Slaying Demons: Starting with Upgrading my Calligraphy-Chapter 683 - 570: Willpower Becomes Venerable

With his gaze slightly focused, Qi Xiu raised his eyes as he looked at the name the old monk wrote on the ground.

"Master, could you please explain more clearly."

"Hehe, of course, since the old monk can foresee that the True Monarch will be the one to break my predicament, naturally, I can also know other things through Predestined Fate Understanding.

I know this person is very important to the True Monarch, and he is currently trapped in a predicament. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

If the True Monarch is willing to help fulfill the old monk's wish, I can help this person escape his predicament."

With hands clasped together, the old monk spoke slowly, his eyes lowered, making it difficult to discern his expression.

Upon hearing the old monk's words, Qi Xiu slightly raised his head, looking down at this mysterious old monk:

"Does the master know who this person is?"

"Of course, it is the Supreme Sect Leader of the Shenxiao Sect, Dongfang Qing," replied the old monk.

"Then may I ask, Master, how can you, who is deceased, help our Primordial Spirit Realm Supreme Sect Leader?"

Facing Qi Xiu's sharp question, the old monk was not surprised, simply chuckling softly as he said:

"True Monarch, rest assured, a monk doesn't speak falsehoods; since the old monk said he can help this True Venerable Lord, he will keep his word."

"How can I trust you without proof?"

"Ah, Buddha's compassion, when the old monk was about to pass away years ago, I intended to use my last strength to strive for the Primordial Spirit True Honor realm.

But just when I was about to exhaust my True Cultivation Power, I met someone.

This person told me that if I was willing to seal myself into the altar, merging my thoughts and soul with the Eighteen Layers of Hell, and persevere, there would be hope to return my Daoist Inheritance to its roots.

At that time, the old monk also asked him, without proof, how could I trust you?

And he simply replied to me.

Are you willing to believe there is a slim chance between heaven and earth?

The old monk believed his words and exerted all his strength in the Predestined Fate Understanding, indeed saw a vague hope of breaking the predicament, thus waiting here for tens of thousands of years until the arrival of the True Monarch.

Today, I am also offering these words to the True Monarch.

Are you willing to believe there is a slim chance between heaven and earth?"

The old monk's words leisurely echoed throughout these Eighteen Layers of Hell, yet that calm and straightforward question made Qi Xiu slightly moved.

A slim chance?

Silently gazing at the old monk in front of him, who looked composed, neither sad nor happy, Qi Xiu tried to find an answer from his face.

But the tens of thousands of years of waiting and arduous cultivation had already brought this old monk's demeanor to the realm of transformation.

Under Qi Xiu's watchful gaze, the old monk's figure continuously expanded, eventually subtly merging with the gigantic Buddha statue in the hall.

In an instant, the small temple was bathed in divine light, and the old monk transformed into a figure of compassion, wearing a treasure crown, a kasaya, holding a treasure bead in his left hand, and a staff in his right.

The old dog, whose hair had shed, was transformed by the Buddha Light into a mythical beast with a horned head, dog ears, a dragon body, lion tail, and qilin feet, exuding an ancient and powerful aura.

As if transformed into a Living Buddha.

Sacred chants echoed in Qi Xiu's ears, and golden lotuses bloomed from the stony soil of the cave, the ancient shell horn bellowed long, golden lotus flowers grew incessantly, scattering infinite vitality, the lotus leaves swayed and slowly solidified, casting endless Buddha Light.

Gazing at the Eighteen Layers of Hell, which had instantaneously transformed into a Buddha Land, Qi Xiu slowly raised his eyes towards the compassionate Living Buddha in front of him, slowly uttering a word:

"Willpower Becomes Venerable?"

Willpower Becomes Venerable.

This is an extremely rare existence, achieved by very few since ancient times, with only a sparse few recorded.

The reason so few can reach this realm is that to achieve it, one must already be at the point of bodily extinction.

In other words, only those whose physical body ceases to exist have the chance to reach this realm.

"It is rumored that some pinnacle True Monarchs of the Dao Body, at the moment of extinction and transformation, may use the blurred transition between life and death to transcend the extreme and briefly step into the supreme Primordial Spirit True Honor realm.

However, the cost of entering this realm is the complete transcendence of all one's power, so even if they step into the Primordial Spirit True Honor realm, they cannot become a true Primordial Spirit True Honor due to bodily extinction, only their soul and will possess the outline of the Primordial Spirit True Honor.

This state is known as [Willpower Becomes Venerable]!

Perhaps the master relied on the realm of Willpower Becomes Venerable to linger here for tens of thousands of years.

And moreover, to strike the slumbering Hell Path Divine Artifact."

Watching the old monk transformed into a Living Buddha, Qi Xiu gradually revealed the mystical aspect of his current state.

"True Monarch is learned and profound, and this Art of Qi Observation is indeed admirable to the old monk."

In an instant, the golden Buddha, ancient mythical beast, and lotus-filled grounds all vanished without trace.

The small temple remains the small temple.

The old monk remains the old monk, and even the slumbering old dog hasn't moved an inch.

Raising his slightly cloudy eyes, the old monk looked calmly at Qi Xiu:

"Since the True Monarch has seen clearly, may I ask if you can answer the old monk's earlier question?"

"The Great Evolution is fifty, Heavenly Dao is forty-nine, one is hidden and transforms into vitality.

With what the master asks, Qi is willing to go."

After seeing through the old monk's realm of Willpower Becomes Venerable via the Observing Qi Skill, Qi Xiu now believed most of what he said.

And judging from the old monk's words, the person who sought him years ago, if no accident occurred, must be [him].

"Buddha's compassion, the old monk thanks the True Monarch in advance here."

Having received Qi Xiu's determined response, a faint smile of relief slowly appeared on the always indifferent and composed old monk's weathered face.

In the next instant.