Simultaneous travel: I am proving the great way in the heavens.

Chapter 566 Resurrecting the Seven Ancestral Witches through Luofu! A Weakened Version of Merging with the Dao! An Anomaly Under the Heavenly Dao

While witchcraft is indeed a technique that purely pursues killing and power, there are still some that are exceptionally powerful.

Among the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Techniques, there is one called the Seven Arrows of Nailhead. Although it is just a technique, its powerful destructive force is such that even a Great Luo Golden Immortal could perish if he were to be accidentally hit by it.

It achieved the level of law through the essence of technique, even causing the Great Luo Golden Immortal Zhao Gongming to perish under this move, leaving him no choice but to be listed on the Investiture of the Gods. This demonstrates the immense destructive power of this sorcery.

Of course, the Seven Arrows of Nailhead, being so powerful, did not come without a price.

The person who presides over this ceremony will inevitably suffer the consequences.

The backlash from the Seven Arrows of Nailhead was none other than the ruins of the Heavenly Court where Luo Fu and Hao Tian were currently located.

The so-called Seven Arrows of Nailhead refers to the target of the spellcaster, and the seven arrows are the spiritual evil energy of the seven ancestral witches who perished in the Heavenly Court during the Lich War.

Of the twelve Ancestral Witches, only Houtu transformed into reincarnation; the other eleven perished in the Lich-Demon Calamity.

Seven of them died in the fierce battle after the invasion of the Heavenly Court, which is the essence of the last curse technique among the Thirty-Six Heavenly Arts, the Seven Arrows of Nailhead.

After the Lich Wars, many good things were indeed left behind in the Three Realms.

The Seven Arrows of Nailhead is the pinnacle of witchcraft, a method that uses curses to suppress evil and mobilizes the spiritual fragments of seven ancestral witches, capable of killing even a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

The person who passed on this magic was none other than Lu Ya Dao Ren, the sole survivor of the Three-Legged Golden Crow during the great calamity of the Lich King. And Lu Ya Dao Ren also possessed a sinister magic weapon, the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife.

This magical artifact is completely incompatible with both orthodox and unorthodox sects.

It's more like a curse or a means of suppressing evil.

All it takes is a gourd. By bowing and praying, and saying "Please, treasure, be reborn," a human head with wings and facial features will fly out of the gourd. Even someone with an indestructible body and impervious to swords and spears will perish on the spot.

Clearly, this thing is inextricably linked to the Wu tribe.

If others can only borrow and mobilize the remaining spirits of the fallen witch clan through countless means such as spirit communication, then Luo Fu has become the only one who can truly and completely resolve this witch-demon battlefield that has lasted for who knows how many years.

This was also Haotian's true intention in meeting Luofu here.

After all, the current Heavenly Court belongs to Haotian after the Lich War, even though the entire Heavenly Court has been shattered into countless fragmented spaces.

But we cannot leave behind such a dangerous battlefield remnant.

To outsiders, this place, filled with the indomitable fighting spirit of ancient ancestral witches and dense earthly evil energy, is a place that other cultivators would avoid at all costs.

For Luo Fu, who possesses a strong lineage of powerful witches, this place is an unparalleled treasure trove for self-improvement.

If he could collect all the fighting spirit and spiritual fragments of the seven Ancestral Witches in this battlefield, then Luo Fu might be able to condense an incarnation comparable to the ancient Ancestral Witches.

Of course, this possibility is actually not very high. After all, the spirits of the seven ancestral witches are simply not something that ordinary Golden Immortals can withstand.

If we were to collect them all at once, it would be uncertain who would be the master and who would be the guest.

It's even possible that they might usurp the throne and take over, using Luofu to resurrect the seven ancestral witches.

More likely, Luofu condensed seven special avatars with baleful energy as their main component. While they did not reach the level of the Ancestral Witches, they were still capable of using some of the Ancestral Witches' divine powers.

The existence of the Ancestral Witches is actually quite special. Although they do not have a primordial spirit, they are born with the bloodline and physical body of the Great God Pangu, which allows them to reach a certain level of harmony with the Dao in the Three Realms.

It is an alternative, infinitely weakened version of the Tao of self-harmony.

This is actually reflected in the ancestral witch Houtu.

The Ancestral Witches are actually part of the universe, including the Witch Clan. This is why the Ancestral Witch Houtu was able to reincarnate in her own body.

Previously, only Pangu, the great god who created heaven and earth, was capable of doing this.

The great god Pangu transformed himself into the world we know today, while Houtu transformed herself into reincarnation to complete the universe.

On the one hand, it is indeed ordained by the will of Heaven that the Ancestral Witch Houtu will complete the restoration of Heaven and Earth. On the other hand, it also makes people feel the special nature of the Ancestral Witch.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches are like a special bug born from the essence of Pangu's blood, combined with the earth's evil energy and the laws of heaven.

The reason why the Seven Arrows of Nailhead, which mobilizes fragments of the Ancestral Witch's spirit to cast a curse and suppress evil, is clearly just a curse-based witchcraft, is listed among the Thirty-Six Heavenly Arts.

Seeking the Dao through methods is a way of being an Earth Immortal, and Zhen Yuanzi is a typical example of this, being the ancestor of Earth Immortals.

Without comprehending the Great Dao, one obtains a method within the Dao, and a technique within the method; with unwavering faith and diligent effort, this is the path to becoming a human immortal.

Logically speaking, with the Seven Arrows of Nailhead among the Thirty-Six Heavenly Techniques, the art of curses should also be considered a method used by earth immortals to seek the Dao.

The real reason for this difference lies in the fact that techniques like the Seven Arrows of Nailhead are actually shortcuts taken from the methods. It is precisely the so-called "one method is found within the Tao, and one technique is found within the methods."

This method is a derivative of the special bug-like product of the Ancestral Witches.

If someone could truly gather the Twelve Ancestral Witches and bring them back to life, then theoretically, they would possess a unique kind of power, akin to attaining sainthood through enlightenment.

Don't forget that among the three great primordial killing formations that dominate the universe, the essence of the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation is to summon the true form of Pangu with the power of the twelve ancestral witches.

Although Pangu perished during the creation of the world while proving his Dao, he died at the very moment when he was infinitely close to succeeding in proving his Dao.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Pangu before his fall was in a state of half-stepping into the Dao.

Only in this way could the true form of Pangu, summoned by the twelve ancestral witches forming the Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Formation, have the strength to contend with the sages.

Right now, Haotian has given Luofu a choice: to clean up the ruins of this war between the Lich King and the Demon King.

This is tantamount to giving Luo Fu an opportunity to condense the seven ancestral witch incarnations.

In fact, Haotian's initiative in giving Luofu such an opportunity can be considered, to some extent, a consensus among the powerful beings of the Three Realms. After all, the Wu Clan is an anomaly under the Heavenly Dao; it is a product of Pangu's essence and blood, combined with the earth's evil energy and laws.

Even if Luo Fu hadn't activated the bloodline of his ancient ancestor, the Witch Clan, within him through the shared power, and had simply been a human, he would still be an existence incredibly close to the Witch Clan.

Why is it that Luo Fu possesses the Dao and principles from the other fifteen worlds, which are incompatible with the Three Realms?
This special Tao and principle is like the twelve ancestral witches of the past, who were born with all sorts of incredible supernatural powers and methods.

Combining the bloodline of the Wu clan within him with these different Daos and principles, it wouldn't be unreasonable to say that Luo Fu is the thirteenth Ancestral Witch outside of the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

The ruins of the ancient war between the Lich King and the Demon King in the Heavenly Court are undoubtedly a perilous and desperate situation for anyone. Only the most powerful beings in the Three Realms could seal it off or even suppress it.

But for Luofu, this place is an unparalleled treasure.

If Luo Fu were to successfully collect all the spiritual fragments of the seven Ancestral Witches, then, putting aside everything else, in the path of Earth Immortals, he would probably be in no way inferior to Zhen Yuanzi, the ancestor of Earth Immortals.

Zhen Yuanzi was the first person to successfully walk the path of becoming an Earth Immortal through the means of seeking the Dao, much like Lü Chunyang, who reached an unprecedented level in the path of sword immortals and was hailed as the ancestor of sword immortals.

If Luo Fu were to collect the spiritual fragments of the seven Ancestral Witches and condense them into his own avatar, then the Seven Arrows of Nailhead in the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Techniques would inevitably be greatly weakened in power. Furthermore, Luo Fu would be able to detect any other person using such a curse-based suppression technique.

It is not to say that the original source of the Seven Arrows of Nailhead, one of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Techniques, came from the use of fragments of the Ancestral Witch's spirit, that all methods of cursing and suppressing evil must rely on spiritual communication to connect with the fragments of the Ancestral Witch's spirit.

Even if Luo Fu collected all the fragments of the Wu Clan's spirit from the ruins of the Heavenly Court after the war, it would still not affect the curse's power to suppress evil. However, the Seven Arrows of Nailhead would never again have the power to curse and kill even a Great Luo Golden Immortal during the Investiture of the Gods.

If Luo Fu hadn't received the favor of Heaven and accumulated merit before heading to the Golden Gourd Cave and fighting the Unicorn King, and was still only a Taiyi Golden Immortal, he certainly wouldn't have agreed to let Haotian handle this battlefield and collect the fragments of the Ancestral Witch's spirit within it.

After all, at that time, Luo Fu was nothing special in terms of cultivation, realm, and Daoist practice.

If we rashly collect the spiritual fragments of the Ancestral Witch, the most likely outcome is that the spirit will be usurped. At that time, it will be unknown whether what comes to life in his body is the Ancestral Witch incarnation with Luofu as its core, or the real Ancestral Witch resurrected.

However, now, the cultivation level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, although the Great Luo Golden Immortals of the Three Realms cannot reach the level of the mythical Great Luo, which is a permanent proof, is enough to ignore the influence of the fragments of the Ancestral Witch's spirit on their own mind.

It should be understood that, theoretically, the Great Luo Golden Immortal is undoubtedly the pinnacle of cultivation in the Three Realms.

Although there are Quasi-Saints above the Great Luo Golden Immortal, and even Saints of the Primordial Great Luo realm, these two are not within the cultivation systems of the orthodox Xuanmen sect or the eight hundred unorthodox sects.

When one's cultivation reaches the level of a Great Luo Golden Immortal, it is like reaching the end, just like graduating from school and reaching the highest level of education. Even if one continues to study, it is only to explore new avenues in one's own academic field.

Without a general framework, there is no possibility of following a set procedure.

Luo Fu could even guess at this moment that Haotian deliberately met him here, probably all arranged by those powerful beings in the Three Realms behind the scenes.

From the very beginning, just as she awakened her Wu clan bloodline, she was discovered by the Goddess Pingxin of the Underworld. Under the Goddess Pingxin's arrangement, she went to Lingtai Fangcun Mountain and Xieyue Sanxing Cave to become a disciple of Patriarch Subhuti and received the wonderful method of the Golden Body. Later, the Buddha of the East took the initiative to meet her at Xiaoleiyin Temple, imparted the Dharma of the Bright King, and presented her with a white lotus platform. Everything that happened afterward seemed to be tacitly arranged in advance by the great powers of the Three Realms.

Using various means, they accelerated the cultivation progress in Luofu.

Perhaps the only one not included in the plans of the great beings of the Three Realms was the Great Asura who inexplicably emerged from the Netherworld Blood Sea and gave Luofu a Red Lotus Karmic Fire.

Although the Styx Ancestor was blocked at the gate by the Six Sages, he was forced to stay in the Netherworld Blood Sea not long after the Sages came to rule the world.

But none of the six sages would allow his grand ambition to be realized.

Even now, with the emergence of Luofu, a glimmer of hope that is quite unique to the Heavenly Dao, theoretically, the arrangements made by the powerful beings of the Three Realms for Luofu would not give the Styx Ancestor a chance to interfere.

But apart from the Styx Ancestor, everything else was probably within the predictions of the great powers of the Three Realms.

Even each time an opportunity came to Luofu, it was subtly propelled by powerful beings from the Three Realms.

Don't think that being arranged by others is a bad thing.

On the contrary, after the Dao Ancestor merged with the Dao, the Heavenly Dao of the Three Realms manifested, and the net of laws was strict. Except when the Great Calamity came, due to the influence of the calamity energy, all the causes and conditions in the world were under the cover of the great power's deduction of the heavenly secrets.

Even Sun Wukong, the stone monkey, experienced everything that happened to him—it was all part of a perfectly orchestrated plan.

Putting everything else aside, how could a blessed land like Flower Fruit Mountain, the ancestral home of the ten continents and the source of the three islands, possibly be waiting specifically for the appearance of Sun Wukong?

Especially the Water Curtain Cave, when Sun Wukong was the first to enter, there were even tables, chairs, and basins arranged inside.

For three or four hundred years, Sun Wukong encountered no threat at Flower Fruit Mountain. This blessed land remained undiscovered by any cultivator until Sun Wukong experienced the impermanence of life and death and developed the desire to seek immortality. When he returned after completing his studies, Flower Fruit Mountain was in chaos. Various hardships or trials followed one after another. Monsters and even mortals began to set their sights on Flower Fruit Mountain, which had remained undiscovered for three or four hundred years.

Even Sun Wukong's territory was filled with the feeling of being controlled by others, let alone his growth experience.

If Sun Wukong was like this, how could Luofu, a huge variable that could be considered a glimmer of hope for the Heavenly Dao, not be under the observation of the great powers of the Three Realms?

If the great being's arrangement for Sun Wukong was to make him a pawn in the Journey to the West, then for Luofu, it was to give him every opportunity and see how he would choose.

This has already been fully demonstrated before, whether it was when Luo Fu confronted the Golden-Winged Roc and took its life and innate Yin and Yang energies, or when those powerful beings offered benefits through various indirect means.

These benefits are more like an investment in Louvre.

What they need is the Dao and principles within Luo Fu that are so different from those of the Three Realms—something that can reverse and postpone the course of Heaven's Dao.

In other respects, the powerful beings of the Three Realms are not stingy with Luofu. Even if they have ulterior motives, it depends on Luofu's own choice.

The benefits were the same before, and the choice Haotian is offering now is the same.

Luo Fu has no intention of completely escaping the Three Realms and Five Elements, or being outside the laws of Heaven.

Faced with the benefits offered by these powerful beings from the Three Realms, his best choice was to go with the flow and use them to improve himself, which would also be a way of giving an explanation to the other Luofu in the shared space.

No matter how powerful the power of sharing may be, every Luofu in every world will eventually have to choose to integrate into the world it currently inhabits.

This is precisely the greatest, and perhaps only, requirement that the powerful beings of the Three Realms place on Luofu.

Only with sufficient strength can Luofu truly choose its own direction.

(End of this chapter)