Taoist Myth: I am the last true immortal in the world

Chapter 559: Ascending to the Earthly Paradise

According to the records of alchemy, when the soul leaves the body for the first time, people will feel that "the mountains and rivers are shattered, and the earth is flat."

Chen Yun is experiencing this feeling at the moment.

At this moment, he realized that he was one with the heaven, earth, and all things.

In other words, he felt at this moment that there was no universe, no living things, and even himself did not exist.

That magical feeling made him understand for the first time what "there is no self in man, and there is no self in Dharma" meant.

This sentence comes from the Buddhist scriptures, which means that all dharmas are born from causes and conditions, are interdependent, and have no substance. Although the conditioned dharmas have effects, they are not permanent; although the unconditioned dharmas are permanent, they have no effects. In addition, the non-self of all dharmas is one of the three dharma seals, called the seal of non-self of all dharmas. The three dharma seals are important teachings of Buddhism. Judging whether Buddhism is ultimate is verified by these three. Knowing that all dharmas are born from causes and conditions and have no self-nature and substance is the path of observation of Mahayana Bodhisattvas, and one can attain Bodhisattva by eliminating the obstructions of knowledge. The wisdom of thoroughly understanding this principle is called the wisdom of the two non-selfs.

In fact, Taoism also has similar terms.

That is what Lao Tzu proposed: "Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature."

In short, this is the true meaning of "following the laws of heaven and earth".

"So this is what it really feels like to follow the laws of nature?"

Chen Yun knew that this was a rare opportunity for him to gain insights.

He didn't dare to be negligent at all and just calmly sensed this feeling.

At this moment, he seemed to see the trajectory of the Avenue again.

Before this, I accidentally entered the state of "harmony between man and nature", and the trajectory of the avenue appeared clearly before my eyes.

Chen Yun tried hard to remember it, but unfortunately he only remembered half of it.

Although I only remembered half of it, it is much better than remembering a little bit before.

This made Chen Yun couldn't help but sigh secretly. According to the current observation, if he wanted to remember all the trajectories of the Great Dao, he only needed to cultivate the Yang God to be able to remember them all.

He was really curious about what the trajectory of this avenue represented.

The next moment, this feeling suddenly disappeared.

He returned to the real world.

The cave was still pitch black in front of me.

Niu Dali was guarding the cave entrance not far away with a serious look on his face.

And his physical body was right below.

It's very much like the moment when the spirit leaves the body.

The difference is that after the Yin Spirit leaves the body, one cannot control the physical body.

At this moment, although Chen Yun felt that his "consciousness" was suspended in nothingness, he could still control his body.

This is completely different from the situations when the spirits of many immortals in Northeast China leave their bodies.

Chen Yun remembered that when the souls of many immortals in the Northeast left their bodies, their bodies looked withered, as if all their strength had been drained away and gathered into their souls.

I have never encountered such a situation when my soul left my body.

On the contrary, he felt that when he manifested his 100-foot-tall golden body, it was a bit like the spirits of many immortals in the Northeast leaving their bodies. They also needed to draw on all their strength to manifest a 100-foot-tall golden body, and they also possessed the auspicious clouds and magical methods.

"My Taoist 'Soul Out of the Body' is different from that of other Taoists. It does not mean to drain all the energy from the body and condense it into a soul."

Chen Yun recalled carefully, "My soul is truly out of the body. I can store my soul in the ancestral orifice and continue to refine it until one day the yin is exhausted and the yang is pure, and I can achieve a soul that is pure yang without yin, which is also called a yang spirit."

The state of the soul leaving the body is definitely an exhilarating state.

But Chen Yun not only did not feel excited at this moment, on the contrary, he felt a little puzzled in his heart.

"Why can't I feel a significant increase in my strength? It seems that the power in my body is still at the half-step earthly realm, without that kind of absolute power 'dominance'?"

This made Chen Yun feel extremely puzzled.

It was the first time for his soul to leave his body, and he had to rely on himself to figure everything out. Of course, he had no idea what was going on in the current situation.

Chen Yun was just about to explore.

Suddenly, he felt a surge of his soul.

It seems to be constantly absorbing spiritual energy from nothingness.

Yes, not absorbed from the outside world, but absorbed from nothingness.

This magical spiritual energy seemed not to be any spiritual energy in the world, but more like the "ancestral energy" born from refining the original power of Bai Nujiao's soul.

Chen Yun had a vague feeling that the more "ancestral energy" he could absorb, the more help it would be to himself.

He thought about it and simply didn't care whether the soul absorbed the ancestral energy or not, but instead got familiar with the soul leaving the body.

Chen Yun looked carefully and found that he was floating above his physical body with his real body below.

At this time, the body's eyes are closed and breathing is normal.

It's not like the soul leaving the body and being on the verge of death.

It is as if whether your soul leaves your body or not has no effect on the normal functioning of your physical body.

Chen Yun sensed the difference between this and the Yin Spirit leaving the body, and became even more curious.

In this state, can I communicate with Niu Dali?
He remembered that when his Yin Spirit left his body, he was unable to communicate with others.

Maybe my Yin Spirit cultivation was relatively weak at that time.

In fact, the Yin Spirit is powerful enough and can communicate with humans.

Thinking of this, Chen Yun opened his mouth and shouted to Niu Dali: "Brother Niu."

Niu Dali seemed to sense something and suddenly looked in the direction of Chen Yun's soul.

He was extremely surprised and asked, "Master Chen, did you succeed in leaving your body?"

Seeing that Niu Dali could indeed hear him talking, Chen Yun became very curious and responded, "My soul has indeed left my body successfully. Brother Niu, look in the direction of my soul. What do you see?"

Niu Dali shook his head and said, "With my eyes, I can easily see even the Yin Messenger who appears in front of me, but I can't see your Yuanshen. I just sensed that you were transmitting your divine thoughts to me, probably at that position, so I looked over there. In fact, in my eyes, there was nothing over there."

You can sense my spiritual thoughts, but you can’t see the condition of my soul?
Chen Yun suddenly thought of the saying "When scattered, it becomes Qi; when gathered, it becomes form."

Could it be that Niu Dali can’t see his primordial spirit because he is now in the state of “dispersion becomes Qi”?
Chen Yun felt that this was very likely the case.

He was thinking, how can he "gather and form"?

As soon as this thought came to his mind, he felt the spiritual energy around him converging towards his soul.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Yun instinctively sensed that he had "revealed himself"!

As expected, Niu Dali said in amazement: "Master Chen, is this your Yuanshen? It looks like a 13-4 inch baby, and it is emitting a strong divine light. This divine light makes me awed. I even have a feeling that if you want, you can destroy me with just a thought. The Yuanshen is really too powerful!"

Oh, it is true that “when scattered, it becomes Qi, and when gathered, it becomes shape”!

Chen Yun finally understood why Niu Dali couldn't see his soul just now. It turned out to be because he didn't "manifest himself".

He wanted to try to move, but he felt a huge "attraction" coming from his body, as if it was unwilling to let his soul leave his body too far.

Chen Yun tried to struggle hard, but was unable to break free from the constraints of his body.

Seeing this, Niu Dali reminded: "When the Yuanshen first comes out, it is like a baby, weak and delicate, and cannot walk sideways. It must be trained step by step like a baby learning to walk. Only when it can enter and exit freely can it show its power. Master Chen, you have just left your body and are not familiar with the 'water nature'. It is best not to leave your physical body too far." Chen Yun also sensed it and responded: "Well, I just tried it just now to see if the Yuanshen can swim freely."

Niu Dali smiled and said, "Don't be in a hurry, take your time. Once you are familiar with the 'nature of water', your soul will naturally be able to cross thousands of mountains and rivers."

While absorbing the ancestral energy from the void, Chen Yun said in confusion: "Although my soul has left my body, I still don't feel how much my cultivation has improved. Brother Niu, do you know what's going on?"

Niu Dali was startled. "I don't know about this, and the ancestor didn't tell me either."

Well, it seems I'll just have to figure it out on my own.

Chen Yun was floating there, thinking hard.

According to my current level of cultivation, it seems that I am still unable to reach the Earthly Immortal Realm.

Shouldn't one naturally enter the earthly immortal realm once the soul leaves the body?
Then why does it seem like there is such a huge gap between my current strength and the Earthly Immortal Realm?

Unfortunately, no matter how hard Chen Yun thought about it, he couldn't figure it out.

He also thought that he used the power of Bai Nujiao's soul to forcibly improve to the state of soul leaving the body, which was a wrong way of practice, so his soul left the body, but his strength did not rise to the earth immortal realm.

This thought lingered in Chen Yun's mind for a long time.

It was not until an hour later, when his soul seemed to have absorbed enough ancestral energy and began to "evaporate", that he had to return his soul to his body, and then he understood what was going on.

Chen Yun was afraid that the ancestral energy that his soul had absorbed with great difficulty would be wasted, so his soul returned to his body as soon as possible.

The next moment, something magical happened!

Chen Yun sensed that after his soul was "put on heavy shackles", the ancestral energy he had previously absorbed actually spread to every inch of his limbs and bones.

In an instant, a powerful force surged and rose in his body.

In less than a breath, the power of the golden elixir doubled!
Chen Yun was stunned at the time, "Ah? One breath doubled the strength?"

He thought he had sensed it wrong.

But in the brief moment when he was stunned, the ancestral energy that his soul had previously absorbed continued to bless himself, making him many times stronger in a short period of time.

About half an hour later, all the ancestral energy was integrated into oneself.

Chen Yun clearly sensed that his body was filled with unparalleled power!
At this moment, although there is still a small gap to the Earthly Immortal Realm, it is already infinitely close.

Chen Yun suddenly came to his senses. "It seems that the soul can naturally reach the realm of earthly immortals after leaving the body. It just takes a little time. This state is a bit like when I just broke through to the human immortal realm. At that time, my strength would also increase day by day. Within a year, I could reach the early stage of the human immortal realm."

In other words, he has actually already entered the ranks of earthly immortals, but it will take some time for his strength to increase day by day.

Chen Yun didn't know how long it would take for this growth to happen.

However, since he sensed that his soul had left his body, his strength increased significantly.

Then, he felt that it shouldn't take too long to climb from the ranks of earthly immortals to become a true earthly immortal.

……

Because his strength was increasing day by day, Chen Yun still did not leave the cave after his soul left his body.

Instead, he wanted to first familiarize his soul with the "nature of water" and increase his strength to a certain level before continuing to explore Maolan Mountain.

As a result, the next day, he found that his strength had not increased.

Chen Yun was terrified at that time.

I thought something went wrong again.

He tried to leave his body again.

Then the exact same thing happened as before.

After Chen Yun's soul had been out of his body for an hour and absorbed enough ancestral energy and returned to his body, his strength began to increase significantly again.

At this moment, Chen Yun roughly understood the magical function of the soul.

The earthly fairyland is different from the human fairyland.

The human fairyland is equivalent to the physical body becoming immortal.

Naturally, you don’t have to do anything.

Allow the physical body to increase its strength to a certain level within a certain period of time.

The Earthly Immortal Realm is equivalent to the "soul" becoming immortal, so it is necessary to leave the body every day to absorb ancestral energy in order to improve one's strength.

Time passes day by day.

After three or four days of testing, Chen Yun discovered that there was a certain limit to the amount of ancestral energy that the soul could absorb each day.

Once this limit is exceeded, not only will it no longer be absorbed, but its power will even continue to decline.

To be precise, without the protection of the physical body, my soul cannot be exposed to the real world for a long time.

Of course, this state can be improved.

For example, when I had my soul leave my body for the first time a few days ago.

Chen Yun could only let his soul stay in the outside world for about an hour.

But when he tested it yesterday, his soul could already last about an hour and a half in the outside world.

After a few days of familiarity, he was able to roughly move his soul within a range of no more than ten kilometers from his physical body.

Chen Yun believed that it would not take too long to reach the state of traveling across thousands of mountains and rivers.

……

The days passed one by one.

Chen Yun and Niu Dali still did not leave the cave.

On this day, Chen Yun's soul had just left his body, absorbed the ancestral energy and returned to his body.

Suddenly, he felt that the power in his body seemed to condense into one, and the quantitative change began to produce qualitative change!

"Hmm?" Chen Yun thought to himself, "Could it be that I am about to truly enter the Earthly Immortal Realm?"

He didn't know whether his guess was correct, nor did he practice the fourth level of Mr. Chen's Inner Alchemy Technique. He just quietly sensed the changes in his body.

The Dan Qi continued to condense and compress, becoming thicker and thicker.

This situation went on for a long time.

The Dan Qi condensed and compressed like a bottomless pit.

There's no way to see when it'll stop.

Chen Yun suppressed all distracting thoughts and waited calmly for the changes to end.

Finally, after bursts of gray light were heard from outside the next day, all the Dan Qi in his body had undergone a "qualitative change"!

At this moment, Chen Yun felt as if he had been completely sublimated.

It was as if his soul, body and all his spiritual qualities had all merged into nature.

He knew that he had ascended to the fairyland!
(End of this chapter)