After a moment of silence, Wuliang suddenly said, “I know the locations of several Six Paths Law imprints. If you’re willing to let me read your Reincarnation Dao Scroll, I can give you these imprint locations.”
“How many are there?” Lan Xiaobu asked calmly.
“Three,” Wuliang replied, immediately overjoyed at Lan Xiaobu’s response.
He’d only asked with a sliver of hope, not expecting Lan Xiaobu to actually be interested. He knew deep down that as long as Lan Xiaobu was here, he’d never fully comprehend and construct his own Reincarnation Channel Laws. He also had a vague feeling that he might not be able to kill Lan Xiaobu.
For a being like Wuliang, emotions like joy or anger didn’t sway his mindset. Even if Lan Xiaobu completely disrupted his law comprehension, if he couldn’t kill him, he saw no point in wasting effort. When he could kill Lan Xiaobu, he’d simply do it directly.
Lan Xiaobu sneered, “Three locations to trade for a look at my Reincarnation Dao Scroll? Have you cultivated yourself into senility?”
“Then what do you propose?” Wuliang’s expression darkened, a trace of killing intent flickering in his eyes.
“Thirty Six Paths Law imprint locations, and I’ll let you read the Reincarnation Dao Scroll,” Lan Xiaobu said without hesitation.
The Reincarnation Saint looked at Lan Xiaobu speechlessly. Finding three law imprint locations in the Six Paths Nirvana Land was already impressive. He himself had only found four, giving two to Lan Xiaobu and keeping two for himself.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to give more to Lan Xiaobu, but those two imprints were too clear, and he wanted to revisit them later. As someone who cultivated the Reincarnation Dao, finding Six Paths Law imprint locations came more naturally to him. For Wuliang to find five would be remarkable, yet Lan Xiaobu was demanding thirty.
What shocked the Reincarnation Saint even more was that Wuliang didn’t explode at Lan Xiaobu’s words. Instead, after a pause, he said, “I’ve indeed only found thirteen Six Paths Law imprint locations. If you don’t agree, I’ll have no choice but to fight you.”
Lan Xiaobu chuckled, “Twenty, I’ll give you a discount.”
He was inwardly stunned. He hadn’t expected Wuliang to have found so many imprint locations. He’d thrown out thirty just to mess with the guy and extort something extra. He genuinely hadn’t thought Wuliang could offer thirteen—it wasn’t even that far off.
Wuliang took a deep breath and produced sixteen jade slips, saying, “Here are sixteen Six Paths Law imprint locations. Believe it or not, this is all I’ve got. Finding these took me tens of thousands of years. I can only let you look for an hour. Agree, and we trade; disagree, and we’re done.”
“Agreed, but my Reincarnation Dao Scroll can only be read for half an incense stick’s time. We both know it’s worth far more than your imprint locations,” Lan Xiaobu said, pulling out a scroll.
As soon as the Reincarnation Dao Scroll appeared, its vast reincarnation aura was sensed by both Wuliang and the Reincarnation Saint. Wuliang’s eyes lit up—this was undoubtedly the real thing. His hand clenched momentarily; if he could obtain it, he wouldn’t need the Reincarnation Pool to construct his Reincarnation Channel and prove the Dao.
The Reincarnation Saint’s eyes twitched repeatedly. He’d known the scroll was with Lan Xiaobu, likely taken from Nuo Yisheng. Only he knew that Nuo Yisheng’s version was a trap. Though flawed, its contents were genuine. For Lan Xiaobu to produce it alone meant he had the real treasure.
“Fine, how do we trade?” Wuliang agreed to Lan Xiaobu’s terms without hesitation.
Lan Xiaobu placed the Reincarnation Dao Scroll on the ground, setting several restrictions, and said, “Wuliang, you can do the same. You take my scroll and read it here for half an incense stick’s time. I’ll take your sixteen jade slips and examine them here for an hour.”
“Deal.” Wuliang followed suit, placing the sixteen jade slips on the ground with restrictions, then rushed to the scroll’s position. To his delight, beyond the scroll itself, Lan Xiaobu hadn’t even demanded a Dao oath.
In his mind, Lan Xiaobu must have thought he could stop him from leaving—ha, what arrogance.
Lan Xiaobu strolled calmly to the jade slips’ location and immediately began constructing a dimensional model.
This top-tier ninth-level divine array would take him considerable time to break himself. His own arrays, though unique, were only eighth-level, and Wuliang could crack them quickly.
In less than a dozen breaths, Lan Xiaobu used the cosmic dimensional model to unlock Wuliang’s restrictions. But instead of taking the jade slips, he began modeling their structure.
Almost simultaneously, Wuliang laughed, grabbed the scroll, took a step, and vanished into a sudden void channel.
The Reincarnation Saint exclaimed in shock, “He used reincarnation to construct a void channel—impressive.”
Before he finished speaking, the sixteen jade slips Lan Xiaobu hadn’t yet grabbed exploded into nothingness. He stared at Lan Xiaobu speechlessly, thinking, you could’ve at least made Wuliang swear an oath.
Lan Xiaobu wasn’t fazed. Before Wuliang fled, he’d already modeled the sixteen jade slips, now safely stored in his cosmic dimensional model.
“Brother Lan, this Wuliang is no ordinary figure. If something’s off with the scroll he took, he might suspect you tampered with it,” the Reincarnation Saint said gravely.
Lan Xiaobu had already reconstructed the Reincarnation Dao Scroll in his dimensional model. Hearing the Reincarnation Saint, he smiled faintly, “I’m not afraid of him now, will I be later? Let’s go, we’ll comprehend the Construction Reincarnation Laws too.”
If someone wanted to play tricks, he’d prepared the moment he offered the scroll. Otherwise, even if a Dao oath was useless against Wuliang, he’d have made him swear one.
“Alright.” The Reincarnation Saint didn’t move first, waiting for Lan Xiaobu to lead.
Lan Xiaobu walked dozens of yards along a bluestone path, arriving at the edge of a massive pool. The pool’s exterior was formed by reincarnation laws, and the surrounding space was filled with fragmented Six Paths Law shards. Divine sense couldn’t fully penetrate it, let alone eyes discern what lay within.
“Brother Lan, the Reincarnation Pool is best comprehended alone. You go in first, I’ll wait until you’re done,” the Reincarnation Saint said, pointing at the pool.
Before, he’d have rushed in without hesitation, letting Lan Xiaobu go first? Ha, impossible. But now, he felt a deep wariness of Lan Xiaobu, coupled with respect for his strength.
Lan Xiaobu nodded, “Fair enough,” and stepped into the pool.
He’d heard the Reincarnation Saint say it took a thousand years to comprehend the Construction Reincarnation Laws without fully integrating them, so he guessed his own comprehension of the Six Paths Laws would outpace the saint’s. If so, he’d quickly grasp the Construction Laws here, then visit the imprint locations for the others, leaving this place for the Reincarnation Saint to take his time with.
Upon entering the pool, Lan Xiaobu felt an endless flood of reincarnation law fragments, as if he stood amid a ruin of broken bricks and tiles. To build a new house here, he’d need to piece these shattered remnants back together.
Beyond that, an overwhelming mix of mottled and hostile auras permeated the pool. For someone with lower cultivation, this chaotic energy might drive them mad.
The Longevity Art began to circulate, and one fragmented Six Paths Law after another flowed through its cycles. The Longevity Art was Lan Xiaobu’s own creation, growing more refined as his cultivation advanced over the years.
With each cycle of the Longevity Art’s rhythmic aura, Lan Xiaobu could sense its subtle shifts.
As the endless Six Paths Law fragments surged toward him, he clearly distinguished which were Entry Reincarnation Laws, which were Construction Reincarnation Laws, which were Past Life, Present Life, Future Life, and Reincarnation Laws…
Though he could perceive them distinctly, many lacked portions of their rhythmic essence, preventing full integration. To fuse them completely would take an immense amount of time.
It was like assembling a vast, shattered puzzle, finding what he needed among infinite fragments. Worse, these fragments were incomplete, not even half there, and being immersed in this mottled aura made it excruciatingly difficult.
Lan Xiaobu’s first thought was to use the Fortune Dao Tree and the Emperor Rest Tree to assist, slowly perfecting the task—isolating the fragmented Construction Reincarnation Laws, deducing what was missing or broken, and figuring out how to merge them fully.
Without the Fortune Dao Tree and Emperor Rest Tree, even as a Third-Turn Saint, he’d either go mad from the chaotic aura or fail to accomplish this daunting task.
If these were just ordinary broken fragments, even missing half, it’d be trivial for Lan Xiaobu.
But these weren’t ordinary fragments—they were Six Paths Law fragments, each imbued with unique rhythmic essence, each requiring vast divine energy and intent to observe and comprehend. The sheer volume of such fragments was beyond what an ordinary Ninth-Turn Saint could handle.
