Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1980: Chapter 1036: Expounding the Dao (2)

Li Yuanba’s voice was filled with a profound comprehension of the rules, and he drew them into this understanding through his words.

As for the Great Powers, their gains were perhaps the greatest.

Among them, when the Sword Elder heard some unique interpretations of the Gold Rules from Li Yuanba, there would occasionally be flashes of spiritual light around him.

As Li Yuanba’s preaching continued, he began to speak about the deeper aspects of the Gold Element Rules.

At this moment, the cultivators who had been waiting on the side took away all the lower-level Sword Cultivators.

The latter sections were of no benefit to the lower-level cultivators listening, and on the contrary, they might suffer a backlash from the knowledge within the Dao.

During this period, among the Great Cultivators who were practicing the Gold Element, each became ecstatic, yet they were unaware of themselves.

Of course, at such a time, there were no other Great Cultivators paying attention to their movements.

Even the non-Gold Element Great Cultivators were engrossed in Li Yuanba’s Dao, unable to extricate themselves.

Li Shiming was the clearest-minded among all the cultivators, unrelated to him being Li Yuanba’s original body.

In this state of preaching, Li Yuanba would continuously emit spiritual light, allowing him to occasionally speak unexpected words.

And Li Shiming had practiced the ’Sky-Surging Sword Intent Technique’, and also had the ’Gold Rules’ in the core rules, so Li Yuanba’s preaching was useful to him.

The reason he could remain clear was that he had a bit of extra brain capacity, so apart from listening to the Dao with one part of his brain, another part could attend to other matters.

He was surprised to find out that while Li Yuanba was preaching, the rock underneath was emitting a faint light.

These lights were initially disordered, but as Li Yuanba’s preaching went deeper, the light extended outward, revealing the true form of the light.

Unbeknownst to Li Yuanba, his physical body was raised up.

Supporting his physical body was a Taoist Lotus composed of golden light.

On the rock, there were also some small flower buds, which were slowly blooming.

Li Shiming did not know what this situation signified, but he could sense that the Taoist Lotus manifested from the rock posed no harm to Li Yuanba.

That, of course, was to be expected, for this was indeed the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion, where Li Yuanba was a Free Great Power.

The Debating Stone left by the pavilion’s ancestor certainly wouldn’t harm the disciples of future generations.

Aside from Li Shiming, none of the cultivators listening to the preaching noticed anything unusual.

They were all immersed in the Dao debate, with their ears, eyes, and hearts all filled with the sound of the Dao; without a genuine threat approaching them, they would not awaken.

Li Yuanba’s state at this time was also quite peculiar; initially, his preaching was thought-driven, the preaching content prepared by IBMz15 for him.

But after the preaching had continued for a while, he could no longer control the content he was delivering.

As if his soul was infinitely approaching the Gold Rules, he was not preaching but reciting the Dao sound.

At this moment, time lost its meaning, and the other Taoist Lotuses bloomed, all surrounding Li Yuanba.

From these Taoist Lotuses, strands of golden threads flew out, connecting to Li Yuanba.

Li Shiming used the ’Divine Eye’, discovering Dao rhythm within the golden threads; these are the manifestations of the Gold Rules Dao Rhythm.

He was now sure that Li Yuanba had reaped great benefits.

Li Yuanba, for some unknown reason, activated the Gold Element Rules of the ancestral presence in the rock of the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion during his preaching.

Li Shiming connected a part of his brain to Li Yuanba, sensing Li Yuanba’s current state.

Li Yuanba was amidst an ocean of Dao, and what he preached was but a drop in that ocean, with more Dao entering his body, entering his soul.

At this moment, a certain Great Cultivator suddenly swayed from side to side, exiting his state of enlightenment, and a mouthful of blood was spewed.

Without hesitation, his figure flashed away from Preaching Peak.

Just as he left, his eyes flashed with resignation and annoyance.

Such opportunities are exceedingly rare, and with less time to comprehend the Dao than the other Great Cultivators, he would henceforth be a step behind them.

A few seconds after he left, another Great Cultivator exited.

Within a hundred seconds, all the Great Cultivators had exited Preaching Peak.

A few among them attempted forcibly to remain; however, their souls were harmed and were taken away by the Sword Cultivators of Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

The enlightenment process is continuous; once exited, one cannot reconnect.

If one cannot immerse oneself in the content of the preaching, then actively feeling it later would turn the preaching content into a weapon that harms them.

Now on Preaching Peak, only the Great Powers on the summit remained. It was not long before an avatar of a Great Power also awakened from the state of enlightenment.

He glanced around, refraining from attempting to comprehend further and voluntarily left the mountaintop of Preaching Peak.

He was acutely aware that the content of Li Yuanba’s preaching extended beyond what this avatar could bear.

The soul within the avatar of a Great Power is incomplete, just a small part split from the main soul. Even if nourished and strengthened, it fundamentally can’t surpass the main soul.

This avatar of a Great Power had never expected Li Yuanba’s Dao preaching to have such might.

He was not anxious; the other avatars of Great Powers, even if their souls were slightly stronger than his, were still quite limited.

Indeed, it wasn’t much longer before each of the remaining avatars departed from the mountaintop.

The avatars of Great Powers stood from afar, watching the figure of Li Yuanba at the summit, their eyes flashing with wonder.

They saw Li Yuanba surrounded by Taoist Lotuses, a wondrous scene even the most erudite of Great Powers could not comprehend.

Manifestations during Dao preaching sessions are not unheard of: heavenly blossoms falling, Golden Lotus from the mouth — these are visions resulting from the harmony of one’s Dao with the heavens and earth.

But the emergence of Taoist Lotus, and the fact that Li Yuanba’s flesh was lifted by such a Lotus, could not be explained by mere visions.

A while later, the Sword Elder also left the summit.

”Why didn’t I have my original body come here!” the Sword Elder said to himself as he left the summit.

He regretted it, knowing that as the main body, he could fully participate in the listening to the Dao.

He had come with avatars of Great Powers because, as the owner, he thought to mingle among them by using the avatar.

Just as he was deeply engrossed in the Dao, he felt the spirit could no longer bear it, and he was forced out of the state of enlightenment.

He even wanted to bash his head against the wall; the content of Li Yuanba’s preaching to other Great Powers was, at best, slightly beneficial, but to him, it was like a beacon.

Yet the beacon went out halfway, leaving him feeling suspended in mid-air.

The Sword Elder regretted internally, but there was nothing to be done.

He understood Li Yuanba’s current state and why Li Yuanba’s preaching today was so magnificent.

Li Yuanba had triggered the ancestral Dao rhythm left behind; the Debating Stone of the ancestor was left there over the ages because of a legend known among the higher-ups of the Sword Intent Chongxiao Pavilion.

The ancestral Dao rhythm within the Debating Stone could only be activated by a Sword Cultivator who met specified conditions.

Regrettably, no matter how extraordinarily genius Sword Cultivators were over the tens of thousands of years, none had activated the ancestral Dao rhythm, making this legend remain a legend.

At this moment, on the summit of Preaching Peak, only two cultivators remained: Li Yuanba, surrounded by Taoist Lotus atop the Debating Stone, and Li Shiming.

Li Shiming had come in person; however profound Li Yuanba’s preaching was, it could not overwhelm his soul.

What other cultivators did not know was that while Li Shiming was listening to Li Yuanba’s Dao, he also utilized his connection with Li Yuanba, linking his brain to him and sharing his experiences.

Deeper comprehension of the Gold Rules was transmitted into Li Yuanba’s body through golden threads from the Taoist Lotuses, and these insights were also sensed by Li Shiming, as IBMz15 recorded these insights.

At this moment, a Taoist Lotus extended to the front of Li Shiming for reasons unknown.

Because of his relationship with Li Yuanba, Li Shiming was sitting relatively close to him, so this Taoist Lotus only extended slightly to make contact with Li Shiming.