn.

"Don't be afraid, Fan'er. Auntie will surely save you!"Bai Shuyue tried to use rare treasures to extend Li Fan's life again, but ultimately, it was beyond her power to reverse fate.

"Auntie..."A tear streaked down his face, and Li Fan perished once more before Bai Shuyue.It was as if, in an instant, Bai Shuyue's vitality was drained.This powerful Dao Harmonizer cultivator also became aged.

An overwhelming sense of powerlessness welled up in Bai Shuyue's heart."Everything was clearly so good..."

Devoid of motivation and utterly exhausted, Bai Shuyue died of sorrow ten years later.

"Returning to Truth!"Li Fan, who had already died moments before, whispered softly in the darkness.

While he no longer cared for mortal physical desires, occasionally re-experiencing them wasn't bad."However, my dear aunt seems to have hit a bottleneck. Should I give her a push?""No, let's wait and see. It wouldn't be good if it left a flaw and ruined everything."

The Saint Creation Project, the Fifteenth Life!

The reborn Bai Shuyue remained motionless for a long time."After Dao Harmonization, immortality is hopeless." Suddenly, she sighed deeply.

The closer she got to the Immortal Ascension realm, the more she comprehended the horror of the Dharma Transmission Heavenly Venerate.The vast chasm between Dao Harmonization and Immortal Ascension made it difficult for Bai Shuyue to feel confident about progressing further.

"Especially, under the Myriad Immortals Alliance's system, there is simply no opportunity for a Dao Harmonizer to advance.""I have heard, however, about the Five Elders Council...""Could it be that this life, I need to change locations?"

After carefully considering, Bai Shuyue still shook her head in negation."In essence, there should be no difference.""To break these shackles...""Perhaps I can only rely on the New New Method."

It took a year for Bai Shuyue to regain her spirits.During her routine cultivation, she used almost all her spare time to comprehend the New New Method.At the same time, she felt that she might not be strong enough alone.So, she shared her insights with Master Yin.

Bai Shuyue's talent astonished Master Yin. Master Yin was thoroughly convinced and willingly offered his assistance and insights.During their exchanges, he also revealed many secrets about the Xuanhuang Realm to Bai Shuyue.However, even with their combined efforts, the New New Method barely advanced.

The Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth...After Bai Shuyue's cycles of reincarnation surpassed the twenty-time threshold,Perhaps due to the qualitative change brought by the accumulation of spirituality, a flash of inspiration struck Bai Shuyue's mind, and she finally vaguely glimpsed the path ahead.

"After using 'Myself' as the foundation...""It is the Primal Chaos Golden Core!"

"'Primal Chaos' is the origin of all things, created from the Taiyi, transforming into Yin and Yang." At this point, Bai Shuyue was far from the simple farm woman she once was.Having studied countless texts, her knowledge and understanding now far surpassed that of most people in the Xuanhuang Realm.

"From the primordial void and primal chaos, beginning with the innate, at the very start of the Wuji. As Yin and Yang separated, Qian and Kun found their positions, cycling between movement and stillness.""Inverting Kan and Li, fire flies to the azure sea to refine the void. Taiyi contains true form, jade cauldrons condense flowing pearls, and the spirit transforms into profound connection."Thousands of years of accumulated insights were as if tempered by the fire of inspiration, finally erupting into an utterly abundant power.It overturned all the boulders blocking the path,revealing a broad and open road!

"With my nephew's aptitude, cultivation methods that are too difficult certainly won't work.""As the saying goes, 'only by seeing one's nature can one understand one's mind.' While using 'Myself' as the foundation is feasible, it would be extremely difficult for ordinary mortals, and even for me, to truly comprehend the self. Therefore, the initial threshold for cultivation absolutely cannot be set so high.""It can be divided and practiced in stages!"

In Bai Shuyue's mind, thousands of thoughts converged and became fully clear at this moment."Every stage of the New New Method should be cultivated simultaneously.""One cultivates the Foundation Establishment during Foundation Establishment, and also during Golden Core, and even during Nascent Soul and Soul Transformation; with every step of cultivation, one must continuously build the foundation. Only at the very end is it truly 'Founding with Myself'.""Similarly, the concept of 'Primal Chaos' encompasses everything. It can be controlled from the very initial stages of cultivation. At first, it's just an embryonic core. With every step forward, one must add more fire and materials, enhancing the refinement.""The same applies to every realm after Golden Core!""The New New Method, therefore, should be a method where all realms are cultivated simultaneously.""Every bit of progress in self-awareness, every enhancement in understanding the principles of heaven and earth, serves as a driving force for advancing one's realm.""Like a galloping horse raising dust, never stopping its advance. Until...""At the moment of perfection, Foundation Establishment is achieved, Golden Core is achieved, Nascent Soul is achieved... ultimately even, Immortal Ascension is achieved!"

Bai Shuyue dispelled her cultivation realms and returned to a mortal state.Then, she embarked on the path of the New New Method once more.If she lacked the confidence to walk the path of the method she created, how could her thoughts ever be clear and unobstructed?

Bai Shuyue did not seek to fully understand her true self; rather, she used her current understanding of herself to build her foundation.It was as if she had carved a statue of herself into a rocky cliff in a mountain forest.Future cultivation would be a continuous process of reshaping the statue and opening new paths.Once the Foundation Establishment statue was complete, the next step was to achieve the Great Golden Core Dao.

Her insights, learning, knowledge, and feelings from twenty cycles of reincarnation all converged in her mind.They finally transformed into a seven-colored Golden Core,floating at the brow of her self-statue.

"This is the sum total of all my insights into the world, harmonizing with the Dao and resonating with it.""As I continue my endless reincarnations, my understanding will continue to grow. This Golden Core will also become increasingly vibrant and multi-hued."

With a single thought, the Golden Core formed.As the Golden Core was completed, the self-statue instantly became ten thousand times more vivid,just like Bai Shuyue herself.

"After Golden Core, comes Nascent Soul."Bai Shuyue felt her inspiration flow like an unending river. So, she continued to deduce the next step.

"The Nascent Soul is like an unformed embryo, akin to the Taiji structuring the heavens. Humans possess the body of heaven and earth, hold pure essence, and are the most spiritual of all living beings...""To deconstruct the world one sees with the body of one's true self!""However, most people are ignorant; even their own mortal bodies may not be fully seen or known, so how can they see the true heaven and earth?""Heaven and earth are boundless and infinite. Regardless of their true appearance, they will inevitably change continuously as one's realm and strength increase. Therefore..."

Bai Shuyue had an epiphany. Within her self-statue, beneath the seven-colored Golden Core,at the location of the Danzhong acupoint, a Nascent Soul suddenly appeared.However, this Nascent Soul was unlike the Nascent Souls of Heaven-and-Earth Caves created by the Dharma Transmission method, or the classical Nascent Souls recorded in historical texts.It was entirely transparent, like white jade,seemingly reflecting the world it perceived.

"Founding with Myself, Primal Chaos Golden Core. After this, it is the Spirit Mirror Nascent Soul!""A polished treasure mirror reflects only a room; a polished mind-mirror can reflect the Six Directions! The more one sees, the wider the reflection. The vaster the heaven and earth, the more concrete its image in the mirror!"

Bai Shuyue's Spirit Mirror Nascent Soul emitted a faint luster.It flashed with the sights of her past twenty lives.Her self-statue, with this reflection, also became tinged with a touch of "mortal world" essence.

Though Bai Shuyue, having dispelled her cultivation and re-cultivated, was only in the Nascent Soul state,as the statue, Golden Core, and Spirit Mirror successively took form, her own aura returned to its peak within a short period.With a Nascent Soul body, she was comparable to a Dao Harmonizer!

However, a moment later...Bai Shuyue's vitality, just as it reached its peak, suddenly waned.It was clearly the exhaustion of her mind and spirit from comprehending the Dao, causing her spirit to scatter and soul to perish!