936 Lady Pitying a Flowers Soul (1/2)
Celestial Venerable Hao recalled his shred of consciousness and looked unwell. The experiences felt by this shred of consciousness of his were instantly reflected in his brain.
Although Qin Mu wiped the memory of this shred of Celestial Venerable Hao's consciousness, there were still major flaws in his unperfected unchanging divine art.
He investigated and instantly knew how many ways of the Hundred Ways to Kill Mu he had used.
'Is it Brahma Buddha's Boundless Calamity Sutra? Brahma Buddha's technique was a cultivation technique. Although this old monk handed over the Boundless Calamity Sutra, few in the celestial heavens could learn this cultivation technique of his.'
He couldn't help but frown. Brahma Buddha's Boundless Calamity Sutra was extremely difficult to learn. In the past, he would never impart his Boundless Calamity Sutra to outsiders. It was only when he saw the bad situation of today that he voluntarily handed the sutra to the celestial heavens.
However, the Boundless Calamity Sutra required extremely high cultivation on the path of Buddha. Without experience from someone who was on the path of Buddha, one wouldn't be able to learn it.
Although Brahma Buddha was the one who opened Buddhism, he was younger than Celestial Venerable Hao, which made it unlikely that Celestial Venerable Hao would study the path of Buddha.
If one had to learn from scratch, one would take countless years to completely comprehend the path of Buddha's scriptures and learn the Boundless Calamity Sutra.
Of course, Brahma Buddha also hid away some stuff.
The Boundless Calamity Sutra was a cultivation technique from the school of mind. This technique could be learned by understanding Buddhist scriptures slowly with a high enough Buddha nature and a peaceful state of mind. Alternatively, it could be learned by having it taught directly in one's dreams, without the need for comprehension.
Both techniques had their own pros and cons. The first technique yielded greater comprehension levels and was what one considered to be true learning. For example, Devil Ape Zhan Kong, Rulai Ma, Monk Ming Xin, and Sakra Buddha belonged to the first category.
They had Buddha nature and were at a high realm for their peaceful state of mind.
Qin Mu belonged to the second category, where Brahma Buddha taught the technique via dreams, kind of like passing down knowledge. One didn't require comprehension before use. However, one could only use it without understanding its principles and with little comprehension.
Qin Mu couldn't even explain how the Boundless Calamity Sutra's cultivation technique worked.
”Master, do we need to create another Celestial Venerable Mu?” a half-god walked forward, bowed, and asked.
Celestial Venerable Hao shook his head and replied, ”No, Qin Mu is a mere small figure that's not worth my energy. My enemy isn't him, it's the ancient gods and the other Celestial Venerables. Currently, the situation is becoming more optimistic, as we can now differentiate friends from foes. If I spend too much energy on Qin Mu, I'll lose big due to small mistakes.”
He laughed. ”Kunwu, choose 18 outstanding disciples and send them to me. I will impart to them 18 ways to kill Mu so that they can find the opportunity to kill Qin Mu.”
The half-god Kunwu nodded and asked, ”What realm should these disciples be in?”
Celestial Venerable Hao replied, ”There's no need for them to be in too high a realm, just those in the true god realm will be fine.”
There weren't any disciples in a higher realm in Hao Palace anyway. Those who accomplished things in cultivation would be sent out for appointments in the celestial heavens by Celestial Venerable Hao to rule the various heavens.
One couldn't form a large force by congregating their disciples. By appointing them as leaders of armies, they could flourish and ensure that he had power on all levels of society.
Kunwu bowed and went down to choose 18 disciples.
Not long after, Kunwu brought 18 disciples with him. Although Celestial Venerable Hao had quite a lot of disciples, he rarely taught them himself, so Kunwu had a greater understanding of his disciples than he did. Most of the time, he gave the job to his most proud disciples and only occasionally taught them himself.
Those who could receive the Celestial Venerable's true teachings were few and far between.
Even the ancient Celestial Emperor's disciple Yan Qiling didn't receive the true ultimate art from Celestial Emperor. What she received was merely runes from the ancient gods' Great Dao that were arranged by Dao Ancestor. She was merely imparted a couple of great divine arts by Celestial Emperor.
It was the same for the 18 people brought forth by Kunwu.
Celestial Venerable Hao looked at these 18 people and frowned as he said, ”These disciples are too weak, they aren't much stronger than Qin Mu.”
Kunwu hurriedly replied, ”I imparted the Emperor's Throne techniques to them according to your teachings so that they could comprehend it themselves. The 28 Emperor's Throne techniques that you imparted to me have been learned by them. As for their degree of comprehension and understanding, it's up to their individual qualities and comprehension capabilities.”
Celestial Venerable Hao had an idea and said, ”Answer me yourselves. How many Emperor's Throne techniques did you lot comprehend and merge by yourselves?”
A lady approached him and bowed. ”I am disciple Xiu Youfang, and I have comprehended the Four Symbols Calamity Technique, Great Green Watery Jade Sutra, and Delighted Yin and Yang Technique, which I merged together to be ranked into the Small Celestial Heavens techniques.”
Celestial Venerable Hao nodded and said, ”Merging these three Emperor's Throne techniques will allow you to be ranked into the Small Celestial Heavens techniques. It's just that it's not enough since the traitorous Qin Mu also knows three or more Emperor's Throne techniques.”
Another lady with a purple shirt approached and bowed. ”Disciple Hua Anxiu here. I have understood the Boundless Mingdu Sutra, Xuandu Mahayana Sutra, Four Symbols Calamity Technique, and Nine Phoenix Towards the Sun Technique. I have already merged these four Emperor's Throne techniques.”
Celestial Venerable Hao laughed. ”Your strength barely makes the cut.”
A young man bowed. ”I am disciple Pan Chunjing, and I have comprehended the Green Wood Great Desolation Sutra, Southern Dutian King Sutra, Boundless Mingdu Sutra, and Delighted Yin and Yang Technique.”
One young god after another came forward to list the techniques they cultivated.
Although Celestial Venerable Hao kept his real ultimate technique to himself, he didn't forbid his disciples from learning the many Emperor's Throne techniques in Hao Palace. The number of techniques they could learn was dependent on their capabilities.
Although the disciples that Kunwu chose were gods, they usually only merged three or four Emperor's Throne techniques. The most one merged was five. All of them were Small Celestial Heavens techniques and were unremarkable.
Of course, such people would be the best genius-level figures in the outside world!
In the thousands of worlds and heavens, Emperor's Throne techniques were extremely rare. In some worlds, one could hardly find an Emperor's Throne technique. Not to mention that one could barely find a true god in such worlds.
Celestial Venerable Hao spoke only after these 18 people listed the techniques that they had learned. He looked at Kunwu and said, ”That's all you've got?”
Kunwu hesitated and said, ”Master said you wanted disciples in the true god realm, so I found 15 true gods. Other than them, some disciples fused more Emperor's Throne techniques, with one even hitting the standard of Great Celestial Heavens.”
Celestial Venerable Hao's expression changed. Great Celestial Heavens required one to fuse 18 or more Emperor's Throne techniques!
In this world, only Celestial Venerables could fuse various Emperor's Throne techniques and comprehend the Great Celestial Heavens technique. Unexpectedly, one of his disciples had already hit that standard.
Kunwu was forced to explain to him, saying, ”He fused 18 Emperor's Throne techniques, which made him barely qualify for the standard of Great Celestial Heavens. It's just that this person isn't at the true god realm but the Divine Bridge Realm…”