As the celebratory drum and music gradually subsided, the Golden Feather Demon Venerable raised his hand to signal silence within the hall, his gaze sweeping across the crowd, his voice carrying a tone of solemnity:
"Today we gather here, not only to celebrate Peng Huan, but also as an opportunity for interaction between the Human and Demon Races. Next, we four will demonstrate Dao Principles, allowing everyone to observe and attain enlightenment, which surely justifies this journey."
Upon hearing this, the hall instantly erupted in excitement.
The eyes of the more than thirty Late-Stage Nascent Soul Cultivators from the Human Race lit up with fervor, and they all straightened their spines.
They had traveled great distances, anticipating nothing more than the display of Dao Principles by the Celestial Venerables of Divinity Transformation.
The Divinity Transformation Realm Cultivator's comprehension of Dao Principles far exceeds the perceptions of Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators. Even catching a glimpse of it could direct one's path of cultivation or even help break through bottlenecks.
The Demon Emperors from the Great Wilderness Four Domains also gathered themselves and focused intently, their eyes fixed on the central empty space of the hall.
Sitting atop the Jade Throne, Chen Sheng recalled the guidance of his great ancestor, and his eyes revealed a sense of understanding.
This is the fortune of having a strong guide; ordinary cultivators might not have the opportunity to observe the discourse of a Celestial Venerable in their entire lives.
At this moment, he felt some anticipation, especially toward the Dao of the other three.
"In my previous life, during Celestial Venerable Wuji's three-thousand-year birthday celebration, he demonstrated the Dao on the spot, and it was sensational. Unfortunately, I did not attend. Now, with the Four Great Celestial Venerables demonstrating the Dao, I can make up for that regret."
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The segment of the celebration dedicated to discussing Dao began with the Golden Feather Demon Venerable standing first.
Without any display of ostentation, he simply lifted his hand lightly, and the Yin Yang Daoist Robe around his waist moved without the prompting of Spiritual Power—it resonated deeply with the Yin Yang rules of heaven and earth.
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The next second, black and white qi gently seeped out from the robe's patterns, naturally forming an invisible Yin Yang torrent in the air.
Within the hall, the cultivators instantly fell into an odd physical sensation: the Yin attribute Spiritual Power within their bodies condensed abruptly, as if turning into an icy spring flowing slowly in their meridians, while the Yang attribute Spiritual Power became intensely active, leaping like starlight within the Dantian.
Even more intriguingly, their hair and skin gained clear perception, with the left side of their bodies seemingly enveloped by warm sunlight, while the right side felt as if it were immersed in a cool spring.
The voice of the Golden Feather Demon Venerable penetrated through time and space, echoing in the minds of everyone:
"Yin and Yang are not merely the black and white of form, but the duality of the fundamental essence of heaven and earth. Their mutual generation and mutual destruction are what enable the cycle of heaven and earth, and the derivation of all things."
As his words fell, he pressed his hand down in a void gesture, and the black and white qi instantly reorganized, transforming into a colossal Yin Yang Fish spanning a thousand zhang.
The time and space on the Yin Fish's side visibly slowed down, with the cultivators able to observe every subtle flicker of a candle flame, while on the Yang Fish's side, time and space accelerated, with birds outside the hall streaking past as blurs.
This spectacle of time-space displacement sent shivers down everyone's spines.
"Yin is void, Yang is solid; Yin is still, Yang is dynamic. Only through the mutual generation and mutual destruction of Yin and Yang can all things be born."
Before his voice even faded, he tapped the Yin Fish's eye, and instantly, countless streams of black Yin Qi surged from the Yin Fish, condensing in the air to form a black mountain peak covered in thick frost, exuding a biting chill.
Subsequently, he pointed at the Yang Fish's eye, and golden Yang Qi gushed forth, transforming into a blazing sun, which hung suspended above the mountain peak.
The frost melted instantly, and on the mountain peak, green plants began to sprout, flower, and fruit at a speed visible to the naked eye. The entire process occurred within a flash, yet perfectly demonstrated the Dao Principle of Yin-Yang Mutual Generation.
The Golden Feather Demon Venerable clenched his hand lightly, and the Yin Yang Diagram instantly contracted, transforming into a stream of black and white qi, merging into his palm, while in the sky, faint patterns of Yin Yang clouds appeared:
"Using the form of Yin and Yang to demonstrate the source of heaven and earth, this is the Yin Yang Dao Principle."
The human cultivators below watched, dumbfounded, and began circulating their Spiritual Power, attempting to imitate the flow of Yin Yang Qi.
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As the resonance of the Yin Yang rules continued to circulate within the hall, Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao had already taken up a Jade Bone Fan, beginning his Dao demonstration.
The white Daoist Robe he wore shimmered softly under the Spirit Light, and the embroidered floating cloud patterns on the robe's hem quietly lit up with faint blue, red, purple, and silver hues.
The cultivators in the hall had yet to react when they sensed that the Spiritual Power in their bodies related to wind, fire, thunder, and lightning had begun to tremble uncontrollably.
"Many know of the Four Symbols as the Four Polar Divine Beasts, yet few realize that the origin of the Four Symbols of heavenly will lies in the most fundamental natural Dao Principles of heaven and earth—wind, fire, thunder, and lightning."
Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao gently waved his folding fan, his voice carrying an ethereal quality that penetrated the Divine Soul, as though speaking from the clouds above the nine heavens:
"Wind is the principle of 'flow,' fire is the principle of 'transformation,' thunder is the principle of 'vibration,' and lightning is the principle of 'penetration.' Together, they generate and sustain each other, forming the pattern of heavenly will's operation and acting as the embodiment of the Power of Heaven and Earth."
Before his voice fell, he pointed at the blue floating clouds on his robe, and numerous streams of cyan-green airflow flooded out from the robe's hem, instantly sweeping across the entire great hall, bringing all present cultivators into the "world of wind"!
"This is the Aspect of Wind."
His fingertips moved again, causing the red floating clouds on the robe to shine brightly, as a crimson light leaped from within the robe, intertwining with the winds. The red light transformed into a fire line in everyone's minds, sketching out the trajectory of energy transformation runes.
"This is the Aspect of Fire."
Subsequently, a thunderous sound surged forth, not an auditory vibration but a direct eruption within the mindscape, shaking the Divine Soul.
The cultivators instantly felt a gentle yet potent force enveloping their Divine Souls. The impurities within their bodies' Spiritual Power began to vibrate intensely, then transformed into tiny energy particles, automatically expelled by the circulation of Spiritual Power.
"This is the Aspect of Thunder."
Lastly, his fingertip landed on the silver floating cloud, releasing a stream of silver light, penetrating all creations. The sensation of the cultivators once again transformed.
Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao stowed away the folding fan, and the silver glow at his fingertips transformed into a miniature electric core:
"This is the symbol of electricity."
As his voice faded, the waves of the Four Symbols Rules completely intermingled within the hall, and the cultivators fell into a synchronized shock between their seas of consciousness and bodily sensations.
The "flow" of the Wind Principle allowed energy to circulate incessantly, the "transmutation" of the Fire Principle ensured the vitality of energy, the "oscillation" of the Thunder Principle purified the energy without impurities, and the "penetration" of the Electric Principle rendered energy indestructible.
The combination of the four created a perfect closed loop of rules, and one's own spiritual power began spontaneously operating according to the Four Symbols Rules within this loop, showing signs of loosening the barriers in cultivation.
"The Celestial Will Four Symbols Dao Principle is not about forcibly controlling, but about aligning with the earth's veins and harnessing the power of the Four Symbols for oneself."
Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao raised his hand in a grasp, and the waves of the Four Symbols Rules instantly constrained, re-integrating into the flowing cloud pattern of his Daoist robe, as if they had never appeared:
"That is the true essence of the Four Symbols Dao Principle!"
The hall fell into prolonged silence, while the cultivators remained immersed in the lingering rhythms of the rules.
Chen Sheng sat steadily on the Jade Throne, feeling his inner power of the Five Elements resonating with the Four Symbols Rules, experiencing a sense of enlightenment and clarity within.
Moreover, he observed that during Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao's demonstration of the Four Symbols, there was always an ethereal aura, as if he was one with heaven and earth, embodying the essence of the Celestial Will Dao Principle, which he needed to learn.
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Then, Celestial Venerable Zuo Xuan began his sermon without wielding a magical treasure or making any superfluous moves. Simply by gently tapping the ground with the tip of his toe, he immersed everyone in the hall in a heavy aura rising from beneath.
It was not the oppression of spiritual power, but the resonance with the earth's primal rules, appearing as if the entire Golden Roc Hall had merged into one with him.
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"While Fellow Daoist Carefree's Four Symbols Rules excel at conforming to celestial will, my Geomagnetic Primordial Dao emphasizes the earth's bearing of all things."
The voice of Celestial Venerable Zuo Xuan was not as ethereal as Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao's, but carried a heaviness that penetrated the divine soul:
"The earth is the most stable rule carrier between heaven and earth, and the Geomagnetic Primordial Dao Principle forms a self-contained rule domain, anchored by the earth."
Before his words finished, he pressed his hand into the void, and a dull rumbling came from outside the hall, causing the distant mountains of the Great Wilderness Forbidden Land to tremble slightly.
Strands of barely visible, soil-colored energy seeped from the depths of the earth, slowly converging along the foundation of the Golden Roc Hall, ultimately pouring into Celestial Venerable Zuo Xuan's palm.
This was not a simple extraction of energy, but an active response from the earth's rules.
The cultivators in the hall clearly sensed that their connection with the earth seemed magnified, as the earth-element power of the Five Elements within them began to stir uncontrollably.
"Geomagnetism is not 'extraction', but 'summons'."
Zuo Xuan turned his palm over, and the earth-colored energy transformed into a walnut-sized light sphere in his hand, with five subtle threads of green, red, yellow, white, and black light swirling inside:
"The earth bears the Five Elements; ordinary cultivators forcibly integrate them, whereas the Primordial Dao Principle integrates the Five Elements by leveraging the earth's rules, allowing them to return to their positions, forming an unassailable closed loop of rules."
He threw the light sphere into the air, and it rapidly expanded into a pale golden light shield that enveloped the entire hall.
Different from ordinary defensive shields, this shield had no physical boundaries, yet it radiated an aura of 'unshakeable' rule majesty.
Zuo Xuan pointed at the shield, and the golden patterns on its surface instantly reorganized into the pattern of Five Elements Runes:
"The Primordial Dao Principle defense doesn't rely on force to counterforce; instead, it constructs an independent rule system within the domain—if an external attack doesn't fit the Five Elements' closed loop, it will be automatically repelled by the rules."
"If it fits, it will be assimilated and absorbed, becoming part of the domain. The lingering influence of Fellow Daoist Carefree's Four Symbols Rules has been assimilated by the shield as evidence; you may perceive it yourselves."
The crowd focused their perception and indeed found that the aura of the Four Symbols Rules within the shield had merged with the Five Elements Rules, adding a heaviness to the previously lively Wind Principle, and bringing steadiness to the once fierce Fire Principle.
Chen Sheng sighed in his heart: "If in my past life I could have comprehended such the essence of the Dao Principle, I would not have been stuck at the Late-stage Nascent Soul for so many years."
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"Fellow Daoist Zuo Xuan's Primordial Dao Principle emphasizes 'bearing' and 'stabilizing'; whereas my Path of Great Void Destruction Sword focuses on 'breaking' and 'destroying'."
Chen Xihua's voice wasn't loud, but it pierced through space with a killing intent, without any unnecessary embellishments, like a fine sword that directly penetrated the depths of everyone's divine soul.
At the moment his voice fell, a sliver of coldness surged through every cultivator's sea of consciousness.
"I think the void is the weak point of space, and destruction is the ultimate state of all things, while the Sword Dao is the bridge connecting the two."
Before finishing his words, he finally reached for the hilt of the sword behind him, and although the ancient long sword had yet to be drawn, the space around the sword scabbard began to warp visibly.
The originally uniform light refracted at strange angles beside the sword scabbard, as if the scabbard itself was a miniature void vortex.
But this distortion went beyond the visual level; the next second, a clear picture emerged in everyone's sea of consciousness.
Countless fine "rule textures" interwoven in the void, with the sword scabbard aimed at the sparsest spot, like a key aiming at the keyhole.
"The sword hasn't been unsheathed, yet the void has already been drawn."
Chen Xihua gently flicked a finger on the sword scabbard, and a subtle "click" resonated in the sea of consciousness.
Everyone instantly "saw": a remarkably minute crack appeared on the rule texture where the sword scabbard touched, not spreading but acting as a signal that made the surrounding space rules become sluggish.
"Perceive the texture of space and find its weakest 'node'."
Slowly, he drew the sword out without dazzling sword light or fierce Sword Qi, only a segment of "absolute darkness" on the sword's surface—as if all light and energy were being absorbed by the sword.
Even more astonishing, this darkness simultaneously imprinted into the sea of consciousness, allowing everyone to "perceive" clearly: the space rules surrounding the sword were being slowly dismantled into the most basic energy particles, then reabsorbed by the sword.
Then, with a slight tremor of his wrist, the darkness expanded abruptly, and an incredibly fine black Sword Qi surged from the sword's tip.
This Sword Qi had no physical form, resembling more of a "wrinkle in space," tracing a seemingly slow but unavoidable trajectory in the air.
Strangely, the Sword Qi did not induce any external changes but sent shockwaves through every cultivator's sea of consciousness.
They "saw": the pathway of the Sword Qi, the previously interwoven textures of space rules were neatly cleaved like fabric.
Chen Xihua re-sheathed the sword, yet the rule fractures in the sea of consciousness did not vanish, but slowly shrunk and eventually turned into a wisp of black airflow, merging back into the sword.
"Ordinary void rifts would close due to the self-healing rules of heaven and earth, but the fractures left by my Sword Dao represent a permanent deficit in space."
"Unless there's another Dao Principle of equal realm to mend it, the weak spot in this space will exist forever. What you see at this moment within your sea of consciousness is the true essence of the Void Destruction."
The hall plunged into an unprecedented silence, even breathing seemed frozen, not due to external destruction but due to the shock deep within the divine soul.
The crowd had never imagined that the Sword Dao could be so profound!
Chen Sheng sat on the Jade Throne, with countless insights into the Sword Dao arising in his heart, especially his Yang Soul incarnation, which was now simultaneously perceiving such a Sword Dao, meditating on Cloud Sea Peak.
The demonstrations by the Four Great Celestial Venerables concluded, the hall fell into a brief silence.
Soon after, all the cultivators rose to bow toward the Four Great Celestial Venerables, eyes filled with gratitude.
Chen Sheng sat on the Jade Throne, reflecting deeply:
"This life is indeed fortunate. My great ancestor's Yin Yang Dao Principle has been available for my observation and guidance since I was young."
"The inherited Tier Six Inheritance has broadened my vision beyond that of ordinary cultivators, each Celestial Venerable's comprehension of the Dao Principle is extremely profound."
He recalled the records from the Four Seas Transmission and gained more understanding:
"It's often said that the Dao has no disparity, it's the extreme transformation of Dao. For ordinary cultivators, Dao does have disparity—the Yin Yang Dao Principle of the same realm is stronger than the Water and Fire Dao Principles."
"The Celestial Will Four Symbols Dao Principle is more comprehensive than the singular Wind Dao Principle."
"And the Human Realm, as a Small Thousand World, might not have as vast, perfected, and stable Dao Principles as the Spirit Realm, yet its simpler transformations of Small Thousand Dao Principles are a sacred ground for Dao enlightenment."
"Here, the transformations of Dao Principles are more straightforward and obvious, making it easier for Human Realm's Divinity Transformation cultivators to understand the true essence of the Heaven and Earth Dao Principles."
"Even Refining Void Great Powers from the Spirit Realm would initiate a void-breaking war to harvest the Dao origin of the Small Thousand World."