Chapter 1420: Four Extremes Scripture
Beneath the ten-foot-six Bodhi tree, earth, fire, wind, and water revolved, merging with Ye Fan's four limbs. Chaotic mist diffused, heaven and earth split open, and he propped open an ancient world.
This was a terrifying process. The supreme and grand scene of this Dao inspired awe. In a daze, one could hear the sounds of living beings making offerings and prostrating in worship, as if deities were weeping.
The Dao waves shook the world, surging like a vast ocean, spreading in all directions. In a flash, the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths appeared before one's eyes. Above and below the heavens, only one person reigned supreme.
Beneath the ten-foot-six Bodhi tree, a golden body flickered in and out of existence, radiating an immortal radiance. Behind it, various divine phenomena arose. Within it, ancient scriptures were chanted, supremely holy, supremely sacred, supremely divine.
Ye Fan was evolving his own Dao, possessing a grand momentum that could swallow mountains and rivers and overlook the vast cosmos, making people unable to resist kowtowing and prostrating themselves before him.
"Taiji refers to the state before heaven and earth were divided, when primordial qi was mixed as one—this is also called Tai Chu, Tai Yi..."
The scripture was vast and majestic, like a silver waterfall cascading from the Nine Heavens. One ancient character after another bloomed with divine radiance within Ye Fan's body, imprinting themselves. His Wheel Sea scripture was perfected, transcending beyond.
Taiji was the source, extending to the four limbs of the human body, giving birth to the Four Extremes. Thus, Taiji gave birth to the Two Principles, and the Two Principles gave birth to the Four Manifestations, seizing the creation of heaven.
"The Dao endures through endless ages. The cosmos proceeds from the Ultimate Void to Taiji, and then to the transformation and birth of all things..."
Ye Fan's countenance was solemn and dignified, like a deity or demon expounding the Dharma. His indestructible golden body sat beneath the ten-foot-six Bodhi tree, comprehending Dao and Law. His thick black hair and lightning-like eyes expanded his own Dao.
Golden runes flickered on his body's surface. One ancient character after another leaped and appeared, expanding from the Wheel Sea to the Four Extremes. This was the process of creating all things.
"The Dao of heaven and earth uses the two qi of yin and yang to create all things..."
Before heaven and earth were divided, primordial qi was mixed as one—this was Tai Chu, a state of chaos.
Ye Fan was undergoing transformation. His indestructible golden body was resplendent. Golden blood qi split heaven and earth, and chaos surged around him. He used his hands and feet to prop open a heaven and earth.
This conformed to Dao and Principle.
One golden rune after another appeared, engraved on his body's surface, shining brilliantly, releasing immortal divine radiance. It was as if a heavenly god had descended, requiring the worship of all living beings.
During this process, great winds and thunder arose. Lightning flashed and thunder roared, tearing through the sky. Each bolt of lightning was like a river of stars, terrifying to the extreme.
This made the twelve saints gasp. Ye Fan was evolving the Dao. This scene was horrifying. It didn't seem like a Saint King at all, but rather an ancient supreme being expounding scriptures.
Because various scriptures appeared within his body, ringing incessantly. The great heaven and earth resonated with him, trembling together.
The furnace nurtured a hundred scriptures. It conceived the Dao and gave birth to meaning. Various scripture runes chimed together, refining his unparalleled Dharma. The scene was astonishing.
Ye Fan directly charged from the Wheel Sea to the Four Extremes, without going through the Dao Palace. This did not contradict his own Dao. It was a very natural process.
In ancient times, various sages could become Great Saints by cultivating a single secret realm. The chosen secret realm was not necessarily the Wheel Sea. Some chanted the Dao Palace scripture, some sat cross-legged on the Immortal Platform, and some practiced asceticism throughout the world, evolving the Four Extremes of the human body.
Each person's Dao was different, so their choices were also different.
It was only in later generations that the path from the Wheel Sea to the Dao Palace, then to the Four Extremes, and then into the great dragon of the human body, undergoing the Nine Transformations of the Dragon Transformation realm to ascend to the Immortal Platform, was established.
Ancient methods and modern Dao could not be said to be superior or inferior. The difference was only in choice. What was powerful was the original mind and the self.
Ye Fan's entire body was glowing. Using the Wheel Sea as the origin, he created the Four Extremes, deriving an invincible Dao, placing special emphasis on this secret realm.
Beneath the Bodhi tree, three thousand figures appeared before and behind Ye Fan. They were all himself—some like deities in the Nine Heavens, some like demon lords from ancient times, some like banished immortals from the Immortal Domain...
The sound of scripture chanting was immensely grand!
The three thousand phantom figures, some sitting cross-legged, some standing in the Nine Heavens, each and every one was chanting scriptures. They appeared like masters of heaven and earth, or like ancient supreme beings who split heaven and earth.
This scene made people tremble. Three thousand versions of himself, each with different Dharma forms, overawed the Nine Heavens, shook the Ten Earths. The myriad heavens and countless domains were greatly terrified because of them.
"Clang..."
Beneath the ten-foot-six Bodhi tree, three thousand gods and demons chanted scriptures. Their sound surpassed everything, ultimately converging into a single torrent of the Great Dao, sweeping through past and present. This was extremely rare!
What were yellow bells and great tripods, what were Buddhist chants, what were ancient gods reciting scriptures, what were banished immortals praying, what were living beings making offerings—all were suppressed.
Ye Fan's gaze was deep, like an abyss, like a sea.
"The Dao endures through endless ages. The cosmos proceeds from the Ultimate Void to Taiji, and then to the transformation and birth of all things..."
Taiji gave birth to the Two Principles, and the Two Principles gave birth to the Four Manifestations. The two qi of yin and yang nourished the Four Extremes, turning out one golden ancient symbol after another, engraved into Ye Fan's bones and golden flesh and blood, mysterious and unfathomable.
The Four Manifestations grew, propping up heaven and splitting earth. The Four Extremes of the human body were like four pillars supporting the heavens, separating this heaven and earth. Within them, myriad spirits were conceived, and all things were created.
At this moment, it wasn't just inside the Life Spring. Even outside, in the vast black Sea of Suffering, many cultivators heard this grand chanting of scriptures.
However, people could only hear a very mysterious Dao sound. It was difficult to grasp the meaning of the scripture. In a daze, everyone was stunned. This heaven and earth seemed to be trembling, pulsing in unison with it.
"This... someone is comprehending the Dao, creating scripture and meaning, comparable to ancient sages and venerables. Who is this?"
"No, the scripture is coming from the Life Spring of Numinous Treasure Heavenly Venerable. Four killing swords guard it. No one can enter. Could this be Numinous Treasure Heavenly Venerable expounding scriptures, transmitting the Dharma across ages to later generations?"
Many people were uncertain, listening intently.
Inside the Life Spring, the four dark red killing swords were very tranquil. They had calmed down considerably because of this scripture. Their killing intent was restrained, making this place even more sacred.
So-called yin and yang have many interpretations. Heaven and earth, sun and moon, thunder and lightning, wind and rain, the four seasons, before noon and after noon, as well as male and female, hard and soft, movement and stillness, manifestation and concealment—all things are divided into yin and yang.
During this process, various divine phenomena appeared within the Wheel Sea. Different "yin and yang" extended to the Four Extremes, thus creating many "Four Manifestations."
This was a "Dao transformation," a process of sublimation, self-refinement, and perfection, making the Four Extremes of the human body supremely strong and supremely great!
Tai Yang, Tai Yin, Shao Yin, Shao Yang—these Four Manifestations revolved. Ye Fan's palms held up the blue sky, his feet trod on the netherworld, like an ancient god of creation.
Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter alternated. The power of Spring moistened things silently. The power of Summer was blazing like fire. The power of Autumn was full of killing austerity. The power of Winter annihilated all things.
When the four divine spirits—Azure Dragon, Black Tortoise, White Tiger, and Vermilion Bird—appeared, it was another kind of Four Manifestation. Ye Fan formed hand seals with both hands. The dragon and tiger fought for supremacy. The Black Tortoise plowed the sea. The Vermilion Bird traversed three thousand worlds. This was a peerless offensive power!
There were also Four Manifestations like Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water—these were splitting heaven and earth. All kinds of terrifying scenes were difficult to describe one by one.
At the final moment, everything flowed through the four limbs. Ye Fan's golden meridians, bones and flesh, abdomen and back, five viscera, six bowels, even the seven injuries and eight benefits—within his entire body, nothing was not glowing. The Four Extremes gradually took shape, expounding the myriad phenomena!
The Great Dao roared. Bones, meridians, and blood underwent transformation and sublimation. In the end, it was as if he had disintegrated. A single drop of blood was a great star. A single piece of bone was a star domain. Meridians were star rivers.
He used the Four Extremes of the human body to split heaven and earth. Outside, chaos surged. Inside, his body was like a universe, with myriad heavenly stars, with ten thousand realms and all things. The scene was world-shaking.
Man participates in heaven and earth, corresponds to the sun and moon. The waxing and waning of the entire body all connect to heaven and earth, responding to all things.
Ye Fan penetrated the Four Extremes secret realm, splitting heaven and earth, opening an ancient world, as if about to give birth to another universe, corresponding to the great heaven and earth, wrapped in chaos, his entire body glowing.
A cauldron sank and floated in the chaos, sensing his Dao. That was the Primordial Qi Cauldron, sublimating together with him, undergoing refinement and transformation.
In the distance, the twelve saints were all shocked. Ye Fan's scripture was too terrifying. This was truly a domineering and invincible Dao. Was a universe evolving and being born?
"The Four Extremes prop up heaven and earth, possessing the power to split heaven and earth. Is this his Dao? It's really too strong!" Pang Bo muttered to himself.
Beneath the Bodhi tree, a golden body was resplendent. Ye Fan was without joy or worry, creating his own Dao. His crystalline bones and golden flesh and blood were evolving the myriad heavenly stars and rivers, terrifying to the extreme.
In a daze, one could hear the roars of gods and demons, the worship of living beings in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths!
However, at this moment, a startling change occurred. Ye Fan suddenly opened his eyes. Two beams of light blazed brightly, tearing apart the universe and heaven and earth, terrifying beyond measure.
He stretched his four limbs, shattering the myriad heavenly stars and rivers, smashing great star after great star, collapsing all the ten thousand domains, causing the entire human body universe to collapse.
This was a terrible disaster, a true cataclysm for his human body universe. It was the end of the world. Brilliant clusters of stars exploded one after another. Splendid galaxies were extinguished in large swaths. The great universe shattered.
And Ye Fan's bones, blood, meridians, etc., all shattered. Every drop of blood pierced through the void, splitting the universe, as if the master of all things was heading toward self-destruction.
"Yezi, what are you doing?!" Pang Bo shouted.
The twelve saints shuddered violently, their expressions changing one after another. They issued Dao roars, wanting to shake Ye Fan's primordial spirit awake. Doing this was self-destruction. They thought he had fallen into demonic possession.
Ye Fan paid them no heed. He still vibrated his Four Extremes. He broke inch by inch, which also meant that his human body universe had completely collapsed. The myriad heavens and countless domains no longer existed.
"Wake up!" Pang Bo, Dragon Horse, and the other twelve saints combined their Dao roars, wanting to make him sober up.
"I am fine." Ye Fan only uttered these three words. His white bones, golden flesh and blood, etc., pulsed, emitting rumbles, and began to reorganize, becoming even stronger.
"What is this?" They didn't understand, all very worried.
In the world, there are many kinds of great Daos. Each person's path is different. This was Ye Fan's choice. The great universe endures forever, but he did not want to imitate it.
In the human world, there are myriad spirits. When they reach the extreme, most choose the human form. This itself indicates a certain problem.
This heaven and earth—one doesn't know the past, one doesn't know the future. Who can say it endures forever? If heaven and earth finally end, and another great universe is exchanged, would this order still apply?
In this world, Ye Fan did not believe in a next life, did not discuss the past. He only revered his own body and was invincible in this life. Therefore, he did not imitate the great universe. He only refined one body. This was himself.
Thus, he broke the great stars, shattered the human body universe, let bones, meridians, and blood regenerate. He only assembled one self, shedding those splendors, returning to simplicity. One person, one body—that was enough.
All the star fragments, orderly immortal mists, and law divine chains were completely fused into his "one body," smelted into one furnace, becoming his most powerful self.
This was his Four Extremes Scripture. Starting from the revolution of the Four Manifestations, to the sublimation of splitting heaven and earth, and then to returning to simplicity—only achieving one "human body."
On the Bodhi tree, ten thousand leaves swayed. The scripture sounded for a thousand or a hundred years, unknown for whom it was chanted. The myriad heavens merged with the Dao. A hundred scriptures appeared together, singing in harmony, illuminating reincarnation. Beneath the Bodhi tree, there was only Ye Fan himself. Let the divine light be endless, let the ten thousand Daos streak across the sky dome—only one true body remained.