Chapter 376: Chapter 160: After Tribulations, the Primordial Spirit Emerges—One of the Eight Arts: The Martial Arts Technique at the End of the Mortal World!
Just waited.
It was at the moment when Zuo Shanhe, full of vigor, was about to make further progress...
He dramatically fell before the ’Celestial Gate’.
It turned out,
The end of this technique was merely a magnified version of that Secret Skill.
From beginning to end, it’s been going in circles.
Even if he achieved a height that his mentor, the Heterodox Cultivator, couldn’t reach in his lifetime, what would it matter, in the end, must he not still face this issue?
For that moment of hesitation, for his youthful persistence and adherence to the technique, and for the compassion towards those disciples, he gave up the hope of further progress and chose to embrace death resolutely.
Is it worth?
Do you regret it?
Why not avoid deviating!?
Your mentor took several wrong steps just to achieve the second level, but if you take a wrong step... that’s the conclusion of ’knocking open the Celestial Gate, walking alone through the ages’, why do you not walk, why do you not walk?!
Whatever you fail in the Dao, there will be successors, but if you are gone, how can the successors succeed, can they succeed!
Zuo Shanhe!
It seemed there was a roaring voice in his heart.
Along with series of bursts, bubbles exploded into scrolls.
These scrolls transformed into memories, and after Zuo Shanhe traced them, they gradually began to mutate, shaking, wriggling, slowly forming shadows, roaring...
Within them, were his heart demons, and his mentor the Heterodox Cultivator, and the line of ancestral masters of the Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Sect once displayed on the ’Incense’...
They tempted him, accused him, denounced him.
Driving Zuo Shanhe’s ’mind and spirit’, step by step, into the abyss.
He began to sink.
But the flame condensed by his mind and spirit, amidst this boundless darkness, still formed a cluster of firelight.
It burned slowly,
just like the raging fire in the village he set ablaze at eighteen after killing his mentor, leaving a deep imprint in his heart, never to be erased.
And outside...
Outside Zuo Shanhe’s body, under those wide robes with long sleeves, embroidered with red phoenix patterns, the white clothes suddenly started to burn without wind.
As if a nameless flame erupted, burning his entire body thoroughly!
Crash!
The mortal flesh was completely consumed by the nameless fire at this moment, as if from now on, there would no trace of someone named ’Zuo Shanhe’ under the entire sky.
All that remained were the wide robes with long sleeves, floating in the vast, empty Mountain and River Hall, seemingly untouched by cleaning for a while, slightly dusty.
Yet————
Just as the floating robe was about to land!
Among them, a dim ’Primordial Pill’, now shining brightly, quietly rolled out with a ’gurgling’.
Crack-crack, on the Primordial Pill, it seemed some cracks emerged.
Until after a while!
With a ’boom’, the Primordial Pill shattered!
A Divine Soul suddenly rose from it, then grew larger and larger, until ’Postnatal Return to Innate’, as if reborn anew, shaped by the energy, stood gracefully, treading the void!
Upon closer inspection, it was...
Zuo Shanhe!
At this moment, he shed the old decaying body, shed the mortal flesh, as if he grasped the essence of Divine Soul, understanding something beyond the concept of ’Divine Soul’.
He uttered softly:
"Through catastrophic trials, all comprehended and realized."
"Shed flesh, then see the Primordial Spirit."
"First level ’Eternal Youth’."
"Second level ’Limb Regeneration’."
"Beyond the third level..."
"Is ’Reversal of Innate, Illuminating the Primordial Spirit’."
"This technique, deriving from ’Life and Death Mountain and River Profound Skill’, but..."
"Yet distinct from it."
"Has come to be named, in the realm of martial arts, the ultimate Cultivation Technique!"
"Hence call it... ’Nirvana Primordial Spirit Skill’."
Meticulously reorganizing the dust of his life.
And then,
amidst the ignorance, heard the haunting ’heart demon’, not knowing how long it passed, with Zuo Shanhe clinging to the last spark of his heart...
With a single spark, thoroughly ignites the expanse!
Burning all paths once traversed, and then, in the extremity of limb regeneration, with his understanding of ’technique’ and ’Dao’, becoming a kind of ’energy-turned Dao body’, as if Postnatal Return to Innate!
At this moment, he looked up to heaven.
The Celestial Gate, beckoning to him.
But, Zuo Shanhe did not take this step.
Rather, he rode the wind, gazing towards the mountain’s base.
Then,
he saw a young man, facing the wind from all directions, standing unwavering and firm, possessing the demeanor of a Grandmaster at such a young age, resembling himself in his youth, he smiled:
"Li Treading Immortal, oh Li Treading Immortal..."
"What a big secret."
"What a big secret it is..."
"However,"
"This Sect Leader is not one to treasure things, with petty thoughts."
"Today, I inherited your technique, achieved great Dao, hence..."
"The ultimate ’martial prowess’ of this earthly realm, deserves your share!"
