Archsaint Six Paths was a towering, peerless figure amongst those that tread the Devil Dao in the Scattered Star Seas.[1]
History[]
Starfall Coalition[]
After Heavenly Star Sages were on the verge of breaking through to the great success stage of Divine Essencefused Light, the Righteous and Devil Dao suddenly formed the Starfall Coalition to oppose the Star Palace. Archsaint Six Paths was one of two leaders, the other being Righteous Dao elder Wan Sangu.[2]
War between Starfall Coalition and Star Palace[]
Over almost 200 years after the Starfall Coalition emerged, they won over 20 islands in the Inner Star Seas. However, the Star Palace has won most of the battles between the two powers. When even the two Late-Nascent Soul leaders, Archsaint Six Paths and Wan Sangu, personally attempted to assault the Heavenly Star City to crush the Star Palace, they were defeated and driven away. After cultivating the Divine Essencefused Light, Ling Xiaofeng and Wen Qing were undefeated as long as they didn't stray far from the Heavenly Star Island, where Divine Essencefused Mountain was located.[3]
When Man Huzi was at the end of his lifespan, Archsaint Six Paths visited him and asked to give his body to him after Man Huzi died so he could cultivate his devilish arts with it. With refusal Man Huzi was severely wounded by Six Apex Devils Art, but he managed to escape.[4]
Few decades later, Ling Xiaofeng and Wen Qing's lifespans were coming to an end. To ensure the continued prosperity of the Star Palace, they decided to kill all other Late-Nascent Soul cultivators of the Starfall Coalition. Since they had cultivated the Divine Essencefused Light they were bound to the Divine Essencefused Mountain (Sage Mountain). However, to enact their plans they exploited a one-month period that occurs every century, where the power of the mountain's restriction disappears.[5]
When such moment arrived, the Heavenly Star Sages invaded the main base of the Starfall Coalition. The Archsaint Six Paths and Wan Sangu faced them, but Ling Xiaofeng and Wen Qing used a secret technique to detonate all the power of the Divine Essencefused Light they had accumulated throughout their lifes. This resulted in a doomsday explosion that razed the entire base and obliterated several Nascent Soul cultivators belonging to the Starfall Coalition, including Archsaint Six Paths and Wan Sangu, and a high number of Core Formation cultivators.[6]
But Archsaint Six Paths managed to survive. He took over Wan Tianming's body, the Sect Master of the Myriad Gates of Enlightenment.[7] As the Starfall Coalition was forced into a steady decline by the Star Palace ruled by Ling Yuling, the news appeared that Wan Tianming progressed to the late Nascent Soul stage. Later, he united the entire coalition and slew several Star Palace elders in battle forging a resounding reputation for himself. In the following few decades, the Star Palace was no match for this Wan Tianming's aggressive assaults. The Starfall Coalition stormed back with a vengeance, recovering all of their lost territories. The Star Palace had been plunged into very perilous situation.[6] Eventually, they proceeded to surround the Heavenly Star City with the Heavenly Windfire Formation.[8]
Dominating the Scattered Star Seas[]
One day, the Star Palace launched a a full-force attack.[9] Wan Tianming summoned Twin Lan Devils, whom he kept hidden untill this moment, because of spies. He also figured out Han Li was present among forces of Star Palace.[10] As Wan Tianming went fighting Han Li, Star Palace's Nascent Soul Elders faced Twin Lan Devils. First, Wan Tianming made 2 late-Nascent Soul refined corpses appear and then used Six Apex Devils Art, which suprised Han Li.[11] Youngster figured out that was actually Archsaint Six Paths.[7] When Han Li easily destroyed 2 Devil Sages, Archsaint Six Paths turned to escape. Han Li caught him and attacked after transforming himself with Brightjade Arts. [12] After combined attack from the puppet, Unbreakable Cinque Devils and Han Li, Archsaint Six Paths was frozen with Purple Apex Flames despite using his Three Divine Souls Banner and two-headed python. As old devil's Nascent Soul turned into six ghost and tried to run away, it was disintegrated with Divine Devilbane Lightning.[13]
There was a bottle left after Archsaint Six Paths. Han Li found inside it sealed Lady Wen's Nascent Soul, whom he met once about 250 years before in the Heavenvoid Hall. Lady Wen was glad Archsaint Six Paths was dead. Her Nascent Soul was very weak and she dissipated it for a chance of reincarnation.[14]
Powers[]
Archsaint Six Paths was at late Nascent Soul stage.
- Six Apex Devils Art. This top ranked Devilish Art in the Scattered Star Seas summons six huge malevolent phantoms. He taught it to his Sole descendant and disciple, Wen Tianren.[15]
- He created pair cultivation techniques Dragon Guiding Arts and Copulative Essence Arts.[16]
- Dragon Guiding Arts-are particularly suitable for Core Formation males, allowing a Core Formation cultivator to unceasingly draw on the vital Yin essence of a woman with a special constitution, greatly raising their cultivation. “However, this secret technique was certain to cause great harm to the woman’s origin Qi. As such, any male cultivators using this technique would best have many concubines. Considering the many Foundation Establishment women at Archsaint Six Paths’ disciple’s side, he should’ve cultivated this technique. Otherwise, there would be no way he could’ve cultivated to late Core Formation stage at his young age, no matter how amazing his aptitude. After all, he didn’t have a miraculous bottle that could age plants.
- Copulative Essence Art - the Copulative Essence Arts, its a secret pair cultivation technique that is specialized for Nascent Soul men. Unlike the Dragon Guiding Arts, it requires a woman to possess cultivation at Core Formation stage. Once a woman cultivates this technique to a deep enough stage, the male cultivator would be able to forcefully break through a cultivation bottleneck in an instant by seizing her vital Yin, It is only natural that he would want his concubines to cultivate with all their might. This technique requires a woman possessing deep cultivation after all, the woman would also benefit from the dual cultivation as well but not to the same level as the male.
- Three Divine Souls Banner- Having dense Yin QI with three early Nascent Soul-stage devil skulls It is quite famous in the Spirit Realm as one of the seven great wicked artifacts. Of course, this superficial copy possesses only a mere fraction of a true banner. The creation of it is exceptionally bloody, requiring each human or beast it is refined from to die a horrible death, Although it isn’t particularly powerful, it required the deaths of many cultivators. When used with a mist of the user blood essence countless fist sized skulls appeared around the banner and out the mouths release streams of black Qi massing together that take the form of a Black Flood Dragon
- White Human bone banner- An extension of the three divine soul banner Up on activation via incantation it produces three human skulls. The three skulls trembled as black mist spouted out from their mouths. They fished up his severed hand, fighting each other as they devoured pieces of it. The skulls flashed with crimson light, their stature immediately enlarged as they reattach and heal archsaint severed hands.
- Blue jade umbrella- Hover over the owner's head and quickly expanded several times its original size in an instant. its use to distort Han Li bright-eyes vision from recognizing which of his clones were the real one.
- Green Jade Bottle - Used to host Lady Wen nascent soul
- Octagonal Black Skull Hammer[An rarely seen Jet-black devilish artifact that carries a sinister death Qi that emitted a thread of sparkling blue devil flame. When activated it appears 10 meters above the enemy head and strike, fiercely smashing down on the enemy.
- Two Headed Toxic Jet Black Snake[Spiritual beast] - The serpent was actually an interesting animal. The toxic mist was on par with the Ten Absolute Poisons of the cultivation world. If common cultivators touched it, they would immediately perish. But this wasn’t the most vicious part of the poison. Rather, it is able to penetrate most elemental barriers without any warning or sensation. Any Nascent Soul cultivator that didn’t guard against this would meet their end. This was the reason the old devil six-path labored over nurturing the spirit beast. One of Six Paths’ phantoms had a mental connection with the black serpent.
- Crimson Light Devil Shield -A powerful Shield use for defending. When activated it enveloped the user in a screen of crimson flame
- Black Wind Evasion technique -[Chap 1216-17] - A scarf of devil mist Qi would release from the cultivator that quickly blurred and immediately covered him with black wind. While carrying the cultivator the wind became vague and flew at immense speed leaving only a chain of afterimages, in an instant he would travel great distance away while leaving a remnant of wind in his current position capable of teleporting away. In the blink of an eye he could travel over three hundred miles away, by concentrating the magic power in the body it would allowed the black wind to surge in size- A normal late-Nascent Soul cultivator would feel helpless against such bizarre movements.
- Doppelganger Evasion technique-[Able to split oneself into two exact copies and dash in opposite direction in order to escape. The copies have the exact spiritual sense which made it easy to confuse enemies in their escape.
- Nascent Soul Clone Evasion Technique - Make six clone of it self in an attempt to escape. sixpath Nascent Soul hadn’t disappeared after it was cleaved into two. Rather, it turned into clouds of roiling black Qi, separating into six lines that shot off in different directions. This secret technique to turn a Nascent Soul into a ghost was incredibly rare. Against an ordinary cultivator, one of the ghosts formed from the Nascent Soul may have been able to escape, allowing him the opportunity to return again
Trivia[]
1)In the donghua it was stated and Implied that Wen Qing of the heavenly star sages and Archsaint Six Paths were siblings, whether by blood or adapted wasn't stated. in Season 3 Episode 12 [88] while Han Li and Jin Qing spoke about the Heavenvoid Hall he mention that the two sages and archsaint were close and wen Qing being his sister. Her, herself referred to six path as her older brother while speaking to Jin Kui in episode 75. Keep in mind that in the cultivation world calling someone Senior/Junior Brother vs Older/Younger Brother both have different meaning.
Another hint is their family name, though archsaint didn't use his actual name Wen Tianren his disciple and sole descendant had the same family name. Both in the novel and donghua she had great hatred toward archsaint for putting her life in danger in the past but her husband back then saved her, she never gave up her hatred towards him with the hope of someday taking revenge by unnaliving her brother.
2) Enforcer Cang Yunlong and Doaist Liu in chap 502/3 after their interaction with Han Li was shock at how strong and dense his baleful Qi were, something that can only be obtain by killing a lot, they thought he killed many cultivators but not realizing is was due to the many beast he hunted and killed for their core. They would mention that if Wen tianren and Archsaint Six Paths were to acquire such dense devilish Qi their cultivation would skyrocket to new heights because of the cultivation art they practices, this thought correspond with the conversation between wen tianren and his master in the donghua Ep 135 about finding a certain place which is one of three phenomenon that occurs in the Scattered Star Seas, the ghost fog aka Umbra Realm or netherworld as some calls it. They must have deduce that the thick Yin Qi would be extremely beneficial to their cultivation art the Six Apex Devils Art, afterall wen tianren said he had spend massive amount of resource tracking the opening of the ghost fog for many years.
- ↑ Chapter 435 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 500 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 1128 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 1150 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 1159 (Novel)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 1204 (Novel)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 1215 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 1206 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 1212 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 1213 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 1214 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 1216 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 1218 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 1220 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 573 (Novel)
- ↑ Chapter 645 (Novel)