CHAPTER 956: CHAPTER 752: INNATE TAOIST BODY (3)

In other words...

"Am I also ’immune’ to the Dark Dao!?"

His suspicion confirmed, yet Gu Jinlai’s heart was filled with amazement.

Immunity to the Dao, how mysterious!

This is a power specific to the Evil God.

Moreover, the Evil God can also degrade...

Almost as soon as the thought crossed his mind, the Dark Dao centered around Gu Jinlai was rapidly dissolved.

That feeling...

Was exactly like how the Evil God degraded Black Abyss’s Dark Dao!

"!"

Gu Jinlai’s eyes widened as he quickly halted Qing Lian’s degradation of the Dark Dao.

At the same time, the Devouring Dao surged out from within him, quickly breaking through the Dark Dao’s blockade on his sense of "existence". He even employed his Seventh-Rank Divine Sense Ability to sweep through, disrupting Black Abyss’s Divine Sense to confuse any awareness he might have of the Dark Dao being degraded by Qing Lian.

Fortunately, although Black Abyss keenly sensed an anomaly in his Dark Dao, with Gu Jinlai unleashing both the Devouring Dao and his Divine Sense Ability, he quickly perceived this as his own Dao power being worn down, without suspecting the Evil God’s involvement.

At this moment, Gu Jinlai’s voice also reached Black Abyss’s ears: "Daoist Black Abyss, please exert all your strength to activate the power of the Dark Dao."

With this, Black Abyss composed himself: "Then Daoist Gu, be careful."

In the next moment, an even denser, deeper power of the Dark Dao enveloped Gu Jinlai.

Gu Jinlai quietly sensed the Dark Dao stripping away his "existence" while through Qing Lian, he distinctly felt his immunity to the power of the Dark Dao, stirring up a storm in his heart.

"How could this be..."

He muttered, lost for words.

Relying on this mysterious Qing Lian, he had actually achieved what only an Evil God could.

For a moment, he allowed the Dark Dao to encase him, erasing all traces of his existence in the world, making his changes undetectable to anyone, while dividing his Divine Sense to focus on this mysterious Qing Lian.

"What exactly is this..."

He wondered in his heart.

Qing Lian remained silent.

It swayed quietly, as if eternally enduring, untouched by the passage of time.

After a while, Gu Jinlai gradually calmed himself down.

"The power of the Evil God..."

He gazed at this extraordinarily mysterious Qing Lian, recalling the somewhat peculiar Void Projection Technique.

The Void Projection Technique he "created" was filled with the traits of the Evil God, Divine Spirit, but...

Qing Lian was far too different from an Evil God.

After all, the power of the Evil God derived from the Decomposition Dao, the spirituality of all living beings...

"The Dao? The spirituality of all beings?"

Gu Jinlai thought, feeling as if his mind was buzzing.

The Dao!?

All beings!?

Spirituality!?

Since embarking on the path of cultivation, Gu Jinlai had heard a saying.

All things have spirits, humanity is the leader of all things spiritual.

The reason humanity is the leader of all things spiritual is due to the Human Clan being the Innate Taoist Body, favored by the Three Thousand Great Dao.

All living beings naturally maintain a form similar to "humans" to be close to the Dao.

Even when manifesting some Demon God phantoms for combat, they still retain traces of "humanity", reverting forms after battle.

In this cosmic sphere, the human-like Innate Taoist Body has such advantages.

"All beings, spirituality, Dao..."

A bizarre thought suddenly flashed through Gu Jinlai’s mind.

The source of Qing Lian’s power might differ from the Evil God, yet they share similarities in some ways.

The Evil God degrades the spirituality of living beings to gain power, opposing the Three Thousand Great Dao mastered by cultivators through the power of the Decomposition Dao.

Whereas Qing Lian...

It is degrading the Innate Taoist Body of humans.

The Innate Taoist Body is the favored form of the Three Thousand Great Dao, even seen as the carrier, the medium of the Three Thousand Great Dao in the material world.

Qing Lian is attempting to unravel this medium.

Once unraveled...

Yet, degrading living beings is easy, unraveling the carrier, the medium of the Innate Taoist Body, is exceptionally difficult. It starts with those rejected by the Innate Taoist Body, or those who "walk against heaven".

Those rejected by the Innate Taoist Body are the ones entangled in Karma from "not being human".

Thus, when he kills these people, there is Qingguang.

Qingguang is the feedback gained from unraveling the Innate Taoist Body.

So he can greatly enhance his cultivation efficiency through this feedback power.

Several breaths serve as decades.

"Previously, I thought transforming several breaths into ten years was the mystery of the Time Law, as some Golden Immortals who mastered the Time Dao could make a year last ten, or a hundred years, yet even if it’s a thousand years in a day, cultivators still need to endure the erosion of time. Strangely, the power of time seemed absent in me,"

This is the greatest difference between the Time Dao and Qingguang.

One twists time, stretching it to learn more.

The other...

Is akin to copying answers.

Turning a few breaths into ten years doesn’t mean it takes him ten years to cultivate this level; rather, it’s that given his circumstances back then, copying answers would take ten years.

"I should have realized earlier, cultivators face bottlenecks, and being stuck isn’t a matter of cultivating for a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand years. If you can’t break through, you can’t, like a math test – if you don’t know, you just don’t. No amount of exam days would yield it, yet I’ve never encountered bottlenecks. Occasionally, I’m stuck due to using lower knowledge on different problems, elongating the process, yet eventually achieving the satisfactory answer."