Heaven-Defying Rebel Sage
Chapter 327 - 308: The Unparalleled Marvel of the Returning to the Yuan Technique

Chapter 327: Chapter 308: The Unparalleled Marvel of the Returning to the Yuan Technique

"In cultivation, there are neither days nor months, and for Saints, this is even more the case."

"The Posa Greater World is stable, unlike the Earth Immortal Realm where changes are swift and fierce. Saints lay out their strategies, manipulating the world. Everyone in the Posa Greater World abides by the rules, the doors are not barred at night, found wealth is not taken, and everyone is wealthy and at ease—a land of freedom and republicanism. Cultivators also dare not use their cultivation levels to oppress ordinary people.

"The Heavenly Dao Laws watch from above, with keen attention to the finest detail. No one dares to recklessly violate the will of the Heavenly Dao Laws.

"Even if there are grievances, people will settle them fairly on the Heaven and Earth arena set up by Wukong. Whether they fight to the death or survival, the Heavenly Dao Laws will not intervene.

"’Immeasurable Calamities! In this Posa Greater World, all beings are wealthy and at ease—this is truly a pure land,’ Amitabha Buddha said slowly with his hands pressed together and a look of clarity in his eyes.

"’Sun Wukong has promoted and magnified the Buddhist Law of the Buddhist Sect, transforming and renewing it, truly achieving the Buddhist Family’s ultimate bliss. Very good, very good!’ Zhun Ti Taoist said, nodding his head.

"These two ancestral figures of the Buddhist Sect, after ten thousand years of arduous cultivation, had finally returned to the ranks of the Heavenly Dao Saints.

"Subsequently, the Ksitigarbha King and Luo Hou cultivated to the Heavenly Dao Saint Realm, while Kunpeng felt somewhat lacking despite his ambitions. His attainment of the Heavenly Dao Saint status was purely with the help of Hong Jun Taoist Patriarch; his own realm and understanding were not enough. Now, in a new world, the Heavenly Dao Laws naturally differed from those in the Earth Immortal Realm, making them difficult to comprehend.

"’Well, it’s all right, it’s all right. I, the ancestor, don’t necessarily have to become a Heavenly Dao Saint,’ Kunpeng sighed slightly.

"During these ten thousand years of painful cultivation, Ling Weiyang also comprehended the Heavenly Dao Laws and became a being of the Heavenly Dao Saint.

"With this, there were now seven Heavenly Dao Saints: Yuan Shi, Supreme, Fuxi, Zhun Ti, Amitabha, Ksitigarbha King, and Ling Weiyang. Luo Hou was left with only the last seat! As a result, cultivators in the Posa Greater World with hopes of reaching the Heavenly Dao Saint Realm began to cultivate crazily, striving to achieve the Heavenly Dao Saint Realm.

"Wukong sat atop the Thirty-Three Heavens, where a Treasure Pagoda was being suppressed, using the Heavenly Dao Laws to temper, aiming to rebuild a Thirty-Three Heavens Divine Artifact. And then, with the nourishment of the Power of Creation, it would likely become another Supreme Dao Divine Artifact! Moreover, its power would certainly be much greater than that of ordinary Dao Divine Artifacts.

"’Great Slaughter Technique!’"

"Xuan Ming’s fingers curled, forming a lotus seal, and a Dharma Seal was thrown out. Infinite slaughtering aura headed straight for Wukong."

"’Great Yin Yang Technique!’"

"Wukong’s hands shaped a Dharma Seal, and around him, the yin and yang energies began to swirl. The slaughtering energy that entered was dissolved instantly, like a clay Bodhisattva entering the sea, turning into muddy water. Yin and yang are the root of all creation; when yin and yang combine, they produce all things. This killing aura is emitted by heaven, earth, and humanity—the triad stems from duality.

"When Heaven sends forth a slaughter intention, the stars shift; when Earth sends forth a slaughter intention, dragons and serpents rise on land; when humans send forth a slaughter intention, heaven and earth are overturned!

"The implication is that when the Heavenly Dao exhibits a killing intent, it causes a shift in the constellations, leading to the destruction of the stars; when Earth exhibits a killing intent, signifying nature itself, it brings unrest and anxiety to life; when humans exhibit a killing intent, both heaven and earth can be turned upside down, being destroyed!

"There are limits to the Heavenly Dao, yet human effort is limitless!

"’Excellent, the three types of killing intent, heaven, earth, and humanity, have all been integrated into my Great Slaughter Talisman! Now take my next move, Heavenly Slaughter!’ Xuan Ming shouted lightly, and threw out a huge ’slaughter’ character. This ’slaughter’ character seemed to encompass the vast sky, its will infinite, unparalleled in strength.

"Wukong nodded slightly; Xuan Ming had condensed the Great Slaughter Technique to perfection. The triad killing intents of heaven, earth, and humanity had all been integrated into the Great Slaughter Talisman. Together with the realm where heaven and earth are one, wielding this Dao Technique was simply flawless, without a single defect!

"’From one Yuan to ultimate extremity, Two Yi to supreme polarity, Three Talents fix the heavens, Four Symbols give birth to the earth, Five Elements create all things, Six Directions sweep across, Seven Stars perform their fight, Eight Trigrams unmatched, Ninety-Nine return to one!’ Wukong’s hands formed a profound Dharma Seal, which at a glance seemed to be the origin, yet also the endpoint.

"When Wukong released this spell, a Primordial Talisman materialized, evolving from one Yuan to nine extremes, one by one, and then Ninety-Nine returned to one, transforming into a Yuan.

"’Whoosh!’

"Xuan Ming’s Heavenly Slaughter spell was directly devoured, and then she continued to form seals rapidly. The triad killing intents of heaven, earth, and humanity all emerged, urging the Great Slaughter Technique, and an even bigger ’slaughter’ character bombarded down. If this momentum were to leak out even a bit, it would be enough to make heaven and earth lose color, turning grass, trees, and mountains to dust.

"’Inhale!’

"Wukong, like a whale sucking water, actually exhaled a large breath of Primordial Qi that wrapped around the slaughtering energy, then took a deep breath and sucked it all into his stomach.

"’Such a formidable Dao Technique can actually resolve my Great Slaughter Technique? What is this Dao Technique?’ Xuan Ming asked.

"’This is a Dao Technique derived from the Great Creation Technique, turning everything back to primordial essence, named Ninety-Nine Return to Origin Grand Method,’ Wukong said slowly.

"Ninety-Nine Return to Origin, everything returns to the starting point. ’Yuan’ and ’origin’ are homophonic and have the same meaning. Unexpectedly, your talent is so extraordinary that, after obtaining the Power of Creation, your cultivation level has increased so swiftly, and you’ve managed to comprehend such a formidable Dao Technique of returning to the origin. I thought that by mastering the Three Talents Killing Machine of heaven, earth, and man, my mana would greatly increase, but it seems I am still not your equal," Xuan Ming couldn’t help but sigh, flipping his palm, and the Great Slaughter Talisman separated from the Primordial Spirit Thoughts, falling into the center of his palm.

"This Dao Technique is not a ’Great’ Dao Technique; it is something I evolved myself through the Great Creation Technique. It’s quite powerful and can return all killing moves to their origin, Ninety-Nine Return to One. I will teach you this Ninety-Nine Return to One Great Method now, so your strength can be enhanced once again," said Wukong.

He passed on the mental formulas and other teachings to Xuan Ming. Even though Xuan Ming was a Great Dao Sage, he found this spell incredibly mysterious. From one to nine, it was expounded thoroughly, causing admiration. Xuan Ming knew he would need tens of thousands of years to comprehend this Dao Technique! However, she was not in a hurry; after all, in the Posa Greater World, only a little over ten thousand years had passed, and there was still more than one hundred and ten thousand years until the Immeasurable Calamity and the Calamity of Origin descended.

"Ninety-Nine Return to Origin, condensed to a point, everything restored! This Dao Technique, although it’s not a ’Great’ Dao Technique, has actually surpassed ordinary ’Great’ Dao Techniques in power! All things will return to origin, and any attack will turn into Spiritual Energy that nourishes oneself, somewhat similar to Immortal Yang Mei’s Great Devouring Technique. By then, even a Great Dao Sage’s Ninety-Nine Return to Origin Great Method can be transformed into Origin Qi and absorbed into the body," Xuan Ming couldn’t help saying, "This Ninety-Nine Return to Origin Great Method is truly defying the heavens. It’s worthy of being evolved from the Great Creation Technique! If cultivated to the pinnacle, how powerful would that be?"

Wukong said, "The Creation World is indeed worthy of being the most revered among the Three Thousand Great Worlds and of being an existence capable of killing Great Dao Sages! I have been absorbing the Power of Creation in the Creation Jade Butterfly lately, and the Great Creation Technique is gradually refining, but I still cannot completely utilize it. I believe that a hundred thousand years of arduous cultivation will bring me great benefits!"

The Great Creation Technique was nurtured by Creation itself; only those favored by Creation could cultivate it.

Only five people in the entire Creation World could cultivate the Great Creation Technique, including the four Creation Supremes and Wukong. It goes without saying how earth-shattering this technique is.

"Good. With the Ninety-Nine Return to Origin Great Method, I can revert the killing intent to its origins, achieving a state of returning to simplicity, without even a hint of killing intent. When I strike, it will be hard for the enemy to perceive until the moment it explodes with greater power! And with this Ninety-Nine Return to Origin Great Method, I’m practically invulnerable to all methods, every existence can be converted into the origin," she declared.

Xuan Ming began to comprehend the profundity of returning to the origin and realized the Ninety-Nine Return to Origin Great Method.

Wukong said, "How about I return Reincarnation to you? Then you could perform the Great Reincarnation Technique."

Xuan Ming replied, "No need! Your understanding of Reincarnation is much deeper than mine. It’s better for you to keep it; it will be more useful."

Wukong said, "Very well."

This is the benefit of Dao Companions; they are selfless with each other, sharing everything.

This session lasted for ten thousand years—a full ten thousand years!

At the Saint level, even flies cannot land, no feather can add weight, the body is flawless, and no dust can adhere.

Thus, even though Xuan Ming had been sitting in meditation for ten thousand years, she remained clean and even had a faint fragrance of flowers surrounding her.

"Excellent, Ninety-Nine Return to Origin Great Method! Ninety-Nine Return to Origin!" Xuan Ming lightly exclaimed, her hands forming spell gestures, and casting Ninety-Nine Return to Origin.

"Om!"

An Origin force trembled—one, two, all the way through to nine, everything merged into one and then transformed back into unity.

"Hmm? Central Heaven! Central Heaven is the middle of the Go board, and Go is created based on the evolution of yin and yang! The board is a universe, a world, and the pieces within are yin and yang, then evolving Three Talents, Four Symbols, Five Elements... and the center of this universe is Central Heaven!" A sudden enlightenment struck Xuan Ming’s heart, as the structure of a Go board slowly spun in her mind.

"Hum, hum, hum!"

Her Primordial Spirit trembled, the king of thoughts turned into a giant Go board, and all Primordial Spirit Thoughts split into yin and yang, black and white, falling one by one.

She seemed to sit beside the Go board, playing alone, her left hand holding black and her right hand holding white, thought after thought she placed on the board.

"It turns out, Go also contains the mystery of the Dao, the true essence of the Dao! The Dao is truly infinite, who would have thought that Go would contain such profound truth!" In that moment, Xuan Ming suddenly gained a clear understanding, pinched a Primordial Spirit Thought between two fingers and forcefully slapped it on the Central Heaven position on the board.

"This move shall be called, Heavenly Origin One Finger!"

A profoundly mysterious force emerged, everything returned to the origin, the Go board vanished, and the thoughts once again surrounded the king of thoughts.

Wukong nodded slightly, thinking to himself, "Excellent! To comprehend another secret from this is truly infinite Dao! Xuan Ming’s aptitude is also not bad."

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