This Dao realm, to put it bluntly, is to use one's own Dao to open up a space in this world that is completely under one's control. This is simple to say, but it is not easy to achieve. If you want to open up a space belonging to your own avenue between heaven and earth, it means that your own avenue must reach the same level as the avenue of heaven and earth.
In addition, after one's own avenue and the avenue of heaven and earth reach the same level, one needs to have enough ability to resist the assimilation of one's own avenue by the avenue of heaven and earth.
There are thousands of avenues, and no one can comprehend the avenues that are independent of heaven and earth.
Even if it is your own great road, you will definitely find the same great road in heaven and earth, otherwise how can you understand it.
And this faces a problem, just like when a river merges into the sea, you cannot tell which sea water is in the sea and which is the water of the river.
Manifesting one's own Tao into a Tao realm is like releasing the water of a river directly into the sea. It's like trying to carve out a freshwater lake in the sea. If you're not careful, it can easily be submerged by the endless sea water.
From the perspective of conspiracy theory, the reason why Heaven allows ascetics to understand Heaven is actually like raising domestic animals. Ascetics, comprehending the great road of heaven and earth and condensing the great road with their own power are like turning the food they eat into meat.
The so-called heavenly tribulation, regardless of whether it is training or punishment, can actually be said to be the way of heaven harvesting the great road.
With the death of every cultivator, the so-called Tao disappears after death. Is the "Tao" really dissipated? Isn't it just that he has integrated into the world and become the nourishment of heaven? And those cultivators who successfully survived the heavenly tribulation just proved their worth to heaven and proved that they could provide better nourishment in the future.
The ultimate goal of the ascetics, the reason why they say they want to jump out of the three realms, is actually to jump out of this breeding pen, otherwise it will be difficult to escape the harvest of heaven.
However, if you want to jump out of the Three Realms, there have been so many great powers throughout the ages, but few have been able to truly achieve it. At most, it is to combine the body with the Tao. To put it bluntly, it is to integrate oneself with the Tao of Heaven, to the extent that "I am the Tao of Heaven, and the Tao of Heaven is me." However, this means that you will never have the chance to jump out, and you will still be bound by the laws of heaven.
Back to Ye Zan.
The strange power displayed by Ye Zan really scared Cheng Pan. However, in fact, it is not a Tao realm, it is just an artistic conception with some characteristics of the Tao realm.
If Ye Zan has truly mastered the Tao realm now, unless Cheng Pan also possesses the Tao realm, it will be almost impossible to resist the suppression of the Tao realm.
And Cheng Pan, after the initial fright, quickly thought of this problem. If the other party really had the Tao realm, why would he need to be so entangled with him. After having this idea, he could finally calmly feel the changes in this space and speculate on what methods Ye Zan used.
"Fortunately, although it has some meaning of Taoist realm, it is essentially the power of artistic conception!" After feeling the changes in the space, Cheng Pan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time he couldn't help feeling ashamed, angry, and resentful. Said: "As expected, I can't keep you. If I give you a few more years, I'm afraid you will really have to realize the Tao realm!"
Although being seen through by the other party was not a Taoist state, Ye Zan did not panic at all, and responded to the other party with a sneer: "Haha, even if it is just the power of artistic conception, it should be enough to deal with you."
"Okay, then I want to see what other tricks you can do with just the power of artistic conception!" Although Cheng Pan's words were arrogant, he actually did not take it lightly.
Cheng Pan is not an ignorant person, at least he is already a powerful soul, and he has a master like Tianyu Daozu. In fact, through sensing the surrounding space, he had already understood some of the mysteries of Ye Zan's artistic conception.
The artistic conception that Ye Zan displayed this time was not the kind of artistic conception that manifested visions. It was not like the previous artistic conception of the starry sky, which made people feel as if they were suddenly in the starry sky. The space shrouded by the power of artistic conception looks no different from before. If it were a person who had no understanding of the avenue, he might not have thought that it had been shrouded by the power of artistic conception.
However, after Cheng Pan calmed down, he clearly felt the changes in this space from the level of the avenue. To put it simply, the avenues in this space are actually much less than those outside the space. In other words, the power of Ye Zan's artistic conception has actually eliminated the power of the avenues in the space.
This can also explain why the various spells cast by fifteen Cheng Pan suddenly and strangely dissipated in this space.
He said "merely the power of artistic conception", but in fact Cheng Pan was quite surprised after sensing this change, and he also raised Ye Zan's threat by several levels.
You must know that although the artistic conception and even the Tao realm will indeed present a situation of "only oneself" in the field, it does not mean that it really excludes all other avenues. In fact, just because the avenue of this realm is strong enough to cover up or suppress the power of other avenues, just like the sunlight covering up the stars in the sky during the day, does not mean that those stars do not exist.
However, in the realm of Ye Zan's artistic conception, Cheng Pan clearly felt that many of the powers of the avenue no longer existed. For example, the most basic Five Elements Avenue, the power of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, is completely missing in this field. And this means that spells using the power of the Five Elements Avenue can no longer be cast in this field.
This is too exaggerated. If it had been anyone else, none of the Five Elements spells could be used, and half of their combat power would have been directly eliminated. Especially for those pure magic practices, if there is nothing else except the Five Elements magic, it means that they have become a mortal in this field.
However, Cheng Pan is not an ordinary person after all. If he doesn't have the Five Elements spells to cast, it doesn't mean that there are no other means available.
I saw the fifteen Cheng Pans suddenly put away the spells in their hands, and then used their flying swords in unison. Although the fifteen people are all clones, the flying swords are all different. It is not that the flying sword is divided into fifteen parts.
Although the fifteen flying swords are all different, the sword techniques used are all those of the Star Sect, and they all display the same star artistic conception. Fifteen powerful souls displayed the same starry conception. Although it did not reach the fifteenth level, they also brought this starry mood to its limit.
In an instant, this piece of heaven and earth was replaced by the endless starry sky. Countless stars shined in this space, and the star power moved with the moves of the fifteen flying swords.
"cut!"
Fifteen Cheng Pans shouted softly in unison, and with the blessing of star power, fifteen flying swords showed various strange phenomena and slashed towards the surrounded Ye Zan. Some manifested the four holy beasts, and some manifested the star kings, causing the world to tremble, and all kinds of strange phenomena almost instantly drowned Ye Zan's figure.
Ye Zan, who was besieged, did not dare to neglect at this time, and the Dao Wen of the Eye of True Knowledge appeared again on his forehead. In his eyes of true knowledge, this space once again turned into a virtual space filled with a large amount of data flow. Countless data shuttled back and forth in the space, intertwined with each other like a mess.
"With the power of Zhou Tianxing Dou, Greedy Wolf and Pojun are ineffective! The Eastern Qisu is invalid! The Northern Qisu..." Ye Zan stood in this space, analyzing the data with the eye of true knowledge, and constantly based on the analyzed results. It declares the invalidity of those avenues.
Ye Zan's artistic conception can be called the realm of true knowledge. It is different from Cheng Pan's idea of eliminating the avenues in the field. In fact, it only makes the power of these avenues ineffective.
After all, if you want to truly eliminate an avenue of heaven and earth in a space and create a vacuum area of this avenue, it is simply like contending with the entire way of heaven. Let alone Ye Zan, who is in the realm of Yuanshen, even if he is replaced by Tongtian Supreme, or even Earth Immortal Taoist Ancestor, he may not be able to truly achieve it.
You know, although people say that there are three thousand avenues, in fact the avenues are not one by one, but intersect with each other to form a whole.
To make an analogy that may not be appropriate, if the avenue is compared to silk thread, then the real avenue of heaven and earth is like a piece of cloth that has been woven. The difference with cloth is that you can drill a hole in the cloth to create a small space without threads, but it is impossible to drill such a hole in the Avenue of Heaven and Earth.
Therefore, what Ye Zan did was to declare the invalidity of certain avenues in this realm of true knowledge.
Of course, declaring it invalid does not mean simply saying it is invalid. Ye Zan has not yet reached the point where he can follow his words. Even with the analysis of the Eye of True Knowledge, it is by no means an easy task to use one's own power to influence the power of the avenue based on the results of the analysis.
And following Ye Zan's movements, outside in the world in Cheng Pan's eyes, he could see the artistic conception of stars formed by the stars in the sky, and the stars quickly dimmed. It was like a brightly lit city night scene suddenly encountered a city-wide blackout. A large number of lights went out as the blackout spread.
At the same time, the various illusions condensed by the swordsmanship performed by the fifteen Cheng Pan and the power of the stars quickly dissipated into nothingness as the starlight dimmed.
The illusion of the white tiger sacred beast was about to pounce on Ye Zan, but it seemed to pounce into a black hole and dissipated from beginning to end. The long sword of Pojun Xingjun looked like it was stabbed into Ye Zan's body, but the long sword did not come out from behind until the end of it "submerged" into Ye Zan's body, and he no longer knew where it went.
Finally, this space shrouded in the artistic conception of stars turned into a space filled with endless darkness. There is no more shining star in Cheng Pan's starry conception, and fifteen Cheng Pans can no longer attract any star power. The Eye of True Knowledge on Ye Zan's forehead emits an extremely dazzling light, sweeping away the surrounding darkness in the blink of an eye, making everything return to its original appearance.
Fifteen Cheng Pan's artistic conception was broken, and they all spurted out a mouthful of blood. The flying swords in their hands also lost control at this moment, and fell to the ground like meteors.
"Haha, it's really interesting. Even the power of the stars in the sky has been eliminated from this space. However, after eliminating so many avenues, how much strength do you have left?" Fifteen Cheng Pan One of them wiped the blood on the corner of his mouth and sneered without any frustration.
Although Cheng Pan didn't know how Ye Zan did it, he already had a guess in his mind. Ye Zan eliminated these avenues, making it impossible for people to use the power of these avenues in this space, and it was probably not limited to enemies. Since there is no certain avenue in this space, doesn't it mean that except for the enemy, he cannot use the power of the avenue.
"You will know after you try it." Ye Zan did not answer Cheng Pan, but said with confidence.
However, in Cheng Pan's opinion, Ye Zan's response seemed a little bit arrogant. Therefore, Cheng Pan suddenly felt more confident about his guess. Seeing these fifteen Cheng Pan, no longer using any magic or sword skills, they rushed towards Ye Zan one by one, seemingly wanting to engage in a hand-to-hand fight.
Cheng Pan's guess was not wrong. Ye Zan's approach, after declaring all the avenues invalid, indeed made him unable to use the power of these avenues. In other words, in this realm of true knowledge, Ye Zan and Cheng Pan are the same. Neither can use the Five Elements spells, nor can they use the power of the stars in the sky.
However, this does not mean that Ye Zan will be like Cheng Pan and only have to fight with fists and feet.
Don't forget, Ye Zan is from the world of technology and has a large number of weapons from the world of technology. Not to mention powerful high-energy weapons, just a metal storm emitted by electromagnetism is no less powerful than the ordinary Five Elements Spell.
So, just as the fifteen Cheng Pans were surrounding him, Ye Zan took out a rather domineering-looking metal storm in his hand. As he pressed the launch button, a buzzing sound came from the weapon, and the densely packed honeycomb-like launch port at the front instantly sprayed out a large number of metal warheads.
Cheng Pan, who was pointed at the front by the metal storm, had no time to see clearly what Ye Zan was holding in his hand, and was shot into minced meat by the countless metal bullets. Immediately afterwards, Ye Zan began to change the direction of shooting, turning in a circle with himself as the center, and the metal storm also drew a strange fan shape in the air.
The other Cheng Pans were unable to sustain themselves for even a second under the attack of the metal storm, and each of them was directly blasted into pieces of flesh and blood. Fifteen Cheng Pan originally planned to surround Ye Zan, but they didn't expect that Ye Zan had such terrifying weapons, and none of them could get close to Ye Zan.
After killing all fifteen Cheng Pans, Ye Zan temporarily stopped the Metal Storm in his hand and used the Eye of Truth to "look" around. He didn't think that Cheng Pan was really killed in this way. Although none of the fifteen Cheng Pans survived, it was not impossible for him to be reborn again.