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As his divine soul re-entered his body, Yunhua immediately felt an immense power surge forth from his divine soul, flowing through all the acupoints of his body.
This is the terrifying power possessed by the dragon soul nurtured by Mount Taishi. This power is as vast and incredible as the waves of the ocean.
At the same time, as this essence flowed through his entire body, Yunhua was also comprehending the memories possessed by this dragon soul.
The Dragon Soul of Mount Taishi is a supreme treasure, possessing all the scriptures of the Great Zen Temple except for the three scriptures of the past, present, and future. All of this has now become Yunhua's spoils of war.
New acupoints were forming one by one, and at the same time, the foundation of the Great Zen Temple was rapidly transformed into the foundation of Yunhua, further enhancing all his power.
"Even the essence of the dragon soul nurtured by Mount Taishi could not make my acupoints develop the Dao of a thousand transformations." After completely digesting the dragon soul of Mount Taishi, Yunhua was also somewhat moved.
"Next up is the Buddha's robe!" Yunhua's heart stirred and she immediately looked at the Buddha's robe.
As if sensing Yunhua's gaze, the originally radiant sphere suddenly melted and merged into the robe below.
This robe already possessed a spirit, and had its own will and goals.
It doesn't want to care about or ask anything; it only wants to go to the other side that no one has ever been able to reach. Whoever can take it to the other side, it will follow.
At this moment, as the crystal ball merged into it, the legendary Supreme Robe of the Other Shore finally revealed its true form.
Suddenly, the Buddha's robe floated in mid-air.
As you can see, it has a crystal-like luster throughout, and the color gradually becomes clearer as the light flows.
The entire robe is woven from countless mysterious warp and weft threads, looking somewhat like a star map in the sky, somewhat like the crisscrossing mountains and rivers on the earth, and also like the lines on a person's palm.
Just looking at it gives one a sense of endless mystery, as if it inherently contains the mysteries of heaven, earth, and humanity.
At the same time, this robe is covered with countless ancient scripts, each character deeply resonating with people and shining like a sun, illuminating the path ahead.
This is the path to the other shore recorded on the kasaya, and it is also the Great Way to the other shore belonging to the Holy Emperor "Yuan".
"Shariputra, it is neither born nor dies, neither defiled nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing..."
Yunhua glanced at it casually and saw the scriptures on the Buddha's robe. They were incredibly profound and in line with the "Past Amitabha Sutra" and the "Present Tathagata Sutra". Every word was so awe-inspiring.
"This is the other shore path of the ancient holy emperor 'Yuan'—the path of Maha Vajra Prajna Paramita!" Yun Hua's expression turned solemn as he carefully savored the other shore path on the kasaya, while also comparing this path with the Great Dao of Amitabha Buddha Emperor in the world of Shrouding the Heavens.
The Great Way of Amitabha Buddha in the world of "Covering the Sky" speaks of salvation, annihilation, and reincarnation; but the Way to the Other Shore on this Tathagata's robe speaks of transcendence.
"Because the Amitabha Buddha Emperor had no hope of becoming an immortal and could not see a goal, he chose to place his hopes on the next life, chose to leave behind his Dao fruit, and chose the future body of faith in the divine self," Yunhua said silently in his heart.
Aside from the core elements, this also bears some resemblance to the otherworldly path of the ancient sage emperor "Yuan." After all, the Future Scripture draws upon the power of faith to forge the future master...
“However, the spiritual power of the Buddha’s robe… if anyone else encountered you, they probably wouldn’t be able to do anything. But I’m different!” Yunhua’s eyes revealed a slight smile, and without saying a word, he directly swallowed the robe.
The spirit of this Buddha's robe is absolutely stingy. It only takes and never gives anything in return, making it the stingiest of the stingiest.
It was impossible for such a thing to hand over the Dao of the Other Shore of the Holy Emperor Yuan, but Yunhua didn't need it to hand it over either. She swallowed it directly and began to refine it.
"Ah, what kind of monster are you? Why can you even devour the Other Shore Robe refined by the Holy Emperor Yuan?!" Just then, a panicked voice came from within Yun Hua's body.
It was the spirit born from the Buddha's robe that had been thinking about how to get some benefits from Yunhua; but it never expected that Yunhua would swallow the precious robe without saying a word.
"Let me out, let me out, I will submit to you!!" The voice grew increasingly shrill, for he had sensed that the situation was dire; the opponent's power had instantly breached the outer defense of the Buddha's robe.
The Buddha's robe was almost driven mad. This person in front of him was simply a monster. What kind of Dao was this that could not even withstand some of the arrangements made by the Holy Emperor Yuan?
"Boom!!" A terrifying surge of magical power erupted from the Buddha's robe in an instant. Accompanied by a sharp, long howl, it violently swept out, about to shatter Yunhua's body and allow him to escape.
But it was all in vain. Yunhua's fist intent directly suppressed it. At the same time, the secret power belonging to the Heaven-Mending Scripture and the Devouring Dao directly acted on the Tathagata's kasaya, gradually eroding into the inside of the kasaya. Instantly, countless scriptures were transmitted into his mind.
"Form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form; form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness are also like this..."
That is the Mahayana Prajnaparamita path of the Holy Emperor Yuan.
The path of the Mahayana Prajnaparamita slowly entered Yunhua's heart, causing his magical power to expand and his cultivation to surge. He also gained a new and profound understanding of the "other shore" path of this world.
The material of the Buddha's robe gradually seeped into Yunhua's body, slowly stimulating his physical form and causing more and more acupoints within him to gradually appear and coalesce.
"Snap!", "Snap!", "Boom!!"...
At the same time, the Buddha's robe, under Yunhua's refining influence, was constantly shattering. The layers upon layers of formations, microcosms, labyrinths, and folded spaces within the robe were all slowly dissipating, completely refined by Yunhua.
This Buddha's kasaya truly lives up to its reputation as a divine artifact crafted by the Holy Emperor Yuan. The sheer number of layers of space it contains is astonishing. Compared to it, the Qiankun Bag of the Great Zen Temple is utterly insignificant.
Yunhua's refining of the Buddha's robe this time felt like refining all the heavens and myriad worlds.
The mere sight of the Buddha's robe was enough to make Yunhua feel as if he were devouring all the heavens. His Devouring Heaven Dao was also being perfected at an unprecedented speed, even reaching an unprecedented level.
But after the endless arrays and miniature worlds completely dissipated, only the most core array remained of the Buddha's robe. It was a great array composed of countless golden talismans piled up like an ocean.
At the center of this great formation, one can vaguely see a young man dressed in feathered robes and wearing a star crown. That person is none other than the spiritual manifestation of the Buddha's robe.
Faced with Yunhua's invasion, it revealed an extremely ferocious expression.
"This is the Vajra Great Treasury Passage of the Two Realms and Ten Directions, and also the core formation of the Tathagata's Kasaya. Do you really think you can break through it? The Tathagata's Kasaya is my body, this is my home ground, I alone can hold off ten thousand!!"
"You think you can refine me? Even if you could, I'd still severely damage your vital energy!!!"
The spirit of the Buddha's robe had a ferocious expression, and its voice revealed boundless rage. It floated in the sea of golden talismans, then stretched out its hands and formed a strange mudra.
Chapter 398 Ever-Changing Transformations
"Stop resisting, it's useless!" Yunhua said leisurely, sensing the resistance from the Buddha's robe.
At the same time, 110,000 points of light on his body lit up, eventually transforming into a brilliant rosy glow.
"Boom!!"
However, the moment this brilliant ray of light appeared, it directly struck the golden sea of runes, and the "Two Realms and Ten Directions Vajra Great Treasury Divine Passage" shattered with a loud "boom".
At the same time, the power of the God-Slaying Stone also eroded the core area of the Buddha's robe.
The spiritual essence of the Buddha's robe offered no resistance; it transformed directly into the purest vital energy, filling Yunhua's entire body.
"Boom!!"
Yunhua's body trembled slightly, instantly agitating all the boundless essence transformed from the Buddha's robe. At the same time, the locations of the One Yuan Acupoints faintly appeared within his body.
This is Yunhua forcibly manifesting the acupoints in his body using his own power, which will undoubtedly damage his own acupoints.
But he couldn't care less about that now. As long as he could complete this final assault, any minor injuries would heal easily.
Having cultivated to the level of flesh and blood that Yunhua possessed, any martial art in this Yangshen world would come naturally, without any effort or hindrance.
With a thought, he directly condensed all his boundless essence into the acupoints within his body.
At the same time, the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, grass and trees, and even the universe and spacetime, all the true energy, combined with the power of the Tathagata's kasaya, entered Yunhua's body, integrated into various acupoints, nourished the acupoints, and made his whole body full of energy again.
"Buzz!" "Buzz!" "Buzz!"...
An extremely terrifying sound emanated from Yunhua's body. Especially after condensing 129,600 acupoints, his body seemed to have reached a limit, and there seemed to be endless power constantly vibrating within him.
"boom!"
But when the shock reached its extreme, Yunhua's physical body suddenly seemed to disintegrate, turning into a wisp of green smoke, then into countless tiny dust particles, drifting into the void.
There were a total of 480 million dust and sand particles, a number exactly the same as the number of thoughts that a master of the Yang God realm could generate, containing the most profound mysteries of the world.
Each of these 480 million particles carries the supernatural power within his physical body, enough to devour all things; each particle carries the essence of his martial arts, enough to unleash earth-shattering fist intent.
"Is this what they call ever-changing?" Each grain contained Yunhua's thoughts, and he clearly felt all the changes in his physical body.
When flesh and blood were derived, it simply separated its own flesh and blood to develop into an independent individual. It can be said that as long as there is a drop of blood left, it is immortal.
But at this moment, his body was directly transformed into the finest particles, breaking down into 480 million particles. This feeling was incredibly magical. Even in the world of Shrouding the Heavens, Yun Hua had never experienced his body being shattered like this.
"Speaking of which, there are also 480 million potential gates within the human body in the world of Shrouding the Heavens," Yun Hua suddenly thought of a question, namely the gates within the Shrouding the Heavens technique.
Although he hadn't consciously counted them during his cultivation, he suddenly thought of this question now and, after careful reflection, immediately realized the number of gates within his body.
"The body can be divided into 480 million particles, and the number of gates in the Heaven-Covering Technique is also that many. This 480 million is quite mysterious!" Yun Hua was also somewhat amazed. He didn't expect that even after changing worlds and bodies, the number of gates within his body would still be the same...
Countless thoughts flashed through Yunhua's mind, but he quickly put aside his previous conjectures and continued to comprehend the mysteries of the 480 million particles. He soon grasped the profound mysteries of the physical transformation.
"Om!"
In the instant he grasped all the profound mysteries, Yunhua's body instantly reassembled, transforming into a true dragon.
Yunhua had never seen what dragons looked like in the Yangshen world. Mengshenji's Nine-Fire Dragon was also created by Taoist magic, not a real dragon. The dragon body that Yunhua had transformed into was the true dragon body of the Shrouding the Heavens world.
"I transformed my physical body into a true dragon, and I never expected that it would actually possess some of the mysteries of a true dragon?" A look of surprise appeared on the dragon eyes of the true dragon that Yunhua had transformed into.
Because he truly felt that he had become a real dragon, no longer a spirit stone embryo, but a genuine dragon!
"Wow, it really can turn into a real dragon... The ever-changing realms of this Yangshen World are truly terrifying!"
"If the world of Shrouding the Heavens knew such a technique, wouldn't it mean that one could transform into any physique they wanted?" Yun Hua thought of this almost instantly.
The sheer variety of realms alone surpasses countless methods of bloodline evolution and physique transformation in the world of Shrouding the Heavens.
"A problem that is difficult to solve in one world may not be so difficult in another! Only the fusion of different cultivation systems can give birth to the most invincible cultivators!" Yun Hua was overjoyed.
"Let's try some other variations!!"
Without much thought, Yunhua transformed into a true dragon, then into a phoenix, soaring high with blazing flames; then he transformed into a qilin, treading the void, lifelike.
Following the Immortal Phoenix and Qilin, Yunhua continued to transform, conjuring up all sorts of rare and exotic beasts from the world of Shrouding the Heavens. The Kunpeng, Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, Nine Netherworld Hound, Heavenly Horned Ant, and other ten fierce beasts appeared one after another, followed by celestial birds and beasts such as the Golden Crow, White Tiger, and Suanni.
Later on, he even created inanimate objects: the sun, moon, stars, mountains, trees, rivers, lakes, and seas...
It seems that he can manifest any tangible thing in the world through his physical body.
This is the ever-changing nature of the martial arts path between humans and immortals in this world, culminating in the ultimate realm of the physical body.
"So this is the realm of ever-changing transformations!" Yunhua stopped his transformations and returned to his original form. He continued to quietly comprehend the power of this realm.
It took Yunhua a long time to come to her senses.
"I've been feeling like something's not right lately... Did I miss something?"
After surviving the fifth tribulation, cultivators gain the ability to sense things that are unfavorable to them. Yunhua is now experiencing some of these sensations.
"Never mind, I still need to go back to the Great Qian Jade Capital to take a look." After pondering for a while, Yun Hua got up and sent out a thought that tore through the void, instantly taking him away from the vicinity of Mount Taishi.
Meanwhile, on the other side, in the Great Qian Dynasty, in Yujing.
"This aura is... Hong Xuanji's Wheel of Life and Death in the Heavens. It seems to be no different from the original work." As soon as Yun Hua arrived in Yujing City, he immediately felt a terrifying aura that suppressed all the heavens.
At the same time, an immense surge of energy and blood instantly manifested from Jade Capital City, as if the King of Gods were sitting there, suppressing all the heavens and myriad realms.
"Hmm, but something feels off. Hong Xuanji's Wheel of Life and Death seems a little different from what I imagined?" Yun Hua pondered for a moment, a strange feeling rising in his heart.
Chapter 399 The Variables Brought by the Philosophers
Logically speaking, Hong Xuanji's All Heavens Life and Death Wheel Fist should control everything, establish all the principles and laws of heaven and earth, and turn the wheel of heaven and earth's operation.
This is an incredibly domineering entity, akin to a celestial emperor.
However, this time, when Yunhua personally sensed the Wheel of Life and Death, he felt that something was different here.
The domineering aura within this fist intent was not subdued, nor was the feeling of controlling everything, but something else had been added to the fist intent.
Although it was very faint, and ordinary people could not detect it at all, Yunhua, a powerful person who could change his ways, could feel that what he felt was a sense of the Great Dao of Reincarnation and transcendence and liberation.
It seems that Hong Xuanji wants to completely transcend everything and reach the other shore.
According to the original text, Hong Xuanji's path was to offer her own physical body to Yang Pan to help Yang Pan achieve the Yang God.
He could never transcend on his own, because that would not conform to his Dao! The more Yunhua thought about it, the more she felt that Hong Xuanji's Dao had undergone a fundamental change.
"As expected, things have changed!" Yunhua sighed inwardly. "I wonder who made the move? Logically speaking, Hong Xuanji is the pawn and successor of the Creation Daoist. Could it be the Creation Daoist from the Origin Land who made the move?"
"No matter what, this matter must be thoroughly investigated!" Yun Hua thought to himself. At the same time, he instantly concealed his aura to the extreme, leaving no trace whatsoever.
The ever-changing immortal deliberately concealed his aura, appearing just like an ordinary stone, and did not attract any special attention from anyone.
After infiltrating Yujing City, Yunhua went directly to the Wuwen Marquis's residence.
"As expected... Hong Xuanji's path has changed." Having sensed Hong Xuanji's fist intent up close, Yunhua had already made his judgment.
Although on the surface it is still his original Wheel of Life and Death, the core of it has been completely changed.
As Hong Xuanji continues his cultivation, his path will stray further and further, even veering in the opposite direction, leading him down a path he could never have accepted before.
"Hong Xuanji has changed like this, so what about Hong Yi?" Yun Hua pondered for a moment, then walked directly towards Hong Yi's residence.
Although this was his first time visiting the Marquis of Wuwen's residence, given his level of cultivation, this residence held no secrets.
Hong Yi still lived in the most secluded side room of the Wuwen Marquis's mansion.
"Hmm, something's not right! There's something wrong with the aura!" However, as soon as Yunhua approached the side room, he immediately noticed something amiss.