Chapter 1274: Chapter 481: The Seventh Incense Stick

"Why?" Yun Ziliang and the others all looked at Li Changxun.

Li Changxun said, "You all saw that momentum Mr. had just now. The Four Heavenly Venerable Cloud Patterns on his chest were all lit up, and he walked out from the parted Netherworld.

What does that signify?

On the stage, what he was playing was precisely the ’Supreme Will.’"

Yun Ziliang had also once heard Zhou Xuan speak of the Four Heavenly Venerables dividing the seas of the "Supreme Will," and he very much agreed with Li Changxun’s view.

"You’re not wrong. And then?"

"And then? There is no ’then.’ This shows that, inside the stage, a will can be born."

Li Changxun said, "In a single stage, a single will can emerge. How many wills does Jing Country even have?"

"Back then, it was the Supreme Will who personally issued the order, sending out God-level Daoists to hunt down Colorful Play Masters. This shows that the Supreme Will does not permit new, powerful wills to be born from that stage.

Or perhaps, if it reaches a certain extreme condition, the will born within that stage might even surpass the ’Supreme Will.’"

Li Changxun’s deduction rendered everyone speechless for a moment.

Could the will within the stage actually grow stronger than the "Supreme"?

Zhou Lingyi was also secretly pondering. After thinking for a long time, she was the first to break the silence and asked Li Changxun, "The methods of that ’Human World Play God’ in little brother’s stage are indeed extremely powerful, but they’re limited to this one stage. Once he leaves the stage, he no longer has such great abilities.

Would such a narrow range really arouse the vigilance of the ’Supreme Will’?"

Li Changxun immediately picked up the thread and said, "Master Zhou, suppose... I’m only supposing... suppose the scope of that stage is large enough—that the entire Jing Country is Mr.’s stage. Wouldn’t that mean that within Jing Country, the most powerful will is Mr."

Don’t look at Li Changxun’s combat strength—within the Heavenly Court he was at the very tail end, one of the weakest existences—but when it came to cultivation, he truly had many unique insights.

This speech was no different from a clap of thunder, booming in the ears of the others.

"Then it’s no surprise."

Zhou Lingyi said, "I originally thought that today, with the Ancestor Tree awakening and stretching its branches and leaves toward Mingjiang Prefecture, it had come to help my little brother resist powerful enemies. But now I realize—the Ancestor Tree came precisely to join forces with that Peach Blossom Ancestor Tree and seal the entire stage,

to prevent the fact that my little brother has already comprehended the ’Human World Play God’ from being exposed beneath the blazing heavens.

It’s just that, with such powerful Divine Skills in his body, sooner or later everyone in Jing Country will know. At that time, I fear that some of the great figures in Jing Country will extend their hands and knock my little brother into an endless abyss."

Hearing this, Yun Ziliang also felt a bit flustered, but he still forced himself to remain calm and comforted Zhou Lingyi: "Master Zhou, who can say what will happen in the future? As long as Xuanzi can keep his edge hidden, it won’t be easy for people outside to discover this ’Human World Play God’ ability."

"Rather than hiding our edge, it’s better to strike first."

Yuan Buyu, who had long been silent, knocked his copper pipe and spoke.

"Strike first? How do we strike?" Yun Ziliang asked.

Yuan Buyu said, "This Colorful Play Master path is the craft of performing. In Jing Country, there is an expert who definitely understands the craft of performing. This expert is not elsewhere; he’s right in the Zhou Family’s Troupe."

"Who?" Hearing this, Li Changxun was somewhat stunned on the spot. There was such a figure in the Zhou Family’s Troupe? How had he never heard of him?

But Zhou Lingyi said, "The Nuo God—Fangxiang."

Only then did Li Changxun and Yun Ziliang react. What does the Zhou Family’s Troupe do? They are a Netherworld Play Troupe.

And in the Netherworld Play trade, the Zhou Family’s Troupe has always possessed a unique skill that other Netherworld Play Troupes cannot replicate—Nuoxi.

"Nuoxi is by no means as simple as an ordinary opera. Within Nuoxi, the multitudes are concealed."

As soon as Zhou Lingyi’s words fell, Li Changxun and Yun Ziliang understood Yuan Buyu’s meaning. Zhou Xuan’s "Human World Play God"—rather than skulking around, afraid to display his abilities under the dreadful daylight—might as well openly ask the Nuo God for guidance on how to take this path one step further.

As long as Zhou Xuan is strong enough, even if everyone knows of this ’Human World Play God’ ability, so what? A bigger fist is the hardest truth.

"Once I return to Mingjiang Prefecture, I’ll set up a ritual and seek the Nuo God’s divine revelation."

Zhou Lingyi said thus. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"Very good, very good."

Everyone agreed very much with Yuan Buyu’s proposal.

...

Zhou Xuan had walked all the way up from a white-body novice, experiencing the tempering of six Tangkou: ’storyteller,’ ’tattoo,’ ’Dragon Seeking,’ ’Dun Jia,’ ’Colorful Play Master,’ and ’Nine Provinces Alchemist.’

He had already been through several Promotion Ceremonies, but none of them had ever been as easy as this one.

In his focused mind, he saw a stage.

On the stage, another "Zhou Xuan" was standing.

"Zhou Xuan" sat on a Taishi Chair placed at the center of the stage, surveying the empty surroundings.

Suddenly, that "Zhou Xuan" stood up, opened his arms, one hand lifted upward, the other downward, standing in a horse-stance-like Step Technique—the Shocking Vajra Style.

After that, he was holding an invisible alms bowl in his hands, his right hand making a pounding-medicine motion—the Medicine Master’s Medicine Grinding Style.

Afterward, Zhou Xuan, imitating him, posed the "Receiving Vajra Style," "Tower Carrying Heavenly King Style," "Demon Subduing Vajra Style," and the other Buddha Country Five Forms.

Once he finished the five forms of Buddha Country, he then performed many of the Tun Jia Taishang postures,

and after he had imitated, one by one, all the "actors" who had appeared on the stage,