Chapter 807: Chapter 29: Emperor Xuan Yuan’s Energy
The ancestral land of the Fu Xi Clan, the restriction is not difficult.
Cultivators interested in studying the Tai Chu Rune can easily enter.
The Rune Ancient Array appears just like a formality. For those unwilling to enter, even if there is no Rune Ancient Array, as long as it is a forbidden area, they will not enter.
Those who are determined to enter will find a way, regardless of how many sealings exist.
The presence of the Rune Ancient Array seems merely to serve as a warning, without any intention of obstruction.
Zhou Yan quickly opened the Rune Ancient Array. The protective array of this forbidden land is really simple, without any complexity.
It was only after entering the ancient array that Zhou Yan realized that the greatest test here should be testing the heart of the clan members rather than an actual sealing.
“Some things, precisely because one doesn’t understand them, makes them want to be understood, so one will end up doing things they are unwilling but must do. I hope Fu Xi clan members can understand this.”
Zhou Yan murmured to himself, then he slightly bowed in respect towards the main peak in the distance that resembled a screen, expressing his apologies.
Afterwards, Zhou Yan proceeded towards the place he sensed.
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The Fu Xi Forbidden Land looked like a small village in the mountains, with only scattered ancient buildings from the extremely old Ancient Times.
After Zhou Yan arrived here, he saw the rope-tied knots, the ancient stage of the Fu Xi Zither, and the ordinary clay stove.
Everything resembled an ordinary rural household, nothing special.
Yet this ancient feeling was unmatched by any other place in richness.
Zhou Yan entered each ordinary earth house, observing various ancient tools, seeing the symbols and scripts used for the earliest compilations of the Eight Diagrams, and witnessing the progress of an ancient civilization.
Among them, Zhou Yan sensed something calling to his spirit, which was the front half of a hoe, still covered in yellowed ancient soil, the hoe was broken, and there were even rust spots on the soil.
This item appeared to be nothing, unquestionably a discarded object.
But Zhou Yan carefully picked it up, then cleaned it with energy bit by bit, and afterwards took out the Xuanyuan Sword, using artifact refining skill, he fused the half hoe into the Xuanyuan Sword.
Upon fusion, Zhou Yan immediately sensed the vast, expansive emperor’s aura!
Initially requiring ninety-nine fragments, now nearly half were filled, with only fifty-four fragments left needing completion.
And the Xuanyuan Sword, as if greatly replenished, suddenly became even more ancient and grand.
“Ninety-nine… fifty-four… each set of Xuanyuan Sword fragments, consists of nine parts as one, all conform to the supreme number. If that is the case, it actually rather needs several points.”
“The Fu Xi Ancestral Land, a broken hoe. A hoe is used for tilling the land. With the hoe broken, the land can’t be weeded, and crops would go wild. The hoe contained a collection of forty-five Xuanyuan Sword fragments, yet held no inherent divinity. Forty-five divided by nine is the number of five-nine. Five-nine, that is nine-five. Nine-five represents supreme.”
But in the ancestors’ era, the emperor was not a nine-five supreme, but a ninety-nine supreme, missing four.”
“That is to say, the Emperor Road, like the hoe, is already broken. The laboriously planted crops were killed by weeds; the crops will be barren without harvest. The fall of the supreme number, the divinity already does not exist… these are all ominous signs.”
“Could it be that the secluded Grand Ancestor already knows many things?”
“Perhaps, in this world, not all cultivators are fools. What I can know, they also must know. What I cannot know, they perhaps still know, just that I do not.”
“The Xuanyuan Ancestor, letting me come to this place, perhaps is only to impart wisdom, achieve enlightenment, comprehend the path of ancestor worship, and grasp the heart of asking Dao amidst the red dust.”
“And from a speck of dust, having already comprehended the Ancestor Dao, this world should have nothing to do with me.”
“My brother’s absence seems to be a hope for me not to get involved in these matters… yet I have already employed the tactic of ‘beating the grass to startle the snake,’ not sure if it has caused an impact.”
“If standing from my brother’s perspective, needing to face terrifying forces while striving to stabilize his own plans, then avoiding seeing his brother seems quite necessary.”
Zhou Yan stood there, comprehending for a long time, seemingly having suddenly understood many things because of the material of half the sword body of the Xuanyuan Sword being returned.
The refined Xuanyuan Sword emitted a unique aura, connecting with Zhou Yan’s soul, like an ancient emperor’s aura flowing within Zhou Yan’s body.
“Xuanyuan Sword fragments, one hundred and eight parts, now fifty-four parts have been completed, just over half, yet the Xuanyuan Ancestor still remains in slumber, the divine nature of the sword body is still less than one-tenth… It seems among the remaining fragments, there must be a crucially important part missing.
However, even so, the energy of this sword can allow me to exert great power in a short time, the Xuanyuan Emperor Qi energy within the world of the sword body has been slowly gathering, but it can be extracted and added to my soul, instantly bursting out with top strength… Perhaps I could use such means to forcibly break open the Heavenly Pivot Ancient Town and escape from this world.”
After Zhou Yan carefully sensed the Xuanyuan Sword, he gradually discovered the capabilities of the Xuanyuan Sword, and comprehended the terror of that ancient vast aura — this energy, being Xuanyuan Emperor Qi, is like the Great Success True Dragon Emperor Qi within Emperor Qi Dragon Transformation.
The Emperor Qi gathers autonomously, unable to be repaired by soul power, origin energy, or even vast qi. Although Zhou Yan has tried such repairs effectively, they are as insignificant as a cup of water on a burning cartwheel, completely negligible.
And this Emperor Qi, however, can be infused into the soul, combined with the body without realm shackles, instantly elevating the endless realm, maintaining for about half an hour’s time.
After this period, the Xuan Yuan Emperor Qi will be depleted, and the Xuan Yuan Sword will transform from the state of a damaged immortal weapon into an ordinary weapon, retaining only the hardness of the damaged immortal weapon, but no longer possessing unique abilities.
Moreover, based on the self-restoration speed of the Xuan Yuan Emperor Qi, it takes nearly a month to restore to its original level.
And once restored to this level, the Xuan Yuan Sword does not recover further, seemingly reaching an extreme state.
“With Xuan Yuan Emperor Qi upon me, perhaps I can briefly recover about one percent of the Lei Yan King’s former power, although it’s only half an hour, about thirty minutes. Moreover, after using it, it takes a whole month for the sword body to gather energy and recover, but this thirty-minute period will be my time of invincibility!”
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After sensing the Xuan Yuan Emperor Qi, Zhou Yan once again understood everything here, then he looked at these ancient houses with some reluctance to leave.
At that moment, he felt as if he was superimposed with the ancient Emperor Xuan Yuan, or even Emperor Fu Xi, suddenly considering this place home.
Like tracing time back, like a glimpse into history, Zhou Yan stood in a daze for a moment, his eyes somewhat sore, with an inexplicable moist feeling.
Even Zhou Yan himself didn’t know why he felt this way.
In such sentiment, Zhou Yan walked towards a simple, earthy-yellow house made of soil and weeds. In the house, he naturally approached a black wooden box.
Zhou Yan opened the unlocked wooden box and took out a row of incomplete bamboo slips.
He opened the bamboo slips, reading from right to left, seeing the oracle bone script recorded on them, the Tai Chu Runes.
“The Yellow Emperor gave birth to Yin and Yang, the upper spawn eyes and ears, the mulberry forest spawned arms and hands, which is why Nuwa has seventy transformations.”
“Nuwa, the ancient goddess and emperor, human face serpent body, seventy-two transformations in a day.”
“The Heavenly Gang Number is thirty-six, the Earthly Fiend Number seventy-two, which is ‘one hundred and eight’.”
“The Way of Xuan Yuan, form and meaning transformation. Thirty-six ways, seventy-two transformations.”
“Obtain Xuan Yuan Emperor Qi, understand the change of form and spirit in Earthly Fiend, rise and fall at ninety-five.”
“Seventy-two Heavenly Calculations, Immortal Longevity.”
“Thirty-six Law Paths, Immortal Eternity in Ten Thousand Realms.”
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“Is this… the origin of the seventy-two transformations? Seventy-two transformations, thirty-six ways? A total of one hundred and eight, exactly the number of fragments of the Xuan Yuan Sword, what’s the connection?”
“After Fu Xi and Nuwa, there was Xuan Yuan…”
“Thirty-six… Right… separate and combine thirty-six fragments of the Xuan Yuan Sword to see.”
With a thought, Zhou Yan took out the Xuan Yuan Sword, dismantling its combined form again, then carefully thought about and comprehended the thirty-six ways and other characters on this bamboo slip, comparing to piece together such character text with Xuan Yuan Sword fragments.
In an instant, the Xuan Yuan Sword suddenly shot out a beam of light, violently entering Zhou Yan’s forehead.
The soul trembled, Zhou Yan’s soul sea immediately surged violently, and within an instant, a soul stone unexpectedly gathered the essence of the soul sea, abruptly appearing in the soul sea.
In the soul sea, at this time, electric light and Thunderflame boiled, endless rebellion bone heavenly tribulations appeared, launching a destructive attack on that soul stone.
“Puchi——”
Thousands of heavenly tribulations descended, and in an instant, the soul stone shattered, and a holy soul body abruptly flew out from the soul stone, enduring endless heavenly tribulations, deriving a divine nature-filled Divine Monkey Sword Soul.
At this moment, far away in the outside world, the Divine Monkey Sword Soul suddenly shuddered, unexpectedly returning in an instant, entering Zhou Yan’s soul body, merging with that Divine Monkey soul body.
A divine monkey appeared entirely in the soul sea of Zhou Yan, yet it suddenly collapsed and shattered, transforming into thirty-six ways, entering Zhou Yan’s body.
In an instant, everything calmed down; the Divine Monkey Sword Soul within Zhou Yan transformed, without any mishap, and Zhou Yan’s soul sea also calmed, returning to normal.
The soul sea now contained the divinity of Heavenly Dao Laws, but nothing abnormal manifested; instead, it seemed as though the soul had been cleansed again, becoming more pure.
At this moment, Zhou Yan also comprehended many Supreme Dao Auras, realizing the embryonic form of various ancient Heavenly Dao Laws, understanding the transformation of life and death, and gaining a deeper understanding of Dao Sheng Yi.
At the same time, the Original Dao, which the Saint can only comprehend, Zhou Yan suddenly approached Great Success, nearing Great Perfection.