Chapter 28: Tongtian’s Teaching, Ziyun’s Creation of Dharma

Flood Realm, Kunlun Blessed Land.

Tongtian sighed deeply, helplessly watching his nephew. Somehow, Xuan Qing always seemed to gravitate toward cultivating obscure, evasive abilities. Now he was talking about escape techniques again.

“What’s with this obsession?” Tongtian grumbled inwardly. “Flying aptitude, recluse aptitude—what on earth is he trying to do?”

Xuan Qing, however, remained entirely serious. “Senior Uncle… if you cannot fight, then run. So I should master the Escape Avatar. In the future, if I encounter danger, as long as I escape fast enough, the enemy will not be able to catch me.”

“You—! What kind of logic is that?” Tongtian massaged his temple in frustration. “The path of cultivation is about moving forward, confronting everything head-on, and becoming invincible!”

“Your approach is not for me,” Xuan Qing replied calmly. “I do not want a cultivation path filled with endless killing. Killing is dangerous, and I look like an elixir in human form—some too many people want to eat me. Low-key survival is the key. Stability above all.”

Tongtian was dumbfounded. “Little Xuan Qing… in the Flood Realm, only the strong survive. Killing is inevitable. Practicing killing-type divine abilities is normal.”

“I understand,” Xuan Qing nodded with apparent sincerity.

Tongtian’s eyes lit up. “Good. Since you understand, come! Your Senior Uncle shall teach you a killing sword technique.”

But Xuan Qing immediately waved his hands. “Senior Uncle… let us save the sword technique for later. Can I cultivate a Transportation Technique that allows me to bypass restrictions?”

Tongtian’s hopeful expression vanished. He stared at Xuan Qing, speechless. “I do not have any such divine technique. Most restrictions are derived from formations. If you want to traverse formations, then you must cultivate the Dao of Formations.”

“Formations?” Xuan Qing frowned. “That’s too complicated. I will pass on that for now. How about concealment of divine abilities—the kind that hides one’s heavenly fate or cultivation?”

Tongtian’s gaze grew stranger by the second. “Concealment? You want to hide your aura so others cannot detect it?”

“Exactly! Cultivation should be discreet. If I mask my true realm—say, appearing to be only a Heavenly Immortal while I am actually at the Taiyi level—then enemies will underestimate me. That is when I counterattack! Like in the novels I read in my past life. The whole ‘pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger’ kind of thing.”

Tongtian’s beard twitched. He tugged at it in frustration. “Little Xuan Qing… who taught you all these crooked ideas? Was it Nuwa? Or Fuxi? I swear, I will settle the score with whoever it was!”

Xuan Qing looked away, stammering slightly. He could not tell the truth. Too many cultivators out there were dangerous. He had no choice but to rely on life-saving methods.

Tongtian, who cultivated the Way of the Sword, could not truly understand. His philosophy was simple: With one sword, break all laws. No matter the enemy, one sword would suffice to destroy them.

Xuan Qing, however, preferred something more… pragmatic.

“Senior Uncle, is there no such divine ability?” he pressed, tugging at Tongtian’s sleeve.

“There is, there is,” Tongtian sighed, finally relenting. “With my level of cultivation, I have encountered many concealment techniques. I will teach you a few.”

And so, he began to pass on divine abilities such as the Heavenly Chance Method, the Convergence Method, and the Eye-Covering Method. These divine abilities contained the essence of the Great Dao of Hiddenness.

Zi Yun, ever observant, began analyzing them. “Should I optimize and improve these concealment divine abilities by comparing them to the Great Dao of Hiddenness already engraved?”

Xuan Qing’s eyes lit up. “Yes! Optimize and improve!”

In the Flood Realm, all divine abilities stemmed from the Great Dao. However, reproducing and creating such abilities required technique.

Imagine the Flood Avatar as a mathematical problem. The Great Dao would be the numbers—without them, the problem could not exist. The Great Dao formed the foundation.

Next, one needed a concept, formulas, and wisdom to derive results.

* * * * Concept: What kind of divine ability do you want to create, and what effect will it have? For example, if using the Great Dao of Fire to develop a killing skill—how does that ability express itself?

* * * * Formula: Divine abilities stem from reducing complexity to simplicity. Spells based on Great Dao branches are their formulas—the foundational layer.

* * * * Wisdom: Not just enlightenment (which is fast learning), but creativity. If you were handed broken or incomplete techniques and managed to forge a new divine ability, that was wisdom.

Today, Xuan Qing had Zi Yun, who could inscribe the Great Dao.

He had Tongtian, who provided the formulas for the divine abilities.

He provided the concepts—after all, he had read countless cultivation novels in his past life.

As for wisdom—Zi Yun could simulate that too.

Together, they formed a complete system of optimization.

Tongtian taught for a long time—techniques to conceal one’s realm, breath, and even heavenly fate.

Zi Yun absorbed it all. Eventually, she asked: “Please choose the direction of optimization.”

“Conceal heavenly fate and cultivation,” Xuan Qing responded without hesitation. “Make it so no one can see through me or deduce anything. Name this divine ability: Covering the Heavens, Concealing the Earth.”

“Understood,” Zi Yun replied. “I shall optimize accordingly. Based on the concealment techniques passed on by Tongtian and the master’s memories from his past life, I shall create the divine ability: Covering the Heavens and concealing the Earth.

“This technique can obscure one’s heavenly fate, preventing deduction; conceal aura and modifications, making detection nearly impossible; and even hide the Dao cultivated, making it difficult for outsiders to discern your path.”

With that, Zi Yun began to transmit the evolved divine ability into Xuan Qing’s sea of consciousness.