Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 614: Chapter 469: Proving the Dao_2

For instance, Chen Zhixing, he validated his Dao under the Ziwei Emperor in the night.

As he validated his Dao, the stars in the sky shone brightly, golden lotuses surged from the earth, and the rushing Spiritual Qi caused all things to grow, not to mention some small spirits that rapidly took shape at that moment.

No calamity, only benefits.

Instead of saying it’s Dao validation, it might be better to say it is the world announcing your birth to all beings.

With Chen Zhixing’s Dao validation, the shining stars in the sky also faded away.

After the brilliance receded, these stars seemed no different from before Chen Zhixing’s Dao validation, but in reality, if someone truly sensed it, they could discover subtle differences.

The stars have changed!

They are no longer the celestial phenomena that existed on the firmament from ancient times for anyone to freely use their starlight. Many cultivators who relied on borrowing Star Power were surprised to find that after Chen Zhixing’s Dao validation, they needed a kind of ’review’ to borrow Star Power.

Although this review is very fast, and for them, the speed of spellcasting is almost no different from before.

But this easily ignored rule indeed appeared.

Not only this review, but even after they borrowed the starlight, an attribute similar to ’contamination’ subtly attached to them as they borrowed Star Power, and with their continued borrowing, this ’contamination’ kept deepening.

"This is the authority of the Star Monarch Taoist Lord."

On the Celestial Break Mountain Range, sensing the changes in his body, a surge almost tilted by the Great Tao, a near-constant stream of rules from the Spirit Realm, Chen Zhixing squinted his eyes, enjoying this nearly miraculous benefit.

As the Master of One Tao, whenever someone in this world needs to borrow Star Power, the Spirit Realm would withhold a trace of Dao practice from the one invoking the starlight, and through the operation of the Spirit Realm, give it to Chen Zhixing, the only Longevity, Golden Nature, Taoist Lord of the Star Monarch Tao!

Moreover, as mentioned before, cultivators must undergo a kind of ’review’ to borrow Star Power.

And now, this review authority has fallen into Chen Zhixing’s hands.

As a Taoist Lord, he can decide, using the power of the Spirit Realm, whether to grant these people!

Of course, there are limits to this review.

If left alone, it defaults to allowing the other party to borrow the power of the stars; if he refuses, he must pay a portion of Dao practice to prevent it.

If he is willing, he can even expend a large portion of Dao practice to permanently sever the borrower’s access to Star Power!

Interestingly, although Chen Zhixing can do these things, he cannot confirm who is borrowing Star Power; he can only choose to refuse or not, without knowing who is borrowing.

"Is it because I’m not currently in the Spirit Realm, and the authority is incomplete, or is it because this is the inherent flaw of the Taoist Lord’s authority?"

Chen Zhixing thought it should be the latter.

Because if it were the former, then the power of the Taoist Lord’s authority would be too great. For someone like him as a Taoist Lord of the Star Tao, it’s manageable, but if it were a basic Taoist Lord of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth... One sentence forbidding everyone to use the power of fire, wouldn’t the Celestial Profound Realm revert to the era of eating raw meat and blood?

"Uh... Okay, maybe I overthought it."

Chen Zhixing, curious, tried the rejection option and found that the cost of refusal was nearly a hundred times the benefit gained from default agreement.

In other words, if a top-tier Taoist Lord like the Five Elements Taoist Lord tried something senseless like making the creatures of the Celestial Profound Realm eat raw meat, they would perish in the process.

After another careful sensing of his Star Monarch Taoist Lord authority, Chen Zhixing ultimately arrived at a foregone conclusion.

"Indeed, the Taoist Lord’s path is something embedded postnatally into the Celestial Profound Realm, using postnatal rules to constrain the innate, forming a vast web of rules from the path cultivated by many, in turn altering the original rules of the world. And the power of such alteration, with the increasing numbers of Golden Nature and Taoist Lords, gets closer to the source until ultimately distorting the fundamental of the world, making the Taoist Lord’s path become the basic law of the Celestial Profound Realm."

Amazement at the methods of predecessors.

Yes.

Chen Zhixing genuinely felt that the group who initially created the Taoist Lord’s path were impressive, to have such an idea was remarkable, but more remarkable was that they actually succeeded.

While amazed, do you feel how incredible such methods are?

Not necessarily.

Because any rule that appears, for later generations, after the initial shock, is rather easy to imitate.

Perhaps not easy, but for someone like Chen Zhixing with determination, spending a long period of time, it is doable.

But in the end, the imitation achieved by these later generations is just progressing from one to the countless, while those who initially created this rule completed the transition from zero to one.

"In comparison, my lifespan has once again increased, which perhaps can be considered a good thing?"

Noticing the Chaotic Qi comprising his body being ’refined’ and ’purified’ repeatedly after validating Dao Longevity, Chen Zhixing’s expression became somewhat peculiar.

For he found himself ’advancing’.

Undergoing a transformation of life.

Yet this transformation was incomplete, not conducted in one continuous process, but rather... advancing a little and then halting, then advancing a bit more.... After such repeated transformations thrice, Chen Zhixing’s expression became one of mixed emotions.

"What the heck, this purification is neither here nor there, lifespan increased, but this transformation....."

As the transformation concluded, a peculiar thought emerged in Chen Zhixing’s mind.

Semi-finished product!

Yes, a semi-finished product!

It is unlike the small realms before the Longevity Realm.

For the breakthroughs in the previous realms, the smaller stages involved accumulating power for a breakthrough and conducting a major realm transformation. But upon reaching the Longevity Realm, it turned into a process where minor advancements lead to minor transformations.... Stretching the transformation process over thousands or tens of thousands of years!

"This is like a bowl of rice, only to be eaten one grain at a time, and after several bites, discovering the bowl is empty, yet I haven’t had my fill.... Neither here nor there!"

Enticing.

Bewitching!

Very peculiar!

"Understandably, those who originally created the way of cultivating Longevity through the Taoist Lord’s path were probably perverts!"

Okay, Chen Zhixing still couldn’t accept it.

For this method of transformation was simply too odd.

It’s like playing an online game in a previous life, where every ten levels allowed for new equipment.

But suddenly, the gaming company lost its mind, giving you a set of equipment usable for a lifetime, where gaining a little strength allows more attributes of the equipment to manifest.

This sort of thing works out well for equipment, but applied to people.

Congratulations on leveling up, congratulations, you’ve grown a quarter of a hand?

"Ugh... As expected, the person who initially created the Taoist Lord’s path was indeed a pervert!"

.....

After breaking through, Chen Zhixing spent some time stabilizing his realm.

However, with his breakthrough, numerous disturbances arose in the Celestial Profound Realm.

Among them, the forefront was the Southern Domain Celestial Saint Palace.

Because of the previous intention to co-establish the Star Palace with the Ziwei Chen Family, many disciples within the Celestial Saint Palace truly practiced the Star Monarch Tao.

Thus, after Chen Zhixing validated his Dao, all these disciples perceived slight changes in the Star Monarch Tao.

In fact, they did not even need to sense it, for the extraordinary phenomena induced by Chen Zhixing’s Dao validation was too conspicuous; anyone who looked up could witness the magnificent sight of the stars shining overhead.

But what they saw was ultimately different from what the cultivators practicing the Star Monarch Tao felt.

"I sense an anomaly in the Star Monarch Tao, the Spirit Realm has started extracting my Dao practice."

"I felt it too."

"Fortunately, the amount is small and still within an acceptable range...."

"Is this.... the Demon Venerable’s Dao validation?"

"It should be.... right?"