Chapter 297: Sixfold Burning of Karma

The Twin Rice Sect has been exploring the underground immortal estate for a millennium, naturally accumulating some fragments of the Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone.

Internally, to cultivate top-tier psionic masters and lost soul seeds, and externally, to recruit personnel through coercion and temptation, it can be said that the Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone fragments are consumed as quickly as they are found.

Moreover, most of them are sent to the Hall of Heavenly Principles.

The Hall of Spirit Valley receives a very small amount.

The Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone is expensive; a small fragment costs 150,000 Spring Coins.

"Don't think it's too expensive. This is the foremost treasure for assisting a Spirit Psion to condense a psionic star. This price is only available at the sect's main headquarters. You might not even find it for sale outside, and it could be bid up to double the price."

"All the top powers in the world establish cultivation barriers and solidify their high-tier status by inflating the prices of a few key cultivation resources."

The usually reserved Elder Xu added, "If you exchange it for this Dao Lotus, I can give you an additional 5,000 drops of Spring Liquid."

Li Weiyi was at a critical stage, striving to become a three-star Spirit Psion. Only by breaking through would he have the power to challenge the Fourth Divine Son, Wang Shu. After all, Wang Shu was not only powerful himself but also had many true disciples assisting him.

So, he gritted his teeth and agreed.

Carrying the Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone fragment and 23,000 drops of Spring Liquid, Li Weiyi left the resource treasury with the gentle Elder Xu.

He also had several hundred-character artifacts he had seized, which could fetch a good amount of Spring Coins.

However, he dared not buy more Spring Liquid.

Buying more would be too extravagant.

23,000 drops of Spring Liquid would certainly not be enough to fully cultivate his ancestral field, so he would have to find a way to acquire more in the future.

Afterwards, Li Weiyi and Elder Xu arrived at the Artifice Pavilion.

The Artifice Pavilion was a vital area of the Hall of Spirit Valley, enveloped in an array formation. Even true disciples with their tokens had to report before entering.

The array could only be opened from the inside.

The guardian of the Artifice Pavilion was An Xianjing's senior disciple, an unfathomable figure. The array opened at his command, but he did not appear, his whereabouts within the pavilion unknown.

Li Weiyi had no interest in the scriptures.

After all, Master Coffin and Master Jar had already taught him the Dao Seed Realm chapters of the *Demonic Tome* and the *Night Emperor Register*, offering him choices. He had been pondering them during this period, actively preparing to condense his Dao Seed.

He came to the Artifice Pavilion because he was interested in the Hall of Spirit Valley's four Great Arts.

A colossal entity like the Twin Rice Sect possessed many unique treasures, which he could now freely examine. How could he not seize such an opportunity?

Elder Xu led Li Weiyi to the third floor of the pavilion, saying as they walked, "The sect possesses a total of ten Great Arts, and the Hall of Spirit Valley has the most, holding exclusive rights to four of them."

"These are techniques cultivated by Longevity Realm grandmasters! In the Dao Seed Realm, normally, only Divine Sons and Divine Daughters with inherited talent are permitted to cultivate them."

"True Disciple Li, do you know why this is?"

Li Weiyi naturally knew the reason and replied casually, "The Dao is the foundation, and the Art is the means."

"Only those with inherited talent have the greatest potential to enter the Longevity Realm in the future. Thus, the Great Arts they cultivate can accompany them throughout their lives, allowing for continuous refinement and advancement."

"Arts and Dao complement each other and progress hand in hand."

"Dao Seed Realm cultivators without inherited talent should focus their time on martial cultivation, as breaking through to the Longevity Realm is their primary goal. If they obsess over cultivating Great Arts and delay their path to longevity, they will surely regret it after a hundred years."

Elder Xu laughed and nodded, "There are indeed some exceptions! Take the Fourth Divine Son, Wang Shu, for example. He encountered the Great Art *Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art* when he was in the Five Seas Realm. After reaching the Dao Seed Realm, he actually mastered it. His comprehension is simply unparalleled. He changed his destiny from a mortal to a Divine Son."

Li Weiyi suddenly stopped and looked at a bookshelf over two meters tall to his right.

Clearly written on the bookshelf were the five characters for "Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art."

"Does cultivating the *Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art* require reading so many books?"

Li Weiyi was surprised, sensing that there were hundreds of volumes on the shelf, covering all aspects: basic categories, dangers, resource types, integration of art and Dao, force application of moves, and so on.

A single Great Art seemed to require a lifetime of study, a discipline demanding countless hours of research.

Elder Xu returned to the bookshelf, chuckling, "Here, there are also many insights from practitioners of this art throughout history! After all, everyone has a different physique, so the methods for cultivating this art naturally vary, as do the cultivation resources used."

Elder Xu broke the runes, took down the general outline of the *Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art*, and handed it to Li Weiyi.

Li Weiyi was quite interested in the Dao Art cultivated by Wang Shu and began to read through it.

The Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art was a cultivation technique for the Vajra Warriors, guardians of the ancient Brahma Sect.

"The first layer of the *Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art* is Golden Armor Body Protection."

"For a Dao Seed Realm martial cultivator, one year allows for initiation, three years for minor accomplishment, and ten years for major accomplishment."

"The second layer is Mountain-Moving Gigantic Strength."

"After twenty years of arduous cultivation, a Dao Seed Realm martial cultivator can achieve major accomplishment and forge the Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Dao Lotus."

"The third layer is Mountainous True Form."

"After forty years of arduous cultivation, a Dao Seed Realm martial cultivator can achieve major accomplishment and forge the Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Dao Fruit."

The more Li Weiyi read, the tighter his brows furrowed.

The time required was simply too much, severely impacting the cultivation of martial longevity.

Unless one could achieve major accomplishment in the first layer in just three years, like Wang Shu, whose Golden Armor Body Protection made his skin like a Dharma robe, instantly tripling his physical strength, forcing even inheritors of the same realm to avoid his sharp edge.

"I wonder if the Twelve Loose Hands of the Chan Sect will undergo a transformation after reaching the Dao Seed Realm, and whether their power can rival that of a Great Art?"

Li Weiyi felt uncertain.

This was because cultivating Great Arts often required the assistance of precious resources.

For instance, cultivating the first layer of the *Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art* required Golden Buddha Sand, Earth Vein Profound Qi, and high-grade Blood Crystals. Depending on one's physique, some special hundred-year spiritual medicines and thousand-year essence medicines were also needed.

Li Weiyi only knew to habitually practice the Twelve Loose Hands of the Chan Sect, constantly seeking his own deficiencies and comprehending deeper mysteries and traces of laws.

This relied entirely on comprehension!

There was no specific or systematic method to pursue greater power or higher levels.

There were no scriptures, insights, or incantations, only the moves taught by his masters and the profound essence he needed to capture.

If he continued cultivating this way, it was highly probable that the Twelve Loose Hands of the Chan Sect would have long since transformed, becoming attack techniques uniquely suited to and belonging solely to him.

He felt as though the Twelve Loose Hands were about imitating, perceiving, and connecting with the divine essence and attack methods of twelve extraordinary beings.

The second Great Art of the Hall of Spirit Valley was *Buried Snow Cold Hell*.

The first layer: Buried Snow Sword Qi.

The second layer: Ice Soul Divine Sword.

The third layer: Advent of Cold Hell.

The fourth layer: Netherworld White Bones.

In Li Weiyi's mind, he thought of Yao Yin.

If the threat of cold energy could be resolved first, her Jade Shard Ice Soul physique should be very suitable for cultivating this Great Art. Cultivating it before resolving the issue, however, would be a death-seeking technique.

Closing the general outline of *Buried Snow Cold Hell*...

Li Weiyi's heart stirred as he recalled his fourth uncle, Li Songlin, saying that Yao Qian's sword qi was Buried Snow Sword Qi, and once it entered the body, it would cause frostbite to bones and tendons, blood coagulation, and necrosis of the flesh, with incredibly terrifying destructive power.

It could be said that a single sword strike from him could instantly destroy a Dao Seed Realm body.

Was the Buried Snow Sword Qi he cultivated related to *Buried Snow Cold Hell*?

Yang Qingxi and Yang Yun being sent to the main headquarters for advanced study indicated that the Rice Sect must have deep entanglements. It was very likely that this was the key reason for the sect's rapid rise in the last millennium.

Li Weiyi did not believe that Yao Qian, as the chief of the Cave Sect, had no connection with the Twin Rice Sect.

How deep the involvement was, however, was hard to say!

The Hall of Spirit Valley's third Great Art, *Six Aspects Burning Karma Art*, piqued Li Weiyi's interest.

This was a Buddhist Great Art left behind by the ancient Brahma Sect.

An Xianjing had once said that Li Weiyi's psionic flames were comparable in power to the first layer of a Dao Art.

She was likely referring to the first layer of a Minor Art at the time.

In Li Weiyi's view, since he was cultivating Dao Arts, he should maximize his advantages. Since his psionic energy was fire-attributed, his martial Dao Art should naturally also be fire-attributed, allowing the two to synergize and unleash the strongest destructive power.

"The first layer: Ash-Extinction Finger Technique, achieved in ten years. A flick of the finger can melt gold and iron."

"The second layer: Burning Karma Millstone."

"A millstone of flames condenses around the body! The body acts as the axis, and flames as the mill, crushing living beings and purifying departed spirits."

"The third layer: Karma Fire Transformation, directly breaking through to the Dao Fruit."

"Flames can condense into various forms such as Luan birds, Golden Crows, Phoenixes, or rivers of magma, transforming into countless shapes."

"The fourth layer: Vajra's Wrathful Gaze, Great Dao Longevity."

"The fifth layer: Lapis Lazuli Pure Fire, blazing for hundreds of miles."

"The sixth layer: Six Aspects Mahayana, burning the sky and boiling the seas."

The cultivation time for each layer was almost identical to that of the *Golden Armor Mountain-Moving Art*; mastering the first three layers would take more than sixty years.

Noticing Li Weiyi lingering by the bookshelf of this art for a long time, Elder Xu commented, "True Disciple Li has a unique discerning eye, but this art is difficult to cultivate and extremely dangerous. A slight misstep can lead to death by karma fire."

"In the sect's millennium-long history, fewer than ten people have managed to cultivate this to the fourth layer. Only two have reached the fifth layer, and only one has cultivated it to the sixth layer—our current Hall Master of the Hall of Spirit Valley."

In Li Weiyi's mind, An Xianjing's ordinary, serene appearance surfaced, and he was greatly surprised: "Hall Master An cultivates such a destructive Great Art?"

Elder Xu displayed a triumphant look, his eyes filled with reverence and admiration: "It took the Hall Master three hundred years of arduous cultivation to achieve the Six Aspects Mahayana and wield the combat prowess of burning the sky and boiling the seas. She is one of the few supreme experts in the world."

"After the Hall Master achieved major accomplishment in the sixth layer, she felt that the art's power and essence were not yet exhausted. She once said that this art might be more than just a Great Art; it could possibly be the first six chapters of an Emperor Art. But for some unknown reason, these first six chapters only possess the power of a Great Art."

Elder Xu took out An Xianjing's compiled *Insights on the Six Aspects Burning Karma Art* and handed it to Li Weiyi.

Li Weiyi read through it carefully.

A moment later, he finished reading it entirely.

Li Weiyi closed the book, closed his eyes, and pondered, then exhaled deeply: "If a Great Art is so profound, how extraordinary must an Emperor Art be? Elder Xu, does the sect possess any Emperor Arts?"

Li Weiyi knew that Emperor Arts in the entire Lingxiao Living Realm, like Supreme Dharma Artifacts, were incredibly rare, and each one possessed immense renown.

Each of the six major thousand-year powers possessed only one.