Chapter 902: Chapter 362: Vigilance

When Wen Zhiyi delivered a sword strike into the illusionary gate of the Cloud Sea Immortal Palace, the whole world quaked in an earth-shattering turbulence.

Countless tiny cracks, invisible to the naked eye, spawned between the sky and the sea of clouds. The frozen ocean surface below also shattered at this instant, projecting countless ice shards upward.

Chu Xisheng noticed the surrounding temporal void, which felt as if a smoothly functioning gear system had suddenly been jammed, ceasing operation entirely and trembling violently.

He also saw the vermilion palace gate of the Cloud Sea Immortal Palace beginning to gather a layer of ice.

This ice layer rapidly spread, swiftly extending onto the palace walls on either side.

Chu Xisheng’s pupils slightly shrank, waves surged in his heart.

This sword from Wen Zhiyi not only froze the void but also suspended time, thus breaking the Cloud Sea Immortal Palace’s ‘Shadowless’ dharma gate, directly breaching into the interior of the Cloud Sea Immortal Palace.

Is this the extreme of mortal Martial Arts in the current world, a Super First Grade?

“Is this the ‘One Sword Overturning City’ Wen Zhiyi?”

Yan Guilai gazed at the silver-armored girl above, with his eyes showing astonishment mingled with a few traces of admiration, “What an amazing Ice Technique! Her martial arts have already reached the point of Unity of Heaven and Man, no! It’s even approaching the state of Unity with Dao and Truth, truly deserving of the title ‘Overturning City’.”

Chu Xisheng’s mind stirred slightly.

He had read some of the Formless Divine Sect’s secretly transmitted martial classics and knew that most First Grade Masters in the current era were pursuing the art of ‘Mastering Heaven and Earth’.

It involves learning from the martial experiences left by predecessors or observing various natural phenomena to derive and integrate comprehensive heavenly rules and dharma laws into one’s martial arts.

The next step is ‘Unity of Heaven and Man’, which means merging oneself into a heavenly rule or dharma law, allowing one to draw greater power from the corresponding heavenly rules—this is one of the necessary conditions for mortals to break through the limit of human and god, stepping into the super-grade realm.

If a First Grade Master grasps ‘Unity of Heaven and Man’ but their cultivation has not yet surpassed the limit of human and god, it is called the half-step super realm, or it can also be termed as Super First Grade!

The Blood Vengeance Blade Lord of the past, along with the current Wen Zhiyi and ‘One Sword Overturning City’, are all at this level.

And also Qin Muge.

The world believes the Dominating Martial King’s martial arts are still in the realm of seeking origins.

However, Chu Xisheng heard from Chu Yunyun in private that she had already stepped into the level of Unity of Heaven and Man after slaying ‘Emperor Jilie’ and has progressed quite far on this path.

After ‘Unity of Heaven and Man’ comes ‘Unity with Dao and Truth’, further integrating into heavenly rules and dharma laws, reaching a state of mutual dependency.

Cultivators of the Human Clan who achieve the realm of Unity of Heaven and Man, together with Giant Spirits, Demons, etc., can obtain more powerful strength from heavenly rules, which in return become more consolidated and potent because of them.

It’s like the laws made by the court, which must be enforced by individuals to have a true effect.

Once reaching this level, it is sufficient to prove the Dao Eternal, achieving the state of ‘Gods’, which is the realm of the Wood Sword Immortal.

After ‘Unity of Heaven and Man’ is ‘Unity with Dao and Truth’, truly integrating with one’s innate heavenly rules and fully mastering them.

At that time, they themselves embody this heavenly rule.

Most of the powerful Gods of the current era and the Divine Beast Ancestors reside in this realm.

It involves Derive Dao, Rong Dao, Unity, and finally the process of mastering.

At this moment, everyone on the stone platform held their breath, concentrating their attention on Wen Zhiyi in the sky.

Everyone wanted to know whether this One Sword Overturning City could break through the forbidden techniques of the Cloud Sea Immortal Palace.

If Wen Zhiyi’s martial arts were powerful enough to forcibly break the Immortal Palace and seize its treasures, she certainly wouldn’t follow the Divine Turtle Wanderer’s rules to participate in the contest for the Cloud Sea Immortal Palace.

This would mean the game for the Immortal Palace’s inheritance would end before it even begins.

Chu Xisheng also concentrated his gaze, observing the continuing spread of ice within the Cloud Sea Immortal Palace.

Just a breath ago, it merely covered the vermilion palace gate and the surrounding walls. Now, it has spread to the depths of the Immortal Palace.

The white mist lingering inside faded entirely, revealing pavilions and towers all sealed in ice.

It wasn’t just the structures, but also the formations within.

Chu Xisheng saw that outside the buildings inside the Immortal Palace, frost-covered scarlet-gold runes emerged.

They appeared like a jammed gear system, not only ceasing operation but also conflicting with each other, causing bursts of spiritual explosions around.

However, just after three breaths, when the formation inside the Cloud Sea Immortal Palace was on the verge of collapse, twelve slim figures in green robes, carrying long swords, surged in front of the vermillion palace gate.

People looked closely and found that they were all wooden beings, their features exquisitely carved but rigid and expressionless.

Their forms were identical, wearing the same clothes, bearing the same sword artifacts, with no external differences.

Chu Xisheng raised an eyebrow, recognizing these twelve green-clad figures as the ‘Cloud Sea Sword Puppets’ he had encountered before in the Coastal Nine-Grade Secret Realm.

After these twelve Cloud Sea Sword Puppets appeared, they simultaneously drew their swords upright before their chests, then layered upon layer of circular talisman arrays unfolded from their sword bodies.

In the next instant, the Cold Power of Wen Zhiyi invading the Immortal Palace stalled abruptly, ceasing its flow, blocked entirely outside the Immortal Palace, unable to intrude any further.

The boundless Cold Power had no choice but to dissipate outward, spreading in all directions.