Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 312 - 311 A Ray of Hope

In the training room, Zuo Dao sliced open his finger, watching droplet by droplet of fresh blood fall, slowly drawing complex runes along the white lines on the ground.

As he drew the runes, Zuo Dao felt waves of intense irritation rising from the bottom of his heart, flashes of past memories continually appearing in his mind.

Zuo Lu stood beside him and said, "Focus and calm your mind, do not be disturbed by external forces. Resist the distortions of the Heavenly Dao."

Zuo Dao’s eyes narrowed, the blood flowing from his fingertips as if alive, gradually twisting and leaping like a Spirit Snake.

Seeing this, Zuo Lu rushed over, grabbed Zuo Dao, and severed the connection between him and the runes on the ground.

Zuo Lu glared and said, "What are you thinking about? I told you to focus and ignore those illusions."

"But they are not illusions," Zuo Dao said coldly. "Just 12 years ago, I hid under my mother’s colorless scarf and watched as the Heavenly Demons slaughtered the entire Zuo Family—

the old, the women, the children; they spared no one, for their sole purpose was the eradication of mankind."

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Zuo Dao looked directly at him, "I hid under the colorless scarf for three days and nights. Do you know how it feels to watch your relatives die one by one, slaughtered like cattle and pigs?"

Zuo Lu coldly said, "Then you must forget them. Do not let the past hinder your future."

"Forgetting the past is betrayal," Zuo Dao replied coldly. "You haven’t told me yet whether the events of 12 years ago had anything to do with the immortals and gods."

Zuo Lu, impassive, looked at him and said, "If this time the East Dao School can take the first place in the competition of the Four Great Taoist Schools, I will give you the answer."

"For now, continue practicing what I’ve taught you."

Zuo Dao defiantly said, "Why should I practice these runes created by the immortals and gods? They make me sick."

Zuo Lu responded, "Zuo Dao, you must understand that righteousness, honor, ideals, kindness—none of these matter in the face of victory and defeat."

He sneered, "In this world, justice can never defeat evil. Because when you have to obey all kinds of rules and keep yourself from crossing the line, you can never defeat an unscrupulous evil opponent."

"If you seek justice, if you seek revenge, then become stronger first."

"Set aside your pride, lower your standards, and use every means you can think of to become stronger, learn from everything that is stronger than you."

...

Meanwhile, in Beihai City, where the competition of the Four Great Taoist Schools was being held,

inside a tall pagoda, there sat a young man dressed in a white robe, handsome but with a shaved head, sitting cross-legged on the ground. He wore a smile, seeming as serene and tranquil as the great Buddhas in the temples, bringing an immense sense of peace and calm.

In front of this young man, three venerable monks observed him, their golden Primordial Spirits continuously sweeping over his body. The more they probed, the brighter their gazes shone, with admiration and awe evident in their eyes.

"Kong Chan, after passing through 36 trials and 72 calamities, you have finally, before graduating from school, entered the fifth realm and cultivated the Great Sun Dharma Body," the old monk sighed. "This is a record unseen in a century; since the distortion of the Heavenly Dao over a hundred years ago, no one has achieved this step."

Another old monk said, "Within the realms of cultivation, the third realm is where essence, energy, and spirit are complete, capable of multitasking, with precise control over Primordial Spirit power. The fourth realm goes a step further, able to communicate heart-to-heart, transmit various kinds of information with Primordial Spirit power, which can even exist outside the body for a time."

"But these two stages are still about accumulation, about polishing and tempering the Primordial Spirit, preparing it to transcend the ordinary and step into the realm of miracles."

"From the fifth realm onwards, with sufficient accumulation of the Primordial Spirit, it becomes possible to deeply perceive the physical body and even perfectly control every inch of tissue throughout the body. At this stage, using the strength of the physical body as the foundation and the Primordial Spirit as the guide, one can create a Taoist Embryo. Each sect has different methods, and the names of the Taoist Embryos vary greatly.

For instance, our Leiyin Temple has always called the Taoist Embryo the Dharma Body.

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"The cultivation of Taoist Embryo and Taoist Body is crucial on the path of cultivation, directly related to the heights one can reach in the future."

The old monk looked at the young man and said, "In terms of refining the Taoist Embryo, among the Four Great Taoist Schools, naturally, our Beihai Dao School, Leiyin Temple, is the best.

Among the many achievements of Dharma Bodies in our Leiyin Temple, the Great Sun Dharma Body is undoubtedly the supreme method, symbolizing the ultimate Mana, the ultimate will.

That you have cultivated the strongest Great Sun Dharma Body in human history at the fastest pace of the past century signifies that your current qualifications and potential, as well as your future achievements, will undoubtedly be the first among humans in a hundred years."

The young man known as Kong Chan smiled and said, "It’s all thanks to the excellent guidance of my masters..."

"Don’t be modest," the middle monk said. "You have reached today’s achievements through countless tribulations. Your own efforts and talents count for eighty percent. If it were in the past, you would surely ascend to the celestial court and be listed among the immortals."

The old monk sighed, "In today’s world, where Heavenly Demons run rampant and mankind is weakened, we are at a crisis unprecedented in history, where one misstep could lead to the extinction of one’s clan and the complete disappearance of mankind from this world."

Another elder said, "Yet, in this unprecedented crisis of the human race, as the distortion of the Heavenly Dao worsens, it has also been evolving, leaving a sliver of hope for mankind."

Kong Chan’s gaze sharpened slightly, "Hope?"

"Exactly, two months ago, Brother Wuse reached his limit and was about to undergo complete transformation. Before that happened, he chose to confront the Heavenly Dao directly and spy into its secrets."

Kong Chan clasped his hands together and bowed his head, "Great virtue of Uncle Wuse."

"Looking directly at the Heavenly Dao, although it is bound to be distorted, one could also glimpse the profound mysteries of the changes in the Heavenly Dao in that moment," the old monk continued. "And before going completely mad, Brother Wuse left behind a phrase."

’"Things will develop in the opposite direction when they become extreme.’"

Kong Chan furrowed his brow, "What does that mean?"

The old monk explained, "We have analyzed the data of the past five years and found that there are increasingly more geniuses emerging among mankind. The prodigies in cultivation that have appeared in these five years might be more numerous and powerful than those of the past 20, 30 years."

"Every life, when facing death, often bursts with immense power in a final struggle."

"A nation, too, often produces a number of virtuous individuals and heroic geniuses just before a final crisis of life and death, just like the human race now."