Maximum Comprehension: Taking Care of Swords In A Sword Pavilion

Rustic, aged, and dilapidated courtyard.

Han Muye sat squarely on the chair ahead, with three figures in cyan and grey robes before him.

“Ancestor, I have said everything.”

“Ancestor, the world has changed.”

The one speaking with a mournful face was a thin, forty-something Daoist, who had also been the one to break open the stone coffin where Han Muye had been residing.

The world had changed.

The entire Supreme Realm was no longer the heaven and earth of the past.

Starting from eighty million years ago, the power of heaven and earth in the Supreme Realm began to decline and change, with abnormalities occurring every million years thereafter.

Mutated beasts appeared, along with cataclysmic changes, one after another.

By one million years ago, few cultivators in the Supreme Realm had reached the Mystical Hidden Realm.

The original nine-layered foundation of the Rebirth Realm could now be esteemed and venerable within a sect.

Those powerful in the Unity Realm Stage relied only on their power of longevity from the past, their combat strength had declined to the point where it could not even compare to the Physical Hidden Realm.

Over countless years, there had been others like Han Muye who returned from the Land of Illusion, or those who had trained there and came back, but the cultivation abilities and power they controlled could no longer resonate with the Great Dao of the present.

They needed to cultivate anew.

In other words, Ancestor Han Muye of the Nine Mysteries Path was currently, in fact, less powerful than these juniors before him who were at the second or third layer of the Rebirth Realm.

“Hu Yu, have you stepped into the Mystical Hidden Realm?” Han Muye looked at the Daoist before him.

The once illustrious Nine Mysteries Heavenly Taoist Sect with trillions of disciples had now degenerated into the Nine Mysteries Dao with merely a handful of followers.

The Daoist before him, Hu Yu, was the current Sect Leader of the Nine Mysteries Dao.

“Ancestral Master, you are overestimating me,” Hu Yu showed a bitter and dry smile on his face. “I am merely at the Fifth Level Realm of the Rebirth Realm, having only perfected the three meridians and eighteen acupoints in my physical body.”

“Not to mention me, within a million miles of the Nine Mysteries Mountain Range, there are only three in the Mystical Hidden Realm.”

Having said this, Hu Yu cautiously looked towards Han Muye, “Ancestor, may I know your name and which generation of Ancestor of the Nine Mysteries Dao you are from?” ṞáΝȪᛒÈṨ

Which generation?

“My name is Han Muye,” Han Muye paused to recall, then said softly, “I should be from the Heavenly Dao Sect lineage, from ancient times…”

Ancient times!

Hu Yu and the two disciples behind him twitched at the corners of their mouths.

“Ancestor, please, never tell anyone that you have survived from ancient times.”

“All those who merged the Dao in the Nine Mysteries Mountain Range, those long-living predecessors, are now imprisoned by the True Dao Sect. It is said that they are extracting their life force to provide for the younger generation’s cultivation.”

Hu Yu glanced around, then bowed to Han Muye.

“Ancestral Master, I take the liberty to suggest that in front of outsiders within the sect, you shall be considered a new disciple. Otherwise, I’m afraid even the Nine Mysteries Dao will be drawn into trouble.”

New disciple, huh?

Han Muye nodded and said, “Very well.”

Daoist Hu Yu turned his gaze to the two disciples who had come with him, “Zeng He, Wu Mingjue, from now on, Han Muye will be your Junior Brother; it is you who have brought him into the sect, understand?”

The two disciples immediately lowered their heads.

“Ahem, Wu Mingjue, why don’t you take Junior Brother Han for a walkthrough of the sect.”

Daoist Hu Yu coughed lightly, addressing the honest-looking young man.

As Han Muye followed the young man out, a conversation could be heard behind them.

“Uncle Master, this Ancestral Master, no, Junior Brother, why don’t you sell him to the True Dao Sect? They pay a high price for those at the Unity Realm Stage.”

“Sell? Can everything be sold? He is our revered Ancestor.”

“Is an Ancestor something you can easily sell?”

“It should cost extra!”

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The Nine Mysteries Dao was located on the edge of the million-mile Nine Mysteries Mountain Range, which had been the Nine Mysteries Heavenly Taoist Sect’s fallback position over countless years.

Han Muye followed Wu Mingjue around for a tour, meeting the scarce dozen disciples in the sect, before being arranged to stay in a run-down courtyard.

“Junior Brother,” Wu Mingjue placed two yellowed books on the table, looking at Han Muye, “It’s not that we juniors are heartless, nor is it Uncle Master’s coldness; it’s just that given the current situation, we have no other choice.”

“Whenever there was a senior returning to the sect, we thought it was an opportunity for the rise of the Nine Mysteries Dao, but in the end, it was always a letdown.”

“The great Nine Mysteries Path has been squandered by generations of returning ancestors, and now the inheritance is about to be cut off.”

Stretching out his hand and pointing to the books on the table, Wu Mingjue said, “These are the current inheritances of the Nine Mysteries Path, Junior Brother, take a look. If you can’t cultivate them, you should quietly leave to avoid an unfortunate end.”

“The Nine Mysteries Path can’t support idlers anymore.”

After saying this, Wu Mingjue turned and left.

Watching Wu Mingjue leave, Han Muye’s gaze fell on the books on the table in front of him.

Nine Mysteries Mysterious Refinement Record

Nine Mysteries Gentle Breeze Twelve Forms

The Mysterious Refinement Record documents how to refine meridians and acupoints. At its peak, it can cultivate the power of the Five Meridians and thirty-six acupoints, reaching the eighth layer of the Transcending Mortality in the Physical Realm.

The Nine Mysteries Gentle Breeze Twelve Forms, on the other hand, is the boxing inheritance of the Nine Mysteries Path, with the principle of advancing and retreating with the proper measure, like a gentle breeze across a ridge.

After flipping through the two books, Han Muye gained a general understanding of the cultivation inheritances in the Land of Truth and also understood his own situation and that of the Nine Mysteries Path.

In the Land of Truth, cultivation methods have gradually focused on seeking one’s own path as the Great Dao dissipated.

Spells and supernatural powers have basically become a thing of the past.

The Nine Mysteries Heavenly Taoist Sect was once famous for its supernatural powers, but it failed to grasp the changing times and was among those eliminated.

Feeling his own cultivation technique, Han Muye looked calm.

All the cultivation abilities and means from the Land of Illusion have become a thing of the past, not a sliver came with him.

Now, his only possession was his comprehension.

Mystical Hidden Seventh Layer, Soul Hidden Realm.

But this was just a realm of comprehension, not a realm of strength.

The understandings from the ancient times no longer have any congruence in today’s cultivation world.

Looking at the books spread out on the table, Han Muye’s eyes shone with a keen light.

He was different from the others who had returned from the Land of Illusion.

He had not lost any memories from the Land of Illusion!

Endless experiences, endless cultivation methods, and endless insights into power were all still there!

Even if they were all useless, they could become the foundation and nourishment for his own cultivation.

All the power within his body had emptied.

In the world, there was no more cultivation power to sustain the power beyond the Hidden Realm.

How could he fulfill the covenant with the Primordial Creator?

How would the people of the Land of Illusion step into the Land of Truth?

“Isn’t it just re-cultivating the methods, what’s so difficult about that?”

Whispering to himself, Han Muye sat cross-legged, the Qi and blood power within him quieting down.

Rebirth cultivation.

In his mind, the Nine Mysteries Mysterious Refinement Record circulated, and the cultivation methods related to the meridians and acupoints began to flow and deduce.

A smile appeared on Han Muye’s lips.

The ‘formless’ at the maximum level had not disappeared.

With a cultivation technique in hand, he could still deduce it to the utmost.

“Connecting the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, with meridians like raging rivers and acupoints like stars, indeed, cultivating the Path of the Physical Body has its characteristics.”

“At least this kind of physical cultivation is more genuine and has more combat strength than the Qi and blood cultivation of the Great Pantheon Plane.”

The Mysterious Refinement Record, which was originally only able to reach the eighth-level Rebirth Realm, was directly deduced by Han Muye to the Ninth Layer Rebirth Realm.

As for the Mystical Hidden Realm, it was the operation of another kind of power.

Physical Hidden Realm, one realm in three layers, it begins with the Rebirth Realm and is far above the Rebirth Realm in terms of cultivation power.

“Hum—”

Golden light shone along Han Muye’s meridians, and his acupoints lit up like myriad stars.

Light flickered in his eyes.

A clear comprehension arose: although the physical strength he cultivated in the Land of Illusion had dissipated, and all his cultivation realms and treasures had turned to nothing, the state where the physical body had been thoroughly refined and a myriad of acupoints had been unlocked.

It was still there.

Quite good.

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