I Studied Abroad in the Modern Times-Chapter 369Book 2: : Master’s Dharmakaya, Senior Sister’s Divine Ability
Vol 2 Chapter 369 Master’s Dharmakaya, Senior Sister’s Divine Ability
At the secluded places where Senior Sister Zhang and the Old Man were closed off, strange phenomena appeared simultaneously, causing Zheng Fa to be both surprised and delighted.
Not to mention, as Junior Sister Yuan had said, the two in seclusion at this moment were his master and his Dao partner, the closest people to him, so naturally, he cared deeply.
Moreover, whether these two succeed in Nascent Soul Transformation would also affect his own path to Nascent Soul:
He had been at the Nascent Soul stage for nearly ten years. Even though he was busy with many affairs, under the grumbling yet selfless dedication of the Jiushan Ancestor, his cultivation had reached the late Nascent Soul stage.
It could be said that he was just one step away from Nascent Soul Transformation.
Currently, two major obstacles were blocking his breakthrough:
The first was insufficient time.
The transition from Nascent Soul to Nascent Spirit was extremely important for cultivators.
After Nascent Spirit, a cultivator’s Dao path would be solidified.
Just as the Yang Spirit method was for the Immortal Sect, and the Dharmakaya method was for the Demonic Cult, switching paths easily was impossible and could even affect the Dao fruit’s achievement.
Furthermore, Nascent Spirit transformation involved constructing the Yang Spirit or Dharmakaya, which was no small task.
Therefore, even though Zheng Fa possessed the three Nascent Spirit methods of Haori Mountain, the Great Freedom Demon Ancestor, and the Tianhe Sect, he approached Nascent Spirit transformation with utmost caution, needing careful deliberation and calm contemplation.
Simply put, it required seclusion.
But Zheng Fa currently worked multiple jobs alone and had to check in at the Zhongxuan Sect every two months.
Where could he find time to seclude?
The other problem was even more critical:
He hadn’t yet decided which Nascent Spirit method to choose, or rather, he hadn’t perfected his own Nascent Spirit cultivation method.
With the “Heavenly Fiend and Earthly Fiend Transformations,” he had not only studied three methods but had actually practiced them!
He had also mastered the “Vermilion Heaven Jade Manual” to perfection, to the point of fooling the Haori Mountain masters and almost entering the true transmission of Haori Mountain.
Therefore, Zheng Fa had great ambitions, or rather, was extremely cautious:
Whether he merged the three schools into one or innovated to break free from the control of other Dao fruits, he wanted to jump beyond the framework of the three methods and create his own Nascent Spirit method.
The idea was excellent, but there were many problems.
After all, although he had the Fusang Wood Dao fruit, he couldn’t fully understand its mechanism, so in terms of cultivation knowledge, he was still inferior to actual Dao fruits.
Thus, trying to create a Nascent Spirit method different from the three existing ones was somewhat forced: after all, even the Great Freedom Demon Ancestor spent an era creating the “True Explanation of Myriad Demons,” yet it didn’t break free from the limitations of Demonic Cult methods.
Even with the modern world’s help, many problems remained unsolved—those scholars knew less about the Immortal Dao than he did, providing little assistance.
Fortunately, with the Nine Chapters Calculation Array and the various studies in the Creation Jade Slip, Zheng Fa already had some initial ideas, though still incomplete. In the end, he lacked sufficient understanding and experience of Nascent Spirit transformation to draw on.
Therefore, if the Old Man and Senior Sister Zhang could successfully transform, it would be of great significance to him.
The Old Man was his master, both having cultivated the Divine Mist Golden Core stage, and could be said to share the same origin.
After dual cultivation with Senior Sister Zhang, she also practiced the “Heavenly Fiend and Earthly Fiend Transformations.”
Their insights and experiences in Nascent Spirit transformation would naturally bring Zheng Fa much help.
Moreover, both Senior Sister Zhang and the Old Man were walking the path of self-created Nascent Spirit methods, making them even more worthy of reference.
…
Several streams of light appeared from various parts of the Jiushan Realm, flying toward Zheng Fa’s courtyard.
“Senior Brother is about to break through?”
Before the light faded, a slightly anxious voice echoed in the courtyard.
Uncle Pang was looking toward the Old Man’s seclusion place while watching Zheng Fa, his expression tense. “How is the situation?”
Standing beside him was the Jiushan Ancestor.
In the courtyard were Xie Qingxue, Xiao Yuying, and Madam Xuanhua.
Even the Ancestor of the Blood River and Jiao Wuji hurried over.
Not only that, six newly promoted Nascent Soul True Disciples had joined the sect over the past eight years;they also gathered in the courtyard with expectant expressions.
Obviously, they understood the significance of these two transforming for the Jiushan Realm.
“Sun Daoyu, go comfort the disciples first and tell them not to panic,” Zheng Fa reacted and said to the newly promoted Nascent Soul Sun Daoyu, then explained to Uncle Pang, “The two masters have just begun transforming. I don’t know much yet.”
Sun Daoyu cupped his hands and left obediently.
Uncle Pang nodded slowly, speaking with relief:
“Luckily, they’re far apart.”
Zheng Fa frowned and nodded.
The Nascent Spirit transformation tribulation was dangerous;others could not come too close.
Fortunately, the Jiushan Realm had the experience of the Jiushan Ancestor’s transformation. When Senior Sister Zhang secluded herself, this matter was especially considered. Now, Senior Sister Zhang and the Old Man were nearly separated by the entire Ten Thousand Immortal Island:
Senior Sister Zhang’s courtyard was on the North Island, right next to Zheng Fa’s small courtyard.
The Old Man was far away on the South Island of Ten Thousand Immortal Island, choosing a quiet spot for his seclusion.
Zheng Fa did not reply but looked toward the flickering sky.
Strong winds whipped up mist, and black clouds covered thunder and fire.
On Ten Thousand Immortal Island, a storm raged.
“This is even bigger than the Ancestor’s transformation.”
Uncle Pang muttered, his tone filled with worry he tried to hide.
“That was one;this is two! How could they be the same?” the Jiushan Ancestor said irritably. “Besides…”
“They’re coming!”
Xie Qingxue suddenly interrupted them, her gaze sharp as a sword, shooting southward.
The Old Man’s Nascent Spirit tribulation arrived first.
…
Uncle Pang was right.
It seemed the two transformation tribulations were affecting each other.
These black clouds were denser than during the Jiushan Ancestor’s transformation, and the lightning tribulation was fiercer!
The Old Man’s seclusion place originally had a courtyard with one entrance.
But when a purple-black lightning bolt struck, the courtyard, including its walls and house, vanished in the blink of an eye.
“Does Senior Brother not have any protective Dao treasures at all?”
Seeing the intense lightning tribulation, Uncle Pang’s lips trembled slightly.
The Jiushan Ancestor sighed, “He’s just unlucky…”
Others also looked grim.
The Nascent Spirit tribulation was already difficult to overcome, and since the Old Man was creating his own Nascent Spirit method, the risk was naturally greater.
Now, this lightning tribulation seemed even stronger because Senior Sister Zhang was also breaking through.
Naturally, this was worrisome.
But Zheng Fa’s expression was calm. As the head of the Jiushan Realm, he knew everything inside intimately, and his expertise in lightning methods was exceptional.
He could naturally sense the Old Man’s condition through the lightning tribulation.
“Uncle Pang, no worries…”
“Hm?”
“My master… seems to be doing this intentionally.”
“Intentionally?”
Uncle Pang was stunned but quickly understood what Zheng Fa meant.
Within the lightning tribulation, a figure clad in golden armor gradually formed.
Around the armor hovered the hottest, brightest lightning, shooting golden light in all directions.
Inside the armor, the figure was originally blurry, with neither limbs nor features.
But as heavenly lightning struck like a carving knife, it forcibly etched out limbs, eyebrows, eyes, and the Old Man’s face.
“Senior Brother!” Uncle Pang exclaimed in surprise mixed with sudden realization. “This… this is somewhat like that from the Immortal Formation Technique—the Thunder God?”
“Not just that.” The Ancestor of the Blood River suddenly flew over, staring at the figure. “This is a Dharmakaya!”
It truly was a Dharmakaya.
Actually, Zheng Fa had somewhat anticipated this.
When the Old Man secluded, the Jiushan Realm didn’t have many Nascent Spirit methods.
The only truly complete ones were the two Dharmakaya methods of the Great Freedom Demon Ancestor.
What surprised Zheng Fa was that the Old Man seemed to have combined the Immortal Formation Technique and the Dharmakaya method to create a new Dharmakaya technique.
This master…
“Senior Brother actually has such ingenuity?” Uncle Pang voiced Zheng Fa’s admiration.
Xiao Yuying seemed to understand at this moment.
She suddenly looked at Zheng Fa and sighed, “It’s the Jiushan Sect’s lightning method—so strong.”
Hearing this, everyone was stunned, then gradually enlightened:
Of course!
In terms of understanding lightning methods, Zheng Fa could even contend with the Heavenly Venerate.
The Old Man’s lightning cultivation might be somewhat inferior to Zheng Fa, but he was still second best in the Jiushan Realm—only Xiao Yuying might surpass him.
In other words, the Jiushan Sect’s research into the essence of lightning methods was at the Dao fruit level.
Uncle Pang understood immediately and said, “Senior Brother’s specialty is the lightning method, and he also has Zheng Fa as a disciple teaching him…”
“He got the sect leader position by chance, and Zheng Fa’s apprenticeship was also a lucky catch. How come this Nascent Spirit method looks like a gift from the disciple?”
“No, this disciple was stolen!”
He looked at the Old Man in the lightning tribulation with a mix of relief and bitterness:
“Why didn’t the lightning just strike this Yuan family member dead!”
…
It did not strike him dead.
Because of the Dharmakaya’s peculiarity, when the Old Man passed the Nascent Spirit tribulation, the Dharmakaya was still vigorous.
He glanced at the lingering black clouds in the sky, his expression puzzled but without much thought. Then he flew toward the void, hands forming Dao seals, his voice issuing like muffled thunder throughout the Jiushan Realm:
“Thirteen years of great dreams, today I open Nascent Spirit for the Jiushan Sect…”
“Cough!”
A cold cough suddenly interrupted him.
The Old Man’s Dharmakaya froze and turned his head toward the source, seeing the Jiushan Ancestor standing on the ground, looking at him with great displeasure. The aura around him was… Nascent Spirit stage?
“Ancestor? You transformed?”
“Come down! So what if you transformed?” the Jiushan Ancestor snorted. “I haven’t said anything, why are you shouting?”
The Old Man’s Dharmakaya remained silent for a while;the golden light on the armor dimmed slightly. He released the seals, the Dharmakaya dissipated, revealing his true form. He then landed beside Zheng Fa and others with a gloomy expression, eyes shifting:
“You all have reached Nascent Soul?”
The newly promoted Nascent Soul disciples nodded one after another.
“You silly bird… no, you can too…”
Looking at Junior Sister Yuan’s Nascent Soul aura, the Old Man was completely bewildered.
He looked at Zheng Fa with an expression as if doubting he had senile dementia and cautiously asked, “How many years have I been secluded?”
“About fourteen years.”
“Then why do I feel like I’ve been secluded for fourteen hundred years?” The Old Man pointed at Junior Sister Yuan and others. “Where did the Jiushan Sect get so many Nascent Souls?”
There really were quite a few new Nascent Souls here.
In these eight years, six Golden Core disciples had successfully transformed.
Even including the Jiushan Ancestor and Zheng Fa, the Jiushan Sect originally only produced six Nascent Soul cultivators in total.
In Zheng Fa’s view, this was just the start of the first fifty-year plan, far from an explosion.
In the Old Man’s eyes, it was almost earth-shattering.
“Senior Brother, that’s because you lack insight.” Seeing the Old Man lively and successfully transformed, Uncle Pang was envious and jealous. “When you were sect leader, producing one Nascent Soul disciple was difficult.”
“But Zheng Fa, as sect leader, has one every year without stopping!”
The Old Man was silent for a while, then said, “He is my disciple.”
“…You’ve been secluded so many years, and the Ancestor only transformed with Zheng Fa’s help!”
“He is my disciple.”
“…Is that all you can say?”
“I have transformed.”
Zheng Fa had to speak. If he didn’t, he feared Uncle Pang would lose his mind.
“Master, what’s going on with your Dharmakaya?”
The Old Man’s face showed a proud smile. “You noticed the subtlety of my Divine Mist Dharmakaya?”
“Is it a combination of the Great Freedom Demon Ancestor’s Dharmakaya methods?”
The Old Man nodded proudly. “On the path to Nascent Spirit, I only knew how to condense the Dharmakaya. Later, I thought, why not try the Thunder God from the Immortal Formation?”
“This Zhou Tian Divine Thunder Formation was created by me. I’m familiar with Immortal Formation techniques, and my lightning cultivation is also excellent.”
“My idea was to use my body to set the Immortal Formation, and it actually worked…” At this, the Old Man looked regretfully at the Jiushan Ancestor. “I thought I created the Jiushan Sect’s first Nascent Spirit method.”
Zheng Fa nodded, curious, “What’s special about this Dharmakaya?”
The Old Man recalled slightly: “I stumbled into it and haven’t fully figured it out. First, my lightning aptitude is higher, somewhat like Fairy Xiao’s Primordial Magnetic Dao Body, releasing various lightning techniques at will, almost instinctively.”
That made sense.
“Second, this Dharmakaya…” The Old Man looked puzzled. “Seems very responsive, even… immensely powerful.”
“Immensely powerful?”
The Old Man seemed unsure how to explain and just flashed golden light. In an instant, the Divine Mist Dharmakaya condensed.
His hair strands stood upright, muscles twisted like a coiled dragon, and his entire body suddenly grew larger.
“Just like this!”
The Old Man raised his foot and lightly stomped on the ground.
The entire Ten Thousand Immortal Island suddenly shook violently.
Everyone was caught off guard, swaying twice before steadying themselves, staring at him in surprise. Then the Old Man proudly boasted, “I didn’t even use any cultivation power.”
“This Dharmakaya has innate divine strength?”
The Ancestor of the Blood River exclaimed.
“Don’t know. I just feel that with a single thought, I can shatter everything, and even with one punch, a Nascent Soul stage cultivator couldn’t survive.”
The Old Man clenched his fist, his face eager and ready for action.
Listening to the Old Man’s feelings, Zheng Fa felt a little familiar and then recalled:
Divine Mist Dharmakaya—that was Old Bai’s favorite Dharmakaya.
Seeing everyone’s expressions of surprise mixed with envy, the Old Man shivered again. “Let me tell you, my Dharmakaya isn’t afraid of the lightning tribulation. Even if this Nascent Spirit tribulation came ten or twenty times, I still wouldn’t…”
The thunderclouds gathered again in the sky.
The Old Man was stunned. He looked at Zheng Fa, then at the sky, swallowing nervously. “I… I’m just talking.”
“It’s not you, Master, it’s Senior Sister Zhang!”
Senior Sister Zhang’s Nascent Spirit tribulation seemed to have been interfered with by the Old Man’s tribulation and was only now officially beginning.
Everyone reacted and leapt away from the thunderclouds.
“Wuyi?” The Old Man was shocked again, retreating with the others while shouting, “How did she transform already? Have I really only secluded for fourteen years?”
Uncle Pang said irritably, “If you’d been slower by two years, I’d have been ready to transform!”
The Old Man glanced at him, seeing the purity of his aura and his cultivation reaching late Nascent Soul stage, and couldn’t help but show a look of relief.
“Wuyi’s lightning tribulation is much gentler…”
Perhaps because the Old Man’s tribulation interference was gone, Senior Sister Zhang’s lightning tribulation lacked the grandeur of the Old Man’s.
Watching bolts of heavenly lightning strike Senior Sister Zhang’s courtyard, the Old Man looked uneasy:
“How long has Wuyi been at Nascent Soul? Isn’t transforming a bit rushed?”
“Senior Sister’s spiritual energy accumulation is already sufficient.”
The Old Man sensed the strong aura in Senior Sister Zhang’s courtyard, opened his mouth but seemed unable to refute, then added, “It’s better to study the Nascent Spirit method for a few more years. Why be in such a hurry?”
“Master, Senior Sister not only has the two methods of the Great Freedom Demon Ancestor for reference but also the ‘Vermilion Heaven Jade Manual’ of Haori Mountain, the ‘Trapping Immortal Sword Canon’ of Tianhe Sect, and the Nine Chapters Calculation Spirit’s method for prediction and study. Her preparations are already very…”
Zheng Fa trailed off.
The Old Man’s expression was indescribable, almost as if he wanted to curse.
“You mean if I waited a few more years before secluding, it wouldn’t be so hard to comprehend?”
“…”
Zheng Fa understood the Old Man’s grievance.
If he left, you had the methods, abundant spirit materials, and the great formation aiding predictions…
Then what was the point of my secluded breakthrough?
Senior Sister Zhang could transform within twenty years, while the Old Man had wasted nearly ten thousand years.
The difference was mostly not due to talent but rather knowledge accumulation and resources.
If not for the lightning knowledge Zheng Fa brought and the Great Freedom Demon Ancestor’s Dharmakaya methods,
whether the Old Man could transform at all would be uncertain.
Simply put, the Old Man caught a good era, but only the beginning.
…
The hardest part of Senior Sister Zhang’s Nascent Spirit tribulation was probably the Old Man. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
Because her tribulation seemed smooth, even easier than the Old Man’s.
Especially the Heart Demon Tribulation, which she almost instantly overcame.
But…
“What is Wuyi doing?”
Seeing no movement from Senior Sister Zhang’s courtyard, Uncle Pang couldn’t help but ask.
They dared not approach, fearing mishaps. Yet her prolonged absence made them worried.
“Divine ability,” Zheng Fa said, looking up to the sky. “Innate divine ability!”
Before his words finished, a blue light rose from Senior Sister Zhang’s courtyard, shooting straight toward the profound azure sky beyond the Jiushan Realm.
“Wuyi also gained an innate divine ability?”
Uncle Pang was stunned, then ecstatic.
“Hmm, from my experience, that should be so.”
Others might not believe such claims, but Zheng Fa was different—he was like Heaven’s own son.
With his words, no one doubted anymore;smiles blossomed on all faces, even happier than Zheng Fa himself upon gaining a divine ability.
Now that Senior Sister Zhang had advanced to Nascent Spirit and gained an innate divine ability, it proved one thing:
It wasn’t just Zheng Fa who was Heaven’s favored child, but Zheng Fa, or rather the cultivation method of the Jiushan Realm, had a high chance of acquiring innate divine abilities!
This was far more significant than Zheng Fa’s good fortune and naturally lifted everyone’s spirits.
Thinking this, Uncle Pang nudged the Old Man with his arm and said, “Tell me, you both transformed, so why don’t you have an innate divine ability?”
The Old Man turned to Uncle Pang and said softly:
“Wuyi is Yellow Junior Sister’s disciple, my daughter-in-law, so it’s none of your business… why are you so happy?”
