Chapter 387: Man Can Overcome Heaven

Not long after the Celestial Venerable created the New Dharma and Cultivators began to rely on plundering the heavens and the earth for their Cultivation…

The world retaliated, and a great change descended.

The more people practiced the same Cultivation Technique simultaneously, the slower everyone's cultivation speed became.

This was known as "Immortal Arts cannot be practiced together."

This is the truth of the world as it exists today, and it is the fundamental reason why Cultivation Techniques are so precious.

But now, within an obscure little organization, a technique that contradicted the laws of heaven and earth had actually been born.

Who would believe it?

At first, Cultivators only treated it as a joke and ignored it completely.

However, there were always some who sought immortal arts but had no way to obtain them; with a "give it a try" attitude, they crossed mountains and rivers to travel to Nine Mountains Province to investigate.

After joining the Lingyuan Sect and formally beginning to practice the Spirit Origin of All Living Beings Technique…

Something that shocked them happened.

The members of the Lingyuan Sect were indeed all practicing this single Cultivation Technique.

From Qi Refining to Soul Transformation, every Realm was represented.

Most importantly, the supreme principle that "arts cannot be practiced together" seemed to have lost its effect on the Spirit Origin of All Living Beings Technique.

There was no instance of cultivation speed slowing down due to too many people practicing it.

The facts were indisputable.

No matter how incredible it was, it was simply happening.

Soon, the news that the Lingyuan Sect possessed such a miraculous technique spread throughout the entire Cultivation World.

The public's first reaction was that the creator of this technique must be an unparalleled Eternal Celestial Venerable.

Only by reversing the laws of heaven and earth could such an effect be achieved.

However, the world's knowledge of the Eternal Celestial Venerable was very shallow.

They only caught a glimpse of it through the phrase "reverse the laws of heaven and earth to prove longevity" recorded in the Five Spirits Qi Induction Method.

How to reverse it, what exactly counts as reversal, to what extent must it be reversed to achieve longevity…

These and other questions were merely unreliable conjectures.

It was understandable for them to make such guesses regarding the miraculous effects of the Spirit Origin of All Living Beings Technique.

Obviously, this guess was wrong.

After reading the Spirit Origin of All Living Beings Technique, Immortal Venerable Huang Yue, a senior Combined Dao expert from Tianqing Province, finally revealed the answer.

The law of heaven and earth that "arts cannot be practiced" had not been reversed at all.

The reason why Cultivators practicing the Lingyuan technique seemed unaffected was purely due to the inherent characteristics of the Spirit Origin of All Living Beings Technique itself.

The more people practicing the Lingyuan technique at the same time, the faster the cultivation speed.

This was the effect of the Lingyuan technique.

But at the same time, due to the restrictions of heaven and earth, for every additional Cultivator practicing it, the cultivation speed would become slower.

These two effects existed simultaneously.

The result was that the fast and the slow cancelled each other out.

The Lingyuan technique became a method that could barely be practiced.

In fact, according to Immortal Venerable Huang Yue, when the number of people practicing the Lingyuan technique first increased from one to five…

The restrictive effect of heaven and earth was far greater than the speed-increasing characteristic of the technique.

For ordinary Cultivation Techniques, if five people practiced together, it would reach a point where no matter how much of a Genius you were, you couldn't make an inch of progress.

However, as the number of people practicing the Lingyuan technique continued to increase from five to ten, a hundred, a thousand, and ten thousand…

The speed-increasing effect became more and more obvious, finally barely offsetting the restriction that arts cannot be practiced together.

This was, in a sense, "Man Can Overcome Heaven."

But that was the extent of it.

Because the speed-increasing effect of the Spirit Origin of All Living Beings Technique also had its limits.

After offsetting the negative effects of heaven and earth, the Lingyuan technique's efficacy in increasing cultivation speed became almost negligible.

And the Lingyuan technique itself had no other special effects besides increasing cultivation speed.

This also resulted in it not being considered a good Cultivation Technique for the vast majority of Cultivators who had other choices.

Besides this, the Lingyuan technique seemed to have other restrictions.

However, Immortal Venerable Huang Xing did not state them explicitly.

"The Spirit Origin of All Living Beings Technique was truly born at the wrong time. In any other world, it would definitely be considered a shocking and Heaven-Defying technique. Unfortunately, it is strictly restricted in the Xuanhuang World," Li Fan thought to himself as he built the Formation while listening to Yan Hang and the others chat.

Li Fan was no stranger to this Lingyuan Sect.

It was precisely the organization that Su Xiaomei and the others had encountered, which set up checkpoints to collect fees at the Nine Mountains Pass.

That androgynous person, Shen Yurou, who possessed the Peach Blossom Grotto-Heaven and was wounded by a single sword strike from I Am Invincible, had left a bit of an impression on Li Fan.

"According to Immortal Venerable Huang Yue's words, only by gathering a large number of Cultivators from the very beginning to practice this Lingyuan technique together is it possible to get started."

"To be able to pull together such a large group of people in that chaotic land of Nine Mountains Province, the head of the Lingyuan Sect is also not simple."

…

The injection of fresh blood slightly eased the increasingly tense atmosphere within the Five Elements Cave Heaven.

But it didn't last long.

As the frequency of the Fusion monsters' appearances increased, the Cultivators struggling in the various grotto-heavens finally began to falter.

When the first casualty occurred, some Formation Masters chose to stop working altogether.

Of course, they didn't openly announce it with great fanfare.

They simply used dealing with monsters as an excuse to feign compliance while secretly disobeying.

Qi Buyi was somewhat helpless in the face of this.

She couldn't very well ask the two presiding Combined Dao Immortal Venerables to go on a killing spree, could she?

Not to mention that the Formation Masters in the grotto-heavens all had considerable status and backgrounds.

If she really did that, under forced coercion, it would likely backfire and cause the construction of the Formations in the Five Elements Cave Heaven to come to a complete standstill.

Qi Buyi, who rarely encountered such a situation, was quite overwhelmed for a time.

She had no choice but to report the situation to Chief Lu while doing her best to appease everyone.

To prevent an even worse riot from occurring.

Although Li Fan himself didn't care about the turmoil outside…

…his efficiency in setting up the Formations was inevitably affected.

As Yan Hang and the other four found it increasingly difficult to deal with the monsters, he also had to devote some of his attention to keeping an eye on the battle.

At critical moments, Li Fan would even participate in the combat.

Of course, only in the form of Formation support.

Just as the situation was gradually collapsing, a beam of white light that pierced through the heavens and earth surged through the entire Five Elements Cave Heaven.

Reinforcements had finally arrived.

An extremely massive crossing dust boat lay across the Void Realm outside the grotto-heaven.

It occupied more than half of the sky.

Cultivators, like dense black dots, flew toward the various grotto-heavens in an orderly fashion.

And Li Fan, who had been staying in the Water Attribute Grotto-Heaven, was able to glimpse the full view of the Five Elements Cave Heaven for the first time.

It looked like a ring connected end to end, yet also like a palette of mixed colors.

Both clearly demarcated and yet indistinguishable from one another.

As the beam of light gradually dimmed, the illusory scenes of the Metal, Fire, and Earth Grotto-Heavens also slowly disappeared.

At the same time, the collaborative work list within the Dutian Record almost doubled.

While checking it, Li Fan also saw many familiar names.

They were the young Formation Masters who had received training with Li Fan at the Cosmos Abode and then returned to their respective provinces to participate in the Great Competition.

"It seems the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance is truly short-handed now."

"They've even dragged in the fresh recruits."