Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 1024 - 108: Aura Observation, Ambush [Leave Request]

The Phoenix Platform is the highest point of the Main Tower of the Forbidden City's Phoenix Tomb. Zheng Wentai, a Unification Stage Cultivator of the Emperor's Extreme Split Sky Dao, is observing the "layout" of the entire Underground City.

He is a scholar, one who entered the Dao through literature. He has lived for over ten thousand years and has read for just as long. He has read the legacy articles left before the Holy Infant Sect dominated Shenzhou. In terms of reading volume, not any erudite person or knowledgeable sage could surpass him. There's no way around it, the lifespan of mortals compared to that of cultivators is truly insignificant.

Zheng Wentai's cultivation technique is also quite unique, known as "Beautiful Jiangshan and Brocade Articles." With a single stroke of his brush, he can connect with the righteous aura of humanity, transforming the scholarly spirit within his articles into tangible divine skills. And the hundreds of thousands of volumes of poetry and books he has within him provide him with considerable combat strength.

And now, he is only one step away from nurturing his own "God," at which point he will have achieved great success.

To take this step, he needs to transform the "Saint's Words" into "My Own Will."

And now, he is observing the power of humanity within the Underground City of Spirit Phoenix Island, to bolster the "emotion" within his chest, hoping to spark some inspiration within his heart, write an article that spreads throughout the world, and imprint his spirit upon the Human Dao, leveraging the resonance of all humanity to elevate himself to a higher level.

However, for some reason, he is unable to lift his pen.

Using the "Emperor's Qi Observation Skill" taught by the Holy Emperor Venerable to observe the power of humanity within Spirit Phoenix Island's Underground City always leaves one feeling incredulous.

For the righteous skill, it is clearly the darkest, most desperate time; for the cultivators persisting with righteous skills, there's evidently no hope in sight. Yet, for some reason, in his observation, the entire Spirit Phoenix Island appears to be flourishing, with the power of all living beings increasingly surging, eventually culminating into a "golden" "Big Trend" under the dome.

Aside from the phrase "frying oil over a raging fire," this rare literary sage was momentarily at a loss for other words to praise this state of prosperity.

"Observing qi?" Without any warning, the Holy Emperor Venerable suddenly appeared on the Phoenix Platform. Zheng Wentai's body trembled, his spirit shook, and he hastily bowed to pay his respects: "Your minister greets the Emperor Venerable!"

"Hmm." The Holy Emperor Venerable nodded blandly, neither affirming nor denying. He asked, "Wentai, Lone asks you, how is Lone's little patch of river and mountain?"

A small Underground City could neither be a "river" nor have a "mountain." A tiny water channel was laughable to call a "river." This little city, in any case, should not be crowned with terms like "river and mountain" to metaphorically refer to a "country."

However, Zheng Wentai replied earnestly: "Golden trend, flourishing state. Your minister has observed the qi of Shenzhou Continent. The power of humanity there is truly scattered and disordered, its color barely a pale blue, nothing compared to the golden destiny of this island?"

"Though the people of Spirit Phoenix Island are few, the trend is strong. The Emperor Venerable today may have been forced into a corner on this small island, but the well-being of its populace and the human trend here surpass that of vast lands under heterodox paths. If the Emperor Venerable can comprehend some earthly principle from this power of humanity, it can certainly sweep away the heterodox paths."

The Holy Emperor Venerable's expression slightly furrowed: "Is that so... you may leave..."

The Holy Emperor Venerable also looked up at the gathered power of humanity above but did not feel joy.

The reason why Zheng Wentai spoke as he did is limited by his knowledge. With his understanding of the Human Dao, that's all he could know—or rather, it's all the Holy Emperor Venerable intentionally allowed him to know.

While unity and cooperation can indeed cause the power of humanity to present a booming golden trend, fundamentally, the power of humanity is merely a "force." And since it's "force," it can be manipulated at will by stronger "opponents."

The relationship between Divine Tao Power and number is nonlinear. The divine power gathered by a sect of a thousand exceeds that of a sect of a hundred by far more than tenfold. If a trillion sane citizens could unite as one, the combined power of humanity would be something even the Holy Emperor Venerable would not dare face head-on before transcending tribulation. However, Spirit Phoenix Island is merely a community of millions.

The Holy Emperor Venerable can completely rely on his supreme mana to fix and gather the power of humanity that would otherwise fluctuate with cause and extinction, manufacturing this "frying oil over a raging fire" pattern.

This extremely orderly state of humanity is most suited for "absorption."

The heterodox paths don't understand this principle, so no matter how united their people are, they couldn't present such manifestations said only to exist in a legendary Earthly Divine Kingdom.

The Holy Emperor Venerable also observes qi. But in his eyes, the power of humanity presents differently.

Zheng Wentai could only see a vague golden hue, but the Holy Emperor Venerable could see the whole picture.

It is a sleeping giant. Its body seems to be transformed from the "Great Dao," its limbs and features fully fitting the world's imagination of the "Dao."

Vast yet mysterious.

It sleeps.

This is the other true form of the Holy Emperor Venerable's "Divine Country," it is what he is currently nurturing as his extrinsic body. The moment this divine spirit awakens is when he refines the entire power of humanity of Spirit Phoenix Island.

However, the Holy Emperor Venerable has a concern. He feels that this unborn god will not awaken.

A "poison" has silently been injected into this god's body. The colorless, odorless poison is spreading. But he has no knowledge of it.

In observation, he turned his hand to reveal a treasure bead. Inside this bead, a profound power was sealed. This power was acquired after refining the corpses of all the murdered Luochen Sword Palace members, a mere trace. For the Holy Emperor Venerable, this was so fragile that if he extended his Spiritual Sense to touch this trace of power, it would be destroyed.

It is as difficult as a person trying to caress an ant.

He felt that this wisp of power was very similar to the "poison" rampaging in his Divine Country. However, this power was too weak for him to confirm.

——A mysterious Blood God that no one has seen, some kind of death, and such mysterious power...

"Could it be that guy's goal is the same as mine, intending to refine the Power of Human Dao of this land..."

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When the Holy Emperor Venerable ascended the Phoenix Platform to observe Qi, it was the second day of Wang Qi's infiltration at the Ruyi Daoist School.

Wang Qi spent a total of three days preparing for his fourth-day assault. Under his manipulation, the infection rate of the Supreme Heart Demon Curse suddenly increased, infecting over sixty percent of the cultivators in the Ruyi Daoist School in just two days.

Simultaneously, Wang Qi began creating a "Virtual Divine Country" within the core area of the Ruyi Daoist School to shield against the Holy Emperor Venerable's senses. This virtual area had to be large enough and strong enough not to be easily breached by opponents and not to malfunction or collapse when faced with the Martial Arts Fist Intent of a Divine Separation Stage Cultivator.

Under Wang Qi's command, the power of the Heart Demon Curse quickly gathered.

And under Wang Qi's manipulation, this mysterious system was also undergoing a transformation.

A part of the initial source code running on the Spirit Phoenix Island Heart Demon Mysterious Net originated from the Divine Capital Heart Net. However, more of it came from Wang Qi's Cultivation Technique, Two-Phase Transcendence Chapter. In other words, it could be considered an extension of Wang Qi's Cultivation Technique, capable of operating Wang Qi's "Virtual Form" technique.

Later, Jarvis, based on Wang Qi's own consciousness, took control together with Wang Qi to construct the framework of the Spirit Phoenix Island Heart Demon Mysterious Net.

And now, this Heart Demon Mysterious Net, linked with the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm via satellite magic artifacts, had its largest operating project, the "Reincarnation Realm," granting it numerous characteristics of "Cyber Space."

Because of the usage by many people, it continued to grow stronger. Each "user" was also a "unit" of it. The power generated by these ordinary people when properly utilized could even make high-order cultivators take note.

By now, using it for deploying illusion techniques was overkill.

And Wang Qi also obtained a lot of valuable information through this system.

"Fan Zhongxing, Wu Qi, and the Reincarnation Team they are in are really on the right track; they actually exchanged for a second 'ten years' to cultivate in the Luoyan City instance world. Now, Wu Qi's 'Mysterious Sovereign Seven-Chapter Secret Scripture' has achieved some success, and the other members are also commendable."

"Fan Zhongxing has begun to glimpse the path. In the real world, he indeed does not dare to change his foundation to become a Modern Cultivator, but there are signs of transformation in his mana... I see, this is the impact of Virtual and Real Two-Phase Other Chapter on typical cultivation methods..."

"Wu Qi is still some distance away from transforming his consciousness with the Taiyin Corpse Transformation Talisman. However, he indeed has established a 'god' as a 'virtual character'... If he wants to achieve a Virtual Primordial Spirit, he needs internal and external unity..."

"Additionally, among the other six Reincarnation Teams, several cultivators of 'Mysterious Sovereign Seven-Chapter Secret Scripture' and 'Virtual and Real Two-Phase Other Chapter' have respectively achieved certain results. The characteristics of the Virtual Form Techniques can also be demonstrated..."

Thanks to Wang Qi's multitasking ability, handling two types of data and deducing two cultivation techniques simultaneously posed no pressure.

Moreover, the two cultivation techniques were not entirely unrelated.

For Wang Qi, Virtual Form Techniques were a part of the Two-Phase Transcendence Chapter.

The initial purpose of Wang Qi in creating the 'Mysterious Sovereign Seven-Chapter Secret Scripture' was merely to experiment with the possibility of ordinary people harnessing great power through the Heart Network. But the potential of the "Virtual Form Primordial Spirit" endowed it with even greater significance.

"If the Primordial Spirit communicates with heaven and earth following physical rules, then the Virtual Form Primordial Spirit communicates with the Heart Demon Mysterious Net via protocol."

With the deduction of the cultivation techniques, Wang Qi increasingly believed in his viewpoint.

Cultivation Techniques are "technology."

And all technical means are methods aimed at a specific "object."

As these two cultivation techniques improved, countless Yin Yang Yao within Wang Qi's body flickered indeterminately. Amidst the Yin Yang transformations, various operators rearranged and recombined once again.

——The so-called "program" is the "transmission" that allows mindless things to understand human commands.

Even without the Heart Demon Great Curse Memory, Wang Qi merely needed to transmit his mana to control the power permeating the air.

Because Wang Qi's mana carried "instructions," and the operating system built into the Heart Demon Great Curse could comprehend it.

Perhaps ordinary people could not see it, but certain wondrous changes were indeed occurring around Wang Qi's body.