Chapter 853

Chapter 853: Being a Dao

At the moment when Jiang Yun whispered his thanks, Tianluo, who had been sitting cross-legged on the mountaintop, furrowed his brows and looked at Jiang Yun.

After watching Jiang Yun for a while, Tianluo slowly stood up, took a step, and vanished without a trace.

As if aware of Tianluo’s departure, Jiang Yun swiftly threw some spirit stones, set up a formation, then entered the formation and sat down cross-legged.

No one knew that three days ago, when Jiang Yun appeared to be mountain climbing, he was actually using his special sense to send a request when passing through the square at that steep location.

He asked Jiang Gui to help him gain a little time, a bit of time away from Tianluo’s surveillance.

Though he didn’t receive any response at that time, just now, he finally heard Jiang Gui’s message, "No matter what you want to do, you only have an hour at most!"

So now, he finally had a brief moment of freedom to do what he needed to do.

Inside the formation, Jiang Yun looked once again at the grass and trees in the courtyard, muttering to himself, "Grass, perish, river, turning desolate!"

"Grass perishes on the river, this is the power possessed by the Desolate World tribe!"

"Even though I’m not sure what this power is exactly, let’s call it the power of desolation for now!"

"To obtain the power of desolation, one must inscribe their own Desolate Mark on themselves!"

"My Desolate Mark represents… desolation!"

As Jiang Yun spoke, his fingertip broke open, blood gushed out, and he used the blood as ink to gently mark his forehead.

Then, slowly he moved sideways!

If anyone could see this scene, they would notice that Jiang Yun had actually just written a horizontal line!

Just like the starting stroke of the Demonic Life-Death Seal!

Although it looked like a very simple line, Jiang Yun’s finger moved extremely slowly.

Even his face and exposed skin gradually turned pale as his finger moved, as if this stroke was draining all the blood from his body!

However, Jiang Yun paid no attention to the changes in his body.

His focus was all on the bloodstain on his forehead that kept getting longer as his finger moved.

Jiang Yun didn’t know that once he completed this stroke, the Tianluo Realm, The Land of Fallen Realm, Dao Prison, and even the myriad Tao World would be in uproar!

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After hundreds of insights, Jiang Yun finally had a bit of understanding about the Desolate Mark.

To outsiders, they thought that the Desolate World tribe cultivated the Desolate Mark, but in reality, the Desolate World tribe cultivated their body, improving themselves physically!

A cultivator cultivates the Tao, seeking various powers of the Great Tao, with the majority of these powers being external forces!

Therefore, a cultivator must possess spirit energy, and use it as a guide to attract different kinds of powers for their own use.

If you place a cultivator in a place without spirit energy, they can only use the spirit energy within their own body.

Once the internal spirit energy is depleted without replenishment, the cultivator becomes powerless.

Although there are cultivators who focus solely on cultivating their body, they only enhance their physical strength, or in other words, their force!

With immense strength and invincibility, this is the ultimate goal of a body cultivator!

However, unlike other tribes, the Desolate World tribe focuses on improving their own bodies, and their power comes from their bodies themselves.

In simple terms, the Desolate World tribe treats their bodies as a vast world, drawing various powers from within.

Every organ, every part of the body, even every drop of blood and muscle corresponds to a certain power existing in the world!

For example, if the Desolate World tribe needs the power of water, they can extract it from their own blood, and if they need the power of fire, they can draw it from their life fire.

This is why the Desolate World tribe does not need spiritual energy and can naturally shield themselves from most magical attacks.

Because their bodies are the source of various magical powers, using magic to attack them will not be effective.

When Jiang Yun first encountered the Desolate Mark, the ancient voice within the Tao Seal fragment mentioned that the existence of the Desolate World tribe goes against the natural order and is therefore rejected by it.

However, Jiang Yun believes that the existence of the Desolate World tribe is not against the natural order, but because their path is even more advanced.

If a cultivator’s path exists between heaven and earth, then the Desolate World tribe’s path is within themselves.

Be the Way of the Self!

The purpose of the Desolate Mark is to awaken various powers within the body.

The strength of the people from the Desolate World tribe depends on the number of Desolate Marks on their bodies.

Although the Desolate World tribe is a group, their cultivation methods are not limited to their own people, outsiders can also cultivate.

However, the prerequisite is to have a Desolate Mark as a seed.

If someone else plants this seed for you, all you can do is passively accept its growth.

What grows out is not a Desolate Mark, but a branding!

Such individuals are known as Desolate World Lord Slaves to the Desolate World tribe, those cultivators in The Great Wilderness Realm who possess The Mark of the Desolate World Lord.

But if you plant this seed yourself, only when you comprehend a power within your body will this seed be able to grow, thus sprouting more Desolate Marks on you.

Only people like this are truly considered as members of the Desolate World tribe.

The difference between the Desolate World Lord Slave and the members of the Desolate World tribe is like the difference between ordinary people brought back to the Tianluo Sect and true cultivators.

One is quick to progress, but their foundation is not stable;

While the other may grow slowly, every step they take is incredibly solid.

Of course, for those without the bloodline of the Desolate World tribe, planting the seed themselves requires a Desolate Mark belonging to the Desolate World tribe as a guide.

With this Desolate Mark, one can comprehend their own Desolate Mark, plant it on themselves, let it take root, branch out, and grow more Desolate Marks.

Each person’s understanding of the Desolate Mark is unique, and Jiang Yun did not directly comprehend the Desolate Mark within the Tao Seal, as that belonged to Dao Yuanzhi’s Desolate Mark.

Over the course of this month, he appeared to be observing plants and trees, but he was actually contemplating what kind of Desolate Mark he should seek to comprehend.

Ultimately, he decided that his Desolate Mark would be "荒"!

He wanted to have some unsupervised time to draw this Desolate Mark for himself!

Now, what he was about to draw was the first stroke of the character "荒"!

Despite only having a minor wound on Jiang Yun’s fingertip, the amount of blood flowing out was limited.

In reality, at this moment, the blood flowing through every blood vessel in his body was like a mighty river, rushing crazily towards his fingertips.

The beginning stroke of this character "荒" was equivalent to being drawn with all of Jiang Yun’s blood!

As Jiang Yun had already drawn half of this stroke, a sudden thunderous roar came from the sky.

In the midst of the roar, everyone’s expressions immediately changed drastically!

Because just over four months ago, they had heard a similar roar and gone through a nightmare they didn’t want to remember!

"Could it be that the sacred object is about to appear again?"

"Oh no, in the past, sacred objects appeared at least once every hundred years. Why are they appearing so frequently now? If this continues, who can bear it!"

"Yes, if it appears a few more times, we might all perish!"

Inside Tianluo Realm, especially on Tianluo Mountain, voices filled with fear and despair suddenly spread.

Following these discussions, like ripples, the voices began to spread from Tianluo Realm to the entire Land of Fallen Realm.