Chapter 320: The Trend Emerges with the Tide!
In the following days, Noro Mai busied herself at Falling Clouds Temple, propagating the concept of humanity's fate in an attempt to persuade the numerous Amaterasu Miko.
These Amaterasu Miko had long been dissatisfied with the gods offending Amaterasu Omikami, and the act of treating humans as mere tools for squeezing out faith had further angered them.
Under Noro Mai's persuasion, many Amaterasu Miko chose to join, and the miko originally residing and cultivating at Falling Clouds Temple left one after another, heading to various places across Ying Island.
Their sole purpose was to spread the Path of Cultivation to the secular world.
Noro Mai was well aware that simply explaining the pros and cons of the gods' domestication could not possibly shake the foundation of the Sky High Plateau gods led by Izanagi.
To truly shake the foundation of the gods' rule, one had to start with the Spirit Refining Method, to break free from the gods' clamp on Transcendent powers, and use it to select those with ambition to enhance their influence in the world, ultimately overturning the Ying Island Imperial Family that served as puppets.
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In Nara City, residents were surprised to find that the Amaterasu Grand Shrine, which had been closed by authorities for several months, had reopened.
Nagasaki Iyo, the Amaterasu Miko, had returned to Nara City.
At the same time, Nagasaki Iyo also brought back another big piece of news.
She had received the teachings of an Immortal from Great Xia, mastering the most orthodox methods of cultivation, which could break through the realm above Spirit Transmutation Stage.
This news immediately caused a stir throughout Nara City, which, being close to the center of Ying Island, housed a large number of cultivation powers.
Various Onmyo Bureau and Sword Dao noble families with thousands of years of history were found in abundance.
Even historically, Nara City had seen a Sword Saint who reached the Spirit Refining Stage.
For these cultivation powers, this was an unimaginable great opportunity.
Inside the Nara City Amaterasu Grand Shrine, the place was already crowded, with cultivators from all walks of power gathered here, their gazes fixed on the miko... female practitioner above.
Yes, as a member of the Amaterasu Miko, Nagasaki Iyo had made the same choice as Noro Mai and entered Falling Clouds Temple to comprehend the Path of Cultivation; this was also one of the reasons she could represent Falling Clouds Temple to propagate the method.
The various powers were indeed surprised by Nagasaki Iyo's attire, but they did not dwell on these matters at that moment.
"Is the breakthrough in the Spirit Refining Method spoken by Nagasaki Miko truly real?"
An elderly voice slowly began to speak.
All the cultivators present looked in the direction of the voice, and the speaker was an old man in Samurai garb with a long sword at his waist, his aura deep and undoubtedly in the Spirit Transmutation Stage.
Everyone's hearts suddenly grew cold, as this elder was well known in Nara City.
He came from the oldest Transcendent power in Nara City, the Fujimoto clan, which three thousand years ago produced a Spirit Refining Stage Sword Saint and was now represented by the contemporary Sword Saint Fujimoto.
Though the Fujimoto clan had individuals break the limits of the Cultivation World and step into the Spirit Refining Stage in history, no one had crossed that boundary for the past three thousand years.
Among the various powers present, the Fujimoto clan was undoubtedly the most concerned party about the message of breaking through the Spirit Refining Stage.
Nagasaki Iyo looked composed and did not answer Sword Saint Fujimoto's question; instead, she waved her right hand lightly and mana materialized a few thousand words in the void.
The number of words was not many, just a few thousand, but the moment they appeared, all the cultivators were taken aback,
especially those who had reached the Spirit Transmutation Stage, their eyes bursting with brilliance, fixating on those few thousand words, not daring to stray a bit.
With their cultivation, they could naturally tell that this was a precious technique named "Great Sun High Above Spirit Refining Technique."
The few thousand words, each clear and concise, laid bare all the cultivation bottlenecks for everyone to see.
For a moment, several cultivators in the Spirit Transmutation Stage shed tears, murmuring to themselves: Find adventures at My Virtual Library Empire
"So it is! So it is!"
"The concept of Great Sun Spirit Refining is true!"
"Samurai break into Spirit Transmutation with the true essence of Sword Dao; Yin-Yang Masters integrate shikigami into their souls to break the boundary into Spirit Transmutation; the millennia-long traditions have all been mistaken!"
"We've been wrong, we've been on the wrong path all along."
"Traveling of the Yin God at night, the Sun God Dharma Image, these are the true supreme pathways of cultivation!"
Even more cultivators were shocked to discover that the "Great Sun High Above Spirit Refining Technique" was complete, with Nagasaki Iyo straightforwardly displaying the visualization method to everyone without any reserve.
Even in Nagasaki Iyo's right hand, there unfurled a scroll depicting the Great Sun High Above, a precious treasure that aided the Spirit Refining Method.
Sword Saint Fujimoto had now recovered from his initial shock, and after being silent for a long while, he respectfully bowed to Nagasaki Iyo:
"Miko Nagasaki brought out the precious Spirit Refining Method, what exactly do you seek?"
As he spoke, the rest of the powers also put away their eagerness and looked solemnly at Nagasaki Iyo.
Nagasaki Iyo looked calm, not responding to Sword Saint Fujimoto's question, but rather, she changed the subject and said:
"I heard that three thousand years ago, the Fujimoto family had an exceptional genius who broke into the Spirit Refining Stage?"
Hearing this, Sword Saint Fujimoto spoke in a deep voice:
"Indeed, that is true."
"Does the Fujimoto family have detailed records of the subsequent life of that Spirit Refining Sword Saint?"
As soon as she spoke, Sword Saint Fujimoto fell silent.
Seeing this, the other noble families and Onmyo Bureau sensed a bad premonition.
There must be hidden secrets they did not know.
"Please speak up, Sword Saint Fujimoto!"
"With Miko Nagasaki presenting such a precious Spirit Refining Method, we surely cannot fail to satisfy even this small request, right?"