The Heavens: A Qing, the Yue Girl at the beginning

"Senior, I will accept your kindness and the diagram of the martial arts formation. We will meet again someday if we have the chance!" Zhao Qing's clear and graceful voice was tinged with teasing, echoing in the dead silence of the abyss. Before the illusory light and shadow completely disappeared, it even waved casually in the direction of the void light mirror.

All this happened in a flash! From her pretending to test the ice wall, to her sudden flight into thin air, to her leaving words and waving goodbye, it was so smooth as if she had rehearsed it thousands of times!

"Hmm?!" For the first time, the starry sky vortex in the mirror showed violent fluctuations! The rotating stardust seemed to be disturbed by an invisible giant hand, and the bright golden light suddenly became dazzling and chaotic.

A majestic, cold divine thought filled with anger at being deceived swept across the entire Beiming Xuanyuan like a tsunami!

An area of ​​dozens of miles was plunged into absolute darkness, as if the virtual particles that propagated light here had collapsed and extinguished, the vacuum collapsed and surged, and the framework of the Yuan Qi Law was pulled out.

However, it's too late!

The moment before the Emperor's divine sense captured and locked onto her, Zhao Qing's ethereal figure had already penetrated the ice dome and the thick strata, disappearing without a trace! Her final wave of farewell was like a loud slap in the face of the Emperor's lofty will.

The divine consciousness impact that was powerful enough to wipe out a peak seventh realm cultivator in an instant slammed fiercely into the empty ice dome, causing the entire Xuanyuan to tremble slightly. The netherworld water stirred up a silent wave, and countless netherworld fish fled in panic.

The light mirror flickered violently, and it seemed like it would shatter at any moment.

Dead silence.

A dead silence even more oppressive than before enveloped this ancient secret land.

Only the thousand-armed demon shadow was still dancing silently behind the black crystal giant.

It turned out that before Zhao Qing entered the water and realized that the terrifying lineup of the ambush was far beyond her expectations, she and her main body had already made a simple but bold "insurance" plan:
If no new safety signal is transmitted back within half an hour, the main body will force a breakthrough at all costs and proceed to the final promotion step of the Six Qi Realm. In this process, it will trigger the deepest connection between the source of its own power and the body spirit and forcibly "recover" this body spirit!
This is an extreme measure that poses certain risks to both the body and the soul, and requires precise timing, just like setting a countdown alarm that cannot be interfered with by the outside world.

Although she temporarily lost her perception in the middle of the journey, Zhao Qing had long ago developed a timekeeping method called the "true qi atomic clock", and was completely clear about how long she had been out of contact. After that, all her dealings in front of Emperor You, negotiations, requests for skills, and even her final move towards the ice wall were all clever ways to delay time!
What she was betting on was that although Emperor You was strong, the projection of his power was limited by Jiang Yan's field, and there were hundreds of thousands of miles of void between them. The "reaction speed" of his divine thoughts and his "instant insight" into microscopic changes were not truly invulnerable!

What she was betting on was that after she showed her intention to "cooperate" and began to comprehend the tempting "Avoiding the Placenta" technique, Emperor You would relax his vigilance a bit and the means of confinement might not be effective!
She succeeded! At the last moment when the half hour was about to run out, the main body judged that the body was in a state of crisis and had no ability to save itself, so it resolutely launched the planned plan!

The essential connection between the body and the original body that transcends space and originates from the same origin was instantly stimulated to the extreme, forcibly extracting her from the "real" state into "virtualization", and successfully escaping!

This incredible method is a one-time "benefit" for impacting the lower six qi realms and condensing the prototype of the Gods' Palace. It is a special effect that can only be triggered by someone like Zhao Qing who has already possessed the relevant realm and gone through the three steps of knocking on the Tao: it allows the body and spirit to be "deified" in advance and possess the ability of "unpredictable yin and yang".

Under normal circumstances, the body and spirit that is free outside is equivalent to a combination of essence, energy and spirit. Its physical properties are similar to those of true energy. Although it can pass through objects, it will still be blocked by high-density matter and some spiritual materials. However, the "god" exists in the heart, without energy or form, and cannot be controlled by the yin and yang of heaven and earth.

Plans cannot keep up with changes after all. He knew that his cultivation had not yet been polished to the most perfect state, and many matters before the retreat had not been handled properly. But compared with the requirement of losing a body and soul and then slowly nurturing it back, it was better to choose to force a breakthrough decisively.

Opening a copy is risky but also rewarding. The instructions and guidance given by Emperor You are the price he has to pay for his conspiracy and calculations.

……

The two Death Realm magic swords abandoned by Zhao Qing slowly sank into the dark Netherworld Water.

The chaotic starlight in the mirror slowly calmed down, and the brilliant golden light stabilized again, even deeper and colder than before. The expected raging rage did not erupt.

"Heh..." A low, inaudible chuckle came from the light mirror and echoed in the empty abyss.

"What a great Zhao Qing... I underestimated you!"

The Emperor's mind regained its calm, and even had a strange sense of freshness, as if he had discovered an extremely interesting toy. "So that's how it is... The mind split into shadows, the main body sensed, and forcibly retracted... It actually deceived me from beginning to end!"

The laughter gradually died down, and his mind turned into a kind of indifference that was in control of the overall situation: "That's all. I'll give you some fragments of the skills. The "avoiding the placenta" and the "magic source formation chapter" contain great principles and can build the foundation for longevity. It's enough for you to digest for a long time. This emperor... can wait."

The mirror moved slightly, and the two Death Domain Swords that were suspended above the Netherworld True Water did not fall because of Zhao Qing's departure. Two gray beams of light shot down from the mirror, covering the two swords.

Silently, they began to decompose and vaporize, like snow thrown into a furnace.

The remaining mixed sword energy belonging to Zhao Qing was accurately stripped and purified by Emperor You using some means, turning into several strands of strange energy threads that were ten thousand times thinner than a hair and sparkled with colorful light.

These energy threads contain the unique "mark" of the source of Zhao Qing's power. Like a tiny silver fish, they are absorbed into the void light mirror and disappear into the depths of the rotating starry sky vortex.

"No problem." Emperor You looked at the empty abyss, as if he was talking to himself, or as if he was talking to some distant being:
"The eighth realm breaks through the ninth realm. How can it be easy to overcome such a chasm? Even if we don't take into account the ultimate leap of 'transcendence from mortal to immortal', the amount of essence of heaven and earth and the source of vital energy required to accumulate is so vast that it far exceeds the limit of what this barren world can provide."

"Even a figure like Jiang Yan... seemingly with a magnificent legacy and a galaxy flowing within him, in fact, when he was striving for immortality, his foundation was quite weak. Otherwise, why would he instinctively open such a greedy 'Wanjie Guixu Yin' field and frantically absorb the same essence of energy?"

"An 'Earth' whose resources have been exhausted by me, which has experienced the end of the Dharma and whose vitality has just recovered... Even if we use the power of the entire world to dig a hundred feet deep and search for everything, the spiritual energy we gather may not be enough to support the birth of a Ninth Realm Immortal!"

"Quantitative change comes first, then qualitative change can occur. This cannot be changed by natural talent!"

"And the 'Demonic Source'..." The Dark Emperor's mind suddenly rose, revealing unparalleled confidence and ambition, "It is precisely the key to solving this 'quantity' problem! It is the only way to pry open billions of years of sedimentation deep in the earth, efficiently transform all mixed energies, and give birth to 'super-limited' resources!"

"It can give birth to monsters that are far more powerful than normal as food, and it can also transform ordinary spirit veins into paradise! It is the real lever that can pry open this barren world and provide the path to immortality!"

"Zhao Qing... you took it. You comprehended it. With your talent and ambition, would you be able to resist using it? Whether you like it or not, you will eventually lay the foundation for the return of this emperor!"

"At that time, all your cultivation and gains will be the spiritual nourishment for this emperor. It is only natural to collect 50% of the cultivation 'tax'..." The starry sky vortex in the mirror slowly stopped rotating, and the deep golden light gradually retreated. The human-faced beetle "Nether Servant" also closed his eyes.

The bottom of the abyss was completely silent. The sticky netherworld water flowed silently, the giant netherworld fish swam slowly, and the deep purple algae emitted a faint light. The shocking game, the escape, the cold analysis and the far-reaching layout just now seemed to have never happened.

……

At almost the same time, in the grassland north of Yinshan Mountain, on the edge of a huge basin, the withered yellow grasses were growing exceptionally vigorously for some reason. They were covered with frost, but the surroundings were quite desolate. Not only were there no human habitation, but even animal and insect tracks were rarely seen.

There is an extraordinary tranquility between heaven and earth.

Zhao Qing stopped and felt twelve brilliant lights flying towards her from afar one after another, merging into the depths of her body, becoming one with her internal organs and brain, causing sublimation and resonance.

The body and spirit of each organ turned into a round mirror conceived in chaos and nothingness, reflecting the shadows of all things in the world. The world of mortals was like a dream.

Immediately afterwards, loud thunders exploded within a thousand miles, and colorful rays of light spread out, accompanied by a huge vortex of vital energy, which attracted the endless essence of heaven and earth, the light of the sun and the moon, and poured into every tiny acupoint of hers, every activated cell, condensing into an extremely complex energy network.

Twelve great body spirits were projected from their corresponding internal organs, carrying twelve different kinds of innate vital energy, constantly rotating around her crystal clear soul, gradually embedding and combining into rings, evolving into thousands of trajectories.

These twelve brilliant Tao seeds of various shapes and properties took root and sprouted in the soil of her life origin, forging her true self. Twelve different periods of time and life merged into the flow of her heart.

A clear and elegant aura burst out from the junction of Zhao Qing's primordial spirit and body spirit, expanding rapidly outwards, emitting a bright and sacred light, as if a new world had been opened up.

Between this world and the outside world, there exists a thin film that is difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion, and it is covered with countless mysterious ancient patterns.

It looks like circles of black and white strings interwoven together, with a divine light and a sense of penetrating the void. It inexplicably gives people the feeling that it is a living thing, and the sound of thunder is its heartbeat.

When Emperor You was teaching "Avoiding the Placenta", he mentioned the metaphor of "the placenta of heaven and earth", but now it has become a realism.

Millions of strings cut the invisible boundary membrane into countless crystal planes. Countless microporous structures that are invisible to the naked eye are naturally generated at the intersections. They have various shapes and flow unsteadily, turning into extraction channels for the exchange of vitality and laws between the inner and outer world, inhaling and exhaling the ethereal rhythm of Tao.

The wind is no longer a simple airflow. It blows through the holes in the jagged rocks, making a low whimper like a dragon's roar; it blows through the cracks in the frozen river, making a clear and crisp sound like a jade chime; it passes over the tips of the dry grass, stirring up a subtle rustle like the sound of insects...

Myriad kinds of sounds are not ordinary sounds, but the sound of Tao.

This is exactly the embodiment of the saying in Zhuangzi: "The wind blows in a myriad of different ways, yet it makes its own way!" The wind blows through a myriad of holes, and becomes the sound of nature.

As the fetal membrane of heaven and earth began to manifest, new changes began to occur in Zhao Qing's body:
Three dim lights suddenly lit up at the Baihui acupoint on her head. They were not physical entities, but they embodied an extremely pure spiritual will.

The left is green, full of vitality, representing the gathering of essence; the middle is white, clear and ethereal, representing the condensation of qi; the right is red, blazing and surging, representing the refinement of divine energy.

The three colors of light attracted and swirled around each other, and finally slowly gathered about an inch above the Baihui point, forming a slowly rotating three-color light wheel - this is the "Three Flowers Gathering at the Top of the Head", indicating that the three elements of essence, energy and spirit have reached their peak and are harmonious and unobstructed.

At the same time, between her chest and abdomen, deep within her heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, a pure and flawless life energy rose from each of her five internal organs: the heart's fire was red, the liver's wood was green, the spleen's earth was golden yellow, the lungs' gold and silver white, and the kidney's water was dark blue.

They surround the core area of ​​the Dan Zhong point like paying homage to the king, forming an endless, circulating five-colored cyclone - this is the "Five Qis Returning to the Origin", symbolizing that the original life force contained in the five internal organs has been completely integrated and activated, providing infinite power for the transformation of the physical body.

At the moment when the three flowers stabilized and the five qi returned to their origin, the crystal clear Yuanshen in Zhao Qing's sea of ​​consciousness, which seemed to be condensed by pure starlight, moved! It did not leave the body, but slowly sank along the central channel and stepped into the core of the furnace of life - the heart!
"boom!"

When the soul completely sank into it, the whole heart seemed to turn into a miniature sun! An indescribable, extremely pure, yet powerful enough to burn away all impurities, glazed flames ignited from the depths of the heart!

Samadhi is really hot!

It combined with the true fire of the sun released from his soul, burning fiercely and instantly sweeping through Zhao Qing's limbs, meridians and acupoints.

Thus, her body, which had been tempered to near perfection, began to undergo a deeper transformation again under the forging of the double true fire. This stage is called "leaving the mortal nature and refining into the true form"!
The flesh, bones, meridians, and even the tiniest cell particles all emit subtle and dense "crackling" sounds under the tempering of the blazing furnace, and wisps of purple smoke float around the body, exuding fragrance.

Wherever the smoke passes, grass and trees flourish and the fields are filled with fragrance. Although it is the waste discharged from the body refining, it is a treasure in the eyes of ordinary practitioners.

From then on, the last trace of impurities, inertia, and constraints of the mundane life form were ruthlessly burned and stripped away!
"Tai Yi gives birth to water! Water in turn supports Tai Yi, thus forming the sky!"

At the same time, Zhao Qing's soul moved and glowed as his mind went.

The pure Taiyin True Water that had been prepared long ago and the Tianyi True Water, which was born from the Samadhi True Fire's extreme yang generating yin and integrating into the kidney water source, also merged with each other, exuding the vast Taoist rhyme of the most yin and softness, nourishing all things, and instantly spread out.

They flow through the body that has been almost "dried up" by the true fire. Wherever they pass, the blazing and violent true fire seems to be soothed, becoming docile and controllable; the "scorched" tissues that have been burned are like a long-awaited rain, and they are filled with unprecedented vitality!
Water and fire are not mutually exclusive, but complementary! True fire refines the mundane, leaving behind the purest "Tao foundation"; true water nourishes the Tao foundation, giving it unlimited potential for "activation" and "growth".

Under the control of the primordial spirit and the body spirit, the two form a perfect dynamic balance and cycle. The pure consciousness eliminates all ignorance, extinguishes the fire of afflictions, ignites the great flame of wisdom, calms the scattered waves, and clarifies the water of concentration.

In this process of water and fire blending and yin and yang transforming into each other, the invisible "fetal membrane of heaven and earth" in the outside world is also rapidly nourished, stabilized, and expanded. The "micropore" structure on the fetal membrane becomes more complex and efficient, and the speed of absorbing and releasing the external vitality suddenly increases tenfold! A hundred times!
In the deepest part of Zhao Qing's soul, in the realm of chaos surrounded by yin and yang, a pure "original ancestral qi" is sprouting and condensing - this is the "root of heaven", the core source of power born from the fusion of her life source and the laws of heaven and earth, and the prototype cornerstone of the future "house of the gods".

Its movement, like the singularity of the Big Bang, brought about a violent disturbance in the internal chaotic state.

...(End of chapter)