Asura Sutra

The **Asura Sutra** is a mystical cultivation method that focuses on cultivating the inner body and outer universe, or the external energies that permeate the world. This was to commune with heaven and earth and take in the energy of the world, similar to how humanity takes in the world essence in forming their dantian. Moreover, it was more than just the dantian, this Asura Sutra cultivated the world of the universe to thoroughly commune with the body, absorbing supreme laws and energies into a singular entity.

The Heavenly Sutra that cultivated the universe of the world was in essence the Heavenly Dao and nature itself. In other words, this cultivation method focused on integrating the world energy and laws into one's body, fusing all 33 Great Dao laws and the power of divinity comprising of essence, energy, and divine.

Basically, the outer universe is more like cultivating one's inner world or something else that had a similar effect, just like the cruel and overbearing Good Fortune Divine Art.

The Asura Sutra that the Asura Road Master created focused on inner and outer cultivation.

Inner cultivation meant to cultivate oneself - Outer cultivation meant to cultivate an avatar.

The Asura Sutra had a total of three volumes, divided into essence, energy, and divine. Each volume focused on both inner cultivation of oneself and outer cultivation of an avatar.

When the Asura Sutra was cultivated to the limit, one could fuse one’s own essence, energy, and divine as one, and then also fuse in three avatars. At that time, one could achieve an unbelievable boundary.

## Appearance

The Asura Heavenly Book or the Asura Sutra comes in three sets; each set looks like an ancient bronze book.

Within the thick and ancient bronze book, every word was condensed with heaven and earth origin energy and the true strength of the absolute beginning.

If an ordinary martial artist were to look at these words, even if they focused all their sight they still wouldn’t be able to make out anything from them. All they would see would be strange runes with unknown meanings.

The writings of the Heavenly Sutra could manifest supreme demon gods, magnificent divine palaces, and boundless galaxies…

It was a heaven-shaking sacred text that recorded the secrets with which the Asura Road Master surpassed the realm of True Divinity.

## Description

In the Asura Road Master's martial road, he had spent 3.3 billion years travelling through the great cosmos, cultivating 33 lives in 33 separate 'heavens', searching for the true meaning of the world.

There were 33 Layered Heavens in the universe and in every Layered Heaven, the Asura Road Master would seal away his life’s cultivation and begin from nothing. Like this, he cultivated 33 lives. Each life was 100 million years. Moreover, through these 100 million years, he cultivated from a mortal to an Empyrean and even stepped into the realm of god, becoming a True Divinity.

This was what it meant within the preface when it wrote, ‘One life one Empyrean, one life one Divinity!’

Through his reincarnations, the Asura Road Master had reached the true meaning of samsara, feeling the hundred tastes of a thousand mortal generations and had perceived the Heavenly Dao to an extreme level. He had reached the point of becoming able to stand side-by-side with the Great Dao, achieving unparalleled strength.

However, even after fully cultivating 33 lives, the Asura Road Master still hadn’t reached the goal he sought. Even after combining the 33 Heavenly Daos, he still felt that something was missing.

Thus, he had cultivated each laws til perfection and them formed the Asura Road, after realizing the highest truths of the world, he then speculated that the complete Heavenly Dao was a total of 36. In other words, 36 Layered Heavens.

By understanding the final 3 Layered Heavens, he had fused his complete comprehension to form the complete **Asura Heavenly Dao** - a universal law at the same or even greater height than the 33 Heavens Great Dao.

### **Sutra**

The Asura Sutra that he left behind could be said to speak about the ultimate Heavenly Dao that stood atop the 33 Heavens; it was the power of the universe.

The cultivation method is a book detailing the Asura Road Masters comprehensions about the Great Heavenly Dao. Essentially, it is a technique that cultivates the world or the universe, with the highest level having attained the strength of the world, able to move unrivaled throughout the entire 33 Heavens.

The book contains the peak of laws, depicting the ultimate evolution of Heavenly Dao and the ability to stand atop the heavens.

The Asura Sutra is similar to a universe, infinite and boundless wherein one can gain numerous comprehensions in the source of all things. It is an all-encompassing dao that speaks about the essence of the 33 Heaven laws, its source the triple divinities of essence, energy and divine, and the power of the world.

It is a cultivation method that is on par with the Sacred Scripture. On one hand, the Asura Sutra is mainly about the power of the world, the strength of heaven or the external power gained by a martial artist. While the Sacred Scripture is all about life and death, the ever changing aspects of a martial artist. This strength of life and death focuses on one's experiences throughout their martial path, the different moods of existence and understanding the core of one's life or the internal aspect that make up a martial artist.

### **Cultivation**

The Asura Sutra is a cultivation technique that focuses on practicing the three main source essences. It is a cultivation method focusing on the outer cultivation; or communing with the Heavenly Dao. But the true purpose of the Sutra was meant to cultivate an avatar or incarnation to ultimately fuse them with one's own being. The result being that you become truly divine, exuding the pressure of the Heavenly Dao and stand on par with it!

To achieve large-success in this peak level cultivation method, it is necessary to fuse all three of the Source energies; Grandmist Energy, Genesis Energy and Spiritual Source.

## Content

The Asura Sutra has a total of three volumes, divided into essence, energy, and divine. Each volume focused on both inner cultivation of oneself and outer cultivation of an avatar.

After collecting the books of essence, energy, and divine, one would have gathered the complete Asura Sutra.

### **Asura Sutra: Volume One "Essence"**

The first volume of the Asura Sutra, the path of cultivating the mortal body. At the same time as one cultivated their body, they also had to cultivate an essence energy avatar. And, this essence energy avatar had to be formed using one’s own blood energy or created using some miraculous treasures of the heavens and earth.

The disadvantage of the first option was that it would cause one’s blood vitality to drop. After refining an avatar, there would be a long time during which one’s cultivation and strength wouldn’t rise, but fall instead.

As for the disadvantage of the second option, it was far too difficult to find some miraculous treasures of the heavens and earth. Those sorts of treasures could only be found through a stroke of fate. Moreover, even if someone managed to obtain one, wanting to refine it into an avatar was beyond difficult.

And at the end of the Asura Sutra, the Asura Road Master had left behind a postscript that left Lin Ming shocked. When the Asura Road Master finished creating the Asura Sutra, he had obtained the perfect material to form an essence energy avatar – an Essence Spirit Embryo Stone.

* Cultivation method about building up an Avatar from Astral essence/Grandmist Source essence.

#### *Myriad Dhramic Wheel*

* The Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel originated from the first volume of the Asura Sutra, the one that focused on cultivating the mortal body. But, what it absorbed were actually evil thoughts and souls.
* The wheel looks ash black, and seemed to contain millions of pained demonic souls, all of them incomparably fierce.
* The Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel has an inherent ability to crush apart all source force and evil spirits. It was a cultivation technique that excelled in suppressing ghosts, spirits, demons, and souls of dead martial artists. Besides the Magic Cube, it could be called one of Lin Ming’s strongest methods in dealing with anything related to the soul. A demonic technique that swallows souls for one's cultivation. Acquired from the Asura Sutra.

### **Asura Sutra: Volume Two "Divine"**

* This Asura Sutra Volume Two focused on the road of soul forging, and page after page was filled with all sorts of mysterious Law lines and words. It spoke about cultivating one’s soul force. Compared to the soul force cultivation method passed down by Empyrean Divine Mist, it contained far more unique and incomprehensible mysteries.
* Each word in the Asura Sutra seemed to contain an endless demonic atmosphere. Just by looking at it, one felt as if their soul was being sucked in. A martial artist would even feel that the words themselves had a soul, that they were living!
* This discovery would leave anyone shaken. Perhaps, the truth was that these writings were like soul curse seals. Like the souls of dead powerhouses that were sealed within the Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel, perhaps these writings were similar sealed souls that were then used to create words! If this were so, this Asura Sutra Volume Two would have been written using the souls of billions and trillions of powerhouses…
* The first and second volumes of the Asura Sutra were similar. In order to practice them, one needed to form an avatar. Moreover, the requirements to create this avatar were extremely harsh. A martial artist had to split apart 30% of their divine soul to create an avatar or refine one using miracle materials of the heavens and earth. If a martial artist took the first path then it would cause his divine soul to be extremely weakened for a long time, leaving them in a precarious state. They would also need all sorts of heavenly materials to make up for the damage to their soul.

#### *Soul Reading*

As Lin Ming spoke, his pupils changed color, becoming a deep dark abyss. If a common martial artist were to look at Lin Ming now, they would feel as if their soul was being sucked into his eyes.

This was an arcane skill of the Asura Sutra’s second volume. As the monster fellow met Lin Ming’s eyes, his body shook, his eyes glazed over and his expression turned blank. His sea of consciousness had been thoroughly muddled by Lin Ming’s soul force.

In the next moment, the monster fellow opened his mouth and spoke of everything he knew.

#### *Myriad Essence Reincarnation Wheel*

* The Myriad Essence Reincarnation Wheel originated from the soul forging Asura Sutra Volume Two. What It absorbed was origin energy and the deepest meaning of the Laws.
* A purple wheel that was like an endless vortex that gathered the power of the world. It didn’t have the thick terrifying feeling of the Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel, but instead seemed to contain countless profound martial intents and Laws within.

### **Asura Sutra: Volume Three "Energy"**

Cultivation method about building up an Avatar from True essence/Genesis Qi Source.

#### Myriad Essence Wheel

* The Asura Sutra Volume Three that cultivated origin energy would produce an Asura wheel that absorbed essence energy and blood vitality. Extremely potent out of all three wheels of the Asura Sutra.

## Legacy

Asura had left behind this grand cultivation method in order for a peerless martial artist to inherit it, practice the laws of the 33 Heavens, and reach the peak of martial arts.

All of this was in order to challenge an extremely powerful adversary of the 33 Heavens.

This law builds up by Grandmist Qi, Genesis Qi and Qi of Spiritual Source three Source. With Asura Heavenly Law and flesh and blood fusion. May grow Asura Road small world in within the body. Wards off 33 Heavens Great Dao, by the Asura Heavenly Dao principle in the 33 Heavens able to move unhindered.

9 by 9, the laws of reincarnation and the baptism of the world's nirvana. This means that the predestined child will inherit the world if that person reaches the peak of the source laws. Only by following the path of the Primal God may one be able to achieve triple essence fusion, to cultivate the three main sources was to follow the path Asura took billions of years ago.

### **Asura Heavenly Array Diagram**

This square array diagram was similar to the Myriad Demon Karmic Wheel but there were many other things included. Within it shimmered countless magnificent and phantasmal lines and numerous ice crystals.

These lines were similar to the Asura Heavenly Dao Law lines that appeared when drawing up a divine runic symbol. It was an array diagram formed from the union of all three volumes of the Asura Sutra. While these ice crystals must be divine runic symbol wisdom in crystallized form that the Asura Road Master personally refined in the past.

With the Asura Heavenly Diagram, one can wield the Asura Heavenly Dao outside of the Asura Road. This is known as the greatest reward one can achieve in the Asura Final Trial, excluding the final inheritance.

If the Asura Heavenly Array Diagram was buried within the body, it was the same as having a mini Asura Road world within oneself. One would be able to use the power of the Asura Heavenly Dao Laws, and even the many Laws within divine runic symbols could be used in the 33 Heavens.

## Requirements

Of course, such a precious and supreme cultivation method must have some form of requirements. In order for an unrivalled prodigy to attain the final third volume of the Asura Sutra and the 'essence' avatar, one would need to meet the final requirement of the Asura Road Master.

The Asura Road Master had stipulated that one needed one to be at the pinnacle of their generation, excelled in the aspect of will, and had pure of heart in order for a martial artist to obtain the sutra. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to wield this gift of heaven even if they wanted to, others were just unfated to even have knowledge of such a heavenly treasure.

### Meaning

The final inheritance of the Asura Road. In order to receive it, one needed to be an unrivalled existence, possess a great destiny, and also be the fated one. A trial challenger required all three of these characteristics in order to obtain the approval of the inheritance.

### Meaning

The first several levels of the final trial, including the entire test that was the Asura Road itself, could be considered repeated verifications of a trial challenger’s talent and destiny. But in order to go from the sixth level to the seventh level, one needed ‘fate’.

### Meaning

The manifestation of the symbol of fate was to possess the three token emperor jades of ‘essence, energy, and divine’.

Only by simultaneously possessing all three emperor jades could one enter the seventh level.

According to any common logic, in the massive Asura Road, to find three tiny emperor jades was as difficult as searching for a needle in the endless ocean. It could even be called an impossible mission.

But, according to that Asura Road Master’s viewpoint, these three emperor jades were extraordinary. They were emperor jades of ‘fate’, and possessed strange and incredible Laws. As long as one’s fate reached a certain point, one wouldn’t even need to look for these emperor jades, but they would take the initiative to seek out the person instead.

If one couldn’t collect all three emperor jades, then one could only say that their fate was lacking.

### **Token Emperor Jade**

On would have to collect all three emperor jades and then place them in the grooves to open the portal to the seventh level of the Final Trial.

* First Emperor Jade Token
	+ This complete jade pendant had been obtained by Lin Ming in the Hunter game. Because of this jade pendant, Lin Ming had been able to enter God Burying Ridge, fall into Tragic Death Valley, and escape from there and continually pass through absolute killing zones. Utilizing those killing zones, Lin Ming had brought down three top masters: Mister Zhou, Ash Murder, and Tian Mingzi.
	+ It could be said that Lin Ming’s life was saved because of this emperor jade.
* Second Emperor Jade Token
	+ As for the emperor jade fragment, Lin Ming had bought that from Old Xue’s stall at the Divine Runic Masters Guild.
	+ Old Xue didn’t know what this emperor jade fragment was, but his intuition told him it was unusual. Yet no matter how much he studied it over the years, he had never been able to discern its secrets. Finally, he thought it was some Empyrean spirit treasure fragment and sold it to Lin Ming.
	+ Because this emperor jade fragment had too many flaws in the Asura dao patterns within it, it wasn’t too valuable. Even so, Lin Ming kept it in his spatial ring. But after being placed in the grooves, it had mysteriously repaired itself into a complete emperor jade.
* Third Emperor Jade Token "Fate"
	+ It was a piece of jade the size of a baby’s palm. The jade was carved with numerous mystical runes. Besides that, it didn’t seem particularly special at all.
	+ It was gained from the Asura Forbidden Land in the Primeval Universe in Chapter 1894.

## Avatar

The mode in which the cultivation method is manifested in lies with the use of *avatars* or *incarnation clones*.

The Asura Sutra that the Asura Road Master created covered a breadth of Laws that was far too vast to imagine. Inevitably, there was a situation where there were Laws that were not suitable for the Asura Road Master to cultivate.

The 33 Heavenly Daos were all-encompassing. There were cultivation methods more suited for the spiritas and cultivation methods more suited for the saints. No matter how heaven-defying one’s physique was, it was impossible for a singular person to cultivate all Laws. Thus, even if one spent 100 million years cultivating certain Laws, one still might not have any noticeable achievements in them.

Even the Asura Road Master wasn’t able to avoid such a situation. Thus, the Asura Road Master created a system of avatars. By using his source essence, energy, or divine, or even all sorts of heavenly materials, he could refine his own avatar. Then, he could divide a part of his consciousness and seal it into the avatar.

These avatars could be used to cultivate Laws that his main body couldn’t. When these avatars reached large success in their cultivation, they could reintegrate with the main body. When all of these avatars fused as one, he could break free from the shackles of the Heavenly Dao.

### **Essence Spirit Embryo - Astral Essence**

* This Essence Spirit Embryo Stone was a sacred spirit born within a stone.
* A divine stone, after absorbing heaven and earth origin energy as well as the essence of the sun and moon for countless billions of years, would gather all of this origin energy together, slowly condensing into a human form. Once this sacred spirit shattered through the stone and was born, its talent would be at the highest extreme and its strength would be amazing. Its martial aptitude would even surpass that of a God Beast.
* In the legends, there was an ancient supreme elder that had leapt forth from this type of stone. Afterwards, they became a True Divinity and performed great deeds of good fortune.

### **Nether Springs Divine Embryo**

* By dividing a part of one's life spirit as the foundation, absorbing the soul force left behind by the ancient kings, as well as using the imprisoning array formation left behind by the Asura Road Master, they would be able to form their divine soul avatar.
* The divine soul avatar had no true substantial body so it was possible for a martial artist to have it split apart. However, each copy only had its power reduced of the original’s power.

### **Essence Energy Embryo - True Essence**

* In the past, the Asura Road Master had gathered 10,000 spiritual treasures of the heavens and earth and refined it with genesis energy. Then, he took the condensed form of all these spiritual treasures and sealed it into the core of a great essence gathering array formation, nourishing it with the world’s origin energy, slowly refining and tempering it through the endless river of time.
* This avatar was a pure energy essence body. Whether it was absorbing heaven and earth origin energy or in terms of capabilities of utilizing heaven and earth origin energy, it had reached a boundary that ordinary martial artists would never be able to achieve.

## Trivia

* Even for the Asura Road Master, it was impossible to cultivate every one of the Laws. Even if he spent 100 million years cultivating each of the Laws, it was impossible for him to achieve the limit in ones that didn’t suit him. However, the Asura Road Master had used another method to solve this problem - that was avatars. If his true body wasn’t suited to cultivating some Laws, then he only needed to create an avatar that was. Lin Ming’s Essence Spirit Embryo Stone was one such example.
* The reason why the Asura Sutra was more focused on the laws of the inner world is because of the Purple Card; a crystallized form of the source of true essence.
* The true creator of the **Heavenly Book** is in fact unknown, but it was made famous by the Heavenly God Asura, thus, having the added **Asura to** the name.
* In terms of creating a world and developing a world, the Heavenly Sutra was much more useful than the Holy Scripture.
* Heavenly God Asura had used a 100 million years to write the three books.
* Asura completed the books for future successors and also to further his understanding to the Great Dao.
* The Asura Sutra and the Holy Scripture were the foundation of all Laws within the world. One representing the outer universe, one representing the inner universe – the two great Laws covered nearly all the learnings of martial arts, encompassing everything.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1991 – Little Fishy
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 1461 – The Asura Sutra
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 1733 – ‘Divine’
4. ↑ Chapter 1742 – To Settle All Ties
5. ↑ Chapter 1738 – The Final Reward
6. ↑ Chapter 1990 – The Wrathful Saint Emperor
7. ↑ Chapter 1835 – Reward
8. ↑ Chapter 1991 – Little Fishy
9. ↑ Chapter 1887 – Another Battle