Chapter 85: Chapter 84: Ten Thousand Laws Space! Ten Thousand Laws Map Turmoil!
"Time’s up! Enter the Dao Diagram!"
A quarter of an hour passed quickly.
The elder lightly shouted, his wide sleeves fluttering as a monstrous wave swept across the entire platform.
Everyone was instantly lifted and fell into the immense Ten Thousand Laws Map that obscured the sky and covered the sun.
During this period, those without a team would be randomly matched, while those who had formed a team would land adjacent to each other within the Ten Thousand Laws Map.
Su Changqing only felt a dizzying sensation. When he opened his eyes again, he was already in another world.
A white sky, a black earth.
This world was empty, with no color except for the distinct black and white.
Looking around, the distant sky and earth seemed to merge, shifting between black and white, an indescribable Dao resonance filling the space.
"Is this the interior of the Ten Thousand Laws Map? What a miraculous world."
Excitement and joy sparkled in Su Changqing’s eyes; this method, far beyond ordinary imaginations, was precisely his motivation for pursuing immortality.
After the excitement, he murmured in slight confusion to himself,
"How can I comprehend the Dao and create techniques here? Should I just imagine them out of thin air?"
Thinking this way, Su Changqing reached out to draw through the void.
A magical scene appeared; the space before him rippled as if it were flowing water.
Su Changqing’s heart stirred, and an image of a brush appeared in his mind.
Instantly, a brush very familiar to him spontaneously appeared in the void.
"This... inside the Ten Thousand Laws Map, is it possible to create by imagination, thereby creating your own techniques?"
Delight spread across Su Changqing’s face, "Then, can I also imagine that I possess cultivation?"
Boom!
In the next moment, a powerful aura emerged from Su Changqing’s body, a warm current appeared internally and flowed through him.
However, this cultivation abruptly halted after reaching a certain level.
Even so, it still made Su Changqing extraordinarily excited.
"So that’s it, creating techniques and comprehending Dao, based on one’s existing knowledge, to invent new techniques via divergent thinking."
"Then, can I also imagine what I look like after successfully cultivating the techniques I have yet to?"
Su Changqing focused and closed his eyes, taking a step forward, and the black-and-white world transformed dramatically.
Buddha’s light enveloped everything, golden sands scattered everywhere, a towering majestic spirit mountain hovered in the sky.
Su Changqing ascended towards the sky, with sacred white lotuses appearing beneath his feet.
The white lotuses emitted a holy light, forming an unbreakable barrier that surrounded Su Changqing.
"Is this the... Lotus Path."
Standing in the sky, Su Changqing looked down at the sea of lotuses, and enlightenment flashed through his eyes.
As he stepped again, the lotuses suddenly bloomed, covering the entire world like a land of Buddha.
After experimenting with the divine foot technique, a brilliant star-like mark appeared, glowing at Su Changqing’s brow.
Boom!
The world altered once more, countless swords hung inverted in the sky, overwhelming sword intent pervaded in all directions.
Su Changqing reached out lightly through the void, a sharp sword condensed, which he grabbed and swung horizontally.
In an instant, countless stars twinkled above, a gigantic beam gathered into a starry blade that crashed down.
Su Changqing kept walking, as he did, the sword vanished from his hand and transformed into a grand brush.
The surrounding world instantly turned into one filled with the fragrance of books.
"Having studied for two years without manifesting the grand aura, what would the celestial four arts that possess that aura look like?"
Su Changqing murmured softly as he dotted the void with the brush in his hand, and exquisite characters appeared.
"Go."
Su Changqing’s brush tip simply made a light touch, and those characters instantly seemed to come to life.
"Roar!"
A mighty dragon’s roar shook the heavens and the earth, as giant dragons, transformed from golden koi, soared and danced, reverberating in all directions.
"This is... Fish Dragon Dance..."
Su Changqing muttered in fascination as he again drew through the void with his brush.
A painting of Cyan Mountains Gazing at the Moon appeared in the void.
Boom!
As the painting solidified instantly, majestic peaks materialized and descended from the sky, shaking the heavens and the earth.
This was, the Immortal in the Painting!
Su Changqing completely immersed himself in this fantasy world, familiarizing himself with all the secret skills he mastered, thereby evolving new techniques from them.
At this time, all the prodigies who entered the Ten Thousand Laws Map were like Su Changqing, creating techniques based on their learned knowledge.
But unlike Su Changqing, their worlds were rather singular.
The ones practicing Buddhism were in a land of Buddha, the ones practicing Dao were in worlds filled with Dao patterns.
Only Su Changqing’s world rotated endlessly between Confucianism, Buddhism, and swordsmanship.
Su Nan once said that only by having one’s own ’cause’ can one create a new ’effect’.
What he worried about was that Su Changqing had never practiced any technique before, having no ’cause’ to derive ’effect’.
But what he didn’t know was that Su Changqing didn’t lack ’cause’, rather there were too many.
The four arts of the Immortal Scholar, the divine techniques of Buddhism, the sword technique of Er Niu, and even the emperor mark not yet fused within him!
Each of these was already among the top-notch in the world if considered separately.
And now what Su Changqing was about to do was to derive a new technique from these things.
"Confucianism, Buddhism, Sword... can they be fused together?"
After experimenting with all he had learned, Su Changqing lay in the void, his eyes shining with an understanding so bright it seemed to overflow.
...
A world illuminated by the light of Buddha.
Wu Chen sat cross-legged in the firmament, with a great Buddha behind him, endless Buddha light rippling in all directions.
"Form the seal."
Wu Chen smiled as he pinched a seal with his fingers, the great Buddha behind him lifting its arm that seemed to span the heavens,
"Seal, fall!"
Boom!
The great Buddha’s palm fell, the world shaking, a huge chasm appearing on the earth.
"Su Changqing..."
Wu Chen glanced at the chasm and smiled, then gazed far into the sky, murmuring, "What will you use to fight me?"
...
Outside, above the firmament.
The Ten Thousand Laws Map spanned the sky, endless yin and yang energies swirling within.
And those prodigies, paired off, sat facing each other, eyes closed in concentration.
They were immersed in their own worlds, creating new techniques through their imagination.
Their imagination was not without foundation.
Each time they executed secret skills in their own world, the yin and yang energies within the Ten Thousand Laws Map would gather rapidly, releasing a rich aura of Dao.
It was clear that the auras surrounding the top prodigies far surpassed those of ordinary ones.
This indicated that the techniques they executed or created were undoubtedly powerful.
"Your Little Immortal Sect even accepts people from the Western Regions?"
While waiting, Wu Jiuling glanced at Wu Chen beside Su Changqing in the Ten Thousand Laws Map, "This young monk surely has some ulterior motives."
"Wu Chen, the chief disciple of the new generation at Lingshan, personally named by Kashyapa."
Su Nan glanced over indifferently, "These Buddhists sure have guts, daring to come to my Little Immortal Sect."
As soon as Wu Chen approached Su Changqing, Su Nan immediately investigated his background.
"And you still let Chang Qing fight him? Isn’t this leading a sheep into a tiger’s mouth?" Wu Jiuling asked in surprise.
"If he wants to die, should I stop him?"
Su Nan chuckled indifferently, then frowned slightly while looking below and said:
"I just want to know why these Buddhist people are always looking for Chang Qing."
"If I can’t get this clear, I won’t be at ease."
Su Nan speculated that it might be because of the Eight-Treasure Compass.
But he couldn’t understand why this thing was so attractive to Buddhism?
"You want Chang Qing to test him?"
Wu Jiuling shook his head, pointing at Wu Chen below,
"That young monk’s aura spans over a hundred feet around him, denser than that around the prince of Zixiao Country, clearly his technique isn’t simple to evolve."
"Let alone testing, Chang Qing might not even withstand two moves."
Even among the top prodigies, Wu Chen’s aura was amongst the strongest.
Forget Su Changqing who hadn’t cultivated, even other top prodigies hardly stood a chance against Wu Chen.
"If testing is successful, that’s best, if not, then a loss is a loss..."
Su Nan was speaking with a slight frown.
But suddenly.
Boom!
Within the Ten Thousand Laws Map, the endless yin and yang energies suddenly boiled, with a massive amount of Dao aura rapidly converging.
Looking from above where Su Changqing sat cross-legged.
The boundless Dao aura mixed with yin and yang energy, like a giant vortex merging into his body.
Su Changqing, sitting with eyes closed, was like a giant beast opening its blood-red mouth, accepting everything.
"Hiss... What the hell!"
Wu Jiuling stopped drinking, eyes wide open gazing below,
"Your son... What did he just create?"
Su Nan was also stunned, staring blankly at the turbulent Ten Thousand Laws Map.
This was his son who didn’t understand techniques... that did this?