[Year 1001]
[After the battle at Grandhaven Prefecture, your family captured the Red Dust Immortal and the Immortal Infant.
Your family has begun to make contact with immortals.
The Red Dust Immortal has brought a massive amount of ancient inheritances to the Three Prefectures and started teaching the methods to deal with immortals.]
[The Southern Frontier has finally found a sliver of hope to survive the great calamity beneath the Blood Moon.]
In Clearpeak Prefecture.
The commoners and major sect factions were evacuating.
Atop an ethereal immortal mountain, cultivators of the Three Prefectures at or above the Nascent Soul realm gathered as closely as possible, while the Red Dust Immortal preached the Dao at the mountain peak.
"Methods to fight against immortals have rarely been passed down to this day.
Because the ancients possessed robust physiques, the techniques they created were exceedingly harsh to cultivate.
To simplify cultivation, later generations streamlined the ancient texts, resulting in the four tiers of techniques: Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Common.
Techniques bestowed by the Heavenly Dao are methods of bloodline awakening."
"The only techniques and cultivation methods strong enough to contend with immortal methods are those at the Heaven tier."
Hearing this, the Li Clan members present glanced at Li Changsheng.
Back when dealing with the Zhao Clan's Old Ancestor, Changsheng's [Human Emperor's Eye of Authority] had been of immense use.
"What about besides the Heaven tier?"
Even though the massive amount of inheritances brought by the Red Dust Immortal contained many Heaven-tier techniques, Li Dalong's expression remained grave.
Heaven-tier techniques were incredibly difficult to cultivate. The Blood Moon would reach Azure Cloud Prefecture in two hundred years.
Just look at Changsheng cultivating the Human Emperor's art—even with Changsheng's innate talent, how many years had it taken him?
"Bloodlines." The Red Dust Immortal said,
"Immortals represent the absolute pinnacle of flesh and Spiritual power in the world, yet ancient bloodlines are not inferior in the slightest.
Alternatively, one can transform into a demon, like these friends here."
The Mad Blood Demon Lord and the Seven Ironclads felt sweat instantly drenching their backs under the gazes cast from all directions.
The Red Dust Immortal waved his hand, his tone solemn.
"Dealing with immortals must be left to Void Refinement and Body Integration mighty figures.
You must at least cultivate a Heaven-tier technique or awaken the ancient bloodlines within your bodies; otherwise, the only path left is to fall into the demonic Dao."
"The demonic Dao?" Li Dalong's expression changed slightly.
Although he was a cultivator of the Underworld, he strongly disliked the demonic Dao.
"The cultivators who fought against immortals in the past did exactly that."
A trace of reminiscence flashed across the Red Dust Immortal's face.
"Demonic corruption drives a person mad, but it is simultaneously a method to stimulate a cultivator's ultimate potential, allowing them to push past their limits to the maximum degree and approach immortal methods.
Immortals eat humans; demons are born from humans eating humans. It is inherently humans imitating immortals.
Therefore, immortals prevented humans from imitating them, and ever since then, demonic cultivators have been treated like pests."
"Once a person becomes a demon, it is incredibly difficult to revert." Li Yaotie frowned, looking at his seven children.
Back then, these seven children had almost completely lost their souls. It was the Fourth Child who saved them, costing many years and a massive amount of karmic luck.
The Thunder Fire Demon Cave harbored many demonic cultivators, but they were far from reaching the level of true demons.
Becoming a demon entails a complete alteration of both flesh and soul.
The Red Dust Immortal fell silent for a long time.
Seeing the complex gazes of everyone present, he already knew their decision.
Humans would never give up their final hope; he simply didn't wish to expose it.
"Or, you can cultivate my immortal methods. When techniques reach their absolute limit, one can become an immortal."
The Red Dust Immortal looked at the pairs of resolute eyes. "Before the Blood Moon arrives, let me see exactly how far you all can go."
...
From the Red Dust Immortal, even Li Wei benefited immensely.
[From the secret archives of history recorded by the Red Dust Immortal, you obtained the ancient Heaven-tier technique "Chaos Spirit-Pointing Art".
It can gather all rule-based Spiritual power within the body into a single point, using the method to shatter the Dao.]
Just this one technique surpassed Li Wei's "Tai Chi - Yin-Yang Detonation".
This technique gathered Spiritual power at the fingertip—wherever he pointed, it detonated.
Coupled with the technique 'A Single Thought', it could practically be cast instantly, unlike the 'Yin-Yang Detonation', which wasted Spiritual power.
Ancestor Lan, Yunlin, and he all made a copied imprint of this method.
Li Wei tested it out.
With this method, even if he faced Linghu Xian again, combined with a sneak attack and the convergence of his various rules, instantly obliterating Linghu Xian wasn't entirely impossible.
However, it still required cultivation, and this method consumed a massive amount of energy.
[After conversing with the Red Dust Immortal for three days, he was astounded to learn that your Dao method is Tai Chi, which is actually a supreme rule.
Currently, your Dao method embodies the 'Myriad Phenomena' within Tai Chi. Once the Myriad Phenomena divide into 'Yin and Yang', you will achieve Dao-Comprehending.
It is expected that if you enter the Dao-Comprehending realm and complete Yin and Yang, you will fear nothing at the Dao-Integration realm or even the Half-Step Mahayana realm.]
[In ancient times, there were those who cultivated space and time. The Red Dust Immortal gifted you the ancient texts recording their paths.]
"Those who successfully cultivated time have long since traversed the past and future. As supreme beings, their Dao path has been completely cut off."
"Those who successfully cultivated space shelter the world, fusing into one with the Heavenly Dao."
These two Daos had evidently been completely cut off.
Li Wei suddenly understood; no wonder the cultivators of the world could never leap outside the bounds of the world.
However, the Red Dust Immortal said that even outside the world, there was absolutely nothing. If there was, it would just be immortals exactly like them.
"Then what about in my world?"
Li Wei looked dazed. The deeper he cultivated, the more terrified he became—so terrified that he didn't dare to return to his world, to return to Earth.
In his hands were two ancient texts.
[The Time Immortal transcends the mortal realm, traversing ancient times and the present.
I record the traces of this immortal; within my Red Dust realm, he could have come from yesterday, today, or tomorrow...]
[The Spatial practitioner traverses heaven and earth, using themselves as space; wherever their thought reaches becomes the soil beneath their feet...]
It turned out the Red Dust Immortal had always been keeping a close eye on everything within his domain.
This old immortal was practically a living history book.
The records in the two ancient texts were more than enough to inspire Li Wei, allowing his rules of time and space to make progress.
Li Wei began his secluded cultivation. Subsequently, he instructed his descendants to cultivate diligently and prepare for the battle two hundred years later.
He faintly sensed that once he fully comprehended some of the rules of time and space, aside from his combat power soaring, upon returning to Earth, he should also be able to uncover the secrets of this computer, the villa district, and this world.
His heart was filled with boundless doubts.