Chapter 362: Chapter 156: World’s First Mysterious Sect Disbands; Practicing the Saintly Dao, Li Treading Immortal Receives the True Teaching for 3 Months!
Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Skill?
Demon Sect?
The voice was low, echoing only among a few people.
Zuo Canxuan and Zuo Xiufa, two pillars of the Life and Death Mountain and River Sect, had not yet recovered from the sorrow of Zuo Shanhe’s failure to break through and his heroism fading, when he spoke of ’dissolving the sect.’
Suddenly, upon hearing this murmuring, they couldn’t help but ask:
"Master, this..."
"What do you mean by this?"
Eternal youth, regenerated limbs!
These two things, before the third step, no matter how great your cultivation, are absolutely unattainable. But for members of the Life and Death Mountain and River Sect, simply following the steps and completing the first and second levels are enough to easily achieve these things.
In the cultivation realms recorded in ancient scrolls.
Only a True Master, who truly transcends Martial Dao, can barely achieve these two things!
With these methods, if they are not a Mystic Sect, not the foremost righteous path in the world...
In today’s era, claimed as the ’Sixteen Strong Sects,’ other dharma lineages are still exploring the path to become a True Master, who else is qualified?
How then...
Did it become the so-called Demon Sect?
But facing the confusion and doubts of his two direct disciples, Zuo Shanhe did not respond.
At this moment,
Jixia silently stepped forward, supported Zuo Shanhe, and followed his words to lead him into the hall.
This made Zuo Shanhe give this young man an appreciative look.
"So young, yet so composed in the face of change..."
"Given time, he will surely achieve great things."
"It’s a pity,"
"My aged body, unable to open the Celestial Gate, is scorched by the Nirvana Fire’s backlash. At most, I can only live for another three to five months, destined to not teach him much."
"According to the scant words in ancient texts, a thousand years ago, an Ancient Saint broke through the ’Twenty-Eight Great Limits,’ shattering restrictions to become a Supreme Dharma Seeker who severed communication with heaven and earth."
"I don’t know, in this era, how far this young man can ultimately go."
Zuo Shanhe, holding Jixia’s hand, watched as Feng Zizai and the other two cupped their fists, bowed, and left without saying much, then sternly rebuked his two disciples who seemed full of unspoken words:
"Look at your composure, the cultivation of self-restraint and breath regulation normally taught in Mystic Sect meditation. Where has it all gone?"
"You’re not even as mature and calm as a mere sixteen-year-old boy!"
Watching as the Mountain and River Sect members gathered around.
Seeing those puzzled eyes, Zuo Shanhe’s heart felt as if it was being pierced.
But thinking of the final ’result,’ he sighed again, forced himself to remain firm, and stayed silent.
Then, he asked Jixia to help him move forward, pushed open the hall’s door, and sat at the end of the hall in that red lacquer wooden Grandmaster’s Chair, letting the broad sleeves drape on either side.
He watched the light snow falling outside the hall, observing disciples prostrate at the doorstep, peering inside, as if begging him to ’retract the order.’
Along with Canyuan and Xiufa, whom he could consider his right-hand men, following closely with heavy expressions:
"Both of you, joined the sect at a young age, always by my side, even before the ’cultivation revival’ twenty years ago, you were with me, so you should know, the Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Skill has three levels."
"In the past years, no Ancestral Master has comprehended the second level of heaven and earth, let alone the mysteries of the third level; Primordial Pill and Celestial Being are nothing more than mere formalities."
"But during the era when only the Great Innate existed."
"Utilizing the ’Eternal Youth’ Divine Technique among the widely renowned, long-established, septuagenarian Martial Dao elders,"
"Our sect’s predecessors and Ancestral Masters appeared with immortal-like appearances, seemingly around their twenties."
"From that time, our Mountain and River lineage was regarded by the world as no different from an Immortal Sect, hence earning the empty title of ’First Mysterious Sect.’"
"But an empty title..."
"Is ultimately just an empty title."
"I’ve practiced for so many years, thoroughly comprehending the Daoist Canon, techniques, cultivation techniques of the world, and mastered all kinds of martial arts including sword, knife, spear, halberd, each to the extreme achievement of Martial Arts Celestial Form."
"Indeed, the Celestial Gate is hard to break. Ninety percent of today’s Primordial Pill Masters, even those called Grandmasters, standing before this gate, will likely never cross through in their lifetime."
"However, for me, this barrier is not difficult."
"Or rather..."
"As long as I want, with just a slight push, akin to blowing a breath, it would open by itself. Only... before the Celestial Gate opens, it lacks a crucial main ingredient."
Zuo Shanhe extended his withered hand, gently made a pushing gesture, his tone calm, as if the ’Celestial Gate’ was truly easy for him.
"Then why don’t you open it, Sect Leader!" exclaimed Zuo Canxuan urgently from the ground.
"Master, if there’s any difficulty, any obstacle, just say the word, your disciples will spare no effort to help, just say it!" Zuo Xiufa banged his head, voice choked with emotion.
This instead made Zuo Shanhe chuckle:
"What if... it requires your two lives?"
As soon as he said this, the two were momentarily stunned.
And Jixia’s brows furrowed, as if hearing some unimaginable secret.
Perhaps...
This is why,
Earlier, after Zuo Shanhe’s ’failure to break through,’ he fell from grace without hesitation, and decided to personally dissolve this century-old establishment.
"Not just you two."
Extending his emaciated finger towards the snow-fallen shoulders outside the hall, at the figures kneeling one by one on the steps, peering inside:
