The two of them neither activated any Magical Treasures, nor used any Divine Skills, nor even circulated any Spells; they merely held a peach branch and the Wind and Thunder Stick, engaging in close combat. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Chen Shi did not see Yun Zhongzi's Great Luotian, but he did see Emperor Gouchen being shaken by that single peach branch so that his Wind and Thunder Stick kept bouncing up, the muscles and tendons of his arm twitching chaotically; even the Heavenly Market that Emperor Gouchen had reforged with the Great Dao was wavering, stars scattering in confusion, the Star Formation thrown into chaos.

"Master, the Upper Pure Sect Leader's Great Luotian Dao Realm is within his body, fused with his Physical Body."

From behind Chen Shi came the voice of Yangshuo Mountain Man, who pointed out, "He appears not to be using Great Luotian, but in fact he has already reached the Peak of the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm, fusing his Dao Realm with himself. Every lift of his hand, every shift of his body carries the power of the Dao Realm. Master, do not use your own eyes to look; take out the Dao Eye from within your Dao Realm, open an eye at your brow, and you will be able to discern some clues."

Chen Shi expressed thanks: "Many thanks for your guidance, Daoist Brother Yangshuo."

Yangshuo Mountain Man hastily said, "Master, please don't say that. I see that Master's Dao Ruins Dao Realm is indeed vast and profound, yet you rarely use it. I imagine Master is phenomenally gifted, having Cultivated to this step alone without anyone to guide you, and thus do not know the methods of using the Realm; that is why I have presumptuously spoken."

His speech was flowery and formal, yet when he spoke to Chang Chun Emperor he was vicious to the extreme, his mouth anything but clean, fond of inquiring after the other's parents and ancestors.

Of course, Chang Chun Emperor also liked to inquire after his parents and ancestors.

Within Chen Shi's Dao Ruins Dao Realm there were indeed some strange eyes, also Dao Images; it was just that these Dao Images were usually only seen when Chang Chun Emperor, Yangshuo Mountain Man and the others crowded together to ponder over their Daoist Skills, while Chen Shi himself seldom used them.

Chen Shi's mind stirred slightly as he distinguished these strange eyes, and he felt that each eye contained a different Great Dao.

The white-haired, seemingly old-farmer-like Elder Tianye smiled and said, "If Master wishes to observe such a giant as Yun Zhongzi, you should use this Dao Eye."

He pointed to one of the eyes and said, "This Dao Eye is called the Observing Things Dao Eye. By observing things one attains knowledge, perceiving every slightest fraction, exhausting the underlying principles, discarding the surface and examining the essence."

Chen Shi was overjoyed: "Many thanks, Elder."

Elder Tianye repeatedly said that he did not dare, did not dare.

Chen Shi summoned that Observing Things Dao Eye. The instant the Dao Eye flew out of the Dao Ruins Dao Realm, it abruptly vanished. In the next moment, the center of Chen Shi's brow gradually bulged, as if something was rolling beneath the skin, and then the skin at his brow split open to the sides.

Where the skin parted, that Observing Things Dao Eye revealed itself, and Chen Shi immediately felt that he had gained a strange new field of vision.

In this field of vision, Sun, Moon, and mountains and rivers were but hazy outlines. Even beings such as Chang Chun Emperor and the others were a blur; he could vaguely make out their forms, but they seemed transparent.

What was truly clear was the Images of the Great Dao between Heaven and Earth, which became exceptionally distinct, their structures laid out before his eyes.

Chen Shi did not know how other people's Dao Eyes were, but his Dao Eye could even see clearly the structure of the Outer Dao!

"Could the third eye of Immortal Master Erlang at Guan River Mouth also be a Dao Eye he refined?"

Using this Dao Eye, Chen Shi observed Yun Zhongzi, and instantly saw something different.

Yun Zhongzi's bodily outline was quite indistinct, yet within Yun Zhongzi's body there was a boundless, limitless world of the Great Dao!

This Great Dao world was even more vast and magnificent than the Heavenly Market, Starlight swirling in mists, presenting layer upon layer of marvelous Grotto Heavens, a full twenty-four heavens in all!

The scene was extremely peculiar, as though there were another Yun Zhongzi inside Yun Zhongzi's body, and within that Yun Zhongzi there was yet another layer of Grotto Heaven. And within this Yun Zhongzi there was yet another Yun Zhong, with yet another Grotto Heaven.

Thus the layers stacked and advanced, like peeling asparagus; peel off one layer and inside there is another, continuing to peel one could peel as many as twenty-four layers!

"His Daoist Skill is the Heavenly Repairing Technique."

Chen Shi observed carefully and saw the profound subtleties of Yun Zhongzi's Daoist Skill.

Yun Zhongzi was indeed worthy of being the Sect Leader of the Upper Pure Lineage; he had long since become aware of the insufficiency of the Immortal Dao, which could not fully elucidate the Heaven and Earth Great Dao nor achieve true Harmonization with Heaven and Earth, and thus he conceived the aspiration to repair the heavens.

He used the Outer Dao to patch the Immortal Dao, with each layer of Dao Realm corresponding to a layer of heaven. At the First Layer Dao Realm of the True Immortal Realm, he used a small amount of Outer Dao to make up for the deficiencies, in order to achieve Harmonization with the Dao of Heaven and Earth.

At the second layer, he used more Outer Dao to patch the Dao of Heaven and Earth.

At the third layer, he used yet more.

And so on and so forth.

By the time he had Cultivated to the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm, the amount of Outer Dao required had already surpassed the Immortal Dao, becoming Outer Dao as the main body and Immortal Dao as the auxiliary. However, all of this Outer Dao was presented using Immortal Dao Dao Patterns; therefore, from the outside it still appeared to be Immortal Dao, having nothing to do with the Outer Dao.

This was precisely what Chen Shi saw when he observed his Heavenly Repairing Technique.

Although Chen Shi could see the subtlety of his Daoist Skill, deciphering that Daoist Skill was incomparably difficult. To see it was one thing; to accomplish it was another.

Chen Shi then turned to look at Emperor Gouchen, clearly seeing Emperor Gouchen's Luotian as well. Within Emperor Gouchen's Luotian there was also Outer Dao, except that the source of his Outer Dao came from those two Red Apricots on Tiger Cliff. Emperor Gouchen had plumbed them to great depths and had already gained extraordinary attainment.

"But by comparison, Emperor Gouchen's attainment in the Outer Dao is still far inferior to Yun Zhongzi's."

Chen Shi took it all in, analyzed for a while, and came to a conclusion.

"Emperor Gouchen did not receive Yun Zhongzi's true transmission!"

His gaze flickered. The Heavenly Repairing Technique of Yun Zhongzi ought to have appeared quite early, perhaps having already taken shape in embryonic form even before he took Gouchen as his disciple. This conjecture was not made without basis, but was inferred from the fact that there were Red Apricots at Yun Zhongzi's Tiger Cliff on Zhongnan Mountain.

This kind of Earth Treasure Spirit Root that could allow someone to comprehend the Outer Dao was extremely rare; even in Chen Shi's Qianyang Mountain there was none, yet Yun Zhongzi's Daoist Field had it.

Moreover, the Daoist Skill Yun Zhongzi taught Gouchen was likewise a Magic Skill to activate the Red Apricot's Outer Dao, which showed that by that time Yun Zhongzi had already come into contact with the Outer Dao and had achieved no small attainment.