Chapter 135: The Northern Black Water Grimoire

Furthermore, the Mountain-Relying Blade did not occupy a slot!

What made Zhou Yi’s blood boil with excitement most of all was that the World Map of Heaven and Earth was not exclusive to the Mountain-Relying Blade; he could imbue it upon anything, including Dharma techniques!

The more he thought about it, the more thrilled he became. If the World Map could achieve such power just by being imbued upon a mundane blade technique like the Mountain-Relying Blade, what level of power would it reach if imbued upon a Dharma technique?

Would it be enough to make him invincible across the third stage of the Peerless Island?

Wait! A Dharma technique! A Dharma technique!

Zhou Yi’s smile suddenly froze. He realized he might be rejoicing too soon!

He followed the path of cultivating through acupoints, meaning he could only practice one Dharma technique. This technique was meant for nourishment and could not be used for combat unless he was willing to slow his cultivation progress. Based on current information, for those who cultivated via the acupoint growth method, there was only one means of attack after reaching the False Core stage: Dharma tools!

Dharma techniques could be imbued with the World Map, but what about Dharma tools? Could they be imbued as well? Zhou Yi had no answer.

The reason the Mountain-Relying Blade and his Dharma technique could receive the imbuement was that they were things he had cultivated himself—they were his own, sharing a common pulse of essence. The World Map was also his own, albeit of a higher order. Fundamentally, they were all of one lineage, which was why they could be imbued.

But Dharma tools were different. To put it into words, the blade and the technique were internal to Zhou Yi, whereas Dharma tools were external objects; they were fundamentally distinct.

Although he could not be certain, Zhou Yi’s heart gave him the answer first: no. The probability of it being impossible was much higher. Moreover, he could not find the answer now because, until this moment, he did not possess a Dharma tool of his own to test it.

*The Northern Black Water Dharma Tome.*

Shaking off these thoughts for the moment, Zhou Yi reached into his robes and pulled out an ancient, black-covered book. Looking at the four large characters on the cover, his mind whirred with thoughts.

This book had been obtained from those gourd-men, along with some transparent crystals—Dharma crystals. Simply put, this book and the crystals were the loot he had gained from killing those gourd-men; there were no Dharma tools among them.

*The Northern Black Water Dharma Tome.*

"Take one portion of the Northern Black Water True Qi, combine it with a wisp of Northern Black Water Earthly Sha, merge the two, condense them into chaos, turn the void into substance, and manifest a single drop of black water."

Opening the cover, this sentence was written on the first page, with the rest of the page left blank. This was the general outline of the Dharma tome.

"Northern Black Water True Qi, Northern Black Water Earthly Sha!" Zhou Yi silently repeated the words, pondering them.

Heaven and Earth possess spirit; when it remains in the heavens, it is Qi, and when it falls to the ground, it becomes Sha—this is the Heavenly Qi and Earthly Sha! The Northern Black Water True Qi was the spirit of the northern water element in the heavens, hanging in the sky and rising in vapor; the Northern Black Water Earthly Sha was the spirit of the northern water element on earth, falling to the ground, heavy and profound.

"This technique!" As he slowly flipped through the book and read the records within, an inexplicable feeling arose in Zhou Yi’s heart. It looked incredibly powerful!

Unable to stop his excitement, Zhou Yi struggled to maintain his composure. His fingers trembled slightly as he continued to turn the pages.

"Extract all the Heavenly Qi and Earthly Sha of the northern water element, harmonize them with the Black Water True Method, return them to chaos, use Dharma power to expand the chaos. When the chaos reaches its limit, at the end of chaos, Yin and Yang shall divide, giving birth to heaven and earth. The heavens become the Black Water Law-Heaven, and the earth becomes the Black Water Deep-Earth."

"Once heaven and earth are formed, use the law to create a tribulation, stirring up the world. When the world merges, the heaven and earth unite, and from that union, the Black Water is born. Thus, the Northern Black Water Dharma Tome is initially completed!"

He slowly closed the book, his heart racing with uncontrollable excitement. He took a deep breath, barely managing to calm himself.

He closed his eyes, letting himself walk forward following Dugu Shang’s footsteps. His mind was a chaotic jumble of thoughts, each thread forming a complex pattern. Looking closely, they were all pieces of information regarding the Northern Black Water Dharma Tome.

Zhou Yi was deeply stirred. Merely from a rough reading of the text regarding the cultivation method, he could feel a vastness, a grandeur, and an imposing momentum. The very words themselves exuded a sense of immense power.

"Is this what it means to be a true Dharma technique?"

Zhou Yi thought about the cultivation method. The words "Heaven and Earth" and "Chaos" appeared most frequently. A technique based on the foundation of heaven, earth, and chaos—what were these? What kind of tome was this?

Zhou Yi dared not imagine what level of power he would reach if he truly succeeded in cultivating it. Would it have the power to destroy the heavens and the earth?

Furthermore, what troubled him more was that if he actually succeeded in cultivating a tome of such immense power, would he truly be willing to sacrifice it to make a breakthrough?

"I really wouldn't be able to bear it!"

Realizing this thought, Zhou Yi found himself caught between laughter and tears. He hadn't even begun, there wasn't even a shadow of success yet, and he was already reluctant to let it go. How should he describe this?

He could only say that the content of the Northern Black Water Dharma Tome was too tempting, and the grand atmosphere it revealed had deeply shaken him.

"Harmonize Qi and Sha to return to chaos, chaos evolves to divide Yin and Yang, Yin and Yang beget heaven and earth, heaven and earth bring chaos, chaos ends in unity, and from that unity, the Black Water is born."

Only after such cycles of reincarnation could this Dharma tome be considered to have just reached the entry level!

It was precisely this grand atmosphere in the text that caused goosebumps to rise all over Zhou Yi’s body. His blood surged, his mind was restless, and he let himself drift within the vastness depicted in the tome, his heart yearning for it.

This Dharma tome belonged to him, and what it recorded was exactly what he would do in the future!

The moment this thought surfaced, Zhou Yi became even more uncontrollably excited.

...

"Excited, are you?" In the center of Peerless Island, Leng Feng watched the restless Zhou Yi. A hint of nostalgia appeared at the corner of his mouth. He remembered when he first saw a Dharma tome; he had been much the same—restless, unable to control his body, filled with extreme excitement.

Back then, after obtaining the tome, he had only focused on the power described within, completely ignoring the corresponding difficulty of cultivation!

At the time, seeing the technique described in the book, Leng Feng had not believed from the bottom of his heart that there was anything he couldn't accomplish, or that he might be unable to cultivate it.

Or perhaps, he thought, it would just be slow.

But it didn't matter. If he hadn't realized it, reality would teach him everything soon enough.

"Happy? Excited? Then laugh! Revel in it!" Leng Feng gazed at Zhou Yi, the nostalgic smile on his lips instantly turning into a cold sneer. "After this, you will cry, you will despair, and then, you will obediently become my supplement."