Chapter 760: Submission (2/2)
“Ai!” Lu Yun sighed softly as he looked at the forge. “Senior Zhurong, you’ve lost.”
“Eh?” Zhurong Die and everyone assembled blinked in incomprehension. Nothing had taken place yet!
“That’s not how you use the forge of earth and sky.” Lu Yun waved a hand to summon a tendril of Emerald Mistfire in front of him. And then…
The power of the land descended upon the tiny flame, crushing it mercilessly and melding it into the void, where it then set the entire sky aflame. At the same time, Lu Yun gave voice to a long whistle.
“With earth and sky as forge, yin and yang as fuel, and nature as labor…”
Rumble!!
Zhurong Die’s forge shattered right in front of him. This part of the world itself seemed to have become a large forge, and the immortals on the scene were the bronze within, ready for refinement.
“You… refined Mount Xuanhuang with a forge like this…” Zhurong Die looked blankly at Lu Yun before suddenly whipping his head around to consider the majestic and sacred mountain.
“I did.” Lu Yun nodded. “Forge of earth and sky, the earth and sky as the forge… Same words, just in a different order, but the breadth of a single hair can lead one astray. The sky and earth are an enormous forge to begin with, one can just use them as is. Why go to the extraneous step of condensing another forge out of it?”
The great dao intersected with each other between heaven and earth, inexhaustible, boundless, and infinite. The peak realm for formation masters was to draw formations forth from nothingness, while the same heights for master refiners was to utilize the world as their forge!
The great dao of the world was the great dao of all, so nature could create whatever life sought from it.
“I see... I see!” Zhurong Die felt like lightning had struck him, and that a dusty, long-sealed door was slowly opening in front of him. He could tell that his skills were about to advance into a new realm!
Lu Yun looked at the other two. “Talismans are the trajectory of the great dao and the weave of the world. If a talisman is drawn with the lay of the land, it will be able to call upon the world itself.”
He drew a Principal Nineheavens Talisman in the void, whereupon it changed from being able to restrain akasha ghosts to shimmering with the grand strength of nature. Yet more glyphs sparkled around it, coming together as talismans that then assembled themselves into talisman formations. When complete, the formations convened as brand new glyphs that further formed new talismans.
Coming full circle, inexhaustible, boundless, and infinite.
“I have received quite a lesson!” Sovereign Venerated Talisman took in a deep breath and bowed to Lu Yun, showing the respect that he might show a teacher.
“Pill dao, the path of living beings! Condensing the essence of nature and discarding the dross, we overlook the fact that there is essence in dross. Every blade of grass, every tree, every grain of sand, and every rock can be made into a pill.” Lu Yun grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground.
Rumble—
Blue Lucent Voidfire danced in the air before delivering a fragrant pill into his hand. It was an ordinary first-rank immortal pill, but one that Lu Yun had refined from dirt.
The ultimate peak of pill dao was to reform medicinal properties in the sense of deconstructing various herbs and medicines, then reconstructing them to obtain the effect that one needed. However, Lu Yun had just created a pill from pure dirt!
He’d distilled essence from ordinary dirt without any special properties to it whatsoever and turned it into an immortal pill! This kind of mind-bogglingly result was something that foremost pill master Qi Hai of the Primordial Era wouldn’t have been able to achieve!
“I… submit!” Gu Xun smiled wryly. He finally realized in this moment just how frightening this youth of six years tenure was. No wonder the previous celestial emperors had chosen him.